After killing these two local gangsters, how will the imperial court collect taxes? What will happen to those green-skinned scoundrels? How will they make money? What will happen to the huge mess in the county?

Besides, Leader Liu and I still have relatives who have broken bones and tendons. If you, Mr. Hao, are beaten to death, not only will I lose my face, but the key is how you let me tell my distant family.

My cousin told me?

Master Liu said: "Then Zhu Xiaosong can make such a big fuss, I guess he is not an easy person to deal with. It's in his heart that Captain Li spent more time investigating."

"As for Team Leader Liu and Team Leader Wang, they are both old men who have been with me for many years. Even if they have no functions, they still have to work hard. Why doesn't Master allow them to make meritorious service for their crimes?"

Mr. Hao snorted coldly and said: "Master, I will give them a chance to redeem themselves and make meritorious service. Who will give me a chance to redeem myself and make meritorious service? Huh!?"

"Tomorrow is the 29th day of the Lunar New Year. After the Lantern Festival, Long Live the Lord may start to patrol the south. If we don't kill Zhu Xiaosong now, what do you want me to do to you then?"

Master Liu rolled his eyes, winked at Mr. Hao, bowed and said, "Master, please calm down."

Mr. Hao snorted angrily, waved his sleeves, and shouted to Team Leader Liu and Team Wang: "Get out! If we still can't find out about Zhu Xiaosong tomorrow, I'll watch your skin carefully!"

After Team Leader Liu and Team Leader Wang exited together, Mr. Hao turned his attention to Master Liu again: "If you have anything to do, you can talk about it now."

Master Liu responded, bowed and said: "Master Mingjian, students think it is easy to kill Team Leader Liu and Team Leader Wang, but even if they are killed, it will not solve the current problem, right?"

"The most urgent task right now is to let them find out the details of Zhu Xiaosong. Even if we can't kill the man named Zhu, when the superior officer asks about it later, I'd like to have something to say, right?"

Mr. Hao also knew that he couldn't do without the help of these local snakes, otherwise he wouldn't have told Bantou Liu and Bantou Wu to get out just now. Now that Mr. Liu said this again, Mr. Hao just got off the road and said yes.

He said: "That's all. Seeing that they are following the master and have no merit but hard work, let's spare them for the time being."

Master Liu quickly complimented the master for his wisdom, and then continued: "In the student's opinion, if Zhu Ni cannot be defeated before the fifteenth day, why not just take the matter to Yanzhou Bingbei?"

But Mr. Hao shook his head and said: "Don't you know that Yanzhou's military preparations have no right to mobilize troops? Furthermore, if there are rebels under my rule, doesn't it mean that I am incompetent in my rule?"

Master Liu said: "Students naturally know that Yanzhou's reserves have no right to mobilize troops, but whether Yanzhou's reserves have the right to mobilize troops, what does it have to do with the master?"

"Master, please don't forget that Zhu Ni's surname is Zhu - as long as it is said that Zhu Ni is a remnant of the previous Ming Dynasty, the master's charge of incompetent governance will be gone, and the remaining ones will be Yanzhou Bingbei.

Something about?"

"If I keep hiding it and don't report it, and then I am exposed and reported when I go on patrol, that would be a fatal crime!"

Mr. Hao was inevitably a little moved. After careful consideration, he whispered: "Please prepare two gifts for me first. Sir, I am going to Yanzhou."

…

But it was said that Bantou Liu and Bantou Wang were used to running wild in Ningyang County. Mr. Hao relied on them a lot on weekdays. It was inevitable that they were a little carried away and forgot about it. Today, they suddenly

After being scolded as the third grandson by Mr. Hao and almost receiving a "real beating", the two of them felt that they were somewhat unworthy of their reputation.

After leaving the county government office, Bantou Wang said in a deep voice: "Boss Liu, Bantou Li has never come back. He probably fell into the trap of the bandits from Yuhuang Mountain. Do you still need to make up your mind on this matter?"

