"Huh? Give them a way out? ”

Liu He looked at the leader of the thieves surnamed Deng with a playful expression, and the smile on his face seemed to be a little evil.

Liu He turned to the group of thieves and said, "Did you hear that?" Your leading brother is willing to trade his life for your life? ”

The thieves heard Deng Da's words clearly, and at this time, they could no longer hide the sadness in their hearts, and they couldn't care about being ashamed, so they cried loudly.

"My lord, please let Brother Deng go. Brother Deng is a good person, we are willing to die for him! ”

"My lord, you don't care about the villain, just raise your noble hand and let us go as a fart!"

……

This group of open-mouthed third-rate thieves is getting muddled the more they talk.

"Rub, shut up Lao Tzu!" Liu He was furious and began to go berserk. "Who said you were going to chop off your boss's skull? What the envoy said just now is clear, as long as he answers my question truthfully, I will spare his life! Alright, now you can fuck off! ”

When the thieves heard Liu He's words, they were stunned. Deng Da, who was kneeling on the ground, was also stunned.

"Your Excellency, are you really going to let us go?" Deng Da couldn't believe that he had picked up one of his lives like this.

Liu He rolled his eyes, waved his hand, and said impatiently: "Hurry up and disappear!" Do you still want to stay here and let me invite you to dinner? Don't you see a group of old and weak women and children over there, still hungry and waiting for Ben to help? I have limited food with me, so where can I take care of it! ”

In this way, Deng Da took a group of brothers with blue noses and swollen faces who were beaten, and carried a dozen unlucky people who couldn't take care of themselves, and limped into the mountains and forests.

"Childe, is it really so cheap for this group of thieves?" Xian Yuyin asked a little puzzled.

"Hehe, of course you can't just be so cheap for them!"

Liu He smiled evilly, and said to Ding Jing and Shi A: "I still need to trouble the two of you to make a hard trip, and secretly follow and stare at this group of thieves." If they have a nest in the mountains, report back as soon as the location is discovered; If they are indeed down-and-out farmers in the Sanheting area, then go and spy on the details of the Zhao, Qu, and Jing families to see if they are perverse and cruel. ”

After Liu He finished speaking, except for Wang Yue's face remained unchanged, the rest of Tian Chou, Xian Yuyin, Shi A, Ding Guoshi and the others all had surprised expressions.

Everyone thinks that this Liu Gongzi looked at Wen Xuan, and when he faced a group of thieves just now, he also had a strict face, and it turned out that he had a lot of ghost ideas in his stomach.

If you have to let everyone describe Liu He at this time, they will say two words in unison - wilted!

If you want everyone to describe Liu He, then they will definitely say two words - chicken thief!

After Shi A and Ding Guo left, Liu He came to the place where the old and weak women and children of Houfeng Village gathered, and then said to everyone with a kind face: "Fellow villagers, I just let you be frightened. This gang of thieves has been beaten away by the soldiers I brought, and they will never dare to come and make trouble again! Your valuable belongings have been brought out of Wuguan unscathed, on horseback over there. Rest assured, I promise that no one will touch a finger of any property that belongs to you! ”

Liu He's words are very plain, and they are simply unpretentious, but they fall into the ears of these trembling old and weak women and children, but they are so beautiful and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After pacifying this side, Liu He came to stand in front of the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the battle just now, and then said: "Brothers, I would like to thank you for your righteous action just now!" Although you didn't get any seizures this time, don't worry. In the future, there will be a great opportunity to make a fortune, and the envoy promises that after the task is completed, you will definitely make enough money one by one, and you will never take less than guarding the military pass! ”

These 100 foot soldiers are Duan Xuan's subordinates, that is, private soldiers, and Duan Xuan himself has the right to dispose of them at will without reporting to Lu Shang. Although Duan Xuan did not say that he would give these foot soldiers to Liu He, as long as Liu He was cheeky and did not return them, he could continue to use them until they all died in battle.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many such things, for example, Liu Daer once deceived thousands of soldiers and horses from Gongsun Zhan in the name of rescuing Tao Qian in Xuzhou; Another example is that Sun Ce once used a similar excuse to deceive thousands of soldiers from Yuan Shu.

Now, Liu He promised in front of the soldiers that everyone would make a fortune after the task was completed, but he didn't say what task he had completed, which was tantamount to leaving a super back door for his words. In the words of later generations of companies that are accustomed to formulating overlord clauses, this is "all the right to interpret these terms belongs to the company!" ”

However, these soldiers didn't know that Liu He had already regarded them as meat to eat in their mouths, and everyone had a good impression of Liu Gongzi, who spoke kindly and didn't put on a show, and heard that he could make a fortune in the future, so he suddenly cheered up a lot.

With both sides out of the way, the rest is much easier.

