He shook his head and said with a smile: "The two gentlemen still understand me." ”

Seeing that Xiao Xiao was confident, Xie Yue and Xu Weizhi settled down.

All kinds of gossip in the barracks fermented under the deliberate laissez-faire of the tyrants, and overnight, half of the people in the barracks were talking about this time. There are even some people behind the back, who are instructed by another group of people besides Xiao Xiao, who are going around proclaiming that they are afraid that they will not be paid for the next year.

Under the panic of the people, the barracks were full of impetuousness.

Especially when it came to the day of pay, there was no movement here.

These worries are that people finally can't hold back.

Early in the morning, there was a light snow in the sky.

As soon as he finished washing, Huzi strode into the tent.

"Lord Wang, that group of rabbit cubs outside is making trouble!"

Xiao Xiao snorted, threw the handkerchief in his hand into the wooden basin, put on a big hat and said, "Let's go, go out and have a look." ”

The stride meteor came to the outside of the tent, and the distant noise entered the ears. Xiao Xiao and Huzi looked for the sound and left, the closer they got, the louder the noise, when they came to the school field, they looked at it, there were two or three thousand people gathered in one place, and the noise was not like the school field of the Pingnan Army, but like to the market.

He slowly stepped forward with his hands in his hands.

In the crowd, I don't know who shouted: "Don't say it, the prince is here!" ”

There was silence for a moment, but then there was a commotion again.

Someone asked loudly: "Lord Wang, we owe our salary for a month, and the wives and children at home are waiting for dinner!" When will it be paid? ”

"Yes, Lord Wang, what are you a soldier for? It's not like it's a hard job! When will the prince pay us! ”

"We're going to pay! We're going to eat! ”

……

One member of the team raised his fist and yelled, and immediately someone around him followed suit.

The roars of the men were all over the place, the mountains shook like the ground, and the people who were being targeted next to the crowd could feel the resentment that was almost condensed into substance.

He shouted at these people for a while, and waited until his voice weakened before he said, "The feelings of the brothers are understood by this king. This king has also been a soldier for ten years, and he eats and lives with the soldiers in the barracks, where can he not know the mood of the big guys? If you want to talk about silver, it is indeed nervous now, where is Governor Yang busy repaying the money borrowed by Lu Zhang, it is about to pull off a layer of skin. But the big guy follows this king, and this king can't let everyone do it in vain! ”

Xiao Xiao's voice was raised, and he said, "As long as you listen to me and follow me, you will be guaranteed to have money!" ”

"Good! Good! ”

After all, there are a few people in the crowd who have been instructed to stir up trouble, and most of them are really gathered together for food and salary, and there are still a large number of people in the Pingnan Army who have fought Dayan with Xiao Xiao and Hu Ben Army, and they still remember the impression of Xiao Xiao's use of soldiers like a god, and the impression of the predecessors of the two armies.

It was a call for this part of the people to agree.

What are they for? It's not for the silver yet. Since the prince has a way to get the silver with them, then just follow the prince, that's right!

Those in the crowd who started the incident couldn't help but look at each other.

Dare they jump up and down for a long time, but they were ruined by Prince Zhongshun with a word?

Someone in the crowd shouted again: "We don't believe it! The prince doesn't just want to stabilize us now, and go back and pay the bills! ”

"That's right! Unless the prince takes out the money now, we won't believe it! ”

Xiao Xiao looked at the roaring person with a smile, and Huzi also looked along and silently wrote down all these people.

Xiao Xiao said: "Brothers don't believe it now, and this king can understand it." In the end, it is unsubstantiated and unfounded, and it is not enough to be trusted. But I don't know what kind of person I am, and my brothers who have fought with me know it. The spitting foam surnamed Xiao is a nail! When he said that he would take everyone to get silver, he wanted to take everyone to get silver! ”

Xiao Xiao took a few steps into the crowd and said, "There is a war going on in the north, everyone knows it, right?" Soon after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after many years of war, the treasury was called clean! To put it mildly, rats will come out crying when they go in and go around! ”

"Haha!" There was a burst of laughter from the crowd, and the tense atmosphere was immediately relieved.

Xiao Xiao said: "So we big guys want to count on the silver in the treasury, and I'm afraid it's not easy to go far from the mountains." Lu Zhang borrowed a large amount of silver from Sitong before, but now he can't pay it back, Yang Zhifu is anxious, and Sitong will not lend us silver to pay, so this king thought about it and thought of a big fortune. ”

"What tricks does the prince have, just say it."

Xiao Xiao smiled, "I can't talk about high moves, this king is the same as everyone, he is a big boss, and he is a pair of fists that are hard, in recent days, this king has gone out for a turn, and found that there are many mountains nearby, and there are many mountain bandits and road tyrants living on the mountains, and I don't know how many people have been harmed on weekdays."

"There is a lot of silver in their cottage, and this king plans to take someone out to kill him, so that he can teach a lesson to the group of turtle grandsons who are not sons of man, and have a lot of strength, not to be a soldier to defend the country, but to bully the weak with a shy face, what a fucking shame for the family!"

