The next morning, the reconnaissance team and their group set off from Yinghai Town and headed for Wangjiazhai.

Riddle, Ban Xiaowei and Qi Wei were all wearing blue and black tuxedoes, wearing gentlemen's hats, high leather shoes, holding canes, and wearing a large cloak on their hands. Yanran was dressed in 18th century European gentlemen, but they were all 92 pistols on their waists. Behind were three time travel soldiers in short suits, but they were also European-style dressed in servants. Each carried a large travel backpack. In addition to the personal supplies, there were also a Type 95 rifle and extra pistol magazines. Behind were four soldiers from the People's Army, who looked like Chinese farmers of this era, but each wrapped his head with a towel to cover up the cut braids. At least from the outside, this group of people is sure to be the appearance of a Chinese and foreign combination in the 19th century.

Riddle was holding a cane and holding a pipe in his mouth. He didn't take a sip or spit out a cigarette ring, and he felt quite funny, and he felt like life was like a play. Of course, the pipe was also obtained from German prisoners, but the tobacco leaves were made from modern cigarettes. It has been more than three months since he traveled through time. The few packs of cigarettes that Riddle brought had already finished smoking, and the cigarette core he used now was the two packs of cigarettes that Qin Zheng gave him after he took on this task.

Although Riddle is not a cigarette, he still has the habit of getting one. Moreover, cigarettes from the old time and space are rare now. The cigarettes carried by the time travelers have basically been smoked, and the cigarettes on the three passenger ships have become control materials. On the contrary, many people in the military have prepared for themselves when they set out from home, so Qin Zheng brought two cigarettes, of course, less than one left now.

Before the reconnaissance team set off, they had conducted a relatively detailed investigation of Wangjiazhai through other means, first of all, dispatched drones to reconnaissance the terrain of Wangjiazhai.

Wangjiazhai is almost a small town, built to the north, facing the south, generally a square, and divided into two village walls inside and outside. The outer wall is an earthen wall with a side length of about 200 meters. However, the drone is shot from the air, so the height of the village wall cannot be judged, which is estimated to be about 3 meters. In the city, there is an inner wall, which is made of bricks and has a side length of about 50 meters. It is estimated that it should be the Wang family's house. Outside the village wall, there are some houses, but they are mainly concentrated near the South Gate, and most of the fields near Wangjiazhai are basically in the south.

In addition, the People's Army also captured two prisoners in the battle two days ago. Although they were seriously injured, they were all out of danger after being rescued by the time travelers. Therefore, the time travelers interrogated the two prisoners and basically found out a lot of the situation of the Wang family.

There are more than 300 families in Wangjia Village, including more than 200 families living in the village, and more than 100 families living outside the village, with a total of about 1,500 people. Nearly half of the people outside the village live in the south, and there is also a small market in the south of the village, with more than a dozen shops. The daily necessities needed for the village are basically supplied by this market.

Wang Zhanyuan, the leader of Wangjia Village, was about 50 years old this year. It is said that this man had been a bandit in his early years. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing Dynasty began to transform green camps from all over the country into defense training troops. Wang Zhanyuan seized the opportunity at this time and took his dozens of his brothers to accept the recruitment and became Shandong's defense training troops. During the Sino-French War, he also joined the army to join the war and was promoted to the camp official for his military achievements. After the Sino-French War, Wang Zhanyuan retired from the army and returned to Shandong, purchased land and built the Wangjia Village. Moreover, through various means, he embezzled other small and medium-sized landlords and residents' fields. Now the Wang family has more than 3,000 acres of land, and all the nearby residents are their employers and rented their fields.

Wang Zhanyuan had three sons and one daughter, the eldest son Wang Kexing, the second son Wang Kefu, the third son Ketong, and the daughter Wang Caifeng. Among them, Wang Zhanyuan had already started a family and his daughter was married, but he had no daughter. The second son and three sons had not yet married, but he had already been married. In addition, Wang Zhanyuan had two distant cousins, and several cousins ​​and nephews, thus forming the head group of Wangjiazhai through family blood relationship.

While operating Wangjiazhai, Wang Zhanyuan did not forget his external relations, and he arrested both sides of the government and private sectors. According to a captive, Wang Zhanyuan had contact with several bandits in Shandong and married his eldest son Wang Kexing to the well-known bandit Heifenghu, a well-known bandit Heifenghu, and at the same time provided money, food and supplies to Heifenghu's men, of course, it also included helping Heifenghu to remove dirty things, etc.

