Zhou Bin noticed Zhang Hengkun's horrified face and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Zhang Hengkun hurriedly persuaded: "City Lord, don't dare to go to that place!"
"Huh? Why?" Zhou Bin found it a little unbelievable.
Zhang Hengkun quickly explained: "City Lord, you don't know that there is a group of strong men gathered on that Black Jade Mountain. They are burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil. It is very dangerous!"
Zhou Bin laughed when he heard this: "Isn't it just a group of bandits? Are they that scary?"
Zhang Hengkun said with a serious face: "City Lord, this group of robbers are not ordinary robbers. They are very powerful. I heard that the City Lord of Wulong City is related to him."
Zhou Bin still looked indifferent: "What's wrong with the Five Dragons City Lord being related to him? Can he do whatever he wants and harm the people here?"
"But, but I heard that there are three leaders on that mountain, and they are all very powerful people." Zhang Hengkun continued to explain.
Zhou Bin instantly became interested: "Oh? Really? Tell me, what do those three people do?"
Seeing that Zhou Bin was determined to go, Zhang Hengkun had no choice but to quickly tell him about the situation in Moyu Mountain.
It turned out that there were no bandits here before, but seven or eight years ago, a group of bandits suddenly came.
There are about seventy or eighty thieves in this group, all of them are warriors.
I don’t know why they came here, but there was coal and other things on the mountain before, and now they have all been taken away by them.
People used to go to the mountains to dig coal for heating in winter, but since they arrived, no one dared to go there anymore.
After this group of thieves occupied Moyu Mountain, they began to mine coal on the mountain on a large scale. After mining the coal, they transported it out and sold it.
Because the quality of the coal from Moyu Mountain was very good, they soon monopolized the nearby coal market.
In the past, someone tried to bring in coal from outside, but they found out and killed that person.
From then on, merchants from outside dared not come here, and all the nearby cities used coal from Moyu Mountain.
After they monopolized the coal business here, they began to raise prices. Previously, a pound of coal was twenty copper coins, but later they directly raised it to forty copper coins per pound, and recently it even increased it to sixty copper coins per pound.
This price is three times more expensive than coal outside, but people have no way to buy coal outside and can only grit their teeth and buy their high-priced coal.
They were still not satisfied with this and continued to plunder everywhere, engaging in burning, killing and looting.
The nearby city lords could do nothing about them and even had to pay tribute to them in order to maintain peace in their cities.
Gradually, their numbers grew larger, and now it was said that there were more than a thousand bandits entrenched in the mountains, and no one dared to mess with them within a hundred miles.
After listening to Zhang Hengkun's story, Zhou Bin couldn't help but curse: "What a bunch of bandits, they're really smart! Is there no one to deal with them?"
Zhang Hengkun shrank his neck in fear: "Mom! Let's hide as fast as we can. They will come to cause trouble again. If you dare to deal with them, you must want to die."
Zhou Bin looked at Zhang Hengkun and couldn't help but laugh: "Old Zhang, you are the deputy city lord of our Baofang City, why are you so timid?"
Zhang Hengkun felt a little embarrassed: "No, it's not that I'm timid, it's just that the group is too powerful, we can't afford to offend them."
Zhou Bin suddenly remembered something: "Oh, no wonder I feel that our expenses seem to increase in winter. Is it because we bought their coal?"
Zhang Hengkun lowered his head and said, "Yes, yes, I didn't dare to tell you because I was afraid you would be angry."
"Is the coal used in the salt factory also theirs?" Zhou Bin asked.
"Yes, we don't need theirs. There is no other coal available!" Zhang Hengkun was a little helpless.
Zhou Bin was furious: "What a bunch of bastards! I don't even know if the stove we use for warming ourselves in winter also uses coal from there?"
Zhang Hengkun nodded but didn't dare to speak.
Zhou Bin slammed the table and said, "This is too much! How can we, the dignified Baofang City, be bullied by a group of bandits? I must go and take care of them!"
Zhang Hengkun saw Zhou Bin was angry and hurriedly advised: "City Lord, calm down! That group of bandits is really hard to deal with, especially the three leaders. I heard that two of them are junior martial artists, and the third one is an intermediate martial artist. They are very powerful."
Zhou Bin laughed contemptuously when he heard this: "So they are just three martial artists! I thought they were the kings and masters! I will set out tomorrow to destroy them. Then we will have coal and we won't have to be afraid of them anymore."
Zhang Hengkun was almost crying: "City Lord, you must think twice! That place is very dangerous!"
Zhou Bin was a little angry: "Old Zhang, I'm not saying anything bad about you. You are the deputy city lord, why are you afraid of bandits? If you want to follow me, you have to be tougher in the future, understand?"
When Zhang Hengkun saw that Zhou Bin was angry, he didn't dare to say anything.
The next day, after Zhou Bin had finished his breakfast, he was about to gather his men and march up Moyu Mountain when Ling Shan suddenly ran in hurriedly.
Zhou Bin saw his anxious look and asked, "Lingshan, what happened?"
Ling Shan quickly reported: "My Lord, the bandits from Moyu Mountain are attacking and are challenging us outside the city."
Zhou Bin was stunned: "What? The bandits from Moyu Mountain have all come here?"
"Yes, they asked you to talk to them." Ling Shan replied.
Zhou Bin couldn't help but sneer: "Okay, I was just looking for them, let's go and take a look."
Ling Shan hurriedly led the way, and Zhou Bin followed him to the top of the city wall and looked down.
I saw that the city gate was closed, and not far from the city gate, there were dozens of people gathered in a black mass. Leading them was a bearded man with two swords in his hands, showing off his power on his horse.
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