Zhou Qingfeng has another core figure by his side.

The tall Li Shuwei attracted a lot of attention as soon as he appeared, he was too tall to be more than 1.8 meters tall, and basically everyone looked down. And he is big, Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing accompany him to walk around the streets as if they are walking in Lilliputia.

"Why are all these people so short?" Li Shuwei looked left and right, and not only did he feel that the people here were short, the houses were also very low, and the streets and alleys were very narrow. Everyone looked yellow-skinned, with a bitter face, and was not very energetic. "Is this a slum?"

"This is the west of Fushun City, and most of the people who live there are poor, but the current population is like this. Because of the Xiaoice River period, grain production declined, and then Liaodong's agriculture collapsed, and most of the grain needed to be transported and supplied. Food shortages have led to widespread malnutrition, and ordinary people can grow 1.7 meters to be tall. You're a giant now. Xu Bing said.

Li Shuwei immediately said happily: "Then when I go to the battlefield, won't I be able to go on a rampage and kill all sides?" ”

Zhou Qingfeng smiled when he heard this, and reached out to press Li Shuwei's shoulder and pinched it. The latter immediately broke out in a cold sweat and exclaimed, "Pain, pain, pain, let go." Why are you so strong? ”

Waiting for Zhou Qingfeng to let go of his hand, Xu Bing on the other side also reached out and pressed it on Li Shuwei's shoulder. This time, Li Shuwei didn't shout, but just endured the pain and asked, "You have a lot of strength as a woman, what's going on?" ”

"I told you a long time ago, this world has an additional system of power generated by will." Zhou Qingfeng looked at Li Shuwei, "With my current mental power, I can easily impact your brain and make you faint." Xu Bing had recently gained similar powers, and her voice had the ability to influence the will of others. So you'd better put off your plans to go to war. ”

"Is that what you call fantasy force?" Li Shuwei asked curiously.

Zhou Qingfeng turned around and ordered the 'dog meat' that looked like a dog: "Become a wolf." ”

With a bang, the body of 'Dog Meat' suddenly expanded, turning from a harmless little earth dog into a hideous giant wolf. Li Shuwei shouted, and when he turned his head again, he saw two identical Xu Bing standing behind him. There was also a burly black warrior standing beside him, armed with a sword and shield. Before Li Shuwei could distinguish clearly, one of them, Xu Bing, turned into black smoke and disappeared into the ground.

"This, this, this ......." Li Shuwei trembled when he spoke, "What are you guys doing?" ”

"This wolf and the black warrior are a kind of puppets that can change, and the black smoke just now is a strange monster that is good at camouflage, and it will indeed be frightened when you first come into contact. We'll find a way to help you master that power. But if you don't have to, you can farm with peace of mind. Farming is more important than fighting. Zhou Qingfeng patted Li Shuwei on the shoulder, "I'll give you a rough introduction to our own territory first." ”

After shopping more than a dozen streets in the west of the city, Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing took Li Shuwei for a walk in Fushun City. After giving a general introduction to his own forces, Zhou Qingfeng said in a deep voice: "I made a mistake before, hoping to greatly expand with the help of relatively sufficient money, and then master stronger and greater forces, so that I can have more room for maneuver in the face of Nurhachi's attack.

But I went to a place called 'Onizuka' not long ago, and I left Fushun for more than a month. The unstable nature of my foundation was revealed, and the lack of a core controller nearly broke up the group that I thought was stable.

In the past few days, I have conducted a detailed combing of the team under my control, and finally confirmed that there are less than 40 loyal management backbones under my command, and most of the rest of the people who depend on me are skilled craftsmen.

Skilled craftsmen have poor ability to live independently, and they need my funds and co-ordination. However, in terms of technical ability, there are less than 10 people who are really at the high level, less than 100 people at the middle level, and more than 500 people at the low level. These people, plus their families, are about 2,000 people.

