Song Jiaping looked at his tearful daughter and was very distressed: how can there be such a thick-skinned person in the world, and he is also the head of a clan, acting like this in broad daylight is no different from a scoundrel, it is really a loss of identity as the head of a clan, how can the Li family let such a person serve as the patriarch

Wang Ruofang took her daughter's hand: Old man, where else can you sit and stay The people of the Li family were shouting outside

Outside the courtyard of the Song family, Li Song felt that there were too few people brought in today and the momentum was not loud enough, so he simply hired villagers to help shout in Luolun Village

Li Song shouted with all his might: Fellow villagers, today is the day of my brother's proposal, and anyone who helps shout will give 100 copper coins a day

The villagers who watched the excitement on the sidelines discussed: You heard that there are so many 100 copper coins, which is the money that can only be earned by working normally for two days

Another villager: How can there be such a good thing, I think it is these rich children who are teasing us villagers

Li Song was a little unhappy when he heard the words of the villagers, and reached into the package and took out a string of copper coins and handed them to the villagers

When the villagers saw that they really gave so much money, they rushed to help and shouted

The villagers smiled and weighed the copper coin with their hands: I didn't expect that the people of the Li family were still very trustworthy

Soon, more than 100 people gathered and shouted in unison: The head of the Li family has come to propose to the Song family, and the people inside will come out to pick up the relatives

When Song Jiaping heard it in the courtyard, he was furious and shouted like thunder: Someone is coming

A housekeeper hurriedly came: What does the master command?

Song Jiaping pinched his waist with both hands and panted: Go and call all the family members in the house to get the guys, and go out with me Those shameless people who dare to walk outside the door

With a squeak, the gate of the Song family opened, and Song Jiaping walked out with more than 20 family members holding wooden sticks

Li Yang stepped forward and put his hands up and bowed half-bowed: My nephew came to see Uncle Song today

Song Jiaping pointed at Li Yang with his finger: Don't dream, the old man will not marry his daughter to you

Li Yang smiled: Uncle and nephew promised that if I could get Song Shiting, I would treat her well and never let her suffer the slightest grievance

Song Jiaping was still expressionless: The old man advises you to die of this heart as soon as possible

Li Yang: Dare to ask my uncle how to marry my daughter

Song Jiaping looked at Li Yang in front of him and refused to stop there, thinking that such endless consumption with him would only make others laugh, so I simply found a bigger reason to let him retreat

Song Jiaping leaked a sly smile: Seeing that you are sincere, the old man will give you a chance, if you can become Lord Taizhou one day, I will marry my daughter

Li Yang asked Li Song in a puzzled low voice: What is the matter with this lord

Li Song: Boss, this lord is a symbol of status, which is divided into eight classes, namely-baron-viscount-count-marquis-duke-county-prince-king, etc., which can be a parent or command soldiers

Li Yang didn't think much about it when he heard it, so he simply agreed: Okay, Uncle Song, then we will make up our minds, and I will leave my nephew first

Song Jiaping looked proud, twisted his beard with his hand, and leaked a smile: Okay, let's say yes

Song Jiaping watched Li Yang and the others leave, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and relieved, thinking that a small civilian would never become a lord

Song Jiaping walked into the courtyard beautifully, humming this little song in his mouth

Wang Ruofang asked with a puzzled face: Old man, you sent the people of the Li family away

Song Jiaping looked proud: The old man just played some tricks and the people of the Li family left, and these stunned young men fought with the old man and became a little tender

Song Shiting inserted tears: How could the people of the Daddy Li family leave so easily

Song Jiaping did not shy away from it: I made an agreement with the head of the Li family, that is, one day when he becomes a lord of the party, the old man will marry you to him

Song Shiting cried loudly when she heard this: So I still want to marry him in the future

Song Jiaping comforted her helplessly: Daughter, you think that he can become a lord just by virtue of his small commoner, that is purely a fool's dream

Song Shiting was a little relieved when she heard this

Li Yang and Li Song and others set off to return to Alan Village, and happened to pass by Gad Town, so Li Yang took Li Song to the blacksmith shop

As soon as he came in, the blacksmith greeted him warmly and said, "Childe, you are here, I don't know what you want to forge this time."

