[Ding - Congratulations to the host for recruiting a total of 1,860 people loyal to the manor and gaining 1 manor contribution point.] ]

This is the last prompt tone, Liu An opened the system panel to check, and the last serial number of the allegiance was 1862.

The last time the serial number was changed, Liu An had already taken a carving knife and wrote it on the bamboo slip he carried with him, he took out the bamboo slip to check, and the last record was 1676.

Removing the four who died in battle, this means that there are 190 people who are truly loyal this time, and 25 of them have not returned.

Liu An put on the scale armor again, asked Gao Sheng to follow him, came to the captives, checked the attributes one by one, and picked out the 25 people.

It's just that in order not to affect the prisoners who had just been loyal, Liu An asked these people in front of all the captives why they disobeyed the yang and the yin and pretended to take refuge.

As a result, although they were surprised that they were recognized, they still had no intention of repenting, and Liu An asked the reason.

It turned out that these people all had elders in the bandits' den, and they needed to provide for them.

Liu An didn't expect that these people were all filial people, praised them, and promised to bring their families and place them in the village to save their lives and provide them with food.

So 25 people bowed their heads to thank Liu An and joined one after another.

In addition to these 25 people, there are actually family members and elders among the rest of the thieves who are still in the bandits' den, but those people's ethics are not as good as these 25 people, and they are not as insistent on returning to their parents as they do.

Of course, it may also be the idea that he has the priority of saving his life and that only by living can he be filial to his parents.

Then Liu An inquired about the location of the bandits' den and its armament, and learned that the thieves' invasion had brought all the young and strong, and there were only the routed soldiers who fled back in the den at most, so he immediately asked Gao Sheng to gather three hundred sword soldiers, select a few lightly injured among the 25 people, and these people led Gao Sheng to rush to the bandits' den.

After Gao Sheng left, Liu An asked Xiahou Lan to arrange for someone to carry the seriously injured among the captives to the village to recuperate.

At this time, it was past noon, Liu An came to the place where the old and young women and children in the village were, informed everyone of the news that the thieves had withdrawn, and asked them to prepare to cook for Qingzhuang while appeasing.

At the same time, they were instructed to skin and cut the dead war horse outside the village and cook it.

In the place where the old and young women and children gathered, Liu An saw the craftsmen huddled in the corner, one by one with a frightened face, looking at him as if facing a fierce beast.

Liu An thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized that during this time, he had read a lot of Xiahoulan's books and roughly understood the laws of the Han Dynasty.

According to the Han law, the possession of crossbow arrows and armor is tantamount to rebellion, and the crime should be punished by the nine clans, and the hoarding of long-pole weapons is the same, and the number of swords and other weapons exceeding a certain number is also punished as the crime of rebellion.

Before, Liu An only took out 20 crossbows and 30 swords, and the craftsmen had not yet felt abnormal.

After all, although the Han law stipulates that crossbows and arrows and armor cannot be hidden, those big families in the city have hidden some armor and bows, crossbows, swords, and weapons, and they have long been accustomed to it, and they only think that Liu An is just to protect himself.

But now that the thieves are attacking, Liu An instantly armed seven or eight hundred Zhuangren, which makes them think about it too much.

If Liu An rebelled, would he and others have been helping the manor for so long, will they be implicated?

And the craftsman knows that he is an outsider after all, and when he sees Liu An's secret today, will he kill people?

Liu An led the escort team and called the craftsmen to a secret place, and said in a calm tone:

"I know what you are worried about, but I Liu An has no intention of rebelling, those weapons and armor were just bought with foreign traders and ready to be sold, but before I could sell them, I encountered today's incident."

Hearing Liu An's words, a few of the craftsmen were stunned, and the others were skeptical.

Liu An said: "I also know about trade with foreign countries, and Gongsun County Zun also knows, if you don't believe it, just ask." ”

When the craftsmen saw what Liu An said, they couldn't help but believe it, and Liu An looked harmless and kind, and he didn't look like he wanted to kill them, and everyone gradually stabilized, no longer as afraid as before.

Seeing this, Liu An continued: "From tomorrow, I will add 10 yuan to each of you, I hope you will go back and don't talk nonsense about today's affairs, the province is misunderstood by the imperial court." ”

When most of the craftsmen heard this, their faces were overjoyed.

What Liu An said is true or false, they only need to go to the county government to ask, but the wages are real, they are all small people, and the major affairs of the court have little to do with them, and what they get in their hands is their own.

Therefore, what they care more about is this kind of small things about people's livelihood.

Several of them confirmed Liu An's words, and after receiving Liu An's affirmative reply, most of them promised not to talk nonsense about today's events.

Liu An looked at the attributes of all the craftsmen in turn, and found that the appearance of most of them had increased a lot compared to before today, reaching more than 80, and he knew that they were not lying to deceive themselves.

And among them, there are seven or eight people who are only about 10 in phase, Liu An pointed out these people, and comforted those craftsmen with high compatibility, and asked them to go back and wait for dinner.

After sending off most of the craftsmen, Liu An asked his guards to directly take down the eight craftsmen in front of him, and forced them to admit themselves as the main ones with their lives.

These craftsmen are all afraid of death, otherwise they would not be afraid of becoming like this because they were worried about Liu An's rebellion.

As a result, Liu An did not waste much effort, and these eight people vied with each other to express their loyalty to Liu An from now on, and Liu An did whatever they asked them to do, without two hearts.

Liu An looked at the loyalty of everyone with dozens or even hundreds, sneered in his heart, and at the same time used the death card for the person.

Seeing that the loyalty had indeed become 100, Liu An was relieved.

It seems that you can also use the Death Card by coercing to confess the Lord, so that you don't have to kill people ruthlessly.

The use of such cruel methods is not what Liu An wants.

But in this world, if you are soft on others, you are cruel to yourself.

According to the nature of these eight people, Liu An believes that as soon as the front foot lets them go, the back foot of these eight people will report themselves to the court.

And those Liu An, who are highly phased, are not worried, they currently have a friendly attitude towards themselves and will not report maliciously.

Even if he had the chance to go to the county office and see Gongsun Zhan, he would only ask Gongsun Chan if he knew about Liu An's trade with foreign countries, and at best, he would add that he had bought a large number of weapons to sell in foreign trade.

This will not threaten Liu An, but these eight people with extremely low phase will pose a threat to Liu An.

Although Liu Anxin was in pain after wasting eight dead soldier cards, it was acceptable to think that these eight people would be his own dead soldiers in the future, and he could say some good things for himself when he returned to the carpenter's pile and further dispel the doubts of the other people.

In addition, after subduing these eight people, Liu An also gained the contribution of recruiting a total of 1,890 loyal people and recruiting a total of 20 dead soldiers.

After sending the eight craftsmen back, Liu An found Xiahoulan and asked the names of the four Zhuang people who died in the battle and whether they had any family members.

Knowing that two of them still had a wife and a son in the village, Liu An personally went to Qu Ze to get 40,000 yuan and prepared to send it to the two wives.

When Liu An followed Xiahoulan to see the wives of the two people, they were lying on the bodies of the two and weeping bitterly, and Liu An blamed himself.

Because of themselves, they lost the breadwinner of their home, the woman became widows, and their children had no fathers.

Liu An didn't know how to comfort them, so he could only stand aside with a face full of shame.