Chapter 241: Borrowing Grain
Seeing that the noise of the crowd had gradually subsided, Li Dong stood up to make a final "summary", only to see him slap the table and scold angrily: "You are waiting for a dignified seven-foot man to scold the street like a shrew? How can you be worthy of the two thousand soldiers under your command? You are still the head of a group, and the old man's face has been completely lost to you!"
"Feng Yuxiu, has the old man done the things he told you? Your own business has not been completed, why are you here to point fingers at others?"
"And you are strict, as the head of the medical corps, why don't you go and guide them through the process? Although there is no battle now, can you guarantee that everyone will not be in a hurry and orderly during the battle? You are our last backing, our lives have been handed over to you, and you are still so tired!"
"Chen Shui, you are responsible for the grain requisition. The old man also knows that it is hard to collect grain, but even so you can't have any complaints, because you are the leader, you only have one option to complete the task, and everything else is nonsense!"
"And you......"
Li Dong scolded them one by one, and everyone bowed their heads with red faces and bowed their heads silently. Seeing that they all deeply "recognized" their mistakes, Li Dong continued: "Grain and grass are the foundation of the army, but it is difficult to collect grain and grass, and the old man also knows that you are all impatient and impulsive because of this matter, which caused the absurd move just now. Now that the quarrel has passed, your hearts should have calmed down, right?
"My proposal is to find farmers to 'borrow' grain!"
Li Dong bit the word very hard, its meaning is self-evident, everyone's hearts shook slightly, although this move was expected, but it was unreasonable.
Because it is said that it is borrowed, it is actually just a robbery, but if it is done in this way, although it can solve the temporary crisis, the follow-up problems are extremely serious. Because once the foundation of the people is moved, it is just like a terminally ill old man forcibly renewing his life and returning to the light.
Everyone didn't speak, but the dim color in their eyes already said everything, Li Dong smiled and asked, "What, do you dare or don't want to?"
Silence, silence as always!
Everyone has different thoughts, and they dare not want to bear it. Li Dong sighed and continued: "I know that the consequences of doing so are serious. But we have long since run out of retreat, and now we have just added another ravine ahead. If we don't dare to take this step bravely, then it is better to break up and flee for our lives as soon as possible!"
Although Li Dong said it lightly, the seriousness of this problem does not allow for careful consideration. Once they robbed the peasants of their grain, they not only cut off their own way of retreat, but also crossed the bottom line of morality. And once the bottom line is broken, it will be like a multi-bone Nomi card, the edifice will collapse in an instant, and they will be no different from the demons!
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"I'm for it!"
Seeing that there was no movement, Liu Xun echoed in a deep voice, and Feng Yuxiu immediately responded when he saw this: "Master, I also agree, we will help them fight with this group of birdmen, but they are hiding on the side to watch the show!"
"I also agree, success or failure is in this move, if we can destroy the demon clan and then go back and apologize, then they will know that we are good!" Wu Yong raised his hand to signal.
Wu Yong, like Feng Yuxiu, took Liu Xun as the leader, and Zhou Chun naturally would not disobey Li Dong's decision, so he soon had four votes in favor. The Fifth Regiment and the Seventh Regiment were responsible for collecting food and recruiting soldiers, and they had received a lot of eyes and incomprehension, but they were already angry in their hearts, and they quickly stood up in favor of it. Kong Zhi of the Eighth Regiment and the strictness of the Tenth Regiment did not express their position, and Zhu Xian of the Sixth Regiment and Cao Yi of the Ninth Regiment chose to oppose it.
With six votes to two, this decision was implemented!
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"Remember, only half of all crops can be obtained, and you must not trample on them at will, and if anyone stands in the way, drive them away immediately, and do not resort to murderous intent!"
As soon as Zhou Chun waved his hand, hundreds of soldiers shouted softly, like a tiger descending the mountain and rushing directly into the field, and many crops fell into their pockets in an instant.
There are also storage bags in the Ancient Continent, and these storage bags are about the same as Tianyan, but they only have a lot of space, so on a small cart behind Zhou Chun, hundreds of storage bags are piled up into a mountain.
"Who are you, and why are you robbing our dealers of grain?"
"Fengtiandao, kill the demon clan, save the common people! You wait for you to contribute three stones of grain today, and you will receive ten thousand taels of gold tomorrow!"
"Fuck your uncle, I believe you are a ghost!"
How could the old man of the dealer listen to such nonsense? He immediately picked up the hoe and waved it, but he was just an ordinary mortal, although he also had the cultivation of the triple quenching body, but he was naturally not enough in front of Zhou Chun, and even the talisman was bounced away without opening it.
"Are you robbers?Ah, someone, there's a robber coming to rob something!"
The old man tried a few more times and knew that he was not an opponent, so he was immediately anxious, and immediately ran to call for help, and their movement here quickly attracted many people, but there were two hundred people behind Zhou Chun who were preparing for this moment.
