Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

Li Gui was also a kind-hearted person. Being captured was a fact. He was so hungry and tired that he actually fell asleep leaning against a stone pillar.

One of the soldiers stepped forward and hit him twice. Li Gui was startled. "Who, who hit me?"

Just as he was about to jump up, he found himself tied up and his mind became clear.

Zhang Mo walked up to him, looked him down, squatted down and asked, "Are you ready to get married?"

Li Gui looked at the little yellow-haired girl in front of him in confusion, snorted, and did not answer.

Zhang Mo didn't get angry. She stood up and said to Meixiang, "Go get some salt. I'll ask him a question. If he doesn't answer, I'll give him a handful of salt."

Meixiang had been frightened by a thief on the way home last time, and her thoughts had begun to become evil. Upon hearing this, her face became very happy, she responded with a smile, and ran back to get the salt jar.

The salt was quickly brought over, and Zhang Mo asked again, "Are you ready to get married?"

Li Gui considered himself a man and was not afraid at all. He turned his face away and ignored him.

Zhang Mo winked at one of her men, who grabbed a handful of salt and pressed it hard against Li Gui's wound.

"hiss……"

Li Gui couldn't help but gasp, and beads of sweat on his forehead dripped down his cheeks and nose bridge onto his beard. He felt so painful that he wanted to roll over, but he considered himself a man and refused to say a word no matter how much pain he felt.

After doing this three times, Li Gui was drenched in sweat. Zhang Mo secretly admired him but couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

"I say, is it necessary for you to do this? We're just chatting about family matters, and I don't want to ask where your home is."

Li Gui was stunned. "Yeah, what's the point of arguing?" I answered what I could answer, and kept silent about what I couldn't say.

After figuring it out, the subsequent questioning went much more smoothly. Zhang Mo quickly dug up his family background. The bandit leader was named Li Gui, with one wife and one concubine, two sons and one daughter. The eldest son was ten years old, the second son was eight years old, and the daughter was five years old. All his parents had passed away, and he had a younger brother, sixteen years old, who was unmarried. The two brothers had a very good relationship.

Zhang Mo then asked people to find out who was in other people's homes and found out that there were 135 boys aged six to thirteen and 83 girls in the village.

It was almost noon and the sun was already very hot. The stone pillars were scorched by the sun. Zhang Mo ordered people to drag Li Gui and others under the shade of trees and tie them up.

She moved a stool and sat next to him, drinking her cold tea while she said slowly, "You guys stay cool here. Those brothers outside are suffering. They are hungry, thirsty, and hot."

Li Gui was already impatient, "What on earth do you want to do? Kill me or chop me up quickly."

Zhang Mo looked at him with bright eyes and said bluntly, "I want to incorporate your tribe into Juyi Manor. What do you think?"

Li Gui sneered, "Just you? Besides, can you feed over 4,000 of us?"

Zhang Mo smiled. She certainly couldn't support so many people for nothing. Besides, it is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fish.

"I can help you build factories and develop industry."

As he said this, he asked Meixiang to get a book and show it to Li Gui.

"Do you know how much this book is worth?"

Li Gui took a glance and saw some yellowed pages with densely written words, but they knew him, but he did not recognize them.

"I'm still hungry, so why would I care how much this thing is worth?"

Zhang Mo paid no attention to Li Gui's profanity and said to herself, "Three thousand coins. Selling one copy can buy ten dan of corn. Two copies can cover the food rations of three people for a year."

Li Gui was shocked, his eyes returned to the book, and he said in disbelief, "Is it really that valuable?"

"Why should I try to trick you? If you are willing to acknowledge me as your master, I will teach everyone in your village how to make paper and print. I will be responsible for selling the paper and books produced, and then exchange them for food and cloth to support everyone in your village."

Although she improved the papermaking technique and used water-powered mills to greatly save the labor required for papermaking, the output of a paper mill was in short supply even in Jinyang City, not to mention being sold all over the country. This was especially true for consumable products like paper, where the gap was even greater. She and Wang Ding had already discussed building another paper mill, so it would be better to build it in a bandit's den, to provide these bandits with a livelihood and to recruit them for their own use.

