Liu Zhifei quickly brought back new instructions from the Shaking Sky Sect. Recently, there have been frequent murders and robbery incidents near the market. It is said that as many as 20 or 30 monks have died in interceptions and killings, and among them, an entire caravan was killed.
Cases of ambushes, killings and looting have made many solitary merchants and even large and small caravans participating in the market panic.
After the news came, Magistrate Chen of Mengyu County, Cheng Zhenren of Huyao County, and Lang Guzhen of Lingzhang County respectively ordered the border teams to observe martial law and conduct inspections in the surrounding areas with the market as the center to ensure that merchants participating in the mutual trade.
To ensure the safety of the team, at the same time, we will shoot and kill the cultivators who steal money and kill people.
"There are really people who are stroking the beards of tigers. This market is guarded by three real people. To intercept and kill people who go to the market to trade is not a clear slap in the face of these three real people!"
"Real-life monks are not gods. They don't have three heads and six arms. How can they take care of things carefully? It's inevitable that some cowards will take advantage of them. Besides, there are still us now!"
"Yes, almost every village in Mengyu County is sent by caravans to participate in mutual trade. This can be regarded as protecting our hometown!"
The 20 border defense squads quickly took action, but the actions of the 20 squads were not carried out with much fanfare, but surprisingly unanimously chose to operate secretly.
Zhuang Guangyu once asked Liu Zhifei why he was so low-key, but Liu Zhifei laughed and called him a fool, saying: "If we do this in a big way, wouldn't we tell those bandit cultivators to hide quickly? If that's the case, where are we going to suppress the bandits?"
Zhuang Guangyu was used to playing tricks in the team, so he became much more frank in his speech. He joked: "Brother Fei, I think it's better to scare all these people away with a big fanfare. Killing these bandit cultivators has no military merit. How can I do it?"
Most of the bandit cultivators are desperate, don't have much wealth, and can't get much loot, and most of these people are desperadoes, and it won't be worth it if they injure one or two of our own family members!"
What Zhuang Guangyu said actually hurt morale to some extent. If he really encountered a life-and-death battle, he would be cut off from the sacrificial flag just by saying these few words. However, some bandit cultivators really did not take them to heart, and there was nothing they said.
It's okay to make some jokes if you are hesitant.
Liu Zhifei directly threw the peach he just picked up at Zhuang Guangyu's head. When he saw him ducking away with a smile, Liu Zhifei scolded: "You have itchy skin, you are the only one who talks too much!"
Immediately, Liu Zhifei's face became serious, and everyone stopped laughing when they saw this. They only heard him say solemnly: "Do you know why it was so secretive beforehand? Hehe, it was just for those bandit cultivators to rob it. After they robbed it,
Hehe, do you understand?"
After the bandit cultivators robbed it, we naturally snatched it from the bandit cultivators and killed them all. In this way, the materials in the hands of the bandit cultivators naturally fell into the hands of the border defense cultivators. Liu Zhifei
It means that after the border defense team obtains these training materials, they obviously have no intention of returning them to those who were robbed.
Those who can come to the market to participate in the exchange market, whether they are lone traders or large or small caravans, will return empty-handed. Bandit cultivators will not return empty-handed, so the bandit-suppressing border defense team will naturally follow.
You can make a lot of money without worrying about a bad reputation.
However, Yang Junshan always felt that there was something wrong with doing this, so he tried to ask: "Is this an order from County Magistrate Chen?"
Liu Zhifei glanced at Yang Junshan and said, "This is an order from the sect!"
After a pause, he added: "Uncle Chen is also an elder of the sect!"
If Liu Zhifei didn't add anything, he would just say this later, but when he said this, Yang Junshan started to murmur in his heart: What does the supplementary sentence mean? It means that Chen Jizhen, as the elder of Shaking Sky Sect, must obey the Shaking Sky Sect.
order, or is Chen Jizhen, an elder, also one of the decision-makers who issued this order?
However, Yang Junshan chose wisely not to ask at this time, but others in the team were still a little worried.
Liu Zhifei could naturally see the worries on their faces, but he still said: "Before the operation begins, no one is allowed to leak the news of this operation, otherwise don't blame Liu for not showing friendship!"
Everyone's faces became even more worried, but they heard him continue: "Of course, I am not an unkind person. If we really encounter the bandit cultivators who robbed and killed the caravans of your respective villages, we will naturally not die.
No rescue, but this caravan must show some expression after taking action, we can’t let our brothers take action in vain!”
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces lightened up with worry, and they all said, "That's what the captain is saying!"
But everyone is still muttering in their hearts, if their own family encounters a caravan from this village, that's fine, but what if another team encounters it? If there are no monks from this village in that team, wouldn't they be robbed and killed by the bandit cultivators in vain?
Later, it was captured by border guards monks in the name of suppressing bandits?
Especially people like Yang Junshan or Zhuang Guangyu, who have some powerful families and participate in the mutual market on a very large scale, are even more worried, fearing that they will encounter robbers on the way back from the market, and two people like Xiong Xiyi and Ning Ran have fallen into trouble.
They couldn't hold back their anger, and they didn't know whether it was because their families had already known the order and were prepared, or because they thought about the power of their respective families and were not afraid of the so-called robbers at all.
