Qin Chuan learned from the maid that Miss Li was the eldest daughter of Li Pingdu, a scholar in Fenzhou, and the Li family was a local prominent family in Fenyang.

Not long ago, Miss Li ran to her aunt's house in Linxian because her father wanted to marry her into the Qingcheng Palace, but the Liukou suddenly attacked Linxian, and Miss Li escaped in a hurry, and was robbed by Bashan Tiger halfway.

Miss Li is reluctant to return to Fenyang, firstly because her innocence has been ruined, and secondly because she hates her father Li Pingdu.

Qin Chuan saw Luo Daniu's face and gave her a special preferential treatment and let her live in the inner courtyard of Mengjiazhuang.

As a result, Miss Li and Wang Jizong's wife Ning hit it off at first sight, and they became sisters in only half a day, and Wang Jizong's name had already spread throughout the state capitals of Shanxi, Miss Li had already heard of this loyal martyr's descendant, and both parties were well-informed people, so Miss Li naturally lived in Wang Jizong's courtyard.

Qin Chuan had good intentions, but he was bitter for Luo Da Niu, this guy could enter the inner courtyard, but he was embarrassed to enter Wang Jizong's courtyard, after all, there were many female dependents including the Ning family.

Qin Chuan originally wanted to be a good person to the end, so he called Miss Li out and arranged for her to live in other courtyards, but the girl stayed in it and didn't leave.

Ning also came out and said euphemistically to Qin Chuan: The twisted melon is not sweet.

Wang Jizong played haha, pretending not to know about this matter, and looked like he had nothing to do with himself.

Poor Luo Da Niu had to wander around the courtyard outside Wang Jizong every day, looking forward to wearing it, but he couldn't peep at the beauty.

Qin Chuan was a little annoyed, and immediately asked Song Zhiting to write a letter to the Li family in Fenyang, which said that in order to save Miss Li, the Qin Grand Steward of Mengjiazhuang not only gave the thief a ransom of 200 stone of grain, but also lost a few lives, and asked Li Pingdu to bring 200 stone of grain and 100 taels of silver to ransom his daughter.

If he didn't come, Li Pingdu would never see this daughter again.

I saved Miss Li's life, if I can't cheapen my brother, I have to get some wool from her.

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After solving Shentai Peak, Qin Chuan readjusted the deployment and structure of troops, and let Li Dingliang take two hundred traps to garrison Shentai Peak Dazhai.

Luo Daniu was transferred back to Mengjiazhuang, and went to harass Ren Liang and Wang Gang and Baowu every once in a while, not letting those people go out to loot, and not letting them recruit troops.

Qin Chuan also selected some miners and some more honest and obedient soldiers from the mine, and then selected some from the Zhuang people, and gathered enough 200 people to be incorporated into the Guandi army, so that the total strength of the entire Guandi army reached 1,000 people.

Now, he has 1,500 war horses, and he can do all the imperial army with one horse per person, half of them practicing cavalry tactics, and half of them practicing infantry tactics.

There are also more than 500 pairs of cotton armor, which can achieve a 50% armor rate and more than 400 horn bows, but archers are not easy to cultivate, so most of the horn bows are hoarded in the warehouse, and only 200 archers have been trained.

As for the equipment such as shields, knives, guns, and clubs, it can be said that there are as many as they want, and iron armor and helmets are also being made day and night.

The two blacksmiths have experience in making armor, and Qin Chuan asked them to make cloth iron armor and bowls, the former's defense is not much weaker than that of the armor scale armor, but it is better because the price is low, it is easy to make, and it can keep warm and easy to maintain.

Qin Chuan plans to let his subordinates wear two layers of armor, a cotton armor inside, and a cloth iron armor outside, so it can be said that swords, guns, arrows, and firearms can all be defended.

As for the bowl...... This thing is ugly, especially the kind that Jiannu is equipped with, with a high lightning rod on his head, which looks stupid.

