Turbulent Times Chapter 1612: Cheng Yaojin’s best acting skills

The so-called dark ink is black, and red is red if close to vermilion. Although this sentence is not absolutely correct, it can already represent most phenomena and people.

The soldiers under the cannibal king Zhu Can may not necessarily have eaten people, but all the generals under his command have eaten people, because Zhu Can killed those who were unwilling to eat human flesh at that time.

So, the thief general named Wang Xiaoer who was stationed at Devil's Pass had eaten human flesh, and he was still drinking heavily while eating human flesh.

As soon as Wang Xiaoer heard the name, he knew that he was born in poverty, which was different from the big bosses like Zhu Can and Xiao Xian who were officials and exploiting classes before the appearance of troubled times.

"As long as one is born in poverty, there must be a tragic story before becoming a thief, especially before cannibalism, but no matter how tragic the story is, the current Wang Xiaoer is no longer worthy of the slightest sympathy. We like to cut such heinous people into pieces, we should follow suit, so if today's plan goes well, this Wang Xiaoer will try his best to catch him alive."

A large caravan with more than 30 trucks stretched along the mountain road. In the distance, a military stronghold built on the mountain and firmly stuck on the mountain pass could be seen in the distance.

Zhu Can has been fighting for so many years, and the life of a bereaved dog has been quite a lot, looting everywhere, and the days of having one meal but not the next meal have long been bored. Wang Junlin is a model in Fanyang County and other counties and counties under his rule , the thieves from all walks of life in the world have grown a lot in the past few years. They have begun to develop people's livelihood. They have considered giving people a way to survive. They have begun to develop agriculture and grow food on their own sites. They have also realized the importance of commerce and try not to rob caravans. .

Zhu Can is already the most notorious ogre king in the world. Under such circumstances, he can still control more than 100,000 troops and occupy the land of two counties. Naturally, he is somewhat superior, at least he will not be stupid all the time go down.

So, in the past two years, Zhu Can led a group of subordinates to vigorously develop agriculture, encourage commerce and trade, expand domestic demand, and increase tax revenue.

It's just that his reputation is too bad. There are some businessmen who dare to go to his territory to do business, but there have not been many.

Therefore, when Zhu Jiajun, who was closed by the devil, saw a caravan approaching the city, he was not surprised. He just had some expectations in his heart, wondering if there would be good things in the caravan, such as fine wine.

The so-called deeds from the top are effective from the bottom. The devil's chief general Wang Xiaoer is addicted to alcohol, and often drinks with his generals. After a long time, his generals all like him. liquor.

"Zhang Wazi, do you think there will be wine in the caravan?" On the wall of the Guancheng City, there was a group of soldiers who looked thinner and were weakly patrolling. When they saw the caravan appear, their eyes lit up. , the spirit is more cheered up than before, at this time one of the tall and thin men asked expectantly.

The soldier called Zhang Wazi had a dirty face. He hadn't washed his face for several days. The other soldiers were not much better than him. At this time, he shook his head and said: "In these troubled times, there is not enough food for people to eat. The wine brewed from grain is as little as a donkey's fart."

"There are more donkey farts than food." Another soldier echoed: "Oh! That is, we have entered four caravans here in the past few months. When did you see any alcohol?"

"I heard that Fanyang County had a lot of fine wines under the rule of the Poison King, and the famous backing wine was invented by the Poison King back then. If you can drink a sip of the backing wine, it will be worth dying on the battlefield another day " said the tall thin man sticking out his tongue and licking his lips.

Others echoed loudly, and the city was in chaos.

At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed, pointing to a valley on the right side of the caravan and said: "Look, there are bandits coming and want to rob this caravan."

"Looking in that direction, it should be the gang of horse thieves in Death Valley." A soldier shouted.

"Hurry up and report to the general. Do you want to send someone to rescue this caravan? After all, they are doing business in our territory. Your Majesty has told you that it is better for the caravan." The leader of the group shouted, A soldier ran down to the guard Wang Xiaoer to report.

At the same time, the caravan also found the bandit soldiers who had suddenly appeared, and ran desperately towards Devil Pass, but they were driving a truck, how could they outrun the horse bandit on horseback.

Wang Xiaoer, the guard, was straightforward. When he learned that there was a caravan outside the pass and the horse thieves in Death Valley were robbing, he immediately sent a cavalry force of 3,000 men to rush out of the pass.

It's just that the horse thief was too fast. When the 3,000 Zhu family cavalry rushed over, the caravan

Half of the goods have been stolen by the horse thief.

