My brother is so cunning.

In the Jinling Sect's welcoming hall, four demon kings sat on both sides of a huge oval table, with Wen Rui sitting in the main seat.

The four demon kings sat down in a tacit agreement according to the directions of their demon stronghold and demon cave.

The black bear spirit, the demon king of the south, is called Xiong Ba, and his nickname is the powerful bear king. This demon king's territory is located in the plains, guarding the transportation hub. He once made a living by robbing passing human merchants. A hundred years ago, he robbed the convoy of Wen Rui's Chamber of Commerce. After that, the mountain stronghold was repeatedly attacked by the Jianshi Machine Group. Bombing, Xiu bombing again and again, until Ruan was convinced by the bombing and signed a non-aggression treaty with the Chamber of Commerce, he gradually became familiar with Wen Rui.

The Northern Demon King, Hua Bao Jing, is known as Bao Sanniang and also known as Chuanshan King. Demon Cave is located in the northern mountainous area of ​​Lishan Mountain. He leads a group of little demons to mine spiritual stones, spiritual gold, and gemstone veins in the mountains. Most of the output is sold to Wen Rui. From Wen Rui, they exchange for food, meat, weapons, tools, clothing, etc. products.

The buffalo spirit, the demon king of the West, is called Niu Miao and nicknamed King Fanjiang. The lair is located on an island in a large swamp in the west. He usually leads a group of aquatic monsters to act as water bandits and rob ships on the swamp.

The Eastern Demon King, Wolf Demon, was nicknamed Wolf Er. It was said that he had an older brother who died before he could transform, so he called himself Wolf Er. He also gave himself a nickname, the Wolf King of the Plateau. He led a group of wolf demons to haunt the eastern plateau, living in pursuit of water and grass, hunting gazelles, marmots, and pikas. When food was scarce, they would also attack the shepherds' sheep and cattle. Because Wen Rui's caravan often fed him when he passed by, he treated him as a brother.

There are spirit stone mines to be mined in the area occupied by these demon kings. The leopard spirit is relatively lucky and has rich mineral resources and does not need to plunder. The other demon kings have to engage in some unprofitable business of killing people and selling goods to supplement their income. They were originally Fashan's targeting was not unjust at all. They were afraid that the Western religious forces behind Fashan would unite to pay for assassination of Fashan. This was an out-and-out evil demon.

At this time, they were full of wine and food, and Wen Rui got straight to the point: "Everyone, I invite you here today. I have something serious to say, but before I get started, I have a question that I would like to ask everyone."

"Boss Wen, just say what you want." "What's the problem?" "Master Wen, please tell me." "Brother, what are you asking?"

"Everyone, have you ever thought about what you will do in the future?"

"In the future?" the black bear spirit laughed and said, "Just do whatever you want, eat big mouthfuls of meat, drink big bowls of wine, live happily! Give birth to a bunch of cubs, teach them their skills, and inherit my old bear's legacy."

However, Bao Sanniang frowned slightly and said, "Little sister, I can only keep guarding the mine and continue digging. If the mine is exhausted, I will consider my options at that time."

The buffalo spirit had a straight face and said solemnly: "Master Wen, I haven't made any plans yet. At the moment, I can only muddle along like Brother Xiong."

The second wolf scratched his head and said: "I don't care, big brother, if you can use your younger brother, I will follow you and be your bodyguard. I just don't worry about the group of wolves under me. Without me to restrain them, they can destroy the shepherds on the grassland." They will all die. Those idiots can’t learn what you taught me about ‘fishing from the bottom of the lake sustainably’.”

"Three Sister Bao, your spiritual stone mine only has less than 300,000 spiritual stones left in its reserves."

Wen Rui first spoke to Leopard Girl: "Moreover, they are all deep associated mines. Mine collapses must have occurred frequently during this period, right? The rest of the Lingjin Mine and gem mines have also reached the useless stage of mining. With your technology, mineral processing Screening the ore requires too much labor, and you definitely don’t have enough manpower. If the quality of the ore is not good, I will lower the price.”

