Four days later, Liu Zi'an received Liu Juntao's order and hurriedly rushed back to Yushanji from Zhang Qiuzhen.

As soon as Liu Zi'an entered the village, he came to Liu Juntao's house, and at this time, Tang Yu was discussing with Liu Juntao in the house about the detailed method of recruiting Shandong horse households.

After learning of Liu Juntao's intentions, Liu Zian also agreed very much, but he had some different ideas about the recruitment conditions proposed by Liu Juntao.

"Mr. Lian, I think we should also select some people from those ringing horses, after all, not all ringing horses are robbers, killing people and setting fires, and some ringing horses really can't survive, and they just want some property when they loot, and this part of the ringing horses should be usable."

Liu Juntao and Tang Yu glanced at each other, obviously considering Liu Zi'an's suggestion.

After a while, Liu Juntao said, "Yes! After all, the combat power of those ringing horses must be stronger than that of ordinary horses. But there is one thing, all the horses that are conscripted must not kill people, destroy their families, or plunder the poor people, otherwise I would rather not! ”

"And! Tell those who are willing to apply: I will pay you silver when people come, three taels of silver per person per month! And the war horse they brought, I will buy it at twice the market price, and from now on it will be the war horse of my Yushan Collection! ”

Liu Zi'an nodded and said, "Mr. Lian is right, it should be so!" ”

At this time, Tang Yu said with some concern: "Mr. Lian, I'm a little worried about whether the local government will intervene?" After all, there are a large number of these horse households, and with such a big recruitment fanfare, it is difficult to guarantee that nothing will happen! ”

Liu Juntao pondered for a moment, and then said, "That's good!" Let those horse households who are willing to enlist report to the government, and say that the war horses they raised have died of illness, and if the government investigates, the silver that has been beaten and the silver that has been fined will be collected by my Yushan! ”

Tang Yu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "You must not practice the total!" With one expenditure after another, my Yushanji's family will be hollowed out! ”

Liu Juntao said very resolutely: "It's decided!" If the money is gone, you can still earn it again, and the horse team must be formed as soon as possible! Every penny we spend today will be made up from the Chen family in the future! ”

A few days later, the news of Yushanji's recruitment of horse households spread, and in just this month, the entire Yanzhou Mansion has spread, and there is even a tendency to spread throughout Shandong.

For a time, Yushanji's large-scale recruitment of horse households was in an uproar all over Shandong.

Not only did horse households from all over the country move their families to Yanzhou Mansion, but the number of war horses received by local governments also soared, and in just ten days, the number of sick and dead war horses exceeded the sum of previous years!

In this regard, the local government attached great importance to it, and began to send two classes of soap officials to investigate, and within a few days, it was learned that a large number of Ma Hu had fled with their families and went to Yanzhou Mansion.

As a result, the officials in various places were instantly divided into two factions, and a small number of officials were still loyal to their duties and began to write to the Yanzhou government, asking the Yanzhou government to assist in arresting those horse households who fled with their families.

But the vast majority of local officials began to pretend to be deaf and dumb, after all, once the imperial court investigated this matter, officials everywhere would inevitably be implicated.

Without exception, these local officials closed all the households that fled with their families, and reported to the above that the whole family died of illness, was out of business, disappeared, etc., and indirectly helped Liu Juntao cover up the matter.

As for the officials on the Yanzhou Mansion, they did not react when they received the text from the magistrates elsewhere, but they sent someone to check where the Ma Hu had fled, and after learning that all the fleeing Ma Hu had gone to Yushanji, there was no follow-up on the Yanzhou Mansion, obviously unwilling to repeat the incident and cover up the matter.

In July of the ninth year of orthodoxy, the Chen family in Tangyin County, Zhangde Prefecture.

Xu He sat in the room and opened a secret letter by a candlelight, and his face instantly became ugly.

After a while, Xu He whispered to himself: "Liu Juntao? What a guts! I even had the courage to fight the horse household! ”

Xu He walked around the room in an irritable mood, and his mind kept flashing back to the reprimand of the head of the family, Chen Herui, who had just reprimanded him.

