At this time, Qin Bai had already led Qin Gao back to Laizhou City, because he knew that what was urgently needed now was not to recruit people, but to recruit troops, to recruit people who could be beaten by pulling them up. As for Tang Dong, it can be said that he is making a show, and they are all paralyzed by Big Dog Tooth and Tie Sheng.

Outside Laizhou, there are thousands of families with a population of tens of thousands. In fact, this is a common phenomenon in this era, and many large cities are no longer able to live in the city because of the prosperity of business and many job opportunities, resulting in the formation of large residential areas outside the city. For example, Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, etc. Even Beijing, due to the expansion of the city, built a new outer city in the southern city, turning a large area outside the city into a city.

But there is a difference here, other cities are basically thriving commercially, but Laizhou City is not a commercial center. As a result, there are fewer job opportunities, and the life of the displaced people is more difficult.

In this era, whenever there was a famine or war, the common people would basically flee to the neighboring cities. First, it is safer, and secondly, there will always be government or large households to provide disaster relief porridge, and the chance of survival is relatively large.

However, as soon as the famine and war passed, the displaced people outside the city generally dispersed. And every few years, more than ten years, even if those displaced people settle outside the city, or are robbed and coerced by the rebels, or for the safety of the city, the government demolishes the houses and property of the displaced people outside the city and burns them, so the mobility is relatively large, and it is difficult to form a fixed settlement area.

However, Laizhou City is different. There are many high-ranking soldiers in the city here, especially many miners and large families, and it is easy to pull out a strong fighting force to defend the city, plus the blacksmith shops are all over the place, and even weapons are not lacking, so there are few enemies to attack. For example: At the end of the Ming Dynasty in another time and space, Kong Youde's tens of thousands of troops rebelled, defeated several large armies of the imperial court one after another, and occupied most of Shandong. But even when he encountered Laizhou City, he was still blind, he couldn't fight alive or dead, and even tricked the governor of the city into killing, and he was still helpless in the face of Laizhou City, which was leaderless.

Therefore, the group of displaced people outside Laizhou is relatively stable, and there are more and more people. But on the other hand, there are few job opportunities in the city, right? And after a long time, many people have abandoned their farming skills, and they can't even go to work as tenant farmers. The other is the discrimination of the city people against these displaced people, which should be easy to understand. In particular, there are few job opportunities, and there is a fear that the displaced people will steal the jobs of the city people, so among these displaced people, there are very few people who can get ahead, most of them live at the bottom of the ladder, and many young people wander around the streets every day with nothing to do.

Interestingly, due to the lack of information, coupled with the lack of knowledge, and the fear of leaving familiar places, many homeless people in Laizhou City did not even know much about Jingjiazhuang, which was more than 30 miles away. Even if there are some things that are occasionally known, they are all ...... In fact, it's not a rumor to scare you, and you almost don't dare to go to that kind of dark place.

Therefore, when Niu Sanye found Qiu Bo, he was indeed looking in the right direction. And Qiu Bo is also very easy to find some people for Niu Sanye, no matter whether the means are forced or deceitful, anyway, the difficulty is not very great.

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At this time, standing in front of the two brothers was Heizi, who was talking to Qin Bai about the situation: "Second Brother Bai, after Zhenwei's Tie Ye left, this place will be deserted. Enmity...... The leper head wave did not dare to come, and the other groups did not dare to stretch out their hands. Although the shops were still open, they relied on a few brothers in the gang to open up. Business was much lighter, some brothers were ready to leave, and a few were ready to go on their own. It's just that no one is convinced, and they are all secretly pulling people. However, I also heard that the leper head wave is not idle, and he is also in private contact, preparing to reopen when the rumors pass. ”

"Hmph." Qin Bai smiled contemptuously.

Heizi glanced at Qin Bai a few times, and hurriedly said, "Second Brother Bai, oh, I should call you Second Master Bai." In fact, I wanted to communicate with you for a long time, but I didn't know where to find you. At that time, Tie Ye said that you have made a name for yourself in Jingjiazhuang, and you will take Yingzi and Dongzi over to enjoy the blessings. Now that you've driven away the leper wave again, then the victory should be yours. ”

"If you know, it's good." Qin Bai instructed, "Those three shops plus other businesses on the site are more than a hundred taels per month. You give them a few words, and then go to the yard and tell the monks and Xiaowu that I will invite you to drink at noon and discuss how to divide the territory of Yongsheng. ”

"Huh?" Heizi was taken aback, "Second Master Bai, the monk and Xiao Wu are not our brave winners, why do you want to call them?" ”

"I will be stationed in Jingjiazhuang in the future, and I will not come back often, and I will have to find a few trustworthy pipes for the territory here. I don't care if I'm a brave brother or not, I just want my own people. While talking, Qin Bai threw a small copper coin to Heizi, "This is your reward." You go for it, the more the merrier, I'll pick a few from them. If you do this well, I will take you to Jingjiazhuang, and I will never treat you badly, and I will arrange a good errand for you! ”

"Huh! Xie Bai's second master reward. Kuroko ran away happily.

Qin Bai then came to the Yunlai Inn, which was the inn where Tang Dong's family used to work, found the shopkeeper, left two taels of silver to book a private room, and asked them to prepare a table of banquets at noon. Then I started to look for a few goals that I had in mind.

"Prickly hair, let's talk." At the entrance of the city gate, Qin Bai found the prickly hairs with more than a dozen junior brothers, all of whom were squatting and bragging lazily.

When he was twelve, his widowed mother ran away with a wild man, and then joined another gang outside the city, where he has been until now. It's that the hair is more unlucky, two years ago the lottery was selected for conscription, and went to Jinan to repair the city wall for more than half a year. When he came back, he learned that the big brother of the gang he was with was killed by the enemy, and the territory of the big brother was also divided by other people in the gang. So he could only take his own people to steal chickens and dogs everywhere and barely make ends meet.

"White two?" Thorn Mao was a little surprised, "I heard that you put up a flag in Jingjiazhuang?" Big shots, huh? ”

"What's the matter?" Qin Bai squatted down beside the prickly hair, lit a cigarette, and said lightly, "It was to kill a master of Jingjiazhuang, rob him of his territory, and then ask his friends to help drive away the leper head." ”

The prickly hair put his head back, stared at Qin Bai's face, and only spoke after half a sound: "I thought they were bragging after drinking, but I didn't expect it to be true." Congratulations! Famous rivers and lakes, I will call you Second Master Bai in the future. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm short of people over there, are you interested in doing things with me? You can fight, and there are no fewer brothers. If we can win, you will be the one I will win in the future. I will give you a plot of land where you and your brethren will have a place to find food. ”

Thorn Mao turned his head again in surprise, just in time to see Qin Bai spit a thick smoke into the air......