As time passed, some of the dozen or so captives in the mountains still firmly believed that their masters would lead people to attack them, rob everything here and rescue themselves, while others had already begun to make calculations in their hearts when they saw the standard of living in the mountain village, and were making good intentions with the overseer with the leather whip, so as to find a new way out.

But in fact, the different masters of these people, like Master Mo because of the fright he received was a little too heavy, and finally got to bed a month after the haunted incident, and he is still sick and weak, Master Li is looking for other partners to continue to work hard, the fat man Zhao is anxious to find a way to fill the hole after the warehouse was burned, and the government forces behind Master Chen are trying to eliminate the follow-up impact caused by such a major event in the territory under their jurisdiction, these people have temporarily put their minds on dealing with the current predicament. I really don't have the heart to toss the things of the mountain village anymore.

It's just that among all the forces that plotted to capture the mountain village last time, although Boss Liu not only folded the goods but also folded people more painfully, but his low-key handling after the incident did have the strength to be affected, after all, dozens of people died in his firm, some of these people are directly under the firm, and some are temporarily hired, no matter where Boss Liu paid a large amount of pension while losing manpower, especially because of this incident, the reputation of his firm's firm has been seriously impacted. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the attackers of other commercial houses and horses do not fight, and they specifically beat the Liu family...... Who would dare to hand over their goods to the other party for delivery...... For this reason, we can only tighten manpower and ensure the safety of several most important trading channels, so that the business will definitely be seriously affected, and the business of Boss Liu's Laoliu Commercial Bank in the second half of the year is bleak, if it were not for the considerable profits of those inherent lines and goods barely maintaining the balance of payments, Boss Liu would have been unable to hold on.

But if you really think that Boss Liu will admit it like this...... Hmph, then you Too young, too simple, Boss Liu's rise so quickly in the industry has a lot to do with his own ruthlessness, in the business circle of Liuzhou Mansion, if you really think that doing business only needs to buy and sell and be undeceived and do not need some black-hearted means...... Then you will only become a stepping stone to someone else's success. However, the key to stopping Boss Liu, who is respected by the industry, for so long, is that Boss Liu also noticed that he really knows very little about that opponent now, and originally thought it was just an ordinary mountain village force but never thought that it was a hard iron plate, and this hard iron plate took the initiative to smash his hands and feet without waiting for him to kick it...... In desperation, Boss Liu could only follow the housekeeper's advice - loose on the outside and tight on the inside, paralyzing everyone, taking them by surprise and attacking them unprepared!!

On this day, in the Laoliu Commercial Bank operated by Boss Liu, the caravan had just completed a freight return to the cargo yard of the commercial house, the guys were shouting and busy unloading the goods, and many escort guards and guys and helpers were crowded in the yard and looked quite lively, but no one noticed that several guards dressed people, under the noses of other people's inattention, turned to the side yard, and went around the rockery in the yard to plant trees, and came to an inconspicuous hut in the side yard, here, Boss Liu and his housekeeper, They are waiting for these people to arrive......

"You've worked hard, and I'm not pretentious, so please start talking about what you've inquired about and seen......

After inviting these four or five people to sit down, Boss Liu's steward Liu Fan personally served tea and poured water for these people, and at the end of this etiquette, which is not etiquette, Boss Liu went straight to the point with some anxiety.

"Master, how do you say this......"

These people are Boss Liu's henchmen, they were secretly sent out to investigate all the news about the last attacker and the mountain village more than three months ago, several people also knew that the lord of the seat had indeed been waiting a little anxious in the past few months, and made eye contact with each other, and then began to tell the news he had inquired from the first person, and when he finished narrating, the next person continued to tell the news he had discovered, just like that, it took almost an hour, and the information obtained by several people was repeated with each other, There are also differences, and this information shows Boss Liu and everyone here a general image of a mountain village.

First of all, these people confirmed that in the east of Liucheng County, at the junction of Liuzhou Mansion and Guilin Mansion, there is indeed such a mysterious mountain village, and the time, number and scale of this mountain village cannot be obtained more specific information, but from the geographical location, as well as the information gathered from the boatman hired by Huang Zhangshi, it can be basically determined that the mountain village is indeed the origin of the Xianhu knife. Those fleets always transported a large amount of grain, cloth, private salt, minerals, and many unknown things into it, so many things would be a lot of money if they were exchanged for real money, and no one could figure out what the mountain village was used for trading except for all kinds of valuable and small things. Of course, it is not excluded that the people in the mountain villages have found such a gold mine, but if those mountain people do find the gold mine...... It's also a treasure worth attacking!

