Back Off, Let Me Come

Bai Su rides on the war horse.

He glanced indifferently at the captured horse bandits.

Her lack of imagination could not think of any way to make people "worse than death" for a while, but she also felt that the known torture was not enough to vent her anger and establish her power. Then he cast a curious look at his lord, and Xu Quan also looked over.

Xu Quan guessed: "Towed by horse?"

Then he asked: "The city gate is hung to dry?"

Bai Su added: "Three thousand six hundred swords Lingchi?"

When Xu Quan heard this, he thought it was impossible. He curled his lips and refuted: "There are so many horse bandits, each of them uses a knife to slice their flesh, and they still pay 3,600 knives? How can so much effort be wasted?"

Generally speaking, Lingchi torture takes too long and the labor cost is too high. The horse bandits are not worthy of this treatment.

Bai Su raised her eyebrows and asked, "What do you think you can do?"

Xu Quan pondered, thinking about the plan: "First disembowel the belly, take out the fat and light the sky lantern, and peel the remaining last?"

This method is not cruel.

You must know that the previous Longwu County Sheriff was also captured on the way to defend the city. He ended up having his body split open and his internal organs eviscerated, and then beheaded. The head and body were hung separately from the city gate to be exposed to the sun, and the remaining internal organs were fed to jackals. .

For an inhumane existence like Shiwu...

Only more cruel and cruel methods can be used to intimidate someone. As for gentleness and comfort, they are "mercy" when someone is completely subdued or beaten to the edge of genocide. It is the sporadic sympathy that the strong gives to the weak.

Before that, the only option was to fight!

Any gentle approach will be viewed as cowardice by the enemy.

Bai Su didn't respond, just looked at the lord whose face was as cold as a layer of frost, and the other party said with a smile in his voice: "Those are too bloody, just bury them alive, only one head is exposed, take it." A good metaphor for getting ahead."

Bai Su and Xu Quan were both surprised.

It's more intimidating than building a Jingguan, and it's a way to make the enemy unable to survive or die. Is this it?

Yes, that's it.

but--

That's enough!

Shen Tang's eyes were dark. There was a killing intent in his eyes that was rare among Qi Shan and others. He Yin has kept a low profile for the past two years, causing too many people to think that she is just a "benevolent gentleman", but ignore her decisiveness in killing before putting on this mask.

The administrative seat of Longwu County is Ruyao.

Due to its geographical location, Ruyao has strong folk customs and huge economic fluctuations. If the military strength is strong and Shiwu dare not offend easily, the economy will prosper. Because Shiwu's side has backward productivity and lack of resources, many daily necessities cannot be obtained by plundering, so they can only barter, which is more expensive. local specialties in exchange for cloth, salt and grain.

Naturally, Ruyao's economy is not much worse.

In its heyday, the city was bustling with traffic and there were a lot of Shiwu merchants who traveled thousands of miles to do business. Merchants from all over the world would exchange local items that were not very rare with them, and they could make profits of more than ten times or even dozens of times. There are also those who are brave enough to secretly go deep into the hinterland of Shiwu to engage in smuggling, where the profits are even higher.

They also have the awareness of "eugenics and good education".

In order to improve the genes of the tribe, tribal women who are in short supply during peacetime are encouraged to intermarry with men from Longwu County, and the children they give birth to are generally stronger than the children of the tribe.

_(:з)∠)_

This is not difficult to explain at all.

There are many natural resources in Shiwu, but there are really not many food resources, and the diet structure is still simple.

In addition, more than two hundred years after the thief star descended from the sky, after generations of inheritance and crazy involution struggles, this wave of people in the mainland have an average height, physical fitness, and qualifications that are higher than Shiwu. There is a ratio of literary scholars to brave warriors. Also higher.

It is normal to "borrow" excellent genes from one's own family.

certainly--

This "harmonious scene" is limited to when the military strength is strong.

If Longwu County's military strength is weak, or the country behind Longwu County is weak and corrupt, let alone resisting Shiwu's harassment, if you still need to bow to Shiwu's favor, then there will be no business. People came directly to do a wave of zero-yuan group purchases.

In the past, the cloth, salt and grain that were exchanged for things were all robbed directly, and tribal women were not encouraged to "borrow seeds" and rob other people's women into their own nests. In a word, the burning, killing and looting were not spared, and were even more cruel.

What Shen Tang saw at this moment was of course Ruyao, which had been devastated by wars over and over again. It was even more miserable and desolate than Fugu City in Heyin. The huge city wall was destroyed to pieces, the buildings in the city were equal to ruins, and the government offices...

The official offices in Fugu City are still in dilapidated condition.

Ruyao's official office is in ruins.

When Shen Tang arrived, the large army had already entered the city for most of the day, clearing out an open space barely enough to stand on the ruins of the government office. The army skillfully used the tools and began to repair the city wall, which barely gave Ru Yao a little more life.

Qishan and others have already made clear their division of labor.

Send people separately to inquire about news in the city.

Gather the dispersed common people as much as possible.

