"Our army's move is just to eliminate the thieves. As long as our strength grows, even if the court officials criticize us, what can they do to us? Could it be that they will be happy if they want to force us back?" Li Guodong said disapprovingly.

Li Guodong stationed his army in Shanxi. Perhaps at the beginning, some ministers in the court would have made some noises, but he knew the historical process. In fact, Lu Xiangsheng had already stationed his army in Daming, Guangping and Shunde, and established the Tianxiong Army. In the near future, Sun Chuanting would also begin to form the Qin army in Shaanxi, and then warlords such as Zuo Liangyu and Liu Liangzuo would emerge. By that time, the world would be in chaos. Having troops in his hands is the hard truth. What is the civil service group?

In fact, the biggest problem of the garrison army is that they have plowing oxen, plowing rakes and seeds are extremely lacking. The two thousand refugees who have collected have a hoe in their hands, and most of them have only one sharpened wooden stick on their hands.

Use a wooden stick to plow the land? The picture shouldn't be too beautiful.

If there is no plowing ox, I can only buy it. Hong Chengchou allocated Li Guodong 1,000 heads and two successful labors to kill Wang Jiayin. No matter how valuable the thief's head, one thousand heads were exchanged for three thousand taels of silver. The thief's head, Wang Jiayin, was exchanged for ten thousand taels of silver, and Li Guodong also received two thousand taels of silver. All of these five thousand taels of silver were used by Li Guodong to buy plowing ox and pig iron.

The purchase of plowing oxen and pig iron was left to Zhao Feng. Li Guodong called Zhao Feng and asked him to lead the caravan south to buy a batch of scalpers and pig iron, and asked him to come back within two months.

"As for the order!" Zhao Feng bowed his hands and said.

"I don't know how Manager Wang is doing? There has been no news about him for a long time."

"I don't know whether he is expanding his recruitment team? No one knows where he has gone, and there is no news to come back. But please rest assured, Manager Wang is loyal to the general, he will not run away."

"I know that Wang Quan is my good brother for many years, and he will not betray me. The Dadewang Caravan has developed to its current scale in recent years, which is all due to his contribution. I am just worried that something happened to him."

"Brother, don't worry!" Han Dashan, who was standing next to him, said, "The fifth brother has a charismatic sign, and there will be no accident."

Li Guodong is indeed worried about Wang Quan. Wang Quan is not only his good brother for many years, but also a good player in making money. Dadewang Shop can bring him more than 10,000 taels of silver in a year. In order to develop in the future, he will rely on Dadewang Shop.

At this time, Wang Quan, who was thousands of miles away, had expanded to more than 800 refugees and finally arrived at Gaojiayan on the shore of Hongze Lake. They were hungry for two days halfway. Fortunately, on the third day, a small county town appeared in front of him, so Wang Quan and his friends exchanged all the gold and silver they carried with them for food.

Along the way, Wang Quan took his six elite personal friends and the young and strong refugees to repel three attacks of horse thieves, and seized 89 heads. Twelve young and strong refugees also died and twenty-five injured. After more than a month of difficult long journey, the refugee team finally arrived at their destination.

Gaojiayan is the embankment of Hongze Lake. The water level of Hongze Lake is more than ten meters higher than the canal. It is said that Gaojiayan has been destroyed and Huaiyang will not meet. The area east of Hongze Lake was originally a place of fish and rice rich in history. Because the Yellow River diverted the route and seized the Huai River into the sea, the lower reaches of the Huai River became a saline-alkali land.

The surrounding area of ​​Hongze Lake is sparsely populated, and nearby water bandits are rampant. On the lake with a radius of hundreds of miles, the endless reeds provide shelter for the water bandits. The water bandits live by the lake on weekdays and rely on robbing canal boats to make a fortune.

There is an abandoned village by the lake. The village was originally named Liu Dade Village. Later, it was robbed by water bandits. More than 400 houses were burned down. Two hundred and sixty-eight villagers in the village were killed and young women were taken away. The villagers who survived by chance escaped from the village.

Standing on the lakeside embankment a hundred steps away from Zhuangzi, Wang Quan built a canopy with his hand and looked out at the village. He thought to himself: Unfortunately, the Qianli Miles mirror was given to the eldest brother, and I didn't keep a pair of them myself. It would be much easier to use if there was that thing.

This Zhuangzi faces Tawau to the north and Baihu Mountain to the south. After passing Tawau, which is only four miles in radius, it is a plain on the shore of Hongze Lake. Moreover, this plain is on the upper reaches of Hongze Lake. It is not threatened by the breaking of Hongze Lake, nor is it threatened by the breaking of the Yellow River. It has a high terrain. The location of Zhuangzi is surrounded by mountains and waters, and is not threatened by floods. It is a good place. Unfortunately, this good place was robbed by water bandits, and there is no one inside, and even Zhuangzi was burned down.

"Water bandits are rampant, why doesn't the government take care of it?" Zhang Shiwen asked.

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"Boss, let's settle down here?" Zhang Shiwen asked again.

"Yes! We won't leave!" Wang Quan nodded, "This is a good place, and we will resettle the refugees here. In addition, it is also close to the canal. I believe that the strength of our Dadewang merchant company can already hire an official boat to walk the canal, right? As long as we live here, we can contact Zhao Feng's caravan at any time."

"Boss, but we have settled down here, what should we do if the water bandits come again?" asked a young refugee.

"We build the earth city protection. As long as the earth city is repaired, a woman can hit the lime bottle and ignition tank on the top of the city, and she can kill the incoming enemy!" Wang Quan replied.

It will take some time to build a dirt city, at least five or six days. Wang Quan judged that in these few days, large bandits will not come. After all, it is meaningless to rob a group of refugees, unless they are extremely hungry and want to eat human flesh. However, those water bandits do not need to eat human flesh. They rely on water to eat water. Rape the nearby villagers is just a side job, and their official job is still a robbery of merchant ships that have not made official names on the canal.

Among the more than 800 refugees, there are more than 400 young and strong people, the rest are women and children, and a few elderly people. The work of building the Tucheng was that young and strong, women, children, and weak, all the young and strong were together. The woman was responsible for digging the soil, digging the soil on the edge of the mountain, and shoveling into the baskets loaded on the cart. The children and the elderly were responsible for pushing the cart. After the cart was pushed down the edge of the farm, the young and strong people lifted the baskets off the cart, poured them on the ground, and then slapped them with iron shovels to form rammed earth.

Wang Quan and his six men rode back and forth on horseback and were responsible for protecting refugees. Although there were only seven of them, but usually a small group of gangsters with dozens of people came, and the seven of them could easily deal with them.

"Boss, there are really bandits coming!" Zhang Shiwen pointed to the mountainside and said.
Chapter completed!