my father is the emperor

Chapter 61 Food Shortage
The breeze blows slowly, and the dazzling sunlight reveals some fatigue. After Zhou Li first went back, he thought about a lot of things. Now that the weapons are almost ready, the only thing is the manpower and the expansion of the territory. He frowned and sat in the lobby. Squinting his eyes slightly, Wang Wei walked in after a while and said, "Boss, those who surrendered have already returned to the team. Those who did not surrender will be locked in the small black room. What do you think?"

After Zhou Li asked Wang Wei to sit down, he smiled lightly and said, "Have you taught those children Kung Fu today?"

Wang Wei's face tightened, he shook his head, cupped his hands and said, "The subordinates have neglected their duties, and the subordinates did not take care of those children!"

Zhou Li frowned and said: "Didn't I say before that we don't need these red tapes and insults between us, we just need to be called brothers." He paused and laughed: "I don't blame you for not teaching them, how about it, la Let those captives teach the children to learn how to kill!" With his robe fluttering slightly, Zhou Li stood up and said, "Okay, go down!"

Wang Wei didn't get up, but stood up and stopped moving forward. Zhou Li asked hesitantly, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Wang Wei nodded, and said solemnly: "Brothers have been growing too fast recently, and our food is no longer enough, and there is no way to deal with it now!"

Immediately, Zhou Li sat on the chair again, touched the corner of his mouth, thought hard and said, "How long can our food last?"

Wang Wei didn't hide anything, and immediately said, "About two days or so!"

Zhou Li snorted and said, "Two days, do you still have any food supplies?" Because Wang Wei and Zhou Li are not on the same mountain now, Zhou Li thought it was just that he ran out of food on his side!
Wang Wei smiled wryly, shook his head like a rattle, and said, "Oh, this is already a conservative estimate on both sides. If this continues, the brothers will be hungry, and accidents will inevitably occur. In the past, Liu Shihao often went to rob People’s food, see if we can..."

"No!" Before Wang Wei finished speaking, Zhou Li waved his hand and said, "How can we do such a lowly thing? We can't take it from the people and use it to the people. It doesn't matter if the wool comes out of the sheep. The difference, in addition to this, we should think of other methods!"

Wang Wei also felt remorse for his own words, nodded guiltily, and asked, "Can we go outside to buy some food, or shops or something like that? That way we can support our brothers without harming the people at all!"

Zhou Li frowned, and asked in surprise: "By the way, how much money did Liu Shihao and Fat Brother rob? "

Wang Wei said with a chuckle: "This Liu Shihao is really in front of his father, the county magistrate, taking away people's fat and people's ointment. He has as much as 1 taels of gold in his hand. Fat brother's side is relatively less, about 5000 taels of gold, and the rest is Kaiyuan Tongbao. Can be ignored!"

Zhou Li nodded and said, "That's enough!" He waved Wang Wei to his face and said, "Look, our current location is in the middle of Henan Road, Shannan East Road, and Huainan Road. Farming is not allowed in the high mountains, but there are many mines here, we can find a few mines to process and sell them!" Zhou Li pointed to a simple map and said: "You are looking at here , Shannan West Road, this place can be developed and cultivated, and it can also solve the food problem for the brothers!"

Wang Wei looked at the map, looked at Zhou Li in surprise, and asked, "Did you draw this yourself?"

Zhou Li smiled subtly and said, "I can draw it just by relying on my impressions!"

Wang Wei frowned and said, "How do you draw this, and the leylines we see are only a little bit!"

Zhou Li said with a smile: "Let's talk about the brothers first, and I will teach you how to draw a map later!"

Wang Wei snorted, pointed to the map and said, "Can we grow some trees here, so that we can be more concealed!"

Zhou Li shook his head and said, "No need, it's useless for us to plant trees. Now that brothers are gradually increasing, we have to provide vast resources for our brothers to live in. How can we go to war without a place to live?"

Wang Wei nodded and said, "Yes, but most of these lands are occupied by high-ranking officials, and it is impossible for us to buy land there. What should we do?"

Zhou Li snorted, and said: "Senior officials, hmph, if it doesn't work, we should overthrow the senior officials too, so that they will never see the emperor in this life!"

Wang Wei shook his head quickly and said: "This is not possible, we have to be patient now, don't mess with yourself!" "

Zhou Li took a deep breath and said, "We don't need to buy high-ranking officials, but we can also buy common people's land. The land we buy can be cultivated by the common people freely. We can just take a small part of it!"

Wang Wei wondered: "But, as long as we only need that little, the brothers are still not enough to make ends meet?"

Zhou Li laughed and said, "We still have Huaxiang, did you forget?" He paused and said, "Since it is necessary, Huaxiang is also considered one of us, and it is only natural to do something for us!"

Wang Wei laughed and said: "This is indeed a good idea. People in the past were all fascinated by the fragrance of flowers!"

Zhou Li laughed and said: "Yes, so we have to use the beauty of the fragrance of flowers to make money. In that case, the source of our livelihood will come from people like high-ranking officials and young masters. They just need less money!"

Wang Wei smiled and nodded, "It's really good, I'll do it now?"

Zhou Li shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I still have a lot of things to do?!"

Wang Wei stopped and said, "Is there anything else?"

Zhou Li said in a deep voice: "Have you ever heard that there are bandits here? As long as they are bad people, we will eat black and let them have nothing to eat!"

Wang Wei thought for a while and said: "In Chang'an, there are indeed a lot of bandits, some of them are still roaming on Chang'an Street, but they are all dressed up in a noble way, and they don't bring a few brothers. They are all vagrants. Gentlemen! It’s not worth mentioning.”

Zhou Li shook his head and said, "You're wrong, people like Fan are almost forbearable villains, and they will stab the knife behind their backs. It seems that if we want to get news, we must go to Chang'an and other county towns! "

Wang Wei pondered and said: "We can choose to start with bandits and the like. Generally, bandits have more gangs. Bandits take advantage of the steepness of the mountain and are forced to become kings. However, bandits are everywhere. Yes, and even a bandit is more skilled than us bandits, if we find a bandit every day, in time we can have a gang of bandits that can be regarded as rivals!"

Zhou Li nodded, frowned and asked: "By the way, I heard that you are the proud student of Tianjianmen before. Where do your brothers and sisters usually hang out?"

Wang Wei shook his head and said: "Don't count on them, they are all far away from the county town, resting their martial arts in a paradise!"

Zhou Li sighed and said, "Okay, prepare some gold for me, and let's talk about Huaxiang first!"

(End of this chapter)