I took these fifty young and strong tenants to another room, and Yang Chenglin followed him with his pile of black paper figures, of course, others did not look at paper people, but just a group of pale and expressionless people.

I set up the room to look like a conference room, with a huge table in the middle, but only a few chairs, mainly too much space.

I placed the pile of water rifles on the table, and everyone stood around the table waiting for me to speak.

I looked at these people and felt that I should first motivate the big guys and mobilize the enthusiasm of the people, so I cleared my throat and said:

"Maozi came last night, and everyone saw it, this time someone may have told me that I have food and money here, and Maozi only came to me, but he didn't come much, and before they grabbed something, he was cleaned up by Yang Daochang's people first, and I have to thank Yang Daochang." I said and arched my hand to Yang Chenglin.

"To be polite, the shopkeeper Luo's ability is not impossible to solve by himself." Yang Chenglin pretended to be modest.

"But everyone has also seen that Maozi only came a few dozen people this time, so if we get more, ten, hundred, or a thousand times in the future, what will we do?"

“……”

There was silence, and everyone kept their heads down and did not speak.

I'm a little anxious, shouldn't the plot envisioned at this time be a group of people shouting "him, down with Maozi"? How can there be such silence?

"Shen Daniu, Maozi came to your house, what do you want to do?"

I waited for a long time, but there was still no scene of outrage, so I decided to inspire one by one, and at a glance I saw Shen Daniu who had fed me dog food in the Black Duck River that day, so I found him.

"Then I—then I'll hide in this cellar with the swallows."

"Hahahaha-"

"Haha-"

As soon as Shen Daniu's words fell, the crowd suddenly burst into laughter.

Speechless for a while, I now feel like my head is full of black lines.

"What if Maozi invades the cellar?" I'm a little bit reluctant.

"Then, isn't there still Yang Daochang!" Shen Da Niu stalked his neck and asked a rhetorical question.

"Don't expect too much from me, I have a limited number of people, just the few behind me, all brought here, you have also seen, just these thirty people, when the time comes, thousands of Maozi will come, we have a total of five main holes, and hundreds of small openings in each family, my thirty people can only guard the main cave entrance in a team of six people, I don't know if I can hold it, and I can't take care of your families at all."

Yang Chenglin looked at these people in front of him, looking like he hated iron but not steel.

"Then the shopkeeper of Luo, Yang Daochang, what do you say?" Shen Daniu asked.

"If you want me to say, you will guard this cave with us then, and we all have hope of living."

I glanced at everyone and saw that everyone was looking directly at me and Yang Chenglin, so I continued:

"Now is a troubled time, Maozi bandits are in charge, and all kinds of rebel armies are coming to harm our people, although Yang Daochang and I can protect you for a while, but we can't protect you for a lifetime, so my idea is that this time more than 50 rifles have been seized from Maozi's hands, let's build a team first. This team conducts guerrilla tactics in this tunnel, once we find that the enemy is coming, we will first send people to investigate, and when we find out which entrance the Maozi are coming from, we will block the entrance to strike, and I will formulate a specific battle plan later. ”

"Then who is the one who investigates, the people who are out there are the most dangerous." Suddenly, someone asked.

"I'll do the investigation, you don't have to worry about this, then you will be responsible for holding the gun and guarding the entrance of the cave, when we dig this hole, there will be a big doorway, the enemy is coming, as long as we are a husband, then we will not open it." Yang Chenglin said.

Everyone was silent again, everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, and they didn't say they agreed to join, nor did they refuse, I was a little confused for a while, after planning for so many days, I always thought that I would get the strong support of the villagers, but I didn't expect everyone to seem to be enthusiastic, especially today.

A few days ago, they were digging tunnels and the like, and they were all doing a lot of work, but it seems that these people are wilting all of a sudden, why are they changing so much in their hearts, is it that the gang of Maozi was scared by setting fire along the street last night?

"If you have any ideas, just say them." I said.

After I finished asking, I waited for a long time, and then I saw that everyone was secretly talking to each other, muttering quietly, and waited for a long time before anyone spoke.

"I see that the landlords are here today, I have nothing in this village, I am a single person, and I don't want to rush to the front to give the landlord my life."

Well, it turns out that this is the fundamental reason for everyone's hesitation: they don't want to work for the landlord.

When I looked at it, it was a tenant Yang puppy.

