Chapter 960: The King's Teacher

Within a few days, Shen Congyue's followers expanded several times, with a population of nearly 10,000. Unlike the people under the rule of the Daji Dynasty, in addition to believing in gods, they were also controlled by the court.

The dragon energy of the human way was quite annoying, and it was simply the nemesis of the way of God.

The people of the grassland may be "stupid" or "straight", but for the way of God, this kind of people is the most favorite. After the transformation, they are all loyal believers. One believer is several times more than the others, and the incense and divine thoughts they offer are also extremely pure.

There are countless disasters in the grassland, and they are in danger of losing their lives at any time. Living in such a harsh environment, the purity of their hearts is unimaginable to many people.

This wave, Shen Congyue ate a lot of money. The last few times she saw Wu Yi, she was very happy. She thought Wu Yi would be quiet for a few days after taking down the mother wolf god. Unexpectedly, Wu Yi told her that he wanted to convert the bandits in Thorn Ridge into her believers.

Shen Congyue naturally had no objection to this, after all, it was for her own good. However, she had already spent a lot of energy in conquering the various tribes on the grassland in the past few days. She was worried that she could not fulfill Wu Yi's expectations, so she was evasive in her words, which seemed to be a refusal.

Besides, the bandits in Thorn Ridge were either veterans of hundreds of battles or evildoers who killed people everywhere. It was impossible to conquer them just by wanting to.

Wu Yi said: "I didn't ask you to conquer them all at once. You should do it step by step. There will be a day. Your mission is to punish corrupt officials. If those bandits believe in you, it is like finding a way to exonerate themselves. It is also a great merit for you to be able to retire from the underworld!"

Shen Congyue nodded half-doubtfully. Wu Yi said so, so he could just go and take a look.

On the tenth day of garrisoning at Langyankou, Wu Yi and Shen Congyue came to Thorn Ridge, which they had passed before. This place was only a hundred miles in radius, but there were dozens of bandits entrenched there, and it was extremely chaotic.

Previously, a wave of bandits were collected here. From them, Wu Yi learned that among these dozens of bandits, some of them were powerful and even secretly supported by the Great Ji Dynasty or the Northern Lu tribe, and they took on the role of black gloves and did some dirty things.

Wu Yi's breakthrough point was not them. In fact, Wu Yi needed to deliberately avoid these bandits who might be related to the dynasty. Once he provoked the wrong person, there would be no room for regret.

Hiding his breath, Wu Yi wandered around the nests of the major bandits, using the fixed fortune star plate to find out their number and strength to facilitate future decision-making.

This was the case for the first few days, so that Shen Congyue even suspected that Wu Yi was timid and did not dare to act after knowing that the other party was protected by a big force behind him.

However, on the fourth day, Wu Yi used some means to paralyze a small group of bandits, about a hundred people. In the process, Wu Yi did not use a trace of immortal power, and acted completely humanely.

Shen Congyue knew Wu Yi's intention and cooperated skillfully. With lightning speed, he successfully converted all the people into believers overnight.

However, many bandits were only at the level of half-belief and half-doubt, and their faith was not deep. Once they had doubts, their previous efforts would be in vain.

Shen Congyue had to work very hard to maintain the faith of his grassland tribe. At this moment, he had to be on guard against these bandits from time to time, which made him even more exhausted. Although he did not dare to blame Wu Yi, he knew his own family and he could not hold on for long.

Wu Yi knew that Shen Congyue was not easy, and said: "I have found a bandit's nest where officials and bandits colluded. You will tell them the personnel arrangement and the terrain. After killing this group of bandits, they should not be as suspicious of you as before."

Shen Congyue acted according to Wu Yi's words and urged this group of bandits to attack another group of bandits. Both sides were not strong, but the latter was more than twice as strong as the former, with two hundred knives!

There are many people and snakes in the Thorn Ridge, and a fight may happen at any time, but the premise of a fight is that the strength of both sides is not much different. If the strength difference is more than double, isn't it a way to kill yourself?

Therefore, at the beginning, some people in the bandits disagreed with this attack. This part of the people also did not have strong faith in Shen Congyue and was shaken from time to time.

However, under the pressure of Shen Congyue, this battle was finally carried out. Shen Congyue understood that his authority depended on this battle. If he failed, his hard work for several days would be almost wasted.

I told them all the military arrangements, and it was incompetent if I couldn't win. Unlike Shen Congyue's worries, Wu Yi looked at it this way. It's better not to have such incompetent subordinates.

Even if Wu Yi followed behind the bandits, he didn't say a word and had no intention of helping.

The two gangs of bandits fought "as promised". Because the weaker side knew that they knew each other well, they gained the advantage at the beginning and caught the other side off guard. It was only when they climbed to the mountainside that they were discovered by the enemy because of their subordinates' mistakes, and then they started a large-scale fight.

The weaker side knew the geography of the mountain, took advantage of the situation, and predicted the other side's prediction. With a hundred people, they lost less than twenty people, and won a great victory by annihilating half of the other side and surrendering a hundred people. Only forty or fifty people escaped from the other side, which was no longer a big deal.

At this point, Shen Congyue breathed a sigh of relief, and his believers were saved.

However, the most crucial thing was that the weaker side opened the other side's treasury and searched for a lot of evidence of transactions with the government, which was considered to be a crime of collusion between officials and bandits.

In this way, the morale of the weaker side was greatly boosted, because the reason they launched the war was that the strong side colluded with the government and killed the people, which was to act on behalf of heaven.

Bandits, to put it bluntly, unless you have a hole in your head, who would be willing to do this business without any cost? What you think is a zero-dollar purchase may cost you your life. There is no free lunch in the world.

If it were not for the heavy taxes and the excessive oppression of superior officers, becoming a bandit would be a last resort.

Shen Congyue's mission is to resist corrupt officials. After this battle, this bandit group has changed a little. They have more or less sprouted the idea that they are a righteous army and are doing justice for the heaven.

Next, Wu Yi's idea is nothing surprising. Just snowball, let this army continue to grow and squeeze out the living space of other bandits.

With Wu Yi's information support and Shen Congyue's spiritual guidance, this bandit group, no, can no longer be called bandits, they are the people's soldiers and the kingly army.

Shen Congyue began to understand Wu Yi's thoughts, but she had not figured out what Wu Yi's purpose was. What did Wu Yi want to do after accumulating such a huge force? Become a king, or change the dynasty——

Just imagining it made Shen Congyue shudder with fear, and Wu Yi in his eyes became more and more confusing.