Wear It with Space

After the list came out, Li Gui also came back. And also brought back a few singers.

When Shen Ling asked about those singers, Li Gui kept vaguely asking Shen Ling if he could reward him with a singer. His wife and children all died in the drought in his hometown. Later, he wanted to expand the team, so he didn't think about it. It wasn't until I saw the singers that I had an idea.

Shen Ling directly refused. Zhuangli was currently short of staff. She had already figured out where the singers would go, so she refused Li Gui's request and made arrangements for the singers.

The surprise attack on the officers and soldiers went smoothly. There was almost no loss in the personnel of Bezhuang, while the officers and soldiers fled because of their surprise attacks. Without the restraint of the generals, those officers and soldiers soon became successful. Deserted. It will no longer pose a threat to Meishan County in the future.

However, Shen Ling did not relax his vigilance because the war went smoothly. In her opinion, there were signs of chaos in the world. At this time, we should recruit more troops to open up wasteland.

In the spring of the following year, Shen Ling once again used porridge to recruit refugees. As the population of Biezhuang increased and the reclaimed wasteland increased, it faintly became the largest power in Meishan County.

It turned out that the Qiu family, the most powerful in this area, couldn't sit still.

Their method of wooing Shen Ling was very simple. They sent a well-known matchmaker over to propose marriage to the second son of Qiu's family, and the object of their proposal was Shen Ling. From the Qiu's perspective, Shen Ling is still a daughter after all, and sooner or later she will marry. The Qiu family's lintel and strength are comparable to those of Bie Zhuang, so Shen Ling will most likely agree. Once she is willing to marry into the Qiu family, everything in Biezhuang will fall into the hands of the Qiu family.

Qiu's abacus is very good. Unfortunately, Shen Ling is not an ordinary woman. Without hesitation, she refused the Qiu family's proposal and sent the matchmaker out of Biezhuang.

After the matchmaker left, Qiu He cautiously poured a cup of tea for Shen Ling, and asked softly, "Why didn't the lady agree? Did you look down on Qiu's family?"

Shen Ling rubbed his eyebrows: "Qiu has a bad family heart and wants to annex our Biezhuang property and private army through marriage. How can I agree?"

However, the Qiu family's proposal reminded her that she is now in time, and she has reached the age of getting married. If you keep dragging on this matter, I'm afraid it will be uneasy for the people below. After all, there is only her master in Bie Zhuang Shang Shang. If she has no heirs for a long time, I am afraid that someone should give birth to thoughts that they shouldn't have.

But Shen Ling really has no plans to marry. Bie Zhuang can develop to the way it is today. It is inseparable from the large amount of effort she has invested in. How could she willingly give it away. The marriage of those big families is unreliable, so why bother.

So Shen Ling thought for a while, as if currently he only had one way to go.

On the Qiu family's side, when the Patriarch of the Qiu family learned that Shen Ling had rejected the matchmaker's proposal, he recruited several close cousins ​​to ask their opinions.

The Qiu family has always been arrogant and domineering in Meishan County. After some discussions, they still tended to attack Biezhuang to let them know how powerful the Qiu family is.

We must know that the Qiu family has been entrenched in Meishan County for so many years, and there is an iron ore left by the previous dynasty, and a private army has been trained in these years.

This private army is not comparable to the previous officers and soldiers. They not only have excellent equipment but also have experience in killing the enemy. The rebels headed by Li Gui were defeated by them.

When she was lying in the Qiu's house and sent the news to Shen Ling's desk, she couldn't help but gently buckle the desk. The Qiu family is a strong enemy to Bezhuang, but if the Qiu family can be taken, this area will completely fall into the hands of Bezhuang, which is extremely beneficial to the future development of Bezhuang.

But the most important thing at the moment is how to gnaw off this hard bone.

Shen Ling thought for a while and summoned Su Mozhi, Li Gui, and Yang Wujin, who had performed well in the surprise attack.

Hearing that the Qiu family was about to attack Biezhuang, Li Gui suddenly thought of the news he heard before, saying that it was the Qiu family who sent people to the Bezhuang to propose marriage to the owner. How do you see what the Qiu family did? The Lord refused. He couldn't help but glanced at Shen Ling, and he couldn't see clearly what he was doing.

Yang Wujin had a rather desperate posture when fighting, but he was very shy and rarely spoke.

In the end, Su Mozhi broke the silence. He gently shook the folding fan in his hand. “As the largest force in Meishan County, the Qiu family has always acted domineering and has already offended other big families. If you don’t say anything, just say the Li family. He Shijia, because of the iron ore matter, has long been dissatisfied with the Qiu family. As long as we make use of it, we may not be able to take it down.

Since Su Mozhi came to Biezhuang, he has been paying attention to the surrounding movements while teaching, and it is easy to detect these news.

Shen Ling thought carefully about Su Mozhi's suggestion, and found it basically feasible.

"Mr. Su's method is very good. But how do you know how to implement it?"

What Shen Ling asked was Li Gui and Yang Wujin. After all, the two had to discuss the battle together.

Li Gui pondered for a while and gave a suggestion that while the Qiu family was attacking Biezhuang, he could join the Li and Shi family to attack the Qiu family and kill him by surprise.

Yang Wujin also felt that this proposal was very good, and suggested that he could be the vanguard to attack the Qiu family.

Finally, Shen Ling made a final decision. Li Gui stayed in the village to face the Qiu family’s private army, while Yang Wujin took two hundred famous Ding directly into the Qiu family. As for Su Mozhi, he was sent to lobby the Li family and the Shi family together. Send troops to attack Qiu's house.

