"That's right!" Tang Yin didn't know why the other party was so surprised when he heard his name. He looked around the four of them and asked, "Your Excellency, again..."
"My name is Cheng Jin. I have long heard that Mr. Tang Yintang, the governor of Pingyuan County, is a dark spiritual cultivator. So," as he spoke, he looked at his three companions and continued: "My three friends and I
I came here to seek refuge, hoping that you can accept the four of us!"
Oh? The four of them actually came to join him specially, which surprised Tang Yin very much.
Sensing Tang Yin's doubts, the young man who called himself Cheng Jin explained: "We are not here to cause trouble, but we want to meet the adults, but we can't find a way, so we have to offend the little brothers just now.
I hope I can draw you out, but I didn’t expect that you have been here all along!”
So that's it! Tang Yin couldn't help laughing. No wonder they would go to trouble ordinary officers and soldiers with their powerful cultivation. Moreover, the officers and soldiers had already used knives, but instead of killing them, they deliberately let them go. It turned out that they were just to save themselves.
The only thing Tang Yin didn't understand was that he had not been in Pingyuan County for a long time and had not shown any achievements. How could he attract Lingwu masters to Pingyuan County and specifically defect to him?
He shook his head and said, "I don't understand the reason why you came to seek refuge with me."
"Because you are a dark spiritual cultivator." Cheng Jin answered simply.
After waiting for a while, seeing that he had no follow-up, Tang Yin asked uncertainly: "Is it that simple?"
"Yes, it's that simple." Cheng Jin nodded affirmatively.
Tang Yin shook his head and smiled, and asked: "Even if I am a dark spiritual cultivator, what does this have to do with you coming to seek refuge with me?"
Cheng Jin's face showed bitterness, and the other three people also dispelled their spiritual armor and took off their hats at the same time, revealing their true appearance. The expressions of the three of them were similar to Cheng Jin's, they were all bitter and bitter.
Until now, dark-type spiritual martial arts are still taboo in the Haotian Empire and are not tolerated or recognized by the vassal states. Although Feng Kingdom has relaxed its rejection of dark-type spiritual martial arts due to the increasing scarcity of spiritual martial arts talents, and has targeted dark-type spiritual martial arts.
Lingwu has issued a recruitment order, but it is only superficial, and it only recognizes the dark spiritual martial arts on the surface. In fact, dark spiritual cultivators are squeezed everywhere whether they join the army or participate in politics. Even if they make meritorious deeds,
It's not their turn, but if there is any fault, it will definitely be their responsibility.
For dark spiritual cultivators, they despise living by robbing families and homes. However, they want to reimburse the country, but the country despises them. The saying "If you learn civil and martial arts, sell them to the emperor's family" is not true for them. Cultivating a whole body of skills
, but cannot apply what they have learned, and can only rely on physical strength to make money to live like the poor people at the bottom. This is the tragedy of dark spiritual practitioners.
Tang Yin can only be regarded as a lucky one. He was linked to the dancer as a big backer from the beginning, but even so, he was still transferred to the border because of his identity as a dark spiritual warrior. Otherwise, based on his relationship with the dancer, now
He must have held an important position in the capital, the military and political center of the Feng Kingdom.
However, there is also an advantage to being sent to the frontier far away, that is, he is not restricted and can do whatever he wants.
Because he is a dark spiritual cultivator, after he served as the county magistrate of Pingyuan County, the news quickly spread in the dark spiritual martial arts world, and there were many dark spiritual cultivators who wanted to join him. Although Pingyuan County belongs to the remoteness of Feng Country,
land, but at least you will not be treated unfairly if you join Tang Yin, let alone make things difficult and squeeze out from the light spiritual cultivators. This is a real temptation for those dark spiritual cultivators who are unwilling to be lonely and want to find their own place.
too big.
Cheng Jin spoke out all the grievances and dissatisfaction in his heart. In the end, he looked squarely at Tang Yin, raised his hands and said: "We sincerely came to seek refuge with you. As long as you can accept us, we will be loyal to you and serve you."
Your Majesty, please do what a dog and a horse can do!"
This was really a big pie falling from the sky and hitting him on the head. If he hadn't been in front of others, Tang Yin would have thrown his head up to the sky and laughed three times. Not to mention that he was a dark spiritual cultivator. Even if he wasn't, he wouldn't have
Due to his family background and faction, if a dark spiritual cultivator really came to offer his services, he would accept them all.
He stared at the four people, and then he discovered that there was a woman among the four. She was not stunningly tall, but she was full of heroic spirit. Her sword eyebrows were raised, showing a stubbornness and fierceness. He asked: "You three
What’s the person’s name again?”
"My name is Jiaxi."
"My name is Jiang Mo."
"My name is Aoqing!"
Tang Yin nodded, wrote down their names, then patted Cheng Jin on the shoulder and said with a smile: "From now on, you will be mine. As long as I have a bite to eat, you will be mine."
Hearing this, the four of them were both surprised and happy. They looked at each other, knelt down on one knee and said in unison: "Thank you, sir. I will do my best for you in the future!"
Tang Yin looked down at the four people with crooked eyes and smiled sincerely. These four people were all spiritual martial arts masters. Tang Yin took these four people under his command without doing anything. How could he not be happy?
What he didn't expect was that this was just the beginning, and it also set the precedent for dark spiritual cultivators to come to seek refuge. In the future, more dark spiritual cultivators would come here, including those from the Feng Kingdom and others.
