“…What exactly do you want to do?”

In the second floor of a teahouse on West Street in the city, the county magistrate Ma Gai looked at the man wearing a tiger mask in front of him with a serious expression, and conveyed the question that the county magistrate Liu Pi told him to ask.

However, the other party felt a little absent-minded, and from time to time he turned his head to look at the store on the street below with the "Luye Gongji" sign, and seemed to have no concern about Magai's questioning.

"Zhou Hu..."

Magai, who was ignored, gritted his teeth and whispered: "Don't you want to explain this?"

Hearing the sound, the man wearing a tiger mask turned his head and looked at Magai.

After staring at each other for a few breaths, Magai's anger freezes. The eyes that were originally staring at each other seemed a little erratic.

"Ah, sorry, I'm a little distracted."

Zhao Yu deliberately pretended to be hoarse and uploaded from the mask with a little smile: "What did you say just now?"

…Put garlic?

Although the other party was not angry because of his own questioning, Magai was relieved, but he would not let the other party get away with it casually. He said calmly: "Don't you think your recent behavior is too unscrupulous? You used to come up with a charity and vegetarian rice to attract the people in the city by providing people with free vegetarian dishes and rice to others, and take the opportunity to attract the people in the village. Now, you also call Chen Zu to negotiate with the county government, build a workshop in a piece of open land in the south of the city, and use your wages to lure the people in the city... What are you going to do?"

Speaking of this, he lowered his voice and added: "What is the 'Kunyang Brotherhood'? That's your person, right?"

"Ah, it turns out that's the case."

Zhao Yu held the tea bowl and made a sudden realization.

Immediately, he raised a finger and said with a smile: "Before explaining, I will give a small opinion to Ma County Ma. It is not 'you', nor 'you', but 'we'. You are also a member of us. You are temporarily planned to be at the level of 'big leader', the same level as Chen Zu... Sorry, there is no too detailed level classification in the village yet, and it will gradually improve in the future."

“…”

Ma Gai opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

How could he care about the "ranking" of a copycat? - Speaking of which, a group of bandits actually got some titles, isn't it ridiculous?

Of course, he only dared to complain about this in his heart.

He let out a long sigh, shook his head and said, "Zhou Hu, Mr. Liu is very frightened by this. You and I know that your 'brotherhood' is definitely not just a small fight like Heihu Yishe. You want to win over the public opinion of the entire Kunyang, mercy on the public opinion, and make it use it for your use... The court has a charge for this, "winning over the public opinion, and making a mistake in the plot."

Zhao Yu smiled and said, "You might as well say that I want to rebel."

"..." Ma Gai was blocked by Zhao Yu's words and left speechless, but his solemn expression seemed to prove that he seemed to think so.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu asked with a smile: "Don't you two really think so, right?"

"……I have no idea."

Ma Gai spread his hands and said frankly: "Your actions and what you want to do, Mr. Liu and I can't guess clearly... Otherwise Mr. Liu wouldn't send me to test again and again."

"hehe."

Zhao Yu smiled and shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I know how much I have, and I won't be so arrogant that I try to be an enemy of the whole court. Everything I do is nothing more than to integrate into Kunyang so that I can survive. You can understand that I want to abandon darkness and turn to light..."

Threat the court to order officials as internal supporters, can this be considered as abandoning the darkness and turning to the light?

Ma Gai glanced at Zhao Yu. Unfortunately, he could not see Zhao Yu's expression behind the mask, so he could only guess.

"Really?" he asked.

"certainly!"

Zhao Yu spread his hands and said, "Putting aside each other's positions, we are indeed doing good things, right? The completion of the Heihu Yishu House will allow those who are full and hungry in the city to eat at least; the establishment of the Chengnan Workshop will provide a lot of work for the county, and the people in the city will get stable responsibilities, and the county's public security will also become better. Isn't that good?"

Magai had no way to refute these, but he also knew that the Black Tiger Thief would not do good deeds in vain, and the other party must have a more secret and ulterior motive.

"Can you reveal your real purpose?" Magai asked seriously.

"You two are really..."

Zhao Yu shook his head helplessly and said, "Well, it's not something that cannot be told. You just tell the Mr. Liu who is afraid that everything I have done is to make my Black Tiger Club more stable in Kunyang and not be destroyed... In order to achieve my goal, I am committed to binding my Black Tiger Club and Kunyang County's interests. In the future, the Black Tiger Club will move Kunyang, and the Black Tiger Club will move Kunyang, and that's all."

...It's all?

A disagreeable expression appeared on Magashi's face.

He couldn't imagine what would happen to him when he was tied up with the Black Tiger Thieves, but unfortunately, he was not qualified to bargain with the person in front of him.

Nodded, Ma Gai stood up and said, "I understand, I will tell Mr. Liu truthfully."

After saying that, he was about to turn around and leave, but he saw Zhao Yu laughing and said, "Let's wait...A Jing."

"yes."

Hearing Zhao Yu's gesture, the Jingnv, who was standing beside him, took a wooden box from the table next to him, held it in both hands and handed it to the horse cover.

"What's the meaning?"

