Luo Ming went to twenty-four families to ask for funds to exterminate the gnolls, but only sixteen of them paid, and five of them gave very little.

That adds up to one hundred and thirty-four gold coins.

For the next week, he just ate, drank and had fun with Granty, plus practiced his sword, and there was a kind of "who cares about him".

Anyway, the room and board expenses were paid by the other party, and Luo Ming didn't feel distressed at all when he ate and drank, and even asked Grant to donate the leftover bread or something to the poor in the city every day.

In this game of patience, the opponent lost to Luo Ming, who had no worries.

So, one after another, servants were sent, and even came to the door to ask him when he was going to exterminate the gnolls, but he sent them away.

At the end of the week, Luo Ming unhurriedly wrote many large characters on a piece of cloth and nailed it to the bulletin board of the town hall.

"The Grand Duke has given me a month to destroy the gnolls.

However, the donations raised today are limited and not enough to hire enough people to completely eradicate the gnolls and eradicate the roots.

As far as I know, the reproductive ability of the gnolls is not weak, and if you don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, it will be in vain to kill as many as you want - I can only stay here for a month. After I leave Bajina, it won't be a few months before a large number of gnolls will reappear. I'm doing useless work – why should I do it?

So I'm not going to waste time on the gnolls alone until the fundraising is complete.

It's been a week, and if I don't raise all the money in the future, it's hard for me to guarantee that I'll be able to solve the problem of the gnolls, and I'll finally leave the actual situation to the Grand Duke to decide. ”

Under these words, the amount of money that everyone has donated is also written, and they thank each one by one.

But the people who were thanked by Luo Ming gritted their teeth one by one.

Since it was a donation, Luo Ming would never return the money, whether or not it was really successful in exterminating the gnolls—these rich people never thought of such a good thing as repaying the money in the first place.

But what Luo Ming said on this notice fully reflects his intention to swallow the money without doing anything at all!

How can this be endured?

They came to the door again to question Luo Ming—of course, the words were not too intense, after all, they didn't want to easily afford to provoke a swordsman.

And Luo Ming also answered them bluntly this time, if he did not raise all the price he had in mind, three hundred and sixty gold coins, he would not do anything, at most symbolically cut down two gnolls and bring them back to the Grand Duke and the princess.

As for the money they have already donated, it will also be taken away by him, and he happens to still owe a debt.

However, he also changed his mind at this time.

"If you want to get the money back from me, you can just try, my female companion and I are both swordsmen, and your city is in danger when you get angry. ”

Luo Ming laughed: "But if this money is really useful, if it can exterminate the gnolls, it will be worth it, right?"

If you can pay fifteen gold coins from each family, and persuade others to donate the same amount of gold coins, then three hundred and sixty gold coins will be made up.

I promise you, when the time comes, I will use the bulk of this money to hire men, and then wipe out the gnolls once and for all. ”

These people looked at each other for a moment, and in the end they didn't dare to turn their faces with Luo Ming.

This account is actually very easy to calculate: none of them is willing to fall out with two swordsmen for fifteen gold coins - if they want to hire another swordsman as a bodyguard, it will definitely cost more than that.

On the other hand, if you can exterminate the gnoll, the price of these fifteen gold coins can be regarded as so-so, although it may be a little more, but the extra bit is even a bribe for Luo Ming.

So, it is clear what choice they will make.

It is not surprising that those who have paid money and are trapped will try their best to pull others to jump into the pit together.

There have even been instances where a person who has been cheated of money knows that person is a liar, but he has to defend him, and even drags others to jump into the pit together.

With this mentality of "since my money is not going to be returned, I should let others lose this money as well", the person who has already paid immediately goes to pressure others to pay the money.

Even if there are one or two stubborn ones who are completely unwilling to pay, others grit their teeth and pay out of their own pockets to help them make it up.

Three days later, three hundred and sixty gold coins were handed over to Luo Ming.

At this time, the person Luo Ming said he wanted to hire also arrived in the city of Bajina.

There were a total of thirty people in the group, ten of whom were Luo Ming's disciples, while the remaining twenty were private soldiers and family members brought out from home by disciples with aristocratic status.

For them, it was a field combat training.

The cost of room and board was pushed to the town hall, and the weapons were also pushed to the town hall to help them solve some of it, and in addition, Luo Ming did not have a lot of money to pay.

As a disciple, they don't have to pay the teacher's tuition these days, but take money from the teacher, even if Luo Ming gives less, they don't have any complaints.

As for those private soldiers and family members, they naturally asked for less money - a little more money for their masters could greatly reduce the wages they could get for themselves.

In the end, Luo Ming had to pay only one hundred and twenty gold coins.

At the same time, he has also found someone to notarize and write down the details of the accounts completely.

The people who read the details of this account were speechless for a moment - the names of Login and Grant were written at the head.

"Hire two swordsmen, one hundred and twenty gold coins each. ”

Well, the three hundred and sixty gold coins are all spent. But the two hundred and forty gold coins only turned around and returned to Luo Ming's pocket.

By the way, the people at the city hall didn't dare to ask him about collecting taxes in the process, for fear that he would be upset and cause some trouble.

After all, now Luo Ming is no longer a lonely two people, there are still thirty people under his hands to call, this small city has a total of a few thousand people, and the city guards are only more than twenty people, even if you add all the private soldiers of the nobles and the rich, they can only make up more than a hundred people, and they are completely out of line with Luo Ming.

As soon as the two swordsmen attacked, thirty people behind followed the attack, and a hundred people only collapsed.

And the cautious attitude of the city government can be regarded as saving their lives...... Otherwise, Luo Ming will simply use the trick of pressing the bottom of the box and directly lead people to rob these rich people door to door.

Although the dwellings of the rich were well built, with high stone walls, like miniature fortresses. But since it is not a real fortress, it is not a problem to break a gap with the strength of a sword master.