In the current Wuyang City, the sound of "clanging" can be heard everywhere, and it does not stop from morning to night, which is even more monotonous and annoying than the cry of the summer cicada.

Another change in the city is the unprecedented unity of the "Three Evils". The relationship between the three sects, the Iron Sword Sect, the Monkey Gang, and the Evil Dog Sect, is more harmonious than at any time in the past few decades, and the kind of fights that used to take over the territory of one or two streets will no longer happen. And at this time, if there are outsiders like Zhu Zhenyan and others trying to win over any of the three factions, it will never succeed.

This is because the interests of the "three evils" are now linked together and are difficult to separate.

This is due to Hua Bushi's "three joint ventures" strategy.

At present, the most valuable thing in Wuyang City is, of course, the refined iron ore vein in the west of the city. After the exploration of Huabushi, this vein is excavated at the current speed, and it can be mined for at least more than a hundred years without being exhausted.

There is no need to worry that the veins will be mined, so we must find ways to speed up the mining of ore in order to obtain greater benefits in the short term.

The "Evil Dog Gate" is the smallest shili among the "three evils", and there are few people, so instead of mining and smelting alone, it is better to cooperate with the other two factions of shili to make greater profits. After all, the scale is more efficient, and this is true for mining, as well as for the smelting of refined iron ore.

As a result, Hua Bushi and Qu Huze, Shen Ying'er and other people in charge of each family agreed that the "Evil Dog Gate" simply did not participate in the mining of ore veins, but specialized in ore smelting, and handed over the mining affairs to the "Iron Sword Sect" and the "Monkey Gang". The mined ore was transported to the smelting workshop of the "Evil Dog Gate", and after being smelted into refined iron ingots, the three families divided the refined iron ingots equally and took them to their respective blacksmith workshops to cast weapons.

Such a division of labor is also very beneficial to the "Iron Sword Sect" and the "Divine Monkey Gang". Working together is definitely much more efficient than mining and smelting alone. Although mining requires more manpower than smelting, only the "Evil Dog Gate" of the three has mastered the smelting of refined iron ore, so this division of labor is reasonable.

The three shili joined forces, and naturally there would be no more obstacles in Wuyang City, and everything was going very smoothly. Soon, however, the families were faced with another problem, and that was the sale of a large number of weapons forged from the blacksmith's workshop.

At the current rate, dozens of weapons are being forged every day in the three blacksmith workshops, and if they are not sold in time, they will soon pile up in the warehouse.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it was illegal to cast and sell weapons without permission. However, as long as the "Three Evils" sect is profitable, it will not care whether it violates the law or not.

However, even so, it is not easy to find a way to sell weapons in large quantities.

The situation of the "Iron Sword Sect" is better. They are a side branch of the "Wudang faction", and the "Wudang faction" is the "first sect in the world" of the Ming Emperor's Qinfeng, with the support of the imperial court, and the relationship with the local government is very close, and it will not be difficult to sell some weapons. Truckloads of swords, axes and axes were constantly transported from Wuyang City to Wudang Mountain, and although there was some price to pay, the "Iron Sword Sect" could still make a lot of profits.

And the "Divine Monkey Shen Family" and "Evil Dog Gate" were not so lucky.

The "Evil Dog Gate" made the first move, and used Hua Bushi's wedding banquet to get in touch with the Qianzong of Wuyang Zhixian and the Yamen of the General Military Mansion, and sold the first batch of hundreds of swords and weapons to the local government. However, there are only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in Wuyang City, and there is no war, and the loss of weapons is very limited, so there is no need to buy them in the short term after this business is completed.

The Shen family had another idea, and only used a small amount of fine iron to make weapons in the blacksmith workshop, and most of the materials were used to cast some iron products used in daily life and sell them to the common people. Refined iron is a high-value metal material, with a tough texture, which is the most suitable for making weapons, and it is a bit expensive to use it in daily iron. However, the daily demand for iron tools is large, and although the money earned is less than half of that of making weapons, there is no need to worry about the problem of selling.

After finishing the business of the official mansion of Wuyang City, the weapons produced by the "Evil Dog Gate Divine Soldier Hall" had nowhere to go, and they were all piled up into the treasury of the Hua family's mansion, and soon there were several large houses, with a total of thousands. Hua Bushi was not very anxious about this, he already had a plan in his heart.

Wuyang City is too small, of course, it can't digest these many weapons, and it is inevitable to transport them to other cities for sale. In Hua Bushi's view, whether it is smelting refined iron or selling weapons to make money, it is only a means, not an end. His real purpose was to develop the "Evil Dog Gate" and expand the Shili of the sect outward to other cities in the Hunan Realm. And the sale of weapons has become a very good opportunity.

Hua Bushi's first goal is "Changsha Mansion".

Changsha Mansion, the "famous city of Chu and Han Dynasty", is one of the most prosperous metropolises in Huguang Province, and its geographical location is also very important. Compared with Changsha Mansion, Wuyang City is like sesame seeds and watermelons.

As long as Changsha Mansion is occupied, other cities and towns in Hunan are at your fingertips.

As far as the sale of weapons is concerned, the garrison of the Ming court in Changsha Mansion has tens of thousands of people, and if the business of the government can be done, it is enough to digest the output of the "Evil Dog Gate Divine Soldier Hall" for several years. In addition to the government, many rivers and lakes also have their own territories in Changsha City, and their demand for weapons is also not small.

