53 Lao Tzu's life is so good, even the enemy helps Lao Tzu

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Before, because Li Zixiao led people to break through Linjiabao, these big families in Zhuangbao once again felt the pressure, and it didn't take long for the Cai family to take the initiative to find them, asking them to send some villagers from each village and follow the officers and soldiers to exterminate Li Zixiao's bandits.

When these big families heard this, they felt good, and they didn't want to see a powerful pole rise around them, so maybe it would be their turn to be unlucky!

But it is simply impossible for them to send people to encircle and suppress bandits, at most they can build a high village wall and protect their own homes, so that they will not spend their own money and food to encircle and suppress bandits, this kind of thankless work!

I didn't see that even if the Cai family was so big, they didn't dare to encircle and suppress Li Zixiao by themselves, and they had to rely on the strength of the officers and soldiers through their connections, and they would at most send some villagers to help in the war.

These big families in Zhuangbao were easily persuaded by the Cai family, and finally waited for the government to send a team to suppress the bandits, so that they could see the hope of exterminating Li Zixiao, a bandit, and of course they had to help.

In their opinion, more than 700 officers and soldiers, plus thousands of villagers from major villages and forts, are enough to easily exterminate Li Zixiao's bandits, but God always likes to give people unexpected surprises.

As a result, Liu Jinbao took more than 700 officers and soldiers and thousands of villagers to encircle and suppress a pole with only four or five hundred people, but they were defeated by others, and few people escaped.

The rest were either killed in battle or captured, and even Liu Jinbao returned directly to the Suiyang Guard without a sound, and it is estimated that he has no face to come to see the Cai family and them.

After this battle, Li Zixiao is bound to become famous in the surrounding area, and there will be many defectors, and it will not be long before his strength will soar.

At that time, how could Li Zixiao swallow this evil breath, and the thousand households surnamed Liu could pat their butts and leave, but they couldn't, the foundation they had accumulated over generations was all here.

If they don't agree to Li Zixiao's slightly harsh request at this time, then what will happen next is probably something that everyone can imagine.

So smart people have to do smart things, since they can't run away, instead of waiting for Li Zixiao to take his men to kill in front of their Zhuangbao and level their Zhuangzi.

At that time, their families will be ruined, and the money they have worked hard to accumulate at that time has not been robbed by Li Zixiao.

When Li Zixiao led people to break through Zhuangzi, and ended up with a ruined family and scattered money, it is better to obediently obey now.

Although Li Zixiao's conditions are really harsh, they are not unable to get out, at most they make them feel distressed for a long time, and they can be regarded as ruined and avoided.

These people are looking forward to the fact that the government can send officers and soldiers again as soon as possible to exterminate Li Zixiao's big pole, and then it will be regarded as a bad breath for them!

Everyone calmed down and thought about it carefully, and they all figured it out, even the two big families who clamored at the beginning not to give Li Zixiao a son, after figuring out the truth, finally chose to obey.

What's more, they still have a lot of Zhuang Ding who have been captured by Li Zixiao, if they don't ransom people with money, it will chill the hearts of the remaining Zhuang Ding, who will do their best in the future to give them a care home!

So no matter how painful it is, they can only knock out their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs with blood, who made them not open their eyes at the beginning, listened to the bewitchment of the old Wang Ba surnamed Cai, followed the nonsense, karma, who do they complain about?

However, these landlords and old fortunes can also see that Li Zixiao and the Cai family are dead, and they will definitely not spare the Cai family, with the strength of the White Snake Village at this time, the Cai family is afraid that a big disaster is coming.

After this lesson, these landlords and old fortunes in Dazhuang Fort will not listen to the Cai family anymore, and they will simply kill people and not pay for their lives!

After this battle, Li Zixiao and White Snake Village suddenly became the most eye-catching bandits in the Guide Mansion area.

After receiving the news of the failure of the encirclement and suppression by the officers and soldiers, the large households within a radius of several dozen miles in the surrounding area were first shocked, and some clever landlords and old fortunes immediately took action.

casually found a reason, took the initiative to prepare a gift, and sent someone to pull it to the White Snake Village in a cart, so as to buy a peace first, and save the future in case Li Zixiao brought people to them, they could let them go.

Originally, the White Snake Village was just a remote place, but in the following days, several roads leading to the White Snake Village gradually became lively.

Vehicles loaded with money and grain converged in the direction of the White Snake Village, and a large number of displaced people also walked towards the White Snake Village.

