In just two days, Qin Chuan deeply felt the importance of talents, and the entire bandit gang would take care of something about him and Song Zhiting.

Luo Da Niu would only scold his mother while using a knife to scold the group of homeless people and miners.

Lao Huang grinned all day long and grabbed others to chatter, but he couldn't do anything.

Luo Ba is a stuffy gourd, standing on the gatehouse with a horned bow on his back every day to watch the scenery, and he doesn't care about anything.

Bobcats are like monkeys running around inside and outside the village from morning to night, and they don't know how to do anything with big children.

Liu Youzhu and Luo Da Niu have a fight, and they scold their mother at every turn, and there are several scars on that already fierce face, and they have to walk around when they see him.

As for the other Jiuji Mountain bandits, they are even more useless than the above.

However, they were very good at dancing knives and guns and charging into battle, Qin Chuan simply took dozens of more obedient ones from the homeless people, and threw them to them along with the more than two hundred miners.

Since then, the screams and scolding have been ringing from morning to night, and the rest of the village and the townspeople are terrified all day long.

Some homeless people and miners couldn't stand their humiliation, so they found an opportunity to slip away, and were caught and beaten to the point of crying and calling their mothers.

Qin Chuan did not stop those old bandits in Jiuji Mountain, and only said one sentence to those homeless people and miners who were beaten: "They beat you up to let you live for a few more years." ”

As a result, the old bandits in Jiuji Mountain beat them even more fiercely.

Including the villagers in the town, the whole Lou Fu inside and outside are obedient to this gang of vicious bandits, although the people are fierce, but they have food and can give food, which is the most important thing.

Meng Guiming's niece, who was still angry with the eldest lady a few days ago, was also cleaned up properly, in front of Liu Youzhu, who scolded her mother with a fierce face, Miss Meng was like a quail, telling her to squat and she didn't dare to sit, and told her to lie down and she didn't dare to stand.

Even Meng Guiming is much more honest, and even takes the initiative to help Qin Chuan take care of some trivial matters such as eating, drinking, and Lazar.

It is foreseeable that it will not be long before Meng Guiming will be completely a thief.

Maybe I heard that Mengjiazhuang had food to eat, but in the past two days, a large group of displaced people suddenly came, there were seven or eight hundred people, Qin Chuan asked Bobcat and Lao Huang to investigate to see if there were any spies, and then accepted all the orders.

Now, he has a total of 1,200 people and 766 miners, and those few hundred tenants are not counted as his people, not counting them for the time being.

He himself has more than 9,000 acres of cultivated land, and he is planning to occupy the thousands of acres of fertile land of Jingyou Dujia and Ninghua Wang, and after getting his hands, nearly 18,000 acres of land will take about 3,000 laborers to plant.

Moreover, the surrounding area of Lou Fu is not full of terraced fields like in later generations, those low and gentle slopes are basically barren, he can let the displaced people to open up the wasteland, and he can also build dikes and dams in suitable mountain valleys to build ponds, a pond can irrigate dozens or even hundreds of acres of land.

In addition to farming, he also wants to expand the mine's production.

Nowadays, the Montenegrin mine can only train three or four thousand catties of pig iron a day, compared with the steel mills that produced millions or even tens of millions of tons a year in later generations, the Montenegrin mine is like a family.

In fact, the Dajian furnace in the Ming Dynasty could reach a daily output of 3,000 catties, and the reason why the two furnaces in the Black Mountain Mine only got more than 3,000 catties a day was because Meng Guiming treated the miners too harshly, and the wages were almost negligible, and the miners naturally refused to work hard.

Qin Chuan didn't know anything about steel technology, and the only way to increase output was to pile up the number of people and pay miners by the pound.

Pile up 2,000 people and go in, and then improve the enthusiasm of labor, and you can refine 20,000 catties a day.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, pig iron was very cheap, about one tael of silver for one hundred catties, and one tael or three dollars for one hundred catties of wrought iron, and the price was slightly different from place to place.

Originally, Meng Guiming's wages to the miners were negligible, but after Qin Chuan gave the miners processing money, the labor cost of 20,000 catties of pig iron was about 70 taels, and then he ate 20 stone of grain, about 40 taels of silver, and about 8 taels of silver for the furnace tax and iron tax.

