Out of the blacksmith shop, Tan Shan touched the silver coins in his arms, and muttered: "It's a few thousand wen again, and these silver coins cost one penny less." Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xia Nan shook his head: "Old village chief, I said that let you take a long-term view, the young and strong people in the village have no guys to defend themselves, how to deal with the fifty or sixty people of the Hu family, and how to guard the salt farm?" ”

Tan Shan didn't dare to say anything when he heard this.

Back in Ma Yuan Village, the villagers gathered around to inquire about the situation. As soon as Master Hu died, Nan drew a big cake in the summer, and the villagers were worried about retaliation, and they all had a good vision, and no one went to the salt field today.

Xia Nan faced the villagers who were full of hope, and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, today I and the village chief have negotiated with the county government, and I will pay for the salt tax in the future, and I will underwrite the surplus salt, and I will only need sixty percent of the income from selling salt, except for the filial piety to the county lord and the yamen master."

One of the villagers asked, "Shall we give us the rest?" ”

Xia Nan nodded: "That's nature." ”

The villagers became excited, and they discussed how much money they could get.

Lin Weiye came behind Xia Nan at some point, stabbed him, and whispered: "Take away what is originally theirs and give them a little, they are so happy, you are really a profiteer......

Xia Nan also replied in a low voice: "I have the ability to lead them to guard the salt field and ensure that the real money is in hand." Without me, they would not have been able to kill Master Hu, nor would they dare to go to the county government to negotiate a deal, and there was an empty salt farm, so they could only become someone else's house slave. ”

Lin Weiye said: "The ancients said that those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people, and they don't deceive me." ”

Xia Nan smiled, turned to the villagers and said, "Now the two of us are tied to Ma Yuan Village, for the sake of the salt farm, we must advance and retreat together." The most important thing now is how to deal with the revenge of the Hu family. There are about fifty or sixty family members that the Hu family can pull out, and there are a lot of young and strong people on our side, but we have to train according to my method to be able to defeat those family members. ”

Tan Shan also said: "Only by keeping the salt field can we have a way to live, everyone listens to Master Xia." ”

In the summer, Nan Yile has mastered the resources and channels, and now he has been upgraded to be the master, and he is on an equal footing with the dead ghost Hu Lao.

The villagers were very enthusiastic about protecting the salt farm, and under the command of Xia Nan, fifty stronger young men were selected, and the rest went to the salt field to dry salt, and one or two clever villagers were arranged to stand guard at the entrance of the village.

Fifty young men cut down trees and sharpened wooden sticks, and for the time being, they did not have spear heads, and used sticks as spears to practice the art of stabbing and stabbing. Xia Nan trained them with the experience of military training in college, and it took half a day to train the standing team, and when the sun was about to set, they finally barely stood in a phalanx of twenty people, with ten people in the middle as preparation. This phalanx faces the enemy head-on, and the flanks can prevent the enemy from making a detour, and if someone is knocked down, it will be directly added in the middle.

On the second day, Xia Nan pulled Lin Weiye and continued to train for fifty people. The training was boring and hard, and Xia Nan and Lin Weiye, as instructors, gritted their teeth and persevered, and the fifty villagers, who had a beautiful goal, also persevered.

On the third day, Tan Shan led a few villagers to the county seat to retrieve the guns and load them with fifty wooden sticks. Although it is a rough spear head, as soon as it is installed, the spirit of the young people suddenly improves a lot, and there are rows of spears, which is quite calm.

After equipping the spear heads, the two of them began to train the young men to keep the formation forward. In order to ensure the formation in the march, they must first be taught the distinction between left and right, so that they can walk in unison according to the command. The peasants of the Middle Ages really did not distinguish between left and right, and after practicing for a few hours, they still shouted that the left foot and the right foot.

Xia Nan couldn't, so he had to sacrifice a trick that was often used in the novel, tying a strip of cloth to everyone's right hand and right foot, and then taking a stick to see who stepped on the wrong foot was a stick. This trick really worked, after a day of practice, most of the young people could distinguish the left and right, and although they were not very neat in marching together, they could barely ensure that the formation would not disperse.

The revenge of the Hu family still did not come on the third day, although Xia Nan didn't know why the Hu family reacted so slowly, but he didn't dare to slack off and didn't dare to relax in training. After the young men have a certain foundation in formation, they practice assassination every day, and they practice and practice, if the spear is stabbed out crookedly and weak, Xia Nan and Lin Weiye pick up the wooden stick and hit the head and face.

There is nothing to say about the endurance and obedience of the Chinese peasants, giving them a little hope, and the resilience they showed impressed the two traversers.

On the fifth day after Hu Gangsheng was killed, the villagers who were on guard at the entrance of the village came to report that the Hu family had finally arrived. It is not the imaginary dozens of people, but the housekeeper and two family members of the Hu family.

Under the surprised gaze of Xia Nan, Lin Weiye and the young man who was training, the housekeeper and the two family members swaggered into the village, and before they could stand still, they found fifty young men standing in a neat row, all holding spears, looking at the past.

As soon as the butler's legs were weak, he slipped and fell to the ground, and asked tremblingly, "...... What are you doing here, you think...... Want to rebel? The two family members tried to help him up, but they couldn't stop shaking.

Xia Nan waved his hand: "Take it!" ”

The young man on the side restrained the three of them, tied them with hemp rope and threw them on the ground.

