Huang An breathed a long sigh of relief, then stood up and walked out of the house to go to Yang Chengwu and others to discuss their plans and arrangements for Feng'an County.
In eight days, there will be a big banquet in the master's house. Before then, he must take the people arranged by Old Man Li to Youzhou.
The journey alone would take four days.
Fen County and Feng'an County are one hundred miles apart. It takes two days to go back and forth.
After arriving at Xialin Village, it will take another two days to send people to Youzhou.
There were only four days left for him to pick up people in Feng'an County and hire people at his Dahuaishu Village!
Very tight schedule!
Fortunately, Huang An sent someone to Feng'an County to deliver a letter early the next morning after arriving at Xialin Village, asking Old Man Li to arrange manpower as soon as possible.
Otherwise, there will be no time at all.
Presumably when he arrives in Feng'an County the day after tomorrow, Old Man Li and others are already waiting for him, and he should be able to set off soon.
Huang An and the others were busy throughout the afternoon.
Although the time is tight, the process that needs to be followed is essential.
The brothers have just withdrawn from the front line. Since they can return home this time, they cannot miss this opportunity.
Those 112 border troops will all go to Feng'an County together.
As for the people left behind in Xialin Village, they are all those thin monkeys.
These skinny monkeys do have a lot of problems, and it is common for them to be scolded or even beaten.
Even Huang An, with his good temper, sometimes couldn't stand these scoundrels and couldn't help but slap a dozen of them.
Punching, kicking, and spitting happened every day.
Although these skinny monkeys had to be beaten and trained every day, Huang An was relieved that no one escaped.
As long as there are enough benefits, no one can truly be educated!
Although these skinny monkeys are often beaten, it is impossible for them to run away.
Who can give them a bite to eat these days, that is the uncle.
Whoever can give them enough to eat every day is their ancestors, their own ancestors.
Moreover, their eldest brother also pays them wages, that is, their biological father.
Being beaten and scolded by one's own father is a blessing that most people cannot ask for.
In the past, the three heads of Xialin Village also helped them, letting them work and giving them some food to ensure that they could survive this severe winter and not starve to death.
But it is impossible to be full, otherwise they would not be so hungry that they would lose their appearance.
It's different now. Their ancestor, their biological ancestor, and now their eldest brother Huang An can ensure that they have enough to eat, meat, and even five thousand coins per month.
It was too late for them to be grateful, so how could they run away because they couldn't stand the scolding or the life-threatening hard work?
As long as the eldest brother doesn't chase them away, they can stay here for the rest of their lives.
In the future, if I save my salary and money, I might be able to marry a wife and have seven or eight children, and I will be secure for the rest of my life.
It can be said that Huang An's sugar-coated bullets and big stick deterrence made them completely give up.
There were so many people leaving at once this time. Although the skinny monkeys in the village seemed to be very well-behaved now, Huang An still asked the two temporary commanders to stay and arranged tasks for them in the next few days.
These two were so lonely that they simply stayed at the base camp and watched these skinny monkeys.
The tasks assigned to them are also relatively simple.
The two tasks are separate.
Seventy of the one hundred skinny monkeys are going to open fields at the foot of the opposite hill.
Moreover, he had to lay mud bricks and build pig pens and temporary shacks for people on the place he had planned before.
As for the remaining thirty thin monkeys, under the leadership of the second temporary commander, they will walk through the streets and buy piglets around Fen County.
Huang An left two hundred taels of silver in the village for the two of them to discuss.
Most of it is money for grain, vegetables and meat, and a small part is money for collecting piglets.
Youzhou is a vast area with few people, and it is spring again. There are not too many edible wild vegetables, and the prices are very cheap.
There is no choice about meat, it must be there.
If you don't eat meat and only eat grains and vegetables, you won't have any oil or water in your stomach, you'll be hungry fast, and you won't have enough strength.
Without strength, you can't work.
When these thin monkeys left behind grow taller, Huang An will naturally not be reluctant to part with the little money.
As for farming and raising pigs, this is actually a clever move. It is the kind of corps construction that Huang An copied from his hometown.
After all, there is no point in sitting on your laurels.
More importantly, it is easy for people to think blindly when they are free, and it is even more difficult to manage when they get together.
Now find something for them to do so that they can have a job and save them from causing trouble for themselves.
He now has more than 200 people under his command, so he can't just rely on Youzhou to allocate money, or rely on this road to make a living, right?
They need to reach a point of self-reliance as soon as possible.
This is the only criterion for judging whether a force is healthy or not!
He cannot dig into his own pocket endlessly to subsidize and take care of them.
Not to mention Huang An, among the three heads of Xialin Village, who is not farming?
They even have their own business and other sources of income in Fen County.
As for raising pigs, they also raise them, but the scale is certainly not as large as Huang An planned.
Huang An called the two temporary commanders who stayed behind in the afternoon, handed them the money, and asked them to go to the yards one by one to notify the thin monkeys and convey his orders.
At six o'clock in the morning of the next day, the team was integrated. Huang An rode Meteor and walked side by side with Yu Mao. Everyone walked along the dirt road outside Fen County towards Feng'an County.
Yu Mao also brought ten of his brothers with him to give his fourth brother strength and prevent accidents from happening.
He was actually aware of the conflict between Huang An and Mr. Li, the lord of Feng'an County. He had found out about this during his previous investigation of Huang An.
Huang An took the initiative to explain the whole story to him a few days ago, and he didn't mind being a bodyguard.
