Chapter 067 A small cottage is fighting for power and profit like this?
Yan Liang left with thirty cavalrymen, while the remaining ten Ma family disciples stayed in the village to continue searching for survivors.
At noon, Zhu Hansan and his people rushed to Taoyuan Village, accompanied by Dian Wei, Guan Hai, Pei Yuanshao and other guards as well as a hundred county soldiers.
Seeing such a tragic scene, Zhu Hansan was so angry that he trembled all over and said through gritted teeth: "Are they still human? Can this be done?"
"Where is Mr. Yan Liang?"
Seeing some children walking in the village, Zhu Hansan asked while suppressing the anger in his heart.
"Reporting to your lord, Commander Yan led the rest of the people to continue chasing the bandits, while ten of us stayed behind to search for survivors in the village. So far, a total of twenty-six children have been found, but all their families have been killed.
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A member of the Ma family stepped forward and replied.
"Damn it, damn it!"
Looking at the group of children in front of them who are only more than ten years old, the oldest among them is about sixteen or seventeen years old, about the same age as Zhu Hansan, and the youngest is only five or six years old.
Zhu Hansan's compassion overflowed and he wanted to cry loudly, but he still gritted his teeth and replied: "Send all these children back to the county town. From now on, I, Zhu Hansan, will take care of their lives. I will leave a few people to continue the search.
Let’s see if there are any children who survived.”
"Sir, I want to join the army. I want to kill those bastards and avenge my family!"
At this time, a fifteen or sixteen year old child suddenly ran to Zhu Hansan and knelt down, crying.
"Yes, we want revenge!"
"Want revenge."
"We want revenge."
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Even ignorant children of five or six years old were filled with hatred and shouted along.
"I know what you are thinking, but your mission now is to return to Jing County, where someone will arrange your future life, and no one will bully you again. As for this revenge, I will avenge it for you."
At this moment, Zhu Hansan made up his mind not to give those bandits a way to survive. Originally, he was thinking of recruiting those bandits to quickly replenish the army, but now it seems that he really has no need to recruit those bandits. Such an unscrupulous thing is impossible.
If he can do it, Zhu Hansan will never sit idly by and ignore it.
After sending away the group of children, Zhu Hansan asked: "Tell me, where did those guys go?"
"You have to ask the leader of Guo Dazhai."
Because the matter was urgent, and Zhu Hansan didn't know much about what was going on in Huya Village, he asked people to take Guo Daxian out of prison to join the army, so that he could ask some questions on the way. When Guan Hai saw this tragic situation, he was on the verge of an explosion.
, staring fiercely at Fatty Guo with his head drooping behind the crowd.
Only then did Zhu Hansan remember the fat man, and quickly turned around to look, only to see Guo Daxian shaking his head, and then asked angrily: "Guo Daxian, what do you say you are afraid of? This matter has nothing to do with you, as the saying goes, there is injustice.
The debt belongs to the owner, and whoever makes the mistake will bear it. If you have done your best this time and made a contribution, then you will not have to die during the autumn harvest."
"Really? Sir, are you really not going to kill me?"
Guo Daxian knew that he had made many mistakes in the past. If he were to be interrogated by Qiu Shou, he would definitely die. Now that he heard that there was a chance to survive, how could he not seize it? Zhu Hansan hadn't asked yet, he
He told the whole story, "To be honest with you, I was forced to have no choice but to turn into a bandit. There were only thirty or forty people in Huya Village at first, and they usually only engaged in road robbery. We only picked out the rich."
If we attack every household, we would definitely not do that to harm the village and oppress the people. After all, we are all children of farmers, so how can we oppress the people?"
"It's nonsense. Robbery on the road is not considered as harming the countryside and oppressing the people. Are those wealthy households not the people of the Han Dynasty? Don't they have to pay taxes? As long as they pay the taxes, then they are the people of the Han Dynasty.
The imperial court has the obligation to protect their personal and property safety from infringement."
Zhu Hansan was so angry that he laughed out loud, pointed at Guo Daxian's forehead and cursed: "As long as someone commits suicide, it's wrong. No matter who you robbed, no matter what the person committed, or what outrageous thing he did, it's not right."
You can take care of it. You are enforcing the law on behalf of Heaven. Who do you think you are? Don’t always put a high hat on yourself. If you make a mistake, it is a mistake. Since you have made a mistake, you have to admit it. Okay, you continue to talk."
Zhu Hansan's theory seems too pedantic to Guan Hai, Dian Wei and others. Moreover, in today's society, where can you find honest officials? If every matter has to wait for the Yamen to come forward to deal with it, then we will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Moon.
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However, now that Zhu Hansan has been in charge of Jingxian County, as long as people report a crime, he will have people deal with it as soon as possible. Especially for previous unjust and wrong cases, he will also arrange people to collect evidence and investigate, and strive to give the people justice.
