LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 68 Serial Bandits
The spiritual tax mentioned by Hu Hua, the county lieutenant of Chongyu, gave Zhou Yuan a deeper understanding of the Wei Dynasty.
The central government collects local spiritual objects, and the barren land relies on central subsidies. Once this spiritual object redistribution route goes wrong, it will indeed shake the foundation of the country.
No wonder the extraordinary warriors are not simple sect structures. The organization that relies on inheritance from top to bottom cannot complete the centralized redistribution of resources.
"Zhou Qudu, I will give you a good banquet today.
You have helped me a lot. You don't know how important Guanzao Mountain is to Chongyu County."
"Twenty percent of the people in this city are engaged in the sale and processing of red dates, as well as charcoal making and transportation.
In addition, merchants from all over the country spend money locally, buy warehouses and land, recruit partners, etc., and jointly revitalize this city.
So, without our Chongyu camp to replenish the official warehouse from time to time, this city will be half scattered and half poor."
Chongyu County is a typical resource-based city, and continuous output is more important than anything else.
Therefore, the county lieutenant Hu Hua, who was still injured, was sincerely grateful for Zhou Yuan's help, otherwise he would have to ask for help from Linxian warriors for the stability of the city's business.
After the joyful banquet, Zhou Yuan met several local generals and laid the foundation for cooperation.
When he returned to his newly cleaned residence, he used [Burning Wood Palm] and used the reserved experience to upgrade it to the maximum level.
[Skill: Burning Wood Palm]
[Introduction: The five elements are divided into five internal organs, and the fire of the five internal organs is generated by the heart. There are two phases, virtual and real. Virtual will make the mind upset, and real will burn the wood. ]
[Effect: Condensed fire hurts the surface, and virtual fire confuses the heart. After use, the target is superimposed with chaotic air and burning state. ]
Burning Wood Palm is not good at burst damage, but mainly negative effects.
The state of 'chaotic air' is similar to the silence of the mage system. Warriors who use aura as the core output will definitely not feel good after being superimposed with the chaotic air state.
This is also the reason why Zhou Yuan upgraded it to the maximum level. If the enemy thinks he is not good at close combat and attacks him suddenly, he can silence him and then attack him.
"The Qingsha River in Qiaoxi Village is just a branch of the Qu River, and it hides the [Lair of General Qingsha] dungeon with a recommended level of 15.
Chongyu is the estuary of the main vein of the Qu River, and there is a high probability that some aquatic dungeons will be hidden."
"This is a good opportunity. I may be able to explore new dungeons and gain more powerful skills."
For Zhou Yuan, a large number of optional dungeons is the way forward, otherwise he can only toss back and forth in a limited number of dungeons.
One of his purposes for entering Chongyu County is to explore the special geomorphic area at the estuary of the Qu River.
Therefore, the next morning he proposed to County Lieutenant Hu Hua that he would lead the army to patrol the coastal area, and Hu Hua would lead the team to patrol the river.
County Lieutenant Hu Hua was naturally happy to accept this proposal to effectively defend against pirates.
So he wrote a letter to Zhou Yuan, promising that Zhou Yuan could transfer soldiers stationed on the coast.
In this way, Zhou Yuan obtained the power to dispatch boats and patrol the coastal waters.
After handing over his soldiers to his two subordinates, Du Bo, he led 20 riders to the sea where pirates often appeared.
Along the way, he saw some fort-like villages and towns, among which there were also some large forts similar to small towns.
The accompanying Chongyu cavalry told him that those large forts were mostly built by local nobles.
They went to sea to do business, and there was a lot of surplus wealth in the family. The young people of the same family and the dependent servants in the fort were also brave and capable of fighting.
Therefore, they were able to gain a foothold in this coastal area and establish an internally autonomous city defense fort.
In addition, Zhou Yuan also found that the closer to the coastal area, the more serious the phenomenon of forts, as if they were not afraid of pirate attacks.
"Qu Du, most of the docks here are rentable warehouses. Merchants pay to store goods, and they provide armed protection and make profits from it."
"The Sima in the county stationed troops at the coastal ports to guard against pirates coming ashore to plunder.
Qu Du needs to patrol the waters, and he needs to ask Sima Wu to allocate boats and ships to sailors."
Zhou Yuan was learning about the local situation and suddenly found that a dock was under attack.
The accompanying cavalry became excited when they saw this scene, and they all said that they could jog and approach quietly, and when the pirates were damaged and exhausted, they could kill the pirates and make merit.
Zhou Yuan did not object. He also wanted to see why the pirates dared to attack the docks that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.
When he got closer, he found that things were not simple. Some of those pirates were normal people, and some had identity information on their health bars.
[Level 7 Lianhuanwu Pirates], [Level 8 Lianhuanwu Shooter], [Level 10 Lianhuanwu Small Leader]
[Level 10 Lianhuanwu Small Leader] obviously held back and did not show too strong strength.
Under his command, the bandits kept throwing arrows into the fort, and threatened to come every few days if they didn't hand over some money and property.
In fact, the number of bandits was not large, only more than 20 people, but the people in the fort had obviously suffered losses and did not dare to go out of the fort to expel them.
After a negotiation, a bag of property was even thrown out from the fort to satisfy the bandits' appetite.
"Let's go, guys, this family is sensible, let's go to the next family to ask for rewards."
Seeing these bandits earn money so easily, Zhou Yuan was not surprised, but the soldiers who accompanied him calmed down their excitement, and there was still some panic.
"Qu Du, they may not be ordinary sea pirates, most of them are bandits from Lianhuanwu.
Those people are real desperate people, fighting without hesitation and very brave, a big cancer in several counties in Linhai."
"Oh, how did you see that?"
"Those fort owners are very smart. If they were ordinary pirates, they would not easily compromise.
Only the name of Lianhuanwu can make them willingly pay."
"Let's go and meet them."
Although the accompanying knights were a little panicked, they chose to obey orders because they had horses that could run fast.
When the galloping cavalry approached the bandits, normal bandits immediately panicked, but the Lianhuanwu bandits were very calm.
The leader [Level 10 Lianhuanwu Little Leader] took two steps forward and shouted loudly.
"Who is this big official? We brothers are just looking for friends to borrow some money to make ends meet. Maybe you can do us a favor and let us go."
Zhou Yuan ignored his shouting, but drew his bow and arrow with the full-level blood arrow technique, and directly launched an attack.
The swift arrow exceeded the reaction speed of [Level 10 Lianhuanwu Small Leader], and was shot in the chest by an arrow, and the blood bar plummeted by 80%
"Ah! It's a long-range warrior, brothers, fight back for me, don't let him shoot arrows at ease, otherwise we will all die today."
As soon as [Level 10 Lianhuanwu Small Leader] finished speaking, he suddenly felt a chill on his back, followed by a strong tingling sensation.
He looked back in disbelief and found that his subordinate [Level 7 Lianhuanwu Water Bandit] was about to launch a second attack on him.
"You dare to hurt me, I'll kill you first."
It was a mess, all messed up. Under the effect of the mind-confusing technique, the bandits suddenly had an internal conflict.
The ordinary bandits fled in all directions at the first time, and the Lianhuanwu bandits hesitated for a moment and ran in different directions.
Zhou Yuan took the opportunity to use the ghost spell that could locate the direction, marked the three Lianhuanwu bandits, and stopped the cavalry pursuit in those three directions.
"Humans and monsters live together, and monsters rule humans. It seems that Lianhuanwu has gained momentum."