A few days later, the Qiu family headed for Biezhuang with two thousand private troops.

Qiu Sheng, the eldest son of the Qiu family's eldest son, is in charge of the private army. Compared with his father, the head of the Qiu family, he is not as arrogant and domineering as his father's generation. However, since his father and several uncles made this decision, his nephew and his son had no choice but to follow everyone's suggestions and take the private army to attack Biezhuang.

Along the way, Qiu's private army found that no one was visible on the land under the name of Biezhuang. Qiu Sheng couldn't help but feel suspicious. Although it is not the autumn harvest season, the fields still need to be irrigated and weeded. When the farming is busy, it is impossible for a farmer to be invisible. Unless it was Biezhuang who knew the news in advance, they couldn't see a single figure.

Biezhuang did receive the news.

Since Shen Ling came to Biezhuang, as more and more refugees have been admitted, she has cultivated several meticulous works in private, and placed them in the homes of several large families nearby.

Thanks to her preparedness, when the Qiu family was about to attack Biezhuang, she immediately ordered all the tenants in Biezhuang to avoid the village.

Now, after several constructions, Biezhuang has three more walls. The courtyard built within the three walls can not only accommodate the refugees and volunteers, but also these tenants.

Li Gui stood on the turret of the third wall. Behind him, two hundred archers were quietly lying in ambush.

When Qiu's private army went all the way to a place only one foot away from the wall, Li Gui quietly made a gesture, and hundreds of feather arrows flew out immediately.

When Li Gui led the hundreds of people left behind to fight against Qiu's private army, Shen Ling's bottleneck finally showed signs of a breakthrough. After entering the first level of the Qi training period, for several years, she has been stuck in this state because of her thin aura and poor aptitude, and she has not been able to make a breakthrough for a long time.

Now at this critical moment, the bottleneck suddenly shows signs of loosening.

Shen Ling ignored everything in the outside world, closed the door and ordered Qiu He to stay at the door, before he began to hit the bottleneck.

Wu Linggen's aptitude made it extremely difficult for Shen Ling to hit the bottleneck. She activated all the auras in her body to attack the bottleneck again and again, but failed every time. Finally, Shen Ling swallowed the last remaining bottle of a pill that he took during the initial stage of the Qi training period, and with the help of the power of the medicine, he finally broke through to the second level of the Qi training period.

When she opened the door and asked about the situation in the village, Qiu He smiled and told her that Li Gui had already taken someone to repel the Qiu family private army who had invaded Bezhuang. Good news came from Yang Wujin. Together with the Li family and Shi family, he broke the fortress of the Qiu family and forced the Patriarch of the Qiu family to save the Qiu family at the cost of traveling to Meishan County.

Shen Ling felt that such an outcome was already very good. She and the Qiu family have no blood and deep feud, since the other party is willing to go far away, then she will naturally not rush to kill them all.

Especially after she entered the second level of the Qi training period this time, she felt that her cultivation always seemed to have added a layer of shackles, which made her feel like she couldn't let go of her hands and feet. Reminiscent of the previous world of cultivating immortals, when she first entered the sect, the elder Master Lu warned her not to easily hurt the lives of mortals. Shen Ling had a vague conjecture in his heart, could it be that he stayed at the first level of the Qi training period for so long, it was related to the murder of a gangster before.

With this idea in mind, Shen Ling has since decided not to use spells to hurt people's lives in the future.

However, after the Qiu family was forced to leave their hometown under the joint efforts of Biezhuang and Li Shi's family, Biezhuang became the largest power in Meishan County.

Because of the name of Shen Ling's Xuannv, people call Biezhuang as Xuannvzhuang.

After Xuannüzhuang became the largest force in Meishan County, it continued its previous style, recruiting refugees to reclaim wasteland, and training private troops.

The original fields of the Qiu family have been divided among the three families. Xuannüzhuang has obtained the most fields. Together with the wasteland reclaimed in successive years, it has nearly 10,000 mu of fields.

And the number of private troops has slowly grown from more than 1,000 to more than 6,000, and the original two hundred celebrities have all been promoted to small bosses. The bravest Yang Wujin, like Li Gui, became the leader of this team, each in charge of more than 3,000 people.

These six thousand people spend most of the time training in Meishan, so although people outside know that there are private troops in Xuannvzhuang, no one can guess how many people there are.

After Shen Ling had this private army in his hands, he worked hard towards the powerful goal of one side.

Her first goal is to completely put Meishan County into her sphere of influence.

When the magistrate of Meishan County listened to the instigation of the people below and sent officers and soldiers to restrain the taxation of Xuannüzhuang, Shen Ling directly ordered the private army to solve those officers and soldiers, and then captured the county.

With previous experience as a county magistrate, Shen Ling managed Meishan County in good order. With the reputation of Xuannvzhuang, she continued to accept refugees from all directions.

Since then, the powerful goal of one party has been completed.

Although since then, Li Gui and Yang Wujin have been persuading her to send troops to continue attacking the surrounding counties or towns. But Shen Ling's goal was to dominate one party, and he didn't want to unify the world. What's more, there are still too few talents around her. If she has the mind to dominate the world, she will inevitably face up to the insurgents everywhere. Once the war fails, it is easy to end up in a fight.

It would be better to hold one side securely, rely on your own strength to protect the people of one side, and wait for the truly capable people to unify the troubled times.