The last time I went to Yelang Kingdom, Shuangzui Mountain suffered heavy losses. Less than half of the team of 100 people came back alive. The bandits who were once a powerful force were almost wiped out. Gou Tianming took some food and copper coins from Su Ren
, went back to the village to comfort her, and thus avoided the end of being torn apart.
Holding a spear in one hand and wearing the leather armor he got from Hou Jian, Huo Jin stood majestically among a group of bandits, attracting the envy of many people.
Gou Tianming asked Su Rendao: "Sir, are these all given to us?"
Su Ren nodded: "Yes, from today on, you will be the bodyguards of Wenling Salt Company. I have made an agreement with the county magistrate that everyone's past will be wiped out. As long as you are willing to follow me, you can walk swaggering on the street.
No more worries about getting caught.”
"Really! Can I go home and see my grandma?" A stout man standing in the front row asked eagerly.
"Okay! Of course! You can also send your mother to Laojun Temple. As long as I, Su Ren, have food to eat, she will never be hungry."
The man quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Su Ren: "Mr. Su, I will repay you for your great kindness in this life."
Su Ren smiled and helped the man up: "There is no need to act like a cow or a horse. We are brothers. We are all Han people. Your parents are also my parents."
"Deadly effective!"
Su Ren is so happy that people's hearts can be used. Even these bandits still have moral principles. They are still better than the ancients and much more simple.
Put on armored soldiers. I didn't expect that all the former bandits would turn into warriors who were accustomed to fighting in an instant. Training is the key to rebirth. From that day on, Laojun Guan's food was continuously delivered to his mouth.
Shan. Su Ren is here every day. He wants to train these people. It can be regarded as leaving a way out for himself and the people of Laojun Guan. Even if he cannot gain a foothold in the Han Dynasty that day, with the protection of these people, he can
He will not die without a burial place.
Su Ren didn't know how soldiers should train. He only knew that if he wanted to be able to fight, he had to have a good body. A big bowl of white rice and a big piece of braised pork were enough to eat. One meal could put these precarious things in order.
The bandit felt that he was in heaven at the moment.
Bandits were originally honest farmers, and they were never afraid of hardship. After so many years of banditry, they were not afraid of death or bloodshed. The only thing they lacked was obedience and the belief in why they were fighting.
On the second day of training, someone missed the time.
Gou Tianming held the knife and drove the sleepy guys to stand in front of Su Ren: "Sir, these boys just need to be dealt with. Give them a good beating and they will know everything."
There were three people in total, including the man who knelt down in tears yesterday. Several people knelt in front of Su Ren, lowering their heads and saying nothing.
Su Ren snorted coldly: "Look up! I told you yesterday that from that moment on, you are not living for others and doing these things for others. You are doing it for yourself. Forget it, I won't talk about you either.
Let them go down the mountain for a hundred dollars each."
"Sir, this..." Gou Tianming did not expect that these three guys would be driven away just because they were too sleepy: "The three of them are all good people. They saved all of us when we were in Yelang."
life."
"I know, that's why I gave them a hundred dollars."
"Sir, please, don't drive us away!" The man from yesterday quickly knelt down and crawled two steps. Su Ren had promised to take care of his mother. He had nothing but his own strength. It was impossible to feed his mother.
Su Ren shook his head: "You are not bandits now, you are the guards of our Wenling Salt Company. You saved a lot of people last time, but I don't want you to kill everyone next time. You just had two full meals."
It’s like this, do you think I have too much food to eat?”
Everyone looked here, watching how Su Ren dealt with these three people.
"Sir, give them a chance! They will definitely change!" Gou Tianming begged again: "If we drive them away like this, no one will take them in, and they will be recruited by other bandits and return to the way they were in the past.
.”
"No, because there will be no bandits in Wenshui County soon."
The heads of the three people touched the ground: "Sir, please keep us? As long as you keep us, we will accept the punishment! Please, sir!"
Su Ren was unmoved and said to Huo Jin: "Take their armor and send them down the mountain immediately. This is an order!"
Hawking nodded, and with everyone watching, he peeled off the leather armor on the three of them, put away their weapons, and let the three of them go down the mountain with a sigh.
Gou Tianming's face was full of anger. He slashed the big tree next to him with his sword. All the bronze swords were buried in the tree. He shouted to other people on the side: "What are you looking at? Keep training!"
After sending the three people away, Hawking came back dejected.
Su Ren held a cup of tea and stood under the tree looking at the group of bandits who were training to walk in the square. There were only about forty people, and their steps were uneven and they couldn't distinguish between left and right, which gave Su Ren a headache.
"What? Do you think what I did was wrong?" Su Ren asked Hawking without looking back.
"A little bit. There were only a few of us, but three more people left."
