Section 597 Bloody and cunning
When Zou Yuan Zou Run's uncle and nephew met Zhao Yue, they were just two brave and ruthless village tyrants and street gangsters, young and vigorous, short-tempered, drunk, hot-blooded, impulsive, reckless, and righteous, with force and courage, consciously a good man with ability and responsibility, who wanted to live like a person, unwilling to be ordinary and ignorant, but there was no way out and no hope, in the social environment of the Great Song Dynasty, which was impetuous and vain in the light and humble martial arts, there were no powerful figures who appreciated them and were willing to give people like them the opportunity to contribute, they could only helplessly mess around, and mix day by day. Today no matter tomorrow, he is a rural bachelor of this era, he is not qualified to receive education in the civil and military system, he is only a small role at the head of the army according to his ability, and he is the stepping stone of the most grassroots thug leader level to realize his political ambitions in the Water Margin Song Jiang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Zhao Yue valued the righteousness of the two and took on the self-motivated, and tried to hand over the coal mine project to be developed to them, and said to the two at that time: "Your martial arts qualifications are good, but the muscles and bones have been completed, it is too late to become a master, and the martial arts path is just the role of a junior general, and there will be no great future, take the management of coal mines as your career, you will slowly find that you are indeed suitable for this, and find fun and meaning in life, do a good job, the future is great, and one day you may become the national heavyweight of your dreams." I have faith and expectation in you. β
Whether they can become big shots, the uncle and nephew of the Zou family lacked understanding of the political goals and military strength of the Cangzhao Group at that time, and they had no hope for the height of their life achievements with their living conditions and mentality at that time, but the sentence "I have confidence and expectations for you" deeply inspired their sense of responsibility and fighting spirit.
You can imagine how it would be for an unattainable character to give infinite trust and reuse to a person who has nothing to do with poverty but has a heart.
The Han people pay attention to the grace of dripping water and repay it with springs. In this era, those who believe in the believer as a confidant die, and the hero weighs a thousand pounds.
The uncle and nephew of the Zou family are conceited to be good men, and they have to do a good job in the work entrusted by Zhao Yue.
If you live up to your trust, you will be raised by a dog. If you don't do good deeds, you are not a hero, and you have failed a great opportunity, life has lost its light, and there is no meaning in living.
With these thoughts, the uncle and nephew, with the assistance of all kinds of professionals sent by Cangzhao, worked hard while forcibly pressing the impetuous temperament, endured the headache of reading, and worked hard to learn various skills of management and mining profession, and did not forget their true colors every day to insist on practicing martial arts with the mine guards sent by Cangzhao to improve their strength, slowly entering the role, and began to show the light of the nickname dragon, and gradually made the coal mine from scratch, bigger and stronger, and managed it in an orderly manner, with extraordinary benefits.
As a matter of fact, this kind of work has to be done by people like them, especially in this barbaric and backward era when the level of civilization and legal concepts is far from enough.
Even if a weak and elegant person has the ability and courage, it is difficult to control the field if he is engaged in mine management.
You can't expect the rude miners, especially the criminals and ruffians who come to exchange money from officials and peddlers, and the evil and vicious people such as ruffians and villains, to consciously work hard, be obedient and manageable. You are not strong enough, you are not fierce and decisive enough to dare to fight and kill, you can't control it at all, you don't know how to deter and subdue such people in the mine, and you can't manage the coal mine well.
This time, the mining city suddenly came to a crisis, the strongmen besieged the city, and the uncle and nephew of the Zou family weighed the comparison of forces between the two sides, and were able to rationally take into account the overall situation and stick to the city, and did not have the courage to make a strong or meritorious heart to cut out of the city to challenge or fight in vain to kill the opponent's leader to retreat from the enemy, which proved that the two were truly mature, with the calm demeanor of the big man, and no longer the stunned green in the bones of the past. This made Zhao Yue feel very pleased.
If Zou Yuan and Zou Run bravely went out of the city to fight, once they were seriously injured, captured or even killed, the mining city would be without a leader, and there would be a large number of stubborn South Asian miners, and it would be over directly. Zhao Yue rushed to collect the corpse and bow his head to agree to the unreasonable demands of the robbers to ransom the prisoners, and he was completely passive, so there was no room for advance and retreat at the moment.
Zhao Yue did not engage in a long summary and praise in a formal manner as common politicians are used to, but only praised the uncle and nephew of the Zou family, "well done".
This is the simplest sentence of praise and recognition, which is enough for a good uncle and nephew.
He is not a politician with a mentality, he has already seen the situation in the mining city with his own eyes, so he didn't ask much about what has happened here these days, listen to the report and make a summary. The past is gone. What needs to be faced is the present. It is necessary to find out the opponent to solve the problem, and if there is a captured officer, the prisoner can be questioned clearly to make targeted decisions.
