Chapter 410: First Snow
"Finally...... Finally ......
After Zhao Yu finished saying that, Chen Cai, Ma Hong, Zhang Feng and others felt sincerely happy.
Once upon a time, they never considered 'whitewashing' their identity, and even felt that being a bandit was more leisurely, and the money came quickly.
But since Zhao Yu cooperated with the businessmen of Ye County to establish the 'Kunye Mutual Benefit Association', this group of former bandit leaders realized how stupid they were in the past.
Is it fast to make money from trading without capital?
No! The real fast money is business profit!
Compared with the benefits obtained by organizing caravanserais, the business they used to have no capital earned was simply hard-earned money, and they even had to be surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers.
After that, people like Chen Cai, Ma Hong, and Zhang Feng, including Guo Da and Chen Zu, vigorously supported Zhao Yu's attempt to contact the government and find a way to clear his identity.
For the business interests that these people are interested in, the general Chen Mo is not interested, but Chen Mo also supports whitewashing, after all, no matter how you cover it up, being a thief is a humiliating thing after all, and it is not recognized by the world.
Once a thief, he is a thief for life, and his children and grandchildren are all lowly people, which is a common understanding in contemporary times.
Just like Zheng Bai and Zheng Song brothers, just like Ning Niang, because their biological father was a thief, they were born lowly, the men were in the army, and the women were reduced to official prostitutes and military prostitutes, and there was no future at all.
Chen Mo didn't care about it himself, but he needed to think about the widows and orphans of his old brothers.
And this is also one of the reasons why he supports Zhao Yu's ascension, because Zhao Yu promised him that they can make some changes.
At that time, Chen Mo was still a little unconvinced, after all, secular rules have always been like this, and now, Zhao Yu has finally done it.
In this regard, Chen Mo was quite gratified in his heart.
And just when everyone was happy, a discordant voice suddenly appeared: "So, you are now on an equal footing with Ma Gai?" ”
There is no doubt that the only one who will pour cold water at this time is Wang Qing, who has always done his own thing.
However, this time, not only Niu Heng, who was protecting Zhao Yu everywhere, was angry, but even Chen Mo was not happy, and said with a cold face: "Wang Qing! ”
Seeing that everyone in the room looked at him with displeasure, Wang Qingwan said, "Brother, I'll just say it......
As he spoke, he stood up, walked to Niu Heng, and reached out to take the letter of forgiveness that Niu Heng held in his hand.
"What for?" Niu Heng immediately hid the pardon book in his hand behind him, and asked angrily, with a little unhappiness in his tone.
"Of course I want to see the pardon, what else can I do?" Wang Qing said angrily.
“……”
Niu Heng turned his head to look at Zhao Yu, and saw that the latter nodded, so he reluctantly handed the pardon in his hand to Wang Qing, and told him: "Be careful, don't break it." ”
Wang Qing ignored Niu Heng's advice, and even glanced at Niu Heng after taking it, and mocked in a low voice: "I can't read and write, so what is the baby doing?" ”
Niu Heng was so angry that he clenched his fists and waved twice in front of Wang Qing, but he didn't smash it down after all.
After all, this guy who owes a lot of money is also a brother in their cottage after all.
Under the helpless gaze of everyone in the room, Wang Qing took a serious look at the pardon letter of rejoicing, and then turned his head to look at Zhao Yu and asked, "In other words...... That Li Junshou gave you a nominal official position and let you continue to contain the rebels? And beyond that, no reinforcements, no assistance, nothing? ”
Zhao Yu was not surprised that Wang Qing hit the nail on the head in one sentence, after all, Wang Qing has never been a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill, and many times this guy is still very reliable.
"Yes."
Zhao Yu nodded, without concealment.
“……”
Wang Qing took a deep look at Zhao Yu, casually threw the pardon back to Niu Heng, regardless of the latter's glaring at him, looked at Zhao Yu and asked thoughtfully, "So...... How are you going to do that? Or let me ask more bluntly, in the future, I will work for the government in Heihu Village? ”
Hearing this, everyone in the room looked at Zhao Yu in unison, after all, what Wang Qing asked was exactly what they cared about.
Even Ju Sheng is no exception.
"That's not quite true."
Glancing around at the people in the room, Zhao Yu said calmly: "In my opinion, this is just a transaction, we assisted Kunyang to resist the rebels, and prevented the battle situation in Yingchuan County from changing in the most unfavorable direction as much as possible, and the Li County Code granted me the status of 'innocent'." …… This is an act of obedience by the county guard, not a favor on us, and we owe him nothing in that case. ”
He glanced at Wang Qing and asked with a chuckle, "Do you think I care about the official position of this county lieutenant?" ”
He shook his head with a smile, and then said with a straight face: "But I won't refuse, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and no matter how small the official position of the county lieutenant is, it is always the status of an 'official', which is conducive to me in the future, as for whether I want to serve the government in the future, it depends on whether we can benefit from it......"
Hearing this, everyone in the room nodded secretly.
They want to clear their identities, but it doesn't mean that they have to obey the government, and they have never thought about working for the government.
Whether it is Zhao Yu as the big leader, or Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong, Chen Cai and others, this is the case.
As Zhao Yu said, this is just a transaction, not a favor from Yingchuan County.
"Hey!"
After getting a satisfactory answer from Zhao Yu's side, Wang Qing smiled evilly, nodded slightly, and then turned around and walked back to his seat. 258
"I don't have any doubts."
