[Thanks to book friends: 'Emperor Huang of the Han Dynasty' for the reward.] Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo】

The twenty-third day of the first month.

Lifting the curtain and looking at the low and dilapidated city walls of Yanggu City from afar, Wu Kai's heart was extremely down-to-earth - after tossing for more than half a month, he finally came back again!

Luan Tingyu and others in the city had already gotten the news, and they were waiting at the gate of the city early, and a group of people welcomed Wu Kai into the city, swaggering through the city, so lively.

When he arrived outside the gate of the Wufu, Wu Kai was listening to Luan Tingyu's report on the major events of the past few days, and he saw that outside the gate of the Huafu next door, there was a spirit-summoning banner that had been air-dried, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and blurted out: "Hua Zixu is dead?" ”

Luan Tingyu glanced at the spirit flag, thinking of Li Bei'er's performance in the past few days, his face couldn't help revealing a little disdain, but he couldn't say anything in front of Wu Kai, so he simply replied: "I heard that he died on the third day of the Lunar New Year." ”

Tut~

After all, this guy is still a short-lived ghost.

After entering the mansion, Wu Kai first ordered people to properly arrange the craftsmen and blades brought back this time - the reason why he stayed for a few more days after Wu Jingui left was to wait for these craftsmen to pack their luggage and persuade his mother-in-law.

This is much more difficult than expected, the common people in these years have local plots, it's not that they can't survive, and few people are willing to go to other places to make a living.

Fortunately, there are only more than 100 miles from Dongping Mansion to Yanggu, so it is impossible to go far away, otherwise Wu Kai wants to bring back these 20 or so craftsmen, and he can't even think about it.

By the time the group of craftsmen had been placed and the blades and armor they had brought back were counted into storage, it was almost evening.

So Wu Kai simply asked people to set up a banquet and prepare to talk with everyone while eating.

Those who are qualified to serve on the table are none other than Wu Song, Luan Tingyu, Fahai, Shi Qian-and the newly appointed Lin Dengwan.

The first few people were nothing, Shi Qian and Lin Dengwan were fortunate to accompany the last seat, but one was happy to scratch his ears and cheeks, and the other was nervous and helpless.

"Luan Dutou."

After three rounds of drinking, the polite words were almost finished, and Wu Kai asked straight to the point: "The things I explained when I left, but I checked them carefully?" ”

Luan Tingyu hurriedly got up, hugged his fists and said: "Back to the big officials, these days, I have been secretly visiting Lin Dutou and Shi Bantou, and I have already figured out the situation of the bullies in Yanggu, and now I am just waiting for the big officials to give an order!" ”

However, he said that since Wu Kai decided to expand his power, he has been thinking about how to recruit troops and buy horses, and originally he wanted to focus on the children of good families and appropriately supplement some homeless people.

After all, many people in later generations admired the argument that 'those who have constant production have perseverance', believing that soldiers will have a certain family property to be more responsible and enterprising - Wu Kai himself is also deeply influenced by this statement.

However, after sending people to investigate and visit, they found that the situation was not optimistic, and those children of good families who had land and houses did not seem to have the desire to become soldiers and eat food, especially when they heard that they were going to take off work for training, most of them avoided it.

Even with a few exceptions, it would not be enough to assemble a militia of hundreds of people.

There is no way, the reputation of officers and soldiers in these years is not much better than that of bandits, and new recruits have to tattoo words on their faces when they join the army, which is the same treatment as exiled prisoners - so people of the time often call officers and soldiers 'thieves with troops'.

So if you have some spare money in your hand, isn't that one hiring someone to serve in the military instead of you?

The imperial court conscription could not recruit many children from good families, let alone a militia like Wu Kai, which had no formal establishment.

As for the homeless - how many homeless people can there be in a small Yanggu?

So Wu Kai had no choice but to set his sights on those idle and brave ruffians.

However, if you want to get rid of these idle people, you must first get rid of the leading bullies - bullies like Sun Gang have more than twenty or thirty people, and as few as three or five people, without their approval, how dare the younger brothers change jobs casually?

So before leaving, Wu Kai explained to Luan Tingyu and others, secretly investigated the details of these bullies, and collected evidence of their violations of discipline and law, so as to catch them all before the start of recruitment.

In this way, you can smoothly collect those minions and younger brothers, and secondly, you can also deter the surrounding areas and buy the hearts of the people, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.

"That's good!"

Seeing that Luan Tingyu was full of confidence, Wu Kai also stood up, picked up his wine glass and said: "Everyone, without further ado, after drinking this cup, we will officially start to act, first close the city gate, start the search from the city, and then go out of the city from south to north, and sweep away all the villages and towns within a radius of twenty miles around the county seat!" ”

"Erlang, you and Luan Dutou broke up the officials and monks and soldiers and divided them into two teams, and the two of you each led a team, assisted by Lin Dutou and Shi Bantou respectively!"

"Whoa!"

Wu Song, Luan Tingyu, Lin Dengwan, and Shi Qian agreed in unison.

"Fahai, you call the doctors in the city and take care of them in the center, and in addition, as soon as the morning dawns, people will post notices, I will ask the case publicly!"

"Master, don't worry."

Fahai also hurriedly responded.

After Wu Kai gave the order, he was just about to let everyone sit down and continue drinking, but he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked, "By the way, how many of you have ever seen Shan Shiqi?" ”

As soon as these words came out, I saw Luan Tingyu and Fahai glancing at each other, and their faces were a little embarrassed.

What does this mean?

Wu Kai wondered in his heart, whether he had seen Shan Shiqi or not, they didn't seem to have any reason to show such an expression, right?

Seeing that the two of them were silent for a while, Luan Tingyu finally arched his hand and said: "That Shan Shiqi arrived a few days ago, and brought back a BMW, and now he is resting in the guest room, can the big official call him over?" ”

Shan Shiqi didn't escape halfway, but it was a little unexpected for Wu Kai - but Luan Tingyu only mentioned BMW, but not Hu Sanniang, what does it mean?

Could it be that Shanshiqi 'drifted' her halfway?!

"What about the woman?"

Wu Kai was still secretly pondering, but Wu Song was in a hurry, and asked: "I heard that Hu Sanniang was the murderer who killed the monk Huiru, so my brother and I specially captured her and asked Shan Shiqi to send her back to comfort Huiru's spirit in the sky!" ”

"This ......"

Luan Tingyu glanced at Fahai, his face showed a little dissatisfaction, and he arched his hand again: "That Hu Sanniang has been handed over to Miss Chunmei's care, but I don't know what the situation is now." ”

Hey?

Wu Kai also thought that Hu Sanniang had been killed by the monk army, and paid tribute to the spirit of the monk Huiru in the sky, and he regretted it at the beginning, but he didn't expect that she would survive and fall into the hands of Pang Chunmei.

Look at Luan Tingyu and Fahai's weird expressions again - could it be that Luan Tingyu came forward to stop Fahai from avenging his disciples, so the two had some discord?

was thinking about it, but listened to Monk Fahai say: "Master, people can't be resurrected after death, and it is useless to recreate and kill, so the little monk took the initiative to spare the life of the third mother, and handed it over to the master to deal with it. ”

It was not Luan Tingyu who insisted on letting Hu Sanniang go, but Fahai?!