Ten days ago, after the officials went on strike, Lin Dusk came to the Tang Mansion that night.

Also accompanied by Lu Mingze and Lu Minghao brothers.

The crowd held a small group meeting.

"Among the new batch of officials, the earliest admiral Yu Dingping will arrive in a few days." Lin Duci spoke, "At present, with the insistence of various officials, the government affairs work of the entire south can still be adhered to. ”

"I don't know why, the Liu family's control over the news is gradually decreasing, and the people of the killer organization seem to have withdrawn from this troubled water." Lu Mingze added on the side.

"The Qin family and I have passed the message, and it will be safer for the messenger to take the route they arranged." Shen Qi said, "I will talk to the Ding family in a few days to see if I can pull them over." ”

"Is there any news of the bandit leader?" Lin Duci looked at Lu Minghao and asked.

"This bandit leader has been very hidden, and he has never shown up when he talks and acts, and he is the only person I can't find out over the years." Lu Minghao said, "But I have another news. Changpeng Liu seems to have suddenly become a shopkeeper and does not participate in anything. ”

"Why is that?" Shen Qi asked.

"It is said that his woman has an accident." Lu Minghao said.

Although he had escaped from the bandits, the news never stopped.

"Is he the kind of person who wants beauty and not country?" Shen Qi asked.

"I don't know." Lu Minghao shook his head.

"Then it seems that while Changpeng Liu is not doing anything, it is time to completely exterminate the water bandits." Tang Zongjiu said.

"We really don't have that much time to waste." Lin Duci agreed.

"Perhaps, we can try to do both." Lu Minghao said.

"How?" Tang Zongjiu asked.

"Since the officials are on strike these days, we can arrange something else. For example, the preparation of conscription. ”

"Conscription?" Lin Duci shook his head, "The south is rich, and although the Liu family covers the sky with one hand, most of the people have no difficulties in life as long as they are obedient. ”

"The key is these two words, obedience."

Lu Minghao continued.

"Most of the people of the previous generation in the south, almost not a single one has been plagued by water bandits, and you know, how many people have to be killed to make the whole south obedient?

Not to mention those who volunteered to become water bandits, there are also some who were tricked into becoming water bandits under the pretext of looking for work. Therefore, many people are just obedient on the surface, waiting for the opportunity to fight back.

Obviously, it is time to wake up these people who have always wanted to rebel and even overthrow the Liu dynasty. ”

"But even if that's the case, why don't you use the soldiers brought by Governor Shao?" Lin Du asked.

"Yes, the soldiers I brought can completely suppress bandits." Speaking of his own soldiers, Shao Xingyue spoke on the side.

"General Shao Xiao's soldiers have to be used for the battle of the Sailors." Lu Minghao said, "The main battlefield of the water bandits is not on land, but on the water. ”

"Indeed." Shao Xingyue bowed his head.

Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Lu Minghao looked at everyone, paused, and said all his thoughts over the years.

"At the same time as conscription, we can recruit security.

Because not all bandits are voluntary.

We sent food and food to the water bandit village every day, and over time, we made them understand that as long as they were willing to submit to the court and did not kill anyone, the court would not be to blame for the past.

This is tantamount to dismantling the water bandits from within. ”

"You can leave this matter to me." Shen Qi said, "Needless to say, the Qin family should not be a big problem if they can pull the Ding family over and persist in the food and food for the war." ”

Once the south is pacified, the losses of the Qin family and the Ding family can be fully earned, and Shen Qi can also make them become imperial merchants, and the business map will be further improved.

"Recruit training can be left to me." Tang Zong said, "It takes two to three months for recruits to officially enter the battlefield at the earliest, but the Tang family has a more rigorous training method, which can train a batch in a month and a half. ”

"There is no need for many people, so many towns, recruiting 1,000 people, 25 squads, 50 people in a brigade, 100 people in a general team, respectively set up a small armor, general armor, sentry commander and other positions, this is the best equipment for patrol and defense, management and sentry." Lu Mingze, who had not spoken, put forward his opinion at this time.

In this way, everyone brainstormed and completely finalized the matter of suppressing the bandits.

