Soon, more than forty new military households gathered together and looked at Liu Yan with a little nervousness. The original twelve dun soldiers of Dapandun, as well as more than a dozen family members, also gathered in front.

Chen Xun and Wang Yue stood beside Liu Yan on the left and right, and the three of them stood facing everyone, and the open space in front of the Dapandun suspension bridge seemed to have become a meeting place.

Liu Yan looked around, and saw that all the dun soldiers and military households were looking at him respectfully, and the pride in his heart was also spontaneous. Now there are more than 60 people under him, which is considered to be some family background, and these people are the capital of his own business.

At this time, Chen Xun on the left had a firm gaze and was Liu Yan's absolute confidant. And Wang Yue on the right hand side is a signature sneer, with a villain on his face, Liu Yan doesn't bother to pay attention to it, as long as he can run errands for himself for the time being.

Liu Yan paused, and then said loudly: "Now the ten new brothers also have a place to live, this Dapandun is your new home, from now on, whether it is the original dun army or the new military household, they are all a family, and they are all my Liu Yan's comrades and siblings!" As long as you follow me Liu Yan to take care of the fields, you will have enough rations in the future, and you will be free from hunger and cold! ”

After Liu Yan opened the scene, he said his plan to open up wasteland along the Nanhe River. Liu Yan just wants to let everyone know that if you follow yourself, you will have a good life, and when you come to this big plate, there will be hope.

Then Liu Yan changed his words and said: "Of course, I, Liu Yan, am not a good person who does not ask for anything in return, I will take you to Tuntian and bring you a good life, you will obey my orders, and you will advance and retreat with me Liu Yan." If anyone doesn't obey my orders, or does something outside of me, don't blame me for not being merciful, and those like that will be expelled from Dapandun and severely punished! ”

The twelve dun soldiers are naturally determined, especially after having a soap workshop, seeing that the good days have come, who will give birth to two hearts?

As for the ten new military households, when they saw the conditions of Dapandun at this time, they knew that they were about to open up the wasteland, and they were all afraid of being driven away by Liu Yan, so they bowed their allegiance at this time, and Liu Yan was very satisfied when he saw this.

Subsequently, in order to facilitate management, Liu Yan divided the ten military households into two departments, and Chen Xun and Wang Yue each managed five military households.

This is also Liu Yan's test of Wang Yue, give Wang Yue a little power, to see if it can be used, if this person can't be used, he must be driven away as soon as possible, so as not to interfere with his own money-making development and leave a scourge.

Of course, such extensive management is only temporary, Liu Yan is ready to start to draw some useful people from these ten military households after the affairs of Tuntian are on the right track, enrich them into his own people, and then redistribute the people in the dun, these are all later words, not mentioned for the time being.

Early the next morning, according to the agreed plan, Liu Yan asked Wang Yue to lead people to stay in the pier, and took the ten military households to continue to build the nest in order to accommodate more people.

Then Liu Yan asked Chen Xun to take one hundred and fifty taels of silver and take his four dun soldiers to Lingshan Acropolis to buy, and Liu Yan himself took four dun soldiers to the Qianhukou in Xiahe Village, ready to ask for some material support.

Out of the Dapandun, Liu Yan and his entourage drove the ox cart all the way to the northwest, when passing by a Huangshan pier, the newly adjusted defenders in the pier saw everyone passing by, all of them were dressed as Ming officials, so they lazily sounded a few gongs, put a small handcuff, and told the neighboring pier that they would undoubtedly ignore it.

After the Huangshan pier, everyone walked for a long time, and the thousands of households in front of Xiahe Village appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The Qianhu in front of the Naxia River Village is an important place under the Lingshan Guard, Wangjiazhuang and the ancient town inspection department in the east are all owned by it, and the fort city is built very neatly.

Xiahe Zhai in front of the thousand households of the fort city circumference of three miles four hundred and eleven steps, the fort city wall is more than three zhang high, originally rammed earth to build, and then in Wanli twenty-three years all the bricks, now by the thousand households Zhang Hailin as the defensive officer, led the troops in the fort city defense, led the war horse hundred, nearly 300 officers and soldiers.

