Lian Gui was a little impatient: "We are not going home. Where will we put our face after we go back?"
"You're right to listen to me! Let's take advantage of the chaos to grab some food and leave. If we can save a little, it will be considered a good deed. We will also have an explanation when we return."
Xie Xian observed the expressions of the crowd, and suddenly his eyes locked on Wei Cai and Bai Rui.
"What if we go and steal? Is it feasible to dig a tunnel and steal?"
Bai Rui shook his head: "No, the granary is heavily guarded, and there must be more people at this time, there is no way to succeed."
Xie Xian said: "We want to steal from private warehouses, not government warehouses!"
"I'm not sure. I haven't been there yet. Besides, I haven't done it for many years...my hands are not very familiar with it." Bai Rui seemed a little embarrassed.
"Besides... we haven't walked through the tunnel yet, so we're not sure!"
Xie Xian ignored him and turned to Wei Cai and said, "What about you? Let's pick a spot outside the city. Can we dig a tunnel to the granary?"
Wei Cai smacked his lips and looked up, thinking: "It's possible, but it depends on the specific situation. I haven't done it for a few years."
"It's mainly a waste of time... If it's close, it's easy to be discovered, but if it's far away, it's hard to tell when it will be dug up, and it also depends on the geology."
"We need to use wooden beams to reinforce the tunnel, and someone needs to remove the soil and rocks... To be honest, I'm not optimistic, but there may be a chance!"
Xie Xian pondered for a long time: "Okay, now there are three options before us, either rob or steal, or go home if that doesn't work."
"Everyone, please raise your hands to vote. Those who support seizing food should raise their hands."
Seven or eight people raised their hands.
“Who supports stealing grain?”
Most of the people raised their hands.
“What about those who support going home?”
Three or two people.
Xie Xian smiled helplessly: "Okay... everyone should know what's going on. Those who want to go home can go back now."
"We might as well make preparations for the rest. If we can't steal, we can take the opportunity to rob food!"
"We only have more than 20 people now, and we are seriously short of manpower. We need to recruit more people."
"Old Shen, you used to be involved in a cult. If I give you money to find some reliable refugees, how many people can you get?"
Shen Zhaoxuan thought for a moment: "Back then in Hengjiang City, I used twenty taels to recruit three hundred people. The current situation is still unclear. Give me five hundred taels and I will get you two thousand reliable and useful people."
"We are not rebelling....Why do you need so many people? A hundred people are enough."
Shen Zhaoxuan sighed: "You don't understand. People in our line of work can't stop once they start. The people below are like crazy people preaching, and we can't stop them."
"I may have underestimated two thousand... I'll try to control myself."
Lian Gui grinned and laughed a few times: "Old Shen, what are you bragging about? If you were that arrogant, you would have been eaten by the master without leaving any residue."
Shen Zhaoxuan sighed: "Compared to the master, I can only be regarded as a believer..."
"It's actually quite easy to start a sect. The people are stupid and will believe anything you say. If you say you are invulnerable and have three heads and six arms, they will believe it after you say it a few times. Most other sects use the same methods."
"The master is different. He first bribes people with small favors and then tries to get them to attend classes. He has many fortune tellers and magicians under him, and he used all kinds of tricks to fool people."
"He also divided the people below him into different levels, spreading the message downwards one level at a time, telling people every day that they can become rich if they believe in him."
"If you try to get some supernatural powers to help the believers, they will easily betray me... Alas, I chose the wrong career. I dare say that the master's philosophy is at least a hundred years more advanced than mine!"
Xie Xian scratched his head after hearing this: "Master has also been involved in a cult? How come I didn't know about this? Isn't it the Beggars' Sect?"
"Well, I did, but it didn't last long because one of my subordinates went to the Beggars' Sect to preach and made the master angry.
"But after all, they had no money at the beginning. Those believers became hungry and turned into beggars..."
Shen Zhaoxuan still had a look of regret after he finished speaking, as if he missed the old days.
After hearing this, Xie Xian knocked on the table and said, "Okay! Take Lian Gui and a few others with you to recruit people first."
"Wei Cai and Bai Rui, go check out the locations of all the wealthy families' granaries in the city within three days...see what their reputations are, and then come back and make a decision."
"Send another group of people to purchase equipment, and be careful not to be discovered by those with ulterior motives."
Then Xie Xian made detailed arrangements one by one.
After everything was arranged, Lian Gui stood up and said awkwardly: "Um... Old Xie, if something really happens during the fight, I can't manage hundreds of people. I have no experience."
Xie Xian frowned and said, "You can't even manage a hundred people? What kind of bandit are you?"
Lian Gui complained, "Oh, you've really become stupid from reading too much! Have you read too many novels? To be a bandit, you only need a few people or a dozen people. I only had a dozen brothers in the mountains, otherwise I wouldn't have been robbed by the master."
"You have only led a dozen people, and you dare to tell me that you are robbing food in a place where you are unfamiliar with!" Xie Xian was almost angry.
Everything has been arranged, but the key personnel failed to perform well. What can we do now?
Now that you have decided to do it, you must make sure to arrange it properly.
Xie Xian glanced at everyone again and found that there was indeed no one available.
"Now that things have come to this, there is nothing we can do! Get someone!"
"Shake who?"
"Martial Arts Champion!"
"Tsk~" Everyone made contemptuous sounds.
Lian Gui questioned loudly, "How could you come up with such an idea? Zhou Tie, that scumbag, does nothing but eat, drink, gamble and get beaten by Zhang Biao. Who among the idiots gave him the nickname of Wu Zhuangyuan?"
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