Chapter 139 Poison King Bee
Liu Qidong was still very cooperative for the time being and did not show any resentment towards Guo Zhiyuan's arrangements. Therefore, even if Guo Zhiyuan wanted to take advantage of the problem and tried his best to find a chance to make trouble for him, he had to put this matter aside for the time being and devote himself to the renovation of the official road. After all, this is the top priority for Gutian today.
A month later, with the concerted efforts of everyone, the official road in Gutian County was finally opened half of the road. Guo Zhiyuan did not rush to start the construction of the other half, but first gave the villagers a vacation, and then started to set up a checkpoint and charge the fees. The passers-by naturally stopped doing it. Who would be willing to pay the toll for no reason? Some passers-by with outstanding backgrounds even showed their backers and threatened to go to the prefect's office to complain, causing Guo Zhiyuan to lose his official position.
Guo Zhiyuan had long expected that the passers-by would react like this. He immediately announced that the principle of voluntary collection of tolls was adopted. Passers-by who were unwilling to pay the tolls could continue to walk the other half of the untouched official road. Passers-by naturally chose to walk the untouched half of the official road, but they quickly complained. The untouched half of the official road was full of pits, and it was inconvenient to know how to get a car, so it was not possible to walk a day that could only take two days.
Moreover, at night, Guo Zhiyuan would send the Xinxin Army out quietly and pretend to be bandits on the hills on both sides of the road to harass them. These Xinxin Army soldiers were originally bandits, so they were naturally familiar with doing such things. Although they would not really plunder, they just bluffed and fired arrows, but they were so scared that the passing merchants were so scared that they did not dare to camp on the side of the road, so they had to rush on the road overnight.
Finally, some wealthy passers-by chose to pay the toll to walk the half official road, which made the comparison more vivid. The newly renovated road surface was flat and easy to walk, and the carriages were speeding all the way, and it took half a day to walk. Guo Zhiyuan also sent a group of soldiers to serve as a road protection team to protect the safety of passers-by along the road. He also carried a small shovel with him. If the road surface was damaged, it was repaired immediately to ensure that the road surface was unobstructed.
In the end, even the most stingy passerby understood the accounts. Instead of delaying time on the road and having to worry, it would be better to pay the toll to walk on the new road surface. Therefore, more and more passers-by were voluntarily paying the toll. Seeing Guo Zhiyuan and the others sitting on counting the money every day, Chen Huaili and other Justices of the Peace who gave up participating in the road construction business also regretted it. Chen Huaili was still a little embarrassed and could not come to see Guo Zhiyuan. However, several other Justices of the Peace secretly came to Guo Zhiyuan several times, hoping that the other half of the road repairing construction could be involved. Guo Zhiyuan neither agreed nor refused. He only said that the construction of the other half of the road repairing construction would start before the slack season after the rainy season. Let's talk about it then.
However, there is never any smooth sailing in the world. Half a month after Guo Zhiyuan started to collect tolls, the poisonous king bee, which had no news suddenly appeared! It attacked a passing caravan and snatched all the goods. When the road protection team arrived, the poisonous king bee had disappeared without a trace. The passers-by naturally quit and contacted some good passers-by to the county government to ask for an explanation. Because when Guo Zhiyuan collected the toll, he promised to ensure their safety. Guo Zhiyuan could only receive them kindly and promised them that they had been robbed within one month. If they could not be recovered, the county government would compensate them for their losses, and finally sent them away.
However, although Guo Zhiyuan promised good to passers-by, he actually had no idea at all, because he had basically no knowledge of the Poison King Bee so far, and the spies sent by Zhang Cheng to "mix sand" could not get involved in the Poison King Bee's bandit forces. He knew very little about this mysterious bandit force, and even didn't even know what the Poison King Bee looked like, because they would cover their faces when they robbed passers-by. But from their brief communication, they could tell that this was a group of women!
There are two types of people in the world that cannot be provoked, one is a woman, and the other is a madman. If one has to add one, it is a crazy woman. The poisonous king bee seems to have such signs, because although she does not kill people, she likes to cut off the lifeblood guards of men. If this time, if the road protection team formed by the training village soldiers arrived in time, the men in the passing caravan would probably have collectively become "eunuchs", so the passers-by were afraid of her like snakes and scorpions, even surpassing the previous mountain leopards and rattlesnakes!
Guo Zhiyuan had to summon his backbone to discuss, but the backbone seemed to be unable to come up with any good ideas, because the poisonous king bee was too mysterious. Unlike the previous mountain leopards and rattlesnakes, they had weaknesses to follow. As long as they found their weaknesses, it would not be difficult to wipe them out. But where are the weaknesses of the poisonous king bee?
Without getting the specific information about the Poison King Bee, Guo Zhiyuan could only mobilize everyone to analyze it together, in order to find the Poison King Bee's weakness, frowned and said, "Let's talk about it. To defeat the Poison King Bee, we must first understand her. Only by knowing ourselves and our enemy can we be invincible..."
Bai Du has not made any contribution since he defected to Guo Zhiyuan, so he was the first to speak: "This poisonous king bee must have been hurt by men, so he hates men so much. Although he does not kill people every time he robs, he will cut off the lifeblood of men in the caravan..."
Guo Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Brother Bai's analysis makes sense. Now we can draw a picture of the poisonous king bee. This is a woman who has been hurt by a man, so he acts so extreme!..."
Chu Wan'er interrupted as soon as she heard this: "So, this Poison King Bee is also a pitiful person. She must have been bullied by a man and was deeply injured..."
Guo Zhiyuan gave Chu Wan'er a blank look and said angrily: "Don't make trouble? Poor people must have something hateful. Now we are discussing how to deal with the Poison King Bee, but you have sympathized with her!"
When Chu Wan'er heard this, she glared at Guo Zhiyuan fiercely and said, "Is it wrong for me to sympathize with her? Why did she become like this? It's not your men who are harmed! Otherwise, who would be willing to be a bandit? If I am bullied by a man, I will also be a bandit and kill all the unfaithful men in the world!..."
Everyone was embarrassed now, because except Chu Wan'er, all of them were men. Xu Guangqi quickly coughed and came out to smooth things over: "Let's continue to discuss the characteristics of the poisonous king bee. I asked Xie Erhu, who led the team this time, when he led the team to support the robbed caravan, he found that there were sentry detectives on the hillside on the roadside, so when they arrived, the poisonous king bee had already evacuated. This shows that the poisonous king bee has high military literacy, otherwise it would not have sentry detectives when looting!..."
Chapter completed!