This night ended when the ruffian transported the horses into the old turtle slope and Zhao Siqi led the tired and tattered soldiers back to the team.

After returning to the old turtle slope, Ling Yi and the others drove the horses directly to the valley where they had been training, the grassland here was already fat and green, and the horses were galloping happily on it, Zhang Cheng, as a veteran who loved horses, was quite handy to raise!

Zhao Siqi was happily riding his mount every day, of course, in his new tent with the lights dark!

In the next few days, Ling Yi transferred a large number of people from Tianyu City to take care of the horses. Most of them are relatives of ruffians, so they can also take care of each other.

In order not to attract the attention of the superior officers, Ling Yi did not include these horses in the category of military horses, and they were all raised at his own expense.

Farms and ranches, although they have been established, are not yet self-sufficient, and now with so many horses to take care of, coupled with the operation of the Shenwu Society, Ling Yi is facing a huge problem.

The family is a big business, the most headache is the problem of funds, with the previous savings, a short period of time Lingyi can still support, a long time, he will face the problem of shortage of funds, now he has never had his own industry, can not form a supply chain, according to the operation of the farm, at least in the summer, the first batch of wheat ripe after they have a harvest, now the pasture and horse farm are using foreign forage, the daily expenses are not small.

He is a hands-off shopkeeper, and he never speaks when he is in trouble, but Ling Yi knows their difficulties.

Therefore, he recruited Sun Ze and a few people to his side, and planned how to go next?

At the same time, Zhang Cheng also participated in the meeting, he was desperate for Lingyi, and Lingyi did not hide it from him.

First of all, Ah Hai introduced the operation of the past few months according to the content of the letter that Yu Shi gave him.

Listening to the daily expenses, Ling Yi knew that he had thought things too simple himself!

There were more than 4,600 relatives in Ruffian, and the daily food expenses were four or five hundred taels of gold, plus accommodation and other expenses, and no less than 60,000 taels of gold were spent in three months.

In addition, the five farms and two ranches that Wan Xi took down cost a total of millions of funds, not to mention more than 100,000 taels of gold for three months' daily expenses.

The Shenwu Society is still breaking even, but now the relatives of the ruffian and the people of the Shenwu Society are all living on farms and gangs, and this is not a long-term thing, according to Ling Yi's previous promise, if you want to give these people a safe place to live, you have to build them a house, and how much is the expense.

Lingyi gave them a chance to survive, they don't have to think about it so much, at least in Zhang Cheng's opinion, Lingyi has done a good enough, people who originally didn't know each other, but after Lingyi's appearance, let them eat a full meal from the edge of survival, have a stable home, live comfortably, and live happily.

But Lingyi can't be satisfied, since the people of Ruffian Tun are willing to follow their birth and death, then they have to take care of their families, and if they don't say that one day they will follow them to die on the battlefield, and if they can't settle their relatives well, Lingyi really can't let go!

Ling Yi listened to these figures, and his head grew for a while: "I don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, it seems that our foundation is not enough, the most important thing is that we don't have a self-sufficient industry, let alone those that can make money!"

Zhang Cheng heard Ling Yi's words, and he didn't know what Ling Yi's intentions were today, but he knew that he and others had brought too much pressure to Ling Yi!

When Zhang Cheng finished Lingyi's words, he continued: "Actually, those people in our family can make a living even if they are outside, you don't have to ......."

As soon as he heard Zhang Cheng say this, Ling Yi hurriedly stopped Zhang Cheng, who was still going to talk, and said: "Brother Zhang, you misunderstood what I meant, I called you over today, not to listen to my complaints, let alone to let your relatives leave, we just want to find a good way out, we still have a long way to go together in the future, I will talk to you about some things first!"

Zhang Cheng knew that he had misunderstood Ling Yi, but he still insisted and said: "You have given us enough, we can't be a burden to you!"

Before Ling Yi could speak, he heard Ah Hai open his mouth first: "Brother Zhang, my brother is not what you think, and my brother is not a person who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge, or is a person whose words don't count." ”

Saying that, Ah Hai stood next to Zhang Cheng and said with a serious expression: "I know this best, you all think that my name is Wu Hai, and I am my brother's own brother, right?"

Zhang Cheng looked at Ah Hai suspiciously, and then looked at Ling Yi, the two really didn't have any similarities.

Ah Hai continued: "I was just a beggar back then, I couldn't even eat, when I was seven years old, it was my brother who took me in, and brought me to Haoran Academy, taught me martial arts, and accompanied me to practice, you see, for so many years, I haven't seen him dislike me, or treat me as a burden, he is not what you think, you listen to what he says first, after listening, I promise you won't say this!"

Zhang Cheng This is the first time to listen to Ah Hai talk about his life experience, he didn't expect such a naïve and warlike teenager to have such a childhood experience, he admires Ling Yi even more, seven-year-old Ling Yi actually has the courage to take in a beggar, but also teach martial arts, and bring it into Haoran Academy, his actions can be said to have changed Ah Hai's life!

