"The Lord, there are now 500 people, all drawn from nearby villages. According to the leader's regulations, they are all young and strong people over fifteen years old and under thirty years old."

Wei Jiufeng bowed.

"How is the training situation?"

Su Hao looked at Wei Jiufeng. Wei Jiufeng was the first warrior he accepted here. His strength was just right. Although he was not good enough in front of him, everyone here fled. A third-rate warrior is already considered a master.

Of course, the reason why he chose Wei Jiufeng to train for him was not because of Wei Jiufeng's strength, but because Wei Jiufeng had good management skills. At that time, more than a hundred people from all over the mountain village were managed in an orderly manner by Wei Jiufeng.

Wei Jiufeng said: "Master, the training situation is still good, but now there is not much food in the parody. You must find a way to get more food, otherwise the village will be out of food."

"Don't worry about food, this leader has his own arrangements."

Su Hao waved his hand and said, the reason why he was relieved to let Wei Jiufeng train troops was not only confident in his own strength, but mainly because he was responsible for the food in this copycat.

As the saying goes, before the troops move, food and grass will come first. Now there are more than 600 mouths to eat in the mountain village. Because there is no meat, oil and water, and if you want to eat enough and have the strength to train, a soldier must eat at least one pound of grain a day. More than 600 people will have six or seven hundred pounds of grain, not to mention that this is just a daily meal.

According to the standards he issued, as long as he joined the escort army, each person would be given three taels of silver and two taels of silver to accompany him. After joining the army, he would still receive one taels of five coins of monthly salary every month. He could get silver or exchange food, and the person responsible for paying the monthly salary would only be under his control.

Even if Wei Jiufeng has bad intentions, he has to give out so much food and money first. Otherwise, if he dares to have a strange intention, the people below will tear him up first.

"Master, there is a man who claims to be the disciple of Xu Hongru, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, who came to the village to contact us and wanted us to form an alliance."

At this time, Wei Jiufeng suddenly said again: "Because you are not here, I politely declined him. I wonder what he should do next time he comes?"

Xu Hongru's disciple?

Hearing Wei Jiufeng's words, Su Hao's eyebrows slightly raised. This was when he met the real master. The reason why he borrowed the skin of the White Lotus Sect was mainly for the influence left by the White Lotus Sect.

In ancient times, the title of righteousness was very important, but he did not have this thing. As the Qiangu of Jinyiwei, if he rebelled, he would be in a state of innate failure, that is, he would lose righteousness. It would be difficult for those wealthy families who held the right to speak to recognize him. Twenty years later, those people knelt faster than anyone else in the face of the Jurchens, because twenty years later, the Jurchens had absolute strength, and naturally knelt faster than anyone else in the neck.

But he could not have absolute strength from the beginning, so he could only win over those ordinary people. The White Lotus Sect has been preaching here for decades and countless believers. Xu Hongru raised his arms and gathered 100,000 people with a shout. So although the White Lotus Sect is like a rat crossing the street now, its potential power is quite large, but no one can gather.

And not only in Shandong, the White Lotus Sect has a large number of people's foundations in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that once it can support this skin, it will have enough foundations wherever it goes...

"Never mind him. Now the Jinyiwei is still chasing Xu Hongru's disciples very closely. The alliance with the other party will only expose us."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao waved his hand and said, "If the other party comes again next time, you can give him some food or silver and send him away."

"I understand."

Wei Jiufeng bowed and replied.

"In addition, continue to recruit troops and increase the strength of the mountain village to one thousand."

Su Hao continued: "There is also the news of blocking here. We must not let the government know the situation here. Now the court is extremely vigilant about us. Once the situation here is exposed, the imperial army will soon arrive."

"Don't worry, the master, I will never let the news be leaked."

Hearing Su Hao's warning, Wei Jiufeng's face changed and he hurriedly said, although Su Hao is the leader, Su Hao will appear almost every three or four days, and only stay for two or three at a time.

After an hour, he left after a patrol. Even if the matter here is leaked, it doesn't matter to Su Hao, but he is different. He is here every day. Once the news is leaked, he will undoubtedly die.

After giving some instructions to pay attention to, Su Hao walked out of the lobby.

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As soon as I walked to the martial arts training ground in the center of the parable, I saw soldiers practicing with wooden knives or wooden guns. Some were fighting each other, while others formed a simple military formation to cooperate and advance, and it looked like they had a little elite.

But each of them still had a strong face, and they looked malnourished, and they were weak during the drill. Su Hao had no choice but to do this. These soldiers were selected from refugees and had been malnourished since childhood.

However, if the food keeps up, the physical fitness will improve sooner or later. When he wants to use people in two years, these people should be able to use them.

Although his current strength is not difficult to fight one, and even a short time of battle, he can hold on, but he will definitely not last long. Xu Hongru's strength was definitely not weaker than him. He was able to use magic to make two ordinary people fight to death and a third-rate martial artist. Even he is difficult to do this now. Although it is mainly because the magic he knows is different from Xu Hongru, it cannot be denied that Xu Hongru is indeed strong.

