Li Xin's three elder brothers mobilized so many people, in front of the ancestral tablets of the Li family, persuaded them to recognize their ancestors and return to the name of Li Chunmao, the Li family in Hanoi, so that Li Xin could not refuse at all.

At this time, although Li Chunmao has been dead for many years, and Li Xin's biological mother is no longer there, in fact, he cannot return to the Li family in Hanoi, which is of little significance to Li Xin.

But for the Li family of the merchant family, especially for Li Lun and Li Zhong, who inherited the family business of Li Chunmao's merchant store, there is a younger brother who was born as a jinshi, and there is a younger brother who has been a scholar in the Wuying Palace, the current Lushun town guard and the imperial history of Denglai Town, which is definitely of great significance.

Therefore, as soon as Li Xinyi returned to Hanoi, the three elder brothers mobilized almost everyone who could speak to take turns to persuade them.

In the end, in desperation, Li Xin had no choice but to agree to let his eldest brother Li Lun and the elders of the clan go to Qixian County to discuss with his father, Li Chunyu.

Of course Li Chunyu was unwilling.

But the elders of the old Li family can't stand it, they come today and tomorrow, and they keep persuading.

In addition, Li Chunyu's stepfamily, that is, Li Yu's mother-in-law, also came out to persuade him, and Li Chunyu finally gave in.

In the end, Li Lun took out some of his own properties in Kaifeng Fucheng as compensation, and after a transaction, Li Chunyu finally agreed.

On the last day of May, the old Li family's house in Hanoi City was bustling with activity.

Li Xin, the former scholar of Wuying Palace, the current envoy of Lushun Town and the imperial history of the Denglai Supervisory Army, under the witness of the Huaiqing Prefect, the Hanoi County Order, the Li family and the local Wang clan elders, wrote off the previous incident to his uncle Li Chunyu, re-recognized his ancestors and returned to the genealogy of the Li family's house.

Returning to the Li family room in Hanoi is not completely useless for Li Xin today.

In addition to his own background from now on, he will be more upright and righteous, and the matter of recruiting troops to go north to Lushun has suddenly become much simpler.

On the second day after returning to the Li family's house, Li Xin, with the support of the prefect of Huai Khanh and the Hanoi County Order, posted a notice outside the four gates of Hanoi City to recruit people who dared to fight and the young people who could be reclaimed.

At the same time, Li Xin's elder brothers, Li Lun and Li Chung, as well as other direct or collateral relatives of the Li family in Hanoi, also encouraged and mobilized young men to apply for recruitment among their relatives, tenants, and helpers by reducing rents and interest rates and subsidizing money and food.

And because of the war in Shanxi that lasted for half a year, a large number of people from southwest Shanxi fled to Henan, especially in various parts of Huaiqing Prefecture, and the local officials in Huaiqing Mansion were unable to settle and provide relief.

In this way, under the combined effect of these factors, Li Xin's recruitment notice has been posted for just over half a month, and 1,200 young and strong men who have come to enlist in the army have already been recruited.

In addition, after the Huaiqing prefect reported to the governor of Henan with the consent of Qiu Zhaolin, he gave Li Xin, the envoy of Lushun Town, more than 1,000 households and more than 4,000 displaced people who fled from southwest Shanxi.

Therefore, when Wu Guoan brought Liu Guoneng and his 1,500 people to Huaiqing Mansion, Li Xin already felt that he couldn't bear it.

Although the Li family and Li Xin's wife's family are both big families, they are not bad for money or food, but so many people want to eat, it is not a joke.

Therefore, Li Xin took the emperor's previous will, crossed the Yellow River to the south, and went to Luoyang City, where the yamen of the current governor of Henan is located.

From the hands of Li Bingcheng, the governor of Henan, Qiu Zhaolin, and Yang Sichang, the deputy envoy of Henan's military garrison, they finally got the approval for recruiting troops to go north and the money and food that should be given.

As soon as he returned to Hanoi with money and food, Li Xin ushered in Wu Guoan and Liu Guoneng, who came to report to him.

At this moment, there were more than 1,500 more mouths under his command to eat.

Moreover, these people brought by Liu Guoneng did not even have a weapon.

Li Xin, who has never been worried about anything, now knows that firewood and rice are expensive just after he became a master, and he really feels big when he thinks about it.

At noon on 22 June, Wu Guoan read to Li Xin the will of Liu Guoneng's subordinate to be incorporated into the Lushun Town Guard Mansion in the Li family's mansion in Hanoi, and officially handed over Liu Guoneng and his men to Li Xin, the Lushun Town Guard.

The next day, Wu Guoan led a team of Jinyiwei to leave Huaiqing Mansion, returned to Shanxi, and went north to Taiyuan.

