The Bandit’s Strategy

[Chapter 4-The Power of Portraits! 】What the **** is this new prefect?

"Is this really useful?" Within the government office, Mu Qingshan was a little worried, "Will it provoke the bandits instead and let him bring people in to kill the Quartet?"

"If this is the case, that would be fine." Shang Yunze said, "Now there are people from Tengyunbao on every road into the city. As long as the other party shows up, I will be 90% sure to take it down."

"But what if the other party is a master?" Mu Qingshan is still a little worried.

Shang Yunze's mouth twitched, "Master Mu don't have to worry about this."

"Why?" Mu Qingshan asked the bottom of the question, murmured, "Shangbao Lord and Zhao Yue are not acquainted with each other, how can he know his strength? Such rashly posted a notice, I still feel that it is not cautious and safe, why don't you think of a separate way? "

"This statement also makes sense." Shang Yunze nodded, "Then let the master think about it, and see how we can cover everything."

Mu Qingshan:...

He originally wanted everyone to discuss it together.

But Shang Yunze has already strode out of the study, obviously not having the intention of discussing with him.

Mu Qingshan had to look towards Wen Liunian.

Master Wen shook his head, "Master is too worried."

"Why?" Mu Qingshan was puzzled.

"Tengyunbao can take root in Cang'er Prefecture for decades, and must also understand the bandits of Cangmang Mountain, at least better than you and me." Wen Liunian explained, "The people think that people in the rivers and lakes are impulsive and aggressive. Because they have never seen a real hero. The head of a sect that can become a climate in a place will not be a fool, let alone take root and buy a home without knowing the surrounding environment."

"So." Mu Qingshan finally reacted.

"That's why I agreed to Lord Shangbao's proposal." Wen Liunian said, "Now there are no soldiers, horses or silver in the palace, and the troops stationed outside the city are just empty shelves. If you really want to suppress the banditry, you can only rely on Tengyun Fort."

Mu Qingshan nodded, "What the lord said is extremely true." Within half a month of his tenure, he can invite Shang Yunze from Duanyun Mountain and borrow all the disciples of Tengyunbao to suppress the bandits. , It is already impressive.

Of course, the people in the city did not know the agreement between Tengyunbao and the government, let alone that Shang Yunze had been invited down the mountain and was preparing to wipe out the bandits in one fell swoop-but this does not affect the big guy's favor with Wen Liunian. The problem of banditry outside the city has been around for a long time, and it will not be solved in a short while. As soon as he took office, the new adult started to build a shantang in the city, preparing to give the old people a place to live before the cold winter, and taking the government servants to conduct door-to-door inspections of people’s conditions. The case was handled very quickly, and even taxes were not exempted. Less, compared to the previous adults who only knew about staying in the palace to hide from the bandits, I don't know how many times stronger.

Not to mention knowing the fascinating beautiful man like the wind.

Thanks to the efforts of painters in the city, Zhao Yue's portraits were finally plastered all over the kang heads of every household, side by side with the stove king. There are even many young people who started to imitate his messy hairstyle, feeling that they are also handsome, a bit of a heroic demeanor. Suddenly, there are chicken coops everywhere in the city, and occasionally there is a neatly tied hair, and it will be too rustic by the group.

"My lord." Mu Qingshan and Wen Liunian stood at the gate of the mansion, worryingly, "If things go on like this, I'm afraid it won't work."

At the corner of the street in the distance stood a young queen, rubbing his own hair frantically, moving wildly.

Wen Liunian:...

"What can Lord Shangbao do?" Mu Qingshan couldn't help asking while having lunch.

Shang Yunze smiled, "No."

Mu Qingshan's eyebrows could hardly conceal his worries. Although Cangwucheng was not originally wealthy, everyone was clean and tidy. Now such a shaggy head is really unsightly.

As the twilight approached, the government came again and posted new notices. The people first gathered around happily, ready to see if there were new portraits, but when they saw the full text, they were very disappointed.

The content of the notice was written by Wen Liunian himself, and the quotations explained the importance of "gentlemen dress up" and wanted to curb this inexplicable unkempt wind, but most of the people just took a glance and then scattered around, let alone tearing. Going home to try to figure it out, it is very shameful for the prefect.

When the news came back to the government office, Mu Qingshan suggested, "Why don't you just give an order so that the unkempt person will not come out, and the offender will be jailed for three days?"

Before Wen Liunian spoke, Shang Yunze laughed dumbfounded, "How can the beggar refugees in the city deal with themselves? What's more, no matter how severe the punishment is, I have never heard of imprisonment for improper appearance." An anecdote.

Wen Liunian kept his hands behind his back and continued to circle the house in silence.

Mu Qingshan closed his eyes slightly.

gosh.

Three days later, Wen Liunian brought the painter back.

