In the middle of the night, the backyard study of the inspection department.

The old scribe who was high in front of Li Mingyu during the day, taking life and death, was standing aside respectfully at this time. At this time, sitting behind the desk was a short, swarthy middle-aged official, who looked less like a scholar and more like what the old scribe called a vulgar martial artist.

I saw that his head was crowned with a golden crown, with four round plates of bright sheep's horns, silver trim, and a rhinoceros embroidered on the front and back of the cyan official uniform, with a wide mouth, a dark complexion, and a pair of big eyes with fine light, but it was a bit of official majesty.

This middle-aged man is the chief officer of the Inspection Division, from the inspection of Bapin County, Chen Caowu, but he is not a scholar, but a martial artist who dances guns and sticks, and the inspection is also a military attaché, not a civilian official.

Zheng Shuhe usually said to himself, the scholarly family, although the imperial examination has not been smooth for many years, but he was also a talent when he was young, I don't know if this matter has been reduced to being a clerk for a vulgar martial artist he has always despised, will he feel sorry for himself.

Well, Zheng Shuhe is also the old scribe, and Shuhe is also the meaning of the home of cultivation and reading.

However, he didn't have any self-pity and self-pity at this time, but instead stammered with a flattering face: "Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!"

Inspector Chen Caowu was reading a cheats book in his hand, and at this time he raised his head and glanced at the other party lightly.

Chen Caowu is very tired of Zheng Shuhe, this old thing, but he is just a talented person, he always puts on a high appearance to show anyone, and even he secretly despises it, I really think he can't see it. If it weren't for the fact that he really has some skills in handling official affairs, he would have driven away this eye-catching old thing a long time ago.

"Oh, Shuhe, what do you say?" Knowing that he was selling Guanzi, he cooperated.

"My lord, for many days, under the command of my lord, after unremitting efforts, I have sent people to infiltrate the Black Wind Village many times to secretly investigate...... , finally probed and figured out the details of the bandits in Heifeng Village, including a layout map of Heifeng Village, a map of the deployment of Heifeng Village, and a ...... of the number of bandits and strength details of Heifeng Village.

My lord, the giant bandits of Heifeng Village have been causing trouble to my Qinghe Mansion for many years, blocking trade routes, robbing the caravan of good people, and the gentry and merchants in the county have many complaints, which has become a major disaster in my Qinghe County. Now that I have finally figured out the details of the bandits, as long as the adults tell the Taishou, mobilize the patrol department, the government office, and the county guard, and enter the Black Wind Village, we will definitely be able to pull out this malignant tumor with one drum, and return the people of our county to a peaceful day......"

Zheng Shuhe looked excited, talking eloquently, looking like a wise man who was strategizing to win thousands of miles away. It's hard for him not to be excited, as long as he can push the army to attack and eradicate this black wind village that is notorious in the state city, with his early reconnaissance and investigation, at least it is a first-class early planning work. Heifeng Village has been a disaster for so many years, why the government has not been able to exterminate the other party, it is not because of the dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but now there is the layout and defense map of Heifeng Village, .......

Zheng Shuhe's heart was hot, as long as the army in the county exterminated the Black Wind Village and implemented his first-class planning, the wish he had been longing for for decades to get rid of the status of a lowly official and become a high-ranking official would be realized. This is also the reason why he did not hesitate to offend a young martial artist like Li Mingyu who had a great future development, and he also wanted to take the credit.

"As long as I have an official body from the ninth grade, or even the ninth grade, that calamity will not be nothing. He said to himself.

The killing of an ordinary official who has no rank is just a crime of murder, and if he kills an official of the rank, even from the ninth grade, it is also a crime of killing officials and rebelling. Therefore, even if he is a master of the True Qi Realm, as long as he does not want to completely go to the opposite side of the imperial court, he will not dare to attack the officials easily.

