Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 101 Be Direct

Before Chen Gu, the mountain stronghold could only barely survive. It could be maintained, but that was all it could do.

But the situation when Chen Gu led the stronghold was very different. It was not as simple as killing Addis and getting a large sum of silver. The most important thing was that Chen Gu was willing to spend the silver in the stronghold and on his brothers instead of embezzling it.

Therefore, everyone was very convinced of Chen Gu, because they asked themselves, faced with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, they would never do what Chen Gu did. The silver would definitely be distributed to their brothers, and they might even get more than Chen Gu. But as for the rest of the silver, they would mostly embezzle it, and then hide their identities and find a place to live a rich life.

In fact, let alone hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, after successfully killing Addis, most of them actually wanted to get a few hundred taels of silver and then go home to live a peaceful life.

If it weren't for Chen Gu's analysis of the law of the jungle, which made everyone understand that even if they took a few hundred taels of silver home, they would only be prey to corrupt officials and wealthy families, the stronghold would have been disbanded by then.

At that time, some people suspected that Chen Gu was greedy for everyone's money, so he did not share the money. However, facts have now proved that Chen Gu did not want to greedy for everyone's money.

Over the past few months, Chen Gu spent more than 100,000 taels of silver to buy a strong army and horses for the mountain stronghold, and various supplies piled up like mountains, which changed the mental outlook of everyone.

Although Chen Gu himself lived in a separate courtyard, it was not the best house. The best house for Fobao was Qingyuan Palace, where the Yunhua special forces were stationed.

Although Chen Gu has two young and beautiful women, Wu Qing'er and Qin Ling also have to work. Not only do they take care of Chen Gu's daily life, they also design clothes for everyone and personally participate in sewing every day.

Although Chen Gu had silk clothes, he seldom wore them. Most of the time he wore the same cloth clothes as everyone else, ran with everyone to train his physical fitness, and practiced swordsmanship.

Although Chen Gu ate meat every day, his family of three only had four dishes and one soup, and there was no waste.

Chen Gu's life was indeed better than theirs, but it was only limited. Instead of them eating coarse food and wearing rags, Chen Gu wore fine clothes and ate delicious food.

As the leader of the stronghold, they could accept that Chen Gu lived a better life, and they also accepted such a Chen Gu.

Chen the Gou did not deliberately treat anyone well. Instead, he was very strict with everyone. If they made mistakes or did not learn well, they would be scolded and punished by Chen the Gou.

Chen Gu never said anything nice, nor did he make any promises to anyone.

But even with such a Chen Kui, everyone was convinced and willing to accept his leadership.

Therefore, in Lao Nian's opinion, Lao Shaking Head is indeed important, but Chen Gu is more important. When the situation is unclear, Chen Gu should not enter the city at this time.

If anything happens to Chen Gu, the village might really fall apart.

"I'll go there. If possible, I'll bring the old man back!" Lao Piao said with a smile, "A mountain village cannot be without a young leader, but it does not lack a little Lao Shi."

Lao Nian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It would be best if someone stepped forward. As the old man handed over by Liu Er, his identity was also suitable.

"I'm not going into the city alone." Chen Gu raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm not going into the city to find out what's going on. In addition to seeing the old man, I'm more prepared to take action directly."

Lao Nian, whose expression had just relaxed, frowned again, "What kind of magical idea do you have? You don't even know the situation right now, why do you want to take action directly? Who are you going to attack?"

"We'll attack whoever jumps out!" Chen Gu sneered, "No matter who the opponent is, since they've saved the old man's life, the target is naturally us. If we enter the city now, the opponent will definitely jump out, so we don't have to worry about not finding an opponent. As for preparations, there is no perfect preparation in this world. While you are preparing, others are also preparing.

By the time everyone is ready, many things may have been missed.

The strength we have now is not weak, and everyone’s morale is very high. What else can we prepare?

Instead of wasting time gathering intelligence, it is better to take action directly. I think the other party is not prepared. Even if they are prepared, it is impossible that they made the corresponding preparations after understanding our strength.

Therefore, I have the advantage at this moment."

"This~!" Lao Nian couldn't help but hesitate. He had to admit that what Chen Gui said was not completely unreasonable.

If they really were well prepared, they shouldn't have used the Buddhist treasures at this time. Instead, the best option would be to concentrate on building roads and refining oil. As long as the oil was refined and they could bring all the troops with them, they would definitely be able to come out and kill everyone.

Lao Piao smiled and said, "I agree with Chen Jue's opinion. As the saying goes, it takes ten years for a scholar to rebel, but it fails. Why worry so much? Thinking too much will only lead to nothing being accomplished. Instead of doing that, it is better to just do it first. Whether it will succeed or not will be known only after the fact."

Not counting Yunhua, the odds were still two to one, not to mention the young leader Chen Gu. Lao Nian was completely speechless and could only remain silent. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Okay, I'll let all six rows enter the city right now. I hope to get as much useful information as possible."

Chen Gu thought for a moment and said, "Before letting them enter the city, spend money to gather more civilians to follow them into the city, so as to cover the brothers and sneak into the city.

Just say that whoever wants to enter the city can receive 20 coins, and after entering the city, they can go somewhere else to receive 100 coins. Keep your word and let the brothers set up a few more places to receive the money. "

"It would cost a lot of money to do this!" said Lao Nian.

"It won't cost much!" Lao Piao said with a smile, "Even if 10,000 people enter the city, it seems to be only 1,200 taels of silver. If this amount of money can send all the brothers into the city, it will be a good deal!"

Lao Nian was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "It seems to be true!"

The mountain stronghold is no longer the poor mountain stronghold it used to be. In the past, the gross income of the mountain stronghold was only about one thousand taels of silver a year, and it had to support a hundred brothers. Now, one thousand taels seems to be nothing to the mountain stronghold.

After all, Chen Gu spent more than one hundred thousand taels of silver in the past two or three months.

It is indeed difficult to be fully prepared, and wasting time will indeed cause you to miss out on many things.

At this time in the county town, Liu Er was lying in bed and needed to rely on ginseng to survive.

Inside the county jail, Zhang San kept crying and wailing until the interrogators stopped, then he fainted.

A strong and sturdy man dropped the whip in his hand, spitted, frowned and said: "This guy is really strange, he cried and screamed when he was beaten, but he never said a word."

(End of this chapter)