The Strongest Lu Bu's Sweeping Thousands of Armies

Chapter 263 There must be a rule from now on

The three to five thousand water bandits standing in the front yard of the government haven't figured out what Lu Bu meant.

Liu Ye already understood.

He said to Lv Bu: "Marquis Wen did this because he wanted to use the water bandits to turn Chaohu Lake into an escorted trade route?"

"Exactly." Lu Bu said, "The money you ask for is not much. Those who are given will not only let them go, but also escort them along the way, so that they can pass safely. If anyone refuses to pay, let them taste the taste of nothing."

"I understand." Liu Ye responded.

Lu Bu waved his hands at him, motioning for him to continue.

Liu Ye stood beside Lu Bu and shouted to the water bandits present: "The meaning of Marquis Wen is actually very clear. It is to let you have a long stream of water and make the Chaohu waterway a passage that merchants are willing to use here. Instead of giving this place to Death! Once there are no merchant ships in Chaohu Lake, who will we rob in the future? Could it be that we rob the fishermen on the lake? ?”

When Zheng Bao occupied Chaohu Lake, Liu Ye was in charge of settling down the water bandits.

It was easy for the water bandits to understand him when he spoke up.

"Liu Gong, just tell us what we should do." A water bandit yelled: "When you meet a merchant ship, how should you snatch it?"

"That depends on how much cargo the merchant ship is carrying." Liu Ye said: "If the cargo is small, each ship will charge them a hundred copper coins. If there is a lot of cargo, it is okay to accept a sling. But no matter how much you charge, you have to Come to the government to report and pay the money. I will settle it for you at the end of the month."

"Don't let us rob the passing merchants like before." A small water bandit leader yelled: "When they see us, they won't die, and if they confiscated all their goods, it doesn't matter what will happen. "

"You still don't understand the meaning of Marquis Wen." Having no way to communicate with the water bandits, Liu Ye said, "Marquis Wen wants you to collect tolls, not to rob the merchant ships. Every time a merchant ship comes from here After passing by, I was robbed by you, who would dare to leave here in the future? Without the merchant ship, what will you eat in the future? What will you take to get to the city to have a good time?"

With Liu Ye's explanation, the water bandits immediately understood.

What Lu Bu meant was to let them collect the money, and not to rob the merchant ship too cleanly...

"What if we encounter a particularly good product and we can't hold back for a while and snatch it?" a water bandit yelled.

Lu Bu stepped forward with a cold face: "If anyone dares to break the rules I established, I will let him taste the taste of breaking the rules! If such a thing really happens, as long as there are people who kill people and steal goods, whoever participates will be chopped off." Whose head will be lost. Those who rob merchants and merchants, whoever grabs it, will have that hand chopped off!"

When he said these words, Lu Bu's tone was beyond doubt.

None of the water bandits present dared to say anything, they all shrank their necks, not daring to look at Lu Bu more.

"It's all gone." Lu Bu waved his hand.

The water bandits with 5000 people flocked and fled outside the government house as if they had received an amnesty when he waved his hand.

Lu Bu asked Liu Ye, "Have the old man's children been found?"

"I found it." Liu Ye replied, "But I have suffered a lot, and now I have sent him back."

"How did you deal with the water bandits who robbed people?" Lu Bu asked.

"Before Marquis Wen made the rules, water bandits would often do this." Liu Ye replied: "They have been lawless for a long time, and the government has nothing to do with them..."

"I've never heard that the government can't do anything about them." Lu Bu confessed: "Those water bandits who didn't come, they were immediately sent to exterminate them. Those who came, they were all registered. From now on, anyone who is not on the list, Those who dared to plunder or collect tolls from passing ships in Chaohu Lake were all captured and executed in the name of thieves. I didn’t care about the rules in the past, and I didn’t want to. The water bandits who snatched old couples and children, count their luck, and this time they won’t Compete with them. If you dare to harass the people in the future, you will catch one and kill the other!"

"The bandits in Chaohu Lake have been accumulated for many years." Liu Ye said: "Water bandits plunder, and the government can get a lot of benefits from it, so they didn't interfere too much in the past. Unless they have done too much, they will Give me a few words of warning."

"In the future, it's not just a warning, I'm going to kill people." Lu Bu smiled slightly, and patted Liu Ye's arm lightly: "Zi Yang should understand that in troubled times, if you don't use heavy codes, no one will be convinced. Everyone They are all thinking about how to catch more fish in troubled waters, and they don’t gather to worry about others, let alone what the world is like. If we let them mess around, how will we control Chaohu Lake in the future? What if there is a civil uprising? It's no small matter."

Liu Ye nodded without saying a word.

He agrees with what Lu Bu said.

In fact, he also persuaded Zheng Bao before that he should take care of the water bandits in Chaohu Lake.

But Zheng Bao only cared about making money, how could he have considered so much?

The people around Chaohu Lake are not only exploited by the government, but also angry with the water bandits. Many people have enemies with the water bandits.

Some people even joined the water bandits for revenge, hoping that one day they could fight their enemies to the death on the water.

If a situation like this continues for a long time, it is really possible to provoke a civil uprising.

Liu Ye could not stop nodding if he agreed with Lu Bu's statement in his heart.

Lu Bu then said to him: "In troubled times, commoners are like grass, but if there are too many grass, they will eat towering trees to death! As long as they are alive in this world, every flower, every grass, every tree Kazuki, we should not underestimate him. Especially the civilians who are the most easily overlooked by us, and who have always been regarded as swallowing their anger."

"I understand what Marquis Wen means." Liu Ye replied first, and then asked Lu Bu, "I don't know when Marquis Wen plans to leave, and how he plans to settle in Chaohu Lake?"

"I definitely can't stay in Chaohu Lake for too long." Lu Bu replied, "In two days, I plan to leave here first. Ziyang is familiar with Chaohu Lake, so I'll leave it to you to take care of it first. After Chaohu Lake affairs are mostly stable Now, I will send someone to take over, please come to my side to do things."

"When Marquis Wen returns to Pengcheng, you have to be careful." Liu Ye reminded: "In recent days, Marquis Wen first captured Huainan, and then captured Lujiang River. Later, he actually captured Jiangdong without bloodshed, and when the army returned, he handed over Zheng Bao Pinch. Marquis Wen’s prestige is well known to the world. The so-called prestige has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that more people will come to work for it, and the disadvantage is that Wenhou will also be hated because of it, especially Cao Mengde and Yuan Benchu !"

(End of this chapter)