readx; Zhou Jin pointed to a few boxes and said, "Zhou Hong estimated that it was worth about 50,000 taels, including 4,000 taels of gold, 20,000 taels of silver, and more than 10,000 taels of jewelry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Zhou Jin just heard Zhou Hong tell 20,000 taels of silver, he still didn't believe it, and then he silently calculated in his heart, the total weight was only more than seven hundred kilograms, and the volume of sterling silver was only seventy or eighty liters. A big box will fit it.

Meng Changjiang was surprised: "How can there be so many silver taels?" ”

Zhou Hong replied: "The silver is the reward paid by those people for attacking us. And that gold is the old book of the cottage. ”

Only then did Meng Changjiang remember the news he had just learned from the interrogation of the bandits. A few days ago, a few people came to the cottage with a large box, and their big boss met them alone, and those people left on the same day. Then the big thief boss sent someone to inquire about the news of Zhou Jin and his party, saying that Zhou Jin had a lot of gold and silver and was a big fat sheep.

When the spies returned, they told the bandit boss about the situation. But he didn't say anything, and let the spies go down. On the second day, the second and third masters were found to discuss with them about attacking Zhou Jin and others, but the reason was not said. The second and third masters didn't know the reason, so they were reluctant to act, so they quarreled, and then they broke up. The plan was not made, and then it was served by Zhou Jin in the evening.

That leader had already been killed by Meng Changjiang, so the intentions of those mysterious people were now a mystery.

The group soon returned to Lijiazhuang, and Zhou Jin asked them to prepare immediately, leave here, and prepare to return to Jiujiang. These people spent a lot of money to invite bandits and bandits to attack Zhou Jin and others, obviously not for money, now they didn't get what they wanted, but they lost a lot of money, they will definitely not give up, and this time they let go of so many people, and Zhou Jin's situation was exposed.

For the people of Lijiazhuang, if they don't have what they want, most of them won't waste time. Zhou Jin and his party staying here will cause them trouble.

This time, Zhou Jin took a large group of people around to Taihe County, and after finding three ships nearby, he went into the city to pick up Li Yu and other female dependents. When he came to the inn, Zhou Jin saw a strange man chopping wood in the yard and didn't know what to do.

When he saw Zhou Jin coming in, he asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Zhou Jin didn't answer him, wondering in his heart, could it be that Li Yu moved away by himself? But he didn't believe it, so he shouted: "Zhou Tong! ”

As soon as the shouting fell, Zhou Tong ran out of the kitchen, and when he saw Zhou Jin, he immediately said with a smile: "Young master, have you succeeded?" ”

Zhou Jinna had the kung fu to talk to him: "Who is this person?" ”

"He is a relative of Miss Li's family. Miss Li is his aunt, and his grandfather and Master Li are cousins. ”

Zhou Jin was puzzled: "Aren't they all gone?" This and that came out of nowhere? ”

"His family has always been in Sichuan, and he only returned to Jiangxi in May and June. A few years ago, I passed through the letter. ”

"Just him?"

"No, the whole family is back. It's just that his family has a large population and a hard livelihood, so he dragged Miss Li to find him and his sister a job. So Miss Li left them behind. His name is Li Xiuwen. I have read books, but I am in good health and can endure hardships, so I cut wood there. After Zhou Tong finished speaking, he said to Li Xiuwen: "This is my young master." It's your aunt. ”

After Li Xiuwen heard this, he knew that he was Li Yu's fiancé, so he bowed to Zhou Jin and called his aunt.

Zhou Jin touched his nose, and he always felt weird when he was given a junior salute by this seventeen or eighteen-year-old guy. Hurriedly helped him up, touched his body, and found a dagger, which he had seized from the bandits, and felt that it was good, so he took it with him. So he gave it to Li Xiuwen as a meeting gift.

Li Xiuwen saw that this dagger was inlaid with several gemstones, and knew that it was very valuable, so he dared to take it.

Seeing this, Zhou Jin put on a stand and said, "This is given by the elders, what are you pushing." ”

When Li Xiuwen heard him say this, he had no choice but to accept it with a word of thanks. Zhou Jin saw that he took the dagger, nodded and said to Zhou Dao: "Go pack your things, we are going to go back to Jiujiang." ”

After speaking, he entered the main room, and the girls were talking with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, he guessed that it might be Li Xiuwen's sister, so he said, "This is Li Xiuwen's sister." I saw your brother outside. ”

Li Yu smiled: "I didn't expect you to come back so early." Then he said to the girl, "Go and see your aunt." ”

So Zhou Jin had to experience the feeling of an elder again, this time there was nothing on his body, and this was an inn, so he had to owe it first. After greetings, Zhou Jin said: "You guys quickly clean up, we must go back to Jiujiang immediately." For whatever reason, don't ask, go clean up. ”

This time it was out to purchase, so it was quickly cleaned up. Zhou Jin looked at Li Xiuwen's brothers and sisters and asked Li Yudao: "The two of them, want to go to Jiujiang with us?" ”

Li Yu nodded and said, "Well, I promised their parents." You don't blame me. ”

Zhou Jin hugged Li Yu and kissed her on the head and said, "How can it be, as long as you are happy, it will work." ”

Li Yu blushed and looked at the others, and saw that they were all busy loading things, so he breathed a sigh of relief, slapped Zhou Jin and said, "You hate it, there are so many people." ”

Zhou Jin smiled and said, "It's all people in the room, what are you shy." ”

Li Yu ignored his words and asked, "Let's go back to Jiujiang directly?" What about the things at home? ”

Zhou Jin said: "I have packed all the valuables. Don't want the rest. ”

Li Yu pouted and said, "What else can we use for those things that stinky men have moved." You might as well throw them all away. ”

Zhou Jin said with a smile: "I personally sorted out and packed the items in your room. How would I let them clean up. ”

Li Yu relieved himself at this time and said, "I'll check it when I go back." ”

Zhou Jin saw that they were ready to go, so he said, "Okay, you check." Let's go. ”

After taking Li Yu and other female dependents out of the city, they came to the riverside and got on the passenger boat that had been waiting for a long time.