When Chen Caowu was in the daytime, he also heard that Zheng Shuhe had made a lot of merit for greedy ink as a small martial artist in the Qi and Blood Realm, and he actually completely tore the dough despite Sven, and his appearance was very ugly.

knows that he is just a little martial artist, and he has nothing to do with himself, even if he doesn't like Zheng Shuhe, he will not stand up for the other party. I didn't expect that little warrior to actually touch the bottom of Heifeng Village, no wonder Zheng Shuhe, the old fox, couldn't even take care of eating.

Others don't know, don't he, Chen Caowu, know that Zheng Shuhe, a self-healing scholar, dreams of getting a first-class merit, so that he can get rid of the status of a lowly official and become a formal official.

After receiving the information handed over by Zheng Shuhe, the layout of Heifeng Village, the deployment map and the strength of the bandits explained, he looked at it carefully......

"The layout and defense map are drawn very formally, and they are also very organized, and the strength of the bandits is also recorded in detail throughout the year, it seems that the little warrior really has some skills, and the things he got should be true. Chen Caowu said secretly in his heart.

"But ......"

Chen Caowu groaned secretly in his heart, he also had his own concerns, with this information, he was very sure that he could exterminate the Black Wind Village. With this announcement, I may be able to rise one step further and become a positive eighth product.

After looking at Zheng Shuhe, who was excited, he couldn't help but shake his head, people can't be so dizzy, he looks like a rough martial artist without brains, it is all pretended to be Shangguan and outsiders, in fact, he is the most cautious.

With this information on Black Wind Village in his hand, he was more concerned about what to do if he failed. The Black Wind Village is not so easy to exterminate, and the county has sent troops to suppress the Black Wind Village many times in the past few years, but most of them have returned in vain or even defeated. Now, even with this information of Black Wind Village, the success is only fifty or sixty percent, which is still based on the authenticity and reliability of the information.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly scold Zheng Shuhe for having no brains, and he was still a scholar? It is easy to say that such a big thing as entering and suppressing Heifeng Village has become a promotion and a fortune, and if it fails, it will definitely not be the fault of the officials who are too guarded and waiting, and it must be that these subordinates who have gone down to the door must be the scapegoats. Therefore, in order to give out a little credit, he drove away the little warrior who knew the details of the Black Wind Village, which was really worth the loss.

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"My lord, what do you think of the villain's plan?" said his plan proudly, Zheng Shuhe, who thought that Ziyu was comparing himself, see

The inspector has been muttering there without speaking, and he can't help but urge.

Xiao Ziyu, one of the top ten heroes of the founding of Great Chu, is an important strategist around Chu Taizu.

"This information is very important, but whether to enter the Black Wind Village, such a big thing, is not something that I, who can do it from the inspection of the eighth grade, and I have to wait until tomorrow after I go to the county government to report to the Taishou, and see how Lord Zuo makes a decision. Chen Caowu made a decision in his heart and said.

Qinghe County is too guarded in the left center.

"My lord, no, how can you hand over the credit in your hand!" Zheng Shuhe was anxious.

He didn't expect Chen Caowu to think about it for so long, but in the end, he decided to give away the credit, only hand over the information, and not take the task of suppressing bandits into his own hands. At that time, the county lieutenant of the sixth grade in the county, the county guard battalion officer of the fifth grade, and the six-door silver medal catcher of the seventh grade, there are so many superiors competing for credit, how could the beauty of the black wind village fall into the hands of the county inspection department who only comes from the eighth grade, and how can he get another foil next to him.

"Zheng Wenwen, there is no need to say it again, this official has already decided." Chen Caowu waved his hand and motioned for Zheng Shuhe to retreat first.

He thought about it very clearly, the temptation of being the eighth rank or from the official position of the seventh rank is not so great, and after being promoted to such a level, he is transferred to another yamen as a deputy, he has no real power, and it is difficult to get any oil and water. It's better to be like the person in charge who is now staying in the inspection department to make a fortune as a chief officer, because he is not involved in the matter of entering the Black Wind Village, and whoever likes to fight will fight.

