Chapter 4 Honors (Five Digests)

No need to ask, the answer is obvious. This year, anyone who goes to Heishi Village to do business will be foolish to go to Heishi City and pay a large amount of tax to the pseudo-government. The goods are also slow to take action. If you accidentally cause the Japanese, not only will the goods be confiscated, but the people will also be charged with a "collusion with unstables" and there is no chance to go home.

If you go to the market on the bank of Crescent Lake, all kinds of risks will be much smaller. Red Beard is very reasonable. In addition to a very low tax, the goods entering the market will basically not have to pay any additional costs. Not only that, Red Beard's people in charge of market management will also take the initiative to remind merchants that there are local vendors who are eating in batches, and which local specialty goods can be entrusted to the market management department to purchase them. In fact, there are vendors who cannot get rid of the goods for the time being but are in a hurry to go home. They can even entrust the backlog of goods directly to the market management department, and the Red Beard's people help find reliable merchants to sell them on their behalf. When they come from Zhongyuan next time, they will clear the accounts according to the remaining conditions of the goods. The credibility is absolutely guaranteed, and they can basically be described as "no deception".

The contrast between the two sides is so big, and the vendors certainly know how to choose, but in front of the vicious puppet army, Lao Qiu, the temporary leader of the caravan, could not tell the truth. After thinking about it, he continued to hold the bag full of silver dollars and explained: "Mr. Jun. You are really good at telling jokes. You ran from your mouth from afar. If we don't go to Heishi Village, where else can we go? We have come to your land. I have no respect. I would like to buy a bowl of tea for my brothers to moisten my body."

"Well, this is almost the same." The leader of the puppet army shrugged, grabbed the bag, held it in his hand and estimated the amount, and then sneered: "I will not receive any reward without merit. Since you are so sensible, brothers cannot drink your tea in vain. Let's do this, you will follow us with the team, and I will escort you into the city."

"Ah." Unexpectedly, the leader of the puppet army was so shameless that he had to take his own bribe and escort everyone into Blackstone City. The leader of the temporary caravan Lao Qiu immediately rolled on his head, grinned and begged for resignation pitifully, "Okay, don't bother Jun Ye anymore. It's not too far. We can just drive the carriage by ourselves. Your official duties are so busy. Once you delay escort us, our sins will be great."

"Yes, yes, you are always so busy. Why do we have the nerve to bother you? Let's drive away by ourselves. Don't be polite."

"Yes, yes, letting you always escort will not save the life of us ordinary people. I can't afford it, but I really can't afford it."

"There are some little things here. You always buy a pair of shoe soles for your brothers. Those of us who can't get on the table really don't bother you."

Other older vendors also helped, and would rather spend more money to handle the puppet troops than ask the puppet troops to escort them into the city. The puppet army leader seemed to have taken the wrong medicine and refused to let go. He was annoyed by everyone, so he raised his eyes and stopped angrily: "Shut up and don't give me any shame. I thought it was because I hadn't been peaceful here recently, so I wanted to help you. Don't be rude."

"Don't be angry, don't be angry. They are all country dealers. They have never seen any big market and are not very smart." Lao Qiu, the temporary leader of the caravan, wiped his sweat, while apologizing to the head of the puppet army. "If you have any other needs, please direct instructions. As long as we can do, we will never dare to make excuses to refuse."

"Yes, yes, you are always a sensible person. Don't be as knowledgeable as we are fools. If you need us to do, just give instructions directly. We must find a way to meet the requirements of Jun Ye." Several other vendors who carry more goods continued to make concessions. As long as they don't enter Blackstone City, everything is easy to say.

Seeing their humble appearance, some young and energetic guys in the team gritted their teeth with hatred. However, the guys in charge and the shopkeeper were all old, and they all understood in their hearts that even if everyone had guns in their hands, in case of a conflict, a group of untrained mobs would never be able to beat the puppet army on the opposite side. So they remained angry and still thought that they could spend money to avoid disasters and get away with the other puppet army checkpoints along the way.

"Well" Seeing the vendors retreating again and again, the leader of the puppet army hesitated in his heart. Of course, he knew the real reason why the vendors refused to ask their escorts to the city, and they knew more clearly where these people's real destinations were. The task of leaving the city was also personally arranged by the new military and political consultant of the Black Stone Village. The purpose was to rob the vendors halfway and block the financial income of the Red Beard from the source. However, forcing the caravan to the Black Stone Village was not good for him. It would be less than half of the bribe that was about to be obtained. If the vendors force them to take risks, the minions under his command might be damaged, and they might be targeted revenge by the Red Beard in the future. It would be a bit unworthy of the loss!

He was hesitating whether he would scrape more oil and water like the two caravans I encountered today, and then he would raise his hands. Suddenly, Lao Qiu and others who were waiting for him to offer the offer stopped talking. They raised their heads and looked straight into the distance. Immediately afterwards, the shopkeepers and friends in the caravan who were swallowing their anger suddenly became relaxed, and everyone's eyes were filled with pleasure.

"One, one, one, one" clearly sounded horse hooves from behind, like cheerful music, quickly spreading to everyone's ears.

"Enemy attack" The leader of the puppet army instinctively felt something was wrong, and shouted and touched the turtle box on his waist, then half of the gun holster was untied, but his wrist was pressed tightly by several minions rushing from behind. At the same time, a trembling voice sounded in his ears, "Sir, don't draw the gun, don't draw the gun, red, red bearded cavalry, red bearded cavalry are coming from behind us."

"What." The head of the puppet army shook his body and almost failed to fall. The reason why he ran to the fork in the road so far away from the county town to intercept the vendors was that he wanted to leave after a few votes. Before the guerrillas reacted, he took people back to the city to report to the Japanese consultant. Unexpectedly, after going around for fifty or sixty miles, he still couldn't escape the guerrillas' eyes.

