Wuyi Town was a subordinate town of Anyuan County. It was also the wealthiest town in Anyuan County. Of course, the security team guarding this place was also the strongest.
Wu Ming, the head of the security corps and the mayor, had 1500 security corps members. Each of them had a gun. There were only 3 towns in Anyuan County that could have a gun each, namely Wuyi Town, Xiaoshi Town and Anxi Town. The 3 towns were the most powerful among the 10 towns.
It was just that they could not annex each other, resulting in a situation where the three sides stood on equal footing.
Among them, Wuyi Town was the strongest with 1500 people armed with guns. Next was Rest in Peace Town with 1300 people armed with guns, and everyone could have a gun. Next was Little Stone Town, the weakest of the three with 1000 people armed with guns.
The other towns 'security groups had about 500 to 600 people with guns, while some only had more than 100 people with dozens of guns. Most of them were self-made guns, such as bird guns and hunting rifles. They were simply unable to fight against the three towns.
Therefore, among the ten towns, three towns became the leaders of the ten towns. When the forces of the three towns joined forces, even a regiment of garrison troops in Anyuan County would be afraid.
Therefore, the regular army guarded Anyuan County and was responsible for the tax collection and governance of Anyuan County. The other mayors and security regiment leaders were responsible for the tax collection and governance of their own towns.
The two did not invade each other. The ten towns only had to pay a small amount of tax to Anyuan County every year.
After all, if both sides fought, it would not be easy for both sides.
Among the three towns, Wuyi Town was the most powerful. Therefore, as the leaders of the ten towns, they had to meet every year to discuss the development of the town. In fact, it was just to see whether their strength had increased. The ten mayors were married to each other. For example, Shi Yuxian married Wu Ming's second daughter, and Zhang He's eldest son married Shi Dayou's eldest daughter. The marriage relationship between them had maintained a harmonious relationship for 8 years.
In the past, this place was often at war. Even the Qing court could not control this barren place.
Or they don't want to care
Today, the ten mayors had gathered once again at Wuyi Town. As the host, Wu Ming had also sent an invitation to Little Stone Town. This time, the balance that had been maintained for eight years had been broken by a young boy. However, they wanted to see with their own eyes how strong the army that could wipe out the security group of Big Stone and the two strongest bandits around Little Stone Town was.
The annual gathering is a struggle for power
If Little Stone Town was really too strong this time, then the structure of the ten towns would probably change.
Moreover, from a certain perspective, both Resting Town and Wuyi Town had a feud with the new mayor of Little Stone Town because their sons had married Shi Dayou's daughter. In a certain perspective, they did have a feud with Mu Yuan, and it was a feud of extermination.
Of course, Mu Yuan didn't exterminate the whole family, but the Shi family was basically exterminated.
After Jin Bo received Mu Yuan's order, he raided the Shi family. It was fine if he didn't, but the money he found inside really shocked Mu Yuan.
The head of a security team and the mayor of a town had a wealth worth hundreds of thousands of silver dollars. He had tens of thousands of acres of land and even owned several shops in Anyuan County. They were earning a lot of money every day. There was even a lot of smoke and soil. When Mu Yuan received the list brought by Jin Bo, he almost thought that he had raided some rich businessman's house.
They were so rich, but the security team was still in such a state. They really deserved to be wiped out.
Although this amount of money could not buy better firearms, it could definitely buy thousands of Hanyang guns. Why would he let his army use old barrels from decades ago, and some guns with smoothened barrels? These were goods from decades ago, and he still had the nerve to equip them. If the barrels exploded, he would commit suicide before killing many enemies.
However, this was the current situation in Sichuan Province. Even if they had the money, they had nowhere to buy firearms. Water Moon had gone through a lot to get 3500 rifles. Even if many big warlords could only make their own guns, although the performance was very poor, at least they still had them. These small warlords were the ones who really had money but had nowhere to buy them, but they were definitely not that pitiful. After all, Mu Yuan had spent a lot of money to buy 3000 newly made Hanyang rifles. Of course, he had spent more than 100,000 silver dollars. This was already the entire fortune of many security team leaders. Of course, they did not have that much cash.
