Shandong people themselves are also quite strong, since ancient times there is a saying that Shandong out of the sound horse, in order to resist thieves, each village under the leadership of large households, have built a wall, the township self-protection, in the village to select young and strong, their own training group to practice the township brave, for the thief.

Therefore, although Xishan Village suddenly built a walled wall, it did not attract too much attention from the government, and Liu Yuanwai, who had newly bought a lot of land here, made a generous move himself, and he was very good at working up and down in Ninghai Prefecture.

And this Liu Yuan's surname is different from Liu's name, he is a person from Dengzhou Mansion, he was born as a small merchant in his early years, but now his secret identity is a lieutenant officer in the Seawolf Army, and he is also an intelligence officer under the intelligence department, his name is Liu San, and he carries the burden of goods all day long to go to the countryside and alleys to do some small business, and his life is passable, but then the area around Dengzhou Mansion is getting more and more chaotic, he was robbed many times, and the business capital was completely lost.

So Liu Wei also simply took risks, followed the people into the gang and fell into the grass, gathered dozens of hungry people, and started a business without capital, but this guy was unlucky, and soon after doing it, he was beaten by the government and almost lost his life.

Liu Wei didn't dare to mix in Dengzhou Mansion anymore, so he hurriedly fled south, and unexpectedly met someone from Aoshanwei, Laizhou Mansion, who recruited homeless people to go south to farm, and in desperation, Liu Wei got on the boat, and then joined the sea wolf's gang.

After arriving on the island of Taiwan, the Sea Wolf personnel examined it and found that Liu Wei was a person with a wide range of knowledge, able to speak, and very good at doing things, and he also had a little martial arts (in ancient times, the merchant who went to the countryside and went to the household, in order to defend himself, he knew how much kung fu), plus he was from Shandong, and his physical condition was also quite good, so he was recruited into the army as a soldier.

On the one hand, he was recruited into the torture hall to become a member of the sand, on the other hand, he was promoted and sent to the army officer academy for further study, and after completing three months of study in the army academy, he was discovered by the intelligence department and conducted intelligence training for half a year.

As a result, last year, Yu Xiaotian decided to send someone to Denglai to collect intelligence and arrange the work in the early stage, and Liu Wei was immediately selected and sent to Denglai.

Liu Wei changed his current name, and spent money to find a relationship, whitewashed his identity, obtained a new identity, and no longer worried that he would be arrested by the government, and he became a businessman who made a fortune in the south, and wanted to return to his hometown to buy some real estate local owners.

Later, I heard that there was a dilapidated family in Xishan Village, and he couldn't get along and wanted to sell their family's infertile hundreds of acres of land, as well as the old house in their village.

Many people secretly laughed at this guy at that time for spending money indiscriminately, this land was not worth so much silver at all, including the house, and spent a lot of unjust money, treating him as a Kaizi.

When I first arrived in Xishan Village, there were some local ruffians who wanted to trouble him and extort some money, but as soon as these ruffians made a move, they found that they had kicked the iron plate.

Liu Wei took more than a dozen family members, all of whom were good hands, and they were ruthless, plus they dared to spend money to dredge up the relationship, and hit the official yamen up and down, and some ruffians and hooligans touched a head of blood when they went up, and they were beaten with broken arms and legs, but they didn't dare to sue.

Two of the ruthless guys tried to gather more ruffians to make trouble, but suddenly, for some reason, they disappeared for some reason.

A few days later, the bodies of the two men were found in a puddle that was not often passed, and each was thrown into the puddle and drowned.

Only then did those ruffians understand that they had provoked characters who could not be provoked, and since then they have died down, and they no longer dare to go to Liu Wei for trouble.

Liu He did it again afterwards, and the government closed the case in the name of not finding the murderer, and the matter was over, after all, in this era in this place, it is too common for a few people to die, and where does the government have the energy to investigate and deal with it one by one, so Liu Wei is naturally safe and sound.

However, this also opened up the situation for Liu Wei in the local area, and the strongmen and ruffians within a range of dozens of miles around all knew that Liu Wei was a ruthless character, a character who could not be easily provoked, plus he was rich, and he was willing to work up and down, and the government also gave him face, so Liu Wei completely stood on his heels here.

After Liu Wei gained a firm foothold in Haining Prefecture, he quickly received further instructions from Lin Yiyang, and Lin Yiyang sent him a platoon of soldiers, all of whom were selected from Shandong and lived in the Liu family's compound in Xishan Village as a family member.