In addition, there are hundreds of military households in the fort, with a population of more than 2,000 and many pedestrians.

There are two city gates in front of the thousand households in Xiahe Village, the south gate and the west gate, and there are suspension bridges, moats and other defense facilities outside the city gates.

Liu Yan and others entered the fort from the south gate, and after the captain who guarded the gate checked Liu Yan's waist card, he looked Liu Yan up and down for a while, and then waved his hand to let Liu Yan and others enter.

Compared with Wangjiazhuang, Xiahezhai is indeed a lot more lively in the front thousand households, at least there are a lot more shops along the street, and the flow of people is also a lot denser, it is said that there are more than 40 shops in each street in the thousand households, and there are many merchants who come and go.

However, the only thing that remains unchanged is that there are also many temples in the Qianqian Household of Xiahe Village, as well as the same dilapidated and dirty buildings and streets, and the same military and civilian people who look numb and ragged when they come and go.

There are four streets and twenty-eight lanes in the front thousand households of Xiahe Village, and the thousand households official hall is located on the east street on the east side of the castle, which is very easy to find.

After Liu Yan came in, he first found a shop to make a generous gift, and then came to the front of the Qianhu official hall, and handed the name sticker to the small school guarding the door, hoping that he would inform him that he asked to see Xun Hu, the official of Guantun, and said that Liu Yan, the head of Wangjiazhuang Dapandun, asked to see him.

This Guan Tun official Xun Hu is an acquaintance of Wang Weizhen, and he is also an official of a hundred households, and the official document issued by Wang Weizhen is to be submitted to Xun Hu.

Saying that, Liu Yan stuffed five coins of silver to the small school guarding the door, and the little school's eyes suddenly lit up, and he laughed, and said: "Liu Zongqi is really polite, refreshing enough, I will go to report, Liu Zongqi will be here first." ”

Liu Yan arched his hand with a smile: "It's hard work." ”

After a while, the little colonel came out and said that Master Xun had let Liu Yan in.

Liu Yan arched his hand with a smile and asked a few dun soldiers to wait outside, and he himself went in with the little colonel.

The duty room of the thousand households of Xun Hu is on the right side of the official hall, through the instrument gate, the lobby, and soon came to Xun Hu's duty hall, at this time Xun Hu was looking at some books, the small colonel led Liu Yan here, reported to Xun Hu, and then glanced at Liu Yan, Liu Yan nodded to him with a smile, and the small school went out.

Liu Yan stepped forward to kowtow to Xun Hu, and after Liu Yan performed a full set of salutes, Xun Hu got up slowly and walked over, smiling and signaling that Liu Yan didn't need to be polite.

Liu Yan handed over the gift list, and presented the official document issued by Wang Weizhen, the officer of the management team, saying that this was some of the thoughts of the Dapandun brothers, and asked Xun Hu to accept it with a smile.

Xun Hu saw that the gift list was rich, nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Liu Yan's intention, after listening to Xun Hu pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "Liu Yan, you are the inner tuntian, this is a good thing, and now there is an official document from Wang Weizhen, the official of the Wangjiazhuang management team, is here, and I should strongly support it." It's just that now there is a shortage of cattle and seeds in the entire institute, and the military households are also short of ......, so let me ask someone to take you to see what can be brought out for you. ”

"In addition, I have two small flag officers here, both of whom are talents, and I will also allocate them to you for use, how about it?"

Saying that, Xun Hu called a chief flag officer, gave a few orders, and asked him to take Liu Yan out.

Liu Yan had no choice but to go out with the chief flag officer, feeling that this Xun Hu was more bureaucratic and arrogant, and it was difficult to approach, and he was a little worried about the outcome of this trip.

The chief flag officer was about thirty-six or seventeen years old, short and fat, in front of Liu Yan's tall and burly figure, he was a head shorter, and he had two scorched yellow mouse whiskers, which made him look very obscene.