Lin Feng helped her teacher Chu Yao. The two masters and apprentices were discussing something. Tu Rong took off his armor, with most of his arms bare in the cold wind, and followed other soldiers to fight against the debris of the building. He was so hot that he broke out in sweat.

"I have met my lord."

Shen Tang arrived at the official office on a motorcycle.

Chu Yao straightened his clothes that were stained with dust, and saluted her together with Lin Feng. Shen Tang jumped off the motorcycle: "No need to be polite, how is the city being cleaned up? How could the government office..."

Speaking of this, Chu Yao also sighed.

The former Longwu County Sheriff fell into the enemy's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain. In addition, Shiwu and his group of "horse bandits" had planned for a long time for revenge. Taking advantage of the inability of the troops in Longwu County to return reinforcements, they led thousands of people to massacre. To kill Ruyao - to say it was to slaughter, was to go on a killing spree, killing wantonly for several hours, and setting off a big fire when leaving. The whole government department suffered even more disasters...

Shen Tang frowned solemnly: "No one is alive?"

The accident in Longwu County happened in midsummer, and Shen Tang took office a few days after the autumn harvest. During this period, no one was able to clean up the aftermath?

Unless everyone died in that catastrophe.

Chu Yao said: "That's not true..."

"Why is that?"

"It's because I'm so disappointed..."

Chu Yao didn't need to speak too carefully, Shen Tang could hear it. Longwu County suffered such a catastrophe, and the corpse of a county governor was so humiliated. The royal court was not only furious but sent troops, at least it wanted to show its stance. In the end, if you don't talk nonsense, you are still on good terms with the Shiwu brothers... Most of the soldiers guarding Longwu County are from Longwu indigenous people. When they hear this, they will naturally feel chilled...

It just started to mess up.

It's just that, after all, we can't let go of the fight against Shiwu. However, without Wang Ting's money to supply military supplies and grain, life is extremely difficult, and many places don't care at all - such as the massacred Sangouli Village.

They can only guard the level and not break it.

As for those ten-crow thieves who secretly cut through the city wall, crossed the increasingly weakened national border barrier, and sneaked over to burn, kill, and loot, they were not enough.

It’s hard to even lift the pot, let alone repair Ru Yao.

This situation is really sad for those who hear it and shed tears for those who see it.

There is a very big trouble here.

Shen Tang was nominally sent by Wang Ting Zheng Qiao.

so--

Shen Tang will most likely be boycotted by these people. When thinking about these troubles, even Shen Tang is a little older than him.

The difficulty of this start is several times higher than that of He Yin!

At that time, He Yin only needed to clean up one-third of an acre of her own land, and she didn't have to worry about anything else. Because although the neighbors next door like her, they are obviously good brothers, and they cannot harass her home base without a good excuse.

It is true that she has not been harassed in the past two years, and Shen Tang also used a lot of human resources for nothing——

Although Xu Jie's "wedding dress" of more than two years was finally cheaper, Shen Tang is not someone who only focuses on the immediate gains and losses. She has a longer-term view - at least, this matter has attracted Xu Jie. The rich man invested in himself, and also tricked the other party into sending Xu Quan, who was carefully cultivated by the Xu family. Additional investment will be inevitable in the future, and he is willing to serve as Shen Tang's ATM machine.

When he gets stronger and fights back in the future, He Yin is equivalent to returning to his own pocket in a circle. To achieve such a bright ending, she must first deal with the troublesome Longwu County before her, and survive under Shiwu's iron heel.

"...Sigh, it's hard to make money and hard to eat shit..."

The top priority is to clean up Ru Yao first, collect the remaining refugees, and have a foothold that is barely bearable, and then go to negotiate with the original soldiers and horses of Longwu County in person. Just because they fought tooth and nail to guard Longwu County does not mean they are friendly to her.

A sudden stabbing in the back is also possible.

It happened to be drizzling at this time.

Everyone was so busy that they were hitting the back of their heads. Even Jiang Sheng’s family members didn’t even bother to rest and came out to help clean up.

After a busy day, I can finally drink some hot soup.

Shen Tang was nestled in a makeshift tent, with the biting cold wind blowing. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became.

Gu Chi came back with a lawsuit on his head, and from afar he heard his lord's heartbroken words: "Endure the ovarian cyst for a while, take a step back to breast hyperplasia... This evil spirit must come out!" Gan! How could I be a doormat? 】

Gu Chi: "..."

More than two years...

He also knew what "ovarian cyst" and "breast hyperplasia" meant. Although every time he heard it, he wanted to complain, "Does his lord have such things? It seems that he does." However, considering that this may be slang in the lord's hometown, No more worries.

Compared with the words "take a step back and open up the sky", he prefers the master's words. He can't bear it anymore and doesn't need to bear it anymore!

"Lord."

Gu Chi was ready to come in.

Shen Tang said: "Looking at the tide comes just in time."

As soon as Gu Chi heard this, he knew it was time to do something.

"My lord, do you have any orders?"

Shen Tang: "Send people to dig dozens of holes on the road to the city gate, bury the horse bandits I captured one by one, just expose one head, then send people to guard, write a notice, all the people of Longwu County I can even kick him!"

