I traveled through time, starting with two acres of land and a dog

Chapter 85: Bandits Assist in the New and Old Societies

One laborer from each family has been organized to build a road in the back mountain. After two years of expansion, there is now a 1-meter-wide mountain road from Lijiahe and Banqiao to Guanyinyan, Linshui and the north-bound Mixang Road, which is barely enough to allow people to ride horses at a trot the entire way. The rest of the people continue to reclaim wasteland and improve the soil at home. The Chinese people's spirit of hard work and wealth is inherited in their bones.

In other areas, during the winter farming off-season, the main labor force of poor tenants were almost all working for the landlords to earn a little food, and they almost never saw wages. Ordinary people with wealthy families almost all huddled around the fire to smoke opium, water pipes, and dry tobacco. Men, women, young and old, everyone had a pipe. During the Republic of China period, Sichuan people had come up with all kinds of ways to smoke. Not only did the warlords encourage the planting of opium, but the poor life at that time also required spiritual sublimation through the smoke.

However, smoking opium is strictly prohibited in their jurisdiction, and smoking is strictly prohibited for people under the age of 16. Anyone caught doing this will be forced to undergo labor reform. In order to ban opium, the government organizes the unified planting and purchase of ordinary tobacco. Each community has established a tobacco processing factory and unified the rolling of cigarette paper, which is also a huge source of income. Since its implementation last year, Blue Grass brand cigarettes are rolled with two grades of straw paper and white paper and exported to surrounding areas. However, the output is currently seriously insufficient.

As a relatively mature area under their management, the relaxed land policy was resisted several times by gentry and landlords, but under the suppression of force, they actively paid taxes and gradually completed the land reform, at least realizing that all tenants had their own land to cultivate. Therefore, the enthusiasm of ordinary people to open up wasteland, build roads, and build farmland water conservancy was also stimulated, and the scene was full of hope and confidence:

The first frost chills the earth, and the malt sprouts.

There are no barren hills around, and the people’s granaries are full.

People build new roads and children go to school.

Looking at the old place across the river, it is shrouded in devastation and smoke.

After exercising for a whole morning, he was so tired that his whole body was paralyzed. He lay on a chair next to the fire in the yard. Sister Xiaowan was making pheasant soup for him. At noon, when they were about to have lunch, Zhou Kui came back to report.

“Master Chenyu, this is a life like a god. I can smell the fragrance of a can of chicken soup from miles away. Isn’t this a real treat?” Zhou Kui, this big and naive guy, actually has a frivolous heart, otherwise he wouldn’t have won the heart of Princess Weiwei of Guling.

“Haha, no matter how delicious it is, it’s not as delicious as the beef stewed by Weiwei for you. Does she often give you nourishment?” Du Chenyu said directly. Sister Xiaowan didn’t understand, as she thought it was normal for a wife to cook meat for her husband. However, Zhou Kui heard something different.

“Master Chenyu, I don’t need any supplements. Look how strong I am.” Zhou Kui lay on the ground and did push-ups to prove himself.

"Then why haven't I seen Sister Weiwei's belly get bigger? It's been a year," he said with a smile. Sister Xiaowan understood a little bit now. After all, she is a grown-up girl. She raised her head slightly and looked at me, smiling a little.

“Mr. Chenyu, you are only 5 or 6 years old, how do you know all these things? Is this also mentioned in the book?” Zhou Kui felt a little embarrassed and could only ask him back.

"Beauty is in the books, and Dream of the Red Chamber and Romance of the West Chamber are written clearly." How could he not understand?

"I don't know if there are any such books. I only like to listen to the operas about the Yang Family Generals, such as Fan Lihua's Breaking the Heavenly Gate Formation and Mu Guiying's Command. I haven't heard of the others." Zhou Kui said

"Then you need to study more, especially to make Sister Weiwei's stomach ache," he said seriously.

"Hehe, Master Chenyu is right," he promised to complete the task.

When Sister Xiaowan heard this, her face turned red. In this era, men and women rarely made sexual jokes, let alone in front of a virgin girl, so she had definitely never heard such a slightly sexual joke before.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Come and have a bowl of chicken soup." He changed the subject and returned to the original topic.

"Everything went smoothly today. I sent out a squadron to ambush on both sides of the Lantern Valley. When the tax collectors came in, we rushed out from all sides and surrounded them. They had no choice but to surrender. Then we confiscated their weapons and escorted the prisoners through a small road to the Banqiao prisoner base," Zhou Kui reported on today's events while drinking soup.

"Okay, starting tomorrow, your three squadrons will be stationed from the foot of Laojun Mountain to the Baishu River, forming a situation of encircling Chongqing, and keep an eye on the situation at all times, but keep a low profile and wait for the next order." He ordered.

"Yes, I'll pass the message right away," Zhou Kui turned around and was about to leave.

"It's okay, just finish your meal slowly. Sister Xiaowan will give you another bowl," he said.

Before they finished their meal, a special forces member came running towards them quickly, "Report, urgent information." He dismounted and handed the information to Sister Xiaowan who was waiting for them at the yard.

"Give this brother a bowl of chicken soup and let him take a rest," he said.

"Thank you, Mr. Chenyu, thank you, gulp, gulp..." This brother should be a member of the special service training team who had just participated in the training. He couldn't remember his name yet. Sister Xiaowan handed him the intelligence note and brought him a bowl of chicken soup. The brother took the soup with trembling hands, thanked her hurriedly, and then drank it in big gulps.

"Today, bandits attacked the Yangjiaba area, but their number was not large. They had more than 30 guns. After sending out 10 people to harass the Yangjiaba security guards and lure them out, the other side divided their personnel into two groups. One group surrounded the security guards, and the other group directly killed their way into Yangjiaba. Several large households were breached and had to be robbed. They also killed several civilians and ran away after the robbery," he read the intelligence to Zhou Kui.

"These damn bandits are worse than beasts. Let me, Young Master Chenyu, lead the team to wipe them out," Zhou Kui felt a little indignant. After all, there hadn't been a bandit killing case in their jurisdiction for a long time.

"Okay, but this bandit attack has brought us a potential rare opportunity. We must seize it and take the opportunity to bring the large area of ​​Chongqing under our jurisdiction so that the people can live and work in peace," he said, standing up.

"Yes, Master Chenyu, please give the order," Zhou Kui said, standing up.

"Notify the captains of each team immediately to come here for a meeting. There is an urgent task," he said.

Half an hour later, several captains arrived on horseback. "Captain Zhou, you take charge of presiding over the meeting and discuss an action plan with me. I'm going to take a rest." None of the three squadron captains had presided over a major battle. Relatively speaking, only Zhou Kui had more experience and had served as deputy captain for a long time. He had the ability to lead troops independently. Chen Jinhai and Li Haoran were new captains with serious inexperience and were unable to convince the crowd. Du Chenyu left after he finished speaking.

"Mr. Chenyu, I..." Several people were a little surprised, especially Zhou Kui, who called him out loud and blinked to see if he was joking.

"Du Qian, Liu Wenjie, you guys help the captains draft an action plan and hand it over to me." He saw that they were a little at a loss and looking at each other, so he called a few guard staff officers over to assist them.

"Yes, Master Chenyu," they put down the documents in their hands, stood up and answered.

After dinner it was time to go to bed, and he woke up about an hour later. "Sister Wan'er, go and see how they are progressing," he said to Xiaowan who was lying there concentrating on practicing calligraphy.

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