Chapter 439: Conditions
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"Big brother, let's run away. Can't stay here any longer, that thing...... That thing...... It's going to kill again. Director Sanzhai said with a strong voice.
"Let's go!" Bao Meng roared, and several leaders waited for this sentence, and as soon as Bao Meng's words fell, several people rushed towards the door frantically. Bao Meng looked back in a hurry, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing did not chase after him, Lin Jue was smiling at him with the two firearms.
Bao Meng gritted his teeth and scolded angrily in his heart: "You laugh, when I bring someone in, I will skin you and cramp." Spare a dozen lives, and I will take you. ”
"Bang dang!" The door of the hall, which had been closed, was slammed open, and two men covered in blood rushed in. Bao Meng and the others had just rushed to the door, and they were so frightened that they immediately stopped. He immediately recognized that they were the two small leaders of the leader, Wang Sheng and Zhao Yi.
"Wang Sheng, Zhao Yi, you ...... What's wrong with you guys? Why didn't you rush in with someone for half a day? Yes? ”
"Dazhai Lord! The lord of the village! Brothers...... The brothers are all dead...... They were all killed. Dead! Wang Sheng cried loudly.
"What?" The blood on Bao Meng's body was cold from his head to the soles of his feet. Dead! Just now I asked them if they were dead, and I really said that they were really dead. How is this possible?
"What's going on? What the hell is going on? How did it die out? Director Sanzhai grabbed Zhao Yi's neck and shouted.
"Master Sanzhai, there are so many of them. It's all hidden, and I don't know how it came out. We obviously checked the whole cottage house, but all of a sudden, four or five hundred people popped up. First they shot with bows and arrows, and then they all rushed together, and before we could rush in, we were all killed. Outside, there are already groups of people under siege, and it's all their people. Zhao Yi cried.
"It's over, it's all over, they've been in their misdeeds, they've been ready for a long time. It's not that we're going to eat them, it's that they're going to eat us. Bao Meng muttered to himself.
"I don't believe it, how is this possible. Let's rush out. Ren Qiang shouted and rushed out of the hall.
"Master Sanzhai, you can't go!" Zhao Yi shouted.
Before the words fell, the sound of arrows breaking through the air was loud, Ren Qiang just rushed to the door of the empty hall, and a rain of arrows shot outside, and he was instantly hit by several arrows in his chest, and fell to the ground on his back with a scream, motionless.
The two leaders crawled over from the dead corner and dragged Ren Qiang away from the hall door, and when they sniffed, Ren Qiang had already died of anger.
"The master of the big village, the master of the third village...... He's dead. One of the leaders shouted in a trembling voice.
"Master Dazhai, what should we do? We're all going to die here. Several of the leaders asked in amazement.
Bao Meng's heart was cold. In the blink of an eye, the death and death of the brothers around him, the death and injury of the wounded, the situation turned out to be like this, which was really unexpected. I thought that I would kill all the people in Luoyan Valley today, but now I have reached a dead end. Now there is really no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth, what should I do?
In the hall, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing straightened two chairs, and the husband and wife sat side by side at the end of the long table, looking coldly at the helpless people.
"Master Bao Dazhai, can you tell me now, who is the tiger and who is the fox?" Lin Jue's provocative voice came from afar.
Bao Meng was ashamed and angry, but he was speechless. Turn your head and look around to see if there are any escape routes.
"Master Bao Dazhai, don't bother with it, you can't escape. All around you are my people, unless you will fly away, you will not be able to escape today. Lin Jue sneered.
Bao Meng said gloomily: "Why do you have so many soldiers and horses here?" I had clearly sent someone to search the main village before. There aren't so many people here. ”
Lin Jue laughed and said, "I allowed you to search the main village, it was because my people were hiding in the cave behind the main village, where did you find it?" If that were not the case, how would you bring only 200 men? You think you have an absolute advantage, but you don't know that you have already fallen into my favor. ”
Bao Meng was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "You thief bird, you calculate and wait for me." You calculated us from the beginning. Dog thief, you are treacherous. ”
Gao Muqing reprimanded coldly: "Bao Meng, who is treacherous? Who was it that had a bad heart in the first place? You should know that very well. ”
Bao Meng argued: "When did we break the covenant? I didn't touch a single hair of you when you went to my cottage, isn't this a promise? Otherwise, in my cottage, I will kill you all. ”
Lin Jue sneered: "Master Bao, it's not that you don't want to kill us, it's just that our conditions are too generous." You are very greedy, we will give you the Shiren Mountain Village, but you still want our lives. You say, do you deserve to die? ”
"I didn't! This is a misunderstanding. Bao screamed.
