Trust, confidence, hunger, banditry.

This is a priority.

After nearly ten days of hard work, the two teams of Fat Bear and Zhai Changping have almost walked through the Zhuangzi, and have learned about the situation of the Zhuangzi.

Fat Bear is the most clever, bragging is almost quite a set, Zhai Changping is a civilian, and has been mixed in Liangzhou for a few years, he knows the suffering of the people, so he shows full sincerity to the villagers.

In addition, Hu Benlu, an old farmer with a lot of prestige in the village, explained on the side, and the farmers gradually let down their guard against Fat Bear and others.

Moreover, 20 catties of coarse grain per person as a small welfare, so that many farmers have a good impression of the young farmer who has not yet been on the road, and they are very eager to see the owner soon, and then let the old people on the village judge whether the owner is really a good person, or come to buy everyone first, and then continue to oppress the villagers.

The level of trust, although not fully achieved, is progressing quite smoothly.

In addition, Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun followed Liu Gonggong to Hedong County to see Hedong Taishou, explaining the intention of buying food and medicinal materials, Taishou had already received the greeting from His Royal Highness the Prince, naturally very enthusiastic, both the price and medicinal materials have discounts, and also said that they could be more favorable, but Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun said that it would be a little cheaper than the current price, just calculate the import price.

Li Wuchang has already explained, just owe the prince a favor, so as not to fall into it, the horizontal and vertical coarse grains are cheap, and although the medicinal materials are a little more expensive, Li Wuchang is not short of silver taels.

As for earning silver taels, there will be opportunities in the future, and now the entire Zhuangzi is Li Wuchang, and there are a lot of opportunities.

Hedong is located at the junction of Yongzhou, Jizhou and Yuzhou, belonging to Jizhou, far away from the battlefield, the location of the ground is good, too guarded and governed, and there are fewer bandits, so it is relatively rich, and all kinds of materials are not lacking.

Zhao Xun took a hard money to Liu Gonggong and Taishou, and paid another amount of freight, Hedong Taishou was very happy, and immediately sent people to escort grain, grass and medicinal materials to Ding Mao Bingzhuang, which was very fast.

After coming back, Zhao Xun beckoned Fat Bear and the others, who had already sent the benefits, to move the mountains of grain and medicinal materials into the huge warehouse.

Li Wuchang only brought about a dozen people, and this work was very difficult.

Fat Bear was clever, and immediately contacted his new brother Hu Benlu, and Hu Benlu was also very happy, summoning nearly a hundred strong men to help, almost all of them were veterans, although they were more or less injured, but it was not a problem to move some food, which was easier than working in the field.

Therefore, in less than a day, all the food and medicinal materials piled up in the school yard were put into storage.

Zhao Xun gathered everyone and gave each of them forty copper coins, which is not a lot, because now adult men only do thirty wen a day, and there is no place to do it.

The fat bear also asked everyone to stay and finish eating.

All the veterans were a little embarrassed to accept it, and they came to help for the sake of the welfare issued by the owner, and they did not think about asking for compensation.

Jiang Minglun said lightly: "The owner of the village once said that he doesn't know if he has food to eat if he doesn't work, but if he does work, he must have food, so everyone accepts it, which is what the owner means." ”

The tone is light, but it cannot be refused.

After a day of getting along, everyone knew that Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun, the two young people, were the leaders of this group, and they heard the fat bear call them Brother Xun and Brother Jiang.

Hu Benlu beckoned everyone to put it away, and as for dinner, he refused to eat it anyway, saying that it was already embarrassing to take forty wen in only half a day.

Zhao Xun did not shirk, and told them that there will be a lot of work in the Zhuangzi next, because the owner of the village is very strange, and often does some strange things, everyone does not have to worry about it at that time, although the family is arranged, adult men can come to do things, get paid every day, and take care of food, I hope everyone will tell each other.

The veterans saluted respectfully, said goodbye and left, and were very happy in their hearts.

Got a job?

Do you still care?

Fuck, and such a good thing?

"Brother Hu, that Brother Xun is about the same age as my family, is it reliable to speak?" On the way home, everyone chattered and discussed, looking a little excited.

"It should be reliable, I heard Brother Fat Bear say that Brother Xun and Brother Jiang were the first to talk to the owner, although they are young, they can speak on behalf of the owner. Hu Benlu pondered for a moment.

"I also think it's quite reliable, although Brother Naxun is not very old, but he is quite majestic, and his conversation is quite good, I have also secretly observed, he should be a master, in the warehouse, he casually threw two bags of grain at the top, and it was not effortless at all. ”

"I don't know what kind of person he is, why hasn't he come yet, I really want to meet him. ”

"I want to see it too. ”

"Hey, he doesn't know if he has food if he doesn't work, but he must have food when he works, I like this sentence Lao Qin. ”

"In the past few days, I have taken the time to do a good job in the field, and then I will go to work. ”

"I have to feed my boy a little bit, lest he lose his strength and the owner of the farm will not accept him for work. ”

While the sun had not yet set, everyone washed their sweat in the pool below, while discussing what they had seen in recent days and their plans for the future.

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Owner's Mansion, meeting room.

Li Wuchang roughly planned a side hall, and made a conference room for discussing things, there was a long table in the middle, Li Wuchang sat at the head, Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun sat in the first position on both sides, and the others went down in turn.

"According to the group, I will report on the situation in the past ten days. Li Wuchang took a sip of tea.

