"Li Banxian is here!"

A dozen or so horsemen rode through a small bazaar, and suddenly there was a burst of exclamations, the vendors collected things, the customers covered their pockets, and all shrank on both sides of the road with panicked faces, although the speed of the horses was not fast, but no one dared to approach within three feet of the people.

"Phew, bully!"

In the crowd, a hardened man spat on the horse's tail.

"Zhang Hanjin's left flank is a little slower, Zhang Hanwan's right flank is a little faster, and the two flanks fail to attack at the same time, that is the end of the enemy's various defeats."

Li Shi said on his horse, and the other two knights bowed their heads in shame.

"The time is not accurate, just rely on the shadow method to distinguish the time, and the error is difficult to grasp."

Wu Ya defended them on the side.

"It is already good that the left and right strikes can be carried out to this point, and I am still satisfied with this exercise, and after I go back, I will sum up the experience and lessons and continue to revise the command manual."

Li Xi didn't delve into it, and while comforting the two, he was thinking, it would be nice if he could get a pocket watch, but unfortunately in these years, pocket watches are still only a rare commodity in Europe, and only those at the top of the Tartars have them here in Huaxia.

His brows furrowed slightly, and Li Shi, who was about to enter the age of eighteen, had no change in his eyebrows, and his temperament was much more stable than a few months ago. He had just commanded the guards to carry out a separate attack exercise, and the 300 guards were divided into two wings, and they crossed the remote path from the base of Jiguan Mountain to jointly attack the target of Huanglao Nanshan 100 miles away. Such exercises are held once or twice a month, and in addition to basic command training, the purpose is to familiarize grassroots commanders with basic tactics.

"There are men in the bazaar scolding the general director!"

Pan Shiyu said behind him, he is now Li Shi's personal guard, still wearing a Yao suit.

"Are there any new words? Or a bully? I haven't grown. ”

Li Xian chuckled.

As soon as the spurs touched, Li Xian's mount hissed and accelerated, and everyone followed closely, pulling out a cloud of dust on the road, like a master and servant swimming in the wild.

In nearly half a year, Li Shi's image has become unrecognizable, he is not only a bully, but also a big bully.

Li Shi now has countless industries, Bai Daolong's six black mines in Yingde are all handled by him, and thousands of miners and furnace workers are busy working for him. Hundreds of acres of fields around Li Zhuang have been opened, and although his name is hung on many accounts, he is behind it. In terms of these two alone, he is a bell top.

More than a dozen mountain farms in the northwest of the county are also his property, where one or two thousand homeless people, including Luo Tangyuan's father Luo Heng, are housed, and nearly 10,000 villagers in the entire Huangzhai capital are "coerced" by him in various ways such as tenant farmers and hired laborers, and even control the Baozheng of five or six capitals in the west of Yingde through the armor protection system. Of course, this control does not mean that he can rebel with him, just like Zhong Shang's control of Fengtian Village before he ascended to the throne, and this stage is enough.

He also mastered all the tooth people west of Yingde, and held most of the Lianjiang Boat Gang, although he was still just a clean and slippery grass people, but a command, the whole Yingxi could hear it, so he got the name of "Li Banxian". It's just that most of the news in this era has been passed on by word of mouth, and after a few spreads, it became Li Banxian.

"Bullies are because ...... There's no talent. ”

At first, Li Xi was still very helpless about his bad reputation, his career expanded too fast, and he didn't have so many commensurate talents to support him, so he could only rely on silver to play the peripheral roles, which was mixed, which naturally caused a lot of turmoil. Thanks to the force in his hands, he can still shock those guys, and he doesn't dare to go too out-of-line, but good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and after a few months, he, Li Banxian, has become synonymous with "the first bully in Britain and Germany".

But Li Xian thought about it again, this is also very good, this kind of local bully is completely in line with the ecological environment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He befriended the commander-in-chief, lived in the countryside, and was greedy and extravagant, which was an excellent disguise for dormant blood sucking. No one cares about a bully in the local area, and even pretends not to see it. A good man with hands and eyes to the sky, but he will be full of eyes. Not because of appreciation, but because of aliens, and in this Manchu Dynasty, aliens have to die.

