readsfreenovel Chapter 209 Triumph
Chapter 209 Triumph
After the meal, the guards were arranged, and the people on night shift to count the bandits' assets continued, while everyone else had a good rest.
That night, Hou Xiaoge did not return to the space, but slept in Wang Datou's room. Of course, she did not take the old bedding, but replaced it with a new one.
The next day, Hou Xiaoge was awakened by the chirping of birds outside.
"oops!"
"I haven't slept outside for a long time. This sleep was so comfortable!" Hou Xiaoge stretched, put on his new mink coat and left the cave.
"Alliance leader, you're up." The guards outside greeted him quickly.
"Yeah! Good morning."
After doing some boxing in the open space outside and washing up, he started to eat the egg custard and roujiamo that had been served.
After dinner, Hou Xiaoge started to tour around Tuerling. There was a battle yesterday, so I didn't get to see it properly. Today I have nothing to do, so I decided to relax.
After many years of operation by Wang Datou, Tuerling has been developed very well.
The total area of the flat areas in the four valleys is about 400 acres, all of which are planted with crops.
The green winter wheat indicates that these plots of land are cultivated land. If only one crop of wheat is planted a year, the grain yield can reach 300 kilograms, which is considered good land.
The steeper part of the mountain behind is the Tuerling bandit village. It covers a smaller area, but still about two hundred acres, and fifty acres of land in the village is used to grow wheat.
The bandits in Tuerling can feed eight or nine hundred people with just these lands, and they don't have to pay grain to the emperor. How comfortable it is.
"Tuerling is such a great place!" Hou Xiaoge even wanted to move Nanjiagou Village here.
It would be a piece of cake for three or four hundred households to live in such a large place, and there is no need to worry about the future growth and development of the village.
Although Tuerling is located deep in the mountains, it is not as far away from the town as the Donkey and Camel Bell bandit’s nest. It is only a dozen miles away from the town by mountain roads, so life there is simply too good to be true.
However, the people in Nanjiagou Village are living very well now, so naturally no one wants to come to this mountain valley, but you can notify relatives and friends in Nanjiagou to come and settle down.
This place is located deep in the mountains, so any incident will have little impact on it. In the future, when the fifties and sixties come, the villagers of Nanjiagou can also receive assistance.
He did what he said. He forged a letter and arranged for the Yanhuang Alliance to go back and notify people to come.
"Alliance leader, I never expected that Wang Datou is so rich! The eight of us took turns counting, and it took us an entire night to finish." Tong Baizhan and Tieli came over and reported excitedly.
"Oh! Tell me about it." Hou Xiaoge was also very curious about how rich the bandits near these big cities were.
"Then please sit down, leader. I told you!" Tong Baizhan cleared his throat and said seriously.
"Hurry up and tell me, as if you have so much money. Last year, the supplies I donated exceeded one million silver dollars. You act like I've never seen such a lot." Hou Xiaoge scolded with a smile.
"hey-hey!"
After Hou Xiaoge's scolding, the two men remembered that their leader was a wealthy man.
“As for weapons, including those seized yesterday, there is one damaged mortar and two old-style city defense cannons.
There were five heavy machine guns, two of which were damaged;
Of the twenty-eight light machine guns, five were damaged;
There were 720 rifles, 520 of which were new-model rifles, and the rest were hunting rifles, old rifles from the Qing dynasty.
What remained were 40,000 bullets of various types, more than 30 grenades, more than 20 artillery shells, and 1,200 kilograms of gunpowder.
In addition to hot weapons, there are more than a thousand cold weapons of various kinds. "After saying this, Tong Baizhan, who felt a little thirsty, picked up the tea on the table to moisten his throat.
"Next came the supplies, a total of 1,000 dan of fine grains, more than 2,300 dan of coarse grains, 300 dan of beans, and 1,800 dan of bran for livestock.
Two hundred pieces of cloth, one thousand kilograms of bacon, and other miscellaneous supplies weighing two thousand kilograms in total.
There were ten oxen, sixty-nine horses, thirty-five donkeys and mules, more than three hundred sheep, ten pigs, more than a hundred piglets, and the remaining chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock totaling several hundred.
There were more than twenty horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts and other types of vehicles, as well as two bicycles.
By the way, we also found an iron workshop in Tuerling, which should be the place where iron was forged and firearms were made.
A total of more than 800 kilograms of steel and two small manual machines were harvested in the workshop.
The rest are some daily necessities and other small things, and that's all the supplies received." Tong Baizhan said with a smile on his face.
"Good! Keep going." Having experienced the spoils from Lutuoling, Hou Xiaoge was mentally prepared.
"Haha! Wang Datou has saved a lot of money in the past twenty years, but now all of this is ours.
Among them, a total of more than 1,200 taels of gold of various types and a total of 103,215 dollars of various types were seized.
There were 260,000 legal tenders, and the customs gold coupons and other domestic banknotes were worth about 20,000 oceans.
There are also more than 12,000 US dollars, more than 2,000 British pounds, more than 1,000 rubles, and more than 2,000 Japanese yen.
The rest also included more than 100 taels of gold jewelry, more than 500 taels of silver, and more than ten boxes of jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. "When Tong Baizhan read it, he felt his mouth dry and his heart pounding.
"Good, good, it seems that the bandits near the commercial roads of this big city are really rich! Now we have a target to fight against the bandits in the future." Hou Xiaoge also smiled happily and was very satisfied.
"By the way, the Qin army doesn't know about the seized supplies, right?" Hou Xiaoge asked quickly after realizing what was happening.
"No, after we captured Tuerling yesterday, we let the Qin Army instructor take a rest, and the rest are our own brothers." The two men quickly reported.
"That's good. The seized goods, especially the money ones, must not be leaked, otherwise the government will come after us.
Load all the money onto my truck and take it back today. Use the horse-drawn carriage to transport the rest of the supplies. Be sure to conceal it from others." Hou Xiaoge instructed.
"Yes!"
"Well! As for the rewards, we will do as we have agreed in advance after we get home. In addition to the gold, the remaining 30% of the property will be regarded as rewards for the brothers." Hou Xiaoge said to the two with a smile.
"Thank you, Alliance Leader!"
Hou Xiaoge didn't like saluting, but after hearing this, the two of them excitedly stood up and saluted with their fists clasped.
“By the way, to transport the materials, we brought some carpenters up the mountain and made some carts.
When the time comes, let the mules and horses pull the supplies back, and the remaining horses will be extorted by the government." Hou Xiaoge reminded the greedy government.
"Yes!"
It is not easy to transport so many supplies back. Fortunately, the security team has many mules and horses, and they would rather not take the vehicle themselves and carry all the seized supplies back.
By noon, hundreds of mule and horse carts had been loaded, and the money and antiques pulled two trucks, and they were heading back in a mighty procession.
When they were almost reaching Chang'an City, the truck transporting the money and antiques left the team and returned to the Yanhuang League headquarters, while the rest went to the war hall.
On the other hand, there are also many forces paying attention to this matter.
In addition to the government and local bandits in Chang'an City, in Chang'an County, County Magistrate Wang was happily waiting for the security team to return after their defeat under the guarantee of Master Hu.
As for why Master Hu went back, it was because he had written a confession of collusion between officials and bandits. His family was also kidnapped by the security corps' investigation platoon. In order to get the freedom promised by Hou Xiaoge, he naturally cooperated in the acting.