According to the custom of the village, this feast is eaten until the evening.

At night, it became more lively, dozens of bonfires were lit on the yard outside the Yan family compound, and roasted whole sheep on the fires one by one, and the troupe invited by Zhou Hongda began to sing in the light of the bonfire and the fragrance of mutton, babbling and singing on the stage temporarily erected in the yard, and the surrounding of the stage was full of men, women and children in Liuhe Town, inside and outside the Yan family, the atmosphere was even more festive than the New Year.

At this time, Yan Liqiang had quietly withdrawn from the lively crowd, and in one of his own studies, he was talking to Lu Wenbin about his plans.

"The expansion of Liuhe Town this time, in terms of scale, is about five times larger than the current one......," Yan Liqiang said as he pointed to the sketch of the expansion of Liuhe Town that he had drawn last night. This is the old town of Liuhe Town, the pattern of the old town is not moving, the direction of expansion, mainly in the south, northwest, and east of Liuhe Town, the focus is on the west of Liuhe Town, here is about to expand out more than 2,000 acres of land, this land is the wasteland on the side of the river, after the expansion, Liuhe Town will be connected with Liuhe River, and at the same time here to build a wharf, a wharf that is at least three times larger than the wharf of Qinghe County now, in this way, in addition to the land, Liuhe Town has one more water and land, Liuhe River is connected to the Xijiang River, and the boats on the wharf can go up and down in the future, from here to Huanglong County, to Pingxi City, and even out of Pingxi County, from the Xijiang River to and from the counties of Ganzhou, it's not a problem......"

On the lampstand in the study, three lamps are lit, illuminating the bookstore, and the wick bursts out a small lamp from time to time, which makes the study seem quiet.

Although Steward Lu had already made some psychological preparations before coming to Liuhe Town, Old Man Lu had already told him what he was going to do in Liuhe Town this time, but when Steward Lu looked at the sketch that Yan Liqiang put on the table, and listened to Yan Liqiang roughly talk about his idea, Steward Lu also felt dry mouth, and was shocked by Yan Liqiang's generosity, so he couldn't help but pick up the teacup next to him and take a sip of water, moisten his throat, and then asked cautiously, " Childe, the entire Pingxi County does not have such a big fort, and if Liuhe Town expands according to this scale, it will already cover an area of more than 10,000 acres, which is almost the same size as the county seat of Qinghe County, this ...... The scale of the expansion of Liuhe Town is so large, according to the current population of Liuhe Town, many places in the expanded Liuhe Town are empty, and the construction of the fort is huge...... This one...... Is this necessary?"

"Empty is only temporary!" Yan Liqiang shook his head, "On these expanded grounds, after leveling, I naturally have arrangements ......" Speaking of this, Yan Liqiang pointed to the vacant fields on the sketches he had drawn," I plan to build a large-scale comprehensive trading market here in the future to welcome visitors from all over the world, next to this market, is the new main streets of Liuhe Town, these main streets will have many shops and inns and other consumption places in the future, and here, here, and here, in the northwest and north of the newly expanded Liuhe Town, and in the south, I will build several large workshops and warehouses, and once these workshops are made, the newly expanded Liuhe Town will not be too big, and it may be a little too small!"

"Childe wants to build so many workshops in Liuhe Town, I don't know what he wants to produce?" Lu Wenbin asked curiously.

"In the future, most of the people in the Huanglong Craftsman Battalion will move over and take root in Liuhe Town, and the people on the craftsman battalion side will divide into several special workshops, and I will also have my own arrangements for other workshops!" Yan Liqiang smiled and sold a pass, without fully explaining his words.

Lu Wenbin smiled embarrassedly, he knew that people like Yan Liqiang had something in their heads that he could speculate about from time to time, and some things might have a greater impact, for example, the lotus root coal that Yan Liqiang made before, before he got it, naturally he wouldn't publicize it everywhere, seeing that Yan Liqiang didn't want to talk about the arrangements of those workshops for the time being, he didn't ask, but adjusted his thoughts, carefully looked at Yan Liqiang's plan on paper, and quickly pinched his fingers and quickly calculated," I don't know how large the fort wall and fort built by Gongzi on the outskirts of Liuhe Town will be?"