This number is much smaller than estimated, and I thought I would be able to control a population of 10,000, but now I find that it is all pan-believers. I'm going to shrink now, avoid some unnecessary spending, and get some reorganization before expanding. The size of the team will be limited to 3,000 people, and the armed forces will be strengthened. ”

Li Shuwei was walking with Zhou Qingfeng in the center of Fushun City, and in front of him was Li Yongfang's Qianhu official office. He looked at the lazy soldiers in the direction of the official office and asked in a low voice, "Are you going to rebel now?" ”

"Nope." Zhou Qingfeng shook his head and said, "I got the position of Fushun patrol inspector and handed it over to a person named Tan Feng to exercise power." Under the cover of the patrol position, I probably have a team of about 100 people in reserve. However, these teams have not been effectively trained, Tan Feng is from a military family around him, and he is okay with charging into battle, but he is not good at training. ”

Listening to Zhou Qingfeng's eloquent talk, Li Shuwei has a better understanding of the current team's situation. To put it simply, the group created by Zhou Qingfeng is already a large local force. However, its scope of influence was limited to Fushun, and it was suppressed by the local bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty in Fushun. Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing were trying to find a way to break through, and now they chose to tighten their fists first.

With a new companion, it's time to work more efficiently.

After visiting Fushun City for an afternoon, Li Shuwei went with Xu Bing to learn more about the archives. In addition to Zhou Qingfeng going to the study class at night to continue his classes, there is another important thing waiting for him - Tan Feng's inspection team has now become a piece of his heart.

After class, Zhou Qingfeng did not rest. He has sorted out his own forces in the city in the past few days, and now he has to solve the contradictions outside the city. Riding 'Dog Meat' over the walls of Fushun, he was going to the villages he controlled outside the city.

The village was used by Zhou Qingfeng to develop a coal mining industry and train miners. In winter, relying on the miners in the village to mine the coal around Fushun, the forces in the west of the city survived the winter relatively easily. In addition, this village is also the station of Tan Feng's inspectors.

When Xu Bing was building a model village in the suburbs of Shenyang, Zhou Qingfeng asked Tan Feng to take more care of Xu Bing. According to Xu Bing's reflection, Tan Feng did not fully obey this order. He was very resistant to obeying a woman's command, and later simply perfunctory.

Old Man Sun is responsible for paying salaries to the personnel of the Inspection Department, and more than a month after Zhou Qingfeng left, Tan Feng hinted to Old Man Sun many times that he wanted to send it himself. Wang Kunpeng, who was in charge of internal supervision, also reported to Zhou Qingfeng Tan Feng's question, saying that this guy who came out of the army had accepted Wang Kai's banquet not long ago, and even had private contact with Li Yongfang's master.

What Zhou Qingfeng couldn't tolerate the most was that Tan Feng didn't know where to get a sum of money, so he actually ignored the regulations and privately recruited more than a dozen people. This is to set up a mountain under Zhou Qingfeng's nose. He even set his sights on the pro-soldiers cultivated by Zhou Qingfeng, and sent people to win over the two of them.

If you don't solve Tan Feng's problem now, sooner or later there will be trouble. This young man from the Xuanfu border army can be called righteous and heroic, but he also has the bad habits of the old-style army that cannot be changed. As soon as Zhou Qingfeng left, all these vices were exposed.

After leaving the city, Zhou Qingfeng did not go directly to the 'coal mining village'. He searched the dirt road for a clearing in the east of Fushun City. Several bonfires were lit in the clearing, around which dozens of people formed a makeshift camp. There was even a sentry outside the camp, who shouted when he heard the wolf rider's footsteps approaching, "Who is it?" ”

"I'm Zhou Qingfeng."

"Password."

"Thunderbolt. Repatriation. ”

"Lightning." The sentry shouted.

The camp was irregular, with about 40 people standing or sitting resting. These people were armed with spears, waist knives, bows and arrows, and they were very scattered, and it was not convenient to enter the city. There were even quite a few women in the team. Gao Da Niu and Wu Gate were also there, and when they saw Zhou Qingfeng, they hurriedly stepped forward.

