(I ran back in the middle of the night last night, I was tired, and today I will guarantee two shifts, and I will pant and then talk!) It's not a good week! There are too few red tickets! Jack up, jack up! ）

Although he knew that after destroying Lijiazhuang, he would definitely incur the revenge of the government, Xiao Tianjian still decided to stay in Tianlongzhai for a while before leaving.

There are only two reasons why Xiao Tianjian made up his mind, one is that after they captured Lijiazhuang, the Xingtian Army seized a lot of materials, and recruited a lot of new soldiers, most of the Xingtian Army is currently newly recruited, and the number of soldiers is less than forty percent, if they evacuate immediately, the soldiers are not a big problem, but once they are pursued and intercepted by the official army or the township soldiers on the road, he dares to guarantee that as long as there is a slight disadvantage, these recruits will immediately collapse.

Therefore, he would rather take the risk of staying for a little longer, let the recruits receive a period of basic training first, so that they have a certain combat effectiveness and a sense of obedience before leaving, and by the way, digest and digest their gains in the first battle of Lijiazhuang this time, and raise their combat effectiveness to a higher level.

The second is that they have dozens of wounded, and their injuries have not yet recovered, if they go on the road at this time, it will be very inconvenient to take them with them, if they are replaced by other people, they will not consider the problem of these wounded people at all, and just leave them behind, but Xiao Tianjian will never do this, he will never chill the hearts of his subordinates, so he would rather take the risk of staying for a little longer, and even take out a large amount of silver, and risk letting Master Jin and them go to Fengxiang Mansion to get back a batch of medicinal materials to treat their injuries, rather than easily discard them.

When they heard the news that Zhangpanzi sent someone to risk procuring medicinal materials for them, the wounded were all grateful to Xiao Tianjian, and greatly admired Xiao Tianjian's benevolence and righteousness, which made Xiao Tianjian's intention to die even stronger.

People are such animals, and these soldiers were originally simple farmers, although they were timid, but they knew Entubao, if you treat him well, they can sell their lives to you, this is exactly what Xiao Tianjian wants, what is the most valuable thing in these years? In his eyes, gold and silver are all things outside his body, and if he keeps them and doesn't spend them, he is a pile of waste, so he doesn't care about the cost of spending money for his subordinates, and he saves money and becomes a burden in the future! And the most valuable thing in his opinion, is the loyalty of his subordinates, his greatest capital is the loyalty of these people under his command now, without these people, then he is nothing.

The news brought back by Master Jin is very important to Xiao Tianjian, the bad news that they beat Li Jiazhuang had already expected that the government would never give up, and now judging from the news that Master Jin brought back in Fengxiang Mansion, things are as they expected, the government is really anxious, and they are going to come to them desperately.

But the good news is that in a short period of time, Fengxiang Mansion has not been able to send enough troops to encircle and suppress the Xingtian Army, and the government's attention is still in the Shangluo area, according to reliable sources, a large number of mutant troops have indeed been besieged in the Carriage Gorge, which makes the Xingtian Army have relatively sufficient time to rest.

And according to Jishengtang's shopkeeper Zhang, even if the government really sends troops to suppress it, there will not be too many troops, and the soldiers and horses are still organized by the township warriors, and the threat to the Xingtian Army is not too big, so Xiao Tianjian knows very well in his heart that the rise of their Xingtian Army in the short term in Huangyang is largely due to the empty space of local officials and troops created for them by the large forces of the mutant army like Gao Yingxiang, Xiao Tianjian really wants to thank Gao Yingxiang for their cooperation.

After learning these news that they could not grasp before, Xiao Tianjian completely gave up the idea of leaving this place as soon as possible, and even seized the time to train the new and veteran soldiers, and at the same time let Huzi return to Fengxiang Mansion again, and stayed in Jishengtang, responsible for temporarily investigating the movements of the officials and troops of Fengxiang Mansion, and immediately reported back as soon as there was a movement, the importance of intelligence has now been highlighted, since it is linked to such a relationship, how can Xiao Tianjian not use it?

The biggest gain from the battle of Lijiazhuang this time may be those gold and silver treasures and grain in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Xiao Tianjian, his biggest gain this time is talent.

After they conquered Lijiazhuang, many displaced people gathered in Lijiazhuang from all directions, and Xiao Tianjian ordered Yan Chongxi to recruit not only hundreds of healthy new soldiers, but also dozens of craftsmen, including some artisans who fled from border towns to the mainland.

Not to mention the rest, the blacksmiths alone recruited more than thirty, which made the number of blacksmiths in the Xingtian Army reach nearly fifty, making the original lack of manpower abundant, and they also obtained a lot of copper and iron from Lijiazhuang, which provided manpower and material support for them to build their own weapons.

Originally, a blacksmith shop had been built in Tianlong Village, after Xiao Tianjian led the army back this time, the blacksmith shop immediately expanded twice, and dozens of blacksmiths immediately invested in the work of building weapons as soon as they returned to Tianlong Village, because the furnace and various tools were limited, these blacksmiths were divided into two shifts, and they worked day and night to build all kinds of weapons needed by the Xingtian Army, and the efficiency suddenly more than doubled.

