After Er Gouzi interrogated the Guard Envoy, he still only had a rough understanding of the organization of the black market. Because the Guard Envoy's status was too low, he didn't know much information. As for who was behind the black market, the Guard Envoy knew nothing. Er Gouzi returned to Sanyang County as the Guard Envoy. This guy lived next to the entrance of a black market, and he had more than a dozen subordinates in the Qi training period. In addition, each county town also had a small black market, each of which was stationed with a subordinate in the late Qi training period, and they were all under his jurisdiction. In the past few months before taking action, Er Gouzi had already figured out the relationship network of the Guard Envoy. Now he was in as the Guard Envoy, and there was no difficulty. As for the management of the black market, it was also very simple. He only needed to maintain the rules and public security of the black market and collect some spirit stones from the shops regularly. Few people would make trouble in his territory, and it was very simple to just collect some spirit stones.
As for the Iron Supervisor, he asked him to recruit some geniuses in the Infant Care Center. This was even easier. As long as Director Tie can spend spirit stones, he can recruit as many as he wants. Why not use the spirit stones on the black market to help him train children? From what he overheard this time, he paid more attention to the children in the nursery. He had already arranged people to organize the older children in the nursery to teach them to read and practice martial arts. Although they are all geniuses in cultivation, reading and understanding are still essential. Er Gouzi also specially selected some sage books suitable for these children. There are too many sages in ancient and modern times, and their remarks are also varied and mixed. Some sages advocate that farming must be done with manure. Some sages believe that spreading manure on the ground will pollute crops and food. There are even some theories of cheating and deceiving teachers and ancestors in some sage books. These children are still young, so they naturally cannot make choices and cannot distinguish right from wrong. Er Gouzi can only check them in advance, only learn content suitable for them, and cultivate the most basic virtues for them. He always believed that people's virtues are more important than talents, and virtues come before talents. The first task of educating children is to establish virtues, to establish virtues such as gratitude, loyalty, dedication, and diligence for them. As for the skills they learned, Er Gouzi, as a farming captain, has the responsibility of cultivating the land and training soldiers. Now that he is teaching the skills, there are no so many taboos. He has cheated some people to death in the past few years, and emptied some warehouses, and still has some skills in his hands. However, the main skills are still inherited from the ones taught by Ji Cang. He found that the things that Brother Ji took out were all fine products, much better than what he picked up secretly.
"Qiuyue, how many infants and young children are there in the nursery?" "There are a total of 128,970 people, of which about 45,000 are over five years old." Qiuyue knew the number of people he managed, and only paused for a moment before answering fluently. Hearing this data, Er Gouzi was shocked. Unknowingly, he has raised so many infants and young children. The previous policy of giving food supplements to children has been cancelled, but there are still many parents who don't want to take responsibility and send their children to the orphanage. And the children received by the orphanage are mainly girls, accounting for at least two-thirds. If there is no orphanage, these people will abandon the babies in the wilderness, on the roadside, or drown them. So many infants and young children are still young now, and the consumption is not much. When these people grow older and their cultivation increases, the consumption of materials will increase many times. Director Tie only gave him 200 spiritual stones, which is a drop in the bucket. Next time he sees Director Tie, he must get more resources. "Take these 200 spiritual stones first and use them to raise babies." "In addition, I will give you a batch of spiritual grains and Peiyuan pills. For those children over 5 years old, we must speed up the training." "By the way, select a few hundred people from them and train them separately." He received a mission and had to recruit at least 200 people, so he had to pretend to do it. Er Gouzi didn't take any of the 200 spiritual stones that Tie Zong gave to the envoy, and gave them all to Qiuyue. He also put a lot of spiritual grains and elixirs into the account. In fact, although his income is very high now, his expenses are also not small. He originally had more than 2,000 subordinates, and in the past few years, they have been crying poor to the emperor one after another. He already has 300 foundation-building subordinates. The old emperor really doesn't have much money, and it's very difficult to support Chen Pangzi's national defense army, but there are a lot of foundation-building pills. With so many people under his command, resources are consumed every year. Especially after the foundation is built, the amount of resources consumed has increased several times. So it's normal for him to help the emperor train and raise soldiers and ask for money and resources from the emperor. Now he has taken on the task of recruiting geniuses for the black market, and it has become natural to ask Tie Zongzi of the black market for some money. A month later, Er Gouzi came to the compound where the black market was located again and asked to see Tie Zongzi. "Report to Director Tie!" "I have successfully recruited 500 geniuses. These 500 people are all top-notch and are on the same level as the National Defense Army." "Good! Well done!" Director Tie slapped his thigh and praised happily.
"You are really good. I was not wrong about you." "500 people will require more supplies. I will give you another batch of pills. Take them back and cultivate them carefully, so that they can grow into a group of promising talents as soon as possible." Tie Supervisor said, taking out a pile of jade bottles. Er Gouzi felt familiar when he saw these jade bottles. Isn't this the batch of pills he sold to the old shopkeeper in the black market in Qingzhou City some time ago? I didn't expect that these pills would go around and come back to him. I plan to go to the black market again and sell these pills to the old shopkeeper. "Next, you have to speed up the progress and continue to recruit. The more the better. You should temporarily cultivate these people in Qingzhou. Don't alert the enemy." "Zhang, the governor of Sanyang County, will probably die in the next few months. You have to prepare in advance." "Ah? So soon?" Er Gouzi was a little surprised. He was chatting well, but how could he suddenly know his own death date again? "Not so fast. Sanyang County has absorbed so many people that there is no one around. Sanyang County is so rich that it can't accommodate him." "It's just that the Xia family has been fighting with the monsters and can't spare any effort. The two sides have eased off during this period, and they will definitely free up their hands to deal with Sanyang County." "Just go back and wait for the show. It has nothing to do with our black market, so don't interfere." "Yes!" On the way back from Qingzhou City, Er Gouzi was worried and thinking about how to deal with it. After several years of practice and development, he still looks like he is in the early stage of foundation building, but neither he nor his subordinates are what they used to be. It's not so easy for the Xia family to make trouble.