Liu Yan first felt that this person was floating and slippery, looking like a villain, he had seen Yue Ming, the chief flag in Wangjiazhuang, who was also in charge of grain and grass, and the rough man was in stark contrast with the chief flag officer in front of him.

Liu Yan asked the chief flag officer to ask for ploughing cattle seeds, military households, etc., but who knew that the chief flag officer said in an official tone: "Hehe, Liu Zongqi, right?" This thing is completely different from guarding the chimney, we have many tunbao in thousands of households, almost every fort lacks people to cultivate cattle and farm tools, the material in the fort is these, if everyone comes to ask for it, I am also very embarrassed. ”

Seeing this, Liu Yan naturally understood the meaning, so he immediately took out an ingot of about three taels of silver, handed it to the chief flag officer, and said, "Please also ask the chief flag lord to make it convenient." ”

The chief flag officer's eyes lit up suddenly, and he slowly put the silver into his arms, and sighed: "It's okay, they are all brothers of the same institute, so you can help if you can." ”

After a while, Liu Yan went out of the Qianhu official hall, called four dun soldiers, and asked them to go to the treasury next to him with the chief flag officer to collect supplies.

Everyone was also elated when they heard that there were materials allocated, but in the end, Liu Yan and the others were dumbfounded, and the only materials they received were three oxen, five pairs of plows, five hoes, and an empty promise to help Liu Yan publicize in the Qianqian Household Office in Xiahe Village, and there was nothing else.

After the chief flag officer left with a smile, Liu Yan scolded hatefully: "Damn! ”

Seeing that Liu Yan was annoyed, the four dun soldiers didn't dare to say anything at this time, so they stood aside and bowed their heads and remained silent.

However, when Liu Yan saw the two small flag officers assigned to him, he couldn't help but light up.

After introduction, these two little flag officers turned out to be born at night!

One person is named Miao Shao, twenty-seven or eight years old, tall and strong, the muscles on his body almost break his clothes, and a scar on his face is very conspicuous.

The other person is named Xu Ming, who is also twenty-seven or eight years old, and is friends with Miao Shao. Xu Ming is slightly shorter, but he is also athletic. Unlike Miao Shao, Xu Ming's skin is very white, although the mandarin duck jacket on his body is very shabby, but it is very clean, which forms an obvious contrast with Miao Shao.

Liu Yan talked with the two for a while, and then he was overjoyed, he had picked up the treasure this time, so he pulled the two of them into the ox cart, and then beckoned a few dun soldiers to carry things onto the ox cart first, and then drove the ox cart and three oxen out of the fort to go back.

On the way, Liu Yan talked with Miao Shao and Xu Ming from time to time, and then learned that the two were at odds with Shangguan of the Qianqian Household Office in Xiahe Village, and reprimanded Shangguan for corruption in public, so they were driven out.

Liu Yan comforted the two of them, and said that Dapandun would never have the matter of Shangguan deducting his subordinates, and he could guarantee it. Miao Shao and Xu Ming suddenly became interested in Dapandun.

However, Liu Yan thought that he had led people to come so far and only allocated such a small amount of supplies, and he was a little unwilling in his heart.

So Liu Yan said to everyone: "Don't go back to Dapandun first, go to Wangjiazhuang!" ”

Anyway, now Liu Yan still has more than a hundred taels of silver in his hands, so go directly to Wangjiazhuang to buy some more.

It just so happened that Liu Yan was also going to go to Wanfu Oil Mill, this month's soap production has begun to increase, although the soybean oil sent by Wanfu Oil Mill this month has increased by ten catties, but Liu Yan estimated that it was still not enough.

According to Liu Yan's idea, from this month onwards, every time I deliver goods to the Wangjiazhuang Baihu Official Hall, I have to go to Wanfu Oil Mill to set the demand for the next month, so as not to add orders back and forth.

So Liu Yan and his entourage changed direction and went straight to Wangjiazhuang.