The original three-edged thorns that were not easy to build, after the arrival of this batch of blacksmiths, the number of knives produced every day reached dozens of pieces, and because of the addition of various iron materials, Xiao Tianjian did not dare to forge a large number of knives, and now they have begun to be made by blacksmiths, and some broken weapons have also been rebuilt, in order to make the quality of equipment of the Xingtian Army reach a new level before the next war.

After Xiao Tianjian came back, in addition to arranging various other things, he also invested a lot of energy on the blacksmith's side, and he personally inquired about each of the blacksmiths recruited this time, asking them what they mainly did before.

Sure enough, among these blacksmiths, he really found a few blacksmiths who fled from the border towns into the interior, these blacksmiths are all artisans in the border towns, these artisans are lifelong craftsmen, never leave the country, serve in the guards, build weapons for the military, but the craftsmen can get very low remuneration, many people have no land to cultivate, generations can only rely on their crafts to eat, these years, the government has become more and more corrupt, even the officers and soldiers can not get food, not to mention their artisan households, Many craftsmen saw that they could not survive, so they took their families and fled to the interior to find a way to live, but the mainland was also full of displaced people at this time, and these people could not live, so they could only become a member of the displaced people, and lived by begging everywhere.

The craftsmen who were forced into such fields could no longer care about anything at this time, and they did not hesitate to sell their skills and labor as long as anyone cared about their food.

When they heard that the Xingtian Army was recruiting craftsmen, these craftsmen among the homeless people didn't have to think much about it at all, and immediately unveiled the list and applied for food, and went to the Xingtian Army to beg for food.

After Xiao Tianjian came back, he personally received them and told them that in the Xingtian Army, the Xingtian Army provided them with three meals a day, and at the same time provided for their wives and children, and from the aspect of work, the Xingtian Army will implement the piecework system, according to the number of things each person builds, according to the difficulty of building the item, and give them a monthly settlement, but the requirement for them is that everyone must leave their mark on the item when they build the item. In order to verify later, if it is found that the equipment made by someone is a defective product, the responsibility of the manufacturer will be traced.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, these craftsmen agreed without saying a word, in fact, Xiao Tianjian's practice is not new, it was also stipulated in the government before, even in the earliest Qin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty also required craftsmen to do so, so the quality of the weapons of the Qin army far exceeded the quality of weapons of several other countries, and finally made the Qin Dynasty win the world, but after these years of the Ming Dynasty, this system has become a dead letter, because the officials in charge of the craftsman are often greedy from raw materials, So much so that the craftsmen could not obtain enough sophisticated raw materials, so that they were all fooled to do it, so that the system set by the imperial court became a dead letter, and the quality of the armor created was not up to par at all, which has also become a stubborn disease, and it is difficult to return!

But the Xingtianjun here is really to implement the system, the craftsmen are naturally willing to accept this management method, and the piecework wage is very fair, do more to take, do less to take, do not do not take, everyone has nothing to say, not to mention, the Xingtianjun is quite good to them, not to mention three meals a day, but also full, the treatment is directly after the food treatment of the soldiers of the Xingtianjun, even their wives and children also follow two meals a day, which makes them very satisfied, so these people when they arrive in Tianlong Village, I threw myself into the work, and I was in full swing.

After inquiring about each craftsman, Xiao Tianjian finally found a craftsman who could make a bird's gun, and among the blacksmiths they recruited this time, there were a total of four people who could do this, and one of them, Yang Changshou, was highly valued by Xiao Tianjian.

This person is a craftsman who fled back from the area of Jizhen, when the Tartars entered the Kou, the official army was defeated and fled, these craftsmen were either taken captive by the Tartars, or scattered and fled into the interior, but because they themselves are lowly and are not welcomed anywhere, so that even after they flee back, they are very discriminated against everywhere, and they can't find a stable livelihood at all, plus they themselves are artisans who have left their nationality, and the government will not be polite to them, and they will often be imprisoned when they are caught, and even demoted to slaves, Sold into slavery to some large families.

So Yang Changshou had to go all the way south, and then ran from Shanxi to Shaanxi, but all the family members he brought were starved to death on the road, leaving him alone struggling to survive, if this time it was not for Xiao Tianjian to recruit people in Lijiazhuang, it is estimated that Yang Changshou would not live for a few days, basically it can be said that Xingtianjun gave Yang Changshou another chance to live, Yang Changshou was asked separately by Xiao Tianjian, and he told his life experience in 1510, When Xiao Tianjian asked him if he could build a bird gun, Yang Changshou patted his chest and said, "General, don't worry!" When our old Yang family was in Jizhen, they specially built this for the official army, not a small boast, where we were at that time, no one dared to say that it was better than me to build this thing! As long as the general gives enough small iron, the small one can make a fine bird gun for the general!

Don't talk about this, even if it's a cannon, the small one has been cast for the officers and soldiers, and this kind of thing is difficult to be small! It's just that it takes a lot of iron to build a bird gun, a bird gun needs to use six catties of fine iron, ten catties of coarse iron can be beaten repeatedly to get a catty of fine iron, and a bird gun will use sixty catties of coarse iron, if the iron given is not enough, even if the small one is a fairy, it can't create a good bird gun! Therefore, the small one must explain this to the general first, and the province will cause trouble later! I'm afraid that even a few more heads will not be enough for the general to cut off! ”