Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 742: 'Benevolence' Liu De
As Bai Tu, who has been working hard for almost a year since he surrendered, if you want to say how loyal he is, it is definitely not that much.

His core purpose of surrendering to the Zhou Dynasty was nothing more than two, one was to survive, and the other was to avenge his motherland.

Later, through understanding of Da Zhou's strength, his loyalty began to slowly increase.

But until just now, when Zhou Xu looked at him with the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets', Bai Tu's loyalty was only seventy-eight points.

In the past, when he couldn't see loyalty, he wouldn't have so many thoughts, but now that he can see it, sometimes it becomes a situation where he can't even think about it.

As a normal citizen, this level of loyalty is not low. It is to the extent that he already has a sense of loyalty and will not rebel easily.

But if you want to be a general leading an army here, these seventy-eight points of loyalty are obviously not enough.

According to Zhou Xu's current thinking, if you want to lead an army on your own, you must have 80 points of loyalty in order to obtain his qualification certificate for leading troops.

However, what he didn't expect was that his casual words of comfort would actually cause Bai Tu's loyalty to increase by two points. It suddenly passed the eighty-point mark and reached the level of a loyal minister. standards.

Faced with this unexpected joy, Zhou Xu was very satisfied.

At the same time, it also gave him some new ideas to a certain extent.

[Do you want to give Bai Tu a chance to show off later? 】

After so much comfort, if Bai Tu takes over again, he will definitely know that he is giving him a chance, and his loyalty will definitely increase by then!

Of course, considering the possible risks involved, Zhou Xu hasn't made up his mind yet and has to think about it again.

After leaving Green Forest City, Zhou Xu went straight to Xianyang City.

During this period, in Xishan City...

Just as Zhou Xu guessed, Liu Dezheng was worried about the internal food problem, and his survival until now was entirely dependent on the previous food reserves.

It was hard to survive the winter, but now that spring is coming, spring plowing can begin. Liu De was happy for a moment, feeling that those refugees could finally be put to some use, and he finally got through it.

Little did he know that his troubles had just begun, and he soon realized that in this situation, spring plowing would further increase his burden.

Originally before the spring began, although the refugees in the city only had one bowl of gruel every day, they didn't have to work at all. Apart from queuing up to get the porridge, they just lay around and lay it out, without much consumption.

But once the fields need to be cultivated, this bowl of gruel is not enough, and they all ask for more food, otherwise they will not have the strength to cultivate the land.

However, the food in Liu De's hands was almost not enough for himself, so how could he get more food for the refugees?
At first, he ignored these requests.

But as time went by, the dissatisfaction of those refugees who drank a bowl of gruel every day but were forced to work hard to cultivate the fields grew day by day.

In an unexpected conflict later, a Yingguo soldier who was responsible for keeping an eye on the refugees' farming land directly drew a knife and killed a refugee who secretly cursed because of dissatisfaction, thus triggering a wave of chaos.

The turmoil resulted in the death of seven refugees and the injury of more than 30 refugees.

Liu De was furious when he learned the news, and he was even more annoyed.

He was angry with the soldier who had done something stupid, and he was also angry with the group of ungrateful refugees. "Those bastards don't even think about who allowed them to live until now! Without me, they would have died of hunger long ago! Now let them cultivate a few pieces of land, and then they will complain to me and be tired. Making trouble! What a bunch of troublemakers!

Liu De yelled and cursed and smashed the things at hand to vent his emotions.

But scolding and smashing should be punished. Considering the "Benevolence" archway he has erected, Liu De must have enough superficial skills.

The next day, facing the excited refugees, Liu De cried bitterly in public, bursting with snot and tears, blaming himself for not being able to restrain his subordinates, and that this happened.

"Now that things have happened, I have no face to face the people!"

While talking, Liu De pulled out the sword from his waist and was going to kill himself with the sword, which caused a burst of exclamations from the scene.

At the same time, the guards on both sides rushed to stop them, and a group of subordinates knelt down and shouted...

"No, Your Majesty! If you die, how will the people of Jingguo live?!"

The refugees down here are already so hungry that they are skin and bones. They don't have enough to eat every day, and they can't even think clearly.

In addition, everything happened too fast at that time, and they did not understand what Liu De's life and death had to do with how they lived, so they knelt down inexplicably and began to beg together.

Liu De had no intention of killing himself, but now that he had achieved his goal, he threw away the sword and said, "I originally wanted to kill myself to apologize, but you all begged me not to die, so I will do it." With an immortal look, Kong Daqian rolled his eyes.

By the way, this idea was not his. In some matters, Liu De was gifted, and he did have some skills.

"Please rest assured that the soldiers who have committed crimes will be severely punished by my king! The civilians who unfortunately died will be buried generously. As for those who were injured, my king will arrange a place and find a doctor to treat them and let them rest in peace."

With this set of rules, the refugees had no reason to attack, and the matter was successfully covered by Liu De.

If he has a bigger picture in the future and does what he promised, he will be fine for the time being.

Unfortunately, this Liu De pattern is really a big deal.

The soldier who committed the crime was indeed severely punished, mainly because he was also angered by those soldiers.

The people who died were said to be given generous burials, but in fact they were buried in a pit outside the city.

But in this era, that's about it. Even if the people know about it, they usually won't have any idea.

The most dangerous thing here were the injured people. On the pretext of arranging a place to rest, he gathered them all in a courtyard, then turned around and killed them all!
During this period, if any of their family members came to ask, they would say that they followed the doctor's orders and the injured should rest well and not see anyone else. After a while, they would say that they had recovered from their injuries and left on their own.

By then, even if the families of the injured and sick people don’t see anyone, it will be a death without evidence.

After all, in times of famine like this, it is normal for people to die and disappear every day.

But there is no airtight wall in this world. As soon as Liu De ordered someone to be killed, the news was leaked and spread throughout the city...

(End of this chapter)