The soap here is happy, but the heart is sad over there. After several months of investigation, no culprit was found to threaten Master Lei's family, and only the relief was that Master Lei's wife and children were all intact.

Since then, Lixin has been even more cautious about the second-level martial law on the whole island, and all those who go to the island must be inspected, and all those who leave the island cannot bring their families. He also sent many people out of the island to form a reconnaissance team to monitor all strangers entering and leaving Chaozhou in the city of Chaozhou.

The production of artillery on the island, after several months of exploration, also began in earnest. None of these guns are too large and can shoot about 700-800 paces, but they are easy to transport with a mounted reel.

Rational also wanted to study mines and grenades, but without the raw materials, he could only run aground. The soap sent back by his brother a few days ago made Liren's eyes light up, and he thought that there must be a by-product glycerin. Immediately brought a message to Liren, the materials on the island were inconvenient, and suggested that he establish an underground arsenal in Wangjiazhuang to facilitate future combat needs.

After receiving Rinshin's suggestion, Rihito began to set about building an arsenal. It takes a lot of steel to build an arsenal, and now there is no finished steel, and although there are hundreds of steels on the island, they cannot be used as the barrels and barrels of weapons.

At night, Liren fought at night, drawing countless drawings to draw the original blast furnace and open hearth, and finally calculated that the current funds could only build a small open hearth.

Rihito opened a blacksmith workshop and built an open-hearth furnace by the Showai River, specializing in the refining of steel. However, there are not many raw materials for coal and iron, so they can only be purchased slowly.

The steel has not landed, but soap has begun to sweep the state capital's dignitaries, many dignitaries and nobles through Zhang Zhixian to buy Liren's soap, bringing a lot of silver income.

Liren has increased the production of soap, and the daily production volume has reached about 2,000 pieces. At this time, there were a lot of strangers next to Wangjiazhuang, and the guards grabbed one and brought it back to ask, only to know that it was a representative of a large merchant in the surrounding state capitals. I wanted to ask if the soap could be sold for them.

Li Ren was very happy when he heard this, and began to contact the representatives of these large businesses. However, some of them are not very approachable and threaten Rihito to hand over the formula of soap.

Sent someone to investigate and learned that most of these threats were merchants who were very close to someone in the capital, and Liren was very annoyed. After thinking about it, it's not good to do things too the surface, so as not to expose yourself early. But if you let others bully you, you won't be able to develop in the future.

Just when Li Ren was at a loss, Zhang Lei, the leader of his guards, said: "Boss, now these people can threaten you on the surface, which means that they have committed a lot of crimes on weekdays." Secretly, we can assemble killers and uproot these people. No one will suspect us, and even if they do, there is no evidence. ”

When Li Ren heard this, he thought: "Yes, let these people be in my head, I just can't develop anything, rather than destroy him." ”

After careful consideration, Liren ordered: "Zhang Lei, you are responsible for organizing the killer, but first, you can only contact each other through one line." Second, find some outlaws on the rivers and lakes. Third, the relationship between the organization and Wangjiazhuang should not be known. Okay? ”

"Boss, no problem, just take a look." Zhang Lei had to make his fart run to run errands.

A month later, the merchant who had threatened Liren either died because his family was robbed by the bandits, or he died in his family for no apparent reason.

The government checked and checked, and only found that he had recent business dealings with Liren, but there was no motive for Liren to commit the crime. It took a lot of time for Liren to go up and down, but in the end, it didn't work.

Zhang Lei reported: "Boss, everything has been done, do you still need these people now?" ”

"It's okay to keep these people, but you have to be careful not to expose yourself. From now on, you will be the person in charge of the Suzaku Army's peripheral killer organization, responsible for intelligence collection and handling of matters that are inconvenient for me to come forward, and you yourself will be directly under my leadership. Also, without revealing yourself, you can consider taking on some work outside. Rihito decided after much consideration.

Zhang Lei was a little reluctant to say when he heard it: "Boss, isn't that to kick me out?" I'm not going. ”

Liren said a little unhappily: "Why are you still a child, do you want to stay by my side for the rest of your life?" In the future, those around me who are capable will be sent out, and now that you have proven yourself, I will entrust you to do great things. Got it?"

"Boss, I'm just afraid of what will happen to your safety after I'm gone, and who else doesn't want to make a career. Since the boss is so sure of me, then I'll do it. Zhang Lei drooped his head and muttered.

