The speed of the group escorting the captives was not fast, but fortunately the distance was not far, and Baiyun Village was in sight for a short time.

From a distance, I saw Li Taining leading a group of management from Baiyun Village to greet Shang Ji at the entrance of the village.

Seeing Shang Ji returning, Li Taining greeted him eagerly, and congratulated with a smile: "Congratulations to Brother Shang, whose strength has reached a higher level, and the title of the first player is well deserved!" ”

Presumably, Li Taining also came to greet him after hearing the system announcement.

"It's just a fluke, there are so many heroes in the world, Ji is just one step ahead, what dare you call the first person!" Shang Ji replied humbly.

"Haha, Brother Shang, don't be modest, don't I know your strength? You deserve to be the first person! ”

Glancing at the long line of captives behind Shang Ji, he continued: "It looks like Brother Shang is still returning with a full load this time, let's still follow the old rules?" ”

Shang Ji nodded and replied, "Of course, continue to cooperate in the same way as before, and I will still sell the excess captives to Baiyun Village." ”

Li Taining showed a hint of joy on his face when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Brother Shang, don't worry, I will give you an affordable price, and I won't let Brother Shang suffer!" ”

"Boss Li is serious, I can still trust your character."

"Haha, having said so much, I also invite Brother Shang to enter the village, and I will talk about the cooperation tomorrow, I have prepared some celebration banquets to celebrate Brother Shang's successful transfer to a military general, and I also invite Brother Shang to appreciate his face!" Li Taining made a gesture of invitation, motioning for Shang Ji to lead the team into the village.

"Well, thank you Boss Li for your kindness, Shang Ji has thanked me here, it's not enough to fight, the blood has not been eliminated, let's talk about the celebration banquet another day!." Shang Ji declined Li Taining's invitation, and he had gained a lot from today's battle, and Shang Ji planned to take the opportunity to digest and absorb it.

"Oh, it's my negligence, Brother Shang has worked hard to fight, the celebration banquet will be another day, Brother Shang should rest quickly, I won't bother Brother Shang." Li Taining didn't care about Shang Ji's refusal, and left with a smile.

"Boss Li walks slowly."

Seeing Li Taining go away, Shang Ji turned around and said to Su Huan: "The old way, five days of intensive training, select those who perform well to join the reserve of the Black Armor Army, and sell the eliminated ones to Baiyun Village." ”

"Yes!" Su Huan replied simply, and then began to place the prisoners on his own without Shang Ji's instructions.

This kind of cooperation has been done several times, and both sides are familiar with the road and do not need special attention from the businessman.

Speaking of this kind of cooperation, we have to start with the first time Shang Ji led the Black Armor Army to the expedition.

At the beginning, there were only fourteen members of the Black Armor Army, namely thirteen former Black Armor bandits and Liu Meng.

After a few days of training, Shang Ji prepared a real combat drill to test the results of the training. The target of the battle is the thieves in the wild.

Obviously, the training effect was remarkable, and a small group of thieves of dozens of people were no match for the Black Armor Army at all, and after a battle, in addition to the enemies killed, more than a dozen thieves were captured.

Bring these captives back to Baiyun Village, and after a few days of training, select some people with high potential, perseverance and loyalty to join the Black Armor Army Reserve, and then officially absorb them into the Black Armor Army after their strength is officially promoted to the third rank.

That's how the other six members of the Black Armor Army came.

Some of the people who were eliminated after the training, Shang Ji was worried about how to deal with them, after all, Shang Ji did not have a base of his own, so he could not place them.

Then Li Taining came to the door.

Li Taining had long been drooling over the waves of captives that Shang Ji had brought back.

Most of these captives were above the second order, and even the first order captives were very good laborers.

The development of Baiyun Village requires a large number of people, and one of the necessary criteria for the promotion of the village to a town is a population of 10,000 households.

Ordinary player villages will randomly spawn the population in the vicinity every day, but the number of spawns is generally small, on average less than ten people per day, and these spawned populations do not necessarily defect to the player, if the lord is not satisfied with these people, they will automatically leave, become thieves or go to other villages.

Therefore, Li Taining exerted all his strength, and the population growth of Baiyun Village has been very slow.

The large number of captives brought back by Shang Ji just solved this problem, and the two sides immediately hit it off, and the captives selected by Shang Ji were all sold to Baiyun Village, a first-order thief with one gold, and a second-order with two gold, and the few third-order thieves were basically left by Shang Ji.

Shang Ji had already traded hundreds of people before, and these powerful people were added to the escort team by Li Taining to replace the relatively weak players. Those with low strength were arranged to cut down and farm, which can be regarded as making the best use of things.

Trading prisoners, or human trafficking, is the only economic income for the merchant at present, except for the war capture, and the merchant is still very concerned about it.

Although more than 10,000 gold coins is a lot, it can't sit back and eat, of course, it's good to have a profit.

Back at his residence in Baiyun Village, before he rested, Liu Xu asked to see him.

Li Xu was also one of the previous black-armored bandits, because his commander value was relatively high, a full twenty-five points, ten points higher than Shang Ji, Shang Ji ordered him to stay and train the thieves who had been captured before, and by the way, he commanded the reserves of the black-armored army that had passed the test.

Hearing that Shang Ji had returned victoriously, Li Xu immediately came to see him.

"Lord!" Li Xu saluted.