However, Xu Hongru's strength was still in the hands of the court. The main reason was that Xu Hongru did not have a single soldier that could be used. No matter how strong his personal strength was, how many nails could he make.

Take him as an example. Now he has two paper men in his hand. Number one is weak, and at most it can deal with first-class warriors like Tang Xiangjin and others. Number two is much stronger and can deal with first-class warriors of Zuo Yifeng. He can also summon almost a hundred armored paper men comparable to third-rate warriors. With his current magic power, he can support it for a little more than a quarter of an hour. In addition to illusion, even facing martial arts masters, he will not be at a disadvantage. This strength is definitely ranked among the entire Shandong Provincial Administration and Envoy.

However, facing the imperial army that is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, this strength is not enough. For example, this time the Anbangyan rebellion, the court mobilized a large number of strong men. There were more than a dozen people in the Jinyiwei Qianjia, as well as more than twenty Taoist masters, plus the masters in the army...

There are more than fifty first-class masters alone, including top-level first-class warriors like Zuo Yifeng, and at least hundreds of second-rate people, not to mention that the Heavenly Master Zhang Ruiyan is also a strong man at the level of martial arts master.

Even if his martial arts cultivation can reach the level of a martial arts master in two years, he will not be able to deal with more than 100,000 troops alone, so an elite army is indispensable. Although most of them are ordinary people, before they cannot resist the entire world with one force, quantitative change will eventually lead to qualitative change.

After watching for a while, Su Hao returned to the lobby and began to deal with the affairs in the copycat.

"Qingsheng, how is the distribution of food and military pay?"

Su Hao looked at a middle-aged man wearing a long robe in a Confucian robe not far away. Peng Qingsheng was selected from a mountain village, and was specifically responsible for the distribution of food and military pay. Although there were many people who fled into the mountain, most of them were illiterate and very few could read. Peng Qingsheng had been studying for a few years and was a accountant. He was taken in when Xu Hongru rebelled. Later, Xu Hongru was defeated, and Peng Qingsheng fled into the mountain.

"*** Lord, the distribution of food and wages is distributed in full and timely manner according to the standards you stipulate."

Hearing Su Hao's words, Peng Qingsheng replied respectfully.

"Cai Ling, I asked you to supervise everything that happened in the mountain village, but what's wrong with it?"

Upon hearing this, Su Hao ignored him, but looked at a thin middle-aged man on the other side. He never believed in self-discipline, so he asked Wei Jiufeng to be responsible for training troops, Peng Qingsheng to be responsible for distributing food and pay, and Cai Ling is responsible for supervising.

Leader Cai respectfully said, "Lord, there is nothing unusual."

"Really?"

Su Hao narrowed his eyes slightly, urging a dream of yellow beams. A faint invisible wave dispersed, covering Peng Qingsheng and Cai Ling.

people.

In the perceptions of Peng Qingsheng and Cai Ling, Su Hao just checked the account book a little and believed the words of the two.

Watching Su Hao step onto the paper bird, and the paper bird flapped its wings and left, Cai Ling looked worried: "Brother Peng, we are such a fairy figure as a leader, and we deduct the food and monthly salary of the soldiers without hiding it. Once the leader discovers it, our fate will probably be very miserable."

"What are you worried about? The Master is busy with everything he wants. He only comes once every three or four days, and stays for one or two hours at a time. How could he find out what we do in food and salary?"

Peng Qingsheng comforted, "What's more, the White Lotus Sect is the target of the government's attack. As long as we come a few more times and accumulate hundreds of taels of silver, we will find an opportunity to escape down the mountain and become a rich man in other places. No matter how powerful the leader is, can he find us in the vast sea of ​​people?"

Not far from the two, Su Hao watched the two talk quietly. He had already prepared for this situation. It was only half a year since he accepted Peng Qingsheng and the other two. It would undoubtedly be a fool to think that they were loyal to him.

Besides, both of them were so poor that they were about to escape into the mountains. Now that the thousands of food and silver were in front of them, it would be terrible to say that they were not moved.

Seeing that the two of them wanted to leave after talking, Su Hao took back the illusion, Dan Dan said: "Peng Qingsheng, I knew that you were flexible enough to be smart, but I didn't expect you to be flexible enough to the leader of my sect."...

Su Hao's voice suddenly heard the faces of Peng Qingsheng and Cai Ling changed drastically. When they turned their heads and looked at him, Su Hao was still sitting on the chair and did not leave, as if they had seen hallucinations before.

"You go and call Wei Jiufeng."

Su Hao ignored the two of them, but walked out of the lobby and ordered a soldier who was guarding outside the lobby.

"Yes, leader!"

Hearing Su Hao's orders, the soldiers responded quickly.

On the main seat, Su Hao looked at Wei Jiufeng and the other two kneeling on the ground with a calm expression.

"Wei Jiufeng, my leader asked you to train troops, but you dare to seize the food and salary of the soldiers."

Su Hao said coldly: "I will give you a monthly salary of twenty taels of silver every month. You are still greedy. Do you really think that if you are missing, no one will be available to me?"

