Wei Qing into Zheng Yuming residence, staggered to his feet, a hug and cry: "adults! Nambu was burned!"
"Southport burned? Fire?" Zheng Yuming was shocked, Nambu was his heart and soul, it was the place that he had wasted half a year's effort on, and it was only just a little bit of a foundation.
"It's not a fire, someone set it on fire." Wei Qing wiped his eyes,getting redder and redder.
"Who? Who set fire to it?" Zheng Yuming was dumbfounded, Nambu was set on fire, who is so bold?
"It was a group of bandits who came to Nanbu in the middle of the night to rob the property, the village people woke up and resisted, the bandits saw that the robbery did not work, so they set fire to the houses, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape." Wei Qing was very eloquent in describing what happened.
"Burned more houses?" Zheng Yuming shook his body, bandits to the south port robbery, certainly preferred textile factories, textile factories are flammable raw materials, bandits set fire to easily.
"There are more than thirty houses burnt down, I'm not sure exactly how." Wei Qing lowered his head, obviously in a difficult mood. "Lord Chu got the urgent report sent by the people of Nambu village, and brought the slaves in the valley to put out the fire, the fire is almost put out sent me to report to the lord."
"Are there any village casualties? Is Lord Chu going to be alright?" Zheng Yuming asked as he set his cloth boots.
"There were no casualties when I arrived, and Lord Chu is fine."
"You go find Si Zhong and get the horses out and ready, I'll go and ask for my resignation and then immediately move back to Nambu." Zheng Yuming's heart was now on fire, and he wanted to know just how much Nambu had lost.
Zheng Yuming asked the attendant who waited on him and learned that Ulsan-kun had not yet risen, so he did not disturb him, but only went to the office of Wenzai in the kunfu to look for Wei Shen. Wei Shen was very dutiful and would come to the office early in the morning every day to deal with the affairs of Dacheng.
"Nambu was set on fire by bandits? Have the bandits been caught? Where are the bandits from?" Wei Shen frowned tightly, searching for whether or not to send soldiers forward to fight the bandits, all unstable factors in the Dacheng area had to be firmly combated.
"I don't know the specifics, I would like to go back at once and find out what happened before reporting to Lord Wenzai."
"En, you quickly go back, understand the situation after the fast horse to report." Wei Shen saw Zheng Yuming face anxious, and pacified a few words, let Zheng Yuming in the future what needs to be despite the opening with the House of Jun.
Zheng Yuming endured the heart anxiety to express gratitude to Wei Shen, expression is ready to leave, Gong Ziguang's personal attendant to pass the word, Gong Ziguang has been informed of the Nambu accident, is now getting up to change, let Zheng Yuming wait a moment, he is ready to personally go to the Nambu inspection of the disaster.
Upon hearing this, Zheng Yuming could only wait even if he was in a hurry, and he wondered in the back of his mind which of the gutless attendants dared to disturb the sleep of the Ulsan monarch and report this news to the monarch for knowledge.
Beside the stables of the Azure Mountain Monarch's residence, Wei Qing and Huo Sizhong were waiting there with three horses, and after waiting for a few moments, they did not see Zheng Yuming come, but instead, a group of attendants were lassoing the light carriage of the Azure Mountain Monarch.
"This little brother, the Duke really rewarded me and complimented me on my timely report." An attendant with a pointed chin quietly approached Wei Qing.
"Congratulations Servant, in the future the Prince will look at you differently." Wei Qing smiled and complimented, no nervous and anxious expression on his face.
"This is for you, in the future, feel free to come and find me if there's anything you need." The pointed chin waiter slipped Wei Qing a gold coin. Because of Wei Qing's reminder, the sharp jawed waiter risked being punished and woke up Gong Ziguang to report the matter of Nangbu. When Gong Ziguang realized that Nambu had been attacked by bandits, not only did he not take into account the attendant's guilt for waking him up, he also rewarded him with ten gold coins.
"Thank you big brother waiter, Wei Qing has made a small fortune thanks to big brother's blessing." Wei Qing didn't politely put the gold coins into his arms at all.
The pointed chin saw Wei Qing's greedy face, he couldn't help but laugh at this teenager's greed for money, for the sake of a mere gold coin, he even encouraged him to go and inform Azure Mountain Monarch about what happened in the early hours of the morning in Nambu, if he hadn't seen that Azure Mountain Monarch doted on Nambu's Governor Zheng, he wouldn't have risked being chastised for bothering the Duke Guang, the pointy chin servant would be encouraged by Wei Qing, he wanted to use this to draw the attention of the Duke Guang, and to be reused by the Duke in the future. From the attendant to the personal attendant, although the change is only the word personal, the privileges are countless more.
"Rat, are you that greedy for money? Even chipping away at a single gold to earn it?" After Huo Si Zhong heard the news of Nambu being burned by fire, he was so anxious that he shed tears, he was deeply attached to Nambu. Because of the help of the villagers of Nambu, their siblings did not die last winter, and then followed Zheng Yuming every day to deal with affairs in Nambu, and saw Nambu in a little bit of change, these changes have a part of his hard work, and now know that this hard work has been destroyed by the outlaws, Huo SiZhong how will not be anxious.
