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Chapter 109: Beat the drum and pass the flower, conquer the village! (Daily update 22)
Half an hour later, in the lobby of the County Magistrate's Mansion.

The seventeen family heads clasped their fists and said, "Greetings, Your Excellency the County Magistrate!"

Chu Feng smiled and said, "No need to be so polite, my dear family heads! To be honest, I just went to inspect the barracks and found that the soldiers are well-trained and their morale is high. It's the perfect time to wipe out the Yellow Turbans and the bandits! However, the army needs money and food to set out. I wonder if you could donate some?"

Upon hearing this, the seventeen family heads thought to themselves, "As expected."

Then, the head of the Wu family clasped his fists and said, "Sir, it's not that we don't want to help, but last year's harvest was poor, and the surplus grain in the mansion is running low!"

The heads of other families, such as Sun, Zhuo, Cui, Meng, and Wang, also found excuses to complain.

In the past six months, they have used their connections to find out the background of the county magistrate Pan Feng. He was a peasant who got the position of prefect only by bribing Zhang Rang.

The gentry and the eunuchs are in opposition. If they suppress Pan Feng, they will only be appreciated by Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou!

Wang Fen was originally one of the Eight Chefs and a famous scholar in the world, but because of Emperor Ling's second Party Persecution, he had to flee.

It was not until last year that Emperor Ling, worried that the party members would collude with the Yellow Turbans, lifted the ban on the party.

And because of this, Wang Fen was appointed as the governor of Jizhou!
Wang Fen is opposed to the eunuch camp. If Pan Feng dares to act recklessly, he can take the opportunity to report him and have him dismissed!

However, Chu Feng did not get angry when he heard this. Instead, he smiled calmly and said, "The remnants of the Yellow Turbans have not yet been wiped out. If they attack the farms in your hometowns, or even sneak into the county town and destroy your families, it's hard to say what will happen! If you are truly unwilling to donate money and food to suppress the bandits, I will not force you. You can go back now!"

However, when the family heads heard this, they felt a chill in their hearts.

This Governor Pan was directly revealing his cards and making a naked threat!

At this time, anyone who dares to leave may suffer a disaster, or even be wiped out!

Seeing this, Chu Feng smiled and said, "I knew that all of you family heads are generous people! Of course, if the money and food are too little and the soldiers can't eat enough, I'm afraid they won't go out to fight. So, it depends on your performance!"

"My Wu family is willing to pay 1 yuan!"

"My Huo family is willing to provide 200 dan of grain."

Soon, families began to donate.

In the end, Chu Feng obtained 2000 dan of grain and 7 coins.

Not bad!

Then, Chu Feng assigned them another task, which was to transport wood and aragonite.

The felling of wood and the mining of stone were naturally done by ordinary people.

But these working people need to be provided with food, and the required food is naturally distributed among the heads of various families.

This was the emperor's order, and they did not dare to disobey. However, they made up their minds to complain to the governor Wang Fen.

Not long after, all the family heads left.

The weather was sunny on both mornings.
At this time, the money and food had been collected.

Chu Feng personally led 2000 elite troops to the battle, accompanied by the county lieutenants Liang Meng, Zhang Niujiao, Pei Yuanshao, and Liu Zhen, leaving behind Shenyang, Zhou Cang, and Huang Xiong with 1 elite troops to guard the county city.

Now Zhou Cang has recovered his cultivation to the fifth level of the Qi Realm, and has mastered a military characteristic called Iron Wall, which is enough to suppress everything!
In addition, Chu Feng was worried that the heads of the seventeen families would cause trouble after he left, so he left a strategy to Shenyang and the other three.

Once a group of people gather to cause trouble and the impact is huge, the seventeen family heads will be gathered together to play the game of passing the flower.

Once someone is chosen, his property will be confiscated and his family will be exterminated on the charge of colluding with the Yellow Turbans!
Because only the aristocratic families have a large number of private soldiers who can cause chaos, killing them is definitely the right thing to do!
If there are still people gathering to cause trouble, then continue playing the game of passing the flower!

This was the end of the Han Dynasty. Having money and land was nothing. Whoever held military power was the boss!

A few days later, Chu Feng led his army to Menghuzhai.

Before suppressing the bandits, Chu Feng had asked Shenyang to collect information on various strongholds in the county. There were more than 20 strongholds, large and small, with a population of as few as three to five hundred and as many as over a thousand.