Li Yang said: This time I have to forge 50 steel knives, I don't know if you can forge other weapons besides steel knives

The blacksmith then said: In addition to steel knives, you can also forge shields, steel guns, bows and arrows, etc., childe, you have been taking care of the business of the shop, I will give you some discounts, steel knives 500 copper coins - iron shields 500 copper coins - just guns 400 copper coins - bows 400 copper coins - arrows each 10 copper coins

Li Yang frowned when he heard this and said: Why is it so expensive this time

The blacksmith said helplessly: Childe doesn't know, now the price of iron ore has risen several times, and business is getting more and more difficult to do, and I am ready to go to another country to make a living

Li Yang: This time, I want to forge 50 steel knives, 100 iron shields, 100 spears, 100 bows, and 5,000 arrows, you can see how much it costs

The blacksmith calculated carefully and said: "Childe has a total of 155 silver coins, and I will give you 1,000 arrows if you take care of the shop so much."

Li Yang nodded slightly: How long will it take you to forge these things I ordered

Blacksmith: Childe, if you're in a hurry, I'll add more people to work day and night, and it should be enough for half a month

Li Yang nodded to Li Song

Li Song: This is 30 silver coins for you to make a deposit, and after half a month, everything is forged, and I am giving you the rest of the silver coins

When the blacksmith heard this, he hesitated: Okay, then I'll start forging at once

Li Yang, Li Song and the others left the blacksmith shop and rushed back to Alan Village, where Li Yang gathered the clansmen together for a family meeting

The mother sat in the back and didn't say a word, where did she close her eyes and recuperate

The second uncle twisted his beard: I don't know what to discuss at this family meeting

Since it was the first time to hold a family meeting, Li Yang also became serious: I summoned everyone to discuss it today, and I want to form a small private army to protect Alan Village

Everyone who said this was surprised

Li Song: It turns out that the boss asked the blacksmith to forge ordnance in order to equip private soldiers

The third uncle looked terrified: You really want to raise private soldiers, this is a crime of rebellion

The people began to talk about it

Li Yang: The private soldiers I am talking about are actually similar to family members, isn't the reason why Han Wenshan was able to run rampant in Taizhou is because he has hundreds of family members, and I haven't seen the official family arrest him for questioning

The second uncle closed his eyes: According to the laws of the Great Zhejiang Kingdom, anyone who secretly conceals weapons and armor will be questioned according to the conspiracy

A clansman asked in a panic: Yes, patriarch, you have to think twice about this

Another clansman was a little frightened: Yes, this is a matter of life and death for our Li clan

If you want to say this, you can't blame these clansmen for opposition, everyone is an out-and-out farmer who lives on the annual grain harvest, but now you want to get some private soldiers, and if you can't get it, you have to lose your head, can you not object?

Seeing that the clansmen were talking about it, Li Yang fell into embarrassment

Li Song looked at Li Yang with a sad face and coughed lightly: You guys, this matter is actually not so serious, Zhejiang Guolu is the private possession of weapons and armor is regarded as a rebellion, but we are only forging some steel knives - steel guns for self-defense

There is no private possession of a piece of armor, so there is no rebellion, Han Wenshan's family members who take care of the gambling house-flower shop are not the ones who hang swords and dance swords

The third uncle took a sip of tea: I think this private soldier can be recruited, but don't make the scale too big, let's get the scale of a hundred people first, let's see the reaction of the official family before making a decision

Li Long hurriedly came out to help: Seeing that the harvest season is approaching, our Alan Village should have a private army to prevent the arrest of people

As soon as Li Yang heard that someone stood up to help him speak, he quickly took over the words: Then this matter is decided, and a hundred able-bodied people from the clansmen and villagers will be selected to form private soldiers

Only then did my mother open her eyes and say to Li Yang: Son, since my mother has said that the affairs of Li Jiazhuang are all left to you, you can rest assured and boldly do it, and your mother will support you, and you don't have to discuss everything with us, but this private soldier matter is said to be a family member to the outside world

Li Long got up excitedly: Young master, leave the matter of recruiting family members to me

Li Hu also got up: I would like to be with my brother

In this way, the Li family began to quietly recruit private soldiers

In the south of the Mingsiya continent, Fuguo sent envoys to the Shengming Empire, and Emperor Zhu Zhengqing received the envoys of Fuguo in the national capital

Zhu Zhengqing was sitting on a golden chair, he was wearing a golden round neck robe, a flying dragon embroidered with gold threads, a dark golden lychee belt tied around his waist, a wind-like hair, a pair of sharp eyes, a golden crown, a strong body, and a few golden balls in his hands

Nearly a hundred imperial officials stood in front of the emperor in four rows, and in the middle kneeled a person, who was the envoy of the blessed country

The envoy's face was happy: King Fu wished His Majesty the Emperor a long life and eternal hegemony, and brought 100,000 imperial silver coins to show his gratitude

Emperor Zhu Zhengqing leaked a smile on his face: I know King Fu's loyalty, and I will go back and tell King Fu that he will not treat him badly in the future

The envoy bowed his head: Thank you for the great emperor's love, the minister came this time and asked His Majesty the Great Emperor to fulfill it

The emperor was puzzled: What is the matter?

