Chapter 191: Pacifying the Bandits
"Do you understand?" Zhao Kuo asked.
"Huh?" Zhao Mu came back to his senses and nodded, "I probably understand." ”
"Then I'll leave it to you." Zhao Kuo patted Zhao Mu on the shoulder.
"Give it to me?" Zhao Mu pointed to his nose and said in disbelief.
"You're my second brother, who won't you hand it over?" Zhao Kuo looked extremely trusting.
"I won't let my big brother down." Zhao Mu said solemnly, but he didn't know that Zhao Kuo just wanted to be lazy.
"By the way, the first batch of paper will be sold in three days, and the rest of the time will be set on the first day of the new month, and you will be responsible for it." Zhao Kuo said.
"No." Zhao Mu clenched his fists and said.
"Remember, you only sell 10,000 copies a month, and you don't sell any more than one piece, even if the other party pays a high price." Zhao Kuo admonished.
"Why?" Zhao Mu was a little puzzled, if the other party could offer a high price, it didn't matter if he sold some more, he could make more money.
"It's called hunger marketing, and what you can't get is the best." Zhao Kuo patted Zhao Mu's shoulder, and walked outside without him understanding it.
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Continental Ze, the center of the Great Lakes.
"Chief, let's descend." The second leader sighed and said with a sad face.
"Yes, chief, the brothers can't hold on." The three leaders also said.
"I want to eat rice, but I can't do wheat, I really don't want to eat fish, I want to vomit when I see fish now." Someone else said.
"I'm ...... too," everyone complained.
Since Zhao Jun came, they haven't had a good day......
Hou Ying and Zhu Hai received Zhao Kuo's order and immediately rushed to the mainland to recruit the water bandits.
Most of these bandits are people who fled from the vicinity, and they were forced to choose to fall into the grass as a coward, and when they heard the government's order to recruit peace, although they didn't believe it, some people still chose to give it a try.
In the end, it was confirmed that the government was not to blame for the past, and it also divided the fields and land, and the news spread ten, ten, hundreds, and the bandits went ashore one after another to surrender.
In just half a month, their subordinates have been reduced by eighty percent.
I thought that in this way, the group of Zhao troops would retreat, but who knew that they would actually recruit nearby strong men and fishermen to form a team and search in a carpet manner, not letting go of any corner.
Moreover, there was also a transcendent realm martial artist in the Zhao army, who appeared to patrol the sky above the mainland from time to time, so frightened that they did not dare to show their heads at all, and could only rely on the dense reeds to avoid Zhu Hai's search.
But now the encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and it seems that it will be a few days before they find their hiding place.
And they can't hold on anymore, the grain has long been eaten, they can only eat fish every day, and at first they can still roast it with fire, but now the encirclement is small, and they don't dare to make a fire. Just make a fire and it will be discovered.
Now they want to vomit when they see the fish, but they are so hungry that some people would rather eat the reeds than the fish, but the reeds are not hungry at all.
This group of bandits really couldn't understand why Zhao Guoxing sent so many people to deal with them, and even sent a transcendent realm martial artist.
Is the transcendent realm so worthless now?
"Zhao Gou is cruel, we have delayed them for so long, and if they surrender now, they will definitely kill us." The big leader said in a deep voice.
No one knew that he was the son of the last generation of Zhongshan King, and he had a blood feud with the Zhao family, and it was absolutely impossible for him to surrender.
Later, a monarch regarded himself as a descendant of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, so he changed his surname to Ji, and at the same time changed the country name to Zhongshan.
After the fall of the Zhongshan Kingdom, in order to avoid the search of the Zhao State, Ji Yu restored his surname and changed his name to Ji Yu.
After hundreds of years, the Zhao people have long forgotten that the ancestors of Zhongshan Kingdom are surnamed Zhen, and have never suspected that Qiyu is a descendant of the Zhongshan royal family.
"But if we continue to persevere, we are not Zhao Jun's opponent." The second leader said to the tiger.