After absorbing the lessons of the first time when the spies were sent but none of them were able to come back, the spies sent this time did not rush directly into the mountains to investigate, but chose to observe from a distance or even investigate from the periphery; This practice naturally had little effect, but it was extremely secrecy and safety, and some people even suppressed their curiosity after seeing the big windmill made of steel from a distance, and did not go to check it, and also avoided being discovered by the people in the mountain village and becoming free labor in the mines.

After a long detour, two of them inadvertently passed through the mountainous area separating Liucheng County, Rong (An) County, Yongfu County and the future Luzhai County, and were lucky enough to find the two villagers left behind in the small village, from them, the two spies harvested the same information as Li Laocai in the north.

The other group of people is more bold and lucky, because in the process of investigation, they are not bold and will certainly not be able to gain more intuitive and valuable information, but if they do not act rashly according to their anxious mood, they will only alarm the other party and become another group of missing people; This group of people slowly followed the fleet for a long distance and then detoured, that is, this tireless detour, so that they were lucky to avoid the cordon set up by the mountain village near the temporary dock in front, and it was precisely because of this that the mountain village army and civil security personnel who were concentrating on protecting the trade and carrying the materials failed to find these people.

After avoiding the guards and sentries, this group of personnel soon found the mountain road being built and the people who transported materials back and forth, and along the mountain road, these people found the mining field and the black smoke factory in the distance, in the mine they saw from a distance that the spies who had disappeared before were working with other people with shackles, and it was precisely because of this that they did not dare to observe the mountain village more deeply, which made them lucky to avoid the military zone between the mine and the iron factory, otherwise these people approached, Although you can see the current military strength of the mountain village, you may also be discovered by the mountain village......

Although there is no accurate information on the most important number of people and whether there is a decent military armament, but from the scale of the ambush before, as well as the personnel transporting materials on the mountain road, and the number of people on the mine, it can be roughly guessed that there are not many people in the mountain village, and even if Deng Shifeng directly tells them that there are serious military armed personnel in the mountain village, they will not believe it too much. Because in this era, it means the rhythm of rebellion......

After retreating from these spies, Boss Liu fell into deep thought in the room, these intelligence materials were very important to Boss Liu, and he was extremely surprised that the other party could quietly find iron ore and open a workshop in the mountain village. If it was the past, Boss Liu would definitely have teamed up with others to directly pull the team up, and those mines and workshops represented were all white silver...... But the strong force that the other party inadvertently displayed last time made him very entangled now.

"Liu Fan, in your opinion, what should we do?" Boss Liu felt that he had a headache thinking, and just as Liu Fan sent someone back, Boss Liu wanted to hear the opinion of his think tank.

"Sir...... This is ...... There are pros and cons, that mountain village is indeed amazing, not only can you find iron ore but also can make good steel in it, I guess this should be an excellent iron ore, if you can win it, it will be a wonderful benefit to the expansion of our Laoliu firm. However, our family seems too thin to eat the property of this group, and it seems too difficult to unite with the others as we did last time...... I'm worried that it's easy for people to leak the news...... The lord knows the virtues of those people better than me, and each of them is the lord who does not see the rabbit and does not scatter the eagle, and when the news reaches them, they will only send a new batch of spies to die......"

"Therefore, in my opinion, this matter should not be publicized to the outside world, let alone act rashly, and it is necessary to use the time of the New Year soon to quietly recruit elite generals, take advantage of the New Year's lax defense, go around the mountains and sneak into the mountains, and then attack them with lightning speed, seize the mines and iron works, as long as they firmly control these two places, those fields in the mountain villages...... Don't! ”

Liu Fan's strategy is very realistic and direct, from the perspective of the way of action, his approach is correct, he is not afraid of god-like opponents, he is afraid of pig-like teammates, and the few who are cooperating with him now are really pig-like teammates. And as long as he controls the iron mine and the workshop, then according to past experience, these villagers who have no last reliance on them are by no means the opponents of professional thugs with high morale, thinking of this, Boss Liu decided on Liu Fan's plan......

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