The conditions sounded very tempting, but Li Gui had never seen the sale of this book in person, so he was still unsure. This little girl was obviously from a wealthy family, and rich people were the best at cheating people. In the past, dozens of acres of land in his family were cheated away by a wealthy man. He had only borrowed two hundred coins, but he had to pay back thousands in half a year. The interest was compounded and it gave him a headache.

Zhang Mo was determined to capture these moth thieves and continued to throw out bait. "If you still think it's not worth it, you can send all the children in the village here. I will let them study for free."

"You kid still want to use him and others as hostages?" Li Gui sneered. He was not a fool.

"That's right, as long as you don't betray me, I will teach him and me both literature and martial arts. Who knows, he might even become a successful person in the future. You're a thief yourself, but do you really want your descendants to be thieves for generations to come?"

Li Gui had a look on his face that said, "Do you think I'm stupid?" He couldn't even fill his stomach, so what did it matter if he was a thief or not? As for the future, in troubled times, being able to survive was a blessing. Who could think that far ahead?

After saying all the nice things, Li Gui still didn't seem to be moved. Zhang Mo's tone suddenly turned cold, "If you don't accept my toast, I can only ask you to drink the penalty wine."

Li Gui had an expression of "come and hit me" again. I'm not afraid of rubbing salt on my wounds, so why should I be afraid of a penalty drink from a little yellow-haired girl like you?

Zhang Mo ignored him and said to Xu Chu, "Kill all these people and take their heads to the prefectural governor's office to claim the credit. With so many thieves, we can get a lot of money."

"Alright!" Xu Chu responded happily, raising his gleaming sword and calling out to Guan Hai and the others, "Let's kill together. Everyone must kill until their hands are soft."

Li Gui was stunned. He originally thought that the young lady was young and must be soft-hearted and timid. He thought that if he used his rogue tactics to coax her into letting them go, she would eventually let them go. He didn't expect that she was so cruel and ruthless.

Seeing that she was serious, Li Gui's face changed. He remembered that he still had three children and a younger brother in the village. If he went to seek refuge with others, who would be willing to raise several children? If he died, wouldn't his three children starve to death?

Well, these days, as long as you can survive, what does it matter who you recognize as your master?

"and many more……"

Li Gui loudly stopped Xu Chu and the others who were about to attack, then knelt on one knee and said to Zhang Mo, "I am willing to be yours. From now on, I will obey your orders, old...young boss."

Zhang Mo snorted, "It would have been great if you had been obedient earlier!"

Li Gui added, "But, we are already under Zhang Yan's command. If we switch to you, I am afraid we will not be able to gain a foothold in Taihang Mountains." He meant that he wanted her to arrange another place for them to live.

"There are probably no less than a hundred villages, big and small, in the mountains. Who cares about whose chief is replaced? Besides, if he summons you for important tasks, just obey his orders."

The reason why Zhang Mo wanted to recruit the bandits was not only because he was attracted by this group of people, but also because Taihang Mountain was a good place. Although the village outside the city could accommodate many people after it was built, if two or three thousand people were to be trained here every day, it would have a bad impact. There would be much more freedom in Taihang Mountain.

"Then... doesn't that mean you've joined the gang and become a thief?"

Zhang Mo said disapprovingly, "So what if I'm a thief? We don't usually rob or loot."

Seeing that Li Gui and the others were so hungry that their faces turned pale, Zhang Mo hosted a banquet for them and distributed some food to the thieves outside. She asked them to go back and bring the children, and allowed them to be taken care of by several women. Li Gui begged to bring his younger brother Li Zhong as well so that he could study with the children.

Zhang Mo would naturally not refuse to have an additional important hostage.

Taking hostages and enticing people with benefits, Lu Bu admired Zhang Mo's recruitment methods, but... didn't this girl raise troops for self-protection? Why did she send them to the Taihang thieves' den?