"Yuhao, I know you want to deal with the White Tiger Duke and need to build up a force, but you lack manpower and capable fighters. The Tan Family of Mingdu might not be especially powerful, but they're shrewd schemers, and their family has quite a few soul engineers. They still amount to a sizable force."
The Tan Family of Mingdu had now reached the end of the road. Apart from Assistant Chancellor Tan Jingguo, everyone in the family-even the rats in their holes-now bore the surname Huo.
Even so, they could not repay the full twenty-five billion they owed. With a sweep of his pen, Sun Moon Emperor Xu Yutian had effectively sold every member of the Tan Family, including their retainers and guards, into Huo Yuhao's service for generations to come to settle the debt.
At that moment, Huo Yuhao and Kong Deming stood outside the Tan Family's gates in Mingdu, watching soldiers of the Sun Moon Empire file in and out. They carried away everything of value from the estate, then sent it to designated trading houses to be converted into money, which would ultimately be handed over to Huo Yuhao.
"Take every member of the Tan Family of Mingdu with you, regardless of age or sex!" Kong Deming waved a hand. "You cannot personally kill them. That is His Majesty's bottom line! But they can suffer casualties on the battlefield. They can die fighting to expand the Sun Moon Empire's territory! If you send them to attack Shrek Academy or powerful figures from the Former Douluo Three Kingdoms and they perish, that will be their glory!"
"Uh, what if I use certain methods to control their souls and prevent them from betraying me..." Huo Yuhao coughed twice, glanced around, then quietly asked Kong Deming.
"You know