Chao Gai said again: "It's all strange, I didn't know it would be them, you take the brothers to the bar, and I'll take care of the rest." ”

Liu Liang gave Zhu Tong's subordinates ten taels of silver to drink, Chao Gai asked people to bring the horse thief Yu Baosi over, he also glared at Chao Gai with his eyes, Liu Tanglun fist was about to fight, Chao Gai stopped it.

"You're Yu Baosi." Chao Gai said.

"It's me, Yu Baosi of Zengtou City." This guy is quite screwed.

Chao Gai waved his hand, "Untie the ropes, return the horses to them, leave the blades, let them go." ”

Yu Baosi and the others were a little at a loss, they didn't expect Chao Gai to let them go easily.

"Go back and tell your master, Zeng Tou City and Chao Gai each do their own business, everyone has money to earn together, there is no need to fight to the death, not to mention that my Chao Gai is not easy to mess with, is your body as strong as this tree?" Chao Gai said, pointing to a tree on the side of the road that was thicker than a person.

As he spoke, the mountain knife slashed down obliquely, and with a click, the big tree broke in response.

As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew that there was no such a thick tree, even if he found a skilled lumberjack, he had to cut it for a while, and the divine power of Chao Gai was well deserved, and the five tigers of the Zeng family could not do a single Chao Gai.

"Master Xie Chao, the green mountains have not changed, the green water has flowed for a long time, we are leaving." Yu Baosi took people on the horse and left.

Looking at their backs as they gradually moved away, Liu Tang and the guards were very unconvinced, "Just let them go?" ”

"What if you don't let it go? In terms of manpower, we all have less than three hundred people, and they are five or six thousand, not to mention their two masters, Shi Wengong and Su Ding. Our strength is too thin, so we have to be patient. Chao Gai said.

"How long will I endure this, and I will be angry." Liu Tang was uneasy in his heart.

"Let's harvest the wheat, after the summer grain is harvested, we have more than 5,000 acres of wheat that can be exchanged for money. If you have more money, you can train more escort teams, you can't eat fat people in one bite, and it takes time and a lot of effort to train these strong men into qualified escort teams, and it is not easy to train recruits. Chao Gai appeased Liu Tang.

Liu Tang thought for a while and said: "I understand my brother's distress, there is a gap between Dongxi Village and Xixi Village, and it takes time to merge into one village, and the escort team has only been training for two months, and all Xinding have never seen blood, so they can only endure it now." ”

"It's good that you understand, just knowing that moving a knife can't make a big deal, let's make the plate bigger." Chao Gai said earnestly.

"When I walked the rivers and lakes, I heard that the people in Yishui County, Yizhou are very poor, and there are many fierce beasts in the mountains by relying on the Yimeng Mountain, so there are many people who collect medicine, chop firewood and hunt, and there are many strong people, because they are poor, as long as they say the treatment of their brother to find a guard, they will not worry about the lack of elite people to run away." Liu Tang proposed.

Chao Gai nodded and promised, asked Liu Tang to wait for three days, and when the Sanruan brothers had a holiday, they would send Liu Tang to Yishui County to recruit people. The next few days in the horse market were free of any trouble, and orderly. At the same time, the horse market pays great attention to hygiene, all sick horses and sick cattle are not allowed to enter, all kinds of fecal pollutants are cleaned twice a day, and a strict system is formulated and implemented according to the system to ensure the healthy development of the horse market.

Duan Jingzhu recuperated for a few days and left, he was going to the Great Liao Kingdom to sell horses, and left a letter for Chao Gai, saying that he would definitely sell horses.

Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, and Ruan Xiaoqi went home happily during the three-day holiday, and they also had money in their pockets, and hurriedly rushed home to buy some snacks and pastries at the roadside store.

As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, the three of them found that the situation in the village was different, the entrance of the village was a simple hut with wooden boards, and two dogs were tied under the trees next to them.

"Little two, little five, little seven, you're back."

"yes, it's back. What's going on, what are you doing here? Ruan Xiaoer asked.

"Your third uncle, Ruan Ying became the director of the Chao family firm's fish farming, responsible for organizing fish collection and fish farming every day, in addition to the firm's own fleet, there will occasionally be outsiders to buy fish fleet, Director Ruan was afraid that someone would make trouble, so he made these two duty points in the village, each point two dogs, two people, and the ordinary gangsters didn't dare to come to us to make trouble."

The three brothers were very happy, after all, it was good to have a steward in the village, and the situation of the children in the village was also completely new, almost all of them were wearing new clothes, and it was difficult to see the patches of the previous clothes. The old people were mending the fishing nets, and the women couldn't see them anymore and didn't know where they were going.

"Our house is gone." Ruan Xiaoqi was taken aback, the three thatched houses of the Ruan family were gone, replaced by six houses with blue bricks and red tiles, and the outer walls were also made of green bricks, which looked very good.

The dog raised by the Ruan family ran out, and when he saw the owner, he barked, and the mother of the three brothers also came out.

"These three boys, if you are stupid, you won't be able to enter the house quickly when you get home." The old lady of the Ruan family said.

The three of them went to the house and found that the furniture was also new, much more spacious than the original house.

"Mother, this, who built this house." Ruan Xiaoer asked.