Liu He ordered a hundred soldiers to camp around the periphery of the mountain col where the people gathered, then arrange the ordnance, grain and grass, and then bury the pot to make rice, and bring it to the people of Houfengzhuang to manage dinner.

The red sun sets in the west, and the golden sunset sprinkles the nameless hills and the quietly flowing Danshui.

After the soldiers and the people had dinner, they washed in groups by the cool river, while the children caught fish and shrimp on the shallow grass beach by the river, laughing and playing.

It's a picture of tranquility in chaos, tranquility and serenity.

It is said that everything is straightened out on Liu He's side, but Shi A and Ding Guo have made discoveries on their side.

After Boss Deng and his fifty or sixty brothers walked away from the col that almost killed them, there were different voices in the team.

Someone proposed: "Brother Deng, our strength is too weak, just come out with a little white face and eat us to death, why don't we go to Fengxiangwu and let them stand up for us!" ”

Some people also suggested: "Boss, we are really not the material to be robbers, let's go home and farm honestly, otherwise one day when we meet a ruthless character, we may lose our lives." ”

Someone else proposed: "Brother Deng, why don't we also occupy a hill nearby, build a village, and then recruit brothers from the vicinity of Danshui and Xixian County, and take down the flag to be the king ourselves!" ”

Listening to his brothers arguing like crows, Boss Deng became angry and scolded: "A bunch of uninformed fools! With our manpower, even if we go to Fengxiangwu, we will not be treated by others, and we will bring humiliation on ourselves; There are Wuguan defenders in the north of this area, and Danshui officers and soldiers in the south, as long as we make a big move, the officers and soldiers will definitely not sit idly by; As for going home to farm, if farming can support our families, why do we come out to block the road and rob money? ”

The thieves were silently beaten by Boss Deng's reprimand, and hung their heads in frustration one by one, eager to bury their heads in the crotch of their pants.

Boss Deng saw that everyone had become honest, so he said: "Everyone listen to me, and now there is an opportunity to change our destiny in front of us!" ”

"What chance?"

"Don't sell it, boss!"

"Speak quickly!"

Deng Da said with a serious face: "We might as well go and take refuge with the adult who just released us!" I think this adult is kind from the bottom of his heart, and he seems to be extremely powerful, as long as he takes refuge in him, we can be a tenant for him, or we can be a domestic soldier for him, with this backer, in the future, the Zhao, Qu, Jing and other families of Sanheting will not dare to bully our family and children anymore! ”

Everyone thought about it and couldn't help but be moved by Boss Deng's proposal.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the warlords and princes fought for many years, and the peasants who were suffering from the war in various places needed the protection of the family members with private arms, and the family members also needed to enrich their armed forces in order to gather people to protect themselves. As a result, there are many low-level people who take refuge in the big families, and these wealthy lords gather clans, guests, tenants, protégés, and former officials for their own use through the method of military feudalism.

This kind of private armed forces has a unified name, which is the trilogy.

The private subordinates of wealthy families are sometimes referred to as family soldiers. When the family soldiers fight, they are the subordinates, and in peacetime they are the tenants, that is, the armed cultivators who plough and fight. In troubled times, people have no place to return, and the subordinates will always follow the generals, absolutely obey the orders of the subordinate officers, and the color of subordinate to the private ownership of the main general will become stronger and stronger.

"Brother Deng, but that young adult is the envoy of the Son of Heaven, and the family behind him must be unspeakably expensive, and we can't get into the corner of other people's eyes!"

"It depends on the location! Now that this angel has left Chang'an, he doesn't have many people available in Nanyang, don't you see that he still has a big burden? ”

"That's right! Those old and weak women and children were poor people, and if they had been hanging behind that adult, they would definitely drag him down. If we can help this adult take care of them, won't we help him solve his urgent needs? ”

"When we left, the adult seemed to be muttering, 'I have limited food with me, where can I take care of it?', and it seems that this adult is also short of food!"

"Yes, they are short of food! Don't we still have some surplus food for winter in the mountains? Why don't you take some out and give them to that adult, maybe he'll take us as soon as he's happy!" ”

Under the inspiration of Boss Deng, everyone finally got closer and closer to someone's original idea of wanting to capture and indulge.

Boss Deng finally clapped his head and said, "That's it!" Chen San, you take twenty brothers with quick hands and feet to go to that place to get food, and then send it to the place where the angel is camped. Even if he doesn't want to accept us as a subordinate, we can be regarded as repaying him for not killing him. I took the rest of my brothers back to Sannohetei to heal my wounds, and casually prepared to welcome the angel in the township. ”

In the dense forest, Shi A and Ding Guan, who were deeply hidden, listened to the words of these thieves, glanced at each other, and then disappeared separately.