This Yang puppy is in his thirties, I have heard people say before, his mother died early, and his father also died of illness when he was sixteen, but he is fortunate to have a strong body and grow tall, and now he is working for the landlord's family all year round to eat. Because he owed the landlord more than ten taels of silver for his father's treatment before, I heard that he would sign a 20-year contract for the landlord Liu's family to repay the debt if he didn't pay it off in the autumn, and later he borrowed money from me to repay the debt.

Yang Xiaogou's remark really reminded me, but I didn't take these into account: the tunnel was dug by tenants, and now when there is something that needs to be done, the tenants have to rush to the front to sell their lives, and the result is still to let the landlord and those rich shopkeepers who open shops to sit back and enjoy the success, and these tenants to protect them, it is indeed a bit unreasonable.

Why didn't I think of this before, at this time, Yang Chenglin also looked at me, and it seemed that he also felt that what Yang Xiaogou said made sense.

"Brother Xiao Yang is right, I can't go along with this breath, I don't have any land in this mountain and river village, and I won't do it if I want to protect the landlord's money and grain."

"Yes, I don't want to do it either, Maozi has guns, and if you go up, you will lose your head, I wish I hid it deeply, and let them rob the landlord's money and grain."

……

Everyone began to talk about which landlord also came, and I was not happy, and then I finally understood why the tenants were not happy to see it today, and it turned out that I had agreed that the landlord had also joined the cellar.

This is indeed a problem that needs to be solved, and I thought about it for a while, and I felt that I needed to give everyone some motivation.

"Then so be it, I now plan to build a team, the name is 'Mountain and River Guard', to spend money to recruit soldiers, according to the number of this gun, first recruit fifty-seven people, with our tenants first, anyone who joins the team and follows me to do it, each person will pay five taels of silver per month, three meals a day, in the future, more and more people will join our team, and the team will grow, my plan is to establish a team of three hundred people first, and distribute the defense in this tunnel. We only guard the entrances of our five main tunnels and our own yards, landlords and rich shopkeepers, we don't care, if they want to ask us to guard together, we will collect money on a monthly basis, how about this? ”

I turned to Yang Chenglin as I spoke, and Yang Chenglin immediately clapped his hands and praised:

"This method is good, my coffin shop will first order a year's defense with your mountain and river guards, how much silver will it cost?"

Yang Chenglin asked me with a smile, this question stumped me again, as if I really wanted to formulate another security fee regulation.

"Daoist Yang, where do you need our protection!" At this time, someone said.

"Hey, yes, yes, I still need some living people to watch the door."

As soon as Yang Chenglin said this, everyone looked at the people in black robes behind him.

"Well, I really haven't seriously thought about how to charge the landlords, let's go back and discuss this, now solve the problem in front of me first, if you want to join my mountain and river defense team, come over and get a gun, and if you don't want to join, you can go out now, it's okay."

As soon as I finished speaking, a villager immediately stepped forward to choose a gun, and picked one among the pile of guns.

This Li Shishi has always been silent, but according to my observation, this person has a very strong executive ability, although he does not speak much, but he is very authoritative among these tenants.

And now looking at his posture of picking up guns, he seems to be very knowledgeable.

"Li Shishi, you know how to shoot guns?" I asked.

"I used this water when I was seven years old, when my father was still alive, we hunted in the mountains all day, and there was never a shortage of meat to eat, and then my father let Maozi kill him, and the gun was snatched away, so I was no longer a hunter." Li Shidao said.

"If you use a gun at the age of seven, then your marksmanship must be good." I asked.

"That is, a stone can pierce a hundred steps!" At this time, someone in the crowd answered.

"Okay, Li Shishi, I'll leave the job of teaching everyone to use a gun to you, and Yueyin will give you an extra three taels. Now if you want to join the mountain and river guards, continue to step forward and get your gun. ”

After Li Shishi picked a gun first, everyone else stepped forward one after another, and everyone chose one.

At this point, this mountain and river protection team has been officially established, and I estimate that this Maozi team will not return for a long time, and within three days, there will be a large number of Maozi teams to find them, and everything must be arranged quickly.

So I talked to you about tomorrow's training plan and actual combat exercises.

"Shopkeeper, don't worry, I'll teach everyone to fire guns in one day! I'll come tomorrow before dawn. ”

Li Shi patted his chest and assured me.

"Well, good!"

As I spoke, I suddenly remembered something, which was recorded in the note: On May 8, 1929, the three-year-old daughter of the Li Shishi family was eaten by a wheel-sized mouse, and only the skeleton remained.

As soon as the days are counted, it will be tomorrow, I must stop this matter, if Li Shishi comes here before dawn tomorrow, I will go over and watch it at that time, to see what this big mouse looks like and how big it is.