Bao Sanniang's expression changed and her eyes became sharp, but Wen Rui stared back with indifferent gaze. She didn't know why Wen Rui was so familiar with the situation in her mine. She suspected that his little demon had been bribed, but she couldn't guess who the suspect was.

"As for the other brothers who are doing business without capital." Wen Rui lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "You also know that I have some connections above, and there is wind blowing down from above..."

"What kind of wind?" "Brother, just tell me, don't let it go."

"We need to crack down hard!"

"Hey, what does "strike hard" mean? "Strike hard?" "What does it mean?"

"Striking hard means severely cracking down on the actions of demons causing harm to the world!"

Wen Rui whispered: "Don't leak the secret. I risked being struck by lightning to leak the news to you. You can go out and don't spread the news, otherwise you will be designated as a key target. When the thunder is coming, you can Don’t regret it!”

The three-headed demon kings looked at each other, never expecting that the demon was squatting in its nest and disaster would come from the sky.

"Boss Wen, is your news true?" Xiong Baxian couldn't bear it and said, "It's been hundreds of years since the last war, and I haven't heard that the heavens have wiped out the demons from the lower realms with great fanfare."

Wen Rui sneered: "You squat in the cave all day long, how can you know the general trend of the world! There are traces of heaven's suppression of demons. Usually at the end of the human dynasty, when the human world is about to be in chaos, the demons take advantage of the situation, and heaven sends The heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals will destroy the enemy, clearing obstacles for the coming new dynasty, and accumulating luck.”

"It has been more than 500 years since the Western Zhou Dynasty divided the feudal lords into feudal lords. The decline is becoming increasingly apparent. I hope that the king's aura will gradually decline. Based on the calculation of King Shi Wen's hexagram, it is estimated that the dynasty will change in less than 200 years."

"Brother, do you still know the art of King Wen's hexagram?" Lang Er said in surprise: "No wonder you have such a clever plan."

"Didn't King Wen find himself in trouble with Chao Ge? He was imprisoned in a dungeon by Emperor Xin and had someone feed him his own son's meat cakes."

Wen Rui talked eloquently: "At the beginning, I knew that remonstrance could not stop the enchanted Emperor Xin, and I could not sit back and watch him do evil and corrupt the Yin Shang Dynasty, so I pretended to be a jailer to deliver meals, replaced the human meat cakes, and restrained Ji Xin. In return for this good relationship, King Wen passed on the secret technique of divination to me."

Wen Rui didn't lie to these demon kings, but King Wen's hexagram technique was only about that, and the accuracy of predictions was worrying, so he couldn't take it seriously, nor should he take it too seriously.

As for the heavenly court's crackdown, that's just nonsense. Anyway, these demon kings can't go to heaven to verify it.

Although Wen Rui's words were made up, he had to be serious about it. Combined with his identity, several demon kings couldn't help but worry about their lives.

Bao Sanniang actually smiled, caressing her chest and said, "Fortunately, little sister, I do a job that doesn't harm Tianhe, so I escaped a disaster this time."

"Don't worry, you can't run away either."

Wen Rui smiled and said to her: "How many times have your mines caused jealous casual cultivators and experiential training disciples to come and rob you? You always use nice words to coax and pretend to surrender, and you keep saying that you must devote yourself to others to seek peace. , and as a result, you deceived the one who fell into the trap and killed him secretly. "

Bao Sanniang was shocked. This time she was sure that there was a traitor among the little monsters under her command. At least it had to be a big monster above the commander, otherwise how could Wen Rui know everything about it.

"The Skynet is meticulous and meticulous. I know all the dirty things you are doing behind your back. How can the Heavenly Court not know about it?"

