Royal Gold Magistrate

The beggar froze for a moment upon hearing this.

Then, rolling his eyes back to normal, he dropped the act and showed his cards. His gaze was filled with viciousness.

Zhang Biao walked over, opened his clothes, revealing a small arsenal of weapons.

Seeing this, the beggar rolled his eyes again, went back to pretending to be blind, and silently squatted down.

Li Yuanzhao watched with mouth agape. “Old Fang! You even rob beggars?”

“He’s a fraud, this is called chivalrous justice!” Fang Zheng said without batting an eye. “Is robbing money the point? Now do you see clearly? Is he blind or not?”

Li Yuanzhao suddenly felt a bit wronged. He had given his sincere heart, but was actually deceived by a beggar!

He walked to the beggar’s side and kicked him a couple of times, loudly saying, “Why pretend to be blind!”

The beggar felt extremely aggrieved and didn’t make a sound, hugging his knees and burying his face.

“Are you deaf? You could clearly hear people talk just now!” Li Yuanzhao kicked him a couple more times with a bang.

The tattered clothes were actually kicked open, and a few more coins jumped out from inside.

Fang Zheng swiftly collected them.

The beggar buried his head and began to whimper non-stop…

Fang Zheng hurriedly pulled Li Yuanzhao back. “Hey, they’re all pitiful people, that’s enough.”

He then tossed a coin into the broken bowl. “Alright, don’t cry, this is for you.”

Hearing the sound of the coin, the beggar silently raised his head and stared at the single coin in the bowl, falling into deep thought…

“Don’t be impatient! Let’s keep looking.”

Fang Zheng pulled Li Yuanzhao to continue walking. Before long, they saw a disabled beggar with both legs missing by the roadside.

Fang Zheng’s eyes lit up. He nonchalantly went over, directly took the bowl, and walked away.

Li Yuanzhao widened his eyes, his mind in a mess, not knowing what Old Fang’s next move would be…

He only saw Fang Zheng pour the coins from the bowl into his sleeve, then turn around and forcefully throw the broken bowl into the distance!

The beggar, who was originally kneeling, suddenly had legs appear. He took off like a rocket in the direction the bowl flew!

Li Yuanzhao was dumbfounded. A bitter feeling gradually spread in his heart.

“So… everything you said was true… I was truly blind!”

Fang Zheng couldn’t help patting Li Yuanzhao’s shoulder and consoled, “It’s nothing. People all grow. Everything in the world needs a process. The more you see, the less you’ll be tricked!”

Li Yuanzhao suddenly had a realization and stared at Fang Zheng. “Then how could you tell? There aren’t many beggars in Taoyuan County, right?”

Fang Zheng smiled faintly, sinking into the unbearable memories of his youthful past.

When he first arrived, Taoyuan County was truly impoverished. The commoners nearly had to eat dirt to get by.

Calling it a county was simply looking up to it. It was basically just a village.

Fang Zheng, an ordinary white-collar worker, only had life skills limited to online shopping, sweeping, mopping, and going to the bathroom by himself.

The county had no industry and no grain, so he was basically helpless. Every day, besides being hungry, he watched others be hungry.

Hunting and such in the mountains was out of the question. At most he could gnaw on some tree bark. He would stagger while walking and might not have the strength to come back down the mountain even if he went up…

When you’re hungry for a long time, you can put down dignity and face. Fang Zheng ultimately made a major decision.

Lead the people of Taoyuan County to beg in Hengjiang Prefecture!

Under Fang Zheng’s mobilization, a group of the elderly, weak, women and children was quickly organized. Carrying the county’s remaining dry rations, he instructed the few young people in the county to lie on the kang bed and not come down.

Then they set off in great fanfare towards Hengjiang Prefecture.

Just entering Hengjiang City took a lot of effort. After entering, they also couldn’t get much due to lack of experience and wandered around bitterly for a month.

But Fang Zheng was ultimately a modern person and learned quickly. He soon summarized his experiences.

Pretending to be blind and disabled were all conventional routines. A more advanced one was pretending to be pregnant. All the women brought over pretended to be heavily pregnant, lying on the streets moaning endlessly. The government couldn’t drive them away even if they wanted to.

