Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

For Li Yuan, Wei Lun and the clerk Gou were men he had to kill.

Having snatched the position of Commandant of the military fort from him, these two men would definitely harbor resentment towards him.

Given the chance in the future, they would certainly retaliate against him.

Therefore, for people like Wei Lun, it was best to silence them as early as possible.

He didn't want to leave any potential trouble for himself.

After finishing dealing with the aftermath.

Li Yuan said to his four subordinates.

"Later, come to my house, and each of you will receive 5 strings of cash."

"Today's matter is of great importance, so you all need to keep your mouths shut."

"Don't go out and blab to anyone!"

Hearing that there was reward money to be had, the four were delighted and nodded in agreement.

"Don't worry, Brother Li, we all understand."

The night passed without incident.

After dealing with the winery and Wei Lun's matter.

Li Yuan took a good rest at home for five or six days.

On this day, Cui Niang came to report that the wine Li Yuan needed was ready.

At this time, the winery's cellar was fully stocked with two hundred bottles of [Forget-Worry Brew].

Li Yuan strictly controlled the female workers in the winery to prevent his distillation and brewing methods from being leaked.

Therefore, the female workers he used were all orphans and widows without men.

These women depended entirely on Li Yuan for food and clothing, and their interests were highly tied to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was more at ease using them.

Those newly arrived female workers could only be arranged to work in the hemp spinning workshop for now.

However, Li Yuan did not expect that the publicity of the wine banquet that night would be too great.

Almost all the women in Dongxiang Village wanted to come and work.

The problem now was that there were too many people, and the number of spinning machines was seriously insufficient.

Li Yuan was in a dilemma when an old veteran named Lu Xing from the village volunteered.

He said that he was a carpenter before becoming a military household, and he could also make Li Yuan's spinning machines.

Li Yuan was overjoyed and immediately established a carpentry workshop in Dongxiang Village.

The mountains surrounding Dongxiang Village had abundant timber resources.

Li Yuan asked Lu Xing to recruit a few old and weak military households from the village to help.

This carpentry workshop could then start operating.

Li Yuan's task for the carpentry workshop was to fully build the spinning wheels and improve the spinning machines urgently needed by the hemp spinning factory.

Although they built them a little slower, they were in Dongxiang Village, which was convenient for Li Yuan to manage.

He was also more at ease using them.

In addition, Li Yuan also asked them to make a strange kind of carrying pole.

The materials used were elm and mulberry wood with excellent elasticity.

Lu Xing could roughly tell that this should be a large bow, but much larger than the short bows or infantry bows commonly used in D梁.

Although he did not understand, he still produced it according to the drawings given by the master.

In addition, there were arrow shafts for bows and arrows, which were consumables, and military forts and county towns were buying them in large quantities from various armories.

They could sell as much as they produced, and there was no need to worry about sales.

Li Yuan's order was to produce as much as possible.

Even relying on the output of arrow shafts, the carpentry workshop could break even.

Putting aside the matter of the carpentry workshop.

Since the newly produced wine and linen cloth had already filled the workshop warehouse.

Li Yuan was preparing to run to Qingyuan County again.

This time, Li Yuan's team had become three carriages, and a dozen new military households acted as guards to follow.

Now the outside environment was even more dangerous, with small groups of bandits constantly appearing.

For safety, Li Yuan could only expand his team.

Fortunately, the military households in the village now knew that going to the county town with Li Langjun not only meant they could eat their fill but also earn money.

Those military households who had nothing to do at home heard that Li Yuan was going to the county town again, and they came to his door themselves.

They all wanted to follow Li Yuan out to earn some copper coins.

Li Yuan picked and chose, and finally left a dozen strong military households to act as guards and coachmen.

Because there were too many goods to transport, one carriage was definitely unable to bear the burden.

Li Yuan bought two new carriages from the carriage and horse shop in Xihe Fort.

Similarly, a set of carriages and horses cost nearly thirty strings of cash.

Among these three carriages.

One carriage was reinforced and used exclusively for transporting wine, three hundred bottles of [Hundred-Flower Brew] and three hundred and fifty bottles of [Qingyuan Brew].

In addition, the most crucial thing was two hundred bottles of [Forget-Worry Brew].