Ma Gai's expression slightly darkened, and he looked at Zhao Yu with a little unhappiness.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu smiled and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm just giving you a wedding gift in advance. After all, you are also a subordinate of Zhou."

Magai didn't care about the 'subordinate', he cared more about another word: "Happiness?"

He immediately thought of something and whispered in a fury: "Isn't that all you do?"

What is he angry about?

It's nothing more than the "Wang girl".

Some time ago, rumors about the county magistrate Liu Pi, county magistrate Ma Gai and Wang's daughter spread all over the city. Ma Gai's family was fine, but his wife just complained that he did not discuss with her in advance, but was afraid of Liu Pi, who was inside, had a big fight with his fierce wife.

After this incident spread, everyone in the city was thinking: Oh, Mr. Liu seems to be out of the way, and the daughter of Wang is still in the Ma family.

Not to mention anything else, even the Wang family is currently waiting for Ma Gai to come to propose marriage, which makes Ma Gai not dare to pass by that street recently.

"This is also for the overall situation. The copycat will remember your sacrifice."

Zhao Yu stood up, patted Ma Gai's shoulder, and then stuffed the wooden box into Ma Gai's hand.

Sacrifice...?

Hearing these words, Magai was so amused that he shook his head and left.

After Ma Gai left, Jingnu took off the mask on her face and asked with a little naiveness: "Prince Ma is a very upright person, why did the young master tease him?"

"Maybe it's too idle."

Zhao Yu also took off the mask on his face and took a sip with a tea bowl.

Indeed, he has been too idle lately.

On the other side of the village, under the management of Guo Da, Chu Jiao, Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Chu Yan and others, everything was neat and was consolidating the defense of the village step by step; on the other side of the county, Chen Zu, Chen Cai, Ma Hong and others also gradually penetrated.

As the current leader of the Black Tigers, Zhao Yu did not need to do it himself, which made him gradually idle. Besides paying attention to the progress of the parody and the county town every day, there was only waiting for news.

A few days ago, Xu Fen was well recovered and returned to Kunyang with Chen Mo and others. At that time, Zhao Yu instructed him about something and asked Xu Fen to go to Yancheng to see if he could find the whereabouts of the Zhou family.

Originally, Zhao Yu planned to find his relatives after replacing Yang Tong, but unfortunately there was Zhang Jing, a threat at Kunyang at that time, so Zhao Yu had to flee to Luyang with his village members and hid in Luyang for several months.

Now that he has returned to Kunyang, he finally has enough time and space to find his relatives.

Among them, he thought the most likely to find was his grandfather, and his grandmother had two uncles. After all, according to Ding Lu, there were also Zheng Luo and other loyal guards who survived by chance. After these guards died in the town of the marquis' mansion, they immediately ran to Yancheng to deliver letters to the old couple. Therefore, when Liangcheng Army later found Yancheng, Zhao Yu's grandfather and grandmother had long disappeared.

As for Zhao Yu's two uncles, Zhou Yun and Zhou Fu, they are still missing now. Zhao Yu has not received any bad news about the two brothers so far.

On the plus side, the Zhou family probably hid, but they didn’t know where to hide and whether it was safe.

In addition, Zhao Yu was also waiting for news from Zhang Jing to see if General Zhang Jing could clear his grievances for the Zhao family in Luyang, and whether he could find out the real murderer who framed him that day.

If Zhang Jing finds the real murderer, he will save much more effort.

Based on these two aspects, Zhao Yu has really done nothing recently.

Well... it's not right.

Although there is nothing to do, the development and infiltration of the Heihu people are still inseparable from Zhao Yu's major direction.

For example, the Brotherhood Workshop that has just been established.

According to Zhao Yu's instructions, Chen Cai had handed over the affairs of Heihu Yishe to Ma Hong, and he himself turned into the corporal affairs manager, who was responsible for the establishment of the fraternity and the operation of the workshop.

Running a workshop is much more difficult than running a Yishe, because Yishe does not need to consider profit, but the workshop needs to consider profit. Otherwise, if you lose money to the entire Heihu Village, you will not be able to support so many employees.

So, how to make a profit?

Maybe there will be someone, that's not simple, can you make money by producing something and selling it?

In fact, this is not the case.

First, we have to consider the ‘market’.

Given that Kunyang is close to Nanyang County, when he thinks of the "market", Zhao Yu immediately thought of Wang Shangde's Wancheng Military City, which is a large market that has fattened Luyang, Ye County and several other counties in recent years.

But how to get to Wancheng Military City is a problem.

It’s impossible for Zhao Yu to come forward and negotiate with Wang Shangde in person?

Furthermore, the selection of products in the workshop is also a problem.

If you want to trade with the military market, the most profitable thing is nothing more than wine.

In the past two years, merchants who have been doing wine business with the military market have made a lot of money. The time when the wine merchants transported wine to Wancheng was not as fast as the Wancheng army had consumed. Can this business not be made? However, no matter how much land these wine merchants earned, they did not make more land than Wang Shangde.

Just looking at this point, it seems that doing alcohol business is a good choice?
To be continued...