When it comes to the rivers and lakes of Changsha City, the most famous is naturally the "Dongting Gang". The first martial arts sect in Hunan is the "Hengshan faction", but that is only in terms of martial arts inheritance and prestige in the rivers and lakes, if you talk about the scope of shili and the number of people in the gang, the "Dongting Gang" is much stronger than the "Hengshan faction".

The "Dongting Gang" is based in the area of Dongting Lake, and the main altar is located in Changsha Mansion, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of gangs, and about half of the territory in Changsha City belongs to the "Dongting Gang".

In addition to the giant crocodile of the "Dongting Gang", there are also many Jianghu sects in Changsha City, such as the "Yuelu Faction", "Nine Immortals Society" and "Liuhe Gate", all of which have a lot of shili, each occupying some territory, which can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons.

As for the "Gejiabao", it is only a little famous in the western suburbs outside Changsha, but it is still too far from the major gangs in the city.

The "Evil Dog Gate" is also a Jianghu sect, and it is a taboo to set up a rudder in Changsha Mansion and develop Shili, even if it is a cross-border step on the territory of other families.

Guojianglong is not so easy to be, Hua Bushi knows this very well.

Therefore, Hua Bushi decided to set up the rudder on the outskirts of the city first, trying not to provoke those big shili in the city, and before gaining a foothold, he didn't want to fight hard with a strong enemy.

The house where the Sun sisters hung signs for sale naturally became the best choice for Hua Bushi. It only cost four hundred and sixty taels of silver to buy thirteen mansions and five acres of medicinal fields, and he can be regarded as picking up a big bargain, as for offending the "Gejiabao" kind of unpopular Jianghu family, it has not been put on Hua Bushi's heart.

This time he came to Changsha Mansion, Hua Bushi only brought the "Five Evil Dogs" and more than 30 "Dragon and Tiger Hall" gangs, while Yang Jiangyi and Hai Hongzhu stayed in Wuyang City.

In recent months, Yang Jiangyi has been in retreat to practice the "Vigorously Subduing Demon Swordsmanship", and her swordsmanship has made great progress, and it is a critical moment for her martial arts to rise by leaps and bounds, and Hua Bushi does not want to interrupt her cultivation. Anyway, when I first arrived in Changsha, as long as I acted cautiously, there should not be any big battles to be fought, and having the "five smalls" by my side was enough to deal with it.

As for Hua Bushi's nominal wife Hai Hongzhu, since that big wedding, she has been angry with him, except for the hypocritical entertainment on the surface, she ignored him in private, she didn't have a good face at all, and she didn't say a word of gossip. In addition to occasionally going to accompany her for a while, Hua Bushi is usually happy and quiet. This time in Changsha Mansion and his party, Hai Hongzhu said that he wanted to stay in Wuyang City to keep his father's spirit and couldn't leave, and Hua Bushi would not be reluctant.

After buying the Thirteen Mansions, Hua Bushi immediately began to renovate the mansion. Although the original old mansion of the Sun family can be regarded as sturdy, it is naturally far from being used as a rudder of the sect. In addition to raising the courtyard wall, building defense towers, and setting up an ambush, Hua Bushi also opened up more than ten martial arts training venues in the backyard for the "five small" and subordinate gangs to practice martial arts on weekdays.

The facilities and conditions of these martial arts training grounds are far inferior to the "Vicious Dog Courtyard" built by Hua Bushi in Wuyang City, but they are finally better than nothing.

Changsha Mansion is an important town in Hunan Province, and the rudder of the "Evil Dog Gate" in this city can't be so shabby. Using this old mansion of the Sun family is just a temporary expedient measure, just wait for Shili to grow stronger, and then expand it on a large scale, or go to the city to find another good place and build a larger gang base.

There's no need to rush any of this, you can wait until later.

At this time, Hua Bushi had to face an imminent problem, and he couldn't do it if he didn't want to. That is the shortage of silver taels.

In addition to the construction of the Iron Smelting Workshop and the "Shenbingtang Blacksmith Workshop", there are also a large number of recruitment and training expenses for the gang, which are all not small expenses. In terms of income, except for the hundreds of weapons sold to the Yamen of the Wuyang General Military Mansion, there is no other additional income.

In the account book of Master Mo Wentian, more than 200,000 taels of silver have disappeared in the past few months, and after this big move, there is not much left of the original family of the "Evil Dog Gate".

This time, Hua Bushi came to Changsha Mansion and only carried 20,000 taels of silver tickets with him. Although it didn't take much money to buy the Sun family's house, the subsequent renovation matters spent little money on the money, and now it is a little stretched.

Hua Bushi has just come to Changsha City, and he is not familiar with the place, but he is not as good as in Wuyang City, where he can find so many creditors who are willing to owe silver on credit. Therefore, Jihua, who originally wanted to expand the Sun family's old mansion again, had to stop.

The top priority is to find a way to make money as soon as possible.

Just when Hua Bushi began to worry about money, 50,000 taels of silver were sent to him on the initiative.

It was Shen Ying'er of the "Monkey Shen Family" who sent the silver.

On the second day after the Changsha rudder of the "Evil Dog Gate" had just been repaired, the third lady of the Shen family took two entourages from Wuyang City to visit Hua Bushi from afar, and also sent 50,000 taels of silver.