"Although Yipianyun can be of great help, now is not the time to look for Yipianyun and Situ Feixing!" After pondering for a moment, Yan Liqiang shook his head firmly.
"Ah, why can't we look for it now?" Fu Changde.
"Didn't Master Chang say that Situ Feixing is very arrogant? I am only facing a few thousand men from the Northwest Transportation Office. If I can't even solve this problem, and I have to take out the Shuiyun Order to ask him for help, what do you think he will think of me, Master Chang?"
"Ah!" Fu Changde reacted all of a sudden, thinking of this, and then his face gradually became solemn, and he nodded slowly, "Li Qiang, you are right, I was too excited just now, and I didn't think about this at once. People will change. Let's not talk about whether Situ Feixing still regards himself as a subordinate of Qiyun Guardian Mansion in these years and is willing to obey Shuiyunling's orders. Even if he is really willing to obey Shuiyunling's orders, if we go to ask him, he will probably have some ideas in his mind, and it may be difficult to control him in the future. Throughout the dynasties, weak rulers and strong ministers are the root cause of disasters!"
"Yes, I think so too. It's really not worth it for me to risk exposing my identity to do this!" Yan Liqiang smiled slightly, "It's not that Yipianyun and Situ Feixing can't be contacted, but it must not be at this time!"
"You should be more cautious, Li Qiang!" Then, Fu Changde frowned slightly, "The more than a thousand troops of the Transportation Office..."
"Didn't Master Chang just say that he could easily gather a team of more than 500 people for me at Huijiaji?"
"Yes, this is a simple thing. I can do it with just one sentence!"
"Are the 500 men that Master Chang mentioned all able to shoot bows and ride horses?"
"Of course, everyone can draw a bow. Although their skills vary, they can still shoot arrows and have basic accuracy. If they hit the target, they can kill people. Although Huijiaji is poor and cannot afford good horses, the children of Huijiaji have been playing with horses since they were young. They cannot say that they are proficient in archery and riding, but they have no problem riding and drawing bows. Without this skill, the people of Huijiaji cannot survive in this poor and barren land!"
"That's good. Mr. Chang will hand over the 500 people from Huijiaji to me and let me train them for 20 days. Then I will select 300 people from these 500 people. It will not be difficult to deal with the thousand troops of the Transfer Office!" Yan Liqiang said confidently.
Fu Changde looked at Yan Liqiang deeply and said, "Now the young people in Huijiaji are all led by my son. I will call my son over later and let you, Liqiang, meet him. This time, my son will lead them!"
"Oh, Master Chang, who is your son? Have I ever seen him?"
Fu Changde burst out laughing, "Hahaha, of course you've seen Li Qiang before. The last time you and Sun Bingchen came to Huijiaji for the first time, you even fought against him!"
Yan Liqiang immediately remembered who Fu Changde was talking about...
…
Yan Liqiang and Fu Changde had a secret conversation in the room for a whole hour. Finally, Fu Changde left the room of the inn. Not long after, Fu Changde brought his son to meet Yan Liqiang.
Fu Changde's name in Huijiaji is Chang Lu, and he has changed his name for many years. Fu Changde's son took his father's surname and was called Chang Kuan. This Chang Kuan was the man who had a bow and arrow battle with Yan Liqiang and had the bow in his hand broken by Yan Liqiang when Yan Liqiang and Sun Bingchen came to Huijiaji for the first time. He was also considered a good shooter. Among the young people in Huijiaji, Chang Kuan was the leader of the group and had great prestige among them.
Unlike Fu Changde's shrewdness and forbearance, his son Chang Kuan gave Yan Liqiang the impression of being very tough and upright. In fact, this was true. The last confrontation between Yan Liqiang and Chang Kuan had completely subdued this young man, and Yan Liqiang's reputation has been growing in the past two years. So this time, after the two sides met, and Chang Kuan learned of Yan Liqiang's identity from his father, Chang Kuan quickly regarded Yan Liqiang as his master.
After Chang's father and son both stood on Yan Liqiang's side, the rest of the things became easy.
After resting for a night in the inn, at dawn the next day, on a dirt field in Huijiaji, a group of young people from Huijiaji who had already received the news were already waiting there with great interest. They looked at the dazzling silver in several large boxes on the ground with shining eyes and swallowed their saliva secretly.
Yan Liqiang picked up a silver ingot and asked the young people the first question, "Do you want to earn this silver?"
"Think!" everyone shouted.
"It's very simple to earn this money. You just need to do two things. One is to obey orders, and the other is to dare to kill people. Of course, we are not going to do anything illegal. The people we want to kill are not ordinary people, but bandits. Tell me, do you dare to kill people?"
"Dare!" those people shouted even louder.
"Will you obey orders?"
“We’ll listen if you give us money, hahaha. Why should we listen if you don’t give us money…” a young man replied with a grin.
"Then I'll give it a try..." Yan Liqiang said, pointing to a bare hill three or four kilometers away. "Do you see that hill? Whoever can run to that hill today and bring back a stone weighing no less than two kilograms from the hilltop, I will give him a silver ingot. The first person to come back will get four ingots, the second person will get three ingots, the third person will get two ingots, and the rest will get one ingot each!"
"Really?" Everyone's eyes lit up.
"I'm right here in Huijiaji. Are you afraid that I'll run away?"
The first person to run back was of course Chang Kuan. When the people behind him ran back with stones and exchanged them for the silver in Yan Liqiang's hand, the whole Huijia Market was in an uproar.
Everything that happened afterwards was logical and natural.
With the money and the support of Fu Changde and his son, Yan Liqiang established his unquestionable prestige in Huijiaji. His work of recruiting soldiers in Huijiaji went very smoothly. In just one day, he assembled a team of 516 people in Huijiaji. Those 516 people were all brave and vigorous young men who could shoot bows, ride horses, fight and fight, and had fought against bandits and horse thieves. These young men had been trained by Fu Changde since childhood in Huijiaji and had strong discipline. Among them, Chang Kuan and another one named Zhao Hui had even advanced to warriors. Such a team would be a strong army with a little polishing. Yan Liqiang was very satisfied.
After assembling this team, in the next two days, Yan Liqiang, under the leadership of Fu Changde, visited several villages and markets in the surrounding mountainous areas and gathered more than 300 young people who could ride horses and shoot bows. He then brought the two teams together and trained for two days in Huijia Village.
Then on the sixth day, a group of four-wheeled carriages arrived at Huijiaji. They gathered more than 800 young people from Huijiaji and boarded the carriages in batches to return to Pingxi County. At the request of Yan Liqiang, they began to undergo devilish targeted intensive training...
(End of this chapter)