Jinniu Mountain is farther away from the county seat of Anping County than Woniu Mountain, and it takes ten days to walk. Originally, Zhou Cang let Zeng Yu ride a horse, but Zeng Yu felt that the cottage was more needed, so there was no such thing, and all of them were on foot. Fortunately, there were not many salutes, mainly dry food with the voice, and five hundred gold brought out from Jinniu Mountain, so everyone was not tired on the road.

But ten days later, Zeng Yu and the others did not go directly to Anping County. Zeng Yu asked Wei Feng to lead the way, and they went down to the manor that Sun Hao bought before, put the salute or something, and then determined which day to go to Luoyang.

The manor is located outside the county seat, about five miles away from the county seat. Zeng Yu They came to the manor at noon, and after they came here, Zeng Yu saw that this was not so much a manor as a village, which looked similar to the village where he and Zhang Fuguang had traveled and stayed before, except that there was a half-man high courtyard wall surrounded by mud bricks around the periphery of this village.

There were two people guarding the courtyard wall at this time, and they were a little nervous when they saw so many people coming over. But when they got closer, they saw Wei Feng and He Yan in the crowd, they knew the two of them, and knew that this was the new owner of the manor, so they greeted them.

"The little one has seen Wei Dongjia and He Dongjia."

"It's the two of you standing guard today, Yachuan, are they in there today?" Wei Feng stood up and asked.

"Liu Dangjia and Ding Dongjia are all here now, as for the other five, they went to the county seat yesterday and haven't come back yet." One of them replied.

"I know, this is my lord Zeng Yu Zeng Zirui, you have to remember to call the master in the future." Wei Feng introduced Zeng Yu to the two.

"The little Qin Da (Qin Zhong) has seen the master." The two are brothers, and after listening to Wei Feng's introduction, they quickly knelt down and saluted.

"Get up!" Zeng Yu said.

"Thank you, master." After the two got up, they secretly glanced at Zeng Yu, wondering what their lord did.

"These two are also our brothers, named Gude Gubo, Zhu Wen and Zhu Chengyong, and the others are the lord's personal soldiers." Wei Feng introduced the others to Qin Da and the others, and Qin Nature saluted them, and they guessed that their lord might not be an ordinary person, so they were naturally very respectful.

"Let's go to the village first, I haven't seen them in Yachuan for a long time." Zeng Yu said at this time.

Wei Feng asked Qin Da and the others to be optimistic about the gate of the manor, and he led the way in front and led Zeng Yu towards the manor. The place where Liu Neng and them lived was the house of the previous owner of the manor, located in the center of the manor, covering a very large area, and there were hundreds of people in the previous owner's guards and maids, all of whom lived in it.

Liu Neng and the others only had a few people to live in, and the house seemed very empty, and at this time, Liu Neng and Ding Xi were discussing Sun Hao and their going to the cottage. It's been almost two months since Sun Hao and others went up the mountain, and they received a message in the middle that Zeng Yu had indeed mastered the cottage, but there was no news after that, and they were also a little worried.

"Yachuan, do you think something will happen to them, otherwise why hasn't there been news for us for so long?" Ding Xi was a tall young man with a strong face, and he asked Liu Neng at this time.

Liu Neng, who was opposite him, was a polite young man who seemed to have a thin physique, but if you look closely, you will find that he is not the kind of scholar who is powerless, because a pair of firm eyes and hands that do not look thin will definitely not appear on the body of a weak scholar.

The young man was Liu Neng, and after listening to Ding Xi's words, he said to him: "The lord let his son go up the mountain, there must be something he needs to do." And the lord has just mastered the cottage, there must be some things to deal with, it is estimated that something is delayed, and we will definitely receive the news in a few days. ”

"In a few days, someone will send you news today."

It was a sudden message from outside the hall, and both of them felt that the voice seemed familiar, but they were not sure. Glancing at each other, the two of them stood up at the same time and walked outside.

As soon as they went out, they knew that they had heard correctly, it was indeed Zeng Yu's voice. It turned out that Zeng Yu and they came directly to the mansion in the middle of the manor under the guidance of Wei Feng. The door of the mansion was not closed, they came in directly, and happened to hear the conversation between the two, so Zeng Yu replied.

"Liu Neng (Ding Xi) pays a visit to the lord." The two greeted Zeng Yu, knelt down on one knee and hugged their fists and saluted.

Zeng Yu helped them up and said, "Yes, they are still so spirited." ”

"Thank you, the two of me are just average, not as good as the lord." The two said modestly.

"Yachuan, don't be in a hurry to be modest, we have been on the road for most of the day, and quickly let the lord enter the house to rest." Wei Feng said.

"Yes, Lord Kilometer please."

Zeng Yu asked Ding Xi to arrange a place for his soldiers to live, and he himself followed Liu Neng into the hall and sat down at the top. Zhu Wen didn't follow this time, he left ten people here to protect Zeng Yu, and he led other personal soldiers to follow Ding Xi to check the situation of the mansion, so as to make appropriate arrangements for the escort and patrol of the personal soldiers in the future.

"Lord, why did you come over suddenly, Zijin and Ziwu?" Ding Xi thought that he would wait for the news sent by Sun Hao and them, but he didn't expect that the news didn't arrive, but he waited for Zeng Yu.

