Starting from the wind and clouds, piercing through the heavens

Chapter 29
Liu Ming stared at Zhu Tong, waiting for him to make a decision.

Now Zhu Tong is in a dilemma, the military order is like a mountain, if he dares to violate it, he should be executed.

But Liu Du is a member of the Liu family after all,

If he was killed, Zhu Tong would not be able to explain to the Liu family.

On the other hand, killing Liu Du, Zhu Tong is equivalent to helping Liu Ming establish prestige in the army.

But if he doesn't kill him, it means that he is telling the people in the barracks with practical actions that we don't need to obey the orders of the city lord.

This is undoubtedly a rebellion, and Liu Ming took it as an excuse to take it down, so it became reasonable.

Zhu Tong is not a person who worries about gains and losses. After weighing, he made a decision.

He looked deeply at Liu Ming,
"If you want to blame, you can only blame Liu Du for being too stupid."

A ruthless look flashed across his face, and Zhu Tong was about to do it himself, but was cut off by a sword qi.

"Is it such a child's play to deal with military law?"

Liu Ming snorted coldly, seeing Zhu Tong's little trick.

Disposal by military law should be carried out in public, so as to have a deterrent effect.

If you want to stand up, you have to stand upright!

Since the three of you don't take me seriously as the city lord at all, Liu Ming won't show any favors anymore.

"What do you want?"

Li Jin said angrily on the spot, since they entered the account, they have been pressed hard by Liu Ming every step of the way. When Li Jianke was in power, how could the two of them have suffered from such uselessness!

"I haven't asked your Excellency Gao's name yet."

Facing Li Jin's questioning, Liu Ming was neither sullen nor angry, and even had a smile on his face.

"I'm Li Jin, the deputy commander of the Dizi Battalion of the Qishan City Defense Army!"

Li Jin's tone was tough, the members of the Li family were already hostile to Liu Ming.

However, after he answered, Liu Ming didn't even look at him.
"Commander Zhu, how should we deal with those who commit crimes below the ranks of the army?"

"..."

Ye San looked at Liu Ming in surprise, and couldn't help admiring the latter's scheming.

Zhu Tong even raised his head suddenly, surprised that Liu Ming's tricks had been applied again without knowing it.

"The following offenders, depending on the severity of the circumstances, should be demoted, imprisoned, or sentenced to death."

Li Jin was stunned on the spot, wishing to slap himself twice, the upper and lower limits of the next crime were very high, and his own fate became a matter of Liu Ming's words in the blink of an eye. .

He originally thought that Liu Ming would accept it as soon as he saw it because of the favor of the three major families, but he didn't expect that the other party would not show any favor.

"This subordinate is guilty, please forgive me, the city lord."

He quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"City Lord, Deputy Marshal Li is also protecting his subordinates, he is a little impatient, please be magnanimous."

Zhu Tong helped to intercede. Although he is a member of the Zhu family, as the commander of the city defense army, his boss is only Liu Ming.

It would be a huge loss for the Zhu family if Liu Ming seized the opportunity to replace him.

"Leave this matter to Commander Zhu to decide. As for Liu Du, he will be imprisoned immediately, and he will be asked to execute the military rules tomorrow."

Liu Ming said calmly.

Hearing that Liu Ming let him go, Li Jin was relieved. As for Liu Du, let him ask for his own blessing.

"Yes."

Zhu Tong saw that Li Jin had compromised, and he no longer wanted to be the first bird.

"This barracks cannot and has no one in charge. Ye San, you will be in charge of this barracks from now on, and you can also help Commander Zhu to rectify military discipline."

"Impossible to take orders."

Ye San hurriedly accepted the order, Zhu Tong hesitated to speak, and finally acquiesced to Liu Ming's decision.

After speaking, Liu Ming didn't stay in the army for long, and got up to go back to the City Lord's Mansion. When he passed by Li Jin, he stopped and patted the latter on the shoulder.