In the vassal states, Pingyuan County and even the entire Tianyuan County have become places where dark spiritual cultivators gather.
But also because of the large number of dark spiritual cultivators defecting, it has laid hidden dangers for future factional disputes. Of course, this is a story for another day.
While they were talking in the tavern, they suddenly heard shouting and shouting outside. I don’t know what happened. Everyone walked out of the tavern and took a look outside. Well, they saw a sea of people outside the tavern and a forest of torches.
The street was illuminated as bright as day, and at least a thousand officers and soldiers must have gathered in front of and around the tavern as if they were facing a powerful enemy, surrounding it with water.
"It's him, it's them, they are the spies who were sneaked into the city by the barbarians!" The officers and soldiers who had been scared away by Cheng Jin just now gathered around a horse-riding officer. When they saw Cheng Jin coming out of the tavern, they
The six people stretched out their hands and counted brothers Tang Yin and Shangguan at the same time.
The officer snorted haughtily, raised his head, and took a closer look.
When his eyes slowly glanced at Tang Yin's face, his eyes suddenly widened. He stretched his neck and looked for a moment. He quickly turned over and dismounted, and stepped forward. When Tang Yin was near, he knelt down on one knee and said in a trembling voice:
"Big, big, sir, you...why are you here?"
Tang Yin tilted his head, looked at the officer, and asked, "Why did you bring so many brothers here?"
"I...I heard that there are barbarian soldiers and spies here, so I brought people here to encircle and suppress them!"
"Are you saying that I am a barbarian soldier and a spy?"
"Ah?" The officer's jaw almost dropped and he kept saying: "I don't dare, I don't dare!"
Tang Yin raised his head and said, "Get up! There are no spies here. Take your people back."
"Yes, yes, yes!" The officer stood up in a panic, waved his hands at his officers and soldiers, and shouted: "Withdraw, withdraw, all withdraw!"
"Wait a minute!" Tang Yin shouted before the officer took two steps.
"What else can you do, sir?" the officer asked in a low voice, respectfully.
Tang Yin looked at the six officers and soldiers who had tipped off the information, and said lightly: "The six of them are your subordinates?"
"Yes, my lord."
"Did you know that they left their posts without permission during the deployment period and went to the pub to drink secretly?"
"Subordinate... I don't know!"
"This matter will be punished."
"Oh..." The officer trembled, glared at the six officers and soldiers, and asked, "How should I be punished?"
"According to military discipline, how should we deal with it?"
"Fifty military sticks should be punished!"
"Yes!" Tang Yin nodded, looked at the officers and soldiers around him, pointed at the officer and said, "Teach him fifty military sticks!"
"Ah?" The officers and soldiers around him were a little unable to react. The person who made the mistake was not an officer, but why should he be punished? The officer also had a blank face and looked at Tang Yin blankly, speechless.
Tang Yin said expressionlessly: "You can't even take care of your own subordinates, so you have the biggest responsibility. There are no soldiers in the army who don't do their duty, there are only generals who don't do their duty. This time I will punish you with fifty military sticks. I just give you a
Warning, if it happens again, I will be severely punished!"
When his subordinates made mistakes and their superiors were punished, the officer was sweating profusely. The officers and soldiers around him were also shocked and couldn't recover for a long time.
Seeing that everyone was as motionless as wooden stakes, Tang Yin narrowed his eyes and asked softly: "Do you want to receive the punishment yourself or do you want me to do it myself?"
The officer shuddered and said repeatedly: "My subordinates will receive their own punishment, and my subordinates will receive my own punishment!" As he spoke, he waved to his officers and soldiers, then walked aside, lay down on the ground, and turned around and shouted: "Hit me.
Bar!"
With Tang Yin present, the officers and soldiers who carried out the execution dared not show mercy. They turned around with their military sticks and beat him violently.
Tang Yin didn't see how the officer was punished. He walked out and said seriously: "I will go to the military doctor later to get medicine. Fifty military sticks cannot constitute a serious injury, but it cannot be ignored. If you don't want to die on the battlefield, then don't take it."
Bring your wounds to the battlefield."
"Subordinate... I understand..." The officer gritted his teeth and nodded while leaning against his military stick.
Tang Yin's actions surprised Cheng Jin and the other four who had just arrived, but the Shangguan brothers took it calmly. They had long been accustomed to Tang Yin's unusual ideas.
Returning to his residence, Tang Yin found Qiu Zhen, Xiao Muqing, Zhang Zhou, the commander of the Fourth Corps Ding Guyue, the deputy commander Chen Fang, the commander of the Fifth Corps Li Wei, deputy commander Liu Zhongsheng and others.
He first introduced Cheng Jin, Jiaxi, Jiang Mo, and Ao Qing to everyone, and then said: "Tomorrow, I will take people to Yuanwang Town. Qiu Zhen will be responsible for the affairs of the border town for the time being!"
Although Qiu Zhen and others did not want to see Tang Yin going into danger in person, they could not dissuade him and had no choice but to nod in agreement.
They all knew the plan, but Cheng Jin and the other four listened to it while Monk Zhang Er was confused.
Cheng Jin asked: "I heard that barbarians will come to attack the border town in the near future, but why do you want to go to Yuanwang Town?" Is it more important than the border town? He added silently in his heart.