There is no other reason, but because of the recent news released by the White Snake Village, a porridge shed will be set up outside the mountain pass on the south side of Mangdang Mountain to help the victims.

After hearing the news, these homeless people, in order to stutter to survive, couldn't care about anything, and dragged their hungry bodies one after another and began to run towards the White Snake Village.

Displaced people in good health can go all the way to the White Snake Village and get a mouthful of porridge to drink, while those who are not in good health may starve to death directly on the way.

Anyway, even if they don't come, I'm afraid they won't last long, so it's better to come and fight, after hearing about this, a large number of homeless people are even some homeless people who are hundreds of miles away.

And the White Snake Village did not break its promise, outside the mountain pass in the south of the village, set up several large porridge sheds, took out a batch of grain every day, boiled it into porridge, and distributed it to the displaced people who rushed to it.

For a time, outside the mountain pass in the south of the White Snake Village, it almost became a downtown area, crowded with people, crowded all over the mountain, and there were a lot of homeless people sitting and lying down.

Some people even set up shacks and lived near here, living on two meals of gruel a day, digging up wild vegetables from the nearby mountains to improve their diet, but they did not worry about starving to death for a short time.

Moreover, Li Zixiao sent Old Master Wei to take Dong Zhi to set up a reception office outside the cottage to accept all kinds of materials sent by those blackmailed households.

They didn't even let them go in at the mountain gate, but after receiving their things, they took out their captured Zhuang Ding from the cottage and handed them to take away.

Only in the end, only those captured officers and soldiers were left in the cottage, as well as the people of the Liu family, who lived a life of fear every day in the White Snake Village.

Xiang Yong, who watched other villages all day long, was constantly taken away and let go, but they could only watch, not knowing what ending they could end up with.

The life of the officers and men is quite okay, two meals a day, porridge and a mixed bread to eat, but they are not too hungry if they are not full, and the work they need to do every day is not the most tiring, and the life can be regarded as barely passable.

But the treatment of the captured Zhuang Ding of the Liu family is far worse, one porridge a day, it is still very scarce, and they don't even have to eat a mixed flour cake, so they don't have to do it.

But everyone was tied to the log and couldn't move, eating, drinking, and sleeping next to the log, making them smell bad all around them, and their hungry eyes turned green.

However, they were still glad that they were the Zhuang Ding of the Liu family, not the Cai family, otherwise they would not even have their last breath left now, and their heads would have been cut off a long time ago.

However, in addition to the Cai family, the Liu family has always been an enemy of Li Zixiao, and of course Li Zixiao can't give them much good treatment.

Even if Li Zixiao didn't deliberately order, Dong Zhuo, who was in charge of logistics, was not in a good mood to serve them, one meal of gruel a day was already calculated, and according to some people's intentions, they simply didn't even give them porridge to eat, and starved them to death.

These dozens of Zhuang Ding of the Liu family are really desperate in their hearts, and they are all thinking about their master's full food, why do they have to provoke this surnamed Li with the Cai family!

It's good now, it's them who are unlucky, in the past few days, these people have been tortured and have no human form, and they are so hungry that they don't even have the strength to cry.

Li Zixiao stood on the top of the walled gate, looking at the busy scene everywhere, looking up to the sky and sighing, he will be busy in the future.

Since this battle, his White Snake Village has become famous, and there is an endless stream of people who come to defect, plus Zhang Ergouzi went out to recruit young and strong homeless people everywhere, and in less than a week, he has recruited a full five hundred recruits.

At this time, the total number of people in his cottage has exceeded 1,000 people, which is why he extorted a lot of money and food from the landlord Lao Cai at this time, so that he could afford to support such a person.

At the same time, the people he sent out to inquire about the news also brought back a lot of useful information to him, in all aspects, such as the news of the drought in Shanxi, which Li Zixiao was not in the mood to pay attention to for the time being.

There are two main news that he is most concerned about, one is the news about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the other is how Kaifeng Mansion reacted after Liu Jinbao was defeated by them.

Among them, the information about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the rebels, is basically similar to the history he knows, at this time, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, these rebels, were surrounded in the mountains of southeastern Shaanxi, Hanzhong to northern Sichuan.

This made the imperial court see an opportunity to exterminate these rebellious people, so Emperor Chongzhen sent Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, two famous generals, to deal with Li Zicheng, and this peasant uprising was about to fall into a low ebb.

