Zhu Nao

After settling the teenagers, the officials of the state capital were busy for several days, and finally settled all the bandits who had surrendered so far.

When the matter in hand was almost dealt with, Zhu Nao called Dou Ziyi and Yu Changming to take stock of the current progress.

Several people unfolded the map and crossed out the cottages that had surrendered one by one from the map.The originally densely packed map became empty after they rearranged it. There are very few large villages, and there are still a few small villages, but they are not a cause for concern.

Zhu Nao pointed to a point on the map: "Except for Tulang Village, the remaining Dazhai is this Qingtou Village."

Because most of the bandits are mobs and it is difficult to make a living, even if they gather together, they will always divide and reunite, and it is difficult to stay together for a long time.Therefore, there are not many people in most cottages.The state capital uses 50 people as the dividing line, and those with more than 50 people can be regarded as Dazhai; those with less than 50 people are Xiaozhai.Looking at the map right now, the only two big villages are Tulang Village and Qingtou Village.According to the information they got, the number of people in Qingtou Village should be around six to seventy.

Yu Changming said: "Then shall we deal with Qingtou Village first?"

Before Zhu Nao had time to speak, footsteps were heard outside the door, and several people turned their heads to see that it was an official who had come to report the news.

"Zhuzhou Mu," the official saluted, "Dozens of people have come from outside the city. They claim to be bandits from Qingtou Village, and they have come to surrender."

Junao: "..."

Yu Changming and Dou Ziyi: "..."

This is really talking about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.

Zhu Nao quickly sent Dou Ziyi to pick up the person, and came back to continue the discussion after learning about the situation.

However, Dou Ziyi went there for a long time, and after an hour, Dou Ziyi finally came back.

Zhu Nao asked, "What's wrong?"

He sent Dou Ziyi just to check the situation, and the corresponding officials were responsible for the containment and resettlement of the bandits.After going there for so long, it can be seen that there is something wrong.

Dou Ziyi said: "They have 46 people here."

As soon as these words came out, both Zhu Nao and Yu Changming were slightly taken aback.This number did not match the number of people in Qingtou Village they knew.

Yu Changming frowned and said, "Did they break up?"

Dou Ziyi shook her head slowly: "No. I interrogated them just now, and they refused to admit it at first, and then they found out that the state government knew the situation in their village very well, so they finally told the truth—those bandits did it for their own sake. There was internal strife over whether to surrender, and in the end those who insisted on surrender killed all those who refused to surrender. So many people were lost."

Yu Changming: "..."

Zhu Nao raised his eyebrows slightly, but he wasn't surprised.

In the past few days, bandits from all walks of life have come to surrender, and similar incidents have also occurred.If you think about it carefully, you can understand that when these bandits formed a group, it was just for making a living in the final analysis.Once they disagree on how they make a living, it is only natural to break up the partnership.It is not surprising that those who are more ruthless have the intention to kill because their former friends hindered their livelihood.

Dou Ziyi said: "The crime of being a thief can be forgiven, but can the crime of murder also be forgiven?"

Although these mountain thieves have come to surrender now, it must not be a fuel-efficient lamp to do such a thing.He was a little worried that these people would cause trouble in the future.

Zhu Nao was a little helpless: "Even if we want to punish them, it's not now. Let's resettle them according to the letter of surrender, and send someone to educate them and strictly control them."

Dou Ziyi nodded: "Okay, I'll go and order."

He is also a smart man, he doesn't need Junao to say too much, he understands.The most urgent task right now is to calm down the chaos in the state, let the bandits return with peace of mind, and reintegrate into the people.Although the rule of law is important, it also needs to adapt to the circumstances.If the bandits in Qingtou Village were punished now, the bandits who had not surrendered would not dare to surrender, and the bandits who had surrendered would feel sorry for each other and would not be able to farm the land honestly.Therefore, when it should be wide, it can only be wider.

However, if there is breadth, there must also be tightness.Qingtou Village can be forgiven, but some people are absolutely unforgivable.Not only is it unforgivable, but it must be severely punished, so that those who have misconduct will be afraid and dare not do illegal things again.

Zhu Nao said: "Don't be in a hurry. Come here, let's discuss and discuss the management of Tulang village."

Dou Ziyi hurriedly walked in and sat around the table with Zhu Nao and Yu Changming.

"Zhou Mu, I have a plan." Dou Ziyi said, "There are more than [-] people in Tulang Village. There are many people, people are not in harmony, and there are many forces inside. If we can drive them apart and make them kill each other, then the Wolf Tui village will kill each other." The power of the stronghold will definitely be greatly reduced. At that time, the state capital will send troops to wipe out the situation, and it will be able to get twice the result with half the effort."

