It's time for a showdown, all the powerful officials in Beijing are my students!

An Xin successfully captured the third village.

Jiang Chenxi's side also suppressed the bandits from Dayu Mountain and Mengzhu Mountain due to the large number of people and An Xin's use of cartilage powder.

And because there were more people coming from the villages here, the batch of grain that the bandits started to rob had been transported away, and there wasn't much left. In the end, the village chiefs, Rimasaichi, evenly divided it.

Since there were relatively few people coming to Anxin's side and there were three villages, there was a lot of food left, so she sent people to use a carriage to pull it away and hide it in a secret place.

The atmosphere in the lobby of Prince Liang's Mansion was so oppressive that the staff and retainers lowered their heads and stared down. They did not dare to speak easily for fear of angering the people sitting on the chairs in the hall with gloomy faces.

"What's going on? How come five villages were washed away at the same time." King Liang, who was sitting at the top, still had the frailty from that day on his face, and his eyes glanced at the people below with a sinister look, "Don't you know how important those grains are? ?"

The people sitting here are all close associates who know the ambition of King Liang. Of course they know that King Liang led his men to capture those bandit strongholds, but claimed that they had not captured them. He was also seriously injured, which led to the illusion that he had been in poor health.

After several subsequent waves of secret operations by the King of Liang, the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes increased by the county governor's office every year successfully aroused the dissatisfaction of the people of Lingnan against the imperial court.

This also made their secret recruitment very smooth.

After conquering the bandit strongholds, the bandit leaders and some bandits who disobeyed him were ordered to be killed by King Liang.

From then on, the gold and silver property robbed by the bandits from the business travelers, as well as the grain snatched from the people every year, became an important source for the Liang Prince's palace to raise private soldiers.

Of course they knew how important it was for the food in the five bandits' den to be stolen.

Prince Liang stared at the people below with a sullen face. For a moment, the atmosphere in the lobby became even more depressing. A timid staff member almost knocked over the tea cup he was holding.

"The food shipped to the training camp is obviously not enough. What should we do if we receive new food for next year?" A middle-aged man with a thin face in the hall said worriedly with his short eyebrows furrowed.

The square-faced man sitting at the lower position of 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 hungry."

"Why don't we send people to rob those villagers of their food?" someone suggested.

A group of people with ambitions, greed, delusions, but no conscience. When they heard this suggestion that lacked virtue, their greedy eyes lit up and they all looked at King Liang.

"Ha." Prince Liang's eyes flashed with a dark light, and his tone was gloomy: "How much food do you think the common people still have to grab now?"

Only then did those people react, in order to satisfy the increasing number of private soldiers every year.

The five bandits who received the mission this year robbed all the newly harvested food from the common people. Now the villagers still have extra food to grab.

"Then there is only one way left."

"What can we do?" King Liang looked at the counselor talking next to him and said, "Speak quickly."

The counselor stroked his beard and looked like a master: "Then we can only send people to snatch the food from whoever snatched it away."

The big boss with a loud voice praised: "This is a good thing to pay attention to."

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

King Liang lowered his eyes and thought about it. You felt that this was the simplest and most effective way, so you nodded.

"It's not difficult to find out what those gangs attacked by sneak attack. Wang Wu, go and investigate."

King Liang then turned to look at the tall and strong man next to him. He was the leader of his private soldiers and said, "When the people who killed the five strongholds are found out, Li Hu, you will lead the troops to strangle all those people and seize the food. "The King of Liang thought that this was just a matter of gangsterism, so he gave the order directly.

"Yes."

"As ordered."

The feudal kings of Daqian were different from other dynasties in that they had certain rights in their fiefdoms, but they were also monitored and coerced by officials like county guards.

The vassal king here does not need to guard the border to defend against enemies, so apart from having a certain number of palace guards, he has no military power, let alone raising private soldiers.

The King of Liang is now the local emperor 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 villagers who had shaky mouths that the person who killed the bandits in the five villages was An Xin, the exile who took the lead in escaping.

And those villagers who had just brought back food and had not eaten a few full meals were again robbed by a group of masked men on a dark and stormy night.

When they wanted to ask An Xin for help in retrieving the food and found the home of Village Chief Hu who was related to An Xin, they were scolded by Village Chief Hu's shrewish daughter-in-law.

Village Chief Hu's wife, with her hands on her hips, didn't even let these people in, her eyes widened with anger.

"Bah, Mr. An Xiaoshan, he kindly took back the food from those damn bandits.

Some of the people in your village have mouths as big as the mouths of the urinals in the latrines, and they dare to fart anything.

You yourself failed to manage the people in the village well, and the head of my family was almost beaten to death by the people who came to rob me again this time.

Come on, I don’t want to see you bunch of cowards who can’t even control the mouths of the people in your own village. "

Thinking of her man's broken head, Village Chief Hu's wife looked at these village chiefs and gritted her teeth, wanting to pounce on them and slap them in the mouth.

How can they care about the fact that the food they said was taken away again, and the people in the village returned to the miserable days of starvation.

The group of village chiefs, Li Zheng, saw the unconscious Village Chief Hu lying on the bed with his head wrapped around him, and knew that there would be no result if they continued to pester him.

I had no choice but to leave first, feeling secretly resentful that I would definitely clean up those villagers in my village who had mouths that were looser than the waistband of their trousers.

If they had not ignored the warning and quietly told the news to their relatives and friends who they considered reliable, the food they brought back would not have been robbed again.

Now it's better, everyone is starving together.

The poor, weak people, the elderly and children will die in unknown numbers this winter.

King Liang heard the report that the five cottages were built by An Xin, a group of prisoners who had been exiled to Lingnan to escape, and who gathered together a group of people who opposed the governor's office.

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

However, he thought that Lingnan was completely under his control. Except for the newly arrived An Xin and this group of exiles who knew nothing about the world, no one dared to do such a thing on his territory.

King Liang's expression was unclear, and there was a sinister smile on his lips, "After I caught the female official who was exiled from the capital, I hung her on the city wall to watch her death, and exposed her body to the public."

"This is a warning to those who want to cause trouble in this king's territory."