In just two days, Qin Chuan was deeply moved by the importance of talents. He and Song Zhiting were responsible for the entire bandit gang.

Luo Daniu could only curse his mother while using a knife to hoax the group of refugees and miners.

Old Huang grinned all day long and smirked and grabbed others and chatted, but he couldn't do anything.

Luo Ba is a dull gourd. He stands on the gatehouse with a horn bow on his back every day and looks at the scenery without caring about anything.

The bobcats run around like monkeys from morning to night, and they don’t know how to do anything big or small.

Liu Youzhu and Luo Daniu were in a match, cursing at all times. There were still several scars on his already fierce face, so he had to walk around when he saw him.

As for the other old bandits in Jiujishan, they are even more useless than the above ones.

However, they were very good at playing swords and guns and charging into battle. Qin Chuan simply drew dozens of obedient people from the refugees and threw them with more than 200 miners.

Since then, screams and curses have been ringing from morning to night, and the rest of the village and the villagers in the town have been frightened all day long.

Some refugees and miners couldn't stand their wits, so they looked for opportunities to slip away, and were caught and beaten to cry and call their parents.

Qin Chuan did not stop the old bandits in Jiujishan. He only said one sentence to the beating of refugees and miners: "They beat you up to want you to live a few more years."

So, the old bandits in Jiujishan beat them even harder.

Including the villagers in the town, the entire Loufan was obedient to this group of vicious bandits. Although they were fierce, they had food and could give them food. This was the most important thing.

Meng Guiming's niece who had a maid a young lady's temper a few days ago was also dealt with. In front of Liu Youzhu, who was full of fierce faces, Miss Meng was like a quail, and told her to squat and not to sit down, and told her to lie down and not to stand.

Even Meng Guiming became much more honest and even took the initiative to help Qin Chuan manage some trivial matters of food, drink, defecation and sensation.

It can be foreseen that it won’t take long for Meng Guiming to completely follow the thief.

Perhaps because I heard that there was food in Mengjiazhuang, a large group of refugees suddenly came in the past two days, with seven or eight hundred people. Qin Chuan asked Baimaoer and Lao Huang to check if there were any spies, and then accepted them all.

Now, he has a total of 1,22 refugees and 76 miners under his command. Those hundreds of tenants who are not considered him are not included for the time being.

People are going to farm, mine and train the village lords. He has more than 9,000 acres of arable land and is planning to occupy the thousands of acres of fertile land from the Du family of Jingyou and the King of Ninghua. After obtaining it, nearly 18,000 acres of land will be needed, which will take about 3,000 laborers to complete it.

Moreover, the mountains around Loufan are not covered with terraced fields like later generations. The low and gentle slopes are basically deserted. He can allow refugees to clear the land and build dams and ponds in suitable mountain valleys. One pond can irrigate dozens or even hundreds of acres of land.

In addition to farming, he also wanted to expand the output of the mine.

Nowadays, Heishan Mine can only train three or four thousand kilograms of pig iron a day. Compared with the steel mills that produce millions or even tens of millions of tons in later generations, Heishan Mine is like playing house.

In fact, the daily output of one furnace in the Ming Dynasty was 3,000 kilograms. The reason why two furnaces in the Heishan Mine only earned more than 3,000 kilograms per day was because Meng Guiming was too mean to treat the miners, and his wages were almost negligible, so the miners naturally refused to work hard.

Qin Chuan knew nothing about steel technology, and the only way to increase production was to accumulate people and pay miners a pound of wages, and the more they worked, the more they earned.

If you pile up two thousand people and increase your enthusiasm for labor, you can also make 20,000 kilograms a day.

The price of pig iron in the late Ming Dynasty was very cheap, with a hundred pounds of only one or five cents of silver, while the price of cooked iron was less than three cents of 100 pounds. The prices vary slightly from place to place. The daily output of 20,000 pounds of pig iron is equivalent to income of 300 taels of silver.