Qin Chuan removed the lightning rod, leaving only a small section to tie the red tassel, and changed it to a throat guard, simplifying all unnecessary decorations such as inscription carving, and then putting on a layer of cloth to make it a little less ugly.

He had iron and a lack of craftsmen, so he asked the two blacksmiths to take in dozens of apprentices, on the condition that twenty percent of the apprentices' income in five years would go to them.

In this way, the two blacksmiths would naturally teach the apprentices with their hearts.

Luo Wentian's efficiency is very good, although the people who have not been recruited back, there are a few women: the steward of Cuixianglou and a few bustards from the secret door.

These people couldn't withstand Luo Wentian's agitation, and heard that there was a big man in Lou Fu Town, with hundreds of people and thousands of miners under his command, and everyone had monthly money, which was a good place to do business.

So the men rushed to find out what was going on.

Qin Chuan asked Song Zhiting to receive them, and took them to see the hundreds of Guan Emperor troops who were practicing, the more than 1,000 villagers and villagers who repaired water conservancy, and the miners who were in full swing in the mine.

After Song Zhiting made a promise of safety and security and help build a house, those people went back happily, saying that they would go back and ask the owner to quickly find more girls, and prepare to come to Lou Fu to open a semicolon.

The number of displaced people in the past two days also suddenly increased, and after finding that the war of Lou Fu was over, they ran to Mengjiazhuang to beg for food, and thousands of people came in one day.

Qin Chuan can still eat this, he can let the displaced people along the Fen River and Xiaojian River to open up wasteland, after using the land on both sides of the riverbank, and then reclaim the gentle slopes around, it is not a problem to raise three or four thousand people in the short term, and it is not a problem to raise one or two thousand people in a year with wasteland.

Qin Chuan handed over the screening and recruitment of displaced people to Wang Jizong, and handed over the task of guarding Mengjiazhuang to Luo Ba, while he took Liu Youzhu and led fifty horsemen to the direction of Jingyou Town.

It's time to find the bad luck of the Du family.

The situation of the Du family and the Meng family is similar, they both made a fortune by constantly occupying the land, especially in the past few years of the levy of Liaoyu, only relying on the means of money lending, they occupied most of the fields in Jingyou Town, and finally extended their hands to Lou Fu.

Among the large tracts of fertile land in the Loufu Valley, there are more than 2,000 acres belonging to the Du family.

This time, Fan Yongdou joined other families to go to Jingle and Lan County to collect grain, and Du Yingguang, the head of the Du family, was the first person to cooperate with Fan Yongdou.

Most of the Du family's grain was stored in Jingle County, and it might not be safe to transport it back to Jingyou Town, so Du Yingguang simply sold all the surplus grain to Fan Yongdou.

At the same time, Du Yingguang also asked the old and young women and children in the family to stay in Jingle County, in case something happened to Jingyou's hometown.

Du Yingguang knew that the so-called Qin Steward of Mengjiazhuang was a thief.

What he didn't know was that Chief Steward Qin was sharpening his knife and Huo Huo was about to be the first to attack him.

Lou Fu is only twenty miles away from Jingyou, and it takes more than an hour to walk there, and it only takes half an hour to ride a horse.

Qin Chuan originally wanted to enter Jingyou Town, first meet with Du Yingguang, and coerce and lure, but before he arrived at Jingyou, he saw thirteen horsemen suddenly coming from the front, all of them were faceless people, carrying knives, guns, bows and arrows, and there were Ming iron helmets and shields hanging behind a few saddles.

One of the rattan plaques caught Qin Chuan's attention.

The thick clothes on those people also attracted Qin Chuan's attention.

Obviously, these thirteen horsemen are the Ming army.

It may be a deserter, but it shouldn't be someone Luo Wentian and they recruited.

Seeing people from afar, Qin Chuan took his subordinates to the mountain beam next to him and waited quietly.

The other party's thirteen horsemen also went up to another mountain beam, looking at each other from a distance of more than a hundred paces.