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On the tenth day of October, Wu Fanhui returned to Mizhi County.

It took 21 days on the road, during which he only stayed in Yangquan County for two days, but because the route was not particularly safe, as long as time permitted, Wu Fanhui and his party rested in Fuzhou County.

Xu Yanqi only stayed in Mizhi County for one day, and then set off again, heading in the direction of Xi'an Fucheng.

When he returned to Ewu Fanhui in Mizhi County, he was most concerned about the situation in Ma'anshan Village, including the situation of the 150 Dengzhou rebels who had returned to the village not long ago.

The population of Ma'anshan Village has exceeded 2,000 people, and its scale has long overshadowed all the market towns in Mizhi County, and the number of Wu family nursing homes has also reached 700 people, which is second to none in Yan'an Prefecture.

After five years, Wu Fanhui always thought of expanding his own strength, but so far, the overall progress has been slow, and the extermination of the rebels in Dengzhou, as well as the rogues torn apart in Shanxi, made him clearly realize that without his own military strength and strong strength, he will eventually be at the mercy of the imperial court like other scholars.

But if you want to expand your own strength, it is by no means as simple as words, from the imperial court to the officials at all levels, everyone in this dynasty will be closely monitored, especially those who are officials in the court, and any abnormal measures will be subject to unprecedented suspicion and impeachment, and so many years of Confucianism have also allowed the royal family to basically achieve its goal.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty looked down on the military ministers at all, the military ministers did not have much status, and the military households were even more miserable, the so-called good men were not soldiers, even if they were children who only passed the county and government examinations, they all looked down on officers and sergeants, and ordinary people also looked down on military households.

The idea of emphasizing literature over military force has penetrated into the hearts of everyone in the Ming Dynasty, and the military ministers themselves look down on themselves, and in front of the civil officials, they first bow their heads.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for civilian officials to have any armed forces, and what they think of is the party struggle in the DPRK and the central government, and what they think of is the struggle for power.

Military ministers who have no status are even more unlikely to develop their own strength, and if they are not careful, they will encounter the impeachment of civilian officials, and they will have to shed their skin if they do not die.

Wu Fanhui must be flexible, he must break this shackle and develop his own armed forces.

And the only way to work around is to use the Wu family's brand.

The total number of nursing homes recruited by the Wu family can reach about 1,000 people, which will not cause much criticism, after all, it is in Mizhi County, but no matter more, it will encounter the interference of the local government, and it will arouse the suspicion of the imperial court.

The workaround is to recruit tenants to train these tenants into excellent sergeants in the name of guarding against the invasion of the rogues, which is feasible, Mizhi County and even the whole of Shaanxi, most of them are barren land, the imperial court does not pay much attention to these places at all, and the power of the local Jinyi guard has also been greatly weakened.

Wu Fanhui, who returned to Mizhi County, focused almost all his attention on this aspect, and did not pay attention to his marriage at all, and his family had to worry about those things.

Although the population of several villages around Ma'anshan Village, including Shilipu Town, is gradually increasing, the main force is still concentrated in Ma'anshan Village.

Near the foot of the innermost mountain in the village, dozens of caves were dug out, all the money and food were transferred here, Dai Nengxiang sent the most brave and elite guards, all-weather guards, no one was allowed to approach, and Dai Nengxiang himself also lived in this place, the house of the former elders and Li Zheng in the middle of the village was regarded as a place for village discussions, and anything that needed to be discussed was carried out here.

The place where Wu Fanhui stayed in the village was naturally in the cave at the foot of the mountain, and it was the largest cave, and in the whole village, he could enter the place where money and grain were stored at will, that is, Wu Fanhui.

Whether it is many people from Qishan County, or people from Gansu and other places, including the surrendered sergeants recruited from Dengzhou, they have become accustomed to this kind of cave with warm winters and cool summers.

The open space on the right side of the mountain is all opened up as a horse shed, and all the war horses are concentrated here, and there are special personnel to manage them.

The Wu family's guard house has 600 war horses, including nearly 200 war horses brought back from Dengzhou, these war horses are mainly Tugu Hun horses, Tugu Hun is taller than Mongolian horses, and when charging on the battlefield, the speed is also faster.

For more than ten days in a row, Wu Fanhui stayed in Ma'anshan Village, and he discussed with Li Yong and others how to expand the team of the Wu family's nursing home and how to avoid the attention of the imperial court and the government.

