"I don't want your life. What do you want if you don't want money?"
"What do you want so much money for?"
"It's none of your business!"
Yang Qingzhi lost his temper after being retorted by Zhao Cheng. He couldn't help laughing and said, "You tell me, tell me, how much do you want?"
"Look at how insincere you are!"
Zhao Cheng knelt down and stared at Yang Qingzhi, his expression and posture were like those of a gangster who kidnapped a rich man, and said coldly: "You can get as much as you think you are worth! I will only give you one chance, it is enough for what I have in mind, I will
I’ll let you go. If it’s not enough, I’ll kill you!”
Yang Qingzhi shook his head.
Zhao Cheng asked: "What do you mean by shaking your head? You don't want to?"
"No." Yang Qingzhi said: "I just think that if you use this opportunity to ask me to betray the Southern Zhou secret spies, I will still think that you are a loyal and patriotic person. But I didn't expect that you would be so selfish and take the opportunity to make money.
.”
"You are smart, but you are still a bit stupid!"
"I... stay??"
"What is loyalty to the emperor and patriotism? It is not about kneeling down and licking one's country in front of outsiders, but having absolute confidence in one's own country. Dajing has its own special agency to deal with those spies of your Southern Zhou Dynasty. Besides, yours
Not even spies, even I, Zhao Cheng, can kill all your spies in Yanchuan, how long can the other spies hide?"
"What the hell?"
"Nothing!"
Hearing this, Yang Qingzhi's face instantly turned red.
Murder and heart-wrenching.
Zhao Cheng's words made his heart hurt.
"What, have you thought about it?" Zhao Cheng urged.
When Yang Qingzhi closed his eyes and thought, Chen Chong took a step closer to him and said: "As long as the green hills are still there, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood. You must live on!"
Yang Qingzhi let out a long breath and said, "Then you should go."
"yes!"
"Zhao Wu, follow him and send a message to Dong Twelve, asking him to go to Qingdong City to collect the money!"
After saying that, he glared at Chen Chong and shouted: "Pay attention to the time, I don't have that much patience!"
Chen Chong took off and left.
Zhao Cheng glanced at the arrow stuck in his arm and said, "Pull out the arrow. Aren't you afraid of infection?!"
Chen Chong drew his arrow while running, and Zhao Wu followed closely behind.
Zhao Cheng didn't know the network conditions of the Southern Zhou spies in the Thirteen Cities of Jingdong, and naturally didn't know their ability to raise money, but he had a price in mind.
From 300,000 to 500,000, if you can reach this number, you won't feel a loss if you let Yang Qingzhi go.
If it doesn’t reach this number…
Let’s talk about it then.
Anyway, he thought that the dignified little governor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty would not be able to afford even hundreds of thousands.
Things are unpredictable, and the results are often unexpected. Sometimes they are surprises, sometimes they are frightening.
Zhao Cheng was in for a surprise this time.
The ransom that Chen Chong collected for Yang Qingzhi was one million taels!
Zhao Cheng's jaw almost dropped in shock, but after thinking about it, it made sense.
This Yang Qingzhi lived in the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Apart from the princes of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, he should be the richest second generation.
One million taels, worth it!
It’s simply a sky-high price for the little governor!!
Seeing Yang Qingzhi heading south with the remaining defeated generals, Zhao Cheng took out the sachet he found in the bandit's den from his pocket and felt that all he smelled was the smell of silver.
It smells so good!
Zhao Wudao: "Master, you said he has unlimited potential, why did you let him go? If he were allowed to grow up, wouldn't it be a disaster for our Jingguo?"
Zhao Cheng said: "It's unknown whether he can grow up, but he is right, I can't kill him."
"Let him go, and the Southern Zhou court will put the price of losing the seven generals of Yangmen and this defeat on him. He can resist our anger. But if we kill him, we will bear the anger of Southern Zhou.
.The imperial court’s Northern Expedition is at a critical juncture, and a two-front battle really cannot afford it.”