But you can definitely buy hundreds of them
Mu Yuan despised this point. He would rather have a poor army than pay for it. How could such an army have any combat power?
However, Mu Yuan had never thought that who would go bankrupt to buy weapons that they could not use?
The weapons of the surrounding forces were just like that. If not for Mu Yuanlai, Shi Dayou's security team would not be a threat at all.
However, the number of people in Shi Dayou's family really shocked Mu Yuan. Shi Dayou had 7 wives, 10 sons, 12 daughters, more than 10 daughters-in-law, and more than 30 servants. Mu Yuan could only sigh when he saw this. Was a small town mayor so rich?
Compared to this mayor, Mu Yuan felt that he was really poor. He had to cook by himself. If Mu Yuan had not established a kitchen in advance, he might have to cook by himself. Mu Yuan did not have any maids or servants at all.
This made Mu Yuan feel inferior. Of course, that was just a joke.
As for those people, as long as they wanted to go back, Jinbo would let them go. He only punished a few of them who had committed heinous crimes. Some of them were guilty, but their crimes were not worthy of death. Jinbo let them join Muyuan's construction army.
For the sake of future construction, Mu Yuan formed a construction corps with the security guards and bandits who were unwilling to leave. It was specially designed to help the army build, and it was also the first choice for future engineers.
It was really important to build such a construction army in Chuan Province because the traffic in Chuan Province was too bad. During the war, Mu Yuan did not want to rely on his own soldiers to transport weapons, ammunition, and food.
The construction of the army usually only needed to do their own things. As long as the army needed it, they would return with a transfer order. They would be paid 2 silver dollars a month, which was a kind of employment.
Many of the Shi family's sinners would come to the construction army. As for whether they wanted revenge or not, Mu Yuan expressed that he was not afraid at all. They might not even see Mu Yuan.
And the soldiers will brainwash them
When he received Wu Ming's invitation in Little Stone Town, Jin Bo sent it to Mu Yuan.
When Mu Yuan received the invitation, he found it a little funny. This Wu Ming's writing style was quite good. If it wasn't for someone else helping him write it, he could have become a scholar.
Mu Yuan called Shui Yue and Zhang Cheng over to discuss whether or not to participate in this gathering.
After all, Mu Yuan did not want to take down Anyuan County yet. His military strength was not enough to control such a large place.
Anyuan County was considered a big county. There were not many counties in the entire Sichuan Province that were this big.
Therefore, Mu Yuan would not easily take down the entire Anyuan County without enough troops.
Obviously, Shui Yue and Zhang Cheng didn't agree to Mu Yuan's participation in this gathering, but Mu Yuan wanted to go. He also wanted to have more dealings with the people of this era.
Mu Yuan indeed found that the people of this era were much better than him in terms of the ways of the world
However, Zhang Cheng and Shui Yue's worries were indeed very normal.
Fortunately, no one outside Locust Tree Village knew what Mu Yuan looked like. Therefore, Mu Yuan planned to go with Jin Bo this time. However, he did not go as the new mayor. He planned to go as a soldier. Jin Bo represented Little Stone Town. As long as it was not the new mayor, these mayors would not make a move. They did not dare to bet on Mu Yuan's revenge. After all, he could wipe out the security group of Stone University. They might not be able to withstand Mu Yuan's revenge.
Shui Yue and Zhang Cheng really couldn't argue, so they could only let Jin Bo bring more people.
Just as Mu Yuan was about to go to Little Stone Town, Liang Yu followed him out.
said seriously
"Commander, I want to go too. I'm your guard."
Mu Yuan had already mounted his horse and said with a smile,
"I'm not going to play. Why would I go? Go back. Wouldn't it be exposed if a woman like you went there? Let's go back."
