Money is the door, capital is the dog, and Li Shi's current development strategy is to close the door and train the dog. If you want to train a dog that can be obedient, at least not bite yourself, you have to carry meat in one hand and a stick in the other, and the stick must be hard enough to beat the dog painfully. At present, there is no way to put on a state apparatus, and there is no way to put a collar and saddle on capital, so you can only rely on sticks to train.

Now that the banknote is in hand, Li Xian feels that the stick in his hand is a bit like a foam stick, and the hardness is insufficient.

Li Shi's current strength on the side of the "army" is somewhat mixed, and the only one he can really rely on is Si Wei, who is all henchmen who have gone through the blood oath and the "trial" of gold rush, with a total of more than 400 people. Half of them were from Lao Fengtian Village, and half were selected from Liu Village and the homeless people, and they were all trained according to the standards of pure musketeers. Covered by the establishment of local training brave eyes, whistles, and wings, ten people are one eye, four eyes are one sentry, and four sentry are one wing, and it is currently the scale of one battalion and three wings. 【1】

Now just the garrison task makes the guards a little unavailable, and the R&D department on the other side of the Lizhuang River, that is, the general department, needs to be guarded. The gold mine on the mountain needs to be guarded, and the patrol team must be arranged to cover the Jiguan Mountain, and Li Zhuang must also be guarded from the outside Tangkou to the inner fort, and less than half of the guards can be in a state of training.

In addition to the guards, Zhuang Ding, who was barely counting his own people, was composed of Li Zhuang people who were willing to take time out to earn allowances, and most of them were hired workers of the farm. They were responsible for the vigilance of Li Zhuang's periphery and Qingtian Ji, and these people could not be sent out to do errands, and there was no need for any professional training.

In addition to Siwei Zhuang Ding, it is the Xunhuan Inspection Division Inspector led by Liu Xingchun, as well as the newly received banknote customs inspectors, these people can support the scene, and there is no hope of doing the right thing.

And the officials on Li Zhushou's side, the green battalion soldiers in the nearby Xuntang, and even the battalion soldiers under Zhang Ying and Zhou Ning are all outsiders, and small troubles can be dealt with.

"Isn't it time to hire some miners from the mines?"

The first thing Li Xi thought of was the honest miners in his black mine, but then he frowned, if he wants to expand the army now, on the one hand, there will be too much movement, after all, the "armed forces" under his command are enough to gather thousands of people, and on the other hand, ...... The silver turnover can't be opened, and the more than 400 guards under him spend more than 5,000 taels of silver every month, and Tian Dayou, who is in charge of the general ledger, has to nag every time he sees him.

That's right...... Can Uncle Tian's body bear it?

Li Shi began to wander, the image of an uncle with a beard and scum was dangling in his mind, a wine bottle in his left hand, a girl in his right hand, while burying his head in studying rifling, he could still manage the general ledger of Qingtian Company, half a year ago, and now Tian Dayou are almost two people, I always feel that he is burning his life in all aspects, in which way should he reduce the burden...... It wasn't until a familiar voice sounded that Li Shi's thoughts drifting out of the sky were pulled back, and he looked at it fixedly, it was Zhang Ying.

"Meng Kui has appeared!"

Zhang Ying said the name, and Li Xianleng thought for a while before he remembered, Yang Chun's deputy?

"With hundreds of bandits, I robbed several villages in the north of the county, and I am wandering around the mountains, maybe I will come to the south."

Before, Jiang Zan's user department transferred Zhang Ying's soldiers, but Zhang Ying led the team to respond and ran away, not exactly to release Jiang Zan's pigeons, but really banditry.

"So...... Are you going to go out? ”

Li Xian's eyebrows furrowed, the county's Lian Yong is actually in his hands, and he can't do it if he wants to suppress bandits, which is a bad thing, but it's a good thing.

"Li Zhushou and Zhou Ning both mean this, fourth brother, you have to bring me with you."

Zhang Ying's face was excited, and he didn't have a little bit of cowardice on his face when he said this, he was President Qian, and it stands to reason that even if he was President Lian, he would have to follow his ass to do things, but now it has been reversed, but this has always been the relationship between him and Li Shi.

"I don't want to be wronged this time, I have to ask for donations!"

Li Xian clenched his fists and said hatefully, his expression and tone were like bandits, this is a good thing, and it is justified to find the rich people in the county to loot some New Year's money by practicing bravery.

By the way, Meng Kui...... If he could see his two sons, he didn't know what it would be like.

Back to Li Zhuang began to prepare, busy until midnight, just about to sleep, the inner castle suddenly made a noise, and vaguely heard Yu Hanyi's shout: "Catch!" ”

When I went out, I saw that under the layers of several large nets, a person was struggling with his life inside.

"Look how you move!"

Yu Hanyi held the three-edged short sword, and walked towards the guy while talking hatefully, the big man Li Wei broke into the inner fort a few days ago, and dozens of people didn't keep anyone, Yu Hanyi, who was in charge of guarding the inner fort, was very shocked, and figured out a set of online thief catching methods, and it seems that he has made up for it tonight.

But it's just like...... As soon as Yu Hanyi approached, he heard an angry roar, and the people in the net jumped up suddenly, the cold light suddenly appeared, and the rope net was suddenly cut open, and then a short knife went straight to Yu Hanyi's door.

With a bang, Yu Hanyi reacted quickly, and the short sword in his hand blocked the opponent's short knife, but the result was that the short sword soared into the sky, and the person fell backwards. He fell to the ground, but his mouth did not stop: "Hook sickle!" ”

More than a dozen sickles with long handles beckoned to the man's feet, but he saw the man leaping and jumping, kicking the knife and splitting, splashing a little spark.

