ran around the Li family's mansion for more than a dozen laps, and the short coat on his body was already soaked. Li Ze's habit has now been transmitted to all the guards stationed in the Li family's mansion. So now when Li Ze is running, he is already surrounded by dozens of guards. The leader is naturally Li Mi.

Speaking of the son-in-law running every day, they are embarrassed to wait and see! Running is really addictive, it takes about fifteen days to form a habit, and once you form a habit and want to change, you will feel very uncomfortable. Just like these guards, at first they were forced to run with Li Ze, but after running for a while, if they didn't run at this point, they would feel uncomfortable all over their bones.

After the expansion of the Li family's mansion, it is really not small, a circle down, it is almost 2,000 steps, if converted to the current length, it is nearly 2,000 meters, more than a dozen circles, it is almost 20,000 meters.

20,000 meters a day, for ordinary people, this is a terrifying number, but for these carefully selected pro-soldiers, it is not a problem at all.

Li Ze has always been running like this, but after Li Yu ran with him for a while, he was not happy when he saw the relaxed appearance of his own soldiers. First of all, I asked people to make some sandbags, from half a catty, one catty, and up to five catties, tied to let the soldiers run. After a while, she simply ordered her every morning run to be fully armed.

With the armor of the whole body on his body, and then with all the combat equipment, everyone will almost weigh forty or fifty pounds, Li Mi is so brutal that even Li Ze can't stand it, too much, he has to order, such a fully armed run, at most once every ten days.

But this kind of training is undoubtedly extremely effective. Now these pro-soldiers, one by one, are fully armed to carry out dozens of miles of cross-country crossing, and they will not feel the slightest burden, and they can even launch a high-intensity battle immediately after such a high-intensity march.

This kind of training finally spread from the soldiers in the mansion to the entire guard battalion, and then spread to other tribes. Now, even Shen Congxing and Shi Zhuang, who were stationed in Shiyi and Xindu, have begun this kind of endurance and strength training.

Of course, this also has a negative effect.

It's that the soldiers' meals have increased dramatically, and the need for nutritional supplements has also increased. In terms of food expenses, Li Ze's expenses have greatly increased, and the rapid increase in expenses in this regard once aroused the suspicion of Xia He, who was in charge of finance, until she personally ran to take a look at the soldiers when they were having dinner, and when she saw that the soldiers could eat her for several days, she finally believed that the officers did not lie about the accounts and embezzle public funds.

Of course, she was still a little distressed.

In this regard, Li Zezeng smiled and pointed to the well-defined muscles of the soldiers who were practicing on the school field bare-chested and said: "These are all valuable, and lo and behold, those bulging muscles represent strength. When a real army fights, regardless of all external factors, when it comes to hand-to-hand combat between soldiers and soldiers, the one with the greatest strength will definitely not suffer."

Glancing at the groups of muscular warriors, Xia He blushed and left.

For the army, Li Ze is willing to invest, eat a little more is nothing, on the battlefield, as long as he wins, no matter how big the investment can be earned back after a victory. Just killed one Zhu Bin, and he gained the assets that could support him for a year, and now he was particularly eager to kill Zhu Shou earlier. That's the lord of the four states, and if you want to come and raid his house, you can be rich for several years.

And these few years will undoubtedly be his most difficult time. With this money, he can plan for the future.

Yesterday, I drank a few glasses with Cao Xin and Min Rou, this is not the kind of green ant wine sold outside, but the high-grade wine brewed in the Li family Zhuangzi, Li Ze didn't feel completely refreshed until now, he wiped a handful of sweat on his body and put it on his nose and smelled it, and the sweat seemed to still smell of wine.

Waving his hand at Li Mi and the others, Li Ze trotted all the way back to his yard.

Xia He had already prepared warm water and a soft towel waiting for him to return.

When Li Ze stepped into the door, Xia He had just finished preparing these things. The two have been together for too long, and they are already familiar with each other and can cooperate just right in any little thing.

Throwing away the gown on his body and sitting on the stool, Xia He wrung out the towel and wiped Li Ze's body.

"The gift of going to see the lord has been almost prepared, and nothing else is very surprising, that is, a pair of hundred-year-old ginseng and a shaped He Shou Wu are rare." Rubbing his body vigorously for Li Ze, Xia He said softly.

"Hmm." Li Ze nodded indispensably: "The gift is secondary, he is the envoy of the Chengde Festival, what do you want?" It's just a little bit of heart, but I heard Cao Gong say that he has some problems with his body now, and ginseng and He Shou Wu are both supplements, so maybe they will be of some use."

The relationship between Li Ze and Li Anguo was originally very weak, and in recent years, they haven't even met in person. For this, Xia He knows it very well.

