More than 5,000 new troops began to exercise, and the people in Dengzhou City could hear the sound of war drums coming from the barracks every day, attracting many onlookers with good deeds.

Li Congyan handed over the training of the new army to Xu Hui, and ordered Sima Li Wei to coordinate relevant affairs. With his hands free, Li Congyan began to deal with some troubles.

Now the arsenal of the Dengzhou Thorn Mansion has been emptied, and all the armor stored in it has been transported to the new army barracks, but there is still a big gap. Dengzhou's armament is relaxed, and it has not been a large-scale military buildup for several years, which Li Congyan did not expect.

After counting, the new army still needs at least more than 3,000 collars of various armors, more than 1,000 horizontal swords, more gaps in bows and crossbows, and more gaps in arrows, and a lot of other scattered equipment.

However, at present, the output of the military workshops in the city is very small, and the craftsmen have fled so much that they have almost stopped working. Coupled with the shortage of funds in the Assassin's Mansion, it is not very realistic to want to fill the vacancy in the armor in a short period of time.

Li Congyan had no choice but to retreat and ask Sima Li Wei to collect all kinds of knives first, and use them first, and if it really didn't work, he would use wooden knives and wooden guns to replace them temporarily. As for the armor, it was temporarily abandoned, and it was used first by the generals and brave soldiers.

For several days, Li Congyan was planning and thinking in the mansion, and if he wanted to increase the wealth of the Assassin's Mansion in a short period of time, it was impossible to rely on taxes alone.

Nowadays, the people in Dengzhou are already poor, the exile is serious, the land is highly concentrated in the hands of the powerful family, and they can't collect a few dollars in a year, and the increase in taxes is completely to quench their thirst, so Li Congyan set his sights on "industry".

In the study, Li Congyan wrote on a piece of paper, listed the ways he thought were feasible to make money, and after thinking for a long time, he finally drew a circle on the three words glass, sea salt, and steelmaking.

"Let's start with these three industries!"

At present, he is the assassin of Dengzhou, and he has a team of thousands of people in his hands, and he still has the identity of the prince in name, even if he has such eye-catching wealth as glass and sea salt, he is not afraid of someone reaching out to snatch it in a short time.

After making up his mind, Li Congyan began to arrange, using one night to draw a sketch of the construction of the glass workshop and the Haiyan workshop, and then recalled the relevant knowledge of these two technologies, after all, these knowledge are already rotten streets in later generations, and you can search for a lot of them on the Internet.

Early the next morning, Li Congyan ordered Li Ren and Wu Conghan to raise manpower to requisition a dilapidated land temple in the east of Dengzhou City for the construction of a glass workshop, and at the same time enclosed a large area of tidal flats near the sea in the north of Dengzhou City for seawater drying and building a sea salt workshop.

"Construction will begin in these two places immediately, and at the same time, troops and horses will be drawn from the large battalion, and a brigade of soldiers will be mobilized to guard each place, and no one will be allowed to approach without my warrant!"

Li Congyan will prepare to build the glass workshop and the Haiyan workshop first, and after accumulating some funds, he will start making steel to build standard armaments and rearm thousands of new troops.

Wu Conghan and Li Ren took the sketches from the two places and looked at them carefully, and they both looked embarrassed.

Wu Conghan said: "Lord, if you build according to these two sketches, the cost will be very large, and the daily expenses of the treasury to support the new army are already very difficult, are these two workshops built simply?" Or, wait a little longer and do it? ”

Li Congyan naturally knew that it would be difficult for the Assassin Mansion to come up with a large amount of money and grain for construction at this time, so he came up with a countermeasure last night and said: "It's not difficult, I have a way to build two workshops without spending money." ”

Wu Conghan and Li Ren looked at each other, they didn't believe it, and they were about to ask, Li Congyan said with a smile: "You go and gather people to prepare for construction, and I will solve the matter of money and grain." ”

"Whoa!"

Later, Li Congyan summoned Li Siye and Chen Zhu and talked for a long time in the backyard, and the two did not leave the Assassin's Mansion together until evening.

Out of the Assassin's Mansion, Li Siye and Chen Zhu did not return to the barracks, but took Li Congyan's warrant and went out of Dengzhou City directly.

Two days later, the Chen family in Huang County.

Chen Zhu stood in the side hall and looked at his father silently, only to see Chen Dongli frowning and thinking about something.

"Are you saying that Li Tingshi wants to hand over the sea salt business to us? Selling salt without permission is a great crime to kill the head and exterminate the clan! What does this mean? ”

"You want to join the army and do a career, I agree; You wrote to say that Li Tingshi is a hero, and you want to make more friends, and I also went to the Assassin's Mansion in person. Now that Li Tingshi has handed over such a hot matter to our Chen family, what does this mean? ”

Chen Zhu said: "What Grandpa said is that I was also shocked when I first heard about it. However, what Li Tingshi said is very certain, from the Assassin's Mansion to the land, technology, and people, our Chen family will pay for the construction of the Haiyan Workshop together. Then the sale of sea salt will be in charge of our Chen family, and the new army of the Assassin Mansion will be responsible for providing protection, and the profit will be six or four points, and our Chen family will be divided into forty percent! ”

"In this way, our Chen family will not suffer, and will make a lot of money, just ......"

Chen Dongli said worriedly: "What should the imperial court do once it finds out? ”

"Grandpa, the Assassin's Mansion will cover it up on his behalf, since Li Assassin has proposed this plan, I think there will definitely be a backhand."

Chen Dongli thought for a while when he heard this, sighed and said, "You say, is Li Tingshi really so short of money that he actually started the idea of Haiyan?" ”

Chen Zhu nodded and said, "It should be true." Li Tingshi not only found our Chen family, but also found the Li family in Penglai County, and promised to provide the Li family with the technology to produce glaze, and also asked the Li family to pay for it and operate it together! ”

"What!"

