Seeing Wang Shihua listening in a daze, He Mei sighed, glanced at Wang Shihua melancholy, and said, "Alas~! With such a stupid brain of yours being the head of the house, God is really unfair! ”

Wang Shihua dared to answer, still waiting with a hippie smile.

"I won't talk big to you, anyway, with your braincase, you can't understand what I said to you, so I'll talk to you about something practical."

"Let me ask you first, do you think your people will listen to him?"

Wang Shihua shook his head and said, "That's not possible at all." ”

"Then do you think he can take away the Baojing group?"

Wang Shihua shook his head.

"If the provincial government pulls the Baojing group outside, are you willing?"

"Impossible! Unless they give me a condition that's hard to refuse. ”

"That's not it." He Mei glanced at Wang Shihua, and said angrily: "Since the clansmen won't listen to him, he can't pull away your team, and you can't work for the provincial government, so what else do you have to worry about?" ”

"Am I not afraid that he will make trouble with me?"

"Trouble is inevitable, and it will be hell if you don't make trouble." After He Mei was sarcastic, she said with a smile: "Shihua, I'll teach you another trick today: in this world, nothing is inseparable from interests...... Don't laugh, you see you yourself said before, if the provincial government gives you a condition that you can't refuse, you are willing to pull the team out. Therefore, everything has to be compared and thought about. It's like that Fang Hua gave you trouble and brought you benefits, you compare, who is bigger? ”

"The benefits that should have brought me are even greater. After all, if they can give us something we don't understand yet, the most we can do is lose some money. ”

"Isn't that enough, since the benefits are greater than the losses, are you still afraid? Why don't you invite people to be instructors...... Really, such a simple arithmetic problem requires me to remind you again and again, are you in a panic when I am idle? ”

After speaking, she shook her handkerchief, glanced at Wang Shihua, and said angrily: "Are you still stunned here?" Didn't you see me talk so much, I'm dying of thirst, and you won't find me a bowl of herbal tea? By the way, use the kettle you brought, I know your kettle is full of tea with ice. ”

Wang Shihua hurriedly waited.

When this aunt was satisfied, Wang Shihua glanced at Wang Jiping, who was standing not far away and glanced at him from time to time, and asked He Mei with a smile: "Aunt He, how many merchants have you helped my second uncle clean up these days?" ”

He Mei took a sip of tea, and when she heard this, she smiled confidently, but she said lightly: "Not a single household will be confiscated." ”

"Confiscation?"

"yes!" He Mei drank a bowl of tea, snatched Wang Shihua's kettle and put it on the left, then looked at Wang Shihua, saw his face with surprise, and suddenly nodded Wang Shihua's head angrily, and said, "What is there to think about?" The time has not come, so naturally you can't accept it. Just like planting fruit trees, you have to dig the pit first, and then plant the tree, that is, give them a little sweetness and reduce their defense. When the roots of the tree have stretched to all corners, they begin to absorb their nutrients little by little, and finally, the fruit can be picked...... This relies on brains, not force, especially to pay attention to the heat, so ...... What am I going to tell you about now? Anyway, you little bastard can't understand it, so let's go and meet your future chief instructor. ”

Wang Shihua looked at Fang Hua, who was escorted by several gunmen with guns from afar, and reluctantly ended the teaching course. hugged He Mei with a fist, said goodbye, and cheered up to face Fang Hua.

When they got closer, they saw a spearman carrying a Browning pistol following, Wang Shihua estimated that the pistol should be Fang Hua's, and quickly pretended to be annoyed, and scolded: "What are you doing?" This is Major Fang Hua, and I have invited you to educate your distinguished guest...... Did I tell you had water in your skull? Also watch? Why don't you return the gun to Major Fang and accompany the other party? ”

After the spearman changed the gun to Fang Hua, Wang Shihua clenched his fists and smiled: "Major Fang, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!" Blame me for being indisciplinary, let them be presumptuous, and I hope to forgive me for the offense. ”

"Commander Wang, they are also for your good, and they are afraid of an accident when they confiscate my gun, I don't blame them, but you do this, but I can't understand."

"This ...... This, I am also helpless, the clan has been bullied, I can't be a turtle with a shrunken head. Besides, you have been here for so long, and you should know that if I don't deter those little ghosts, there will be more trouble for my Wang family to go into the city to collect taxes according to the contract signed with the government in the future. ”

Fang Hua was still smiling, nodded, and looked left and right.

Wang Shihua thought he was looking for Fang Jue, so he hurriedly smiled and said, "County Magistrate Fang is resting in the back, why don't we go and see him?" ”

Who knows, Fang Hua shook his head slightly, his voice suddenly became a little smaller, and asked, "Don't be in a hurry, it's just that I don't understand what you just said that I was a guest you invited, dare to ask, what does this mean?" ”

"You are the instructor sent from above to train my Baojing Regiment, so naturally you are my guest...... By the way, since I am here this time, I will personally invite you distinguished instructors to my old Sicheng to train as soon as possible. ”

As he spoke, he looked directly at Fang Hua.