So he enjoyed this fame for the time being.

Back in Li Zhuang, after listening to Yu Hanyi's report, Li Shi was very surprised.

"The Shaozhou shopkeeper of Guangzhou Anhetang didn't even find out the basic situation, so he came to spy on trade secrets, and I really thought I was a fortune teller?"

Li Xi lamented the backwardness of information in this era, he didn't know that there was another emperor who thought so.

"It seems that on the financial side, it has hit the ceiling. Spend two days in our prison until I figure out what to do. ”

In Li Zhuang's "black" prison, the two surnamed An faced each other miserably, "We have met a country bully......

They don't know that since the Zheng Qi incident, Li Shi has comprehensively strengthened the monitoring around Li Zhuang, focusing on all suspicious outsiders. And now that the New Year is approaching, thieves and bandits are beginning to haunt, and the guards are even more energetic, but they didn't expect that they were caught by a pair of commercial spies who spied on glass secrets.

Guangzhou Anhetang is specialized in making glass, and even making transparent glass, that is, crystal glass products, but the frit is imported, and the product technology is not up to par, so there is no improvement in this regard.

Li Xian's energy during this period of time was basically focused on Si Wei, three aspects: people, finance, and the army, he has been grasping the "army" side, and on the human side, talent is a major headache at any time, and the connections, in terms of the needs of the current stage, rely on Li Zhushou and Bai Daolong in the near future, and rely on Tang Youzeng in the distance, which is enough for the time being. If you attack rashly, you may not necessarily reap the benefits, and you may still be troublesome.

In addition to the umbrella on the surface, he also has four other body armors. The first is Liu Xingchun, Li Shi donated his prisoners to him, and then took the position of the patrol of the Xunhuan Inspection Division, which is not a minor official, which can be regarded as a nail in the Xunhuan to his power. The other is Su Wencai, the scrivener of the class he knew before, Li Xi also donated the prisoner to him, and asked Li Zhushou to pull him up and be the head of the torture room, not only to deliver the news of the county government for him, but also to be the intermediary between Li Zhushou and him.

The third is Zhang Ying, Zhou Ning is the contact person of Li Shi and Bai Daolong, and Zhang Ying is Li Shi's ironcore, he is now promoted to Qianzong, which is equivalent to a brick of the revolution, where Li Shi needs, Zhou Ning will move him to that place on behalf of Bai Daolong.

The last piece is equivalent to a close-fitting soft hedgehog armor, Li Xi helped the Peng family to stand firm in the position of the county general practitioner, and also placed the position of the assistant general manager on Lin Dashu.

Zhang Ying added Lian's name, and Li Shi could seal the Tianxin River and prevent outsiders from entering and leaving, and at the same time set up a green camp Tangkou outside Li Zhuang, and used his own guards as the shell of the Tang soldiers, market patrols and Lian Yong, the official armament. It doesn't matter what kind of weapon you use, as long as you don't put on taboos such as flintlock pistols and cannons, and there is no one to peck at a drill of several hundred people like Siwei, and even if you put on the uniforms of practicing courage and even green battalion soldiers.

This is the case on the human side, and on the "wealth" side, relying on the cooperation with the Peng family, his glass products have spread to the whole of Hunan in just a few months, and are still spreading to Hubei, Sichuan and other places. The income is not much, only forty or fifty thousand taels of silver, but this is the reason why the production speed has not kept up. Li Shi changed the process of Liulifang, continued to hide the production of frit on the west bank of the Tianxin River, and moved the manufacture of glass to the vicinity of Lizhuang, so that in the coming year, this industry should bring more harvests.

The other part of the income is horse lanterns. The market positioning of Ma Lantern is that it is a rich and noble family. With complex decoration, many high-end products with copper, with the characteristics of not shaking the wind and shining enough, soon welcomed by large households, the price of 30 taels, because of the existence of "crystal glass cover", no one thinks the price is too high, more than 1,000 pieces were sold in a few months, and more than 30,000 taels of silver were obtained.

