Wang Huan led thousands of people, pressed hundreds of prisoners, and took a cart full of bird weapons, rumbling back to Wanshou Valley, the news came out, the soldiers and civilians left in the valley under the leadership of Ma Chongming, happily gathered at the Gukou Pass to beat gongs and drums to welcome.

A group of soldiers wearing the Ming army's mandarin duck uniforms were tied into a string, passing through the people of Wanshou Valley who were watching from the road, and were thrown a lot of stones and rotten vegetables by the split, and suffered a lot of saliva and insults. The reason why the displaced people fled to Shizhu was not because they were afraid of the bandits, but because they were afraid of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were sometimes more brutal than the gangsters who robbed their homes.

The people who carried bamboo guns and sticks followed closely, and the people immediately burst into cheers, with a warm slap, stretching their necks to find their own men's figures, beckoning and laughing, and the people also raised their heads and chests, did not squint with reserved eyes, and followed the queue into the gate with joy.

Originally a farmer who farmed the land, after this war, he became a hero who defended the homeland, in exchange for countless eager eyes and admiring welcome, a strong sense of pride, a feeling of my blood for the homeland spontaneously arises, and in the hearts of the people, the consciousness that Wanshou Valley is their eternal home is becoming more and more intense.

At the end were Wang Huan and other generals on horseback and 150 white-robed soldiers who followed on foot.

These soldiers, different from the people in front, marched in unison, stepping on the ground as if they were a person, and the strict discipline formed by the strict training of the queue made the ranks of the pacesetter battalion line up and stand in columns, even in the middle of the march, as soon as they appeared, the cheers of the people at the pass immediately increased by dozens of decibels.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang is mighty!"

"Lord Wang, Wan Sheng!"

The cheers entered a climax, and countless people desperately squeezed forward, sticking their heads out of the shoulders and gaps of the sweaty people who were desperately blocking them, just so that the king who was riding on the horse could hear his shouts.

Wang Huan and Zu Bian and Ma Xintian couldn't stop smiling on the horse, responding to the enthusiasm of the people, and the soldiers who followed behind immediately reflected the gap, the fifty veterans in the front line still walked their own way without tilting their heads, turning a deaf ear to the lively scene of gongs and drums, and the 100-person team in the back row looked around with some eyebrows, grinned, and secretly squeezed their eyebrows at the big girl and little daughter-in-law in the crowd.

Training is really not something that can be achieved in just one month, if you want to become a qualified white pole soldier, you have to train hard, Wang Huan quietly took in this scene, and secretly thought in his heart.

Ma Chongming obviously moved his mind about this welcome ceremony, and actually made a hundred fruits of incense, there are more than a dozen white-bearded old men who walk slowly leading the boy, holding a fruit plate of wine, and worshipping Wang Huan at the pass, so that Wang Huan is not embarrassed, he doesn't dare to be a mouthful, he dismounts and makes a cordial gesture, helps the old men with both hands, and drinks the wine in the cup heroically, and the people are moved to tears by the harmonious scene, and they rush to shout "Lord Wang can afford it!" "Lord Wang is worthy of being the protector of my Longevity Valley!" Bring the whole welcome ceremony to a climax.

The noisy ceremony has been done for nearly an hour, until Wang Huan poured five or six cups of rice wine before it ended, the people and Zhuang dispersed, found their families and happily returned to their respective homes, the sacrificed people, Xu Tiezhu door-to-door sent to the pension silver taels, Wang Huan wanted to come to the door in person, but suffering from Pepsi, unable to separate, had to issue an order, Wanshou Valley future war dead, regardless of the poor and noble background, each person will be given a family fifty taels of silver pension, and the family members will be listed as survivors in the future, The Wanshou City Government Office will give a monthly ration of food subsidies, and if the family members are too busy to do the things in the fields at home, they can apply for help from the head of the first bao, and the first baojia must organize people to come to support.

This is the first decree of Wanshou Valley involving the formation of an army, Xu Tiezhu according to Wang Huan's meaning, carved it on a huge stone tablet, placed at the gate of Wanshou City, for the people to see.

The sensation caused by the stone stele, Wang Huan didn't have time to ask for the time being, he had more urgent things to do.

On the day he came back, he didn't even wash his face, so Wang Huan convened his leaders for a meeting.

Now his subordinates, the characters who can be used, including Ma Xintian, Ma Wannian, Ma Chongming, Zhou Cheng and a few others, Xu Tiezhu and Chen Xiang, after a thousand-mile journey of escaping death, are extremely determined, and they have no loyalty to Wang Huan. And Chen Xiang, Wang Huan's idea is to let him develop in the direction of the spy Jinyiwei.

