"You're in big trouble!"
Zhao Muyun pointed his bow and arrow at him. The leader stood still, not daring to move, but shouting, "Do you know who we are?"
"I don't care who you are. Smuggling contraband is a crime!"
Zhao Muyun's voice was icy. "And you dared to attack us, hurt my brothers, and try to kill us. One more word: death!"
"Zhu Zi, are you okay?"
"It's okay, Brother Zhao!" Wang Tiezhu replied with pain.
"I'm glad you're okay. You two, tie up the ones who are still alive. And you, if you want to live, just stand still. My arrows don't have eyes."
After Zhao Muyun finished speaking, he walked towards the other backpacks thrown on the ground, opened a few of them, and immediately found that there was not only coarse salt, but also dark iron ingots.
He picked up a piece and looked at it, then looked around.
"Goodness! It seems this secret valley passage in Black Camel Mountain is their secret smuggling route, right under the noses of our beacon tower."
"If we hadn't come to catch this wild boar, we probably would never have found it."
Suddenly, Tang Yanhai shouted:
"Damn it, don't run, stop right there!"
Zhao Muyun looked up and saw that the leader was trying to run away while he was checking the backpack!
The others also wanted to break free and escape.
Are you really ignoring my words?
Zhao Muyun's face turned cold and he drew his bow and arrow.
Screams rang out in the valley, and the leader rolled on the ground holding his thighs.
The other two who followed immediately received lunch boxes.
The other survivors were silent as a mouse, not daring to move, allowing Wang Tiezhu and Tang Yanhai to tie them up.
They tied them tightly together with vines used to tie wild boars, and tore off their clothes to gag them.
The three of them took a short rest and then counted the iron ingots and coarse salt in the backpack.
"I've noticed that since I started following Zhao Tou, I've been having a lot of good luck!"
"There are nearly six hundred pounds of pig iron and four hundred pounds of coarse salt here."
Wang Tiezhu licked his lips and said, "Do you think we have accomplished something great this time?"
Tang Yanhai, however, had a gloomy expression on his face, as if something was on his mind: "Boss Zhao, what are you going to do with them?"
"Of course we'll take them back and report our achievements!"
Without a second thought, Wang Tiezhu angrily replied, "Not only are they smuggling, they're also attacking us. We're being polite by not killing them on the spot."
The other party failed to bribe them, openly resisted arrest, and attacked them. Of course, they had to fight back without mercy, otherwise Zhao Muyun and the other three would be the ones to die.
Now that they have been subdued and confirmed to be smuggling salt and iron, the next step is to escort them back to the military town and report them for processing.
According to the court's treatment of salt and iron smugglers, there was no problem with Zhao Muyun and his team's actions.
But after calming down, Zhao Muyun felt that things were not simple:
"Old Tang, what do you think?"
Tang Yanhai is an old soldier and a scout at the same time. He must have encountered things like smuggling at the border.
"Boss Zhao, why don't you first ask them where they came from? I'm afraid that..."
Tang Yanhai hesitated to speak.
Seeing Tang Yanhai like this, Zhao Muyun immediately suspected that Tang Yanhai must know something.
He remained calm and said, "Bring that man here, I'll ask him first!"
The leader was hit in the thigh by an arrow and his mouth was blocked. He was sweating on his forehead and whimpering in pain.
Now that Zhao Muyun finally spoke to him, he endured the pain and said, "My dear brother, as long as you let us go, we don't want the things anymore. You can take them and claim the reward!"
Zhao Muyun laughed immediately: "What a joke! Do you think these things are still yours?"
"Didn't you just say we're in big trouble? Then tell me, who are you to dare to do something that could lead to death?"
The leader glared at Zhao Muyun fiercely and said, "Have you heard of the Bai family of Shuozhou? I am the Bai family's escort! You dared to intercept the Bai family's goods today and killed the Bai family's people. You are finished!"
"The Bai family of Shuozhou? Sorry, I've never heard of them! Smuggling salt and iron is a capital crime. No matter who you are, get ready to be beheaded!"
Zhao Muyun sneered.
Tang Yanhai's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he quickly pulled Zhao Muyun aside.
"What's wrong?"
"We are really in trouble. You know, the Bai family in Shuozhou is not someone that we, the soldiers, can afford to offend!" Tang Yanhai looked panicked.
"The Shuozhou Bai family, are they really that powerful?"
"The Bai family is the largest merchant in Shuozhou. Their business is extremely large, and their businesses are spread all over Hedong Road. They have strong connections not only in the Shuozhou officialdom, but also in Jinyang."
Zhao Muyun frowned. "Old Tang, the Bai family of Shuozhou is guilty of the heinous crime of smuggling salt and iron. Do they think they can cover up the crime?"
"I don't know if it's a cover-up, but when Zhang Biao was still here, Captain Zhong ordered Zhang Biao to escort the Bai family's caravan out of the customs and not allow anyone to check it."
"Also, the Bai family's caravans often stop at the military town. Captain Zhong and the Bai family's shopkeeper seem very familiar with each other."
Tang Yanhai looked worried.
"Even if the Bai family is familiar with Lord Zhong, it's just normal business dealings. How could Lord Zhong, a centurion of a town, do something so illegal that he knows it's illegal?"
Zhao Muyun immediately scolded, interrupting Tang Yanhai, "Perhaps Master Zhong has also been kept in the dark."
"So, Boss Zhao, do you mean to hand these people and the stolen goods over to Lord Zhong, the military commander?"
"What are you handing in?"
Just when Tang Yanhai thought Zhao Muyun was about to hand over these people and the stolen goods, Zhao Muyun suddenly lowered his voice and said, "They smuggled salt and iron to the Tartars. In the future, this iron will become arrows and shoot us!"
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