Lin Jue said coldly: "It's really a boiled duck with a hard mouth, we know everything, the Ruan Zhai Lord told us everything, your plan is that after we take the Shiren Mountain Village, we will kill the Gao Dazhai Lord, me, and my brothers." In one fell swoop, I took away the big village of Luoyan Valley. In this way, you will be able to dominate the eastern part of Funiu Mountain. Moreover, you can push the destruction of Shiren Mountain Dazhai on our heads, and you have become a hero who avenges Shiren Mountain Dazhai. In front of other cottages in Funiu Mountain, you will not be blamed either. It's a perfect plan, but sadly, you're bankrupt. ”
Bao Meng looked at the unconscious Ruan Ping's body on the ground in shock, and scolded angrily: "Ruan Ping, this dog thief betrayed Lao Tzu. This thief treated me like a brother in vain, and he betrayed me. ”
Lin Jue shook his head and said, "You can blame him, he didn't betray you." On the contrary, he has been defending you. Just now he tried to persuade you not to do anything, but you didn't listen to him. He knows I've laid everything out, and he knows that if you do it, I'll destroy you without mercy. He urged you not to do it, but you are bent on getting rid of us, and you won't listen. ”
Bao Meng was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth and shouted, "He...... Why did he write to me when he knew you were ready? Isn't this betraying me, what is it? ”
Lin Jue chuckled, stood up and walked to Ruan Ping's side, reached out to pick him up from the ground, and lay flat on the long table. After examining Ruan Ping's wounds, he found that Ruan Ping just fell to the ground and fainted, and there were no other injuries, his breathing and heartbeat were normal, and he was a little relieved.
"Lord Bao Dazhai, that letter was written on the day we took full control of Shirenshan Dazhai, and at that time, Lord Ruan Zhai thought we didn't know anything. That morning, after we had taken full control of the place, I urged him to write to you to take over the cottage. As soon as the letter was sent away, we took control of the lord of Ruan Zhai and all the soldiers and horses of your Beishan Dazhai. In fact, after the letter was sent, the owner of Ruan Zhai never had a chance to send any news to the outside world. So, you're wrong about him. Lin Jue said in a deep voice.
"What? You guys...... You guys...... So, didn't you go aperious? Bao screamed.
Lin Jue nodded and said, "From this point of view, it is indeed us first. But we are the first to strike, because if I don't do it first, we will be dead. ”
Bao Meng exclaimed, "But...... But how do you know? ”
Lin Jue smiled and said, "Guess! ”
"Guess?" Bao Meng was stunned.
"Yes, guess. It's just a reasonable guess. We are guessing you from the perspective of human nature. With such a great opportunity to destroy my Luoyan Valley cottage, how can you let it go? If it were me, I would do it. So we guess you're going to do us a favor. This has also been confirmed in the mouth of the lord of Ruan Zhai. You don't have to scold the owner of Ruan Zhai, he refuses to tell your plan, you look at the wound on his head, it is caused by his suicide attempt by hitting the wall. He would rather commit suicide than tell the truth in order to defend you, but unfortunately, he committed suicide like this, but it is tantamount to not confessing to himself. ”
Bao Meng looked at Ruan Ping, who was lying unconscious on the long table, in shock, and didn't know what to feel in his heart. It turned out that the injury on Nguyen Binh's head was caused by suicide hitting the wall, not by fighting. Thinking that it must have been Gao Muqing and Fang Junshi who pressed him to ask about his plan, Ruan Ping refused to tell him and simply committed suicide and kept his mouth shut. This is also a warning. If Ruan Ping died, if he didn't see Ruan Ping when he got here, he would definitely be vigilant.
