Can I become the Yu-Gi-Oh by summoning the Flame Swordsman?

After Ye Xu stopped them, all the thieves suppressed their excitement and looked at Bai Chu in unison.

Bai Chu put away the duel disk and walked calmly towards Ye Xu under everyone's attention. He stopped beside the [One-eyed Apprentice] and more than ten seconds passed.

"Listen, it doesn't matter to me whether I kill you or not. You only have one chance to survive. It depends on whether you can seize this opportunity."

Ye Xu's lips moved slightly: "Go ahead."

"You must immediately return to the mountain where you are hiding, disband the rebel group you lead, and persuade them to mend their ways and become new men."

Ye Xu's expression changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Then you might as well kill me now."

"Oh? Would you rather die than bow your head?"

“All of these brothers who followed me don’t want to be ordinary farmers, working the fields for their entire lives. No one hates their current lives more than them, but…if they don’t resist, they will die.

Don't pretend to pity me, you little brat. If you want to kill me, just do it now, but don't try to crush our will to resist. If I die, someone new will take my place, and the resistance will never stop."

"Very good, you have guts." Bai Chu smiled appreciatively and took the card of [One-eyed Apprentice] off the duel disk, and the monster disappeared. "Don't worry, I'm not forbidding you to resist. On the contrary, I'm here to help you."

"Help us?"

"Yes. It happened to be a time of chaos caused by the locust plague. You rebelled against the imperial court in order to survive. I can understand that. However, the imperial court did not sit idly by and watch the people suffer. It also coordinated the transportation of grain reserves from various places to the disaster areas for disaster relief. As for why it did not reach you, the purpose of my trip is to investigate this matter."

"Relief grain?" Ye Xu got up from the ground and patted his butt. "I've never heard of it, but the county magistrate is selling grain. I don't know why he suddenly has so much extra grain during such a disaster. I heard that he is planning to hold a banquet to invite representatives of local big families in the near future. I don't know what the specific reason is."

Bai Chu nodded and said, "I will find out the county magistrate's food source as soon as possible and order him to open the warehouse to provide disaster relief. You wait for my good news. I will make sure you can survive this disaster year."

Ye Xu bowed to Bai Chu and said, "Thank you very much." Then he turned around and waved to the hungry people, "Let's go."

Seeing that the crisis was resolved, the young man who was the leader of the grain merchants also stepped forward and said, "Mr. Bai, my name is Wu Ji. Thank you for your help. If it weren't for you, we..."

Bai Chu did not give him a good look, but said seriously: "I didn't save you for nothing. You just heard it. Whether it is one tael per dou or 300 wen per dou, it is far higher than the normal price. The victims can't afford it at all.

I hope you can sell the grain at normal prices. If you make a fortune from the locust plague, you will end up destroying your family line."

Wu Ji's expression changed slightly, but he still nodded and agreed: "You are right. Benefactor, we are planning to go into the city, and we are going the same way as you. How about we go together?"

Bai Chu did not refuse. After saying goodbye to Ye Xu again, he walked towards the city with Wu Ji and his party.

After passing the moat bridge, the convoy stopped again in front of the city gate. Bai Chu stuck his head out of the carriage and saw the soldiers guarding the city were interrogating Wu Ji.

"You're transporting this, is this food?" The officer pulled open the sack on the food cart with a knife, and rice leaked out of the opening. "What do you do?"

"Sir, we are businessmen from the north. We heard that there is a locust plague here and a shortage of food, so we came here to make some money so that more people can survive." As he spoke, Wu Ji secretly handed a bundle to the officer.

The officer weighed the pros and cons and threw the bag back to Wu Ji. "You want to bribe me with this little money? Keep it for yourself. How are you going to sell the grain?"

Wu Ji looked at Bai Chu who was walking forward, and suddenly felt embarrassed, and said, "I sell it for 100 coins a bucket."

The officer's face darkened when he heard this: "Don't you know what's going on? Our county magistrate sells one tael per bucket, and you sell it for 100 coins. Are you here to mess things up? Get out of here, stop hanging around here!"

"You!" Wu Ji's face changed drastically and he was about to lose his temper.

"What do you mean? How dare you do this here?" The officers and soldiers immediately drew their swords to intimidate, and the bright light of the swords gleamed in the sun.

Bai Chu stepped forward and said, "What do you think, gentlemen? At what price should we sell the grain?"

"The unified guiding price is two taels per dou. We will send people to supervise. You cannot sell it for even a cent less. Otherwise, you cannot enter the city. Of course, you can also sell it directly to our county magistrate. We will charge you whatever you sell it for, and we don't require you to raise the price."

"I sold it to you for 100 wen per bushel, and you turned around and sold it for 1 liang per bushel? How shameless!"

Wu Ji glared at the soldiers with gritted teeth, but there was nothing he could do. It was simply unrealistic to break into the city with the guards he brought with him. Besides, businessmen were also wary of offending the powerful, so he retreated back to the outside of the moat along the same route.

"What should I do?" Wu Ji looked at the dozens of carts of grain behind him with a sad face.

