Chapter 308: Self-inflicted
A cool breeze blew from nowhere, bringing a burst of coolness, but also a sour and rancid smell peculiar to sewers. In the darkness, only Lu Zhenbang's lighting technique reflected a small space in front of him.
It was a slightly empty terrace, with enough room for fifty or sixty people to stand. Not far from the feet, there is a "whooshing" flowing sewage.
On this terrace, there are now more than a dozen men of different appearances, looking at Liu Tan and his wife with curious eyes.
"Qizai, you take this Brother Liu to find a place to stay. Lu Zhenbang instructed one of them.
"Okay, Boss. ”
"Wait," Chen Hao stopped, "Brother Lu, I still want to ask them about the husband and wife." ”
Lu Zhenbang laughed and said, "Teacher Chen, don't look at me drilling holes like a mouse every day, but there is really nothing I don't know about this Plains City! ”
"Okay. Since Lu Zhenbang said so, Chen Hao naturally didn't have to go far.
The two couples escaped death today and were severely frightened. After running with the two of them for so long, it was indeed a little unbearable, so it was better for them to go and rest earlier.
"I also asked the two benefactors to inform me of the honorable surname, so that Liu Tan could remember it. Liu Tan bowed deeply to the two of them.
"Don't remember, my name is Lu Zhenbang, and this is Chen Hao. Lu Zhenbang said heartily: "Qizai, Liu Tan is dragging his family, you can find a better place for him." Also, people have female dependents, so they need a separate and hidden place to live to avoid inconvenience. ”
"Boss, don't worry, my Qizai knows how to measure. ”
Liu Tan is grateful again.
After they left, Chen Hao and Lu Zhenbang found a large stone to sit down on the side of the wall on the terrace. Both of them are informal, and compared to Lu Zhenbang's stone room, this outside is always not so breathless.
"Brother Lu, tell me what Cao Cheng has done in the past year. Chen Hao said.
Lu Zhenbang reminisced and said:
"When Cao Cheng first sat on the throne, he was still honest for a few days. At that time, he didn't make any big moves except to purge dissidents. Later, when I had a problem with my three or two gangs, Cao Cheng's tricks suddenly increased. He first made a 'thanksgiving order', built many farms and medicine fields in many places far away from the plain city, and encouraged the poor people in the city to cultivate land and grow medicine, but with little effect.
"Soon he issued a 'reckoning order' for people to report to each other who had nothing to do in the city and who had not produced, and whose wealth had come from the wrong way and had been obtained by hard work...... Then they were all arrested, all their possessions confiscated, and they were all rushed to work on farms and medicine fields.
"Some people resisted more fiercely, Cao Chengcheng made a 'beast fighting camp', got the opponents to fight with the monsters, and opened it to the public regularly. No matter how strong you are, in the endless battles with demon beasts, you will inevitably become the food in the belly of demon beasts after all!
"On the one hand, this deters all those who dare to resist, and on the other hand, it also allows the officials who hosted this matter to get a lot of income, so that in the future, regardless of misdemeanors and felonies, as long as you don't have a backstage, you will be directly thrown into the beast fighting camp if you are caught!
"As for the recent 'meat collection order', I just heard about it. But I don't feel strange at all, according to Cao Cheng's urine nature, it is not strange at all to give such an order!"
Chen Hao nodded, and sorted out the rules of Cao Cheng's actions in his heart.
That thanksgiving order, it seems that because the Chongyang fruit is about to ripen, he is anxious to prepare some materials that can be exchanged with the Heavenly Dao Alliance, so it will make people start planting medicinal materials that have no use in Baiju Cave again.
The latter liquidation order is a supplement to the previous action. Because there was no one to support them, they had to use some means to find someone to work on. At the same time, the beast fighting camp behind also played a role in deterring and intimidating, making people afraid in their hearts and not daring to doubt any of his decisions.
As for the meat collection order, on the one hand, it may be because Cao Cheng has to prepare with two hands, one hand to prepare fine wine, that is, elixir, chongyang fruit, spirit stones and other materials needed by the Heavenly Dao Alliance, and the other hand to prepare knives and guns, that is, to expand his own demon beast troops, so that he can resist when the transaction fails.
On the other hand, it is also because of Cao Cheng's perverse actions that the people's enthusiasm for production has declined, and the production of grain and meat has decreased, so that they cannot make ends meet and have to take food from the mouths of the existing residents.
Lu Zhenbang said again: "Teacher Chen, I have a brother who has entered the beast fighting camp, do you want him to tell you about the specific situation?"
"No, I understand. "There was a Colosseum in ancient Rome, and this beast camp is nothing more than a copy of the Colosseum.
If God wants to destroy it, he must first make it mad!
Although on the surface, thanks to the repeated lies for hundreds of years, the rule of Cao Cheng's family is still supported by many people. But Chen Hao saw an undercurrent surging from the performance of those errand servants, Liu Tan's young couple and others!
Although Cao Cheng's crazy behavior was accepted by the people of Plains City under the cruel oppression of the White Tiger Hall, it did not mean that there was no resistance.
He's already lit the volcano under his ass himself, and now he only needs an introduction to make this volcano erupt!
The method of assassination, although in ********, is an inferior method, and no one will want to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. But in the current situation, it is very appropriate.
Cao Cheng, or the Cao family, is the plug on the crater.
As long as this plug is unplugged, the power of the volcano itself will erupt and destroy this ridiculous world!
Chen Hao's murderous intentions have been decided, Cao Cheng is dead!
"Brother Lu, you brought the brother who had entered the beast fighting camp, I want to hear his story. Chen Hao's plan was decided, so he said to Lu Zhenbang.
"Oh, why did you suddenly change your mind again?" Lu Zhenbang said puzzled.
Chen Hao smiled slightly, and said: "Not only do I want to listen to his story, I also plan to let more people hear his story; ”
"Tell whom, don't we all know?" asked Lu Zhenbang.
The volcano has pulled the plug, but it can't let the lava flow indiscriminately, it has to have a direction. Otherwise, Plains City would be in ruins, and Baiju Cave would be shattered, which was not Chen Hao's original intention to come back.
And the Fighting Beast Camp and Liu Tan and his wife can undoubtedly affect the flow of magma. Draw people's anger where they need to go, and burn everything that needs to be burned!
"Talk to everyone who can talk!" Chen Hao stood up and said categorically.