Yang Cong originally wanted to inform the old man Yang Rong and told him that he wanted to recruit some guards to do business. Unexpectedly, the old man waved his hand and not only distributed the three-entry courtyard next to his yard for him to live in, but also added a monthly salary of 1,000 taels of silver to him for him to recruit experts.

It’s easy to do something with money. One hundred taels of silver per month can attract even a world-class master like Yu Dayou. He has an extra monthly salary of one thousand taels, and it’s enough to recruit ten world-class masters!

Of course, there are no ten best masters in the world. Generally, masters can only cost 100 taels of silver per month, and 5 taels of silver per month to make the Tunwei fight to the death. He felt that it would be almost as good as Tunwei, so he set a salary of 100 taels of silver per month.

Yang Cong didn't know how tempting the ten taels of silver a month was. He just ordered people to go to Quanzhou Prefecture City to tell Li Liangqin, who wanted to recruit guard masters and earn ten taels of silver a month. He asked Li Liangqin to find a batch of them. As a result, Li Liangqin was in a mess.

You should know that the annual salary of the yamen runners and constables in the county government is only about ten taels of silver. Ten taels of silver is twenty stones of grain. The whole family can make do with them, cook some porridge and some vegetables and leaves. It can be done with them a year. Ten taels of silver a month is simply a sky-high reward.

These days, martial arts practitioners are not very valuable, otherwise Yu Dayou, the world's number one master, would not have been able to make up the money for going to Beijing to take the exam. Most people practice martial arts just to serve as a guardian for others and make a living. Not to mention ten taels of silver a month, there is no ten taels of silver a year.

Li Liangqin made the news public. The next morning, the large open space under Qianshouyan was almost filled with the Li family and the disciples who had learned stick skills who rushed over after hearing the news.

There are at least 200 people in this guy.

Li Liangqin knew that Yang Cong would definitely not want so many people. If he really recruited so many people, he would be enough to directly fight to Zhangzhou and destroy the Chen family in Longxi. You must know that these people have all practiced martial arts, and no more than a dozen strong men are their opponents.

Of course, this idea is not realistic. If you take people directly to destroy a family of officials, what is the difference between rebellion? Yang Cong dare not do this. Li Liangqin didn't know why Yang Cong was recruiting these guards. He only knew that Yang Cong would not want so many people.

Just kidding, more than 200 people are more than 2,000 taels per month. Yang Cong is not the head of the Yang family, so how can he afford it?

He felt that if there were more than twenty, it would be a big deal. He could only let these Li family members compete with the disciples who learned stick skills in batches. Whoever wins, who can stand out from the top of more than ten people, and then he would get the ten taels of silver a month's salary. If he could not do it, he would be unable to blame others.

This competition took a long time, and in the end, twenty real masters stood out. Among them were Hong Tiezhu, a proud disciple who was learning stick technique from Li Liangqin, and the brothers Li Jianjiang and Li Jianlin were also on the list, but they were both a little miserable, not only with a bruised nose and swollen face, but they were a little limping when walking.

They were just trying their best to repay Yang Cong's re-creation. If Yang Cong hadn't helped them pay back the money they owed their parents, they wouldn't know if they could survive until now. So even if they were beaten up, they wouldn't care. If they encountered such a life-losing person, they would naturally have no choice. In addition, they were hard-working in martial arts and their skills were not bad, so in the end, they still fought for it.

The competition ended, that afternoon, Li Liangqin ordered them to go to Hui'an to report to Yang Cong. Yang Cong was naturally very happy with the arrival of these people. He was even more moved by the brothers Li Jianjiang and Li Jianlin who fought desperately to repay their kindness. However, he was a little curious. Their two brothers were here, what should we do with the land at home?

However, as soon as the two brothers explained, he felt relieved. There were more than ten cousins ​​in their generation, and planting hundreds of acres of land was not a problem. Their group only had about one hundred acres of land. Just ask their cousins ​​to help plant it. What else can I worry about with my own brothers?

It would be easier to do things with manpower. He immediately asked Li Jianjiang to take the four escorts from his hometown in Tong'an back and stare at the Yang family's shop in Tong'an County. He asked Li Jianlin to take the four escorts from his hometown near Quanzhou Prefecture to stare at the Yang family's shop in Quanzhou Prefecture. At the same time, Peng Fu and Hong Tiezhu took people to take turns to monitor Yang Yun and Yang Jinfeng. Even if this surveillance network was set up, as long as Chen Wenjie wanted to use his second uncle to be unfavorable to him, he would definitely receive the news as soon as possible.

By the way, why hasn't Chen Wenjie been moving for so long? You know, it's been more than a month since he gotten back from a defeat last time.

He wanted to give Yang Cong some color to see. The problem is that Wang Fu and Xu Jie, who were responsible for the punishment in Hui'an County and Quanzhou Prefecture, were pulled over by Yang Cong. He was unable to use the power of the government to deal with others for the time being. In addition, his family has always disagreed with him to easily use pirates and Japanese pirates to deal with the local merchant of the Yang family, so he could only slowly think of other solutions.

Not to mention, this guy is still a little capable. After he asked casually, he found that Yang Yun, the second master of the Yang family, was an idea-worthy person. Moreover, after a wave of empty-handed promises, Yang Yun threw himself into his arms.

On the day the county test was released, Yang Yun wrote a letter to Chen Wenjie. What he wrote was that after the county test list was announced, many candidates said that Yang Cong cheated and bribed the examiner, which made the city full of storms.

Chen Wenjie naturally wanted to catch this matter and make a fuss. However, the county test was over and he could no longer operate it, so he could only start with the government test.

These days he was contacting officials from the four major maritime merchants in the provincial capital to arrange everything.

The Yang family in Hui'an said that there was a property worth tens of millions of taels, which was a big piece of fat. Chen Wenjie's news reached the provincial capital, and some officials agreed to take action.

For this reason, Chen Wenjie even went to the provincial capital Fuzhou. After some secret discussions, a plan against Yang Cong and Hui'an's Yang family was decided. Then, Chen Wenjie wrote a letter to Yang Yun and asked him to cooperate with the action.

Naturally, this letter cannot be delivered directly to the Yang Mansion, or even to Hui'an, because the household registration is strictly controlled at this time. Not to mention entering the Yang Mansion, a stranger will attract the attention of interested people even if he enters a small county town with a small population like Hui'an.

At this moment, Hui'an's constable was controlled by Wang Rui, a traitor. Chen Wenjie didn't want the secret letter he wrote to Yang Yun to be accidentally intercepted, so he had already arranged the location for the connection with Yang Yun.

If he wrote a letter to Yang Yun, he would ask someone to take the letter to the Yang family store in Quanzhou Fucheng, and then notify Yang Yun's godson Yang Jinfeng to pick it up in person.

If Yang Yun wrote him a letter, he would ask Yang Jinfeng to take the letter to the Yang family store in Tong'an County and notify him to send his confidants to pick it up. Anyway, the entire Yang family store in Quanzhou is under Yang Yun's management, and the letter will not be handled by others. He believes that there will definitely be no mistakes.

How could he know that the person he sent to deliver the letter was discovered by Li Jianlin, who was being followed by Yang Cong.

Yang Cong asked Li Jianlin to take his people to stare there. A sneaky stranger would not come out after entering the Yang family store. It would be strange if there was no ghost.

Sure enough, Li Jianlin, who was in charge of Quanzhou, sent someone to report, and a suspicious person entered the Yang family store. Hong Tiezhu, who was responsible for monitoring Yang Jinfeng, soon sent someone to report, and Yang Jinfeng rushed to the provincial capital.
Chapter completed!