There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

How popular is Gan Ning's popularity among water thieves? Tao Shang still has something in mind.

Except for street rats, he is basically the smelliest.

He didn't listen to the bragging of the pirate leader, he knew in his heart that if he could gather all the Yangtze River pirates, apart from Gan Ning's operations and his own name as the Pirate King, there must be someone else's operations.

The potter probably knew this person, and it was most likely Zhou Tai.

Walking into the big camp in the forest, the potter observed carefully and found that the water thieves of each family still gathered according to the way of each village and each family. The barriers were ordered to list several camps, and the camps were quite well placed. Complying with the rules is really amazing.

These water bandits still have tricks.

However, compared with the regular camps set up by the officers and soldiers, these camps still lacked some order. One to the east and the other to the west, they were very irregular. There were pots and pots lined up at the door of many tents, just like going out for a picnic. .

There is still a bit more rustic atmosphere.

Except for the leaders of the various water pirates, most of the young men below don't know this newly promoted One Piece King very well. Seeing that the pottery merchant followed Gan Ning into the camp, and he was still dressed in armor and military uniform, the young men did not know him well. The performance was somewhat amazed. Although they all avoided each other from a distance, they were whispering in groups of thirty or fifty, pointing and talking to the potter.

Tao Shang frowned when he saw this, he didn't like being surrounded by a group of people like this, like a gorilla who escaped from the cage and walked alone.

However, Gan Ning persuaded him with a smile: "They are all small thieves who rob houses on weekdays. They have never seen anything in the world. A little commotion is nothing to worry about. Please don't take it to heart..."

The pottery merchant followed Gan Ning and said in a low voice, "Why do I feel that they are not looking at people, but like looking at some strange little animals..."

Gan Ning laughed loudly, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is thinking too much, what kind of bullshit can you see..."

When the words fell, a young water thief, about fourteen or fifteen years old, quietly walked to the potter's side, stretched out his hand and gently threw an orange on the ground in front of the potter, and then Mengmeng He looked at the potter, as if observing whether he picked it up or not.

The potter's and Gan Ning's faces turned dark all of a sudden.

The pottery merchant bit his lip and didn't speak, but Gan Ning kicked the young man away, angrily said: "Damn you! You bastard from the water village! You are so rude! Whatever you look at, Go away, go away! What should you do? Have you never seen One Piece?"

With Gan Ning's call to make peace, the crowd broke up in a huff.

Looking at those water thieves who were hiding away and whispering to each other while watching him carefully, Tao Shang couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Many of them are extremely shabby, and some of them are covered only by rags, and the straw sandals under their feet are basically worn out. Some of the thieves who fetched water carried wooden barrels, earthen pots, and They were all broken teeth, which made the potter's eyelids twitch.

Although they are all water thieves, it is obvious that among the water thieves, there is also a strict class system. The food and clothing that the water thieves usually rob is likely to be divided up by the bandit leaders, and those who are really left to the bottom There must not be many water thieves.

The big fish eats the small fish, scraping one level at a time. It seems to be applicable in any kind of group, and water thieves are no exception.

If the sailors dressed in such shabby clothes were pulled out to fight Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu might not even think that this was the potter's Jinling Army...

Yuan Laoer would probably suspect that this was a peasant rebel army that came out of nowhere.

When he was young, the potter came to a big tent under the guidance of Gan Ning. Gan Ning opened the dilapidated curtain and stretched out his hand to invite the potter to enter.

Xu Rong and the Pei brothers followed behind the potter, and they entered the big tent, only to find that there were already more than 20 water thief leaders waiting inside.

They are all acquaintances, basically, everyone has met in the Heroes Club.

And the leader among them, without a doubt, is the Jiujiang thief Zhou Tai.

Seeing the potter coming in, Zhou Tai bowed first, cupped his hands towards the potter, and said, "Jiujiang thief Zhou Tai, I've met... I don't know if I should call you 'Road Thief King' or 'Tao Mansion'. Jun'?"

Tao Shang raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and looked at Gan Ning in surprise, but he saw Gan Ning whistling, and looked away boredly, intentionally not making eye contact with Tao Shang.

This bastard!

But if you think about it carefully, how can Gan Ning gather all these bandit leaders in one place with his bad popularity in the pirate circle?Presumably he must have told the truth to Zhou Tai, and used Zhou Tai to convey to the thieves, relying on Zhou Tai's prestige to gather these bandit leaders here.

What running around and working hard is pure nonsense, and the time must be wasted on Zhou Tai's side.