"that's all?"

Shen Tang thought for a while and then added fiercely: "Pluck a hundred hairs from the horse bandit and reward him with one or two corns."

Gu Chi thought for a while and made a suggestion: "Pour some more gold juice into the pit. This can be raised from the homes of common people."

Just burying people in the ground and kicking them in the head...

People can still live comfortably for a few days.

Killing can only be done with a nod of the head.

But for these horse bandits, they can only grind their flesh with a dull knife.

The people of Longwu County also need an outlet to vent their emotions. At the same time, they can use this method to quickly recognize Shen Tang as the new governor of Longwu County - let them know that the previous county governor took care of them with their lives, and Shen Jun not only He will protect Longwu County, and he will also lead Longwu County to knock Shi Wu's brains away.

These horse bandits are just "voting certificates".

It doesn't matter how they die.

What matters is how the people of Longwu County vent their anger.

Shen Tang: "...Alright."

Shen Tang asked again: "...It seems that you are very skilled at watching the tide?"

Gu Chi was not surprised and said: "Similar things will always be seen after marching and fighting for a long time. This method of intimidating and humiliating the enemy is also very similar. As long as the lord doesn't feel disgusted and cruel...you can't be merciful to Shiwu!"

Why doesn't Shen Tang know this?

She was trying to create a good reputation in Heyin to protect her. The neighbors were worried about not doing anything to her, but in Longwu County, she was looking for death if she continued to create this persona. Gu Chi added another sentence.

"Let Chi take up this matter..."

Shen Tang: "Huh?"

Gu Chi looked serious: "Because my lord is the future 'benevolent lord', not the 'tyrannical lord' like Zheng Qiao, your approach is different. This method can only be regarded as a small trick. Use it once or twice to achieve the goal." The purpose is to shock and humiliate the enemy, but if you use it too much, it will be inferior. It will also make the outside world criticize the protagonist for having sadistic quirks... The real power must be established on the battlefield."

Shen Tang smiled and rolled his eyes.

"This is natural, don't worry if you watch the tide."

Gu Chi nodded.

He didn't worry about this at first. He understood his master's character better than Qi Shan and Chu Yao.

However, the environment has a great influence on people, Shiwu has no bottom line in his actions, and there are countless crimes that are outraged by humans and gods. If his protagonist is completely angered and uses the same method to retaliate again and again, his temperament will change over time.

In the words of the lord——

It's the boy who slays the dragon and eventually becomes the evil dragon.

Shen Tang found Lin Feng and Yu Zi again.

Ask the two of them how much food and grass they have. Shen Tang's current family fortune is definitely considered substantial, which is different from two years ago. Especially in food, there is no shortage at all. It is enough to feed the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under him for four to five years.

Shen Tang said: "Allocate two thousand stones."

Yu Zi recorded carefully: "What are you doing?"

"Send it to the Longwu soldiers and horses guarding the checkpoint."

"Now?"

Yu Zi and Lin Feng looked at each other.

They had been busy with Chu Yao for the past half day, and they had a general understanding of the situation in Longwu County. They knew that sooner or later, they would come into contact with the garrison. But on the first day, he couldn’t wait to send away two thousand stones of food and grass...

There is a high probability that people will not be grateful, and even after receiving the grain, they will scold them and spit on them.

Shen Tang said: "This is called courtesy first and then fighting."

She showed her attitude first.

If you still don't appreciate it, then you'll have to resort to violence.

Besides——

Regardless, they have a common enemy.

The Shiwu army could not pass the checkpoint, so Shen Tang only had room to operate in the government office. At least the city defense of the government office should be repaired first, otherwise the enemy would not even have a decent defense when they came. Isn't it a food delivery? Two thousand stones of food and grass, I won't feel bad if I give it away.

Yu and Zi nodded and ordered: "Wei."

Of course, before implementation, Shen Tang would have to ask Chu Yao for some details to make sure it was feasible before implementing it.

With the construction experience of Heyin County, Ruyao saved a lot of trouble this time. Although there are only three or two kittens left among the common people in the city, and the manpower seems to be seriously insufficient, the young men brought by Shen Tang are all experts in infrastructure construction, "old craftsmen" with two years of experience!

Big changes in just five days!

Let a small number of refugees go out to make a living in search of food, but the refugees who were so hungry that their chests pressed against their backs and returned empty-handed thought they had gone the wrong way——

Wait, is this still Ruyao? ? ?

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I’ve read everyone’s comments. I tossed and turned and thought a lot yesterday. I was feeling sulky. I even had a chat with the editors in the morning. This welfare change cannot be changed, so I hope that a patch will be added in the future.

Alas, the most important thing is that there are still two years left before I can retire from the series. This is still relatively optimistic. If the spores develop smoothly, it will probably be delayed by a few months. The serialization cannot be discontinued at will, nor can it be spoiled.

As for dividing the novel into volumes, it is not feasible at the moment.

Shiitake doesn't want to give up. I'm dragging my appendix like the army girl who was doing well back then.

Therefore, I should serialize it, and everyone should continue to follow up.

For now, let's wait for the wind and rain to dissipate.