Chapter 31 Insurance Team

Chapter 31 Insurance Team

Chapter 31 Insurance Team

As for the bride’s figure, she seemed quite tall for the Jiangsu region at that time.

The veil was lifted, revealing the bride's pretty face without makeup. Wang Lao Hu laughed triumphantly, "She is indeed a pretty young lady——"

The "pretty young lady" raised her hands and suddenly said something that was very inconsistent with her image, "Fuck you—"

A Colt M1860 revolver suddenly emerged from the wide sleeves of the wedding suit and was transferred into the hands of the "bride" like magic. The black muzzle of the gun was directly pointed at Wang Lao Hu's forehead.

With a "bang" of a gunshot, Wang Lao Hu was blown away, and red and white gunk sprayed everywhere.

Before the bandits nearby could react, the "bride" showed her skills and fired five shots in a row, "bang bang bang bang bang". The five bandits fell to the ground without a sound, all shot in the head.

The "bride" didn't even look at it, and handed the empty pistol in her hand back to the personal soldier dressed as the bride-to-be, who took it. Another pistol loaded with six bullets was immediately stuffed into Shao Quanzhong's hand.

The wedding scene was in chaos; all the women had run away, but a few men who came to "watch the fun" gathered around Shao Quanzhong.

Shao Quanzhong displayed his prowess, killing the bandits at a rate of six shots in two and a half seconds, with every shot hitting the target. Then his personal soldier immediately handed him a new gun full of bullets.

Seven personal soldiers supplied ammunition to Shao Quanzhong, and Shao Quanzhong managed to use his revolver to fire as effectively as a submachine gun.

Shao Quanzhong fired 24 bullets, and 24 bandits fell to the ground. When he fired the 14th bullet, the bandits behind him had already reacted, and they scattered and turned to run away.

Another six shots were fired, and this time only four fell down. The bandits had already run seventy meters and escaped the effective range of the pistol.

"boom!"

Another bandit fell to the ground, and Shao Quanzhong was stunned. In the main room, Song Laosan ran out with a rifle in his arms, cheering, "I hit him! I hit him with my first shot!"

Shao Quanzhong looked Song Laosan up and down and said, "I didn't expect you to be a genius. I didn't have your skills the first time I touched a gun."

Shao Quanzhong snatched the rifle from the "genius" and said, "You are too slow in reloading. Watch me."

"boom!"

"boom!"

Before the bandits ran out of sight, two more were shot and fell to the ground.

Shao Quanzhong put the rifle back into Song Laosan's hands, picked up the revolver, and shouted, "Chase!"

Shao Quanzhong and the quick-learning genius Song Laosan walked side by side, followed closely by seven personal soldiers, chasing after the bandits.

It was Song Lao San's first time to kill someone, and he was still in shock. "Brother Shao, the bandits all have knives. It's too dangerous for you to be so close to them in disguise as a bride. Don't take such risks in the future."

"You know what? I didn't take any risk. A pistol versus a knife. The gun is faster at ten steps away, and within ten steps, the gun is both accurate and fast.

This is why I am not willing to spend energy to learn Wudang swordsmanship from my brother. Cold weapons are outdated.

The advantage of a revolver is that it can fire continuously, but its disadvantage is that it has a short range, so the closer I am to the enemy, the greater the damage.

Your rifle can shoot far, but it takes too long to reload, so you need more people—well, no need to chase."

No matter how big Zhenwu Temple Village is, it is still a village, and the bandits are almost running to the village entrance.

Suddenly, a man and a woman ran out of the main room, both holding kitchen knives, and started hacking at the body of Wang Lao Hu who was lying on the ground. The scene was bloody and messy.

Wang Lao Hu had already been reduced to tiger parts. The two men threw away their kitchen knives and cried bitterly. They were Shao Quanzhong's childhood friend Bo Zai and his newlywed wife Xiong.

There were still twenty bandits running wildly, when they suddenly discovered a group of young men gathered at the entrance of the village. They all held long hoes in their hands with the spikes on the ends of the hoes shining brightly, forming a spear formation.

The bandits did not dare to charge towards the dense gunfire, so they dispersed and broke out, running everywhere in panic.

There are hundreds of young men in the village, and they have set up a tight net at all the intersections.

This is a water town in central Jiangsu, and the village is dotted with small rivers and ditches. Most of the bandits who were alone tried to escape along the ditches, but were stabbed by several long poles, and the blood dyed the rivers and ditches of Zhenwu Temple Village red.

At Pan Youde's command, the young men rowed the boats, rolled the hooks, and pulled the nets to gather together the bodies of the bandits scattered around the village.

After counting, there were forty-seven plus a pile of spare parts, and all the bandits were wiped out.

The main force of the bandits were killed by Shao Quanzhong and Song Laosan. The young men in the village beat them up so hard that there was not even a wounded one. Pan Youde was overjoyed because he did not pay out the promised pension.

Every household went out at night and buried the bodies of all 48 bandits in the Huazi Tomb outside the village. The women cleaned up and spread lime to remove the bloody smell.

For an hour, everything in Zhuangzi was calm, as if nothing had happened.

The memory of this bandit suppression campaign is deeply engraved in the memory of the villagers of Zhenwu Miao Village and is called "Da Ai Zi".

Many years later, the locals still talked about it with relish, "Do you know that I fought bandits with Yu Shuai back then..."

What the hell is Yu Shuai? Well, that's the name I used many years later.

Pan Youde's house was brightly lit, and the entire street outside the door was lit with torches.

The sound of drums and firecrackers began again. Although the wedding was a little late, it did not delay the event.

