Liu Ji didn't expect that in this market town on the border of Yongzhou and Wanzhou, he would be able to meet people from his mother's family, and he was also the housekeeper Chen Baocai, who had a one-sided relationship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Later, Liu Ji learned from the mouthful of the housekeeper Chen Baocai that Chen Qi, the sister-in-law of Chen Min, the current head of the Chen family, has become a school captain in Qi County.

And Chen Qi is actually Liu Ji's uncle, but Liu Ji's mother Chen Min and Chen Qi are half-brothers and sisters, and Liu Ji's other uncle Chen Yan was born to Liu Ji's mother Chen Min.

Chen Yan and Chen Min's mother, that is, Liu Ji's own grandmother, was only a concubine of Chen Min, the current head of the Chen family, and had been dead for many years, and when he died, Chen Min had not married Liu Hao.

Although Chen Min, the current head of the Chen family, is Liu Ji's grandfather, Liu Ji has never seen this grandfather in his memory, even his uncle Chen Yan and Liu Ji have only met once when they were children, and that time was at the funeral of Liu Ji's mother Chen Min, and Chen Qi's uncle, Liu Ji has also never seen it.

Liu Ji heard his father Liu Hao say that his mother was just an unappreciated concubine in the Chen family, otherwise it would be impossible for the local powerful Chen family to marry his daughter to a small landlord like Liu Hao for a valuable dowry.

Liu Ji's family fled to Qi County in Changping County, Yongzhou this time to join their relatives, mainly to Liu Ji's uncle Chen Yan, don't look at Chen Yan is also a concubine, but Chen Min, the head of the Chen family, is not bad to Chen Yan's son, after all, although Chen Min has a group of wives and concubines, but there are only 2 sons in total, and daughters have given birth to more than a dozen, and now half of the Chen family's shops in Qi County are in charge of Chen Yan, and the other half is in charge of Chen Qi, Chen Qi is the heir of the head of the Chen family, and the thousands of acres of land of the Chen family are now also managed by Chen Qi.

Originally, Chen Qi did not join the army, because the Great Jin Dynasty saw that the bandits in various places were getting more and more serious, and the imperial army had made no progress in clearing and suppressing the bandits, but the more they cleared and suppressed the bandits, the more serious the trouble, so he ordered the state pastors, Taishou, and county orders in various parts of the Great Jin Dynasty to form local armies belonging to the prefectures, counties, and counties to exterminate the bandits in various places, and as for the military expenses of the local army, a part of the local tax revenue could be withheld.

You must know that the magistrates of the Great Jin Dynasty before, that is, the state pastors, Taishou, and county orders in various places, did not have any military power, and now the decree of the Great Jin Dynasty is promulgated, which is equivalent to allowing these magistrates to have a large number of troops in various places, and some ambitious people have emerged at this time, especially the large and small families of the Great Jin Dynasty, and almost the entire magistrates of the Great Jin Dynasty are all served by people from families.

Almost all the families can see that the Great Jin Dynasty is obviously sunset, at this time they have started some of their own plans, the will of the Great Jin Dynasty is equivalent to allowing the family to control more troops, which can be in the coming troubled times, for their own family to seek more benefits, and even powerful families, have already harbored the idea of replacing the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty.

The Chen family can only be regarded as a strong family in Qi County, a strong family like the Chen family, there are more than a dozen in Qi County, and the family of Wang Ji is the largest family in Qi County, almost half of the fields in Qi County belong to the name of the Wang family, and the Wang family no longer belongs to the ranks of the Haoqiang family, but belongs to the family.

In addition to the difference in influence and strength, the most significant difference between Haoqiang and the family is that there are many people who are officials in the family, and there are people who have been officials for generations.

After the decree of the Great Jin Dynasty was promulgated, Wang Ji, the county commander of Qi County, also began to recruit troops in the county, and Chen Qi took the initiative to take refuge under Wang Ji at this time, saying that the Chen family was willing to pay money to help Wang Ji recruit troops, Chen Qi did this so that the Chen family could gain some military power in the troubled times, and also hide under the big tree of the Wang family.

Wang Ji also took the opportunity to appoint Chen Qi as the captain of Qi County, and let Chen Qi recruit and raise troops by himself, of course, Chen Qi's troops must obey Wang Ji's dispatch, like Chen Qi, Wang Ji has appointed more than a dozen in Qi County, except for a few people from the Wang family, the other captains are all from various powerful families in Qi County.

Now the Haoqiang family in the entire Qi County is recruiting people, Chen Qi from the Chen family's collateral, family members and tenants, it was not easy to get together more than 180 people, and then there was no longer anyone recruited in Qi County, and most of the young and strong men who fled to Qi County were forcibly recruited by the Wang family and joined the private army belonging to the Wang family.

The captain can command a section of soldiers and horses, that is, 1,000 people, but Chen Qi did not even get together one-fifth, and in the end Chen Qi's half-brother Chen Yan came up with the idea to go to Wanzhou, where the famine occurred, to recruit some young and strong men, so there was a trip to Wanzhou by the housekeeper Chen Baocai.

Chen Baocai heard that Liu Ji and his father Liu Hao were separated because of the encounter with the rogue, and couldn't help but comfort him: "Young Master Cousin, Master Liu Ji has his own natural appearance, I believe that Master Liu will definitely be able to go to Qi County to meet Young Master Cousin!" Young Master Cousin, tomorrow you will follow our team back to Qi County, with me Chen Baocai here, I will definitely not let Young Master Cousin have any mistakes. ”

Hua Xiong, who had been standing behind Liu Ji, couldn't help but purse his lips after listening to Chen Baocai's words, and snorted softly.

Liu Ji smiled and said, "Uncle Chen, then I'll trouble you!" By the way, Uncle Chen, what are you coming to me for? ”

"When I saw that Young Master Cousin was happy, I forgot that I was here to buy food! Young Master Cousin, this time I took 20 members of the Chen family, and enrolled a total of 606 victims in Wanzhou, of which 442 were young and strong men, and the rest were family members of some men. ”

After a pause, Chen Baocai sighed and said: "But there are too many of us, and the food brought out from home is not enough for these more than 600 people to eat, and now we have run out of food, I heard that there is a team in this courtyard, I am ready to see if I can come here to buy some food, as long as we can survive tonight, we will be able to buy food in the nearby county tomorrow morning, I didn't expect this team to be Young Master Cousin!" ”

Liu Ji nodded with a smile and said: "Uncle Chen, don't worry, it's all a family, I still have some food here, you can let people come and move it!" ”

Chen Baocai nodded and said: "Young Master Cousin, I won't be polite to you, the young and strong men among these victims are too important to our Chen family, this is the foundation for our Chen family to continue to survive in Qi County in the future, if there is no food to eat, something extraneous happens to the victims, then it will be troublesome!" ”

Immediately, Chen Baocai looked at Hua Xiong behind Liu Ji, as well as Chen Hao, Le Yi and Gong Du in the courtyard, and then thought of You Tong and Liu Bi outside the door, frowned and asked Liu Ji: "Young Master Cousin, how many strong men are around you?" ”

Although Chen Baocai's martial arts are sparse and ordinary, he still has some eyesight, and these people around Liu Ji are not ordinary people, and some clues can be seen just from the exquisite iron armor worn by a few people.

You must know that even in the entire Chen family, there are only 19 sets of iron armor, and the quality is not comparable to the iron armor worn by these people around Liu Ji.

"Uncle Chen, these are all the generals of my Liu family, and they are all put into my command by chance!"