Yu Changming took it seriously: "I also think we can use alienation. Besides the village owner, there are ten masters in the slaughter wolf village? Maybe we can start with the ten masters and find a way to make them kill each other. "

There are 600 people in the Tulang Village, so it is impossible for Zhao Tulang to directly lead them all, and there will be a certain degree of decentralized management.As far as they knew, under Zhao Tulang, the head of the village, there were ten brothers who followed him first, and he named him the ten heads of the family.Each of the ten masters will command a certain number of people, and then they will serve Zhao Tulang together.From the perspective of Yu Changming and Dou Ziyi, there is no doubt that the ten masters are a good starting point.A village with 70 to [-] people like Qingtou Village would kill each other due to internal strife, but it would not be difficult for a big village like Tulang Village to divide them into pieces.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Nao shook his head and vetoed it: "Dividing into ten masters? It may not work. There are so many cottages in Sichuan, except for your Changming Village, the most united one is the Tulang Village. The division of estrangement is not used well, but instead It is easy to startle the enemy and strengthen their cohesion, the gain outweighs the loss."

Yu Changming repeated incredulously: "Tulangzhai is united?"

Zhu Nao asked back: "Not united?"

Yu Changming has always hated others comparing his Changming Village with Tulang Village.He resented, "What unity? It's just that Zhao Tulang was brutal and fierce, forcing those bandits to obey him! It's not just a bunch of mobs!"

Dou Ziyi also frowned and pondered for a while, and said: "Compared with Qingtou Village and Heishan Village, Tulang Village is indeed not a mob. I think that Tulang Village was recruited by the state government and then betrayed the state government. Zhai Qifa, obviously such a major event is the most likely to cause division and internal strife, but it has never happened in Tulangzhai, which is rare. They may not really be united, but I am afraid that the ten leaders of them are indeed united..."

He paused, and said, "Does Zhou Mu have any ideas?"

Zhu Nao smiled and said, "You all know how the team of more than 600 people in Tulangzhai was assembled?"

Yu Changming and Dou Ziyi nodded.

During this period of time, although the state government has never taken action against the Wolf Slaughter Village, it has never slackened its surveillance and investigation.The state government has collected a lot of information about Tulangzhai.

The owner of the Tulang village is Zhao Tulang, who had joined the army before Luocao, and was later wanted by the government because he was involved in multiple life-threatening lawsuits.In the process of exile, he met some of the same desperadoes, and they were like-minded, so they formed gangs, set up gangs, burned, killed and looted everywhere, and became notorious.Later, their number increased, and some came to seek refuge on their own initiative, and many were forcibly arrested and driven by them.

Their methods are very cruel. Sometimes they will arrest a village man and lock them up for several days, without food and drink, and they will often be whipped.After a few days, they were released, and the men were surrounded in a large open space, and they were asked to kill each other.Anyone who can kill a fellow countryman can stay in Tulangzhai and become a bandit.Those who refuse to kill will have no choice but to be killed.This method can be described as extremely vicious. In order to survive, there are not a few people who resort to the knife against their fellow villagers.As a result, many people had already lost their lives before they became bandits in Tulangzhai.These human lives have become their votes, they cannot go back to the past, and in the end they can only give up on themselves and become the accomplices of the gangsters.

Because Zhao Tulang had served in the army, after building the village, he also managed it in the same way as the army system.He named the ten murderers who followed him the first time as ten masters, and let them each command a group of troops.Under the ten masters, a corporal chief and a special chief were set up to monitor and control his subordinates.

If it is said that Changming Village is governed by benevolence, Tulang Village is governed by cruelty.Under such a strict organization and terrifying pressure, how could the whole village not show unity?

Zhu Nao said: "I also think divorce is the best strategy. But compared to alienating the ten masters, I have a simpler and cruder idea, what do you guys think?"

Dou Ziyi and Yu Changming looked at him fixedly.

Unhurriedly, Zhu Nao took out a piece of rice paper, rubbed the ink, and began to write on the paper with splashes of ink.Not long after, he finished writing a call to arms and pushed it to the middle of the table.

Dou Ziyi and Yu Changming rushed to watch it together.After reading it, both of them changed their expressions slightly.

……

On Longcheng Mountain.

The five men were bound all over and knelt on the stone platform, looking terrified and trembling.Today is the monthly execution day in Tulangzhai, and these five people are those who violated the village's regulations and will be sentenced to death.

