Volume 2: Youxue Mingchan Chapter 302: The Family of Officials and Bandits
In Bafeng City, in the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, a whirlwind protruded, closing the door from the room. Bai Lihan and the two were about to call out for guards, but in the haze, as if they saw countless pairs of deep eyes, their consciousness was instantly restrained, and they fell to the bottom of the dark valley.
A phantom look, life and death leave the soul. For the two of them, who didn't even enter the Guiyuan Realm, Chu Haoyun's control was simply handy. Flashed to the main seat, staring at the two of them, like a soul envoy who dominates life and death, Chu Haoyun's demonic voice pulled the two back from fear.
"Bailihan, let me ask you, what is Yun Scorpion's plan?" Originally, Chu Haoyun wanted to track down Pala, but after hearing Yun Scorpion's name, he became interested. The situation that Yun Scorpion made up in Silver Snow Cold City, he still hasn't been able to figure out what is going on.
"This ...... I don't know. Bai Lihan shook his head like a ball of meat, scurrying around with fat all over his body.
Chu Haoyun didn't care about this, he just wanted to try his luck. A guy of Bailihan's level, even if he knew something, could only be a few scratches of the surface.
"What is the reason why this place was secretly included in the territory of the Yulan Empire?" Chu Haoyun pondered for a moment and changed his question.
Bai Lihan replied truthfully, and said with a little depression and resentment: "It's not that damn Heavenly Lock Eight Peaks Mutation, and I don't know what agreement the high-level of the Zhanyun Kingdom has reached with the Yulan Empire, so I actually put such a big secret and didn't explore it, and handed it over directly to the Yulan Empire, so that I can't even take the opportunity to get some oil and water." ”
"Stop, do you know the situation of the Eight Peaks of the Heavenly Lock?" Chu Haoyun frowned and interrupted Bai Lihan's nonsense.
"Of course, as the closest town to the Eight Peaks of the Heavenly Lock, I was the first to know about it. About a year ago, the Eight Peaks of the Heavenly Lock changed inexplicably, and the eight peaks were 100 meters above the ground, each turning into a strange long sword form. Within a radius of ten miles, powerful sword qi began to escape, and the more than 100 defenders I sent were directly strangled by those sword qi. After that, the high-level leaders of the Zhan Yun Kingdom sent the masters of the Zhan Yun Pavilion to blockade it, and then we could no longer get close to it. It wasn't until not long ago that we received a notice from the upper echelons that the land boundary within a radius of thousands of miles centered on the Eight Peaks of the Heavenly Lock was inexplicably ceded to the Yulan Empire. ”
Bai Lehan talked a lot in one breath, his body was full of fat and trembling, and he almost didn't come up in one breath. If it weren't for Chu Haoyun's habit of slapping him in, maybe this guy would be a person who was tired of speaking in history.
"Is this matter only known to you?" Chu Haoyun thought about it, and felt that it seemed that except for Zijing who knew a little bit of the inside story by relying on the relationship, the rest of the people didn't seem to know that they had quietly changed their nationality.
"It's all done in secret, and apart from us, the city lords, even our defenders don't know much about it. Although they questioned me with some questions, their vocation was to obey orders, and I casually dismissed them. ”
"Is it?Then what's the use of you arresting those men?Who gave the order?" Chu Haoyun approached step by step, trying to sort out the source of the matter.
"I don't know. Originally, I was directly under the orders of Chifeng City, but since the people of the Yulan Empire took over the power. The Heavenly Feather Hall under the Cloud Scorpion Empire also joined in, acting as a bridge between the Yulan Empire and us, to pass on the orders of the Yulan Empire and the Cloud Scorpion Prince. All I know is that they need 100,000 men, and I really don't know what they're coming for. However, I vaguely heard the words of blood sacrifice from the mouths of Prince Yun's subordinates, and the people we arrested before were all taken over by the people of the Yulan Empire and Tianyu Hall, and I don't know where they were delivered. ”
"That Pala is the person from Tianyu Hall?" Chu Haoyun was even more puzzled, Tianyu Hall, this name gave him a very strange feeling. Xingyue has a Heavenly Feather Sect, thinking back to that Tan Yuefeng, Chu Haoyun was puzzled, could it be that the Heavenly Feather Sect has a base in both countries?
