The weather is clear and crisp, it’s already September.

Qin Guan got up in the morning and practiced swordsmanship. After breakfast, he was going to go to the military camp to see. The newly recruited Xiang army had been settled and trained for a month. Xiong Da said that they were already looking good, so he asked Qin Guan to go and have a look.

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Qin Guan was a little puzzled by the appearance after just one month. Even in modern times, new recruits have been in the army for a month and they haven't even learned how to form a formation.

But the Luoyi people stopped him.

"Master, I would like to report to you on the situation of taking over the property of the county prince's palace." Luo Yiren said.

"Hey, why didn't you say anything last night?"

"Last night, there was no chance for me to let you speak. I wanted to talk about it later, but in the end I was so tired that I fell asleep." Luo Yiren said angrily.

Qin Guan chuckled.

The two came to the study, and Luo Yiren took out an account book, put it in front of Qin Guan, and explained it to him while reading it.

"Master, so far, I have controlled 60% of the property in the contract." Luo Yiren said.

Qin Guan was surprised by Luo Yiren's achievements. He was amazed and said in surprise: "Oh, my Yiren is so good. He can master 60% in less than a month. Tell me how you did it."

Arrived."

After Luoyi got the contract, she thought hard and finally formulated a strategy, which was to try to control these big shopkeepers. Without the control of these people who are familiar with the industry, these businesses would probably plummet. This is not what she wants.

As for how to do it, it is to use force to suppress others and divide them.

The Luoyi people found someone to collect the personalities and families of the eight shopkeepers, as well as their loyalty to the county prince's palace, and started targeting those who were easy to break through.

The Luoyi people first found Xia Bonian, one of the eight shopkeepers. Xia Bonian was 54 years old. He was in charge of the fields, forests and grain sales of the county prince. He was shrewd and cautious in doing business. The last time the state government ordered to lower grain prices, Xia Bonian

After Bonian asked Commander Tao for instructions, he lowered the price of food in Xiongzhou as quickly as possible.

The Luoyi people directly took out the contract and placed it in front of Xia Bonian. Xia Bonian was very surprised at first. Then Xiong Er appeared as Commander Ping and told him that the prince's palace had given these properties to the prefect of Qin and asked him

Are you willing to continue to manage these industries?

Xia Bonian knew that he could either switch to the Qin Prefecture or choose to go home to raise his grandson. He immediately expressed his willingness to transfer to the Prefecture and help the Prefecture manage these properties.

Then the Luoyi people called the shopkeepers one by one, Zhao Rugui who was in charge of the iron ore mine and weapons workshop, Tonghua Niang who was in charge of the restaurant and brothel, Gu Zhixin who was in charge of the wine business, Xiao Zifu who was in charge of the medicine business, Ji Zongqi who was in charge of the fur business,

These six shopkeepers, the Luoyi people, either softly or hard, pulled or beat them, subdued them one by one.

However, Hu Li, the big shopkeeper in charge of pastures and horse and livestock trading, and Sun Cheng, the big shopkeeper in charge of border trade with the Liao Kingdom and Xixia, encountered setbacks.

Sun Cheng refused sternly and said emphatically that he would not hand over his business to anyone without the prince's personal order.

As for Hu Li, he was even more arrogant. He even said to the people of Luoyi: "I am an old man from the prince's palace. I have served the prince's palace all my life. I don't know how the prince was bewitched and handed over all his property to

Magistrate Qin, you can't even take away a single cent of the property in my hands."

After saying that, Xiong Er didn't even look at him, threw up his sleeves and walked away.

"When did it happen?" Qin Guan asked.

"Just yesterday, I found out through research that the two of them were the most difficult to deal with, so I put them at the end. Although I had made preparations, I still failed in the end." Luo Yiren was a little frustrated that he could not fully control the industry.

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Qin Guan touched her face and said, "You have done well enough and exceeded my expectations. Let the master handle the two of them."

Qin Guan thought about it for a while. The border trade between Song Ke and Liao Kingdom in Xixia might involve a lot of gray business, smuggling, or even deeper reasons, so Sun Cheng refused to hand it over.

As for Hu Li, he probably reacted like this because he was an old man in the palace and was used to being arrogant and domineering.

Qin Guan came to the military camp with several guards.

Xiong Daxiong Er and his commander were all at the door to greet Qin Guan.

This was the first time Qin Guan came to inspect the military camp after recruiting the new Xiang army.

Riding on his horse, Qin watched and saw that the size of the military camp had expanded several times, and countless soldiers were practicing. However, these soldiers were only wearing commoners, wrapping their heads with green scarves, and holding wooden poles and spears in their hands. They were very rudimentary.

Qin Guan felt that these Xiang armies looked like miscellaneous armies, or even peasant uprising armies, and they did not look like government armies at all.

Qin Guan stood on a high platform, and 10,000 soldiers stood under the stage for review, then a drill formation, and finally a fighting performance of 500 pairs of soldiers.

Qin Dian nodded. In just one month, he was able to turn these original farmers into soldiers who could understand orders. Xiong Daxiong Er did a good job indeed.

After the review, Qin Guan walked on the playground with his hands behind his back, looking at the soldiers who were still training. Xiong Daxiong Er accompanied him behind him.

Qin Guan asked: "Is there anything wrong with the military camp?"

Xiong Daxiong Er looked at each other and replied: "There is indeed something wrong."

"Tell me."

"The first is the issue of officers. Now these officers are selected by the two of us from the Xiang army. They are said to be commanders and chiefs, but they have no status." Xiong Dada.

"What's the origin of it all?"

"They are all old men who have been soldiers before. They even experienced fighting in the army, but later they returned to the countryside for various reasons. This time, because of the shortage of manpower, they were promoted."

Qin Guandian nodded, very much like a grass-roots team.

Qin Guan also has no solution to this problem.

If the imperial court sends people, he cannot guarantee that this army will completely obey his orders. If these people are used, they will be nameless and have no status.

Finally Qin Guan said: "Tell them to work hard. When I have the opportunity in the future, I will report it to the court and give them a background."

"What else?" Qin Guan asked again.

"There is also food. If you want to quickly develop combat effectiveness, you need to increase the amount of training, but this requires better food, otherwise the soldiers will not be able to withstand it."

Qin Guandian nodded.

"This can be solved directly. From now on, we will change from two meals to three meals, and eat meat once every three days." Qin Guan said directly.

Regardless of eating meat once every three days, this standard was already very high in ancient times.

"Master, there are also weapons and armors. You have also seen that many soldiers now still hold a stick without even a spearhead, let alone armor."

"A real army must have the most basic units of archers, sword and shield soldiers, and spearmen to cooperate in combat."
Chapter completed!