If you really want to release Liu Wuzhou, it is impossible.

However, if you want to offset the merits, the credit is very valuable, and it can really be reported at a critical moment.

Li De gave Liu Wuzhou time to think.

In the evening, when the vanguard stopped rushing to rest, Li De came to Liu Wuzhou's prisoner car again, and this time Liu Wuzhou offered to see someone, which showed that the persuasion had an effect.

Li De didn't bring anyone else, the secret doesn't need to be shared by so many people, not to mention that the stakes are very high, if you want to avoid leaking the news, the less people know about it, the better.

"Liu Wuzhou, let's talk about it, you know what caused you to kill, those men in black even dared to break into the vanguard battalion, how did you provoke the other party and make people spend so much money."

Li De also teased a few words by the way when he spoke.

Liu Wuzhou was silent for a while before he spoke: "Just five months ago, I took more than 100 soldiers under my command to escort supplies to Jiangling, and it happened to catch up with the heavy rain, and I happened to see a dilapidated temple on the mountain, so I took people to shelter from the rain, and this is where things started......

"We lit a bonfire to keep warm, and when we were looking for wood, we found a secret passage behind the sculpture in the temple, so we lit a torch and went in to check, and found that the underground was actually a tomb, and when we wanted to continue to investigate, a group of men in black appeared and fought with my men, all of whom were skilled in martial arts."

"What happened?" Li De asked when he saw Liu Wuzhou stop.

"The men I took rushed to the tomb." Liu Wuzhou continued.

Li De knew that this was the key, and the things in the tomb were the key, and looked at Liu Wuzhou and expected him to continue.

"There is nothing missing inside, there is a secret passage to the outside, and I am the only one who finally escapes." Liu Wuzhou said.

"You mean their assassination is trying to kill you?" Li De wondered.

"Yes."

"There's nothing in the tomb, why do you want to kill it, it's really contradictory for you to say that." Li Dedao.

"I didn't have anything to do at the time, I was in a hurry, but I still saw the words carved on the wall, it was the tomb of Empress Chen, and there was no use in it because the mausoleum at that time was not completed, and the craftsman left an exit, I really only know so much, I told you all." Liu Wuzhou said.

Li De paid attention to Liu Wuzhou's expression again, and looked like he was telling the truth.

Leaving the prisoner car and returning to the camp, Pei Qingxuan and other women were there.

After Li De came back, he fell into deep thought, he only believed half of what Liu Wuzhou said, and he had already asked for the address of the broken temple, which was roughly similar to the address provided by Chen Xuanhua.

However, there are still many doubts, such as the appearance of the man in black, how the news leaked out, and Liu Wuzhou really happened to pass by with people.

It's a pity that all his men are gone, otherwise it can be confirmed.

"How's it going, is there any progress?" Zhang Chuchen asked anxiously.

"No, many things can't be determined at present, it is impossible to judge whether what Liu Wuzhou said is true or false, let Red Peony go over to investigate in person, I always feel that there is something hidden here, you must be careful when investigating the news, I suspect that someone will stay behind and don't follow the other party's way."

"I see." Zhang Chuchen responded.

She will be personally responsible for the dispatch of Red Peony, and the specific explanation is also her order.

"No matter, from now on all the things that have nothing to do with the vanguard will be put aside." Li De said.

Whether it is Dou Jiande or Liu Wuzhou, they will eventually be sent to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and with their luck, I don't know if they will survive.

The matter of escorting them back needs to be discussed.

After setting the tone, Li De began to recruit soldiers along the way, and the prisoners who escorted him seemed to have left them behind.

In the recruitment of soldiers, as long as they pass the assessment, they will be given three months' salary on the spot, and those who have children in the family can receive additional subsidies, and they can be paid an extra three months' salary for three and a half months.

Li De spread the news along the way, he now has a lot of money brought to him by Dou Jiande, and now he really has nothing but money.

As the saying goes, a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem, the problem is that Li De is now the time to have money, and he is very efficient in doing things.

The dealers heard that a large number of people came to participate in the treatment, so the assessment began one after another, and they saw the dealers running back and forth around the mountain every day.

Register your household registration and find out your identity.

After doing this, it is a survival in the mountains and forests, and a battle queue, and each batch of recruited people needs to go through a three-day assessment period, during which they will take care of food.

The pioneers used the money to open the roads, and the local officials took the initiative to help contact the local rice merchants to supply the pioneers with a large amount of food, and the price was not cheap, but even higher.

It's not that they want to make higher profits, but they want to mobilize enough food, but they have contacted many rice shops around, and the transportation cost is high, and the price is naturally higher.

This is not a problem for Li De at all, anyway, the money was sent to him by Dou Jiande, and he didn't feel distressed to spend it.

Li De didn't be a shopkeeper in this recruitment, many people were not suitable for charging at the beginning, but they had good physical strength and hard-working, so after finding out through endurance and identity, most of them were given.

All of them belong to the baggage battalion, and the scale of 30,000 soldiers and horses cannot be like this, everything is done by the soldiers, such as transportation and other things.

With an independent baggage battalion, they will play a huge role when they recruit 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Three days later, 3,000 soldiers and horses were selected, and a small 100,000 yuan was spent on material supplies, which was not counting the expenses of several governors who recruited soldiers.

The wealth of 300,000 yuan is no more than that, and horses are the biggest problem, if you exchange all the money in your hand for horses, you can buy about 10,000 horses.

If you add protective equipment, I'm afraid it can only be reduced to 8,000 horses.

It doesn't matter if the money is not enough, Jiangling is prosperous, and the value of Dou Jiande's gold and silver jewelry is not much worse than gold and silver, by the way, let the people of Red Peony bring it over, part of it is kept for their funds, and most of it becomes the funds of the vanguard.

Half a month later, Li De joined several lieutenants, and the vanguard was newly replenished with more than 35,000 soldiers, and in fact there were 1,000 baggage soldiers.

After adding the original vanguard soldiers and direct court members, the extra 6,000 people were all added to the baggage battalion set up by the logistics support guard.

The original vanguard system is inconvenient, and after the new recruits are trained, they will be separated into the four soldiers and horses of the "Wind Forest Volcano", and it will take at least five months to train elite soldiers, which is the plan given by Li De.

In addition, Li De had to think about money, as well as the matter of escorting the prisoners back to the Eastern Capital.