Since he was a child, he has been such a caring, responsible, and unrequited Ling Yi, he knew that he had misunderstood Ling Yi, got up, Zhang Cheng bowed to Ling Yi, and said: "Ling Yi, I spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!"

"Brother Zhang, what are you doing here, don't be like this, let's discuss important matters first!" Ling Yi hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhang Cheng!

Zhang Cheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen!"

Since he wants to collect the ruffian for his own use, there are some things, Ling Yi is going to talk to Zhang Cheng first, at least let him know what his choice is!

Ling Yi took out a bottle of sorghum wine from the ring and handed it to Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng took it, took a sip directly, and praised: "Good wine!"

Looking at Zhang Cheng's appearance, Ling Yi asked, "Does Brother Zhang know what kind of wine this is?"

"Sorghum wine, haven't we all been drinking this kind of wine in the past few months?" Zhang Cheng was puzzled, not knowing what Ling Yi wanted to express?

Ling Yi continued to ask, "Then Brother Zhang knows who likes to drink with sorghum?"

"Like to drink sorghum wine?" Zhang Cheng frowned and said, "Northwest Yongzhou is good for sorghum wine, what's so strange?"

Hao Jun reminded on the side: "Who is Ling Yi asking, and where is it not?"

"What person?" Zhang Cheng didn't know how to answer, and then thought about it, Lingyi is a Jizhou accent, Ah Hai is a Yizhou accent, Sun Ze and Hao Jun are Jingzhou accents, it stands to reason that people in these places like to drink rice wine, but only a few people only drink sorghum wine, thinking for a while, Zhang Cheng jumped up: "Dongsheng, only the Wujiajun likes sorghum wine the most!"

Zhang Cheng looked at Ling Yi and asked incredulously, "Are you ......?"

Some words, he was excited, he couldn't ask at all, as a native of Bingzhou, he deeply felt the grace of Duke Zhongyong, if it wasn't for the old duke who rectified the grassland back then, his father would have been killed or starved to death by the cavalry of the Northern Wilderness, and there would be no him, he came to join the army, a big reason is to admire Duke Zhongyong, this belief has always supported him to persist until now.

People of his age have not experienced the era of the old duke's rectification of the grassland, but he has grown up listening to the old duke's stories since he was a child, not to mention him, even other ruffians also admire the old duke!

Ling Yi nodded, took a sip of sorghum wine, and said, "My surname is Wu, so I don't need to say it explicitly!"

With a "poof", Zhang Cheng knelt down on one knee: "Zhang Cheng of Bingzhou, I am willing to follow the martial army to death in this life!"

This time, Ling Yi didn't go to help Zhang Cheng, but handed the wine bottle to Zhang Cheng and said: "The standard wine bottle of the martial arts army will be given to you, but it can't be exposed now, you can only hide it in the storage bag first!"

As a result of the trembling hands, Ling Yi handed over the wine bottle, Zhang Cheng touched it with both hands, and there was really a word "Wu" on it.

This is Ling Yi modeled after his own wine bottle, and there is one with people close to him, which is a manifestation of trusting others!

Ling Yi looked at Zhang Cheng and said: "Grandpa and father take good care of the soldiers who have followed them, even if they are relatives, they will take care of them accordingly, and I am just inheriting their wishes." My father once said: One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, but there are still thousands of relatives to take care of after ten thousand bones, and if you can accompany you, you must let them have no worries!"

Saying that, Ling Yi helped Zhang Cheng up, he didn't expect that he would become a martial artist one day, this is his dream and regret!

Ling Yi asked Zhang Cheng to sit down and said, "I can't say this yet, please keep it secret for me first!"

Zhang Cheng nodded and promised, even he didn't believe that Duke Zhongyong would be defeated and the martial arts would participate in the rebellion, he guessed that there must be a conspiracy for the fall of the martial arts, and now the extinct martial arts family has another descendant, which means that the martial arts family is definitely involved in a big conspiracy!

Ling Yi said to Zhang Cheng: "I joined the army for a purpose, one is to find out what happened back then, the second is to take revenge, and the third is to take revenge! Not to mention the things of the past, it is not a simple matter to take revenge and fulfill my grandfather's last wish and welcome back the loyal bones of the burial city!"

Zhang Cheng didn't bother Ling Yi and let him continue.

Ling Yi said: "To complete what I just said, I must have my own power, otherwise everything is empty talk, and you are my mainstay, I have too many things to rely on you in the future!"

Zhang Cheng said: "Since I am already a member of the martial arts army, I will definitely fully support you, and of course, Ruffian Tun will also fully support you!"

"Thank you, this is what we need to discuss today, we don't have enough financial resources, not to mention revenge, it's a problem to take care of everyone, I just want to ask you to help come up with ideas!" Ling Yi said the purpose.

Zhang Cheng was not thinking about it at this time, he knew that since Ling Yi dared to tell him such an important secret, it was naturally Ling Yi who trusted him, if he was a mother-in-law and mother-in-law, it would be disgusting, and now what he had to do was to plan for Ling Yi, or contribute!