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Chapter 449 [“So many people died, I am very sad!” (Part )]

After the Green Wolf Gang's father-in-law and son-in-law left, He Sheng buried his head in handling official business. There was no way to practice and pay off debts today. He would wait until the two general flags under his command were familiar with Songlin County, and then hand over all the simple and unimportant things to them in the future.

In the blink of an eye, it was late at night.

"call--"

In the Hundred Households Office, Mr. He took a deep breath, finally finishing all the accumulated official business in recent days. Meanwhile, the father-in-law and son-in-law dressed in night clothes and sneaked into the mansion of a wealthy family.

The next day, the general rushed into the hall where he usually worked.

"Sir, don't practice for now, something terrible has happened. Our county master Wang was killed yesterday! Not only that, out of the more than 50 people in his family, less than half are left.

All the people who survived were servants, and they were servants who had a good reputation in the past. The heads of the notoriously evil slaves, housekeepers, and guards were all chopped off and a memorial was built in the middle of the courtyard.

In response to this, the emperor of Songlin County did not show any expression. He just waited until the practice of "Tong Xuan Jue" was completed, then stopped practicing and picked up the teacup on the desk to take a sip.

"Let's go and have a look."

He certainly knew who had committed the crime, but he still had to do what he had to do. After all, no one would have thought that such a murder was committed under his instructions.

Mr. Wang is a proper gentry who once served as an official. Don't treat retired cadres as non-cadres. Gentry can participate in local affairs, such as mediating disputes, establishing education, maintaining ethical order, etc.

These people can influence local areas through their cultural authority!

He was the highest official in the Songlin County Hundred Households Office. A gentry had died in his territory. If he didn't go and take a look, he was afraid that someone would come out and reprimand him in a few days.

To maintain the stability of the court, warriors are needed. To govern the court, people with culture are needed. In particular, to maintain stability, civil officials are also needed. Although civil officials are weak, they are good at talking and have great power.

Arriving at the palace, a group of officers were investigating for clues, and some former coroners who had worked at the government office were performing an autopsy on the scene.

There was no county magistrate in office yet, and the coroners were idle at home with nothing to do. So He Sheng waved his hand and asked them to go to work at the Hundred Households Office.

"He used the most common knife in the martial arts world, and his technique was clean and neat. Sir, you can see that there is no sign of struggle or fighting on the body.

This indicates that the perpetrator is either extremely powerful, or the victim was completely unaware of the danger from the beginning to the end, or both. In short,

Before the coroner could finish his words, a little flag came running over from the backyard.

"General Li, we found the bodies of Mr. Wang and his family. Several members of the family were all soaking in the pit."

"???"

Li San, who was listening to the coroner's words, had an extremely interesting expression on his face.

What kind of deep hatred could there be that would cause them to kill so many people, chop off their heads, build the Jingguan, and then throw the bodies into a cesspool to soak?

"Vendetta, definitely vendetta."

Zhang Yue, who had been following his master, blurted out upon hearing this.

When he was working in Taiyue Mansion, he had experienced many cases, and he could basically judge some cases at a glance. With such cruel means, how could you say that there was no hatred between the two sides?

"Sir, all the gold and silver in the Wang family were looted, but some of the more valuable items were not touched." Another captain, who had just finished questioning the maids and servants in the Wang Mansion, came over to report.

The father-in-law and the son-in-law are not stupid. If they melt the gold and silver, who can tell where they come from?
Valuable items were too obvious, and once they were sold, some news would inevitably leak out. If they were to follow the clues and really find the two of them, they would be in trouble.

Killing a gentry is a serious crime, and it will also arouse the anger of other gentry and others. At that time, a large group of people will unite and say, "Tsk tsk. Who doesn't have some students and old officials to exchange favors with?"

After a symbolic walk, He Sheng returned to the Hundred Households Office to continue his practice.

In the evening, Li San came to the hall.

"Sir, do you want to follow the original patrol route?"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted.

"No need, continue patrolling along the current route."

The patrol routes of the Hundred Households Station today are different from those before the incident in Songlin County. In the past, the patrol routes of the Hundred Households Station were balanced, and both ordinary people and wealthy families could be taken care of.

Later, the new official took office and directly cut off all the routes of the wealthy families. They had so many guards and a powerful head of the guards, so how could they get the protection of the hundred households?

In the blink of an eye, one night passed.

The next day, early in the morning.

