"But those villages aren't easy to plunder either! Almost all the villages left have paid you protection money, and didn't you forbid us from touching them? We can't find any suitable villages anymore!"
Yang Zhongxian said.
"What's the problem? Just plunder the villages you've already raided again. Or forget what I said about the villages you couldn't touch and raid them anyway. At worst, take a little less."
That would also give him a reason to raise the protection fees.
After hearing Lin Zhe's words, even Yang Zhongxian, a Bandits chief himself, felt that the man was far too ruthless.
Afraid that the villagers would be driven into a corner and lash out, they always kept their raids within certain limits, taking enough to hurt but not enough to make the villagers throw caution to the wind and rise up against them.
Lin Zhe, however, had no such concerns. He practically wished he could strip every last coin from their pockets.
Compared with Lin Zhe, Yang Zhongxian almost felt he deserved to be called kindhearted.
"All right. We'll do as you say."
After saying that, Yang Zhongxian even felt a faint ache in the last sliver of conscience he had left.
But he soon cast that trace of guilt to the back of his mind.
After all, it wasn't his interests being harmed, and he stood to profit from it too. That sliver of conscience could be discarded.
"The person you wanted is still tied up in the carriage downstairs. You can take that carriage back when you leave."
Yang Zhongxian opened the window and pointed to an exquisitely decorated carriage below.
Lin Zhe took one look before withdrawing his gaze.
"All right, understood."
Then the two discussed a few other matters. Once they had finished, they opened the private