"Hmph! Rotten elm, what do you know." Wei Qing rolled his eyes.
"I must tell Lord Zheng!" Huo Si Zhong was indignant.
"Fine, you have to tell wait to tell later, don't ever let the people of Junfu know, it's not good to spread the family's scandal, Lord Zheng just taught us this last month." Wei Qing did not care about Huo Si Zhong's threat.
"You..." Huo Sizhong was so angry that he couldn't speak, he felt that today's Rat was very abnormal, where he couldn't tell.
Ulsanjun want to personally go to the south port to inspect the disaster, because the two governors of the south port contribute a lot to the city, Wei Shen is not good to stop, but only to arrange for the protection of the Huben army. Waiting for the Uisan Jun packed properly, to the hour only by more than a hundred Huben soldiers escorted to go to the south port, a large group of people rushed to the south port, has arrived at the time of six o'clock.
Zheng Yuming's horse was at the front of the line, and after the mouth of the gap, the air was filled with a thick smell of charred smoke. Smelling the charred odor, Zheng Yuming could no longer hold back, patting his horse galloped towards the village, he wanted to see how heavy the loss of Nambu Village was in the end.
Inside the village scene is very miserable, from the village entrance to the port on both sides of the house is basically burned, now the open fire has been extinguished, charred wooden beams are still smoldering black smoke, the village people are pouring water on the non-stop, to prevent the re-burning.
"My lord!" The Wu Clan Chief was standing at the entrance of the village, and as soon as he saw Zheng Yuming return, he hurriedly went forward to salute.
"Where is Lord Chu? Where's Mr. Wu Dong? Where are they? Are there any casualties in the village? What places did the bandits set on fire?" Zheng Yuming didn't bother thinking about the property losses now, he only wanted to know if the village people had suffered any injuries.
"The bandits only burned the houses on these two sides. Lord Chu has not yet returned from chasing the bandits, and Dongjia Wu is resettling the village people whose houses were burned. This time when the bandits came to attack, the village people were alerted and we all worked together to drive the bandits away, and except for a few people who were scorched because of putting out the fire, none of them were harmed." Patriarch Wu looked a little uncomfortable.
"That's good, it's fortunate that no one was greatly injured." Zheng Yuming's anxiety was mostly lessened, and several factories were not on either side of this road.
While Zheng Yuming and Patriarch Wu were talking, Gong Ziguang's light carriage drove in. Zheng Yuming hurriedly beat his horse to welcome him.
"Where is Chu Qing?" Gong Ziguang looked at the ruins of Nambu Village and frowned heavily. Gong Ziguang didn't leave Dacheng too much and had no impression of remote villages, the houses in Nambu Village were already a bit shabby, and now paired with the burnt out ruins, it looked even more miserable. Gong Ziguang really didn't expect Nambu to be such a poor village.
"Governor Chu has gone to chase the outlaws." Zheng Yuming stepped forward to report, before his words fell, a group of men and horses appeared at the entrance of the village, except for the green-clothed man who was leading the horseback ride who was let into the village, everyone else was barred at the entrance of the village by the Huben.
"Nambu Governor Chu Chaohui sees the Gongzi." When the brown horse arrived in front of the Duke Guang's carriage seat, the man in green rolled over and dismounted to salute.
"Chu Qing, how exactly did things go, tell us in detail."
Chu Chao Hui is now a bit of a mess, his face has soot, his green clothes are also stained with black ash, and the shoes on his feet are so dirty that he can't see the original color.
"In the early hours of this morning, a group of bandits touched into the village and tried to rob the property, the people of the village heard their dogs barking and realized that there were more than a dozen bandits, the village night watchman rushed to sound the night watchman's gong and woke up all the people of the village to rise up and resist, the bandits couldn't withstand it and saw that the robbery was hopeless, so they threw the torches on to the dwellings and caused the houses to catch on fire. I went after them with a few slaves and lost sight of the bandits when I reached the woods to the east."
"Do you know where the bandits are from?" Wei Shen wanted to know the identity of the bandits.
"By the sound of his accent, he's from Chu."
"It's the Chu bandits again! "Wei Shen hated it. Dacheng was the closest to Chu, and the mountain bandits within the mirror of Chu always trekked to Dacheng once or twice a year to commit crimes.
"Nanbu is not even protected by a high wall? Had I known that Nanbu was so barren, Guang would not have rewarded Nanbu to the two loving ministers." Duke Guang's words were addressed to Wei Shen, and in his words, he blamed Wei Shen for not reminding him that the fiefdom he had rewarded to his two saviors was a barren village. Compared to Nambu's return gift to Dacheng, Gong Ziguang was ashamed.
"Shen will gather the surrounding villagers to help Nambu build a wall." Wei Shen was afraid that Gongzi Guang would reward the fertile places elsewhere to Zheng Chu two people instead, and quickly proposed a remedial program first, Nambu village had a high wall to protect it, and bandits could not easily enter the village.
"Wenzai may not!" Chu Chao Hui suddenly pushed back loudly, causing Zheng Yuming to look at him in surprise.
