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Chapter 18
It can be seen that this time Li Huan successfully inherited the position of Langqi Hundred Households, Chen Yidao and Zhao Zhi were much more relaxed. On the one hand, they felt that they had not let down their elder brother Li Xian, and did not let the inheritance of the Li family be cut off. On the other hand, they also saw Li Huan's changes, I feel that the Li family is expected to be rejuvenated in the future.

Langqi Island has returned to its previous calm, each performing its own duties, but none of Li Huan, Chen Yidao and others took it lightly. The Fang family is a threat after all. With the precedent of ambushing Li Xian, who can guarantee that they will not take it lightly? Will choose to start with Li Huan?

Moreover, the hatred of killing the father is irreconcilable. In the end, only one of the Li family and the Fang family can survive. This is not only well known by the Fang family, but also by Li Huan.

These days, Li Huan spent most of his time on cultivation, and the rest of his time was on reorganizing the already decayed hundred households on Langqi Islet.

It has been over a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the local guards have already existed in name only. Not to mention anything else, there are 230 five soldiers under the jurisdiction of the roster of the Langqiyu Hundred Households, but now the entire Hundred Households only has dozens of people, and most of them are The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

That is to say, the Li family has raised [-] to [-] strong family members. Otherwise, the Langqi Hundred Households would not dare to say that they have no military power, but in fact they are almost the same.

Although he knew about the corruption of the local guards of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, Li Huan did not expect it to be so corrupt. Even if he wanted to restore the heyday of more than 200 people when it was first established, Li Huan would not be able to do it for a while.

It's not that Li Huan didn't want to, but the conditions of Langqi Islet simply don't allow it. There are only two thousand people on the island, and there are only a few hundred strong people. , The common people are going to fry the pot.

Some of the old, weak, sick and disabled were dismissed, and then dozens of strong and strong men were drawn from the military households, barely making up 80 people. It's not that they don't want more, but they can only draw so many people.

Fortunately, Li Huan carefully selected [-] young men from the Li clan and more than a dozen households of servants who had followed the Li family for hundreds of years to add to the Li family's team.

In this way, if there were any accidents on the island, Li Huan could pull out a team of about a hundred people, barely able to protect himself.

In July of the 18th year of Hongzhi, two months have passed since Li Huan took over as the official of the Hundred Households of Langqi Island. During these two months, Li Huan has undergone earth-shaking changes. , the inner breath alone is about to enter the second-rate realm.

What's more, during this period of time, Li Huan has completely taken over the affairs of the Li family, large and small, and has a clear understanding of the so-called century-old Li family.

The Li family is entrenched in Langqi Islet, so it can be regarded as a small local emperor, but if you really want to say how big the family business is, then you really think too much.

Several generations of the Li family did not stare at the vacant salary. In fact, the Li family did not even think about accumulating anything if they counted on the ration that was deducted layer by layer.Since the grandfather's generation, the Li family has tried to smuggle and sell private salt, but it has always been a small business, that's it, and has accumulated tens of thousands of taels of family wealth for decades.

In the meeting hall, Li Huan sat in the middle, Chen Yidao, Zhao Zhi and several stewards lined up on both sides, looking at Zhao Zhi, Li Huan said: "Uncle Zhi, what's the problem with the Yan Road?"

Zhao Zhi frowned and said, "My lord, in the past two months, almost half of our boats of sea salt have been robbed, which can be said to be a heavy loss..."

With a bang, Chen Yidao slapped the table and said angrily: "Fang Family, if you want me to say it, we don't have to bear it any longer, let me lead someone to take advantage of the dark night and wind to kill Fang's family is full."

"The Fang family is too deceitful. They are always against my Li family. They are trying to force us to death!"

Several stewards were also filled with righteous indignation. In fact, in the past two months, all the business of the Li family has been deliberately targeted by the Fang family, and the profits have been greatly reduced. Now even the Yanlu Road has been affected. It can be said that this has endangered the lifeline of Langqi Island.

