Zhang Qian escorted Chen Zu and Song Tongyang, and Tao Zhigang and his gang came over. Everyone was wearing prison uniforms and had wooden signs tied behind their backs with the word "Behead" written on them.
When the criminals were brought in, Long Chen said loudly: "These people pretended to be imperial officials and harmed the people. I will kill them in public today!"
After saying that, Long Chen took a machete and chopped off Chen Zu's head with one blow, and then beheaded the others one by one.
"Hang the head up for everyone to see!"
Long Chen ordered the soldiers to hang the heads high.
"Everyone, I know that many of you used to be attached to the Third Ancestor. Now that the Third Ancestor is dead, let all things be forgotten. From today on, you must be law-abiding people!"
"If anyone dares to collude with the pirates again, these people will be punished!"
Long Chen spoke very harshly every word.
There were many people in the crowd who used to hang out with the Third Ancestor. When they heard Long Chen's words, they were trembling in their hearts.
"Okay, everyone can continue to do business."
"There was a fight in the city yesterday. If any houses or property were destroyed, come here and report it now. I will compensate you one by one!"
This is Long Chen's method to win people's hearts.
Yesterday, many houses were indeed damaged, and it is reasonable to compensate them.
At the same time, as an outsider, Long Chen must gain support from the people.
After killing the Third Ancestor, the pirates will inevitably take revenge. This battle is just the prologue, and the real battle is yet to come.
Long Chen did not expect the people in the city to help him fight the war, as long as they did not act as internal collaborators.
After Long Chen finished speaking, the people below whispered, not believing that Long Chen would be so kind to compensate.
After a while, an old lady came out and said, "Sir, I am a resident next to Longtan. When you caught a thief yesterday, you broke the window of my house and left a jar of salted fish."
After hearing what the old lady said, the people below burst into laughter:
"Old Chunpo, you are too stingy to ask the government to compensate you for a jar of salted fish."
"It's such a big deal. My house was burned down and I didn't even mention it. You only broke one window and you have to pay for it."
"That's right, be careful of calling you a troublemaker."
But Long Chen said seriously: "Old man, it was indeed us who broke your things yesterday. How much do you have to pay for it?"
The old lady said: "Not much, 80 yuan is enough."
Long Chen turned around and waved, and the soldier immediately ordered 80 coins over. Long Chen held it in both hands and gave it to the old lady.
"Old man, I'm sorry, this is your money."
The old lady was so happy that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear and said with a smile: "This is an official. Those people who used to eat and drink for free were just bandits."
"Thank you sir, thank you sir."
The old lady happily took the money and left. When other people saw that Long Chen was serious, those who had lost money all asked for money.
Of course, there were also many fake ones trying to make money, but Long Chen didn't care and gave them to the fake ones too.
His purpose is to win over the people and does not care about giving more money.
Anyway, all this money belongs to the Third Ancestor.
I was busy until the afternoon, spending more than 200,000 taels of money confiscated from the Third Patriarch's house, and more and more people were watching in the city.
At first I was reluctant to go out, but after hearing the news, I came here.
After paying the money, Long Chen shouted to everyone: "All the damaged money has been paid, now I will announce something!"
Long Chen paused deliberately, and the people below held their breath.
"All the properties left by the three ancestors will belong to the current people!"
When the people heard this, they all looked in disbelief.
Long Chen pointed at the owner of the Yuelai Inn and said, "Shopkeeper Li, your Yuelai Inn is the property of the Wang family. Now I declare that the inn is yours."
"The same goes for everyone else. As long as I am still alive, the things are yours!"
After Long Chen finished speaking, the people below seemed to have woken up from a dream, bursting into cheers and shouting long live!
These people were selected by the Third Patriarch to work as little leaders, and they were all capable people.
After the death of the third ancestor, they became the leaders of Qianjiang County. Long Chen used the method of beating local tyrants to divide the land and distributed the property of the third ancestor to them.
Among these people, there must be insiders from the Third Ancestor, but in order to protect their property, they will stand with Long Chen.
