"Young hero, young hero, you can't do it. This is the soldier of the patrol team. We can't afford to offend him. Please stop, young hero."
When he realized that the soldier's misery was all caused by Li Mu, the middle-aged mayor suddenly knelt down and begged with tears and snot to let the soldier go. If the two men hadn't grown up,
It's completely different. Li Mu would definitely believe that the two were related, otherwise how could the head of a town kneel down and beg for mercy for the other party.
"This man raped a common girl in broad daylight before and was captured by us who were passing by. Instead of imprisoning and punishing him in accordance with the laws of the empire, you still want to intercede on his behalf? Could it be that you are working together?"
Hao Meng, who was born with a strong sense of justice, couldn't help but speak at this time. A pair of tiger eyes and a body full of muscles stood in front of the mayor like a wall, frightening the middle-aged man with no cultivation.
My legs were shaking a little. I looked at the soldiers still rolling on the ground, and then at the imposing Li Mu team. I swallowed several times, but still couldn't say a word.
Li Mu was a little surprised by the abnormality of the mayor of Shuangliu Town. He thought that if he encountered injustice, he would send this soldier who set out to obey the laws of the empire, and then someone would imprison him for interrogation. However, this does not seem to be the case now.
A mere ordinary soldier can make the mayor so scared. Is there something hidden in it?
Seeing the fearful and somewhat tangled look in the mayor's eyes, the attentive Lin Qingzhu immediately understood what the other party was hesitating about, and struck the soldier on the ground with a knife. How could an ordinary soldier withstand such a blow from a monk?
He fainted instantly.
"Mayor, can you speak now? Why are you so afraid of this soldier? According to imperial law, even if they are patrolling troops, they should be under your jurisdiction when there is no war. Why do I feel that he is yours?
Same as my superiors."
Bing Pi's coma made the top official of Shuangliu Town finally breathe a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his head shakily, and sighed deeply at Li Mu and others.
"Young heroes, I know you are doing righteous things, but our Shuangliu Town is different from those big cities. We cannot afford to offend these soldiers sent by the military department at all."
The sighing mayor seemed to have aged ten years when he talked about the stationed soldiers. His usual depression was completely released in front of Li Mu. The tears streaming down his face showed that these years must have been quite difficult.
"Our Shuangliu Town was originally an ordinary town, and there were no specialties nearby. Twenty years ago, when I returned to my hometown after studying in the Imperial Capital, everyone praised me and made me the mayor, so I
Thinking that even if I work hard in this life, Shuangliu Town will not be able to stay poor, I went to the old classmates from the academy again and again, and put down my dignity to beg them. The rich would provide some money, and the powerful would make it easier. It took a full ten years.
We just opened the road from the town to the main commercial road, and then mobilized the people in the town to open inns and wine shops. Anyway, we have everything in the big city."
"The roads were open and various facilities were available. Then I went to various large cities nearby to promote our Shuangliu Town, saying that the scenery here is beautiful and the vitality is abundant. I suddenly turned this impoverished town into a city with a radius of thousands of miles.
A vacation place for noble families."
"But life has gotten better and the people in the town have become richer, so trouble has come. There is a group of bandits twenty miles west of the town. In the past, when Shuangliu Town was poor, everyone lived in peace. But when the town became rich,
They also focused on this place. Not only did they rob the caravans coming and going, but they also kidnapped several times. For a time, people were panicked and the town's business also plummeted."
Thinking of the events of the past twenty years, the meritorious mayor even choked up when he spoke. This Shuangliu town condensed all his hard work and youth, and was the most important thing in his heart.
"Later, in order to deal with this group of bandits, I went to the imperial capital and spent a lot of money on activities. This allowed the military department to arrange a long-term garrison to be responsible for the security of the town. My original plan was to have them completely wipe out the group of bandits to avoid future troubles.
But the unexpected officer refused to send troops because he did not want to increase the casualties of the troops, and was only responsible for the safety of people coming and going around the town on weekdays."
"At first I thought it was nothing. As long as the bandits no longer affected the life of the town, it made no difference whether they were killed or not. But later I learned that the soldiers sent by the military deliberately did not kill the bandits, because as long as the bandits are still there,
, we in Shuangliu Town cannot do without them, so we have to beg them, and he will have the capital to do mischief in the town."
"Am I not aware of the things these bastards do on a daily basis? They are worse than beasts, but what can I do? I didn't go to the military headquarters to report it, and was sent back directly in the end. Those soldiers knew that I went to the imperial capital.
After complaining, they beat me severely, and then turned a deaf ear to the bandits. As a result, our town was robbed several times. There was nothing we could do, so I could only ask them to protect us."
The mayor's words made Li Mu and others extremely angry, especially Liu Long, who was also an imperial soldier. He was furious. Unexpectedly, the imperial army, which was supposed to be the protector of civilians, actually blackmailed the people. Although they were restrained,
It would not be an act that would endanger people's lives, but there have definitely been incidents of bullying of men and women over the years. How could Liu Long, who had always been proud of his military status, endure this?
"Those bastards in the Central Military Region are really rotten to the core. If they were all like this guy, not to mention the Penglai Immortal Kingdom, any small barbarian country could easily defeat them."
Gritting his teeth, Liu Long was really angry. He kicked the unconscious soldiers on the ground a few more times, and then turned his attention to Li Mu. The current situation was really a dilemma for Shuangliu Town. If he offended these soldiers, then
A town that loses protection will become a meal for bandits, but if it continues to condone the viciousness of the garrisoned troops, then who knows how many people will become the playthings of these soldiers and gangsters.
"The root of the problem is the group of bandits threatening Shuangliu Town. If these rogue soldiers don't go to suppress the bandits, then we will go and solve the biggest hidden danger first. Then Brother Liu, you can apply to the military department to mobilize a force from your Eastern Military Region.
Or if a team from the Southern Military Region comes over, it doesn’t need to be more than a dozen people, and then the safety of Shuangliu Town can be guaranteed. What do you think?"
After experiencing the turmoil in the imperial capital, Li Mu's overall view has been greatly improved. In a few words, he told Shuangliu Town's stubborn problems and how to deal with them. Lin Qingzhu and others who had been with him for a long time were okay, and Nie, who had not seen him for a long time, was fine.
Xiao Yu and Hao Meng were both impressed, not to mention Yun Luoxi, who had never passed away.
"No problem. I will send a message to Fei Ge, the son of the Liu family in the military department, and ask them to prepare a small team to send over. A troop movement of this scale will not attract the attention of the royal family and the Central Military Region."
After Liu Long nodded to indicate that there was no problem with the army's defense change, Li Mu directly asked the mayor, who was stunned by what they said, for a map near Shuangliu Town. After determining the location of the bandit's lair, the group first asked the mayor to imprison the
The soldier who committed the crime left Lin Qingzhu and Fang Yan behind to prevent the garrison from causing trouble, while the others remounted their horses and galloped towards the hilltop where the bandits were.