After Li Yan and the others brought back the selected homeless people, there was a problem, and Qilizhai couldn't let go of so many people. So his first task was to choose a suitable place to live and build a habitat for them.

Originally, Li Zhong wanted to arrange them in an abandoned village. Lin Chenghai and his family have abandoned their homes and continued to flee. Lin Chenghai was tortured, escaped from prison at night, and was killed during the pursuit, so there was no need for their family to stay here anymore, and the village became a deserted village again.

But this village is on the edge of the avenue, and there is no danger to defend around it. For Li Yan and them, their current strength is not yet capable of defending this village. Therefore, it is safer to build some houses on the dirt slope between the stockade and the wall, and it is safer to live in the wall.

Fortunately, the soil slope is not steep, and it is all soil, and the amount of work is not large. Moreover, the building materials can also be taken from the abandoned village, and the houses built are all masonry, and the defense function is not bad. Let the displaced people do all this themselves, and Li Yan only needs to provide food and supervise the quality.

After more than ten days of hard work, two rows of houses were finally built on the south side of the village to settle these new displaced people. And there are some spare houses.

The first people to come to the village began to harvest their vegetables, corn and sorghum, while the newcomers reclaimed abandoned fields in the area designated for them in preparation for the winter wheat planting.

Those who came to Li Yan's army with family members were still given 10 mu of land by one person, while those who did not have family members joined the team were given different amounts of land according to the status of their family members, and a register was made. The reason why he does not engage in the model of a big farm is that Li Yan does not have rich manpower to manage these peasants, or let them do their own good, so as not to let someone cheat and cheat, so that everyone will suffer.

During this period, more than a dozen young people came to Qilizhai with their families one after another, asking to join Qilizhai. Li Yan also accepted all the orders, after all, it was a dozen or so soldiers, and now his troops continued to expand, so as to be worthy of his official position as the commander.

Through this summoning of the displaced people, Li Yan's troops have nearly doubled, but relatively speaking, they are still too few. But he didn't want to add those ruffians and unfaithful people to come in, and the stability and tightness of the troops were the most important thing.

At this time, the border soldiers can already be used as instructors to train the newcomers. The first batch of soldiers to join can also help with training, so that Li Yan, Li Mu and others can be more relaxed. These veterans are very conscientious, or a little bit of a bad mother-in-law mentality. They transferred all the sins they had suffered to the recruits intact, and the recruits were miserable in their training. Fortunately, the patience of these peasants was high enough, and in order to give their families something to eat, they all endured it and quickly became qualified soldiers.

Just in July, the tax collectors came to Qilizhai again.

"Mr. Li," the team leader said respectfully: "The above is urgent, this 'training salary' must be collected, so ~ we have no choice, please don't be surprised." ”

Li Yan nodded and asked, "Then how much does this 'training salary' have to pay?" ”

The team leader glanced at Li Yan worriedly, but still stubbornly said, "Five dollars per mu." ”

With a "snap", Li Mu slapped on the coffee table. Staring at Wang Bantou, he asked, "What is the harvest of one acre of land?" How much is left of rations and seeds? How much is left after paying the other taxes? You will charge five yuan for a 'training salary', which people can afford it?! ”

The head of the team said in embarrassment: "This is also a matter of no choice, now there are fewer and fewer farmers, but there are so many tasks given above, so I have to spread among the landed farmers." ”

"Do you also have to pay the Wangfu Grange in the west and south?!" Li Zhong also asked: "Will the field of the Huang chief on the outskirts of the city also be handed over?!" And will the land of Yang Shoubei and Zhang Dian Shijia also be handed over?! ”

The team leader immediately bowed and kept saying: "Don't be embarrassed for the villain, the villain is also ordered to run errands, and he can't be the master." ”

Li Yan raised his hand and said, "Okay, don't say it!" ”

Li Zhong and Li Mu had no choice but to give up, and the team leader also stopped asking for mercy and looked at Li Yan with some fear.

"I pay half, that is, 2,500 yuan per mu, which is allowed by the paperwork given to me by the county." Li Yan said stiffly: "I know there is your share of money here, but I don't want to pursue it." However, I don't want this 'salary' to go up any further, do you know what I mean? ”

The team leader hurriedly nodded and said, "Understand, understand, the villain will definitely find a way to make Li Jiang's total 'training salary' not increase." ”

Li Yan nodded and instructed Li Zhong, "Go get the money." ”

After waiting for a while, Li Zhong brought seventy-eight taels of silver. The official immediately weighed and recorded. After that, the squad leader nodded and left with his men.

"There are less than 1,200 taels left." Li Zhong reported angrily. These taels of silver, which they had received from the thieves they had slain, had now been spent more than two hundred taels to pay taxes.

Li Mu asked angrily, "What to do for them?!" I don't know how much of it will be taken away by him! ”

"He's okay, we can deal with it." Li Yan explained: "If you can't collect the money, change to someone who is not easy to deal with, and it is not us who is uncomfortable?" ”

"What kind of bird is that!" Li Mu said dissatisfiedly: "Now that the eight kings of Xiying have rebelled, I have met him a few times, let's go and vote for him!" Only we rob silver, how can we give people silver! ”

Li Yan glanced at Li Mu and said, "The official army will send troops to surround it soon, and we will be sent to death if we go!" At most, it's just a thief! ”

"Don't argue," Li Zhong hurriedly persuaded: "Just hand it over, aren't we getting better and better now?" Don't hurt the harmony between brothers for the sake of small things. ”

Li Mu hugged his fists and apologized: "Fourth brother, I'm sorry, my brother and I are just in a hurry, fourth brother, don't worry about it." ”

Li Yan stood up and patted Li Mou's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Our brothers, how can such a small thing hurt the harmony?" ”

Both of them looked at each other and smiled, which was regarded as revealing the matter. Li Zhong finally put his mind at ease.

On the way back to the county seat, a servant said: "Team leader, this Li General is always very faced, he can pay as much as he wants, and we will eat him in the future!" ”

"Noodles?!" The team leader sneered and said, "If you think that this Li is always a soft egg, then you are not far from death!" People can even kill more than 200 thieves, and they care about killing more than 20 of us?! If you want to survive in the future, don't come here to spread wild! I'll just say this, if you want to live well, keep it in mind, and if you want money and don't want to die, you should turn a deaf ear. ”

The archers of the government did not dare to say any more, and they still admired Zhang Bantou's eyesight. So they returned to the county one by one in fear, for fear that someone from Qilizhai would chase the silver back.