Early the next morning, under the escort of Shi Feng's 1,000 personal guards, Lingwu left Jiangling City and went to the mansion to inspect the placement of troops and the progress of recruiting recruits.

Lingwu and his party went out of the city from the east gate. The Daelongjiang River flows eastward from the north side of Gangneung Fortress, nourishing large tracts of fertile land on both sides, and the long-term abundance of water makes the soil take on a deep black color. Less than five hundred meters from the city gate, there were seven or eight people in a large field by the side of the road. Lingwu pointed and said, "Let's go over and take a look, what are those people doing?" And they gathered around him to the edge of the field in front of him, which was very well located, on the right side of the road at the gate of the city. From a distance, there are no less than twenty acres. The people in the field were dressed in very tattered clothes, and they looked like slaves who had been working in the fields for a long time, but they were not wearing shackles, and Xiulian was a little curious. Who are these people? Those people also found the large group of people coming out of the city, but they did not expect these nobles to come to them, and they were obviously frightened, and they stayed where they were, and did not dare to move. Shi Feng's guards ran over and shouted loudly: "You guys come here, hurry up, your lord wants to ask you." ”

These people, who usually frightened the nobles, heard the shouts of the soldiers, and hurriedly ran over with a rolling belt, and knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Stand up and do not be afraid. I just wanted to ask you a few words, nothing wrong. Stand up. Seeing their condition, Lingwu hurriedly explained the reason and asked them to get up.

Kneeling at the front was a slightly older man, wearing a padded jacket with several holes in the cold weather, barefoot, shivering in the cold wind. Seeing Lingwu say this, he just kowtowed vigorously, and said, "Don't dare, don't dare, please ask the adult, please ask." ”

"Get up, I won't blame you."

"When the adults tell you to get up, you will get up, and you dare not listen to the words of the adults?" Shi Feng shouted.

Seeing Shi Feng's anger, this group of people hurriedly stood up, bowed their heads and didn't dare to make a sound.

"What are you doing so loudly? Don't scare them" Lingwu glared at Shi Feng, then pointed at the man and said, "Let me ask you, what were you doing here just now?" Who owns this land? I see you've got a lot of rocks here. ”

"My lord, our family just brought some stones and put them on the edge of this place, and only then did we find out where the boundary was. A few days ago, I heard from my son that this land belonged to the master in the city. The son said, "This man is very good, and he has lent us this large piece of land to plant." ”

"Oh, who is your son? I was able to borrow such a large piece of land. ”

"My lord, I don't understand what my son said that he was in a battalion under that master. Anyway, there are about 100 people around. ”

"It's not easy, your son is a camp. Now that the land is yours to plant, what are you going to plant? ”

"My lord, I really don't know what to plant in such a large area of land all of a sudden, this soil is so good, even better than the original land. If you plant some corn, it must be very large. ”

"Then you can plant corn, I don't understand this. I want to ask you, has all the land here been lent to people like you now? ”

"Borrowed, I heard from my son that all the people we came with the master this time borrowed land. The man who didn't have a wife gave back a female slave, and my son got one too. The old man pointed to a medium-sized girl behind him, who hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Hehe, it seems that Shi Yong is really fast! Not bad. Lingwu was very happy to see that his arrangement had been implemented.

"My lord, you can't call Lord Shi by his name, it's disrespectful to him. According to my son, Master Shi is the closest person to the master, and he is so powerful that he can kill a tiger with one hand. My son's strength is great, but I'm afraid he can't be afraid. If you annoy him, I'm afraid you'll be slapped to death with a single slap. ”

"You know what? Don't talk nonsense. Do you know who is in front of you? Shi Feng saw that what he said was not like words, and hurriedly stopped him.

"Don't scare him, let's go, let's take a look elsewhere" Lingwu didn't care, and stopped with a smile. Turning around, he walked to the east, and the group hurriedly followed, leaving only the old and young who stayed there and did not know why. Lingwu asked while watching, and walked for more than ten miles, the general situation was similar, and everyone gradually lost the momentum they had just come out. Only Xiulian's head was full of confusion, what she saw just now was completely different from what he had experienced.

Seeing that the master had already walked a long distance, Shi Feng asked people to bring the chair over and asked Lingwu to sit on it and move forward. Unexpectedly, Lingwu didn't get into the sedan chair, and with a surprised "poof", he walked quickly to the front. He came to a slave girl in the field, and the woman also looked at Lingwu in a daze, not knowing what to do.

"What's your name?" Lingwu asked her.

"My mother calls me a big girl, are you?" But this woman is also bold.

"You don't know me, it's just that I just saw you holding this big rock alone, and I think you have so much strength! Will you pick it up again and try it? "Lingwu saw a person picking up a big stone from afar just now, at least three hundred pounds. With this kind of strength, ordinary people really can't do it. When she got closer, she was still a woman, Lingwu didn't believe her eyes, she wasn't much bigger than Xia Yu, how could she be so powerful?

