Your Majesty said that my life is worthless, so why are you crying when I increase my troops?

The woman was still skeptical when she heard this.

"You, you are really not bandits?"

Zhao Hongying patted her hand gently and chuckled, "Look at us, none of us look like the bandits you usually see."

"We are really merchants from Hanyang City."

"Then, come in..."

The woman looked Xia Mingyuan up and down, and finally opened the door, letting Xia Mingyuan and others into the house.

"You all stay outside, Lao Lu, Hongying and I will go in. Don't scare anyone." Xia Mingyuan gave the instructions and entered the woman's house.

The family clearly lived in a brick house, but inside they were extremely poor and bare.

In addition to the woman, there was also a child about two or three years old. When he saw Xia Mingyuan and other strangers coming in, he was frightened and burst into tears.

"Be good, Dongdong, don't cry. The people coming here are not bandits. Don't be afraid."

The woman picked up the child and comforted him repeatedly. After a long time, the child in her arms finally calmed down.

The woman brought some tree stumps to Xia Mingyuan and the other two and asked them to sit down.

"I'm sorry, the child is young, and my house has been robbed by bandits, so I don't have anything to treat you..."

The woman looked a little embarrassed and lowered her head unconsciously as she spoke.

Xia Mingyuan said quickly: "We are the ones who disturbed the young lady."

"I wonder what I call the girl?"

The woman quickly said, "Just call me Cuilan."

"Miss Cuilan, it's like this. We heard that you've been living in the village for years and have been constantly robbed by bandits from Handao Village. The villagers and common people are all planning to sell their land. Recently, we wanted to buy some land, so we came to inquire." Xia Mingyuan pondered for a moment and glanced around. "I wonder if the rest of your family..."

Cuilan lowered her head. "My husband was captured by bandits and forced to do hard labor in the mountains. He never came back. My mother-in-law died early, and my father-in-law was killed by bandits. Now I am the only one left at home with this child."

At this point, she hesitated and raised her head, "We in Xujia Village have long wanted to donate the land to a wealthy family, but it's too close to the Cold Blade Village, so no one dares to take it."

"Sir, if you want to buy the land, I wonder if you are sure you can protect our village. If not, I'm afraid no one would dare to give it to you for free."

Lu Xiucai quickly interrupted and said, "Don't worry, young lady. Without diamonds, my master wouldn't dare to do this porcelain work."

"Those soldiers behind us just now, our master still has at least two thousand under his command. If you want to continue to stay and work as farmers for us, we will definitely ensure that you will have no worries for four seasons."

Hearing this, Cuilan's eyes dimmed a little, "Sir, if it were somewhere else, two thousand people would be enough for everyone to hand over the land to you."

"But this place is only twenty miles away from Handao Village. We have crops planted in the fields, so they will definitely come to rob us. I'm afraid two thousand people aren't enough. I heard that there are four to five thousand bandits in Handao Village, and each of their Handao team is a killer, one against a hundred."

Xia Mingyuan couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

He could see that this girl named Cuilan was not very clear about the combat effectiveness of the bandits and the government troops.

The government's passive and passive attitude in recent years has resulted in ordinary people having to judge which side is stronger based on the number of people.

"Miss, you don't need to worry about safety. We don't care much about the people in Handao Village. If you are worried, you can just sell the land and not become a farmer. I will charge you according to the market price."

Cuilan hesitated for a moment, then stood up and said, "It seems you are really determined to buy the land here. I will take you to see the village head."

Xia Mingyuan soon came into the hands of the village head Xu Shuigen.

Xu Shuigen puffed away at the welding smoke for a long while before finally speaking softly, "Master Xia, if you want land, most of the people in Xujia Village would still like to give it to you and cultivate it under your protection."

"After all, our ancestors were born here, and no one wants to leave their hometown."

"But, do you really have the ability to protect us from being robbed by bandits? This is not only about whether the people of Xujia Village can have food to eat, but if they are robbed by bandits, I'm afraid all your efforts will be in vain."

Upon hearing this, Xia Mingyuan turned around and threw the military token to Lu Xiucai.

"Old Lu, take the troops and move the remaining people outside the city here so that the people can see our wealth!"

Lu Xiucai quickly agreed, called the two cavalrymen, and left Xujia Village together.

……

In recent days, Yue Hanshan felt like he was living in a dream.

Looking at the nearly two thousand soldiers in front of him, he couldn't help but pinch his thigh again. Although he grimaced in pain, he felt more at ease in his heart.

It hurts, this is not a dream!

Every one of these soldiers in front of me is the elite among the elite!

Not only that, there is a clear division of labor between the arms and strict military discipline. Looking at the entire Daxia, it is an extremely rare team.

And now, he is the commander of this team! Xia Mingyuan gave him almost all the power to mobilize the army.

These past two days, he couldn't even imagine what the scene would be like if he had a team of 20,000 or 200,000 people.

This Mr. Xia is even more powerful than what the young lady said!

Perhaps, as the young lady said, following Master Xia might be their greatest hope for revenge.

While Yue Hanshan was stunned, he saw Lu Xiucai riding towards him.

Seeing the military order, he did not dare to hesitate for a moment. He quickly mobilized his soldiers and arrived outside Xujia Village as quickly as possible.

"Old village chief, you see, these are my people. As long as you, the people of Xujia Village, are willing to cooperate with me, this team will be stationed near this village in the future. I guarantee that they will not harm the people."

"If any more bandits dare to come, these two thousand men are more than enough to resist them." Having said this, Xia Mingyuan was afraid that Xu Shuigen might be a little worried, so he immediately added, "Besides, I have another two thousand men stationed elsewhere. If there is any disturbance, they can be mobilized at any time!"

"If you think that even I don't have this strength, then I'm afraid that no one in the entire Hanyang will dare to buy your land and challenge the Cold Blade Village!"

Xu Shuigen looked at the two thousand soldiers ready to go in front of him and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

As the village head, he naturally knows much more than Cuilan.

The soldiers under Xia Mingyuan are obviously much stronger than the bandits!

If there really are 4,000 people, I'm afraid the people of Handao Village would not be willing to fight for the food of a village, and both sides would have to fight a bloody battle.

Thinking of this, Xu Shuigen felt extremely excited.

Even he didn't expect that some time ago, no one dared to take the land of Xujia Village even if they paid money, but now there is actually someone who took over 11,000 acres of land from 700 households in the village in one go!