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, including an entire caravan. 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 Gu of Lingzhang County respectively ordered the border teams to observe martial law and conduct inspections in the surrounding areas centered on the market to ensure that the merchants and businessmen participating in the mutual trade were safe. In order to ensure the safety of the team, at the same time, we will kill the cultivators who steal money and kill without mercy.
"There are really people who are stroking the tiger's beard. This market is guarded by three real people. To intercept and kill people who go to the market to trade, isn't this a slap in the face of the 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 villains 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 straightforward 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, but it can't be done." Most of the bandit cultivators are desperate, they don’t have much wealth, and they can’t get much loot, and most of them are desperadoes, and it won’t be worth it if they injure one or two of our own family members!”
Zhuang Guangyu's words 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 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 straightened, 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 Meaning, 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. Make a lot of money and don't have to worry about a bad reputation.
However, Yang Junshan always felt that something was wrong with this, so he tried to ask: "Is this an order from County Magistrate Chen?"
Liu Zhifei glanced at Yang Junshan,
Said: "This is an order issued by the sect!"
After a pause, he added: "Uncle Chen is also a sect elder!"
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 the 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 the brothers take action in vain!”
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces lightened up with worry, and they all said, "That's what Captain Zheng said!"
But everyone was still muttering in their hearts, if their own family ran into the village's caravan, that would be okay, but what if another family's team ran into it? If there were no monks from this village in that team, wouldn't it be possible that they would be robbed and killed by bandit cultivators, and then captured by border defense cultivators in the name of suppressing bandits
Especially people like Yang Junshan or Zhuang Guangyu, who have some influence in the family 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 will sink. I don't know if it's because their families already knew the order and were prepared, or because they think about the power of their families and are not afraid of the so-called robbers.
For now, the only way to get the news out is to pass it on as soon as possible. However, 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, 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 stones that he personally experienced, the raids on Wang Zhenren's house in Chenyu County, the genocide of the Sun family of Jinyu County Chief, and the mutual trade of Chen Yuzhen in Mengyu County, Yang Junshan also knew that there were three other incidents in the entire 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.