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As soon as Wei Qing entered Zheng Yuming's residence, he staggered and threw himself at his feet, hugged him and cried loudly: "My lord! Nanbu is burned!"

"Nanbu was burned? Is it a fire?" Zheng Yuming was shocked. Nanbu was his painstaking effort. It was the place where he had worked hard for half a year without sleep and food. The place had just begun to have a foundation.

"It's not a fire, someone set it on fire." Wei Qing wiped his eyes, which became redder and redder.

"Who? Who set it on fire?" Zheng Yuming was stunned. Nanbu was set on fire. Who is so bold?

"It was a group of bandits who came to Nanbu in the middle of the night to rob property. The villagers woke up and resisted. Seeing that the robbery was unsuccessful, the bandits set fire to the house and fled while taking advantage of the chaos." Wei Qing was very articulate.

"Are there a lot of houses burned?" Zheng Yuming shook his body. If the bandits want to rob Nanport, they must first choose the textile factory. The textile factory is full of flammable materials, so it is easy for the bandits to set fire to it.

"There are more than [-] houses burned down. I don't know the details." Wei Qing lowered his head, obviously feeling uncomfortable. "Master Chu received an urgent report from the people of Nanbu Village, and took the slaves in the valley to fight the fire. The fire was nearly saved enough for me to report to the Lord."

"Are there any casualties in the village? Does Master Chu need anything?" Zheng Yuming asked while putting on his cloth boots.

"There were no casualties when I came, and Master Chu is fine."

"You go to Sizhong, get the horse out and get ready. I'll go back to Nanbu immediately after I ask for my resignation." Zheng Yuming's heart was on fire now, he wanted to know how much Nanbu had lost.

Zheng Yuming asked the waiter who served him, and learned that Lord Ulsan hadn't woken up yet, so he didn't bother him, only went to the office of Wen Zai in the king's mansion to look for Wei Shen.Wei Shen is very conscientious, going to the office every morning to handle Dacheng affairs.

"Nanbu was set on fire by the bandits? Did the bandits catch them? Where are they from?" Wei Shen frowned tightly, wondering if he should send soldiers to suppress the bandits, as all unstable factors in the Dacheng area had to be resolutely attacked.

"I don't know the specific situation. I want to go back immediately, and report to Lord Wenzai after finding out what happened."

"Well, you go back quickly and report the situation as soon as possible." Seeing Zheng Yuming's anxious face, Wei Shen said a few words of comfort, telling Zheng Yuming to speak to the Junfu if he needs anything in the future.

Zheng Yuming restrained his heart to express his gratitude to Wei Shen, and was about to say goodbye when he was about to leave, when Mr. Guang's personal attendant sent a message that Mr. Guang had learned about the accident in Nanbu and was getting up and changing his clothes. He asked Zheng Yuming to wait for a while, and he was going to go in person Go to Nanbu to inspect the disaster situation.

When Zheng Yuming heard this, no matter how anxious he was, he had to wait. He wondered in his heart, which brave waiter dared to disturb Lord Ulsan's sleep, and reported the news to the Lord.

Next to the stables of Ulsan Lord's mansion, Wei Qing and Huo Sizhong were waiting there with three horses. After waiting for a while, Zheng Yuming did not come, but a group of attendants were harnessing horses to Ulsan Lord's cart.

"My little brother, the young master really rewarded me and praised me for reporting it in time." A waiter with a sharp chin approached Wei Qing quietly.

"Congratulations, waiter, I will look at you differently in the future." Wei Qing complimented with a smile, without any nervous and anxious expression on his face.

"This is for you. If you need anything in the future, just come to me." The pointed-chin waiter handed Wei Qing a gold coin.Because of Wei Qing's reminder, the sharp-jawed waiter risked being punished to wake up Young Master Guang and report the Nanbu incident.After Young Master Guang found out about the bandits in Nanbu, not only did he ignore the guilt of the waiter for waking him up, but he also rewarded him ten gold.

"Thank you, brother waiter, Wei Qing also made a small fortune thanks to his blessing." Wei Qing put the gold coin into his pocket without any politeness.

Seeing Wei Qing's greedy face with his sharp chin, he couldn't help laughing secretly at this young man who was greedy for money. For a mere gold coin, he even urged him to report to Mr. Ulsan what happened in Nanbu in the early morning. He would not risk being punished to bother Young Master Guang. The pointy-chinned waiter would be instigated by Wei Qing. He wanted to use this to attract Young Master Guang's attention and be reused by Young Master in the future.From a waiter to a personal servant, although the change is only the word personal, the privileges in it are countless.

"Mouse, are you so greedy for money? Are you cutting your head off to earn even a single piece of gold?" After Huo Sizhong heard the news that Nanbu was burned, he was so anxious that he shed tears. He had deep feelings for Nanbu.Because of the help of Nanbu villagers, their brother and sister did not die last winter. Later, they followed Zheng Yuming to deal with affairs in Nanbu every day. Seeing that Nanbu was changing a little bit, he had a part in these changes. Now I know this. How could Huo Sizhong not be in a hurry when his hard work was ruined by villains.