The Heavenly Cover Array responded to the enemy for the first time, and of course it only trapped those people in it, and did not hurt their names.
"Uncle, I am waiting for this trip to eliminate demons and defend the way for all my fathers and fellow villagers! How can we be at the mercy of the demon people's slaves and I have been waiting for a long time? Today, we are holding high the banner of justice, just borrowing you and waiting for a little food, and he will slaughter the demon clan in the future, and he will definitely repay it ten thousand times, please forgive me!"
"I forgive you for being a fart, old man, the dealer I worked so hard to grow was swept away by you, who will be considerate and considerate of me? Old man, I have never done any bad things in my life, but I didn't expect to meet you villains today. In my opinion, you are the demons!"
"What's wrong with Lord Demon Pillar, here we can live and work in peace and contentment, but you have to break this peace, you know what you have in mind!"
The more the old man of the dealer talked, the more angry he became, the more angry he scolded, and the more he scolded, the happier he became!
Zhou Chun's face began to gradually become gloomy, he didn't expect that his good intentions would become a wolf's heart and lungs, but instead become an evil party. But soon it dawned on him, because of the human heart!
People will only hold high the banner of "justice" when their own interests are actually involved, in fact, they don't care who the king of the White Bone Ridge is, because it is too far away for them and unattainable.
All they care about is the small profit in front of them, today the grandson of the old man beat his son, and tomorrow his son plucked the flowers of the Li family, things like this make them more concerned and more positive.
Time passed slowly, but Zhou Chun's hot heart began to cool down gradually, and he thought of what Feng Haoyun once said: "You fight for them, but have you ever thought that they may not need you to fight for them?"
"Your lofty ideals may only move yourself, in the eyes of others, if you succeed, of course you should be happy, but if you fail, you can only be ridiculed, and your life and death are also their after-dinner conversations, because you can't change the world!"
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This situation lasted for nearly five days, and although five days was not long, it was not short, and Li Dong's army also received a name, that is, "Plague Demon Clan"!
The name was given to those peasants, and of course it is a derogatory term for red fruit. They thought that Li Dong and the others were real demons, demons who brought calamity, and they even ran directly to Bifrones, constantly telling about their difficulties.
The second meeting opened again, but there was one missing head above this meeting, and that was Liu Xun. Liu Xun disappeared, except for Li Dong and Huo Nianjun, no one knew where he went, even Feng Yuxiu was no exception.
Of course, this is not the protagonist of today!
The faces of the nine regiment commanders were pale, although they were very guilty of doing such inhumane things at first, they did not expect understanding and forgiveness. However, the cold of the White Bone Ridge still extinguished their enthusiasm, and the violent atmosphere of fatigue continued to surge in their hearts.
"Master, I said a long time ago, such birdmen are wall grass and are not worth saving at all, let them fend for themselves!"
"Newly sealed, Lao Tzu was offended a lot before, but today Lao Tzu 10,000 agree with your point of view!"
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Li Dong deserves to be a wise man, even if this second meeting started with a quarrel, although this quarrel was unanimous to the outside world, Li Dong still did not stop it, he quietly listened to everyone's complaints, and nodded from time to time.
Zhou Chun was silent as always, but the anger between his eyebrows had already expressed the emotions in his heart vividly. Feng Haoyun sighed secretly, as the owner of a mine, she had already understood people's hearts thoroughly, and this result had long been expected by her.
It's just that she feels a little sorry for Zhou Chun, because she knows that this man has a righteous heart, but in this White Bone Ridge, justice can only be used to feed dogs!
After arguing like this for about half an hour, everyone swept away the resentment in their hearts. Li Dong stood up and made a final speech: "You are all scolding, aren't you? I know what you are thinking and thinking. Again, if you want to quit, you can quit now, the old man will never complain, and he will not regard you as a coward or a deserter!"
"The old man knows that you have suffered injustice in snatching grain, but have you ever thought from their point of view? They worked hard, and finally waited for the day when the dealer matured, but you took advantage of the fire to fight. How do they not get angry, how can they not get angry, so what's wrong with their emotions? How are our behaviors different from those of the demons?"
"Yes, we all know very well that we are fighting for them, but this is not an excuse to rob them of their food! This order was given by the old man, so the old man should also bear the blame. ”
"The old man swears here, when he slaughters the demons one day, the old man will definitely thank himself in front of them and distribute all the harvest to them!"
"There are two sides to everything, and we shouldn't be harsh with them. Don't bother with other people's opinions, because our target is the Demon Race from the beginning to the end, so our weapons should only be aimed at the Demon Race, not our compatriots!"
"Protect your own heart, the name 'Plague Demon Clan' is actually very good, it can always whip us not to forget the calamity of the Demon Clan. And whether our Plague Demon Clan is stronger, or their Heavenly Demon Clan is superior, will let the weapons in our hands find the answer!"
"So I want to ask, do you still want to quit?"