"Is there a limit to the size of the forts and forts built locally in Ganzhou?" asked Yan Liqiang rhetorically.

"There is no limit!" Lu Wenbin shook his head, "In other states and counties of the Han Empire, there are requirements for the height and size of the fort wall and dock built locally, and if it exceeds this requirement, it will be considered overdue, but our Ganzhou is a border state, and it has always been a place of a hundred battles, and the imperial court has relaxed the restrictions in Ganzhou, as long as you have money and land, the scale of this fort and fort dock, you can repair it as much as you want, and it will not be overdue!"

Yan Liqiang pondered for a moment, and then said resolutely, "Then the fort wall should be built as high as possible, a little stronger, there is a height of four zhang from the ground, the road above is nine feet wide, there are arrow towers at the four corners of the fort wall, and then there is an arrow tower every 100 meters, and the highest floor of the arrow tower can fit eight oxen heavy crossbows!"

Steward Lu gasped suddenly, and looked at Yan Liqiang in disbelief, "In this way, the money will be spent a lot, only the military fort fortress at the border pass needs to be made to such a scale, and the entire Liuhe Town will be expanded and transformed according to this method, at least four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, which is a huge amount, I don't know ...... this money!"

"You don't have to worry about the silver, I'm ready, Steward Lu only needs to arrange the scheduling......" Yan Liqiang said calmly.

Since he already knew that the Han Empire would usher in great changes in four years, and the subsequent situation might collapse to an unimaginable situation, so at this time, when considering the expansion of Liuhe Town, Yan Liqiang directly prepared to turn Liuhe Town into a solid fort dock with a high standard, such a fort dock, in wartime, can not only shelter these villagers and their families and friends in Liuhe Town, but also for the people of the surrounding neighboring villages and towns, it is also a reassuring and solid refuge comparable to the county seat. Of course, the fort dock is not all the focus, and the workshops that will be built in the fort dock are the real focus.

On the way back this time, Yan Liqiang has already thought clearly, he came back this time, the hundred-foot high platform starts from the ground, and he wants to start from his hometown Liuhe Town, and establish his own foundation and power here step by step, with this foundation and power, he does not need to look at anyone's face, and he has the ability to influence the overall situation, which is the cornerstone of his future life. If there is no such foundation, no matter how much martial arts cultivation passes, it will only become the same role as the Heaven and Earth Twin Evils, the Heaven and Earth Twin Evils can kill, but they will always be just chess pieces in the hands of others, and they will never be able to change and influence the overall situation, which is certainly not what Yan Liqiang wants.

As for the money for the construction of the fort, the large amount of silver that Yan Liqiang got from the Shatu people in Pingxi City in the early stage is basically still there, although he spent a little bit to run a newspaper in the imperial capital last time, but later His Majesty the Emperor gave him 100,000 taels of silver for the opening of the Governor's Mansion, so Yan Liqiang can now use more than 500,000 taels of silver.

At this time, Yan Liqiang had a feeling that the silver that God had asked those Shatu people to prepare for him was ready to be spent here.

To do big things, of course, it costs a lot of money.

And the reason why Yan Liqiang asked the Lu family for help was really because what he had to do this time was very big, and the cost was huge, and neither he nor Yan Dechang had anyone around him who could coordinate and control this scene, at this point, although Zhou Hongda was the current housekeeper of Yan Liqiang's family, but this kind of thing, Zhou Hongda had never experienced it, had no experience, and lacked such ability, Zhou Hongda's characteristic was diligence and loyalty, so he asked Old Man Lu to send a capable steward and bookkeeper from the Lu family to use it. These stewards and accounts of the Lu family have experienced the scenes and experiences of the Lu family, and everything is in order, and they are naturally good at grasping this kind of thing.

Yan Liqiang and the Lu family are so "invisible", and directly use the people of the Lu family to do things for themselves, which makes the old man Lu very happy, so this time the old man Lu sent Yan Liqiang is also the "elite general" of the Lu family.

"Then in addition to the expansion of Liuhe Town, I heard that Gongzi also wants to open a bow club, is this bow club also in Liuhe Town?"

