How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

"Sir Shen, are you afraid that our Second Prince will take away your credit?" Seeing that Shen Yuan didn't seem to believe him, Hu Lai pondered, "Don't worry, the Second Prince thinks highly of you and won't take away your credit."

After all, the more contributions Shen Yuan makes, the more he will be valued by His Majesty, and the more useful he will be to the Second Prince in the future.

Shen Yuan was about to say something, but the eldest master came over. He had obviously heard the conversation between the two and agreed, "Since he is my nephew's man, then let's listen. Maybe he has some good ideas."

There is no good method at all, just some insidious and immoral methods.

For example, they secretly poisoned the people in the village, and if they wanted to survive, they had to surrender honestly, and they were given antidotes on a monthly basis. But in fact, it was a lie. The poison was real, and the antidote was real, but the so-called monthly onset of illness was fake. It was clear that they gave the poison again after a month, pretending that the illness continued. After a few months, when the bandits who had already joined the army realized it, it was too late, and they could only curse the court as treacherous.

For example, they would take advantage of a windy day to secretly set fire to other people's villages. The winter in Liaozhou is windy and dry, and once a fire starts, it is difficult to control. The village would be destroyed and all the food would be burned. Bandits with homes could still go home, but those without homes could only find another way out.

Otherwise, they would spread rumors and frame others, steal the wife of this village to another village, and then steal the son of that village to this village, and then take the opportunity to sow discord between the two villages, and wait until the leaders of both villages are defeated, then come out to clean up the mess and pick up the survivors...

or……

After a few dirty tricks, Shen Yuan and the boss fell silent.

The boss began to regret why he had spoken too much and called Hu Lai in.

Although he became a bandit, he always acted in an open and honest manner. He would kill if he wanted to kill, and persuade if he wanted to persuade. He would never use any insidious tricks.

So, watching Hu Lai speaking these shady tricks with a righteous air, the boss, who had a bandit-like demeanor, couldn't help but mutter to himself: As expected, officials are scary, they are all beasts in human form.

He couldn't become an official, it must be because he was too beastly.

The room fell silent for a moment. Seeing that no one was talking, Hu Lai couldn't help but stroke his beard and asked, "Do you think these tricks are too insidious?"

In fact, he has tried his best not to be immoral. After all, he still has to recruit Shen Yuan for the Second Prince. Shen Yuan is a man of integrity and uprightness. He has always despised those insidious tricks, so he will naturally restrain himself to prevent the other party from hating the Second Prince as well.

He really worries about the Second Prince!

Hu Zi was so moved that his eyes were filled with tears.

Seeing Hu Lai's eyes suddenly moisten, Shen Yuan thought that he felt wronged, so he coughed and explained, "That's not the case. It's just that the purpose of recruiting is to replenish the court's military strength..."

They even used "bandits" to fight "bandits" in order to reduce the harm caused by mountain bandits to the Jian'an Dynasty.

"So naturally the more people the better." Shen Yuan pondered, "These methods will cost a lot of manpower and money, especially since wildfires are uncontrollable. Once they spread, the consequences will be disastrous."

Hu Lai twirled his beard and said, "If you want to recruit them gently, you can only offer money and reward them. But...does the court have money?"

If he became the private soldier of the Second Prince, Hu Lai could still find a way to get back the reward, but if he became a soldier of the imperial court, it would be difficult. After all, the bandits were wild by nature, and it was common for them to quit and run away if they were angered.

"There's always room for crowding in." Shen Yuan wanted to recruit the other party gently. If the other party refused to comply, he could let the people of Qianjin Village suppress them by force.

The only thing to worry about is that the bandits' information is extremely flexible. If the bandits in the mountain villages get to know what they are doing and unite to resist, it will be difficult to recruit them.

That's why he was here, asking the boss about the situation of each village.

“Oh damn, this is so difficult!” The big boss slapped his thigh, “It’s just that I can’t remember the names of all the bosses in the villages, and their body shapes are too obvious. Otherwise, Wu Ji and I would have flown into all the villages and cut off the heads of those bosses!”

Shen Yuan shook his head. "The one who can become the head of a family must have both brains and martial arts. If we can persuade him, he can hold an official position in the future and serve the court."

Moreover, if all the big bosses were killed, the bandits under them would not obey the new boss in a short time. The bandits are also loyal. If they find out that the new boss is the enemy who killed the boss, there will definitely be chaos.

"This won't work, that won't work, it's really troublesome." The eldest boss stood up and said, "For the sake of my nephew, I will accept the offer. As for how to do it, it depends on your instructions."

He walked towards the door, "I'm going to get my nephew some ice sculpture first. This is the most important thing."

As soon as he walked out the door, he saw the second in command striding towards him holding a brazier and excitedly said, "Brother! Look what good stuff we found!"

There were many black stones in the brazier, and it was burning with flames. The second in command put the brazier on the ground and said excitedly, "Our Qianjin Village has a great name! This mountain is actually full of black gold!"

Black gold?

The second in command had a loud voice, which attracted Shen Yuan and Hu Lai. They were both amazed to see the black stones in the brazier burning with fire.

Xie Chengze walked over slowly. When he saw Hu Lai, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Hu Lai bowed and saluted immediately, "I came to help Lord Shen think of some ways to recruit him, but it's a pity that it's useless."

Xie Chengze's mouth twitched, and he exchanged glances with Shen Yuan: What are you thinking? How dare you use Hu Lai? !

Shen Yuan looked back helplessly: The boss asked, I can't not give him face.

"Just stay here and don't damage my merits." Xie Chengze patted Hu Lai's shoulder and said with a little disdain, "Is it easy for me to accumulate some merits? Don't let you waste them all, or I will go to hell."

Hu Lai quickly said yes.

"But regarding the amnesty, I may have a way to do it." Xie Chengze narrowed his eyes with a smile, like a mischievous kitten, "Although it's a bit immoral, as a human being, how can there be a time when there are no immoral things?"

mess:???

Your Highness? You just told me to be less immoral, but why do you think "everyone is immoral sometimes" when it comes to yourself?

Don’t be so double-standard!

Several people returned to the house and listened to Xie Chengze muttering his thoughts in a low voice. After a while, everyone in the room sighed.

Second Prince, you are so fucking wicked!

-

The Black Tiger Village has become rich.

Recently, all the famous large mountain villages in Liaozhou have received this news.

I heard that the Black Tiger Camp was planning to open a branch camp recently, so they set their sights on Qiantai Mountain, where no bandits had settled yet. They didn't expect that while they were building the camp, black gold was dug up on the mountain.

The black gold could burn for several days, and when sold in the county town, they made a fortune. The Black Tiger Village planned to retire from robbery and start digging in the mountains to sell black gold.

The other mountain strongholds were very jealous. On the one hand, they wanted to take the black gold mine discovered by the Black Tiger Stronghold for themselves, but on the other hand, they were afraid of the legend of the evil spirit in Qiantai Mountain. When they were about to wait and see for a while, they heard another piece of news.