"Lord Ruan Zhai is actually very loyal to you. We saved him, but he still wouldn't tell the truth. But I told him that if he did not tell the truth, I would shoot you directly on the mountainside when you came, and I would not care if you had any schemes. But if he tells the truth, there may be room for negotiation. The lord of Ruan Zhai should have known that my words counted, so he finally put forward a quid pro quo before he would tell us the truth. ”
Lin Jue paused and sighed lightly: "To be honest, I have a good impression of Lord Ruanzhai. We came here to act in the tiger's den in Longtan, and the lord of Ruan Zhai showed his courage and fearlessness, and experienced life and death with us, and almost all of us died here. This can be regarded as a friend of life and death. Although I controlled him, I did not punish him in the slightest. I respect him as a man, and a good man is not to be humiliated. If it weren't for the fact that this matter was about the life and death of everyone in my Luoyan Valley, I would never be disrespectful to him. Helplessly, I could only control him and force him to tell me the truth. ”
"His condition is that if you don't poison us, I hope I won't do you any favor. The parties still acted in accordance with the covenant. The seized supplies and prisoners were divided equally between the two families. I hope I'll spare you. I agreed to him for the sake of life and death. I don't want things to go that way. Therefore, just now, Lord Ruan Zhai tried his best to persuade you, hoping that you can change your mind. He can't warn you directly, because I warned him, and if he does, I'll do it immediately. He knew my whole plan, and he knew the power of the firearm I had. He knew he could only do what I said. If it weren't for his mediation, you wouldn't even be able to enter this big village, and you would have been ambushed by my soldiers and horses on the mountainside. You have seen the fortifications and terrain on the mountainside, as long as hundreds of ambushes are enough, you can annihilate all of you on the mountain road, and you have nowhere to escape. You can step into the main village, in fact, the owner of Ruan Village has won you a chance. ”
“…… He had tried to persuade you to agree to my request, and he hoped that you would not do it casually. It's a pity that the owner of Bao Dazhai couldn't listen to these at all, but scolded him for eating inside and out, and was determined to poison us. That's why we had to take action. You had a chance to avoid this, but you didn't. In my opinion, Lord Ruan Zhai is already an obvious warning, but unfortunately you are dizzy and can't listen to him. You can't blame anyone, only blame your demons for being greedy and insufficient, blame you for not even listening to your brother's words, and in the end, only blame you for being too stupid. It's you who ruined everything. ”
Bao Meng understood everything, and it was only then that he understood why Ruan Ping said just now when he was about to do it, "Once you do it, you will never recover." And he said a half-cut sentence of 'they are already ......'. It's a pity that he was thrown out of the coma by himself. That sentence should be: they already know our plan, they are ready. It's a pity that I didn't have the patience to listen to him. Bao Meng regretted it in his heart, and he had to stab himself twice to dissipate it. If we had been more attentive and cautious, why would we be where we are now?
"Fourth, I can't stand you, I regret not listening to your advice. Indeed, it's me who is too stupid, it's me who is too stupid. Bao Meng sighed and regretted not falling.
Lin Jue and Gao Muqing quietly watched him and didn't speak, Bao Meng felt sorry for himself for a long time, raised his head and said to Lin Jue and Gao Muqing: "Don't say anything, it's me Bao Meng who is at fault first, I shouldn't be thinking about attacking you." But Master Gaozhai, Master Fang, it won't do you any good if you kill me. After killing me, no one will mediate for you in Funiu Mountain, and other cottages will not let you go. They will attack you together, and you will not be able to resist it. ”
Lin Jue laughed and said, "Joke, do you think we will be afraid?" We can collect the prisoners, and you can add at least one or two thousand soldiers and horses to the two places of Beishan Dazhai and Shirenshan Dazhai. Our strength is enough to be proud of the entire Funiu Mountain, they come to kowtow is almost the same, and dare to do something to us? Even if they all join forces to attack us, will we be afraid? When we only had more than 300 soldiers and horses, how could we ever be afraid of you? You have five or six times more troops than us, why don't you dare to directly attack the Yangu? We are not afraid of anyone. ”
Bao Meng frowned and said, "But in that case, you will not be able to live in peace." Fighting back and forth is not good for anyone. If it is not recognized by other cottages, there will be no peace in Funiu Mountain. ”
Lin Jue thought for a while and said: "That's right, I admit that there will be no peace, but when it really comes to that point, there is no way." When we come to this barberry mountain, we have already gone into hell, and whoever doesn't let us be at peace, he doesn't want to live in peace. ”
Bao Meng said: "But if you let me go, I can mediate for you, my Beishan Dazhai still has some status in Funiu Mountain, and I can still speak." No matter how strong you are, you are also an outsider. What about the conditions? ”
Lin Jue glanced at Gao Muqing, Gao Muqing shrugged his shoulders and made an indispensable move.
Lin Jue turned his head and smiled: "Okay, what the owner of Bao Dazhai said also has some truth, you might as well listen to the conditions of the owner of Bao Dazhai, maybe you can reach a deal." ”
Bao Meng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the other party was willing to listen to the conditions, then there was still hope of survival. Bao Meng's mind began to churn, his life's wisdom reached its peak at this moment, and he soon thought of the conditions.
