Coming out of the county yamen, Guan Tao was not in a hurry to leave, but leisurely walked around Rugao City for most of the day, and had dinner in the restaurant, then looked back behind him, and found that no one was following, so he flashed into a small courtyard next to him.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, a man in his early twenties immediately greeted him and closed the door alertly: "Boss, are you back?" ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Jiang Baihu, you suddenly came over just now, and it really scared me." Guan Tao still looked flattering, and nodded: "Has Lord Qianhu come back?" ”

The man smiled and said: "Qianhu has just come back, you have some time to wait for the boss, and now you are talking to Wen Laosan in the hall!" ”

At this time, Wen Laosan's yin and yang weird voice came from the hall: "Donkey, when did you become a long tongue, boss, come in!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." When the boss walked into the house, he saw Sun Yuan sitting in the middle of the hall, looking at a list with his eyebrows fluttering, and he couldn't stop shouting: "Good, good, good." ”

Seeing Guan Tao come in, Sun Yuan put down the list in his hand and looked at Guan Tao with a smile: "Boss Guan, how are things going?" ”

Boss Guan hurriedly knelt down: "If you go back to Qianhu, it has been done." ”

"Hurry up and talk about it in detail." Sun Yuanxu helped him.

Boss Guan stood up and carefully and in detail explained the situation at Lei Tai's place before.

"That's a good job." Sun Yuan nodded.

Next to him, Wen Laosan said: "Qianhu, it is important for you to take office, it is just a small master, as long as you say a word, I will immediately go and slaughter him." ”

Sun Yuan shook his head: "Killing a Lei Tai is just a simple matter, if it is really as you said, it is impossible for me to wait in Rugao for a few days." Actually, I'm not interested in killing such a despicable villain, but I got my hands dirty. However, I heard that he has accumulated some family property in recent years, and put it in the old house. This time, when I went to work, I had to make money everywhere, and I was about to use the food money and the family assets surnamed Lei. ”

In fact, he had already obtained the official photos sent by Wen Laosan and the donkey yesterday.

That's right, he is now a thousand-household officer registered in the Ming Dynasty and a thousand-household officer in Ningxiang.

A thousand households, according to their official positions, already belong to the five products. If it's a civilian official, that's a great deal. It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty was noble and martial, and a five-grade military attache was nothing at all.

Normally, if a thousand households can command 700 soldiers, it is considered a thousand households, and more than 500 soldiers are called a thousand households; More than 300 soldiers are called 1,000 households. The Ningxiang where Sun Yuan went was a place with thousands of households, and generally speaking, it was good to have 300 soldiers on hand.

In this era, most of the officers had the habit of eating vacancies, and the soldiers in the guards had no military training at all, and had become another form of hired peasants who farmed for the officers. Naturally, the officers were not interested in arming their men, so it would be good to have thirty or twenty available servants when they really went to the battlefield.

It's really compared, he, a thousand households, is no different from a criminal police captain in later generations, think about it, it's really frustrating.

However, the troubled times have come, with this position in hand, and the backbone of Fei Hong, it is still possible to form a strong army.

And the army is a monster that eats money, and the salary, clothing, equipment, and daily training have to be used like water.

After Sun Yuan returned to Rugao this time, he left Fei Hong in Nanjing, first, to wait for the appointment certificate, and second, to see if he could get some equipment from the arsenal of the Nanjing Military Department.

It's a pity that the news is not optimistic, and the south of the Nanjing Military Department is like a flower child, and the mandarin duck jacket that has been left for many years by insects and rats bite tattered.

Fortunately, Sun Yuan had already prepared, and before leaving Nanjing, he gave Fei Hong a long list, asking him to buy more steel for casting guns, gunpowder and everything, and more importantly, to see if he could invite a few more blacksmiths back to Ningxiang.

Now, the items on the list have been purchased, and a few more blacksmiths have been hired.

Seeing that the task he assigned had been completed, Sun Yuan was very satisfied, so he decided to let Fei Hong and Erya go to Ningxiang with the supplies to serve his mother and Shaoyuren's sisters and brothers, while he and more than a dozen military men such as Donkey and Wen Laosan stayed in Rugao and others to solve the matter of Lei Tai.

Although the materials needed by the thousand households have been purchased, this little thing is only enough to equip more than 100 men and horses, and there is still some distance from Sun Yuan's original idea of forming a strong army of 1,000 people.

Then, before leaving Rugao, you might as well earn Lei Tai, and end the new and old hatreds together.

Wen Laosan echoed: "Qianhu is right. ”

Sun Yuan nodded at Guan Tao again: "Boss Guan has done a good job this time, by the way, this time Ben Qianhu is going to Ningxiang to take office." You have followed me since Fengyang, and your financial management skills are not bad, are you interested in going to Ningxiang with me? ”

That's right, this boss is the boss of the housekeeper firm that bought Sun Yuanqiu's grain when he was in Fengyang.

After the peasant army entered Fengyang, it was probably because they were chased by the official army before, and they were really breathless, which aroused their animal nature. This time, such a large city was laid, and an organized massacre began.

That night, the officials and gentry of Fengyang went to Yang Yipeng's courtyard to participate in the talent competition of Shaoyu and Gu Hengbo.

It is said that the boss is also a big man, seeing that the situation in the city is not good, if he wants to escape, he can still run away. It's a pity that this guy really loves money, and he can't bear the house, shop and goods at home, so he stays.

As a result, it can be imagined that not only was the family slaughtered clean, but the home was also robbed and destroyed, and even the shops and houses were burned clean. In the end, it was about the peasant army that saw that this guy was born fat and fat, and in line with the principle of not losing his strength, they arrested him into the army and used him as a porter.

Coincidentally, it happened to be Liu Zongmin's forward battalion that caught the boss.

When Sun Yuan first met Boss Guan, the wound on Guan Tao's body was already inflamed and burned, and he was about to be disposed of as garbage by the peasant army and thrown into the ditch.

Sun Yuan remembered that Guan Tao had done him a great favor before, but he couldn't bear to see him die like this, so he asked Fei Hong to rescue him, throw him in a dilapidated house in the city, put some medicine, water and food, and let him fend for himself.

After Yang Ze's suicide, the peasant army retreated under strong military pressure from the official army. Sun Yuan then remembered Guan Tao, so he sent someone to find it, and this guy was still alive, so he took it to Nanjing.

After two months of raising in Nanjing, Boss Guan finally got his life back.

Sun Yuan still appreciates the stinginess and business talent of the boss, so he has the heart to solicit it. Now that the goal of becoming a warlord has been set, we must first prop up the shelf, and there must be no shortage of soldiers, technical personnel, administrative personnel, and logistical support personnel who can fight wars.

Hearing Sun Yuan's words to solicit, the boss Guan remembered Sun Yuan's life-saving grace, immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, choked up: "Lord Qianhu, if it weren't for you, the villain would be a dry bone on the side of the road." The world is so big, Guan Tao has nowhere to go except to follow the adults. The adults want to take me in, and the villains are too late to be grateful. ”