"Hmph! Rotten elm, what do you know?" Wei Qing rolled the whites of his eyes.

"I must tell Mr. Zheng!" Huo Sizhong resented.

"Okay, you have to tell me later, don't let the people in the Junfu know, family ugliness is not easy to spread, Mr. Zheng taught us this last month." Wei Qing didn't care about Huo Sizhong's threats.

"You..." Huo Sizhong was so angry that he couldn't speak. He felt that the rats today were abnormal, and he couldn't tell what was abnormal.

Lord Ulsan wanted to go to Nanbu to inspect the disaster situation in person, because the two governors of Nanbu had contributed a lot to Dacheng, and Wei Shen couldn't stop it from exiting, so he had to arrange the Huben army to protect.When Lord Ulsan packed up, he was escorted by more than 100 Huben soldiers to Nanbu at Chenshi. When the large group arrived at Nanbu, it was already Sishi.

Zheng Yuming's horse walked at the front of the team, and when they passed the gap, the air was filled with a thick smell of burnt smoke.Smelling the burning smell, Zheng Yuming couldn't bear it any longer, and galloped towards the village. He wanted to see how much Nanbu Village had suffered.

The scene in the village is very miserable. The houses from the village entrance to the pier are basically burnt down. Now the open fire has been extinguished, and the charred wooden beams are still emitting black smoke. The villagers are constantly pouring water on them to prevent them from burning again.

"My lord!" The head of the Wu clan was standing at the entrance of the village, and when he saw Zheng Yuming coming back, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Where is Lord Chu? Where is Wu Dong's house? Where are they? Are there any casualties in the village? Where did the bandits set fire to?" Zheng Yuming no longer thinks about the loss of property, but just wants to know if the villagers have been hurt.

"The gangsters only burned the houses on the two sides. Master Chu went to chase the bandits and hasn't come back yet. Wu Dong's house is resettling the villagers whose houses were burned down. This time the bandits came, the villagers were vigilant, and everyone drove away the bandits together. The firefighters were burned, but they were not harmed." Patriarch Wu looked a little uncomfortable.

"It's good like this. It's lucky that no one was seriously injured." Zheng Yuming's anxiety was relieved by half, and several factories were not on both sides of this road.

While Zheng Yuming was talking with Patriarch Wu, Young Master Guang's car drove in.Zheng Yuming hastened to meet him.

"Where's Chu Qing?" Young Master Guang looked at the ruins of Nanbu Village, frowning severely.Young Master Guang didn't leave Dacheng very often, and he had no impression of remote villages. The houses in Nanbu Village were a bit dilapidated, but now with the burnt ruins, they looked even more miserable.Young Master Guang really didn't expect Nanbu to be such a poor village.

"Governor Chu has gone to chase the villain." Zheng Yuming stepped forward to report, and before he finished speaking, a group of people appeared at the entrance of the village. Except for the man in Tsing Yi who was leading the horse and was let into the village, everyone else was barred at the entrance of the village by Hu Ben.

"Governor Chu Chaohui of Nanbu is here to meet you, Young Master." The brown horse arrived in front of Young Master Guang's carriage, and the man in Tsing Yi got off his horse and saluted.

"Chu Qing, tell me what happened in detail."

Chu Zhaohui was in a bit of a panic now, his face was covered with soot, his green clothes were also stained with black ash, and his shoes were so dirty that he couldn't see his true colors.

"In the early hours of this morning, a group of bandits entered the village and wanted to rob property. The people in the village heard dogs barking and found more than a dozen bandits. Seeing that the robbery was hopeless, he threw the torch on the houses, causing the houses to catch fire. I took a few slaves to chase after them, and after chasing them to the east of the woods, there was no trace of the bandits."

"Do you know where the bandit is from?" Wei Shen wanted to know the identity of the bandit.

"The accent is from the state of Chu."

"It's Chu bandits again!" Wei Shen hated.Dacheng is the closest to the state of Chu, and the bandits in the state of Chu always trek across mountains and rivers once or twice a year to commit crimes in Dacheng.

"Nanbu is not protected by a high wall? If I knew that Nanbu is so barren, I wouldn't have rewarded Nanbu to the two lovers." Young Master Guang said this to Wei Shen, and he blamed Wei Shen for not reminding him. He, the fief that he caused him to award to the two saviors was a barren village.Compared with Nanbu's rebate to Dacheng, Gongzi Guang is ashamed.

"Shen, let's call the surrounding villagers to help build the wall in Nanbu." Wei Shen was afraid that the young master would reward Zheng and Chu with other fertile land, so he quickly proposed a remedy plan. With the high wall protection in Nanbu Village, the bandits would not be able to Easy access to the village.

"Wen Zai can't do it!" Chu Zhaohui suddenly refused loudly, causing Zheng Yuming to look at him in surprise.

"Why did Chu Qing evade?" Young Master Guang was puzzled. Richer villages had walls, and Nanbu couldn't build the walls himself, so why did Chu Chaohui refuse to help.

