The two brothers, feeling depressed and puzzled, picked up some steamed bun crumbs that Yu Zizhen didn't like, and after selling them, they barely bought more than a dozen bags of rice and flour, which were enough for their family and the surrounding neighbors to have a full meal.
After resolving the starvation crisis, the brothers chose another corrupt official they had investigated as their target for robbing the rich and helping the poor.
However, before they could prepare for the infiltration, the house of the corrupt official whom they had carefully selected had been robbed.
After the news broke, the brothers had no choice but to choose someone else. However, they kept choosing, but every corrupt official they chose had his house robbed before they could take action.
The two brothers were so angry that they really wanted to ask who this person was and why he always stole from the corrupt officials they had their eyes on?
They were repeatedly frustrated and not smart enough to think of a way out of the current situation, so they chose to seek help from Tianquan, whom they knew and who they thought was the smartest person in the world.
Tianquan did not disappoint their expectations. After understanding the specific circumstances of the matter, he first made a cool analysis, and then very confidently pointed out a clear way forward for the two brothers.
Following the method given by Tianquan, the two of them finally blocked Yu Zizhen, their "comrade" who always robbed the rich and helped the poor before them.
However, the two of them did not come to cause trouble for Yu Zizhen. According to Tianquan's suggestion, they came to play the victim and take the initiative to join and seek cooperation.
Yu Zizhen didn't steal things to squander them. She stole things to give a way to survive for those disaster victims who couldn't make ends meet. So after listening to the brothers' story about their and their neighbors' miserable lives, as well as their plan to rob the rich and help the poor, Yu Zizhen generously gave them some food, gold and silver.
She was impressed by the brothers' good skills and wanted to recruit them, so when giving them things, she was very thoughtful and did not give them all at once. Instead, she gave them food and gold and silver in small amounts and multiple times, increasing the number of times they came into contact with each other.
Even after the brothers' trust in her increased to a certain extent, she went with them to visit the poor scholar who was hiding behind them and giving them advice, and who was now the trusted subordinate of Yu Zizhen, code-named Tianquan.
Tianquan is not only wise and knowledgeable, but also rebellious. He hopes every day that the Da Qi court will quickly step down from the stage of history.
What shocked Yu Zizhen the most was that he did not hesitate to show his rebellious nature to Yu Zizhen, who was suspected to be also dissatisfied with the Da Qi court.
Yu Zizhen wanted to recruit them, so after a deep talk with Yu Zizhen, he immediately decided to take the pair of brothers to join Yu Zizhen's private army.
Because of his advice behind the scenes, the Kaiyang brothers quickly gained a foothold in Yu Zizhen's private army. Forming a solid triangle of wisdom and strength, they continued to make achievements and rise rapidly, turning themselves into Yu Zizhen's right-hand men in just a few years.
Because they stick together, Jiang Yunshan reminded Yu Zizhen to keep them under proper control when Yu Zizhen decided to promote them, so as to prevent their desire for power from expanding in the future and becoming a major hidden danger in Yu Zizhen's journey to conquer the world.
However, before Yu Zizhen could figure out whether to control them or not, and if so, how to control them, Tianquan took the initiative to hand over himself and the brothers' families to Wen Xiaoman, whom Yu Zizhen absolutely trusted.
Tian Quan said beautifully, "What my brother Kaiyang and I are about to do is something that could cost us our lives. Instead of having our families follow us, it would be better for us to leave them to the Lord and properly place them somewhere else."
They have to move around according to the war situation, and the more they become hated, the more likely they and their families will be targeted by the enemy.
When they first embarked on this path, they were already aware that they could die at any time, but they still wanted to protect their families if they could.
Wen Xiaoman, who passively took over more than thirty elderly, weak, women and children, immediately delivered the news to Yu Zizhen. Now Yu Zizhen no longer had to worry about whether he should control the other party.
She asked Wen Xiaoman to send Kaiyang and Tianquan's families to the eastern region as soon as possible. There, she had many fortress-like strongholds that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. When the families of Kaiyang and Tianquan arrived there, not only would their personal safety be guaranteed, but with the help of the stronghold managers, their children would have access to education and their adults would have income.
Their situation was similar to that of a pair of sisters code-named Wu Qu. They were born into a merchant family and had enjoyed a life of luxury with fine clothes, delicious food, and servants surrounding them when they were young. However, after their father died from bandits and the family's financial power was taken over by their mother and brother, they immediately fell from heaven to hell.
The day after their father's body was buried, the cruel stepmother packed up all the illegitimate children, including them, and their biological mothers and sold them to a brothel trafficker.
Because of their age and appearance, these people were classified by human traffickers and sold to different types of brothels at different prices.
The Wu Qu sisters were able to escape thanks to the drought and locust plague, which was a great misfortune for most people.
The brothel madam who bought them and most of the pimps and thugs in the brothel were beaten to death with clubs by a group of refugees who rushed into the brothel to steal food and money. None of the prostitutes and maids who could only scream died, but they themselves and their years of savings were inevitably doomed.
Only children under the age of ten, like the Wu Qu sisters, or elderly women who were already old and ugly, were not the main targets of the refugees, so many of them escaped during the turmoil.
The Wu Qu sisters were lucky. Less than three days after escaping from the brothel, they met some of Yu Zizhen's subordinates who were doing disaster relief work in the name of a caravan. In order to survive, the sisters sold themselves to this caravan as soon as possible.
After the disaster, they brought their mother's ashes and secretly came to the eastern region of Da Qi with the people who bought them.
In a mountain village there, they gradually showed intelligence, cleverness, diligence and hard work far beyond that of ordinary people, and were therefore recommended to Yu Zizhen for intensive training by Lu Huaiyi's wife Pang Shi, who was responsible for teaching them to read.
After two years of intensive study and one year of practical training, they came to the western region in the name of looking for relatives and secretly took over one of Yu Zizhen's intelligence networks in the western region.
The two girls did not have to make any major decisions. Yu Zizhen had been planning for many years, and the two intelligence networks in her hands had long been fully formed. The heads of intelligence departments she sent to various places only had to summarize and transmit intelligence on a daily basis. Even if there were occasional emergencies such as the exposure of secret lines, all they had to do was respond in a timely manner to minimize the losses as much as possible.
With their intelligence and agility, they can still handle this emergency.
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