It's just that after meeting a few times, Mao Yulong opened his mouth to borrow 100 stone grain from Xu Jie, which was very abrupt and presumptuous, but Xu Jie didn't ask Mao Yulong what he was borrowing so much grain for, and he didn't think about whether he could pay it back, so he didn't hesitate but asked: "Where can I send it to you?" ”

"My home."

"I'll do it now." Then you have to go.

Mao Yulong grabbed it: "Slow down, don't you ask me what I do with this grain?" ”

Xu Jie said indifferently: "If you want to say it, you can say it, why should I ask." ”

This is true trust, this is shown in Xu Jie's eyes, there is no hypocrisy at all, it seems that his friendship with Xu Jie is decided.

So Mao Yulong changed his title: "Brother, I borrowed this grain to prepare to lead the villagers and neighbors to protect themselves." ”

Xu Jie frowned and looked at Mao Yulong with an inquiring gaze.

Mao Yulong said calmly: "In my area, my people are gathered. Although they are mean, although I hate them very much, my mother still agrees with them, and this is also the root of my mother's bones, so even if I flee here with them for refuge, my mother will definitely not feel at ease. ”

Xu Jie nodded: "The old lady's personality is really admirable. ”

"And my neighbor, when there was an accident at Daddy Zhao's house last time, gathered for a meeting without any complaints, and got together without complaints, although I couldn't help a lot, but that simple humanity made me can't give up."

"Little brother, you are kind-hearted, you know how to make trade-offs, and you will be a big deal in the future."

Mao Yulong smiled and said: "But if you want to organize to protect yourself, with my prestige, I will be soft-spoken, mainly because I am too young, and in our place, there is a patriarch in the clan, and there are neighbors in the village, and these two forces will not listen to me." ”

"What do you want to do?"

"I'm going to take power, take the power of the patriarch and Lizheng, and then integrate them into my hands so that I can keep my homeland."

Xu Jie's eyes lit up: "Brother's solution is-"

"Brother, let's talk about it."

Xu Jie laughed: "What about the little brother who will teach me?" ”

"Brother, brother doesn't dare."

Xu Jie smiled proudly: "Since you have taught me, then brother, I will tell you what you think." ”

"Brother, listen up." At this time, the two of them were in a good mood, and they naturally called each other brothers, and a friendship that would never leave at the end of the Ming Dynasty began. In the end, it ran through the whole life of the two people.

"Since there is a patriarch in the clan and a neighbor in the village, when the mutiny begins, it will definitely be spontaneous to protect itself. But for hundreds of years, your Mao family has been a foreigner, and it is inevitable that there will be such and such contradictions with the neighbors, so they can't be screwed together at all. ”

Mao Yulong nodded in agreement.

"But you can use the hearts of your own people and my food to hire the young men among them to form a volunteer band. As the saying goes, whose food to eat, whose soldiers to be, and whose soldiers listen to whom, this move is wonderful, the means are good, little brother, I am convinced of you. Just the grain of 100 stones solves this most tricky matter. Xu Jie really admired Mao Yulong, he really didn't know, how could Mao Yulong, a little fifteen-year-old child who had not yet reached the crown, understand such a strange method, could it really be that Xiucai could know the world without going out?

This is absolutely impossible, because the showman with white hair, not to mention the world, even the firewood, rice, oil and salt in front of him don't understand, so that sentence is bullshit. So the only explanation is that this Xiao Xiucai is really a genius, and he must mix with him, so he is sure that he is right.

So he generously proposed: "Since my brother already has an arrangement for Yiyong, then let's do the same as my brother's method, you also come to a coercion and temptation, and use Yiyong to show your determination to fight to the end with him, and my brother will lend you again, no, I will give you 500 stone of food and give it to them." Under the dual coercion and temptation in this way, the crisis in your area will be solved. ”

Regarding Xu Jie's generosity, Mao Yulong smiled and shook his head: "This method can work with you, brother, but it won't work with me." ”

Xu Jie asked suspiciously: "Why?" ”

Mao Yulong explained with a smile: "The mutinous soldiers are different from the poles, their original intention is to loot instead of killing desperately, and you can do it because you have a good reputation for so many years." And your shop is close to the barracks, and those soldiers and their families will inevitably buy rice from you, and if you are in a hurry, you will owe some credit, so that you and them will have a relationship. ”

Xu Jie nodded in acknowledgement.

"There is no real madness in this world, especially in our Han world, the grace of a drop of water is reciprocated, which is the creed that our Han people have always adhered to.

But what did I give to those soldiers? Nothing was given to them. Without grace, in the face of the wealth of the huge area behind me, they would never give up their thirst for wealth because of a mere 500 stone of food. Therefore, even if you give me a thousand stone of food, it will never impress them to give up that great fortune. ”

Xu Jie thought about it for a while, and finally had to sigh: "Little brother, you are not blindly arrogant, your analysis of things is reasonable, and you are really inferior to you as a brother." ”

Mao Yulong stood up, walked out, and said, "You make arrangements here, I will go to Song's house immediately and report to Song Yuanshan." ”

As a result, Xu Jie grabbed Mao Yulong: "Brother, no." ”