The bad news once again swept the gentry of the entire county. A master named Zhang followed in the footsteps of Master Wang. The people who survived in the mansion were still the servants with better reputations.

The same Jingguan, the same corpses soaking in the cesspool.

Especially Mr. Zhang’s chief bodyguard, who is a master in the internal organs realm.

So, it exploded!

The gentry went to the Hundred Households Office and asked them to restore the previous patrol routes. Although the strongest person in the Hundred Households Office was not in the Nei Zang realm, even if he was in the Nei Zang realm, he might not be the opponent of the murderer who committed two major crimes in succession.

However, the identity of the captain of a hundred households as a personal soldier of the emperor can at least make many people fear him!
Well, if the murderer encounters the captain during night patrol, the captain may not kill him, at most he will injure him. Because if he kills him, it will definitely attract the masters from the Qianhu Suo to come and kill him, and they will chase him to the ends of the earth.

It’s not that there weren’t some people who didn’t believe in it, but among those who dared to try, no one escaped, and after all of them met a miserable end, almost no one dared to kill the people from the Film Department.

Of course, the premise is that people have some scruples in their hearts. Some unscrupulous guys, don't say you are the emperor's personal army, if the emperor comes, I will chop you down without hesitation.

Then, they were all politely invited out by the two generals. Damn, we are the emperor's personal soldiers, not your servants. Just because you open your mouth, we are afraid to protect you?

rough!
"A bunch of old idiots, do they really think we don't know what they are thinking? If we go back a few hundred years, the Film Agency was indeed a golden brand."

Zhang Yue couldn't help but curse after the person left.

"Isn't it a golden signboard now?" Li San said with a smile.

"Don't slander me!" Zhang Zongqi hurriedly defended himself. He didn't want to be punished. "There is one thing we have to admit. The world is getting more and more chaotic. The so-called emperor's personal army has less and less influence."

Without waiting for General Li to continue speaking, he said again.

"I won't talk about what happened hundreds of years ago, let alone when Grandpa Taizu established the Shadow Division. Let's just say that before the Qingzhou rebellion, how many martial arts masters dared to harm our Shadow Division?

After the Qingzhou rebels raised their banners and ran the state like an iron barrel, the world gradually became chaotic. In recent decades, how many lieutenants, flag officers, general flag officers, and even centurions were killed by our Yingsi?

To put it in a nice way, they want our Hundred Households to patrol according to the previous route. To put it in a bad way, it is obvious that they want to use our identity as a shield.

If the murderer doesn't give me face, wouldn't it be a waste of my brothers' lives, yours and mine? I have to work for the emperor and my superiors, whether I like it or not. If I survive, it will be a great achievement. If I die, I will get the silver I deserve for cremation and burial, not a penny less. My family will receive all the preferential treatment. Working for them? They don't deserve it!"

Midnight, early morning.

[Repaying: "Tong Xuan Jue" - 374/10000. 】

[Repayment in progress: "The Great Monument Opener" - 93/3000 Qinggang Monument. 】

"call--"

There will probably be even more explosions in the county tomorrow.

One new day, from the mansion of a certain wealthy family, there was a scream that woke up the surrounding neighbors.

This time, the gentry went completely crazy.

Good fellow, killing one family a day. How many gentry are there in the whole Songlin County? Only thirteen families. The memorial sent to Taiyue Mansion may not arrive until tonight.

If we wait for someone from Taiyue Mansion to come and investigate, it will take at least a day, right? In this case, it will take two days. Then, among the remaining ten families, at least two more families will die.

If you take a gamble, you might end up being the one who dies?

Damn, with a one in five probability, who dares to bet!
If they lose, it is acceptable to have only one person die, but the problem is that the murderer always kills the whole family. Good servants with good reputations can be spared. As for the master's family, if the head of the family has done bad things, the younger generations will kill them all regardless of their reputation.

But they only know their own business and have never done anything good.

"Move, move immediately. I've figured out that Songlin County has bad feng shui. There's always a bodyguard coming from outside to kill officials, or there's an invasion by barbarians, or there's a madman who specifically targets gentry and kills them."

A group of gentry discussed it and immediately hit it off.

Everyone went together and moved to Taiyue Mansion.

Although, in the city of Taiyue Prefecture, it is not as comfortable as being a local tyrant in Songlin County, but it is the largest city in Shanzhou after all, so at least there is no worry about safety.

"Pack up your gold and silver items. Don't take anything that is inconvenient to carry. Let's get on the road quickly. Once we reach Taiyue Mansion and settle down, we can send servants back to take care of those items."

