The Strongest Lu Bu's Sweeping Thousands of Armies

Chapter 260

Chaohu Lake, as the name suggests, is named after the lake here.

The city was built along the edge of the lake, and many people in the vicinity relied on the lake for their survival.

Among the people living in Chaohu Lake, there are more fishermen than farmers.

The army entered Chaohu Lake. In the evening, Lu Bu accompanied Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao to the lake.

Two beauties stood on either side of him, one on the left and one on the right.

"Is the lake view in the evening more beautiful than in the daytime?" Lu Bu asked, looking at the golden lake surface under the setting sun, with his arms stretched out and the two beauties in his arms.

"It's really beautiful." Nestled in Lu Bu's arms, Da Qiao said, "Now that there are no thieves, the scenery is even more beautiful."

"There are no thieves?" Lu Bu smiled slightly: "Wherever there are people, there will always be thieves. The only way to make the world free of thieves is to kill them all."

"But my husband doesn't seem to have slaughtered the Chaohu army that surrendered." Xiao Qiao asked suspiciously, "Don't you feel a bit contradictory when you say that?"

"How can there be any contradictions?" Lu Bu said: "Although the Chaohu army used to be my enemy, not all of them are bad people. The quality of most people has a lot to do with the environment they live in and who they associate with. Only a small number of people who are inherently wicked need to kill without mercy!"

Both Big Qiao and Little Qiao looked at the lake, and the two beauties were also dazed.

They don't know what a natural villain is, they just know that with Lu Bu by their side, they will feel very at ease...

Accompanying the two beauties to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Chaohu Lake, Lu Bu heard a yelling sound behind him, as if soldiers were yelling for someone to go away.

He turned around and asked, "What's going on?"

Sun Ce came to him: "Marquis Wen, there is an old couple who said that their house was broken into by water thieves, and even their children were taken away. The old lady seems to be injured."

"Water thief?" Lu Bu frowned, "Let them come over."

"The old couple is very noisy, I'm afraid it will disturb Marquis Wen's interest." Sun Ce replied, "Why don't I deal with it."

"People's hearts are the most important thing in governing a country." Lu Bu said, "If I ignore the people's grievances, wouldn't it chill the hearts of the people? Let them come and speak."

Sun Ce agreed, turned and left.

After a while, he led an old couple to Lu Bu.

The old couple trembled tremblingly, and they looked like honest villagers.

The couple supported each other, and the old woman still had a wound on her forehead. Although the bleeding had stopped, it still looked shocking.

"What's going on?" Looking at the old couple, Lu Bu asked, "Where are the water thieves? What did they do?"

Lu Bu asked, but the old couple who had asked to see him just now were so frightened that they forgot to speak.

"Marquis Wen is asking you something, why don't you say it?" Sun Ce urged beside him.

The old couple's legs gave way in fright, and they actually knelt down.

Lu Bu winked at Sun Ce.

Sun Ce stepped forward to help them up: "Speak well if you have something to say, if you really have a grievance, Marquis Wen will make the decision for you."

After being supported by Sun Ce, the fear in the old couple's hearts receded a little.

Supporting each other with the old woman, the old man talked about their experience tremblingly.

They were originally fishermen who lived on Chaohu Lake, and they had a couple of children in their family.

In the past, Chaohu officials and bandits colluded, and water bandits often appeared in the lake.

Two days ago, the water bandits broke into their fishing boat and robbed the fish they had salvaged. Seeing that their daughter was pretty, they also robbed her.

The son of the old couple stepped forward to reason and was tied up by the water bandits.

After listening to the old man's narration, Lu Bu's expression was not very good-looking.

He said to Sun Ce: "Bo Fu will come and invite Liu Ziyang. I have something to ask him."

After Sun Ce left, Lu Bu said to the old couple: "Wait a moment, you two, I will ask you clearly, and I will make the decision for you."

When they came to see Lu Bu, the old couple also wanted to go all out.

The children are gone, and they are already old, and it is meaningless to live. Instead of living a careless life, it is better to ask to see the nobles, even if no one makes decisions for them, it is better to ask to die!
They had already made up their minds to die, but the couple didn't expect that Lu Bu would really decide for them. They were grateful and knelt down again.

Signaling the guards to help them up, Lu Bu asked, "Has this kind of thing happened before?"

"Yes! There have always been!" The old man replied: "Water bandits and officers and soldiers belong to the same family. If they get benefits, most of them are handed over to the county guard..."

Having said that, he quickly shut his mouth.

Lu Bu led troops to crusade against Chaohu Lake, and the people nearby also heard about it.

But the official still defends the official after all, who knows what kind of relationship he has with Zheng Bao now?
"Zheng Bao has already been punished, and the old man can just say what he has to say." Lu Bu said, "To tell the truth, no one dares to do anything to you."

Zheng Bao has oppressed the people in Chaohu Lake for many years and colluded with water bandits, so that the people are in dire straits, and the people have hated him for a long time.

Hearing that he had been executed, the old couple looked at each other and knelt down again.

Lu Bu was really troubled by them.

The knees of the people in Chaohu Lake were so soft that they knelt down before they could say a few words.

The guard helped them up again, Lu Bu said a few more words with him, and Sun Ce led Liu Ye to come.

"Zi Yang came just in time." Seeing Liu Ye, Lu Bu asked, "I heard that there are many water bandits in Chaohu Lake, is this true?"

"Indeed, there is, and it has become a trend." Liu Ye replied: "In the past, the water bandits would send them to Zheng Bao when they got benefits. The officers and soldiers condoned it, and some people even participated in it. After a long time, it will be difficult to restrain..."

"I've never heard that it's difficult to restrain." Lu Bu said with a cold face: "Thieves only come out of poor mountains and rivers. Under my rule, from now on, water bandits will never be allowed to exist."

He then told Liu Ye: "These two old couples and their children were snatched by the water bandits. Let people find them. If they are brought back safely, I will give them a way to survive. If they are not sent back, let them wait to die!" "

"I'll make arrangements now." Liu Ye hurried back.

"Also." Lu Bu told him again: "Decree that all the water bandits come to see me in the city. Those who are willing to do good for the people in the future, forget the past! Those who still do not want to repent and turn evil to the end, they will be killed without mercy! Come on, we will all be regarded as intending to do evil to the end!"

When Lu Bu said this, his face was always gloomy.

Liu Ye glanced at the two old men, and whispered to Lu Bu, "Marquis Wen, can you take a step to talk."

Seeing that Liu Ye had something urgent to say, Lu Bu walked a few steps away with him.

"Water bandits are actually not all bad things." Liu Ye whispered to Lu Bu, "If they are properly induced, they can bring a lot of benefits to Marquis Wen."

"You mean..." Lu Bu asked him suspiciously.

(End of this chapter)