After being Targeted by a Madman [PART 1]

Bandits 8: The Emperor's Plot

Bandits 8: The Emperor's Plot

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"Please, my child hasn't eaten for several days. Please be kind and leave some food for us." A woman knelt on the ground with a pleading face, looking at the official in front of her who was protected by the guards.

"The emperor has ordered that every household must pay five times the amount of grain as tax, and no one can escape." The official in charge of tax collection said coldly.

"Besides, what does it have to do with me if your child has nothing to eat?" The official made no secret of his disregard for human life.

The woman stared with eyes wide open in complete disbelief. The official walked away without even looking at her.

When the surrounding villagers saw this, they all came over to comfort her, but no one was willing to share some food with the woman, after all, they also needed to eat.

Now the King of Vietnam is becoming more and more unreasonable. The original tax burden was already difficult enough for them, and now it has been increased fivefold. This is simply going to kill them.

It's not that no one has appealed, but the outcome has always been imprisonment.

Although the Yue Dynasty seemed wealthy on the surface, in fact, almost all the money and grain in the warehouses went into the pockets of corrupt officials. By the time the emperor found out, it was too late, so he had to force the people to provide money and grain to the court.

After the woman thanked him with a forced smile, she returned home and found her child curled up on the bed, his face pale and colorless. She walked over distressed and hugged her child: "Mother knows you are hungry. Mother will look for him later. Please bear with it for a while."

"But I'm so hungry and my stomach hurts." said the child weakly.

The woman then discovered that the child had a high fever, which made her even more anxious.

At this time, the door suddenly opened. The woman was puzzled. After putting the child down, she walked over to open the door and saw that it was filled with a bag of rice and some vegetables and meat.

"This..." The woman felt a little surprised, but also a little uneasy. She looked outside, but didn't see anyone. Thinking that her child was starving, she moved in and started cooking for the child, thinking that she must find this kind man to repay him.

The two men hiding behind the tree watched the woman busy cooking. One of them, who had a darker complexion, was full of doubts: "Why did the boss let us steal the money and grain from the imperial warehouse, and now he is dividing it among the people?"

"Why ask so many questions? The boss knows how to act in moderation anyway." said another person.

After the two men went to a house again to put down the money and grain, they followed the instructions of the boss and inadvertently revealed their faces at the right time so that the people could see them.

Of course, the people were so excited that they were extremely grateful to the two men, which made them feel guilty and embarrassed. When they told them that they were bandits, the people were even more surprised.

He even drove away officials who oppressed the people, which made the people like him even more.

Under Zhou Fengxi's secret manipulation, the bandits became a tall figure in the minds of the people, and on the contrary, they became more and more hostile to the court.

The King of Yue was furious when he heard this and was determined to capture these traitors.

Unexpectedly, they suffered defeat after defeat. The actions of the King of Yue angered the people, causing them to resist even more fiercely.

"This group of people are simply rebellious. They don't even think about who allowed them to live a good life. Now, they want to rebel against me just because I get some of their money back?!" The King of Yue was so angry that he threw things around, and Eunuch An was so scared that he shrank quietly to the side.

"Eunuch An, what information have you found out about the one I asked you to investigate?" asked the Emperor of Yue.

"Your Majesty, the spy wrote that the bandit leader seems to be Zhou Fengxi, the son of the Zhou family." Eunuch An said, shaking his body.

"Zhou Fengxi? I ​​didn't expect that there are still remnants of the Zhou family. It was my negligence that allowed him to grow so big." The Emperor of Yue's eyes turned cold and he was full of anger towards Zhou Fengxi.

"What else?"

"This bandit leader loves his wife very much. It is said that his wife is a man who was kidnapped to be his wife." Eunuch An thought for a while and said.

"As expected of him being adopted by a lowly and vulgar person, his style of doing things is not at all like General Zhou's." The Emperor of Yue laughed sarcastically.

Not only did the spies sent out fail to collect any useful information, but they were also discovered, caught and executed, forcing the emperor to try another approach.

"But this lady does have some value. What do you think will be his reaction if his beloved betrays him?" The Emperor of Yue raised the corners of his lips, his eyes full of calculation.