Pei County, as Liu Ji expected, under the occupation of the Qin army, although there are many uncomfortable lives, but it is always good to stay in the countryside to meet the unknown chaos, Pei County's resistance in front of the Qin army's strong forces, is completely vulnerable, but it is precisely because of this that Pei County can be preserved, if Pei County desperately resists, in the end more casualties are the people of Pei County.

It's just that although it is a good thing that the Liu family hid in the city in advance, his neighbors and friends did not have such luck.

Liu Ji looked at his friend Butcher Fan Xu, who was embarrassed and even had a sword wound, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Got hurt one day? Could it be that it is against the Qin army? ”

"Brother Liu, the county orders have surrendered, do you think my face looks like such a brave and fearless person?" Fan Xu pointed to his face, which was still very young, but looked more than a decade older because of his overly lush beard.

"The face looks quite fierce, and there is a murderous aura, and he really looks like a brave and fearless person." Liu Ji looked at Fan Xu and said, not to mention Fan Xu's martial arts, at least this foreign minister really looks a little fierce, if he is arrested by Qin Jun as a thief, it is really not too wrong.

"Brother Liu, this kind of joke is not good, I was injured by those Surabaya thieves, as soon as the Qin army came, the order in the countryside was completely chaotic, and the thieves who were hidden in the deep mountains and lakes before ran out one by one as if they were happy, and they were plagued everywhere, the big villages can still form villages to protect themselves, and the small villages have suffered, do you remember that Caojiazhuang? It was breached by thieves, and it was looted, which was really miserable. Fan said angrily.

Although he is not a good person, and occasionally bullies his neighbors by force, it is just normal neighborhood friction, and he has never reached the point of dying.

"Caojiazhuang? I know it's not safe in the countryside, but has it all come to this point? Liu Ji was shocked, over the years, he has also traveled to the north and south, and has seen a lot of the market, what are the bandits, he has naturally seen it, but at that time he saw that others were suffering, and he never had a deep sense of substitution, and now he heard that the people he once knew had suffered misfortunes, and the meaning was different.

"It's all messed up, Brother Liu, you have to find a way, you can't go on like this." Fan Xu said and looked at Liu Ji expectantly, although Liu Ji was not the most capable of fighting among their friends, he was the only one who had seen the world, and when he encountered problems that were difficult to solve, most of them still needed Liu Ji to take ideas.

"What can I do, I can't protect myself, can I still take care of others?" Liu Ji also smiled bitterly, as soon as the Qin army came, the previous order collapsed, in the order of the Qin army, he really didn't know how to do it, it was not the order he was familiar with, he didn't understand the operating rules, and acting rashly would only put himself in danger.

"Are we just watching?" Fan said.

"That's all we can do." Liu Ji thought about it, but he thought of more things in his heart, although the current situation is not good, but it may not be an opportunity for him, in the original order, it is difficult for him to achieve a leap in identity, but now that the original order has collapsed, and the new order has not yet been built, the vast majority of people are in almost the same position, isn't it also his opportunity?

Thinking of this, Liu Ji couldn't help but look at Fan Xu, hesitated, and said, "What should we do for our neighbors." ”

"What does Brother Liu mean?" When Fan Hao heard this, he instantly came to his senses.

"This matter still needs to be considered in the long run, maybe we should ask Lord Xiao what it is." Liu Ji thought about it for a while, and this was also the person with the highest status he could contact in Pei County.

"Is Lord Xiao willing to help?" Fan hesitated.

"Lord Xiao is also from Pei County." Liu Ji affirmed.

When Liu Ji and Fan Xu were about to do something, Yang Ming, who had never entered the city and was still staying in the Qin army's camp outside the city, also received news from all parties in Pei County: bandits were in chaos, and some people even attacked and harassed the Qin army's logistics troops.

Is that really just a simple bandit?

On Yang Ming's bookcase, there are military newspapers from the net, and standing in front of him is a black dress dancing and black and white hanging.

"How many people are involved in the farm?" Yang Ming put down the bamboo slip and asked Liwu.

"There are not many people, but they are all elite disciples, but most of the people among them are from the farmer's Tian clan, and people like the Zhu family don't seem to be involved." Liwu replied.

Over the years, Liwu has been staying in the Wei State, and after Yang Ming took control of the net, he took over the net killer in the Chu State for the first time.

"Farmer, it's really ghostly." Yang Ming said to himself, the peasant family in this Huaisi land may not be anything to the current Qin State, but it will be a big trouble in the future, the peasant family, which is very different from the organization of the hundred schools of thought, whether it is controlled or eliminated, is extremely troublesome, it falls at the bottom of the countryside, and here is often the most difficult place for the official power of the Qin State to reach.

