Chapter 54: Human Nature
The farce was over, and Liu Lei looked at the homeless people kneeling on the ground in front of him and smirked.
To say that the generation of this exile can be regarded as a feature of the Mixed Yuan Continent, because the most important thing in the Mixed Yuan Continent is the population, just like Liu Lei's family, a small nobleman who can no longer be small, there are more than 300,000 people in the territory, and the territory area is equivalent to the area of a county in the previous life, even though the population is large, it is small for the vast Mixed Yuan Continent.
Once a nobleman's fief is deprived, then all the people in the territory will become displaced people without household registration and land, so this has also formed a phenomenon, that is, the feudal people are very supportive and loyal to their lords, because the life and death of their families are closely linked to the lord.
Therefore, unless the new lord is very short of population, or they will drive out the old feudal lords, and the new nobles who have no territory will recruit those who have been in exile for more than ten years, so long enough for them to forget their old lords, and this will largely prevent chaos in the rule.
And these expelled people can only find a place in the barren mountains and mountains to live, until they are found and deported to another place, and the consequence of this is that some of them become bandits, and the other part becomes slaves.
Liu Lei has already understood these things, but others don't want it, he wants it! Qingfeng Town's current population shortage is not a star and a half, and these more than 400 homeless people are laborers and soldiers in his eyes.
"Ahem, don't kneel, get up, you will be the people of the Liu family's fief from today onwards!" Liu Lei opened his mouth and said.
The displaced people who escaped the catastrophe stood up cautiously, not because they were afraid of Liu Lei, but mainly because there were more than 200 soldiers around them, and after this period of hardship, they had developed a sense of fear of the soldiers.
The first old man to kneel down just now hurriedly walked over and knelt down in front of Liu Lei again and said, "Thank you for saving me, all of us thank you for your great kindness."
Liu Lei hurriedly jumped off the horse, helped the old man up and said, "Old man, don't worry, you won't be bullied again in the Liu family's territory."
When the homeless people listened to Liu Lei's words, many of them cried bitterly.
"Big young master! Gentleman! You wait first," said the fat man's nephew in a whisper.
Liu Lei turned his head and asked him, "Huh?" What's wrong? ”
The little officer said with a look of distress: "Young Master, you can't promise them, you promise to come down to where in our territory they will want them, and there will definitely be conflicts wherever this group of people go."
Liu Lei laughed and said: "Who said, I'm going to give it to others, I want it myself, I want it all, don't you know that Qingfeng Town is now under my control?" ”
The little officer just remembered Liu Lei, and now he has been sent out from outside the family, and legally speaking, Liu Lei does have the final say in the big and small matters of Qingfeng Town.
"This ...... Elegant...... Where's Breeze Town? The old man asked in a whisper as he heard the conversation between the two of them. In the past few days, they have been walking in the fiefdom of the Liu family, and they have only heard that the Liu family has three towns, and they really haven't heard that there is a fourth.
Liu Lei waved his finger and pointed to the Carter Fortress in the distance and said, "It's just outside the fortress!" ”
When the old man heard this, he was immediately shocked, and cried out in a lost voice: "Outside the fortress? ”
When the crowd of homeless people heard the old man's words, many of them looked panicked and began to talk to each other.
"Did you hear that? The nobleman said it was outside the fortress."
"What fortress outside? Isn't that the Warcraft Forest?"
"Outside the fortress, it's all wild beasts, we'll all be eaten in the past."
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There were all kinds of discussions, Liu Lei felt that something was wrong, and his face became gloomy.
The old man also heard the discussion behind him, and asked with an embarrassed face, "Are you sure you are outside the fortress?" It's a monster forest."
Liu Lei said in a deep voice: "That's right, my town is on the edge of the Warcraft Forest, is there any problem?" ”
The old man looked hesitant and said hesitantly, "I...... I'll talk to you about it."
Liu Lei couldn't help but sneer, these people still regarded themselves as saviors just now, and they changed so quickly, but they didn't say anything, and nodded with a cold face.