Therefore, the day after the officials went on strike, Shen Qi and his team pushed three carts of grain to the Honglin boundary monument.

It's just that before he got close to the Red Forest Boundary Monument, an arrow was ushered in.

"Who?!" One of the bandits at the sentry post shouted.

"We are listening to the rain building, and we are here to bring you food." Tang Yu also shouted loudly in front.

"What?!" The bandit didn't seem to hear clearly, "You say it again?" ”

"We're listening to the rain building!" Tang Yu repeated, "We're here to bring you food!" ”

"What building?!"

"Listen to the rain building!"

"What are you doing?!"

"Send food!"

After Tang Yu finished speaking, he found that the other party was silent.

He waited for a while, but there was still no sound.

"Young master......" Tang Yu spoke.

"Wait." Tang Zongjiu said.

When everyone waited for about a stick of incense, the same person shouted again in the same place.

"We don't need to, let's go!"

"It's good food!" Tang Yu said as he moved a bag of rice under the cart, picked a hole with his sword, and tore the bag open to show the people in the water bandit village.

Obviously, there are many pairs of eyes in the water bandit village watching every move here.

Tang Yu showed it very generously.

I saw that the grains of rice were tightly and neatly arranged in the rice bag, and each one was full and shiny.

When the sun shines on it, these rice seem to shine with a golden light, like crystal clear pearls, which is pleasing to the eye.

For this reason, Tang Yu specially leaned the bag towards the sun, trying to illuminate the best effect.

After another while, the man shouted again, "No, let's go!" ”

Seeing this, Tang Yu didn't insist, and said, "Okay, okay, let's leave immediately, but there are thirty bags of good rice here, if you don't believe it, you can send someone down to take a look!" ”

Soon, Tang Yu left the range of the red forest under the gaze of the water bandits.

He jumped into the carriage and parked it in a hidden corner where the rice was placed, so that Shen Qi and Tang Zongjiu could observe the movements of the bandits.

After a stick of incense, the door of the water bandit village finally opened, and about six or seven people came.

These people circled around the cart several times, and then stopped in front of Tang Yu's broken rice bag.

One of them paused, picked up the grain of rice on the ground, and seemed to study it for a while.

Immediately afterward, they opened the other bags of rice one by one, and when they found that they were indeed real rice, they looked at each other.

It seems that after some discussion, everyone pushed the cart back to the water bandit village.

A good start is often half the battle.

Since the first time, when Shen Qi and the others approached the Honglin Boundary Monument for the second time, the people who were guarding the water bandit village were not so alert.

And they took the rice several times faster than the first time.

And the entire water bandit village also knew about listening to Yulou sending them rice.

The undercover agents hidden in the water bandit village began to "work" along the bags of rice.

"This rice is so delicious." The undercover agent sighed while eating, "Oops, I don't want to go to the shore when I'm full." ”

"Who's to say it isn't." The water bandit on the side approached the undercover agent and said softly, "You can eat enough without fighting and killing, you can't take risks, right?" ”

"Shhhhh......h I heard that the owner of the village didn't want us to eat this rice. ”

"Why not?" The other bandit's eyes widened and he immediately stuffed his rice and asked.

Undercover looks left and right.

"Oh, let's say it, we're all our own people, and we won't say it." The third bandit spoke.

"It is said," the undercover agent lowered his voice again, "It seems that the master of the village has a grudge against Tingyulou." ”

"Hey, as soon as you say that, I remember that the Tang family was once taken in by Chai Dashan!" The first water bandit said suddenly.

"Ah, yes, I also remembered it, as if I really had a grudge."

"What can I do, won't I be able to eat these meals in the future?" The undercover agent said worriedly.

"That can't be!" The second bandit disagreed, "People didn't do anything to us, did they?" I send rice every day, why can't I eat it? ”

"yes, yes." There were other bandits on the side.

With the efforts of these "undercover agents", the water bandits are becoming more and more receptive to Tingyulou.

For five days in a row, Shen Qi continued to send these things as always.

On the surface, the water bandit village looks no different from the past, but a little subtle change can be seen in some corners.

