Qian Song

Chapter 5 Recruiting the Brave
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"I will recruit bravely, and Brother Thirteen will order to copy Fang Youchang's house. Whatever you find will be yours. Fang Youchang's family has piles of rice noodles, countless gold, silver and jewels. Don't you all want to bump into it?" Luck, if you steal a treasure, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life!"

"The thirteenth brother was ordered by heaven to save the people in the southeast of my country. He is destined to wear a dragon robe and become the emperor. If you don't vote early, how can you be a minister of the dragon? How will you honor your ancestors and enshrine your wife and son in the future?"

"Sanlang, come to me quickly. My brother killed Fang Geng and captured Niu Meng alive. He is the reincarnation of the overlord. He is also knowledgeable, proficient in many languages, and has both civil and military skills. If you come here, you will definitely be able to drink from his big bowl and drink from his big bowl." Wouldn't it be nice to eat meat together and divide gold by scales!"

"Uncle Jiu, come here, I whispered to you, my brother and Fang Baihua already have feelings for each other, Thirteenth brother and Thirteenth sister-in-law also like my brother's martial arts skills, Fang Baihua will marry my brother in the future, so my brother's identity is definitely not here Fang Wu, Fang Qi and other thirteen cousins, if you come to our place, will you still be worse?"

"Everyone is wise, so I'll just say it straight. We all have foreign surnames. If we go to Fang Wu and Fang Qi, how can they not give Fang the surname and pick us up?"

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Seeing Zhang Shi working hard to pull the team for him, Li Cun's impression of Zhang Shi changed greatly.

When he first arrived here, Li Cuncai invited Zhang Shi, who came to him, to drink a few times out of the mentality of avoiding troubles when he was away from home and having a local friend who would know whether this place was suitable for him to live in.

After a few days of contact, Li Cun's opinion of Zhang Shi is that he has no skills and connections, likes to take advantage of things, loves to brag, and loves to express himself. He is either a villain or an ordinary street person.

Just outside the lacquer garden, Zhang Shi did not dare to enter the garden with others to kill Fang Youchang's family. When Niu Meng and Fang Geng rushed out, Zhang Shi was so scared that he ran away, which shows that Zhang Shi is a cowardly and cowardly person at heart people.

Afterwards, Zhang Shi used Li Cunzhu to kill Fang Geng and capture Niu Meng to elevate himself, which was not done by a gentleman.

But fortunately, Zhang Shi didn't forget to remind Li Cun when he was running away, and every time before raising himself, he never forgot to raise Li Cun and help Li Cun to become famous first.

Generally speaking, what Zhang Shi gave Li Cun before was that he had a half-dozen personality, not the kind of talent with great use.

But now Li Cun sees Zhang Shi fooling people to follow them in the uprising, making use of their strengths and circumventing their weaknesses to pull the team. The key point is that he is not pulling the team for himself, but for Li Cun, which makes Li Cun feel that Zhang Shi is at least a propagandist He is very talented, and he is very clear-headed, knowing that he can't achieve anything by himself, and whoever he hangs out with is the best, and he doesn't stick to small things in order to achieve big things, such as coercion and temptation, such as fabricating the relationship between Li Cun and Fang Baihua.

Li Cun smiled slightly: "Zhang Shi, it's also my arm."

When Niu Meng behind Li Cun heard this, his big eyes moved, and then he saluted Li Cunshen: "Master..."

The black face almost turned into a purple eggplant color, and Niu Meng couldn't hold back the word "person".

Finally, Niu Meng had an idea to imitate the address in the play: "Master, the villain also has thirty or twenty friends, can I let the villain go and recruit them?"

Li Cuntou didn't reply, "Go ahead."

Niu Meng was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "The villain takes orders." Then he turned and left impatiently.

When Niu Meng walked out about four or five steps away, Li Cun's steady voice suddenly came from behind him: "If anyone makes things difficult for you, come and find me."

Niu Meng stopped when he heard that!
To be honest, it's not that Niu Meng has never thought of "run away, and then report on these traitors who dare to rebel, and get some rewards".

But Niu Meng could also see that Fang La and the others were really planning to rebel, otherwise, they would not have committed the heinous crime of killing Fang Youchang's family of 43 members.

Under such circumstances, if Niu Meng dared to report on Fang La and the others, his family of a dozen or so members would have to follow in the footsteps of the Chang family.

Then don't run away, or don't report Fang La and others for rebellion?

Niu Meng felt that this might not end well for him. After all, as the leader of the Fang Youchang family's private armed forces, he had done a lot of work for tigers, so there were many people who hated him, not to mention others. Several people, there is no guarantee that those people will not take this opportunity to kill his whole family for revenge.

In Niu Meng's mind, only one person who has the right to speak and take responsibility in the rebel army can guarantee that his family will not be liquidated by Fang La and the others.

Before that, Niu Meng had been worried that Li Cun would not have this responsibility.

Now it seems that Li Cun is willing to take on this matter, and is even willing to stand up for him.

This made Niu Meng heaved a sigh of relief.

As for whether Li Cun would lie to him, Niu Meng couldn't care anymore, because Li Cun, who had nothing to do with him, was not only his best choice, but also his only choice at the moment.

