I want to be emperor

Chapter 31 Exposure
There was no suspense about what happened next. Wang Xiazi led a dozen cavalrymen to kill Li Yuanwai and more than 20 guards.

After the anti-killing, in order to retaliate and also to conceal his tracks, blind Wang simply turned around and killed Li Jiazhuang.

Now it's all right, Li Yuanwai's family is also dead.

At the same time, when Wang Xiazi returned, the peasants under him not only brought the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep that they had bought, but also an additional batch of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, as well as a large amount of grain, in addition to a large amount of gold and silver. It was loaded with more than 30 carriages...

In fact, Li Yuan's family had a lot of grain and other goods in the manor, and the carriages, mules and horses carried by Wang Xiazi and the others themselves were not enough.

Therefore, they could only pick out some valuable and necessary things to take away. As for the rest that couldn't be taken away, Blind Wang didn't bother, but left directly.

After Blind Wang and the others left, the villagers hiding in the distance came out one after another, and then went to Li's house to check the situation...

Immediately afterwards, one person moved out the grain, and two people moved out the grain. It didn't take long for dozens of people to rush in and remove all the remaining belongings of the Li family. It was unknown who set the fire, and the entire Li house was burned. There was a raging fire.

There is nothing to say about Wang Xiazi's operations, they are all routine operations. When Li Tonglin was still alive, they often did this.

But the problem is...

When Li Tonglin was still alive, they were rogues, the type who ran around and were not afraid of provoking officers and soldiers.

But now, Sun Jiancheng and Luo Zhixue decided to hide in Funiu Mountain for a period of time to cultivate their health and rest.

This is why it is necessary to keep a low profile to avoid attracting the attention of the officers and soldiers, which in turn attracts the brigade of officers and soldiers to enter the mountain to encircle and suppress.

However, the Lijiacun incident broke this low-key strategy.

Only two days later, when the son of Li Yuanwai, who was studying in the county school, learned the bad news of the Li family, he quickly handed over a blood letter to the master of Lushan County, and begged the county master to forgive Li who died tragically under the bandit army. Dozens of family members took revenge.

This is actually not important, there are many Zhuangzi who have been looted by thieves, not less than Lijiazhuang.

The important thing is that the situation reported by Li Yuanwai's son is a bit special, which has attracted the attention of the local officials.

According to what Li Yuanwai's son said, hundreds of thieves ransacked Lijiazhuang that day, and among them were dozens of knights in armor.

Usually there are hundreds of thieves, these officials don't bother to take a look. After all, there are hundreds of thieves everywhere, and they don't have the energy to pay attention.

But the sudden appearance of dozens of armored cavalry caught their attention in an instant.

This is definitely not an ordinary thief!
Soon, some officers and soldiers went to Lijiazhuang to investigate the situation, trying to find out from the mouths of ordinary people in Lijiazhuang the circumstances of the attack on Lijiazhuang thieves.

But those ordinary people in the Li Family Village didn't know the whole story. When the incident happened, they all hid far away, and they didn't even get close to the Li Family Manor.

Moreover, everyone waited for the bandits to leave and poured into Li's house again, and emptied the remaining food of Li's house, not to mention the food, even the door panels were removed and taken away.

Some people are afraid that after the exposure of their looting of the Li family’s property, the Li family will retaliate. After all, the Li family has relatives, and the Li family’s son is also studying in the county school, so some villagers are looting and ordering After a few fires, the huge Li Family Manor was completely burned down.

Now that the officers and soldiers came to investigate the situation, many villagers naturally leaked the truth, exposing their looting of the Li family's property.

In this regard, those officers and soldiers were too lazy to respond, and executed a few villagers who were not pleasing to the eye at random, as an explanation to the sons of the Li family, and then "confiscated" the property of the Li family they looted, most of which were led by the team The leaders of the officers and soldiers took it as private trophies, and a few were distributed to the soldiers. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the Li family.

But, they still couldn't get the details of the bandit army from these villagers.

It was quite chaotic at that time, and the villagers had no time to hide. It would be close to Li's house. Only a few people saw the bandit soldiers approaching from a distance, but many of their statements were contradictory.

Some said that there were at least five or six hundred bandit soldiers attacking Li's manor at that time, while others said that there were only more than 100 bandit soldiers at that time.

There is no exact number of people, let alone ask them to say how many elite riders there are.

But one thing is certain, that is, among the raiding thieves, there are definitely elite cavalry, and there are many of them.

After the situation of Lijiazhuang was reported to Lushan City, the Lushan County Lord Zun also realized that this matter was unusual, and on the one hand strengthened the defense of Lushan County.

At the same time, spies were sent to investigate everywhere, trying to find out the gang of thieves who attacked Li's manor.

A group of thieves with at least dozens of fine riders ran to Lushan County, which is a big deal.

Because according to past experience, the bandit army with this kind of elite cavalry is often a large-scale bandit army.

It is impossible for a bandit with hundreds or even thousands of people to have such an elite cavalry.

In addition, and more importantly, the rogues composed of ordinary refugees are easy to deal with, but the rogues composed of elite cavalry are not easy to deal with.

Even the respected master of Lushan County doubted whether there was a brigade of thieves, or even those well-known rebels who came to Lushan County.

