Chapter 27: Calm

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  Nineteen bandits were captured, and after mutual denunciation, four more bandits with blood-stained hands were shot dead. This left only fifteen bandits, who, upon interrogation, turned out to be villagers from nearby villages who could not make a living and were willing to follow Liu He back to work as laborers.

  Let's take a look at this time's harvest, guns and ammunition don't need to be said, several gold bars were found in the mountain cave, more than 100,000 silver coins, more than 100,000 kilograms of grain, more than ten horses and cows, as well as horse-drawn carriages and ox carts.

  Liu He arranged to put the guns on the horse cart, and also pulled up some silver coins, and also pulled up a portion of grain. Then he arranged for people to quietly inform the villagers who had lost their grain to come to the mountain to transport the grain back, while most of the others returned to the village.

  At this time, early winter had arrived, and Liu He began to organize the crowd to start digging mountain caves. This was the main thing for Liu He, and eliminating bandits was just to let everyone see blood. Besides, there were no more bandits nearby, and if there were any, they would be hundreds of miles away.

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  Liu Xiucan's organized armed personnel training has also become more like a drill, at least they can all shoot guns now. At fifty meters away, they can hit the target, which is not bad. They have organized thirty people in total, and Liu Xiucan's son Liu Long serves as the captain of these thirty people. Naturally, that rifle belongs to him too.

  Liu Long's son, however, followed Liu He and the others. Now that the adults were digging mountain caves, Zhang Zhen led the children to start their hunting action. Liu He had made up his mind to train some personnel into sharpshooters, especially after capturing a large amount of silver coins in several bandit-annihilating operations, which enabled them to purchase a large quantity of ammunition.

  Let's talk about the cooperative group. Due to working together on farming and improving the soil of some barren lands, this year's grain production has increased unprecedentedly. All members of the group are beaming with joy, except for Liu He, whose yield decreased slightly. However, after calculating, Liu He found that his decrease in production wasn't much. In previous years, Li Lao Cai would waste nearly 30% of the grain on the fields, but this year, Liu He's field increased production by almost 20%. After deducting the land borrowed to long-term workers and the 60% labor value distributed, because he had the most livestock, his labor value wasn't low either. This way, his income didn't decrease much compared to previous years. Moreover, the income from weaving was all Liu He's, especially after he bought those extra mountains, which increased the number of rattan strips. Li Shu even sold those baskets and other items to places hundreds of miles away, earning tens of silver coins this season alone.

  There is also a thousand kilograms of grain in the public storage, which was also purchased by Liu He and stored in the underground storage. Only Zhang Zhen understood that this was a preparation for the invasion of Japan. Now even Zhang Zhen is not sure if Japan will invade, let alone other villagers. Naturally, Liu He won't explain it either. Being considered a prodigal son doesn't require explanation, and naturally, Liu He also earned a good reputation.

  Digging mountain caves was originally a matter for everyone, but this also came out of Liu He's grain to manage meals. Naturally, several women who cooked were also eating with them and didn't need wages. Doing this thing without paying wages, Liu He had no pressure at all. This was to plan welfare for the villagers.

  However, later on, there was no place to send the soil, and other villagers in the village also came to ask for it. They just sent the soil to their land to improve their land, so that they could have a meal. Why did they do this? Because they saw the harvest of the improved land in the cooperative group, they naturally moved their hearts. How can one meal not be worth the increase in production next year? Moreover, the increased production of improved land is not just 10% or 20%. Even poor soil can increase production by up to 200% after improvement, and even this improved land does not need fertilizer for three years. It's really a good deal.

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  "Little ancestor, come and have a bite, hurry up, have a bite"

  Liu He suddenly found that a bad phenomenon began to appear in the village, some children would not eat if they didn't like the food, and their parents would follow closely to ask them to eat, which was not good, this would disrupt Liu He's plan.

  "What's going on? I heard that if it doesn't taste good, you won't eat it now, right?" On this day, Liu He organized his team members and the parents of those children to hold a meeting.

  "This won't do, from now on, you'll have to eat a meal of bran every three days, and while eating, you must wear a smile on your face. If not, I'll make you leave the hunting team, and you'll never have another chance to hold a gun."

  "Master, don't be so strict, we've all had a good life. Who still eats bran?" "You think you've had a good life? It's only been a few days! Besides, the devils are now in Northeast China. If they come, your grain will be taken away by them. What will you eat then? You won't even have bran to eat."

  "Master, really, you're telling the truth, the devils are back, those flesh-eating devils, what can be done?" Liu He actually accidentally let this slip out.

  "Sister-in-law, don't worry, the devils may not be human, but they won't eat people casually either. Besides, we have guns in our hands too." "Ah, right! Master, you have a gun, so please protect us when the time comes, I beg of you, little rabbit, go back and give me some bran to eat, or else you won't be allowed to eat dinner anymore, let the devils come and eat you instead!"

  Unexpectedly, Liu He's words had another requirement. Everyone went back and really only ate one meal every three days. Some people even specially ground the bran to eat it. Liu He heard that even Liu Xiucai was going to eat like this. According to legend, people who ate bran would not be eaten by devils because they had a smell of bran on their bodies.

  "Haha, Master Liu, this bran is really delicious, do you want to have some?" Indeed, when everyone was eating the bran, they still had a smile on their faces, and it seemed that they were more enjoyable than eating meat. Liu He was puzzled, "Is this bran really delicious?" So he also scooped up a bowl, "Ah, ptooey! What is this?" This was indeed bran, made from peanut stalks, sweet potato stalks, and some wild grasses ground into bran. Naturally, it didn't have any good flavor, and it was even more difficult to eat than directly eating raw grass.

  This is the power of Liu He's intimidation, adults are afraid that the devils will come and eat people, while children are afraid that Liu He won't let them shoot guns or go hunting, not to mention that they might even get a meal of meat from time to time.