"Master, please spare me!"

Hearing Su Hao's cold voice, Wei Jiufeng's face paled instantly, and then kowtowed repeatedly. Although Su Hao had never used his methods, the White Lotus Sect was preaching here for so many years, and the methods of dealing with apostate people have long been known to most ordinary people.

"Master, please spare me!"

"Master, please spare me!"

Peng Qingsheng and Cai Ling also kowtowed repeatedly.

Seeing the three of them kowtowed, Su Hao was unmoved at all. He just watched quietly. He had no intention of killing the three of them. He was not like those rich families. Those rich families were prosperous for one or two hundred years. They had loyal slaves and children. They picked up all the people he could use. Even if Wei Jiufeng and the other two were killed, he could not guarantee that those who were re-selected would not be corrupt.

Now Wei Jiufeng and the other two have put up the accomplice's arrogance. If they choose again, they have to waste time training. After taking down this copycat, he picked seven or eight people to teach the methods of training. As a result, Wei Jiufeng learned the best. The others were half a bucket of water, which was simply useless. However, not killing did not mean that he would let the three people go easily.

Su Hao did not speak, and Wei Jiufeng and the other two dared not stop until their foreheads were covered in blood. The three of them still kept knocking again and again.

"Get up."

Seeing that two ordinary people, Peng Qingsheng and Cai Ling, could not hold on anymore, Su Hao said calmly: "For your first offense, I will spare your life this time, but next time, I will drain your soul and refine your soul so that you will never be reborn."

"Thank you, Master, for your life, I will never dare to commit it again in the future."

Wei Jiufeng kowtowed repeatedly. Compared to the two ordinary people Peng Qingsheng and Cai Ling, he once heard people say when he was practicing martial arts in the martial arts hall that some left-minded sorcerers do have the ability to extract souls and refine souls.

"Get out and return the deducted food and wages to the soldiers. If I let my leader find out that you deducted the food and wages from the soldiers, I will never forgive you."

Su Hao said coldly, he knew very well that drinking blood was almost impossible to completely avoid. All he could do was to make such things less. Now there are only a few hundred people in the copycat, and he could still control it. No matter how many, it would be difficult for him to completely control it.

Although illusion is powerful, it is essentially just confusing and guiding, rather than directly controlling others. When encountering a firm mind, it is difficult to make the other party express his feelings. Besides, there are various magical tools for meditation and concentration. Otherwise, why would the corruption in the Ming Dynasty be so powerful?...

After dealing with the matter of Wei Jiufeng and the other two withholding food and salary, Su Hao left the village.

In the sky, Su Hao sat on the back of the paper bird, overlooking the vast mountains below, with his eyes narrowed slightly. He never liked to put eggs in a basket. It was already quite eye-catching that Wei Jiufeng and his team trained a thousand elites and could not continue to expand, otherwise he would definitely be wiped out if he attracted the attention of the government here.

He had to find a few more places to train troops, with at least five or six thousand elite troops, so that he could be sure to resist the encirclement and suppression of the court. Controlling the Grand Canal and several grain warehouses of the Beijing-Hangzhou canal and several grain transport warehouses might make the court throw a fright, but it would never be possible for the court to sit idly by him.

This is a matter of the dignity and face of the court. Moreover, the Shandong Provincial Administration and the Minister of the Ministry of Education is the heart of the Ming Dynasty. It connects the north and south Zhili. If it occupys this place, it will definitely stimulate the nerves of the court more than Anbangyan occupying Guizhou. The court will never sit idly by and watch him grow stronger. After being fully prepared, the court will definitely dispatch a large army to encircle and suppress it.

With these five or six thousand elite soldiers as the foundation, we will recruit tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers and collect 70,000 to 80,000 people, which should be able to block the first encirclement and suppression of the imperial army.

Although the Ming Dynasty seems to be full of war now, the centipede insects die without being stiff. In Shandong alone, the court has ten nine guards, each guard, and each guard is 5,600 people, each guard is 1,120 people. There are nearly 70,000 people, not to mention those transferred from the three places of Southern Zhili, Northern Zhili, and Henan.

He had also collected some basic information before. Once the rebellion was launched, the court could mobilize more than 150,000 troops to encircle and suppress him within two months. Even if he was afraid of nearly two million stones of grain, with the power of the court, the problem of grain could be solved in at most four months.

Thinking of this, Su Hao couldn't help looking north. To be honest, if possible, he didn't want to take the path of rebellion now, especially in a vital place like Shandong. The time for rebellion should be after the eighth year of Chongzhen, but Wei Zhongxian fell in October of the seventh year of the Tianqi period. At this time, rebellion was more for the king's first body.

However, he had no choice but to do this. He had written to Fang Haichuan before, asking Fang Haichuan to remind Wei Zhongxian to be careful of the Donglin Party members being anxious and going to do something about Wuzong again. Unfortunately, Wei Zhongxian is quite confident in his ability to control the palace and does not believe his words at all.
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