Li Xi secretly gasped when he saw it, and he was a master of the rivers and lakes? Looking at this posture, Li Wei is far inferior to him.

The sound of footsteps stopped, and more and more people poured out, and when the person saw that the situation was not good, he rushed to fit well, as if he was about to learn Li Wei before he was about to escape over the wall. Yu Hanyi beckoned people to hurry up and block the way forward, and the crowd shook like this, and the person kicked down a few people, and actually turned around and ran straight towards Li Yan.

Good decision...... Li Xian secretly screamed in his heart, the guards around him surrounded him tightly, isn't it an obvious target, but...... Do you really think you're a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch?

Both hands were about to be held at the waist, and the personal guard Pan Shiyu arrived at this time, and the young man of the Yao family was angry that he was derelict in his duties, and he screamed and pounced on the monster with a straight knife, and the blade hissed, and the head of the hood slashed the man's feet.

There was only so much that Pan Shiyu could do, and then he followed in the footsteps of Han Yi and fell out two or three feet away. But the man couldn't take a step forward, and was blocked by Pan Shiyu, and more than a dozen spears pointed at him up and down, surrounding him in a circle.

A rough wheezing sounded, and then the man knelt on the ground with a grunt, and said in a sad voice: "Let me see my two sons before I die!" ”

This is...... Meng Kui!?

Before Li Xi could lead his troops to the battle, Meng Kui, the leader of the remnants, fell into his hands.

"Lock it up first!"

Li Xi only felt ridiculous, you sent it to the door, what should I do with my silver?

"There are still two people in the prison......"

Yu Hanyi's words, Li Yan patted his head helplessly, Zhuangzi has a private prison, but the place is not big, and there are two people stuffed inside. He even forgot about the pair of commercial spies in Guangzhou Anhetang, and said that he would wait for two days before they would see each other, but now four or five days have passed.

But since they've been locked up for so long, they don't care about a few more days, so let's let them spend the New Year in prison.

asked Yu Hanyi to find another place to detain the An family, and put this Meng Kui into the dungeon of Zhuangzi to be guarded by a good student, Li Xian only felt a little afraid. First Li Wei, and then Meng Kui, each one is better than the other, although there should be no peerless masters in this world, but there is no such role as a professional assassin. Even if he has a short gun to defend himself, he still can't guard against the characters in the rivers and lakes.

"Director-General, I'm useless......"

Lan Shiyu is considered to be a little skilled among the people around him, and his straight knife technique is decent, but now it seems that he is just a shelf, not to mention Yu Hanyi, a guard, who has not received real technical training.

"Okay, you're still young, how can you compare with this kind of person?"

Li Xian comforted him in his mouth, but he sighed in his heart, thinking about whether he would go and ask a professional martial artist to make up for this lesson after the New Year's Day? Speaking of which, the stick in his hand is not only getting more and more foamy, but the technique of swinging the stick is also very rough, and there is no way to do fine work, those seniors who casually trained special guards and special assassins really make him envious, who makes himself not a special soldier.

"I want to learn martial arts! Protect the fourth brother with you in the future! ”

Guan Xuan came to her senses again, and looking at her staring and pursing her lips, she knew that she was serious.

"Come on, if you want to follow me around like Pan Shiyu, you're a professional hostage."

Li Xi simply erased Guan Xuan's dream, the little girl was not happy, pouted and moved away, no longer giving Li Xi a warm bed, but was hugged by Li Xi again.

"Silly girl, I am the one who protects you in this life."

Listening to Li Shi's words, Guan Xuan hummed like a kitten, and huddled tightly in Li Shi's arms, thinking in his heart, my sister is gone, my father and mother are very sad, and the fourth brother is also very unhappy, so I must be good and make my father and mother and fourth brother happy...... The New Year is approaching, and everyone is thinking about their relatives and home, including Meng Kui in Li Zhuangli, and An Liu Anwei, a pair of unlucky ghosts in Guangzhou Anhetang.

The mountain wind was howling, and in another room, two teenagers were whispering, also talking about their relatives.

"It's almost the New Year, I don't know how my father is, if he is still alive."

"Can you go and ask Mr. Li? I think he's still a good person. ”

"But we have been locked up in the mountains to pan for gold, and now we are about to vomit when we see gold, does Mr. Li want us to pan for a lifetime?"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with it, I'm well fed and warmly dressed, and I let us study and learn to learn calligraphy with Si Wei, I've gained a lot of weight in the past six months, and my father will not recognize us if he wants to see us."

"But I still miss Daddy......"

"Ask the chief of the department tomorrow, it seems that it should be the head of the department and the head of the guard."

"Well, he's better talking, and Chief Jia Siwei is gloomy and scary when he sees it."

A ruined temple farther west was lit by firelight, and through the broken windows, the shadow of the mountain in the distance was as hazy as ink. A man and a woman in the temple, looking like a father and daughter, are also talking about the New Year and their relatives.

"Daddy, is this really the right way?"

"That's right, Sanniang. I walked there more than 10 years ago, and there were bandits, but now they are gone, and I only heard that there was a leprosy house. ”

"Leprosy? Can you still go? ”

"Let's just walk on the ridge, after this we can reach a river, that river has a lot of people, take a boat to Lianjiang quickly. Now it's coming to the end of the year, and if you can't catch up with the year, you have to catch up with it at least at the end of the year.

"I don't know if it's okay to be away from home for so many years, my brother...... What did it look like? ”

(To be continued)