Reborn in Liangshan: I built the strongest lineup

Wang Wancang was cursed by Ren Yuan and Lu Zhishen the whole way.

Of course, he dared not resist in any way; he could only keep smiling and quicken his pace.

After all, the faster you go, the less criticism you'll receive.

He led Ren Yuan, Lu Zhishen, and others, taking a shortcut to the warehouse where the silver was stored.

The moment the warehouse door was opened, the dazzling array of white silver ingots inside was so overwhelming that it made one's eyes spin.

"This is……?"

“These are all large silver ingots, each worth one hundred taels. Liang Shijie said that the emperor doesn’t like copper coins, so they’ve all been exchanged for silver.”

"Signal to the main force and call another regiment over. There's too much stuff here; the King Kong Regiment can't carry it all."

After reading it, Ren Yuan immediately spoke to his personal guards.

"Well, Your Majesty, you see I've brought you all this way, I... I wonder..."

Wang Wancang felt afraid when he saw Ren Yuan and the others preparing to ransack the house.

"Wang Wancang, I have a question for you," Ren Yuan asked.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please speak."

Upon hearing Ren Yuan call his name, Wang Wancang didn't dare to delay and quickly answered.

"How much do you think your life is worth?"

Ren Yuan turned around and looked down at him.

"Your Majesty, didn't we agree that if I brought you here, you wouldn't kill me? How could you go back on your word?"

Wang Wancang was almost in tears. "This is outrageous! You're really messing with me!"

"Don't cry! I didn't say I was going to kill you. I'm just asking you, how much do you think your life is worth? Just tell me that, okay?"

Ren Yuan frowned as he looked at Wang Wancang, who was about to cry.

"Then, that would probably be worth at least 100,000 strings of cash..."

Hearing that Ren Yuan just wanted to ask and had no other intentions, Wang Wancang was relieved. He quoted a price, "Well, it's worth a birthday gift."

"Ten thousand strings of cash? That's a birthday tribute?"

Ren Yuan looked Wang Wancang up and down, then turned to Lu Zhishen and said:

"Master, what do you think if we plant a birthday gift in the ground now in spring, we can harvest a lot of birthday gifts in autumn?"

"Brother is right! I agree!"

Lu Zhishen grinned, then started rolling up his sleeves again!

"No, no, no! Didn't we agree to just ask? Why are we planting again?"

Wang Wancang panicked. "This can't be done like this! How can you do this!"

You promised you wouldn't kill me!

"Then tell me, how much is it worth?"

Ren Yuan smiled and looked at Wang Wancang again, "Tell me, suggest a reasonable price, and then everything will be fine!"

I simply think that you, the Prefect of Daming Prefecture, a dignified Prefect Wang, whose status in Daming Prefecture is second only to Liang Shijie and his wife, should be worth more than a birthday tribute!

"Two, twenty..."

Wang Wancang watched, trembling, as Ren Yuan began to raise the price.

"Ok?"

Ren Yuan merely glanced at the offer of 200,000 strings of cash.

"No, no, thirty, thirty..."

Upon hearing Ren Yuan's "response," Wang Wancang immediately raised the price again!

"Um???"

"Forty, no, fifty! Five hundred thousand strings of cash! Five hundred thousand strings of cash! That's all, Your Majesty, it's really all gone, we can't come up with any more!"

Wang Wancang knelt down again, kowtowing and begging for mercy! At the same time, he had already raised his value to 500,000 strings of cash!

Five birthday gifts!

"Five hundred thousand strings of cash, it seems you are indeed quite expensive. But then again, as the dignified garrison commander of Beijing and the second-in-command of Daming Prefecture, it is only right."

Ren Yuan reached out and patted Wang Wancang on the shoulder, then spoke to him in a "friendly" manner.

"We'll move it here. How about this: you go back to your residence, count the money, and then bring it here. Someone will check the amount with you. Is that alright?"

"As long as the number is correct, you will remain the garrison commander of Daming Prefecture. You can do what you really wanted to do back then, and become a good official with ambitions. Is that alright?"

"Ok, Ok!"

Wang Wancang smiled bitterly to himself. Could he say no? He was afraid that if he did, he would be beheaded the next second!

"Hey, you're a quick learner, very good, Shizhong!"

Ren Yuan called out Han Shizhong's name.

"To!"

When Han Shizhong heard the chieftain call him, he immediately stood up.

"Take your men and go with Magistrate Wang to his house. Remember, you're there to move things; don't do anything else."

Ren Yuan instructed Han Shizhong that since Wang Wancang was willing to pay money to save his life, then he should be spared.

After all, 500,000 strings of cash is a lot. It's quite impressive that Wang Wancang has amassed this much wealth over the years.

……

The residence of Liang Zhongshu.

Wu Song's army is ransacking houses here. To be honest, ransacking houses here is really tiring because Liang Zhongshu's mansion has too many things!

"Pick all the big items! Don't just take the little trinkets! They're worthless!"

Wu Song didn't have a good impression of Liang Zhongshu either. After all, according to Yang Zhi, this guy had pushed all the responsibility for the birthday tribute onto himself in order to avoid accountability.

"General, people from Daming Prefecture are coming to the gate!"

While Wu Song was ransacking Liang Zhongshu's house, the soldiers outside came to report that many people in the surrounding area had heard that Liang Zhongshu's house had been ransacked and had come to see the spectacle. They were also asking which hero had done such a thing!

“Give money to the people! What Liang Zhongshu has amassed is all the people’s hard-earned money. Since the people have come to watch, let’s give them some of the money as well.”

When raiding homes in Liangshan, they never took everything back to the stronghold; they always distributed a portion to the people first.

"General, the people still want to see you."

"see me?"

Although Wu Song found it strange, the Liangshan army had always maintained good relations with the people, so Wu Song also left Liang Zhongshu's residence to meet with the people.

"Thank you, hero! Thank you, hero!"

As soon as Wu Song appeared, the people immediately knelt down before him.

"Get up! Get up! Fellow villagers, no kneeling! No kneeling!"

Wu Song quickly told the people to stand up. He was joking, but the Liangshan army didn't do that. If they made the people kneel, they would be subject to military law when they got back!

"Heroes, we are all in a state of panic because of this Liang Zhongshu. Now that we have broken through Daming Prefecture, we hope that you will not damage the houses in Daming Prefecture. As for the house of this scoundrel Liang Zhongshu, you may destroy it as you please!"

"Yes! That bastard Liang Zhongshu! I just can't stand him!"

"Exactly! If you ask me, corrupt officials like Liang Zhongshu should be punished!"

……

Hearing the voices of the people, Wu Song smiled.

This is the human heart! This is the human heart of Daming Prefecture!

"Fellow villagers, Liang Zhongshu is a tyrant who preys on the people and embezzles their wealth! We are here to uphold justice! Anyone in Daming Prefecture who is willing to follow us, come on over!"