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Back in his room, Zheng Shuhe frowned, pacing back and forth, full of unwillingness. He didn't understand that with the information in his hands on the Black Wind Village, the eradication of the Black Wind Village was a sure thing, why did Chen Caowu give up the credit in his hands.

"No, I must participate in the suppression of bandits, and one more qualifications will give one more credit," he thought of as if one of his distant clan brothers was working as a clerk in the camp of the county guard. If the inspection department that has the intelligence takes the initiative to give up, there is a good chance that the chief officer of the bandit will fall on the county guard battalion officer who is the main force, maybe he can follow the path of the distant clan brother, after all, the only one who knows the most about the intelligence of Heifeng Village is himself, at this time he is proud of his decision and kicked the little warrior out of the game.

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However, whether it was the calm county inspector Chen Caowu, or the old scribe who was sitting with a dream of meritorious service and promotion, he never thought about a question, that is, what if the information of Heifeng Village was fake. In their opinion, Li Mingyu is just a little martial artist with some ability, and he doesn't dare to deceive the government to cheat the bounty if he has the audacity, not to mention that the heads of those bandits, including a small leader, are all true, and the suspicion of being a spy in Heifeng Village is basically eliminated.

It's just that the information about Heifeng Village is really fake, and it was made by Li Mingyu in order to defraud the bounty of the government, referring to the information he tortured from Liu Gazi's mouth, and three points true and seven points false. He is a person who has been the prince of the Tang Dynasty, can it be considered a fraud to deceive a little scribe of the inspection department!

In the inspection department, it was reported to Zheng Shuzhi that Li Mingyu naturally would not say that he relied on a hare, led out a few minions, and took the opportunity to sneak attack a lookout post, and finally accidentally alarmed the bandits in the valley outpost, and as a result, the three leaders of the Black Wind Village ran away with a group of minions chasing the girl, and almost ran away with his shoes. As for the information, it was only interrogated from the mouth of a bandit minion.

It's too coercive to hear it like this, and the information you inquire about can be somewhat authentic, and naturally it will not be taken seriously by the government, and there will be no bounty. Therefore, the process of his exploration of Black Wind Village this time must not be so honest.

When Li Mingyu was the crown prince, he was also accustomed to seeing his officials falsely report their merits and exterminate dozens of thieves, so he dared to report that he was a giant bandit with hundreds of people, and if he defeated hundreds of enemies, he dared to say tens of thousands.

Therefore, in Li Mingyu's mouth, he was born as a mountain man since he was a child, and he made a living by collecting medicine, climbing rocks and crossing mountains as if walking on the ground. When exploring the Black Wind Village, he took advantage of the night when the defense from the back mountain was lax, grabbed the vines to climb the treacherous cliff and sneaked into the Black Wind Village, and after entering the cottage, he explored the layout and defense of the thieves, and set a fire when he left, killing more than a dozen thieves while the thieves were panicking, cutting off five heads, a trophy bow, a waist knife, and Yunyun.

At that time, the county inspector Chen Caowu was not there, otherwise it would be nonsense when he heard this, and it was all a story made up by the family. Li Mingyu only dared to make up this kind of story of a master of art who was bold and broke into the enemy camp at night to cater to his taste of reading.

I didn't want to make up too much credit, which made Zheng Shuzhi greedy, and in the end, he didn't get a share of the reward, and he suffered a lot of flesh and skin.

It is conceivable that with this false information, the government will organize a large army into the mountains to exterminate the Black Wind Village.

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In the blink of an eye, two or three months have passed, and the climate has reached the beginning of winter.

In Qinghe Mansion, more than 100 miles away, there is a small hill called Funiu Mountain, but it is only seven or eight hundred meters.

