Thief Emperor

Chapter 70 It’s outrageous!

Originally, Li Yun didn't care too much about these bandits from the Ten Kings Village, because most of these bandits were just ordinary members of the Ten Kings Village. They knew the way up the mountain, and Li Yun could just find someone to lead the way.

Even the map that Liu Bo drew at that time could lead him to Shiwangzhai.

However, the fact that General Du wanted to take these people away made Li Yun realize that there was at least one or several important figures from the Ten Kings Village among this group of bandits.

At this moment, County Magistrate Xue had already left Qingyang, and Li Yun had little time left. He had to seize all favorable conditions, for example, finding the important figure of the Ten Kings Village from among these bandits.

This is not a difficult task.

In this era, there are many fierce and fearless bandits. There are also many fierce bandits in the Ten Kings Camp, but there can be no such people among the dozen people in the prison now.

Otherwise, they would not have surrendered and would not have been imprisoned here.

As soon as Li Dutou said this, three or four of them knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Yun: "I want to live, I want to live!"

Li Dutou nodded slowly and said, "There is someone among you who holds a high position in the Ten Kings Village. Identify him and I guarantee that you will suffer less and will not die in prison."

At this moment, these bandits had been gathered together. Hearing Li Yun's words, the four people kneeling on the ground turned their heads and looked at a thin middle-aged man in his thirties.

The middle-aged man had disheveled hair and a dirty face. After taking a deep breath, he gritted his teeth and stood up, kneeling in front of Li Yun: "My humble servant greets you, sir."

Li Yun looked the middle-aged man up and down, and narrowed his eyes: "It's really going unexpectedly smoothly. I was going to spend half a day to give you guys a good beating."

He walked up to the middle-aged man, grabbed his collar with one hand, and lifted him up, saying with a smile: "You hid it well. For a few days, I didn't realize that I caught a big fish."

The middle-aged man felt a little aggrieved: "Sir, I didn't hide it, it's you who didn't ask..."

"..."

Captain Li was speechless. This was indeed his negligence. He had not expected that there would be unexpected gains among these dozen surrendered bandits.

After glancing at the middle-aged man, Li Yun sat back in his chair and asked, "What's your name and what do you do in the Ten Kings Village?"

The middle-aged man had a bitter face, knelt on the ground again, lowered his head and said: "My surname is Sun, and my humble name is Shouli."

Li Yun smiled dumbly: "You are a bandit, and you still have the nerve to call yourself a polite person?"

"small…"

Sun Shouli looked up at Li Yun and said with a wry smile, "I was originally a scholar, but was kidnapped and taken to the mountains by them. For six or seven years, I have been in Lingyang Mountain, managing accounts for... for those bandits."

Li Dutou was a little puzzled and asked, "Since you are the accountant, why did Boss Tong take you with him when he went out to fight?"

Sun Shouli bowed his head and smiled bitterly, "Sir, that day, the old man... that day, the man surnamed Tong said that he was going to destroy the Cangshan stronghold on Cangshan Mountain. After destroying the Cangshan stronghold, he had to count the property, so he brought me along to make it easier to enter the account."

These words made Li Yun laugh out of anger.

The people from the Ten Kings Village are so arrogant that they are already counting their property before the fight even starts!
But soon, Li Yun figured out why someone from the state would come and want to take this man named Sun away.

He stood up with his hands behind his back and walked out: "Follow me."

Sun Shouli took a deep breath, looked back at his accomplices in the prison, gritted his teeth, and followed Li Yun out.

Li Yun took him to a side room of the county government office, poured him a cup of tea, and then asked, "Have you been managing the accounts for the Ten Kings Camp for the past six or seven years?"

Sun Shouli took a sip of tea and nodded quickly: "Yes, there are not many people who can read in the Ten Kings Village, and even fewer who can do arithmetic. I am the one who does all the accounting. That Tong guy is a money-grubber and he wants me to tell him how much money is left in the village every day."

Li Dadutou smiled and said, "I heard that many wealthy families in Xuanzhou City are involved with the Ten Kings Village. So, you know which families they are."

