Chapter 15: Taking Down the Madam
"Qiao Xiao, you can't go. I know what you want to do?
I, Gu Jia, have always been upright, never steal or rob, and I am a clean person.
I can't let you do bad things just because I live a miserable life. If that happens, I'd rather die." Gu Hanyan said.
"Do you want to rob a bank or rob a wealthy person?" Tang Wen finally understood.
"What else can I do besides this? Where can I get tens of thousands of taels?" The man in the bamboo hat said helplessly.
"Although your martial arts skills are not weak, every member of the Six Gates is a strong man. You are not afraid of one-on-one, but if several people fight against you alone, you will definitely die." Tang Wen said.
The Six Gates was a special agency established by the Great Chu Dynasty. All the detectives in the country were commanded by them. The court set up the Six Gates specifically to deal with powerful people in the martial arts world.
Each province's Six Gates has a Six Hall, which is responsible for the overall affairs of the province.
Their functions are similar to those of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. They only take action when the constables are unable to handle the situation.
The minimum threshold for recruiting people from the Six Gates is the eighth-grade inner realm. The head of the provincial hall is definitely a sixth-grade master, and he is an 'outer realm' strongman with a strength of over several thousand.
Those who are strong in the outer Gang realm can already release their inner Gang and attack people from a distance.
Of course, the range of injury was not large, only about three meters. If it was farther, they could only stare blankly.
"My mistress saved my life, so it is my duty to return my life to her." The man in the bamboo hat said with determination.
"Qiao Xiao, if you dare to go, I will never take any medicine! You know my character. My Gu family will never be ruined because of you." Gu Hanyan said.
"If I don't go, you will die. How can I do this, Madam? It's my fault that I am useless, Qiao Xiao!" Qiao Xiao knelt down, two lines of hot tears streaming down his cheeks.
"There are ways to save her." Tang Wen said.
"What can we do, Master Tang? As long as you can save the mistress, I will give my life to you." Qiao Xiao looked at Tang Wen pitifully.
"I have paid tens of thousands of taels of silver, but all of you have to join the Tang family and sell your bodies as slaves to repay this debt," said Tang Wen.
"I would rather die in this case! I guess you have already made up your mind, right?" Gu Hanyan sneered and looked at Tang Wen with contempt.
"Do you think I care about you? If I accept you, I will have to take a huge risk." Tang Wen replied with a sneer.
"What's the risk? You have silver, just tens of thousands of taels. What's more, my Qiao Xiao is stronger than all your guards. He is a strong man who can hurt people." Qiao Xiao sneered.
"You guys are from unknown places, are you here in Koh Samui to avoid enemies?
If you are here to avoid revenge, it means that your opponent is very powerful, because even you, Qiao Xiao, can't deal with him.
I can only live in this remote place, am I right?
Tell me, if I accept you, am I bringing danger to myself?
By then, you will become slaves of the Tang family.
The Tang family will have to take responsibility for your affairs, and the risk is huge," said Tang Wen.
"This is not something that can be solved by martial arts." Qiao Xiao said.
"Master Tang is indeed amazing." Ge Ziyun said, "Madam, since Master Tang is willing to take it on, let's join the Tang family."
"I'm afraid he'll pee his pants if he finds out! And he still dares to take us in, what a joke!" Gu Hanyan said sarcastically.
"Forget it, it seems that my guess is correct. You are right. I will really piss my pants if I am scared. You guys go. My Tang family will not take this risk anymore." Tang Wen waved his hand and said to Zhao Du, "Show us away!"
"He is indeed a coward. Qiao Xiao, carry me away. Since this Samui Island belongs to them, we won't live here anymore." Gu Hanyan said.
"Master Tang, we are willing to sell ourselves to the Tang family as slaves. We only ask you to save our mistress' life!" Qiao Xiao and Ge Ziyun knelt down together.
"Your mistress said that I would be scared to pee my pants. I am a coward. Isn't it a joke that you sell your body to a coward ?" Tang Wen sneered.
"We have decided. If the mistress doesn't sell herself, we two will." Ge Ziyun said.
“You can sell yourself, but come along.
Your mistress is very naughty, so I, Tang Wen, will take the risk and play with you.
However, I want to take your mistress in as my personal maid.
If you agree to this condition, I will accept it. Otherwise, you have to leave Paradise Island before 5 o'clock tomorrow evening." Tang Wen said.
"Master Tang, you're going too far." Ge Ziyun and Qiao Xiao both shouted.
"I would rather die than be your personal maid." Gu Hanyan sneered.