Xiao Xiao said, spitting indignantly.

Many men have been stirred out of the blood by the words of the owl, they were originally soldiers, and when they were soldiers, they would naturally fight, and there was no war to fight, and they also had to practice in the barracks, since the prince was appointed as the generalissimo of Pingnan, the content of their drills was more diverse, and they were also tired at the end of the day.

Tired is the same tired, but he has to face no pay, so it is better to go out and follow the prince to suppress the bandits and rob him fiercely.

Thinking of this, everyone cheered, "Okay, fuck the damn vote!" ”

There were less than 3,000 people present, but more than 1,000 people agreed with Xiao Xiao's decision.

However, there was still a large number of people who hesitated and did not speak.

They feel that it is natural for them to be soldiers and eat food, so why should they be asked to do extra things. Among them, there are even those who have been instructed to make it difficult for them.

It was these people who made different voices and protested one after another, resolutely not wanting to go out to suppress the bandits.

Xiao Xiao crossed his arms and looked at it for a long time, and said with a smile: "The big guy doesn't want to go." ”

Someone shouted, "Why do you want us to risk paying the fee!" ”

"Why?" Hearing this, Xiao Xiao's eyes widened, and he said angrily, "You are soldiers!" You must obey military orders! "Could it be that there is an invasion of foreign enemies at this time, and you have to shrink your necks and not move for the sake of greed for life and fear of death?"

The sudden roar of the owl startled everyone and silenced them.

Xiao Xiao said: "Our Pingnan Army is known as 100,000 brothers, stationed here, can we watch those self-proclaimed heroes of the eight lambs bullying the surrounding people? Is it true that the big guy is a soldier just to eat food, so he doesn't have a little bit of the blood of the master? ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Xiao didn't wait for everyone's reaction, and said: "The happiest person in Zhang Luo today is everyone present." If you want to follow this king, you can gather here early tomorrow morning, and if you don't want to go, you can not go! But first of all, I will say that I will get the money, and I will first settle the food and salary of these brothers who have gone with this king, and then I will solve the brothers who are honest and do not have thorns, and finally you who are jumping high to find trouble, but when you encounter difficulties, you shrink your necks and hide. Whether there is anything left or not, you see for yourselves. ”

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Let's disperse, go back and think about it yourself." ”

The owl strode towards the camp. Huzi immediately followed and said in a low voice: "Master, will they all refuse to go with you?" ”

Xiao Xiao smiled: "No." Man dies for money, and birds die for food. At least half of the troublemakers will go with them today," he teased, "and if there are too many people, it won't be enough to share the spoils." ”

Huzi thought about it, and it seemed that this was the case, so he also laughed.

The next day, as expected, about 1,000 people gathered in the school grounds.

Xiao Xiao smiled: "Okay." Yesterday there was a list of troublemakers, but in fact, this king has already listed, a total of 2,633 people. Today, however, there are more than 1,000 who have withdrawn. That's it, whoever goes and who doesn't, this king knows in his heart, anyway, we have more than 1,000 brothers and enough manpower. ”

So saying, he gave the order to set off.

Just after Xiao Xiao led the crowd to open up, those Pingnan troops who were noisy yesterday and didn't want to go out together to suppress bandits today became a little nervous.

They know the temper of the owl. They were really afraid that the thugs would turn around and liquidate them.

And the bandit team, which was less than a thousand people, was quite happy to follow behind him.

A group of people left the camp of the Pingnan Army, traveled more than 20 miles west, and arrived at a dense forest near the official road.

"Everyone is in ambush here."

At the sound of the order, nearly 1,000 people set up in an orderly ambush in the woods on both sides of the road.

The weather was sunny today, and there was no rain or snow, so it was not a problem for everyone to lie in ambush.

It's just that I waited for an hour.

At this time, some people began to be impatient, saying that they were suppressing bandits, but they didn't take them to attack any cottage, what is the matter with this ambush on the side of the road?

Everyone slandered, but some people dared to ask the devil in person. Everyone knows how powerful Prince Zhongshun is, who would dare to touch the scales in person?

Xiao Xiao was not in a hurry at all, holding a straw stick in his mouth and carefully observing the movement on the official road, and after a while, Huzi rushed over, whispered a few words in his ear, and spit off the straw stick, and ordered the people around him.

"The mountain bandits pretended to be businessmen, and they wanted to transport treasures back to the cottage, telling everyone to pay attention, only grab goods, don't hurt people's lives, and all the mountain bandits must be captured alive."

"Yes!" The people around him responded in a low voice, and they scattered to deliver the news.

A moment later, everyone knew about the strange order.

Suppress bandits, but only force goods, not kill.

At this moment, a convoy on the official road from the direction of the old capital to the outside of the city came from far and near. In front of the convoy, there was a big banner waving the exhibition, and the sign of "Sitong" was particularly eye-catching in the sun.

As soon as the team reached the range of their ambush, the owl took a group of men and rushed down the mountain like a tiger.