"Master Liu, can you please allow me to discuss with Mr. Guo?" Li Huaixin looked at Liu Heng across the long table.

Liu Heng nodded.

Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang lowered their heads and whispered in low voices. Even Liu Heng, who was sitting across the long table, had a hard time hearing what they were saying.

After the discussion, Li Huaixin raised his head, looked at Liu Heng, and said, "We can agree to cooperate with Mr. Liu, but we don't need to sign this document."

Neither of them wanted to sign the paperwork on the long table and leave clues to the bandits in Hutou Village.

"If you don't sign the paperwork, do you think you can walk down Hutou Village alive!" Chen Xunping glared and grabbed the handle of the knife with his other hand.

Li Huaixin was okay, but Guo Binchang trembled, shrank back, and stammered: "You, you dare to kill the imperial official?"

Liu Heng waved his hand towards Chen Xunping, motioning for him to sit down, then looked at Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang across the long table, and said, "My lords, do you think the 10% share is too small?"

Without waiting for Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang to speak, Liu Heng continued: "The common people know that the Xu family promised to give the two adults a 20% share each, but have you ever thought about why the Xu family must master the coke ironmaking technology?"

Master Jia of the county government had long been bribed by Yang Yuan, and the matter of Guo Binchang and the Xu family and Li Weiming's division of the share of the iron farm was also passed back to Hutou Village through Master Jia's oral communication.

"You, how do you know this..." Guo Binchang was shocked and didn't understand how the bandits in Hutou Village knew such secret things.

On the contrary, Li Huaixin looked calm. Although he was also surprised, he was not as stunned as Guo Binchang.

"It's not important how you know it." Liu Heng said, "Once the Xu family masters the method of coke ironmaking, they will naturally use it in their own iron yard. The common people guess that the 20% share of the two adults is only our Hutou Village in Dongshan.

How the iron yard and Xu's iron yard will be expanded in the future has nothing to do with you two."

After saying this, the expressions of Guo Binchang and Li Huaixin on the other side of the long table changed.

Two people, one is a military general who has passed the scholar examination and has served as a guard at Lingqiu for so many years, and the other is from the same Jinshi background. They are not fools.

After being reminded by Liu Heng, he immediately thought that the Xu family could expand the scale of their iron farm after mastering the coke iron-making technology. By then, the iron farm in Dongshan in Hutou Village would become dispensable, and most of the money would eventually be lost.

It fell into the Xu family's pocket.

The two Lingqiu magistrates and guards ended up making wedding dresses for the Xu family.

Li Huaixin has served as Lingqiu garrison for so many years, and he is very aware of the Xu family's weight in Lingqiu. If the Xu family really wants to kick him and Guo Binchang, the magistrate, to do it themselves, he, the Lingqiu garrison, and Guo Binchang, the magistrate, can't do anything to the Xu family.

Liu Heng saw that Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang had figured out the key, and said with a smile: "The document is here. As long as the two adults sign it, they can lead the troops down the mountain immediately. From now on, at the beginning of every month, the common people will send someone to deliver the money."

Come to the house."

He believed that Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang had figured out how big the 10% share he promised was, and they would definitely sign the document if nothing unexpected happened.

Sure enough, Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang only hesitated for a moment before signing the document.

This was not only because Liu Heng promised a 10% share, but more importantly, they understood that their lives were now in the hands of the Hutou Village bandits, and they could only leave Hutou Village safely by signing the documents.

Seeing the two people signing the document, Liu Heng said with a smile: "I think the two adults are in a hurry to return to the county. Before leaving, the grassroots gave the two adults a big gift to show their sincerity."

Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang didn't care about the big gift Liu Heng said. In their opinion, it was nothing more than gold and silver.

What they want most now is not gold and silver, but to return to the county seat as soon as possible.

"Two adults, please follow the common people." Liu Heng stood up, walked around the long table and walked out of the mountain temple.

Guo Binchang and Li Huaixin had no choice but to come out together.

Ten soldiers and servants brought by Li Huaixin were outside the door. When they saw Li Huaixin coming out, they immediately went to greet him.

"Return the weapons to them." Liu Heng ordered the bandits guarding the door.

Some bandits came up to the side and returned the weapons of these people.

When he came outside the wall, Liu Heng raised his hand and pointed, saying: "Two gentlemen, this is a great gift from the common people."

Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang looked over and saw a bunch of heads piled together wherever they looked.

Upon seeing this, Guo Binchang's face turned pale and he subconsciously took a step back.

Li Huaixin said with a gloomy face: "What does it mean that Liu Da is in charge?"

Liu Heng said with a smile: "Don't get me wrong, Master Li. Since you two came to Hutou Village to suppress bandits, you naturally cannot return empty-handed. These heads are proof that you have destroyed Hutou Village."

The heads were cut off from the corpses of the thugs in the Xujia Iron Works and piled together. More than a hundred heads were built into a small Jingguan.

Li Huaixin understood that as long as he took these heads back, he would completely offend the Xu family and there would be no possibility of resolution.

"What? Mr. Li looks down upon this great gift from our head master," Chen Xunping looked at Li Huaixin with a sinister gaze.

"Haha, how could it be?" Li Huaixin laughed dryly, "I accepted this gift."

He knew he had no choice and simply agreed.

The heads were loaded into a cart and followed Guo Binchang and Li Huaixin toward the besieged army.

Back in the army, Wang Tong and Chen Yusheng walked over nervously.

Before the two of them could speak, they heard Li Huaixin say: "Send the order and the army will march back to the county seat."

Upon hearing this order, both Wang Tong and Chen Yusheng were overjoyed, knowing that the two adults had reached a good result in their negotiation with the Hutou Village bandits.

At this moment, a flagman ran from the bottom of the mountain, came to Li Huaixin, and said, "Sir, the bandits at the bottom of the mountain have withdrawn."

"I understand." Li Huaixin nodded.

Xu Laosi was the only survivor of the Xujia iron yard. He had been following the army and was also besieged on the mountain.

When he saw Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang coming back, he was about to go over and ask what was going on. Halfway through, he saw a cart beside them filled with human heads.

Xu Laosi was stunned at first, but when he saw the heads on the car, his expression changed.

He discovered that the heads on the car were the heads of thugs he had brought from the iron yard.

"Master Li, what happened to the heads in the car?" Xu Laosi asked Li Huaixin with an ugly face.

Normally, he would never dare to talk to Li Huaixin like this, but seeing so many heads cut off by Li Huaixin and taking them to the army made him furious.

Li Huaixin said indifferently: "After Hutou Village is destroyed, the bandits' heads will naturally be brought back to the county."

Hearing this explanation, Xu Laosi's heart trembled, and a bad feeling arose in his heart.

At this time, a servant came from behind him, raised his hand and slashed Xu Laosi's neck, directly cutting off his head.

Li Huaixin took two steps back to avoid the spurting blood and said in an indifferent tone: "Throw the head into the car and bury the body anywhere."
Chapter completed!