"Of course..." Zhao Cheng opened the sachet in his hand and said, "This is why I made up my mind to let him go."
Zhao Wu asked: "What is this?"
"The ones I picked up in the bandit's den are the same pair as the ones he had on him. They should have been dropped by him on the mountain."
Yang Taozhi on the side said: "That is to say, he was actually the one who killed those bandits?"
Zhao Cheng nodded and said: "Of course...he turned over the bandits so that he could lurk in Lingshan in the future, but he promised me to let those women and children go and treat them well. I have to remember this."
"Actually, at the end of the day, I am still afraid of being cared about day and night by the Governor of Southern Zhou Dynasty!" Zhao Cheng smiled freely, stretched, and said: "Take care of the present, and let's talk about the future later!"
Zhao Wu muttered: "You have done something good, and you have made money. You are really showing off and standing up!"
Zhao Cheng patted Zhao Wu on the head and shouted: "It's really fast to learn these words!!"
Yang Taozhi retracted his distant gaze, turned around and walked towards the forest first, saying: "Let's go, if we don't go back, they will become suspicious."
Under the mausoleum mountain.
Yang Qingzhi, Bao Sheng, and Chen Chong led a thousand remaining soldiers to the south.
As he walked, Yang Qingzhi stopped and looked back. Looking at the vast mountains, he felt indescribably lonely.
When they arrived, two thousand elites and seven generals from the Yangmen were high in fighting spirit and vowed to make great achievements and serve the country.
Now there are a thousand wounded and disabled generals, and they have not even captured the Lingshan Mountain. The plan has not even taken the first real step, and half of the people have failed and returned.
"Alas..." Yang Qingzhi sighed, feeling infinitely sad.
Chen Chong comforted him and said, "Young Governor, please cheer up..."
Seeing that Bao Sheng was coughing along the way, Yang Qingzhi asked, "Is General Bao okay?"
Bao Sheng covered his bandaged abdomen and said, "I was just hit by an arrow, nothing serious."
Yang Qingzhi patted Bao Sheng's shoulder lightly and said: "General Bao is the only one left among the seven generals of Yangmen, so you must take care of yourself!"
Bao Sheng nodded heavily, his expression suddenly froze, and he coughed violently again.
"Cough...cough!"
Suddenly, a mouthful of black blood spurted out of Bao Sheng's mouth.
Yang Qingzhi and Chen Chong quickly supported Bao Sheng, feeling that Bao Sheng fell back suddenly as if he had lost his balance. His face turned purple at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his whole body began to tremble.
"Medical officer!"
Yang Qingzhi called the medical officer. When the medical officer removed Bao Sheng's bandage and took a look, Bao Sheng's pupils had begun to dilate.
The medical officer shook his head.
Chen Chong hurriedly grabbed the medical officer's collar and said angrily: "I was fine just now, what happened?!"
The medical officer said in a panic: "General Bao is poisoned!"
"Poisoned?" Chen Chong asked.
"It's that arrow." Yang Qingzhi closed his eyes, exhaled for a long time, and said: "Zhao Cheng... is too yin..."
"Fuck!!" Chen Chong slammed the ground.
"Little...little governor..." Bao Sheng slowly raised his hand.
Yang Qingzhi quickly grabbed Bao Sheng's hand and said, "I'm here, tell me, General Bao!"
Bao Shengqiang took his last breath and said with great effort: "After I go back, I have to hold on to everything I do... for the sake of the Governor... and for myself... hold on... hold on!"
After speaking, Bao Sheng looked dull and had already passed away.
Yang Qingzhi buried his head in Bao Sheng's chest, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
All seven generals of the Yangmen were lost.
After a long time, Yang Qingzhi slowly raised his head.
Seeing his expression, Chen Chong was startled.
The little governor's eyes were no longer as gentle as before, but actually became a bit sinister.
Yang Qingzhi put down Bao Sheng's body, stood up and took one more look at the mausoleum, and then walked towards the south with long strides.
"Chen Chong, when I come here again, I will push down this mountain."
