Yun Zheng didn't like crocodile meat, he didn't like python meat, and thought that these things were too rough and not suitable for him, but Lao Hua from Chengdu Treasure Pavilion and Pu Changgui from the medicinal herb store almost angrily pointed at Ye Su and Wu Shengjun who were involved in the disaster Pig Po Long and Python, and used a knife to chase down the Khmer people who still cut the python into several pieces and the crocodile into pieces of meat under his nose.

Ye Su looked at the two guys who were obviously not warriors and asked Yun Zheng puzzledly, "What are they doing?" Pythons and crocodiles are both good food, he doesn't eat them if he doesn't like them, why stop them? ”

Yun Zheng scratched the back of his head and said, "This indicates that you will no longer worry about running out of food to eat." ”

Ye Su can't listen to the word food now, at the earliest time he can still pretend to be an unfathomable man and Yun Zheng talked about the grand goal of founding the country and passing on the world, since he has been with Yun Zheng for a long time, his goal has undergone a fundamental change, thinking that the top priority is to solve the problem of food, clothing and housing of the clansmen before talking about anything else, since Yun Zheng said about eating, he must ask clearly, Khmer people sometimes have to pay the price of their lives if they want to eat a mouthful of food.

"Then you catch the crocodile, take off the skin and sell it to the thin man, and then smoke the crocodile meat and sell it to the fat man, and you can sell the python's skin intact to these two people, and the price is good.

By the way, when your majesty meets the emperor, it is enough to bring some crocodile skins and python skins, and when you go home, you can bring a lot of tools and food home, and if you feel troublesome, you can also hand it over to my family's shop to do, and help you send it to the emperor. ”

For the first time, he knew that the crocodile skin that his people had eaten for hundreds of years could be sold at a good price, and the python skin could also be sold at a good price...... They even sometimes sell surplus people in their own tribe who can't feed themselves......

From presbyopia. After Lao Pu and a dozen or so merchants returned, Yesu lost interest in attacking Thang Long Mansion, and he wanted to take his people to the forest to find treasures and catch crocodiles with the samples given by the merchants. Go catch the python...... Or even catch birds with beautiful feathers.

He found that it was the merchants who could truly save his people......

On the third day, the weather was still fine, Yun Zheng's army began to march again, this time the marching speed was very fast, even twice the marching speed of the previous six days, Wu Shengjun already knew how to march in the dense forest, without the previous curiosity, when he walked, he no longer looked around, and he would not shout when he saw the python. They don't scream because a bug falls on their heads.

Only Ye Su kept lamenting, just now a huge python meandered away, obviously a well-fed python, easy to catch, that huge pool of water floated a dozen dead wood. That's not dead wood, it's a dozen huge crocodiles, judging from the backspines on the crocodiles' backs, these crocodiles are at least a zhang long, and it is not a problem to sell them for two dollars even with the belt meat, but four loads of white flowers of rice are enough for two Khmer people to eat for two whole years......

Forests are a real treasure trove. To the kind of plant with small white flowers on the side of the road, you only need to dig it up by the roots and dry it to sell it for a lot of money......

He found out that he was wrong, he should have invited Shang Jia to the forest as a guest at the beginning, instead of inviting Yun Zheng to enter the forest with tens of thousands of troops, he really wanted to tell Yun Zheng that his own people were only responsible for leading the way. There is no need to go to the Shenglong Mansion to fight, the clansmen now have less than 3,000 people, and they can't withstand the sacrifice that Yun Zheng said.

But now that he has been firmly chained to Yun Zheng's chariot and rolling forward, there is no room for choice.

The herd nature of elephants is a wonderful thing, and there are many elephants in the forest that run around alone. Seeing such a large herd, they actually joined the team automatically, even if they were ridden on their bodies, they did not know how to resist, they would only follow the herd with their heads down, even more docile than those trained elephants.

An adult bull elephant rushed out of the spur, ready to use the huge tusks to pick over the only adult bull elephant in Yun Zheng's team, which is the instinct of elephants in nature, fighting for the right to mate. No wonder the mother elephant in her herd always makes a low howl these days, and only one elephant in the herd is too busy to keep busy.

The elephant fight was really terrifying, and the strict marching procession was immediately messed up, two male elephants fought, and one hundred and ten female elephants raised their noses to watch, the scene was very grand.

The wild elephant suffered too much, and Liang Ji, who liked to ride on the back of a male elephant, had already installed two huge cones on the teeth of his beloved war elephant, so its combat power was beyond the reach of wild elephants. When the cone plunged deep into the wild elephant's chest, all the females lowered their noses and once again meekly followed the male elephant in front of her, who had his ears open and showed great strength.