However, he felt that this time he would go to Feng'an to have some fun and relax.
As long as the Li family still wants to live, they will never do anything to his fourth brother.
It's even possible that the Li family has already received the news that the fourth brother is coming, and it's not necessarily that they are waiting at the city gate to greet him personally.
Anyway, Yu Mao felt that if he were Li Wei or Li An, he would greet Huang An outside the city gate, plead guilty and then apologize.
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Yu Mao's guess was correct. The Li family and his son had indeed left the city and were waiting halfway, thinking of apologizing.
When we were about ten miles away from the gate of Feng'an County, a large black shadow suddenly appeared on the road.
The distance between the two sides is only five hundred meters.
Huang An's expression changed slightly, he reined in the reins and stopped in place.
After judging the surrounding environment, he suddenly discovered that this was actually the place where he had fled for his life and scattered nails to unseat Li Wei, the young lord of Feng'an City.
Huang An looked away with confused eyes.
Just as he was about to send someone to take a look, suddenly, a familiar voice sounded beside him.
"Fourth brother Mo Pan is the Lord Li of Feng'an County and belongs to a wealthy family in the city."
Huang An turned around and saw that it was his second brother Yu Mao who reminded him.
He is a bronze-skinned warrior, and his eyesight is much better than mine.
Huang An's eyes moved and he asked:
"Second brother, do you want to send someone to take a look?"
Yu Mao licked his dry lips, pondered for a moment, nodded and said:
"Be careful in everything, I'll let my brother go take a look!"
After saying that, he nodded towards the two people behind him and motioned them to go and investigate.
The two brothers looked at each other, said nothing, shouted loudly, left the team, and ran towards the crowd in the distance.
Huang An, Yu Mao and others watched the two brothers riding halfway when they saw five men on horseback emerging from the crowd in the distance.
The two sides met halfway and then stopped, both on horseback, as if they were exchanging something.
After about three to five breaths, the five people, together with Yu Mao's two men, ran towards Huang An and the others.
Yu Mao had a good time, his eyes were slightly narrowed and his expression was relaxed, but his right hand had already touched the handle of the big knife at his waist.
He retired from the army and was engaged in shady activities, so naturally he would not really lose his vigilance.
Huang An narrowed his eyes slightly, and soon the five faces fell into his sight until they were clearly visible.
He raised his eyebrows, thinking in his heart that it was actually this father and son.
With a little thought, you can guess their purpose.
But even so, Huang An was still wary and leaned a little closer to Brother Yu.
Although the horse was trotting, the distance of just over two hundred meters passed in an instant.
Yu Mao's two brothers returned directly to the team, and the five people who followed them stopped their horses eleven or twelve meters away from Huang An.
The five people all look familiar, the Li family father and son, the general manager of the Yunshan Chamber of Commerce, the owner of the Yang family martial arts gym, and the owner of a wealthy family in the city, whose surname seems to be Ma.
The five people got off their horses. Li An pulled his son Li Wei and trotted over quickly with a smile on his face.
At a glance, they saw the eye-catching big horse Meteor under Huang An's crotch, and they immediately stopped in their steps, and the smiles on their faces became even bigger.
Huang An and Yu Mao looked at each other and got off their horses.
However, the two of them didn't move, just stood there.
When everyone behind him saw this, they also got off their horses and stood behind Huang An.
They could feel that something was not right in the atmosphere.
"Nephew Huang Xian!"
Li An shouted loudly, pulled his son Li Wei and quickly walked to Huang An and Yu Mao. The distance between them was only three steps.
"Yu Er is in charge!"
Li An had a smile on his face, his body was slightly bent, and he greeted the two of them with a smile.
Yu Mao chuckled, cupped his hands, and replied politely and concisely:
"I've met Mr. Li, Brother Yang, and Shopkeeper Li!"
After that, he stopped talking and stood aside to watch the show.
Huang An cupped his hands towards Li An and said in a cold voice:
"I've met Mr. Li!"
After speaking, he gestured towards the three people behind Li An.
Then, without saying a word, he glanced at Li Wei beside Li An, snorted coldly, and then turned to Li An.
His condescending and contemptuous eyes made Li Wei want to find a crack in the ground and crawl in.
Li Wei's face turned red with embarrassment, his eyes were evasive, and he did not dare to look at Huang An.
He looked cowardly, as if he were a delicate little girl facing bullying from a bunch of strong men.
Sudden.
A crisp sound of "Pa!" broke the awkward atmosphere.
Ang Lee went from flattering to angry in a very short period of time.
Like an angry rooster, he widened his eyes, raised his hand, and slapped his beloved son Li Wei on the side of his face hard.
The force was so great that Li Wei screamed, and his body seemed to fly five centimeters high in the air, and then he fell directly to the ground with a "pop".
The exposed half of the face swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Except for a few people from Huang An Yumao, the others' expressions changed drastically and their eyes were surprised.
They all looked at this scene in shock and confusion, not knowing why it was like this.
Pavilion Master Yang and the general manager of the Yunshan Chamber of Commerce suddenly felt that they might have been deceived by the two father and son. This was obviously wrong.
Didn't we agree that we were just here to greet Mr. Zhao Dun's beloved disciple, the current Xialin Village Fourth Head, Huang An and Huang Xian's nephew?
How could this jaw-dropping scene happen?
The two subconsciously looked at each other and moved back, away from the father and son.