My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

The women started talking to each other upon hearing this, and the place suddenly became noisy, but no one dared to step forward to answer.

It was unknown how long it had been, Jiang Li was getting a little impatient, and then a stuttering and trembling voice rang out from the crowd, "Really...really? Can we really start a new life?"

When the women who were talking around suddenly heard these words, they suddenly quieted down and all looked at Jiang Li with longing.

Seeing this, Jiang Li immediately smiled and said gently, "I, Jiang Li, swear to heaven that I will treat you all equally and properly settle you all when I arrive in Teng Teng County!"

When the women heard Jiang Li's assurance, they immediately burst into tears. All the fear and anxiety that had been suppressed in their hearts for some time, as well as the confusion about the future, poured out as tears.

When he saw them crying out loud, Jiang Li breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that he was safe now.

After they had vented their anger, Jiang Li asked them to pack up their things and follow the thousand troops, livestock and money to Tengteng Town.

While walking on the road, Jiang Li calculated the gains from this trip to Guyang County. There were eleven towns and a county town, and the population alone increased by 120,000. This doubled the size of his territory and the population directly reached 200,000.

Not to mention, he basically raided the homes of all the landlords, gentry, and profiteers in the entire county. After all, how many of them were clean in those days?

The money and grain these people had plundered for dozens or even hundreds of years naturally all went to Jiang Li. Half of it was left to resettle the people and improve various living facilities, and the rest was all taken away.

Jiang Li then specifically took away all the above-average horses in the county.

Because he had an idea that might quickly increase the number of cavalry.

After returning to Tengteng County, Jiang Li stored all his gains in the warehouse, which included 1.2 million silver dollars, 480 kilograms of gold, and various jewelry, antiques, and jade artifacts, which were countless.

With so much money and food, Jiang Li no longer held back and started spending money lavishly. He directly ordered the purchasing team to increase their efforts and purchase large quantities of various supplies. In particular, he relaxed the requirements on the quality of horses, and as long as they were of medium to high quality, they could be purchased.

Because he was afraid of insufficient manpower, he simply increased the funding and doubled the number of purchasing staff.

As for the women he brought back, he certainly made proper arrangements for them. Those who had needlework skills were arranged to do embroidery, while those who did not have the skills were put into factories.

There was even a group of brave ones who were recruited into the medical team as nurses. In short, everyone was given a job so they would not go hungry.

After settling them, Jiang Li asked his family to start moving again. Of course, only some daily necessities were left, and everything else was left in the Jiang family courtyard.

When Ren Tingting, Wang Chunhua and Jiang Xiao came to the magnificent county magistrate's mansion, they were shocked. This place was several times bigger than Jiang's.

But what made them speechless was that the style of this new county governor's mansion was still more like a fortress, but fortunately there were some ponds, gardens, swings and other things in it, which made the county governor's mansion look more like home.

After settling his mother, wife and children, Jiang Li once again devoted himself to the construction of the army and industry.

The first thing to do is naturally to upgrade Wang Shouyi's wine-making workshop, then re-make the packaging of the wine jars, and also give the pumpkin wine a high-end name, called Golden Pumpkin Pure Brew, to improve the grade of the pumpkin wine.

As for the wine produced in Jiuquan Town, he renamed it Wuliang Pure Liquor. With these two kinds of wine with high and low alcohol content, he had monopolized the mid- to high-end wines in the two counties under his jurisdiction, and the profits were naturally not known to outsiders.

Having obtained a stable source of military funds, Jiang Li once again set his sights on the cavalry. Previously, due to the inability to obtain too many qualified war horses, his Taoist soldiers were unable to become full cavalry and could only be replaced by bicycles.

Now, when he was counting the livestock and horses that defeated Zhang Tiande, he suddenly thought of feeding medium-level horses with blood mushrooms.

Their physical fitness will definitely be greatly improved, and will definitely be better than ordinary war horses.

So he directly ordered to gather all the middle and upper quality horses in Guyang County and bring them to Caoping Mountain for trial.

Just a few days later, after arranging the move and dealing with the winery matters, he couldn't wait to come to Caoping Hill to check on the progress.

This made him a little confused. It was not because the feeding in the past few days had caused any significant changes to these hundreds of horses, but because he saw that almost all the female livestock on the lawn hill were pregnant.

Upon asking, we found out that all this was done by the livestock that had taken the blood mushrooms. After taking the blood mushrooms, not only did they grow bigger, but their energy was also greatly improved.

This means that apart from eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, their daily routine is to look for females to reproduce, and soon most of the livestock become pregnant.

Jiang Li was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he saw this, but he did not ask anyone to intervene. After all, he felt that these livestock were huge in size, and it would be a good idea to use them to improve the physical fitness of their offspring.

Putting this question aside, he went straight to a Taoist soldier who was in charge of feeding the horses and asked, "How are these horses? Has their physical strength and vitality increased? Can they be used as war horses?"

The man immediately replied, "Master, don't worry. These horses have been fed with blood mushrooms. Their appetite has increased greatly in the past few days, and their physical strength has also been significantly strengthened. They are now almost the same as war horses. I think in a few days, they will definitely be stronger than ordinary war horses!"

Jiang Li was so happy when he heard that. He felt relieved when he saw the horses with more obvious muscle lines. Now that the blood mushroom has such a use, its value will definitely increase again.

Not only war horses, but also oxen, pack horses and donkeys, all livestock that have requirements for their internal bodies will benefit. Then he will be able to directly start cheating, saving decades or even hundreds of years of breed optimization for various livestock.

Thinking of this, he laughed out loud.

A few days later, when he saw the final effect, he brought these strengthened horses back to Tengteng County.

I went to the purchasing office hall and found the purchasing staff. "Tell them to relax the quality requirements for purchasing various livestock and buy them in large quantities for me!"

Speaking of the purchasing office, Jiang Li only thought of setting it up after he moved. It turned out that Old Wu could be found at any time in the Jiang family, so he didn't need to worry too much about the purchasing matters.

But now there are more and more people and materials to be purchased, and the types are also diverse. It would be a bit difficult for Old Wu to coordinate these matters.

He simply waved his hand and had someone convert a courtyard just a few dozen meters away from the county magistrate's mansion into a procurement office. He also recruited some civilian staff to be responsible for counting the buying and selling materials. As for the director of the procurement office, he was of course still Old Wu.

Back to the topic, after receiving the order, the staff of the Procurement Office started working quickly and soon notified the purchasing staff of the items that needed to be purchased.