If the pirates invaded the city again, their property would be confiscated and they would become slaves again.
The best way to win people's hearts is to conquer local tyrants and divide their land.
"Okay, let's all go back!"
Long Chen waved his hand, and the people went home cheering, saying that Long Chen was a good official.
Bai Tingting said with admiration: "You are so good at winning people's hearts! No wonder Bai Qiulian died in your hands."
Long Chen asked strangely: "After all, I gave birth to you, why do you say that?"
Bai Tingting called her mother by her first name without any respect at all.
Bai Tingting said disdainfully: "A person without shame is not worthy of being my mother!"
Long Chen was a little curious and asked: "Why did you come here this time? You don't want to seek revenge from me."
At first, Long Chen thought that Bai Tingting was here for revenge, but now he found that this was not the case at all.
Bai Tingting said: "I'm here to kill the pirates and do meritorious service. I want to defend the Bai family."
"I tell you, I killed twelve people last night, and I have twelve military merits. You must remember it!"
Long Chen was stunned. Bai Qiulian had a wrong outlook on life and Li Junjun was cowardly and incompetent. How could he give birth to a daughter like Bai Tingting?
Is it really Sedum Lie’s species?
"Look what I'm doing? Don't even think about eating my tofu!"
Bai Tingting knew that Long Chen was lecherous and obscene, and she thought that Long Chen was going to do something to her.
Long Chen was amused by Bai Tingting and deliberately smiled obscenely: "Don't tell me, you look pretty good dressed as a man. I'm interested in you."
Bai Tingting thought Long Chen was serious, so she instinctively covered her chest with both hands and cursed: "Shameless, disgusting!"
Long Chen shook his head and smiled, then turned around and entered the back office.
Zhang Qian saw Bai Tingting's self-protective look and said with a smile: "Miss Bai, there are so many beauties in the harem, you think too much."
As she spoke, Zhang Qian deliberately puffed out her invincible chest and gave Bai Tingting a look of contempt.
Bai Tingting looked at Zhang Qian's proud figure and looked down at herself in shame.
In fact, Bai Tingting's performance is not bad, but Zhang Qian is too invincible.
Back at Houya, Dugu Jiali and Wu Jian were discussing the follow-up battle.
Long Chen sat in the courtyard, and several people sat down to discuss the follow-up actions.
"The pirates in the city have been put down, but the war has just begun. If we kill the third ancestor, the pirates on the ghost island will definitely take revenge. We must find a way to defend Qianjiang County."
Long Chen looked at everyone and his tone was a little heavy.
The elimination of the Third Ancestor this time was entirely due to Long Chen's trick, making the three forces fight each other, and he reaped the benefits.
The subsequent battle will be a head-on battle, so the trick may be useless.
Wu Jian said worriedly: "According to their confession, there are 30,000 pirates on Gui Island, and there are many of their accomplices on the shore. The total number is about 60,000. Our current strength is only 1,000. If they besiege us, I'm afraid.
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Last night, Feng He conducted a surprise interrogation of the main criminals, such as Chen Zu, and told them everything.
Now we have a complete understanding of the pirate situation.
Most of the pirates on the Onigashima side were defeated soldiers from the sea country to the east, and their leader was named Mentaro.
In addition to Mendoro, there was also a Nanliang man named Xiangtian. This man used to be a fisherman. Later, when he saw that looting was profitable, he colluded with Mendoro and established a stronghold on Ghost Island.
Menduo Lang and Xiang Tian were the main conspirators, and they also had other leaders, such as Wang Li's second son Wang Da and Xu Zhi's younger brother Xu Yuan.
These people used Ghost Island as their base and often raided coastal counties. Qianjiang County was their base for selling stolen goods and purchasing daily necessities.
Now that Long Chen has pacified Qianjiang County, they will definitely fight back.
"I think we need to recruit soldiers now. There are more than 100,000 people in the city, and we can recruit at least 10,000 soldiers."