"The Archery Society is not in Liuhe Town, but it will not be far from Liuhe Town, I am going to put it on the side of Baizhang Mountain, do not occupy the fertile land on the side of Liuhe Town, just buy a piece of wasteland and woodland next to the mountain, this matter is also considered by the Lu Steward, when the time comes, the Arbow Society will also build some houses and venues, just follow the set of the martial arts hall, as for the silver, I still say the same thing, the Lu Steward does not have to worry, you just need to spend it, if it is not enough, tell me......"

"Then I wonder how many people the Kyudo Society's venue is going to accommodate?"

"Steward Lu thinks that if I put out the name of the Aryudo Society, how many people will want to sign up?" Yan Liqiang asked rhetorically.

"This ......" Steward Lu frowned and hesitated, "It's really hard to say, with Gongzi's reputation in Ganzhou today, if the news that your archery hall is going to recruit people is released, I'm afraid that there will be people in the entire Ganzhou who want to come, and Pingxi County will come even more, how many can come, then I can't guess!"

"Then let's go according to the scale of two thousand people first!"

"Two thousand?" Steward Lu confirmed, looking at Yan Liqiang's appearance, this number is still a bit conservative, but the martial arts hall in the entire Pingxi County has the largest number of people only a few hundred, and the two thousand people of the Archery Society, if you really want to get it, it is already the number one in Pingxi County.

"Yes, there are only two thousand people, the first batch of students of the Archery Society, I will only recruit the children of Pingxi County, and those outside Pingxi County will not be recruited for the time being, you can just consider it according to this scale!"

"Okay, I understand!" Lu Wenbin nodded.

The two of them were chatting, and outside the study, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Zhou Hongda's voice sounded outside, "Childe, now that the mutton outside is roasted, the master is going to divide the sheep, let Childe go over and ......"

"Okay, you tell my father, I'll come right away!" Yan Liqiang said in the room, and then looked at Lu Wenbin, "Let's get here today, let's go, Steward Lu, let's go outside to eat roast sheep, if there is a problem later, let's talk!"

Lu Wenbin nodded and stood up first, "Childe, please ......"

Yan Liqiang then came directly to the yard outside Yan's house, there were thousands of people in the yard, one by one around the bonfire, sitting on the ground, roasting sheep, watching the big show, a group of half-grown children in the town were happily placing the finished sky lanterns around the yard, that is, Kong Ming lanterns, that scene, unrestrained and cheerful, this is the style of Ganzhou.

Yan Dechang and Qian Su sat together and talked, and the two people who drank some wine had slightly red faces and looked a little cute.

Dividing the sheep is also one of the etiquettes of the feast, Yan Liqiang directly took the Lu steward to the main seat near the stage and sat down, Yan Dechang asked people to lift the whole sheep on the bonfire with the smell of oil, stood up and operated, cut off all parts of the whole sheep, and distributed them to the leading people in the surrounding Liuhe Town.

The sixth grandfather divided the head and tail of the sheep alone, there is a head and a tail, which is a respect for the sixth grandfather, and the others have divided some parts of the sheep.

Yan Liqiang divided a sheep's trotter and a lamb chop.

Yan Liqiang just wanted to start eating, but in the crowd next to him, an uncle who was slightly drunk suddenly stood up and said loudly to Yan Liqiang, "Everyone knows that Liqiang is our ...... Our Qinghe County's Guoshu County is the first in the top three, and the martial arts are naturally powerful, so I don't have to say it......" The uncle burped, shook his body twice, and gave a thumbs up to Liqiang, "But the villagers have heard that Liqiang is like a god in your bow, and you have a great reputation in the imperial capital, even the emperor Lao'er said that Liqiang is powerful, and the villagers have never seen Liqiang's archery, I don't know...... I don't know if you can show the villagers tonight, so that everyone can open their eyes and see what is so powerful about the bow that can be taught to the prince of the Han Empire, everyone said that my proposal is good......"

"Okay......" As soon as the uncle finished speaking, a large number of applause sounded around him, and the atmosphere in the yard was suddenly encouraged.

Yan Liqiang turned his eyes and looked fixedly at the uncle who proposed to let him show his hand, and found that the uncle didn't have any other thoughts in his head, he was really just out of curiosity, wanting to see what kind of archery cultivation could make the emperor praise. Not to mention that the person was curious, even Yan Dechang, Qian Su, and Lu Steward, Zhou Tiezhu and others who were sitting next to Yan Liqiang heard this proposal, and they all showed interested looks, because Yan Liqiang's bow cultivation was really not shown in front of these people, and everyone wanted to see it after hearing too many rumors.