Wen Rui said coldly: "So I want to ask you all, what do you plan to do in the future? Is it going to be a dark road, or..."

The four demon kings looked at each other, and Lang Er was the first to speak: "Brother, don't be too pretentious. Please show me a clear path."

Bao Sanniang sighed and said: "Brother Wen, I don't want to be in fear all day long. I wake up at night and am afraid that the righteous will come to kill me, but what can I do?"

"Tsk, just come when the heavenly soldiers come to suppress you. At worst, you have to fight, and you can be happy every day! Besides, it may not come to my old bear's head!" Xiong Ba said, shaking his head happily.

The buffalo spirit Niu Miao lowered his head in thought without saying a word.

Seeing their attitude, Wen Rui frowned slightly and said: "This is exactly the saying, 'Don't shed tears until you see the coffin, and you won't regret it until you die.' That's all. Even if I talk too much, you can't hit me hard on the head anyway. Second Brother Wolf Just stay, I won’t send the remaining ones away.”

"Hey!" Xiong Ba glared and said, "You kid, don't say half of what you say. Can I sleep well when I go back? I'm afraid of being plotted by you. If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Yes, Brother Wen, we are listening."

"Please also hear the sect master's instructions."

Wen Rui Su Rong said: "Do you know why I am willing to associate with you as a disciple of a famous and upright sect? Please remind me in advance, it is not just because I am a disciple of Jie Jiao."

None of the demon kings said anything. Xiong Ba even stretched out his bear claws and scratched his head. He was obviously confused. The human monks except Wen Rui either ran away or drew their swords to kill them when they saw them.

The disciples of the Lishan Immortal Sect, who were also disciples of the Jie Cult, and even demon cultivators like them, had no different reactions from the human cultivators when they saw these demon kings.

"You are by no means a kind person, but fortunately, you and the demons under you have not yet touched the bottom line, and there is still a little room for salvation."

Wen Rui said seriously: "I am willing to associate with you, instead of trying to exterminate them like I did with the other two demon kings entrenched in the Lishan Mountains. The biggest difference is that you don't eat people, and those two demon kings Eat people."

Only then did the four demon kings show signs of surprise.

A hundred monsters are fed by rice, but not all monsters eat humans. In Journey to the West, there are monster lairs that actively do business with humans and send little monsters to human cities to purchase.

"Cannibalism and genocide are the two greatest evil deeds that must be punished by heaven."

Wen Rui said in a deep voice: "Intelligent creatures do not eat intelligent creatures. This is an iron law written in the genes. Once violated, you will be punished by God. You have never eaten human flesh, so I can still treat you as the same kind. You should cherish this A small fruit of good in the midst of all evil, reining in the precipice and becoming a monster again!”

"Boss Wen, are you telling us to stop robbing the human race?" Xiong Ba said with his arms crossed: "If you don't rob us, where will the food and clothing expenses come from? Are you going to give us all the spiritual stone mines produced on our territory?" You, buy it from you? Your wishful thinking is really loud!"

"You can produce everything you need for food and clothing by yourself, and I can even buy the remaining products with spiritual stones!"

Wen Rui immediately responded: "A wise man once said: Labor gives people a realistic status. Labor is the essential characteristic that distinguishes humans from animals. If a monster does not work, it will always be a monster! It will never escape the fate of being killed!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at Xiong Ba: "You occupy a large plain, why don't you grow food or mulberry and hemp?"

Then he pointed at Niu Miao: "Why don't you fish, why don't you pick pearls?"

Pointing to Wolf Two: "Why don't you graze the herds and why do you have to steal the herdsmen's cattle and sheep?"

Finally, he pointed at Bao Sanniang: "The same goes for you. If I don't accept your ore, why don't you have to go down the mountain to grab it?"

Xiong Ba slapped the table and said angrily: "We don't know how to do it! Besides, we monsters are not used to the tools of the human race. Look at my claws. The little monsters under my hands are even rougher, and their claws are not as good as mine." So flexible! Even if you dig the ground with your claws, you won’t be able to spread the seeds evenly and harvest the wheat!”