Originally, Meng Guiming's wages to miners were negligible. After Qin Chuan processed the miners, the labor cost of 20,000 kilograms of pig iron was about 80 taels, and then he ate twenty stones of grain, about forty taels of silver, about eight taels of silver, and a total of 130 taels of silver.

In other words, if the mine produces 20,000 kilograms of pig iron a day, Qinchuan could earn about 160,700 taels of silver a day, and deduct the miner's casualties and injuries, there would be 40,000 taels of silver a year.

This forty thousand silver can support three or four thousand soldiers.

This is a good deal.

If there are enough blacksmiths who can turn all raw and cooked iron into iron parts, they will only earn more.

Among the hundreds of refugees who have been investing in the past two days, there are many border craftsmen, including two blacksmiths, one father and one son, and one husband and wife.

What made Qin Chuan happy was that the couple was good at creating long imperial swords, which are two types of Miao swords, including five-foot and three-foot and seven-inch swords.

Although the father and son were not good at making weapons, they had made firearms, bird guns, three-eyed guns, and even tiger squat guns.

To Qin Chuan, these two blacksmiths were treasures, especially the father and son.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't expect the bird gun that could only be shot in a long time and the three-eyed gun that had a sharp range and a sluggish head. He wanted to fire the gun.

The father and son had the experience of building muskets. As long as they were willing to spend time and iron, they could always make a gun.

So the two blacksmiths lived in the best house in the outer village and promised to have enough food and warm clothes every day. The iron shop in Mengjiazhuang belonged to them.

What made Qin Chuan depressed was that among the nearly a thousand refugees, there was not even a night of charge.

He urgently needs a group of outstanding sergeants. The old bandits in Jiujishan are very capable of charging and fighting alone. Of course, they can also sergeants everywhere, but what he wants is the border troops who are hanging alone for dozens of miles away at night.

If it really doesn't work, I can only go to Datong Mansion to cheat some of them.

After spending two days to sort out all the personnel, Qin Chuan began to think about who should be robbed next.

The Bashan tiger just robbed Meng Guiming of his money and food, and there should be a lot left on Huangcong Mountain. You can consider fighting Huangcong Mountain.

In the next step, it’s time to get the Du family in Jingyou Town, and you have to get the thousands of acres of fertile land at the bottom of Loufan Valley as soon as possible.

The idea was decided, Qin Chuan sent over a dozen old bandits in Jishan near Huangcong Mountain, staring at the movements of Bashan tigers.

I went to Song Zhiting to study how to fight Huangcongshan on the gatehouse every day.

Before he could figure out the reason, his subordinates reported a message: On the day when Bashanhu attacked Mengjiazhuang, Jingyou's Du family was afraid that the bandits would attack their family, so they hurriedly transferred all their family members and money to the county town.

Nowadays, most of the people in the Du family have returned to Jingyou, but the money and grain are still left in the county. According to refugees from the county town, the large bags of grain have filled the Du family's shops, which are at least two or three thousand stones.

The Du family, including the guard guards, had a total of three or four hundred mouths waiting for food. They had to eat three stones of grain a day, and they would definitely transport some grain back to Jingyou, otherwise the Du family would starve to death.

Upon hearing the news, Qin Chuan immediately slapped his thigh: Snatch his mother.

Even if the Du family only transports dozens of stones of grain at a time, they have to grab it, so they can't live a comfortable life.

The Du family is not a good thing, so there is no psychological burden to rob them.

So Qin Chuan threw the Bashanhu aside and began to study how to steal the Du family.

But at this time, a customer suddenly came to Mengjiazhuang.

This group of guests is a bit big, with more than a hundred people, all of whom are well-dressed men with neat weapons, and they are all riding tall horses. They are obviously the guardhouse of the wealthy families.

Qin Chuan went up to the top of the gatehouse and saw the other party sending two riders to ride their horses and shouting loudly: "There is an important matter for the Jiexiu Fan family to visit. Please ask the in-laws, Mr. Meng, to speak out."

Qin Chuan couldn't help but feel happy.
Chapter completed!