Zhiwen and the others were the same as when they came, it was the second half of the night, and they set off at dawn and rushed towards the valley that ambushed the Yan family's guards.

There was only a short pause for dinner along the way, and finally we reached the valley before dark.

Their team, starting from the pursuit of the caravan, went through ambushes, ambushes, and then rushed to Yanjia Village to counterattack, and they had not had a good rest for three days and two nights, and they were all very tired.

Fortunately, Dingguo and Li Zhi had already set up a shack, and more than 80 people hurriedly ate something and fell asleep.

This sleep, I slept until noon the next day, and then woke up one after another.

Zhiwen slept soundly, but he felt that his nose was itching terribly, and he couldn't help but let out a big sneeze and woke up from his sleep.

Nan Nan was lying next to him, a straw stick in his hand, just taken away from his nose, "Brother, aren't you hungry?" ”

It's okay not to say it, this question, Zhiwen's stomach immediately "growled", he was so tired before going to bed last night that he didn't eat much at all.

"Eat and eat", Zhiwen got out of the felt bag, and in the laughter of Nannan, he walked to the nearest fire, where it was warm and fragrant, Xiaoying Niang took Xiaoying and Niuniu, and was looking at him with a smile, and Kewang and Xiaojie had already started eating.

Zhiwen took the soup bowl handed to him by Xiao Yingniang with one hand, grabbed a piece of cake with one hand and nibbled on it.

When he was eating deliciously, there was a "poof" sound next to him, and Song Xiance had already knelt in front of him, and when Zhiwen put down the bowl to help him, he had already kowtowed heavily.

"Don't pull me, Brother Zhi." Song Xiance desperately wanted to break free of Zhiwen's hand.

"What do you call me?" Zhiwen couldn't accept it all of a sudden, since his identity was exposed, Song Xiance was a little arrogant and not very gregarious, calling Zhiwen "Brother Zheng", a scholar's style, and now this one was a little caught off guard.

Song Xiance said: "Although you are younger than me, you have avenged the great enmity of your parents and friends for me, why not if I will treat you as a brother in the future?" ”

said it righteously and strictly, so that Zhiwen couldn't refute it, anyway, there are many people older than him who call him Brother Zhi.

Without waiting for Zhiwen to speak, Song Xiance continued: "Such a great favor, I only kowtow three times, which is already cheap for me, Brother Zhi, if you don't accept my three worships, then you just look down on me, and you don't treat me as a brother." ”

Having said that, what else could Zhiwen do, he had to let him go and accept his remaining two bows.

After worshipping him, he didn't leave, so he stayed by Zhiwen's side, Zhiwen was a little uncomfortable, and asked, "I said... Old Song", his thoughts turned slightly, and he still felt that it was better to call Song Xiance like this, "Have you eaten?" ”。

"Eat, Brother Zhi." Song Xiance replied politely.

"Oh... Uh, old Song, why don't you go somewhere else? You're staring at me here, and I don't have an appetite to eat. Zhiwen finally couldn't help but start teasing people.

"Okay, Brother Zhi, I'll come back to you later."

Seeing that he was far away, Zhiwen wiped the sweat from his forehead, ignored Xiao Jie's teasing smile on the side, lowered his head and began to eat wildly.

"Whew...", Zhiwen breathed a long sigh of relief, finally full, comfortable, and when he turned his head, Song Xiance was already standing next to him.

"Old Song, you can do this kung fu, you can walk without sound."

Song Xiance didn't answer his words, but asked seriously: "Brother Zhi, have you finished eating?" When we're done eating, why don't we gather people to discuss? ”

"Okay!" Seeing that his face was serious, Zhiwen stopped joking, and now that he has indeed reached a point, he needs to discuss it well, what to do in the future.

"Brother Zhi, I don't know what you want with so many people?" When Zhiwen gathered all the core manpower together, Song Xiance asked his first question.

The others, including the newcomers Lao Yan and Lao San, all looked at Zhiwen and wanted to know his answer.

But Zhiwen was asked.

Rebellion? Zhiwen shook his head, he hadn't thought about it before or now, and for a long time in the future, he wouldn't consider this issue under the premise that his strength was weak.

So what is the purpose of bringing so many people with you?

Zhiwen remembered the scene when he first crossed over, he was so hungry that he was weak, he was shivering by the cold wind, and he remembered the girl at that time, looking malnourished.

I thought of the people who died of starvation and illness on the way to escape, the eyes that became more ferocious, indifferent, and ruthless than wild beasts because of hunger, and the white bones buried in the land west of the river under the loess.

"To live, I just want to take everyone to live, rely on my own efforts, I can eat when I am hungry, I can dress warmly when I am cold, people don't bully me, I don't deceive people."

Zhiwen was silent for a while, and slowly said his answer.

"Now who of us doesn't have enough to eat and wear?" Kewang was puzzled, hadn't all this been done?

Everyone doesn't care about Kewang, they all understand the hidden meaning of these words, not only to be full and clothed now, but also to be able to do it in the future, and not to be bullied, which is not simple.

I didn't see it, I got a few sweaters out, and someone killed me.

"This goal is not high, but it is not easy to achieve." Song Xiance said, "To be full, you must have food, warm clothing, cloth, and food, and if you have food and cloth, you have to have land, and there are many, many lands to be able to support these two thousand people." ”

"In the current situation of the Israeli dynasty, if you want to buy land, especially on a large scale, you can't count on it, and you can't keep it if you buy it, and all kinds of taxes can bankrupt you, and then you have to sell it to wealthy families." Song Xiance continued.

"This..., Mr. Song," Ke Wang hesitated for a moment, feeling that what Song Xiance said was very knowledgeable, and he was still polite to him, "Why wouldn't the wealthy family go bankrupt?" ”

"Because they don't have to pay taxes, it's ridiculous, the more powerful you are, the more land you have, and the less you have to pay taxes." Song Xiance shook his head, "Okay, let's not talk about this, and there has been a drought in Shanxi and Shaanxi for many years, in short, don't think about farming." ”

"If you don't farm, how can you survive? Brother Zhi, I think you have an idea, right? Tell us about it? Song Xiance asked.

"This, I only have a general idea, that is, the merchants, organize these people who follow us to knit sweaters, let's find a way to sell the sweaters, this profit is not low, Lao Song, you should know."

Zhiwen roughly described his thoughts, he didn't say anything about wool cloth, and things had to be done step by step.

"Yes, Brother Zhi, if you can really take the sweater industry as a business, let alone raise 2,000 people, even tens of thousands of people will be no problem." Song Xiance took the words, "How to sell it, have you thought about it?" Brother Zhi. ”

"This..., I think it's better to go to a few larger cities like in Puzhou, and find those smaller clothing stores to help us sell them."

"Then what if there is another person as ambitious as Fan Yongdou?"

Zhiwen was stunned, this time he used force, and his success was also very accidental, but he couldn't do it every time, then it wasn't business.

"Let's find more clothing shops to help sell on behalf of others, no matter how ambitious and powerful people are, I'm afraid they won't dare to kill so many people, right?" Dingguo spoke.

"Also, I think we can find those people who have a good heart and are very powerful to sell on behalf of them, I think that Zhou Gongzi in Jiezhou is good." This is Xiao Jie.

"Well," Song Xiance thought for a while, "these two suggestions are okay, let's try them later." ”

Then he continued: "But Brother Zhi, what I actually want to ask most today is, are you going to keep drifting around with the big guy like this, wandering around?" ”

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