A military fort adjacent to the Tianduan Mountains,

Ah Ming rode a horse,

Dressed in a black dress,

Every now and then, he pulled out a handkerchief and gently wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead that could not have existed at all.

Behind him, a group of people pushed several carts to follow him, and the carts were loaded with all kinds of flowers.

These flowers are all picked from the Tianduan Mountains;

Outside the fort, a tower-like man stood there, and on his shoulder, sat a young girl.

The man was wearing a white gown, long black pants, and a pair of oversized thickened cloth shoes on his feet, which vividly interpreted the rustic atmosphere.

The girl was dressed in a long purple dress and held a sword in her hand.

Ah Ming saw the pair in front of him that was stacked on top of each other,

He couldn't help but shake his head, waved his hand and signaled the people in the rear to march into the fort, and he rode out and came to them.

"Waiting for me?" Ah Ming asked.

Fan Li nodded.

The sword maid spoke: "We were looking for bandits nearby, and the military fort sent a message, and learned that you just entered the mountain from here a few days ago, and I thought that you should be back soon, so we planned to wait for you for two days, and after waiting for only one day, you will come back." ”

Ah Ming looked at the sword maid,

Road:

"It's not big, it's not too small."

The sword maid turned sideways, and the whole person almost flattened from Fan Li's shoulder, which can be described as a difficult action;

Reaching out, he took out a water bladder from the big basket behind Fan Li.

Sit up straight,

Throwing the water bladder at Ah Ming.

Ah Ming took it and pulled out the stopper, and there was a refreshing aroma of fruit wine rippling inside.

He loved blood, and he loved wine;

On weekdays, they don't eat.

The sword maid said: "A fruit wine made by a group of monkeys in the forest. ”

It's a baby.

Ah Ming took a sip and nodded, to use a rather vulgar phrase to describe it, that is, with the fragrant aroma of nature;

However, it does taste good.

Road:

"Forgive your disrespect."

forthwith

Ah Ming put the water bladder away and asked;

"What's the matter?"

The expansion project of Fengxin City and the new construction of the Hou Mansion have been completed, Fan Li, the leader of the construction team, has finally been vacant, and the sword maid has finally reached the age when it is time to practice swords? So I just took the sword maid to go through the training.

The so-called experience,

It's the opening of the front;

The dancer in the red tent, the sword dance can also be pleasing to the eye? But the real blade of the sword needs human blood to open.

In a nutshell

Fan Li went to kill people with a sword and a maid.

The target of the hunt is also easy to find.

Because of the need for land reclamation and various sieges, many industries under the Hou Mansion are in urgent need of manpower? Previously, it was because they wanted to watch the storage of potatoes, so the population deliberately suppressed it;

Now? Seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching? The hardest hurdle has passed, and because of this? The problem of labor shortage has been revealed again, and it has seriously restricted the development of Jindong.

Helpless?

After Xu Wenzu knocked his goal early? Begin to focus on local governance and return people to their homeland? Live and work in peace and heal the wounds that have been squeezed out of war and taxes.

This makes the Hou Mansion want to continue to absorb displaced people from the east of the Wangjiang River as before? It can't be used.

First, after all, the people are hard to leave their homeland, unless there is really no way? Otherwise, they will not choose the path of family relocation;

The second is the relationship between the Hou Mansion and Xu Wenzu? Forcibly digging the foot of the wall on other people's turf? If you destroy the relationship between the two, the gains will outweigh the losses.

But fortunately, there is a poor neighbor here in Jindong, and that is Xueyuan.

Under the operation of the two old silver coins, the blind man and the savage king,

The evil slave trade, which had appeared in another time and space, came in a similar pattern in Jindong.

What the Hou Mansion has to do is to stir up strife between some tribes in the Snow Field, in short, to let them fight.

In this regard, there is a savage king, which can be described as simple;

Prisoners of war were then purchased in silk, tea, jewelry, and all sorts of goods other than ironware.

I have to say that since the failure of the "ZTE" of the Savage King's generation, what the Snow Savages have lost is the essence of a whole generation or even two generations;

The remaining head nobles are either timid or short-sighted.

in a word

Batch after batch of savage slaves began to be sold into the snow customs to enrich the various industries under the Hou Mansion.