These people form Wang Huan's small circle, some of them are good at fighting, some are good at business, some are good at business management, although they are not necessarily outstanding, but they either admire Wang Huan with joy and sincerity, or they are tightly tied to Wang Huan's interests, and they become a unity of honor and disgrace, they can't pull apart, they are absolutely loyal to Wang Huan, and they are the objects they can rely on.

None of them got an official body, and even Wang Huan didn't have any decent status, just a counselor under the Propaganda Envoy, not even an official, let alone them, let alone any promises, but these people felt that following Wang Huan had a head, drive, and were willing to work hard under this young man towards the brilliant future that no one said but seemed to be hanging in the air and everyone knew it.

In the meeting hall of the Wanshou City Official Office, Wang Huan sat in the center, and everyone sat on the left and right.

"Zeng Ying will not give up, and will definitely make a comeback in the near future!" Wang Huan split his head and made a tune.

Ma Xintian nodded in agreement, and said indifferently: "My lord is reasonable, I saw Zeng Ying when I was with Qin Zongbing, this fang is the most narrow-minded, he has never been the only one who deceives people, no one can bully him, if he suffers a loss, he will try every means to retaliate back, last year he seized Chongqing Mansion and Kuizhou Mansion, there are several remnants of the former governor Chen Shiqi's generals want to rely on the soldiers of Shuzhong, occupy several remote counties in Kuizhou Prefecture, kill a county order sent by Zeng Ying, and drive away the rest, Zeng Ying was furious when he heard it, and even Zhang Xianzhong didn't care, and he did his best, several counties turned around one by one, and drove those Sichuan generals to the Zunhua area before they gave up, which shows that this person acted arrogantly and unscrupulously. ”

"But this man also has some skills." Ma Wannian said: "I heard my grandmother say that the general soldiers of the towns of the Hongguang Dynasty, Zeng Ying can be regarded as able to fight, he leads the soldiers without empty salary, and his subordinates are all real military horses, but the soldiers are divided into three classes, the first class is his family soldiers, and the overpay is twice as high as the fixed salary of the imperial court, and the second class is the soldiers, who take half of the salary, and the third-class miscellaneous soldiers only get three percent of the salary. Although the soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers did not get much, they were better than nothing, and Zeng Ying never owed salaries, so his team was very effective and was able to drive Zhang Xianzhong away from eastern Sichuan. ”

Ma Chongming touched his fat face and said: "Actually, I heard the merchants in the direction of Chongqing Mansion talk, Zeng Ying's food and salary, the court basically did not give it, he made it himself, I don't know how this person fights, but the ability to make money is very great, the territory laid, not to mention the collection of grain taxes, the most vicious thing is to fabricate charges, collect rich households, first arrest the children of rich families in the territory, force their families to pay for people, and kill them if they don't give money, and then catch another one and continue to force until their family has no money, the means are outrageous!" ”

Wang Huan nodded and said: "I have heard about this, Zhang Laohan, a leather merchant who defected from Chongqing Mansion a few days ago, is like this. ”

Ma Chongming looked regretful, gritted his teeth with empathy, and said: "Zeng Ying's actions are angry and resentful, and people give him the nickname Zeng Peel, and we and other businessmen have changed their colors, and Zhang Laohan, such an honest businessman, was also forced to flee with his clan, which shows the poison of this person." ”

He is also a wealthy businessman, with a lot of money, and what he is most afraid of is that the people in power recognize themselves as fat sheep, slaughter and eat meat and drink blood, so he hates Zeng Ying and thieves for taking the rich with such a force.

Wang Huan secretly glanced at him, and said in his heart Fortunately, I, a traverser, are not short of money, otherwise it is difficult to say whether I will also follow Zeng Ying's example, beat the local tyrants to divide the land, and fight the landlord to grab the property.

However, Wang Huan knows very well that Zeng Ying's actions can indeed accumulate a large amount of wealth in a short period of time, which is enough to pull up a powerful army, but it cannot last, and sooner or later he will play with fire and set himself on fire.

Because the Chinese society of this era is still in the historical period when the big landlord class occupies a dominant position, and openly stands on the opposite side of the big and small landlords in the world, that is, to die, throughout the change of dynasty in the feudal period, the pure peasant army finally sat on the dragon chair, and it is almost impossible to find it, Li Zicheng is the closest to success, but he was also driven out of Beijing by the landlord class and the Manchu army.

Wang Huan would not make such a mistake.