Five days ago, when Liu Changqing learned that this Boss Tang and Mrs. Tang had sent rice, he couldn't figure out what the other party meant.

After all, the girl of the Tang family died in the hands of Chai Dashan, and this matter is well known.

And without the Tang girl incident, there would be no follow-up to Mrs. Tang's angry sue to the government, and finally Lin Duci killed the admiral in one fell swoop to become famous.

It can be said that the Tang family and the water bandits should have a common enmity, so why did the other party send rice?

Liu Changqing didn't understand.

Liu Changqing looked for Liu Changpeng and tried to get Liu Changpeng to give him another idea, but Liu Changpeng actually disappeared.

This made Liu Changqing so angry that he was smoking.

How can he have an older brother who only needs women and no family?

In desperation, Liu Changqing decided to observe and observe.

Until Tong Jiu reminded him that "it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to thrift", five days have passed.

And in the past five days, some bandits began to cook and eat the rice given by Shen Qi.

Thirty bags a day, one hundred and fifty bags a day, and the bandits were satisfied.

Compared with burns and snatching, such a day of eating in peace is more comfortable.

But just when the bandits were eating, a group of people suddenly came.

Led by the captain, the more than 100 bags of rice were collected one by one.

When the bandits were still puzzled, they saw this group of people pulling rice to the river, and then "bang-la-la-la-la

The captain stepped forward and said to the water bandits.

"The lord of Dazhai has an order, from today onwards, you can no longer listen to the rice sent by Yulou! If it is found that it is poured once, the person who collects the rice will be punished by the village rules! ”

This scene made many water bandits look at each other.

They watched bags of white crystal rice pour into the Moyang River, and they couldn't help but recall the fragrant taste of the rice.

After all, most of the bandits here are from poor backgrounds, and many of them have worked as farmers.

The days of hard work in the wind and sun just for a little bit of rice are vivid.

Many of them are just hungry and can't eat.

And their big village owner actually wasted food like this, and some water bandits were secretly dissatisfied with Liu Changqing's handling of food like this.

On the sixth day, when Shen Qi and them delivered food, no bandits went out to get it

But on the seventh day, in the dead of night.

I saw that the door of the water bandit village quietly opened a crack.

A bandit sneaked two bags into the stockade.

"I take my brothers as my own, and I don't hide them, and today I resisted two bags of rice." The undercover agent faced the other bandits, and took out an attitude of giving up on me, "I know that everyone wants to eat, don't worry, you won't be known by the master of the village." ”

"Thanks brother!"

"I know how to thank you."

"Thank you so much, we've been hungry for this rice for a day!"

"Obviously there is rice that we don't eat, but they want us to rob it, and I don't know what the people above think."

"Don't talk about it, let's make a quick decision today, and it will take time to cook." The undercover agent whispered.

"Yes, yes, it's important to eat."

So, the big guy started to cook together.

When the fragrant rice aroused everyone's taste buds, suddenly a group of people broke in.

"Take it all for me!" The captain of the leader, the water bandit, roared angrily.

"Spare your life! Spare your life! ”

"Head! Spare your life! ”

"We won't dare next time!"

The bandits immediately shouted.

"Grab them all! Wait for the fall! "The captain was unmoved, he only cared about arresting people.

Soon, the men were caught in front of the execution table.

When the crowd saw that this was going to kill them, they suddenly burst into tears.

"The lord of Dazhai spares his life! We just don't want to waste food! We really won't dare next time! ”

"The lord of Dazhai spares his life!"

Some even kowtowed.

"Who's taking the lead?!" The captain asked, glancing around them.

The undercover agent stepped forward at this time: "I detained the food, and it has nothing to do with them." ”

"It's because we want to eat Xiao Zhang that we will take it secretly!" The water bandit road on the side.

"Yes, yes, you can't blame Xiao Zhang!" Other water bandits.

"You are guilty of disobeying the orders of the lord of the village?" The captain glanced at a few people and asked.

"A small confession, but please spare the others." The undercover agent was sincere and serious.

"Then be punished." After the captain finished speaking, he glanced at the people on the side, "This time, the master of the big village only punishes those who secretly take rice." ”

Hearing this, several water bandits couldn't help but take a step forward.