The elephant that fell to the ground was a defeated hero, who fought until the last moment and was unwilling to give up his rights, and Wu Shengjun, who was also a warrior, gave it enough respect and did not make up for it, only hoping that he could rely on his own strength to live.

When the merchant procession passed past the dead elephant, the elephant became a pile of flesh and blood, the tusks, the trunk, the skin, the ears, and even the phallus that represented its majesty were all gone, and after the person left, countless bloodthirsty insects immediately covered the flesh and blood......

Yesu could always find a suitable camp in the damp jungle, which made Zhou Tong, who had been extremely hostile to Yesu earlier, change his opinion, if it were not for Yesu's group, it would have been a joke for Wu Shengjun to get through this forest safely.

The Khmers soon became luxurious, they no longer picked up the leftovers that Wu Shengjun had eaten, they no longer picked up the bones that Wu Shengjun had thrown away after eating, and they began to honestly soak their fried rice in hot water in bamboo tubes, because the wild men did not allow them to waste those precious goods.

Along the way, the merchants built warehouses and inns, each of which was guarded by ten men, and there were as many as seven of them in the jungle.

These things don't need Cui Da to explain, those businessmen who are used to doing business from a long distance have spontaneously completed all kinds of preparations, the closer they get to the Shenglong Mansion, the heavier the breathing of these people becomes, seeing their state, Yun Zheng sighed and said: "Merchants enter the combat state faster than the soldiers!" ”

Tonight is the last night spent in the forest, this is a quiet village, except that there are no aborigines, Yun Zheng has been in a military blockade since three days ago, which means that his scout army will kill all intelligent creatures who see the army walking through the forest. Those who fled into the forest could not escape the Khmer people, who were the masters of the forest.

Yun Zheng was waiting for information from Xiaolin and the Khmers, and only when he was sure that Li Rizun had not returned from Quang Yuan Prefecture would he suddenly launch an attack on Thang Long Mansion.

Lang Tan, Liang Ji, Peng Jiu, and Zhou Tong all went out to clear an obstacle for the army.

Yesu seemed indifferent to the army's extermination of the surrounding people, which was not in line with the monk's concept of compassion, or even Yun Zheng's own moral concept, and when he and Zhou Tong discussed the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping at the earliest, he also expressed great indignation at the Qin army's indiscriminate killing of innocents.

Now, the same situation fell on his head, Yun Zheng found that he was able to calmly issue that cruel order, and his subordinates also took it for granted.

I don't know if people have changed the way of war, or if the way of war has changed people, but the scene that I hate the most has finally played out under my own nose -- that is, the indiscriminate killing of innocents.

Su Xun's face was pale, he had vomited countless times, especially when he saw Wu Shengjun rushing into the village like a beast, and then carrying out countless large and small corpses from it, his hands trembled, tears flowed down his face, and his mouth kept opening but he didn't shout "Stop!" "Two words.

"I'm sorry!" Yun Zheng whispered to Su Xun: "I shouldn't have dragged you in." ”

"We can just keep them in a trap if we don't kill them." Su Xun muttered to himself.

Yun Zheng raised his pale cheeks and looked at Su Xun and said: "You know that can't be done, we are now enemies on all sides, do you see it, the first moment the people in these villages see us, they are not surrendering, but resisting, if they let them escape, it is irresponsible for the lives of more than 10,000 people behind us, we have no choice."

You, like all the Great Song Confucians, are not used to conquest, if you want to conquer, you need to kill, and if killing can't make them surrender, then you need to continue to kill, since ancient times, there are no exceptions.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has been no such thing as slaughtering cities and killing people, and those clever Confucians can always find other alternative methods, which will work in China, but will definitely not work here. ”

Su Xun sighed and said to Yun Zheng: "I feel very uncomfortable, I'll go sleep for a while." ”

"All the sins be mine, sir, and sleep well, for there will be more mass killings tomorrow."

Su Xun's feet stirred, but he still straightened his waist and walked into his tent.

Yesu leaned over to look at Yun Zheng's face, and then at Su Xun who had entered the tent, and said strangely: "Who are you grieving for?" Isn't it for the dead Cochins? ”

"No, it's just not feeling well!" Yun Zhengqiang laughed to himself and planned to leave.

Yesu grabbed Yun Zheng, stared into his eyes and said, "Do you know how my father died? ”

Yun Zheng shook his head, he really didn't know.

Ye Su showed his white teeth and smiled grimly: "We ate it!" That year it rained heavily in the forest for half a year, and we ate everything we could find, and at last we were about to starve to death, and all the people asked my father, the sage, for food, and my father said, "There is no food." ”…… Hey, hey, hey......"

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Chapter II