I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Jiang Yuan's actions made the bandits feel a little confused. Do you think the free money is too little?

After the group of people whispered to each other for a while, someone bravely stood up again.

"Alright! Two strings of cash! I'll let you pass for two strings of cash!"

"Alas..." Jiang Yuan sighed deeply, stroking his chin and said, "Okay, two strings of cash is two strings of cash."

After saying that, Jiang Yuan turned to look at Zhao Kai: "Didn't you hear? Two strings of cash, hurry up, we still have to hurry on after we're done."

Zhao Kai nodded nonchalantly, turned around and walked towards the group of bandits.

Halfway through the journey, Zhao Kai stopped, turned around and looked at a tree as thick as a bowl beside him, nodded with satisfaction, and then slapped out with his palm.

Click!

The tree broke into two pieces. Zhao Kai turned to look at the bandits and extended his hand with a smile.

"Everyone, our master said, two strings of cash, hurry up."

The bandits' faces changed instantly. No wonder he was so generous. It turned out he wanted to rob them!

But these bandits really didn't dare to say anything for a while.

A tree as thick as a bowl was broken with just one palm. If it hit your body, it would be more than just bruises.

"What should we do, brother?" A younger bandit looked to the side with a sad face.

The bandit next to him glared at him and said, "You don't know what to do, how can I know?"

"We can't win anyway, so let's just do as he says."

The young bandit searched his body for a long time and finally took out two copper coins: "Brother, this is all I have. How can we get two strings of cash together?"

After the bandits searched his body thoroughly, they found only a few dozen copper coins. Zhao Kai frowned deeply.

"That's it?"

"This hero is really gone. We haven't seen him for half a month." The young bandit said listlessly.

When Zhao Kai handed these dozens of copper coins to Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan weighed the coins and shook his head.

"Okay, that's all."

After saying that, Jiang Yuan threw the copper coins directly to Wang Gang and walked towards a dozen bandits.

"Being a bandit to the point you've reached is enough to prove that there's no future for you in this line of work."

The young bandit looked at Jiang Yuan and said with his neck shrunk, "Young man, we, we all became bandits because we had no other choice."

"The local officials colluded with the government and took away all our land. We had no choice but to come out to make a living." One of the bandits said sadly.

Jiang Yuan rubbed his chin and pondered for a while before nodding, "Well, are there many people like you around here?"

The young bandit nodded without hesitation and said, "There are quite a few. There must be at least a hundred of them in total."

Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up instantly. About a hundred people, although not many, are still labor force.

"I do have a way. Just follow this road and you'll find a place called Taiping County. When you get there, tell the soldier at the gate that Jiang Yuan sent you through."

"Naturally someone will arrange a job for you. Although it's not an easy job, it will at least allow you to have enough to eat. What do you think?" Jiang Yuan looked at the bandits calmly.

After a dozen bandits discussed it, they bravely said:

"Young man, why are you helping us?"

Jiang Yuan rolled his eyes immediately and said, "I'm not helping you for no reason. When you get to Taiping County, you have to work to get enough food."

At most, this will add more than a hundred young and middle-aged people to Taiping County. Although a fly is small, it is still meat.

"Alright, the dozens of copper coins you just gave me are your bribe to me. Wang Gang, give them a stack of pancakes."

When the dozen or so bandits left carrying the pancakes, each of them had an expression of disbelief on their faces.

Robbery on the road and get a job?

When the fire started, Wang Kun boiled the green snake in his hand without hesitation.

"Sir, would you like to try the excellent snake soup?"

Jiang Yuan looked at Wang Kun with disdain: "How could you be so ungrateful? I asked you to be a god and beat ten people with one blow, but you turned around and boiled them."

"Your Excellency, that's not right. After I finish eating, I'll dig a hole and bury Brother Snake, and kowtow to him while I'm at it. As for now, this is called recycling!"

Jiang Yuan curled his lips, too lazy to pay attention to him.

"Okay, hurry up and eat, then we'll get going. Judging by the distance we're traveling, we'll be there tomorrow morning."

After the group had finished their meal, they set off again.

Taiping County is not too far from Xinri City, a total distance of 800 miles. The group finally entered the gate of Xinri City early the next morning.

After finding an inn and leaving the carriage behind, the group of six turned into street strollers and started strolling.

"Sir, where are we going?" Wang Kun asked as he looked at the crowd around him.

"That's a good question. Wang Kun, Er Gou, go ask the people around here which is the largest restaurant in Xinri City."

"The rest of you follow me. We'll meet at the inn tonight." Jiang Yuan said and waved his hand to signal Bai Jingyun and others to follow.

When the Yang family's ancestor was sold in the imperial capital, Lu Fang promised to send the extra money from the auction to Xinri City.

It has been a long time since then, and Jiang Yuan estimated that the storm should have calmed down, and it was time to withdraw the money.

The few of them got the things without much effort.

After all, these were things sent by the current Prime Minister Lu Fang. No one would dare to make things difficult for them.

When the group gathered together again, Wang Kun excitedly told them all the information.

"Sir, I've already found out everything. The largest restaurant in Xinri City is Fengkelai. It's said that their owner is related to the chief clerk of Xinri City, but I haven't heard of any black material against them."

Jiang Yuan waved his hand nonchalantly: "Alright, that's enough. Lead the way to Fengkelai."

A moment later, Feng Ke came to the door, and a group of six people squatted opposite, thinking quietly.

"Sir, why are we here? Didn't I tell you that Fengkelai is the largest restaurant in Xinri City. We definitely can't open a restaurant here, otherwise we will have no business." Wang Kun looked at Jiang Yuan in confusion.

Jiang Yuan stood up, patted his butt and said, "Do you see this store behind us?"

Wang Kun glanced at it and spread his hands: "Sir, he has already posted it for transfer, which fully proves that Feng Ke Lai is very powerful. The surrounding restaurants have no business."

Jiang Yuan calmly looked around the surrounding shops and said softly, "That's right, I want to buy this restaurant behind me and go against Feng Kelai!"

Wang Kun was dumbfounded. Isn't this just asking for death?

"You know shit. If we're going to do something, we'll do the biggest one. If we can defeat Feng Kelai, there will be no rival in the entire Xinri City." Jiang Yuan said as he kicked open the closed door of the restaurant behind him.

"Boss! I want to sell the shop!"