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Chapter 248 Thoughts
Li Xia looked at Jiang Fan and thought for a while.

Liu Jinsuo has high martial arts skills but a simple mind, and is suitable as a combat vanguard; Bao San has the most experience in battle; Luhu is good at archery; Xiongshan is the most able to endure hardships...

Compared with them, Jiang Fan was somewhat mediocre in battle.And with one hand missing, this time he was almost planted in the Changning River.

But Li Xia remembered the words Jiang Fan asked after seeing Wu Tong tied up in the Guancheng of the Junlian patrol... "Is this Wu Tong rebellious?"

Because of this sentence, Li Xia entrusted him with killing Zhang Yuanming, and he did not disappoint Li Xia.

"Is the injury healed? Do you want to rest for a few days?"

"Okay." Jiang Fan swung his arms and replied, "It took several days to recover, and he came back after he recovered from his injury."

Li Xia nodded and said, "I didn't hand over your team to others."

Jiang Fan was quite touched, and his eyes turned red when he heard this.

Li Xia then said: "But since you're back, I want to ask you if you want to continue leading the troops, or help me with other things."

"As long as the county lieutenant orders, if the villain frowns, this hand will be chopped off."

Li Xia said bluntly: "Well, I'm going to find Wu Tong to smuggle salt. Find out his salt well, sales channels, and how he smuggled it. After that, kill him, and we will do it ourselves."

Jiang Fan thought for a while, Liu Jinsuo, Bao San, and Hu Hu really couldn't handle this matter, Xiong Shan might be able to do it, but the county captain didn't trust him, he trusted himself more.

Then there was nothing to say, he directly touched the hook with his hand, and said, "The villain will do it."

"Okay, you go pick someone, and go to Junlian Prefecture to find out the details of Wu Tong."

"Choose with the villain?"

"It's up to you to choose the one you can trust."

"Can you pick any other team's talent?"

"Ah."

"Song He next to the county lieutenant is good. He speaks little and moves quickly."

"Okay, I've picked someone, go to Mr. Yining to get some money,"

~~
There is a small courtyard in Qingfu County, where Zhang Shifei's widow Yang Xiu, his son Zhang Daikun, and Zhang Yuanming's daughter Zhang Xuan lived.

Although the serving maid was still an old man around Yang Xiu, the guards and porters in the courtyard were all sent by Han Qi'an.

After the death of Zhang Yuanming and his son, few people came here.

On this day, the manager of the Zhang family named "Zhang Bingchu" made a fuss outside the door for a while, and finally saw Yang Xiu's mother and son.

Yang Xiu is only 26 years old, and the son in his arms is only four years old. The orphan and widow seem a little helpless.Zhang Yu lowered his head, looking reticent.

These two women and one child are still wearing sackcloth filial piety.

"The war is over." Zhang Bingchu asked, "I don't know what the eldest lady is going to do next?"

"How did the chief steward get in?"

Zhang Bingchu wondered: "It's only natural for a villain to come to see the mistress, who can stop the villain?"

At this point, he whispered again: "In the war before, Ah Lang and the officials died suddenly. The county captain said that he sent someone to protect the eldest lady, and he was afraid that he wanted to ask for some property... Even if it was donated by the Zhang family. Now that the battle is over, it's time for the eldest lady to think about the future."

Yang Xiu asked, "What do you mean?"

"A Lang has a cousin who is currently in Chongqing. What the villain means is that the big lady and the little official should go and join him."

Yang Xiu didn't speak, but hugged Zhang Daikun tightly.

Zhang Bingchu said again: "I know that the eldest lady's natal family is from Chengdu, and now I'm afraid it's... and if she stays in Qingfu and has no one to rely on, the family business may be wiped out by the county magistrate within two years." Yes. If you agree, the villain will go to prepare the car now?"

"I do not want to go."

"If the eldest lady doesn't want to go, you can write a letter and ask someone to come over there."

Yang Xiu said: "The family business belongs to Yun'er, no one needs to intervene."

"Ma'am, you're just joking. The little official is still young, how can he manage the family business? Uncles and brothers should help."

"You don't need to talk about the master's affairs."

"It's true that the villain is a domestic servant, but he is also a member of the Zhang family. If something like this happens, we can't let the eldest lady be bullied."

Speaking of this, Zhang Bingchu thought for a while, and said: "By the way, when Alang came to the county from Jiuqu Garden, he brought a box. Did the lady see it?"

"A box?" Yang Xiu said, "I...I don't know."

"It's some account books, deeds... aren't they in the eldest lady's place?"

"I'm tired, let's go." Yang Xiu waved his hand.

Zhang Bingchu had no choice but to raise his head to look at Zhang Min who was sitting beside him, who had never spoken a word before turning around and walking outside.

……

Yang Xiu sat there, looking very pitiful in a filial piety.

"Cough cough..."

Behind the screen, several coughs sounded, and Han Qi'an turned out.

"Mr. Han." Zhang Daikun called obediently.

Han Qi'an nodded and said, "Let someone take the child down."

Yang Xiu did as he said, lowered his head, looked very scared, and said: "Mr. Han, I..."

"No rush, we'll talk about it later."