He knew very well that no matter how low the price of these grains was, ordinary hungry people could hardly afford them now, and their money had long gone into the pocket of the county magistrate.

The only way to make money was to sell it in the city to wealthy landlords and officials. But if the price was really set at two taels per dou, who would give up the county magistrate's grain and buy his?

"Instead of being taken advantage of by this damn corrupt official, it is better to give no money and help these poor people!"

Wu Ji clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and made this hysterical decision with a fierce look in his eyes. This was not because he was kind, but because he didn't want to be blatantly fleeced by these greedy corrupt officials. He would rather lose everything than protest in this way.

"Let me see, with my free food, who would buy your cheap grain?"

"That's not necessary." Bai Chu patted Wu Ji's shoulder. "You have a group of people who depend on you for food, and you need money to go home. Wait for me here, I will help you solve the problem of entering the city."

Wu Ji looked at Bai Chu doubtfully, but Bai Chu did not continue to speak. He got on the carriage and called to the driver: "Go into the city."

Wu Ji saw from afar that Bai Chu's carriage was stopped by the guards again. The officers and soldiers wanted to check the carriage, but after Bai Chu showed something to the officers and soldiers, they nodded and bowed, and opened the door and let the carriage go without any hesitation.

"Who on earth is he?" Wu Ji murmured.

……

Bai Chu's carriage was driving on the road when he suddenly saw several hungry people with dusty faces fighting for something in front of the main gate of a house. These hungry people were already skinny, but they still had the strength to fight each other, which looked very strange.

"Stop! What are you stealing?" Bai Chu got out of the car and shouted, and everyone's attention was immediately drawn to Bai Chu.

Several people looked at each other and stepped back. A little boy who was being pushed to the ground finally got a chance to catch his breath, climbed up, and showed what he had in his arms.

"Dead rat?!" Bai Chu was not prepared at all and was suddenly startled by the fat, bloody dead rat in the little boy's hands.

"Sir, I haven't eaten for two days. Could you please be kind enough to share this dead rat with me?" A man with hungry eyes begged Bai Chu in the crowd.

"You eat this?" Bai Chu said in disbelief.

"Yes, this was given to us by Mr. Tu from the mansion behind us. It was a dead rat that was poisoned. No dog would eat it except us." Everyone obviously misunderstood and thought that Bai Chu was going to hold them accountable.

"If you eat this poisoned rat, won't you also be poisoned to death? Then Master Tu will give you this to eat?"

"Hey, we are all starving to death. If we can have a barbecue before we die, we will die happily and be satisfied."

"Master Tu is a kind-hearted man. Only Master Tu would spend money to buy poison to kill rats crawling all over the floor of a fat granary like this one, and then give it to us as a reward, so that we can have some relief before we starve to death. Other masters would not care about these things at all."

Bai Chu asked in confusion: "You would rather fight over this kind of thing, why don't you unite and ask the master to give you some real food?"

"What a treasonous statement!" The hungry people were obviously shocked. "Mr. Tu is willing to share these dead rats with us. He is already the best and kindest man within a hundred miles. Mr. Ying and Mr. Niu, who are equally wealthy in this county, would never care about the lives of people like us. We are grateful to him."

"Yes, yes, the food of Master Tu's family was obtained through the hard work of generations of ancestors. Why should we share it with ordinary people like us? We have never dared to have such an idea."

As they spoke, the hungry people's faces all revealed expressions of great piety, as if they regarded the person they were talking about as a spiritual belief.

"Working hard? What did their ancestors work hard for to collect rent? It was your ancestors who worked hard. They worked hard to grow food from the fields, gave most of it to the master, and used the remaining little to feed the family. No one worked harder than your ancestors."

"How can you be so shameless? It's outrageous!" A hungry man suddenly stood up from the crowd and condemned Bai Chu in an intolerable manner: "Without Master Tu giving us land to farm, how could we farmhands survive? Without Master Tu, there would be no us. If you don't want to farm, there are plenty of people who can!"

"If a human being doesn't even have the basic sense of gratitude, what's the difference between him and an animal?"

Bai Chu suddenly realized that the saddest thing in the world is that there is a kind of sheep in this world who puts themselves in the shoes of wolves and thinks from their perspective, arguing with other sheep about the rationality of wolves eating sheep.

Bai Chu no longer had any interest in arguing, and simply said, "I have some steamed buns here. How about exchanging them for the dead rats in your hands?"

As he spoke, Bai Chu signaled to the coachman to take out some steamed buns from the carriage and distribute one to each of the hungry people who were fighting over the dead rat. The little boy holding the bloody dead rat also handed over what he had, which was wrapped up by the coachman in layers of clean cloth.

Bai Chu ignored these people and got on the carriage to leave.

"Did we lose out?" After Bai Chu walked a long way, the hungry people who had eaten the steamed buns touched their stomachs and said belatedly: "We obviously have meat to eat, why should we exchange it for these tasteless white flour buns?"

"It's bad! We've been fooled by a liar!"