Zhao Weiju ran away with money, but Zhaojiazhuang became Tang Hongzhi's possession.

And because it was night, the tenants and serfs in Zhaojiazhuang did not go out to farm, but they were all blocked in Zhaojiazhuang by Tang Hongzhi's soldiers.

These yellow-name NPCs instantly admitted their conscience when facing the white-name soldiers holding swords and guns, and stayed honestly in the prescribed place. Tang Hongzhi sent only two low-level servants to watch hundreds of young and strong people...

[Congratulations to the players for occupying Zhaojiazhuang. You can choose to convince Zhuang people to become their own people, or you can demote them all to slaves and sell them to erratic human traffickers.

Of course, you can also choose to kill all the villagers, but doing so will give yourself the title of a bloody butcher. From now on, it will be difficult for a refugee to actively surrender to you.

Friendly reminder: After killing Zhuang people, you can obtain all their property. If you want to convince Zhuang people to become your own people, just restore your freedom to become a tenant and let the tenant maintain their original life.

The demand for ordinary civilians is very low. As long as you don’t squeeze them, they will be willing to respect you.]

After seeing the game prompt, Tang Hongzhi brought his low-level servants to the open space where the villager of Kanwangzhuang was arrested.

Zhuangmin only said that although most of the people here are farming farmers, a small number of them are servants and accountant-keeping men.

"I am Tang Hongzhi. As long as you are willing to be my people, everyone can maintain their original life and work, and serfs can also get rid of their slavery.

Now, those who do not want to surrender to me will walk to the clearing on the left.”

Hundreds of yellow civilians looked at me, I looked at you, glanced at the white soldiers wearing guns and swords around him, and no one dared to walk to the left...

Since Tang Hongzhi promised not to deprive them of their original work of eating, the serfs could still recover their freedom, and these civilians would go to the left to provoke Tang Hongzhi!

In the eyes of the yellow npc, outsiders like Tang Hongzhi are moody violent elements. God knows whether they will be chopped off after rejecting his conditions...

[Congratulations to the players for receiving the allegiance of a large number of civilians. You have more than one hundred households and have at least one private territory at the level of a village, which meets the conditions for promotion to lord.

Your profession and status are promoted to rebel lords (lords without orthodoxness and dominance), and the taxation method is optimized. Each adult male civilian can provide taxes of 10 copper coins per month. From now on, only the number of adult male civilians will be calculated.

However, please note that if an adult male civilian does not have family and wife around, he may escape from your territory.

You now have 238 adult male civilians who can provide taxes.

Taxes will be immediately received on the 1st of each month.]

"The survival rate of adult men in this kind of troubled times is much higher than that of women and children and the elderly, and there must be more than one adult male civilian in each family. I should be considered a profit in this way of calculation.

There were only more than 100 adult males captured by Zhaojiazhuang, but the number of adult male civilians under my command increased to 238. It is obvious that among the 60 households before, there were many adult male civilians in each household!"

After receiving the prompt, Tang Hongzhi no longer imprisoned the villagers and put them home and did their own things.

Then, Tang Hongzhi began to check Zhaojiazhuang's defense inside and out.

He found that Zhaojiazhuang's fortifications were much better than Wild Dog Village.

There is only a wooden fence outside the Wild Dog Village, so it is very difficult to guard against wild animals, let alone humans.

However, the wooden walls of Zhaojiazhuang are more than 3 meters high and are difficult to climb. Once the gate is closed, you can be used as a small wooden fort to stick to it.

The four corner towers can also put the entire outer periphery of Zhaojiazhuang Village wall into view, and the enemy has no way to attack.

There is a small step-shaped wooden platform behind the wall of the village. The low-level servants and the townsmen holding crossbows can stand on it and poke their upper body out of the wall of the village to shoot out.

The most important thing is that Tang Hongzhi asked someone to dig up the secret passage for Zhao Weiju to escape again, and took the people out of the secret passage, and found that he could not see the small woods in Zhaojiazhuang. Walking out of the small woods was a flat official road!

No wonder Zhao Weiju escaped so quickly!

Tang Hongzhi and his group also found a simple thatched house next to them, with wooden stakes for horses tied up next to them. It was obvious that there were horses here for a long time and there were even dedicated people to take care of them!

It was precisely when seeing these "equipments" that Tang Hongzhi gave up on pursuing Zhao Weiju...

Through conversations with Xiaohong, Tang Hongzhi has learned that even the most ordinary pack horses in this world cost a lot of money. At least the ones that can be ridden are traveling horses. The things are priced at a price of a few taels of silver, which is not something ordinary people can afford.

As for war horses and military horses, they are strategic materials controlled by the government, and you can't buy them no matter how rich you have...

The villagers of Wild Dog Village have hundreds of copper coins to eat and drink for a lot of time, but a traveling horse actually needs tens of thousands of copper coins, and it may not be possible to buy it!

No wonder Tang Hongzhi didn’t see any horses in the entire Zhaojiazhuang!

"Maybe I should use Zhaojiazhuang as a guard base."

After investigating the buildings in Zhaojiazhuang, Tang Hongzhi had such a thought in his mind.

Then he called Xiaohong.

"You go back to Wild Dog Village and tell Li Xiuying that she will lead the villagers of Wild Dog Village to move to Zhaojiazhuang. There is a perfect village wall here that can resist the army in Qingping County!"

"Master, what if any villagers are unwilling to migrate here?"

"I just asked them to come to Zhaojiazhuang temporarily to protect their safety. When they defeated the army in Qingping County, they would go back. I didn't let them abandon their hometown. What's the reluctance?

If you are still ungrateful, let the villagers who are unwilling to leave stay in the Wild Dog Village and die for themselves.”

Tang Hongzhi raised his eyebrows slightly and said coldly.

If it weren't for the Wild Dog Village's residents, it would be too lazy to move to the Wild Dog Village's NPC!

No matter how real the game of fate is, it is ultimately a game world for Tang Hongzhi, and it is difficult to empathize with NPC as a living human being.

Even if they don’t regard NPC as game data, they won’t really take their life and death to heart.

Not to mention the NPC in the game, even if a stranger dies in the news in the real world, how many people will cry about it?

In the real world, rebellions in the Middle East belonging to the world federation occur frequently, and people die in wars every day. Tang Hongzhi did not see anyone around him mourning for this!

[The player's game time is about to reach 12 hours, and there are still ten minutes left to automatically exit the game of fate. He wakes up in the real world and will feel dizzy when awakening. Please prepare mentally in advance.]
Chapter completed!