After deceiving the villain, I was forced to love him.

"what?!"

"One hundred thousand taels?!"

"Why didn't she just try to steal it?!"

"I have no money, so let her die!"

Upon receiving the extortion letter, Lu Jian flew into a rage in court.

"This..." Sensing something amiss, the minister said, "Your Majesty, please calm your anger. This matter..."

"Calm down my ass!"

Lu Jian could no longer bear it. He stepped down the royal steps, grabbed Minister Yi by the collar, and dragged him toward his throne!

"Come, come, take a look at how much this dragon throne is worth, and pawn it."

"Why don't you come and sit down?"

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, please calm down!" The minister was so terrified that his legs went weak on the spot.

"If all else fails, sell me out too!"

"Your Majesty!" The courtiers knelt down in fear, trembling.

Lu Jian released the minister who was half-dead with fright, "You're not selling, huh?!"

"Then don't even think about me paying a single penny!"

"Your Majesty!" Minister Two wanted to try again.

Lu Jian, who had just stepped onto the royal steps, grabbed the memorial from the eunuch beside him and threw it at him, shouting, "Get out! Court is adjourned!"

Lu Jian left the council hall in a few quick steps and went straight to the Ministry of War.

"..." But the moment he stepped through the outer gate of the Ministry of War, he turned back.

After much deliberation, the eunuch caught up with him, panting heavily.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, may we...may we announce the imperial decree?"

Looking at the two characters "Ministry of War" on the plaque not far away, the scene of the chaos in the northern frontier suddenly appeared in Lu Jian's mind.

The emperor was angry and laid down millions of corpses.

The emperor is incompetent, and the people are suffering.

At this moment, Wang Qingyan was in the Three Cities region.

He absolutely cannot afford to give up at this crucial moment.

With a long sigh of relief, Lu Jian turned around and gave up.

The eunuch followed silently behind him, sensibly making the other servants and guards who arrived later keep their distance.

Lu Jian walked slowly back to Shangyang Palace, and stopped again when he passed Xuande Gate.

I leaned against the railing and gazed into the distance for quite a while...

He asked sullenly, "Am I a terrible emperor?"

The eunuch was startled and quickly bowed his head, saying, "Your Majesty is wise and mighty, a truly enlightened ruler of our time."

"Heh," Lu Jian chuckled self-deprecatingly, "What do you know?"

What a load of rubbish! Baili Ce was simply forcing him to choose between the Baili clan and other powerful families.

How many companies can he choose from?

"Your Majesty is a true dragon of the heavens. Even if you are in trouble for a time, you will surely be able to clear the clouds and see the sun, and create a prosperous reign for all generations."

Lu Jian felt relieved and comforted.

"Do you really believe that I can create an era of lasting peace?"

He seemed to be asking the eunuch a question, but his eyes were actually looking at the world outside Xuande Gate.

The eunuch knelt down and kowtowed devoutly, saying, "This servant believes."

"..." Lu Jian turned around and looked at the eunuch kneeling on the ground.

like......

His name was Zhang San?

After a long silence, Lu Jian waved his sleeve and walked past Zhang Shan with his hands behind his back, saying in a light tone, "Reply: I will never give you the ransom."

"But if the bandits accept the amnesty, I will grant them land and good titles, and allow them to build water conservancy projects, houses, and roads."

"Let bygones be bygones."

......

Several more days passed, and Baili Ce, who was so familiar with the bandits that he couldn't be more familiar with them, had completely integrated into their lives.

It's the kind of integration where she delivers food to newly kidnapped rich people on the mountain, and they curse her as a filthy bandit, spit on her, and kick or knock over the food in her hands.

At times like these, Baili Ce would sincerely advise Ming Xiang—

"Give these ungrateful, food-wasting ration coupons a few more meals of hunger!!"

That way, people will fight over the unpalatable food.

Of course, Anluo, who prefers quick and decisive battles, will always jump out from various corners at opportune moments to give everyone a lecture in order to assert his status as the leader.

"As the saying goes, even thieves have their code of honor."

"We don't torture prisoners!"

Although he often ordered the second-in-command and the seventh-in-command to help the hostages loosen up their muscles.

"Don't take their lives as long as they're willing to pay."

He only did the killing of the hostage because he had no other choice.

However, it wasn't many, only about a dozen times.

"To avoid pushing their families too far and causing them to unite against us."

So he turned all the inhabitants of the three cities into bandits.

“Yes!” Baili Ce was the first to agree, mainly because what if they were pushed too far and refused to pay?

"Ha ha ha ha......"

However, for some unknown reason, the Seventh Master burst into laughter as soon as he heard the news, pointing at An Luo.

While laughing, she also exposed his shortcomings, "I don't know who said a couple of days ago that they were going to slaughter that fat pig's whole family."

The seventh leader refers to a businessman surnamed Yang who was kidnapped and taken to the mountain the day before yesterday. I think his name was something like "Kidney Treasure," or something like that—a very rustic name.

When the man was robbed, he was so frightened that he had an epileptic seizure on the spot and foamed at the mouth.

For the sake of money, An Luoshi endured being bitten more than a dozen times before he recovered.

This is not a big deal.

Most importantly, in order to consolidate his position and prove his strength, An Luo went alone at that time.

When he brought back the merchant, who weighed two hundred pounds, the horse could not bear the weight and ran away halfway, then jumped off a cliff.

That's why they say Anluo is the boss!

He single-handedly carried the incontinent fat merchant back to the village.

The smell of feces and urine was originally strong, but it was fine after a quick wash.

After all, bandits have touched all sorts of dirty things, so this is nothing to them!

He didn't want to be caught red-handed by the Seventh Master, who then told him about it as a joke.

Therefore, at this moment, facing the Seventh Master who was laughing wildly, An Luoshi only grabbed his collar and said one sentence.

"Your good days are over."

The seventh leader's smile vanished as he finally realized the seriousness of the situation. "Ah, no, boss, I was just kidding! Just kidding..."

But Anluo didn't give him a chance.

Not long after he took the man out of the "Heroes' Hall," An Luo returned, wiping the blood from his hands.

He then slammed a letter in front of Baili Ce, saying, "Let me see what kind of nonsense this is."

Yes, she has gloriously taken over the position of the village schoolteacher.

They became professionals at writing extortion letters, threatening letters, curse letters, challenge letters, family letters, love letters, and so on.

Thinking back to that day, the schoolteacher, with his thinning hair, loose teeth, and dull eyes, but who was actually only thirty years old, couldn't help but kneel down and kowtow to her eighteen times.

She even said that all the children she had in the future would take her surname.

Pooh! Beautiful thought!

While painless motherhood is nice, a schoolteacher is really not her type.

But the schoolteacher ran even faster after hearing her explanation.

They escaped the mountain stronghold as if they had been given wheels of fire...

Bai Li Ce was very puzzled and deeply moved.

This job is so interesting!

She opened the letter and glanced at it briefly. "Oh, it's a reply from the dog emperor."

......