Five years of garrison on the border, shocked Zhu Yuanzhang who went south to inspect

Chapter 20 The perfect provocation

The farmer was enraged and cursed: "You actually insulted my master. I, Zhang Cheng, turned into an evil spirit and I can't spare you!"

"You are the charter." Zhu Tuo looked at him, frowned and said, "The way you dress, you are even poorer than the country bumpkin in my hometown. I think you are not very nice to you on weekdays. What qualifications do you have to work for you?" ?”

"I'm from the agricultural department, what's the point of being innocent?"

Lu Xiaofeng said: "Agricultural Affairs Department?" Zhu Tuo was startled, and then said curiously: "Is it your farm department that specializes in grain? Sowing, sowing, fertilizing?"

Zhang Cheng turned his head and said nothing.

Zhu Tuo stopped him with a smile and said with a smile: "So, how many people did you send to plot against me?"

"Traitor, I will never tell anyone!"

Zhu Tuo snorted coldly and shouted: "I thought you were still a figure, but I didn't expect you to assassinate in secret. How can you be a hero?"

"I don't know what happened. For you to become the county magistrate, could it be that there is no one in Xuanwei Mansion? Trash!"

Zhang Cheng's face turned red when Zhu Tuo said this, and he shouted: "It doesn't matter what I tell you. Twenty people are here to assassinate you. If I can't succeed, they will definitely stand up for me!"

"You guys won't come to trouble me!"

"It's okay to insult me, but not my brother!" Zhang Cheng said loudly.

"Just let them come and see if they can still hit me."

"Okay, then let me do it." When Zhang Cheng said this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. He yelled: "Traitor, I will never betray my brothers. Don't try to get away with it once and for all!"

Zhu Tuo glared at him speechlessly. He wanted him to explain everything clearly, but he didn't expect him to say so much.

Zhu Tuo narrowed his eyes and seemed to remember something, and the expression on his face became ferocious, "You should be the person who comforts the priest, right? Hehe, I will send someone to inform you tomorrow."

If the chieftain slaughters a city, even if I can't catch twenty of you, I can kill all your parents, children, and relatives! "

Zhang Cheng's eyes opened wide, and his body was trembling when he saw the ferocious look in front of him.

"You, how could you do this?"

"Why can't I?" Zhu Tuo sneered: "In the final analysis, Xuan Weishi is an outsider. Even the entire chieftain can't compare to one of my hairs!"

"My reputation is known to everyone in Lingnan. The last time I suppressed bandits, I killed five bandits, no matter men, women, old or young, no one was left!"

"If you don't tell me, I will make your Xuanweitu Priest disappear forever!"

Zhu Tuo has a ferocious face, and he perfectly interprets the murderous devil.

Zhang Cheng's eyes widened, his lips trembled, and his eyes were filled with despair!
He couldn't imagine that there was such a cruel person in this world. He still thought that this guy was a cunning guy. Now it seems that he is even more cruel than he imagined!
What he has to do now is a very critical decision.

One is to decide the life and death of twenty people, and the other is to appease the people of the chieftain.

It's really hard to choose.

If they take the initiative to plot against Zhu Tuo, they are principled. Even if they die, they are principled.

"I'm telling you, if you dare to die, I will massacre the entire city! When we get to the Palace of Hell, how can you stand in front of An Bangyan?"

This voice seemed to come from Jiuyou, which made Zhang Cheng tremble all over and completely gave up the idea of ​​committing suicide.

After a long while, Zhang Cheng raised his head and shouted: "A man will judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. Today, although I, Zhang Cheng, have died, I have saved the chieftain of Xuan'an. That's enough!"

Zhu Tuo was confused, this kid was indeed a fool.

"Okay, go ask people from your agricultural department to come over! If there is one more, I will go and appease him and let him kill 100 more people."

Zhang Cheng was furious and yelled: "You beast, you dare to insult my Minister of Agriculture. My soldiers have no votes and will never run away!" Zhang Cheng started to whistle as he spoke.

Not long after, a group of more than 20 people came from afar. They were dressed in farmers' clothes, with hard expressions and straight waists.

However, their arrogance did not last long before they were captured by Lu Qing.

Zhang Cheng told the whole story. When they knew that Zhu Tuo was threatening them with the lives of ordinary people, they all cursed: "You bastard, how could you kill me to appease my people?"

"I tell you, I won't make it easy for you!"

"You kill one of me, and I have countless others. You can't kill them all!"

Zhu Tuo looked at these idiots: "If you dare to say something, I will send a hundred people to appease those bandits!"

The faces of more than 20 people turned red and they stared at Zhu Tuo hatefully.

Zhu Tuo said: "They are all from the agricultural department?"

Zhang Cheng shouted angrily: "If you want to kill, shoot, if you want to shoot, shoot. Don't try to get anything out of us!"

In ancient times, the agricultural department had many functions, such as growing crops, farming, water conservancy, farming, etc.

Especially in the Jiaozhi area of ​​​​Lingnan, where there are dense mountains and barren areas, reclamation is the most important thing. Each chieftain will set up a special agricultural official to deal with this kind of matter.

Zhu Tuo had many ideas about developing agriculture in his mind, but there was no suitable candidate, which is why he stopped moving forward.

Zhu Tuo waved his hand and pointed at Zhangcheng, "Look, how come the fields here have become withered?"

Zhang Cheng shouted coldly: "No need to act, we are all here, you can do whatever you want, but we will never sacrifice our lives for the enemy!"

"Refuse? Well, you are such a man!" Zhu Tuo clapped his hands and shouted: "Tomorrow I will personally lead the army to raze this land to the ground and slaughter all the people in the world!"

"You!!" Chen Xiaobei roared angrily.

The crowd began to curse, but some people went out to the field, picked up some leaves, and started discussing.

Zhu Tuo listened to the discussion of those people and said with some regret: "Now I finally understand why An Bangyan lost so early. It turns out that his subordinates are all useless."

"Originally, I thought that you were very loyal to An Bangyan and very talented, but now there is no problem at all. If he is resurrected and sees you like this, he will probably be angry to death again!"

"you……"

They were red-faced and without saying a word, they all joined in and continued the discussion.

They checked the roots and soil while checking. After a while, they figured out the reason and then confidently said: "This is because the trees nearby have absorbed nutrients, and the leaves of the rice have turned yellow."

"Weren't you bitten by an insect?"

"If it's insects, some of the leaves will rot."

"Maybe it's because of the drought," Zhu Tuo added.

Zhang Cheng continued: “If there is a drought, the leaves will curl up.

Obviously not. "

"Do you have any good ideas?"

“I have already thought about whether to cut down all the surrounding trees, or plant some soil to fertilize it, usually covering the soil with straw, and then pouring some excrement from cattle and sheep. , the soil will change after a year.”

Zhu Tuo nodded with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)