At this moment, the outside of the village reported: "The owner of the village, Li Gouzi, who was taught a lesson by the owner at the door of the shop that day, insisted on seeing the owner. ”

Li Ren was very strange, so he ordered the guards to bring Li Gouzi to come.

Li Gouzi had never been to such a place, and saw a whole bluestone city wall made of more than ten zhang high outside the village, and there was a tower twice as high as the courtyard wall at each corner, and there was a faint figure shaking in the small cross window on the tower.

After walking through the doorway that is deeper and larger than the gate of the county seat, I came to the village, and in front of me was a large road paved with bluestone where two carriages could travel side by side. At the end of the road is a majestic building like a mountain, and the whole building is made of bluestone, much higher than the towers on the side of the outer city wall.

These Li dogs had never seen them before, and they opened their mouths in surprise until they saw Li Ren in the large living room of the building and closed them.

Li Ren saw Li Gouzi coming, and ordered to watch the seats left and right. As soon as Li Gouzi heard that he was going to give himself a seat, "poof" knelt on the ground, kowtowed a few times, and hurriedly said: "The owner of the village is on top, there is a villain's seat, please take back the owner's life." ”

"Hurry up, don't be like this, the rule of kneeling without meeting in my village. If you don't get up again, you go out. Li Ren walked over and picked up Li Gouzi, pressed him to the seat, and said deliberately angrily.

After Li Gouzi sat on the chair with half of his buttocks trembling, Liren sat back and asked, "Has your mother's condition improved in the past month?"

Hearing Liren's question, Li Gouzi wanted to kneel down again. Li Ren said "um~", he stood up and hugged his fists and said: "The owner of the village, my mother's illness is due to the owner's Hongfu, which has improved greatly. ”

Rihito waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down: "Oh! It's good, and it didn't cost me a piece of my heart in the first place. I wonder what you're looking for me today? Is it not enough to have two silver or other difficulties, as long as you are no longer the former Li gangster, just open your mouth. ”

When Li Gouzi heard this, he hurriedly said: "The owner of the village is very gracious, and I dare not bother the owner anymore." Today is not for anything else, but to fulfill my mother's words that day, I came to the village to serve the owner as a slave, and the villain hereby implores the owner of the village to take it in. He knelt down again with a "poof".

Li Ren looked at the five-foot-tall man, sighed and said, "Tell me first, did you do it voluntarily, or did you just fulfill your mother's life?" ”

"The villain is not only to fulfill his mother's orders, but also to do it voluntarily." Li Gouzi hurriedly kowtowed his head and said eagerly.

"You stand up first and tell me, why did you come to my village to be a slave voluntarily?" Liren looked at Li Gouzi with great interest.

Li Gouzi stood up and replied sincerely: "The owner of the village, the villain has never admired others for so many years since his father died. ”

Seeing Li Gouzi's sincerity, Liren said after thinking about it repeatedly: "Okay, since that's the case, I can't take the opportunity for you to reform yourself, but there are no domestic slaves in the village, and I don't want everyone to be slaves for me." So you don't have to be a slave here, even if it's a hired member of my estate. From tomorrow onwards, you will be familiar with things first, and in a month, Miss Zhang Rong and Zhang will be responsible for arranging your collective affairs. ”

After Li Ren instructed Miss Zhang to be introduced outside the door, he said to Li Gouzi seriously: "As long as you work hard, I can make you get ahead, but if you don't do it well, you will be swept away." You know? ”

Li Gouzi knelt on the ground and said, "The little one understands, and the owner of the village can rest assured." ”

Li Ren smiled bitterly and helped Li Gouzi up: "I said earlier, don't kneel, there are only men standing dead in my village, and there are no kneeling births." Remember not to kneel easily in the future. ”

Li Gouzi hugged his fists at this time: "It's the owner." ”

"Oh! By the way, is your name just Li Gouzi, isn't there any other name? Li Ren came back to his senses before looking at Li Gouzi and said.

"The owner of the village, the little one has a name called Zhongwen, which was obtained by his father. Because the villain was willing to fall and did not dare to use the name chosen by his father, he has always been named after the dog. Li Gouzi replied ashamedly.

"Now that you have reformed yourself, restore the name that your father gave you." Rihito said calmly.

Li Zhongwen hugged his fists and bowed deeply to Liren: "Thank you to the owner, Zhongwen will go down." ”