"Wen Sect Master, today our demon race does work less and plunder more. But this is not the nature of our race. In ancient times, Emperor Jun and Tai Yi were in charge of the heaven, and the demon race in the lower realms lived together in the same race. Each race made corresponding tools according to their body shape. They also cultivated, weaved, herded, built nests and built houses like human beings.”

Niu Miao smiled bitterly and said: "But now the demon tribe is scattered and mixed, with different body sizes and different stages of transformation. It is impossible to use unified tools. If you want to work, you will get half the result with twice the effort. It is a waste of time and no gain, so I like it more and more." Steal it from the human race.”

Wen Rui nodded to him and said approvingly: "Brother Niu said it well, production tools are the most important and decisive factor in the means of labor. This is indeed the main reason why the demon clan gradually robs the people who make a living instead of the producers! "

Having said this, Wen Rui stood up, glanced at the four demon kings one by one, and said seriously: "I have thought of this a long time ago, so if I can provide you with labor tools suitable for the demon clan, and more advanced and more advanced than human tools, Save your effort, are you willing to organize your demon clan to completely switch to production?"

"Brother, I can try, but I may not be able to do well."

Niu Miao and Bao Sanniang looked at each other and hesitated without responding.

"Old Bear doesn't have the brains. If you give me tools, my men won't know how to work!"

"What if I am willing to teach you? I plan to form a demon clan production alliance. The Jinling Sect in the demon cave demon village will provide free production tools, free training and teaching, and will send teachers to station in the alliance."

Wen Rui then said: "If there are clever little demons in your clan, they can be sent to the Jinling Sect to study abroad. I will help you circulate the products you produce. It is a transaction between the demon cave and the demon village. Okay, it’s better to transport it to human towns and sell it, I’ll underwrite everything!”

"When you become producers, you will be respected and given the same rights as human beings. At that time, the righteous monks will not dare to kill you easily, otherwise, instead of killing demons and promoting Dao, you will create karma and chaos! Kill laborers Those who do this will definitely be tainted by karma and will receive retribution!”

The four demon kings looked at each other in confusion again. Except for Lang Er who nodded slowly, the other three demons had expressions of confusion on their faces.

Xiong Ba burst out laughing: "Boss Wen, stop joking, how can such a good thing happen? I don't understand what you are talking about about labor. Is it that great? Are you kidding us again? Let us give it to you." Are you a slave and at your mercy? You want me to listen to you, and you’ll have to beat me in a duel!”

He stood up suddenly, brushed his sleeves and said: "Brothers, Lao Xiong has to take leave now. You can build whatever alliance you want. I won't accompany you."

After that, he walked towards the gate of the Yingbin Hall with eight-character steps.

Bao Sanniang also stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Wen, let my sister go back and think about it again."

Without saying a word, Niu Miao stood up, bowed her hands, and followed Bao Sanniang away.

The second wolf scratched his head and said: "Brother, how do we, the wolf clan, graze our herds? The cattle and sheep look like they have seen ghosts when they see our wolf clan, running faster than rabbits."

"Hey, you don't need tools for herding. Sheepdogs only know how to herd sheep. I can find a dog to teach you!"

Wen Rui sighed and said: "Okay, you go back first. Next time I will get a dog to send you there. You can see how the dog herds the sheep and follow suit. Don't bother the shepherd. Before you learn how to herd, I supply food to your tribe. The synthetic dog food tastes okay but may not taste good, so please bear with it for now.”

After sending away the four demon kings, Wen Rui sat in front of the oval table, leaning forward, resting his elbows on the table, stroking the stubble on his chin, thinking: "The demon clan has always believed that the strong are respected, no It’s really impossible to form an alliance by trying to defeat one or two thorns in an honest and upright manner!”