Liu Ximing and Dou Yuquan glanced at each other, and the expressions of both sides looked a little shocked, and Liu Ximing was even more puzzled in his heart, how did Dou Yuquan's family provoke people with such a secret organization.

Tang Xiuyuan frowned and pondered for a while, then raised his head with some concern and said: "Judging from the style of this Yin Yang Sect, it seems that you will not give up until you achieve your goal, although you are lucky to avoid it this time, but I think they should still have a backhand." ”

Seeing that Liu Ximing and Dou Yuquan were both frowning and silent, Tang Xiuyuan hesitated for a moment and asked Dou Yuquan, "Yuquan, how about you go back to Huguang with me for a temporary stay this time?" If the Yin Yang Sect really came for you, as long as you left, Liu Xian's nephew would be at peace here. ”

Dou Yuquan put down the teacup in his hand, shook his head and said: "The Yin-Yang Sect is not necessarily coming for me, judging by what he said in his letter, there are enemies of the Yin-Yang Sect hiding here, it seems to refer to Brother Liu's killing of the assassin in Hezhou, this matter started because of us, how can I stay out of the matter at a critical moment." ”

Tang Xiuyuan originally wanted to persuade Dou Yuquan a few words, but seeing that the expression of last time appeared on his face again, he knew that he was starting to make a mistake again, so he simply stopped stopping it, turned his head and asked Liu Ximing: "Virtuous nephew, in this way, you can only strengthen the armament in the village, if you have any needs, you can tell me, and I will bring some for you when the time comes." ”

Liu Ximing smiled, Dou Yuquan's affection is of course a good thing, and Tang Xiuyuan's help is even more like a fish in water, he immediately said: "Other things are okay, the key is gunpowder and other materials, although the little nephew has poured some out of the camp of General Hou, there is still a big gap." ”

Last time, Liu Ximing abducted 5,000 catties of gunpowder from Hou Liangzhu's camp, but muskets, artillery, and bombs are all big gunpowder manufacturers, so I am afraid that such a little gunpowder will be consumed after one or two battles.

Tang Xiuyuan thought for a while and readily agreed, Huguang is a key node of the Yangtze River, all kinds of materials are circulated, and he himself is familiar with many local garrison generals, this is not a big difficulty.

Changheng Firm went to Liujia Village this time to give people away, and secondly, to facilitate Tang Xiuyuan to visit Dou Yuquan, at present, the accommodation conditions in Liujia Village are too poor, and they are not easy to stay, so after lunch, they will anchor again and go to Baoning Mansion.

"Second brother", Yu Qiaoman held a large account book with some difficulty and reported to Liu Ximing: "It cost a total of 1,272 taels of silver to buy this group of people today, this is a detailed account, please take a look." ”

Liu Ximing rubbed Yu Qiaoman's head, and said with a smile: "Let's look back later, let's settle down these people first." ”

Yu Qiaoman straightened his hair a little unhappily, and said to him angrily: "It's all said, I'm not a child anymore, the second brother is really." ”

Liu Ximing was happy all of a sudden, "You are only 12 years old this year, and you haven't reached the end of your life yet, so why aren't you a child." ”

After speaking, he went up again and rubbed Yu Qiaoman's little face, and turned around and left with a smile

, leaving Yu Qiaoman to mumble and run back to the account office.

Liu Xihe's management of the duty room was quite effective, and when Liu Ximing hurriedly pacified the families of the fallen soldiers and rushed over, he found that the new batch of more than 600 people had already had lunch in the canteen, and were now carrying large bags and small bags waiting for him to come to lecture.

Liu Ximing looked at Liu Xihe who came over to report with satisfaction, smiled and nodded, and then strode towards the small table in the cafeteria.

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Xun Bowen was wearing a coarse cloth robe, wearing a black scarf that had been somewhat torn, holding his son's immature little hand and standing in the crowd, he glanced at his wife, who was also wearing a coarse cloth skirt and a wooden hairpin, and there was deep helplessness behind his cold face.

It's really Sven sweeping the floor, and it's all because of the Zhu family, a group of parasites that knock on the bone and suck the marrow, so that they can't go back to their home, and they have to run to Sichuan thousands of miles away to take refuge.

Xun Bowen is a person from Xiangyang, which is a branch of the Yingchuan Xun family, and his ancestor is the famous Xunzi, but in his generation he has become a small family.