There are only two ways at present. One is to draw out the gun, take the vendors as hostages, fight to the death with the guerrilla cavalry, and the other way is to honestly recognize, put down the weapons, and let the other party deal with it. Obviously, most of the puppet troops took the initiative to choose the latter, especially those who rushed over to hold the wrists of the puppet army leader, and their foreheads were filled with blue veins, hoping to remove the small leader's arm directly, so as not to command randomly, causing everyone to be distracted from their heads.

"Let me go, you let me go, I'm not bad to you on weekdays, you can't do this, this way." Looking at so many strange eyes, the leader of the puppet army couldn't hold his face down, and screamed loudly, like a child bride who was forced to remarry. His right hand was pressed on the gun holster, but he refused to use any strength to struggle.

"Sir, calm down, calm down. We just sent from Xing'an Security Command half a month ago. We have not killed the Red Bearded man and have not violated his rules much." Due to the overly nervousness, several puppet soldiers who rushed up to hold their own officials did not feel that their boss was acting. They were filled with panic and whined in a trembling voice, "We are just scrambling military rations, so we don't have to fight with Red Beard. They are the ones who are not vague about the Taijun chopping. Our rotten garlic is enough for others to cut a few times."

"Let me go, you let me go." The leader of the puppet army was angry and shy, and the protest voice completely changed. "I don't know how much we have, but if you suppress me like this, you can solve the problem. Let me go quickly. Let us, line up to welcome you, line up to say hello to Mr. Hong."

"Hey, hey." The puppet soldiers who rushed up to hold their own officials couldn't wait to agree, let go of the little leader, clamped him toward their own brigade without anyone giving orders. The other puppet soldiers had already thrown their weapons to the ground, their legs together, and their military postures were standing straight, which was even more standard than when they were inspected by the Japanese.

In just one minute, the sound of horse hooves had already sounded beside everyone. There was a cavalry team of less than twenty people holding a sharp Cossack sabers and slowly crossing two hundred meters away from the puppet army. A young man in his twenties in the center rode his horse and walked more than ten more steps forward, smiled and joked loudly: "What are you busy with? Why are you putting your guns on the ground? Pick it up quickly, so we can also praise each other."

"I dare not, I dare not." The leader of the puppet army raised his hands that were caught and quickly met him, smiling, "We have no choice but to extend our hand to Master Hong. It was because the superiors were forced to go out of the city to patrol around, so we ran to such a faraway place to go around and go back to pay the Japanese when it was dark."

"Is that right? Whose bag on the ground belongs to? You didn't pick it up in circles? Why did I never have such good luck?" The young cavalry captain shrugged and continued to sarcasm.

"Yes, it's theirs." The head of the puppet army was covered in sweat. He bent down to send him to the ground and grabbed a few bags full of silver dollars, and trotted to the arms of the temporary leader of the caravan Lao Qiu. "This, he forced this to us. We kept refusing to say that we didn't dare to ask for it, so, that's why."

Even he felt embarrassed to continue talking about this kind of lie. He blushed and smiled more charmingly than the old madam in the brothel. "Hong Master, look, we have returned the money to others, and we have not left a piece of the ocean, and we really haven't left a piece. If you don't believe it, you can send someone to search our bodies."

When encountering such a shameless guy, the young cavalry captain could not raise his knife to kill him. After he hesitating for a moment, he scolded with a straight face, "I think you have a good attitude towards admitting your mistakes, I will let you go this time, if there is a next time."

"I dare not, I dare not, I really dare not." The leader of the puppet army was as if he was amnesty and bowed repeatedly. "This time it was the Japanese who forced him too hard that we had to go out of the city to deal with it. Next time, next time, there will be similar situations. Master Hong, you can kill my head directly."

"I am not Hong Ye, my surname is Zhao, I am just a soldier from the guerrillas." The cavalry captain frowned and corrected loudly.

"You are Hong Ye's person. When you see you, it's like seeing Hong Ye." When it comes to flattery, the leader of the puppet army can count the whole world. Following the other party's voice, he continued to have honey flowing all over his mouth.

"Leave the gun and bullets, get out." The cavalry captain was too lazy to talk to them anymore, so he put the knife in his hand and ordered loudly.

"This" the head of the puppet army was a little embarrassed. He hesitated for a moment and bargained, "Master Zhao, can you be content with us and leave half of the gun, otherwise, we will be beheaded by the Japanese after we go back."

"The world is so big, do you have to go back to Heishi Village? A big man is skilled and has no choice but to be a traitor. Will he starve to death?" The young Captain Zhao frowned again and scolded him loudly.

"This, this" the head of the puppet army blushed like a monkey's butt. He didn't dare to look at the other party's eyes, and lowered his head to continue to distinguish himself. "We, we were all transferred from Xing'an, and there were family members there. If, if, if, if, as deserters, family members would be implicated."

"The mercy of the chief, the mercy of the chief, we really have no choice but to serve the Japanese." Several other small leaders in the puppet army also stood up and asked Captain Zhao for resentment, "If you also feel embarrassed, we can redeem the money and bullets on us. We just want you to leave a few guns for us to go back to submit the service."

"Get a few empty guns and you can hand in the job when you go back." A guerrilla soldier behind Captain Zhao felt unbelievable and couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"The little commander doesn't know anything." The leaders of the puppet army immediately beat the snake and followed the stick, and added in a verbal way, "When we go back, we can say that we encountered Hongye's large army, so we were defeated. The Japanese and Kawada consultant himself lost to Hongye. We can't blame us for not winning the game."
Chapter completed!