"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to the Sheriff."
Zhao Dezhu smiled and bowed to Nie Chen.
Nie Chen glanced at the messy people behind Zhao Dezhu and said with a smile,
"Mr. Zhao is smiling so happily, but is there any big happy event?"
"Oh, Lord Sheriff, what a great joy."
Zhao Dezhu sat directly on the chair and said,
"Sir, the policy you gave me before was implemented directly by the official the next day. Unexpectedly, the effect was surprisingly good.
While we were recruiting troops, we were recruiting bandits at the same time.
After hearing about your glorious deeds, those bandits were all filled with admiration.
There are thirty-two large and small bandit villages in Jinping County, not counting the rural bandits composed of farmers.
As soon as your policy came out, the bandit leaders came to the county town one by one with dry food for their troops and horses, saying that they wanted to defect to you.
In these nine days, we recruited and settled a total of 28 bandit villages, and attacked and recruited more than 3,800 people.
There are also more than 7,000 people recruited from the private sector to join the army. Now, there are a lot fewer idlers in each village, and the public security will definitely be improved a lot.
It took a total of nine days from the time you came here. In these nine days, I was able to solve all the things that had been bothering me for decades.
I am really very grateful to you sir. "
Nie Chen smiled and waved his hands and said,
"Master Zhao is still very good at governing. In just nine days, he recruited tens of thousands of people, and in the blink of an eye, he had another 10,000 troops.
I heard that Mr. Zhao personally went to the bandit's village to persuade him? Your sincerity and courage without fear of death alone are enough to be admired. "
"Everywhere, it's all the credit of the adults. Lowering the official position is nothing more than a fox pretending to be a tiger."
Old man Zhao waved his hands repeatedly.
"Who are these people behind you?"
"Oh, they are the heads of those twenty-eight villages. When they heard that you were coming, they insisted on coming to see you. How about you go out and see you?"
"I have to see you."
Nie Chen stood up and said,
"Aalong Ahu, go get some wine."
"As you command!"
Nie Chen led the generals, followed by Weng Qiuchan and Zhao Dezhu, and walked outside.
It was already dark outside. Under the light of torches, Nie Chen saw a group of men, all of whom were full of energy.
"Meet Mr. Nie!"
All the bandit leaders clasped their hands and bowed.
"Everyone, please get up."
Nie Chen walked over, looked at them and smiled,
"Everyone, I actually didn't start the army for a long time. It only took two months to start the army. Two months ago, I was a bandit just like you, and we were both the bosses of the village.
Now, seeing you, I suddenly feel like I'm back in Qingfeng Village again, how friendly it is. "
"Ha ha ha ha……"
The bandit leaders laughed loudly. They did not expect that the county guard in front of them was so young and so easy-going.
"You are willing to take your brothers down the mountain and come to my camp to meet me alone, which shows your trust in me and your willingness to follow me. Naturally, I, Nie Chen, will not betray your trust.
I believe that as long as we work together and live and die together, we will be able to create a world and let the world see that there are heroes among us bandits! "
"good!"
"Well done!"
The leaders laughed.
At this time, Zhou Long and Zhou Hu came over with a wine jar and poured wine for Nie Chen and other leaders.
While pouring the wine, Nie Chen said,
"Since all the brothers are willing to follow me, let's make the rules clear first. If there are no rules, there will be rules even in our bandit village.
Since you have joined the army, I will not take any blame for everything in the past, whether you killed someone or robbed money.
But from now on, you will all be soldiers. What is a soldier?
Those who protect the home and the country and protect the people are soldiers!
Those who live and die together, and wear the same clothes as their sons, are soldiers!
No matter what force you were in before or what conflicts you had, when you enter the military camp, you are soldiers, not bandits. You are surrounded by comrades who can take up arms to protect you, not enemies.
Drink this bowl of wine, put down your grudges, and live and die together from now on! "
"With the total death!"
The twenty-eight heads shouted loudly, and then they all smashed the bowls.
"Let's go have a barbecue together!"
Nie Chen waved his hand and led them to find an open space, where they started to light a bonfire, drink wine and eat meat.
Zhao Dezhu was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that Nie Chen, with such a noble status, would actually be willing to sit on the ground with a group of bandits to eat and drink.
Weng Qiuchan walked to him and said,
"Let's go, Magistrate Zhao, let's have a drink together. Don't look at it. This is Nie Chen's temperament. Anyone who works under him will be obedient. To put it nicely, he knows people well and is good at inspiring people."
To put it mildly, it’s just deceiving.
Weng Qiuchan was deceived by him in the first place.
Magistrate Zhao laughed dumbly and went over to sit down.
The guards were roasting game and a sheep, and the masters were chatting with Nie Chen and others.
After a while, Nie Chen asked,
"County Magistrate Zhao, there are thirty-two bandit villages in Jinping County. Twenty-eight of them have abandoned the enemy and turned to the bright side. What is the attitude of the remaining four?"
Hearing this, Magistrate Zhao put down his wine bowl and said,
"Sir, the remaining four villages have become one. Jinshan Village is the largest village in our Jinping County. It occupies several hills. There are iron ore in the hills. They have grown big by selling private iron. There are thousands of people.”
"iron ore?"
Nie Chen and others' eyes suddenly lit up. Although the iron mine near Qingfeng Village is rich in content, it is still early to be dug out. But if new iron ore can be discovered, an arsenal can be built again. The output will definitely be doubled by then.
Whether it is to arm your own army or sell it to King Pingxi, it is more than enough.
Even this iron mine and that Jinshan Village must be destroyed.
Magistrate Zhao went on to say,
"Yes, it's an iron mine, and it's a big mine. After our recruitment notice was released, all the leaders here came to join us one after another. However, Jin Ming, the leader of Jinshan Village, said that this was all a trick of our officers and soldiers, and that they wanted to kill the bandits. Catch them all.
He spread rumors everywhere and deceived the public with his monstrous words, and the other three families believed him. Then he said that the officers and soldiers would destroy the bandits, which frightened the three families and defected to them.
Now, there are 1,800 people in their stronghold! "
"One thousand eight hundred people..."
Nie Chen smiled and said,
"It's not too much. It seems that Jinshan Village is still not very popular. Our Qingfeng Village already had more than 8,000 people before we attacked the county government."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"Let's do this. Tomorrow, the army will go out to destroy Jinshan Village in one fell swoop, so that there will be no more bandits in Jinping County."