For the current plan, the only way is to pass the news out as soon as possible, but Liu Zhifei had been prepared beforehand. After the previous verbal warning, he then banned everyone from leaving the stronghold. Not only the third team, but also everyone
All twenty squads of border guards are like this.
But Yang Junshan was thinking more about amassing money at this time. What Yang Junshan saw in his eyes at this time was that the Shaking Sky Sect was constantly amassing money, and it was even gradually approaching the limit of unscrupulous means.
Today's Yang Junshan is different from the isolated boy who was trapped in Mengyu County in his previous life. Over the years, with the management of the Xishan Village Caravan by Yang Tiangang and An Xia, Yang Junshan can often hear a lot of news from outside Mengyu County.
, and even the situation of the entire Yuzhou cultivation world can be understood.
Therefore, in addition to the red-rust rough stone that he personally experienced, the confiscation of Wang Zhenren's house in Chenyu County, the genocide of Jinyu County Chief Sun's family, and the mutual trade of Chen Yuzhen in Mengyu County, Yang Junshan also knew that there were other three incidents in Yu County.
There have been many incidents, large and small, in the county, all of which are without exception related to the wanton accumulation of money.
Ke Tianzong did this, and even put on a posture of trying to catch a fish, why exactly?
Yang Junshan, who had experienced the disaster of destroying the sect in his previous life, could not help but wonder in his heart whether the Shaking Sky Sect had sensed that the crisis was approaching, and was all these measures being used to prepare for the coming crisis?
But in fact, the more Yang Junshan learned about the situation in the entire Yuzhou cultivation world, the more he began to doubt the reason for the destruction of the Shaking Sky Sect in his previous life.
Because even though the Shaking Sky Sect has declined greatly compared to a thousand years ago, it is still the number one sect in Yuzhou. It has almost no rivals in the entire Yuzhou cultivation world!
The disaster of the demon clan? The invasion of foreign tribes? The various sects in Yuzhou are attacking together? These are all jokes!
In the previous life, on the eve of the annihilation of the Shaking Sky Sect, the demon race had just begun to show its signs, and the foreign races had only just attracted the attention of the cultivation world. The Shaking Sky Sect was destroyed. Although these races participated, they were not ready for the great changes in the world in the future; as for Jade
Other sects in the state jointly attack. Unless these sects are prepared to sacrifice eight hundred dollars of courage, it is absolutely impossible to shake the status of Shaking Tian Sect.
In fact, when he experienced the collapse of the Shaking Sky Sect in his previous life, although some of the subordinate sect forces turned against each other, and some of the remaining masters established their own sects, the entire top monks of the Shaking Sky Sect were destroyed in a very short period of time.
was wiped out.
After the rapid destruction of the Shaking Sky Sect, other sect forces in the Yuzhou cultivation world experienced a period of rapid development and prosperity in a very short period of time, which was undoubtedly based on the plunder of the Shaking Sky Sect.
In Yang Junshan's view, there are two doubts that are still difficult to solve: First, it is impossible for the high-level monks from other sects in the Yuzhou cultivation world to unite to defeat the high-level monks from the Shaking Sky Sect in such a short period of time.
Even if they are all killed, there are still some remnants, but they are no longer good. Secondly, even if they are all killed, the high-level monks of other sects in Yuzhou cannot be left unscathed. But in fact, after the collapse of Shaking Sky Sect, all sects
However, instead of using the resources of Shaking Sky Sect to restore their vitality, the sect’s forces ushered in a short-term prosperity and expansion of power. This is even more strange!
Of course, there is another point that Yang Junshan has noticed earlier, that is, the remaining forces of Shaking Sky Sect have not been wiped out by other sect forces. Although the two sides are hostile to each other, they have never killed each other.
After thinking about it, Yang Junshan became more and more sure of the thought that had flashed through his mind earlier. Could it be that behind the collapse of the Shaking Sky Sect, there was really a more powerful force outside of Yuzhou that intervened and carried out attacks on the entire high-level monks of the Shaking Sky Sect?
Beheading?
For example, Yang Junshan had the honor to hear about Taoist monks in his previous life, but had never seen them before!
Since the ban, the thirty monks from the third, fifth, and seventh teams are not allowed to go out in the stronghold. The three teams of inner disciples of the Shaking Sky Sect are in charge, but the rest can still stay in the small courtyard of the stronghold.
Move around at will.
Yang Junshan stood in the small courtyard and patted his forehead as if he was sleepy. When no one was paying attention, a faint golden light pattern flashed across his forehead, and then Yang Junshan leaned against the wall and slapped him again.
Yawning, and then returning to the room to practice as if nothing had happened, he was actually sleeping.
And in the woods a few miles away from the stronghold, behind a leafy grass, a huge creature suddenly stood up. At first glance, the patterns on its body seemed to be integrated with the surrounding scenery.
The sight was enough to make everyone gasp, but it was a striking, white-breasted giant tiger that was nearly a foot long and sitting on a mountain!
Whoosh, two streams of dense white breath spurted out from the giant tiger's mouth. Three feet away in front of him, a faint figure suddenly appeared. It was a little girl who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old.
"Oh, don't rush me, I've already got the news!" The little girl shook a small piece of paper in her hand and said with a proud smile.