Chapter 982: Skilled in making people feel distressed
Early the next morning, Gan Ning called everyone over. While eating breakfast, Gan Ning talked about his plan, "Cao Jun's food and grass are not sent from Jingzhou at all. They are all from Yizhou native families."
Provided to them, so let’s drain the fuel from the cauldron and burn the food of all the nearby aristocratic families for him!”
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they all stopped what they were talking about and looked at Gan Ning. Unexpectedly, Gan Ning really thought of a way that night, and it sounded very feasible!
In their eyes, it is not easy to burn the grain and grass of a noble family. In their eyes, it is not easy to attack a manor like this. In any case, it is much easier than burning Cao Jun's granary.
The fact is, as Gan Ning said, Guan Yu blocked Cao Jun's path, so the only people Cao Jun could rely on were local aristocratic families.
Pei Yuanshao put down his bowl and chopsticks and looked at Gan Ning and asked, "Where do we start?"
"Starting from Linjiang, there is the Gan family's manor fifteen miles outside the city. I have inquired about it. That's where the Gan family's granary is. Let's cook it first!" Gan Ning replied casually while sipping the porridge from the bowl.
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"If I heard correctly, this Gan family is the general's family, right?" Pei Yuanshao looked at Gan Ning with a troubled face and asked, "This is so fierce, I even burn myself."
"Ah, yes!" Gan Ning raised his head and glanced at Pei Yuanshao, "What's wrong?"
"No, sir, you want to burn down your own home first?" Yan Yu stood up directly, with a look of reluctance on his face, "Why!"
"Set an example!" Gan Ning said matter-of-factly, "We can't just keep the Gan family when everyone else is burned. Isn't that too high-profile? It doesn't conform to the principles of my life!"
Everyone who knew Gan Ning rolled their eyes. Are you the only one keeping a low profile?
A master who raises brocade sails and hangs golden bells for fear that others will not get his idea is still so low-key?
Do you have any misunderstanding about the word low-key?
For a moment, everyone's minds were filled with the desire to complain.
Speaking of acting vigorously and resolutely, Gan Ning did indeed do a good job. After eating, the group patted their bellies and came to the vicinity of the granary. In the eyes of the manor stewards who were crying in fear, Gan Ning waved his hand, and everyone smiled and held the torches in their hands.
Throw it out.
Seeing the torch tumbling in the air and falling onto the granary, the manor manager simply passed out.
He kept blocking the villagers who wanted to put out the fire, until the fire was completely raging and there was no possibility of putting out the fire. Gan Ning then roared out with everyone, and before leaving, he also took several ponies in the manor with him, Mei.
Its name is - expropriation.
Under the leadership of Gan Ning, a group of people directly attacked Ganjiazhuang. Although the old man shouted that he wanted to beat Gan Ning to death last night, in fact, he was still very honest. Not only did he not order people to move away the food and grass, but
Instruct the stewards in Zhuangzi to leave things alone and let Ning do as he pleases.
Just like this, in just one morning, five or six fires were lit continuously outside the city. The billowing smoke was clearly visible in Linjiang City. The wealthy families in the city also received the news that the granaries outside the city were burned to the ground, and they were shocked.
In disgrace, he dispatched the only two thousand county soldiers in the city, and then... nothing happened again.
Gan Ning led the county soldiers who were able to kill them with a single charge and began to be defeated. Then he chased them all the way and poked them a few times before following them into the city so easily.
Fortunately, Gan Ning's purpose was never to kill or injure the county soldiers. It was not that he was merciful or anything like that. Gan Ning could still understand this. He kept them because having more mouths would consume more government food. This was better than
If you kill it, you will get a bigger one.
"Pei Yuanshao, take people to burn the granary. Come back as soon as you're done." With only two hundred manpower, Gan Ning himself could only stay and watch the city gate. The task of burning the government granary could only be left to Pei Yuanshao. After all, he
I'm not afraid of being locked up in Chengli, but these people under my command can't fly.