As soon as Liu Ming left, the faces of Zhu Tong and the other three immediately turned down. Ye San was not such a soft character. He walked out of the military tent and announced loudly:
"From now on, I will be in charge of this camp! Everyone must register in the military register before sunset, and those who have not entered the military register are not allowed to enter the camp!"

"Brother Zhu, what should we do now?"

Li Jin felt very uncomfortable when he heard Ye San's words, but he was frightened by Liu Ming just now, and he dare not say a word now, for fear that Liu Ming would catch him and end up in the same fate as Liu Du.

Seeing Zhu Tong's gloomy and ugly face, and even the veins on his forehead, he thought he couldn't help it, but he just saw Zhu Tong gnashing his teeth in the end,
"This matter is decided by the three Patriarchs."

In Qishan City, there are only three patriarchs who have the strength and capital to deal with Liu Ming.

As for them, if Liu Ming catches them again with their reckless actions, they may have put their family in a trap.

Liu Du is a typical example.

"Second brother Zhu...you want to save me, you want to save me..."

Liu Du cried, if Zhu Tong hadn't ordered him to get up, he wouldn't have caused his death.

But now Zhu Tong doesn't care about these things, so he directly asks Liu Du to be detained.

……

"Among the four major military camps, the Zhu family controls the Tianzi camp, the Li family controls the Dizi camp, and the Xuanzi camp is also controlled by the Liu family. In addition, there are guards stationed in the major mines. Calculated, on average, each family controls There are six or seven thousand guards."

In the City Lord's Mansion, Liu Ming simply calculated the power of the next three major families based on the information.

"Spend the money of the City Lord's Mansion to support their people?"

Liu Ming couldn't help sneering, and understood why the three major families had no fear of him.

The several major mine veins are nominally owned by the City Lord's Mansion, but they are actually under their control.

Then the City Lord's Mansion obtained tens of thousands of taels of silver from the three major families on the grounds of "selling black iron" every month.

These silver taels were eventually used to support the army, which was equivalent to the fact that the three major families used the account of the City Lord's Mansion to pay the army wages.

Their finances are completely controlled by them, and no matter how loud their own words are, in the end they may be just empty chants.

The military expenditure is huge, and when the time comes, the military salary will not be able to be paid, and the military rations will not be able to keep up, so Liu Ming will obediently go to the door to ask for money?
This abacus is really well done.

"There are five main mine veins in Qishan City. The Zhu and Li families each control two, while the Liu family only controls one. That is to say, among the three, the Liu family is at a disadvantage."

Moving her fingers lightly on the table, Liu Min thought about countermeasures in her heart.

It is impossible to win over the three companies, and it is not realistic to defeat them all at once.

But it's not impossible to pick a soft persimmon first...

Liu family.

When Liu Shanhai heard that Liu Du was imprisoned and would be questioned and executed in public tomorrow, his mood instantly fell into the abyss.

"This idiot."

He started as a grassroots bandit, and he has always been cautious in dealing with things, but he didn't expect that the Liu family would make it this time.

Moreover, the attitude of the Zhu and Li families towards this matter also chilled him.

"That old fox Zhu Ronghou is eager to use me and Li Jianjun to start a war with Duguming. When Duguming is driven away, his Zhu family can also dominate the family."

He snorted coldly, but now it is a fait accompli that his descendants offended Liu Ming, and when Liu Du is questioned and beheaded in public tomorrow, the dignity of his Liu family will also be greatly impacted.

Even the right to speak will decrease accordingly, and there is even a possibility of losing the military power of the Xuanzi Battalion.

This is not a trivial matter, Liu Shanhai has an extremely sharp sense of crisis.

If it is not handled properly, it is very likely that the already weak Liu family will become extremely passive between the Liu Ming and Zhu Li families.

He thought about it, and finally decided,
"Immediately publicize to the outside world and drive Liu Du out of the Liu family!"

(End of this chapter)