"Li Li?"

Hare Mountain Cottage, Xiao Jiu listened to the news that Li Gui got from Wanzhen Building, and touched his chin and thought about it.

"Lord Xiao Zhai, the surname Li in the entire Lingshui County is also a big surname, and the number of branch clans is countless, but there is only one person who can become an official in Beijing."

Xiao Jiu also nodded, through his understanding during this time, this second-grade engagement can indeed be called a great official.

But at this time, this Beijing official told the old man to return to his hometown, and his business had just started, and if the county government took advantage of this to suppress bandits, he still had to make some preparations in advance.

Sent away Li Gui's father and son, early the next morning, Xiao Jiu gathered everyone in the cottage, at the end of the month, Li Gui also sent the first money of the soju business, so that he could give lessons to the people in the cottage.

In the conference hall, Xiao Jiu sat in the main seat, three seats were set up next to him, Lao Ma, Zhang Ben, and Jin Zi sat down respectively, and the rest of the mountain bandits were all standing, yesterday Li Gui went up the mountain to send silver, this is not a secret, but I heard that Xiao Jiu was going to give a reward, and I couldn't help but feel excited.

Xiao Jiu looked around, tapped the number of people in his heart, and when he saw that everyone was there, he told the restructuring plan that he had been preparing for a long time.

"Brothers, I have summoned you here today to announce some things, and by the way, I would like to listen to your brothers' opinions."

"I think everyone knows that Li Gui from Lijia Town sent the first money for cottage brewing yesterday, and they all know what I am going to do today."

"But when you get the money, you have to abide by the rules of the cottage, if anyone dares to eat inside and out, don't blame me Xiao for not being emotional."

"Old horse, you can tell everyone about the rest."

After Xiao Jiu finished speaking to everyone in the hall, he still sat in the main seat with a cold face, and the needle drop in the hall was instantly heard.

After Xiao Jiu finished speaking, the prestige had already been established, and Lao Ma was responsible for announcing the plan that had been made a long time ago.

The first point is to keep the matter of brewing secret, especially the distillation method, if it is leaked, you will lose your legs and expel yourself from the cottage.

Second, on weekdays, they will practice like in the army, but the training content is formulated by Xiao Jiu, in addition to daily training, they will also arrange chores such as brewing, purchasing, and repairing the cottage.

Third, it is to give everyone a certain amount of money every month, and after staying in the cottage for two years, you can choose to stay, you can continue to stay in the cottage, or you can go down the mountain with your savings to marry a wife and have children, buy a field property, and give additional rewards to those who have merit.

These are all set by Xiao Jiu and the three leaders a long time ago, and the three of Lao Ma have no objections, but the minions in the rest of the cottage have different ideas.

Training them is not afraid, most of the original intention of going up the mountain is just to fill their stomachs or cause a lawsuit and be forced to die, but seeing that the cottage relies on Xiao Jiu's brewing method to make a profit, and now it can share some silver every month, and after two years, maybe it can really save some silver money, go to a farther place to buy a piece of land, and settle down.

After all, if you can have a stable life, who will go to the end of the world, and the people of this era have an incomprehensible attachment to the inheritance of the lineage, and they basically lose this qualification if they go up the mountain to become a bandit.

As soon as this order came out, Xiao Jiu saw a wave of flames stirring in their eyes, these ragged mountain bandits, maybe they were not bad people in their bones, but this era forced them to put down their farm tools and pick up a knife step by step.

Everything was arranged, Xiao Jiu asked everyone in the cottage to go back to their residence today to rest for a day, digest the information conveyed in the morning, and prepare for tomorrow's training.

Early in the morning of the second day, Xiao Jiu waited for everyone to arrive next to the "open-air restaurant" in the cottage, and to Xiao Jiu's surprise, before his arrival, the three leaders were already waiting here, obviously attaching great importance to this training.

Xiao Jiu understood after a little thought, in today's cottage, Lao Ma relied on saving Xiao Jiuyi's life, and successfully changed from an old mountain bandit who did not enter the stream to become the leader, although he was at the bottom of the leader's table, Xiao Jiu was able to hand over the power of grain to him, which shows trust.

Zhang Ben doesn't need to say more, he is famous for his good popularity in the cottage, and only Xiao Jiu can suppress him before, if it weren't for Xiao Jiu's ability to bring benefits to everyone in the cottage, maybe Zhang Ben has the ability to pull a group of people down the mountain to work alone, on the other hand, he was actually ready to fly to Wild Wolf Mountain with the grass before, and it would be good if Xiao Jiu didn't get rid of him.

So this time, Xiao Jiu asked him to bring a team of people by himself, and he was in a hurry to perform more than anyone else.

Xiao Jiu wanted to understand the twists and turns, and he was also willing to watch Zhang Ben and Jin Zi compete, only by holding each other can we ensure that others would not dare to think crookedly.

After a while, the cottage people were assembled, looking at this group of free and loose men, Xiao Jiu let out a long sigh, if he wanted to train this rabble like the army of later generations, the first thing he would get rid of was this habit of procrastination, if he couldn't even assemble on time, how could he order and prohibit?

But Xiao Jiu also knew that it would take time to change, and he had considered the food storage of the cottage before, two meals a day, and there was still clear soup and little water, and everyone's weak bodies could not withstand effective training at all.

Now through cooperation with Lijiazhen, I have earned a lot of money, and I will be able to exchange it for food and transport it back to the cottage in a few days, and I will eat three meals a day like in later generations, and I have to improve the physical fitness of this group of bandits.

The training on the first day was relatively simple, just some basic instructions like turning left and right, reporting the number, and walking in unison, after breakfast, Xiao Jiu was also together throughout the whole process, acting as an instructor.

In just one morning, Xiao Jiu was a little depressed by the torture of these mountain bandits, they had never been exposed to this novel training method before, and they were usually used to being casual, and they could walk side by side in unison.

Xiao Jiu couldn't help but hold his forehead, knowing that there was a long way to go.

……

A month passed in a hurry, and nothing major happened, but from time to time there would be bursts of angry trumpets on Hare Mountain.

Now the number of cottagers has increased to more than 40 people, and during this period, some people have been admiring and defecting, if it weren't for Xiao Jiu's screening of these people who want to fall into the grass and eliminate some impure hearts, the number of people is only afraid of more.

Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.

Land annexation is serious, and this is also the fundamental reason why the mountain bandits have been repeatedly suppressed.

On the other hand, with the addition of fresh blood, the hare cottage has gradually become more energetic, no longer lifeless, giving some desperate pawn traders and poor peasants a way to live.

Li Gui also sent grain to the cottage one after another, counting the grain stored in the cottage, according to today's consumption, it can also be eaten for a year.

The farmers in Lijia Town shared the money from the sale of wine, and even if the harvest was not good this year, the families would still have some surplus grain.