Sun Shouli was stunned at first, then seemed to understand something. He looked up at Li Yun and sighed: "Your Excellency should be a good man with a righteous heart, but it is useless for me to speak out about these things."

He lowered his head and said, "I can't bring down the official, and I can't win the lawsuit."

"Who said I was going to sue them?"

Li Yun sneered, then found a pen and paper, placed it in front of Sun Shouli, and said, "Write down the names of those families one by one, and I will ensure that you will not die in Qingyang Prison."

Sun Shouli knew the power of those people very well, but he still didn't dare to write. He gritted his teeth and bowed his head and said, "Sir, I was also coerced by the bandits. I have never harmed anyone..."

"Do you think I don't know the rules of the village?"

Li Yun sneered.

"If you are an outsider like you and your hands are not stained with blood, will the village tolerate you?"

This sentence made Sun Shouli's last line of defense collapse. For an outsider like him to be able to live peacefully in the Ten Kings Village for so many years, he must have paid a "letter of surrender" in the past.

The accountant of Shiwangzhai wrote on the paper tremblingly while looking up at Li Yun and trying hard to force a smile.

"No... I didn't expect the official to know so much about the village..."

Li Dutou was full of righteousness.

"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles!"

After half an hour, Li Yun finally got the list written by Sun Shouli.

After reading the list, Li Yun sneered, then opened the shackles for the accountant and said in a deep voice: "In the next two days, I will gather people to attack the Ten Kings Village. You have been in the Ten Kings Village for so many years, you must know the path to the mountain."

"When the time comes, you follow me and lead the way for me."

Sun Shouli's voice trembled: "Sir, the people in the village saw me and they want to kill me."

Li Dutou sneered and said, "If you cooperate honestly now, you still have a chance to survive. If you don't cooperate with the government, I will chop you off with a knife right now. Do you believe it or not?"

When the imperial court had strict laws, if someone died in the local county jail, they might really send someone to investigate, but now...

Li Yun can now kill all the bandits one by one with his sword, and the imperial court will not have the leisure to interfere in such trivial matters.

Sun Shouli shrank his neck and asked the last question: "Sir, does this count as... redeeming my crime for meritorious service?"

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Two days later, in the morning, the Qingyang County Government's anti-theft team assembled at the gate of the government office. Li Dadu raised his arm and shouted, "Let's go and wipe out the bandits!"

A group of yamen runners followed him and shouted loudly: "Destroy the bandits!"

When a group of more than 20 people were about to leave the county government office, a slightly fat figure ran over hurriedly, breathing heavily.

"Slow...slow down!"

After he took a breath, he shouted this loudly.

Everyone looked at him, even Li Yun frowned: "Jiang Dianshi, what's the matter?"

"What are you going to do?"

"Didn't Dianshi Jiang hear it?"

Li Yun frowned: "We are going to go out of the city to suppress the bandits."

"Go... go attack the Ten Kings Village?"

Jiang Dianshi clenched his fists and said coldly: "Just you guys?"

He turned around and looked at the yamen runners, and shouted loudly: "Listen carefully, all of you, if you go to the Ten Kings Camp, you will die. I have received an order from the state, ordering our Qingyang officers and soldiers not to act rashly!"

"We have disrupted the state's arrangements and will suffer the consequences!"

Jiang Dianshi was the fourth master and an official in charge of yamen runners and catching thieves.

This matter is exactly what he should be in charge of. It seems that Commander Du had contacted him before leaving and made arrangements in advance.

Li Yun was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and directly pulled his spear backwards: "Those from the anti-theft team, follow me out of the city to suppress the bandits!"

"Go home and sleep, you coward."

After that, he was too lazy to talk nonsense with Jiang Dianshi. They walked out of the city with one gun each.

Li Zheng and Zhang Hu were the first to follow.

Afterwards, Chen Da and Huang Yong also followed.

Afterwards, all the yamen runners followed Li Yun out of the city, leaving Jiang Dianshi standing in the distance, his face turning pale and blue.

After a long time, he screamed.

"It's a rebellion, it's totally against the will of heaven!"

(End of this chapter)