An Xin successfully captured three villages.

Because Jiang Chenxi had more people and An Xin had deployed cartilage powder, they were able to take care of the bandits in the two mountain strongholds of Dayu Mountain and Mengzhu Mountain.

And because there were more people coming from the villages here, the batch of food that the bandits had robbed at the beginning had already been transported away, and there were not many left. In the end, the village heads and heads decided to divide it equally.

Since there were relatively few people coming to An Xin's side and there were three villages, there was a lot of leftover food, which she sent people to take by horse-drawn carriage and hide in a secret place.

The atmosphere in the hall of Prince Liang's mansion was so depressing that the staff and retainers hung their heads and dared not speak easily, for fear of angering the gloomy-faced man sitting on the chair in the hall.

"What's going on? How could five strongholds be plundered at the same time?" The King of Liang, who was sitting at the head of the group, still had the same frail look as that day. He glanced at the people below with a sinister look, "Don't you know how important the food is?"

Those sitting here are all close confidants of King Liang who are aware of his ambitions. Of course, they know that King Liang led his men to capture those bandit camps, but he declared to the outside world that he did not take them down. He was also seriously injured, which created the illusion that he was in poor health.

After several waves of secret operations by King Liang, the annual increase in exorbitant taxes and levies by the county magistrate's office successfully aroused the dissatisfaction of the people in Lingnan towards the court.

This also made it very easy for them to secretly recruit troops.

After taking down those mountain bandit strongholds, King Liang ordered the bandit leaders and some bandits who disobeyed him to be beheaded.

From then on, the gold, silver and other valuables robbed from traveling merchants by the bandit camps, as well as the grain stolen from the people every year, became an important source of income for the Liang Wang Mansion to support its private soldiers.

Of course they knew how important it was for the food in the five bandit dens to be stolen.

Prince Liang stared at the people below with a gloomy face. For a moment, the atmosphere in the hall became even more depressing. Some timid aides almost knocked over the teacups in their hands.

"The food transported to the training camp is obviously not enough. What should we do when the new food arrives next year?" A thin middle-aged man in the hall said worriedly with a frown.

The square-faced man sitting in the position below King Liang glanced at the middle-aged man with contempt and said in a loud voice: "What can we do? We can't let those people train on an empty stomach."

"Why don't we send some more people to rob the villagers of their food?" one of them suggested.

A group of people who were ambitious, greedy, and delusional but had no conscience, when they heard this proposal that lacked great virtue, their greedy eyes lit up and they all looked towards King Liang.

"Heh." King Liang's eyes flashed darkly, and his tone was gloomy: "How much food do you think the people have left to rob?"

Those people then realized that in order to satisfy the food and drink needs of the private soldiers who were growing every year.

The five bandit camps that received the mission this year robbed all the newly harvested grain from the people, and now the villagers have extra grain to rob.

"Then there is only one solution left."

"What's the solution?" King Liang looked at the counselor who was talking beside him and said, "Tell me quickly."

The counselor stroked his beard, looking like a master: "Then we can only send people to take back the food from the person who took it away."

The big, rough guy with a loud voice praised, "That's a good idea."

The others regretted not seizing the opportunity to show off in front of King Liang. In fact, they could have thought of such a simple method, but they just didn't think of it at the moment.

King Liang lowered his head and thought about it. He felt that this was the simplest and most effective way, so he nodded.

"It's not difficult to find out which group of people attacked the mountain strongholds. Wang Wu, go and investigate."

King Liang turned his head and looked at the tall and strong man next to him. He was the leader of his private soldiers. "After we find out who killed the five strongholds, Li Hu, you will lead the troops to strangle all those people and take back the food."

King Liang thought that this was just a case of black robbing black, so he gave a direct order.

"yes."

"Yes, sir."

The vassal kings of Daqian were different from those of other dynasties. They had certain rights in their fiefdoms, but they were also monitored and controlled by officials such as county magistrates.

The princes here do not need to guard the borders to resist the enemy, so apart from having a certain number of palace guards, they have no military power and are not allowed to raise private soldiers.

The King of Liang is now the local tyrant in Lingnan, which shows that he is also a man with some strategies and means.

With the power of King Liang, he quickly found out from some unreliable villagers that the person who killed the bandits in the five mountain strongholds was An Xin, the exile who led the escape.

The villagers, who had just brought back food and had not yet had a full meal, were robbed by a group of masked men who broke into the village on a dark and windy night not long after.

When they wanted to ask An Xin for help to take back the food and found the home of Village Chief Hu who was in contact with An Xin, they were scolded by Village Chief Hu's fierce wife.

The wife of the village chief Hu, with her hands on her hips, didn't even let these people into the house, her eyes were round with anger.

“Damn it, Lord An Xiaoshan, you were so kind as to take the food back from those damned bandits.

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The people in some of your villages have mouths as big as the mouths of the toilet jars for collecting feces and urine, and they dare to fart anything.

You guys didn't manage the villagers well, which resulted in the head of my family being almost beaten to death by the robbers who came again this time.

Get lost, I don't want to see you, a bunch of losers who can't even control the mouths of your own villagers."

Thinking of her husband's broken head, the wife of Village Chief Hu looked at the group of village heads and officials, gnashing her teeth and wanting to pounce on them and slap them in the face.

How could they care about how the food they were talking about was taken away again and how the villagers had returned to the miserable days of hunger and starvation.

When the group of village heads and village heads saw the unconscious Village Chief Hu lying on the bed with his head wrapped around his head, they realized that it would be useless to continue to pester him.

I could only leave first, secretly resentful that I would definitely deal with those villagers in my village when I return, whose mouths were looser than the waistbands of their pants.

If they had not ignored the warning and secretly told the news to their relatives and friends who they thought were reliable, the food they brought back would not have been stolen again.

Now, not only will we all starve together.

Those poor weak people, the elderly and children, I don’t know how many will die this winter.

King Liang heard the report that the five mountain strongholds were built by An Xin and his gang of escaped prisoners who were exiled to Lingnan and who gathered together those who opposed the county governor's office.

He frowned slightly, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, he always felt that something was wrong.

However, considering that Lingnan is completely under his control, no one dares to do such a thing in his territory except for the newly arrived exiles like An Xin who are ignorant of the immensity of the world.

The expression on King Liang's face was hard to read, but a sinister smile was visible on the corner of his mouth. "Catch the female official who was exiled from the capital, and hang her on the city wall to guard the gate. Expose her body to the public."

"This is a warning to those who want to cause trouble in my territory."