Qin Chuan learned from the maid that Miss Li was the eldest daughter of Li Pingdu, the academic secretary of Fenzhou. The Li family was a prominent family in Fenyang. Miss Li's late grandfather was once a bachelor's degree in Hanlin Academy. She was a real lady from a scholarly family.

Not long ago, Miss Li was angry and ran to her aunt's house in Linxian because Li Xue was about to marry her into the Qingcheng Palace. As a result, the bandits suddenly attacked Linxian. Miss Li fled in a hurry and was robbed by Bashanhu halfway.

This girl is unwilling to go back to Fenyang, because she is innocent and because she is resentful of her father Li Pingdu.

Qin Chuan gave her a special treatment for Luo Daniu for his sake and allowed her to live in the inner courtyard of Mengjiazhuang.

As a result, Miss Li and Wang Jizong's wife Ning hit it off at first sight, and they became sisters in just half a day. In addition, Wang Jizong's name had long been spread throughout the prefectures of Shanxi Provinces. Miss Li had long heard of this talented man from the West, and both sides were well-educated and well-educated people, so she naturally moved into Wang Jizong's yard.

Qin Chuan was kind, and it made Luo Daniu feel bitter. This guy could enter the inner courtyard, but he was embarrassed to enter Wang Jizong's courtyard. After all, there were many female relatives including Ning.

Qin Chuan wanted to do a good job and called Miss Li out and arranged to live in other yards, but the girl stayed inside and refused to leave.

Ning also came out and said tactfully to Qin Chuan: The forced melon is not sweet.

Wang Jizong was fucking haha, pretending not to know about this matter, and he seemed to be stubborn without any concerns.

Poor Luo Daniu had to wander around the yard outside Wang Jizong for three days, looking at him but unable to see the beauty.

Qin Chuan was a little annoyed and immediately asked Song Zhiting to write a letter to the Li family in Fenyang. The letter said that in order to save Miss Li, the Qin manager of Mengjiazhuang not only gave the bandits a ransom of 200 stones of grain, but also paid several lives, and asked Li Pingdu to bring 200 stones of grain and 100 taels of silver to redeem his daughter.

If he didn't come, Li Pingdu would never see this daughter again.

I saved Miss Li's life. If I couldn't afford to get my brothers, I had to pull some wool from her.

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After solving Shentai Peak, Qin Chuan readjusted his troops deployment and structure, allowing Li Dingliang to lead two hundred camps to station in Shentai Peak Dazhai.

Luo Daniu was transferred back to Mengjiazhuang and went to harass Ren Liang and Wang Gangbaowu every now and then, not allowing those people to go out to rob, nor allowing them to recruit soldiers.

Qin Chuan picked some miners and some honest and obedient surrendered soldiers from the mine, and then picked some of them from the Zhuang people, gathering up 200 people to join the Guandi Army, so that the total strength of the entire Guandi Army reached 1,000.

Now, he has 1,500 war horses, and can do all the Imperial Army one horse, half of them practice cavalry tactics, and half of them practice infantry tactics, and in the future he will dismount like Bayala of Jiannu.

There are more than 500 pairs of cotton armor, which can achieve a rate of 50% armor and more than 400 horn bows, but archers are not easy to train, so most of the horn bows are stored in the warehouse, and only 200 archers have been trained.

As for equipment like shields, swords, guns and sticks, it can be said that it needs as much as possible, and iron armor and helmets are also being beaten day and night.

The two blacksmiths had experience in making armor. Qin Chuan asked them to make cloth iron armor and bowl helmets. The former's defense is not much weaker than the armor-plated scale armor, but the advantage is that it is low-priced and easy to make, which is both warm and easy to maintain.

Qin Chuan planned to wear two layers of armor, one piece of cotton armor inside and one piece of cloth iron armor outside. It can be said that all swords, guns, arrows, firearms and firearms can be protected.

