It is not uncommon for bandits to recruit peace. As early as the time of the Great Revelation, there was a precedent for the imperial court to recruit peace. There were also bandits. As this boy said, their styles were diverse, and everyone had their own ways.

Like A Chen, he is just a clever one, only seeking money but not killing his life. He also reached a tacit understanding with local officials and gained benefits from each other.

Apart from them, they are the kind of people who are extremely vicious and plundering money and killing lives. However, Long Qi also knew that some more wise bandits occupied the mountain as kings and formed their own territory, and even officers and soldiers could not attack them.

They collected taxes and paid wealth on their territory, occupied the land and mountain, relied on the mountains to eat, relied on the water to eat, and were self-sufficient.

After solving the problem of livelihood, he began to practice to strengthen himself, defend the mountain, plunder money and rob people when he went down the mountain, and enjoy himself when he went up the mountain. Once his reputation was made, there were still people who came to join him, and the team expanded, and the people and horses were strong.

Such bandits who occupy the mountain have great harm. They plunder people to the mountain and blackmail relatives. If the scale is small, the court will suppress all bandits. However, if the scale is too large and the cost of attack is too high, the court will turn it into a policy of recruiting peace.

But the trouble of recruiting bandits is that even if they become regular soldiers, they will find it difficult to change their bad habits and are extremely difficult to manage. Long Qi targets gentle bandits like A Chen and others. If they can successfully recruit them, it is also a good way to increase their ranks.

A Chen didn't know that he and his brothers had become prey in Long Qi's eyes. Mu Qiang's nature made him obey Long Qi's will now, and all this was just Long Qi's observation of his nature and the possibility of obedience.

It was also on this night that Song Qingming, the high-ranking official mentioned by the people, had already taken up Yingcheng, the center of the southwest.

Song Qingming himself is gentle, his wife is petite and charming, and seems to have no attack power, but the flying dragon army that escorted him is powerful, especially the man beside Song Qingming was holding Shangfang sword for Song Qingming, which made Yingcheng's prefect's legs soft as soon as he came.

In his plan, the couple would be placed in the best inn in Yingcheng. If possible, it would be best to place them in their own courtyard so that they could get close to the Shangshu Song and better control the Shangshu's every move.

Unfortunately, Song Qingming's route was not an ordinary official, but he insisted on taking his wife to live at the inn. Diagonally opposite the inn was the rest station under Qin Feng. After seeing the team of people entering the inn, the rest station also surged.

Song Qingming not only lived in the inn, but also refused to invite the prefect to have a night banquet. He listened to the subordinates sent in advance to understand the situation of the water and water, and quickly judged whether he could quickly close the water transport.

Rouji stayed alone in the room at the inn. When Song Qingming came in after his official duties, he heard her murmuring: "It turns out that Dongyue has such a desolate place, and it is still the most prosperous place, and even half of the capital is not as good as half of it."

After entering the southwest, the number of post stations has decreased significantly. The villages along the way are sparsely scattered everywhere. Due to the geographical environment, they live in scattered places and are not concentrated. In remote places, the market only takes twice a month.

Rouji saw him coming in, pointed to a box next to him and said, "This was just sent by the prefect's wife, and said it was for me to relieve my boredom. What is it?"

Song Qingming was no exception to this situation. The poor management of winter drought was so effective that the imperial court sent people to him. The prefect's heart was in his throat. It was common for him to win over the upper party and conceal the informant to the superiors. He had encountered it before.

This time, unlike before, he brought Rouji over, and it was the first time those people started with his wife.

Rouji looked at Song Qingming's face with interest, and then said after watching him feel relieved after opening the box: "It is the result of my return of part of it. Don't take it lightly."

There were just a pair of ordinary horse hang tags inside, with forty cards in total, arranged neatly in the box.

Ma Dan is one of the ways for noble ladies to use for entertainment, but this one looks a bit thin. Song Qingming thought of something, and after counting it, he said in surprise: "Only twenty pictures?"

Twenty pictures were missing!

Rouji curled her lips and said, "The so-called "sincere" is said to show her diligence. The lord clearly declined the invitation from the prefect, but he asked his wife to come over to visit with her daughter. When he entered the door, he said that he did not bring any generous gifts, but this box of leaf cards has hidden mystery."

"A deck of cards is forty, twenty of which are made of Jinyezi. The scale and standard are the same as ordinary cards, but the material is not ordinary, let alone..." Rouji raised her eyebrows: "The daughter I brought is only fifteen years old and she is as beautiful as a flower."

Rouji asked a brief question and knew that this young lady was not the legitimate daughter of the prefect, but the eldest daughter of the polite daughter. She was beautiful and brave. After coming in, she sipped her wife and took the initiative to pour tea for her.

"Those who know that she is here to visit, those who don't know that she thinks she will become an adult's woman in the next moment and recognize her as her sister. This will be served in advance." Rouji didn't know where the anger came from, and sneered: "The adult is very lucky."

Song Qingming paused and suddenly blurted out: "Why is it so sour?"

Rouji was stunned, and then she realized that her reaction was a bit big. She thought for a while and said, "What is the situation between you and me? But we are all together, and I am even more accusing you of marriage. What if you are jealous?"

Song Qingming had a smile on his lips that he hadn't even noticed, and said, "Did you return those twenty pictures?"

"Of course, both of us are prosperous and both of us are prosperous now, and we lose together. How can we let them get into the water? Twenty golden leaves are actually nothing, but their temptations, if I collect them, the next one will not be as simple as gold leaves."

Rouji's eyes showed a little disgust. She came along and saw many ragged beggars, some of whom were escorting their daughters to be sold to other people's families as child brides or maids from wealthy families.

The southwest is so poor, but the visiting prefect's wife and the concubine were both wearing gold-wire embroidered clothes. I don't know how many people's food rations are for a year just by a bracelet on their wrist. In this way, it is probably the prefect's wife who dressed up in a low-key manner.

"They wanted to see you, Mr., but the adults only care about communicating with their subordinates for official duties. They could not wait for a long time and could only be forced to leave. I gave them so shameless by the reason of jealousy. Jin Yezi retreated and mocked them a few words."

If Song Qingming was there, he could see Rouji holding an air and using his sarcastic smile to mock them for trying to cling to third-rank officials and trying to climb Song Xiang's lintel, which was simply overestimating his ability!
Chapter completed!