"How's the selection of prisoners? How many can go into the reserves? What is the training of the reserves? How many people can meet the assessment criteria?

Shang Ji asked a little impatiently, the current number of black armor troops is too small, only twenty people, and they are embarrassed to call it an army.

"Returning to the lord, there are seventy-two captives currently in the training, and thirteen of them can be selected for the reserve after the observation of their subordinates. These thirteen people are all people who have made great progress in intensive training, and have a generous personality and obey orders. ”

"In addition, four of the twenty-one reserve members in training have reached the assessment standards, and they are initially proficient in horsemanship, archery, and spearmanship, and their strength has reached the third level, and they can officially join the Black Armor Army. In addition, there are six people whose strength has reached the third level, but the others do not meet the standards and need to continue training for the time being. ”

"Well, allow those four to officially join the Black Armor Army and sell the prisoners who were eliminated in the training camp to Baiyun Village at the same price as before."

Shang Ji nodded with satisfaction, there are four more official members of the Black Armor Army, and the number has been further expanded, which is a good thing. Watching the military land he trained grow step by step, Shang Ji was also very pleased.

There is no formal military camp is so miserable, there is no way to train the army in batches, and it can only be selected little by little by this backward and inefficient way, but fortunately, ordinary players have no chance to select and train like this.

"Lord, we have no money!" Li Xu hesitated for a moment, and continued to want to report to Shang Ji.

"Out of money? Why is there no money again? Didn't I just give you fifty gold? Shang Ji asked.

Seeing that Shang Ji was a little angry, Li Xu suddenly knelt on the ground and explained: "Lord, the training of more than 100 people, the food consumed every day is two gold, and the loss of armor, bows, arrows, knives and guns is also very serious, because the lord requires the training to be as close to actual combat as possible, and the treatment of some brothers after training is also a large expense, with an average daily expenditure of nearly ten gold. ”

"Get up! I didn't say anything about you, what are you nervous about! Shang Ji frowned.

"Thank you, lord!" Li Xu wiped his cold sweat and said, as time went by, the deeper Shang Ji's power became, and the ordinary soldiers of the Black Armor Army became more and more in awe of Shang Ji.

The army is really a gold-swallowing beast, in the previous life in Great Qin as a general, Qin's super organization and mobilization ability ensured the logistics of the army, Shang Ji didn't need to worry about these messy things, just concentrate on the enemy. Now that he has trained an army with his own hands, the funds are going out like flowing water, and if it weren't for the windfall before, this army would not be able to support it.

However, it is impossible to give up, so we can only continue to insist on it, only hoping that before the funds run out, the Black Armor Army will begin to take shape and realize the strategic concept of fighting to support the war.

Li Xu was allocated 100 gold again, and Shang Ji explained: "Continue to train, according to the previous standard." To speed up training, the Black Armor needs to expand faster. ”

"Yes!" Li Xu replied loudly. Then his lips trembled, hesitating, and he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.

"Huh? Anything else? Shang Ji asked when he saw this.

"My lord, Zhang You had a little conflict with us when you were away before, injured several brothers, and spoke very arrogantly." Seeing Shang Ji's question, Li Xu immediately replied.

"Zhang You is provoking again?" Shang Ji asked with a slight frown.

"Well, Zhang You is indeed excessive, we remember the teachings of the Lord and have been patient with him repeatedly, but he has come to our camp one after another to provoke trouble and interfere with our normal training."

"Okay, I know this, I'll deal with it, you just have to train hard, your potential is good, you are very hopeful of being promoted to a junior general, work hard, and get yourself back to the field as soon as possible!"

"Yes! I will definitely double my training and live up to my lord's trust! Li Xu replied loudly with some excitement.

"Well, go ahead!" Nodding, Shang Ji motioned for Li Xu to step back.

"Lord, my subordinates retire." After a salute, Li Xu withdrew.

"Zhang You! Zhang You! Thinking of this name, Shang Ji also had a headache.

This Zhang You is none other than the junior general recruited by Baiyun Village before the official ceremony.

Relying on Li Minghui's favor, this junior military general is quite arrogant and arrogant in Baiyun Village, and he acts as a blessing in various ways on weekdays. Li Taining and Li Minghui have been patient again and again because they are the only generals under him.

Who knew that this chapter You actually provoked Shang Ji's head, and I heard that Shang Ji's record Zhang You has been unconvinced, and tried to compete with Shang Ji.

Shang Ji has been shirking because of Li Taining, but he couldn't delay the competition, and he was tied. Unexpectedly, he didn't know what to do, thinking that he didn't win because he was unlucky, and he thought that his strength was still above Shangji, so he became more and more arrogant.

This time, he even took advantage of Shang Ji's absence to provoke trouble, and even injured several subordinates.

If it was an ordinary person, Shang Ji would have taught him to be a man a long time ago, and even if he didn't kill him, he had to teach him a profound lesson. But Zhang You can't, although his strength is not very good, but he is currently one of the NPCs that Li Taining relies on the most, what will Li Taining think if he kills him rashly? The relationship between the two parties, which was still close, was immediately shattered.

Although Li Taining has always been very respectful to Shang Ji, Shang Ji knows that he can only be regarded as a parasitic at present. It's never a good idea to break with Li Taining.

"Looks like we need to find a base of our own!" Shang Ji thought secretly.