I want to be emperor

Chapter 21
Luo Zhixue also heaved a sigh of relief after hearing that the potential hidden danger of Dilong Dilong had been resolved.

This earth-reversing dragon is a potential threat. After he escapes, he knows whether he will attract other thieves because he is unwilling to fail, or simply inform the officers and soldiers.

Now that Dilong Dilong is finished, Luo Zhixue is a little relieved.

However, Luo Zhixue still felt that it was necessary to keep a low profile as much as possible.

For this reason, he suggested to Sun Jiancheng: "In the short term, we should not send people to the surrounding villages, especially the villages on the edge of the mountains, because this will easily expose our existence and attract officers and soldiers. Invasion!"

Sun Chengli said: "Brother Luo is still thoughtful, I will tell you, old Sun, to let the brothers be more peaceful!"

"As long as we don't run out of the mountains and cause trouble, those officers and soldiers probably won't be interested in running into the mountains."

Luo Zhixue said: "What the General said is true. Now that there are thieves everywhere, most of the officers and soldiers can only defend the city. They can't even fight the thieves outside. Naturally, they won't go into the mountains to suppress the thieves without incident."

Funiu Mountain is not an ordinary place. This place is actually a deep mountain. Although there are people inside the mountain, there are not many people, and most of them are mountain people who fled from the outside to find a living.

Even on the edge of Funiu Mountain, in the relatively gentle hilly areas near Lushan County and Nanzhao County, many villages actually have no connection with the outside world, and many of them are hermits.

In this chaotic world, the local administrative agencies of the Ming Dynasty simply did not have the ability to extend their tentacles to remote mountainous areas like Funiu Mountain.

In fact, their control over the densely populated plains is very weak, and most of the time they can only hide in cities such as county towns.

If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's weak control over the region, it would be impossible for so many thieves to escape.

The entire Funiu Mountain has little contact with the outside world, and Sanshui Village, which is located deep in the Funiu Mountain, is almost insulated from the outside world.

The connection between Sanshui Village and the outside world is nothing more than a rugged mountain road. As long as this mountain road is blocked, it is equivalent to completely blocking the connection between Sanshui Village and the outside world.

As long as Sanshui Village doesn't take the initiative to send people to contact the outside world, it is estimated that no one will go over the mountains to Sanshui Village in normal times. Even if there are, it will be the nearby mountain people.

But the problem is, in fact, the surrounding mountain people already know that Sanshui Village has been occupied by a group of thieves before, and now it is too late to hide from Sanshui Village, so how could they come to Sanshui Village.

Luo Zhixue estimated that based on the current situation, coupled with the local traffic level and contemporary communication level, as long as they keep a low profile, they should not attract the attention of the officers and soldiers outside the mountain.

Taking a step back, even if the officers and soldiers know that there are dozens of rogues in Funiu Mountain, as long as Luo Zhixue and the rebels don't cause any major troubles, the officers and soldiers won't bother to talk to them.

This is the benefit of hiding in a remote place.

Low key!

But since he talked about low-key, Sun Chengli was a little worried: "But brother Luo, although our current food is not good, we can't just go out and get in. If there is no income, I'm afraid it won't be winter yet according to these things. We'll have to run out of food."

Luo Zhixue said: "Don't worry, General, it's not a problem for me to save some food until early winter, and our food has already been harvested by then."

"I have checked in the past two days. Although our Sanshui Village is not too big, and the terrain in the valley is not too flat, but it is irrigated by the stream flowing down from the mountain, and the land here is not bad. Before The mountain people in the mountains have reclaimed a lot of land, and Dilong and the others have not abandoned the land after they took over here. As long as we cultivate it properly, the land will be enough to supply our rations."

But Sun Chengli was still worried: "I'm just thinking about these things. Old Sun, what I mean is that we are here to cultivate our health and rest. After all, we need to recruit soldiers and horses. If we recruit people later, we will need more food."

After hearing this, Luo Zhixue looked up at Sun Chengli. Luo Zhixue didn't expect that Sun Chengli still had such ambitions, and he was no less interested in expanding the army and rebelling than himself.

Originally, he thought that after Sun Jiancheng came to Sanshui Village, he would want to enjoy it here. For this reason, Luo Zhixue had already made plans to let Sun Jiancheng enjoy it, and he worked hard to expand his army.

But I didn't expect that Sun Jianli was quite ambitious. They only occupied Sanshui Village yesterday, and they were already considering recruiting soldiers and horses, and worried about the shortage of food after recruiting soldiers and horses.

After thinking for a while, Luo Zhixue said: "The general's foresight is really something that Zhixue admires. I will recruit troops and buy horses later. If there are more people to recruit soldiers and buy horses, the current food reserves will naturally not be enough!"

"But in the future, we can also send people to the surrounding villages to collect grain and tax to solve the problem of food shortage."

