Those criminals did not have much hatred for the Daqian court, and even many people thought that the court promulgated such a policy to save them.

But that doesn't mean they don't have objects of hatred in their hearts.

They hate the northern barbarians.

The invasion of the northern barbarians will bring them a large number of casualties.

They also hate the bandits.

The existence of those bandits makes them tremble every day, for fear that those bandits will suddenly appear, kill people, set fires, and rob things.

They did not live together before, but they built a hut in the land they had allotted and lived in it.

In this way, it is more convenient to go out to the ground, and it is more convenient to work.

There is only one person living in a thatched hut, and each house is a little far apart.

But the dwelling was too scattered, and the bandits came, and they couldn't resist it at all.

They can only live together.

Together, there were two to three hundred people in a village, and when the bandits came, they also had the ability to resist.

The bandits were usually a team of a dozen people, and although they were fierce, they could not handle the people of a village—they were basically men, and they were strong laborers who could eat enough every day.

After making such a change, the bandits who fell into the hands of the villagers also numbered in the hundreds.

Their security has been greatly improved.

However, only a very small number of people's land is close to their homes, and most of them have to walk some distance to get to the fields, wasting time back and forth.

Moreover, it does not mean that I feel safe now, and I am afraid to go out to work every day.

Living together, their land is not together, two or three hundred people have to cultivate five or six thousand acres of land, such a large area, all kinds of land, must be dispersed.

Then there's a security issue.

I had to worry about working every day, and I was quite depressed that day.

After living together, personal safety was greatly guaranteed, and those bandits had suffered several losses, and they also knew that these villagers were not easy to mess with, and they would not do anything to them under normal circumstances.

Those bandits are not stupid, and if they attack those villagers in the wild, they can only kill people, and they can't grab supplies, so they have to go to the village, and they may leave their lives there.

Unless there is real hatred, or if they are so poor that they have to rob the villagers of their clothes, they will not kill.

However, they would take advantage of the fact that some of the land was far away from the settlements and sneak over at night to harvest the crops that the villagers had worked so hard to grow.

Yes, bandits steal farmers' crops.

The robbers will also live, and they will have to eat food.

Hiding in the mountains, there is no way to grow food, and if you want to eat a full stomach, you have to rob it.

When the criminals were united and gathered, it became dangerous to go into the village to grab food.

Then they will have to steal food.

When the grain was ripe, he sneaked into the village at night with a sickle, harvested rice far away from the villagers' settlements, and then brought it back.

This is more hard, and it is not as fast as going directly into the house to grab food.

However, it is also safer.

It's faster than growing your own food.

The villagers knew about such a thing, but this thing was really hard to guard against.

In some villages, when the rice is ripe, dozens of villagers with sticks and hoes will be organized to patrol at night, and two or three hundred villagers will take turns patrolling until all the grain is harvested.

However, this increases the intensity of their labor.

During the busy farming season, most villages do not have so many people to spare.

If you don't harvest the rice as soon as it is ripe, it will rot in the ground after a long time.

In some villages, there are not so many laborers, and dozens of people are sent to patrol every night, but there are not so many people working during the day, and there will be some grain that cannot be harvested in the fields.

Then they have to steal it.

This undoubtedly harms their interests as well.

Moreover, if they want to go to the city once, they can't go on the road with a few people, at least they have to set off with dozens of people, otherwise there will be a lot of risk on the road.

Without those bandits, there would be no such problems, and they could have lived better.

They felt that those bandits had committed heavier crimes than them, and the court kindly released them all and gave them land to plant, but those bandits not only did not know gratitude, but also killed people and set fires, and went against the court, which was simply a wolf-hearted person.

Liu Qing went to many villages, and when those villagers mentioned bandits, they all gritted their teeth with hatred.

Whoever can put the bandits to rest is their great benefactor.

Liu Qing also once followed several bandit teams into the mountains to see where their lair was.

After the past, I have to admit that the life of those bandits is indeed much better than that of the villagers.

Although the houses are all about the same, they are basically built in thatched huts, and some live in caves.

But they got rich by robbery, dressed better, fed better, and dug large cellars in their lairs to store food.

They don't produce supplies, they are the porters of supplies.

It's not like to say how chic life is, but it's really much better than those villagers.

Moreover, there are some women in their lair, who have obviously robbed them.

Some are even pregnant.

Liu Qing had also heard the bandits' exchanges.

These bandits didn't become bandits as soon as they came, and many of them actually started to have the idea of being a good person.

Become a bandit, that was after the invasion of the northern barbarians.

The barbarians broke through the barrier and made them realize that farming here was not a chance for the imperial court to give them a chance to be a new person, but for them to risk their lives to grow food for the border army.

Not only are they here to sell their labor, but they could also die at the hands of the barbarians at any moment.

If you continue to farm here, it will be a dead end.

However, they are all criminals with the word prison engraved on their foreheads, and they can only live in this place, and there is no way to return to the interior.

When they return to the mainland, they will violate the king's law, and whoever sees them will be arrested and brought to justice.

At the same time, they also realized that the imperial court was so capable that even a barbarian living in the mountains could not defend it.

Anger at the court and fear of the barbarians combined, and they finally chose to enter the mountains and become bandits.

In the past ten years, half of them have been invaded by barbarians.

As a result, more and more bandits entered the mountains.

Some people didn't dare to be bandits at first, but when they saw that some of them were bandits, they were not destroyed by the government, but lived a very nourishing life, so they became envious and followed suit.

In the past ten years, there have been about 10,000 bandits in the mountains on the border of Xiaojinzhou.

Some were destroyed one after another, and now there are still three or four thousand people.

The area of Xiaojinju is very large, equivalent to the size of five or six Gyeongju, and there are many branches of the Tibetan Gold Mountain, and those bandits are not one point, they are scattered in different places.

They sometimes fight for territory and kill each other.

Knowing a little more about them, Liu Qing realized that this gang of bandits was indeed not a good thing, and there was no innocent one.

If these people are not destroyed, Gumu County will not want to have a stable life.

Those bandits are mobile, but it is not enough to destroy Dao Fei in the Gumu County area, but to destroy the bandits in the entire Xiaojinzhou area, so that can be exchanged for real peace.