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

Now the bandits have worked hard to build a "production chain". If they want to make the coal business successful, they still lack a "sales chain" to sell the coal.

Shen Yuan was responsible for convincing the county magistrates and prefects to give the bandits "leniency" through the back door, but the purchase price of coal would be greatly reduced, allowing the bandits to profit by "small profits but quick turnover".

They also guaranteed that the profits the bandits could earn every ten days would be exactly five times more than what they would get from normal robberies, in order to suppress their savagery and make them willing to work hard and serve as "coal bosses" for the court.

On Qiantai Mountain, Sheng Yiren's fingers were rubbing against an abacus until sparks were about to fly.

Based on the information passed back by the brothers in Qianjinzhai, she had to estimate the various expenses incurred by the workers, coal mines, and supervisors, and then estimate the appropriate coal purchase price and market price based on the local price levels.

This not only requires extremely flexible accounting skills, but also requires a thorough understanding of the people's livelihood conditions in various places. Fortunately, she contacted the local Chamber of Commerce in Liaozhou and invited many people to help. Xie Chengze also nodded and agreed to share some of the coal business with the Liaozhou Chamber of Commerce to help them revitalize the shops in Liaozhou and prepare for the subsequent "Ice and Snow Capital" plan.

With the participation of the Chamber of Commerce, coal began to enter every household in Liaozhou at a very gratifying rate, and news about coal also began to spread to other places, attracting the attention of local people and merchants.

The craftsmen had already been released, and the United Chamber of Commerce began to popularize the safe use of Northeastern large kangs and coal in various counties, racing against time to prepare for the upcoming snowstorm.

However, the problem of banditry has not been completely solved.

The bandits who dug out the coal mines were dealt with, but the bandits who did not dig out the coal mines have not been dealt with yet.

The second new national law is long overdue.

[The imperial court will eliminate the mountain bandits in Liaozhou from now on. If you are willing to accept the amnesty, you will be enlisted as a soldier and enjoy the treatment of the regular army.

The leader is granted the position of the chief leader of the standing army, and can bring two deputies with him. He can have a detachment of no more than fifty soldiers, who will follow the local standing army to eliminate the rebels in the mountains.

The imperial court was tolerant and advocated humanitarianism. It advocated that the standing army keep the bandits alive and send them to work in the coal mines. Those who had dug for two months and performed well could also be enrolled in the army and choose to join the standing army of their choice, share the monthly salary of the imperial court, and serve the imperial court. 】

There is a message in this.

You bandits can either accept the amnesty and form your own standing army, or dig coal for twenty days and then accept the amnesty and join the army, becoming a small soldier in someone else's standing army.

Even a fool would choose the first option.

Nowadays, the bandit camps in Coal Hill have directly transformed themselves. They can not only make a lot of money, but also form their own standing army after making money. Naturally, they will not be threatened by crackdowns. Instead, they will keep their eyes on the bandits on other hills.

Outside the mountain, there is a group of imperial troops with sophisticated weapons and combat experience who are watching covetously, waiting for any disobedient bandits to be used as the first scapegoat, and then they will directly massacre the mountain to show their power and let the blood flow again on the snow-capped mountains.

Some tough bandits were unwilling to give up their bandit life and simply fled the mountains to find another way out, but most of the bandits were thinking that perhaps accepting amnesty might not be a bad idea.

Being a soldier is always better than being a bandit. Even if you don't have enough money to spend, you can continue to do evil as a soldier, or become a bandit again. It's always a good thing.

But let's wait and see, I always feel there are pitfalls...

However, this wait-and-see attitude suddenly became very serious.

The Black Tiger Camp, which has always been elusive, has actually been recruited!

That day, heavy snow began to fall. Following a tiger roar that shook the mountains, the mysterious "boss" of the Black Tiger Camp appeared, wearing a green ghost mask and sitting on a ferocious and majestic white tiger. Two tall and strong bandits were guarding him on his left and right, and behind him were many bandit brothers.

They came to the Heihucheng County Government Office and loudly declared that they would accept the imperial court's amnesty.

The magistrate of Black Tiger City who came out to pick someone up almost dropped his jaw and eyes in shock when he saw this scene.

