"Big Brother ......"

"It's over!"

"It's over!" In a small courtyard, Zhang Daoyuan and the three of them stood on the roof, looking at the billowing smoke, Zhang Daoyuan said softly.

"Childe, what's wrong?" The woman asked.

At this time, at dusk, the remnant sun was like blood, Zhang Daoyuan's face was very ugly, he took a deep breath, and lowered his voice:

"When the reinforcements were finished, they were blocked in the canyon by Luo Xin, and they were burned to death. A bandit is a bandit, and it can't be done at all. ”

"Childe, what about us?"

"There's no need to stay here anymore, let's leave tonight."

Night.

Inside the Juyi Hall, the lights are bright. More than a dozen leaders sat in the hall, arguing incessantly, and the atmosphere was restless. Suddenly, Liang Dalong, who was sitting in the center, spoke:

"Second brother, you call Zhang Daoyuan."

A dozen leaders were silent, and then louder voices erupted.

"Yes, yes, all of this was attracted by Zhang Daoyuan, and he was also arrested by the imperial court, so we will arrest him and negotiate with Luo Xin."

"Pedal ......"

The second dragon head rushed out of the Juyi Hall, and the atmosphere in the Juyi Hall finally relaxed a little, with Zhang Daoyuan as a bargaining chip in his hand, which made their hearts settle down a lot.

About two quarters of an hour later, hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, and the second master rushed in, and said with a ruined face:

"Big brother, Zhang Daoyuan is gone."

On the cliff outside the ninth village, three figures were slowly climbing down the cliff, and at this time they were no more than 100 meters from the ground. After another quarter of an hour or so, the three men were no more than ten meters above the ground, and they fell lightly from the cliff, and then sneaked towards the mountain forest.

A figure fell to the ground like a fallen leaf, looking at the figures of the three people, silently following behind, in the dark night, like a ghost, without a sound.

The seventeenth village.

One by one, the thieves looked up at the smoke that rushed into the sky in the distance, it had been two days, and the smoke had not disappeared, it was obviously a fire, and the place where the smoke was very close to the ninth village.

"Did the Ninth Village fall, or did we destroy the officers and soldiers?"

"We must have wiped out the officers and soldiers."

"Then why is it on fire?"

"It should be burning the corpses of officers and soldiers."

"Yes, yes, yes! It must be so! The bandits nodded their heads, and then cheered.

At this time, this cheering took place in the various cottages, and only the people of the tenth village frowned one by one, because they were the closest to the ninth village, and they could see that the place where the fire was burning seemed to be a long distance from the ninth village.

"Five masters, the place where the fire is on fire, it seems to be on the other side of the canyon." A thief to the fifth master of the tenth village.

The fifth master's face changed: "Sixth son, you immediately take someone to the canyon to investigate." ”

"Good!" Liuzi's expression was solemn, and he was even a little frightened.

"Be careful and don't get spotted."

"I know."

"It worked!"

At this time, Luo Xin, who was walking on the road leading to the seventeenth village, had a happy smile on his face, and He Xinyin walked beside Luo Xin, with a very complicated look on his face. He knew that the fire on the other side of the canyon was the success of the officers and soldiers in ambushing reinforcements, and they had already understood through Zhang Long and Wang Gao's investigation in the eighteenth village, and the eighteenth village went to five thousand people, so that the total number of people from the tenth village to the eighteenth village should be forty-five thousand.

With the resentment of General Li's officers and soldiers against the bandits, they will kill no one of them.

More than 40,000 people!

His lips moved, but he didn't say anything in the end, after all, he had expected this result before, the bandits killed more than 100,000 officers and soldiers, and this revenge could not be avenged.

"What's wrong?" Luo Xin turned his head to look at He Xinyin and said, "Can't bear it? ”

He Xinyin sighed softly, Hao Datong, Zhang Long and Wang Gao, who were walking behind them, their faces turned pale, they all knew what a fire in the canyon meant, looking at Luo Xin's back, his eyes were full of fear, if he looked at the devil.

"I'm still too kind!" Luo Xin also sighed.

"Gah?" Everyone looked at Luo Xin in amazement, and said in their hearts, if you are kind, is there still a devil in this world?

"Do you think I'm willing to bear this notoriety?" Luo Xin said lightly.

Everyone showed a look of thought, what Luo Xin said was not wrong, after this war, Luo Xin's notoriety will definitely spread. If Luo Xin was a simple soldier, it would be fine, and the soldier would need this kind of notoriety.

But......

Luo Xin is not!

Luo Xin is a civil official, and with this notoriety, he will be isolated.

And......

Once Luo Xin's notoriety spreads, it will inevitably attract the hostility of the entire million mountain people, and there may be continuous rebellions in the future, and the Ming Dynasty will fall into the quagmire of war.

"Brother He, do you know the reason why the mountain people have been repeating in submission and rebellion?"

"Poor!" He Xinyin said: "I can't eat." ”

"Yes, but that's only one reason, there are more important reasons."

"What is the reason?" He Xinyin was stunned and said, even Hao Datong and other thousands of mountain people also pricked up their ears.

"Because of the existence of the Eighteen Villages."

"Huh?" Everyone was a little puzzled.

"Poor, just for the mountain people, not for the eighteen villages. Have you seen, or heard, that the people of the Eighteen Villages starved to death? Or have you not had enough to eat?

Wrong!

It should be when they have a bad time eating! ”

He Xinyin, Yun Zhiqiu, Tao Xingyan and others couldn't help but look at Hao Datong's mountain people. Hao Datong's faces became ugly, but they nodded and said:

"Their eighteenth village is really good."

"Why?" Yun Zhiqiu looked at Hao Dadao: "Since the eighteen villages can live well, then, you shouldn't be too bad?" ”

"Because...... Because ......" Hao Datong said with anger on his face: "Every year we have to pay taxes to the Eighteen Villages. ”

"Pay them taxes?"

"Yes, most of our benefits will be handed over to them, and if that tribe dares not to pay, they will destroy that tribe."

"Got it?" Luo Xin's gaze swept over everyone, and also swept over Hao Datong and the thousands of mountain people, and said in a condensed voice: "It is these eighteen villages that have caused the poverty of the mountain people, and then they took the mountain people out to rob under the banner of seeking welfare for the mountain people, but most of the materials robbed belonged to the eighteen villages, and the mountain people are still poor mountain people.

Hao Datong. ”

"In!"

"Imagine what your life would be like if it weren't for the exploitation of you mountain tribes by the Eighteen Villages, tell you the truth."

When the words fell, he swept his gaze over the nearly six thousand mountain people and said, "You can all tell the truth." ”

Hao Datong frowned and thought for a long time, and then said with a complicated expression:

"If there is no exploitation in the Eighteen Villages, although we mountain people will not have enough to eat, and even in bad times, there will be people who will starve to death, but it is better than the current life."

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