The old man arched his hand and walked back, and soon Liu Lei saw that the old man seemed to be arguing with everyone, the old man was angry, his face was red, Liu Lei was not in a hurry and watched there, the quarrel went on for a while, the old man came over and stammered: "That...... That's expensive...... Nobles, some folks don't want to go to the Warcraft Forest when they hear about it, saying that it's too dangerous to be full of beasts, you see? ”
Liu Lei laughed when he heard this, but his face was full of anger, and he scolded in his heart that this is the so-called human nature.
He walked around the old man to the front of the homeless team, first looked around, and some of them hurriedly lowered their heads as soon as they made contact with Liu Lei's eyes.
Liu Lei sighed in his heart, he knew that these people were also trying to survive, and it was also the instinct of human beings to seek good fortune and avoid evil, he said loudly: "My name is Liu Lei, I am the eldest young master of the Liu family, I know that you heard that you are going to the Warcraft Forest, and some people are afraid!" Don't want to go, good! Very good! Didn't you just say that you would follow me and repay me? Forget about it now."
After listening to Liu Lei's words, some people's faces turned red, and no one dared to make a sound, Liu Lei continued to speak: "I know, you are afraid of the beasts of the Warcraft Forest, and you are afraid of death, okay!" Then I don't embarrass you, if you want to follow me, I don't force me if you don't want to, I'm not a miscellaneous piece of the Zhuge family, you choose for yourself, whether to fight with me in the Warcraft Forest to live alone, or find a corner to get in and be a mouse, hide all day long and be restless, you choose to stand up with me, if you don't want to follow me, continue to wander."
"I'll follow you!"
As soon as Liu Lei's words fell, one shouted loudly, Liu Lei looked over, it was Yuan Er, who was almost killed just now and killed his younger brother, and at this time he had already tied his brother's corpse to his body.
Yuan Er looked at Liu Lei with burning eyes and said, "Can you help me take revenge?" ”
Liu Lei looked at him and nodded: "Not now, but there will be a chance in the future"
"Then my life is yours," he said and stood behind Liu Lei.
Alas! The old man sighed and walked behind Liu Lei, and the old man's family hurriedly followed. Everyone in the crowd looked at each other, and many people walked out of it and stood behind Liu Lei.
When someone didn't come out, there were more than 300 people standing behind Liu Lei, and many of the rest were people who took care of their families, or elderly people, and most of the more than 300 people who stood up were young people.
"Let's go!" Liu Lei didn't look at the rest of the people, he waved his hand and continued to drive with the convoy and the new joiners, while the rest were thrown on the road, Liu Lei was not a and couldn't save people twice.
The rest of the people looked at the departing convoy, and it seemed that now they had only one way to get out of here.
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Entering the fortress and arranging his subordinates, Liu Lei returned to the room he arranged for himself to rest, he has experienced a lot of things in the past few days, he needs to think quietly about what he should do in the future, and he doesn't know where there is a robber waiting for them outside the fortress, there are more than 300 people in his team and more than 300 burdens, but the assembly strength has not increased at all, plus Li Tianlong is still 11 people, not to mention these people to protect the convoy and defeat the bandits, it would be good to be alive.
After a while, Kung Fu Xiaocui came over to report that Wang Fatzi was here and was waiting for him.
"Please," Liu Lei had no choice but to stop and say.
"Hahaha...... Hahaha" Wang Fatzi walked into the room and saluted first, and said: "Congratulations to the eldest young master, this time it is really a full return"
Liu Lei smiled and didn't say anything.
Wang Fatzi suddenly whispered to him: "Young Master, I recently heard the expedition team coming back from the Warcraft Forest say that the road is a little uneven, you should be careful when you go back."
Liu Lei thought about it, it turned out that Wang Fatzi also knew, he thanked him again and again, Wang Fatzi saw his attitude, and also knew that Liu Lei had already counted in his heart, since the purpose of showing favor was achieved, Wang Fatzi got up and retired. Li Tianlong, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, waited until Wang Fatzi went out, and then walked into the room and said, "Young Master, what does this Wang Fatman say?"
Liu Lei repeated what Wang Fatzi said just now, and Li Tianlong said: "Then this matter is not far from ten, what should we do, young master?" ”
Liu Lei smiled, "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, people are already waiting for us anymore, hiding is not a way, we will come to meet these people, just let them see the gifts we prepared for them"
After speaking, Liu Lei touched the pocket pinned to the back of his waist, and smiled mysteriously.