On the top of Funiu Mountain, there is a small village composed of more than a dozen dilapidated houses, which is called Funiu Village. A few years ago, a small group of outcasts and fugitives had fallen here, and they had built the debt. However, since more than a year ago, the Funiu Village was suppressed by officers and soldiers, and the dead fled and fled, and the Funiu Village has been completely abandoned.

Only mountain people who go into the mountains to collect medicine or hunters who go into the mountains to hunt will stay in the village for a night in the mountains.

However, the barberry village, which was already desolate and abandoned and rarely visited, has begun to become lively in the past few days.

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"Shen Xiaoer, why are there still leaves in the compound, clean it up for me!"

"Li Da Niu, you have a lot of strength, move this stone pier to the martial arts arena!"

"Zhao Pimple, is the water boiling, am I still waiting to make tea for Touling Li?"

"Got it, Brother Gazi. ”

"Okay, Liu Tou. ”

"The water will be fine in a moment, Brother Gazi. ”

In the courtyard outside the main hall of Funiu Mountain, a thin young man with a roe head and rat eyes was pretending to be a tiger at this time, turning the three fourteen or fifteen-year-old young envoys around.

This young man with a roe head rat is none other than Liu Gazi, the little minion of the Black Wind Village before.

But isn't this Liu Gazi dead, Li Mingyu handed over to the county inspection department one of the five heads.

That's right, Liu Gazi's head is also fake, it was cut off by Li Mingyu when he met a homeless person who died on the road on the road.

After Liu Gazi was captured, not only did he tell him all about the situation in Heifeng Village without his threat, he knew everything he didn't know, and more importantly, after Li Mingyu's interrogation, he found that although Liu Gazi was timid and useless, he didn't do anything too evil. Unlike the other four thieves, they all had more or less innocent blood on their hands.

It is precisely because this Liu Gazi doesn't even dare to kill people, and every time he robs, he just waving flags and shouting on the side to make a show, so he will be looked down upon by almost all the minions in Heifeng Village, as cowards, bear bags, and waste, if he doesn't have a strength, he will especially flatter people and slap horses. has long been regarded as an idle eater and driven out of Heifeng Village.

But because of this, he was lucky enough to save his life in the hands of Li Mingyu this time, but the other four people died.

Liu Gazi is a person who can see the limelight, and he has some vision, seeing that Li Mingyu did not kill him, but wanted to let him go, but he didn't leave, he had to stay for Li Mingyu to be his subordinate and run errands.

Although Li Mingyu guessed that he stayed because he had nowhere to go and wanted to stay here to eat, but considering that he was indeed a person who didn't even run errands, he pinched his nose and left him behind.

As for Shen Xiaoer, Li Daniu, and Zhao Pimple, the three of them, they were all selected by him from the homeless people, although they have no merits, but they are a little dead and loyal, which is enough.

Through the lessons of the previous inspection department, Li Mingyu realized that although a hero and three gangs are a martial arts world, but without helpers, it is not enough to fight alone.

This time the suffering of the flesh and skin, although he played a small smart life and falsely reported the merits caused the greed of the Zheng scribe, it also shows that his background is too shallow and his strength is weak. Otherwise, if there was a sect or even a martial arts hall behind him as a backer, that Zheng Shuzhi would not have any scruples to show such an ugly appearance, covet all his credit, kick him out, and let him eat a hard meal.

Therefore, after almost twenty days to recover from his injuries, Li Mingyu began to cultivate his own forces.

As for the method of cultivating power, the best thing is that there are sects and martial arts halls. As a white road force, it can reasonably and legally recruit and cultivate manpower, as long as it does not violate the taboo of the government, it will not attract suppression and hostility.

However, if you want to start a sect, in addition to at least having the strength of the True Qi Realm, you must also have a certain amount of qualifications and prestige in the martial arts, as well as a wide range of connections.

These are all what Li Mingyu lacks, and there is age, who would approve of a teenager with average strength to start a sect. In the same way, although the requirements for opening a martial arts hall are much simpler than establishing a sect, it is not within Li Mingyu's current conditions.