“Have you ever heard of killing a chicken to scare a monkey?”
Hawking shook his head.
"It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, a man in Jin State tamed many monkeys. The monkeys were clever and restless and refused to be disciplined. One day, this man caught a chicken and slaughtered it in front of the monkeys. The monkeys were really good at killing people when they saw them.
After seeing blood, he no longer dared to jump up and down, and he behaved himself when facing the monkey tamer."
"You go down the mountain immediately and ask the fourth brother to take these three people in, and then find a job for them to work in the Bittern Spring. Our Laojun Temple is now the most popular place in Wenshui. Everyone knows that as long as you enter the Laojun Temple, you can
We are fed and clothed and reluctant to leave, but these bandits are used to being free in the past. If we don’t use this trick, something will happen in the future. Do you understand? Go!"
"No, I'll do it right away!"
The training was in full swing in the square. Although some people still made mistakes in their steps and some couldn't tell left from right. After what happened in the morning, the bandits became a lot more compliant. They no longer joked in the queue or failed to order.
, whether walking, eating or sleeping, all should be done according to Su Ren's requirements.
For a whole month, I have been training every day. Gou Tianming also unconsciously felt the benefits of this kind of training. The brothers who were lazy in the past have become energetic now, and their whole people seem to have a feeling of being reborn.
The way he walked and sat down. Those habits of petty theft were gone, and his glib words were much less. As long as he stood in the square, he really felt like an elite soldier.
Su Ren breathed a sigh of relief and finally looked like a soldier. These people were his life-saving straw and seeds. His plan was huge, and this was just the beginning.
Looking at the neat rows and rows of dozens of people in front of him, Su Ren said seriously: "Very good, this looks like a guard, but it has not yet met my requirements. From today on, although it is a guard, we must use elite soldiers."
Come and demand yourself, because in the future we will fight against the soldiers of the Yelang Kingdom. Only if we are stronger than them can we defeat them, expand our trade routes, and make our families live a better life."
"From today on, you are one person. We will both prosper and suffer. Remember, we are all brothers. Brothers are like brothers. Whoever touches my brother, I will cut off whose limbs!"
"Gou Tianming is your team leader, Huo Jin is your deputy team leader, and the rest are in teams of five or ten. Even though our numbers are small, I can guarantee that we will be invincible in Wenshui! Are you confident!
"
"Invincible hand! Invincible hand!" The loud voice made Su Ren a little excited.
Waving his hands, the shouting stopped abruptly: "The first task is to clean up all the bandits around Wenshui. We welcome those who want to join, and those who don't want to join will be eliminated on the spot. We are all Wenshui people, for the sake of the fellow citizens of Wenshui.
, each of us has a responsibility to protect warm water!"
"Protect warm water! Protect warm water!"
"Of course, this is also a test for you. You can't even defeat the bandits. How are you going to fight the Yelang Kingdom's army? You still have one month to train well in the next month to serve the trade routes and the people.
,effort!"
"For the trade routes, for the people! For the trade routes, for the people!"
A good army must have a firm belief. Su Ren still knows this. That's why he came up with the slogan "For trade routes, for the people". Although it is much smaller than those slogans of later generations, it is still
It can give these bandits a sense of belonging. No one will say such false things, but I don’t know how many people will believe them.
Cui Jiuming worked conscientiously on his business. He came to visit Laojun once a month, brought a large amount of goods, and shipped away almost the same amount of bag salt. He was originally worried that if the imperial court got the secret of bag salt, it would be promoted nationwide immediately. Let
He was happy that after much waiting, there was no news at all. He sent people to Chang'an to inquire and found out that even the nobles in Chang'an were eating cloth bags of salt bought from him.
Su Ren and Cui Jiuming sat face to face, each with a cup of tea in front of them. They took a big sip. Cui Jiuming closed his eyes and felt the aroma of the tea: "The tea soup in Laojun Temple is still delicious. The taste in other places is always wrong."
"Have Brother Cui ever thought about selling this kind of tea grass?"
"Ha!" Cui Jiuming quickly put down his cup and slapped the table: "I've had this idea for a long time, but Mr. Su didn't mention it, so how dare I!"
"Haha!" Su Ren chuckled: "Actually, the good things I have here are not just the bag of salt and tea soup, there are many more."
"oh?"
"They are all obtained from the south. They have fine furs, gems, medicinal materials, and everything else. I just don't know if Brother Cui is interested?"
"The south?" Cui Jiuming naturally knew where the south was. He was afraid of Su Ren's identity and did not dare to say it clearly: "I will discuss this matter with my father when I go home. These things must be too eye-catching."
"It's natural. I'm waiting for the good news from Brother Cui." (To be continued)
