Chapter 170 Daydreaming (1)
Rosacea, this is a person's nickname.
The surface identity of Rosacea is the owner of a tavern at Qingyuecheng Wharf, and secretly a spy from Qingyuecheng with a fiefdom.
His task is to monitor the bandits entering and leaving the tavern. Once he finds any bad movements, he must report the news to the city immediately.
Rosacea made his current fiefdom of five hundred stones through such achievements.
And now, Rosacea felt that his fiefdom was about to increase again.
The reason is very simple, because he found that the bandit leaders were all gathered together and muttering something.
Even bandit leaders who are usually hostile to each other will meet each other when they meet them. They will no longer be the same as before. When they meet, they will curse and use a knife to fight.
In addition to the bandit leaders who usually operate at the wharf, leaders from other places have also begun to appear in the port.
Although I didn't find anything when I asked, the two keywords "Lord, surrender" I eavesdropped on are enough to guess that there is a force ready to take these bandit leaders as retainers.
Although I don’t know which force it is, since it is not done by my lord, it is the enemy that appears, which is a great contribution.
Just as Rosacea was happily preparing to report the information, a noisy sound suddenly came from the street. He pricked up his ears and heard it, it seemed that somewhere was running out of water.
I don’t care about this rosacea at all. There will be several fire accidents on this pier. Anyway, there are people from the public security offices, so it’s not my turn to take care of the matter. I and them are from the two systems.
Just when Rosacea was secretly proud that he didn't have to work hard and earn no contribution like a public security office, the noise on the street not only did not weaken or stop, but became increasingly louder and everyone had curiosity, and Rosacea was no exception. He couldn't help but run out to see.
This sight immediately made him stunned. He saw that the sky in the distance was red and the area was completely covered by flames.
Oh my God, is this going to go?
In the past, two or three houses were burned, but now the entire block is in a sea of fire!
Neil looked at the flames in the distance in a daze, and then looked at the men who were a little nervous and left behind the aftermath. Neil was now in tears.
The purpose of my aftermath was to ask them to hide the body and close the tavern, but they didn't expect that they would set fire! And it was this kind of fire that burned the entire neighborhood!
Damn it! This place will not take long to be the lord. Now that I have destroyed it, how can I explain it to you?
Looking at his poor looks, Neil patted his head, what can he do? Because he didn't explain clearly, he punished these subordinates?
So what can you do if you punish me? Beat me or scold me? Wasting my own strength and causing complaints from my subordinates.
Kill? I'm afraid that my subordinates will immediately rebel.
Alas, forget it, since that's the case, let's just make a big splash. A chaotic Qingyue City will definitely be more likely to be taken down by the lord.
Thinking of this, Neil glared at his subordinates fiercely, and shouted: "Send the order to kill the sheriff, provoke the murderous nature of all the bandits, and tell those bandit leaders that as long as the army in the city is drawn out, they will be the position of retainers! Don't forget to tell the bandits in other places. I want to make the territory of the entire Qingyue City chaotic!"
His subordinates, who were worried about his mistakes, immediately shouted happily, drew their swords and rushed to the sea of fire. All the sheriffs of the public security office were there to command their subordinates to put out the fire.
"Damn it! What are the sheriffs doing? Why don't they order these bandits to participate in the firefighting? Do they think that just a few people in their public security office can put out the fire?"
Rosacea talked to herself and saw the crowded bandits on the street watching the fun with gloating look on their faces, and they couldn't help but feel angry.
"These damn guys, knowing that they have no industry and no family, just think they are safe. They don't think about the dock being burned down, how do you find food!"
When he talked to himself, Rosacea suddenly had a thought: "Ah, will these damn guys take advantage of the fire? Damn it! Such a big fire, I saw it from a distance. Why haven't the army in the city come yet?" Thinking of it, I was too lazy to care about whether it was a fire or not, I turned to the tavern and got into the tavern to collect some bags and prepare to escape.
The owners of the tavern shops around were obviously aware of this problem and left the crowd to go home to prepare.
None of these bosses noticed that when they set off, there were several bandits with malicious intentions following behind them.
Immediately afterwards, several bandit leaders who received the news gathered together to discuss a few words, then led people to attack these shops and taverns, and began to massacre civilians who were not bandits.
When the city of Qingyue, when he received the news of a fire on the dock, the city of Qingyue, he waved his hand and sent a subordinate to take people to participate in the fire extinguishing, and ignored it.
As a confidant, Fer knew that his lord was in a bad mood.
No matter who dies a son, he will not be in a good mood. If the lord had not had an illegitimate son, I'm afraid the lord would have drown his sorrow by drinking.
Of course, the lord is not in a bad mood because of the dead young master, and of course it will not be a fire.
The lord on the dock has no benefit, and it doesn't matter if it is completely burned, because the shipyard is not at the dock at all, and the fire cannot spread to the city.
Of course, it is not because of the next transaction that the two parties have already agreed, as long as the money and goods are in line.
However, the lord's bad mood is still related to this transaction, it's nothing more than because of the war horse.
In fact, it was also a big shot that the lord was too excited when he obtained two hundred war horses at once. Not only did he immediately form a cavalry team, but he also brought all the cavalry to the hall.
According to the lord's intention, he wanted to show off and suppress the hall. After all, the hall only had four hundred cavalry, and the lord had six hundred cavalry.
But the lord did not expect that these six hundred cavalry would arouse the jealousy of other city lords in the same camp.
As a result, with the support of these city lords, the hall directly asked the lord for two hundred cavalry, which made the lord agree or refuse.
Although the city lords do their own things, they are still under the same banner and the same lord. The blatant disobeying orders may lead to the attack of all the city lords of the same power.
