Chapter 11: The Grotto
The five-mile road is only 2.5 kilometers, and although it is difficult to walk at night, it only took Bonaparte and the "semi-motorized donkey cavalry mixed squad" to light torches for more than 20 minutes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The night wind whistled gently, blowing the torches in the hands of Bonaparte and the others were a little swaying, Bonaparte only wore a shirt, and he was shivering under the whistling of the night wind, and Bonaparte couldn't help but pout when he looked at a humble camp not far away.
To put it bluntly, this camp is a grotto, the whole terrain of this Parabun province where Bonaparte is located belongs to the hills, but this hill is not a wooded hill, but a strange rocky hill, in the wilderness of the entire Parabun province, most of them are such barren land with bare stones, and in these wilds, there are often grottoes, after a long time, after many people have eliminated, many wild grottoes have been used as human camping and resting camps.
Bonaparte and the villagers hid behind a boulder, Bonaparte sighed softly and said: "The grotto is still bright, it seems that they have arranged for a vigil, I plan to go and see the inside of the camp for myself." ”
After a pause, Bonaparte said coldly in the flickering light of the fire: "We are going to rob them, I know that some of you may not dare, but you have to think about it, you have fought the villagers of Yi Village with me today, and drove out their noble village chief of Cross, and he will definitely complain to the town mayor when he returns, and then we will be arrested by the town's militia and put on the gallows." ”
These "semi-motorized donkey cavalry mixed squads" have not seen the agreement signed by Bonaparte and Cross, and they do not know that Bonaparte is already the legal head of Yi Village at this time, but there is still a loophole in the agreement, that is, bandits near Yi Village, but in fact there are no bandits near Yi Village.
Then let him have bandits! Bonaparte planned to bring people to impersonate these bandits himself, so that he could not only improve the agreement, but also make himself self-respecting, what if there were robbers nearby? Then he had to apply to the town to train the militia, and where would the money come from to train the militia? Of course, his village would be self-sufficient, and in that case, the village would definitely have no money to pay taxes, and there would be no way to pay taxes, because if they wanted to pay taxes, they would have to escort the taxes to the town, and if they went to the militia in the town who had no training, then the taxes might be robbed.
It doesn't matter if one or two villages can't pay taxes because they want to train militias, it's a big deal to let other villages share more, but if there is a problem with the escort tax, then the mayor of the town will be questioned and dismissed, Bonaparte, who plays the role of a bandit, is simply killing many birds with one stone, not only solving the legitimacy of the agreement, but also having a reason not to pay taxes, training the militia, and most importantly, being able to solve Cross here unconsciously, and by the way, those villagers of Yi Village will definitely join the army if they know that there are bandits who kill people and do not blink an eye near the village.
As for the possibility that the town might send the town's militia to suppress the bandits, Bonaparte also thought about it, and he waited now for old Hillman to bring back the situation of the town's militia, and he would step up the training of soldiers loyal to him, and Bonaparte was confident that he would not be able to take down the town's militia.
"Sir, I, Alonso, have said that I will always be loyal to you, even if my lord is the most despicable bandit in the mountains, Alonso is willing to become a thief under you!" Just when everyone was still surprised by Bonaparte's earth-shattering words, Alonso stood up and spoke first.
Seeing Alonso so convinced of himself in such a short period of time, Bonaparte couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Okay, good! Alonso is really the warrior I can rely on the most!"
"I know what you're thinking, isn't it just a robbery? Let me tell you, the Modo Kingdom in the north has already fought with our Lindu Kingdom, and war is about to break out in this country, and when the time comes, the good will be bullied, and the weak will be ridden!"
Bonaparte can now be said to be riding a tiger difficult, to let honest and good people to commit crimes, Bonaparte can be said to coerce and lure all kinds of means, coercion, tell these villagers that they have participated in the fight to offend the noble lord, there is no way out, and after he returns to the village as the village head, these villagers are also as he does what he wants; lure, exempt from harsh taxes, but also have a high salary.
"Yes, my Hillman family was saved by the master, my little Hillman's life is the master's, no matter what happens today, whose life the master wants to leave behind, my little Hillman will definitely do it!" Little Hillman was more direct, and he slaughtered them for Bonaparte without cooperation.
Everyone looked at the three Bonapartes blankly, they only felt that they seemed to be on the thief ship and couldn't get off, let them turn around and run away now, back in the village Bonaparte, the village chief, is not how to pinch them at will, and this little Hillman seems to have the intention of killing the uncooperative people, kill the three Bonaparte in front of them, what is the difference between that and going out to rob, they have no evidence, they killed the three Bonaparte, they killed the head of their own village as ordinary villagers, even if they are full of mouths, they can't tell.
There seemed to be only one way in front of everyone, and soon some villagers gritted their teeth and stomped their feet in response: "Master, we listen to you!
"Yes, yes, what Alonso said makes sense, since we have sworn allegiance to the master, we will do whatever the master tells us to do!"
Soon everyone began to agree, people are social animals, easy to be affected by the surrounding environment, this is also what we commonly call morale, Bonaparte looked at the twenty people in front of him and couldn't help but secretly said: The military heart is available!
But just when Bonaparte was satisfied with the high morale of his men, Bonaparte's afterglow caught a glimpse of German sneaking around the edge of the crowd at this time, Bonaparte's eyes flashed when he saw this situation, for today's situation, Bonaparte can only win and not lose, no matter what the means, Bonaparte will not allow any mistakes in his plan.
Bonaparte quietly signaled to Alonso, who walked up to Bonaparte's side and listened to Bonaparte's soft commands.
"In a moment I will go in and inquire about the camp over there, and if you see anyone brandishing torches at the entrance of the camp, you will approach the camp quietly with all your brothers, and in the meantime give me a good eye on German, and if he dares to go ten paces away from the crowd, you will take him!" said Bonaparte, making a knife gesture.
Seeing Bonaparte's gesture Alonso couldn't help but be awe-inspiring, although he knew that he followed Bonaparte on this road, but he didn't expect that such a moment would be so far away from him, but at this moment they were all in the same boat, and he couldn't allow him to refuse, hesitated for a moment Alonso nodded heavily, and promised: "Listen to your orders, sir!"
"Well, take the brothers and rest in place for a while, don't make too much noise, just keep warm for a while, and keep an eye on Geman!" Bonaparte couldn't help but tell again.
"Don't worry, sir, Alonso must have taken care of your brothers. ”
Seeing Alonso's promise, Bonaparte smiled and made a few more jokes to the other villagers, and told everyone to rest in place for a while, and then called little Hillman: "Go, little Hillman, accompany me to see this camp." ”
"Yes, sir. Little Hillman paused and asked, "Master, do you want to bring some guys for self-defense?"
"It's okay, do a full set of plays, since it's a pretending villager to rush to the night, of course you have to bring a wooden stick or something. Bonaparte picked up a stick from a donkey, and then walked to the grotto camp not far away, and saw that little Hillman also trotted a few steps and followed with a torch.