After consultation by the base working group, it was decided that Li Wenfei would lead the two companies and one platoon of the Volunteer Army to start first. After the situation was initially opened, the other two companies would rush to meet up and carry out the work.

The destination is the first episode of the Zhenzhou Prefecture in Henan Province. Two soldiers are from this place, and some relatives live here. According to their introduction, there is a large family here with a very rich family and only 10,000 acres of land. They usually bully good people in the village and act recklessly, which caused complaints. When they made trouble in the Boxer Rebellion, they were stolen from usury because of their meager property. Therefore, if they could take over this family and divide their fields, they would not only ensure that the Volunteers occupy a stronghold, but also obtain a large amount of material support from the local people.

After Li Wenfei negotiated with Chen Zhao, the head of the administration, he believed that the situation in this area was suitable for work. Of course, we should not just listen to the words of the two soldiers. We should conduct a detailed investigation before taking action, but we can take the troops first.

Just as the Volunteers set off, the Jinan government received a message that a robber force sent a message to a village belonging to Jinan Prefecture, requiring the village to pay them 1,000 kilograms of rice, 50 kilograms of salt, 10 pigs, 10 sheep, 20 chickens, 50 taels of silver, and 100 pieces of cloth within 10 days, otherwise the village would be washed away.

This village is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Jinan City. It is called Beiya Village. It has 385 households registered and has a population of more than 1,600. It is a large village in this area. It was the place where land reform was early in Jinan. There were several large households in the village. However, during the land reform, these households were very sensible and handed over all the land. Moreover, these households are not bad in the village on weekdays, so there was no trial. It was just handled according to the [land reform system], and no violent incidents occurred. Just a month ago, the village had just become a villager and militia organization composed of the village staff.

According to the East China government, the administrative agencies are only down to the township level. The village committee is elected among all the people in the village, but they are managed by the township government and guided their work. However, since Beiya Village is large, it is also the garrison of the local township government, consisting of 2 traversers and 8 locals. There is also a platoon of troops stationed, responsible for defending the safety of the township government, maintaining local order, and commanding militia training.

It turned out that after the Qing Dynasty ended the rebellion on the Shandong border, the border pressure of the Jinan garrison was greatly reduced. Therefore, the garrisoned troops were adjusted. The first regiment was responsible for garrisoning Jinan Prefecture, the second regiment was responsible for garrisoning Dongchang Prefecture and Linqing Prefecture, and the third regiment was responsible for garrisoning Wuding Prefecture. The garrison headquarters were all located in the city of Fuzhou, and the army was divided into platoons and companies, and divided into counties and towns outside the city to maintain stability in various places. The platoon leader stationed in Beiya Village was Jiang Haidong.

This time, a villager from Sun Xianlu from Beiya Village proposed to the village committee. The village committee did not neglect and immediately responded to the township government.

According to the village committee, this robber's village is located in Wohu Mountain, more than 10 kilometers west of Beiya Village. For more than 10 years, almost every year after the autumn harvest, they will send people to ask for food and property from the village. It has basically become a common practice. However, because of the delivery of food and property, the robbers in Wohu Mountain really don't bother the village. Although they come to fight for the autumn wind occasionally, they are within the scope that the village can bear, and basically will not cause any harm to the village. Therefore, the villagers have basically recognized the result of spending money to buy safety.

However, in the past, several wealthy families in the village came forward to organize and prepare, and they also made the big deal. But now the land of these wealthy families has been divided, and the property and property have been collected a lot. Of course, they cannot make it happen again. Therefore, the whole village looked at the township government at this time. The head of the village committee also suggested to the township government that it would be better to share the list issued by the robbers and give it to them. After the land reform, except for the original wealthy families, the burden on the other companies has been reduced, and their income has also increased significantly this year. In this case, the villagers can afford the expenses; secondly, they do not want to offend this group of robbers, and they still want to spend money to buy peace.

But this requirement is obviously not accepted by time travelers. The two time travelers in the township government were Ding Chao and Tan Zong, who served as chief and deputy chief respectively. After listening to the village chief's advice, the two immediately criticized the village chief first, saying that the East China government was not the Qing court and could never compromise with strong people. They also had the ability to protect every village and let them feel at ease.

Of course, the two of them didn't just talk big, so they immediately found Jiang Haidong, the platoon leader of the garrison, and negotiated how to deal with these robbers. Jiang Haidong had been in the world and understood what was going on at first sight. However, he had been in the People's Army for a year and a half, and knew that the People's Army would never compromise with strong people. On the contrary, they would definitely eliminate the thieves. Moreover, the People's Army also had this ability. At the same time, they silently mourned for these strong people in their hearts. Who would be bad for provoking? He insisted on provoking the People's Army. Isn't this seeking death?

