Huang Laosan left nervously, Li Qingyuan shook his head, such a person Li Qingyuan hated so much that his teeth itched, but he had no choice but to become strong quickly, even if some people were very disliked, they still had to use it when they should use it.

However, Li Qingyuan did not expect to rely on Huang Laosan to solve all his problems, so he found three private mine owners to order a part, and he also arranged an eyeliner to open a mine in the mining town, and now he bought a house and a blacksmith shop.

Recently, through the Tianli Council's crackdown, three mine owners have been killed in the mining town, and in the next stage, the Tianli Council will stop here for a while, and then go to Xingtai to do things.

In this way, these mine owners who have relaxed will inevitably have a fight, and Li Qingyuan will also plan to see the opportunity to build a mine, and it is much more convenient to have his own mine than to count on others.

In addition to iron, the rest is coal, after the evil Zhao family in Majiazhuang was eliminated, the Tao family over there did not go to take over the coal mine by themselves, but asked the village to contract, under the instruction of Li Qingyuan, several Majiazhuang coal farmers contracted the mine.

Because Li Qingyuan did not destroy the mine at that time, so the mine quickly resumed operation, with Li Qingyuan, a big family, everyone does not have to worry about not being able to sell coal, because the Ma family is a clan, since there are already people who are thieves, everyone is also worried about being implicated, so they are very cooperative.

It took two days to arrange everything and return to the cottage, Wu Sanniang looked at Li Qingyuan shyly: "I cooked a pot of pheasants, you worked hard, hurry up and drink it?" ”

Li Qingyuan said happily: "Really? Let's eat together, I've never seen you cook before, I thought you wouldn't! Li Qingyuan laughed and teased while washing his hands.

Wu Sanniang blushed a little: "It's really not, it's not the ...... they just learned from Sister-in-law Liu." ”

Li Qingyuan's hand to serve the bowl froze there, just learned? Li Qingyuan had an ominous premonition, and carefully picked up the bowl and took a small sip, it was not bad, except that it was not salty, everything else was fine, Li Qingyuan asked: "I have a heavy taste, I will put a little salt if you bring it, and it will be more comfortable to eat." ”

"It's not that I'm reluctant to put salt, there is no salt on the mountain, I arranged for Xiaoliu to buy it, and I should come back in a while, you can make do with it and eat some first." Wu Sanniang explained and asked quietly, "Isn't it delicious?" ”

There is nothing delicious without salt, Li Qingyuan is not a picky person, he drank the soup in the bowl, ate the meat, and said with a smile: "It's good!" ”

At this time, there was a sudden shout outside: "Sanniang, Sanniang!" ”

When the person who spoke broke in, he saw Li Qingyuan also saying, "General, I was about to look for you, there was an accident in the mining town......

Li Qingyuan frowned and asked, "What's the matter, you take a breath and say it carefully." ”

"There is no salt on the mountain today, Sanniang asked me to go down the mountain to buy salt, but when I walked to the mountain pass west of the mining town, suddenly there was an outpost over there, and the township soldiers of the mining town checked one by one, saying that they wanted to prevent banditry, not only to search for people and goods, but also to salt and iron and other substances are not allowed to go up the mountain, and I didn't have time to buy salt and came back......," Xiaoliu said intermittently.

Li Qingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, but frowned again, he knew that his actions would definitely attract the attention of the government, but he didn't expect the government's actions to be so fast.

Just as Li Qingyuan was thinking, Hou Zheng hurriedly came in and saw Li Qingyuan and said: "General, I have an order from Handan, the street of Mine Town, asking Mine Town to increase the number of township soldiers, and then set up a card at the main intersection into the mountain to prevent bandits from rushing down the mountain ....... ”

Li Qingyuan was a lot relieved when he heard this, but the township soldiers in the town, this is much simpler, if the Qing court closes the mountain on a large scale, it will be a big deal, and there are still many ways to deal with a group of township soldiers.

Li Qingyuan turned around a few times and looked at Liuzi and said, "You go to other towns to buy salt first, this salt can't be broken, and you have to reserve a little more." ”

After the sixth son left, Li Qingyuan asked Hou Zheng: "Are you talking about expanding the establishment of township soldiers?" ”

Hou Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, it has been spread all over the town, and soldiers are being recruited, I heard that taxes will be collected, and the people below are talking about it." ”

Li Qingyuan thought about it for a while and asked Wu Sanniang and said, "Do you think there will be a problem if we send a dozen people to be village soldiers below?" When the time comes, take advantage of the situation and master a few checkpoints, so won't this blockade be useless? ”

Wu Sanniang was a little stunned, in her opinion, this situation should either be transferred elsewhere, or it would be a battle, I didn't expect Li Qingyuan to play cards so unreasonably, but isn't this method a little too cowardly?

Wu Sanniang thought for a while and said: "Actually, a group of township soldiers, let's coerce and lure, they may not dare to stop us, if we can't kill him, these people are afraid, we don't need to ......." ”

Li Qingyuan rubbed his head: "I also want to have a good time, you have also seen our new weapon, you said that if we have thousands of soldiers with this new musket, will we still use it here?" Am I afraid? yes, I'm afraid! I'm afraid that our brothers will die in vain, and I'm afraid that we will use our flesh and blood to block the enemy's firecrackers! ”

Wu Sanniang hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that...... I just thought ......, okay, listen to you." ”

Li Qingyuan looked at Wu Sanniang and frowned: "The courage of the puppet can't be a big thing, we want to overthrow the Tartar Emperor, for the sake of the people of the world, protect ourselves, then there is still hope, if we all die, then who will lead everyone to continue the struggle, don't listen to those who have no brains to talk nonsense." ”

Wu Sanniang rolled her eyes, who Li Qingyuan was talking about, she naturally knew, Wu Sanniang thought about it and said, "Of course this is okay, but what if they disperse our people?" ”

Li Qingyuan asked Hou Zheng on the side: "How many people are there at each of their posts?" ”

Hou Zheng thought about it and said: "There are many mountain roads here, and there are five or six people arranged for each road, right?" I wonder if the number of township soldiers will increase in the future? ”

Li Qingyuan asked, "Then do you know how many township soldiers they have to recruit?" ”

"I heard that two hundred and seventy or eighty are going to be recruited, and now there are two hundred in the town, and when everyone is recruited, the town will arrange patrols at night, and people will be sent to guard the town wall." Hou Zheng said everything he knew.

Li Qingyuan nodded, then we will arrange more than ten old brothers to mix in, I estimate that there will only be more than ten people at most at each checkpoint, and then we will get all the brothers to one checkpoint, won't it solve the problem?

"And how do you get on a checkpoint?" Wu Sanniang couldn't understand it, this is not her own team who can arrange whoever she wants.

"We have no choice, but we can find Huang Laosan, he must have a way, let him spend some money when the time comes, maybe these people can mix a few township soldiers to take the general." Li Qingyuan thought about it and said.