After that, Su Chen stayed on the mountain and sent his men out to continue plundering. Wherever they went, the wealthy families were all wiped out by Su Chen, and he was not worried about anyone coming back to cause trouble.
These were all within his expectations.
With the help of a system, Su Chen's growth rate is extremely fast.
There are only two thousand people now, but it won't be long before those two thousand become twenty thousand.
For the next two weeks, Su Chen and his Yellow Banner Gang gained a notorious reputation in Xinyang. Everyone turned pale at the mention of their name, especially the wealthy and powerful families, who were terrified that they would be the next to suffer.
The looting during this period made their mountain stronghold extremely wealthy.
Food filled several huge warehouses, enough to feed two thousand people for several years, along with countless riches totaling nearly 100,000 taels of silver.
Su Chen distributed the silver to his men at double the normal military pay.
Because there were too many people, and since there was no need for so many people to fight at the moment, General Zhou would assign many people each day to carry out renovations on the entire mountain.
This mountain was originally called Green Wolf Mountain, because there was a huge rock at the foot of the mountain that looked very similar to a wolf's head, hence the name.
However, in just half a month, the appearance of Green Wolf Mountain has undergone earth-shattering changes. If you were to pass Past from the foot of the mountain, you might not even notice anything amiss.
But up the mountainside, everything has been leveled, or set up with Horse-Trapping Pit and snares.
There used to be a Xiaoshan hill, but it was leveled in the past two weeks and turned into a training ground for the soldiers.
Furthermore, Green Wolf Mountain is constantly being transformed.
In the past two weeks, Su Chen's Sign-In items consisted half food and the other half soldiers, warhorses, and Death Warriors.
[Sign-In successful. Congratulations, Host, you have received 600 jin of grain.]
[Sign-In successful. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained 100 Elite Soldiers.]
Are there still Elite Soldiers?
Previously, he had only drawn ordinary soldiers. This Elite Soldiers seemed to be from a special forces unit, whose individual strength was second only to the Death Warriors. However, this was a soldier. Between a hundred Death Warriors and a hundred Elite Soldiers, the latter was obviously more powerful.
Good.
Su Chen smiled and nodded. He took a bite of a piece of beef, and although it was only seasoned with a little salt, it was still incredibly delicious, and he ate it with great relish.
After half a month of recuperation, he looked noticeably healthier. Although he was still very thin, his complexion was much better.
Su Chen patrolled the Green Wolf Mountain. The two thousand people each had their own tasks. A small number were training, while the majority, under General Zhou's orders, were building wooden fences starting from the mountainside to enclose the entire mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, whistles occasionally pass by.
The whistles are arranged in a staggered pattern, which is specially designed so that if anyone is injured, two people will be able to see it. If you take out three people at once, several more people will see it from behind.
Unless you eliminate all the whistles at once, you'll be discovered eventually.
Su Chen wore a faint smile. These ordinary soldiers weren't that strong; their basic stats weren't high. Even with training, they wouldn't become very powerful. It would be better to concentrate training on a small group and let the others do the decoration and construction work.
As he walked, Su Chen suddenly saw several familiar figures in a dilapidated room.
Are these... the people at the foot of the mountain?
Su Chen frowned slightly, realizing he had forgotten about them.
These people had seen their movements, and the best course of action would have been to kill them outright. However, since they included the elderly, women, and children, and were all innocent, Su Chen spared their lives.
Upon seeing Su Chen approach, Xu Yuheng hurriedly ran Past and knelt on the ground, pleading, "My lord, spare my life!"
Su Chen said calmly, "Didn't I not kill you?"
Xu Yuheng's face immediately broke into tears. "Although you haven't killed us, you've locked us up here and haven't given us any food. We've run out of our own rations, and this room is too small for more than forty of us. Please, sir, have mercy and spare our lives."
He had wanted to go find Su Chen before, but he would be stopped halfway there.
Su Chen looked somewhat embarrassed; he had indeed forgotten about them.
He walked towards the house ahead, and the Death Warriors beside him immediately followed.
Su Chen was terrified of death, so he was followed by Death Warriors wherever he went. Even when he slept, he was guarded by layers of soldiers, with people around him 24 hours a day.
Upon entering the room, a foul stench immediately filled the air. These people were essentially being held captive here, with virtually no access to bathing or other amenities.
Even Xu Youling, a young woman in her prime, now looks incredibly slovenly, covered in dirt and emitting a foul odor.
Many people lay on the ground, looking weak, clearly having been hungry for quite some time.
Xu Yuheng brought some dry rations, but they couldn't keep eating them all the time. Plus, they had run out of food two days ago, and they had almost starved to death in the past two days.
Su Chen quickly made a decision: since they hadn't killed them, he would keep them alive.
He looked behind him.
"Someone come here."
Immediately, a soldier stepped forward and knelt on one knee.
"Young Master!"
This was what Su Chen later instructed them to call him; it felt a little strange to always call him "master."
"Take them all out for something to eat, then let them take a shower. Also, pass on the message that as long as they don't leave Green Wolf Mountain, there's no need to worry about them."
"Yes!" the soldiers responded immediately.
Su Chen addressed the Xu Family members, "Come see me after you've finished packing."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Upon Xu Yuheng was overjoyed and knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.
Afterwards, I took them out to eat, and the group of them ate like starving ghosts. The food at Green Wolf Mountain was very good, with meat and salt at almost every meal. You know, these days, only wealthy families can afford to eat meat at every meal.
Although the Great Yu Dynasty was well-governed, ordinary people only ate meat once or twice a month.
After the meal, they were taken to a special bathing area.
Su Chen instructed General Zhou to build three special bathhouses on Green Wolf Mountain, which were also shower rooms. A hole was dug in the bottom, and the top could hold about twenty cubic meters of water.
There are ten individual shower stalls inside, each with a stopper. Pulling it out will release Water Flow, which is very convenient.
The water that flows down the mountain follows the repaired grooves.
At Su Chen's headquarters, the front was his office and the back was where he slept. Su Chen had a shed built on the roof to block the sunlight, so it wasn't too hot down there.
It's at least a little cooler than before.
But the problem of mosquitoes at night was still not solved.
It would be great if I could Sign-In some mosquito coils or something.
Unfortunately... it seems the system won't currently Sign-In anything that transcends the current societal norms for check-ins.
Fortunately, there were specific methods for repelling insects in ancient times, although their effectiveness was not significant.
Useful, but not much.