"What's this, I'll take it away even if it's big, my mother calls me a big girl, just because I have a lot of strength. If you don't believe me, I'll show you. With that, the woman stood still on her feet, held the ends of the stone bar with both hands, and carried it to her chest with all her might, her face did not change and her heart did not beat. Then he threw the stone strip on the edge of the ground, patted the soil on his hand, and looked at Lingwu without speaking.

This hand shook the people who followed, who is this woman? Of course, the guards could easily carry the stone, but where had they ever seen a woman carry such a heavy object so easily. Lingwu was also stunned, oh my God, is this a woman? Looking at it this way, her strength is not much worse than that of a samurai.

"It's not easy, where did you get so much strength? You come with me, I haven't seen you so powerful" Lingwu immediately warmed up, thinking that women are weak, how do you know that women can be so powerful? It seems that the perception of women has changed.

"I've had a lot of strength since I was a kid. Why should I go with you? You're not my father," the eldest girl rejected him directly.

"Looks like you're only seventeen or eighteen years old, right? It's not easy. ”

"My eldest brother is the master's personal guard, and he has more strength than me." At this time, several people from the field came, some old and some young. Shi Feng and his guards also came around, but they didn't dare to come up and disturb them.

"Sister, who are you talking to?" A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy asked curiously.

"An adult here asked us who our master was, and asked me to go with him."

The young man looked at Lingwu seriously, looked at it vigilantly, and pulled his sister behind him: "Who are you?" This is the master's place, and you dare to mess around? ”

Shi Feng strode over at this time, and was about to speak, but let Lingwu wave his hand, and swallowed half of the words back into his stomach.

"Shi Feng, this girl named Big Girl and her brother and brother are really good, they are a good material. You let me know, and invite the three of them to me, and don't frighten them or force them. ”

When the eldest girl's younger brother heard this, he wanted to take them away, and stepped forward and was about to speak. The eldest girl behind him grabbed him and whispered: "Brother, don't mess around, that adult surnamed Shi should be a samurai, there are so many people behind them, you will suffer if you talk nonsense." ”

Lingwu's sense of hearing is so sensitive, he can hear it clearly, and he can't help laughing: "Don't look at the strength, the big girl is also very careful." Don't worry, Shi Feng, they won't bully you, your eldest brother knows who I am, and he will bring you to meet me. ”

At this moment, a group of people in the distance ran over quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were in front of them. The first person was Shi Yong, and Shi Feng hurriedly greeted him when he saw it.

"Big brother, you're here. I've been here for a long time, so come and meet you. ”

Seeing Shi Yong's group of people coming up, he knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute: "Shi Yong led his guards to see the master." If you are late, please forgive the master. ”

"Excuse me, I'm just here to see how you're doing. It seems to have done a good job, along the way, I saw that the relatives and relatives were busy marking the border" Lingwu was in a good mood and praised them greatly.

"Thank you, master, for the compliment, this thing is easy to do, so it's fast. Everyone was very happy, and the people who came over listened to our brothers in Kagawa all the way, and they were all drooling with envy, and they had been looking forward to this day for a long time. Everyone remembers your kindness, and says that where have you seen such a kind master, and this life is really blessed. Shi Yong said excitedly.

"Don't, let me ask you, do you know this girl's eldest brother?" Lingwu was still thinking about these three siblings.

"I don't know, little girl, who is your eldest brother?"

The eldest girl's family was stunned at this time, they had seen this Shi Yong. A few days ago, Shi Yong took his eldest brother and a group of people to give his family a share of land, and the eldest brother also said that Shi Yong was in charge of them, so he remembered it very clearly. Suddenly hearing Shi Yong call the young man in front of him a master, the family thought: "This person is the god-like character that the eldest brother said, doesn't it look like it?" ”

"This girl's eldest brother is in the army from Guiling Mansion, the three of them are very good, I want to use them, you find his eldest brother and bring him directly to see me, don't embarrass them." Shi Zhuang: How is their recruitment going? "Lingwu specially asked.

"My lord, Shi Zhuang and they have encountered some difficulties, and the situation is not very good now," Shi Yong replied with some embarrassment.

"Oh, let's get up and take a look, and talk as we go" Lingwu raised his feet and left, Shi Yong gave a few words to an entourage beside him, and immediately followed.

"Master, it's very troublesome for Shi Zhuang to recruit people this time. Thirteen to eighteen-year-olds are still young, and it's hard to find a decent one. In addition, there are few men in Gangneung Mansion now, and if they are recruited again, there will only be some women left, and everyone is unwilling. ”

"How so? In the past, it was very easy for us to recruit people, and whoever we liked would take them away, so there was no difficulty. ”

"My lord, it turns out that Jiachuan and Guiling are their own territory, and the slaves are also their own. Now that the slaves belong to the Zhang family, we have to take away the few remaining men, who wants to? Although it is said that it is to lend them land, but the land belongs to the Zhang family, and the people are also from the Zhang family, and the slaves are good, but it is all bad for the Zhang family. Forgive the slave to say boldly, this thing can't be done, Shi Zhuang is in a hurry, he has thought of many ways, but it doesn't have much effect" Shi Yong shook his head as he spoke, making Lingwu very unhappy.