"Why is Chu Ching pushing back?" Gong Ziguang was puzzled, wealthier villages had fences, Nambu itself could not afford to build a fence, why did Chu Chao Hui still refuse to help.
"It's harvest season soon, calling the surrounding villagers to build the wall will delay their farming." Chu Chaohui with a sincere face said the reason for declining to help, such Chu Chaohui, even more let Zheng Yuming open his mouth wide.
"Chu Qing is really sensible." Gong Ziguang dawned on him that Chu Chao Hui was thoughtful, the surrounding villagers were recruited to build a fence, and the fall harvest at home would definitely be delayed.
"In my opinion, besides the method of building a high wall to protect the village, there is another method to keep the village safe."
"What is the method, tell us."
"Chaohui can train the slaves to defend themselves, and in the future, they will take turns on night duty at night, and if any outlaws enter, they will simply fight and kill them!"
Zheng Yuming's eyes began to re-survey the fire scene in the village after Chu Chao Hui spoke the self-defense method.
"Training slaves to defend themselves?" Wei Shen's eyes narrowed, and there was coldness in his eyes.
"Yes, it's a few slaves at the entrance of the village, with more training, they can always serve to defend themselves." Chu Chao Hui pointed at the entrance of the village.
"Bring those slaves here."
Wei Shen ordered his men with a stern face, and in less than a moment, a dozen or so very short and skinny slaves came trembling over.
"Can these slaves be trained to defend themselves?" Gongzi Guang looked at the dozen or so slaves and then at his soldiers, and couldn't help but gently shake his head.
"My lord, although they are skinny and weak, with more practice, two can always beat one bandit." Zheng Yuming stared at the slaves and suddenly realized that these slaves were the skinniest slaves in the valley and there was not a single slave soldier inside.
"Haha, Governor Chu this is a good idea, if one slave can't beat the bandits, train two slaves to do so, so that they can defend themselves and not labor the surrounding villagers, great good!" Wei Shen looked at the skinny slaves with satisfaction, these slaves will not become soldiers even if they are trained well.
Not only did Ulsan-kun agree to Chu Chao-hui's plan to train self-defense forces in Nambu, he also instructed Wei Shen to take some obsolete weapons from the arsenal to equip Chu Chao-hui's slaves.
"Chu Chao Hui, there are no bandits, are there?"
Saw the Ulsan Jun fleet away, Zheng Yuming towards the Chu Chao Hui gritted his teeth, this Chu Chao Hui even hide him, Wei Qing went to report the appearance of a disaster, but like a disaster, the results back to the South Port to see, only burned more than three dozen grass houses. These grass houses also burned very strange, burned is the first row on both sides of the village center road. The back of the house is not at all, this fire is too neatly placed.
"There are bandits, but there are only three bandits, they are the mountain bandits in the mountains south of Dacheng, listening to the merchants talk about Nambu being rich, and knowing that Nambu is not protected by a high wall, they want to come to the village to make a little fortune, and as a result, they were caught by the village people." Chu Chaohui is now smiling with an open brow, Zheng Yuming as soon as he comprehended his intention, the cooperation is airtight.
"Where are the captured bandits?"
"Kill." Since they were going to trick Gong Ziguang and Wei Shen into believing that the bandits were roaming from Chu, these three mountain bandits couldn't be kept, lest they leak out.
The mountain bandits in the eastern part of Dacheng are not climatic, numbering no more than twenty at the most, unlike the bandits that roam Dacheng from Chu, who are threatening with hundreds at the most.
Zheng Yuming glanced at Chu Chao Hui and did not make a sound. For the mountain bandits, although he did not sympathize with pity, he could not do anything to kill them whenever he wanted to.
"Didn't you say you were going to rebuild the houses on both sides of the village center road into stores? It's just right to burn it down this time."
Chu Chao Hui see Zheng Yuming's face is still board, quickly told him that the fire was set with a purpose, the village on both sides of the road sooner or later to engage in demolition, he is now but the first move. These burned houses villagers but received a large demolition fee.
"Not revealing anything at all, I'm scared to death of you." Zheng Yuming let out a long breath.
Chu Zhaohui saw the opportunity to use the village bandits to obtain the right to train slaves in the open, slave training in the valley even if exposed, but also have the Nambu training self-defense force endorsement. Zheng Yuming in Chu Chao Hui perversely refused Wei Shen help, re-examined the scene of the disaster, a review only to find that the house burned too neatly, some of the villagers whose houses were burned were counting the family property moved out of the open space, the face did not have the slightest property loss of heartache. After seeing the thin slave at the entrance of the village, more sure that Chu Chao Hui is set up.
"You and I have a heart to heart, you will understand even if I don't say it, see, isn't it like this now?" Chu Chao Hui's face covered with soot smiled brightly.
"Can't use words properly again, heart to heart is not the way to use it!" Zheng Yuming glanced across at this Burmese Chinese who was using adjectives indiscriminately, and beat his horse towards the gap in the valley.
"A heart-to-heart can't be used, but then a heart-to-heart can always be used, right?"
Chu Chaohui laughed and followed with his horse, and a fire in Nambu allowed Zheng Chu and his two men to train slaves openly.