"Who do you want to paint?" Cao Dai asked.

"It's the same person before." Wen Liunian said, "but I have to change clothes."

"Do you still want to paint?" After Mu Qingshan heard about this, he immediately started to have a headache.

"Yes." The servant nodded, "Everyone has already been invited."

Why didn't you think there were enough things... Mu Qingshan didn't bother to settle the accounts, and left his abacus and went to the study to see what was going on.

Shang Yunze happened to be passing the account room, so he went in and picked up the account book and looked through it, and then he got a toothache.

No wonder it was not robbed.

Being poor like this, there is really nothing to be robbed.

"My lord." Mu Qingshan knocked on the door of the study, and when he entered the room, he saw that Cao Dai had finished drawing a portrait and was washing his hands in the copper basin, so he leaned forward and took a look.

The person is still the same person, his eyebrows and eyes have not changed, but he has become a scholar dressed up, his hair is neatly tied behind his head with a jade crown, he is dressed in white with a jade belt, and holds a book in his hand. He really "Xiao Xiao is like the wind under the pine, and Xuan Xuan is like the sky." .

The new portraits were quickly plastered all over the city. This time, Master Wen had experience, and first painted a hundred or so, and the yamen held them in the city and sent them from house to house for a round before posting the rest on the street. It was torn away again, and it was done in vain.

More handsome! The people praised it, and continued to stick to the wall.

"Will it be useful?" Mu Qingshan asked.

Wen Liunian returned, "Whether it works or not, always give it a try." Otherwise, if you don't intervene again, I'm afraid that in a few months, there will be young men in the city with their hair on their heads in order to defeat others.

I can hardly think about it.

And facts have proved that the power of portraits is indeed extremely huge—or the power of beautiful men. Because only two days later, the young people in the city began to dress up as scholars again. Whether they were literate or illiterate, they had to hold a book in their hands when they walked on the street. Regardless of other things, the pier and hair were neat.

"Fortunately, fortunately." Mu Qingshan was satisfied with the consequences.

Wen Liunian still had a headache sitting in the courtyard.

What is this called...

On the Chaomu Cliff of the Cangmang Mountain, Zhao Yue looked at the new portrait brought back by Lu Chai, and was shocked again without accident, "When did I have this outfit?"

Lu Er headed the head with a smile, "Perhaps he is the twin brother of the head."

"This prefect really is..." Zhao Yue and himself in the portrait looked at each other, feeling very unspeakable.

"Does the master still remember one person?" Lu asked.

"Who?" Zhao Yue looked at him.

"The scholar I met on the ridge outside the vast city more than ten days ago." Lu Chai replied.

"Remember." Zhao Yue nodded, and then realized, "He is the new prefect?"

Lu Chau smiled, "My name is Wen Liunian, he is not very young in his early twenties, and he has a lot of experience as an official. It is said that he has been transferred from Yunlan City in Shuzhong to this place, and he has a personal relationship with the people chasing the shadow palace."

"If he is the prefect, it would not be surprising that he came to me with such a big fanfare." Zhao Yue said, "After all, he never concealed his identity at the ridge that day." What's the matter with the portrait?" The first painting is quite similar, but the wording is mild, and the word "bandit" is not mentioned throughout. The second painting simply paints himself as a scholar, sprinkling a lot of gentlemen. Moral, courtesy, justice and shame are simply incomprehensible.

"Anyone who can make friends with the Lord of the Shadow Palace will probably have the same brain." Lu Zhui said, "I can't guess what this Master Wen wants to do, but there is one thing, the master. I will be happy to hear it."

"What's the matter?" Zhao Yue asked.

Lu Zhui said, "Now these two portraits have been plastered all over the households in the vast city, young men have made it beautiful to imitate the master, and there are many young women who dream of marrying the master."

Zhao Yue:...

Zhao Yue:...

Zhao Yue:...

Lu Zhui added, "So it's better not to go down the mountain in the near future. Even if you don't get caught by the government, you will most likely be tied into the girl's boudoir."

Zhao Yue has a wonderful expression on his face.

Lu Zhui continued, "One more thing—"

"Needless to say." Zhao Yue interrupted with a headache and needed to calm down.

"I'm afraid I have to say this." Lu Zhui laughed, "The Lord Tengyun Castle has already lived in the palace."

"Shang Yunze?" Zhao Yue frowned slightly when he heard the words.

Lu Chai nodded, "This Master Wen looks at a pedantic bookworm, but he is really capable. The disciples of Tengyunbao have been lurking in various mountain roads, looking like they are determined to kill bandits."

"So these are all to lure me down the mountain?" Zhao Yue picked up the portrait on the table.

"It's not necessarily." Lu Zhui handed him a cup of hot tea. "The bandits in the vast mountains are not the only ones of us."