"Master Marquis, please think twice. If you kill this guy because of this, it might give the villain an opportunity to slander the reputation of the Marquis?" Wei Liao also whispered to the side to persuade him.
The people in the Central Plains are crying for food. If I really heard that Li Wenhao killed people because Central Plains merchants purchased food, he might really have a bad reputation.
"I killed him not because he bought grain, but because he colluded with Yucha and planned a rebellion!" Li Wenhao said loudly, not taking it seriously.
"You, you are slanderous!" Zhang Guchun struggled and shouted.
"What, you're still not convinced?" Li Wenhao continued: "When can't we buy grain? Why do we buy it when the Yucha army is about to attack?
At this time, the four gates are closed, and Kunshan is still occupied by rogue bandits. How can you transport so much food back to the Central Plains? You just want to raise food prices and instigate civil unrest so that you can serve as an internal response to Yucha!"
"Boom," as soon as he said this, the people around him started talking and quarreling.
"What the Marquis said makes sense. Even if we want to purchase grain, we should do it after the war. Why must we purchase it at this time?"
"Yeah, why didn't I expect that when this Zhang Guchun came to see us, I felt something was wrong. This guy usually shrinks back when something happens, so why is he so active this time?"
"Well, I can guess a thing or two about the reason. Zhang Guchun's younger brother Zhang Gulin was executed in Daha City for being disrespectful to the Marquis's wife. He probably held a grudge and took the opportunity to cause trouble for the Marquis!"
"Oh, I see, love is using us as a weapon?"
Not only did the people wake up, but even the Dayou merchants who rushed to buy with Zhang Guchun also realized that they were being taken advantage of.
"Master Hou, I have been deceived by Zhang Guchun, and I am willing to return the original price of the purchased grain. I also ask Master Hou to let me wait for a while."
Cao Gun, the shopkeeper of the Cao family, stepped forward and saluted. If he really wanted soldiers to come to collect grain, how could they tell whether those grains were newly purchased and those grains purchased before?
Moreover, their main task in the Western Region is to purchase grain. In addition to purchasing it privately at a slave owner's manor, they also purchase it from the surrounding small countries in the Western Region. Adding up the scattered amounts, the amount is huge!
Especially during this period, fighting continued in the Langya area, and the purchased grain was never shipped out, so even more was accumulated, with almost every family having hundreds of thousands of bags.
If the Flame Army confiscated this, how could the family spare them? If Li Wenhao didn't know what was going on, they would definitely die.
"Master Marquis, my little sin deserves death. If you are willing to pay double the repayment, please spare the little ones!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Master Hou, please spare your life, will you never dare to do it again?"
"Zhang Guchun, you must die a good death, you have caused great harm to us!"
With Cao Gun taking the lead, the other shopkeepers suddenly woke up and realized the terrible consequences of the matter.
Everyone looked mournful, as if their parents had died, and some even knelt down, kowtowed, and cried loudly.
While crying, he also yelled at Zhang Guchun. At this time, Zhang Guchun also realized that he was only thinking about revenge, but he forgot that his Zhang Family Trading Company also stored hundreds of thousands of bags of grain.
There is still hope for other people's food to be saved, but their Zhang family's will definitely not be able to.
"Poof," Zhang Guchun spurted out a mouthful of blood, his heart was filled with despair, it was over.
He caused such a big trouble. Not only did he die, but his wife, children, and children in the clan also died. In order to avenge his brother, he took the lives of his entire family. It was too late to regret it!
"What is going on? Isn't it just a matter of recovering the purchased grain? How much should be confiscated in the morning? As for each one of them, it looks like their father is dead?"
Li Wenhao was a little confused when he saw the situation in front of him, but subconsciously felt that there was something wrong here, a big problem.
He lowered his voice and said to the soldiers beside him: "Inform the city defense camp, bring more people, and go to these businesses to check and see what's going on."
"Obey the order!" Several soldiers bowed to accept the order and galloped away on wildebeests.
"It's over, it's all over!" When Cao Gun saw Li Wenhao whispering orders to his soldiers, his heart thumped and he secretly screamed.
When the soldiers dispersed, I had no luck anymore. "Plop," I sat down on the ground, feeling cold from head to toe.
When he saw Zhang Guchun, who was pressed to the ground and his face was ashen, he was filled with anger and threw himself forward with a cry of "Ouch!"
"Zhang Guchun, you have suffered a thousand blows, and you have caused great harm to us. I will fight with you!"
"Kill him, wuwu, kill him, it will really hurt us. I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood!"
"Get out of the way, he won't survive anyway, let me take a bite of his flesh first!"
With the first one in hand, the rest of the shopkeepers pounced on him, one by one, with their scarlet eyes glaring like evil ghosts.
In an instant, a group of people bit and tore Zhang Guchun into pieces.
Brothers Zhang Guchun and Zhang Gulin, each died more miserably than the other.
"Master Hou, we found a large amount of grain in the Zhang family warehouse, including hundreds of thousands of bags!"
"Master Hou, the Cao family also has a lot of food..."
"Master Hou, there are members of the Wang family..."
"What?" After a while, Li Wenhao heard the report from the soldiers, and he fainted as if he had been hit by a huge pie!
A stream of heat shot straight from the heel to the Tianling Cap, and the whole body was filled with excitement. There was a soft sound of "bang," and the last membrane of the fifth-level spiritual sea realm was broken at this moment!
A powerful whirlpool of spiritual energy fell from the sky and hovered above Li Wenhao's head. It was so powerful that it shocked the entire city.
Everyone makes breakthroughs between life and death on the battlefield, but Li Wenhao actually made breakthroughs because he made a fortune and was excited about it, and he was also drunk!
"The Marquis has made a breakthrough. With such a large amount of spiritual pressure, the level is not low, right?"
"Nonsense, Mr. Hou's breakthrough must be extraordinary. It is beyond the imagination of ordinary people like us!"
"Hey, it's all these profiteers who made the Marquis angry. He was so angry that he couldn't hold it in anymore!"
"Brother, your insights are so wonderful that I, a dignified third-level warrior, am speechless!"
"This, this is the fifth level!" Hato and several of his men hid in the crowd, dumbfounded in shock.
The common people can't tell, but of course they can tell that he is a fourth-level expert. Li Wenhao has broken through the fifth level!
"General, if Li Wenhao really breaks through to the fifth level, how old is he? He must be in his early twenties, right?" A close confidant beside him stammered in a low voice.
"Monster!" Hato sighed heavily, his eyes full of jealousy and envy, but not hatred.
The gap is so big that I can’t even hate it!
"Hey, a fourth-level Langya general?"
At this time, Li Wenhao's spiritual power and mental strength were very active, his overall strength reached its peak, and his hearing and vision were sharp.
Normally in such a noisy environment, he might not notice it if he spoke softly, but this time, he discovered it!
In particular, Hatto was too surprised and excited, and accidentally leaked a hint of the fourth-level aura, like a bright light among a group of ordinary people.
"Whoa!" The spiritual vortex disappeared, and Li Wenhao's figure flashed, appearing in front of Hato like a ghost, with a malicious smile.
"Are you going to be tied up, or are you going to let me break your hands and feet and tie them up?"
The corner of Hatuo's mouth twitched, "Plop," and he knelt down on one knee: "Hatuo, the former guard of Langya City, has met the Marquis, and he will be punished!"
"I'm willing to surrender!" Several close followers behind him also knelt down on one knee.
"Are you Hatto?"
Li Wenhao was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, he accidentally caught a big fish!