Bantou Liu snorted coldly and said through gritted teeth: "What are you planning to do? Our face was lost because of those gangsters in Yuhuang Mountain, so naturally we have to get it back from them."

Listening to the murderous intent in Liu Bantou's words, Bantou Wang couldn't help but persuade him, "Boss Liu, Yuhuang Mountain can create such a huge momentum, even Li Tou, an old man in the world, has been defeated. Just by us..."

"

But Team Leader Liu shook his head and said: "Haven't you noticed that although the gangsters in Yuhuang Mountain made a lot of noise, they always made trouble in one village after another. This shows that the gangsters in the mountain are actually not

Not too much.”

"If we add up all the mourning families in each village, there will be about a hundred households. In other words, there will be about a hundred people in the entire Jade Emperor Mountain."

Bantou Wang asked suspiciously: "Those families holding funerals? What does Liu Tou mean?"

Captain Liu sneered and said: "I believe that there are bandits in Yuhuang Mountain. I also believe that Zhu Ni wiped out many squire families in many villages. But if you say that Zhu Ni went on a killing spree in every village,

Almost every family has relatives killed by Zhu bandits, I don’t believe it!”

"If there were more than ten or twenty families in each village who were killed by Zhu Ni, why didn't he wipe out the families? Why didn't those families who had people killed take the initiative to report to the official?"

"To put it bluntly, these people just cheated their lives and followed Zhu Ni to the Jade Emperor Mountain!"

"There are only a hundred or ten people in total. To be able to make such a big noise seems to be quite capable."

Having said this, Team Leader Liu couldn't help but laugh ferociously and said: "Bring all the brothers to Xiguan to gather together. Let's go meet Zhu Xiaosong today! Tell the brothers that as long as Zhu Xiaosong is killed, each person will receive at least ten taels of silver!"

But Team Leader Wang was a little hesitant: "Ten taels per person? Not to mention that we have more than 300 brothers in Ningyang County, but we still have some 300 brothers, so that's 3,000 taels of silver?"

However, Bantou Liu waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "Three thousand taels? Three thousand taels is nothing. Then Zhu Xiaosong wiped out more than ten or twenty virtuous gentry families in his hometown, and the plundered silver was not even ten thousand taels."

If you take out 3,000 taels and divide it between eight thousand taels each, our brothers will still be left with two thousand taels."

As soon as he heard about the two thousand taels of silver, Team Leader Wang no longer hesitated and immediately went to summon the rogues from Ningyang County.

Two thousand taels of silver! That's two thousand taels of silver! No matter how crooked Bantou Liu is, he should at least get five hundred taels for himself, right? Even if I work hard to get money, I can only get 400 or 50 taels for the whole year. Five hundred taels is enough.

I’ve been hugging myself for ten years!

Bantou Wang was very excited because of the five hundred taels of silver, but the gangsters in Ningyang County did not have as lofty ambitions as Bantou Wang. Even just ten taels of silver was enough to make these gangsters scream with excitement.

.

Bantou Liu's originally gloomy expression finally became more attractive after seeing the three hundred howling rogues in front of him.

The military spirit is available!

Even if Zhu Xiaosong deceived No. 100 into following him up the mountain, how could No. 100 be compared to No. 300, a rogue who dared to fight and kill?

As long as the Jade Emperor Mountain is destroyed, the money that Zhu Xiaosong snatched will become ownerless. He will first take out three thousand taels to distribute to these scoundrels, and then give two to three thousand taels to the master, and then the remaining

Isn’t it all my own? When the time comes, I will give Wang Bantou 300 taels, which is almost enough.

When he thought that at least two thousand taels of silver were beckoning to him at Yuhuang Mountain, Team Leader Liu immediately led a group of scoundrels to Yuhuang Mountain.

In order to get the money as soon as possible, Liu Bantou and a group of rogues did not even harm the villagers along the way, and did not stop to rest until they arrived at the Wen River.