In fact, just in Ma'anshan Village, it can recruit nearly two hundred young people, and the position of the Wu family's nursing home has become the envy of all the people of Mizhi County, the monthly salary of the nursing home is fixed, reaching two taels of silver, and there is never arrears, the nursing home uses these salaries to feed the family more than enough, and one of the biggest reasons for the rapid increase in the population of Ma'anshan Village is that more and more girls are married to the village, including many girls in the county.

After discussing with Li Yong and others, Wu Fanhui decided to continue to recruit nursing homes, so that the number of Wu family nursing homes reached the scale of 1,000 people, when the scale of nursing homes reached 1,000 people, the next recruits could not be called Wu family nursing homes, temporarily called the Wu family's subordinates, the number of people was temporarily limited to 1,000 people, and the salary they received was one or two or five yuan silver, and they also had to participate in weekday training, and they also had to obey the control of the village.

Wu Fanhui also has an idea, when the time is ripe, that is, when the Liukou rebels in Shaanxi again, and the whole of Shaanxi falls into chaos, the Wu family can find the county government to discuss and fix the identities of these people in the name of the militia group.

There is not much limit to the number of militia groups, and it is okay to have a few hundred, thousands, or even a few thousand.

When Wu Fanhui returned home, winter wheat was about to be planted.

Food is the top priority, there is nothing to talk about without food, and Wu Fanhui can't keep taking out so much silver to feed such a huge team of the Wu family's nursing home, although the silver he has obtained in recent years is rich and rivals the country, but unfortunately the expenses are also huge.

The planting of maize has been fully rolled out in Mizhi County, with Ma'anshan Village as the central point, covering all the places around 20 miles, every household will plant maize, the number of acres planted has long exceeded the scale of 10,000 acres, according to Wu Fanhui's arrangement, Dai Nengxiang and others did not hide their secrets, and taught the planting method of maize to all the farmers, so the maize for two consecutive years, are bumper harvests, and the output exceeds wheat and millet, which also roughly ensures that the people have something to eat, not to go hungry.

In terms of taxes, the Wu family hardly has to pay much in taxes, which includes the credit of Zhu Tianlin, the magistrate of Mizhi County, and the factor that Wu Fanhui has made the whole family follow because of the change of identity.

Wu Fanhui for such a situation, some disagreed, he believes that the decline of the Ming Dynasty, land annexation is one of the important reasons, the scholar family annexed a large amount of land, but did not bear or rarely bear taxes, the Wu family is one of the beneficiaries, and many of the lowest people, is the biggest victim, they are overwhelmed by heavy taxes, the whole dynasty, is also in this increasingly violent land annexation, to the extinction.

If it is not possible to improve the system and implement the matter of the integrated payment of grain by the officials and gentry, this situation will continue for a long time, and it is difficult for any dynasty to avoid it, and the Ming Dynasty, which is mainly based on agricultural production, will be caught in the evil consequences of land annexation and eventually go to extinction.

Of course, Wu Fanhui will not ask the Wu family to pay taxes as required, he has not been stupid enough to go this far, the whole general climate has not changed, if the Wu family violates the rules that everyone abides by and takes the initiative to pay taxes, it will definitely encounter a lot of condemnation, and even the siege of other scholar families.

With the bumper harvest of maize, with the harvest of wheat and millet, the amount of grain stored is increasing, ensuring that the Wu family nursing home can have a lot of surplus at the same time.

In Ma'anshan Village and nearby villages, people can also see surplus grain in their homes, which was unimaginable in previous years.

It is also for this reason that the surroundings of Mizhi County have become extremely stable, and it is a big bright spot in Shaanxi, which is a little chaotic in the whole country.

Wu Fanhui returned to Mizhi County, Zhu Tianlin, the county magistrate, was very happy, he had learned the news from above, Wu Fanhui helped him speak in the capital, and the coming year was the time for the Ministry of Rites to take the school officials, presumably he, the magistrate, could be promoted.

Under the current situation, Zhu Tianlin doesn't want to leave Mizhi County, even if he is promoted to Jiazhou and other places to be the governor, he is unwilling, after all, those places are too chaotic, and he has to be worried every day, I don't know when the liukou will come, Zhu Tianlin's idea is to go directly to the capital, after all, his predecessor Lu Weibiao was directly promoted to the capital.

Of course, if you want to achieve this goal, you still have to rely on Wu Fanhui, and Wu Fanhui's father-in-law is a member of the ministry, so he can talk to each other.

What Zhu Tianlin can do is to take care of the Wu family to the greatest extent, and let the Wu family get all the benefits, and the place where he does the most is the children of the Wu family, many of whom have passed the county examination.

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