Such good officials are rare anymore, and Guan Hai did not go against Zhu Hansan. Even Pei Yuanshao, who had followed Zhu Hansan for the longest time, was deeply moved by Zhu Hansan's actions. If there had been a ruler like Zhu Hansan in his previous place,
Otherwise, he will not fall into the trap of a bandit and ruin his reputation throughout his life.
"Yes, yes, yes," the villain continued," Guo Daxian did not dare to refute at all. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said: "The government also sent people to encircle and suppress us at the beginning, but the terrain of Taishan Mountain is complicated. After several encirclements and suppressions, we
We still survived, and gradually the brothers became more and more courageous. At that time, we not only robbed homes and houses, but also rushed into the city to threaten the rich households, asking them to pay money and food on time, and ensure peace for a year.
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"But the good times did not last long. After all, the Prime Minister of Xindu found out about this matter. He sent the lieutenant of Anping State to lead 800 troops to attack Taishan. At that time, we only had more than 200 people in Huya Village. Even if we occupied a favorable location,
It is certainly no match for the army;"
"But at that time, a group of people suddenly came to the mountain. They brought us forty horses and hundreds of weapons and armor, and threatened to help us repel the army. The brothers also agreed with hesitation.
Then they really helped us repel the encirclement and suppression by the government troops;"
"The villain will definitely try to win over a person with such a talent. Maybe that person is also interested in falling in love. Only when the villain revealed his intention, their commander directly agreed and became the second master in the village."
"The villain was very happy at first, but later he learned his identity during a drunken conversation with the second master. It turned out that the second master was none other than Yan Bao, the deputy guard commander of the Anping Prince's Palace. All the people he brought were also from Anping.
The power that the king has accumulated in secret;”
"The villain doesn't want his rights to be emptied by others, but the villain is straightforward, so how can he be Yan Bao's opponent? Now in the village, the only people who can obey the villain's orders are the forty knights captured by you, sir;
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"If it weren't for these forty cavalry, the villain would have been killed long ago."
After Zhu Hansan listened quietly, he smiled casually and said to himself, it seems that intrigues, intrigues, and struggles for power and profit can be found everywhere, but it may be more transparent among the dark forces!
"Finished?"
Seeing that Guo Daxian stopped talking, Zhu Hansan said in confusion.
"That's it!"
Guo Daxian didn't understand what he heard and spread his hands and replied.
"After talking for a long time, you actually talked nonsense. Now I'm here to ask you,"
Zhu Hansan slapped his forehead, feeling that it was really tiring to talk to these big and powerful men, "How many people are there in Huya Village, how many of them obey your orders, and how many of them obey Yan Bao's orders?"
"What equipment do they have? Do they train on weekdays?"
"How many people came from the palace? How many people were you forced to join? How many people voluntarily fell into the grass? How many young people are there? How many percent of the total number of people in the village do they account for?"
"Have you ever been a soldier? Have you ever read a book? Who is the person who usually advises you?"
"Okay, I will only ask so many questions. Please answer them one by one so that I don't miss anything."
Zhu Hansan sat on a big rock with his temples pressed and waited for Guo Daxian's reply.
"this…"
Guo Daxian was confused when he heard this, and thought to himself that he was a bandit, so how could he keep statistics like this on weekdays? However, when Zhu Han asked him three questions, he could only bite the bullet and replied: "There are more than 900 people in the village including their families.
I hope you’ll forgive me, I haven’t calculated the specific number of people, so I can only give a general idea.”
"Okay, keep talking!"
Zhu Hansan was helpless. He no longer knew what words to use to describe this rough guy, so he replied angrily.
"As for the people who listened to my orders, there are only about a hundred of them. They were all brothers who first fell into the grass with me. However, I brought out more than forty people not long ago, and they were all captured by your guards.
There are only about fifty people left in the village now, but I don’t know if they are still there?”
Guo Daxian blushed and was obviously a little embarrassed to say it. After all, in the village of nearly a thousand people, only a hundred or so people listened to his words. As the leader of the village, he was indeed a bit useless.
"You are quite promising. In the village of more than 900 people, only a hundred people listen to your greetings. What do you mean by your last sentence? Why are they not in the village? Will Yan Bao eradicate them?
Are you a dissident?"
Zhu Hansan frowned and asked with a sneer.
"Oh, I really have no choice. Yan Bao has a lot of money. If he doesn't have enough, he can ask King Anping for it. In just over a year, he has almost won over all the brothers in the village."
Speaking of Yan Bao, Guo Daxian was very afraid. He spread his hands and replied helplessly: "And Yan Bao is ruthless. I didn't notice it before, but later I discovered that every time we went down the mountain to rob, those
The brothers who are close to me are more or less broken, and they are either missing or beaten to death."
"You didn't take it seriously?"
Zhu Hansan asked angrily.
"Later, I also felt that this matter was strange, and I would keep a close eye on it every time I went down the mountain. However, at that time, there were only a hundred or so close brothers who were still with me."