The whole class traveled through time, the prince's wife was exiled to the wasteland and became

Chapter 444 Development offline

Xue Wei and the others were eating dinner while watching the show brought by these bandits, and they were almost laughing so hard that the food was about to pop out of their mouths.

After dinner, after cleaning up the cooking utensils, it's time to set up camp and rest.

However, Guan Yue did not have anyone set up the tent immediately. Instead, he asked his men, "Have these people been searched?"

Guan Cheng, the veteran escort of Yuelai Escort Agency, stepped forward and answered: "Boss, all the things we found are here."

Guan Cheng spread out the package containing things, which contained daggers, darts and other hidden weapons, as well as scattered silver and copper coins. All the valuable things were in the package, and he took them away like a geese passing by.

Guan Yue nodded: "It's quite interesting. I think their lair is worth a visit."

"Let's confiscate all these things!"

Zhang Tongban, the "teacher" who was bullied, had just gotten a quarter of an hour's break when he heard the conversation between Guan Yue and Guan Cheng.

He had met many people in his career as a swindler, but this was the first time he encountered a well-mannered scholar who had a bunch of bandit-like subordinates.

Just now during the break in teaching, Zhang Tongban came up with a way to get out of this situation. Now he felt more confident and couldn't help but complain, "Master Xue, you are an official of the imperial court after all. How can you rob ordinary people like us?"

Guan Yue snorted coldly: "Ordinary people? You kill, burn, rob and commit all kinds of evil. Where are the ordinary people like you?"

Zou Hu, who was not concentrating on memorizing and was distracted, was close to Guan Yue and the others. Hearing this, he stiffened his neck and said confidently, "We also worked hard to get it!"

Anyway, Zhang Tongban had just discussed with him secretly and came up with a way to escape, and Zhang Tongban said that no matter how arrogant the county magistrate was, he would not dare to kill them.

Zhang Tongban was sure that Xue Wei would not dare to take their lives. After all, if he killed them, there would be hundreds of villages of all sizes on the road. When they heard the news, everyone would be in danger and then unite to kill Xue Wei, the person who broke the balance.

"Oh, don't be angry." Xue Wei told Guan Yue not to worry: "We officials should be reasonable and enforce the law with warmth."

He came to the copper coin and said, "Didn't you hear it just now? All the looted items will be confiscated. We didn't take them for ourselves."

"You see, it costs money to maintain law and order here. Travel expenses are a sum of money, weapons are a sum of money, and confiscating your illegal gains is all for the people."

"If it weren't for you guys who broke the law and burned, killed and looted, we wouldn't have this stability maintenance expenditure, so it's reasonable for you to repay the debt now."

Xue Wei said calmly, "And if I had spent the money on other things, such as reclaiming wasteland and growing crops, I would have made more money after such a long time. Even if I hadn't, I could have supported a few more farmers."

"But the money spent on you did not generate any return. The money not earned here is called opportunity cost, and you are also responsible for paying it back."

The bandits were stunned by what Xue Wei said. It made a lot of sense, but also seemed a little strange.

Zhang Tongban wanted to refute, but he couldn't figure out why this scholar was more experienced than him.

"These two villages should be quite large." Cheng Jiayu stretched lazily: "That's great, we don't have to set up camp in the wild today, we have villages to stay in."

The bandits, whose underwear was almost stripped off, all cried when they heard this. Who the hell is the bandit? It's not enough to strip them all, they also have to search their nests.

After Xue Wei heard what Guan Yue and Cheng Jiayu said, he said to the bandits politely, "Then we will stay in your village tonight. Please lead the way."

Zou Hu & Zhang Tongban: Can they say no?

Qiu Fang asked, "Which of these two places, Menghu Village or Jinyin Village, is Xue Da going to settle down?"

"Menghu Village is only three or four miles away, and Jinyinzhai is more than 20 miles away."

Xue Wei: "Which village has the best accommodation conditions?"

"Tiger Village!"

"Gold and Silver Village!"

Zou Hu and Zhang Tongban said the name of each other's village almost at the same time.

After saying that, the two glared at each other.

Guan Yue shrugged: "What's there to worry about? Let's go to Menghu Village tonight and Jinyin Village tomorrow."

Xue Wei: "My little sister is right, let's do it this way."

Qiu Fang: "What should we do with these poisoned wounded who can't walk?"

"Let those who are not injured carry it." Guan Yue waved the whip and called the bandits to action: "Come on. Don't waste time on the road. You can also review the Eight Honors and Eight Shames and team discipline."

"Anyway, I'm not walking with my mouth!"

The poisoned bandits looked even uglier after hearing this!

wanna die!

But I can't bear to die.

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On the way to Menghuzhuang, Zhang Tongban began to negotiate with Xue Wei, "Ahem... Lord Xue, if you can let our brothers go..."

"I, Zhang Tongban, know a lot of people. I will go and say hello to the villages on the road behind, so that you brothers can get to Jingshui and take up your post faster."

Zhang Tongban was very confident that he could take up his post in the Northwest without any obstacles. Xue Wei would definitely agree to this condition, which would save time and effort.

Sure enough, Xue Wei looked very satisfied when he heard this.

"Oh~ You have contacts with so many villages."

Zhang Tongban nodded. He and Zou Hu had discussed this when they were endorsing the book. Theirs was one of the best villages along the way. If they worked together to persuade other villages to give some face and not to provoke a lunatic like Xue Wei, this plan would probably work. "Zou Hu and I both have good relationships with people."

Xue Wei showed a mysterious smile and said to Guan Yue: "That's really great."

Guan Yue nodded, with the same satisfied expression as Xue Wei: "It will be convenient to develop offline channels this way."

"Develop? Develop downline?"

Zhang Tongban, who was often praised for his sharp brain, looked confused and felt that he could not understand what the two people were saying.

Xue Wei had a gentle smile on his face: "According to the laws of our dynasty, swindlers like you who have defrauded families and caused their deaths should be whipped. We are giving you 20 sticks a day for your labor reform, which is a bargain for you, because we can't beat you to death."

Guan Yue, who was beside Xue Wei, waved the whip in his hand towards Zhang Tongban and gave a friendly smile.

Zhang Tongban felt a chill on his neck and immediately avoided looking at Guan Yue.

"Tomorrow you go and notify the other villages on this road and ask them to come and rob our team. Just say we have few people but a lot of money. But since you had a falling out with Zou Hu, you need to find someone else to cooperate with."

Xue Wei warned: "Remember, the more bandits that come, the better."

"This will make it easier for all of them to accept our labor reform and ideological education and become members of our labor reform team."

"The more new people you bring in, the more we can reduce your sentence and save you from the daily beatings. We can also give you generous rewards, such as food and drink."