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“Spare me… spare my life… I was only following orders! In my heart, I also resisted the order to forcibly conscript young men, but I had no choice…”

“Now that General Meng has rescued our elders and folks, I am endlessly grateful to the General. I know I have committed a grave error and am willing to offer all my family wealth to compensate the people. I beg the General to give me a chance.”

The Chancellor of Pei, firmly pinned down by Gan Ning, spoke with a stream of tears and snot.

If he could get up, the Chancellor of Pei would probably be kowtowing repeatedly on the spot.

But listening to those familiar words of begging for mercy, Gan Ning couldn't help but reach out and clean his ears, then chuckled and said.

“Do you truly know your mistake?”

The Chancellor of Pei hurriedly replied, “I was wrong! I was wrong! I regret it deeply…”

But as Gan Ning pressed down with his foot on his chest with three times the force, he abruptly cut off the Chancellor of Pei’s words and said with disdain.

“You don't know your mistake, but that your life is about to end!”

In the next moment, Gan Ning kicked the Chancellor of Pei aside and said to the Jinfan pirates behind him.

“Same old rules, hang him up.”

Immediately, two Jinfan pirates stepped forward, skillfully broke the Chancellor of Pei’s limbs with the backs of their sabers, and then dragged the Chancellor of Pei away like a fat pig, making a shrill sound like a pig being slaughtered.

As the number of conquered counties continued to increase, Gan Ning and the Jinfan pirates naturally developed a unique way to quickly stabilize the people's hearts in the city.

It's very simple, just hang up the local officials, isn't it?

As for whether there will be wrongful hangings, that is basically impossible.

If the local officials truly had the people in their hearts, why would they forcibly conscript young men and cause famine, allowing Gan Ning to easily break through the city's defenses with a psychological warfare strategy?

When the local officials deeply trampled the people into the mud, how could the flesh-and-blood people not want to hang the officials high?

This act, coupled with not committing the slightest offense against the people in the city, only purging the officials and aristocratic families in the city, the speed of stabilizing the situation has already been verified by Gan Ning many times.

When Gan Ke, following behind, hurriedly arrived in Qiao County, the entire Qiao County had already quickly stabilized.

Even, there were quite a few nosy and daring people who took the initiative to watch the Yellow Turbans execute the aristocratic families who had been constantly committing evil deeds.

Gan Ke was not surprised by this. After asking about Gan Ning's location, he went straight to the direction of the Prefectural Governor's mansion.

When Gan Ke passed through the soldiers guarding outside the mansion and entered the Prefectural Governor's mansion, he heard Gan Ning's voice in the distance, seeming to be cursing something.

“This Prefectural Governor lives a much better life than us. I'm afraid even the Master has never seen these rare items…”

“Put them away, put them away. It's useless to distribute these, put them all in the city's treasury, and then have the Master send someone to receive them.”

“Wait, this pair of gold-inlaid jade swords is pretty good, hide them, and bring them back to Shouchun to give to the Young Master and Young Master Xiang. They'll be just right.”

Gan Ke walked in and saw Gan Ning lying half-reclined in a pile of rare treasures in the posture of a bandit, directing a group of confidants to classify these rare treasures that had been plundered from all over the city.

Gan Ning was able to quickly win over a large number of people, mainly by distributing money, food, and farmland to the poor people around every city he conquered.

Especially the land in the hands of the aristocratic families and powerful families, which was enough for Gan Ning to rudely divide the farmland equally among every citizen in the household registration.

All kinds of money and food were also distributed in the same way, to ensure that those people who were originally experiencing famine could survive until the next year's harvest.

However, in addition to various gold and silver coins, the aristocratic families and powerful families naturally had no shortage of various rare treasures. These were obviously not suitable for distribution, otherwise, if some poor people got them, they might be guilty of possessing treasures.

In addition, Gan Ning, with his banditry, would naturally not forget his own brothers, and would also select some rare and valuable items from them for the Jinfan pirates to divide internally.

There were no outsiders here. Gan Ke shouted from a distance.

“Boss!”

Seeing Gan Ke returning, Gan Ning took out a bag of jewels from beside him and threw it to Gan Ke, saying.

“Put it away, this is your share.”

“Thank you, Boss ~”

Gan Ke didn't even look at it, put the bag of jewels aside, and said in a low voice.

“The Master has a secret letter.”

Gan Ning's expression became serious, he got up and pulled Gan Ke aside.

In order to avoid associating the honorable title of "Marquis" with something by others.

Therefore, even in private, Gan Ning and the Jinfan pirates referred to Li Ji as "Master."

After confirming that there was no one around, Gan Ning asked in a serious tone.

“Where is the secret letter?”

Hearing this, Gan Ke carefully took out the secret letter from the interlayer of his inner garment and handed it to Gan Ning.

Gan Ning checked that the secret letter's sealing wax was intact, and Gan Ke also consciously retreated five steps away. Only then did Gan Ning carefully open the secret letter and browse through it.

Gan Ning, who was righteous and generous, was willing to share wealth with his Jinfan pirate brothers, but when it came to secret letters and the like, Gan Ning was always quite cautious.

And Gan Ning, who opened the secret letter, decrypted it according to the hints in the secret letter, deciphered the contents, carefully browsed through it, and then personally burned the secret letter.

Only then did Gan Ke come over again and said.

“Boss, the Master also asked me to bring a sentence: Obey orders as a thief, don't forget your sense of proportion.”

“This… Could it be that Sima Yi, that pretty boy, secretly reported something about us, making the Master a little dissatisfied with the Boss secretly distributing some wealth to the brothers?”

Gan Ning glanced at Gan Ke and said unhappily.

“What are you thinking? The place where I, Lao Tzu, do things has always had the most rules.”

“The rule set by the Lord is that the main general can keep 20% of the spoils to support his personal troops.”

“Do you, kid, think that I took too much, or do you think that I am not the main general?”

Gan Ke smiled sheepishly, dared not to answer, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Gan Ke naturally knew this rule.

Although what Liu Bei implemented under his rule was the "Military Household System", as long as they had served as the main general, they were also qualified to recruit and support personal troops as guards.

The money and food needed to recruit and maintain personal troops were half provided by Liu Bei, and the other half was raised by the generals themselves.

The main way for generals to raise money was through the spoils of war, and the ratio was 20%, which was already a considerable number.

As long as the main general won a battle, the money exchanged for the armor and weapons seized on the battlefield would be enough to ensure that the main general's future generations would have no worries about food and clothing.

In addition, 20% of the spoils went to the main general, 50% would be distributed to the soldiers in the army, and the remaining 30% would be used for public affairs to provide pensions.

It was precisely because of this that the morale of the military household soldiers under Liu Bei was always different from that of other armies. In addition to the strong sense of belonging of the military household soldiers themselves, it was also closely related to this incentive method.

(End of this chapter)