He said, spreading his hands.
"Neither do I."
Chen Mo said calmly.
Following the two, Chen Cai, Zhang Feng, and Ma Hong also expressed their positions, and in the end, only Ju Sheng remained, and he also went along with the trend.
After the sensitive topic, the rest of the topic is more relaxed.
Even Wang Qing, who had just almost caused public anger, also joked about whether to let the 'Black Tiger People' be called another one, after all, Zhao Yu accepted the position of 'Kunyang County Lieutenant', so he Black Tiger People can also be regarded as another county army in Kunyang.
Considering that Kunyang already had a county army, everyone began to discuss the title.
Some say that it will be renamed the 'Black Tiger Army', some say that it will be renamed the 'Kunyang Black Turban Army', and so on.
Only Ju Sheng did not participate in the discussion, but just watched quietly.
At this time, Ju Sheng realized that the relationship between Black Tiger Village and Yingchuan County was not harmonious.
"The righteous master really shouldn't have rejected Leader Zhou that day......
Probably in the relationship of staying in the righteous teacher for many years, Rao is Ju Sheng has decided to draw a clear line with the righteous teacher in the past, and he can't help but feel sorry for the righteous teacher at this moment.
In his opinion, the black tiger thieves led by the righteous master and the leader of Zhou Hu should not have become enemies.
But the matter has come to this point, no matter how sorry it is, the only thing Ju Sheng can do is to hold on to the big tree of Zhou Hu and integrate into the group of Black Tiger Village as soon as possible.
At the same time, a thought also flashed in Ju Sheng's heart: if he could persuade the Zhou leader in front of him to join the righteous cause of 'overthrowing the violent Jin', maybe this Zhou leader would do a better job than the current righteous master.
But Ju Sheng can only think about this matter in his heart.
Because he can see that this group of people in Black Tiger Village are all 'self-interested' people - not that they are all selfish villains, but that these people only do things that are beneficial to Black Tiger Village.
Considering that these people did not have much antipathy towards the Jin Kingdom, Ju Sheng rationally thought that it would be difficult to convince this group to join the 'fight against the Jin Kingdom'.
And the most important thing is that the black tiger thief and its leader Zhou Hu will not send people under the fence.
Looking at the attitudes of everyone in the house, these people mentioned that Yingchuan County was punctual and had no respect, and even Zhou Hu admitted to his face that it was just a transaction between them - how could this group of people return to Yingchuan County, which represented the Jin court, how could they return to Yishi?
『…… Unless the righteous master is in charge of this leader, then there may be some chance.'
Ju Sheng smiled and shook his head.
He knew that it was not possible either.
After all, even the King of Chu of the New Chu State only nominally received the allegiance and support of righteous teachers from all walks of life in the world, let alone the previously unknown Zhou leader in front of him?
"That's it for now...... At least after helping Kunyang repel the righteous master, he will no longer be hostile to the Jin State government because of his identity as a black tiger thief...... As for the future, let's gain trust first.'"
Ju Sheng secretly glanced at Zhao Yu.
No matter what happens in the future, he knows that he must get enough status within the Black Tiger Village as soon as possible, only in this way can he get the right to speak, and only then can he influence the decision of the Zhou leader to the greatest extent like that Wang Qing, instead of being like him today, equivalent to a spectator.
After a while, everyone left one after another, and only Zhao Yu, Jingnu, Niu Heng, and He Shun were left in the yatang.
At this time, Niu Hengcai said angrily: "This Wang Qing, when I get the opportunity one day, I will definitely teach him a good lesson." ”
"The Boss is right."
He Shun and several other black tiger thieves echoed the boss one after another.
Only Zhao Yu smiled and comforted Niu Heng.
He knows that don't look at Wang Qing's mouth is very indebted, and he does things his own way, but he still thinks about the interests of everyone in Heihu Village after all, so he rushes to this point, and Niu Heng, who attaches importance to the brotherhood of the cottage, will not be unfavorable to Wang Qing, even if he can't get used to the latter.
In other words, this barbarian is just talking about it, if he really has the heart to do it, just when Wang Qing has his back to him, he will fall to the ground with a fist, how can he still get out of this yatang.
While laughing, Zhao Yu handed Niu Heng to the pardon letter and handed it to Jing Nu, and asked the careful Jing Nu to keep it on her behalf.
Watching Jingnu take the pardon letter into her arms, Zhao Yu suddenly thought of another letter, that is, the letter given to him by Jiang Xia Qushuai Chen Miao.
"There are gains and losses...... Now that I have received the 'goodwill' from Yingchuan County, it is not good to have any private negotiations with the rebels, otherwise it will be difficult to explain in the future, but I refuse Chen Miao's 'goodwill'......
Frowning, Zhao Yu stood up and walked to the entrance of the yatang, standing at the entrance of the hall with his back on his back, looking up at the dark night sky.
Suddenly, as if he saw something, he stretched out his right hand and caught a snowflake with his palm.
"Ah, it's snowing......"
He muttered to himself, feeling the snowflakes turn into snow in his palms, and looking up at the night sky, as if there was no snow falling from the sky.
Seeing this, his eyebrows first relaxed, but then furrowed again.
『…… I guess you're not so incompetent, Yang Ding, right? Take down Dingling for me!'
Standing at the entrance of the hall with his hands behind his back, Zhao Yu thought secretly.