This horse thief has superb riding skills, and it comes and goes like the wind. The Zhu family army of three thousand seems to be a little afraid of this horse thief. Obviously they know this horse thief very well, so they didn't chase after it.

Then, amidst the crying and thanking voices of hundreds of people in this caravan, the Zhu family army of 3,000 people led them into the Devil Pass.

It's not that Zhu Jiajun is not vigilant about this caravan, it's because the caravan is only about 500 people in total, and there are tens of thousands of them in Devil Pass, so there is no need to worry at all.

Besides, it is normal for this caravan to have so many talents. After all, if the caravan has fewer people and fewer guards these days, they will not be able to go far, and they will all die.

In addition, perhaps because the horse thieves only cared about hijacking the goods, there were no dead people in this caravan, and only a few people seemed to be injured.

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Twenty miles away, in a hidden valley, Xu Shiji led 30,000 cavalry from the Wagang Battalion to rest, while 30,000 infantry escorted catapults, giant spears and crossbows and other weapons, food and grass were still behind.

At this time, all the soldiers in the valley were feeding their horses or eating in silence, no one was making noise or walking around.

Xu Shiji looked at this scene, feeling emotional in his heart, thinking that it is no wonder that the Far Eastern Army is invincible in the world, such an army is governed, discipline is so strict, and its combat effectiveness is poor. Of course, this has a lot to do with the purple-faced devil Chen Xiaogou, the deputy chief of the military justice department, accompanying them in their Wagang camp.

At this moment, a flying eagle flew from the direction of Devil's Gate, circled a few times above the heads of the 30,000 cavalrymen of the Wagang Camp, and then fell from the sky and landed on the shoulder of an official from the Military Intelligence Department not far from Xu Shiji.

The officer of the Military Intelligence Office quickly pulled out the note from the small brass tube on Feiying's leg, opened it, and ran towards Xu Shiji in big strides.

"Report to General Xu, General Chen has successfully entered the Devil Pass with 500 experts from the Special Forces." The official from the Military Intelligence Department saluted Xu Shiji with his fists cupped, and while talking, he handed the note in his hand to Xu Shiji .

After Xu Shiji read the contents of the note, he nodded and said: "The plan is so smooth, thanks to the gang of horse thieves in Death Valley."

Beside Xie Yingdeng said with some emotion: "When I was in the Central Plains, I heard that there was a horse bandit in this Death Valley. The number was only two or three thousand, and they were extremely fierce. I never thought that these two or three thousand people belonged to our Far East Army." people."

The official of the Military Intelligence Office glanced left and right, and said in a low voice: "To tell the truth, the two generals, the person in charge of this Death Valley is a dead soldier sent by Snake Island. Arranged with the prince personally, our military intelligence office only received the news after the prince's order arrived, and contacted Death Valley."

Xu Shiji and Xie Yingdeng looked at each other, and they both saw horror in each other's eyes. The latter hesitated a little, and asked, "Master Wen, do you know how many dead men the prince and Shedao sent to all over the world?" Where?"

The official of the Military Intelligence Office surnamed Wen shook his head and said, "Sorry, I really don't know about this."

Xu Shiji nodded, stopped talking about this matter, and ordered: "Master Wen, please send a message to Death Valley, and all of them will be responsible for us to rob and kill Zhu's soldiers who may leave the city."

Military intelligence officials surnamed Wen knew that Xu Shiji and others were eager to make contributions, so they nodded immediately, took out a pencil and hard paper produced in Fanyang County, quickly wrote a sentence, carefully rolled it up and stuffed it on the shoulder of the flying eagle In the small copper tube on the leg, and cover the small cover.

Then, he took out two pieces of jerky from his backpack and fed it to Flying Eagle, and took out some clear water for him to drink a few sips. Then he waved his right arm, and Flying Eagle soared into the sky, making a cry, Fly in the direction of Death Valley.

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In Devil's Gate, Cheng Yaojin and his party knelt in front of Wang Xiaoer, trembling.

There are soldiers from Zhu's army next to them inspecting the goods of the caravan.

Soon, a soldier made a sound of surprise.

"General, it's wine, this car is full of wine!"

When Wang Xiaoer heard the words, he was overjoyed at first, but soon his face showed vigilance, he stared at Cheng Yaojin and other people in the caravan and asked, "Where do you come from?"

