Chapter 1291: Chapter 47: Achieving More Through Restraint [2-in-1]_4
"I heard Fang Qingtian is over there dealing with the scum, killing till blood ran like a river. Now the girls all have no heart to take customers, but Lord Ma doesn’t care at all."
"He still dares to care? At least this month he wouldn’t dare touch it... Ah, I’m jealous! Those little sluts are really blessed!"
"I heard a few sisters who can paint did a true portrait of Fang Qingtian... They say the real Fang Qingtian is way more awe‑inspiring and handsome than the pictures we’ve got going around now..."
"Ah! I want to buy one..."
"Me too, me too..."
"Wait your turn, the sluts over there are all lining up one after another... By the time it’s our turn, it’ll probably be next year..."
"Next year is fine. I’ll have someone send the Silver over right now and get in line first."
"Right, right, send the Silver over first to hold our place..."
In an instant, orders from brothels all over fluttered toward the Qianxiang Road Brothel like snowflakes.
For a time, the Qianxiang Road Brothel became the absolute center of all the Donghu State brothels!
From this very day on, the Donghu State Brothels finally had a true leader. And a large number of the girls at the Qianxiang Road Brothel actually started from then on to sell art but not their bodies...
But Humans are just that cheap.
The more they only sold art and not their bodies, the more men flocked to chase after them... Business actually got better and better.
And those few girls who painted Fang Che’s portraits, because of this one Skill, actually became absolute stars of the brothel.
They had nothing to do every day except paint Fang Che, and somehow became celebrated artists!
They quickly saved up enough Silver to buy back their freedom, and from then on specialized in painting Fang Qingtian for sisters in brothels all over the land, actually becoming a generation of painting experts...
This is a tale for later, and will not be mentioned here.
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"Boss Fang, that Ma Yidao, why not kill him?" Mo Gan Yun was a bit displeased.
That guy, though cowardly and never personally involved in such heaven‑offending trades, was still in the know. Since that’s the case, it’s a capital crime.
"Ma Yidao’s crimes are enough for death. But he’s still useful."
Fang Che said calmly, "To use merit is not as good as to use guilt."
As soon as these six words were spoken, Feng Xiangdong and the others immediately understood.
Ma Yidao has a handle in Fang Che’s hands; that’s the same as this life of his being pinched in Fang Che’s palm.
He can be killed anytime, lose his life at any moment.
In this situation, Ma Yidao truly doesn’t dare do anything at all.
And he’s also a district head for the brothels, with over a dozen brothels under his control.
Given the current situation, from now on, if only for the sake of keeping himself alive, Ma Yidao will never allow those trades that force good girls into prostitution, traffic Humans, and commit heaven‑offending sins.
As for the girls in the houses, he will no longer bully them excessively, and those who don’t want to take customers, he also won’t force too hard.
Like this, these dozen or so brothels are, in effect, under real management.
"If we killed Ma Yidao and replaced him with someone else, we wouldn’t know what that person would do. These places would still remain dens of filth and rot."
"And we cannot truly manage them to the very end..."
"So, keeping Ma Yidao alive, for us, is only sparing one damned man. But for the girls in those dozen brothels, and for the pretty girls living near those dozen brothels, it is an immeasurable blessing, a great good deed."
Fang Che said calmly, "So at times... when facing this world, even if we hold a Life and Death Order in our hands, we still have to compromise a little."
The seven brothers listened in silence.
All of them felt waves surging in their hearts.
Each one was lost in thought.
Every man was thinking: if I ran into something like this, could I handle it as perfectly as Boss Fang?
Toward the vast majority of villains, he used Thunder means; once the interrogation was done, he executed them on the spot, then followed the clues and began the action.
He soothed the brothel, gave the girls hope and understanding, and then left Ma Yidao alive to ensure the house’s peace in the future, and even educated the Jianghu nobles so they’d treat these pitiful people better in the future.
Even if only one percent of them take it to heart, for these pitiful women it is still a blessing.
All the more so as Fang Che’s reputation grows greater and greater, and his bloody methods shake the world more and more; then the words he spoke today in the brothel will spread throughout the land!
By then, every Jianghu noble, as long as he walks into any brothel, will hear this tale.
At that time, the ones influenced will no longer be just one or two people.
But tens of thousands upon tens of thousands!
For the whole world, this is a tremendous merit!