A buffet was set up on the street in front of the door. Now all the villagers came to Old Pan's house for the banquet. There were more than a dozen tables. The food and wine were prepared in a hurry yesterday afternoon, which also served as a celebratory banquet.

Shao Quanzhong took off his women's clothes and stood side by side with Pan Youde. Pan Youde raised his glass and said, "Fellow villagers, today we have won a great victory in fighting the bandits. Everyone, keep your mouths shut and don't go out and talk nonsense.

Once the news reaches the bandit lair in Qinhu Lake, our whole village will be massacred, understand?"

Everyone nodded together.

"Now, please allow our Taizhou militia leader Shao to give a speech to everyone!" Shao Quanzhong was very happy, "My fellow villagers performed well today, and the villagers in my hometown must not be bullied.

You don't have to worry too much about the bandits' revenge. I'm going to tell you two things that are related to your life and property and the future of your children and grandchildren. Listen carefully."

Everyone fell silent, the drums and trumpets stopped playing, and even the drummers listened attentively.

“The first thing is that everyone should work hard starting tomorrow, and all laborers should go to work.

We connected the houses in the outermost circle of the village with earth walls to create fortifications, and then we built a dike in our village.

From now on, Zhenwu Temple Village can be renamed Panjia Village."

"Luzhuang has also started building a dike.

The able-bodied men from the two villages united together to form the peripheral organization of the Taizhou militia, providing an additional layer of insurance for the two villages to resist the bandits. I think we should call it an insurance team.

The captain of the team is Uncle Pan, and the captain of the Luzhuang branch is Song Laoer.

With the dike and the insurance team, even if all 800 bandits from Qinhu came, they would not be able to break into the village in a day or half a day.

If the bandits really come, you send people to Shaojiawei by water to ask for help. The militia will arrive within an hour, and everyone will be basically safe from then on.

I am here to assure you that within three months, I will defeat the bandits in Qinhu Lake and restore peace to my hometown!"

"it is good!"

Everyone cheered together.

The militia promised to provide support at any time, so even if the killing of bandits today was leaked, it wouldn't matter. The construction of the earthen embankment was related to everyone's life, so everyone was definitely positive.

The eldest brother of the Shao family is indeed a reliable person since he can come up with this idea.

Pan Youde, the newly appointed chief of the insurance team, interrupted, "Today we celebrate our success, let's get drunk. Tomorrow the insurance team will start sending people to take turns standing guard at the entrance of the village to guard against bandits."

"The second thing is that I will select sixty children aged 11 or 12 from Lujiayuzi and Panjiayuzi and train them intensively. They will be my absolute confidants in the future.

I first studied in Shaojiaweizi, where I was provided with food and drink, and my parents gave me a subsidy of one or two taels of silver per month.

Later, I sent him to study abroad, and I paid for 800 taels of silver in travel expenses and 400 taels of silver in tuition per year.

As long as they come back after completing their studies, I guarantee that every child I choose will at least be a captain in the future."

"Shit!" Everyone in the village gasped and started talking.

"The captain is a high-ranking official of the fourth rank. How can we peasants dare to dream of being that position?"

"Boss Shao is only a sixth-rank military officer, and he dares to promote a fourth-rank officer? He is exaggerating too much."

"Going to study abroad in the land of foreign devils? What if you get eaten by foreign devils?"

"Listen to the price. If sixty people study for three years, it won't cost more than 100,000 silver coins?"

"Go, go, go, do you think Shao Tuanzong looks like a fool? The hundreds of thousands of silver coins are definitely not wasted. The child sent here must be of great use."

"Don't tell me, didn't Zeng the Barber come from a militia background? How big of a scene is this now?
I saw that just now, Shao Tuanzong killed more than 20 bandits by himself. He is much more powerful than the Hunan Army. I think he can succeed. "

"We are going to have a big shot in Taizhou."

"I think Shao Tuan has the potential to be a true dragon emperor—"

The person who said this was covered by someone's mouth, "You are asking for your life! I think Shao Tuanzong will definitely become a governor-general in the future."

If you ask the prefects and county magistrates, they know how difficult it is to be a governor and they will definitely not say such things.

Common people think in a simple way. Aren’t the levels in the court just the emperor, governor-general, provincial governor, prefect, county magistrate, village head, and then me?
Out of trust in Shao Quanzhong, a fellow villager, and also for the sake of the monthly subsidy of one tael of silver, parents with two or more children signed up children other than the eldest son who was to inherit the family business.

I am a half-grown boy and a poor man.

If the family can raise two less half-grown children, the living standard will be improved immediately. Well, with the subsidy, you can have two more children...

"Brother Shao, can I go to school?"

Shao Quanzhong looked back and said, "Bo Zai, if you go, with our relationship, you don't need to study abroad, you can directly become the team leader and take care of these children who have returned from studying abroad.

But you are an only child—"

"I'm going to go with you to kill bandits! At worst, my dad can adopt another one from my uncle's family."

Lin Bozai's eyes were filled with madness.

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In the evening of the next day, Shao Quanzhong took the sixty selected children, Song Laosan and seven personal soldiers, and returned to Shaojiaweizi on a boat owned by the villagers of Panjiaweizi.

Despite his family's opposition, Bo Zai also came along.

As soon as he got ashore, before he saw Le Xiucai who was sure to greet him, he saw his three younger brothers waiting for him on the shore.

"Quanxiao, how are our parents? Are you used to the life in Jingjiang City?"

"My father bought twenty acres of paddy fields outside the city, and the landlord lives a comfortable life. But I complain that the bully Liu Erguaizi in Qiwei collects too much protection money."

(End of this chapter)