Chapter 50 - Aftermath
A cloud of black smoke floated over Little Meng City. All the trading companies and mansions had been raided by the City Guards. A massive amount of gold, silver, and jewelry was piling up on the drill grounds of the City Guards. Laohei was equally distributed this wealth according to the number of soldiers.
No matter whether it was a deputy General, a Lieutenant, or even a Captain or soldier, all of them got an equal share of this gold, silver, and jewelry. There were heavy golden pearls, silver ingots, branches of copper coins, smooth and sparkling pearls, bright shining gemstones, expensive leathers and silk, rare herbs, and energy stones. A dozen experienced barbarian hunters and herb harvesters were estimating the value of these treasures on the spot, and had them distributed equally.
All the military officials and soldiers were holding onto big piles of wealth, which they could never earn, even if they worked hard until they died. Their eyes had turned red and they staring at Lu Chengfeng while continuously cheering ‘Hooray’. Cheers of ‘Hail the master!’ resounded throughout the city, as these twenty-eight thousand soldiers felt their spirits, blood, and energy were boiling to the extreme. Right at this moment, even if it was the king of the Lu Kingdom standing in front of them, if Lu Chengfeng asked them to, these crazy soldiers would rip him into pieces.
Wu Qi was leading a group of soldiers and quickly collecting all the dead bodies scattered across the city. He was dumping them into the woods outside Little Meng City. It would only take one night for animals to eat these thousands of dead bodies. Most likely, there probably wouldn’t even be a single hair left, after the animals were finished.
The few hundred tradesmen who were doing their business in Little Meng City were slaughtered by these crazy City Guards. Not a single one of them survived the purge. From Liu Zhong’s dead body, they found the paper signed by all these tradesmen. All of them were standing on the opposite side with Lu Chengfeng, and they had all agreed to accuse Lu Chengfeng, under the lead of Liu Zhong.
Watching the carts of dead bodies be pushed out of the city, Wu Qi put his palms together and recited a few ‘Amitabha’ -
(A celestial buddha described in the scriptures of Mahāyāna Buddhism),
- without any sincerity. “Please enter into your next life as soon as possible. Don’t linger in this world and become a foul soul. Your life had ended, in your next life, fight to live a happy life!”
Zhang Hu, who was standing beside him, gave Wu Qi a questioning look, “Brother Wu Qi, what does ‘Amitabha’ mean?”
Wu Qi stared back at Zhang Hu with a curious look. Maybe the people of this world didn’t know the meaning of ‘Amitabha’? Wu Qi blinked his eyes, then he explained to Zhang Hu, in a serious tone, “It’s nothing special, it is just one of my favorite catchphrase. It is like saying, ‘fuck your mother!’.”
Zhang Hu felt enlightened and nodded his head. Then he turned around and looked at those dead bodies. With a hideous smile on his face, he yelled out, “Amitabha!”
It took two more days for all the flames in Little Meng City to be put out. All the wealthy tradesmen in the city, together with their servants and personal guards, were slaughtered. All the personal guards of Liu Suifeng were also killed. The City wall of Little Meng City had dozens of breaches, which were caused by Wu Qi and his men during the siege. Crude weapons and armors were scattered all over the place.
The storage room of Barbarian Office was opened up, and all the barbarian heads, which had been turned in by Meng Village and the barbarian hunters not long ago, were taken out from it. After being treated with herbs for many days, these dried up, nearly skeletal, heads were hung up on the City Gate, serving as the evidence for barbarian’s attack.
As for why these barbarian heads had become so dried up in just two days, Wu Qi didn’t make any explanation on this, and there were no townsfolk who were so stupid as to ask Wu Qi about this issue.
Anyway, Little Meng City was, once again, attacked by barbarians, and the city wall was breached. All the personal guards of Marquis Liu Suifeng had been killed, wealthy tradesmen were robbed of everything they owned. Also, all the storage rooms of Little Meng City were robbed. The warning letter written by Lu Chengfeng had been dispatched with the ‘fastest horse’. It should reach the capital in about two or three months.
As for whether Liu Suifeng’s bones could be used to make soup after two or three months, Wu Qi didn’t raise this topic and Lu Chengfeng also didn’t think about it. With this two to three month buffer, they would have time to cover all their tracks.
In the process, when Liu Zhong laid out the traps to frame Lu Chengfeng, all those previous City Guards officials conspired together with him. Therefore all of them were killed, together with their families. Also, all the government officials of Little Meng City, whether they had been forced or attracted by the lucrative promises of Liu Zhong, had signed their names on the document filled with accusations. Thus all of them were killed by barbarians too. The vacated positions were replaced by Lu Chengfeng’s newly recruited warriors.
In just three days, all the authority in Little Meng City had fallen back into the hand of Lu Chengfeng, and all the government officials were controlled by him.
All twenty-eight thousand City Guards were now officially stationed within Little Meng City. Eight thousand of them were the City Guards of Little Meng City; Twelve thousand became the personal guards of Lu Chengfeng, and were stationed within the Mayor’s Mansion, and the last eight thousand soldiers had their identity transformed. Under the lead of one of Zhang Hu’s best friends, they established a troop of barbarian hunters. A barbarian hunters’ troop of eight thousand men. This might be the largest barbarian hunter troop in the history of this world.
No matter it was the right-hand men of Lu Chengfeng or all twenty-eight thousand soldiers of City Guards, all of them were satisfied with the gold, silver, and jewelry that Lu Chengfeng had given them. At the same time, these men had their hand stained with the blood of wealthy tradesmen, ex-officials of the City Guards, and all the previous batch of government officials. Their lives were now connected to Lu Chengfeng. Therefore, they had no choice but to pledge their loyalty to Lu Chengfeng.
Three days after the ‘barbarian siege’, Laohei lead a group of workers and began the restoration of the city wall. On the other side, Lu Chengfeng had called all the local leaders and elders to have a meeting in Mayor’s Mansion. Even some of the elders from Meng Village were invited.
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