After Li Yan and his friends brought the selected refugees back, problems arose. Qilizhai could not let go of so many people. So his first task became to choose a suitable place to live and build their habitat.

Originally, Li Zhong wanted to arrange them in an abandoned village. Lin Chenghai and his family had given up their homes and continued to flee. Lin Chenghai was tortured but escaped from prison at night and was killed while chasing him, so their family no longer had to stay here, and the village became a deserted village.

But this village is on the edge of the avenue, and there is no danger to guard. For Li Yan and the others, their current strength is not yet able to defend this village. So they had to build some houses on the slope between the village and the wall, and it is safer to live in the wall.

Fortunately, the soil slopes are not steep, and they are all of them of soil, and the project volume is not large. Moreover, the building materials can also be taken from abandoned villages. The houses built are all brick and stone, and the defense function is not bad. All of these are allowed to be done by the refugees themselves. Li Yan only needs to provide food and supervise quality.

There are many people and great powers. After more than ten days of hard work, two rows of houses were finally built on the south side of the village, and the newly arrived refugees were resettled. There are also some spare houses.

The first group of people who came to the village began to harvest their vegetables, corn, sorghum, and the newcomers reclaimed abandoned fields in the area designated for them to prepare for the subsequent winter wheat planting.

The new ones who have family members join Li Yan's army still give ten acres of land alone, while those who do not have family members are assigned to different amounts of land according to the situation of family members and register and book. The reason why they do not use the farm-style model is that Li Yan does not have the wealth of manpower to specifically manage these farmers, and it is better for them to do their own things, so as not to be fooled and let everyone suffer losses.

During this period, more than ten young and strong men brought their families to Qilizhai and asked to join Qilizhai. Li Yan accepted them all, after all, there were more than ten soldiers. Now his troops continue to expand, so he is worthy of his position as the general.

By summoning refugees this time, Li Yan's troops have nearly doubled, but relatively speaking, it is still too few. However, he does not want to add those gangsters and people without loyalty to come in. The stability and strictness of the troops are the most important.

At this time, the border soldiers could already train the new ones as instructors. The first batch of soldiers who joined could also help with the training, so that Li Yan and Li Mou and others could relax. These veterans were very responsible, or a little bit evil in their mother-in-law's mind. They transferred all the sins they had suffered to the new recruits, making the new recruits miserable. Fortunately, these farmers had high tolerance enough that in order to give their families food, they all endured and quickly became qualified soldiers.

Just in July, the tax-collecting yamen runners came to Qilizhai again.

"President Li," said the head of the group respectfully: "There is a tight urging from the above. This 'trade' must be collected, so we have no choice. Please don't be surprised."

Li Yan nodded and asked, "So how much does this 'trade' have to be paid?"

The head of the team looked at Li Yan worriedly, and still said with a thorn intent: "Five cents per acre."

With a "bang", Li Mou slapped the coffee table. He stared at Wang Bantou and asked: "What is the harvest of acre of land? How much can I leave food and seeds? How much is left after paying other taxes? You can collect five cents with just one "payment". Which people can afford it?!"

The head of the team said in embarrassment: "This is also impossible. Now there are fewer and fewer farming, but there are so many tasks given by the superiors, so they have to stall among the farmers with land."

"Do you have to hand over the land and farms in the west and south?" Li Zhong also asked: "Do you have to hand over the land of Huang, the suburbs of the city, too?! Do you have to hand over the land of Yang Shouzhi and Zhang Dianshi's family?!"

The head of the team immediately bowed and kept saying, "Don't be embarrassed by the villain, the villain is also ordered to do the trick and cannot make the decision."

Li Yan raised his hand and said, "Okay, stop talking!"

Li Zhong and Li Mou had to give up, and the team leader also stopped begging for mercy and looked at Li Yan with some fear.

"I pay half of it, which is 2,500 yuan per acre. This is allowed in the document given to me by the county magistrate." Li Yan said firmly: "I know you have your money, but I don't want to pursue it. However, I don't want this 'trade' to increase. Do you understand what I mean?"

The team nodded quickly and said, "I understand, I understand, the villain will definitely find a way to prevent Mr. Li from increasing his 's salary'."

Li Yan nodded and ordered Li Zhong: "Go and get the money."

After waiting for a while, Li Zhong brought seventy-eight taels of silver. The yamen runner immediately weighed and recorded. Then the head of the troupe nodded and bowed and left with his men.

"There are less than 1,200 taels left." Li Zhong reported angrily. The silver taels were obtained from the defeated thieves, and now they have spent more than 200 taels to pay taxes.

Li Mou asked angrily: "What are you doing for them?! I don't know how many he will take away from it!"

"He is pretty good, we can deal with it." Li Yan explained: "If you can't collect the money and replace it with someone who is not easy to deal with, will it be us who are uncomfortable?"

"Then you are the official army!" Li Mou said dissatisfied: "Now the Eight Kings of Xiying have rebelled. I have seen him several times. Let's go and vote for him! Only we rob the money, so how can we give people money!"

Li Yan glanced at Li Mou and said, "The government army will send troops to encircle it soon. If we go there, we will die! At most, we will be just a thief!"

"Don't argue," Li Zhong quickly advised: "Just hand over it. Are we getting better and better now? Don't hurt the harmony between brothers for trivial matters."

Li Mou clasped his fists and apologized: "Fourth Brother, I'm sorry, brother, I'm just anxious, I don't worry, Fourth Brother."

Li Yan stood up and patted Li Mou on the shoulder, and smiled and said, "Brothers, how could such a small thing hurt the harmony?"

Both of them smiled at each other, and it was said that this matter was exposed. Li Zhong finally felt relieved.

On the way back to the county town, a yamen runner said, "Taiwan, this Li Baron is the one who wants him to pay as much as he wants, and we will eat him from now on!"

"Face?!" The head of the troupe sneered and said, "If you think this Li Barbarian is always soft, then you will not be far from death! Even the thieves can kill more than 20, and they will care about killing more than 20 of us?! If you want to survive in the future, don't come here to be wild! I just said this, if you want to live well, remember it in your heart, and if you want money or life, just take it as your ears."
Chapter completed!