"The tall village master, Fang Junshi. If you are willing to let me go, the territory of Shiren Mountain Dazhai is yours, and I will never touch all the materials and personnel. Including Laojun Mountain and Luoyan Valley are also yours. Not only that, I will convene a meeting of the Funiu Mountain Villages, expose what Zuo Zongdao has done, and tell the other cottages that your Stone Destroying Mountain Village is a threat to everyone. They will be asked to agree to your official status in Funiu Mountain, and take over from Shiren Mountain Dazhai to become an official member of my Funiu Mountain. In this way, you will be able to eliminate the hatred of other cottagers towards you and live in peace. What do you think of this condition? ”
Lin Jue admired Bao Meng quite a lot, this person was really able to bend and stretch, and he made the biggest concession at once. And the most attractive condition is the last one, he will come forward to help Luoyan Valley Dazhai obtain the recognition of the cottages in Funiu Mountain. This recognition is not dispensable, in the small world of Funiu Mountain, it seems that there are many cottages, each based on the mountain. But they are all descendants of the generals of the former Great Shu Kingdom, and they all maintain a common basic standard. Although they are fighting with each other, in fact, the rise and fall of every cottage must eventually have a legitimate identity in their eyes. To put it more broadly, it is the status of orthodoxy.
Just like the princes of the emperor's family compete for the throne, you are the prince to be qualified to compete for the throne. It doesn't hurt to break the blood flow between each other's heads, and the person who finally wins the throne is still the royal heir. If you mix in with an unrelated person, that person will become the target of the public. The situation in Funiu Mountain is similar to this, they are very xenophobic, and if they don't get their approval, then they are the enemy of the whole Funiu Mountain. The reason why Zuo Zongdao, the master of Shiren Mountain Village, wanted to marry the fourteen-year-old Mo Qiao'er as his wife was that he was well aware of this situation. Even the identity of a half-son has the possibility of being accepted by other cottages.
If Luoyan Valley Dazhai wants to fundamentally take root in Funiu Mountain, force is important, but the recognition of other cottages is also indispensable. Force can only guarantee temporary peace, but committing public anger is not a trivial matter. There is always a day when lions are napping, surrounded by a bunch of hyenas, and unless the lion is always open, there will be a day when they will be eaten by them. As far as Lin Jue is concerned, the only purpose of his trip to Funiu Mountain is to let the people of Luoyan Valley gain a foothold here. It is impossible for Lin Jue to stay here, so if he wants to stabilize the situation in a short period of time and let himself leave with peace of mind, then the conditions proposed by Bao Meng are indeed very attractive.
Lin Jue's original plan was naturally to annex it together with Beishan Dazhai and control nearly half of the eastern part of Funiu Mountain from north to south in his own hands. Let the strength of Luoyan Valley suddenly increase to the point that no one is invincible. But the risk of doing so is that expanding too quickly can lead to a lot of trouble. For example, if the territory is too large, how can you hold such a large territory? It is possible to recruit and surrender troops, but this does not solve the fundamental problem.
If such a huge territory wants to be defended, it will take a large number of soldiers and horses. For Luoyan Valley Dazhai, the cost of holding the turf is many times higher than that of others. For example, the territory of Beishan Dazhai may only need one or two thousand people in Bao Meng's hands. Because Bao Meng is a person from Funiu Mountain, his Beishan Dazhai has legitimacy in Funiu Mountain, and other cottages will not attack him for no reason. So Bao Meng doesn't need to raise too many people to prevent it. But if the same territory is in the hands of Luoyan Valley, I am afraid that it will take twice the strength of the army to prevent it. Speaking of which, it is still a matter of legitimacy, no matter how much territory the Luoyan Valley cottage occupies, in the eyes of others, it is also illegally occupied, and they can attack and harass it anytime and anywhere. So the bigger the territory, the more trouble it brings.
From the actual situation, unless Luoyan Valley Dazhai can sweep the entire Funiu Mountain, the larger the territory, the more cumbersome it is. There is also absolutely not enough troops. Barely occupying such a large territory will make Luoyan Valley Cottage fall into the dilemma of encountering enemies everywhere and fighting all the time.
Lin Jue and Gao Muqing had an in-depth discussion on this issue two days ago, and after analyzing Zuo Zongdao's situation, Lin Jue realized some special rules in this Funiu Mountain. Gao Muqing also agreed with Lin Jue's opinion, she always felt that if she stepped too fast, it would cause a lot of uncontrollable trouble. According to Gao Muqing's thoughts, she actually just wants to occupy Luoyan Valley, and she doesn't have any big ambitions. It's just that in order to protect Luoyan Valley, she has no choice.