After sorting out his mood, Niu Meng found other members of Fang Youchang's family who were privately armed, that is, Fang Youchang's farmer and servant, and said to them bluntly: "We are all in danger now, if we don't find a strong person Asylum, ranging from death to death, to severe..."

Niu Meng didn't continue talking, but looked at the forty or fifty human heads in the distance.

Everyone was terrified!

One pondered for a while and asked, "How about Li Cun?"

Niu Meng replied: "Smart, courageous, and able to listen, he may be a person who can achieve great things."

When Zhang Shi and Niu Meng were recruiting people for Li Cun, Li Cun didn't move, but stood quietly under a big locust tree and watched the core members of the rebel army pull the team there.

——It’s not that Li Cun can’t be ashamed to go to pull the team in person. In fact, Li Cun wants to be nameless, and he can’t make money if he wants to make money. It’s because the locals don’t have a sense of nostalgia with the locals. Therefore, if Li Cun goes out to pull people, he must be one They can't pull it back, but the key point is that Li Cun's prestige will be lost because of Li Cun's image of being too eager for quick success, which in turn will ruin Zhang Shi and Niu Meng's affairs. In this case, Li Cun might as well pretend to be unpredictable, So that Zhang Shi and Niu Meng used Li Cunlai as a signboard.

Because the people's emotions have been mobilized by Fang La, and as long as they join the uprising, they can follow Fang La to copy the home of Fang Youchang, a big landlord, so the core members recruited bravely very quickly.

In fact, Li Cun didn't agree with Fang La's gangster-like distribution method.

——The successful experience of our army tells Li Cun that even if you want to fight the local tyrants to divide the land, you must first seize everything and return it to the public, and you can't let the soldiers rob it by themselves, otherwise you can only cultivate robbers, and it is impossible to cultivate warriors who dare to fight .

However, Li Cun did not make this suggestion to Fang La.

It's not that Li Cun grudges an idea, or doesn't want to plan for Fang La.

But at the current stage, Li Cunyi is still too soft-spoken in the rebel army. If he rashly provokes Fang La's prestige, he may be squeezed out by Fang La and the others, and thus lose the opportunity to grow stronger.

What's more, it is the early stage of the uprising, and it is more important than anything else to let others follow their uprising and make the uprising a prairie fire.

To put it another way, if you don't give others some benefits, why should they do this decapitation business with you?

And once these people follow Fang La and the others to rob Fang Youchang's family, then they will be considered to have handed in the vote, just like Li Cun killed Fang Geng, and there is no turning back.

Therefore, although Fang La and the others' approach has endless troubles, it is not without merit.

Through careful observation, Li Cun found that the fastest pullers were Fang Wu and Fang Qi—they quickly recruited more than 200 brave men each.

The second echelon is Lu Mai and Fang Baihua.

In terms of numbers alone, Fang Baihua's team is actually not less than Fang Wu and Fang Qi's, and even faintly more, but Fang Baihua's team has a lot of women and half-children, and the combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced, so Li Cun Fang Baihua was assigned to the second echelon.

And Lu Mai recruited about [-] or [-] brave people.

The third echelon is Guan Sunzhong, Fang Shizong, and Fang Hao who is in the name of recruiting personal guards for Fang La-they have recruited nearly a hundred brave men.

Further down are Fang Jing and others, and they have recruited three to five to thirty or fifty brave men.

Of course, there are also some core members of the rebel army, none of whom are brave enough to recruit—some of them are really not good at pulling people, and some are simply not ready to lead troops to fight like Fang Fei.

After almost all the people who were willing to join the rebel army joined, Zhang Shi came back with three or 40 people in high spirits.

It can be seen that the quality of Zhang Shila's team is quite high - only a few of them are over [-] years old and under [-] years old, and the rest are all young and strong in good health.

It was also a coincidence that at the same time, Niu Meng also brought back thirty men.

These thirty or so men were not only of good age and good health, but almost all of them carried sticks, and some even carried knives, axes, and bows and arrows.

And Niu Meng even carried a pitch-black mace, majestic and majestic.

Seeing Niu Meng and his group approaching, Zhang Shi's smug expression immediately froze, and he quickly whispered to Li Cun, "Most of Niu Meng's generation had conflicts with Thirteenth Brother and the others and had old grievances. How can we recruit them?" !"

Li Cun smiled and said: "It's okay, I have my own concerns."

Seeing that Li Cun was willing to accept them even though he knew they had deep grievances with Fang La and his gang, Niu Meng and the others couldn't help but feel relieved!
Niu Meng hurriedly came to Li Cun with big strides, and said: "My lord, I will wait until the assembly is finished."

Li Cun nodded: "Let's take a rest."

Niu Meng replied: "No!", and then led the people he brought to stand behind Li Cun.

Zhang Shi still wanted to persuade him again, but he changed his mind and thought again: "Niu Meng's generation is so brave and brave, won't it be like adding wings to a tiger if they win them, and their power will directly attack Guan Sun Zhong, Fang Shizong and Fang Hao, that is, Bi Lu Mai and Fang Baihua Not too bad."

After thinking about this, Zhang Shi immediately took the courage he had recruited to stand behind Li Cun, and then chatted affectionately with Niu Meng and others.

As for the trouble that Niu Meng and the others might cause, Zhang Shi thought, "Let Li Zihou take care of the headache."

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(End of this chapter)