Late Tang

Killing and arson gold belt!

The victory will be followed by looting. While the pirates continued to clean and kill, they have already begun to loot the entire castle from street to house.After a rich harvest, warehouses were opened one after another, and boxes of money were carried out.

Li Jing did not bring anyone to participate in the looting after the war. For him, all he cared about was the batch of ordnance.And he believed that Whitebeard's subordinates would not dare to devour his own batch of weapons.He went directly to Whitebeard, who was sitting in the hall in the center of the castle.It was the center of the whole castle, and in the past only people from the Feng family could live in it.Every year, representatives of the Feng family from Duli Town and the Feng family from Bohai will visit the island. Occasionally, Feng Zhang from Daxie Village will also come to the island. A castle within a castle in the eyes of income.

White Beard sat on the gorgeous gold lacquer bed made of golden nanmu at the top of the hall, holding a glass cup filled with bloody red wine in his hand.His bodyguards were undoing his blood- and rain-soaked cloak and leather armor.

"A beautiful victory!" Whitebeard smiled all over his face, and he beckoned the guards to pour Li Jing a glass of wine, "Your men fought well, this battle is all thanks to them, fortunately they opened the door in time. Otherwise, the victory would not have been achieved at all."

White Beard's grateful eyes stared at him, making Li Jing a little embarrassed. "This battle is not just for you, but also for ourselves. I also bought the thousand sets of armaments when I lost everything, so there is no room for loss."

Whitebeard drank the red wine in one gulp, with a smile on his face: "We are fighting for each of us. In this battle, I am for revenge, and you are for weapons. Now that the castle has finally been captured, I will also avenge my great revenge." Now, your ordnance will also be taken back, what a joy to congratulate!"

"I watched carefully when I entered the city. After 20 years, the castle is stronger than before. Back then, my father led more than [-] brothers to storm the castle for a day and a night. Countless brothers were killed and injured, but they still couldn't step into the castle. "White Beard said with a sigh, "General Li only used a mere hundred brothers to open this fort. This old man really admires it. It's really the waves of the Yangtze River pushing the waves ahead. I'm already old."

"Brother!" There was a loud shout, and Li Jing and Baibeard looked at the same time, only to see that under the light of the hall, three big men, covered in white gas, came in wet with weapons in their hands.Three people came in, a yellow beard, a red beard and a black beard. All three of them looked about the same. They were all wet and looked a bit embarrassed. The yellow beard had even loosened his bun, and his hair was scattered on his head like seaweed.However, Yellow Beard didn't care about this at all. As soon as he entered the hall, he tried his best to insert the long sword in his hand into the wooden floor.

With extreme excitement on his face, he shouted: "Brother, the 20-year blood feud has finally been avenged today."

Blackbeard also threw half of his sword into the ground, "Brother, we have killed all the three hundred guards on the island. The beacon tower has been occupied by us just now. Now we have closed the gate of the castle and are searching the castle one by one. .”

"How are the masters going to deal with the people in the castle?" Li Jing asked.

White Beard hesitated for a moment, and finally slapped the cases in front of him heavily: "Kill them all, leave no one behind!"

Li Jing was startled, shocked by this murderous words. "Not all the people on the island are Feng Shi and his lackeys, are they?"

"Well, I just interrogated several members of the Feng clan. In addition to the 30 guards on the island, there are about 300 children of the Feng clan and more than 200 of their family members. In addition, there are warehouse managers on the island. There are more than 500 people waiting, and there are more than [-] slaves at the dock and about [-] family members of the slaves. In addition, there are more than [-] slaves and maidservants in the castle, including a prostitute village in the city, which is specially used by the guards. There are also several workshops in the fort, an ordnance workshop, but the scale is small, with only a dozen or so people, who specialize in making and repairing ordnance for the island. There is also a coin workshop, which has three coin furnaces, coin minting Hundreds of craftsmen." The red beard replied.

Li Jing secretly calculated that the number of people on the island was as high as nearly 2000.This number surprised him, and after careful calculation, it was indeed correct.In addition to the [-] guards, there are more than [-] children and family members of the Feng family, and more than [-] storekeepers and shopkeepers.Then there are more than a hundred craftsmen, and there are thousands of slaves, maids, prostitutes and their families.

If it was just to kill the three hundred guards, Li Jing didn't have much objection in his heart. After all, they were still life-and-death enemies just a moment ago, and he also had many brothers who were under the sword of the opponent.Killing them is also a common method on the battlefield.For the children of the Feng family, it can be regarded as cutting the grass and roots.However, Li Jing felt that he couldn't bear to kill those slaves and maids, but when he heard that there were so many craftsmen on the island, Li Jing felt that he loved talents and couldn't bear it.

