Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

After the two men left, a thick stack of paper was respectfully presented by his subordinates and placed in front of Hua Yunhong.

"Your Highness, this is the steam engine blueprint Qin Ming sent."

Hua Yunhong is the crown prince of this kingdom.

The imperial court had very high expectations for the princes, who not only had to study under teachers designated by the court from a young age.

You also have to get your hands dirty and study the mechanical techniques.

When every prince came of age, he not only had to pass a cultural examination.

They also have to come up with an institution that they have improved or newly created in order to be considered a qualified royal family member and to go to the territory to be established.

In this kind of educational environment, Hua Yunhong's attainments in mechanical engineering are naturally much higher than those of ordinary people.

Even when faced with a thick stack of dazzling steam engine drawings, he could understand them quickly if he calmed down.

"Go down and find a few masters of mechanical engineering in the court, and have them come to see me in person."

"Yes!"

His men immediately went to look for someone.

But Hua Yunhong suddenly thought of something and called his men.

"and many more!"

"What's the matter, Your Highness?"

"Don't just look for random people. Check their backgrounds first and find two or three with clean records."

"understand!"

Hua Yunhong arranged to investigate their background just to be on the safe side.

Although Qin Ming delivered the steam engine drawings to him so easily, the importance of the drawings and the possible impact they might have on court officials after being passed on were too great.

Even if research is to be conducted, it must be done in secret.

Wait until I ascend the throne, when everything is settled and ready, and then implement it.

……

Shuilian County.

The location of Jiudaomen is on a mountain outside the county town.

After all, there are too many people, and they are all hot-blooded men. Many times they are unable to face the officials.

If one is not careful, his followers may offend those officials, which will only increase the conflicts between the two sides.

Therefore, many sects in the martial arts world do not set up their mountain gates in the city.

Instead, they look for places with beautiful mountains and rivers and dense villages. Firstly, the places are large, and secondly, it is easy to recruit people.

Chang Baishan was sitting in the lobby of Jiudaomen at this time.

The dozen or so martial artists sitting next to him were all well-known figures in the martial arts world.

He had already gathered martial artists at Hongyun Mountain and delivered some passionate speeches.

He also made a promise in front of everyone that although he was young, he would definitely lead them to guard their homeland and prevent the rats from taking advantage of the turmoil in the Shenmu Kingdom.

He was not lying. In just a few days, with the help of Chu Ying, he raided many Tongbao Pavilion caravans.

"Everyone's recent actions have been very successful, and we have accumulated a considerable amount of silver."

"I called you all here today to celebrate."

Chang Baishan took out a wine bowl with great generosity.

Then he clapped his hands.

A jar of nine-jar spring wine from Daqian on the table was quickly opened.

This is wine from Daqian, whose winemaking technology is very impressive.

At least it will leave Shenmu Kingdom far behind.

Many of the underworld leaders present had already been drooling over these fine wines.

They had heard of Daqian's fine wine before.

But unfortunately, it is very difficult for people of their status to get a jar.

Sometimes it’s not just because the price is high, but also because it is specially supplied to royal nobles.

After all, it is very laborious to transport it from a long distance.

As for the profit, it is not too high, far less than things like silk and porcelain.

In addition, the wine jars can easily be broken during long-distance transportation.

By then, the losses will be huge, and it will be a thankless task.

Therefore, many merchants are not willing to transport this kind of wine directly.

Now seeing him take the initiative to ask for wine, everyone immediately broke the seal on the wine jar.

Many people immediately began to compliment Chang Baishan.

"It must be thanks to the commander-in-chief's careful arrangements, otherwise we would never have been able to raid so many caravans."

"Yes, we made a lot of money on this trip."

At this time, Captain Sun suddenly spoke up and mentioned the silver and supplies they had earned.

In addition to the supplies obtained by intercepting the caravan this time.

They actually also obtained a large amount of silver.

It was a total of tens of thousands of taels of silver. For ordinary gangs like them, sometimes they could only earn a few hundred taels or even a few thousand taels of silver after working hard for a year, which was already considered a lot.

This silver also needs to be distributed to the elders or hall masters under him.

These elders and hall masters will then distribute it to the people below them.

After working hard for a year, the amount of money you actually get is not that much.

After all, there are at least a few hundred people in each of their gangs, and at most thousands.

If the money is divided equally among so many people, ordinary gang members can only earn a few taels of silver a year to fill their stomachs.

Normally, I still need to grit my teeth to eat meat.

In just a few days, they have earned tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Originally, many people doubted Chang Baishan's strength, but now it seems that Chang Baishan no longer needs to be doubted by anyone.

"Yes, I have some money."

Chang Baishan nodded very generously. He had seen big scenes before, and this was less than ten thousand taels of silver.

He doesn't even take it seriously.

So he nodded directly, and the eyes of the people around him suddenly lit up, while Chang Baishan knocked on the table.

"Since you're following me, you absolutely cannot go hungry. I won't interfere with your own businesses. As for the people in our Wulin Alliance, let's go out and work together. Half of the money we earn will be left to the alliance, and the other half will be divided equally among everyone. How do you think?"

Hearing this, everyone immediately became greedy.

"What the commander-in-chief said makes sense."

Captain Sun immediately gave a thumbs up and praised Chang Baishan repeatedly.

Chang Baishan looked at everyone with a smile, waiting for Chu Ying to tell him what was going on.

Before Chu Ying came to Changbai Mountain.

I only told him one thing, and that was that the profits must be fully distributed.

The average underworld forces would give 30% at most, but he would give 50%.

As for why so much is given, the reason is very simple.

Whenever the distribution of interests is involved, disputes are likely to arise.

What’s more, it is the distribution of thousands of taels of silver.

When talking to them about the distribution just now, Chang Baishan had a little trick up his sleeve.

That is to tell them that they can divide it equally.

But this brings up a problem. Some people in these martial arts sects contribute more effort, while others contribute less.

How much effort they put in depends entirely on how strong they are and how many people they have under their command.

Once you have them divided equally.

Then the people from these big gangs will definitely be dissatisfied.

Especially on Sun Chuantou's side, they are one of the gangs that contributed the most.

Just to plunder supplies in the past few days, they mobilized more than half of their men.

During the days when he was the chief commander of Changbaishan, they were considered the bravest group of people who waved the flag and fought hard for Changbaishan.