The envoy put his hands together: King Fu implored the Emperor to allow Fu to use troops to launch a national war against Zhejiang

Emperor Zhu Zhengqing suddenly stopped playing with the golden ball in his hand, sat up from the chair, stared meaningfully at the envoys of the Fu Kingdom, and thought that the Fu King was going to use troops against the Zhejiang State, and he didn't know what the hell the Fu King was fighting

Zhu Zhengqing: Why did King Fu suddenly want to use troops against Zhejiang

The envoy bent down respectfully: the border guards of Zhejiang often pretended to be mountain bandits and sea bandits to attack and harass the people on the border of Fuguo to seize money, cattle and sheep, etc., King Fu sent envoys to Zhejiang several times to ask for severe punishment of the border generals, although the king of Zhejiang agreed, but did not punish the generals of the country for a long time, so that the military and people of Fuguo were quite dissatisfied, and implored the emperor to uphold justice for Fuguo

Zhu Zhengqing thought about it for a while: You should step back first

The envoy suddenly slammed his head on the ground: Before leaving, King Fu said that if the emperor could approve the use of soldiers, Fu Guo would be willing to donate nearly 300,000 imperial silver coins to the empire every year in the future

The imperial officials present were all very surprised: what 300,000 imperial silver coins, this is a lot of money

Zhu Zhengqing waved his hand to signal the envoy to retreat, and the envoy got up and took a few steps back, then turned around and walked out of the palace

Emperor Zhu Zhengqing asked the officials under the court: Prime Minister-Generalissimo, what do you think?

Imperial Prime Minister Xiahou Jie stepped forward: I think King Fu's ambitions will not be limited to a small Zhejiang country

Generalissimo Cao Kui: The empire has 1.5 million troops, and the small Fu and Zhejiang countries can still turn the sky upside down, just take this opportunity to let the Fu country attack the Zhejiang country, no matter which side wins, it will consume their strength, if the Zhejiang country is defeated, then the empire will mobilize the army of the south in the name of upholding justice, and invade the Zhejiang country in one fell swoop to occupy its several states

Xiahoujie sighed: As soon as the war starts, the people of these two countries will suffer again

At this time, Emperor Zhu Zhengqing's eyes lit up: The prime minister will bother you to take a trip, and say that the empire has agreed to Fuguo's use of troops against Zhejiang

The Li family and the villagers in Alan Village were busy in a tight and orderly manner, Da Niu Er Niu led the villagers to do their best to dig wells to irrigate the fields, Li Long and Li Hu began to recruit private soldiers, and the strong clansmen and villagers continued to come to sign up, and more than 200 people were recruited in just two days

To put it bluntly, the private soldier is a militia armed force, and as long as you don't openly pull the flag and rebel, no one will care about you, which is a great thing for the seriously insecure Alan Village

Li Yang sorted out the books in the manor and Xiaozhuang Xiaozhou sisters, Li Yang also wanted to understand this unknown world through these books, and there were hurried footsteps outside the door, and Li Long and Li Song walked in quickly

Li Long was full of joy and panting: The young master didn't expect that this recruitment would be so smooth, and more than 200 people would be recruited in just two days

Li Yang was also very excited when he heard it: Okay-great, when the equipment is forged, it will be distributed immediately, first equip a hundred people, and the other hundred people must not be publicized in secret

Li Long smiled and nodded: Young master, don't worry, I understand this

Li Yang said to Li Song on the side: The second child will take a look at the relationship and ask the official family about the attitude towards the Li family's recruitment of private soldiers, and go to Gade Town to see how the customized equipment is forged

Li Song looked helpless: Boss, we really don't have anything to do with each other to move around

Just this sentence made Li Yang instantly feel a bolt from the blue, the Li family is also one of the four major landlord families in Taizhou Mansion, and it is so bad that there is not even a person in the yamen to inquire about the news, no wonder the Zhang-Han-Song family will join hands and bully the Li family unscrupulously

Li Yang was careless: Let's put down the affairs of the official family first, how many silver coins can we have in the Li family's silver treasury, and how many acres of fields and wasteland can be cultivated

After pondering for a while, Li Song said: The boss now has 8,321 silver coins in the silver treasury, 10,000 acres of fertile land, and more than 4,100 acres of wasteland