"Of course it was built by a commercial bank, I didn't agree to build it, they said that a house is not more than thirty or fifty yuan, and the annual salary of the three of you brothers plus what dividends must be hundreds of yuan, saying that the money of this house is slowly deducted from your salary, I agreed, you have a daughter-in-law in Xiaoer, and Xiaowu and Xiaoqi don't have a daughter-in-law, I think about building a new house and finding a daughter-in-law." The old lady of the Ruan family said.

The Ruan family brothers sighed, it was really good for Brother Chao Gai to lead people.

Xiao Qidao: "Mother, on the way back, we bought some snacks from you, try to eat them." ”

Ruan called the old lady and said, "It's delicious, it's delicious." ”

"Mother, I think there has been a great improvement in the village, what's the situation." Ruan Xiaoqi asked.

"It's not what's the matter, it turns out that most of the second-rate people who only know how to drink and gamble are now well learned, the business bank collects 1,000 catties of fish every day, and there are fish in Shijie Lake, as long as you are willing to work hard a day, you can catch a few dozen catties of fish in a day, if you are not afraid of hard work to fish in the big water, you can catch 100 catties of fish a day, a catty of fish is about two yuan, and a day is a hundred dollars, which I didn't dare to think about before, and the eyes of the nearby fishing villages are envious." The old lady of the Ruan family said with a smile.

Ruan Xiaoqi couldn't stay idle, stayed at home for a while and drove out by boat, and there were hundreds of more cages in the harbor of Shijie Lake not far away, and there were newly dug fish ponds on the shore, and there were more than a dozen large and small. Ruan Ying is busy working with everyone, and more cages are about to be launched.

"Third uncle, what are you busy with, why do you put such a small grass carp in Tangli." Ruan Xiaoqi asked.

Ruan Ying said with a smile: "Xiao Qi is back, did the owner of Chao Zhuang ask you to come over to check the work." ”

"No, no, I'll come back on vacation." Ruan Xiaoqi hurriedly waved his hand.

"Oh, we're cultivating fish fry, this little fish has just hatched for a few days, and it's fed with soy milk every day, and this fish has to be raised in this fish pond for a few months, and when it grows to the size of a finger, it will be put in a cage to continue growing. This year, it is expected that 3,500 cages will be tested, including 200 cages for grass carp and silver carp, 100 cages for carp, and several hundred boxes for other trash fish. The fish used in the cage this year are all bought from about half a catty of fish caught in other villages, all of which are from the villagers, so it is not easy, so they have to be given a bite to eat. ”

"Brother Chao Gai has brought too much benefit to our village, if there is a large amount of fish in the future, dozens of fish villages in the vicinity will be wiped out." Ruan Xiaoqi sighed.

Third Uncle Ruan couldn't help nodding: "Definitely, when the grass is vigorous for a while, the grass will have to be harvested here, and one hundred catties of weeds and five big sons will be considered a profit." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi knows that the nearby villages are really poor, not to mention five copper plates and one hundred catties of grass, that is, one hundred catties of grass and three copper plates are cut.

"What are those women doing over there, farming?" Ruan Xiaoqi asked, pointing to the busy women on the wasteland on the shore.

"Our Shijie Village is a fish village, no one has farmed for many years, the village has 3,000 acres of barren beach, and the average is 10 acres per person. The governor Chao Xun sent people to distribute the seeds for free. Your second sister-in-law is also very powerful, and she has planted dozens of acres of pumpkin seedlings by herself. Ruan Ying said.

The changes in Shijie Village are very powerful, and everyone in the nearby villages who has a daughter is introduced to Shijie Village, and it is unimaginable that a village is so rich. In fact, not only Shijie Village, but even Luhua Village, which supplies various woven products such as hats, dustpans, fishing nets, etc., to department stores, has also received a lot of benefits, and the prestige of the village chief Luwu has gradually increased, and Luhua Village has been sorted out decently.

Besides, Chao Gai stayed in the horse market for three days, Xu Hai also sent people to Zengtou City to keep an eye on it, Zengtou City was very calm, there was no other news, everyone analyzed that this time Yu Bao's four horse theft operations were just Zeng Mi's private actions, not the Zeng family's actions, because the level of spies was limited, I don't know how to do it, anyway, the Zeng family had no abnormal reaction, although the two were economically competitive, but after all, they were separated by two or three hundred miles.

Chao Gai invited Song, Lei, and Zhu to drink and eat to win over the relationship. It's just that Song Jiang is very cunning, and when he mentions Zengtou City, he diverts the topic, and Lei Zhu and the others also drink alone, obviously in the dispute between Zengtou City and the Chao family, Song Jiang is not optimistic about Chao Gai.

Chao Gai shook his head secretly, and Liu Tang also scolded: "Brother, what kind of bullshit is this, he makes it clear that he doesn't want to help us." ”

"They also have hardships, after all, they are all big families, and they can't afford to offend Zengtou City." Chao Gai said.

On the same day, Chao Gai transferred a batch of 100 short knives from the ironsmith workshop, this kind of short knife is different from the spear head, but it is very similar to the military stab, and it can be easily and quickly tied to a hardwood stick to form a long weapon. Whether it is a department store, or a Tianya inn or a horse market, the guys have all undergone simple training, and simple prevention still needs to be done. In addition, Chao Gai decided to open a shop selling horse-drawn carriages next to the horse market to try how horse-drawn carriages were selling.