In the past, because the Hou Mansion was not established, coupled with the tense situation, and the local ethnic contradictions were acute, the early savage prisoners of war were squeezed by labor, and the fortifications on the front line of the Snow Customs were repaired.

Now, the Hou Mansion is in the form of a household for storage, among which the young and strong and good at riding and archery select a part of the income standard household to set an example for other savage slaves;

Most of the savage slaves who were sold in found that in Jindong, although they were tired, their lives seemed to be better than in their hometown in the snow field, so overall, their emotions were very stable.

From time to time, looking at the soldiers of the savage clan under the Hou Mansion who had joined the Hou Mansion early, there was a lot of hope in their hearts.

But there are always some people who love their homeland too much, or some savage tribe nobles who were defeated and captured, and they are not willing to live this kind of "ordinary people" life, so they choose to run away.

It is impossible to walk through the snow customs, and you can't go there, so you can only drill into the Tianduan Mountain Range, anyway, all the way to the north, if you don't starve to death in the mountains or be bitten to death by wild beasts, you can always return to the snow field.

This kind of person, called a "bandit" by the Hou government, is the target of hunting and attacking.

And Fan Li,

It was the sword and maid who came to find these bandits to attack.

In the face of Ah Ming's inquiry, the sword maid spoke:

"I was going to go back, but I happened to find the traces of a group of bandits, there were quite a few of them, there were twenty or thirty of them, and there were also two or three savage masters who deliberately concealed their strength when they were caught in.

So, while working in the workshop, he killed two guards and escaped. ”

Generally speaking, among the slaves, there will be some specialties, and they will be impatient to report it at the beginning of the examination in order to get better treatment;

Although there were not many regular soldiers in Gou Moli's town, with the acquiescence of Marquis Zheng, he was allowed to pick among the savage slaves that had been traded.

And this gang deliberately concealed their strength, which means that they planned to wait for an opportunity to escape after they were captured and traded at the beginning.

It's certainly easier to run away while you're on the job than it is in a barracks.

"If you go to kill, you will kill, what are you waiting for me to do?" Ah Ming asked.

The sword maid smiled:

"I don't think it's safe, since you're around here, I'll wait for you."

"I'm not available."

Ah Ming stretched out his hand and pointed to the cart pushed by the people in front of him,

"I've got to go back and develop a new type of perfume."

Saying,

Ah Ming looked at Fan Li again,

Road;

"Just transfer some troops from the nearby military fort to exterminate them together."

Fan Li shook his head and said:

"It's an experience."

If you lead the troops, how do you train?

When Ah Ming heard this, he was almost laughed angrily,

Road:

"Take a little girl, take a sword, and kill twenty bandits, there are a few bandits who are not bad, and there must be a leader.

What is this like?

Ali,

Are you bored doing the Newbie Village quest?

After the target is killed,

Will you drop the gold coins or wait to go back to Fengxin to hand in the quest from the Juggernaut? ”

The sword maid didn't understand this paragraph.

Fan Li was still concise and asked:

"To go or not."

Ah Ming smiled,

"Fools go."

"There's still fruit wine."

"Huh."

"A cylinder."

"I can't rest assured of you."

………

Along this side of the Tianduan Mountain Range, there is a trade route, many business travelers come from here, come to the Snow Customs Field, and then go to Zhennan Pass, and when you go back, you will pass Fengxincheng again.

The goods taken are different, and the routes are naturally different.

In comparison, this piece is a blank area under the current rule of the Hou Mansion.

Because at this stage, the actual control and development area of the Hou Mansion is located in the triangular coverage position between the three points of Fengxincheng, Zhennanguan and Xuehaiguan.

In other places, there is no intention to develop and restore it for the time being, but some military forts will be set up, and some sentry cavalry teams will be sent from time to time to sweep and swear an oath of influence.

Where the government can't govern, it seems to be free, but in fact, it will be interpreted into another kind of law of the jungle.

Some Jianghu forces are entrenched here, and some people will inevitably have unclean hands and feet, and petty theft is just enough, and they will even do some murderous deeds, but because of the deterrent power of the Hou Mansion, there has never been anything too excessive.

The vast majority of the people in the rivers and lakes are hired here as caravan bodyguards.

A similar market, in fact, was also in Hutou City, and Fan Li was hired to join a caravan and enter the desert.