This cart alone, the value of the wine exceeded a thousand strings of cash, so it was necessary to be extremely careful.

The other two carts were loaded with a large amount of linen cloth produced day and night by the workshops these days.

Due to the recent banditry and impassable roads.

It was said that the price of linen cloth in the county town had risen a lot again, and the price of a bolt of cloth had exceeded 1 string and 200 coins.

Li Yuan's two carriages were piled with three hundred bolts of linen cloth.

Transporting it to the county town, just this linen cloth could earn a lot of money.

Li Yuan straddled the black horse he had obtained from the Supervisor's Office.

He waved to his team.

"Let's go."

Leaving Dongxiang Village and heading south.

Li Yuan's team embarked on the dirt road to the county town.

Although these military households who acted as guards were all wearing casual linen clothes, they all carried knives and spears.

From a distance, a dozen military household guards were still very deterrent.

In addition to Cui Ping and the four subordinates who initially followed.

The price Li Yuan offered to these fellow villagers was one hundred coins for being a guard for one day.

This was considered a very high salary in Da Liang.

The new military households were naturally all elated.

Being able to earn one hundred coins in one day, they could finally hold their heads high in front of their wives.

Many people were even planning what to buy in the county town to bring back after receiving the money.

To make their wives and children happy.

Therefore, the morale of the military households was very high along the way.

It was just that after walking for a while, Li Yuan found that his team had actually expanded.

He turned his head on his horse and looked back.

He found that many pedestrians had followed behind him at some point.

Among these people, there were peddlers carrying goods.

There were also farmers pushing wheelbarrows to sell vegetables in the county town.

He even saw a couple returning to their parents' home.

There were all kinds of people.

Li Yuan thought for a moment and naturally understood.

Now the banditry in Qingyuan County was serious, and the road was not peaceful.

Lone travelers were obviously easily targeted by bandits.

They saw Li Yuan's caravan, protected by a dozen armed military households.

They thought that they were not afraid of bandits, so they wanted to come together and walk together.

They wanted to use the deterrent power of Li Yuan's team to ensure their safety on the road.

Li Yuan did not drive away these people who followed.

These people following his team could also boost his momentum along the way, and there was no harm in it.

It was just that along the way, people kept joining Li Yuan's team, so the team became larger and larger.

When they were about to reach the county town, the team had expanded to more than fifty people.

Perhaps it was really because there were many people and a strong momentum.

The journey to the county town was very safe.

No bandits dared to cause trouble for Li Yuan and his men.

After entering the city, Li Yuan's first stop was naturally Qiao's Cloth Shop.

Seeing Li Yuan, Qiao Huaishan was very pleasantly surprised.

These days, banditry was serious, and this Boss Qiao did not dare to go out of the city rashly to collect goods.

The source of goods was also becoming increasingly tight.

Therefore, Qiao's Cloth Shop bought all three hundred bolts of linen cloth that Li Yuan brought this time at a price of one string per bolt.

Boss Qiao even said to Li Yuan that he would take as much of his cloth as he had in the future.

Even the price could be increased a little.

Li Yuan drank a cup of tea at Qiao's house.

Then he bid farewell and led his men to the Zuo Si Wei Office.

Zhang Kui of Zuo Si Wei had done Li Yuan a great favor.

If it weren't for the help of this Zuo Si Wei, how could Li Yuan have easily solved the trouble of Wei Lun.

He was even going to recommend him to be the Commandant of the military fort.

This favor was very important.

Li Yuan naturally wanted to repay this Brother Zhang Kui well this time.

When Zhang Kui heard that Li Yuan had come, he quickly greeted him from the mansion.

When he saw Li Yuan and the carriages behind him, he showed a satisfied smile.

"Brother Li, you've come at the right time."

"I've been craving wine these past few days, and I was just thinking about you."

Li Yuan also smiled and cupped his hands and said.

"Brother Zhang, I've come this time to share your worries."

The two looked at each other and laughed heartily.

In order to repay Zhang Kui, Li Yuan brought him a full one hundred bottles of [Forget-Worry Brew] this time.

Smelling the tempting aroma of the wine, Zhang Kui was very excited and happy.

He was even more satisfied with Li Yuan.