This is a guard team based on Zhou Qingfeng's personal guard class and trained by Xu Bing. Originally, Zhou Qingfeng recruited more than 300 people in the village on the outskirts of Shenyang, and Xu Bing also gathered more than 100 people's 'Women's Rescue Association'. It's a pity that after more than a month of testing, there are only so many left. Most of the others fled, and some died in battle.

Seeing Zhou Qingfeng appear, this seemingly scattered team immediately gathered. Although they are not in good shape, their reaction speed and vigilance are already very good. By the light of the bonfire, Zhou Qingfeng jumped off the giant wolf and walked in front of the team members, patted them on the shoulder, and greeted them with laughter.

"Yes, you guys are very good. Or is it more reliable to train our own teams. Zhou Qingfeng reviewed this team a little, and he was still very satisfied. Xu Bing said that she was able to survive in the Model Village, and this seemingly miscellaneous team played a decisive role. For a while, they even had to fight against the village heroes every day, and those who survived were warriors.

This is what he meows is what he looks like as a descendant of combatants, with a fierce and murderous aura!

Gao Da Niu stood in front of Zhou Qingfeng with a stupid spirit, and when he heard Zhou Qingfeng's words, he seemed to want to scratch his head but forcibly held back, and said in his mouth: "Sister Xu said that the unreliable ones are eliminated, and those who are left are elite soldiers." ”

Most of the people brought out by Zhou Qingfeng from Ehe and Kulun were slave craftsmen, and now those people have basically become officials to maintain law and order in the west of the city. He contained Tan Feng to form an inspection team, but the members of that team had not experienced much blood and fire, and had only fought with Zhou Qingfeng. However, the team in front of him, which was not valued, followed Xu Bing to temper himself in a difficult environment.

"Tall bull."

"Here."

The young man who was thin in the past has now become energetic. The tall cow stood tall in a homespun cloth, and the stupidity was still there, but it was more mature. Zhou Qingfeng asked with a smile: "I heard that Tan Feng sent you silver to pull you over, why didn't you go over?" He offered a much higher price than I was paid. ”

The tall Niu Hanhan laughed for a while, and the martial arts gate beside him said for him: "This kid married a daughter-in-law who is literate and hyphenated, and his brain is good." His daughter-in-law said that Tan Feng had no future, so he didn't plan to follow. ”

"What about you?" Zhou Qingfeng turned to Wumen and asked, "Tan Feng also looked for you, right?" Why don't you go along? ”

Wu Damen looked at Zhou Qingfeng puzzled, and said, "The surname Tan doesn't tell me about his daughter-in-law, why should I go with him?" ”

Hahaha...... Zhou Qingfeng laughed for a while, and then asked, "I heard that you all came on horseback?" ”

"Yes." The tall cow replied.

"Get on the horse and follow me. I'm going to knock and knock Tan Feng tonight, if he is still obedient, let him stay. If he doesn't want to do it, then he should break up and send him away. "Zhou Qingfeng turned over on the back of the 'dog meat' again. More than forty people in the camp immediately raised a few torches, extinguished the bonfire, and led the horses to follow Zhou Qingfeng.

The road surface is not clear at night, and the speed of riding in more than forty is not fast. But when Zhou Qingfeng linked them into a military formation, the power of coordination was reflected. The sound of horses' hooves rumbling was heard far away in the night, and soon they arrived at the 'coal mining village'. The entrance of the village was unguarded, and Zhou Qingfeng and others broke in with a fierce night wind.

When the forty-odd riders stopped at the door of a large house, they heard shouts and shouts from inside. A rough voice was shouting: "Come on, come on, drink in a big bowl, eat meat in a big piece, follow me Tan Mou is to live a happy life." ”

"Really?" Zhou Qingfeng jumped off the giant wolf, led the people to push the courtyard door, and asked in a deep voice after striding forward: "Can this happy day be counted as my share?" ”