Chen Zhongbang was stunned, and neither of them spoke again, until he saw Zhou Bai's sincere expression clearly, and then he understood that the young man opposite was serious.

When the hot tea in Zhou Bai's cup was almost finished, Chen Zhongbang finally asked, "Zhou Gongzi has no reputation at present, right?" Or have you inherited the titles of your ancestors? ”

He didn't even use the title of "Zhou Sheng", because only Xiucai was considered to be in school, and he was just polite before, but now he wants him to recognize the reality.

"No fame, no title." Zhou Bai slowly shook his head and replied.

Chen Zhongbang didn't mock, but smiled and said, "What is the basis for that?" Childe, it's not so simple to recruit retainers. ”

The implication is simple, what capital do you have now to recruit retainers?

Even if it's a "broken household" like him, I'm afraid it won't work.

"It's there tomorrow, is it enough for the first trial case of Bei'an County in the forty-sixth year of Xiangxing, if it's not enough, then is it enough for Dingzhou Qiuyu Jieyuan?!" Zhou Bai stared at Chen Zhongbang and said word by word.

At this time, Zhou Bai's face was calm and indifferent, but a closer look found that he was extremely confident between his eyebrows.

"This, you ......"

The young man's sharpness actually deterred Chen Zhongbang for a while, and he couldn't tell for a moment whether Zhou Bai was a joker or if the development of things was as he said.

"This is ten taels of silver, you can use it to subsidize your family, Mr. has been stumbling for nearly forty years, maybe it is time to take a risk, not for yourself, but also for your family." Zhou Bai took out an ingot of official silver, put it on the stone bench, and cast his eyes on the dilapidated houses.

Chen Zhongbang still didn't speak, just looked at the dark sky in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.

"I'll come back tomorrow, sir knows my sincerity."

Zhou Bai turned around and left with an old style, without dragging his feet at all, he knew that no one could trust him if he acted like this.

However, just as they walked to the door, Chen Zhongbang spoke: "How did Gongzi Zhou know my talent, and you believe me so much?" ”

Zhou Bai waved his hand backwards and did not give him a reply.

When Zhou Bai's figure was about to disappear around the corner, Chen Zhongbang's slightly impatient voice came again.

"Do you know that I am a happy household!"

Zhou Bai paused, and responded in a long voice: "None of this is important. ”

The echoes were falling in the cramped alleys, and Chen Zhongbang fell into deep thought for a while.

Next, Zhou Bai went to several places one after another, all of them were famous and capable people in his previous life, but none of them were successfully recruited.

There is not even one as "gentle" as Chen Zhongbang, they are full of indifference, and there is a lot of ridicule.

Because their conditions are much better than Chen Zhongbang's, new recruits may not be able to recruit them.

But Zhou Bai was not discouraged, because Chen Zhongbang was alone, and he was worth all of them.

Of course, in the city of Bei'an County, there is also a "famous minister" named Lin Ren, who can also be recruited, and his talent is not weak.

However, Zhou Bai thinks that Lin Ren is not a good courtier, and his character is tainted.

In his previous life, Sun Yucheng should rob the army, discover Lin Ren in the market, and trust Jian Ba.

Within a year, he became Sun Yucheng's chief strategist, with a respected status and good treatment, it can be said that Sun Yucheng is both his Bole and his master.

With such a generous treatment, you should do your best to stand with the lord to the end, if you don't say that you will die.

However, when Sun Yucheng competed with other princes, suffered a great defeat, and lost his army and land, Lin Ren, the chief strategist, colluded in a rebellion, resulting in Sun Yucheng's defeat and death.

If the future catastrophe is just the end of the dynasty to dominate the world, then Zhou Bai still has the confidence to control Lin Ren, so that he has no chance to rebel at all.

The catastrophe in my memory is not just a simple change of dynasty, but a great change that affects the whole world.

The turbulent waves are wave after wave, and no matter how foresight and ability he has, he will inevitably encounter strong winds and waves.

What Zhou Bai needs is that all the crew members on a ship are united, united by his side as a captain, and have the courage and loyalty to resist the wind and waves.

Lin Ren, such a talented Zhou Bai doesn't need it, and accepting it is equivalent to pressing a time bomb by his side.

But Zhou Bai doesn't want it, naturally some people are eager to find talents.

……

The Sun family's mansion in the east of the city, with high walls and red tiles, and continuous courtyards occupy almost an entire street, and the heritage of the old county can be seen.

Sun Yucheng's residence is in the core area of the courtyard, second only to the head of the family and his eldest brother.

As an heir candidate, he has considerable autonomy in the Sun family, and can even mobilize the Sun family's resources to do private affairs.

Xiucai has a steady reputation, and in a few months it will be Qiuqiu, and it is about to reach the point where he will participate in family affairs, and Sun Yucheng has put the formation of the team on the agenda.

Before the county exam, he got a taste of elixir given by the mountain god, and judging from the records of the elixir treasured by the family, it was actually the main material of the Avatar Dan that he cherished.

If you supply the Son of Heaven, you will definitely be rewarded, whether it is to help the ministers supported by the family to go further, or to ask for a lieutenant below the fifth rank himself.

Or maybe he wants to cultivate Taoist priests who are loyal to him, and trade them with the sect, so that he can also exchange them for spiritual objects such as the Immortal Pill and the Dao Treasure Medicine.

Sun Yucheng didn't forget the root cause of obtaining the elixir, the old Taoist priest who reminded him of the opportunity of Tingshan.

So he sent a large number of men to search all corners of the city, and the old Taoist priest probably knew that Sun Yucheng was looking for him, and before the servants of the Sun family could find it, he took the initiative to come to the door to pay respects.

The two got straight to the point, Sun Yucheng wanted to recruit him as a private offering, and the old Taoist priest proposed a corresponding honorarium.

His target was the elixir that Sun Yucheng had just obtained, the main material of the Transforming Fan Pill, and the Transformation Fan Pill, which countless condensing cultivators were eager to follow, was refined from this.

This elixir can at least recruit four or five condensing monks for its use, not to mention the temptation of the imperial court to issue a decree to be knighted.

However, Sun Yucheng is also worthy of being a heroic man who can raise troops to open a mansion, and he agreed without thinking about hearing this condition of the old Taoist.

In his opinion, without the old way, the elixir has no share in the first place, and now it is just a business without capital.

The old Taoist priest's name is Bu Yuanzi, and now he is a casual cultivator, but he has a heritage, and he still remembers that when he was young, he still had a master to teach, preach and receive karma.

Later, the master Shouyuan died of exhaustion, leaving only the inheritance of yin and yang divination and a secret, the ancestor of their lineage, who had explored the dragon qi in the north.

Although the dragon vein was not determined in the end, several dragon qi were captured, and one of them was found, which should be in the Sun family in Bei'an County.

Bu Yuanzi never thought about things like Fulong when he was young, in his opinion, it was self-defeating.

But as he stumbled through the years of cultivation, he found that there really seemed to be no way out for casual cultivation, and the immortality of cultivation was just a bubble in the water.

So he turned to the art of divination, and now he is proficient.

Shou Yuan is about to run out, and he is determined to end the game, and it depends on the will of heaven whether he can help the dragon or not.

It was to calculate the fate of Tingshan, and inform Sun Yucheng that he was just waiting for the decision of this "hidden dragon".

gave him the hope of transforming into a mortal, and he helped him, but if he didn't give it, he found an apprentice and lived this life.

How much dragon qi is there, over the years, Bu Yuanzi has never found out.