It is true that when he became the One Piece King, all the pirate leaders swore to respect the order of the One Piece King, but that was just a blind wish. The battle is to deal with the later general Yuan Shu—the mighty and famous son of the Yuan family!

This matter is not a joke, if there is no clear statement, which of the bandit leaders will easily touch the princes and tigers with imperial edicts.

These water thief bosses are not really fools... At least they are better than real fools. Could it be that they will really fight whoever One Piece tells them to fight?

Why is One Piece so awesome!

Therefore, if they are to be gathered here, the true identity of the pottery merchant must be revealed.

Seeing the embarrassment of the Tao merchant and Gan Ning, Zhou Tai laughed and explained: "Don't doubt Tao Mansion, brother Gan has already told me the cause and effect, and the leaders of each family have some doubts about the past trips of the mansion lord. , but Zhou remembers that the Lord Fu had said to Zhou in the past that the way of thieves and bandits is not the right way! I think Mr. Tao still has a little biased love for us who loot our houses on the river. The reason why the people gathered here is to hear what the Lord Fu has to say? Or, how cleverly does the Lord use to dispatch us, who are not innocent thieves? Moreover, I also want to know what the Lord Fu has said. What's the deal with us?"

The pottery merchant looked at Zhou Tai calmly, then turned his head to look at the bandit leaders surrounding him, and suddenly smiled.

"Do you really know that when Tao mingled into the noble circle, he intended to become the leader of the water thief, and did he put all his heart into interacting with you?"

Chapter 232 Rude Thoughts

The water thief leaders present all bowed their heads and remained silent.

It is true that Zhou Tai and Gan Ning have confessed the matter to everyone beforehand, but the fact that the One Piece is the governor of Danyang County is still too unbelievable in their eyes.

Although they were all thieves who killed without batting an eyelid, they were still somewhat terrified in their hearts when they faced a prince whose name shook the southeast and had tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his command.

The status gap is indeed a little too big.

Just like a sky, a group of underground.

Zhou Tai did not have the restraint and uneasiness of those people. After what the pottery said to him before the last breakup, Zhou Tai actually felt in his heart that this kid was definitely not an ordinary water bandit.

But even so, Zhou Tai never imagined that the person who competed with him for the leader of the water pirates would be such an identity... the head of a county!In this chaotic world, this is the status of a prince, enough to be ranked among the top in the world.

All the water thief leaders were silent, and Zhou Tai could only continue to ask on behalf of others: "Mr. Tao Fu disguised himself as a water thief and joined the League of Heroes, did he have the intention of recruiting me and others?"

The Tao merchant smiled and turned to look at Zhou Tai, admiringly said: "Master Zhou is a sensible person, in fact, when Tao first entered the tent, from the way you looked at me, you knew that everyone present knew about Tao. The identity of a certain person is just not sure why I have acted in the past... Anyway, today I will give the truth to all the village masters present."

The pottery merchant stretched out a finger, and said word by word to the people present: "As the saying goes, you can use virtue in troubled times! Although you are all water bandits in name, in Tao's view, they are even more in the Yangtze River. The heroes above, in the land of Jiangnan where the navy dominates the world, the talents possessed by you, according to Tao, are usable!"

Putting up another finger, the pottery merchant continued: "Secondly, I don't know if the village masters know about the resettlement that the village chief Zhou said just now. Since Tao took over Jinling County, he has been in Fu County. Strong soldiers, good soldiers, now in Jinling City, there is plenty of food and grass, plenty of iron tools, no shortage of money and food, and the infantry is enough to fight head-on with the northern princes, but there is a lack of a strong navy to protect the country..."

Speaking of this, Tao Shang paused, and sighed: "You are all heroes in the water. In Tao's opinion, you are also a water thief, and you are also a water army. Compared with being a water thief, being a state The officers and soldiers of the government are still good people, isn't this condition enough to attract you?... And with the wealth of Tao's Jinling City, in terms of food and living, I will definitely not owe you and your brothers cent."

Speaking of this, the pottery merchant paused, and said: "This matter is beneficial to us, don't you think so?"

Zongshui village masters, you look at me, I look at you, there is still some hesitation on the face.

Seeing this situation, the pottery merchant couldn't help raising his eyebrows, as if he didn't understand why.

The words are so straightforward, why are they still hesitating?

According to the practice in the book, these people should have reached the stage of accepting their heads and worshiping?

Before he came here, Gan Ning should have passed on his identity to them through Zhou Tai. If they had no intention of surrendering, they would definitely not show up here to waste time.

But at this moment, these water thief leaders are still so coy, what is wrong with what they just said?