As soon as he arrived in the evening, Ji Ling came back with some equipment.

A large number of instruments were carried to Xinqiao's Mansion, not to mention, there are quite a few types. Qiao Eighteen looked at the fact that a strange-shaped thing was carried into the New Qiao Mansion one day, and couldn't help but ask Ji Ling, who was about to arrive.

"Ji Ling, are these things you usually practice?"

Ji Ling nodded and said, "Yes, I usually practice martial arts like this, these things will definitely enhance my physique!" ”

After Ji Ling finished speaking, he introduced them one after another.

"Like this stone lock, you can do some training on human strength. And those stakes can be used to train reflexes, and there are some weapons to use, and armor equipment and so on......"

Ji Ling is like a treasure, like a box that has been opened, and he introduces these things endlessly, for this kind of thing, Qiao Eighteen doesn't know very much, but if Ji Ling practiced like this before, then he didn't doubt anything.

So he said, "Good! You'll take care of it! Tomorrow I'm going to start recruiting new family members, about two or three hundred people, are you confident that you can train them well? ”

This is to be recruited in the early stage, and there will be more in the later stage, and he can't recruit too much at one time, for fear that it will attract some unnecessary attention.

"Big brother, don't say it's two or three hundred, even if it's a thousand people, I can also train them well! You know? I've been in the military for a while, so I'm very familiar with some of the training methods in the military! ”

Hearing this, Qiao Eighteen was overjoyed, if this was the case, it would be even better.

"People say that military orders are like mountains, so you train them in the same way as the army! Okay, it's going to be busy, so let's go ahead and get your business done! ”

"Yes! Eldest brother! ”

After Ji Lingying was supposed to be, he took a few family members to prepare together.

That same evening.

Steward Yang walked to Xinqiao's Mansion with 10,000 taels of gold, and when he arrived, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Mr. Qiao, the layout here is even better than our Qiao Mansion, and the space here is not small!"

What are you kidding, this is the homestead of the Li Mansion, of course it is not small, he only made some changes to the layout here, although the mansion is empty, like some valuable things have been sold by Li Feng. However, it was still very magnificent as a mansion in the past.

"Did you take the money that the master asked you to bring?"

"If you don't say it, I'll forget it, come on, carry it up!"

10,000 taels of gold is not light, and the weight of 1,000 catties may not be able to be transported without a carriage.

This 10,000 taels of gold was quickly placed in front of Qiao 18.

Seriously, with so much money, there is still some shock.

"It's all here, Mr. Qiao, please take an inventory."

"No need! Xiao Yang, let me ask you a question. ”

"Excuse me!"

"Do you know which place in our Anhui County has the lowest living standard? In other words, where are the impoverished areas? ”

Steward Yang was stunned for a moment, this Qiao Eighteen suddenly asked what he was doing here, but he didn't dare to ask, so he could only reply: "There are relatively few poor areas in Anhui County. But outside the city, in a few neighboring villages, the population is poor. ”

"So you know where they are?"

"Yes! I know where it is! ”

"Good! Now that you know, I have something to explain to you tomorrow! ”

"Please Mr. Qiao."

"A very simple thing. Recruit a family member for my new Qiao Mansion. ”

"Mr. Qiao, aren't there enough family members now?"

Steward Yang pointed to the family on the side, not to mention that there were ten people.

"Not enough."

"With all due respect to Mr. Qiao, if this person has one mouth, a hundred people will have a hundred mouths. The more we recruit, the more people we have to feed. I'm afraid we'll be financially affected. ”

Faced with Steward Yang's question, how could Qiao Eighteen not know? But an army of people can feed tens or millions of people, why can't he have a large number of family members in the Qiao family?

"Steward Yang, you're just too petty. Take the last time you looked for a porcelain seller, do you think those families are enough? If we do it to take over all the stores of the Li family, do you think the existing family members in our Qiao Mansion are enough? The so-called big money gives birth to small money, and when the small money is spent, it is gone, and this big money has to be earned by someone, and even this money is reluctant to spend, what to talk about and do big things! ”

In two rhetorical questions in a row, it directly makes people feel speechless, of course, he recruited family members so aggressively, but also to hide people's eyes, he doesn't care about the long-term development of the Qiao family, and when these family members are turned into troops to a certain extent, then does he still rely on business to support these troops?

No! He wants to rely on the power of the whole city!

No matter how strong your Qiao family is, can it be stronger than the strength of the entire city?

No way! It's impossible!

The Qiao family is just one step for him, but this step may be a little difficult to step out.

But he always has to step out, and try to hide it from others and do it to the best of his ability.

So he tried his best to convince Steward Yang.

Let him think that these family members are for the Qiao family, otherwise if he says something or something. That doesn't bode well for his recruitment plans.

"Mr. Qiao is really far-sighted! It's my short-sightedness. That's fine! I'll make arrangements, and I'll get you a family tomorrow!" ”

"Wait, my recruitment method is relatively peculiar."

"Mr. Qiao, please speak!"

"First, don't be physically strong."

The next thing is to fight, and the physical fitness is not good, of course not. This really made Steward Yang a little embarrassed.

"If I recruit like this, I won't be able to recruit 50 people a day," he said. ”

"Listen to me first. This second, you have to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, and don't be old! ”

Such harsh conditions. It does make the scope of recruitment smaller, and it is more and more difficult to recruit people.

Then Qiao Eighteen said: "I know it's difficult to recruit, but you can do this, and the price of the first recruitment will be doubled. Under the temptation of money, I don't believe that there is no family willing to give their children to me Qiaohu. Give them enough food. These poor people, O Joe!

Second, give them some subsidies that are willing to send their children to us, directly supplement the food, and promise them that when their children are sent to my Qiao Mansion, they will have big fish and meat to eat.

Fighting a war requires physical fitness, and nutrition must keep up, if these cannot be guaranteed, all soldiers have yellow faces and thin muscles, so how to fight?

As soon as these words were finished, Steward Yang was a little puzzled.

He said: "This trick can recruit a lot of people. ”

"To sum up, can you help me calculate how many people can be recruited for this ten thousand taels?"

Steward Yang is very shrewd, he must have his ability to be the housekeeper of the Qiao family, especially for this kind of careful calculation of expenditure income, he must be much stronger than Qiao Eighteen.

He thought for a while and said, "Ten thousand taels of gold, plus the expenses of Qiao's Mansion, can only recruit about 500 people. And stick to it for more than a year. ”

He was quite conservative when he said it, but if he was saving money, it could even be longer.

However, based on these alone, Qiao XVIII felt that it was enough.

"That's enough, I want you to recruit as many people as possible, 500, 1000, the more the better, as for the money, you don't have to care. I naturally have a way! ”

Steward Yang had no choice but to nod yes.