The undercover agent shook his head at them.

Soon, he was taken to the execution table.

He knelt in the center of the execution platform, his eyes were red, and he looked up to the sky and wept.

"Dazhai master, it's right to make a thousand mistakes, my wife and children are starving to death, I just want to eat a hot meal! The lord of the village! ”

His words expressed the hearts of many people present.

Only those who have really been in the stomach can understand the importance of food.

However, the captain seemed to be deaf and did not react to this, and he looked at the crowd with a blank face.

"The master of the village said that the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped, so you will be punished on the stage, to set an example, not to take an example."

With that, he tied the undercover agent's wrists and ankles firmly to the post.

This scene deeply stung the other people who were about to eat rice together.

A lot of things, once started, can get out of hand.

For example, the "rebellion" of the human heart.

Three days have passed since the undercover agent was hung on the execution table, and Shen Qi insisted on delivering food for ten days.

Since the undercover agent was hung up, the food sent by Shen Qi has been left in place and no one has touched it.

In this regard, Shen Qi and they had expected it.

Therefore, every time Shen Qi sent it, he replaced the new rice with the old rice, looking like he was bound to let the bandits see their sincerity.

On this day, Shen Qi and Tang Zongjiu finished delivering rice and returned to the Tang Mansion from Honglin.

As soon as the two got out of the carriage, they were suddenly surrounded by a group of people.

"Traitor!"

One of the people shouted and actually threw rotten vegetable leaves at Shen Qi.

Before he reached mid-air, he was stopped by Tang Zongjiu.

"Traitors get out of Spring Breeze City!"

"Liars get out of Spring Breeze City!"

As he spoke, the other people also stood up and scolded.

"Back to the carriage." Tang Zongjiu said to Shen Qi.

Shen Qi bowed, she jumped into the carriage and sat in the carriage to pay attention to the movement outside.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Tang Yu ran forward and roared.

"You actually sent food to the bandits! You and the bandits sent a gang! ”

"You obviously have a grudge against the bandits, why do you want to send them rice?!"

"You are sanctimonious liars!"

The people were indignant.

"How can we be liars?!" Tang Yu couldn't do anything to the people, so he could only try to explain to them, "We did this for a reason!" ”

"What's the reason? Isn't it that you betrayed Lord Lin and betrayed us ordinary people! ”

"We don't!" Tang Yu said loudly.

However, how much the gathered people admired Shen Qi at the beginning, and how angry they were at this time.

Rotten vegetable leaves and egg shells were thrown one by one towards the carriage where Shen Qi was sitting.

Tang Yu and Tang Zongjiu jumped up and used their body techniques to the extreme, blocking the "attacks" of the people one by one.

As soon as this flowing body was displayed, the people suddenly stopped talking.

They never thought that Boss Tang and his little guy would be so good.

At this moment, someone hurriedly ran over and shouted at them.

"Don't be stupid, don't be stupid!" The person who came shouted loudly, "Lord Lin just declared war on the water bandits!" At the same time, he also declared that he wanted to recruit water bandits! We must give the water bandits who are willing to submit to the imperial court a chance to mend their ways! Boss Tang, Mrs. Tang, is acting at the order! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly realized that the relationship between this couple and Lord Qincha was not ordinary.

How can they think that people are traitors so easily?

At this time, Shen Qi was helped out of the carriage by Tang Zongjiu.

She walked steadily at every step, not the slightest bit angry because of everyone's rudeness.

"Everyone, are there really no people around you who have been deceived into the water bandit village?"

Shen Qi's voice was cold.

"Lord Lin is willing to give them a chance to return to Spring Breeze City, why are you so opposed?

Aren't the real water bandits who really persecute us?

Fellow villagers, it is everyone's responsibility to get rid of the bandits, but please also give those who are willing to break away from the bandits a chance, and also give the fellow villagers around you a chance to reunite with their families. ”

After Shen Qi finished speaking, he turned around and stepped into the gate of the Tang Mansion with Tang Zongjiu.

There are a lot of troublesome people left at the door, you look at me, I look at you, ashamed.