Under the stone platform, there are hundreds of people standing around, all bandits from Tulang Village.Reactions to what was to come were mixed.Some people's eyes are numb, some people's expressions are forbearing, and some people's eyes are shining with excitement.

Zhao Tulang walked up the stone platform slowly with a big knife in his hand.He was bloodthirsty by nature, and executed every month by himself.

Every time he took a step up, the faces of the five kneeling men became more frightened, but they were tied up and their mouths were stuffed with cloth, so they could only make a whining sound.

Zhao Tulang climbed onto the stone platform and stood behind the five men.He picked up the big knife and looked at it against the sun. The sharp blade reflected the dazzling light, which caught the eyes of all the people in the audience.

The audience was silent.

Zhao Tulang hooked the corner of his mouth cruelly, bent down and grabbed the hair of a kneeling man, and pulled him back.The man was forced to look up, trembling all over, with tears all over his face, whimpering.

The more frightened he was, the more excited Zhao Tulang became: "Now I know I'm afraid? Why didn't I think of being afraid when I ran away?"

The man whose hair was grabbed shook his head desperately, unable to say anything.

Changming Village voluntarily surrendered, and Heishan Village was wiped out, which was a big shock to all the bandits in Sichuan.Other cottages returned to the state capital one after another, and the hearts of the people in Tulang Village were inevitably shaken.As a result, some bandits escaped.And these five people were all people who tried to escape this month but were unfortunately caught.

Zhao Tulang pulled the cloth from the man's mouth, and asked, "Come on, I'll give you a chance. Tell me, is the state capital scary, Changming Village scary, or I, Zhao Tulang, are more terrifying?"

The man was panting heavily, his eyes frightened and fawning: "The village master, the village master is even more terrifying..."

Zhao Tulang nodded in satisfaction: "Well said."

A gleam of hope flashed in the man's eyes, he thought that if he answered this question correctly, he would gain life.However, Zhao Tulang let go of his hair, straightened up, clenched the long knife in his hand, made a gesture, and swung it viciously towards the man's neck!

The man felt the cool wind behind him and let out a desperate scream.When the cry was high-pitched, the blade had arrived, and the blood rushed several feet high, the cry stopped abruptly, and the head rolled to the ground.

There was no sound from the back of the crowd, but there was a burst of excited cheers from the front—these people were the masters of the Tulang village, and they were Zhao Tulang's capable subordinates.

Zhao Tulang bent down to pick up the head, held the dripping blood and said affectionately: "Remember, the most terrifying person in this world is I, Zhao Tulang. If you are afraid, you only need to be afraid of me."

After finishing speaking, he threw the head towards the crowd in the audience!

The crowd quickly dodged, leaving an open space for the head to roll on the ground.

Zhao Tulang walked towards the second person again.

"What about you? Why did you run away? Could it be because you were seduced by that Lao Shizi 'Tian Nu'?" Zhao Tulang slapped the man's cheek with the blade of the knife, and every time he slashed, there was a blood mark.He also pulled out the cloth stuffed in the man's mouth, and asked, "Tell me, who looked at you and took care of you? And who led you to live a good life?"

The man trembled like he was sifting chaff, and said in fear: "Yes, it's the village master..."

Zhao Tulang smiled: "Very well, it seems that you still have a conscience."

After boasting, he raised the knife again, chopped off the head, and threw it down the stage.

Then he walked towards the third person.

Like the previous two times, he asked the same question: "Tell me, whose territory is Langzhou?"

The third person knew that he would surely die if he answered or not, and he closed his lips tightly and refused to speak.When he didn't speak, Zhao Tulang cut him one by one.As a last resort, he answered the question with a scream, and then was beheaded by Zhao Tulang again.

After cutting off the third and four people, and coming behind the fifth, Zhao Tulang didn't ask any more questions this time.He grabbed the man's hair and lifted him up, pulling the man half straight up.

"I asked you to be the corps leader, but you allowed your subordinates to escape. I am really disappointed. Tell me, how should I punish you?"

That Wuchang looked desperate and closed his eyes tightly.

Zhao Tulang sneered and said: "It would be a pity to kill you, let's change the method. If you let go of one of your subordinates, I will cut off one of your limbs. If you let go of four, you will just cut off your limbs and make them into human pigs. It's on the mountain gate for everyone to see."

The corporal immediately opened his eyes in fright, whining and screaming.He would rather beg for death than be tortured like this.