On the other hand, Wang Zhanyuan also attached great importance to establishing good relations with the government. Not only did he get good local officials in Jiaozhou, he offered regular salary every year, and married his daughter Wang Yinfeng to the son of Li Wanqing, a clerk in Gaomi County. At the same time, his second son Wang Kefu passed the exam for scholar five years ago. So Wang Zhanyuan took over the position of a documentary in Jiaozhou County. Therefore, Wang Zhanyuan took advantage of both the official and private side. Even if he did something extraordinary, the government turned a blind eye. It turned out that two families had gone to Jiaozhou to sue Wang Zhanyuan, but the two families were wiped out by robbers overnight. Since then, no one dared to provoke the Wang family in the area near Wangjiazhai.

Although I learned some of the crimes of the Wang family from the prisoners, the time traveler still felt that he should go to reconnaissance in person. Therefore, the reconnaissance team set off as scheduled.

Yinghai Town is less than 30 kilometers away from Wangjiazhai. After walking for more than an hour, the group has reached the sphere of influence of Wangjiazhai. This place is a vast field, and from a distance, you can vaguely see the outline of the village wall.

The direction they chose was the south of Wangjiazhai, because there was a small market here, and it was generally easier to collect information in the market. Ban Xiaowei and the People's Army were preparing to answer their call, determined the connection between the two sides, and then continued to set out along the Field Avenue.

The road is about four meters wide, and both are piece by piece of fields. However, it was December and the autumn harvest had ended. Most of the fields were bulging and thunderous. Only a few people were working in the fields, as if they were sprinkling something into the fields.

Riddle was a little curious and said, "What are they growing in the field?"

Qi Wei spent a few days in rural Tianjin, so he had some understanding of agricultural production and said: "This is not growing things, but fertilizing the fields."

Riddle said: "Now there are no crops, what kind of fertilizer should be applied."

Qi Wei said: "This is to accumulate fertility in the land. When planting crops after the spring next year, it can be beneficial to the growth of crops. This is called land cultivation. We in Tianjin should start land cultivation now."

Riddle nodded and asked again, "So why are there only a few people raising the land, and the other lands seem to have never been moved?"

Qi Wei said: "I don't know this. Maybe they are raising fat at home, or they simply don't want to raise land."

Riddle looked left and right again and said, "It doesn't seem that many people are passing through this road. After we walked for so long, we didn't seem to see a few passers-by."

Ban Xiaowei said: "Yes, this is an unusual phenomenon. Maybe it was a battle with us two days ago. Now the whole village is on guard, so no one comes out and not many people work in the field. Anyway, I will ask in the market."

The group walked forward for a while, the road was wider, and more than a dozen houses were built on both sides of the road, all of which were shops, and the sellers were basically all daily necessities. There were more people in the market, but they were still very depressed and could not even be considered normal. Most shops had basically no customers to visit, and the doors of several shops were simply closed halfway.

Generally speaking, after the autumn harvest, when farmers are most abundant, they will have some extra money on hand. Therefore, the market should be more prosperous at this time, but judging from the appearance of the market, it has nothing to do with prosperity. Moreover, it is probably very difficult for the reconnaissance team to use the market to collect intelligence information.

However, after entering the market, this group of people was quite eye-catching, but most people were wary and fearful, and they were hiding one after another, which also showed that foreigners were indeed quite substantial.

Riddle looked around and said, "What should we do now?"

Ban Xiaowei said: "First find a restaurant to eat, then take a rest, and find a way slowly."

Qi Wei nodded and said, "That's all we can do."

There were two small restaurants at the market, but they were all empty. Everyone walked into a larger restaurant. There were four tables in the restaurant. Everyone sat down with two tables. A guy came over and looked at Reed first. He was obviously a little timid, but he still plucked up his courage and said, "What are you going to use, Mr. Wei, what should you use? I'm going to tell the story of the restaurant, but I can't make any good dishes. Mr. Wei should take care of it more."

A soldier from the People's Army replied: "We know that there are any dishes to serve, but they need double portions. We also bring dry food to deal with it. Anyway, we are just doing things and are not that particular."

Seeing that the other party was polite, the guy felt much more at ease, so he immediately agreed and turned around and went into the inner room.

The group sat in the restaurant waiting for the food to be served. Qi Wei said, "What should I do now? No one can find it, how can I find out the news?"
Chapter completed!