"Lord Wu, I have found the silver deposit in Baihu Village, a total of 3,158 taels, as well as gold and silver jewelry worth five hundred taels and one hundred and twenty taels of gold,"

"There is more silver than Qingyun Village, and I just asked about it to find out that the big boss of Baihu Village who was killed just now not only robbed his house and robbed the road, but also often did some kidnapping and extortion!"

"A lot of money was kidnapped by him, and such a person is not wronged to kill him ten times!"

Wu Yunlin was also taken aback by this number, and he couldn't imagine that such a harvest could be made in this kind of poor countryside.

On the way here, he had already learned about the general situation of White Tiger Village from Qin Xu.

The overall scale is about six or seven percent of Qingyun Village, and the establishment time is not as long as Qingyun Village.

Normally, its silver deposit should not exceed six or seven percent of Qingyunzhai.

I never expected that the silver deposit in Baihu Village was even more than that in Qingyun Village.

In this way, it is likely that other cottages have more silver than Qingyun Village.

A White Tiger Village will get more than 4,000 taels worth of gold, silver and jewelry, and when Qin Xu beats the surrounding cottages, won't he be able to harvest tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver!

It is said that being a bandit is the most lucrative business.

Qin Xu didn't believe it very much before, but now he believes it.

I was even more determined to let Qin Xu continue to eat black in the surrounding area.

If you can't do it, you don't have to pay for the food and salary of hundreds of soldiers in Qingyunzhai.

Wei Qi wanted to come to something, and Qin Xu then reported: "Our biggest seizure is not gold and silver, but grain!"

Baihuzhai intercepted a grain transport team and seized more than 100,000 catties of white flour and rice. ”

"Their boss feels that it is too wasteful to eat white flour and rice for his subordinates, except for two meals for them when they go out to loot, and eat coarse grain at other times, hundreds of thousands of catties of grain have been stored in the cottage warehouse without moving, and the result is all cheap us!"

"I went to the warehouse to clear it, and there are still 120,000 catties of fine and more than 25,000 catties of coarse grain!"

"95 young and strong bandits were captured, and 256 old and weak women and children were captured!"

"I also found 106 pigs, 168 sheep, and more than 400 chickens behind the cottage, all of which were stolen from nearby people!"

"According to your request: all the habitual bandits who have innocent lives in their hands in Baihu Village will be executed in public, and the 95 young people captured are all homeless, as long as they want, they can all join Qingyun Village!"

The more Wu Yunlin listened, the happier he became, and immediately asked the question he was most concerned about, which was also the ultimate goal of attacking Baihu Village: "Send all the bandits, old and weak women and children here back to Qingyun Village, how many people do you estimate you can recruit?"

"At least ninety people!" Qin Xu replied confidently!

"The life of the bandits in Baihuzhai is even more bitter than when they were in Qingyunzhai, and the benefits they get from outside the mountains are almost all owned by the big bosses, and ordinary bandits rarely even eat white-flour steamed buns, let alone silver."

"All year round, there is only a little silver during the New Year, and I usually can't even see a copper plate."

"Every time Qingyunzhai gets a benefit outside the mountain, he will take some to everyone, and there are four or five taels of silver a year, and the white-flour steamed buns can be eaten every three or five times."

"They are like crazy when they hear the salary of one or two or five yuan, scrambling to join Qingyun Village, not to mention the bitterness of this gang of white flour steamed buns that are difficult to eat haha!"

"When the lowly position tells them the treatment of Qingyunzhai, there is no need for any threat, and these people will rush to join Qingyunzhai!"

Hearing this good news, Wu Yunlin was not as happy as he imagined.

looked at Qin Xu with a puzzled expression: "Your recruitment speed is too fast!"

"Lao Qin, take me to the back of the White Tiger Village to take a look!" Wu Yunlin said suddenly, as if he had thought of a solution!

Come with me and take a look.

Qin Xu is the person who wants to continue to "eat black and eat black", so without saying a word, he took Wu Yunlin and rushed to the back mountain.

The terrain of Baihu Village is not as good as Qingyun Village, but it is still deep in the mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"What's there?" Wu Yunlin stood on the commanding heights, pointed to a flat ground halfway up the back mountain and asked.

"The wasteland reclaimed by the old and weak women and children in the cottage!" Qin Xu also noticed the flat land just now, and asked the prisoner, blurting out at a glance.

"The bandits in the White Tiger Village can still rely on coarse grains to feed their stomachs, and the old and weak women and children in the village are even more miserable."

"I can't get enough of the coarse grains and wild vegetables that I get every month!" "You can only open up the wasteland in the stone crevices of the back mountain and grow some miscellaneous grains to satisfy your stomach!"

"So: The mountains behind Baihu Village can also be cultivated and farmed?" Wu Yunlin asked expectantly.

Qin Xu seemed to guess what Wu Yunlin was going to say next, and a flash of surprise immediately flashed on his face: "This is to ask the old man in the cottage, it is best to open up the wasteland in the back mountain!"

Seeing that the big boss of Qingyun Village was standing respectfully aside, the old man came tremblingly and was about to kneel.

The idea of respect and humility in this era has been deeply rooted in their bones, and the status of the big bosses in the cottage is much higher than him, not to mention that even the big bosses are respectful and respectful Wu Yunlin's status is 108,000 miles higher than him in the eyes of the old man, not a sentence or two can make him let go of his humility and talk to himself normally.

Wu Yunlin said bluntly to the old man and asked: "As long as you honestly answer every question of the official, the official will ensure that you don't have to worry about it!"

"I wonder how much wasteland you've reclaimed in the back mountains?"

The old man didn't dare to hide anything, and immediately said: "Little Lao'er has opened three acres of wasteland in the back mountain!"

"How much mountain land can be reclaimed in the back mountains to grow food?" Wu Yunlin continued to ask.

The old man didn't answer this question immediately, and hesitated for a while before saying, "There must be four or five hundred acres!"

"If you continue to go deeper into the mountains, you will have no problem cultivating thousands of acres of land!"

Wu Yunlin's heart suddenly blossomed, but he hid it very well, he didn't show it on the spot, and waved his hand to order: "I know, Lao Qin, you will give him an extra thirty catties of grain when you distribute the grain for a while!"

When the old man left with excitement, Wu Yunlin sighed happily: "1,500 acres of land that can grow food, no matter how barren it is, it can feed four or five hundred people, what a good place!"

"Lao Qin, do you remember the reason why I asked you to leave a few cottages and not fight?"

Qin Xu blurted out: "Of course I remember!"

"Remember every word you say to your lowly office!"

"You want to keep them to attract the attention of the court and share the pressure from other officials."

"Attack when you don't need them in the future!"

Wu Yunlin nodded and said, "I don't have to stay now, this official has thought of a better idea!"

"Those cottages can indeed help us share some of the pressure from the government, but they are not their own people after all, and they will stab us in the back if they don't do it."

"Instead of raising tigers, it's better for us to support a few cottages ourselves!"

"The White Tiger Village at the foot is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the place is large enough, and the back mountain can also be reclaimed and cultivated, and a team of 150 people will be built here."

"If you capture Baihu Village, you will recruit eighty or ninety people, so isn't it possible to make up for the gap in Qingyun Village by capturing such a large cottage?"

"I still think that you will go out every few days to capture the nearby cottages, seize some more gold, silver and food, and collect all the homeless people in these bandits' dens for your own use and increase your strength!"

Qin Xu said with a reluctant face: "Qingyun Village can accommodate up to four hundred people, even if the adults agree to expand the army, the cottage can't accommodate so many people, at most capture a cottage as big as the White Tiger Village!"