In order to further stimulate the trade of merchants, the Hou Mansion did not prohibit caravans from the Snow Plains and Chu States from entering, nor did it prohibit caravans from entering the first two from their own territory, of course, taxes must be drawn;

At the same time, if you are too troublesome, you can also transfer the goods directly to Houfu at a lower price, and Houfu itself has the largest trading house responsible for the trade between these two places.

In addition, the demon beast business in the Heavenly Broken Mountain Range and the production of some special products have also resumed due to the end of the war.

In a nutshell

This area, leaning on the Tianduan Mountains, is far away from Fengxin City, and is quite close to Wangjiang.

These people in the rivers and lakes, taking jobs here, quite a kind of "mercenary" model.

Of course, they wouldn't be stupid enough to build a town or a fort here, because the target would be too conspicuous, and no matter how reckless they were, they wouldn't be stupid enough to shoot sand on the territory of the famous Marquis of Pingxi.

Therefore, although there are inns and buildings here, they are far apart.

The town is not like a town, but like a scattered post station.

At this point,

Ah Ming, Fan Li and Jian Maiden, the three of them stood in front of a "Leopard Gate Inn".

"Fortunately, it's not called the Dragon Gate Inn." Ah Ming smiled, "Otherwise, in a few days, I am destined to write a letter to transfer troops to level it." ”

Because if it's called the Dragon Gate Inn, it infringes on the patents of the demon kings and the lord, and when chatting in the past, the big guy often flipped the table and found a place where no one knew to open a new Dragon Gate Inn.

"Yo, guest officer, stay in a hotel or eat?"

The shopkeeper is a camel, going out to greet him, with a smiling face.

Fan Li stretched out his hand, took out his axe from the basket behind him, and cut it directly at the shopkeeper!

The shopkeeper immediately turned sideways and dodged.

"Buzz!"

The axe slashed into the air.

"What does this mean, brother!"

The hunchback shop's eyes showed a fierce look.

Fan Li looked at the sword maid sitting on his shoulder, and then turned his face to look at Ah Ming,

Road:

"I guessed it would be kung fu."

In this environment,

A relatively remote inn,

The shopkeeper, hunchbacked, flattering smile;

Classic routines.

Therefore, Fan Li wanted to prove his conjecture, and then he took an axe and chopped it.

Sure enough, the shopkeeper is a kung fu worker and dodges the past.

Of course

If the shopkeeper doesn't know kung fu and Fan Li guessed wrong, then the shopkeeper's head should have been divided up now.

but

Who cares?

Ah Ming rolled his eyes at Fan Li, this thing looks the most honest and honest on weekdays, but no one dares to treat him as an honest person, and an honest person can't do the kind of thing that takes out the body of the Great People's Pillar Kingdom and twists Yangge in front of the Chu people.

"Stay in the hotel."

Ah Ming took out a silver ingot from his arms and threw it at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper checked the silver in his hand, and immediately put on a smiling face, as if the previous thing had not happened at all, and immediately bent his already hunched back a little more.

Road;

"Three masters, please come in."

The inn, which is very large, but at the same time, the inn is also very basic.

There is no such thing as a carved beam, and there are no details.

On the first floor is the lobby, where a knife man is sitting eating and drinking alone, with a large knife beside him.

The knifeman's clothes were very torn, with leggings, and the knife was wrapped in cloth, revealing only the handle of the knife.

He sat there, very inconspicuous.

Fan Li silently reached out to touch the basket behind him,

Ah Ming stretched out his foot and kicked Fan Li's calf.

Fan Li frowned slightly, and his hand was taken back, but he still seemed to feel that he had not been able to test it, and it was very uncomfortable.

Behind the counter, there sat a woman, about thirty years old, with a mole on her face, which was not still charming, but she belonged to the type of person who did not worry about repeat customers in the red tent.

It's hot,

The clothes on her chest showed a lot of white,

When I saw Ah Ming walk in,

He didn't say hello, but he stuck out his tongue and licked the corners of his mouth;

OK

This action,

Ah Ming also often does.

"Three masters, please go up."

The hunchbacked Xiao Er took Ah Ming and the others upstairs.

"How many rooms do you want?"

"One room." The sword maid said.