In addition, after Liu Jinbao was defeated by them, it seems that he fled back to Suiyang, and then had a big blood and bribed Yin Tianxing, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, with 5,000 taels of silver, which can be regarded as suppressing his defeat.

Even, according to the news that Li Zixiao got, Yin Tianxing, the prefect of Kaifeng, really did not report Liu Jinbao's defeat, and he didn't even mention to his superiors that there was such a bandit as him in Yongcheng County.

This seems strange, this Kaifeng prefect seems to be deliberately concealing this matter, and this was not because Yin Tianxing had anything to do with Li Zixiao at that time.

It was because Yin Tianxing had a handle that fell into the hands of Li Zixiao, and he already knew that it was Li Zixiao's bandits who ambushed the group of more than 100 officers and soldiers he sent out at the beginning.

That means that the letter he wrote to Fengyang's commander Wu Laiyun also fell into the hands of Li Zixiao, and that letter was the evidence of his crime of reselling military rations and ordnance, and Yin Tianxing was eager to get the letter back from Li Zixiao.

Originally, he planned to send Liu Jinbao's officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station to exterminate Li Zixiao, and then retrieve the letter for him, and the matter was over.

But he didn't expect Liu Jinbao to be so useless, and he was defeated by a group of bandits, which he didn't expect, but he had to help Liu Jinbao suppress this matter.

Otherwise, once the imperial court knows about this matter and sends new officers and soldiers to exterminate Li Zixiao's group of bandits, if the letter in Li Zixiao's hand lands in the hands of others, he will be finished.

Therefore, Yin Tianxing is making a little relationship between the top and bottom this time, and using the power in his hand to suppress the defeat of Liu Jinbao, and he is reconsidering the matter of encircling and suppressing Li Zixiao, a bandit.

He couldn't let other officers and soldiers exterminate Li Zixiao, and the officers and soldiers he sent had to exterminate Li Zixiao and destroy the letter, so that he could rest assured.

So, it was amazing that a group of bandits like Li Zixiao defeated a group of officers and soldiers like Liu Jinbao, but the court was surprisingly calm and didn't react immediately.

I have to say that Li Zixiao also has to thank Yin Tianxing for suppressing this matter for him, so that he can not attract the attention of the imperial court in a short time.

This is also changed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's control over the local government was greatly weakened, if it was changed before, there were brocade guards everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, how could such a big thing be hidden from the emperor's ears and eyes.

At the same time, it is also because Yin Tianxing, the prefect of Kaifeng, has a lot of energy, he has worked hard in the officialdom for decades, and his protégés and former officials are all over the court.

In addition, he secretly resold military rations, ordnance for personal gain, and successfully bribed a large number of Ming officials and generals, all of whom were pulled into his camp.

At this time, if Yin Tianxing really has an accident, it is estimated that a series of high-ranking officials of the imperial court will be unlucky, and of course these people don't want to see this.

So these people will help Yin Tianxing to conceal this matter together, this is the power of a faction, the strength of these officials combined, it is too easy to hide one thing from the emperor.

After Li Zixiao heard the situation reported by his subordinates when he came back, he couldn't help but glance at Qian Guangyuan, and from Qian Guangyuan's eyes, Li Zixiao also saw a smile.

"Hahaha, Lao Tzu's life is really good, even the enemy helps Lao Tzu, now I can finally free up a period of time for development, and the court will not pay attention to us in a short time."

Li Zixiao stood on the wall, in a very good mood, and said.

"The big boss is right, but although the imperial court will not notice us for the time being, it is estimated that the old horseman of Kaifeng prefect Yin Tianxing is very anxious to exterminate us!

Although we can't welcome the encirclement and suppression army of the imperial court, we will inevitably face the officers and soldiers sent by Yin Tianxing, so we still have to act according to our plan.

On the one hand, we should strengthen the training of our soldiers so that we always have a strong armament in our hands, and on the other hand, we should also speed up the construction of the 'base area' mentioned by the big boss. ”

Of course, Li Zixiao knew that he had to seize the time again to enrich his strength, and at the same time, the construction of the 'base area' he proposed should also speed up the progress.

Li Zixiao didn't plan to really be like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, to be a chaotic army wandering around, burning, killing and looting everywhere he went, and he was invincible.

After eating up a lot of land, it coerced a large number of people and fled to other wealthy places, so many displaced people in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to natural disasters, more reasons were **, and the culprit was caused by Li Zicheng's rebellion.

Li Zixiao, who comes from the 21st century, certainly knows how important a solid base is for an armed force like him.