"Liqiang...... This, the villagers are here today, everyone is so interested, they all want to see your ability, if you are not embarrassed, show your hand to the villagers!" Yan Dechang said.

Now that Yan Dechang has spoken, where does Yan Liqiang still have a reason to excuse himself, as soon as he beckoned, Hu Haihe came to his side, "Go and bring my strong bow and quiver!"

"Yes, Childe!" Hu Haihe bowed and trotted towards the Yan family's compound.

Today, Yu Qing was in the back kitchen listening to Wu's mother's instructions and doing things, so until now, Yan Liqiang has not seen Taiqing at the banquet.

Under everyone's expectations, in just a moment's effort, Hu Haihe carried the bow bag and quiver of Yan Liqiang's twenty-stone strong bow.

"If you want to shoot arrows, you can't naturally have no goals...... Yan Liqiang smiled, pointed to the harvested ridge three or four hundred meters away from the yard, and said loudly to a group of teenagers and children in the town who were just busy lighting the sky lantern not far away, and now they were standing in place one by one, staring wide and wanting to see their hands exposed, "Whoever can run to that ridge as quickly as possible, put the sky lantern in his hand into the sky, put a lamp, and I will give him a tael of silver!"

As soon as the group of children heard that they could earn a tael of silver by putting a lamp, and there was such a good thing, so Hula, a large group of children took the sky lantern in their hands and ran towards the ridge pointed by Yan Liqiang.

The children were extremely fast, hundreds of meters away, and they all ran to the ridge in just two minutes, and then lit the sky lantern made of cotton paper, thin bamboo slices and cotton balls dipped in a little oil.

In a moment, a Kong Ming lantern floated up on the ridge in the distance and slowly flew into the air.

There was no sound in the yard, only the occasional cracking sound of the firewood in the piles of bonfires, and even the troupe singing big opera on the stage stopped after the completion of a show, and everyone held their breath to see how Yan Liqiang was going to behave......

Everyone was waiting for Yan Liqiang to make a move, but Yan Liqiang was not in a hurry.

The Kong Ming lanterns rose to the sky one after another, there were just seven in total, and the Kong Ming lanterns placed in the sky continued to rise, and as soon as the wind blew, they drifted away all of a sudden, and they were scattered in the sky.

Yan Liqiang didn't look in a hurry, but slowly took out the bow in the bow bag, and calmly looked at the seven Kong Ming lanterns flying high in the night sky.

In just two minutes, the seven Kong Ming lanterns floated extremely high, flew extremely high, almost flew out of everyone's sight, and became just a shining point of light like the starlight in the sky, Yan Liqiang still just watched calmly.

When a person in the yard had a strange face, and he already felt that it was impossible for anyone to shoot the seven Kong Ming lanterns at this distance, Yan Liqiang made a move.

Yan Liqiang shot two arrows in less than half a second, the first arrow, he grabbed four arrows with one hand and shot them out, and the second arrow, he grabbed three arrows with one hand and shot out.

Yan Liqiang's hand was like lightning, and after the two arrows were shot, others didn't even see his movements clearly.

"It's ugly, it's ugly!" Yan Liqiang handed the bow to Hu Haihe and smiled at the surrounding villagers.

What does this mean? The seven Kong Ming lanterns are still lit in the sky, why are you ugly?

Many people in the yard blinked, but they didn't react yet.

Then, at almost the same time, the seven Kong Ming lanterns in the sky were extinguished at the same time, and in the eyes of everyone, it was like seven stars in the sky were extinguished at the same time......

"Good ......"

"Good!"

"Divine skill, it is indeed a divine skill......" The six grandfathers were trembling with excitement.

"It's like an arrow falling from a star, an arrow falling from a star!"

It took more than ten seconds for the tsunami-like cheers and frantic shouts to sound in the yard......

This night, Yan Liqiang's archery stunt shook the entire Liuhe Town, and his stunt of falling into the stars also spread throughout Pingxi County and Ganzhou at once......