"Yes!" said Brielehan nodded honestly.
Chu Haoyun fell into deep thought, stood up and kept pacing in front of them. After a long time, Chu Haoyun stopped, and a word that he had been wary of for a long time flashed in his mind. That's right, he has been thinking about the Dark Moon Project for a long time, but what happened recently made him feel that the so-called Dark Moon Plan should be more than just Xingyue's forces.
"Xingyue, Zhanyun, Beiyue, Tianyu Sect, Tianyu Hall, Cloud Scorpion. What a bastard, what the hell is the Dark Moon Project?" The more he thought about it, the more Chu Haoyun felt a little dizzy, and the little thoughts he had had became even more chaotic. Shaking his head, he pressed the matter down for the time being, looked up and asked Bai Lihan, "What's the matter with the Qi Feng thieves?"
Chu Haoyun also listened to a rough idea of their conversation before, within a thousand miles, the 100,000 male quota required by Yun Scorpion was probably allocated to every city in this area, from Bauhinia and Qin Feng, Chu Haoyun learned that because Qianfeng County was mountainous and there were countless dangerous places, although Qianfeng County was vast, it was the least populated state and county in Zhanyun Country, with only four cities within a radius of thousands of miles, of which Chifeng City was the first.
Of the four cities, except for Chifeng City, which has a population of more than 100,000, the remaining three are between 3 and 50,000. This population base, even with the addition of some of the villages under their control, excludes the old and the young and the female, and the able-bodied males are indeed very limited. Especially Bafeng City is only a small size, the total population is less than 30,000, and the real middle-aged men are less than 10,000, the number of 100,000 words, even if Chifeng City eats most of it, the remaining three cities are shared, and it is indeed a little difficult to make up the indicators.
"Hehe, there are no thieves. Surprisingly, Bai Lihan showed a smug smile, if it weren't for the sense of control of the Phantom Demon Pupil, Chu Haoyun would have thought that this fat pig was out of his control. Bai Lihan laughed proudly, sat comfortably on the ground, and said with a smile: "Thief, hehe! There are no thieves in the entire Zhanyun Country, with the wrist of the prince of Yunyun, where can any thief dare to survive here." To put it bluntly, thieves are also a means for Zhanyun Country to increase the sense of tension among the people, most of the thieves are seconded from the army, they not only create an environment for Zhanyun Country to make progress, but also collect more finances for the country and us. ”
The more he spoke, the more energetic he became, and he sat on the ground and danced with his hands. His hands were constantly grasping at the top of his head, as if countless treasures were floating over his head.
"Hehe, with the identity of a thief, we can not only get more oil and water, but also cooperate with each other to establish our prestige. What's more, there are some things that we noble officials can't do, but they can do perfectly. Just like this persecution of the Chifeng Martial Arts Gym, Lao Tzu has long wanted to take down the more than 100 strong men in the Martial Arts Gym, but in front of the bureaucracy and public opinion, don't you have to ask the thieves to come forward to complete it?"
Chu Haoyun was a little speechless, he didn't expect that Zhanyun Country would be in this situation, the officials and bandits came to oppress their own people, forcing them to enter. Looking at Bai Lihan's excited appearance, he was caught in the years of cooperation between officials and bandits, and he did not reap any benefits.
However, from his attitude towards the Chifeng Martial Arts, it can also be seen that this time Yun Scorpion has completely given up on the people within a thousand miles. The persecuted Bailehan had to come up with this way to make up people. After all, Bai Lihan was only a small city lord in this mountain, and the other three cities adjacent to it were in the same situation as him, and further away, there were some real noble forces under the jurisdiction, and he didn't have the courage to go to those cities to rob people.