I turned the cold palace into a paradise

Chapter 176 Recruiting the thugs

In the past two days, Chu Ren has arrested all the idle hooligans in Chengnan Prefecture who were collecting protection fees everywhere and put them in jail. The jail is so crowded that there is not enough space. The jailers have been replaced by the guards.

Those thugs who were arrested were heartbroken, but the merchants were happier than during Chinese New Year.

They all said that the prefect had done a great thing again! He also won the hearts of a group of small merchants.

Although these hooligans don't have much power, they are annoying! If you don't pay them protection money, they will block the door of your store and stall. How can customers dare to enter?

Except for the wealthy areas in the East City where they dared not cause trouble, merchants in the other three cities all suffered greatly.

As a decent family, who can beat these scoundrels?

The common people also hate them extremely. These hooligans steal things for no reason. They wish someone could catch them all!

Now that Master Yue has captured them all, it can be considered as eliminating the trouble in the city, and they are all happy to give Master Yue gifts. Unfortunately, Master Yue has a rule that he will not accept gifts.

Here, Chu Ren brought the gangsters who had been locked up for two days to Yun Yue.

Yun Yue was taking Yu Xiyun and Dr. Ge to dissect a monkey. The monkey was killed by a hunter. Yun Yue saw it on the street and asked someone to buy it. She dissected it for Yu Xiyun and Dr. Ge to see.

When the gangsters were brought in, they saw Yun Yue taking out a bloody heart from the monkey's stomach and looking at it carefully in her palm. She was still muttering something like "how is the difference between a human heart and this one?" and "I'll do a human dissection next time for them to see."

The timid ones knelt down and begged for mercy. Some even vomited. Even Gan Man's legs were shaking.

Yunyue placed the monkey's heart on the tray, then stood up, took off her gloves, and asked while washing her hands.

"You know who I am, right?"

"Know...know..."

"Master Prefect..."

"You are Master Yue!"

"Well, it seems that you all know me. Then I think you should also know that Chengnan Prefecture is my territory now! Haha... you are so brave!!! You actually collect protection fees in my territory! What? You are so powerful, should I also pay you protection fees? Why, if I pay the protection fees, if the imperial court attacks, can you help me fight them off? Hmm?" Yun Yue wiped his hands and played with the scalpel in his hand.

"Master Yue, please spare my life! Master Yue, please spare my life!"

"We don't dare anymore, never again!"

Wuuuuuuuuuuuu! Master Yue is so scary! A devil! A real devil!

"Look at you guys, you are all so young and have all the skills, why don't you do something else? Why do you have to be gangsters and hang around the streets all day long?" Although she said so, Yun Yue was still happy when she looked at these young people.

"No! Never again!"

"Master Yue, please let us go. We promise that we will never be gangsters again!"

"I know I was wrong, please spare my life, sir!"

"..."

Yunyue handed the scalpel to Lingyao, looked at them in surprise and said, "Ah? Let you go? Who said I would let you go? I caught you with great difficulty, why should I let you go?"

The gangsters were so scared that they all knelt on the ground.

Yun Yue saw that it was almost done, so she changed the subject: "Everyone, get up. I won't kill you. I'll give you a way out, but that is that you have to work for me in the future!"

"Ah?" Gan Man was puzzled.

"Ah for what?"

Gan Man asked cautiously: "Master Yue, we are illiterate and have no skills. I wonder what you want us to do?"

"Continue to be a thug on the street."

“Ah????” This time I felt confused and bewildered.

Yun Yue said: "The gangsters I'm talking about are different from the gangsters you used to be. The gangsters you are now can't make money, and you are scolded by the people on the street and your family, and you are despised by everyone."

"But if you follow my lead and do what I say, then that won't be the case."

"Next, my secretary Ling will observe you for three months. Your daily tasks will be simple. You will still walk around the streets. The territory will remain the same as before. You will work in the territory you are familiar with."

"But you can't bully the people and collect protection fees from merchants as you did before. What you need to do is to keep the streets clean and not allow merchants and vendors to throw garbage on the streets. You must let them set up stalls in designated locations... and pedestrians are not allowed to urinate or defecate at will. If you see someone in need, you should help them enthusiastically..."

The hooligans thought they had heard wrongly and looked at each other. How could this be called a hooligans? Wasn't this someone going to become a bodhisattva?

"Of course, I won't let you work for nothing." If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it grass.

"I will give you two taels of silver every month."

"But you will have a three-month probation period. If you fail, you will be kicked out. If you pass, congratulations! You will have a position in the urban management department I have added, become an official, eat official meals, and get an extra ounce of silver, four sets of clothes a year, and a year-end bonus."

"Oh, by the way, there is also a cafeteria in the mansion. You can also eat two meals a day here during your probation period."

"what?????"

Gan Man asked for them in disbelief: "Master Yue, we are just gangsters. We can't do anything well. Why do you still want to use us?"

Yun Yue looked at them. There was no disdain or disgust in her eyes: "Everyone has value. I believe you can do better. If you want to be recognized and respected, then you can stay. If you don't want to, you can leave now, but if I catch you again next time, I won't let you go easily."

Gan Man and others rushed to speak:

"We're not leaving..."

"I want to stay!"

"My Lord! I want to stay! I am yours in life and your ghost in death!!!"

They were afraid of Yunyue and didn't dare to leave, or because of the benefits Yunyue gave them, but more of them were like Yunyue said, they wanted to prove themselves, to be respected, to prove themselves.

Yunyue looked at them, no one left.

A smile appeared on his face.

Although these people are in trouble, they can all be saved. As long as they have a positive attitude, she can straighten them out!!

"Since you are not leaving, then you should start training in the mansion for three days starting from today." Yun Yue looked at the time.

"Now come with me to eat and see the cafeteria!"

As he said that, he brought these hooligans, no, it should be the urban management reserve team.

This canteen was originally prepared for the many staff members in the mansion. Later, Yunyue found it very convenient and simply ate in the canteen herself.

The chefs in the canteen were all transferred from the village. Now all of Madam Xu's apprentices had been poached by Yunyue, so Madam Xu had no choice but to stay in the village and find a few more apprentices.

Yunyue had three rooms in the mansion connected to build the cafeteria, so the space is now very large and can accommodate a hundred people.

These young men from the Urban Management Reserve Team could already smell the odor before they even entered the house and they couldn't stop swallowing their saliva.

Yunyue led them in, picked up the plates on the table at the door, and said loudly: "Everyone take a plate and go to the front, Aunt Song will serve you food."

As she spoke, Yunyue took the plate and walked over to demonstrate.

When Aunt Song saw Yunyue coming, she gave her a full spoonful of braised pork.

Yun Yue's scalp tingled as she watched: "Aunt Song, I can't eat that much! My hands are shaking, shake them quickly."

Aunt Song saw Yun Yue covering the plate with her hands and could only shake the spoon. She complained, "Mr. Yue, you are too thin. You said you are so busy and hard-working. Why don't you eat more..."

"Okay, okay! There's food to eat! Isn't this what you often cook for me?"

Aunt Song thought about it and said nothing more. She scooped another spoonful of vegetables for her.

Yunyue hurriedly took the plate to serve rice.

The boys looked at the meat and white rice in Yunyue's bowl with their eyes popping out and some of them even drooling. Yunyue could only hear the sound of swallowing saliva.

He hurriedly said, "Line up, take your plates and get your food, and help yourself to the rice. Take as much as you can eat! Don't waste it!"

Everyone nodded. Waste? It's impossible to waste it! They wanted to pick it up and eat it immediately after it fell on the ground!

Everyone couldn't wait to imitate Yunyue and serve the food.