Chapter 1282: Chapter 44: Beginning the Action [Extra for Silver Alliance Leader Immortal Brother 123]
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Fang Che returned to the Inspection Hall.
On the way, riding against the wind, the wind blew, and the depression in his heart dissipated.
Moreover, he understood that after he left, the Emperor Ye and his brother would inevitably have a long talk.
Unlike what the Emperor Ye thought, Fang Che had a longer-term view.
"The Ninth lord once said, the worst things often contain the best opportunities. So this matter with the Emperor Ye and Sikong Dou may not be a bad thing."
"From any aspect, it was the Emperor Ye who came up with an idea, and the result was that the matter went south, making my Fang Che lose face... This is also a fact."
"But compared to the big picture, what does my face count for? So this matter, instead, is a great thing."
Fang Che sighed in his heart: "It’s just that Ren Chun and the nine little guys won’t be able to enjoy this opportunity. It’s a bit of a pity."
"After I leave, the two brothers will have a long talk, and the Emperor Ye will definitely lay the matter bare; hence, because I lost face today, there will also be a feeling of guilt from Sikong Dou and the Emperor Ye towards me."
"Once this feeling of guilt appears, it’s the best consequence of today’s incident."
"No matter what is done in the future, it will be much easier, and they will voluntarily help, even if every time they help they still feel embarrassed..."
"If today things actually went smoothly, it would instead give the two brothers a feeling of ’evening things out.’ Counting it like this, it’s better to not have gotten it today. So from this perspective, losing face today was worth it."
"Today, I seemed to have lost face once, but in the long run, one of the top thieves residing in Donghu State, and the Emperor of the underworld, are both pulled into this side’s camp; when Donghu State is in trouble, they will definitely not stand idly by. In this way, Donghu State is basically free from worry in the future... It’s a great thing."
Fang Che thought of this, and suddenly felt refreshed.
Because this was not his own design, but rather a benefit that fell from the sky.
"Relationships cannot be too strained either; after they secretly help with a few things, I should visit, and pull the relationships closer. If I always pretend not to know, then I would be at a disadvantage again. After a few times, the initiative would be handed back again..."
Fang Che sighed with satisfaction in his heart: "This human relationship... really, after seeing through it, it is indeed useful."
Returned to the Inspection Hall.
Fang Che immediately called a meeting.
"How many people have been executed in the plaza in front of the headquarters in the past few days?"
"Close to twenty thousand."
Feng Xiangdong took out the prepared investigation data: "All the death row prisoners have been executed in batches, totaling twelve batches; there are still two thousand more to be executed this afternoon. The other heavy criminals are also being reviewed in batches again, with strict and heavy sentences reimposed."
"The remaining death row prisoners are all being screened for usable individuals. Recently, all the prisons in the Southeast Headquarters in Donghu State have been very busy."
Fang Che sighed and said: "If this was done early on, wouldn’t it be over? They’re all death row inmates, directly executing them would save a lot of trouble, wouldn’t it? Since they are death row, what’s the point of keeping them for years? Wasting space, wasting time, and wasting manpower!"
Everyone bowed their heads.
Each had their own thoughts in their hearts.
You also know these are all death row inmates, but what these death row inmates are entangled with, how many things haven’t been confessed, what resources and clues haven’t been extracted...
If these are not all extracted, how could they be so hastily executed in one stroke?
Those are all resources, are wealth, are the fulcrum of other things.
Besides, prisons all over the world do the same, how is it limited to the Southeast?
"Take out those pages regarding the brothel confessions."
Fang Che instructed: "It’s time to take action, starting with the brothel approach. The prison should have freed up a lot of rooms, ah, I always feel it’s a waste to have prison rooms empty, they should be full."
Eight people shivered all at once.
The vacancies are all the death row cells.
The boss is going to conduct a major operation on Donghu!
"The brothel on Ping an Road and the brothel on Qianxiang Road are basically the two that collect the most, while others haven’t been discovered. These two are both in the South District, section two."
Donghu State is too large, and there are too many people.
So besides being divided into east, west, south, north, and central five districts, each district is subdivided into sections again.
Below the sections, it is subdivided again. Layer by layer management.
Each district has about ten sections. A section with fewer people has six to seven million, more has tens of millions of people.
Population is dense, and the territory is vast.
"In these few days, it has been checked, the head of the two brothels in section two of the South District, commonly known as Ma Yidao; he was the head of section two, supervising six brothels."
"As for receiving children’s work, both brothels assign the task to managers, Ping an Road’s brothel has Manager Hou; Qianxiang Road’s brothel has Manager Niu. Generally conducted in the late night."
"These two managers liaise with the Azure Dragon Gang; as for others from the Baishe Gang, they also hand over to them. Since the Baishe Gang and similar gangs have been eradicated, these two managers have been restless these past few days."