But neither Team Leader Liu, Team Leader Wang nor the gang of scoundrels noticed that a thick smoke was quietly rising from the big willow tree at the end of the village they just passed by.

Therefore, when Bantou Liu and Bantou Wang rushed to the foot of Jade Emperor Mountain with three hundred rogues, Zhu Xiaosong had already received the news and prepared a meeting gift for Bantou Liu and Bantou Wang.

The meeting gift was the first batch of homemade hand grenades rushed out of Yuhuang Mountain.

This batch of home-made grenades has many shortcomings. For example, the explosive uses black powder, and the fuse uses fireworks powder. These shortcomings have already determined that the lethality of this batch of grenades is not high. This is probably what Bibi Li Yunlong said.

The border building capacity is barely there.

But it doesn't matter. The Qing Dynasty was based on riding and archery, and didn't care about the research and development of firearms at all. Even firearms experts like Dai Zi were exiled to Shenyang, and government officials in small counties like Liu Bantou were exiled to Shenyang.

He had never seen a gun before, so the sudden appearance of this homemade grenade was enough to give Team Leader Liu a big surprise.

And the development of things was indeed not as expected by Zhu Xiaosong.

Bantou Liu and Bantou Wang are just ordinary government leaders. It's okay to let them bully the common people, but it's sheer nonsense to let them march and fight. There is no such thing as scouts, scouts, pioneers, and rear troops.

The two leading brothers are so pissed off, so one can easily imagine the character of the three hundred thugs they lead.

These scoundrels took advantage of their large numbers and didn't even bother to cover themselves up, so they just stormed up the mountain with such arrogance.

Then, Zhu Xiaosong led a group of craftsmen who were willing to go up the mountain to make grenades, but the Yuhuang Mountain bandits who had ambushed them in advance smashed them at these rogues.

As we all know, the quality of homemade hand grenades is not very reliable, and the detonation time cannot be accurately controlled. In addition, it is the first time for the gangsters in Yuhuang Mountain to use this thing, so some of the grenades explode in the air.

, and some of them exploded after hitting the ground.

The terrible thing is that whether it is a grenade that explodes in the air or a grenade that explodes after landing, the break-up groove is pre-prepared in advance - if the break-up groove is not pre-prepared, then the homemade grenade will indeed do what Li Yunlong said.

Fry it in half.

But how could the grenade produced by Zhu Xiaosong and his people not be pre-made for a moment? The explosive part did not contain iron nails but only gravel fragments. That was all because Yuhuang Mountain was very poor!

Therefore, a large number of grenade fragments and some small fragments of stone flew everywhere with the sound of explosion, and the gangsters were immediately stunned by the explosion.

It would be better if the fragments directly pierced the neck or heart, etc., and they would die more or less quickly. I am afraid that the fragments would hit but miss the vital points. In that case, they could only lie on the ground rolling and wailing. Occasionally, a few people were not bombed.

Those who arrived wanted to run for their lives, but were tripped up by their companions.

When Zhu Erdan, Liu Erniu and others looked at the scene in front of them, their jaws were almost dropped - this is the usual domineering official? That's it? That's it?

The impulsive Liu Erniu even drew his sword out of its sheath and said with a ferocious smile: "The boss, why don't you let me take someone to give them a good time?"

Zhu Xiaosong rolled his eyes and scolded: "Why panic! If you can solve the problem by washing the floor with grenades, you can't kill people with a knife, understand?"

This reflects the breadth and depth of the Chinese language - even though Liu Erniu didn't know what grenade washing meant, he could understand the meaning of Zhu Xiaosong's words.

Isn't it amazing?

But the more amazing thing is yet to come.

"Dad! Grandpa! Ancestor! We surrender! Surrender!"

Perhaps they were frightened by the continuous explosions, or perhaps they were frightened by the tragic situation of the rogues who were killed and injured. All the rogues knelt down and surrendered!

Surrendered! Even if Zhu Xiaosong sent people to tie them up, not a single scoundrel dared to stand up and resist.
Chapter completed!