As for Bo Zhou... this thing is very ugly, especially the one equipped by Jiannu. It looks stupid with a high lightning rod on his head.

Qin Chuan removed the lightning rod, leaving only a small section to tie the red tassels, and changed the neck to protect the throat, simplified all unnecessary decorations such as inscriptions and carvings. Then put a layer of cloth on it, making it a little less ugly.

He had some iron and craftsmen, so he asked the two blacksmiths to collect dozens of apprentices, on the condition that 20% of the apprentices' income within five years belonged to them.

In this way, the two blacksmiths will naturally teach the apprentices with their heart.

Luo Wentian's work efficiency is very good. Although the people who turned the head have not been recruited yet, a few women came: the manager of Cuixianglou and several madams from secret families.

These people could not withstand Luo Wentian's inspiration. They heard that a big man had come to Loufan Town, with hundreds of Minzhuang and thousands of miners under their command, and everyone had monthly money, which was a good place to do business.

So these people rushed to explore the way and see what the situation was.

Qin Chuan asked Song Zhiting to receive them, and took them to see the hundreds of Guandi Army who were training, see more than a thousand patriotic villagers and villagers who were repairing water conservancy, and see the busy miners in the mines.

After Song Zhiting made a promise to ensure safety and help build a house, the people went back happily, saying that they would go back and asked the boss to find more girls as soon as possible and prepare to come to Loufan to open a semicolon.

There were suddenly more refugees in the past two days. After the war in Loufan was over, they ran to Mengjiazhuang to ask for food, and thousands of people rushed to the same day.

Qin Chuan can still eat this. He can let the refugees clear the land along the Fen River and Xiaojian River. After using the land on both sides of the river bank, they can reclaim the surrounding gentle slopes. It will not be a problem to raise three or four thousand people in the short term, and it will not be a problem to raise 10,000 or 20,000 people in a year.

Qin Chuan handed over the identification and recruitment of refugees to Wang Jizong, the task of guarding Mengjiazhuang to Luo Ba, and he took Liu Youzhu and led fifty horses to the direction of Jingyou Town.

It’s time to go and visit the Du family in Jingyou.

The Du family and Meng family are similar. They both make a fortune by constantly occupying the land, especially in the years since they were raising Liao gulf, they only rely on the means of lending money to occupy most of the land in Jingyou Town, and finally reach out to Loufan.

Among the large fertile fields in the Loufan Valley, more than 2,000 acres belong to the Du family.

This time, Fan Yongdou joined forces with other families to go to Jingle and Lan County to collect grain. Du Yingguang, the head of the Du family, was the first person to cooperate with Fan Yongdou.

Most of the Du family's grain exists in Jingle County, and it may not be safe to transport it back to Jingyou Town. Du Yingguang simply sold all the excess grain to Fan Yongdou.

At the same time, Du Yingguang also asked the elderly, young, women and children at home to stay in Jingle County to prevent Jingyou from encountering an accident in his hometown.

Du Yingguang knew that the so-called Qin manager in Mengjiazhuang in Loufan was a thief.

What he didn't know was that Manager Qin was sharpening his knife and was about to be the first to attack him.

Loufan is only twenty miles away from Jing. It takes more than an hour to walk, and only half an hour to ride a horse.

Qin Chuan originally wanted to enter Jingyou Town and meet Du Yingguang first, and coerce and tempt them. However, before he arrived at Jingyou, he saw Thirteen Cavalry coming towards him, all of whom were wearing faces, with swords, guns, bows and arrows, and a few saddles with bright iron helmets and shields hanging behind them.

One of the rattan cards attracted Qin Chuan's attention.

The thick clothes on those people also attracted Qin Chuan's attention.

Obviously, these thirteen cavalry were Ming army.

It may be a deserter, but it should not be someone recruited by Luo Wentian and the others.

Seeing people from afar, Qin Chuan took his subordinates to the ridge next to him and waited quietly.
Chapter completed!