……

After a while, Jiang Fan came in with a bundle on his hook, and said, "Kill it."

In the hall, Yang Xiu and Zhang Xuan all trembled.

Han Qi'an asked, "Where's the corpse?"

"I tied a stone and sank to the bottom of the river."

"It's hard work." Han Qi'an took the bag and opened it to have a look.

"Small matter." Jiang Fan said, "I'm done with what Mister Yi Ning told me, so I'm leaving now."

"Go."

Only then did Han Qi'an turn to Yang Xiu, and said, "Ma'am, I haven't forced you these past few days, have I? I wonder if you've thought it through clearly?"

"I... I'm going to get the things to Mr. Han..."

~~
They were two ten-inch boxes.

Li Xia, Han Chengxu, and Han Qiaoer sat there, watching Han Qi'an open it, and saw that it was covered with yellow gold.

The other one was opened, and inside was a lot of jewelry, and below it was a letter of deed, Jiaozi.

"Wow." Han Qiaoer exclaimed.

Han Qi'an said: "Before I killed Zhang Yuanming, I got 83 guan of money from them, and another [-] [-] guan... Now with these, it is considered equal to the account book.

That woman from the Yang family is cunning. She first handed over the copper coins and the property in Qingfu County, but hid these valuable items. I don't know, we just need to calculate the account books to find out. "

Li Xia picked up the deed and looked at it, and said, "These are the properties of the Zhang family in Syria?"

"Yes."

Han Chengxu shook his head with a smile, and took out the account books for raising soldiers to settle with Li Xia.

In the long run, if Li Xia wants to raise 2000 or 500 soldiers, plus all kinds of plans, money will be extremely short; but for the time being, if he uses the financial resources of the Zhang family to support [-] people, there will be no shortage of money in the past few months What is lacking is food, weapons, leather helmets and other armaments needed for military expansion.

These things are not available in Qingfu, a small county, and people need to be sent to the big state to buy them.

Li Xia is the most lacking of literati who can do these things.

Han Chengxu was already too busy managing accounts for Li Xia, so he could only let Han Qi'an go to Xuzhou to take care of the Zhang family's property, exchanged gold, silver, jewelry and Jiaozi, and brought back shopping... …

"Prepare the supplies before the New Year's Eve, so that we can expand the army after the next year. However, I'm going this trip, and I'm afraid I won't be able to come back within a month."

"It's hard work to let Mr. Yining go out for the New Year."

"It's not that I'm worried about that." Han Qi'an said, "If Alang wants to smuggle salt, who will arrange the bills in the future? There are still not enough trustworthy talents in this area."

Li Xia nodded, thinking that this was also one of the phenomena of the Song Dynasty. The imperial court was kind to scholars, and few literati followed them to rebel.

Therefore, staff members are easy to find, but trustworthy ones are hard to find.

"There will always be someone who is suitable. At that time, you can buy a private salt manager from Wu Tong. We will discuss this matter later. I will send Yu Gang to accompany Mr. Yining."

Han Qi'an said: "Then I am going to leave... By the way, there is still a small matter. Next time Alang sends someone to Lin'an, send Yan Yunyun there."

"En." Li Xia nodded. He sent someone to Lin'an to deliver an urgent letter, and he would not let the messenger bring a woman.

In front of Li Xia, Han Qi'an covered the two boxes again, wrapped them in cloth, and did not worry at all that Li Xia would suspect that he was greedy for ink.

Han Chengxu stroked his beard and smiled, "I'll hire someone to expand the camp..."

~~
Li Xia rubbed his forehead, continued to think about the plan after the war, and reorganized his thoughts.

The great achievement of beheading Wuliang Hetai will definitely have more important influence in the future. For example, next year, I will send someone north to contact Yang Guo to help him strengthen the determination of the prince behind him.

For the time being, they can use this credit to control Qingfu County.

As a traitorous party with a backing, no one can stop him from being promoted even if he doesn't fight for merit, even if he is young and has little qualifications.

Jiang Chun's transfer is not difficult to deal with; Fang Yankai can't pose a threat after Shi Jun leaves office, and he can handle civil affairs. If the chief secretary is also transferred... let's talk about it.

The important thing is military power and money and food, these two are the root.

The important thing is to expand the army, organize and train, and just come step by step.

For the time being, there are two sources of money and food. One is to digest the Zhang family's land property as soon as possible, and then convert it into armaments. This is why Han Qi'an was sent north to Syria; Fan went south to Junlianzhou for this purpose.

But Jiang Fan can kill people, but he doesn't know how to manage private salt, so he should pay more attention to this matter...

Li Xia was thinking about this when she felt Han Qiaoer pull her back.

"Brother Li, the war is over."

"Huh?" Li Xia said, "I almost forgot, I will take you to Qingfulou to eat delicious food tonight."

Han Qiaoer said: "It's not because of this, I'm not greedy. Will Brother Li go back to the Houya to sleep at night? The city will not be closed, and the county magistrate's wife is about to move back to the East Chamber."

The reason for saying this is because Li Xia has been sleeping on a bed in the public house these days.

"it is good."

"I just want to say that the war is over and the Chinese New Year is coming soon, Brother Li, don't work too hard..."

(End of this chapter)