"The masters, I have no objection to killing those guards and the remnants of the Feng clan. But those slaves and craftsmen are also poor people, can we let them go?"

The white beard pulled the white beard under his chin, his face sullen. "When it comes, it will come!" War means death, and the defeated party has no other rights, and all they have is the fate of waiting for the massacre.When the Zhensan River was destroyed, almost all 3000 people sank to the island to feed the fish.And then, the joint fleet in Duli Town carried out a crazy revenge on the surrounding pirates.For a whole year, they attacked everywhere and broke through the fortified islands one after another. Those pirate lairs who had followed Zhen Sanjiang to attack Cat Island were basically plowed by sword and fire.

On the wharf in Duli Town, countless sharpened wooden stakes were erected, on which were hung one after another the heads of pirates.Some of them are pirates, but most of them are the family members of those pirates, no matter they are young or old, they all show their heads before the public.The four white beard brothers fled again and again, until they escaped to the East China Sea, and they were considered to have avoided the massacre. Twenty years later, they finally made a comeback again and broke through Cat Island in one fell swoop.

"A general must not have the kindness of a woman!" White Beard said to Li Jing lightly, "Killing everyone on the island is actually not only for revenge, but also for your own good. You are no better than us, you are still an official. Now The second attack on the island, if the news of your participation leaks out, Feng Zhang will definitely lead his troops to destroy you immediately. This is not the time to joke, you helped us avenge our bloody feud, and I can't harm you."

"Those slaves were enslaved by the Feng family. We rescued them, and they won't tell outsiders." Li Jing still couldn't make up his mind.

White Beard let out a long sigh: "I admire my brother's kindness, but the matter is of great importance and people's hearts are unpredictable. Who knows if among these people, there will be those who are greedy for profit and see money? Besides, even if we let them go , and how to arrange these people?"

"Master Bai can bring these people to your island. Even if they do some chores, it's better than taking their lives."

White Beard shook his head: "There are thousands of slaves, at most there are only three hundred useful young men, and the rest are women, children, old and young. What do I need them for? It's a waste of rations."

"It's better to sell them to Silla, Japan, and Balhae than to kill them all."

"You can rest assured that you put them by your side. It's not appropriate to sell them. If the family is sealed off or someone else sees them again, our affairs will still be leaked. This risk is too great, I can't let my brother be in this They are in danger. Listen to me, kill them with a single knife, and they are nothing more than a group of slaves. Knowing that my brother is kind, in fact, these slaves are all from Silla, Goguryeo, and even Khitan, Xiren, and Bohai, and they are not Han Chinese."

Hearing this result, Li Jing was a little surprised. He thought they were Han people who had been taken captive, but he didn't expect that they were slaves of foreign races.Although the feeling in his heart has faded, Li Jing still couldn't calmly slaughter thousands of unarmed and innocent people.

Gritting her teeth, Li Jing said, "Master Bai, why don't you give me all these slaves. I need manpower in Shamen Town, so I will take them back and place them in the workshop in the castle. I will send people to guard them at ordinary times, and they will be safe. "

Seeing that Li Jing insisted on insisting, the four masters of Zhendonghai agreed after thinking about it.For them, breaking through Cat Island Castle and killing the guards and members of the Feng Clan in the city was already considered revenge.As for those slaves, killing them was actually just to protect Li Jing.Now that Li Jing is willing to take this risk, they naturally don't care.After they made this vote, not only will they not hide it, but they will also leave a name and declare their revenge.

"The dozen or so craftsmen and their families in the Armory Workshop, I think it's better for a few masters to take them away. Keep these people, and they can make some weapons and repair armor for everyone at ordinary times. It's still useful." Li Although Jing wanted to take these ordnance craftsmen away with him, he knew that Zhendonghai also used these people, so he took the initiative to propose it.

The four of Zhendonghai declined for a while, then nodded and took the craftsmen and their families away.

In the end, there are more than 100 craftsmen and their families in a coin workshop.

Li Jing said first, "Would the heads of these craftsmen be willing to stay together?"

White Beard saw that Li Jing seemed to be interested in this, so he smiled and said: "Although casting money privately can make money, but there is no good channel to buy large quantities of raw materials such as copper and lead. We can't do this business. I think Li Jing My brother seems to be interested in this, if that's the case, you might as well keep it by yourself."

Li Jing was overjoyed, and immediately got up and said: "Then I'd rather be respectful than obedient, and thank the elder brothers for their concession."

"It's easy to say, they are all my brothers!" Whitebeard laughed and said, "They were originally meant to be cut off, but now they are just for the sake of the brothers to let them survive. What's more, there are still a lot of people in the castle and warehouse. What about the money and goods, compared to these, what are a few slaves and craftsmen worth?"

(To be continued)