Standing on the wall of the manor, looking at the crowd scattered and fleeing inside, Cheng Yanjin frowned, and shouted to the Salt Gang who were slaughtering frantically inside, "All those under three feet will not die!" With that, he leaped out of the fence and jumped in front of one of the Salt Gangs, blocking his weapon.

However, when Cheng Yanjin turned around and looked at the bearded dwarf in front of him, he was suddenly dumbfounded, and he couldn't speak for a long time. Looking at the Salt Gang members who were snickering beside him, Cheng Yanjin glared at him, waved the plate axe in his hand and cut the little dwarf in front of him in half, and then shouted loudly, "Those under the age of ten will not die, let Lao Tzu's eyes widen, don't let the dwarf go over!" ”

Just as Cheng Yanjin swung his axe and slashed at another enemy, suddenly a knife light came from behind him, hacking Cheng Yanjin's target to death. Cheng Yanjin looked back depressedly, and immediately scolded, "Zhang Liang, you bastard, you have to rob Lao Tzu's fun, and let Lao Tzu die far!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Liang smiled and went away, Cheng Yanjin turned his head, intending to find another target. Unexpectedly, when he turned his head and saw the situation in front of him, he was dumbfounded. There were a few enemies jumping around just now, why were they all hacked to death this time?

Unwillingly, he carried an axe around the manor for a long time, and did not find a single fish that slipped through the net, so Cheng Yanjin had no choice but to walk out of the manor. Seeing Zhang Liang standing at the gate of the manor waiting, Cheng Yanjin's anger suddenly came up.

During this time, Cheng Biting Jin took a group of good men from the Salt Gang, busy cleaning up all the people in Qingzhou who were related to Li Jiancheng and the Uncle Army, in order to deter some other people who might have thoughts about the Salt Gang, that is, killing chickens and monkeys, Cheng Biting Jin had to bring those fierce gods and evil spirits of 'Sunset Return' every time he set out, so that they could kill as much as they wanted.

As a result, within a few days, he regretted it. Under the guidance of the group of perverts in the 'Sunset Return', the gangs of the other branches of the Salt Gang have also become bloodthirsty one by one. As a result, all those who could carry weapons in the places they had attacked in the last few days were killed.

Among the five squad leaders of 'Sunset Returns', this one is the most hateful. His favorite thing to do is to lure innocent lads into murderous butchers, and several members of the Salt Gang have already been dragged into the water by him and joined his team.

What makes Cheng Yanjin angry the most is that this Zhang Liang is lawless, and even dares to snatch and kill the prey he fancies, which is really unreasonable! This bastard doesn't think about it, he's addicted to it himself, and grandpa hasn't seen blood for a long time! He only cares about his own happiness, but he doesn't give his grandfather comfort, it seems that he will bring this bastard out less in the future, and he will save him from grabbing business with his grandfather.

With a group of masters of the Salt Gang, it took two months for Cheng Yanjin to wash the entire Qingzhou territory with blood, ensuring that no one was left who had a close relationship with Li Jiancheng or Uncle Jun.

After two days of recuperation at home, Cheng Yanjin brought in several branch masters of the Salt Gang and the five team leaders of the 'Sunset Return' and began to arrange follow-up matters. This time, the arrangement was more cumbersome, so as not to miss some important things, Cheng Yanjin also thought about it all night.

Cheng Yanjin summoned those subordinates and arranged two main things. The first thing to do was to redivide the Salt Gang. Among the four major branches of Qinglong, Baihu, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, all the existing personnel of the Xuanwu branch were transferred from it to set up an outer hall, which was specially responsible for the private salt business with the Song family in Lingnan.

Among the remaining three halls, except for the Vermilion Bird Branch, which continued to inquire about news and spy on secrets, there were no changes, and the Qinglong Branch and the White Tiger Branch Hall merged to become a new battle hall. Then Cheng Yanjin transferred a large number of good hands who had seen blood from the newly established war hall to enter the 'Sunset Return', leaving only an empty shelf for the newly established war hall, which made Tang Guoren, the first hall master of the war hall, cry and laugh.

After dividing the composition of the Salt Gang from a new level, Cheng Yanjin announced the second thing. That is, the profits from the sale of illicit salt this year, including Cheng Yanjin's own, will not be distributed to individuals, but will be put into the public treasury of the gang to gather people and buy horses.

Among the Tang family brothers, Tang Guoren has the fastest brain, Cheng Biting King Kong announced that he was going to recruit troops, he thought of a possibility, but he really couldn't believe it, so he asked in a trembling voice, "Helper, you are recruiting troops and buying horses, but you don't want to attack your uncle's army, right?" ”

Cheng Biting Jin glanced at him, and said angrily, "Look at your virtue!" That's right, Lao Tzu recruited troops and horses for the sake of Liu Badao of the uncle's army on Changbai Mountain. That bastard and Lao Tzu are incompatible, if you don't kill him, Lao Tzu won't sleep well! ”

Looking at the excited expressions of the few brothers next to him, Tang Guoren said helplessly, "But the helper, there are more than 100,000 people in the uncle's army!" ”

"So I'm going to send a few of you out to recruit troops! Besides, Lao Tzu just wants to kill Liu Badao and some of his friends, and he doesn't want to wipe out the 100,000 uncles' army, what are you worried about? In addition, you all listen to Lao Tzu, don't give your silver to Lao Tzu greedy for ink, this is for you to use to win over your subordinates. Lao Tzu's requirements are very simple, you can pull as many people as you can for Lao Tzu, as long as you are not old, weak, sick and disabled, the more the number, the better! ”

After solving the doubts in Tang Guoren's heart, watching those subordinates walk out in high spirits, ready to recruit troops separately, Cheng Yanjin sighed. The reason why he wanted such a large-scale recruitment, in addition to solving the Liu hegemony on Changbai Mountain, there was another very important reason, that is, the pressure of the Song Valve and the Li Valve among the four major gate valves.