The uncle and nephew of the Zou family are heroes, not politicians, and they did not show off how to defend the city and how to deal with the enemy to show their merits, taking advantage of the fact that Zhao Yue and his party were gobbling up a late lunch, and only briefly said why the South Asian miners who Zhao Yue asked curiously did not take the opportunity to make trouble.
It turns out that this group of forces from the west did not commit murder against the mine.
Cangzhao has many political enemies, and there are also many people who want to make bad profits and harm Cangzhao, and intelligence work has always been extremely important to Cangzhao. The Longkou Coal Mine is far away from Cangzhao's sphere of influence in Cangzhou, and in recent years, it has been stable and stable on the surface, but in fact it has been full of crises, and the court and the local government and the people are full of too many ill-intentioned people. The mine has always attached importance to and done a good job of intelligence reconnaissance in order to detect and respond to various conspiracies in a timely manner. Therefore, as soon as this group of western-bound gangsters entered Longkou County, they were discovered and put on guard by the mine.
Although the forces from the west entrenched in Longkou, broke through the nearby county towns under Dengzhou, and looted large households everywhere in the countryside, but none of them threatened the mines, it seems that this group of strongmen has no intention of provoking the strong enemies of the Cangzhao family's industrial tree, but the Zou uncle and nephew are still on high alert, but in order to complete the sweeping work, they cannot close the city and do nothing.
In the face of such a large number of strongmen, they deeply felt that the mining city was not strong enough to defend the city, and in order to avoid the loss caused by the sudden disaster, they divided the mining slaves into two parts, one part of which went out of the city every day to work as usual, and the other part stayed in the mining city, and minimized the armed team to supervise the staff. And it worked.
One day, the strongmen from the west raided and killed, and the soldiers were divided into two routes, one to attack the miners outside, and the other to ambush near the four gates of the mining city to secretly block the passage.
The staff in charge of supervising the miners had to be instructed repeatedly that someone should be responsible for closely monitoring the surroundings with binoculars from a high place, so that the enemy situation could be discovered as soon as possible, and when they saw that there were many people who were invincible, they immediately notified everyone to evacuate immediately.
These people deliberately rode horses, according to Zou Yuan Zou Run's orders, when they encountered this kind of danger, when they saw that the mine slaves did not want to listen to the greetings, they decisively got on their horses, abandoned the mine slaves and fled to a certain secret place outside the predetermined city to hide and hide first, observe the situation and choose the opportunity to move or wait for the call, and did not blindly return to the city.
The thieves are strong, and they are raids again. More than 1,000 South Asian miners outside had the intention of leaving the life of miners, and when they were attacked, they took the opportunity to break up and escape, but they could not communicate with each other because of the language barrier, and they were chased and afraid of death, and they wanted to show their sincerity and surrender, and the thieves could not express themselves, so they could only desperately resist and escape, and were frantically chased and slaughtered by this group of thieves who did not know the truth. The miners were confined in the mines, and they didn't know anything about Dengzhou, and they didn't know anything about the local situation in Longkou, which was a little far away from the mines. They are completely unfamiliar with life, and they have no place to rely on when they are chased by strongmen, and they have no choice but to give up and take the opportunity to escape, and turn back to the mining city to try to save their lives, only to encounter interception and killing again on the wooded passage that is about to reach the city gate.
The western thieves who were in ambush obviously knew that Cangzhao had always been extremely sympathetic to the traditions of the people and laborers who served Cangzhao, and it was expected that even if the presiding officer in the city was unable to go out of the city to rescue, he would definitely take the risk of opening the city and letting the miners who had escaped enter.
Zou Yuan Zou Run has never led troops to fight but is born with the brain of war, and he saw through the thief's abacus at a glance, who cares about the life or death of these South Asian mine slave consumables outside the city, and does not consider the matter of opening the city gate at all, and immediately ordered to uncover the cover on the multi-shot bed crossbow prepared in the city and prepare to shoot and repel the enemy regardless of the enemy.
Who knows, this group of people should have heard of Cangzhao's resistance to Liao, and knew that Cangzhao could resist the attacks of the powerful Liao army again and again according to Zhuangbao. At that time, the fierce leader of the Western thieves who led the double hammer saw the fangs of the multi-shot bed crossbows on the city in time, and he may have been afraid that this long-range weapon could make him easily killed if he was hit, or he may have regretted the lives of these soldiers who followed him to fight for nearly a thousand miles, and did not forcibly follow the mine slaves to attack the city, and immediately retreated.
The mine slaves who were lucky enough to escape to the city gate were able to enter the city and turn around in the ghost gate, and now they knew that they needed the protection of the mine owners of the mining city, so they were naturally honest.
