"Master Hou, it has been agreed upon." Jiang Qin hugged his fists.

"Oh, so soon, no more talking?" Liu Feng took a deep breath and kept his voice calm, "Say it!" ”

"Brother Zai and Brother Zhou are willing to take refuge in Lord Hou, and some brothers are willing to follow us, but other brothers have scruples and are unwilling to stay away." Jiang Qin said. He knew that once he took refuge in Liu Feng, he would no longer stay in the Yangtze River area.

"It's okay, Ben Hou can agree, and even allow you to go back and deal with the affairs of Shuizhai." Liu Feng stabilized his excitement, "As long as they promise not to be water thieves in the future." ”

Sure enough, he is a person who practices martial arts, and he is still young, so easy to fool. If you are a scholar and a resourceful person, I am afraid it will not be so easy. Liu Feng didn't know what he said below, but now he didn't care about that.

"Thank you Master Hou, my subordinates are grateful." Jiang Qin said happily.

"Well, this is the consciousness of being a subordinate, yes, but there is no announcement." Liu Feng muttered in his heart, "Could it be that there is really a problem?" ”

"Okay, go and let them all come and meet, as for those who don't want to, gather on a ship and find an opportunity, Benhou will let them leave." Liu Feng said without changing his face.

Jiang Qin left, and Wang Yu went out to arrange boarding.

"Commander Bai, you will settle them in a while, although you shouldn't be careful, but if you are new to the city, it is better to be careful." Liu Feng said to Bai Jian.

"My subordinates understand." Bai Jian nodded.

When the water thieves who were willing to surrender were all on board, Liu Feng paced out slowly and set up a full shelf.

"This official Shangyu Xianghou and Yongning Changliu Feng, you took the wrong path before, but now you are willing to change your evil and return to the right, it is not too late. As long as you are willing to work hard in the future, you will have a good future. Liu Feng looked at them and said in a deep voice.

Originally, there were not many people left on their side, and less than 500 people were willing to surrender together, but thousands of soldiers were surrounded around the building ship to prevent accidents.

"But you are in a hurry, when you get to the army, you must look like a soldier, and you must abide by the rules of the army. If the official finds out that you have done evil, he will not be forgiven, do you understand? ”

"Got it!" A group of water thieves said.

"That's good, you've been busy for a long time before, and you're all tired, go rest first, and talk about it later if you have something!" Liu Feng glanced at Bai Jian and motioned for him to make arrangements.

After the water thieves were taken away, Liu Feng had time to look at Zhou Tai on the side.

Taller than Jiang Qin, stronger, and darker, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, he looks like a pure martial artist, but he is seriously injured and it is inconvenient to walk. The physiognomy looks more mature, but it has no expression, like a facial paralysis, and it looks very cold.

"I've seen Master Hou." Jiang Qin helped Zhou Tai and walked over.

"Well, why did you hurt so badly?" Liu Feng frowned and asked.

"That's already good." Jiang Qin smiled bitterly, "We still have too little experience in the rivers and lakes, and we think that after cooperating with the Dajiang Gang a few times, the two sides will have a friendship." This time, he secretly robbed the merchant ship of the Cai family in Jingzhou, and went all the way east to sea, wanting to trade with them. Unexpectedly, they were only willing to pay 30,000 gold. We had worked so hard to get what we had gained, and we had lost a lot of our brothers, but of course it was different, and then they went out and tried to kill us and swallow the goods. Only then did we find out that the Dajiang Gang had been prepared for a long time. ”

"We only have about 5,000 people, and some of the captured ones have no combat effectiveness, and there are too many ships to operate, and we were caught off guard by the Dajiang Gang, and we suffered heavy losses, so we could only break through. When he fled here, he was caught up again and had to get caught up in a bitter fight. If it weren't for Hou Ye passing by, I'm afraid that this time the whole army would be wiped out. ”

"Brother Youping, that is, Brother Zhou Tai, his word Youping, my word Gongyi." Jiang Qin explained, "The Youping brothers first led the fleet out of the ambush circle, and after being surrounded, they took the lead and bravely killed the enemy, and were besieged by a large number of enemies, although they were brave, but in the end they were seriously injured. ”

"Although we are proficient in water, we have been a tun chief before, and we have not brought many people, so there are problems when there are many people in command. And the people of the Dajiang Gang are good at water warfare, and they surround and kill us at sea with the advantage of numbers, and we really have no good way. ”

Jiang Qin said a lot in one breath, a little confused, but Liu Feng still heard a lot of information.

"Let's go, let's go sit down first." Liu Feng thought as he led people into the cabin, and after sitting down, he asked, "Are you sure they were an ambush that they had prepared for a long time?" So how many people did they use? ”

"Yes, more than 40,000 people, almost all the strength of the Dajiang Gang Dajiang Village, the two village owners also all dispatched, bringing together a large number of warships, including 2 small building ships. One of them was rammed and sunk by our design. Jiang Qin replied.

"Is the owner of the Dajiang Gang here too? Why didn't you see it? Also, they just dispatched the people from the village? Liu Feng frowned.

This is different from the news he got from the captives, it was not a temporary intention to make money, but it was prepared in advance, and if the patrolling captives did not know, someone was lying.

The Dajiang Gang is the collective name of the water thieves in this area, and they respect the Dajiang Village. If it's really for profit, why not mobilize more water thieves? Is there something hidden in it?