Xia Nan was puzzled and asked the housekeeper: "Do the Hu family all eat dry rice, they haven't come for so long, is it because they see the good feng shui of Ma Yuan Village, and are they going to bury Hu Gangsheng here?" ”

When the housekeeper heard this, his face turned white, and his teeth clicked: "Master Hu...... He's dead? ”

Xia Nan covered his forehead with his palm, "Feelings, don't you know that your master is about to rot?" ”

"This strong man, Master Hu...... A few days ago, he only explained that he came to Ma Yuan Village to urge the class, and he really didn't go back. But in the past, I often went out for three or five days without returning, and I was used to it. ”

"Could it be that he has a good relationship in the county?" According to the normal logic of men, Xia Nan speculated.

"Indeed...... Indeed, he had a widow in the county who went to stay for a few days a month......"

"And what are you doing today?"

"Mrs. Hu told me to go to the county seat to find my lord, I went to my lord's good home, but I was not there. I remembered that he had been here before, so I stopped by to see it."

It's okay, give Ma Yuan Village enough time to prepare, set up some county government offices, train the militia, or kill them on the second day, and it will really be caught off guard. Nan secretly said in the summer, could it be that God is helping me open the hanging? The right time, the ready-made salt farms, the people who can be used, the right time and place, and the right people are all available, and if you don't do a career in this time and space, you really can't live with such favorable conditions.

Xia Nan was in a good mood, and gently patted the butler's face with a spear: "What is the housekeeper's surname?" ”

The housekeeper replied in a low voice: "Don't have your surname Liu, and your single name is a whole word." ”

"Liu Quan, good name, hehe......" Xia Nan said casually, and then suddenly came to his senses, "You won't pass through from Lord Qianlong, can you be okay with adults?" ”

The housekeeper named Liu Quan looked at Xia Nan in fear and didn't dare to reply because he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

Lin Weiye leaned over suspiciously: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" But the name Liu Quan is so familiar! ”

"Haven't you read "The New Biography of He Shen", the famous first housekeeper of the Qianlong Dynasty, and the family property of the He Shen family, which is equivalent to 15 years of income of the imperial court, are all managed by him!"

Lin Weiye slapped his palm: "I remember, that obscene housekeeper." He picked up the gun and pointed it at Liu Quan, "What's not good, call this bird name, you can kill it!" ”

Xia Nan hurriedly stopped, "Don't be busy, he is familiar with the internal and external situation of the Hu family, keep it useful, and lock it up first." If you want to kill, kill those two. He pointed to the two family members next to him.

Lin Weiye said: "Why don't you see blood for our militia?" ”

Xia Nanshen thought so, so he asked the young people: "You elect the two who are the most courageous." ”

There was some discussion, and two people in the crowd were pushed out.

Xia Nan looked at the two of them: "Report your names." ”

The slightly higher of the two replied: "My name is Yang Youji, and his name is Huang Hansheng." ”

Xia Nan was slightly surprised, the surname Tan in Mayuan Village is a big surname, and it is generally difficult for this relatively closed saltfield village to have a foreign surname. Seeing his surprise, he said a little shorter: "Our ancestors are both from Guangxi, from the same village, because we offended the local bullies, we fled here and were taken in, so we settled down in Mayuan Village."

Xia Nan didn't ask anymore, turned around and pointed to the two family members and said: "Hu Gangsheng has died in Ma Yuan Village, and now the whole village and the Hu family are enemies of life and death, and they can't be good. One of you, one by one, and they were killed. When the two family members heard that they were going to be killed, they immediately screamed wildly.

Yang Youji and Huang Hansheng looked at each other, picked up the spear in their hands, and simply sent it forward, and the two family members settled the account.

Xia Nan didn't expect these two people to be so calm, and couldn't help but wonder: "What do you two do for a living in Guangxi, why can you kill people so calmly?" ”

The two of them heard the confusion in Xia Nan's tone, and quickly knelt down and replied: "Master Xia, our two families have been hunters for generations, and the two of us were forcibly taken away by the local bully because of the sale of tiger skins, so we were angry and killed the bully on the spot." My parents were afraid that we would die in a lawsuit, so they fled by boat overnight, wandered through many places, and finally came to Mayuan Village."

Xia Nan saw that the two of them were about the same age as herself, and asked, "How old are you now, and how old were you when you killed the bully?" ”

Yang Youji replied: "The villain is twenty-two years old this year, Han Sheng is twenty-three, and I was fourteen and he was fifteen when he killed the bully. ”

"Good, good!" Nan Daxi in the summer, Orion was born, he was able to hunt tigers in his teens, and he also killed people, he is a rare talent in this time and space, and he must have a future as a pro-soldier in the army.

He thought for a moment and made a decision: "Now that a strong enemy is coming, I have decided to divide fifty people into two teams, and the two of you are the team leader, each with a team. ”

The two of them were overjoyed when they heard it: "Master Xie Xia! ”

Throughout the ages, no matter what class, people's yearning for official positions and power is the same, the two of them were originally guilty of fleeing, far away from the mainland, drying salt all day long in this village to do coolies, it was not the life they wanted, and now with the arrival of this Xia master, there is a ray of light in the life of suffering, and he can become the leader of dozens of people, he never dared to imagine a few days ago.

"When the Hu family is defeated, I will arrange for you to concentrate on training and guarding the salt farm, with a monthly subsidy of two hundred wen per person." Summer Nan generously promised all the young and strong.

In the impoverished countryside of Lingao, two hundred wen is also a lot of income, and when they heard that there was a reward, fifty people were very excited, raised their spears, and shouted one after another: "Master Xie Xia's reward!" ”

"The military spirit can be used, and the Hu family can definitely fight and win." Xia Nan touched his chin with relief, and Lin Weiye on the side looked at his exaggerated expression, and tilted his head to the side as if he were vomiting.