But Zhao Tulang didn't mean to be merciful at all, he just did what he said, with his hands up and down.After the execution, he was covered in blood, not only did not feel disgusted, but excitedly stretched out his tongue to lick the blood beads rolling down his face.

He glanced at everyone in the audience, touching the precious knife in his hand with unsatisfied interest: "I hope no one will come to feed my knife next month."

Except for those few masters who applauded and applauded, how can the rest dare to speak?

Zhao Tulang wiped the blood off the knife with his clothes, stepped down from the stone platform, and went to take a shower.

When Zhao Tulang came out of the shower, his nine masters were already sitting around the room.The reason why there are only nine people is that one master led his men out of the mountain to rob.This time their target was only a small village, there was no need to send a large army, dozens of people were enough.

Zhao Tulang wiped his hair, walked to the chief seat and sat down, and asked, "How is it?"

A family leader said: "Both the head and the pig have been hung on the mountain gate, and the order has been passed down. If anyone has a second heart, once found out, the corporal chief will execute the punishment directly. Otherwise, the corporal chief will sit down and the chief will be punished."

Zhao Tulang nodded in satisfaction.Under such strict control, he did not believe that anyone would have the guts to escape or rebel.

"The owner of the village," said one of the family members, "I heard that Qingtou Village also returned to the state capital the day before yesterday."

Zhao Tulang frowned and said with a sneer, "Really? Another nest of useless trash."

"Calling them trash is a disgrace to the word trash!" Another leader said indignantly, "Those idiots are probably as courageous as a grain of rice. If such a small incident happened, the state government would be so scared that they would pee their pants!"

Another leader was a little worried: "It's not a pity for those trash to die. But after they all submit, I'm afraid the state government will be able to concentrate on dealing with us."

"So what? Are we still afraid? There are 600 Xiangbing soldiers, and we also have 600. When we robbed the treasury, we all had weapons in our hands. Isn't it better than the trash brought out by Yu Changming? Don't say they can't fight." If you dare to attack the mountain, even if we go down the mountain and go to the state capital, they will not be our opponents!"

"They didn't dare to attack by force, but that Zhu Nao was full of tricks. He used a lot of tricks to encircle Heishanzhai. I don't know what method he will use to deal with us."

Zhao Tulang said coldly: "I don't think he would dare to attack by force. I guess he will secretly send someone to contact you to sow discord."

Several masters were taken aback.

Although Zhao Tulang was cruel, he was not a brainless person.Otherwise, he would not be able to control such a huge cottage.He has the experience of joining the army, not only learned the military system, but also understood some military tactics.He knew in his heart that it was impossible for the state capital to storm Longcheng Mountain.Not to mention that there is no chance of winning, the price is too high, and everyone from the state shepherd to Xiang Bing himself is unwilling to do it.After much deliberation, what the state government is most likely to do is to sow discord, divide his cottages, and then break them down one by one.

Immediately, the master sneered and said: "We are all sworn brothers who were born and died, sowing discord? He dares to try!"

"That's right! We will all follow Big Brother in this life, and there is absolutely no way we have two hearts!"

"Hahahahahaha, if he really dares to sow dissension, he probably doesn't know how powerful Big Brother is. The system in our village is so strict, and the ten of us are one-hearted brothers. Even if his broken state government is torn apart, it is impossible to shake us. Wolf Village!"

Everyone expressed their sincerity.Although they had intentions to show in front of Zhao Tulang, most of them were sincere.

These are all criminals.They knew very well in their hearts that if they wanted to continue to enjoy themselves, they had to give Tulangzhai more power.Once the Wolf Slaughter Village is weakened, it is impossible for the state government to let any of them go.Their only way out is to follow Zhao Tulang, and they will never be tempted by the state capital.

Zhao Tulang raised the corner of his mouth, with a cruel light in his eyes: "I really want to see what tricks that 'Prince Zhu' can pull off."

Everyone was talking, suddenly a person ran up from a busy look.

"Zhaizhu, Zhaizhu, something is wrong!"

When everyone looked back, it was Sun Er who came.Sun Er is a capable subordinate of Liu Dangjia, and Liu Dangjia is the one who took people out to rob today.At this moment, Sun Er was covered in blood and was in a panic.

Everyone suddenly changed their faces.

"What's going on?" Zhao Tulang's eyes sharpened, "Where's Old Liu?"

"Master Liu was killed!" Sun Er trembled.His face was terrified, and it was obvious that he had just experienced something terrible.

"What?" Zhao Tulang couldn't believe it, "You met officers and soldiers?!"