"Tu Erye's Yixingtang is committed to opening up the business road this year, and we need a lot, and we are buying food at a high price and selling at a low price, and we have been losing money, so Yixingtang is doomed to lose money this year." Xia He turned to the front of Li Ze, re-twisted the towel and said while wiping: "This has always depended on eating the old book, counting the military expenses, rewards, pensions, and money from Texas that are needed to conquer Henghai, I am afraid that there will be not much left."

"It doesn't matter, if you beat Cangzhou and Dizhou, you will have money again." Li Zeho smiled: "I didn't grab it quickly!"

"That's water from nowhere, after all." Xia He smiled: "You can't run out of money, just go and make a festival envoy."

"That's not bad, when I'm strong enough, I'll knock one when I don't have money, and when I finish knocking out those knots one by one, the world will all belong to me, so am I still worried about money?" Li Ze smiled and twisted Xia He's earlobe.

Since the two of them pierced that layer of window paper, it is the taste of eating the marrow, although Li Ze is still a virgin in this life, but he is a veteran in the previous life, although his body is still very immature, but his methods are extremely sophisticated, and he soon discovered the most sensitive place of Xia He, which turned out to be her earlobe, and a light twist can make her can't help it. Sure enough, under this twist, Xia He's face turned red, and he twisted his body and took a step back: "Childe, don't make trouble."

Li Ze laughed.

"Don't worry too much about money, don't look at Tu Hu's current business at a loss, but you also know that opening up the business road and laying out the network is the most expensive, I think when we just ran Henghai, you weren't so worried that you couldn't sleep all night at first, and then it wasn't that you counted the money until you had cramps."

"Where do I have cramps?" Xia He said angrily.

Li Zeyi smiled and said: "So, the business of slaughtering the tiger will naturally come in two years!"

"But I'm worried about it now, yesterday Shi Zhuang and Shen Congxing both sent a list of supplies, just the joint fitness equipment designed and built by Gongzi, the two of them asked for twenty sets each as soon as they opened their mouths, do you really don't need money for this? And there are only so many skilled craftsmen, 20 sets of each, then 40 sets, even if they can't be finished next year!"

The so-called joint fitness equipment, originally Li Ze himself drew a picture for the blacksmith master at home to slowly study and make, and later made a few sets used by the soldiers of the secret camp, and now, it has begun to be used in the army for soldiers to calcin, but this thing has a complex structure, and it can only be made by hand, only counting raw materials and labor costs, the price is already very gratifying.

"Tell them that there are alternatives, and that they can give them as much as they can do here, and they can't just point to this." Li Zedao: "However, the blacksmith shop at home still has to vigorously recruit people, and we must train all kinds of craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons and all kinds of craftsmen, and we must spare no effort to vigorously cultivate. Now that we are not bad at Wuyi, it is not difficult to find some smart ones to learn."

"It's nothing else, but the improvement of wrought iron technology and quenching technology that you mentioned at the beginning, Childe, is a secret, and it must not be easily leaked."

"The core things naturally need to be mastered by trustworthy people, but other edge technologies, don't be afraid that more people will learn them." LI Zedao.

Xia He nodded, cleaned the towel and wrung it out on the shelf, and turned around to find clothes for Li Ze to put on one by one. After all this, the two of them went outside, and the cook had already set breakfast on the table.

The porridge boiled with corn, the fresh fragrant ru picked up from the mountains is put in boiling water and boiled for a while, scooped up and waited for it to cool down, cut into thin slices, plus wild leeks, garlic, wood ginger, mixed with sesame oil, sauce and vinegar, it is the best side dish for the meal. Of course, in addition to this freshly concocted dish, there is also a plate of pickle gnocchi shredded.

While eating, Tu Lichun walked in from outside, looking at his appearance, Li Ze was taken aback, not only his face was swollen, but the two dark circles under his eyes were also particularly eye-catching.

"What's going on? When you went back last night, did you fight Min Rou and them for another hundred rounds?" Li Ze pointed to the stool in front of him and motioned for Tu Lichun to sit down.

Tu Lichun said a little depressed: "Last night, I lost the wine. This morning, the fight was lost."

Li Ze smiled and said, "Those Xibei goods under your command have met the main owner, and it's normal to lose. You shouldn't have let them fight in the first place, where are those boys under you who have the opportunity to drink a lot? But Min Rou's subordinates often drink it. You're fighting against other people's strengths with your own shortcomings!"

"At the banquet, the aggressive nature of the boys was revealed, and it was easy to stop it, besides, such a thing, even if it is a loss, it is a loser who does not lose the battle!"

"So they all lay down." Li Ze laughed and said, "If you are top-heavy, if you fight again this morning, of course you will lose ugly. But it doesn't matter if you lose this time, just try to win back next time."

"The boys are all down, I told them that." Tu Lichun said." Childe, I came to you today because I have something to discuss with you."