Chapter 37: Commercial Transportation
"So, I actually came with friendship. What do you think? Baron Belize?" Hao Qi said with a smile.
Belize laughed loudly and nodded cheerfully. Of course, if he didn't consider the cold sweat on his face and the extreme fear hidden in his eyes, his expression could really be called passionate.
There is a huge hole in the wall of the Baron's castle, which can almost allow five adult war horses to enter at the same time. It is the hole that was punched with one punch. Yes, it is not smashed by a catapult or a siege hammer, but the hole that was punched by a human.
The man was standing next to the castle owner Baron Belize, so even if the Baron Belize is a vengeful, narrow-minded, and greedy person, he had to show a generous and cheerful expression of whatever you say. In fact, he was almost scared, or he was already scared.
Hao Qi continued to smile, walked up and patted the Baron Belize's shoulder gently. The strong man who looked mighty and strong, at least 1.8 meters tall immediately fell to the ground. A pool of liquid flowed down the slope on the ground. Hao Qi didn't care and just said, "I heard that the Baron is an extremely greedy person. Even if the noble merchant group passes through your territory, you will have to withdraw at least one tenth of the tax rate. Ordinary merchant groups have to pay a tax rate of 50% at a time. Isn't that true?"
The Baron of Belize had no such demeanor as he had just now. He was actually almost scared to death, but he kept roaring: "No, no, I am not, please don't kill me, don't kill me..."
Hao Qi was a little surprised. He originally thought that the Belize Baron wearing armor was a martial artist, but now it seems that he is probably an acting player. He kept saying, "I didn't want to kill you, but I have a friendly reminder. I wonder if the Baron wants to listen?"
At this time, the Baron Belize had actually come to his senses. He also knew that Hao Qi had not killed him just now, so the possibility of killing him was very, very low. After thinking of this, the Baron Belize had turned over, but did not stand up, just sat down and said respectfully: "Sir, just give me instructions if you have anything to do."
Hao Qi smiled. The Belize Baron may be very greedy, but he is definitely a smart person. Smart people often know how to choose in the most important choice, so he said directly: "From today, about three to five days later, a large number of caravans will pass by your territory. I don't want to see any losses in the materials they carry, whether it is yourself, your subordinates, or being affected by bandits, chaotic troops, chaotic people, and all the unstable factors. I don't want to see them at all. Of course, because there are too many goals, I can't visit them one by one, so as the landlord here, I can only find you, Baron... Do you understand what I mean now?"
I understand, how could I not understand? The same thing, the Baron of Belize may be very greedy, but he is definitely a smart man. He immediately understood what Hao Qi meant. A large number of caravans wanted to pass through the current territory of the Mitland Kingdom. The difficulties in the middle were not only tax exploitation, chaos, civilians, and bandits, not to mention the Mitland nobles who still existed in the territory. Like him, he actually no longer cared about the power of the nobles of other countries. If there were fewer merchant groups coming, he really didn't mind playing the role of bandits and killing all the people to seize property.
Hao Qi's meaning is also very simple. If these caravans suffer losses through his territory, then he must make up for it. If the losses are too great... He probably will have to fill it with his life. For a monster who can break the city wall with his bare hands, and jump with a light jump of hundreds of meters, and is so fast that his eyes are almost unrecognizable, his life is probably the same as the weeds all over the ground, and he can easily crush it with a thought.
"I understand, sir, please see my performance. I will definitely not disappoint you." The Baron Belize said immediately.
In fact, the Baron of Belize was not the first territorial nobleman to visit by Hao Qi. In addition to the surviving territorial nobleman of Mitland, the countries around Mitland, especially those in the Vatimio family with territory, Hao Qi, visited them one by one. Anyway, he flew directly, and his speed and flexibility were much stronger than that of the plane. Basically, he could visit hundreds of nobles in twenty-four hours a day. Except for those who are really pitiful, any other nobleman, no matter how greedy or cruel he was, as long as Hao Qi arrived, these nobles would immediately obey. After all, no matter how many good things were, they had to live to enjoy them.
Hao Qi showed his strength. To put it bluntly, his strength can completely hang the hands of gods in the material world. In the eyes of people in this world, Hao Qi is a god walking on the earth, and it is a force that will not be limited at all. Even though this is the remnant of Hao Qi's sealed almost all of his power, for this environment where the main material world is almost without demons, Hao Qi's strength can be called a world-destructive level!
After dealing with almost all the nobles along the way, Hao Qi's next target was Emperor Kuxia. To be precise, the Kuxia army under Emperor Kuxia's control. You should know that the invaders who are now in offensive posture are the army of the Kuxia Empire. They plunder everything, slaughter everything, and capture everything. If the caravans and merchant groups can successfully enter the capital of Mitland from various countries, they are actually the most difficult level.
However, this difficulty is nothing to Hao Qi, who is now turning over the table.
Amid the rumbling sound, about a hundred elite Kuxia infantry flew directly into the air at least twenty or thirty meters. When they landed, they had become them and could not even fight. Hao Qi walked on the flesh and blood and walked forward. In front of him were thousands or even tens of thousands of troops. Hao Qi took a step forward and they had to take three steps back. No one dared to go forward. All those who came forward died, from several kilometers outside the camp to the core of the camp. The dead bodies could surround the Mitland Capital for a week...