"No, no, it's not officers and soldiers..." Sun Er shook his head and said, "It's a mutiny! The people brought out by Mr. Liu's family have mutinied! Everyone killed each other, and the rest of them all ran away!"

Zhao Tulang and those leaders were shocked.Cannibalism? !Mutiny? !

"Impossible!" Someone immediately jumped up to refute, and pointed at Sun Er with a knife, suspecting that he was spreading rumors to cause trouble. "Who sent you, what are your intentions?!"

Sun Er's face was bleak: "Really! Head Liu's head was cut off!"

Several leaders became more and more annoyed. Someone stepped forward and put a knife around Sun Er's neck, forcing him to tell the truth.

No wonder they don't believe it.Zhao Tulang's method of governing subordinates is very effective. The head of the village controls the head of the house, the head of the house controls the chiefs, the chiefs control the corporals, and the corps chiefs control the subordinates.As long as there are one or two people who have second thoughts, the corporal will punish them immediately.If the head of the corps has a second heart, he will be punished by the head of the corps.Whoever governs laxly will sit in a row.Under such circumstances, everyone is in danger, and it is difficult for someone to unite to plan a rebellion, so how can there be a mutiny? !

Zhao Tulang said angrily: "What's going on, please tell me clearly!"

Trembling, Sun Er took out a blood-stained notice from his bosom, and handed it over.

The nearest master reached out to catch it, but before he had time to look at it, he was snatched by Zhao Tulang who caught up with him.

It was a reward order issued by the government. Judging by the color of the official seal on the ink and paper, it was obviously issued not long ago.

"The gangsters in the Tulang Village are vicious, and the government is determined to punish them. Hereby, a huge reward is offered. Whoever wins the head of the village owner, Zhao Tulang, will be given a hundred taels of gold and ten acres of fertile land..." Zhao Tulang sneered after reading the first sentence.

This is not the first time that the state government has issued a reward order to him. He has been wanted for several years, and the reward orders have been issued one after another. This time, the government has increased the reward a lot.Yet he wasn't afraid.What about the golden hundred taels?After so many years, no one has the ability to take his head!

The reward order was very long, and this was just the beginning, so he continued to look down.

"The top ten masters in Tulangzhai, Liu Mao, Zhangcun, Zhang Shuan, Bao Datou, Jin Liushui... whoever wins the head will be given 30 taels of gold and eight acres of fertile land."

Zhao Tulang frowned, and his smile faded a bit.The ten masters under him are also in the ranks of the rewards this time, and the rewards are also very high.These ten people have been wanted all year round, and this is not the first time.It is said that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Such a large amount of money may attract some people to move around.But as long as he intensifies the intensity of suppression and punishment, it should not be a serious problem.After all, comparing dozens of taels of gold with life, those bandits still put their lives first.

This reward order is written here, and it is not over yet.Zhao Tulang had an ominous premonition in his heart, so he calmed down and continued to look down.

"If you get the heads of any of the chiefs of Tulang Village, such as Sun Qiankun, Guo Miao, Lu Lin, etc., you can get five taels of gold and five acres of fertile land."

"If you get the leader of the Tulang Village, Jin Damang, Chang Wei... and any other leader, you can get three taels of gold and three acres of fertile land." Zhao Tulang opened his eyes wide and his pupils contracted.The scope of the bounty has actually reached his subordinate Wuchang and Shichang? !

There is one last sentence on the reward order.

"Anyone who has made meritorious deeds, if he is wearing a sinful body and is not included in the list of rewards, his merits and demerits can be offset, and the past will not be blamed;

Anyone who has made meritorious deeds, if he has committed a crime and is included in the list of rewards offered by this decree, can also be judged on the basis of meritorious deeds.

It is hereby declared that everyone should obey! "

Zhao Tulang read the last paragraph several times, the smile on his face disappeared completely, his whole body felt cold like falling into an ice cellar.

This reward order was not for the common people at all, it was for every bandit in Tulangzhai!He suppressed it vigorously and controlled it layer by layer, but the government did the opposite, shaking people's hearts from the bottom.He asked the chiefs to control ordinary bandits, and the government incited ordinary bandits to kill the chiefs for rewards; he asked the head to control the chiefs, and the government incited the chiefs to kill them in order to be exonerated!

How not to mutiny?How not to mutiny!

How vicious?How vicious! !

Zhao Tulang felt dizzy for the first time, he hastily crumpled the reward order, and said sharply: "Quick, quick! Suppress the news, this reward order must not be spread in the village!"

However, it was too late.He seemed to have heard the noise and shouts coming from the foot of the mountain...