Chapter 383 382 King Liang is a double-faced person

An Xin took Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing, Jiang Zhou and Zhu Shijing back to the home of the village chief of Hujia Village, who initially thought they were also bandits and almost led a group of people to beat up their teachers and students.

Some curious villagers gathered outside the fence of the village chief's house, stretching their heads to look inside, but they were all chased away by the fierce village chief's wife, who put her hands on her hips.

Except for Leng Xiangbai and Zhu Shijing, no one knew what An Xin said to the village chief of Hujia Village after An Xin and the others left.

Someone asked Village Chief Hu who An Xin and his group were, but was fooled by the chief. He never mentioned that he had just seen An Xin take out a golden dragon token and was almost frightened to death by cardiac arrest.

So in the days that followed, Hujia Village secretly received a batch of grain, and the home of the village chief Hu also took in an old man with a sharp tongue and a clever young man.

Every day, he held a booklet in his hand that explained how to build terraces, and directed the village chief Hu, who led the people of Hujia Village, on how to build terraces on the slopes of the hills to increase crop production.

As more and more villages in Lingnan were robbed of their food by bandits after the autumn harvest, An Xin also began to prepare for action.

During this period, Li Ziyu and Kong Xun successfully infiltrated the two major mansions in Lingnan.

Xin Wei wanted to be close to the people and get the upper hand, so she tried her best to make someone take notice of Li Ziyu, who used the alias Yu Zili, and introduced her to his father as a retainer.

The eldest princess Si Lingling of the Prince of Liang's Mansion was not to be outdone. She sent people to persuade Kong Xun, who was aliased as Wang Xun, but when she failed to persuade him, she forcefully invited him to her house as a guest.

Meanwhile, a group of rabble gathered here to deal with the governor of Lingnan County who liked to rule with cruel officials. However, Wang Yuantao and Zhao Lei's gang failed to resist and were surrounded and suppressed.

In the end, he had to flee to the mountains with hundreds of people, and was led to other places by An Xin to settle down. At least the lives of Zhao Lei and several officials from the Lingnan government and those people were saved.

Originally, An Xin wanted them together just to learn about the situation in Lingnan as soon as possible. After all, Zhao Lei and Wang Yuantao were in the yamen, and they knew more about many things than people outside.

And this is indeed the case. An Xin did hear some useful information from several people.

The King of Liang allowed the governor of Lingnan to collect heavy taxes from the people in his fiefdom. After these taxes were collected, half of them were sent to the King of Liang's palace.

As the bandits became more and more rampant in robbing the people's food, Erhu also brought news. They found that the weapons used by the bandits were all made of fine iron, and were very uniform and formal.

After An Xin heard this, he seemed to see the moon through the clouds, and smiled in understanding, "So that's how it is, it makes sense now."

The smart and shrewd Leng Xiangbai and Zhu Shijing also figured out the whole story, but Chi Lan was the only one who was still confused.

Soon after, Erhu also brought news that confirmed An Xin's guess.

King Liang is indeed a two-faced person.

She wants to be a whore, but also wants to be a saint.

After arriving at his fiefdom, in order to gain the support and love of the people, he ostensibly reduced taxes and was even injured while leading the border troops to suppress bandits.

This series of actions of his successfully won the hearts of the people in Lingnan, making the popularity of this newly arrived prince surpass that of the county governor's office, which was not well-received by the people.

This made the weak prince, who had just arrived in Lingnan and was suppressed by the local tyrant Lingnan County Governor, become less passive.

However, if the ambitious King Liang wanted to turn the tables, he had to have his own army.

If he wanted to rebel and sit on the supreme throne he had always dreamed of, he would need to raise private soldiers, which was an inevitable step.

Maintaining an army requires not only a lot of money, but also food for food, shelter and transportation, which is also indispensable and of utmost importance.

The amount of grain harvested by the people in Lingnan each year is already small, and of course the taxes they pay each year are not as much as those in other wealthy places.

After King Liang arrived at his fiefdom, in order to express his love for the people, he chose to reduce some taxes.

Apart from the taxes collected by the government, the taxes collected by him as the lord of the fiefdom were only enough to cover the daily expenses of the palace, and even if there was any surplus, it would not be much.

An Xin divided the spoils between the County Magistrate's Office and the Prince of Liang's Palace, and took the levies and miscellaneous taxes extorted from the people of Lingnan, as well as the grain collected by the villagers that was robbed by more than one team of bandits every day.

I knew that these bandits were probably arranged by King Liang to impersonate them, mainly to steal food and take it back to feed his private soldiers.

With this collusion, it is easy to understand why, for so many years, whether it was the Lingnan County Governor's Office or the fake officials, every time they went to suppress bandits, they would claim to have been the injured King of Liang who was carried back.

Neither of the two major forces in Lingnan were able to wipe out these bandits.

Since they were originally in the same group, it was impossible to wipe out the bandits. It was better for them to sit down together and drink tea after going up the mountain.

An Xin narrowed her eyes slightly, a faint smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.

Leng Xiangyang, Zhu Shijing, Jiang Zhou, An Rui and other people who knew their own headmaster and teacher subconsciously shrank their shoulders.

Every time the head of the mountain showed this expression, it meant that someone or an opponent was about to be in trouble.

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Then everyone heard her speak in a light tone.

An Xin glanced around the meeting hall.

"You should have heard that the five major mountain bandit dens in Lingnan are all entrenched in the five mountains of Dageng Mountain, Mengzhu Mountain, Qitian Mountain, Yuecheng Mountain and Dupang Mountain."

"Now I am going to divide the thousand people brought by Li Ziyu and Kong Xun into two teams.

Jiang Chenxi and Lu Qinlong led 500 people respectively, plus Liu Huai, Zhao Lei and Wang Yuantao led 300 to 400 people, to attack Dayu Mountain and Mengzhu Mountain which were closer to here.

The food they stole should not have been transported away yet, so we can rob them when the time comes."

"yes."

Lu Qinlong, who was brought here from the exile village by An Xin's men, stood up to receive orders along with Jiang Chenxi, Liu Huai and Zhao Lei who came to participate in the meeting.

An Xin sat on a chair in the middle of the lobby and continued, "I will take the other 500 people to attack the other three hills. No matter whether we win or not, if we see that the situation is not good, we will run away quickly. Do you understand?"

"Teacher, don't worry, I know this." Jiang Chenxi winked at his teacher, because An Xin had told them not to tell anyone the strategy he had given them.

An Xin understood what Jiang Chenxi meant. It meant that he had learned the 36 Stratagems, which states that if the situation is not good for you, the best strategy is to flee. "

Jiang Chenxi was his student after all, so An Xin couldn't help but remind him, "Although you have learned some strategies to fight the enemy, you haven't really used them after all.

Liu Huai has fought on the border battlefield, and Lu Qinlong is also the deputy commander in Beijing. Since they both have experience on both sides, you should listen to their opinions. "

(End of this chapter)