As he spoke, he brought two warriors to Little Stone Town.
Liang Yu stood at the entrance of the village and looked at the departing figure. She stomped her feet.
She always felt that Mu Yuan was reckless this time.
How can a commander participate in such a dangerous gathering?
However, Mu Yuan did not feel that there was any danger. It was just a gathering. If they wanted to do something, they had to consider the army of Little Stone Town.
When Mu Yuan arrived at Little Stone Town, it was already brand new. The previous city entrance tax was gone.
Although there are still two warriors standing guard at the city gate
When Mu Yuan rode his horse to the city gate, the two warriors obviously knew that it was Mu Yuan. Their eyes turned serious.
He straightened his body and looked at Mu Yuan. Mu Yuan did not stop at the city gate.
The three horses directly entered Little Stone Town.
The two warriors did not stop him at all.
The surrounding commoners were all curious about who this person was to make the soldiers respect him so much. After all, even if it was Kimbo, they would not be like this.
The surrounding people discussed animatedly. Mu Yuan had already arrived at the town hall of Little Stone Town. After receiving the news of Mu Yuan's arrival, Jin Bo rushed to the town hall.
Just now Shui Yue sent him a telegram, Mu Yuan had already gone to Little Stone Town, he had to go to this gathering, and asked him to arrange for guards.
Jin Bo was furious. Was this a joke?
How can a commander take the risk?
He said that he would increase the number of guards. If something happened, who would be responsible?
He even scolded Shui Yue in the telegram.
Shui Yue could only smile bitterly. He did not think that these mayors would really dare to touch Mu Yuan. They were just small warlords. They did not have the courage to do so. There was no need to do so. It was just a division of interests.
If Mu Yuan didn't dare to participate in this kind of thing, then he would just stay in one place and never go out in the future.
Jin Bo was worried about Mu Yuan's safety. He didn't think that excessive worry wouldn't make Mu Yuan grow. It was fine if he couldn't go to war, but he couldn't go to such a thing either. Mu Yuan was no different from being under house arrest.
Fortunately, Jin Bo quickly reacted. He had indeed over-restricted the wood element. After all, it was good for the wood element to see more of the world.
Mu Yuan wasn't the emperor, he could only stay in the palace for his whole life.
However, Jinbo was still a little worried. Although Mu Yuan would go as a warrior this time, he was afraid that something would happen.
Naturally, they could protect Mu Yuan, but if he was injured, Jin Bo would blame himself.
Mu Yuan was not worried about this at all. His physical fitness was stronger than the soldiers. In addition, his military quality had also improved in the past month. It was just ten small warlords.
Muyuan sat in the town hall, in the mayor's office. Although no one came here, someone would clean it up every day.
Mu Yuan was quite satisfied.
Two soldiers blocked the door of the office, but the administrative staff in the town hall still looked at the mayor's office from time to time.
That place is where their commander is.
Jin Bo brought Jia He to the town hall and sighed in his heart.
He was a little worried, but his good qualities prevented him from showing it.
Jia He was now Jin Bo's adjutant. This guy's training speed was indeed very fast, and he was born to be a soldier.
He was smart, so he was quickly transferred to his side as an adjutant.
Along the way, Jia He asked,
"Battalion Commander, who are we meeting? You seem a little worried."
Jin Bo smiled bitterly.
"Haven't you always wanted to know who our commander is? He came today, but what he wants to do makes me very worried. Sigh, let's take it one step at a time."
Jia He said in surprise,
"Is the commander here? I can see the commander with my own eyes? That's great!"
Looking at Jia He's happy smile, Jin Bo's face was filled with worry.
Jia He asked curiously,
"Battalion Commander, isn't it a good thing that the commander is here? Why do you look unhappy?"
Jin Bo was speechless.
" You'll know when the time comes. Sigh, hurry up and leave. Don't let the commander wait too long."
"Yes ~"
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