"Yes, and it was he who personally ambushed us." Jiang Qin said indignantly, "As a last resort, we had to abandon those cargo ships and break through first. And the subsequent pursuit was carried out by the second village master alone, and the big village master did not follow, and left with people and cargo ships. ”

"What did you rob? How much is it worth? Didn't the Cai family react? Liu Feng asked again.

"There are a lot of them, there are salt and iron, there are pearls, jade, etc., anyway, they are all relatively precious things, worth more than 1 million gold." Jiang Qin said, "If the Dajiang Gang is willing to give 200,000, I will sell it to him, but unfortunately they pressed it to 10,000 at the beginning, and then gave a maximum of 30,000, of course we were unwilling, so what happened." As for the Cai family, we grabbed the cargo ship and left, and there has been no information about them. ”

"More than 1 million gold!" Liu Feng gasped, no wonder it caused so many things.

As far as Liu Feng is concerned, a large county like Shangyu has an annual income of only about 1 million, and in addition to consumption, there are very few that can be solved to the imperial court; There are even fewer in small counties, at most six or seven hundred thousand. Even if it is a family, it only earns a few million gold a year, and most of it has become fixed assets. For 1 million gold goods, the business may only earn two or three hundred thousand, but if it is lost, the loss is more than 1 million, and the Cai family has no reaction?

"Ziyan, go and bring the leaders of those captives." Liu Feng instructed Wang Yu.

"Your name is Chen Hu, among these people, you have the highest status in Dajiangzhai, right?" After a while, the hideous-looking Chen Hu was brought over.

"If you want to kill, kill it, I don't have anything to say." Chen Hu looked indifferent.

"I know that you people are hard-boned, but you are not without fear of death, you dare to intercept it without your own strength, for the sake of your wife and children in Dajiang Village!" Liu Feng exclaimed--they had just begun the interrogation, and no useful information had yet been brought out.

"Hmph, a bunch of cowards." Chen Hu scolded, "What's the matter, anyway, Lao Tzu doesn't know anything." ”

"Alright then, forget it if you don't know." Liu Feng was not angry, and said with a smile, "Introduce yourself, I am a special envoy sent by His Majesty, and I have made a special trip to bring a large army to exterminate the pirates." You've seen the previous warship and the flags on it, it's not fake! ”

"You're lying to a three-year-old?" Chen Hu said disdainfully, "Who doesn't know that the emperor is addicted to selling officials, then he will care about us people." ”

"Yes, not normally, but what if someone asks for money and bribes, please send troops?" Liu Feng's face still did not change.

"Impossible." Chen Hu shouted, "In the area of the Yangtze River, Gu Lu and Zhu Zhang of Wu County, the big clans in Guangling, Jiujiang, and Lujiang, and even the big clans in Jingzhou are all connected with our Dajiang Gang and several other gangs, and it is impossible to spend money to invite the imperial court to suppress bandits." ”

"Oh, they've all been related to pirates from afar, no wonder the family business is so prosperous!" Liu Feng said "suddenly".

"You're lying to me?" Chen Hu said angrily.

"No, no, I didn't lie to you, I didn't say who paid to do this." Liu Feng shook his head and denied, "In fact, it was the Mi family in Xuzhou, the Wang family in Qingzhou, and the Zhen family in Hebei who united to ask Your Majesty to suppress the bandits." You also know that their power is in the north, and they are doing business in the south, and most of them have been swallowed up by all ethnic groups in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are still being exploited by you, so naturally they have opinions. ”

"So when I come this time, I must see blood, and I want to unite Wu County and Guangling County to jointly suppress bandits, if those people dare to report the news and cause the bandits to be delayed for a long time, this official will always be here, and they have to keep it. So, they don't mind who gets wiped out, anyway, there will be a wave of resurgence. The official has already decided, let them assist, first of all, take the Dajiang Gang, and destroy the Dajiang Village is the first priority. After all, we have fate, and we just met when we came. ”

"As long as you complete this little thing and have the results of the battle, you can almost go back to the errand, do you say that the people of these big clans are welcome, or welcome? I don't know what will happen to your wife and children at that time, it's a pity to think about it. ”

Every time Liu Feng said a word, Chen Hu's face turned pale, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Liu Feng's words made sense. If it is really an army of bandits, it is not much of a problem for those big clans to sell a few water villages, and it is not without precedent before, but now it is the turn of the Dajiang Gang.

"You lied to me, didn't you?" Chen Hu asked tremblingly without his previous momentum.

"Possibly, you can bet I'm lying to you." Liu Feng's smiling face became brighter and brighter.

The people present almost couldn't help laughing when they saw Liu Feng fooling Chen Hu, trying to pretend to be serious so as not to really laugh.

Chen Hu collapsed to the ground, his eyes blank, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Therefore, as long as you agree to cooperate, after the Dajiangzhai is broken, it will not be a problem for the official to keep your wife and children, and now it depends on your choice." After the flickering, Liu Feng gave Chen Hu some hope.

"Okay, you say." After a long time, Chen Hu, who had made up his mind, raised his head and looked at Liu Feng with empty eyes.

"Those who know the times are Junjie, you are good." Liu Feng praised, "The first question, where is the delivery agreed between your Dazhai master and the Cai family?" ”

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