After figuring out the situation, dozens of people looked at each other in confusion.
Yes, the leader of the White Tiger Village is also a person who has a sense of crisis and can accurately find opportunities in crises.
The boss understood that his small stronghold had fallen into the battlefield of the four-nation struggle for supremacy, and there were armies everywhere that were bloodthirsty. Sooner or later, his stronghold would be lost, so he might as well take advantage of the chaos to do something big. Anyway, he didn't know who did it, and then he could retire and hide in the back. As long as he had money, he could survive anywhere, right?
However, as the local tyrant, the boss knew more about the local noble families than outsiders like the captain and Lin Hai. He knew that although he claimed to have several thousand soldiers, his bandits, who only had three or four hundred combat-capable bandits with barely enough weapons, would never be able to break into a village that was strictly guarded by able-bodied men and farmers.
So the boss set up a conspiracy that lasted for half a year. From this point alone, we can see his professionalism. In comparison, Lin Hai and others were like fresh graduates who had just entered the industry.
Half a year ago, the Chen Dynasty court issued an edict, hoping that the noble families in various places would accept and protect refugees. In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the noble families, it even introduced a policy that after accepting a specified number of refugees, the family could nominate one person to serve as an official in the local area after the war.
This deeply stimulated the gentry in the southwest.
After all, the southwest is very far away from the ruling center of the Chen Dynasty. Even most people in the Chen Dynasty could not tell the difference between their own southwestern citizens and the Southwestern Yi. They thought they were all similar country bumpkins far away.
Therefore, although the Chen Dynasty had been holding imperial examinations for many years, there were not many native people from the southwest serving as officials. After all, when people heard that you were from the three southwestern provinces, they would naturally think that you probably had little education. This fixed impression could not be changed by money alone. As a result, many local officials in the southwest of the Chen Dynasty were from other provinces, and even officials from other provinces would be demoted to the southwest after committing crimes.
The gentry in the southwest have wanted to change this for many years, and now the opportunity has finally come.
The head of the Zuo family, one of the most famous local gentry, the owner of tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and thousands of farm households, had been humiliated countless times by the county magistrate from another place but had never found any good solution. After seeing the imperial edict, he shed tears in the ancestral hall that had been passed down for hundreds of years.
Isn’t this just buying an official position with money and food?
When it comes to being rich, our Zuo family may not be considered a big deal in other places, but locally, I don’t believe that there is no one richer than me.
The head of the Zuo family made a four-step plan to take in refugees, let the county magistrate accidentally encounter the rumored Liang rangers who died for their country, then send people with huge wealth to lobby in the capital, and finally let his eldest son serve as the local county magistrate. Everything was going well.
Everyone's plans went smoothly.
The Zuo family successfully accepted a considerable number of refugees, not only more than expected, but also more than other gentry. While other gentry were still picky about the refugees, the Zuo family opened its doors and accepted everyone. The refugees seemed to have heard of the name of "Mr. Zuo", and flocked to the Zuo family.
The boss also successfully arranged the spy into the Zuo family, but later, seeing that the Zuo family was willing to accept everyone, he simply arranged most of the people in the stronghold into the Zuo family, leaving only a few wanted bandits outside to avoid being recognized.
The captain and Lin Hai successfully led the team to the vicinity of Zuojiazhuang.
That day was the birthday of the head of the Zuo family, and the whole family celebrated.
Although the refugees were not allowed to enter the Zuo family's fortress and could only live in the huts on the farm, the Zuo family's own servants were simply unable to complete the task of hosting a banquet for the sixtieth birthday, so the housekeeper recruited a large number of people from among the refugees...
The banquet reached its climax when the refugees spontaneously carved a stone statue of the God of Longevity from a large piece of rock and wanted to present it to the patriarch. The patriarch personally ordered the gate of the fortress to be opened and allowed the refugees to carry the statue in.
The boss also personally ordered that the gate of the manor be guarded tightly and no one should be left behind.
When Lin Hai and his team arrived in the late night, the Zuo family members were still making their final resistance near the ancestral hall.
The captain waited for a while, and when the sounds of fighting gradually died down, he ordered a surprise attack, still leaving no one alive.
This is the story of the first pot of gold.
Of course, there is a sequel to this story. The two centurions took down the almost deserted Baihu Village without any harm and seized a lot of spoils, but they were all handed over to the public by the upright captain Ma Shouxin. However, many names of the dead were written in the battle report. These were the losses they suffered when attacking Zuojiazhuang.
After a long period of processing and selling, the Zuo family's wealth was transformed into a large amount of gold and silver and a small amount of weapons. Lin Hai and his nine brothers eventually buried the remains further south. Only the ten of them knew the exact location; not even the captain knew the exact location.
Of course, after the natural elimination of the war, there are only five people left alive who still know the location, including Lin Hai, including Wang Liang and Lu You.
Therefore, Lin Hai knew that the southwest, now in a state of near anarchy, was the best place for his group. Otherwise, once they left the wounded camp, except for himself and a few relatively healthy brothers, everyone else would die quietly in the coming years. They had endured the most brutal years of war with Lin Hai, protecting him in the most devastating war, never allowing him to go to the front lines, never allowing him to be directly stained with blood. Even during the attack on Zuojia Village, Lin Hai was still waiting outside the village for everyone's return.
There are many reasons for this kind of protection, sometimes even motivated by utilitarianism. But Lin Hai knows he has to be grateful.
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