This matter must be taken seriously.

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Blind Wang naturally didn't know that Lushan County had already started dispatching troops, but he still knew that he had poked a hornet's nest and initially exposed his traces, which most likely attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers.

So they didn't stop, they ran all the way after leaving Lijiazhuang, and it didn't take long for them to return to the edge of the mountain, and they were initially out of danger.

However, although his own side has escaped the initial danger, blind Wang is still worried that those officers and soldiers will follow their tracks to find Dashan and Sanshui Village.

After all, their team consisted of dozens of people, and it was difficult to completely hide their tracks with so many carriages. Even if he had already led people around in a small circle, the final destination was still Funiu Mountain.

It is hard to guarantee that officers and soldiers will not find Funiu Mountain.

So after returning to Dashan, he didn't stop there, but continued on his way with his people, and sent people back to Sanshui Village to report the relevant situation first.

And when the fast horse sent by Wang Xiazi was still climbing mountains and wading, Luo Zhixue and others in Sanshui Village didn't know that Wang Xiazi had been forced to expose his tracks outside.

Now Luo Zhixue and Sun Jiancheng are in a good mood!
And the reason they are in a good mood is because of Song Blacksmith's family.

Song Blacksmith's family just arrived in Sanshui Village the day before yesterday. On the day they arrived, Luo Zhixue, as the specific person in charge of the weapon workshop, personally greeted Song Blacksmith's family and had a cordial conversation.

During the conversation, Luo Zhixue, on behalf of the board of directors of the Sanshui Village Rebel Co., Ltd., and Sun Jiancheng, the chairman of the company, expressed a warm welcome to Song Tiejiang and his son for their dedication to the great rebellion cause of Sanshui Village, and personally solved life problems for the Song Tiejiang family. Many difficulties, such as arranging housing, food, workplace and personal guards, etc.

At the same time, he also expressed to Song Tiejiang and his son that the company's board of directors attaches great importance to them and to self-produced and repaired ordnance. He hoped that Song Tiejiang and his son would devote themselves to their work as soon as possible, so as to make more and better guns and swords for their lives. Ideal, contribute to the company's great cause of rebellion with [-] percent enthusiasm.

Finally, Luo Zhixue reiterated that the company attaches great importance to the R&D department and production department, and reiterated the company's generous treatment for high-tech talents.

At the same time, he tactfully expressed that the army is in urgent need of artillery, and hoped that the Song family and his son would take the company as their home and start working on artillery production in a down-to-earth manner as soon as possible...

And Xu He, the Sentinel of the Left Army who ran over to watch the excitement, listened to Luo Zhixue's words, and murmured in his heart: "As expected of the general's most valued scholar, he can talk about threats and lures so fresh and refined!
If this was replaced by him, an old farmer, it is estimated that the sentence would be like this: "You guys are clean, if you can make artillery, the whole family will eat and drink spicy food, but if you can't make artillery, the whole family will die...

After Luo Zhixue settled Song Tiejiang's family properly, Song Tiejiang took his two sons and said that they would start work as soon as possible.

Therefore, today Luo Zhixue and Sun Jiancheng saw a waist knife repaired by Song Tiejiang personally presided over by his two sons.

Luo Zhixue held a knife and looked left and right. The blade was slightly curved, and the tip of the knife had a reverse edge, which could be used for chopping or stabbing.

The style of this knife is very ordinary, it is used by these people, and it is also a waist knife used on a large scale in the Ming army.

What Luo Zhixue looked at carefully was Baogang on the blade!
Because this is a steel-clad knife with an iron body, its main feature is that the blade has undergone surface hardening treatment, making it sharper and harder.

There was a gap in the knife after the battle before, this time Blacksmith Song and the others repaired the gap.

Just looking at the surface, you can tell that the repair quality of this knife is much better than Luo Zhixue's previous ones repaired by relying on his own theoretical knowledge, plus people who have never been in contact with it before. After the repair is completed, it is completely invisible. Pass.

After chopping the wood one or two times, I found that the knife is still very sharp and strong.

On the other side, Sun Chengli also took a knife repaired by Song blacksmith for testing.

It can be seen that Sun Jiancheng was also very satisfied with the repaired knife, and he showed a kind face on the spot and said to Blacksmith Song: "Master Song has this skill, so I can rest assured!"

"Master Song, you can work here with peace of mind from now on. Don't worry, I, Mazi Sun, never treat my people badly!"

After saying that, he turned his head to Luo Zhixue and said, "Military Master, I will increase the Song family's food by another [-]% later. After all, blacksmithing is a laborious job, and it is impossible to eat enough."

"Well, send another piece of cloth to the Song family."

Sun Jiancheng was very satisfied with Blacksmith Song's small test of skills, and he wanted to improve the food standard of Blacksmith Song's family on the spot, and gave him cloth.

After ordering to play, Sun Chengli did not stay and left soon.

After Sun Jiancheng left, Luo Zhixue did not leave, and he had to discuss with Blacksmith Song how to make the artillery come.

Although they also need swords and spears, they are not in urgent need, but artillery is in urgent need.

If they could have a few artillery pieces, they would be able to take it down with a little more confidence if they encountered a large enemy attack in the future.

(End of this chapter)