Finally, the news of the young master's death came, and the lord rushed back with this reason.
But the matter was not over yet. As the hall sent an envoy to pay tribute, there was also an order to pursue two hundred war horses.
The Feidu Peninsula is short of horses, and the two nearby countries are even short of horses.
The powerful attack power of the cavalry has made war horses an important military equipment, and they can't even buy money on the Feidu Peninsula. It is conceivable how important two hundred war horses are to a force, and it also understands how difficult it is to make the choice of these two hundred war horses.
"Oh, it seems that I can only hand over the war horse." The Lord of Qingyue City sighed.
The arm could not twist the thigh, and Fair knew that the lord's decision was right.
However, when he thought that he had picked up a boatman for a war horse, and with this merit, he received a reward of two thousand stones of land, he couldn't help but tremble and said, "Lord, Cons still has thousands of war horses. We may be able to buy two hundred more war horses from him."
When the Lord of Qingyue heard this, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Didn't he say he could only take out two hundred war horses? Now he is asking him for it, and he is willing to give it out?"
"He has so many war horses, and it should be nothing to give two hundred more. Don't he need a boat maker? We will come up with a group of excellent boat maker, and he will definitely not refuse. As long as the price is in place, it will be fine to ask him to treason." Fair said.
When the Lord of Qingyue heard this, he frowned: "Excellent ship craftsman? This is an important foundation for ensuring our interests. And I heard that he is preparing to build a shipyard, so it may be inappropriate to give him these excellent ship craftsmen."
"Lord, we can raise the price. If an excellent boatman exchanges for a war horse, a mere 200 boatmans cannot threaten us. Moreover, he is just a major lord and will leave the territory after a while. His territory is at most to earn some money for him, and there is no need to worry that he will build warships."
Fair said.
The Lord of Qingyue City nodded and said, "Well, then okay, when he comes, you go and find out about the whistleblower. If you don't want a boatman, then it's OK to change it to gold coins. You can tell him that two thousand gold coins are a war horse."
Fair immediately took the order. Neither of them thought Cons would threaten him. It was amazing that he just earned a little gold from him.
Because they all knew that the Imperial Army did not order to go to war to the outside world without authorization, which was a death sentence.
Just as the Lord of Qingyue City asked how the reception banquet was prepared, a servant rushed in disrespectfully and shouted: "Lord, please report it urgently! The bandits living in the dock took advantage of the situation to rob the dock, not only looting the dock, but also starting an organized attack on our army, and urgently needed reinforcements!"
When the Lord of Qingyue City heard this, he immediately jumped up and shouted, "This group of damn untouchables! He actually rebels at this time! Want to make me look disgraceless? Come on! Transfer five thousand soldiers and horses to kill the untouchables on the dock!"
Fair hurriedly dissuaded: "Lord, plus the two thousand troops who went to put out the fire, so there will be only more than three thousand troops left in our city. The defense in the city will immediately weaken most of it. Why would you hire mercenaries to mobilize?"
The Lord of Qingyue stared at Fer coldly and said, "Please hire mercenaries? If you want to send out these trivial matters such as destroying these untouchables who took advantage of the situation, you actually want to send out mercenaries?
"If I do this, what will Major Cons think of me when he sees me? What will other city lords talk about me when he sees me? They will definitely feel that my direct troops are so weak that they can't even solve the problem of bandits!
"If they had such a misunderstanding, what do you think will be next?" After speaking, the city lord's tone was so cold that it was freezing.
Fer is sweating profusely. What will happen if a force's direct troops are weak? The same force will divide you immediately, while the external forces will invade you immediately.
You cannot show weakness on Feidu Peninsula.
In the past, there was a stupid boy who didn't know who followed the opinions of those who wanted the surrounding enemies to fight each other, but he hid in the dark to take the opportunity to develop, so he instructed the direct army to deliberately show weakness. However, when he showed weakness, enemies from all directions immediately put their targets on him and all swarmed over, even the bandits and retainers in the territory often rebelled.
Although everyone found that the intelligence was not in line with the war with that stupid army, the territorial system of Feidu Peninsula decided that once a war started, the truce would not be decided by the monarch, so everyone was fighting to the death.
In this way, although the direct troops of the foolish ranch were actually very strong, no matter how powerful the army was, it could not afford such repeated attacks. So it goes without saying that the fool ranch died and his territory was annexed.
Therefore, on Feidu Peninsula, you can show off your power and be arrogant, but you can't show your weakness, because everyone is a person who bullies the weak and is afraid of the strong. Once you are misunderstood as a soft persimmon, it will be troublesome. You must know that it is a hard persimmon. If you are pinched too much, it will turn into a soft persimmon and rotten persimmon after being pinched for a long time.
Thinking of this, Feer immediately knelt down and kowtowed in panic: "Lord, I was nervous about the safety of the city for a while and did not notice this. I was guilty of death. I am willing to atone for my merits and lead the army to destroy the untouchables for my lord!"
Fair was cursing at himself in his heart: "Damn it, why are you so stupid? You only think about the safety of the city and don't want the regular army to be dispatched, but you didn't expect this would give people a feeling of weakness!
Now it’s miserable. The impression I had finally established before was greatly reduced. I’m afraid there is no chance for soldiers to atone for their sins.”
Sure enough, the Lord of Qingyue refused: "No need, you have to be responsible for the banquet. Others will be responsible for the matter of destroying those untouchables."
Hearing the cold tone of the Lord of Qingyue City, Fer could only sigh and obey. Alas, it seems that it will take a long time for him to recover his impression in the lord's heart.
The other retainers present were gloating. Although they did not dare to take advantage of the situation, it was also pleasing to see the decline of the first retainer's status.hf();
Chapter completed!