What Luo Zhixue said earlier was fine, but he could understand the grain collection afterwards, but Sun Chengli was a little puzzled by the collection of taxes: "I know the grain collection old Sun, but he didn't go to find those farms outside the mountains? Instead, he collected them in nearby villages." Tax?"

Sun Chengcheng couldn't help being puzzled. When he was an officer and soldier, he used to suppress a lot of thieves. Now he has been a rebel for several months. This experience is also very rich. He has also seen countless officers, soldiers, and thieves go around collecting food, or It's simply burning, killing and looting.

But he had never seen such a thing as a group of rebels occupying a place and collecting taxes.

To be precise, I have never seen a successful example!

Sun Chengli is also well-informed. He naturally knows that in the past few years, in fact, many bandits have occupied a territory and tried to establish rule and collect taxes in various names.

But these people were basically besieged by officers and soldiers... and they often finished very quickly.

Because for the officers and soldiers, it is very difficult to fight the bandits running around, but after occupying a certain prefecture and county and becoming a bandit army, it is easy to clean up, just mobilize the soldiers to kill them and it's over.

Therefore, the rebels who are still alive and kicking these days, regardless of whether they are the rebels who are mainly refugees or the rebels, their survival routines are actually similar.

That is to continuously attack farms and even cities with food, and eat for a period of time after plundering food, and at the same time recruit soldiers and horses to strengthen their strength.

Then attack the next farm and even the city.

Basically, it is a routine of siege, robbing food, and coercing, and it expands rapidly like a snowball.

Nowadays, those thieves in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Chu and other places with a scale of tens of thousands of people are basically like this.

Let’s not talk about other advantages or disadvantages, but their development model is a headache for officers and soldiers, because these people are rogues, in constant flow, and the core elite backbone is particularly strong.

Even if the officers and soldiers deploy a large number of troops to encircle and suppress, it often has little effect. At least it is very difficult to catch the elite backbone of the bandit army.

But, he has never seen someone who occupies a place and collects taxes, and can resist the encirclement and suppression by the government and army.

As an officer and soldier, he still knows the thoughts of those officers and soldiers, or the officers and men.

Their attitude towards the thieves is to turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye. As long as the thieves are driven away and they don't hang around in their own jurisdiction, then those officials and gentlemen generally don't bother to answer the thieves and go there in the end.

However, they will often deal ruthlessly with the bandits under their noses, especially the bandits who are still using some banner to collect food and taxes.

Sun Chengli's original idea was to send people out, go to Lushan County or Nanzhao County to find a few big farms to fight, grab the food and leave.

Of course, the nearby villages will not let it go.

However, Luo Zhixue's words did not mean that it was time to take away the grain from the nearby villages, but used the term grain collection and taxation.

Although Luo Zhixue didn't say it clearly, Sun Chengli could still hear that what Luo Zhixue meant was that he wanted to establish a foundation here and become a bandit!
Instead of just grabbing a wave and leaving as before.

In this way, Sun Chengli was worried that the officers and soldiers would come to him.

Luo Zhixue also saw Sun Chengli's concern, and immediately said: "No matter what, the food will definitely be harvested at that time, no matter what the name is, as for attracting officers and soldiers to attack, we will play by ear when the time comes, if it is just coming It’s just a few miscellaneous soldiers, just keep them out of the mountain, if the officers and soldiers come to attack in large numbers, we’ll pack up our belongings and go west.”

Hearing what Luo Zhixue said, Sun Chengli was relieved.

He thought that Mr. Luo, whom he valued quite a lot, was out of his mind and was going to play the trick of Zuo Kou.

It's not fun to be a bandit, at least for now, if you encounter a large group of officers and soldiers to attack, sooner or later, dozens of them will be dead.

But now, he felt relieved.

It seems that Mr. Luo is still a person who knows the importance, and he will go west when he knows that things cannot be done.

Immediately said: "Brother Luo, you can give this idea a try. Since we want to cultivate our health and rest here, we won't leave in ten days and half a month. At least we have to wait until after the autumn harvest. During this time, we will keep a low profile Some, wait until the grain is harvested after the autumn harvest to see the situation."

"If the officers and soldiers don't respond much, then we will stay here for a while to see the limelight. If the officers and soldiers are attracted, then we will go straight west."

"In this mountain, there is always a way for us to survive."

Sun Jiancheng and Luo Zhixue decided to keep a low profile for a while, so the group didn't bother to go out to the plains to plunder, and instead started to cultivate their health and rest in a real sense.

While repairing the camp and building outlying checkpoints, they also arranged for people to continue farming the original land, trying to continue to open up wasteland and grow more food.

At the same time, it is necessary to repair weapons and armor, mend clothes, feed mules and horses, etc.

Most of these miscellaneous things actually fell on Luo Zhixue, who made him the military adviser in charge of the camp and the only person in the group who could read and write and keep accounts.

Everything else was fine, but Luo Zhixue was stumped by the matter of repairing weapons and armor!

Because there is no blacksmith in their group!
(End of this chapter)