The reason why Li Jiancheng of the Li valve dared to hunt him down unscrupulously, and the reason why Song Lu of the Song valve dared to threaten him with words in front of him, was it not because his power was weak and easy to bully? If he still maintains the current strength of the Salt Gang, then one day in the future, he will either be killed by Li Jiancheng or swallowed by the people of the Song family.

And the best way to avoid this is to expand your power. When his own power expands to a large enough size, not to mention that he has to look at the faces of the four major gates, it is not impossible to sit on an equal footing with them and look at each other on an equal footing.

Relying solely on the profits of the Salt Gang for a year, they want to recruit troops, and their strength for expansion is also limited. Therefore, the next day, Cheng Yanjin ordered the newly established Salt Gang Outer Hall to send more people to increase the production of illicit salt as much as possible. At the same time, Cheng Yanjin also took some good things from his secret room and entrusted the auction house in the city to auction them, and all the gold raised went to the public treasury of the gang.

In order not to attract the attention of the government, Cheng Yanjin ordered the brothers who went out to recruit people, asking them to scatter and find a hidden place to train. Use the secret stakes of Suzaku Hall to deliver messages and keep in touch.

After all, the fighting in Qingzhou some time ago has attracted the attention of the government, but most of this belongs to the vendetta on the rivers and lakes, so the government doesn't care. As for a few officials who were implicated in the Li family, Cheng Yanjin sent someone to assassinate them, after all, he didn't want the Salt Gang to be wanted by the government, anyway, the government couldn't do anything to the Salt Gang without evidence!

But this recruitment is different, everyone is not blind, you have recruited so many people, if you say that you are not planning to rebel, who will believe it? Cheng Yanjin didn't want to be wiped out by the soldiers of the government when he was working hard to recruit people and preparing to expand his strength.

Just when the original branch masters of the Salt Gang and the five squad leaders of the 'Sunset Return' were scattered all over Qingzhou to attract manpower, Cheng Yanjin also began to reintegrate the manpower of the 'Sunset Return'.

Cheng Yanjin's internal strength and mental method of Lao Junguan, which he obtained from the hands of Elder Wen of the Haisha Gang, was sent down by Cheng Yanjin a long time ago, and every member of the Salt Gang had practiced it. However, what disappointed Cheng Yanjin was that it was not easy to set foot in martial arts and cultivate internal strength, and this stepping foot in martial arts was just like what those people in the Dao sect said, requiring a certain amount of understanding and chance.

At its peak, there were thousands of gangs up and down the Salt Gang, but in the end, they were able to cultivate their internal strength, and only the poor seventy-odd people set foot in martial arts. It was because the gang members of the Salt Gang really couldn't support the wall in the mud, so Cheng Yanjin gathered a group of martial arts people from the rivers and lakes to form this 'Sunset Return'.

Although they are also martial arts people, according to their personal understanding of martial arts, the internal strength that everyone has is also high and low, but when they faced the enemy in the past, these people were generally all in a swarm, so it was not obvious. But now Cheng Yanjin has another idea in his heart, he plans to let these people have a competition, divide the superior, and then select the best of them to form a personal army that is completely obedient to his orders.

Internally, this pro-soldier can deter the Salt Gang and make them dare not harbor dissent, and externally it is a secret weapon against the enemy. Just imagine, if there is a team composed of all martial arts masters, I am afraid that it will be against a top master like You Niaoti, but I am afraid that the other party will also run away, right?

Cheng Yanjin has his own plan in his heart, it is very unrealistic to expand the manpower to 100,000 in a short period of time, not to mention whether he can find so many people who are willing to come out and follow him to kill people and set fires, and rob houses, there is, but how can so many people form combat effectiveness for a while and a half, at best, it is just 100,000 ordinary people.

The uncle's army led by Liu Badao started three years ago, and after three years of war training, although it is not as good as the regular army of the imperial court, it is much stronger than when it was first formed. If the officers and soldiers of the court are compared to lions, then Liu's domineering uncle army can also be regarded as a wolf, and the people and horses he just pulled up are the sheep that are slaughtered by others.

As the saying goes, there are not many noble soldiers in this place, and it is said that the current financial resources of the Yiyan Gang cannot support hundreds of thousands of people. Therefore, Cheng Yanjin's plan was to order the few stewards in the gang to rather lack than abuse when recruiting manpower, and everyone would go to a hidden place arranged in advance for training after recruiting a certain number of people, in order to form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time. After all, the longer this kind of thing goes, the more variables there are.

In addition, Cheng Yanjin also asked the people in the outer hall to take advantage of the previous relationship and start buying horses everywhere. Cavalry has always been the main combat component of the army, whether it is the speed of the march or the combat effectiveness is not trivial, but the formation of cavalry is also very expensive, except for nouveau riche like the Salt Gang, even several big forces in Qingzhou do not have the financial resources to form cavalry.

Of course, the financial resources of the Salt Gang are also limited, even if Cheng Biting Jin takes out half of the wealth he has accumulated privately, the troops that can be formed are only about 500 people, and the property used to form these 500 people is enough to meet the formation of an infantry phalanx of 10,000 people, such a huge expense makes Cheng Biting Jin can't help but smack his tongue.