The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Nearly half of the more than [-] soldiers led by Yan Xing surrendered, and the rest either died in the confrontation with Jiang Zhou's bandits, or they decisively chose to flee after realizing that the situation was wrong.

After capturing Yan Xing, there is no need to continue loading the cargo ship pretending to be transporting.

Liu Zheng went directly to the shore and found a quiet place, temporarily detained Yan Xing and a group of soldiers who surrendered, confiscated their weapons and tied them all hand and foot.

"Yan Xing, do you know that you are the one we are waiting here this time?"

Looking at Yan Xing who was kneeling in front of him, although he was a little rebellious, but his eyes still showed panic, Liu Zheng couldn't help asking him.

"Wait for me? I have no grievances with you, why are you planning to kill me here?"

Liu Zheng grinned when he heard Yan Xing's words.

"No grievances, no enmity, what you said, you really forget things, I don't know if you still remember, a month ago you also tied up a merchant ship of the Mi family on this river."

Liu Zheng didn't fully disclose the matter, but only said that he robbed the Mi family's merchant ship.

But Yan Xing didn't realize it at the first glance. After all, he recently robbed a lot of boats on the river in order to help his elder brother Yan Baihu collect money and food. The Mi family's boat was a month ago. , It's been a long time, and he really doesn't have any impression.

Liu Zheng saw that he couldn't remember, so he just continued talking.

"It seems that you really don't remember. It's okay. Let me tell you. A month ago, the merchant ship of the Mi family was robbed by your people, and the goods worth more than one thousand gold were lost. It was on this river. Lang has [-] soldiers and horses to guard him, do you remember?"

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In fact, Liu Zheng said something again, but Yan Xing still didn't think about it, because Yan Xing didn't directly participate in the last boat robbery.

As big water thieves, they sent people to patrol the river almost every day, and they robbed a lot of boats every day, big and small, how could they remember so many.

Even if he remembered, he, the leader, didn't have so much time to remember it in his heart.

But even though Yan Xing still didn't remember what was going on at this time, he still responded very wisely.

"Because of the robbery of the ship before, you deliberately set a trap this time to lure me into the bait?"

After hearing Liu Zheng's words, Yan Xing felt that Liu Zheng did not seem to be a bloodthirsty person, and perhaps this matter could still be discussed.

"Well, since you don't take my people seriously, I have no choice but to deal with you."

"who are you?"

Yan Xing hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking.

"You don't even know who I am, but you dare to think about my fleet. You are really brave."

"It's okay to tell you, my name is Liu Zheng!"

As soon as Liu Zheng said the words, Yan Xing's face was startled. Even though Liu Zheng's name has not had too many deeds in Yangzhou, the influence Liu Zheng caused in this world at the end of Han Dynasty is still praised by many people. .

Even Yan Xing had heard of Liu Zheng's name.

"You are Liu Zheng! That Yellow Turban Qu Shuai who occupies Jiaozhou?"

Yan Xing didn't know that there was such a relationship between Zu Lang and Liu Zheng, let alone that there was a relationship between the Mi family and Liu Zheng.

"Since you have heard of my name, tell me how to deal with this matter."

Liu Zheng didn't kill Yan Xing directly. If he killed Yan Xing directly, it would be fun, but Yan Baihu's side would always make Liu Zheng jealous, so he simply handed over the handling of this matter to the Yan Xing himself.

Let's see how Yan Xing wants to deal with this matter. If Yan Xing has a way of handling this that satisfies Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng can also accept Yan Xing's proposal.

At this time, after understanding Liu Zheng's identity, Yan Xing was no longer as unscrupulous as he was at the beginning, although his eyes were still full of panic, but he was a little less calm.

"I didn't know that the Mi family's fleet was related to you, Liu Zhengqu. If you offended Liu Zhengqu, if you robbed the fleet, I hope you will forgive me. I am willing to return all the goods I robbed before. Solution, can Liu Zheng and Qu Shuai accept it?"

Yan Xing was somewhat afraid of Liu Zheng. After all, Liu Zheng's reputation was famous, especially the fact that Liu Zheng had recently occupied Jiaozhou and defeated Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, had spread to Yangzhou.

Let these water thieves look at Liu Zheng with admiration, and Yan Xing doesn't want to offend Liu Zheng.

Moreover, he still has the status of being Liu Zheng's prisoner, so naturally he can only please Liu Zheng.

"That's it?"

Hearing Yan Xing's answer, Liu Zheng frowned.

Yan Xing's expression changed, and he immediately spoke again.

"Return the goods to the Mi family intact, and at the same time pay another thousand gold as an apology gift, do you think?"