The leader of the Black Tiger Village actually has a white tiger mount? !

The nonsense he made up actually came true?!

The county magistrate swallowed hard, silently moved away from the white tiger with white breath and ferocious eyes, and bowed to invite the "boss" into the county government office.

Only after entering the yamen did the "boss" take off the green ghost mask.

It was Xie Zimiao's pure and innocent face.

Guarding the White Tiger on both sides are the real boss and second in command.

As for how Xie Zimiao became the "boss" and why he could control the white tiger, the story began half a month ago.

After leaving Black Tiger City, Xie Chengze and Xie Zimiao split into two groups.

Xie Chengze took Hu Lai and Wu Ji and disguised themselves as merchants. They were kidnapped by bandits from Qianjin Village. Wu Hen tracked and confirmed the specific location of Qianjin Village. He then returned to Heihu City to pick up Xie Zimiao and went to Heihu Mountain to investigate the tiger's traces.

This tiger suddenly came down the mountain and injured people. There must be some reason behind it, so it still needs to be investigated. If the tiger is vicious by nature, we must consider killing it on the spot. If there is another reason, Xie Chengze has also thought about how to deal with it.

So Wuhen took Xie Zimiao to Black Tiger Mountain and found the place where the tiger bit people that day. The tiger seemed to be very smart and knew how to destroy its footprints, but Wuhen and Wuji had learned the tracking technique and finally found the tiger hiding in the cave.

One yellow tiger and one white tiger.

Both tigers were in trouble.

The white tiger was pregnant. When Wuhen and Xie Zimiao arrived, it was in labor and had a difficult delivery.

Huang Hu was injured. The people of Liaozhou were fierce by nature and would fight back to the death if provoked. Huang Hu must have been beaten ruthlessly by the villagers when he was fighting with them. There were many scars from hatchets on his body. He was lying on the ground with his eyes dazed, and he had no strength to fight back because of blood loss.

Xie Zimiao felt sorry for the tiger and coveted the cub in the white tiger's belly. He wanted to give the cub to his second brother as a New Year's gift, so he took off his small package, carefully broke off a small piece of ginseng, and asked Wuhen to cut it into two halves and put them in the mouths of the two tigers.

He then rolled up his sleeves and began to deliver Baihu's baby.

Xie Zimiao's uncle, and Concubine Rou's elder brother, is Jiang Henan, the first imperial merchant in Yangzhou. This man is quite accomplished in business, and has dabbled in all walks of life. He is the richest man in Yangzhou.

During the selection, Concubine Rou fell in love with the handsome Emperor Jian at first sight, and was determined to enter the palace as a concubine. Jiang Henan doted on his sister so much that he used his huge wealth to "buy" a position for Concubine Rou for her.

Of course, this huge amount was just a drop in the bucket for the Jiang family in Yangzhou. In order to allow his sister to leave the palace freely and come back to see him, he even ceded a lot of the dock profits to the royal family. Therefore, when Concubine Rou was bored, she would take Xie Zimiao back to her mother's home in Yangzhou to visit relatives.

Jiang Henan was a man of many skills and was very eager to learn. In order to expand his livestock industry, he even personally learned how to deliver livestock. He also maliciously used his hands full of blood to scare the young and curious Xie Zimiao.

Xie Zimiao was afraid at first, but later, through what he saw and heard, he gradually became desensitized and learned how to deliver a baby from his uncle.

So, inside the cave, with the white tiger's suppressed moans, Xie Zimiao finally succeeded in taking out four tiger cubs, three of them with yellow and black stripes, and one with white stripes, just like its mother.

The tigers were grateful. Xie Zimiao saved the couple in one go and even hunted raw meat to feed the white tiger during its weak postpartum period. The two tigers gradually became big cats. They no longer bared their teeth to threaten Xie Zimiao, but began to lick his fur, oh no, his coat.

I'm almost licking my bald skin.

After Baihu had passed the postpartum weakness period, Xie Zimiao received a reply letter from Xie Chengze, asking him to ride the tiger down the mountain and go to the gate of Black Tiger City to meet up with Black Tiger Village in order to recruit him.