And as these people also brought a lot of silver and handed it over to Liu Wei, Lin Yiyang ordered Liu Wei to build a strong wall in Xishan Village before the winter, and to build a small wharf for ships to berth on the seaside.

In addition, if possible, it is necessary to find a way to control Yangma Island, even if it is to spend money to buy it, there is no problem, and to erect a small fortress on the shore opposite Yangma Island and Xishan Village, which will be of great use in the future.

After Liu Wei received the order, he immediately took action, and when he began to spread the news, he recruited a large number of people to build the walled wall and wharf, and also began to contact the Ninghai Prefecture government to purchase the land on Yangma Island.

Yangma Island was not called Yangma Island before, but called Ju Island, and the land on the island was originally a master land, but at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because of the Japanese troubles, the Ming Dynasty was prepared for the Japanese in various places, and the residents of Yangma Island had to be forcibly moved into the mainland, and hundreds of officers and soldiers were stationed on the island.

As a result, the land on the island became a wasteland or official land, and with the gradual reduction of the trouble, and because the soldiers on the island were extremely oppressed by the generals, the military households stationed on the island continued to flee, and by this era, the military camps on the island had existed in name only.

However, the land was basically transferred to the hands of a garrison surnamed Peng and became the ancestral land of their family, but because of the unpeaceful years, there were often small groups of pirates on the sea, and some of the remaining military households on the island also fled, and by this time there were less than 30 military households left, and a small amount of land was still cultivated on the island.

It can be said that the land on Yangma Island is basically in a state of abandonment now, and as the landlord, the garrison surnamed Peng is also very helpless about the situation here, and has long been thinking about selling the land on Yangma Island, but the value of the land on the island itself is not high, and there will be pirates from time to time, although he has the intention to sell, but no one has taken over at all.

Now all of a sudden, Liu Wei proposed to buy the land on Yangma Island, so this Peng Shoubei immediately sent someone to Xishan Village to contact Liu Wei.

Originally, this Peng Shoubei wanted to take the opportunity to sell it at a high price, but now that Liu Wei has gained a firm foothold here, he naturally does not want to be the wronged boss again, so when Peng Shoubei proposed the price, Liu Wei immediately and categorically rejected the price he offered.

Of course, Liu Wei now knows the price of land on Yangma Island, a large amount of land on the island has long been abandoned for many years, and it can almost be said that there is no value at all, even if the land on the island is very fertile, but no one cultivates it, it still does not produce value.

As soon as he hesitated, Peng Shoubei was anxious, and he didn't dare to insist on the original price, for fear that there would be no store in the village, so he quickly took the initiative to suppress the price.

In the end, Liu Yicai pretended to be reluctant to buy a large piece of land on the island at a more fair price, but this piece of land is not the whole of the island, because Yangma Island is not too small, it is ten square kilometers, and if you buy it all, it will really cost a lot of silver.

Fortunately, except for this piece of land guarded by Peng, the rest of the land is basically official land, and after Liu Wei bought this land, he also purchased hundreds of other acres of official land connected to this land in the west of the island.

In this way, the entire west of Yangma Island, across the water from Xishan Village, basically fell into the hands of Liu Wei.

By this time, Liu Wei had become a big landlord with more than 2,000 acres of land, although the fields on the shore were mostly some thin fields, but the more than 1,000 acres of land on the island were some pretty good fertile land, but the abandoned land was a little longer, and it was estimated that it would be a little difficult to re-cultivate.

After Liu Wei took the large piece of land in the southwest corner of Yangma Island, the first thing he did was not to recruit farmers to cultivate the land, but to recruit a large group of ordinary people, go to the island to give them tools, and let a few subordinates supervise the work on the island, and build a circle of soil fences about one meter thick and less than two meters high around the land he had fenced, so that it had a basic defense capability.

In addition, two trestle bridges were built in the corner of Tuweizi near the sea, where ships could berth directly to load and unload goods, nominally for future fishing boats to dock here, but in fact this place can be used by sea wolves at any time, and it is used as a transit point for refugees.

Of course, while Liu Wei was tossing Yangma Island, he did not forget to toss Xishan Village, in addition to his large family, there are dozens of civilians in Xishan Village, these families all own a small amount of land, and they are also villagers here.