The gentry packed up their things and gathered together, then marched out of the city in a mighty procession.

The number of guards for ten households was still considerable, ranging from a dozen or twenty to more than 30. Add them up, and it would be close to 300.

Among them, regardless of how many guards there were who were full of vigor and strength, there were more of them than the people in the Hundred Households Office. Generally speaking, those who could become guards and were trained by the gentry were considered household slaves.

There is no need to say much about the loyalty of this kind of guards. They have lived in an environment where their grandfather and father are slaves since childhood, and loyalty is all they have in their minds!
Otherwise, to put it bluntly, if you have a strong ability, you can make a living anywhere. Moreover, in today's world, it is too easy to just pick up a knife and find an empty mountain to occupy it and become the king.

Otherwise, how could the annual practice of "purchasing goods to get rich" of the Baihu Office in Songlin County have continued to this day?

"Out? Well, well, I thought they would come out only after I killed the second one. But in the end, they lasted until the third one." He Sheng said as he looked at the father-in-law and son-in-law of the Green Wolf Gang who were kneeling below and looking very respectful.

That's right, he did it on purpose, deliberately forcing all the rich families in the county to leave. Then, he would take a big bite and make a lot of money.

If he wants to save Tianqing, he cannot do it alone. He must have someone to help him. And talents are not easy to find. Besides, no matter how talented a person is, he still needs to be cultivated.

Once cultivation begins, gold and silver are essential.

For example, he has two generals, one is the archer Li San, and the other is Zhang Yue. If he wants to train the former, he must have a good bow and arrow.

There is no need to say much about good bows and arrows. Even the rich families can't afford them. If they are upgraded to the level of divine bows, gold and silver can't buy them at all.

The latter, his talent is definitely not low, but he has no money to buy elixirs for cultivation. It's not that he doesn't have money to buy bone strengthening pills, that thing has more than a thousand taels of silver.

The real money is actually the daily consumption of pills, although a bottle does not look very expensive. However, it is hard to resist taking pills every day to practice.

For example, the Bone Tempering Pills commonly seen in the Qi Zhuang Gen Gu realm are considered an upgraded version of the Qi Training Pills, and one bottle costs one hundred taels of silver. There are ten pills in one bottle, and each pill can allow a person in the Qi Zhuang Gen Gu realm to continuously temper their bones for half an hour.

Of course, the premise of all this is that you can hold back. If you can't hold back, the pill seller will laugh to death, and he can make more money. As for the better version of the bone-hardening pill, I won't mention it. That kind of pill is not something that ordinary people can enjoy, and the effect is naturally very powerful.

Even if we consume two ordinary Bone Tempering Pills a day, we will use up one bottle every five days. In a month, six bottles of pills will cost a total of 600 taels of silver, which means 7,200 taels a year.

In fact, the cost of practicing martial arts far exceeds seven thousand two hundred taels.

Now, it's just the two of them.

What if more talented people join your team in the future?

Just get your first pot of black gold first and then think about it carefully.

"Are your clothes ready?"

"Ready."

The former leader of the Green Wolf Gang nodded.

"Okay, remember. Don't keep any of it! I'll give you all the money I got, not a cent less."

"Yes."

Upon hearing this, the father-in-law and son-in-law licked their lips and showed an excited look.

There’s no way, Mr. He gave too much!

Even though the father-in-law and son-in-law only committed three major cases, the amount of gold and silver they earned was amazing.

Two hundred and fifty thousand taels!
You would have never thought that the amount of gold and silver stored in the homes of the gentry alone would be more than 80,000 taels per person, even if the three masters divided it equally. And that's not counting their land, shops, and various businesses.

They are all too fat.

The father-in-law and the son-in-law could get one-fifth of the gold and silver they earned from their work. In total, each person got one-tenth.

Three days, three nights, no risk, fifty thousand taels of silver easily in hand. My Lord, you are the only sun for both of us.

What kind of gang is it? If it weren't for He Sheng's request, both of them wanted to disband the Green Wolf Gang and then specialize in taking advantage of the rich.

I didn’t dare to do it before, and I can’t do it now.

Now, they have their superiors to back them up. If they work hard, they will be able to accumulate enough wealth in less than half a year to last the family for several lifetimes.

"Come on, let's go meet the sponsors."

He Sheng changed his clothes and left the Hundred Households Office with a smile on his face. The father-in-law and son-in-law following behind him were confused. What is a sponsor?
(End of this chapter)