Cheng Yaojin has already gone through a special attire, no matter how you look at it, he looks like a businessman, and what this guy is best at is actually acting. Xu Shiji was very impressed.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin came respectfully

Before, he said to Wang Xiaoer a little timidly and flatteringly: "This general, we are from Shangqiu in the Central Plains."

Wang Xiaoer snorted coldly and said, "Nowadays the world is in short supply of food, how can you have so much wine?"

Cheng Yaojin hurriedly said cautiously: "General, the Central Plains is now the territory of the Far Eastern Army. The Far Eastern Army has no shortage of food, and this wine is not brewed in the Central Plains, it is a mountain wine shipped from Fanyang County." /

"What, it's backing wine."

"It turned out to be the legendary backer wine."

"I heard that Luoyang and Chang'an also had backer wine workshops before, but the most authentic backer wine is produced in Fanyang County."

"Everyone is going to be addicted to alcohol now."

For a while, the soldiers and generals of the Zhu family's army talked a lot. They looked at the dozens of trucks with glowing eyes, and some of them were already licking their lips, looking impatient. Weijisheng, someone has already stepped forward to grab the wine.

Wang Xiaoer's eyes lit up just now, and he even licked his lips involuntarily, but he still had a vigilant expression on his face, and continued to ask, "Why did you ship wine to our territory?"

Cheng Yaojin was stunned for a moment, and said with a matter of course: "The villain heard that there is almost no wine on the site of King Zhu. If we businessmen want to make a lot of money, we need rare goods to live in. The villain thinks that wine is in King Zhu's place. We can definitely get a good price on the site, but half of it was snatched away by that nasty horse thief before we got there, if the general hadn’t sent someone to rescue just now, all our goods would have been snatched away, and we would have died as well.”

Wang Xiaoer listened, thought for a while, and felt that what Cheng Yaojin said was very logical, there was nothing wrong with it, the vigilance on his face dissipated, and he smiled grimly: "Don't be afraid, our king I have already ordered you not to rob your goods, but you also said just now that we saved your lives, how are you going to repay us!"

At the end, Wang Xiaoer's threat was very obvious.

Chen Yaojin's face became more and more frightened, his legs were trembling, but his eyes showed a suitable reluctance, and he said cautiously: "General, the villain is willing to give a hundred altars of wine to the general. Thank you General for your kindness in rescuing us."

But Wang Xiaoer shook his head and said with a sinister smile, "One hundred jars of wine is too little."

"That's one hundred and fifty jars of wine." Cheng Yaojin gritted his teeth and said with a painful face, "General, there can be no more. The villain's wine has been robbed of half, and this business has already lost money." Already."

Wang Xiaoer remembered Zhu Can's order to encourage commerce and not to block caravans, he hesitated for a while and said, "Except for the one hundred and fifty jars of wine you gave us as a thank you, the rest of the wine will be sold to us." Come on! Make an offer now."

Cheng Yaojin was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "A jar of wine and half taels of silver or ten Fan Yang coins."

As the Far East Army has become the largest production base in the world, especially the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce has gradually pushed the Far East Coins around the world, and the Fanyang Coin designed by Nie Xiaoyu has no one to imitate it, so it has been and Like gold and silver, it has become a hard currency, and this alone makes huge profits for the Far Eastern Army every year.

When he heard that the bid was so high, the last bit of doubt in Wang Xiaoer's heart dissipated.

"The bid is so high, do you want to court death?" Wang Xiaoer didn't speak this time, but a general next to him yelled loudly.

With a thud, Cheng Yaojin knelt down in fright, begging for mercy repeatedly: "General, please forgive me. It was just a villain's bid just now. The general can counter the price. The price is negotiable!"

Wang Xiaoer said indifferently: "Our king has ordered us, we are considered officers and soldiers now, we will not rob caravans like that death valley horse thief, the price is one Fan Yang coin for a jar of wine!"

Cheng Yaojin's complexion suddenly became ugly, and he collapsed to the ground. This low price is almost no different from free gift.

Soon some soldiers counted the number of wine jars, and still gave Cheng Yaojin a bag of money, and then the soldiers of Zhu's army happily moved all the wine away.

Finally, Cheng Yaojin and his party were taken to a large natural lava cave. There was an iron gate at the entrance of the lava cave, which was clearly the place where the prisoners were held.

"It's going to be dark now, our general is a good guy, I'll let you stay for one night, and then go back out tomorrow, but you can only stay here." An officer shouted casually, and he couldn't wait to be sent The iron gate was locked directly, and I ran back to taste the fine wine.