The meeting place of the guards was in the open space near the residence. The next day, Ouyang Xuan and Huang Dagen arrived at the place early, and while waiting for the arrival of the personnel, the two had a heart-to-heart conversation. When the guard team was set up and the strongest members of the team were dispatched, Huang Dagen vaguely knew Ouyang Xuan's intentions, and knew that this was an existence similar to the pro-soldier team. If the whole team is a knife, the guard side is the sharpest point. But during today's conversation, Huang Dagen completely understood Ouyang Xuan's intentions. It turned out that Ouyang Xuan wanted the guard team to play the role of not only a personal team, but also to position it as a special operations force, performing the most dangerous tasks such as reconnaissance, sabotage, and raids behind enemy lines, which is why he asked the guard team to participate in hunting, in addition to enhancing actual combat ability through hunting, but also to select excellent soldiers from among hunters.

After the personnel arrived one after another, Huang Dagen drank and ordered everyone not to make noise. Ouyang Xuan looked around and found that except for Huang Dagen's fire personnel, there were only a few tall and sturdy hunters in the village. Although there is no shortage of food in this mountain, and the villagers are generally taller than the official soldiers, these hunters are much thicker than Huang Dagen and other soldiers, and it seems that there is a lot of prey in this mountain and there is no shortage of meat. Looking at the scene in front of him, Ouyang Xuan felt both emotion and puzzlement in his heart: he was puzzled that there were such strong people in Liuliba but he was afraid of the bandits in Wanjiaping, and he was puzzled that Lu Dezhi had told him that there were dozens of hunters in the cottage, why only a few people came? While he was wondering, Huang Dagen, who had counted the number of people, reported to him that in addition to the elderly hunters, there were 39 hunters who should come this time, and 8 people actually came, because many hunters had already gone into the mountains to hunt at the time of the notice, and it would take a few days or even longer to come back.

This time, the guard team said that it was a discussion, but it was better to listen to the hunters tell their hunting experience, and the thrilling hunting stories made everyone listen to them with relish. Through Orion's narration, Ouyang Xuan learned that there are many beasts in this mountain, in addition to pheasants, rabbits and wild sheep, deer, bison, takin and other large animals, there are also many fierce beasts, such as wild boars, jackals and bears, tigers, and black and white bears. Speaking of the black and white bear, Ouyang Xuan knew that this thing was a panda, so he ordered him not to hunt it again as long as it didn't hurt people. Of course, the hunters didn't know that this cute thing had become a national treasure after a thousand years, and although they were puzzled by Ouyang Xuan's request, they also agreed.

Hunting large prey often requires several or even more than ten people to form a team, and the hunting process is also extremely dangerous, but once successful, it will harvest a lot, such as hunting a bison can harvest hundreds of catties of meat. But this hunter's life is very hard, often a day and a half out of the house is ten days and a half months, eating and sleeping outside, one of them is a hunter named Dong Hu, said that he once took a hunting dog to chase an injured wild boar, along the blood trail for three days before catching up, the wild boar exhausted to the high mountain, has been able to faintly see the house of the distant plain. Hearing this, Ouyang Xuan's heart moved, so he left Dong Hu behind when everyone left, and asked about the road situation when chasing the wild boar, but Dong Hu couldn't remember it for a long time. Ouyang Xuan did not give up, and explained to Huang Dagen on the spot that he would select two more capable personnel to follow Dong Hu to find a way, and they must not be leaked to the outside world, which is the most important task of the current guard team. Ouyang Xuan's idea was that if he could open up a hidden path to the outside of the mountain, not only could he bypass the blockade of the Wanjiaping Mountain bandits and establish a connection with Hengyuan Town, Chongqing Mansion and even further away, but he could also buy salt, medicine and other urgently needed supplies, which would also be of great military significance.

Lu Dezhi also participated in the discussion of the trade team, which shows the mountain people's thirst for outside materials. At the beginning, Ouyang Xuan and the others were able to enter the cottage because they carried the things that the villagers urgently needed. The personnel of the trading team were the smallest of several teams, and except for Wang Youfu's fire personnel, there were only three people in the cottage. In this regard, Lu Dezhi explained that because the villagers did not have the talent and experience to do business, it was very difficult to select people, and if the trade team needed porters and porters in the future, they could be temporarily transferred. Due to the lack of roads, all that was discussed was a plan for the future, but the enthusiasm remained undiminished. Lu Dezhi proposed to do a good job in the management of the financial account of the trade team, and Zhu Xuanzi based on his own experience, suggested that he should accumulate mountain goods in advance, such as the best-selling precious Chinese herbs and animal skins outside the mountain, as well as special products such as Yefeng honey. As for bulk items such as grain and iron, it is difficult to transport them without a shortage of livestock such as horses and donkeys. Wang Youfu proposed that the trade team members should also be trained, and at the same time, it was also necessary to send people to protect the safety of the caravan with arms. Ouyang Xuan agreed to everyone's suggestions one by one.

During the discussion, Ouyang Xuan asked someone to go back to his residence to get his backpack. The backpack contained a jacket, a sapper shovel, a headlamp, a climbing rope, and two empty drink bottles. He was going to make the most of these items, giving them to the guards with sapper shovels and climbing ropes, keeping them with him when the headlamps were running out of electricity, and giving them to the trade team for their jackets, pants and two empty drink bottles to see if they could exchange some money for the start-up capital of the trade team. Everyone stared intently at the items that Ouyang Xuan took out, and when they saw that the jackets and pants were not wet when exposed to water, and the drink bottles were light and transparent and could hold water, they were all surprised by the strange characteristics of the items, and even the well-informed Zhu Xuanzi took them over to take a closer look, and only after a while did he raise his head and say to Ouyang Xuan: "Brother Xuan, these magic weapons are really from the extreme west?" As far as I know, although there are frequent wars today, the overseas trade of the Great Song Dynasty has never been cut off, and the goods in the extreme west have occasionally been exported to Chongqing Mansion, Jiading Mansion, Chongqing Mansion and other places, but I have never heard of such items, if they are sold in Shudi, they will have a price and no market, if they are left behind, and when the time is right, they will be sent to Lin'an for sale, and the dignitaries will rush to it." Listening to Zhu Xuanzi's words, Ouyang Xuan's heart moved, and he understood that these things may not be valuable in the 21st century, but they are rare and expensive, and they may be worth a lot of money in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty. He could be sure that the emperor and prime minister of Lin'an had not seen these items, so he immediately asked Zhu Zhuozi to put away the items and make plans when the time was right.

After determining the development direction of each professional team, Ouyang Xuan's next two days was to use his chemical knowledge to concentrate on making items that could change this era - gunpowder.