The miscellaneous income of other leather and shoe ironworks is less than 10,000 taels in total, which is a small supplement. The income of close to 100,000 taels was actually not enough to support this stall, and Li Shi used thousands of taels of gold to turn around. But the shelves are steady, and the silver should roll in.

Originally, Li Xi could make more products to make profits, but the talent was not enough to support more "business", and he was more worried about provoking the attention of officials and businessmen and even imperial businessmen. In this era, anything with huge profits will be targeted by them, and they can't rashly touch that ceiling until their strength is insufficient.

And now the appearance of Guangzhou Anhetang means that his glass industry has touched the ceiling of a certain floor, and Li Xi does not want to meet them before setting a major response policy.

The drill lasted for two or three days, and she was tired enough, so Li Xi beckoned Guan Xuan in the courtyard and wanted her to massage it.

"Wait, fourth brother, I'm not done yet."

Guan Xuan's voice sounded next door, it was her studio, half a year later, the little girl's crisp voice had a touch of softness, like a yellow warbler.

Hearing this, Li Xi almost laughed angrily, dead girl, serving me is the right thing, right!?

Leaned into the room and took a look, yo, it's really serious, there is a row of desks in the room, there are a lot of papers, Guan Xuan is looking at a piece of paper, while telling a few eleven or twelve-year-old children, there are Wang Jiu, the son of the widow Wang, as well as the Liu family boy and the Lin family's little sister, all of them listened attentively, and nodded from time to time.

Li Xian was about to call her out directly, but Pan Shiyu came to report again, and Liu Xingchun and Tao Fu came.

"An officer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs is here to be a commissioner!? It's a strange ......."

After listening to Liu Xingchun and Tao Fu's report, Li Xian thought to himself that his butterfly had really made history change more and more. The staff wailang is an official, and the staff of the internal affairs office is still the emperor's senior coat and a direct servant, and he actually went directly to the branch of Taiping Pass to be a member...... Wait a minute...... My mind is a little confused, and my thinking is wrong, as if I shouldn't ask why, but worry.

Li Xi patted his forehead and pulled back his thoughts, and his mind sank at this time.

"The clerk of the Xunhuan factory told me that if the general secretary doesn't stretch out his hand this time, they will really collapse, and then our affairs of taking care of the tooth people will also be in vain."

Tao Fu is now arranged to be a tooth man at the Hun Huan Tax Gate, and he is the only tooth person, and it is with this point that Li Shi separates the merchant from the tax gate. The purpose of his doing this was to cover the Peng family's sale of glass products to Hunan, and to arrange Liu Xingchun to be an inspector there, with the intention of suppressing the scribes of the Hun Huan factory. 【1】

"Reach out...... It depends on how you stretch ......."

Li Shi frowned, this is indeed very troublesome. In his plan, Hunan is an excellent place to accumulate capital in the early stage without attracting too much attention from other forces. Before he was able to make so much money on glazed products and horse lanterns, he relied on the fact that there were no committee members in the Hun Factory, and he used both soft and hard methods, and bought the scribes of the Hun Factory through Tao Fu and Liu Xingchun, so that they could approve the matter of the Yaren Bao Guan. Not only did his business route go smoothly, but other merchants were also stained, and the Peng family was able to give full play to their long-sleeved dancing skills, and even brought the three largest glazed merchants in Hunan here to celebrate the New Year.

I thought that even if a new member came, it would be just a miscellaneous official's family and the like, and it would be easy to clean up, but this internal affairs officer named Jiang Zan, not only is the official big enough, but according to Tao Fu, the scribes all call Jiang Zan a ruthless person, and he should be a capable person. Can you, a rich man, bring down an emperor's coat?

This question was immediately shattered by Li Xian himself, not to mention that the scribe must fight him, he must also fight him, otherwise his wealth will be choked, and what is he now? Bully!

"I don't stretch out my hand, I stretch out my paws."

Li Xi said.

(To be continued)