The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1897: How to survive if you don't want to eat rice

"Don't lie to us, you bastard. If you dare to lie to us, we will chop off your heads!" When everyone was looking for Fan Tongzuo, Fan Tongzuo was bearing the threat from Zhao Mingxuan.

"How dare I say that? I didn't mean to offer this information to save my life." Fan Tongzuo replied with a sad face.

At this time, Zhao Tieying and his group were sitting in two horse-drawn carriages heading to a place called Baiyun Gou.

Why? Of course, it was because Fan Tongzuo provided them with an extremely important piece of information, which was that Shang Zhen had hidden 30,000 yuan not far from Baiyungou! And Fan Tongzuo was the one who had carried out this mission with others.

It doesn't matter when Fan Tongzuo joined Shang Zhen's camp. What's important is to make Zhao Tieying and the others believe it.

Just like why the batch of cash was 30,000 yuan? That's because Fan Tongzuo had already thought about it when he was thinking of an idea that would allow him to survive.

It is said that Shang Zhen hid 80,000 silver dollars in cash. That is too much. A bandit in a remote village could not save so many silver dollars even if he robbed houses all the time.

If it’s eighteen thousand, that’s too little!

Fan Tongzuo could see that although Zhao Tieying and his group did not take responsibility for their actions, they still put on a big show.

The food they had was quite good, even though it was all robbed. Because they thought they were too far from Baiyun Valley, they sent people out to rob two more carriages.

The other party is so ostentatious, and if I say the amount of cash is too little, then the money will no longer move the other party, and I will be completely left out!

As for how Fan Tongzuo knew that Shang Zhen had robbed the bandits of cash, he of course heard it from Wu Ziqi.

After he followed Wu Ziqi to join the Shang Zhen Camp, he only knew less than five people because he had only joined for a short time. However, this did not stop him from listening to Wu Ziqi bragging about the battle record of the Shang Zhen Camp.

In addition to fighting the Japanese, Wu Ziqi mentioned that Shang Zhen once led them to wipe out a group of bandits led by "Niu Haier" in Baiyungou.

Wu Ziqi's original words at that time were, "Our battalion commander led us to wipe out Niu Haier's bandit gang and seized a lot of cash!"

Laobizi is of course a Northeastern dialect, which can be understood as an adjective with many meanings.

As for how many old noses there are, Wu Ziqi did not say, because Wu Ziqi actually didn't know.

But what if they didn't know? This didn't stop Wu Ziqi from bragging to Fan Tongzuo and Fan Tongwu.

  Similarly, it can only be considered that he occasionally heard Wu Ziqi say this. What does it matter if Fan Tongzuo knows only a little bit when he knows it only from hearsay?

This did not prevent him from using this incident as an excuse to tell a lie to Zhao Tieying and the others, so that Zhao Tieying would not kill him for the time being. The difficulty lay in the fact that he could not brag about this matter, but had to make it sound and reasonable!

Fan Tongzuo's nickname is "glutton", which just means that he is timid and behaves like a glutton, but it doesn't mean that he is stupid.

So when he followed Zhao Tieying and the others to retreat, and Zhao Tieying and the others didn't take him seriously, under his wretched appearance, he was nervously thinking about how to save his life.

And when he really threw out this bait, which he thought was reasonable, Zhao Tieying actually believed it!

  So why is this?

The reason was that Zhao Tieying certainly knew that Shang Zhen and his men had wiped out a group of bandits called Niu Haier in Baiyungou. Even when Shang Zhen wanted to transport the grain seized from Baiyungou to the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Tieying interfered, and eventually the grain had to be transported back to the 113th Division by Shang Zhen.

If Zhao Tieying and his men robbed money outside, of course they would hand over a portion of it to the division headquarters, but he would definitely leave a considerable portion for himself.

This is what he usually does. The saying "People with bright hearts see everything as bright, and people with dark hearts see everything as dark" is absolutely true.

Zhao Tieying had long suspected that the money Shang Zhen handed over to the division headquarters was only a small part. What do you call this? This is Zhao Tieying's psychological expectation.

And when Fan Tongzuo reported the reasonable figure of 3 oceans, a comparison between the two showed that it was consistent with Zhao Tieying's psychological expectations!

At that time, when Zhao Tieying heard Fan Tongzuo say this, his reaction was, I said it!

From Zhao Tieying's perspective, the logic is very simple!

  If Fan Tongzuo, who looks wretched, wants to save his life, he can just offer more than the 30,000 dollars. How about 40,000 dollars? How about 50,000 dollars?

The only thing Zhao Tieying didn't expect was that what he was thinking was exactly what Fan Tongzuo wanted him to think.

This situation is a bit like the sales tactics used in later generations. If a pound of chili peppers costs eight yuan, it doesn't sound as affordable as seven yuan and ninety-nine cents!

  In addition to the above reasons, there is another most important deep-seated factor for Zhao Tieying to believe Fan Tongzuo's words, which can be described as greed blinding the mind!

Greed often makes people lose their rational judgment and make some low-level mistakes.

Zhao Tieying took his soldiers to rob everywhere. When had they ever robbed more than 30,000 oceans?

Furthermore, he usually maintains his authority by treating his subordinates with both kindness and authority.

  What is power? It means that when your subordinates go against your wishes, especially when they are disloyal to you, you must be ruthless!

What is "en"? "en" means money!

When they heard that Shang Zhen had hidden 30,000 oceans somewhere, who among the people led by Zhao Tieying, from top to bottom, would not be excited?

Perhaps in Zhao Tieying's opinion, the 30,000 dollars could be turned into a good gun, and in the opinion of his soldiers, the 30,000 dollars could be turned into good wine and food, or even women in a brothel!

What's more, Fan Tongzuo looked so timid and he didn't even have a gun. How could Zhao Tieying be afraid that he would run away?

So after Zhao Tieying asked Fan Tongzuo in detail about the money, he immediately decided to take his men and take Fan Tongzuo to retrieve the money. Two days ago, they embarked on this road to wealth.

Just talking about Zhao Tieying’s mental state, that was all two days ago.

Isn't it the case with all people? When they see something that makes their heart beat faster, their brains get hot and they act without thinking.

But now they have been on the road for two days, and by asking the people along the way, they have been getting closer and closer to Baiyun Ridge. Zhao Tieying, who has calmed down, began to become suspicious, but he also thought, could it be that this kid named Fan is lying to him in order to live a few more days?

So after he discussed with Zhao Mingxuan in a low voice for a while, Zhao Mingxuan, who got off the front carriage and sat in the carriage where Fan Tongzuo was, began to threaten Fan Tongzuo.

At this time, Zhao Mingxuan saw that it was useless to scare Fan Tongzuo, but looking at Fan Tongzuo's wretched appearance, he still felt uneasy.

It was the decision of the regiment leader Zhao Tieying to go to Baiyungou to find the 3 yuan.

Zhao Mingxuan, who has followed Zhao Tieying for some years and is regarded as Zhao Tieying's confidant, understands Zhao Tieying's style of doing things best. He does whatever the captain says and refuses to express his own opinions, or simply says that he has no opinions!

You have to do whatever Zhao Tieying says to make a living.

As for the fact that he gave up the opportunity to shoot Shang Zhen secretly in Shuiquan Town, even now, he himself couldn't figure out why he did that.