Of course, just because the white road doesn't work doesn't mean there is no other way. Li Mingyu chose the easiest way to establish his own power - to fall into the grass, that is, to take the underworld. When bandits and bandits don't have as many rules and regulations as on the white road, he and Liu Gazi recruit some small minions and occupy a small hill, which is a small force.

It's also funny to say, a few days ago, he planned to help the main government to fight the Black Wind Village and receive a reward and bounty, but within a month, he himself fell into the grass and became a member of the bandits.

In addition to the underworld, Li Mingyu has not considered joining the sect or the martial arts hall, but those big gangs and big factions generally select the core number one in the sect from a young age and start cultivating it from a young age. It is almost impossible to trust and cultivate those who are beginners like him, and they are generally used as thugs and cannon fodder in the name of testing. Where there is a problem, where there is a danger, you can go, as for the resources of the sect, you must not have your share.

Even if you have been tested and polished, you have persevered and come to the end, and through it, the edges and corners have been basically smoothed out over the years, and the spirit and talent of the year have disappeared and become mediocre in the test and polishing. At this time, what if you are really accepted, you will be divided into your wishes, and it is just for you to give those doors their fancy or selected Tianjiao as wings or even stepping stones.

As for the small sect or the martial arts hall, maybe they fancy your talent and directly include you in the inner door, so what, in these temples of descendants, the limited resources are not enough for the children and immediate family members of those heads and owners, and how many can fall on your head, and after going around in a circle, you will eventually become a thug and stepping stone for others to grab resources.

It is precisely because of considering all the pros and cons clearly that Li Mingyu discovered that as a three-no scattered martial artist with no sect, no family, and no backer, he wants resources, and if he wants to become a master, the only way is to be strong.

Strong those who are rich, those who are strong in small sects, and even those who are strong in the official mansion and those who are famous in the big sects.

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Liu Gazi carried the brewed tea on a tray and came to the side of the main hall of Funiuzhai, outside a relatively tidy room.

"Leader Li, the tea is ready"

"Come in," someone in the room said lightly.

The area of the room is not large, a wooden bed, a wardrobe, and a desk by the window.

A man in Tsing Yi with a black mask was sitting behind a desk looking at a book.

Liu Gazi took down the tea on the tray and carefully placed it on the desk. Seeing that the man in Tsing Yi, who was the leader Li in his mouth, seemed to be paying attention to the book, and had no intention of talking to him, he hesitated, but still didn't speak, and took the tray and prepared to push it out.

"Gazi, you've been with me for a while!" Seeing that Liu Gazi was about to withdraw from the door, Leader Li suddenly spoke.

That's right, this Li leader is Li Mingyu, since he wants to fall into the grass, he naturally can't use his identity on the surface, otherwise he won't even dare to enter the city in the future.

So he put on a black mask, took a long black knife, and couldn't see his face, he was a young swordsman who hid his identity.

In the future, his identity will be, the black-faced fast knife, Lee Kuan Yew, the big leader of Funiu Mountain.

"It's been more than two months" Liu Gazi said cautiously, he knew that although this master was young, he was very ruthless when he killed people, Xun Shan and Wang Er were killed by him like a chicken.

"Okay, so who am I?"

"Are you...... , You are Lee Kuan Yew, Leader Li, Jianghe is known as the black-faced fast knife, and you are the big leader of our Funiu Mountain" Liu Gazi said with an idea, but he secretly thought in his heart, "It's so dangerous, I almost said the word Li Mingyu, and I saw Li ...... Lee Kuan Yew's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he immediately changed his words. ”

Li Mingyu nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, although you have many shortcomings, one thing is good, that is, you are very clever." Since you are so clever, you must know what you can say and what you can't say! You remember, I am Lee Kuan Yew, and you can't make a mistake at any time, otherwise watch your head!"