What did bandits do?
They were bandits who made a living by burning, killing, and looting. They specialized in doing bad things, not good things, and harming others to benefit themselves.
However, ever since a valiant female bandit leader came to this mountain, the bandits realized that they could change their name to 'Lei Feng'.
"Hey, do you guys think … there's something wrong with this boss of ours? We're bandits, not government officials. We're only in charge of robbing and killing. Why do we have to cultivate farmland, do farm work, and do all those weird things? It's so embarrassing! "
One of the bandits secretly rubbed his head, then looked at the house in the middle of the bandit stronghold.
"Who cares if there's something wrong with her brain? We can't beat her anyway." Another patrolling bandit muttered in a low voice, "We can't beat her. She can smash your head open with one punch. Who dares to provoke her? Didn't you see what happened to our previous boss? His neck was directly broken by two fingers, and he slowly stopped breathing. I saw it, his tongue was sticking out for a long time. "
The bandit stronghold was originally a gathering place for men. Women only had one role here — to warm the bed and satisfy their lust.
However, a valiant woman had descended from the sky and single-handedly knocked down all the men in their stronghold.
At first, they were afraid of the other party's strength and had no choice but to submit.
After a while, the original leaders were dissatisfied with her 'tyranny' and protested seriously.
Men, especially the hot-blooded bandits who were used to living a dissolute life, how could they stand not having a woman by their side?
Unfortunately, the women that the bandits had kidnapped were all released by the female bandit leader. The female bandit leader was the only woman in the entire stronghold.
Under the influence of various emotions, the original leaders planned to sneak attack the new female bandit leader and tie her up to use her as a prostitute.
The result … could be imagined. Before the leaders could make a move, the female bandit leader had already taken the initiative. In front of all the brothers in the stronghold, she strangled them to death, crushed their necks, and rewarded their corpses to the tigers that she had caught.
His words evoked a cruel memory, and his companion shuddered.
Since then, all the men in the bandit stronghold had been traumatized. Those who could escape did so, and those who had nowhere to run could only tremble and work for the female leader. No one dared to look at her directly, afraid that she would chop them into pieces.
"Hey — don't scare me, I'm a coward — I had nightmares for half a month after that day —"
The bandit couldn't help but tremble when he thought about how he had just cursed the female boss for having a problem with her brain.
On the other side, Jiang Pengji was too lazy to care about these rumors.
To her, it didn't matter if these bandits were loyal to her or not. What was important was that they were obedient.
"There are so many bandit strongholds nearby?"
She promoted a clever bandit to be her inept advisor.
It was said that before he became a bandit, he was a scholar with a bit of fame. He had studied for two years and could recognize a few words.
"Sigh, the weather hasn't been good these past few years. How many people can't survive? The high officials in the imperial court only care about themselves. How much tax does a family have to pay every year? How many people are driven to death? If they can't survive, they can only become bandits. Therefore, there are quite a lot of bandit strongholds nearby. "
Jiang Pengji frowned.
Tax?
"Will people be driven to death if they can't pay their taxes?"
She rarely spoke. When she spoke, she had an accent. No one knew where she was from, and it sounded very awkward.
The inept advisor was surprised.
Where did this boss come from? She didn't even know about this?
"Isn't that so? If they can't collect taxes, they will rob everything in the house that can be sold. If they have a pretty daughter at home, they might even kidnap her and sell her … Sigh, anyway, there are all kinds of tragedies. These days, people who reincarnate as adults are born to suffer. "
Jiang Pengji was silent for a while.
She remembered that Widow Zhao's husband was violently shoved by the tax collectors. He accidentally fell to the ground and his head hit a rock and died.
Every time this matter was brought up, Widow Zhao's face would turn deathly pale, and her eyes would reveal a look of despair and pain.
The current situation was not good. There were many commoners who became bandits.
The government could not be bothered to control these bandits. Suppressing bandits also required a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources. The money allocated by the higher-ups was deducted layer by layer. Therefore, the bandits became even more unscrupulous. They burned, killed, looted, or fought and annexed each other. Not long after Jiang Pengji occupied the stronghold, her "peers" came to fight. They heard that the bandit stronghold had just changed leaders. They thought that the stronghold's vitality was greatly damaged and they could take advantage of it.
However, the outcome was often unexpected.
Not only did they not succeed in robbing the stronghold, but Jiang Pengji led a group of subordinates to raid the stronghold.
She counted all kinds of "income" expressionlessly.
"No wonder so many people become bandits. It's indeed faster to earn money by robbing."
The bandits kneeling on the ground were trembling with fear. Some of them could not help but wet their pants. They had urinary incontinence.
They could not be blamed for being too cowardly. It was because Jiang Pengji was too ruthless in killing people.
They fought their way in from the entrance of the stronghold. There were corpses lying under their feet. When they got up, they looked like ferocious ghosts who had crawled out of hell.
Bandits were braver than ordinary people, but to put it bluntly, they were still mortals. How could they withstand the oppression of her aura?
For others, aura was something that was accumulated over a long period of time. For Jiang Pengji, the oppression of her spiritual realm forcibly imprinted the slave mark in people's minds so that they would not have the slightest desire to resist when facing her.
With the "financial income" this time, Jiang Pengji increasingly liked to find trouble.
On one hand, she increased the "extra income" of the stronghold, and on the other hand, she expanded the territory and manpower.
Gradually, Jiang Pengji became a famous bandit in Hejian County. Some of the bandit strongholds did not need her to fight for them. They took the initiative to come to her. In just half a year, the population of the stronghold had increased from a few dozen to four or five thousand. It directly alarmed the Hejian County Chief!
The Hejian County Chief was trembling with fear. He was afraid that Jiang Pengji was going to cause trouble. But Jiang Pengji was not that bored. Instead, she restrained her subordinates and set several strict rules. If anyone violated them, they would be directly chopped up and fed to the tigers.
However, if the bandits did not have the gray income, how would the four or five thousand people survive?
Of course, there was. Jiang Pengji ordered people to reclaim the wasteland and rely on themselves. At the same time, she selected bandits with better physique and specifically trained them in martial arts. She asked them to escort the merchant teams that traveled from south to north for a certain "escort fee."
Now that the world was in chaos, business was not so easy to do. The merchant teams were often robbed by bandits.
If it was light, they would lose their money. If it was heavy, they would lose their lives. Once they encountered one, they would lose all their hard-earned money.
It was the first time for many merchants to hear that bandits did not rob or kill people. Instead, they became escorts!
Speaking of which, were they really not embezzling?
Because there was no "competition" in the same industry, it was relatively easy for them to accept business.
They directly guarded the main road and put on a posture of one man guarding the pass against ten thousand people. They forcefully "blackmailed" and accepted the escort business.
So, were the merchants willing to pay a little money to hire them as escorts, or were they waiting to be robbed?
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