Chapter 304 The mastermind behind the scenes

actually!

When a group of water ghosts led by "Shui Laizi" took action, I happily received several system prompt tasks one after another. The first task was to protect Xu Hong from harm; when repelling a group of water bandits, I quickly got the second task - capturing the leader of the water ghost "Shui Laizi"; then I triggered the third task "Ask the mastermind behind the scenes"!

"Two choices, either say the person who directs you behind your back... or die!"

Although Kaixin didn't encounter many similar tasks in the world, he also accumulated enough experience and instantly grasped the key. Even Shui Laizi's fear of death finally appeared, he was too lazy to talk nonsense and destroyed the morale of the Shui ghost in the most direct way. Then, a cold and emotional sentence directly hit Shui Laizi's fatal hole.

Looking at the bloody Silver Wolf Breaking Emperor Sword in front of him...

Shui Laizi shivered and hurriedly confessed!

"It's the imperial navy, General Yang!"

"Um?"

Xu Hong's body trembled and his face became very ugly.

"nonsense!"

Kaixin naturally noticed the reaction of Xu Hong and his men. When his eyes were cold, the sword light above the Silver Wolf Breaking Emperor Sword suddenly surged.

"No! Really! I'm not lying. It's really me that General Yang of the imperial army asked someone to contact me. I have the tokens they gave..." Shui Laizi was frightened. He trembled and took out a black iron plate without saying it. He also took out everything he knew, for fear that the sword would fall on his neck.

A cold river breeze blew by, and the people on the deck were all shocked by Shui Laizi's words for a long time.

turn out to be!

Since the Murong family embarked on the Salt Road business, General Yang has sent people repeatedly to secretly contact the Murong family's fleet, expressing his willingness to escort, but they were all rejected by the Murong family on the grounds that they have enough self-protection.

But in fact, General Yang was the overlord of the imperial navy in this area!

Take all black and white!

Those who do business seriously will be charged a protection fee;

If you don’t pay, bandits will come to you soon, causing you to lose money and lose your life!

Those who don’t have much money will be allowed to clean up by themselves and pay the protection fee as usual every month, which is a talisman that the navy forces allow them to operate in this area.

The Murong family obviously didn’t know the inside story. As soon as they embarked on this path, they offended General Yang!

but.

Not only is the strength of the Murong family the most in Gusu, but the countless family masters made General Yang very afraid and dare not move easily.

Moreover, the Murong family does have the ability to venture into the world and protect themselves!

Over the years, the Murong family's business has grown bigger and bigger, and sometimes they even took the initiative to take the responsibility of protecting other ships, which made General Yang and the water bandits in the Yangtze River very unhappy.

Some time ago, General Yang suddenly had the idea that the clan leader of the Murong Shi family led a large number of masters to leave Gusu and go to the capital to do business. Not only did he draw some masters on the salt ship, but he was also a female leader in the clan. General Yang immediately had the idea to let the most cunning Shui Laizi in the Yangtze River area have a vote.

"Everything I said is true! It's all true! I definitely didn't lie to you!"

Shui Laizi knelt on the deck and sweared to the sky.

Happy frowning and looking at Xu Hong.

"Deacon Xu, what do you think?"

The latter's face turned pale and looked very ugly, and he sighed:

"I have been walking on this river for several years these days. I have heard about General Yang from many merchants, but because I have been at peace, I didn't care. I didn't expect that he would dare to ignore the prestige of the Murong family and attack our fleet! I must report this matter to the patriarch..."

"But, the words of a water bandit are not enough to be convincing!" Happy glanced at Shui Laizi.

Xu Hong also nodded silently, feeling regretful.

"That's right, no matter whether the court or the people in the world, they will definitely not believe the words of a water bandit. Even if they report to the patriarch, they may not be able to deal with a high-ranking official in the court, let alone..." He stopped here, looked at Xu Hong's unwilling expression, but he understood what he meant:

Although the Murong family is powerful, they are a prominent family without official positions. Because of the descendants of the previous dynasty, they are very sensitive to their status and status. They can rashly deal with high-ranking officials in the court, which is no less than causing trouble for themselves.

Just then!

bite!

System prompts:

"Use water lair as a hostage and lead General Yang to appear! Collect evidence of General Yang collusion with the water bandits!"

The system prompt sound just dropped, Shui Laizi raised his head carefully:

"Hero, I've told you everything I know. Now, can you let me go?"

"Let you go?"

A happy smile:

"If you let go, how do I know whether what you said just now is true or false?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Hong suddenly showed surprise:

"Happy Deacon, you mean..."

"Just just now, the water bandits who ran away should have spread the news here. General Yang will definitely know that Shui Laizi fell into our hands." While saying that, happily took the black iron token in Shui Laizi's hand and sneered: "You think, can this General Yang still sit on the Diaoyutai?"

"Turn the snake out of the cave?" Xu Hong's eyes lit up, and he immediately showed a look of worry: "However, this man surnamed Yang is said to be a master himself, and the guards around him are all good at being good at it. He has the cultivation level of life and death, which is very difficult to deal with."

"Where is the one with the surname Yang?" asked Kaixin.

"The peak of life and death!"

Hearing Xu Hong's answer, Happy suddenly calmed down: "Then there is no problem." In his opinion, it was not too difficult to deal with a group of soldiers in the realm of life and death.

However……

Happy guessing wrong! A big mistake!

More than ten miles ahead, the river surface suddenly became smaller, and a large area of ​​reeds appeared in front of the fleet, and the river channel was less than two hulls wide.

...

"Get out of here! Get out of here!"

At the gate of Luwei Town, a group of armored soldiers rushed to the gate of the city with great momentum. After the rice paper was displayed, a notice was posted in the most conspicuous place at the gate of the city!

Militia recruitment order!

The content is as follows:

There are hundreds of cunning and cruel water bandits who are plundering a whole team of salt ships and are about to pass by this town! Now, this general is solemnly recruiting knights with good intentions to eliminate evil as militias and sending troops to the Reed Beach to ambush the water bandits!

Anyone can join!!

If the mission is successful, a ship of salt (worth one million taels of silver) will be taken as a reward and rewarded to all the heroes who have the killing heads. (The specific distribution will be made of three thousand taels of silver per head)

Such notices were posted in several nearby towns at the same time...

At the same time, all players in several small towns and a radius of dozens of miles received a system prompt at the same time:

"Do you respond to General Yang's call to become a militia! Go to Reed Beach to ambush the water bandits! For each water bandit kill, you will get three thousand taels of silver! You will get ten thousand taels of silver when you kill a master of life and death."
Chapter completed!