Zhao Xun was the first to stand up and said: "Minglun and I mainly went to Hedong County with Gonggong Liu to buy food and medicinal materials, according to the instructions of the stunned Shao, the price was not too low, and the purchased materials were quite sufficient, even if there was no grain in Zhuanghumen, it could last for a long time, and it has all been put into storage, the price of coarse grains is very low, and the price of refined grains is much more expensive, but the purchase is less, and the medicinal materials are also more expensive, and the total cost of freight is more than 40,000 taels. ”

This fee is not high.

Jiang Minglun said: "We also reached an agreement with Hedong Taishou, and we can continue to purchase materials from Hedong in the future. ”

Li Wuchang nodded, motioned for the two of them to sit down, and then looked at the fat bear.

Fat Bear stood up and said: "Lao Xiong was ordered by the stunned young to lead his brothers to send benefits to the villagers in the east mountain, and by the way to understand the living conditions of the villagers, it has now been completed, and most of the old bears in the east mountain have met once, as for the specific situation, all the records have been handed over to Changping, and he has a summary." ”

Zhai Changping stood up and said, "I and a few brothers learned about the situation on the west mountain, and with Lao Xiong's records, we can already make a simple summary." There are about 360 households in the village, a total of more than 1,500 people, about 200 households in the middle of the mountain, the rest are in the west mountain, the mountain flat area because of the fear of mountain floods, so there are not a few households, this more than 1,500 people, the elderly, women and children account for more than half, the remaining adult men about 600, most of them are battlefield veterans and their grown up sons, and about 200 or so fifteen or sixteen-year-old children who will become adults, because they often do farm work when they are young, so some heavy work can also help. ”

After a pause, he continued: "As for the mental outlook that the stunned young man said...... It can only be said that it is not very good, years of suffering have worn out their hope for a better life, especially in the next two years, the situation is particularly serious, but for the owner of the village, most of them expressed their expectations, and they were quite enthusiastic about our arrival. ”

More than 1,500 people, guarding less than 1,200 acres of sandy land, plus some mountainous land where only sweet potatoes can be grown, but they have to deal with taxes, eunuch oppression, banditry, and all kinds of natural disasters, it is strange that they can live well.

Although Zhuangzi is large, there are two thatched barren mountains, a large piece of muddy land, one side of Nanshan, one piece of sandy land, plus a large piece of stone land near the Zhuangzhuo's house, and several small ditches.

Li Wuchang didn't show a discouraged look, and continued to ask with a smile, "What about the specific situation of the bandits?"

Zhai Changping replied: " I asked the villagers, and we guessed about the same, because the Zhuangzi is poor, the bandits generally do not attack on a large scale, but the small-scale bandit squads often haunt, which is also a common thing in the nearby Zhuangzi, they often have more than a dozen people, robbing the house, the villagers have a lot of veterans who will martial arts, but because the residence is scattered, it is too late to echo, and they are beaten down by the bandits, the bandits have something to rob, and occasionally set fire, the most excessive is that they will also rob the daughter of the villager, so the villagers have some hidden places to hide in the house, and when they are in danger, they will hide their daughters。 ”

Grandma is a bear, these bandits are clever.

Li Wuchang said: "The bandits are all these means?"

Zhai Changping replied: "There have been several large-scale attacks on the Zhuang's Mansion, most of them are after the crops are harvested, the Zhuang's households are taxed, and the Zhuang's Mansion will pile up a large amount of grain, at that time the bandits will come, mainly to grab the grain, the eunuchs and some thugs are fleeing every time, and the bandits have almost no resistance to rob a large amount of grain, and each time the Zhuanghu will be injured." ”

Fat Bear took the opportunity to say: "Old Xiong, I have heard a lot of details from Brother Hu, saying that our Zhuangzi area is mainly a gang called the Fire Wolf Gang to make trouble. ”

Li Wuchang frowned and said, "Fire Wolf Gang?"

This Fire Wolf Gang is an old acquaintance, Li Wuchang once went on an outing at the invitation of Lu Xuandong at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, and was attacked by the Fire Wolf Gang, when Lin Qin and Ma Kun were kidnapped, seven or eight followers died, Li Wuchang entered the jungle alone, only to rescue the two unlucky eggs, Li Wuchang also secretly executed seven bandits and destroyed the corpses.

Jiang Minglun and Zhao Xun both knew about this.

Zhao Xunqi said: "Isn't the Fire Wolf Gang a gang in the Jingzhao area, how did the power spread to Feng Yijun?"

Jiang Minglun analyzed: "It should be a rudder or something, or Xue Tingshi gave them a hard blow in Jingzhao County, and they transferred...... It should be the rudder, after all, they have been making trouble here for a long time. ”

Grandma is a bear, this dragon gang is not small, and they are all fucking rudderless.

Li Wuchang said fiercely: "It doesn't matter if he divides the rudder or not, find an opportunity to wipe out all the bandits near our Zhuangzi, kill one by one, the means must be ruthless, Brother Xun, what do you think?"

Zhao Xun thought for a while and said, "According to the information we have collected so far, there is really a way, and it is difficult to say whether it is useful or not." ”

The spirits of the crowd were lifted.

Zhao Xun continued: "Aren't they going to storm the Zhuang Lord's Mansion? We happened to buy a large amount of grain and grass, so we simply let the wind out, and then set a trap to wait for their work and give them a hard blow." ”

Li Wuchang said: "Very good, Brother Xun is the main brother in this matter, supplemented by Minglun, and the others fully cooperated, quickly came up with a plan, what other help is needed, tell me, I will find a way." ”

Everyone agreed with a bang, and their hearts were extremely excited, thinking of doing a big job, adding some fun to the ordinary rural life, and they were not afraid of the lack of manpower at all.