"The place of residence, action routes, are all clear, right?"
Fang Che asked.
"Clear."
"What about martial power and cultivation?"
"Ma Yidao’s cultivation is about at the King level. Those two managers are just ordinary Martial Arts Grandmasters, and their grades are not high, second or third rank."
"None of the people inside were alerted, right?"
"No."
"Where is Ma Yidao tonight?"
"According to his habit of patrolling a brothel every two days, Ma Yidao should be at the Qianxiang Road Brothel tonight."
Fang Che said, "Feng Xiangdong, tonight you will team up with Mo Gan Yun, Yu Zhongge, and Jing Shuanggao; go to Ping’an Road Brothel to catch people."
"Xue Wanren will be with my team tonight."
"Everyone relax, tonight’s brothel excursion!"
This sentence made the Internal Affairs Ye Meng, who was listening in on the meeting, roll her eyes fiercely.
From her beautiful eyes, two cold beams shot out.
On her baby-fat face, frost spread densely.
The brothers were silent as cicadas in winter, all bowing their heads.
Fang Che remained calm and said lightly, "Going to the brothel is just for carrying out the mission, not involving anything else, so everyone stay honest, especially Dongyun Yu, don’t revert to your old ways. If you really engage in any brothel activities, don’t blame us for ignoring you; we are not that kind of people!"
Dongyun Yu suddenly widened his eyes, "I... When did I have any... revert to old ways?"
All the brothers buried their heads, their shoulders trembling.
Fang Che ignored Dongyun Yu’s defense, said indifferently, "Tonight at early Hai Hour, begin the action."
"After you catch the people, bring them immediately to Qianxiang Road Brothel!"
"Yes!"
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For the rest of the afternoon, Fang Che watched the Little Ninth studying.
The nine little guys were practicing horse stance, sweating profusely while reciting books.
First, they used two low-level Pei yuan pills to make a pot of porridge; each drank a bowl.
Then they began.
Fang Che walked around with his hands behind his back, holding a thin willow branch whip, adorned with fresh green willow leaves.
If someone couldn’t hold on, it was a whip strike.
"Anyone who can’t persist can quit, oh."
Fang Che, with a gentle tone, gently encouraged, "Quitting is fine. I can find a place for you to study, learn to read, and when you grow up, you can become a clerk, spend your life with warm beds for your wife and children, that’s quite nice."
"Your legs are shaking like this, quitting isn’t shameful, practicing Martial Arts is exhausting and requires frequent beatings."
"Wouldn’t it be easier?"
"You started too late, haven’t received any training since childhood, so your bodies are full of various impurities. If I and Brother Qiu ate one share of pain to progress one step, for you, you might need to endure ten shares and still not make that step."
Fang Che watched the nine little guys sweat like rain, gritting their teeth to persist, while pacing and talking slowly.
"So if you choose the Martial Arts path, your future journey will be very hard, very hard, much harder than now! The demands on you will be much stricter than on others!"
"Even going through such hardship, it might still be possible to be instantly defeated by an expert with one slash after decades of painstaking cultivation."
"So giving up isn’t something shameful."
Fang Che, with eyes flashing brilliantly, looked towards the sky, paced slowly, and spoke lightly.
However, despite each of the little guys shaking and unable to persist, they gnashed their teeth and stubbornly held on.
Having been bullied since childhood, their desire for martial power is almost a haunting obsession; they would rather give up their lives for martial power.
Moreover, what’s a little hardship?
For them, practicing now, although tough, pales compared to the hardships of the past.
Even doesn’t compare to the past hunger!
Ren Chun and the others, though young, clearly knew that this was their only chance to change their fate in this lifetime!
So every one of them held on tightly.
A few days ago, before starting to practice, Ren Chun was concerned that his sister Ren Dong couldn’t withstand such hardship, and had prepared her.
"If you can’t endure the hardship of practice, we’ll ignore you in the future! You aren’t allowed to call me brother!"
"If you’re bullied by bad people in the future, we won’t even look at you!"
The little girl was frightened, fearing she really couldn’t bear the hardship, but after starting practice, even she said, "Oh, it turns out it’s just tiring..."
Immediately put her mind at ease.
Since even the little girl reacted like this, there’s no need to mention the others.
So, after half an afternoon of training, Fang Che was very satisfied.
The sweat the little guys shed was now normal, no longer black or yellowish, which was the accumulation of toxins and impurities from past pollution and abuse.
In other words, from now on, they were starting to restore the normal standard of ordinary children!
For this day, Fang Che had used a total of twenty-four low-level Pei yuan pills.
And each meal was carefully selected to suit their constitution and improve it.
By the time he announced the break, all nine little guys, without exception, collapsed on the ground, panting heavily, their little faces pale.
Underneath their small bodies, sweat visibly soaked the ground.