And Li Xin, who originally wanted to stay in Hanoi for a few more days to accompany his wife, was also persuaded by his brothers to immediately send people to inform several other generals who recruited troops, and prepared to take people to the north.

On June 25, Li Xin set off with more and more people.

At this time, Li Xin's command, in addition to the 1,200 young men he personally raised in Hanoi, also included 1,500 people under Liu Guoneng's command, and 1,500 people from Chen De and Xu Zhizhong, who came from Shaanzhou and Luoyang, across the river.

Of course, there are also the more than 1,200 households and more than 4,000 Shanxi refugees who supported the old and the young from Huaiqing Mansion.

Li Xin and others hired more than 100 horse-drawn carts, carrying food and tents for lodging on the road, and traveled eastward along the avenue on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Three days later, Li Xin and others came all the way to Chenqiao Town on the north bank of the Yellow River in Kaifeng Prefecture, waited here for a day, and met Wang Yiming and Yang Yuchun, who had recruited troops from Kaifeng Prefecture and Guide Prefecture, and then continued eastward.

All the way through the Daimyo's Mansion, Yanzhou Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion, and finally at noon on July 13, I came to the outside of Anqiu City, where Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion meet.

This is when Li Xin was waiting for Yang Yuchun's men in Chenqiao Town, Kaifeng Prefecture, he sent people to Beijing to meet Niu Juming's agreed contact location.

On the evening of the day when Li Xin arrived outside Anqiu City, he waited for the official documents and letters sent by Niu Juming.

Although it will take some time for those ordnance materials to arrive in Dengzhou for handover, after seeing the letter, the stone that has been hanging in Li Xin's confidence for a long time finally fell.

During this period of eastward travel with the "army", Li Xin, who was alone for the first time, was simply anxious.

He has always prided himself on his martial arts strategy, but in the face of complicated and trivial military affairs, he quickly understood that all the previous conceited talents were just just talk on paper.

In this whole process, Liu Guoneng, the former thief and the king of heaven, helped Li Xin a lot.

Although Liu Guoneng has not been the king of the collapsed sky for a long time, after all, he has managed more than 20,000 thieves and soldiers and horses, and has accumulated some useful experience.

Now managing people of this scale under Li Xin, a figure like Liu Guoneng naturally comes in handy.

Therefore, in the more than half a month along the way, Liu Guoneng, the former king of the collapsed sky, quickly gained Li Xin's trust and dependence.

Military generals like Xu Zhizhong and Yang Yuchun, who were born in the army of the guard and later graduated from the training of the martial arts, have no problem in managing the regular army.

But when encountering people like Li Xin's now, there are soldiers and civilians, old and young, men and women, dragging their families with their families, and there are more homeless people than the army, these people are a little bigger.

And this kind of situation is common to Liu Guoneng and his uncle Liu Wengui, because the team of thieves under their command before is exactly like this.

Fortunately, at this time, he had already arrived at Anqiu City in Qingzhou Mansion, and it was not far from the place that Li Xin could govern.

At noon on 14 July, Pan Shengkui, the prefect of Qingzhou, Ding Qirui, the prefect of Laizhou and the military commander, and Ling Gaozhuo of Anqiu County, and other local officials jointly visited and sent a batch of food and materials in a very timely manner.

On the morning of 15 July, Huang Yinen, deputy chief soldier of Denglai, was also ordered by Sun Guozhen, governor of Denglai, and Zhang Keda, chief soldier of Denglai, to welcome Li Xin to his post.

It was also at this time that Li Xin and his generals could really sleep peacefully.

At noon on July 21, the scorching sun was in the sky over the Liaodong Peninsula and the heat was abnormal.

The "one stone and four birds" plan in the Dugong Hall of the Khan Palace in Shenyang City was sent to the yamen, the commander of the marching army with white flags in Fuzhou City, and finally handed over to the Dolgon Duoduo brothers.

At the same time, Li Xin, the guard of Lushun Town, who finally waited for the ordnance and equipment, also took the first batch of men and horses under his command, Liu Guoneng Department, accompanied by Zhang Keda, the chief military officer of Denglai, and crossed the sea to arrive at the Chengshan Fort Naval Division Camp in Lushun.

This so-called Chengshan Fort was originally the territory of the Jinzhou Weizhong Left Office of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and now it is under the jurisdiction of Denglai Town, and it is the station of the Lushun Mouth Division Battalion in Denglai Town.

Three hundred years later, the place names of Jinzhou Zhongzuo and Chengshan Fort have long ceased to exist without any traces, but the name of the Water Division Camp has still been retained, and the Water Division Camp is still the most prosperous place in Lushunkou.