"It is inevitable to return the goods intact. At the same time, you must go to Mi's house to make amends in person, and bring three thousand gold as an apology gift. After all, you killed more than 300 people under my command, and you don't pay any money. This matter is not so easy to solve.”

Yan Xing tentatively replied to Liu Zheng, but Liu Zheng was not satisfied, and immediately spoke directly and refuted Yan Xing.

The price proposed by Yan Xing was directly increased by three times.

After Yan Xing heard Liu Zheng's words, the expression on his face was obviously gloomy. Thinking of the figure of three thousand gold made him look bad.

However, thinking of his current status as a prisoner, even if he didn't want to agree, he couldn't help himself.

"Okay, I promise."

Gritting his teeth, Yan Xing still agreed.

"If you agree, just send someone to get the money. When the money is in place, you can leave."

Liu Zheng didn't have time to talk to Yan Xing, and after a few instructions, he handed Yan Xing over to Zu Lang.

Although Yan Xing is very hateful, if this problem can be resolved peacefully, it will not only appease the Mi family, but also get back the lost money.

Although the revenge of the hundreds of lost brothers has not been reported, they are all dead, and it will not help to kill Yan Xing. It is still useful to keep Yan Xing now. For the sake of the overall situation, Liu Zheng can only stay for the time being. Yan Xing died as a dog.

Of course, the death penalty is exonerated, but Liu Zheng has no control over how Zu Lang and the others will entertain Yan Xing.

He left from Yan Xing's side, and went directly to find Jiang Tuesday.

Jiang Tuesday's face was also not very good at this time, not for anything else, because the battle with Yan Xing on the river caused heavy losses to the soldiers and horses under their command.

Although the entire army was not wiped out, Jiang Tuesday was the first group to fight against Yan Xing's water thieves, with 500 troops, and lost more than half of them in the battle with Yan Xing's water thieves.

Originally, Jiang Tuesday's strength was not the strongest among the four water thieves. After the battle with Zu Lang, many people were killed and injured. They finally developed a little bit, but this time they returned to before liberation.

For Liu Zheng's thirty gold, he lost hundreds of brothers. Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai also broke their teeth and swallowed them in their stomachs.

I regretted taking Liu Zheng's task, but I couldn't say anything.Seeing Liu Zheng coming over, Jiang Qin wanted to ask Liu Zheng for more compensation, but felt that something was wrong. After all, thirty gold is not too little.

"Brother Jiang, Brother Zhou, today is thanks to you two."

When Liu Zheng saw Jiang Tuesday and the others, he immediately greeted him with a smile.

Liu Zheng already had some appreciation for Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai. This time they helped Liu Zheng deal with Yan Xing, and they didn't run away immediately, which made Liu Zheng's favorability towards them greatly improved.

Jiang Qin smiled wryly: "Shuai Liu Zhengqu, don't let us down, why do I feel like I've been tricked by you? There are [-] soldiers and horses hiding on your boat. It was clearly designed at the beginning to attract others to rob the boat. Without our brothers, none of these people who hijacked the ship could beat your people."

Jiang Qin could see clearly that the thousands of soldiers and horses in the cabin were all the elite of Zu Lang's subordinates. If there was a real battle on the river, the outcome would be two things.

"Where there, although we have thousands of troops, there are not as many enemy troops at all. Without the assistance of Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai brothers this time, it would not be so easy to capture Yan Xing."

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Although Zu Lang's troops were mainly involved in this matter, Jiang Zhou's troops also helped Liu Zheng a lot, if they hadn't blocked the Yanxing water thief warship coming from behind.

I'm afraid that Zu Lang's men and horses will suffer huge losses.

So, no matter what, Jiang Tuesday's help to Liu Zheng this time is not small.

"Shuai Liu Zhengqu, you are alright, you caught Yan Xing, but our brothers suffered a lot, and our soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses. Your mission of thirty gold is really not easy to earn. I lost six or seven Brother Bai, it’s not enough to support the families of these brothers.”

As Liu Zheng said before, although these water thieves are forced to become water thieves, they are all in order to make a living, but who wants to die as a water thief, and now they die on this river, there will still be some compensation .

Jiang Tuesday was able to become their boss because he was good enough to his brothers. Every time there was a casualty, they would send a large sum of pensions to their families.

As much as gold, as little as thousands of dollars, in short, it is all a heart.

But this time, the loss is really a lot, hundreds of brothers, they need to spend at least hundreds of gold to pay for them.The reward Liu Zheng gave was only [-] gold. If there were no soldiers and horses killed or injured, [-] gold was indeed a lot, but now there have been casualties.

Still such a huge loss of personnel, Jiang Tuesday can only accept it.

Liu Zheng knew what Jiang Tuesday was worrying about, so he took out a bulging purse directly from his chest.