After that,

The sword maid deliberately glanced at Ah Ming beside her and Fan Li under her,

Road:

"The children of the rivers and lakes walk the rivers and lakes, and they don't have to care about these details."

Ah Ming let out a "heh".

This girl was taken by Yuan Zhenxing in her early years, and Yuan Zhenxing was ordered to shoot into a hedgehog by his own owner by the Bianhe River, and he has been living with himself and others.

She knows a fart.

Entered the house,

The hunchbacked Xiao Er was about to ask if he wanted to prepare a meal, but he was dazzled by Ah Ming directly throwing a gold ingot.

Also surprised was the sword maid.

Ah Ming asked directly:

"There's a bunch of savages, do they also live in your store?"

The hunchbacked little second picked up the gold ingot, bit it, and nodded:

"Yes, yes, but they live in the back of the horse shed, our store serves food, it should be waiting for someone to answer, maybe waiting for the savage caravan from the snow customs."

Ah Ming threw out another gold ingot and asked:

"How many?"

"Eighteenth people, all have knives."

Ah Ming threw out another gold ingot and asked:

"Is there any service?"

The hunchbacked little two blinked.

Ah Ming put his hand into his arms again.

The hunchbacked little two hurriedly said:

"Master, master, don't dig it out again, the more you dig out, the more refreshing it is, either it proves that you are indeed rich and don't look down on this little blockage, or, you have absolute certainty, let the little one spit it out in the future, anyway, it will be kept by the small one for a few days, you don't feel distressed."

Ah Ming smiled.

The hunchbacked Xiao Er put two of the three gold ingots he had taken back on the table, pointed to the remaining one, and said:

"Master, this piece is enough, tonight I will give them medicine in the evening meal, all the medicine is poured out, and when the time comes, you will dispose of it."

"........." sword maid.

Ah Ming pushed another one out of the two gold ingots on the table in front of Xiao Er,

Road:

"This one, you call some more people, and after the drug is overturned, tie them up, so that we won't have any more trouble."

"Master, do you want to live?"

Ah Ming shook his head and said, "Tie it up, it's easy to kill." ”

"........." sword maid.

"Master, you're polite, Cheng, wrapped around the little one, in fact, the little one has been looking at those savages for a long time.

Wait, I'll arrange some food for the three of you, and then in the evening, you can wait for the little thing to come and report back.

That's right

What do you want to eat? ”

Fan Li said:

"Naan."

"Okay."

The hunchbacked little two went down.

The sword maid exhaled angrily:

"What kind of person are you walking in the rivers and lakes, blind to the fruit wine I finally found!"

Ah Ming glanced at the sword maid,

Road:

"This is what the rivers and lakes really look like."

"This is not, this is not, when I used to walk the rivers and lakes with my master........."

"Your master is a poor man."

"........." sword maid.

Ah Ming stretched,

Road:

"In the rivers and lakes, there are many rules, but nine out of nine rules are because of poverty."

The sword maid gritted her silver teeth,

Pointing to the remaining gold ingot on the table, he said:

"You don't understand the truth that walking the rivers and lakes and wealth is not exposed? Do you believe that the shopkeeper won't do it to that group of savages tonight, but to us? ”

Ah Ming smiled,

Road:

"Open the gold ingot and take a look."

The sword maid stretched out her hand and turned over the gold ingot, which was printed with four words: Pingxi Hou Mansion.

Ah Ming yawned,

Road:

"This is a batch of gold ingots newly made by the Hou Mansion, and what I am revealing is not wealth, but power.

Look at the shopkeeper and Xiao Er of this store, do you dare to beat us up. ”

The sword maid muttered,

It's so angry!

She looked at Ah Ming very resentfully,

Complaining:

"Relying on money and power, you have made my rivers and lakes tasteless, you return my rivers and lakes, return my rivers and lakes, do you know how long I have been waiting for this opportunity, how long have I waited!"

Fan Li stretched out his hand,

touched the head of the sword maid,

Road:

"He's right."

"No, you're talking nonsense, big man, you're talking nonsense, this is not, the real rivers and lakes are like my Sword Saint Master, who is free and not afraid of the powerful......"

Fan Li asked:

"Where does your master live?"

"........." sword maid.

Master lives,

Next door to the Hou Mansion.

Fan Li said again:

"Jianghu, that's the smell."