Fortunately, Xun Bowen himself is quite hard-working, and after all, the Xun family has some family knowledge, so he was admitted to Xiucai at a young age, and he is still the No. 1 little person in Fucheng.

It is said that even if such a family is not rich and rich, they can live a small life in peace, who wants people to sit in trouble at home and come from heaven.

Yong'an King Zhu Rongxi didn't know where he heard that his family had Xunzi's handwritten "Persuasion" ancient books, so he tried all kinds of means to snatch it over, and finally saw that it didn't work, and even colluded with the governor Xuezheng to frame him, and removed his fame from showing his talent.

Xun Bowen was also alert, and he was going to take his family away for the first time, and later saw that the chasing soldiers were too anxious, and found that the Changheng business of the Chu Wangfu was recruiting people who knew how to write and hyphenation to go to Sichuan.

Originally, he wanted to escape halfway, but he didn't expect that the ship was heavily guarded, and he was a weak scholar, plus several people in the family, where could he escape.

Along the way, he also figured it out, anyway, he had no other way to retreat, so it was better to go to Shuzhong for temporary refuge.

After settling down, he made a lot of friends on the ship, and several of them were people who were born like him, but were exiled here for various reasons.

Xun Bowen relied on his knowledge and personality to play the role of a leader in this small group.

At this time, seeing himself waiting for a group of people to stand obediently under the stage and wait for others to come and leave, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, turned his head and looked at several other friends Xia Mingzhi, Liang Yizhi and others, and found that everyone was like this, and he felt that the world was impermanent and the way of heaven was unfair.

At this time, a young man in brocade clothes with a slender figure, a face like a crown of jade, and eyes like a bright star

Striding from outside, Liu Xihe, the counselor who greeted them just now, immediately went up to talk with a smile on his face.

The young man should not look very old, but his demeanor seems quite sophisticated, Xun Bowen thought to himself, this should be the son of a big family in this village, but what is he doing on that platform, what about the elders of his family?

The others were also as puzzled as Xun Bowen, but after the young man stepped up the steps, he actually said directly: "Fathers and brothers, the contemptible person is Liu Ximing, the head of Liujia Village, everyone is a guest from afar, and the contemptible people welcome everyone here on behalf of the three thousand old and young people in the village." ”

This young man also spoke official dialect, although he had a little Sichuan accent, but Xun Bowen and others could still understand it, everyone was full of surprise, such a young man turned out to be the village chief of Liujia Village, and what did he say, there were 3,000 people in such a village, who is this deceiving.

Seeing that everyone was whispering, the young man pressed down with both hands, and several teenagers next to him immediately stepped forward and shouted: "Everyone be quiet, listen to my second brother's speech." ”

The crowd suddenly froze, and the young man smiled and continued: "I know that everyone is far away from home, and their hearts are very uneasy, but please rest assured, since you have arrived in my Liujia Village, the future will only be better than your hometown. ”

Seeing that this village chief Liu didn't seem to have malicious intent, Xun Bowen turned his head to look at Xia Mingzhi, Liang Yizhi and a few others, and took the lead towards the right side of the platform.

Xun Bowen just walked to the right and stopped, and when he looked up, he saw the young village chief looking at him, seeing him nodding to himself and the others with a smile, Xun Bowen hesitated and nodded as a return gift.

Liu Ximing saw at a glance these young men with outstanding temperaments in the group of scholars, and he subconsciously nodded at them, but he didn't expect that these people also returned the salute politely.

After all the crowd was separated, Liu Ximing continued: "Let me talk about the treatment first, in our village, as long as there are craftsmen with craftsmanship, the monthly salary is at least one tael of silver, and there are not a few people who take two or three taels of silver. ”

The craftsman was silent, and everyone looked at Liu Ximing with fear on their faces, but what was revealed in their eyes was a look that I didn't believe.

Liu Ximing was a little helpless when he saw this, so he had to continue to finish speaking: "In addition, each craftsman can also get five taels of silver to sell his body, but he must sign a contract with my family as my family's family." ”

The craftsmen just started to make a commotion, and it was a little funny, when Liu Ximing just said one or two taels of silver a month, everyone really didn't believe that there would be such a good thing, but when he said that he would sign a deed of sale, everyone believed it.