Chapter XXXIII: The Formation of a New Army
"Uncle Seven, in fact, it's pretty good to be a county magistrate, there's nothing to do for a day, raise flowers, tease birds, sit here and judge the case if something happens, and live quite freely!"
Li Yue teased with a relaxed face.
"You're at ease, but what about these people down there? They would all starve to death without you, and now I think most of the people in this county want to follow you! ”
Uncle Seven said with a sigh on his face.
"Uncle Seven, why do I think you're not praising me by saying this? Where are they coming with me? That is to follow the grain, in this world, whoever has food is their father! ”
Li Yue couldn't help but sigh and said.
"You're right, if there was enough food, there wouldn't be so many displaced people, let alone so many rebels."
There was some emotion between the seventh uncle's eyebrows, and at this time, Gao Wu happened to walk to the county hall.
"Young master, I came down this day to copy the grain and some gold and silver from the homes of seven wealthy gentry, and together with one piece, it is enough to cover ten years of taxes in a county town."
Gao Wu said excitedly.
"What? Just the wealth and grain looted by the seven families can last ten years? In this county, there must be twenty or thirty rich families, right? Looks like we're sending it again. ”
Li Yue slapped his thigh with joy, stood up, stepped forward, looked at Gao Wu with an excited face, and reached out to beat his chest.
"Haha, young master, what you said is right, as far as I know, there are a total of thirty-five big households in the entire Huanggang City, and if you copy them all, you can feed 100,000 soldiers."
Gao Wu said unintentionally, but after Li Yue listened, he fell into deep thought, and his heart was extremely emotional.
"It all shows that the end of the hunger is all over the wilderness, and there is no food to eat, but I didn't expect it, just take out a big family and get fat, it seems that this is the country is poor and the people are rich, no, it should be too fat for moths."
Li Yue was full of emotion in his heart, and at the same time looked at Uncle Seven meaningfully.
"Young master, now we are mainly settling down in one place, give me two months, and I will definitely train an iron army for you."
Uncle Seven said with a serious face.
Hearing this, Gao Wu was stunned for a moment, and then directly knelt on the ground.
"Young Master, I am willing to form a new army together around Uncle Seven."
Gao Wu was very respectful and seemed to hand over the military power very easily, but what he said in the end made Li Yue fall into deep thought.
"Just leave the matter of training soldiers to Uncle Seven, you are a famous general, sent to train new soldiers Qu Cai, and now that I am also employing people, there are still a few small counties in the entire Huangzhou Mansion waiting for you to clean up!"
Li Yue looked at Gao Wu with a solemn face, stretched out his hand to help him up, both of them seemed to be very sincere, but they each had other plans in their hearts.
"Young Master, what are you talking about? I was born as a member of the Li family, and I am also a ghost of the Li family when I die. ”
Gao Wu immediately expressed his loyalty, and at this time, the seventh uncle also smiled and limped forward.
"Haha, Gao Wu, it's just a correspondence between the two of us, I just saw you and left in a hurry, I haven't had time to talk about it yet, today we are not drunk and will not return."
The seventh uncle grabbed Gao Wu and looked at Li Yue, as if he wanted to take leave.
"It's a pleasant thing to eat and drink, but you can't miss the business, one of you will train me and the other will give me money, you two will drink too much, see if I don't spank your ass."
Li Yue said helplessly.
"Okay, young master, I have also been fascinated by Uncle Seven for a long time, and I really want to make friends with him, and I also want to have a good drink tonight."
Gao Wu immediately followed the seventh uncle and left the county office, and the performance of the two seemed to be for Li Yue.
As soon as they came out of the county office, both of them consciously kept a certain distance from each other.
After seeing the two of them leave, Li Yue's originally smiling face immediately calmed down.
"Talents, there are too few people, where are there people who can really be used!"
Li Yue shook his head helplessly, and then returned to the inner hall to visit Old Lady Li.
At this moment, Mrs. Li was being served by four maids, bathing and changing clothes, and the whole person looked a little more energetic.
Old lady Li asked the two maids to support the bed that had just returned to the room, and Li Yue walked in.
"Grandpa, aren't you sleepy this time? Seeing you like this, you should have slept all the night's sleep. ”
Li Yue said helplessly.
"You stinky boy, why are you still teasing me?"
Old Lady Li's spirit had almost recovered at this time, but there were still some bruises on her face, and it seemed that toxins were still remaining in her body.
"You know about Fu Bo's affairs, I think it will take two months to train an army that can scare them, and then take back the Li family."
Li Yue said very solemnly.
"Don't you think it's a little late for two months? Our Li family is a medical family that started by selling medicines, and there should be three or four hundred thousand taels of silver outside the province in two months. ”
After Old Lady Li said this, Li Yue was also surprised.
What he never expected was that the Li family's business in other provinces would be so good, and the income in one or two months could actually be three or four hundred thousand taels.
"Grandpa, why is there so much money? Our Li family won't also resell grain and private salt weapons! ”
Li Yue said with a look of surprise.
"You stinky boy, our Li family has never done such a thing, food and salt weapons, which one is not the whole family's destruction!"
Old lady Li said helplessly.
"Then why is there a receipt of three or four hundred thousand taels!"
Li Yue asked puzzled.
"Do you know how many people are in the direct family of the Li family, and do you know how many people our entire Li family has to support?"
Old Lady Li said meaningfully.
"I don't know, could it be that all this money is the people who support our Li family?"
Li Yue frowned, and when he heard these words, he immediately thought of why Da Ming perished at this time.
The main reason is also to raise some clan people, almost a dozen people have a surname Zhu.
"Our Li family in the entire Huainan Mansion, the direct plus side branch must be about 250,000 yuan, if you count the relatives outside the side branch to 500,000, you can't stop it."
Old Lady Li said bitterly.
"There are so many people, how can I not feel that there are so many people in our Li family? That Fu Bo mastered the Li family, which means that he occupied the Li Mansion. ”
Li Yue realized at this time that what the Buddha occupied was only the tip of the iceberg of the Li family, and it was not even shaken at all.
"You're right, the Li Mansion he occupies is just an empty shell, and it has no effect, only to grasp the expenses of other provinces and the internal accounts of the Li family, and the entire Li family is still in our hands."
Old Lady Li said with a sneer.