"It's the harvest season soon. Calling the villagers around to build the wall will delay their busy farming." Chu Zhaohui sincerely stated the reason for refusing help. This kind of Chu Chaohui made Zheng Yuming's mouth open even more.

"Chu Qing really understands the general situation." Young Master Guang suddenly realized that Chu Zhaohui was thoughtful. The surrounding villagers were recruited to build walls, and the autumn harvest at home would definitely be delayed.

"I believe that apart from building high walls to protect the village, there is another way to protect the village."

"What method is it, tell me quickly."

"Zhaohui can train the slaves to defend themselves. From now on, they will take turns to be on duty at night. If any villains invade, they will directly kill them!"

After Chu Chaohui explained the method of self-defense, Zheng Yuming began to look at the fire scene in the village again.

"Training slaves to defend themselves?" Wei Shen narrowed his eyes, and there was a coldness in his eyes.

"Yes, it's just a few slaves at the entrance of the village. With more training, they can always protect themselves." Chu Chaohui pointed at the entrance of the village.

"Bring those slaves here."

Wei Shen ordered his subordinates with a stern face, and within a moment, a dozen short and thin slaves walked over tremblingly.

"Can these slaves be trained to defend themselves?" The young master looked at the dozens of slaves, and then at his own soldiers, shaking his head slightly.

"My lord, although they are thin and weak, with more practice, two of them will always beat a bandit." Zheng Yuming stared at the slaves, and suddenly realized that these slaves were the thinnest slaves in the valley, and there was not a single slave soldier in them.

"Haha, Governor Chu's idea is good. If one slave can't beat the bandits, he trains two slaves to fight. This way, he can protect himself and save the surrounding villagers. Great kindness!" Wei Shen looked satisfied at the thin slave, No matter how well trained these slaves were, they would never become soldiers.

Lord Ulsan not only agreed to Chu Chaohui's plan to train the Self-Defense Forces in Nanbu, but also ordered Wei Shen to take some obsolete weapons from the arsenal to equip Chu Chaohui's slaves.

"Chu Chaohui, there are no bandits, right?"

Watching Ulsan Lord's convoy go away, Zheng Yuming gritted his teeth at Chu Chaohui. Chu Chaohui even concealed it from him. Wei Qing went to report the letter as if he had been in a catastrophe, but when he returned to Nanbu, only thirty or so were burned. grass house.These thatched houses were also burned strangely, the first row on both sides of the village road.There was nothing wrong with the house behind, the fire was set too neatly.

"There are bandits, but there are only three bandits. They are bandits in the mountains south of Dacheng. After hearing from businessmen that Nanbu is rich, and knowing that Nanbu is not protected by a high wall, they thought of making a small fortune in the village, but they were killed." The villagers captured it." Chu Chaohui was smiling now, and Zheng Yuming cooperated impenetrably once he realized his intentions.

"Where are the captured bandits?"

"Kill it." Since he wanted to deceive Young Master Guang and Wei Shen into believing that the bandits came from the state of Chu, these three bandits could not be kept, so as not to leak the news.

The bandits in the eastern part of Dacheng were insignificant, with a maximum number of no more than 20, unlike the bandits from the state of Chu who fled to Dacheng, with a maximum of several hundred people, which was very threatening.

Zheng Yuming glanced at Chu Zhaohui, but didn't make a sound.Although he had no sympathy for bandits, he couldn't kill them as he wanted.

"Didn't you say that the houses on both sides of the village road should be rebuilt into shops? It's just right to burn them down this time."

Seeing that Zheng Yuming's face was still stern, Chu Chaohui quickly told him that the fire was set on purpose, and that sooner or later there would be demolition on both sides of the road in the middle of the village, and he was just doing it first.The villagers of these burned houses received a large amount of demolition fees.

"You didn't reveal anything, I was scared to death by you." Zheng Yuming took a long breath.

Chu Chaohui acted according to circumstances and used the bandits in the village to obtain the right to train slaves in an upright manner. Even if the slave training in the valley was exposed, the Nanbu Training Self-Defense Force would endorse it.When Chu Chaohui refused Wei Shen's help abnormally, Zheng Yuming re-examined the disaster site, only to find that the houses were burnt too neatly, and some villagers whose houses were burnt down were counting the property they had moved out in the open space, without the slightest distress of property loss on their faces.After seeing the thin slave at the entrance of the village, he was even more sure that Chu Chaohui had set up a trap.

"You and I have a good understanding, and you will understand even if I don't tell you. Look, isn't it like this now?" Chu Zhaohui smiled brightly on his soot-covered face.

"I don't know how to use words properly anymore, that's not how I use them!" Zheng Yuming gave the Burmese Chinese who used adjectives indiscriminately, and galloped towards the gap in the valley.

"It can't be used if you have the same heart, but you can always use the same mind?"

Chu Chaohui laughed, and followed with his horse. The fire in Nanbu allowed Zheng and Chu to train the slaves in an open and honest manner.