Originally, I wanted to take a boat when I came in Zhou, but considering that going against the current was slower than taking a car, I gave up. Traveling down the river and arriving at Nanchang the next day, Zhou Jin sent Zhou Hong and Meng Changjiang to lead four guards to the city to sell the jewels, while he continued to move forward. Waiting for them in the Zhoujia Lushan Courtyard.

On November 20, Zhou Jin returned to the Lushan Courtyard of Zhoufu. The Lushan Courtyard was built by Zhou Jin to study in the White Deer Cave Academy, so it is not big, but it is a three-entry courtyard, and it is very reluctant to live in these nearly thirty people. There are open spaces and mountains on both sides of the courtyard, which makes it convenient for Zhou Jin to expand the house.

After dinner and lunch, Zhou Jin asked Zhou Tong to go to a nearby village to find dozens of plasterers, and he began to draw expansion drawings. The expansion should be very simple, only need to level more than 10 acres of vacant land in the northeast of the courtyard, then build more than 20 houses as dormitories, and finally build a wall.

In the afternoon, Zhou Tong invited more than 30 people. Zhou Jin immediately asked them to start cutting down the trees, and then leveled the ground. On the third day, when the earth finally opened, they began to burn the tiled houses.

That night, Zhou Hong and Meng Changjiang also returned to the other courtyard, and brought back the money after the sale, he was worried that there would be too much silver, so he exchanged it for two thousand taels of gold.

That night, Zhou Jin gave each of them ten taels of silver as usual, and said to everyone: "Maybe this is the last time you have received so many rewards." Why? Because I'm going to start recruiting more people, I'm going to give less to everyone. I have already told Zhongwei that when our northeastern courtyard is repaired, it will expand to 200 people, and the cost of raising these people will be very large. I couldn't afford to support this group of people before I became an official. But I had to find some of them. ”

"In the past few years, there were a lot of bandits in Henan, Shaanxi, and Shandong, and there were also foreign Tartars who often entered the customs to loot, as you know. And I am going to enter Beijing without accident, if we are only a dozen people, then when we meet their strikers, we will be annihilated. But if we have a hundred people, we can achieve the effect of a thousand people by relying on our weapons, so even if we can't win, we can run away. ”

"That's why I only send out that little money. And remember that as long as we have people, money is nothing! I can make a contribution, and of course I will not forget your birth and death. ”

This is the first time Zhou Jin promised these people something, in the past, everyone was a master and servant, and serving Zhou Jin was a kind of duty for them, not how loyal. Zhou Jin believes that there is no absolute loyalty, only the binding of interests. So this time he appropriately gave a vague promise, and the reason for the vagueness was that he didn't know where his future lay yet.

As for whether the guards can comprehend it, Zhou Jin doesn't know, and he doesn't expect them to immediately die for him. But again, it's better to do than not to do.

The next day, Zhou Tong went back to Jiujiang and told Zhou Pan about Zhou Jin's whereabouts. Zhou Jin doesn't plan to go back yet, he needs to do his own thing without interference.

After more than ten days of construction, the expanded yard was finally completed. Then the recruitment work also began, and in the past few days, Zhou Jin determined ten small leaders and their deputy leaders according to their training and Meng Changjiang's feedback. They will lead 20 people each for training.

Three days later, Zhou came in to the south of Jiujiang City, and after a few days of screening, Zhou Hong and Meng Changjiang had recruited 300 people. Zhou Jin came to the last brush election this time. Due to the large number of recruits, this time it was carried out in the name of recruiting servants in the family, so it attracted the attention of many homeless people. Since Zhou Hong and Meng Changjiang felt that Zhou Jin would not enter Beijing for more than two years, they felt that this was the recruitment of servants, and Zhou Jin would buy a family business, which would inevitably require a lot of people. So half of the 300 people are the kind of people who drag their families with their families.

Zhou Jin has been listening to the reports and plans of the small leaders he appointed for the past few days, and Zhou Hong has had a satisfactory recruitment experience, so Zhou Jin didn't ask them, so he let them do it, and he didn't ask during the period. Today, when he saw this half of the family, he was so angry that he couldn't speak for half a day. He was silent for a long time before he said, "Let them line up a lot, and come over in groups of three for me to check." ”

Zhou Jin also admits it now, because this time he has already said that he will find two hundred people, and if he changes his hexagram temporarily, who knows what will happen. And what Zhou Jin wants now is to be low-key, and he doesn't want to make trouble. These people Zhou Jin took a general look, and they were all very good, under the age of seventeen to twenty-five, honest and loyal, no physical diseases, and tall physique.

Zhou Jin's brushing conditions are the kind of people who only have husband and wife, don't have children less than five years old, don't have parents, don't have a population of more than four, and don't want Zhou Jin to be dissatisfied with his face. Soon two hundred people were selected, fifty of whom brought their children and siblings. For those who were brushed, each person was given a hundred yuan to send them away.

Others asked them to follow Zhou Jin to the Lushan Courtyard with their luggage. But when they were about to set off, Zhou Qing, the chief housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion, found him and asked Zhou Jin to go home immediately, and Zhou Pan had something important to look for him.

Even if Zhou Jin was unwilling, he had to follow Zhou Qing back to the Zhou Mansion. But as soon as he returned to his yard, Zhou Jin was locked up again.