Pei Yuanshao looked at the map, agreed, and rushed out with his men. There were no soldiers in the city for defense, and soon he saw thick smoke rising high.
After Gan Ning felt relieved, he stood at the gate of the city in a grand manner, but the people waiting on the left did not come back, and the people waiting on the right did not come back. If he was waiting for the fire to completely burn out, then he had plenty of time. At the end
, Gan Ning also stood up and looked in the direction of the city with a frown. If he hadn't heard the violent shouts of killing, Gan Ning would have been tempted to go in and take a look.
After more than half an hour, Pei Yuanshao returned with a group of people. Seeing everyone covered in blood, Gan Ning couldn't help but wrinkled and asked: "What's going on? Is there an ambush in the city?"
"Bah!" Pei Yuanshao spat hard, and then said angrily: "It's ridiculous to say it. There was no ambush in the city, but there was such a chaos, and there were many defeated soldiers and ruffians in the city who took advantage of the chaos.
Trouble started, people were burning, killing, looting and all, and there were no officers and soldiers to maintain order, so we had no choice but to take action to quell the chaos!"
After saying that, Pei Yuanshao spread his hands and said helplessly, "General, what do you think this is all about? Aren't we here to burn, kill and loot? When did we become to help quell the chaos?"
Gan Ning blinked his eyes, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching. He was also dumbfounded by this incident. However, when he looked at the horses held by these guys almost hand by hand, Gan Ning's expression became even weirder, "You guys are special
How to calm the chaos like this?"
"Uh..." Hearing this, Pei Yuanshao showed an awkward but polite smile and explained: "Is this the consciousness of being a bandit? As the saying goes, if a thief doesn't escape, he can't work in vain. That's too much.
Shameful."
Hearing this, Gan Ning laughed and patted Pei Yuanshao on the shoulder: "Well done!"
"As for maintaining order..."
"You have to think about it this way. In the future, this will all be our Han Army's territory. Now maintaining order should be regarded as fulfilling our responsibilities in advance. Besides, this chaos has something to do with us."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Pei Yuanshao gave Gan Ning a thumbs up and praised: "Haha, the general is still very ideologically aware!"
"Pah!" Gan Ning slapped Pei Yuanshao on the back of the head and said with a smile, "It's itchy, isn't it?"
The group of people walked out of the city chatting and laughing, not paying attention to the people in Linjiang City at all.
After leaving the city, a group of people rode ponies slowly toward the next target. On the way, Pei Yuanshao seemed to have thought of something, so he approached Gan Ning and asked in a low voice: "General, you said, let's give those noble families all their food and grass."
Isn’t it a bit of a waste to burn it? Why not share it with the people and win over people’s hearts?”
"Okay, you kid, you are starting to use your brain!" Gan Ning teased and then explained: "It is definitely not possible to share the food. Burning it is a matter between us and the family. If the food is gone, it will be gone.
They dare to show their teeth to our Han army!"
"But if you distribute it to the people, it will become a matter between us, the aristocratic family, and the people. When the time comes when the aristocratic family can't afford to offend us, and we can't afford to offend the people, it's not just an order, and the people will obediently hand over all the food. In the end,
If it's easy or not, you'll have to pay more." After saying that, Gan Ning patted Pei Yuanshao on the shoulder, rarely showing his delicate side, "Many times, it is much harder to do good things than to do bad things. You can do bad things.
Do it without any scruples, but if you do good things, you need to consider the interests of all parties. If you don't do it well, the harm caused by good things will be much greater than the bad things."
"This is really, this is really..." Pei Yuanshao sighed after hearing this, and for a moment he didn't know how to express his extremely complicated feelings, "Damn, what the hell is this!"
He cursed hard and felt better. He shook his head and decided not to think about these things that were too complicated for him. "By the way, General, you said that if we burn the food of the aristocratic family, then the people will not have it in their hands."
Is there still food? When the time comes, won’t those Cao soldiers still be able to grab food from the people?”