The land reclaimed from the huge Langqi Islet is only a few thousand acres, and this amount of land cannot support so many people at all, so the lifeblood of Langqi Islet lies in the sea salt.

Military households and common people on the island make a living by boiling salt. Cutting off the salt road on Langqi Islet is equivalent to cutting off the livelihood of thousands of people on Langqi Islet.

Zhao Zhi looked at Li Huan and said, "My lord, let's fight, if this goes on, people's hearts will be in chaos."

Li Huan looked at the people in the hall and said slowly: "Have you ever thought about what the Fang family is targeting us so blatantly, what is their reason?"

Everyone was stunned, and Chen Yidao said directly: "What else could be the reason, they just don't want us to have a good time, and make me anxious..."

Li Huan looked at Chen Yidao with a half-smile and said: "So what if you are in a hurry? Maybe they are waiting for us to fall into the trap right now."

"what!"

Zhao Zhi was startled and said: "My lord means that the Fang family is deliberately provoking us, and the purpose is to make us mess up."

As he spoke, Li Huan glanced at several people and said: "In this case, if we make a slight mistake, it will be truly doomed!"

At this time, Zhao Zhi had calmed down, regained a bit of wisdom, and pondered: "That old bastard Fang Duyan has always been vicious and treacherous, I'm afraid it's really what the young master said, the Fang family is deliberately provoking us."

Dumbfounded, Chen Yidao couldn't help saying angrily: Who is the person behind the Fang family. "

Chen Yidao looked up at Li Huan with a hopeful look on his face.

Li Huan said slowly: "I don't know who is the person behind the scenes, but in another half a year, no matter whose chess piece the Fang family is, I will lead someone to destroy the Fang family first and ask for a part of the interest."

As he said that, Li Huan looked at Zhao Zhi and said, "Uncle Zhi, pass my order that the salt produced by the military households and common people on the island will not be missed, but they will be hoarded from now on. In addition, collect as much as possible. The medicinal materials needed."

Zhao Zhi nodded and said: "Don't worry, young master, leave everything to me."

He waved his hand to signal everyone to retreat, but Chen Yidao stayed behind.

Without outsiders, Chen Yidao looked at Li Huan and said, "Brother Huan, isn't it too expensive? That's tens of thousands of taels of silver!"

Thinking of Li Huan's generosity, he spent almost all of Li's spare money to buy precious medicinal materials, just to assist those twenty famous masters Ding Xiwu.

On average, almost everyone would spend 500 taels of silver. In this day and age, that would definitely be a crazy and prodigal move.

In this era, more than a dozen taels of silver is enough to spend for a family for nearly a year, and it is enough to buy an acre of good paddy fields. From this we can see what it means to spend four to five hundred taels of silver on each famous family member.

Li Huan just smiled. He is also a time traveler, unlike Chen Yidao and Zhao Zhi who only know how to hide gold and silver wealth. The premise of having money is to spend it with life.

The experience of Li Xian and his previous life made Li Huan deeply understand that the greatest sorrow of a person is that the money is still there, but the person is gone.

But if Li Xian's confidant Ding is stronger, perhaps the Fang family's ambush would not be successful, so the first thing Li Huan did when he took over the Li family was to control force.

Those twenty youths were all carefully selected by Li Huan from the Li clan and descendants of servants. First of all, loyalty is guaranteed to a certain extent. In terms of aptitude, not to mention one in a hundred, each of them has a certain degree of martial arts. talent.

In order to train these people, Li Huan also spent a lot of money, exercises, and medicinal materials. After two months, everyone successfully condensed the first inner energy. According to this standard, it is two more at once. Ten third-rate players.

It's a pity that these people have just condensed their internal energy. Before their internal energy is strengthened and they learn how to use it, they are actually no better than ordinary people.

Seeing Li Huan smiling but not speaking, Chen Yidao couldn't help saying: "If we had such good martial arts conditions back then, I'm afraid we would have entered the first-class realm long ago. That's Brother Huan, you, and those in the capital. The family of generals and princes lying in the sea of ​​gold and silver may not be so lavish in cultivating manpower."

(End of this chapter)