Chapter 27 Conspiracy!
County government.
The temple was looted.
This made County Magistrate Ye both shocked and angry.
The Shihu Village has been wreaking havoc for several years, and all it did was rob caravans and loot houses. I never thought that this time it would be so rampant, causing such a big commotion in broad daylight!
"Master Ye!"
County Magistrate Gao Zhi came hurriedly over and said, "Most of the hostages kidnapped from Shihu Village are children from various towns and villages."
"It seems they must have some plan!"
Ye Biqing said in a deep voice: "First, find out the purpose of Shihu Village!"
Children are easy to control, pose little risk, and come from different villages. By taking them as hostages, we can bind many village clans, which will inevitably have the greatest pressure effect.
It’s enough to make the government be cautious!
The hostages must be safe now. If nothing unexpected happens, Shihu Village will put forward conditions next. If their conditions are not met, this group of cruel people will kill people one after another to increase the pressure.
The government will lose its dignity.
It may also cause civil unrest.
Gao Zhi: "Guo Shanhu's main target is the young master of the Yu family."
County Magistrate Ye was stunned for a moment: "What's going on?"
Gao Zhi took out a handwritten letter and said, "This is a letter from Guo Shanhu of Shihu Village. It has been circulated in all the villages. Please have a look, Lord Ye."
This is a threatening blackmail letter.
Its contents are as follows:
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Yu Xiaojun:
I have long heard of your name.
I am writing this letter due to an incident.
I am Guo Shanhu from Shihu Village, and I lead a group of people to gather in the mountains. Although I am a bandit, I also know loyalty and righteousness. However, I was sad to hear that I had committed a crime against my brother Zheng Laoying, and wanted to gather a militia to wipe us out. This is truly an unjust act and makes me feel sad.
In order to seek justice, I united with other mountain strongholds to join in this righteous cause and took fifty innocent children as hostages.
They are still unharmed at this moment, but their safety depends on your thoughts!
What we seek is as follows.
First: disband the militia to show sincerity.
Second: Please prepare 50,000 yuan in cash to compensate for the losses of Shihu Village.
Within five days, the task was completed as scheduled, and all the hostages were returned to their hometowns safely.
If I am lucky enough to delay or resist, the lives of the hostages will be in danger and rivers will flow. You will be the real murderer!
Although I am a mountain bandit, I also know the ways of benevolence and righteousness, and I do not want to suffer innocent harm.
I hope you will think carefully, put innocent lives first, and don’t act on impulse and lose the big picture for the sake of small things!
Although fifty thousand silver dollars is a lot, I think it is not difficult to raise it with your family wealth, but how can you ignore the fact that human lives are at stake?
If I can understand the general situation, all our grudges will be written off. From now on, I will never trouble your family again, nor will I offend the local villagers in the slightest.
Write it down as evidence.
Never break your promise!
Guo Shanhu (signed).
Established on September 15th, the seventy-eighth year of Emperor Dajing Qian!
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"Too crazy!"
Ye Biqing's face turned livid.
Yu Xiao killed Zheng Laoying, the second in command of Shihu Village. Given Guo Shanhu's character, he would definitely seek revenge.
however.
Yu Xiao is surrounded by many experts.
Stayed in Xiaohe Town for a long time again.
Even if the bandits wanted to retaliate, they had no chance.
Because of this, County Magistrate Ye was not worried, but he did not expect that Guo Shanhu would cut off the source of the problem!
He took advantage of the opportunity when villagers from various villages brought their children to the temple fair and led a crowd to suddenly rob the temple fair, abducting dozens of children as hostages, and used them to threaten Yu Xiao!
Since Yu Xiao returned to Meixian, everything he did was righteous, and he has accumulated a very good reputation.
But if we ignore the threat of bandits.
As a result, dozens of hostages died.
So no matter who the murderer is, it will be difficult for the villagers in each village not to vent their anger on Yu Xiao, which will eventually lead to a sharp decline in his reputation and even possible resentment and dissatisfaction.
But if Yu Xiao meets the demands of Shihu Village, he will have to disband the militia and pay a huge ransom.
Would this solve the problem?
Not to mention that Guo Shanhu is a two-faced and despicable villain. Even if Guo Shanhu really fulfills his promise, Yu Xiao's compromise with the bandits will greatly reduce his prestige!