Menghuzhai is the largest stronghold, with more than a thousand people!
The reason why the scale has not continued to expand is because we can’t afford it!

The more bandits there are, the more money and food they need. At that time, the people were too poor and didn't have much money. The wealthy families all had private soldiers, so they might not be able to rob them.

If a mountain stronghold recruits too many people, it will eventually collapse due to food pressure. Chu Feng came to the foot of the mountain and saw only a steep circular mountain road that climbed up the mountain. Looking at the dangerous terrain, he was secretly frightened.

The terrain is steep and there is only one way up the mountain. The bandits are in a dominant position and the defense is very tight. If we attack by force, the losses will be huge!

Therefore, Chu Feng went up the mountain alone. This move could not only reduce losses, but also win the hearts of the soldiers!

A commander who can lead by example and rush into danger first will naturally win the support of his soldiers!
Seeing this, the bandits stationed at the foot of the mountain immediately started shooting arrows.

However, before the arrow got close, it was blocked by a layer of air shield.

Chu Feng appeared like a phantom, and in a moment he knocked down dozens of bandits.

At this time, the total population of Jizhou was only five or six million. The population was sparse and labor was precious, so Chu Feng would naturally not kill easily.

Immediately, Chu Feng led the way in front, followed by Zhang Niujiao, Pei Yuanshao, Liu Zhen and Liang Meng, who led the army.

Half an hour later, Chu Feng fought his way to the gate of Menghu Village.

At this time, a burly man in black armor and holding a copper stick led his troops out to fight.

This strong man is also a master of the second level of Qi realm.

However, facing Chu Feng, he was captured in just two moves.

"Are you willing to surrender?"

"Wu Xiong greets the lord!"

The strong man knelt down decisively.

Chu Feng nodded with satisfaction, and then selected 50 elite bandits with martial arts skills to join the army.

Immediately afterwards, he also sent Pei Yuanshao and 50 elite soldiers to take over the mountain stronghold and prepare for military training.

Pei Yuanshao's mission is to train at least 50 elite soldiers with 500 Lieyang Army soldiers as squad leaders. When Chu Feng wants to start an army in the future, he can gather the troops from various strongholds and expand the army quickly!
The money and food they need are mainly collected in the form of protection fees from the caravans. If they don’t pay, they will take action!

Pei Yuanshao had now recovered to the peak level of the fifth level of Qi Realm, which was enough to deal with the caravans of ordinary aristocratic families.

Of course, he still has to disguise himself or wear a mask to avoid causing any adverse effects.

As for Wu Xiong, he joined the army along with 50 elite bandits.

Then, Chu Feng collected half of the money from the stronghold and left, moving on to the next stronghold.

At the same time, the governor Wang Fen also received a complaint from the noble families of Anping County, so he reported Chu Feng to the court, saying that Anping prefect Pan Feng abused his power for personal gain and threatened the local nobles to pay taxes.

But unfortunately, this memorial was of no use because Zhang Rang spoke for Chu Feng, and Emperor Lingdi trusted Zhang Rang very much, so naturally nothing happened.

Despite this, Wang Fen still sent someone to scold Chu Feng, but unfortunately, no one showed up.

Seeing that this tactic had no effect, the local nobles planned to send people to cause trouble for Chu Feng, but they were quickly suppressed by Zhou Cang's 1,000 elite soldiers.

Then, seventeen family heads participated in the game of passing the flower while beating the drum. An unfortunate family head was caught in the trap, and his entire family was destroyed on the charge of colluding with the Yellow Turbans. His property, land and family members were taken into the county governor's office.

At this point, the remaining sixteen powerful families no longer had the will to resist.

More than two months later, Chu Feng captured the 25th stronghold, leaving behind a general of men at the tenth level of internal strength and elite soldiers to take over the stronghold.

This stronghold has about 500 people, and 25 elite soldiers as the backbone are enough to deal with it.

In addition, Chu Feng also selected 25 elite bandits to follow the village chief who was at the first level of the True Qi Realm to join the Lieyang Army.

At this time, there were already about 500 elite bandits in the Lieyang Army, and 15 more bandit generals who were above the first level of the True Qi Realm, and some village chiefs were only at the tenth level of the Internal Force Realm.

With this group of bandit generals, Chu Feng also filled the vacancies of middle-level generals.

Of course, these people have unstable minds and need more training to completely win their hearts!
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