Jiang Haidong was experienced and asked to send soldiers to ask the messenger immediately, because this person was Guan Jian and asked the village chief about the messenger's situation and what was his relationship with this group of strong men.

According to the village chief, the messenger named Sun Xianlu was quite good. It turned out that he was a self-cultivated farmer in the village. His family had more than 40 acres of land, three sons and one daughter, and only one was an adult. During the land reform, the components of their family were divided into wealthy middle peasants. Therefore, he did not collect his land, nor did he distribute more land to his family. Of course, when allocating the property and grain confiscated from the rich, his family also distributed one. Overall, his family's living standards should be of a low level of well-off level that is less than the top and less than the bottom.

However, it is said that he had a nephew who was a small leader among this group of strong men, so in recent years he has been responsible for sending messages to the village and submitting a list of strong men. Once the village gathered all the property and food, he also contacted the strong men to collect them. In addition, not only Beiya Village, but also Sun Xianlu was responsible for sending messages and contacting the 3 or 4 villages nearby. So, there were two times when someone was tied up by the strong man, and Sun Xianlu came forward to negotiate and hand over the money to redeem the people.

Of course, every time Sun Xianlu handles such things, he will get a certain amount of handling fees. Therefore, although his family does not have much land, his life is very good. Moreover, because he can speak from the strong men in Wohu Mountain, he has become a very influential figure in this area over time. Even the rich and rich people should be polite to him.

After the soldiers of the People's Army brought Sun Xianlu to the township government, they saw Sun Xianluji pale and trembling all over. He has been a middleman for so many years, and he has some knowledge. He knows that overseas Chinese are not as incompetent as Qing court officials. The things they did in Jinan City have been spread throughout the surrounding villages. Therefore, Sun Xianlu also estimated that overseas Chinese would most likely not agree, so he advised him to contact his strong man not to be provoked by overseas Chinese so as not to cause trouble. However, the visitor did not listen to Sun Xianlu's advice and insisted on asking for food and property from the village.

After handing over the list of strong men to the village committee, Sun Xianlu was restless at home, not knowing how overseas Chinese would deal with him. After being taken to the township government by soldiers, Sun Xianlu immediately knelt down to Ding Chao and Tan Zong and kowtowed repeatedly.

Seeing this, Ding Chao and Tan Zong did not scare him, but asked him about the situation of the strong men. At this time, Sun Xianlu did not dare to hide it anymore and told everything he knew.

It turns out that the group of strong men in Wohu Mountain has a very big background, with a history of more than 50 years, and is the third generation. It can be said that they are the first among the Green Forests in Shandong. At first, this group of strong men did not fall into the wohu Mountain, but established a parcel in the Taishan area of ​​Jinan Prefecture and Tai'an Prefecture. The first generation of big leaders was named Lin Huaiyuan, and it is said that they were Yu Zhong from the White Lotus Sect, but at this time, Ji had nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect. Now Lin Huaiyuan has died and passed the position of the big leader to his son Lin Shenwang. After more than 50 years of development, the number of soldiers in the parcel in the past is more than 1,000. Lin Shenwang has three sons, the eldest son Lin Weizheng and the second son Lin Weixin, who are now all adults, and have established branch villages in Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain respectively. Each branch village has more than 200 people; the third son Lin Weichang is not yet adult, so he stays in the Taishan Mountain Village to accompany his father.

As for how Sun Xianlu got involved with the strong men in Wohu Mountain, it turned out that Sun Xianlu had a uncle and uncle in the neighboring village Daogou Village. Although he didn't have much contact, he still walked around during festivals. About 10 years ago, Sun Xianlu's brother offended the gentry in the village and was killed by the family. The couple were both persecuted to death. Sun Xianlu's nephew gathered more than a dozen people in the village, set a fire at night, burning the gentry's house and burning a lot of the family to death. However, they couldn't stay in the village anymore, so they went to Wohu Mountain to join the group of strong men. After two years, Sun Xianlu's nephew was promoted to the little leader because he could fight and dared to fight.

One night, Sun Xianlu's nephew came to Beiya Village to find Sun Xianlu. It turned out that they kidnapped the son of a landlord in the village and asked Sun Xianlu to pass on the message to ask for ransom. Sun Xianlu then knew the whereabouts of his nephew, so he helped him pass on the message. He successfully redeemed the landlord's son. The landlord also gave Sun Xianlu 5 taels of silver as a reward. Later, Sun Xianlu's nephew came again and gave Sun Xianlu 10 taels of silver and asked him to help take care of his parents' grave.
Chapter completed!