That is to say, if the mine produces 20,000 catties of pig iron per day, Qin Chuan can earn about 80 taels of silver a day, and after deducting the miners' death and injury benefits, there are 25,000 taels a year.

Twenty-five thousand pieces of silver can feed two or three thousand soldiers.

If you can produce 100,000 catties of iron per day, you can raise 20,000 troops.

It's a good deal.

If there were enough blacksmiths who could turn all the raw and wrought iron into iron, they would only earn more.

Among the hundreds of displaced people who came to vote in the past two days, there were many border army craftsmen, including two blacksmiths, a family of four fathers and sons, and a family of two husbands and wives.

To Qin Chuan's delight, the husband and wife craftsmen are good at creating the Royal Forest Long Knife, that is, the Miao Knife of five feet and three feet and seven inches.

And the father and son, although they are not good at building weapons, have made firearms, birds, three-eyed guns, and even tiger guns.

For Qin Chuan, these two blacksmiths are treasures, especially the father and son.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't expect a bird gun that could only shoot in half a day and a three-eyed gun with a rotten range accuracy, he wanted to get a shot.

The father and son had experience in making firebolts, and as long as they were willing to spend time and iron, they could always get a pistol.

So, the two blacksmiths lived in the best house in Waizhuang, and promised to eat enough food and wear warm clothes every day, and the blacksmith shop in Mengjiazhuang also belonged to them.

What made Qin Chuan depressed was that among the nearly 1,000 homeless people, they didn't even collect a night.

He is now in urgent need of a group of capable sentinels, the old bandits of Jiuji Mountain have a strong ability to charge into battle and fight alone, of course, they can also go around sentry, but what he wants is the border army that is alone dozens of miles away at any time.

If it really doesn't work, you can only go to Datong Mansion to deceive some people.

After spending two days combing through all the personnel, Qin Chuan began to think about who to rob next.

Bashan Tiger has just robbed Meng Guiming of his money and grain, and there should be a lot left on Huangcong Mountain, so you can consider fighting Huangcong Mountain.

In the next step, it's time to fight the idea of the Du family in Jingyou Town, and before spring sowing next year, we have to get the thousands of acres of fertile land of the Du family at the bottom of the Loufu Valley.

The decision had been made, and Qin Chuan scattered more than a dozen old bandits from Jiuji Mountain to the vicinity of Huangcong Mountain, staring at the movements of Bashan Tiger.

He and Song Zhiting studied how to fight Huang Congshan on the gatehouse every day.

Before he could figure out why, his subordinates reported a piece of news: On the day Bashan Tiger attacked Mengjiazhuang, the Jingyou Du family was afraid that the thieves would hit their house, so they hurriedly transferred their family and money and food to the county seat.

Now, most of the people of the Du family have returned to Jingyou, but the batch of money and grain is still in the county seat, according to the homeless people from the county seat, the big bags of grain have filled the Du family's shop, not to mention two or three thousand stones.

The Du family, including the caretaker's home, has a total of three or four hundred mouths waiting to eat, and they have to eat three stones of grain a day, and more or less they will definitely transport some food back to Jingyou, otherwise the people of the Du family will starve to death.

As soon as he heard the news, Qin Chuan immediately slapped his thigh: Rob his mother.

Even if the Du family only transports a few dozen stones of grain each time, they have to rob it, and they can't give them a comfortable life.

The Du family is not a good thing, and there is no psychological burden at all to rob them.

So, Qin Chuan threw Bashanhu aside and began to study how to rob the Du family.

But at this time, Mengjiazhuang suddenly came to have a guest.

This group of guests is a bit big, there are more than 100 people, all of them are well-armed hardcover men, and all of them are riding high-headed horses, and they are the guardians of large families at a glance.

Qin Chuan went to the top of the gatehouse, and saw that the other party sent two horses to approach, and shouted loudly: "Jiexiu Fan's family has important matters to visit, please ask my father-in-law, Master Meng, to come out and speak." ”

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be happy.

Hehe, the people of the Fan family are here.