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Chapter 22 Let's fight the bandits

The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit.

As a warlord-level family with tens of thousands of people and thousands of strong men, the Xu family is indeed afraid of Tartars, but they are not afraid of bandits.

The reason for colluding with Dao Ren Luo was mainly because the price paid by bandits to be harassed repeatedly when he was unable to completely kill him was higher than the dozens of stones of grain and more than a hundred coats every year.

In addition, fighting a bandit nest is insufficient, and the expected income may be large, so no one has any motivation.

After all, in this era, bandits are not living a life like "drinking wine with big bowls, eating meat with big sluts, and dividing gold and silver with big scales".

If the bandits' lives were so comfortable, why would Dao Ren Luo be bribed by dozens of stones of grain every year?

Well, maybe only Luo Daoren and the few bosses of the parable can get some good things. The rest, the robber Ding Zhuang and the bandits can also be considered some kind of spoils, and then... and then there is nothing.

Therefore, there is no need to expect to seize any good things from the bandits, and they may even lose money in terms of food.

However, Xu Shiyang has a different view.

In other words, his foothold is different from that of other people in the Xu family.

For Xu Shiyang, thousands of young men will play an important role in the face of possible revenge by the Jurchen Tatars in the next few years, and this will be worth the fare.

Of course, this cannot be said to others, because it will cause unnecessary panic.

Therefore, what he just pointed out was the other benefits that can be obtained by destroying Taoist Luo - expanding the arable land area to which the big family belongs, and at the same time opening an additional Fulai Mountain branch base.

As long as the bandits on Fulai Mountain are eliminated, the family will not have to strictly control the population of each fort in the future. If more than 500 dingkous, they will have to find a way to separate some people to build a new fort.

In the future, the population that can be supported by the fortress will be much more than it is now, and the strength of each fortress will naturally be much stronger than it is now.

Not building or building a new fort is a bad news for those who have not yet obtained the position of the fortress lord, but it is a good thing for those who have already controlled a village.

And everyone who is working on it is all the castle owners.

When it comes to your own interests, it is not difficult to figure out such things. Especially for those who have descendants who do not have the right to inherit the fort, it is of great practical benefit to expand existing rights as much as possible.

In layman's terms, the forts are ultimately owned by the Xu family. They need to get enough benefits for themselves as much as possible while the Xu family, who can stand alone, is insufficient in staff.

Now, regardless of faction, all the castle masters of the foreign surname are looking at the three masters sitting up with eager eyes.

Especially Luan Tingyu and Sun Li who were a little confident in his abilities were eager to try.

"If you can break through the bandit's wall, I think this can be tried."

Xu Shisong said:

"But how to allocate the land and seizures of Fulai Mountain?"

Xu Shisong is one of the most warlike people in the entire Xu family except Xu Shiyang. When he heard that his third brother took the initiative to attack the Tartars and won, his heart was also in a state of passion and he wanted to try it out.

When Xu Shiyang agreed to give him a war horse, the idea of ​​fighting could no longer be suppressed.

‘They are all legitimate sons of the Xu family. The third brother can do it, so can I do it!’

There are no Tartars now, so it is not impossible to settle for the second best and fight against the strongest bandits near Juzhou.

In fact, there is another reason why Xu Shisong is fighting - he is about to get married, and his fiancée is a local wealthy family near Rizhao County, and he is considered a match with the Xu family.

However, as a man, Xu Shisong didn't want the gifts he could give to his future wife were given to him by others - the fort, and he also had a good war horse under his jurisdiction.

He hopes that when he goes to propose marriage in the spring next year, he can give the Yue family some good things he has earned and can take advantage of.

Maybe these good things are now in the warehouse of Luo Daoren’s copycat?

"Brother, we are all a family, and it's a big deal to say that these are apart." Xu Shiyang replied with a smile: "How about all the spoils be divided equally according to the number of troops sent?"

"Then aren't you at a disadvantage? You have to take on the most dangerous task of fighting a village wall."

"For our Xu family, what's the point of losing something?"

The two brothers were humble in order to obtain the spoils that they had not yet obtained, as if the bandits' hamlet had been conquered. Xu Mujiang and Xu Muhe, who were in the upper leader, looked at each other with a hint of helpless expression on their faces.

Among all the fortress owners, they may be the last person they want to hit because they all have underage sons and need a new fortress to settle in the future.

Of course, you can also choose to deprive the forts distributed to foreign surnames, but doing so requires considerable risks.

However, in this situation in the lobby, all the foreign castle lords obviously want to fight. Among the castle lords in Xu, Xu Shisong and Xu Shiyang, Xu Shibai wants to object, but he must consider the feelings of his two uncles. Moreover, Xu Shibai is also the castle lord, and expanding the castle lord's power will also be beneficial to him.

In this way, except for the three masters, the other castle masters all have the intention of fighting, and the three of them are a little isolated.

"Let's talk about the next issue first."

Finally, it was Xu Shiyang's father Xu Muhe who came forward to remove the topic:

"War is not that easy. If you fight or not, how to fight will not be decided in an instant. You can discuss this later, and there is no rush to be a moment."

"Second uncle! There is no need to hurry to fight!"

When my father spoke, Xu Shiyang naturally couldn't say anything.

But at this time, Xu Shisong, who had made up his mind, immediately stood up and continued to shout:

"Or else don't fight, continue to endure that dog, Taoist Luo, riding on our Xu family, or fight early and fight hard. While the autumn harvest has just begun, we have food in our hands, and we will quickly destroy him!"

Seeing that the bandit suppression war was a foregone conclusion, the weakest link among the three masters, Xu Muhai whispered: "I think so too, either don't fight, or fight quickly. After the fight, we can live a stable life."

Xu Muhai had no ambitions. He had not passed the Jinshi exam. It was because his youngest son was favored and inherited the property of three forts from the deceased old man.

His wife has no power, and even the genuine brother-in-law has to make a living under his command, so naturally he can't get any foreign aid.

Therefore, Xu Muhai's daily behavior seemed a little more unrestrained. For him, as long as the Xu family could continue to exist, everything else didn't matter.

Anyway, no matter how open and secretly the big and second houses fight, his third houses have to be a small but low-level villa.
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