Ink panel: Hunting the sun and surveying the sky from the bow.

Chapter 267: Enriching the Small Treasury and Developing Power
The front yard of the manor.

Shen Qing looked at the row of frightened women and beautiful boys in front of him and was speechless.

This manor is not very big, but it has everything it needs.

In addition to the gambling hall, the manor also has everything for food, drink and entertainment. There are even many professional prostitutes to serve the gamblers for their entertainment.

Both men and women are present.

The women and boys in front of him were all ladies from the city, from middle-class families with good reputations. However, for one reason or another, they were abducted and sold here by gangs in the city, and gradually became tools for others' entertainment.

"Sir, what should we do with these people?" Sun Ding stepped forward, put his wrist on his neck and wiped it, indicating that he should kill them and silence them: "Or..."

Shen Qing raised his chin and gestured: "Let them register their information and arrange for the brothers to send them back home."

Sun Ding was stunned, thinking he had heard it wrong.

In his opinion, Shen Qing was a murderous man, why did he suddenly change his personality?

"Are all the things we searched inside here?" Shen Qing looked at the large boxes behind the prostitute and asked, changing the subject.

Sun Ding came back to his senses and said, "Well, everything we found is here."

Shen Qing walked forward and opened one of the half-person-high wooden boxes, and found that it was neatly filled with silver ingots.

This large wooden box is half a person's height and one meter long and wide.

He roughly estimated that it would take nearly two thousand taels of silver to fill it up, and there were five boxes of this specification.

In other words, there are as much as ten thousand taels of silver in cash alone.

It would take Shen's Restaurant three to five years to earn this amount.

It is a huge sum of money.

In addition to the five treasure chests filled with cash, two slightly smaller wooden boxes were also found.

Shen Qing went forward and opened them one by one. He found that one of them was filled with various pearls, jades and gems, and the other was filled with various gold ingots, with a value of no less than seven or eight thousand taels.

This small casino contains a huge amount of silver worth 20,000 taels.

Even though Shen Qing was used to big scenes, there was still some surprise on his face.

No wonder many gangs are keen on opening casinos.

If such a place of debauchery is guarded by military force, one can make a fortune and get rich without any worries.

It’s a pity that these people don’t have good skills and can’t keep their wealth.

Now they all belong to Shen Qing.

Shen Qing leaned over and rummaged through the gold box. After a while, he found the three "small yellow croakers" mentioned by the "traitor".

He looked at it for a few times and found that it was indeed engraved with the seal of the Dong family as the "traitor" said. It was the physical evidence of the Dong family's "collusion" with the Huangtian Sect.

Shen Qing weighed the three gold ingots in his hand and threw them to Sun Ding: "This is physical evidence, take it."

Sun Ding quickly reached out to take it, looked at it for a few seconds, and then quickly put it close to his body.

Shen Qing lowered his head and looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground. He suddenly asked his men, "Have you checked all the people on the ground? Are there any left out?"

"No...no more." The subordinates were a little frightened, thinking that Shen Qing was going to take some from them like Zheng Yuanqiu did.

As expected, Shen Qing had no interest in these petty gains. Instead, he picked out some silver from the box and, under the watchful eyes of his men, gave each of them twenty taels of silver. Then he said casually, "Send these boxes to my home."

There was a hint of surprise on everyone's face.

We are not afraid of comparing goods, but we are afraid of comparing ourselves to others.

Compared to Zheng Yuanqiu's stinginess, they suddenly felt that Shen Qing was really too good, and they all accepted Shen Qing's embezzlement and said in unison: "Yes, sir."

Seeing that the matter here had been settled, Shen Qing had no intention of staying for long, and ordered: "Now that the matter here has been settled, everyone follow me back to report." "Sir, what should we do with this place? Are we just going to leave like this?"

"Burn it!" Shen Qing said without thinking.

He held the knife on his waist with one hand and walked out of the yard first.

Ji Youwu and other officers rushed to action, found a lot of firewood from the kitchen, threw the corpses in the hall, and started a fire.

Amid the blazing flames, the officers cleared the alleys and drove the bewildered prostitutes towards Yongzhou city.

When they came, everyone had no worries, so they went very fast. But when they went back, they had to deal with money and prostitutes, so they couldn't go any faster no matter what.

It took them more than half an hour to reach the gate of the city wall.

Shen Qing divided his men into two groups. One group carried the silver and valuables back to his house, while the other group sent the disoriented prostitutes back home.

"Xiaohu, go and send those women away." Shen Qing reached out, took out a package and threw it to Tian Xiaohu.

"These people have been humiliated, and they may not be welcomed back home. Here are a few dozen taels of silver. When we send them home, we will give each of them three taels. It's better than nothing."

Tian Xiaohu obviously didn't expect Shen Qing to be like this, and hurriedly praised: "Sir, you are kind and righteous!"

Shen Qing waved his hand, not really caring.

"Remember not to give too much, otherwise it will be like a child carrying gold through the market, and everyone is a devil."

A few dozen taels is only one thousandth of what Shen Qing got this time, which is nothing, but for these ordinary people, it may be a life-saving straw.

Shen Qing considers himself not to be a pushover, but not to be an unkind evil person either.

I just feel that this is not the way the world should be, and I just follow my nature.

Tian Xiaohu didn't understand the deeper meaning, but he still wrote it down carefully.

After dealing with the prostitutes, Shen Qing watched his men carry the boxes back home.

After speaking a few more words to Sun Ding, he sent his men away.

Looking at the treasure chests filled with gold and silver in front of him, he felt a little relieved.

I had a fruitful trip today and my little piggy bank was enriched.

With these savings, he can ask Wu Sheng to purchase various cultivation resources in the future, so as to improve his own cultivation as soon as possible, and he doesn't have to worry about material things such as gold and silver.

That night, at the instruction of Shen Qing, Sun Ding tortured the "traitor" and, through coercion and inducement, completely confirmed his identity as a traitor of the Huangtian Sect.

At the same time, various evidences also proved the collusion between the Huangtian Sect rebels and Dong Jing.

In addition to the previous experience of Zheng Yuanqiu, the Yongzhou government seemed extremely sensitive and attached great importance to this matter.

Tracking all the way, constantly putting pressure on the Dong family.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Sun family took the lead in launching an attack. With Dong Jing missing, the Dong family became extremely passive and was defeated step by step.

Until finally, when they were forced to give up some profits, the storm gradually subsided.

The Sun family and some other onlookers gained a lot.

And this has nothing to do with Shen Qing.

After having sufficient financial resources, Shen Qing bought another restaurant in a prosperous location in Yongzhou City and became a real boss.

Four months passed in the blink of an eye.

During these four months, Shen Qing recruited soldiers and gradually expanded the number of officials in the Weiwusi office from sixty or seventy to more than one hundred and fifty, making it a strong and powerful force.

Everything is in order.

(End of this chapter)