Chapter 1083 Does koi bring blessing or disaster (35)
Letting his son take the lead in resisting the bandits is worthy of admiration.
Zi Hua has met four or five Li Zhengs in person and secretly, but the only one who never puts on airs and gets along easily with the villagers is Jiao Qizhong.
Yuhua is willing to work with such people.
At that time, she asked He Zhenniang to write a book about cutting knots, and Jiao Lizheng helped her do it quickly and thoroughly. In addition to saving Jiao Yushu, he also took a fancy to her great strength and wanted her to play a role in dealing with the bandits.
The calculation of force is here.
Jiao Qizhong was doing it for the whole village, and Zihua didn't mind his plans for her.
She lives in this village, and if Jiao Qizhong comes to find her, she will take action if the bandits come.
Due to the presence of bandits, the village organizes night patrols every Chinese New Year to detect bandits in advance.
After the New Year, these people dispersed.
Jiao Qizhong was overjoyed, "They won't be a problem either. The original leader was Liu Tiezhu. I asked him and he said that if you were the leader, he would have no objections and would follow your arrangements."
Liu Tiezhu is Zhou Dafang's husband, and the Liu Dasuo she rescued is Liu Tiezhu's nephew. The Liu family is grateful, and Liu Tiezhu would say this to prevent Suhua from being surprised.
After Zihua agreed, Jiao Qizhong summoned thirty-one people from the village, all young and middle-aged men, and announced that this year's leader would be Zihua.
"...I am too old to patrol the mountains myself. For this reason, I now appoint Hua Yuerou as deputy chief. Her decision will be my decision when it comes to dealing with bandits."
This surprised Zi Hua a little. Da Chu's restrictions on women were not very big, but they were not too loose either. After all, the current social structure is that men are superior to women. Jiao Qizhong was able to promote her as an upright person, and his thinking and mind were very open.
Fortunately, Weishan is not a single clan village, and there are not so many rules and regulations.
Li Zheng is not a high-ranking official position, and Deputy Li Zheng is not a formal official title. Deputy Li Zheng is equivalent to Li Zheng's assistant. Those who help Li Zheng do things are appointed by Li Zheng on his own.
But now that transportation and communication are poor, there are many people who have never left the village in their lives. In the eyes of many villagers, Li Zheng is their parents, and deputy Li Zheng is also the official who can control them.
Jiao Qizhong gave her this non-official position in order to help her establish her authority.
Of course Zihua would not refuse.
Liu Tiezhu's loud voice shouted first, "Don't worry, Li Zheng, we will listen to Deputy Hua Li Zheng's assignment."
After he finished shouting, he turned around to encourage the others, "Hey, stop nagging, just speak up."
Some people followed suit and expressed their opinions, "We all follow the arrangements of Vice President Hua."
Not everyone was willing in their hearts, but fortunately no one opposed it face to face.
A big part of it was the rumor that he was also half a disciple of the Mountain God, and many villagers believed it.
In any case, Yuhua's position as Deputy Chief was recognized.
Zihua took office immediately and divided the thirty-one people into ten groups. One group had one more person, and she was in a group.
No one could match her mastery of the village and surrounding terrain. She assigned patrol times and routes to ten groups one by one, and she was responsible for half of the night patrols.
She didn't take over all the night patrol work because she didn't want to make a bad start. If something similar happened in the future, they would think it was her responsibility.
She made it clear that she took half of the job because she was the leader.
This arrangement of hers convinced everyone, especially after she kicked a half-person-high stone to pieces with one leg, no one dissatisfied her.
Next we have to solve the problem of weapons.
She asked her subordinates what they used as weapons, and they found everything. Some of them were hatchets that were more lethal, while others were hoes and palladium, and some were simply wooden sticks.
This is still the main selected resistance force, and the weapons available to others in the village can be even worse.
If the bandits really come, in addition to these thirty or so villagers who take the initiative to fight, other villagers will also have to take up arms to prevent the bandits from entering their homes.
Nowadays, iron tools are strictly controlled. In addition to iron pots and kitchen knives, it is good for a family to have a hatchet and one or two iron-tipped agricultural tools.
Each iron-tipped farm tool will be used for many years, and many old farm tools are not as lethal as a pointed bamboo.
It is said that bandits are armed with machetes, and some bandits are also good at using bows and arrows. Bandits with such equipment entering a village are like wolves entering a flock of sheep.
In response to the bandits' plunder, the people in the village either hid quickly or rose up to resist, otherwise they would be caught by the bandits and lose their lives, not to mention their wealth.
Weishan Village chose to resist ten years ago, and two women were captured and three people died.
Some villages chose to flee or hide, resulting in greater losses and more people being captured.
Anyone captured by the bandits, whether they were women or men, never came back and their lives were unknown.
Every year, Weishan Village organizes manpower to prepare for the arrival of bandits.
The number of bandits who come to rob the village varies every year. Sometimes there are twenty or thirty people, forty or fifty people, and sometimes there are hundreds of them.
Because they have been on guard every year and have not come every year, many villagers have slacked off. In addition, the laborers hired are all strong laborers at home. They can only worry about guarding against bandits, and their family work will be delayed.
Moreover, these people have no money, so they work for nothing.
People are selfish and have a sense of luck. They think that the bandits did not come in the past few years, which was a waste of effort. They may not come this year, and then it will be a waste of time and delay their own affairs.
That is to say, relying on Jiao Qizhong's prestige in the village, he organized these thirty people. If it were different, not many people would respond.
No one can say for sure whether the bandits will come or not, so weapons should be prepared.
The weapon Zihua prepared is an improved wolf sword.
The bandits have big swords and fighting experience, but the villagers who don't have much fighting experience can't get any favors from them if they get close to them.
A four to five meter long wolf trap can widen the distance between the two parties.
A regular wolf spear requires an iron tip at the top, but Zihua uses sharpened bamboo pieces instead.
Not to mention the lack of time, the government also did not allow private soldiers. Dozens of iron spearheads had to be made, and no blacksmith dared to take on this job.
It is easy to make a wolf bamboo pole without an iron tip. Just choose a bamboo pole of moderate thickness and remove the lower branches. You don’t have to remove all the upper ones. Leave some as bamboo thorns on the top, and then fix the sharpened bamboo pieces on the top.
Zi Hua did not do everything for them. Instead, after giving a demonstration to everyone, he asked everyone to make their own wolf bamboo baskets, depending on their own habits. Then he asked them to make more and distribute them to their families and other villagers.
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She also taught them two simple moves of Langzhen, which can be mastered after a few more exercises.
The most important lethality is the poisonous liquid she prepared from poisonous plants on the mountain.