Zeng Yu then introduced to them the arrangements of the unclothed army and the purpose of his own descent from the mountain. After Liu Neng and Ding Xi heard this, they were very excited, they still hated this practice when they heard about the current Han Ling Emperor's clearly marked price of the official mantle, and at this time they heard that Zeng Yu went down the mountain for this reason to try to sit on the Anping County Order, and expressed gratitude to Emperor Ling for this practice, otherwise they would all have to go to Jinniu Mountain.

Zeng Yu asked the two of them again, after these two months, whether there was a new county order in Anping County.

"When I went to the county seat half a month ago to find the shopkeeper Zhang, the county order was still the previous Cui county order, and I didn't hear the shopkeeper Zhang say that there would be a new county order, presumably it hasn't been changed yet, but the exact news will be known when Zhiyuan comes back from the county." Liu Neng replied.

"What did they do in the county seat, and when will they come back?" Zeng Yu: He heard Qin Da say at the gate of the manor just now that Xie Jing and the other five went to the county seat yesterday and have not returned today. At this time, he heard Liu Neng say that Xie Jing went to the county seat, so he asked curiously.

"That's right, because although the owner of this manor sold the manor to us, he said that most of the grain was shipped away, so there is a shortage of food in the manor now. Zhang's shopkeeper is in the grain business, so we asked him to buy some grain, because there was no money, it was borrowed, just a few days ago the new grain was harvested, he transported the grain to the county seat to return to Zhang's shopkeeper, and at the same time asked him if there was any suitable errand for us. ”

"That's it, I'll go to the county seat tomorrow, if they don't come back, where will they rest?" Zeng Yu asked Liu Neng after thinking for a while.

"They usually stop at an inn in the county seat, which is opened by locals and calls guests to come to Xuan. Lord, what are your plans to go to the county seat? This is Liu Neng's answer.

"We can't waste time on this, I'll solve the money thing, I think since Zhang Fuguang can support you to buy this manor, then he must also value our future, and can win him over to support us." Zeng Yu thought that the businessmen at this time were all good at business, as long as he saw the possible huge benefits in the future, he would definitely be willing to take risks to fund, and this era was originally like this.

"It's still thoughtful as the lord thinks." Liu Neng and Ding Xi spoke together.

"You just haven't thought of it for the time being, tell me about the situation in this manor."

After listening to Zeng Yu's words, Liu Neng introduced the current situation of this manor to Zeng Yu. There are 5,000 acres of fertile land next to the estate, all of which have been planted with wheat, but the harvest will not begin until the end of May or early June. As for the tenants of the estate, there were a total of 93 tenant households with 473 people, of whom only about 100 were young and strong, all of whom needed to cultivate wheat fields, and these tenants were currently managed by a village chief surnamed Zhang. The temperature in this era is relatively warm, and wheat can be planted twice a year, because it is all fertile land, and the yield per mu can reach 200 catties, and the annual output can reach 2 million catties, that is, 20,000 stones.

After listening to Liu Neng's introduction, Zeng Yu calculated that 500 people need about 350,000 catties of rations a year, if this is calculated, the current output of the manor is enough to spend, and even if the displaced people are recruited to select young and strong people for training in the future, it can almost maintain the cost of a 2,000-strong army. But this was only to maintain, and if he wanted to march into battle, he would not have enough food.

He thought for a moment and asked Liu Neng to inform the village chief and tell all the tenant farmers to gather in the middle of the manor. First, he also wanted to see his sharecroppers with his own eyes and get a better understanding of them. Second, he also has some ideas.

Liu Neng listened to the order and went out to inform the village chief to call someone to gather, the village chief's house was not far away, and soon Liu Neng came back and told Zeng Yu to go to the square in the middle of the manor to meet them in half an hour.

Zeng Yu answered, and asked Liu Neng: "Yachuan, you have been here in the county for more than two months, have you seen many homeless people passing by?" ”

"Lord Qiqi, we can see homeless people every day, but the current Cui County Order does not allow homeless people to enter the county seat, so many of them are passing by and then going to Jizhou."

"Can the government allow the private admission of displaced people?"

"That's okay, but most of the current homeless people are dragging their families, usually a young man with two or three children, and the county's scholars only want to be young and strong, so there are not many people who accept homeless." Liu Neng replied.

"So, starting tomorrow, we will begin to accept displaced people, young and young. However, we must take a good pass, and resolutely do not want those who are traitors among the homeless. Zeng Yu ordered Liu Neng.

"Lord, in this way, I am worried that if there are too many displaced people, it will affect the peace of the manor, after all, there are more than a hundred young people in the manor, and if the first-class people accept too much, it will make the other party take over."

"It's okay, Chengyong brought a hundred personal soldiers with me this time." Since Zeng Yu dared to recruit homeless people on a large scale, he naturally knew the risks, but he believed in the combat effectiveness of his own soldiers under the leadership of Zhu Wen, they were all people who had blood on their hands, and ordinary homeless people would be their opponents, even if there were several times more people, he was not afraid. Moreover, most of the homeless people dragged their families with them, and they rarely made trouble, but they could select young people from them and hand them over to Gude for training.

"Since the lord already has a plan, then I will start asking the villagers to prepare to accept the displaced people tomorrow." Liu Neng listened to Zeng Yu's words and knew that he didn't come to check with his heart, and he had a calculation in his heart, so he replied.