"It's not a pity that you died, but it's a pity that your family will have to be buried with you." Tang Wen said.
"What do you want to do?" Qiao Xiao stood up and stared at Tang Ling murderously.
"Has Gu Hanyan's disease been transmitted to her family? However, their symptoms are still relatively mild now. However, they will soon suffer the same fate as Gu Hanyan," said Tang Wen.
"He...they won't." Gu Hanyan's soft spot was hit, and she said with a painful look on her face.
“You are just deceiving yourself. Aren’t their current symptoms similar to your early symptoms?
It won't be long, within ten days the full-blown outbreak will occur.
One month later, your whole family will gather together to have a meal in hell." Tang Wen said.
"Please save them, I don't deserve to die." Gu Hanyan completely collapsed and begged.
"Madam, please agree to Master Tang. Otherwise..." Ge Ziyun said.
"I can sell my body. I can do the laundry and cooking, but I can't be your personal maid." Gu Hanyan gave in.
"I want you to be my personal maid. This is the only condition! No negotiation!" Tang Wen said arrogantly.
"You...you you..." Gu Hanyan burst into tears, "Okay, I promise you."
After she finished, she closed her eyes in pain and cried out, "Dad, Mom! I am an unfilial daughter! The Gu family was sold by me. From now on, I am a slave. It is Hanyan who is unfilial, unfilial."
"Ge Ziyun, you write this indenture contract." Tang Wen asked Zhan Junru to bring paper and pen.
However, Zhan Junru looked unhappy. She seemed to be a little jealous.
"Haha, you and she are both my personal maids. What are you worried about, an old woman?" Tang Wen smiled at her.
"I didn't." Zhan Junru blushed and shook her head.
Two hours later, the entire Gu family joined the Tang family, including the dozens of people who followed them.
"Ding Dong, you have accumulated 100 popularity points and can start the fourth time travel." Gu Hanyan brought seventy or eighty people, plus the ones recruited by the Tang family in the past few days, the mark of 100 has been exceeded.
Tang Wen quickly practiced his skills and madly absorbed popularity.
It took a full hour before I finally stopped, and I felt that my skills had increased.
Tang Wen looked into the space and found that the data on the big screen had been updated again:
Popularity index: 388.
Land area: 2338 hectares.
Wealth index: 11,000 taels of gold.
Martial arts realm: half a step to the eighth level.
Ceremonial load: 500 tons.
Travel time: twenty-five days.
This time the power was only raised by half a level. It seems that if the power is raised quickly in the early stage, the effect of the popularity increase will become weaker and weaker later.
However, his vision had improved several times, and he could see clearly a beetle as thick as a little finger fifty meters away.
Tang Wen reorganized the security team, increasing the number of people to 40, just a reinforced platoon.
In addition, Qiao Xiao was appointed as the chief instructor to train them specifically.
In the middle of the night, Tang Wen traveled back to Yunhai City.
This time we come here not only to exchange silver, but also to build a security team.
After all, the bloody lesson was before his eyes, and Tang Wen didn’t want any more deaths.
Therefore, in addition to daily necessities, a batch of simple military equipment had to be purchased.
For example, walkie-talkies, night vision goggles, small drones, camouflage uniforms...
Tang Wen also planned to bring a set of special forces training equipment to Koh Samui and let Qiao Xiao organize the training of the security team.
He wanted to form a modern army using cold weapons, but of course, he had to increase the number of troops slowly.
Because, according to the laws of the Great Chu, a third-class baron can form his own personal guard, but the number of people is limited to about sixty.
There are 100 first-class men, and the number of first-class viscounts rises to 200.
A first-class earl can have his own guards of four to five hundred people, not to mention a marquis, who may have thousands of guards.
Therefore, Tang Wen also has to consider how to improve his title.
However, promotion of nobility is often linked to "military merit", and Tang Wen does not want to join the army and die in battle.
Of course, you might say, the nobles all have their own guards, so isn’t the court afraid that they will rebel?
Of course not. Firstly, there are not many nobles in Chu State.
Moreover, the vast majority of them were members of the royal family of Chu, and nobles of other surnames accounted for less than 20% of the total number of nobles in the country.
Secondly, the court has given you a quota of so many people, but most nobles often cannot afford to support so many people?
Finally, even if you can afford to support so many people, the Chu army has millions of soldiers, and your troops are not enough to fill their teeth.
If you were planning a rebellion, the court's lackeys like the Six Gates would have smelled it long ago, and by then, they would have wiped you out before you even started the rebellion.
This time, Tang Wen returned with a full load, a full 500 tons of supplies.
