Chapter 180 Yunyang Is Ready to Take Action

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The Yangpo was silent in the night, and Chen Ming had fallen asleep. He didn't know that his precious son had just cried and shouted, nor did he know that his cheap father was in the study with a sad face.

He didn't know that a few hundred miles away in Yunxi, a place called Shanzigou, a small group of people were tiptoeing towards the courtyard in front in the dark.

The young man in the lead had a small braid as thin as a mouse's tail on the back of his head. He whispered to the people around him: "Be careful, let's go through the northwest corner. It's loose there, and the rich man Kong is very strict in front and back. Not to mention during the day, I also came here last night, and there were more guards at the front and back doors. This foreigner named Kong is very cruel. Let's go in from the northwest corner, and there is a cellar not far away. Be careful."

The group talked and walked, and when they arrived at the northwest corner of the yard, they really didn't encounter any guards. It must be said that these little thieves are quite lucky. Their action happened to be in the place where the guards of Chen Baoguang's house, who was aliased as Kong Lingren, were the most lax. The eve of dawn was also the time when the night watchmen were the most depressed.

After falling at the hands of Wang Qingjiang, an internal traitor, Chen Baoguang did not get discouraged, but chose to hide his identity and start anew. He no longer took the grassroots route, but opened a wood factory in Yunxi under the alias of Kong Lingren and Kong Caizhu.

Wood factories are very common in Yunyang Prefecture, because there are high mountains and dense forests everywhere. The logging industry and the papermaking industry that extends from the logging industry have always been the two major products of Yunyang Prefecture. Although there are few outsiders in Yunxi, this broken place, to open factories, it is not the first one in the world. Chen Baoguang easily opened up the relationship with the Yunxi County Government.

And recruiting wood factory staff is even easier. Chen Baoguang offered a good salary and quickly recruited three or four hundred people from the mountains of Yunxi. Well, some of them brought their families with them.

Under the guise of opening a wood factory, Chen Baoguang also bought a lot of food from outside, mainly coarse grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn. What boss would give workers white flour and rice every day in a wood factory? It was natural to bring a large number of weapons and armor during the transportation.

As long as they were given food and meals, Chen Baoguang's "downline" developed at an astonishing speed, which made him want to slap himself when he recalled his previous practices. So much time was wasted. Although the few people who survived at that time were already the backbone of his men.

Yunyang Prefecture was in a food crisis, and Chen Baoguang saw this phenomenon very clearly. Before, the price of a dou of fine grain in Yunyang Prefecture was about two coins of silver, and the price of coarse grain was six cents to one coin and two cents of silver, depending on the type. There were also cheaper grains.

However, as the army entered Henan, first of all, the grain from Henan could not be transported to Nanyang, and the grain market in Xiangyang was already short of some of it, although that was not the main force. However, the local collection of military rations was the life of the grain market in Xiangyang, which directly affected the livelihood of Yunyang Prefecture. The grain price in Yunyang was rising all the way, whether it was fine grains, coarse grains or miscellaneous grains, the price was doubled. When Chen Ming led the army to Xiangyang, the grain price in Yunyang Prefecture collapsed completely.

Chen Baoguang took the opportunity to recruit people. Now his wood factory has 500 to 600 people. Excluding 200 women, children, the elderly and the weak, at least 300 men can be pulled out. Moreover, the loyalty of these 300 people is quite high. In the current Yunyang Prefecture, a good owner like Chen Baoguang is hard to find. He has food in his hands, and he has the loyalty of these refugees.

The grain warehouse of the wood factory is in this large yard. There are not only grain warehouses for storing fine grains and coarse grains, but also cellars for storing miscellaneous grains such as sweet potatoes and potatoes. The granary is usually difficult to enter, but Chen Baoguang himself didn't take the cellar too seriously, which attracted the attention of this group of petty thieves.

Chen Baoguang has been very busy these days. When the Chen family army entered Yunyang Prefecture, their hidden chess pieces would naturally emerge. Taking advantage of the fact that the attention of Yunyang Prefecture was all attracted by Chen Ming, the chess pieces ambushed in Yunyang were connected with each other and were already planning when to burst out their power.

Chen Baoguang's task was to raise the flag and shout loudly when the Chen family army approached Yunxi, responding to the Chen family army and stabbing them hard in the back of Yunxi County. If they could cooperate with the Chen family army to capture Yunxi County, it would be even better. Of course, the best result is that they take Yunxi by themselves.

So some of the people in the compound have been assigned, and Chen Baoguang wants to take the opportunity to recruit more people and contact more people. In the huts in the Yunxi forest, they had to contact one or two, shout a few times, no matter if anyone came to follow them, they would try their best.

Otherwise, the leader of the thieves would not have easily discovered the loophole in the northwest corner after visiting the compound. If it were half a month ago, these little thieves would not have been able to touch the corner of the compound, and they would have been discovered by the sentry on the way.

What does potato skin with soil taste like?

Chen Baoguang dared to say that he had never tasted it.

But for the little thieves in front of them, it was like eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea. They grabbed the potatoes, didn't wipe the mud off, and stuffed them directly into their mouths. These people were already very hungry, and the potatoes covered with soil were also supreme treasures in their eyes. These people's eyes were shining, they picked up the potatoes and wiped them on their bodies casually, and stuffed the potatoes directly into their mouths and chewed them.

Potatoes mixed with the taste of soil and potato peels are definitely not delicious, but "hunger" is a very amazing feeling, it can turn decay into magic. It makes people ignore the taste of soil and potato peels, infinitely magnifying the dryness of raw potatoes, so that a sweet taste can appear.

All the thieves showed a happy look on their faces, as if they were not eating potatoes at all, but a full banquet.

Only the thief leader looked at them with contempt, he would not eat raw potatoes, there were sweet potatoes in another cellar just a few steps away. He jumped down the cellar neatly, scooped up five big sweet potatoes with his clothes, climbed up, then went down to the potato cellar, and scooped up seven or eight large potatoes, "Hurry up." The thief leader shouted in a low voice while busying himself.

Chen Baoguang, who was a spy, didn't even know that a group of thieves had sneaked into his cellar. He had been living comfortably recently. No matter how short-staffed the compound was, he didn't know that a group of thieves had found the cellar, which proved that his vigilance was zero.

Of course, this was definitely related to Chen Ming's entry into Yunyang Prefecture, but no matter what, this was all due to Chen Baoguang's own unqualified professional qualities. The Chen family's secret camp, which expanded rapidly in a short period of time, had a worrying quality of manpower.

But thieves are thieves after all. These hungry guys couldn't help their greed when they saw potatoes and sweet potatoes. They pushed the sweet potatoes and potatoes into the bag one by one, without even looking at how heavy the things in the bag were, and whether they could carry them or not.

The last group of people lost their chain when they were escaping, and were caught by the night watchmen of the compound, and then they followed the clues and caught all of them...