"I still don't have a problem with this, but I don't understand, why did you suddenly change? Is it because of the charge they just had? ”

Get! Connoisseurs look at the doorway - people know it. In other words, Fang Hua is going around and around, and there must be a plan.

Wang Shihua waved his hand to keep his subordinates away, and Fang Hua hugged his fists and smiled: "Major Fang is really a happy person, since I have made my words clear, then I won't hide it." You've seen what happened just now, and I'd like to ask you and your men to help with the training...... If you have any conditions, just talk about it. ”

"In that case, I'll be blunt. This visit has two main purposes: first, to train the Baojing Regiment; Second, now that the whole country has set off an upsurge of fighting devils, Fang is not talented, but he also wants to do his part for the country and the nation...... Before I came, I just heard that the folk customs of Xiangxi are extremely strong, and there are many people who are not afraid of the dead, I thought it was exaggerated, but I only knew that the rumors were true when I arrived in the local area, so Fang wanted to recruit a group of warriors in the local area to make a contribution to the war of resistance. I also hope that the head of the Wang regiment will give it convenience. ”

"That's it?"

"That's it!"

"Nothing else?" The reason why I asked this is that I was surprised by the straightforwardness of the other party; The second is that Wang Shihua has a conflict in gathering manpower. Therefore, it is necessary to determine again.

"Commander Wang, I'm a soldier, and I've always liked to go straight, so I'll get straight to the point."

"Please!"

"When I came, I didn't know the local customs, and I thought I could compete with you for military power on my own, but when I got here, I realized that this was a pipe dream. But he loves the loyalty and courage of the local people very much, so he wants to take a step back and simply recruit soldiers...... I also hope that the head of the Wang family will be fulfilled. ”

The meaning of this is to say: If you don't open a convenient door for me to recruit soldiers, then I'm sorry, I will definitely compete with you for military power, even if I know that I can't fight...... The local area is controlled by the four major families, and without the nod of the four major families, if ordinary people dare to join the army, it will be regarded as a betrayal of the clan, and when the time comes, it will ...... Hey! Hey! If you become a soldier, your whole family can't go with you, you must stay, and at that time, let you see the methods of the four major families. There are only a few hundred members of the security group so far, and most of them are bandits from Zhao'an, which can be seen from this."

"I'm fine, but I can't help if others want to go with you." Wang Shihua smiled very kindly: "You must know that we didn't say anything about catching Zhuang Ding in our local area, otherwise there will be a big mess." ”

In fact, there is a local thing to catch strong men, the premise is to get the nod of the four major families, and you can only catch people with foreign surnames, otherwise, there will be a big mess.

"Although I was born in a wealthy family, I have seen the suffering of the people, and I hate the foreign powers for bullying me and no one in China, so I have been determined to fight for the people of the country since I was a child...... But you also know that the current officialdom is a phenomenon, and it depends on them, so it is better to find it yourself...... Commander Wang, I won't hide it from you, I also want to follow Qi Jiguang, and want to form an army that can only fight well from these people who are born brave and good at fighting, so as to win glory for our people and the Hunan people. ”

"Well said! For the sake of seeing that you are a man, I won't go around the bend with you. ”

Seeing Fang Hua waiting with a smile, Wang Shihua asked directly, "How many people do you plan to recruit?" ”

"At least one thousand and five, and preferably two and five, to make up the strength of a regiment. Otherwise, the number of people is too small to play a role. ”

Wang Shihua couldn't give an answer for a while, so he could only keep it in his heart and think about it again.

"Weapons and equipment, military salaries and pensions and other ......" According to the habit of Xiangxi people to fight since ancient times, as soon as the patriarch greets, everyone has to bring their own weapons and rations to follow the patriarch to fight, so Wang Shihua will habitually ask this.

"My Fang Hua bets his future on this, these things outside the body, you can rest assured, I have all covered, and everyone will have no worries......" Seeing that Wang Shihua was a little moved when he heard it, Fang Hua hurriedly swore: "What my Fang Hua said today is from the bottom of my heart, dare to disobey, the sky thunders, and the whole family will die without a place to be buried!" ”

Fang Hua is also helpless!

In the past few days, he has set up a recruiting office in the county town, and the conditions he gave were quite generous, and the settling-in allowance he gave when he joined the army alone was 50 yuan -- this alone greatly exceeded the conditions for any army recruitment in China. But what made him depressed was that although there were many people who came to watch, and many people obviously wanted to participate, no one signed up. In the end, Fang Jue answered his doubts: if you want them to participate, you have to nod from the four major families, otherwise, if they follow you, the family will have to be cleaned up by the four major families, at least, they will be driven out of Jiangyin County - even if they are not afraid of death, how many people dare not think about their families?

Wang Shihua was also a little moved, and was about to nod, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly thought of something: It seems that this matter can also be used to make a fuss......

Just when Wang Shihua was about to push the matter back and give a reply after thinking clearly, he heard someone shouting: "Wang Papi, if you don't believe my cousin's oath, add my public promise: When the time comes, if my cousin does something that violates his oath, you just have to spit on me." ”

Wang Shihua was stunned for a moment, then became furious, pointed at Fang Jue's nose, and roared around him: "Which damn one released him?" ”