"I didn't want to do it, but are you humans or beasts? Do you just like to kill and massacre so much? It's better to take prisoners of war back even if they become slaves, right?" Hao Qi said in a deep voice. His voice was not loud, but everyone in the entire camp could hear it. Hao Qi didn't know how to speak Kuxia, but now all the languages he spoke will be translated naturally, and any wisdom can understand his words.
Unfortunately, no one answered. In fact, for the Kusha people, the humans in Mitland have different races, religions, and civilizations. These three differences are almost completely different creatures for the early situation of human civilization. There are more things in the history of the earth in Hao Qi's previous life than this. Even in modern times, similar situations are still there. For example, the country that claims to have its own beacons even issued legal orders to massacre a certain ethnic group in modern times. The scalp of that ethnic group can be used to exchange for government bonuses. That is not to treat that ethnic group as the law of the same human being, but to treat it directly as an animal.
That being said, but Hao Qi couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes. Since he saw it and encountered it, he would definitely take action. If he could do it, he should do it. This is his creed.
Because of this, when Hao Qi came to Kusha outside the largest military camp in Mitland, he saw a large group of Kusha army leading at least thousands of so-called prisoners of war to the military camp. Anyone who walked slowly along the way, who had any problems or even had no problems, as long as Kusha soldiers rose, prisoners would be killed directly, and even those who were directly killed would be much luckier. Some elderly people and children were dragged behind horses, rolled on the ground and dragged to death...
So Hao Qi took action directly, and he was merciless when he took action. He let these Kuxia soldiers attack, escape, or kneel down and beg for mercy, kill them all without mercy. This is not all. He even killed all the troops along with the defeated army and the army out of the camp. He fought against ten thousand troops, killing people without leaving any action, and directly killed the center of the camp. If Emperor Kuxia had not always been majestic and terrifying and was outrageously rigorous in the military management, I would have probably had mutiny and fled in the face of Hao Qi. Being able to persevere until now is enough to show their elite.
"A stranger! Do you want to come and take my head now?"
At this time, a huge imperial guard moved from the core of the camp. Hundreds of slaves were carrying the imperial guard. On the imperial guard was Emperor Kuxia. He looked at Hao Qi majesticly and said this in an inexplicable tone.
Hao Qi just waved his hand and said, "How could that be? I'm actually here to discuss some things with you, but after seeing enough of your beasts, no, you are all beasts, so I couldn't help it and killed them all at once. I'm really sorry."
At this time, there was an old magician next to the imperial guards. He said a few words next to Emperor Kuxia. Emperor Kuxia looked at Hao Qi with an inexplicable look and said, "Are you pitying us ants? Or for you, watching us in the ant nest fight and fight each other, are you sympathizing with the weak?"
Hao Qi immediately shook his head and said, "First of all, you are not ants. Secondly, I am not a noble god. Between divinity and human nature, I choose human nature, so I do not sympathize with the weak, but I cannot see your way of dealing with similar methods. To put it simply, you and the Mitland people are humans. Even if they are enemies, at least empathy must be. I can't care about the battle on the battlefield, because it is either you die or I live. Even if Mitland is crushed by you, I will never intervene. However, for the post-war, or for those unarmed civilians who did not resist you, but are just unarmed people, they are humans like you and me, but you and your subordinates regard them as livestock and as a pile of walking meat. This is what I can't stand. Since you don't treat humans as chéngrén, then I will not treat you as chéngrén, that's all."
Emperor Kuxia looked at Hao Qi for a long time, and then he sighed and said, "It's incredible that you really think so in your heart. You must know that not to mention being the inhuman beings of your level, even the nobles would not regard these people as similar, but you really think so... Is this the thinking of the gods? If you could meet a god like you earlier, maybe..."
After a while, Emperor Kuxia said again: "Since we are not here to kill all of us, then what is your purpose for coming here?"
Hao Qi was not polite, and said directly: "As you know, or, like the tacit understanding between you and the Eagle of Light, a large number of refugees fled into the capital. The capital's grain inventory is not enough, but don't worry, I am not here to fight Qiufeng. I only need your army and your demons and ghosts to let go. I contacted a large number of merchant groups and caravans. They will carry the food and other things that the refugees in the capital must have, and I will use the wealth of the capital to trade fairly with them. During this period, I will not care about who touched these merchants. As long as something happened to them, whoever was responsible on their territory. If something happened to them on your territory, I will directly overturn the table, kill you, destroy your army, and destroy your country. I will not wait for this decisive battle, it is that simple."
Emperor Kusha was silent for a long time before he asked, "What if it is on the territory of the Eagle of Light? Or the Eagle of Light crosses the territory and comes to my army territory?"
Hao Qi said: "If there is no evidence, then whoever is responsible for the territory. If there is enough evidence, even if it is a survivor or I discovered it, I will go to the perpetrator and still deal with it like this. If the Eagle of Light dares to do such a thing, I will definitely not let him see the sun the next day."
"If so...the gods walking on the earth as you wish."
Chapter completed!