Even many elderly women stuffed their bellies to look pregnant, causing the Hengjiang commoners to click their tongues in marvel.

Begging for burying wives and husbands was also a regular operation.

After studying for a while longer, Fang Zheng combined his pre-transmigration anti-fraud and livestream watching experiences and even developed situational skit series.

Because Fang Zheng was good-looking, what he did most was pretend to be a scholar, ridiculing beggars to gain sympathy. Or he would pick a wealthy onlooker and mock them a bit to provoke emotions. His methods were varied and ample.

Later on, Fang Zheng began to consciously organize the beggars and started institutionalizing and standardizing operations. After all, Fang Zheng had made such a big scene that the government took notice. Fighting guerrilla warfare every day with his heart in his throat wasn’t sustainable.

So Fang Zheng naturally became the sect leader. He set up inheritance elders to improve the members’ business skills.

Law enforcement elders were responsible for carrying out the sect’s laws and representing the sect and the sect leader to eliminate harmful consequences to the sect.

The head of the staff oversaw the sect’s daily affairs, served as a think tank advisor to the sect leader and vice sect leader to provide opinions and suggestions, and exercised power on behalf of the sect leader.

There was also the head of the alms bowl in charge of distributing resources. Several major sub-sects were set up below to share information!

In this way, in less than a month, Fang Zheng’s team became the top tier of begging in Hengjiang Prefecture. Countless beggars came to join.

Fang Zheng lost himself amidst the constant calls of “Sect Leader” and gradually threw away the last of his dignity…

In the end, he made such a huge scene that Hengjiang Prefecture sent out troops for a strict crackdown. Fang Zheng could only exchange all the money for grain and take some people to scurry back to Taoyuan County. He used the elite beggars he had trained to form a government team.

Only after that did he gradually walk the upright path of brewing alcohol and doing business…

To this day, a song: “The wanderer out in the world misses you, dear Mama…” is still being sung in Hengjiang Prefecture, setting off a trend~

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng couldn’t help sighing with feeling. He patted Li Yuanzhao’s shoulder again.

“The principles in the world are all connected. Master one specialty and you’ll draw inferences about the rest.”

“Follow me and learn well, you can’t go wrong!”

“Alright, it’s getting late. Let’s get you home first.”

………………………….

Zhang Chang and Ning Hongyuan fled to the street in panic, running non-stop. They were afraid Fang Zheng would change his mind and chase after them with his men.

After running for who knows how long, Zhang Chang finally stopped and began coughing like crazy.

A thick bloody taste spread in his mouth. Ning Hongyuan kept patting Zhang Chang’s back, asking with concern, “Young Master Zhang, are you alright…”

“Cough cough… Thank you Brother Ning, cough, that Fang Zheng is truly despicable! If I don’t avenge this, I vow not to be human!”

“Tonight you come to my manor first… We’ll… discuss, cough… cough, a plan…”

“Young Master Zhang, say no more. I’ll take you home first. For Fang Zheng to treat you like this, I absolutely won’t let him off!” Ning Hongyuan’s chest also ached. When he was pressed under the table earlier, he was already skinny, so he tried to lie as flat as possible, leaving most of the pressure for Zhang Chang to bear. Thus, his injuries weren’t too severe.

The two staggered and supported each other as they returned to the Minister’s manor.

As soon as they entered the main gate of the Minister’s manor, the steward rushed over, shock and anger on his face. “Young Master! What happened to you? Who bullied you outside?!”

“And who are you?!” The steward’s eyes locked onto Ning Hongyuan.

Zhang Chang coughed a couple more times. “Don’t make a scene, close the main gate.”

After the guard closed the main gate, Zhang Chang slowly straightened up and leaned on the steward.

Ning Hongyuan was still looking at him with concerned eyes. “Young Master Zhang, you’re not seriously…”

Before he could finish, Zhang Chang’s cold gaze immediately met Ning Hongyuan’s eyes.

Zhang Chang pointed at him with one hand. “Men… cough… cough, beat him to death!”