Whether to respond or not.
Compromise or no compromise.
It’s hard to end!
Too vicious.
Gao Zhi sighed and said, "We are also responsible for the situation. The strength of Guo Shanhu's camp alone is not enough to rob the temple fair."
Ye Biqing: "That's right. If we hadn't asked Yu Xiao to create a militia in the name of suppressing bandits, so that the nearby bandits felt threatened, Guo Shanhu would not have been able to do such a big thing."
Shihuzhai is the largest bandit stronghold near Meixian County.
But all the members added up were only about a hundred people, and there were at least three or two hundred bandits participating in the robbery of the temple fair.
Combined with Guo Shanhu’s description in the letter.
This thief might have united all the nearby bandit forces!
It would be difficult for him to gather so many people at the same time just to avenge the second in command Zheng Laoying. The bandits would only be so united if they were facing a common threat.
And this threat is the Xiaohe Town Militia!
Once this militia is successfully established, regardless of whether it can successfully suppress the bandits, in the future, with such an armed force protecting the surrounding area, it will be very difficult for bandits to go into the countryside to rob!
Lost source of income and livelihood!
How can we tolerate this group of desperadoes?
In the end, they conspired to commit such a sensational crime!
County Magistrate Ye: "We can't just sit there and wait for death. I will write to the prefect and ask for reinforcements!"
"I'm afraid it's too late!"
Gao Zhi smiled bitterly: "Lord Ye knows the efficiency of the Dajing court better than I do. And it is not easy to wipe out hundreds of bandits gathered in the mountains. Who is willing to take on this thankless job?"
He wanted to wipe out hundreds of bandits in Shihu Village.
At least three to five times more elite troops should be sent!
Not only is the government of Dajing corrupt now, but the army is mostly composed of good-for-nothings. I'm afraid no captain would be willing to take part in this thankless and unprofitable task of suppressing bandits.
A bunch of bandits can’t be wiped out!
We can only allow them to exploit the people at will!
One can imagine how stupid and incompetent Jing Ting is!
The Shihu Village is so cunning and vicious, and has set up such a difficult conspiracy. I don’t know how Yu Shao will deal with it.
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at the same time.
Yu Xiao had just finished reading the letter from Guo Shanhu, the leader of Shihu Village.
It has to be said that Guo Shanhu did have some brains to become a bandit leader and wreak havoc in several counties including Meixian for several years.
Zheng Laoying’s revenge must be taken.
Otherwise it will be difficult to convince people in the future.
But if Guo Shanhu took the initiative to come to Yu Xiao, or tried to find an opportunity to kill him, he would not have a chance to get close.
Yu Xiao spent a huge amount of money to buy a large number of advanced foreign guns and cannons, and recruited the most capable militiamen from all over the country to form a militia, which made these bandits feel even more terrified.
Guo Shanhu's move.
It cannot pose a direct threat to Yu Xiao.
However, they can put pressure on Yu Xiao's prestige and perhaps disrupt the militia, thus eliminating this threat in advance.
Faced with this situation.
Yu Xiao just sneered.
After he successfully refined his Qi and returned to Dajing this time, he had planned to start dealing with the affairs of Shihu Village. On the one hand, he wanted to eliminate potential threats to himself, and on the other hand, he wanted to take the opportunity to continue to expand his reputation.
The bandits gathered in Shihuzhai.
Make the matter bigger in one fell swoop.
This not only gives Yu Xiao a better excuse to take action, but also further expands Yu Xiao's reputation.
Guo Shanhu is indeed a smart man.
It can be seen that Yu Xiao cares about his reputation, so he captured so many hostages as a threat.
But this was meaningless to Yu Xiao. On the one hand, Yu Xiao needed prestige but would never be kidnapped. On the other hand, Yu Xiao was already a cultivator, and his methods were incomprehensible to these bandits.
"I have two light body talismans, two invisibility talismans, and a bottle of Hundred Snake Powder... these should be enough!"
Yu Xiao had already made up his mind.
A mere gang of bandits is nothing to worry about!
The bigger the commotion this time, the greater the reputation and benefits that will be brought after the bandits are successfully suppressed!
(End of this chapter)