The other more than 1,000 miners who stayed behind saw the strongmen brutally chasing their kind, and realized that if the mining city was broken, they were willing to continue to be slaves in South Asia, and they would still have no life to live, and the bloody and terrible example was just around the corner, and they also eliminated the idea of taking the opportunity to make trouble and escape, and honestly obeyed the command to help do some defensive work, and if necessary, they had to go to the city to help the defenders resist bravely and repel the enemy's siege.
At that time, the massacre took place in the mining area and the south gate of the mining city, so Zhao Yue, who came from the west gate, did not find any traces of the battle.
Zhao Yue listened to this and nodded.
That's right.
Otherwise, with the national characteristics of the men of the South Asian islands, who are stubborn, lazy, lazy, cruel and stupid, but good at taking advantage of the fire to rob, there is no reason to honestly let go of the opportunity to make things and make profits.
This gang of robbers fled to this point, not to mention whether they had great ambitions, just to blackmail the ships to escape from the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible, and they would definitely strengthen the threat with murderous massacres. As for the fact that since that massacre and pursuit, he has only besieged and not relied on the momentum to attack the city, in addition to avoiding casualties and his own danger, I am afraid that it is more threatening to open his bow and not send it.
If it is really a broken mining city, it may cause Cangzhao to feel that the rescue is useless or it is not worth bowing his head and giving in, which is not conducive to coercion and blackmail.
During this process, the captured officer stood by the side.
He didn't understand that Zhao Yue didn't send someone to interrogate him elsewhere, let him stand here and watch and eat and hear Cangzhao's secret here, knowing that the mining city was originally unstable and the defenders were weak, his accomplices had an opportunity, and he also had the handle and power to rely on to threaten and exploit, what good could it be for Zhao Yue to interrogate him and find out the situation.
Hasn't the famous Cangliang Xiaobawang really grown up, and he is still naΓ―ve and lacking in scheming?
Zhao Yue quickly finished eating, drank tea and rinsed his mouth, closed his eyes and rested for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes and repeatedly glanced at the officer who was secretly observing him with his mind.
The officer was furious, and when he saw Zhao Yue's cold eyes, he couldn't help but feel fear.
Zhao Yue finally opened his mouth lightly.
"You gang of people came to the east, entrenched here, besieged and threatened the lives of many people in my mining city, demanded a huge amount of money from my family, and focused on the large sea ships in Cangzhou's hometown and the large ships in Liangshan, just to go to sea to break away from the rule and encirclement of the Song Dynasty. I might as well tell you. The Pirate Empire is my family's business. Goryeo is gone, it will no longer exist, and the peninsula is already my home. The Japanese kingdom is trapped on the island by my family, and I am busy playing a hundred civil wars. Without my family's nod and acceptance, you don't want to leave the Song Kingdom, no matter how many of you are and how strong your power is, there is only one way to die. It's easy to dream of going to sea to build another pirate empire, and you're dying before it's too late. β
The officer was stunned, and stared at Zhao Yue blankly.
The people of the Great Song Dynasty, including the imperial court, still do not know that the great changes in the Goryeo Peninsula have completely disappeared and the Kingdom of Goryeo no longer exists, let alone the tragic situation of the Japanese Invaders.
This junior military officer in the western interior will not even know about this information.
It's not that he doesn't believe what Zhao Yue said.
There are many mining slaves in the south who are indeed different from the Song people in Dengzhou in the north, and they know that they are South Asians rather than the Song people who have a heart, and they know and imagine that Cangzhao uses the many cheap Lingnan ethnic minorities who are like savages to work with the help of southern merchants Haoqiang through a huge network of business transactions, and even foreign aliens in Nanyue and other places, which is enough to prove Cangzhao's pirate identity, at least it can prove that Cangzhao has a deep relationship with pirates.
Zhao Yue didn't have time to look at him in a daze, and said, "Presumably you also know that pirates are robbing the wealth of people along the coast. The only way out for the people you brought is to join my pirates, and if they resist and have other ambitions, they will only stay in the Song Kingdom and wait for death. The palace marshal Gao Yu is leading 300,000 elite forbidden troops to the north. You should have heard of this, too. Soon you will know that the pirates have arrived and forcibly moved you. Now, for your own sake, for the sake of your family and friends, and for the innocent people who have followed you all the way through the adventures and come here in the hope of a new life, should you be willing to tell me honestly who you really are? Why the cause of the rebellion? β
The officer was awakened by Zhao Yue's words, and followed the steps provided by Zhao Yue to bow his head and confess for the sake of the general public, but to be honest, but to be honest.
To be precise, the cause of the catastrophe that triggered the rebellion of tens of millions of people was only the greed of a small number of officials.