"Here, this is one hundred gold, which is an extra reward for your guards this trip."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he threw the purse in his hand at Jiang Qin.

Jiang Qin was taken aback for a moment, but his hands were still reflexive, and he directly took the purse thrown by Liu Zheng.

He received the purse, but he didn't open it to read it. He just weighed it in his hands, and after confirming the weight, his face beamed with joy.

Although one hundred gold is still not enough for the pension they will give to the fallen soldiers, it is better than nothing.

He glanced at Liu Zheng gratefully, and hurriedly thanked Liu Zheng.

"Thank you Liu Zhengqu for being handsome. Although this time a lot of soldiers and horses have been lost, but next time if there is still life, you can still find our brothers."

For Liu Zheng, Jiang Qin is still grateful. After all, Liu Zheng can not give the compensation of [-] gold. Even if he does not pay, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai will not have any complaints. After all, it was agreed at the beginning of.

But Liu Zheng still gave it, and they are still willing to continue working with Liu Zheng next time as a benefactor who knows how to be a man.

Liu Zheng smiled and continued.

"This is just an additional reward. After all, I didn't expect such a huge damage to your troops at the beginning, and I wasn't sure that Yan Xing would appear. The reason why I didn't tell you the whole plan was because I wasn't sure. When it comes to Yan Xing, the thirty gold is really just the whole reward."

"However, now that I met Yan Xing and had a big fight with him, I am very satisfied with your actions, so I have tripled the reward for you!"

"Besides, I'm responsible for all the compensation and compensation for your military injuries. Give me an amount, and I'll collect the money and hand it over to you."

It was not the first time that Liu Zheng compensated Jiang Tuesday and the others. In order to persuade them and Zu Lang before, Liu Zheng had already offered to compensate them once.

At that time, Jiang Tuesday had already impressed Liu Zheng, and now Liu Zheng offered compensation again, willing to take all the loss of troops on himself. When Jiang Tuesday heard this, his face was surprised, and he looked at Liu Zheng in disbelief.

"Liu Zhengqu is handsome, are you serious?"

Zhou Tai still couldn't believe it.

Even Jiang Qin was the same. Looking at Liu Zheng, he thought Liu Zheng was joking.

"Of course, after all, your losses this time were all caused by me, so I can't be irresponsible."

"Don't worry, as soon as Yan Xing's compensation for me is in place, I will give you part of it immediately."

Hearing Liu Zheng's reaffirmation, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin glanced at each other. Although a little surprised appeared on their faces, the joy on their faces was hard to conceal.

They have to be happy. After all, hundreds of gold is not a small amount. They didn't have much money at first. Because of face, Jiang Zhou's people rarely plundered passing ships on the river. Most of the time, they just relied on collecting ships. Tolls, as well as occasionally assisting merchant ships, escorting such ways to earn money.

Although it is indeed possible to earn some money by doing this, it is certainly not as much as Yan Xing who directly robbed passing merchant ships.

From the point of view of a big thief like Yan Xing, one or two thousand gold is nothing at all, but to Jiang Zhou and the others, it is a lot of money.

"Except for this, I came to you, and there is actually another thing I want to tell you."

"what's up?"

Liu Zheng suddenly changed his tone, a little serious, causing Jiang Tuesday to raise his head at the same time and look at Liu Zheng, not knowing what Liu Zheng wanted to say.

"Actually, I also want to ask you about your next plan. Do you want to continue to act as water thieves on the water of Poyang Lake and live a precarious life?"

As soon as Liu Zheng said this, the two people who were still a little casual at the beginning suddenly became serious.

Next plan?

For Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, they naturally didn't want to be water thieves in this place all the time. If they had no way out and had no chance of life, why would they be water thieves here.

Thieves are always thieves, and they have no future in this life. Not only will they be looked down upon by others, but they will also affect future generations.

After all, it is not a long-term solution.

Jiang Qin smiled wryly and looked at Liu Zheng.

"Shuai Liu Zhengqu, what plans can we have, we can make a living here in Poyang Lake, and we can live every day."

"Then haven't you thought about making contributions and creating a world of your own in this troubled world?"

"I think, of course I want to, but firstly, we don't have power, and secondly, we are not from aristocratic families. Let alone becoming officials, it is difficult for us to make a fortune."

In this aristocratic family, when the clan system is still relatively strict, it is even more difficult for poor scholars to rise up, not to mention that it is difficult for thieves like Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai to achieve anything if they do not rely on military merits.

"I have an idea that can change your current situation, but I don't know if you have this idea."

Liu Zheng followed their words and continued.

Chapter 321 Recruiting Generals

Zhou Tai already had some feeling in his heart. He knew what Liu Zheng wanted to say next.