As early as before, the Chen family and Liu Juntao's peace negotiation was a ploy of Xu He, wanting to use the peace negotiation to paralyze Liu Juntao, the Chen family secretly mobilized men and horses, expanded their forces, and concentrated superior men and horses to raid Yushanji like defeating the Liu family!

Originally, everything was developing according to Xu He's plan, but just yesterday, Chen Herui, the head of the Chen family, received an urgent report from the spies, and learned that Liu Juntao had not only conducted training for the Yushan Guard, but was also unscrupulously recruiting Shandong horse households to join the gang!

According to the news sent back by the Chen family's spies, Liu Juntao only took a month to recruit hundreds of horse households! And what makes people feel very strange is that Liu Juntao recruited Ma Hu on such a large scale, but there was no substantive reaction from the local governments!

If it continues like this, the Chen family's proud horse team will be at a disadvantage!

When Xu He thought of Liu Juntao's Yushan Guards, he couldn't stop feeling weak in his heart, he thought that he could defeat Liu Juntao with a powerful horse team, but at this time, Liu Juntao also had a large number of horse teams, and the advantage of the Chen family was gone!

"Then Liu Juntao is using the way of forming a horse team to slap my Chen Herui's ear scraper! You, the big housekeeper, eat dry rice! ”

Chen Herui's roar still seemed to be echoing in his ears, making Xu He's heart full of resentment.

"Liu Juntao! Since you choose to face Mai Mang with my Chen family, then don't blame me for being unkind! ”

Thinking of this, Xu He sent someone to call Chen Bin over, wanting to discuss how to curb Liu Juntao's development momentum.

After a while, Chen Bin pushed the door with a black face and walked in, and after seeing Xu He, he sat aside without saying a word, and slammed a secret letter on the table.

Xu He was taken aback when he saw this, and a bad premonition instantly hit his heart.

"What's wrong?"

Xu He asked cautiously, for fear that he would hear any bad news again.

I saw Chen Bin gritting his teeth and said: "A while ago, I sent a few of my men to Yushanji to get some information back, but I found that Yushanji was heavily defended, and my subordinates couldn't get in at all!" ”

"And then?"

Looking at Chen Bin's expression, Xu He's heart was in his throat, and the whole person was very nervous.

"Later, my men went to the town of Slip to find out some news about the fish mountain market in the town. It doesn't matter if you ask, I really found out a big news! ”

"What news!"

Xu He stared at Chen Bin, who was talking sentence by sentence, and couldn't wait to go up and kick it, his heart was already in a hurry.

"My subordinates have inquired that Yushanji is buying iron and cooked cowhide on a large scale!"

"Yushanji is buying iron and cooked cowhides?"

Xu He repeated Chen Bin's words, and seemed to understand something in his heart, but he couldn't remember it.

At this time, Chen Bin raised his head and stared at Xu He, and said word by word: "Yushan is building armor on a large scale!" ”

"Yes, yes! Armor! That Liu Juntao is building armor! ”

Xu He jumped up suddenly, and the whole person even trembled slightly, and his face was very pale.

"Have you told the head of the family about this?"

"Not yet, I'm afraid that the head of the family will be frightened by that fish mountain set!"

Xu He muttered: "Then Liu Juntao really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall!" How dare you build armor? Isn't he afraid that he will leak the news and be labeled as a rebel by the government? Aren't you afraid of being exterminated by the imperial army? ”

"Humph!"

Chen Bin snorted coldly, looked at Xu He as if he was looking at a fool, and said: "Then Liu Juntao gives all kinds of benefits to the guards of Huakou Town and Dong'e County every month, and the imperial grain, taxes and silver in Yushanji, Huakou Town, Anshan Town, and Zhangqiu Town are a lot of money, and not a pound is bad, who would believe that Liu Juntao rebelled?" ”

"Then how about we go and sue the official!"

Looking at Xu He, who was a little excited, Chen Bin shook his head and said, "If you want to go, I'd better go and talk to the head of the family, and I will admit it if I am frightened!" ”

"Master Chen, don't you even have the courage to sue the official?"

Chen Bin sneered and said, "I dare to guarantee that as long as your people hand over Liu Juntao's rebellion in the yamen of Yanzhou Mansion, the officials of Yanzhou Mansion will put your people in prison on the spot!" ”

Xu He was horrified after hearing this.