"Rubbish, bastard!"

As soon as he returned to his mansion, Gongsun He fell into an impotent rage.

He grabbed the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the case, and threw it indiscriminately!

Seeing him so angry, all the subordinates in the palace shrank up one after another, for fear of angering him.

Including the armor, war horses, as well as daily eating, drinking, and hoarding materials, Gongsun He's investment in the Black Mountain thieves was at least more than 200,000 taels of silver!

However, Yu Yan's defeat made all the hard work of Gongsun River go down the drain!

How does this not make Gongsun He angry!

He couldn't figure it out, Ji Lie's three hundred homeless people had only been training for more than a month.

With the same force, how did Yu Yan's Black Mountain thief lose, and even his own life was involved!

"Dad, we can't just let Ji Lie go!"

Gongsun Qing gritted his teeth in anger.

He originally thought that he would be able to report the humiliation he received two days ago, but he didn't expect to be slapped in the face, not to mention it, and his own family also suffered heavy losses!

"Tell me, what should I do with him?"

Gongsun He said angrily.

With the fall of the Black Mountain Thieves, the power of the Gongsun family was greatly weakened, but Ji Lie controlled an elite army in his hands.

The situation between the two sides was reversed in one fell swoop!

"Then are we going to watch Ji Lie, this bastard, replace our Gongsun family?"

Gongsun Qing was quite unwilling.

"Qing'er doesn't need to be excited. Even if there is no Black Mountain Thief, it is not so easy for Ji Lie to control the secluded land. ”

Gongsun He snorted coldly.

After all, he is the state of the secluded land, and the officials in the city, the fast catcher, and the village warrior all need to obey his orders.

Unless Ji Lie wants to openly rebel, he still has the final say in Youzhou City!

It's just that after the Black Mountain Thief is gone, Gongsun He wants to do something secretly, which is already extremely inconvenient!

"From today onwards, let's hold back for the time being, and wait for the new palace house to arrive!"

Gongsun He commanded.

He made up his mind that when the people of the palace arrived, he would join forces with him to suppress Ji Lie.

At that time, unless Ji Lie dares to openly rebel, he will obediently wait to be imprisoned!

"Dad, having said that, we can't do nothing."

"Huh? Do you have an idea? ”

Gongsun He raised his eyebrows and looked at Gongsun Qing.

"The previous financial situation of the palace, my father must have been clear."

"Where did Ji Lie get the money to buy land and farm yards and recruit homeless people?"

Hearing this, Gongsun He fell into thought.

As Gongsun Qing said, he still knows a lot about the situation in the palace.

In order to embezzle money, Li Zhuo sold everything that could be sold in the palace.

Not to mention the purchase of land and courtyards and the recruitment of displaced people, it is not easy to maintain the expenditure in the palace!

"What do you mean...... Someone is secretly funding Ji Yeol? ”

"Not bad!"

Gongsun Qing nodded affirmatively and snorted coldly,

"The village outside the city was formerly owned by the Zhao family's trading house, but now it is occupied by Ji Lie."

"According to the child's opinion, it is not possible that Zhao Meiniang's stinky girls are secretly supporting Ji Lie and opposing our Gongsun family!"

Gongsun Qing has always been cunning, but he didn't expect to think so far-reaching today.

This was a bit of a surprise to Gongsun He.

"What Qing'er said is reasonable!"

Gongsun He glanced at Gongsun Qing approvingly, and said with a smile,

"In that case, the matter will be left to you to investigate. If it's really Zhao Meiniang who is making trouble behind her back, let's take Zhao's firm first! ”

"The child is commanded!"

Gongsun Qing happily accepted the order.

……

Inside Ji Lie's village.

After Xiu'er and Laifu's inventory, a total of tens of thousands of taels of silver worth of materials were seized from the lair of the Black Mountain thieves.

Coupled with the armor and war horses taken from the dead Black Mountain Thief, a rough estimate shows that the income from the battle with the Black Mountain Thief has exceeded 50,000 taels of silver.

That's a lot of money!

The money is really fast, no wonder Yu Yan wants to be a bandit!

It's just a pity that there is only one thief like the Black Mountain Thief near the secluded land.

If you kill a few more, you still need to worry about the silver?

Ji Lie said with emotion in his heart.

At this moment, Zhang Changde walked in with several palace guards.

"Meet the prince!"

He first saluted Yang Ling, and then reported,

"After last night's battle, we killed a total of 227 Black Mountain thieves and captured more than 40 people."

"More than a dozen guards were killed in the battle, and more than 30 others were wounded."

When Ji Lie heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head,

"The casualties are still a bit big."

When Ji Lie said this, Zhang Changde was speechless.

He originally thought that Ji Lie would be overjoyed when he heard it.

After all, with 300 new soldiers, against 300 vicious thieves, it can be regarded as a brilliant result in battle with such a casualty ratio.

If it is placed on the Great Xia army, it is enough to ask the Son of Heaven for credit!

But I don't want him to be too casualties, this is too damn Versailles!

In fact, you can't blame Ji Lie for being demanding.

These elite soldiers are all strictly trained by him, and it stands to reason that against the undisciplined Black Mountain Thieves, the casualties should be smaller!

It seems that in order to reduce casualties, in addition to more rigorous training, so that the soldiers can experience more baptism of war, it is also necessary to equip armor.

Thinking of this, Ji Lie said in a deep voice,

"Commander Zhang, from today onwards, you will continue to recruit homeless people, and strive to expand the number of guards to a thousand."

"In addition, you also have to find ways to buy some armor, and strive to achieve one person and one armor!"

"This ......"

Zhang Changde looked embarrassed,

"It's easy to talk about recruiting homeless people, but it's a bit troublesome to buy armor."

Although the productivity of the world is low, as long as it is not the high-grade armor worn by Zhang Changde and other royal guards, the price of ordinary armor is not particularly high.

Like the ordinary standard armor of the Great Xia army, if it is built in batches, the average set is only twenty or thirty taels of silver.

But the trouble is in the matter of buying armor.

You must know that making and hiding armor privately is a very serious crime.

Who would be an ordinary person to take the risk of making the Nine Clans scratch their heads to secretly build and sell armor?

This is also why, Yu Yan has the backing of the Gongsun family, but there are only a dozen armors.

Let Zhang Changde give the guards one person and one armor, which is really embarrassing for him.

Ji Lie patted his head, but forgot about this stubble.

It seems that in addition to recruiting homeless people, he also needs to recruit some craftsmen who are proficient in crafting and the like, so as to prepare for large-scale armor building in the future.

"No matter what the price, you can buy as much as you want."

"Commander Zhang just do his best, I won't blame you."

Ji Lie smiled.

"Subordinates take orders!"

Commander Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, another royal guard walked in,

"Meet the prince! Meet the Commander! ”

"We have gathered everyone in the village according to the instructions of the prince."