The best in their group of people is only practicing qi, and they have not yet mastered the battle formation, and all of them together are not Zhu Hai's opponents alone.
Now that Zhao Jun is obviously not going to give up until he eradicates them, he really can't see any hope of victory.
"Tonight, we will be divided into pieces, swim to escape the blockade of the Zhao army, and then join the mouth of the river on the mainland, and then flee from the Qi country to Onozawa, with the strength of our brothers, we will definitely be able to do something in Dayozawa." The fish clenched his fists and said, as if he saw a better tomorrow.
"Why don't you speak? You guys...... What are you doing here...... Let me go. The fish struggled frantically.
I saw that the bandits on both sides rushed up and pressed him down in the reeds, and some bandits handed him a rope, and in a moment they tied him up.
"The leader is right, we have delayed Zhao Jun for so long, I am afraid they will not let us go. Now in order for Zhao Jun to spare our lives, we can only borrow the head of the leader Xiang Shang. The second leader said apologetically.
"Now untie the rope and I can act as if none of this happened and we're still good brothers. If you arrest me now, Zhao Jun will not let you go. The fish shouted, hoping to convince them.
But since this group of bandits had already made up their minds, how could they change because of his words.
"Chief, we can't escape, then Zhao Jun divided everyone into five teams, each team is a hundred meters apart, and the brothers can't swim that far, so I can only apologize......"
"Poof!" A stream of scarlet blood spurted out more than a foot high, and the huge human head rolled down the reeds.
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"Sir, the mainland Zeshui bandits said they were willing to surrender." The guards reported.
"Hehe, I finally can't hold on anymore." Hou Ying smiled and said, "Invite them in." ”
"Meet the General." As soon as the lying tiger and the others entered the camp, they quickly knelt on the ground.
"I'm not a general." Hou Ying said with a smile.
Only then did the lying tiger see that the person sitting on it was actually an old man with a gray beard, but when he saw the strong man with two sledgehammers beside the old man, his careful thoughts were instantly put away.
"Master Mingjian, although we are bandits, we never do anything that hurts nature and reason, we just grab some money and food, and never harm people's lives. We were only bewitched by the leader to confront the government, and now that he has been killed by us, we are willing to change our ways, and only ask the official to give us a chance. The lying tiger kowtowed.
Hehe, never harm people's lives? Hou Ying sneered in his heart. These people are different from the people who recruited an before, each of them is a veteran bandit for many years, and there are ghosts before they have been killed.
Besides, this group of people wasted Zhao Jun for so long, how could they let it go easily?
However, since these people choose to surrender, they cannot all be killed.
"You get up first." Hou Ying said to the guards beside him, "Hold your head over to those people in Zhao'an to see if it is their so-called leader." ”
"You also go down, behead those who do evil, and send the rest to the Shangdang Coal Mine to serve three years of hard labor." Hou Ying waved his hand and said.
The lying tiger breathed a sigh of relief, and did not dare to have an opinion, so he leaned over and retreated.
Although he still has to serve three years of hard labor, he doesn't have to die.
I don't know why, over the years, the fish has been making them kill less, although they make money, but as he said, they rarely kill people, usually tied up and demanded ransom.
What he didn't know was that Yu wanted to learn from his ancestors and re-establish Zhongshan, so he paid great attention to his reputation, and naturally he would not go to kill like other bandits.
"Zhu Hai." Hou Ying looked at Zhu Hai on the side, "You lead people to search the waters under your hands, don't leave anyone behind." ”
"No." Zhu Hai hummed, and he couldn't bow his hand with two big hammers, so he walked directly outside.
By the time Zhao Kuo received the good news, it was already the next day, and Zhao Kuo was not surprised by the result.
The mainland Zeshui bandits only relied on geographical advantages, and it was impossible to compete with Zhao Jun in terms of strength.
Hou Ying chose the stupidest and most effective way to put all the bandits in one pot and completely solve the flood in the mainland.