When the Qin State was strong, this force was not enough to shake the ruling order of the Qin State, and once the Qin State appeared in a weakened state, the peasant family would become a prairie fire, and it would be out of control.

This survival strategy of the farmer is not unclever, when the Tian family occupied the magpie's nest, usurped the Jiang family of Qi State, and squeezed out the power of the surname Lu among the farmers, although it was criticized a lot, but the Tian family was able to succeed, naturally it was also their own strengths.

Not to mention anything else, just the strategy of sinking the influence to the bottom has a different wisdom from the hundred schools of thought, among the hundred schools of thought, Taoism, Confucianism, and Legalism are all prominent people, but the position is too high, but the peasant family and the Mo family are precipitated at the bottom, making the two families the most powerful existence.

It's just that the peasant family has prospered because of the Tian family, but it has also gone astray because of the Tian family over the years, as for the Mo family, it is even more unbearable, from the time when the current giant six-fingered black man accepted Yan Dan as the only personal disciple, the Mo family's road has been crooked.

Yang Ming put away his chaotic thoughts and said: "Since the farmer is behind the trouble, then we can't turn a blind eye, it's time for the people who collect the net to move and closely monitor the farmer's movements." ”

"Master, do you want to intercept and kill the farmer's people?" Liwu asked.

"No, the people of the peasant family are in trouble in this land of Surabaya, and the most miserable thing is the people here, we must give the people here a chance to protect themselves and take revenge." Yang Ming said.

The goal of the Qin army is Pengcheng, for the people of the peasant families who have infiltrated the Surabaya Zhuzhu and show the trend of scattering, they do not have the energy to encircle and suppress, and the people who can save the people of Peixian can only be themselves, and Yang Ming wants to give them a chance to avenge themselves.

Moreover, it is also a good thing for Yang Ming to organize the people of Pei County to fight against thieves, at least he can organize the energetic activists of Pei County and organize them into the team, so that they can be better managed while using their strength.

As for the concept of family and country, the people of Pei County are more still the concept of home, as for the country, among the people of age here, I am afraid that they have all been from the Song State, the Qi State, or the current Chu State, which country do you let them go to?

In front of home and country, most people still choose home, after all, what is the country, too far away, but home is by their side, it is something they can really feel existing.

In Peicheng City, a low-key but large courtyard, Xiao He, who had passed the age of standing and had a short beard under his chin, looked at Liu Ji who was visiting, and asked in surprise; "What do you want to do? Please ask the Qin army to clear the countryside? ”

"Although Liu Ji may be a little self-conscious, I still want to give it a try." Faced with Xiao He's surprise, Liu Ji said with a little embarrassment.

Liu Ji knew why Xiao He was so surprised, because that kind of thing was extremely difficult, and how could it be something that he Liu Ji did.

"You're coming to me?" Xiao He asked after recovering his emotions.

Although Liu Ji does not work in agriculture in the eyes of ordinary people, he only knows that he is idle and not a good man, but how can Xiao He's knowledge be like those laymen, he knows that people like Liu Ji are bold and well-informed, and their ability is better than that of nine out of nine people in Pei County, that is, they have suffered from not reading much and their background is low.

Once he has the opportunity, Liu Ji may not be able to make a career.

But the current opportunity is not a good opportunity, the Qin army is coming, but how long the Qin army can stay in Pei County, and whether the Qin army will be able to occupy Pei County in the future is still a question.

If you serve the Qin army at this time, and when the Qin army withdraws and the Chu army comes back, the situation you have to face at that time is really difficult to explain, and the disgrace is just ordinary.

"I also ask Lord Xiao to come forward and tell the general of the Qin State about the situation that is happening in the countryside of Pei County, and ask them to take action to eliminate the thieves." Liu Jidao.

"That's what you think?" Xiao He said solemnly.

"This, it's not a secret, I don't think the Qin army will agree to this request, there are seventy or eighty thousand troops in Pengcheng, and the Qin army is going to attack Pengcheng, so it shouldn't take care of the thieves who are ravaging the countryside." Liu Jidao.

"Then you're going to let me go? Don't you know that I'm hiding at home now because I don't want to have anything to do with Qin Jun? Xiao He said speechlessly, this Liu Ji is not talented, but sometimes he is too talented.

"When the time comes, we can push the boat and ask the general of the Qin State for permission to organize the locals of Pei County to chase down those thieves." Liu Ji finally said his purpose.

"Do you think Qin Jun will agree?" Xiao He asked rhetorically.

"I guess so." Liu Ji was also unconvinced.

(End of chapter)