After tasting the sweetness given by Chen Xian, except for those landlords who were robbed of their fields, the senses of the big families in the county to Chen Xian changed greatly.

The big families in the county are either the families of the officials, or the merchants, or both, and many of these people have their own shop business.

After no longer resisting Chen Xian's rule, these merchants gradually discovered that the prices of high-quality weapons, armor, soap, iron, ironware and other goods sold in the few shops opened by Chen Xian in the county were very low, and if they were purchased from these shops and sold to Tai'an or other cities, they would make a lot of profits.

When a merchant tried it once and tasted the sweetness, the merchants in the county began to spontaneously become Chen Xian's distributors, so that Chen Xian's goods began to go out of Laiwu in large quantities.

The big households in these counties are more or less connected in other nearby counties, and Chen Xian, as a thief, can't go out directly to do business, but these merchants can.

In order to allow more businessmen to go out, Chen Xian once again asked Lei Genghu to go out of the mountain and organize a mercenary group.

Since Yiyuan was blocked, Lei Genghu and his brother have been raised by Chen Xianbai for nearly two years, and at this time, they can finally keep the clouds open and see the moon, and they can let go of their hands and feet again.

Of course, Lei Genghu has not been in vain in the past two years, his people were first incorporated into the militia by Chen Xian, and later because of his good riding skills, he was favored by Yang Miaozhen and incorporated into the all-round cavalry team for training.

After two years of training, Lei Genghu's subordinates already have a proud soldier who can charge on the horse, shoot and fight when he gets off the horse.

Of course, Chen Xian's sphere of influence is now expanding, and Lei Genghu's mercenary team alone is not enough, Chen Xian supported several capable generals under Lei Genghu, pulled out a part of the team, and set up several mercenary teams with it as the core.

With Chen Xian's support, these mercenary groups recruited a large number of unemployed generals, who were placed in society and were extremely unstable, and they could not adapt to Chen Xian's army, which was extremely difficult for Chen Xian to deal with.

Absorbing them into the mercenary group and giving them a livelihood will not only prevent them from causing damage, but also allow them to play their own value.

Of course, it is impossible to absorb all of them without screening, if all the lost owners who hate Chen Xian will be recruited into the mercenaries, it will be tantamount to Chen Xian establishing an armed organization for his enemies.

Therefore, Chen Xian set some recruitment conditions for the mercenary group, first, you can't recruit those who have a blood feud with Chen Xian, that is, those powerful families who have been cleaned by Chen Xian's army can't be recruited, and second, you can't recruit bachelors, you must have a family. And after joining the mercenary, you must send your family to the mercenary headquarters to live in a centralized manner.

With the prosperity of mercenaries, merchants can hire strong mercenaries from wealthy families as long as they pay money, which greatly reduces the risk cost of their business, and what is more reassuring is that the families of these mercenaries are concentrated in the headquarters of their respective mercenaries, and merchants do not have to worry too much about mercenaries will guard and steal.

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In the past two years, he has been under the command of the Four Ladies, but he has learned the skills of a body, when he was in the Yang family before, in addition to guns and sticks, Lei Genghu's other skills are only average, but in the past two years, he has not only learned to rush into battle and shoot at the same time in the Four Ladies' Army, but more importantly, he has learned the art of war!

How to train an army, how to march, how to choose a camp, how to set up camp, how to arrange a night watch...... These were originally secret techniques that only the Jiangmen family knew, and he learned a lot from the four ladies.

If Lei Genghu was at most a ten-person general in the past, then he can do at least one hundred-person general now, and a thousand-person general can barely succeed.

Recently, he was transferred out of the army by Marquis Chen again, and together with a few of his old brothers, he returned to his old business and formed several mercenary groups.

Like last time, Hou Ye Chen only sent him a deputy head in charge of logistics, and in addition to an account office in charge of money, he gave him a lot of copper coins and let him toss at will.

Lei Genghu encircled a piece of land of dozens of acres in the county seat, built a large courtyard, and also encircled a wasteland of hundreds of acres outside the county seat, built a large school field, and built a warehouse.

On the basis of the original more than 30 old brothers, he recruited more than 300 mercenaries from families, all of whom were proficient in archery, horsemanship, and guns.

According to the requirements of Hou Ye Chen, Lei Genghu only recruited those who dragged their families and brought them to live in the courtyard of the county headquarters, although the salaries of the mercenaries were all paid by the deputy head of the regiment sent by Hou Ye Chen, who paid more and who paid less, and it was not all his head Lei who had the final say? The food and drink of these people and their families were all in Lei Genghu's hands, and they all obeyed him, which made him very useful.

What made Lei Genghu even more excited was that Marquis Chen not only gave him money and food on credit, but also gave him weapons and armor on credit, good armor, light and good protection, good guns, eyebrow sharp knives, how many as you wanted.

The fly in the ointment is that Master Chen does not have any extra horses in his hands, and it is difficult to buy them on the market, and the price is even more expensive, so there are not many horses in Lei Genghu's mercenary group.

In order to recruit some family members who could bring their own horses, Lei Genghu, at the suggestion of the deputy head of the regiment, not only paid salaries to the mercenaries who brought their own horses, but also issued a horse rental fee, which attracted many family members to bring their own horses to apply.

Lei Genghu used the art of war learned from the four ladies to form three hundred households of more than 300 good hands, and trained them to charge on horseback, dismount and shoot on foot, and charge into battle.

These generals have an excellent foundation in archery, riding, and guns, and after just a few months of training, they have mastered the tactics handed down by the four ladies.

Except for the first two months of its establishment, more and more businessmen in the county were willing to hire them, going west to Tai'an, Dongping, and south to Xintai, Surabaya, Yanzhou......

Not to mention the thieves along the way, even the powerful Zhuangzi along the way, and even the officers and soldiers of the squad, they all avoided them far away when they saw them.

In the past two years, with the fiasco of the Jin State, the prestige of the imperial court has plummeted, and the powerful people in various places have become less and less aware of the majesty of the imperial court.

Of course, their heavily armed private army couldn't get close to the city.

In fact, Lei Genghu and his mercenaries will not be close to the city, and every time they escort the goods, they are sent to the local powerful Zhuangzi.

However, Lei Genghu SF had been smooth for more than half a year, and finally met someone who did not believe in evil.

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