After some discussion with his brothers, Li Yang decided to divide the clansmen and villagers into two groups, one was for the two brothers Li Long and Li Hu to train the newly recruited 200 private soldiers, and the other was for the three of Da Niu and Li Pingping, who were responsible for digging wells and irrigating the fields

In August 1523, Yuwenyuan, the king of Fuguo, ordered 120,000 troops to attack Zhejiang in Lanlincheng, the capital of the country, and ordered Yuwenhong, the capital of Fuguo, to lead 120,000 Fuguo Iron Army soldiers to march to Luoyang Pass and Fenshui Pass in Zhejiang Province in two ways, and the defenders of Zhejiang border pass resisted desperately

In the palace of Yufeng City, the capital of Zhejiang, there was a tense atmosphere, and there was a person in the main hall who was furious, this person was Lei Tai, the king of Zhejiang, and the officials all lowered their heads and didn't even dare to breathe

Lei Tai, the king of Zhejiang, slapped his thigh violently: Yuwenyuan, a bastard, dared to use troops against Zhejiang, everyone, tell me how we should deal with it

Miao Wenkang, the secretary of Taihe Temple, clasped his hands together: At present, the minister thought that he should send an envoy to the empire to ask the empire to mediate the matter, and at the same time send a righteous envoy to Fuguo

General Wang Ben suggested: The minister thought that Zhejiang should choose a good general to lead the troops of the whole country, and quickly support the border pass to prevent the death from defending the opportunity to fight

Lei Tai, the king of Zhejiang, stared at Wang Ben with his eyes: Who does the general think can lead the troops

Wang Ben glanced at the king of Zhejiang with his spare eyes: Shaoxing commanded Yue Hu and Wang Jian, the commander of the Iron Cavalry Corps, to take on this great task

When the king of Zhejiang heard this, he frowned slightly, thinking that the people recommended by the general were all his henchmen, and if he really handed over the soldiers of the whole country to them, he was afraid that it would be a disaster in the future

Lei Tai's eyes turned to the treasurer: How many troops can be formed by the treasury and grain and grass of Zhejiang State to go to the expedition now

After the treasurer made some calculations: he could raise an army of up to 60,000 people to go to war

When Wang Ben heard this, he thought to himself, it seems that the king of Zhejiang is not worried about the commander of my Wang family

Wang Ben waved his hand and was a little excited: No, this time Fuguo used 120,000 troops to attack the border pass, and the old man thought that Zhejiang would send at least 100,000 troops to support the border pass, and if Zhejiang lost this battle, Zhejiang would be over

Zuo Zhengshi Yang Qian stepped forward to give a salute: The lower officials thought that the prefectures should start collecting war taxes to increase the treasury money, silver, grain and grass

Wang Ben looked angry: When you finish the collection, I'm afraid that the Fu army will have entered the capital of Zhejiang

Lei Tai hesitated: ordered Shaoxing to command Yuehu to immediately reinforce the border pass with 60,000 troops, and ordered the government to collect war taxes and recruit 40,000 new troops to support the border pass

Miao Wenkang saw that the king of Zhejiang ordered Yue Hu to lead the troops to the expedition, and thought that when this battle was over, Wang Ben's influence in Zhejiang would be greater, and Yue Hu and Wang Ben would also get a lot of land as a reward

This is not good, I also have to let my son and the clan go out with the army, first, to show loyalty to the king of Zhejiang, and secondly, to let them get some military merits and some rewards on the battlefield, so that in the future, they can consolidate the position of our Miao family for a certain official and half a position

Miao Wenkang coughed lightly and moistened his throat: The lower official implored the king of Zhejiang to allow the child Miao Bin and the Miao clan to go out with the army and have done their best to serve Zhejiang

When the king of Zhejiang heard this, a smile leaked on his face, and he thought that he couldn't let the Wang family grow like this, since the Miao family stood up, I couldn't help but be a favor, let Miao Bin go out with the army, let him be a supervisor, and use the power of the Miao family to fight with the Wang family

Zhejiang King Lei Tai: The Miao family is really a loyal martyr, this king is approved, Taihe Temple is not idle to send envoys to ask the empire to mediate, Zhejiang is willing to offer 100,000 imperial silver coins to show loyalty

Miao Wenkang had a satisfied smile on his face: The minister took the order

Zhejiang, with Shaoxing commanding Yue Hu as the main general - Miao Bin as the supervising army and more than 10 generals, commanding 60,000 troops, rushed to the border pass