Chen Dongli was taken aback, thought for a while, and said, "In this way, Li Tingshi really wants to do a big job, but I don't know if this matter can be done for a long time." ”

"Grandpa, the Penglai Li family has always been at odds with our Chen family, and we don't mention the open and secret battles on weekdays, do you remember the purchase of farmland in the south of Dengzhou the year before last? The Li family bullied others, obviously our Chen family first made a deposit to circle 30 hectares of cultivated land, but the Li family still forcibly took away the cultivated land, why? Isn't it that the Li family is familiar with the three major families, and they have something to rely on! ”

Chen Zhi said angrily: "If our Chen family doesn't keep up with today's affairs, the Penglai Li family will definitely go further with the help of Li Tingshi's power, and our Chen family will have no future in the future!" ”

The Chen family in Huangxian County was originally a new small family, and it was only a few generations of people who had been passed down to the full, and they suffered from the eyes of other families on weekdays. Today, the old man will take our Chen family to gamble! ”

The words are divided into two ends.

Li Siye returned to his home in Penglai County, but he did not see his father Li Tong.

Li Siye is a concubine, he likes to dance with guns and sticks on weekdays, and he is not liked by his father Li Tong, and this time he went to Dengzhou to join the army, and he went privately behind his father Li Tong's back, so you can imagine how angry Li Tong was after hearing the news.

Li Siye waited in the courtyard for a full hour before he saw his father Li Tong passing by here with a frosty face, followed by Li Sichu, Li Siming, and Li Sisheng.

Waiting for the father and son to enter the main hall and sit down, a servant came over and said, "Please let the fourth son in." ”

In the main hall, Li Tong did not say a word, the eldest son Li Xichu and the second son Li Siming looked cold, the eldest son Li Siming was a scholar and was very famous in Dengzhou, and the second son Li Siming was in business and was in charge of most of the Li family's business and assets.

The third son, Li Sisheng, is also in business, but he only runs some corner businesses, and because he is good with Li Siye, he is very suppressed at home.

"You still know to come back? My Li family actually has a rebel like you! ”

Li Siye didn't explain anything, but just stated Li Congyan's proposal, and said with his crossed hands: "Grandpa is angry, this time Li Tingshi is full of sincerity, if our Li family can interfere in the glass business, we will definitely be able to ......."

"That's it!"

Li Tong interrupted Li Siye's statement, looked at his eldest son Li Sichu, and asked, "What do you think of this matter?" ”

Li Sichu was very jealous of Li Siye, since this matter was led by Li Siye, it would definitely not be able to achieve this matter, so he said: "Grandpa, think about it, this Li Tingshi is the prince who was deposed by the sage, how much trouble did he make when he first arrived in Dengzhou?" Such a person is destined to last long, and perhaps the saint's will of punishment is on the way. When the time comes, as soon as Li Tingshi falls, our Li family will have a glass business in hand, and that will be the scourge of extermination! ”

Li Tong was a little hesitant, after all, how profitable Liuli was, everyone knew that after listening to Li Sichu's words at this time, he was a little reluctant, but he was reluctant to make a profit.

At this time, the third son, Li Sisheng, crossed his hands and said: "Grandpa, I think this matter can be tried, the fourth brother also said just now, Li Tingshi also found the Chen family in Huangxian County." If we give up the glaze workshop, Li Tingshi is very likely to transfer the glaze technology to the Chen family. At that time, the Chen family will have a chance to soar into the sky! ”

Li Tong's expression changed slightly, he groaned, and said, "But this matter is a bit taboo after all. ”

The third son, Li Sisheng, saw that Li Tong was hesitant, and his heart was also unhappy, and he immediately said: "Since Grandpa has concerns, then leave this matter to me, I am a concubine, once something happens in the future, I and the fourth brother will bear it ourselves, and we will not be implicated in the clan!" ”

Li Siye also took the opportunity to cross his hands and said: "Grandpa think twice, this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, my Li family may be able to take this opportunity to go further!" ”

Seeing this, Li Xichu and Li Siming also got up to argue, and Li Tong immediately scolded the four of them, as if he had made up his mind, and said: "This time, you can help the Assassin Mansion to build a glazed workshop, but the ugly thing to say is clear: once Li Assassin has something to do in the future, my Li family will immediately withdraw!" ”

Then Li Tong looked at the third son Li Sisheng and said, "And the money distributed from the glaze workshop is eighty percent in the clan!" ”

A few days later, Li Siye and Chen Zhu returned to Dengzhou and returned to Li Congyan.

A few days later, the Li family in Penglai and the Chen family in Huangxian County delivered money and grain to the Thorn Shi Mansion in batches, and Li Ren and Wu Conghan had already mobilized enough people.

Through this time, Li Congyan realized the power of the family clan.

The Li family of Penglai and the Chen family of Huangxian County are just two small families that do not enter the stream, so they solved their urgent needs in one fell swoop, tens of thousands of dollars of money and tens of thousands of stones of grain will be raised in a few days, and the follow-up money and grain will continue to be sent.

Li Congyan began to seriously consider combining the strength of the family to develop his strength, but he was a little worried in his heart, afraid that he would be restrained and empty by the power of the family.

Li Congyan thought for a long time, and suddenly thought that a large number of families were slaughtered during the Huangchao Rebellion, so that now the power of the families in various places has actually been greatly weakened, so he laughed: "Use its strength, borrow its momentum, and not be controlled by it!" ”

"I have a strong army in my hands, and I am not afraid of the constraints of the family!"