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Chapter 7 The boss is determined to become a bandit.
Liu Sheng said: "Master is not a pleasant title. People who don't know better think that I am five or sixty years old and have many descendants. From now on, whether you sell yourself to me or are employed by me, please call me boss."

As for the lack of reclaimable wasteland around, you don't need to worry about it. I know what to do, and I will definitely not let everyone starve. "

Hearing this, Liu Dachuan sighed secretly, thinking: My boss is determined to become a bandit in this mountain.

Although he didn't want to be a bandit, he knew he had no choice - if it weren't for Liu Sheng, his family would have starved to death.Even if other wealthy people are willing to hire him or buy his younger brother, they may not be able to accept his family.

In this way, even without Liu Sheng, the two brothers had no choice but to become bandits if they wanted to survive.

Thinking of this, Liu Dachuan said, "I understand, boss," and then stepped aside to work.

Zou Runniang grabbed Li Xiangyun who was going to work and whispered: "Xiangyun, listen to what he said, how does it sound like he wants to open up wasteland and farm in the mountains in a serious way? Most likely he still wants to be a bandit."

Li Xiangyun said: "Mom, he is our savior. As long as you can survive by following him, what does it matter if you become a bandit?"

After that, go straight to work.

Zou Runniang looked at Li Xiangyun's back, then looked around at the wilderness, her eyes even more worried.

Li Xiangyun was young and ignorant, but she knew that if Liu Sheng could really find a suitable place to open up wasteland and farm, he might be able to lead everyone to survive in this troubled world.

But if Liu Sheng wants to be a gangster, he will have to lick blood from the knife edge to survive. He doesn't know when he will die.

How can people like them end well by then?
Zou Runiang did not tell her daughter these truths, because she also understood one truth: at this point, their mother and daughter had no better choice.

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Arriving before the sun went down, under Liu Sheng's coordination and arrangement, a dozen young men finally cleared a place for everyone to camp.As long as you light a bonfire and arrange for people to keep watch, you won't be afraid of the snakes, insects and wild beasts in the mountains.

Because it was his first night in the mountains, Liu Sheng specially asked Li Xianglan and others to cook broth and serve it with noodles bought from Maoji Town for dinner.

After drinking the fragrant broth and eating warm noodles, whether it was the strong man from Xiaoli Village who complained about staying in the mountains overnight, or Liu Dachuan and other four families who were worried about the future, they felt much more at ease.

In these troubled times, people are dying of hunger everywhere, and in many places there are even horrific scenes of "cannibalism". They are really happy to have such a dinner.

At night, after everyone had a rest, Liu Sheng secretly left the camp and returned to the cave.

The traps in front of and inside the cave were not triggered, and the door was still locked, which made Liu Sheng relieved.

After checking all the houses on the upper and lower floors, Liu Sheng came to the workshop on the second floor.

Having served in the special forces, he has learned not only killing, but also many other related skills, one of which is making various weapons using limited conditions and materials.

As he considers himself a patient with doomsday fantasy and a retired soldier, Liu Sheng is naturally well prepared for weapons.

In addition to various cold weapons available in Daxia, he also prepared some parts, materials and tools for homemade firearms.

Now in Tianmu Mountain, he didn't know what he would encounter. After much deliberation, he still felt that it would be safer to make one or two guns first and carry them with him.

Liu Sheng was very skilled in his movements, and he made two revolvers in just two or three hours.

It can hold five rounds of bullets and has an effective range of about 50 meters. The shooting accuracy is acceptable within 40 meters, but the accuracy is not so good beyond 40 meters.

Logically speaking, Liu Sheng's skill in making homemade firearms was regarded as a magical skill in the late Ming Dynasty.Unfortunately, he had prepared supplies for the end of the world, and didn't know that he would travel back to the late Ming Dynasty, so he didn't have many necessary parts and materials for homemade firearms.

He roughly estimated that he could make at most ten or twenty firearms of various types.

However, the level of steelmaking in the late Ming Dynasty was not too low, and steel processing technology also had a certain foundation.When he becomes powerful enough in the future, he can build a firearms factory.With some development, a revolver may be produced within 30 to [-] years.

After making the revolver, Liu Sheng made fifty rounds of bullets before leaving the cave and returning to the camp.

Before breakfast the next day, Liu Sheng took a notebook and pen and registered four families.

The Liu family is the first.

Although Liu Dachuan and Liu Erhe were a little surprised, they were very cooperative.

Only then did Liu Sheng realize that although they looked like they were in their thirties or forties, they were actually both in their 20s.

Liu Dachuan is 28 years old and is a carpenter; Liu Erhe is only 24 years old and is a bricklayer; both are from the Lu family in Henan Prefecture.

Their father Liu Deyou is also only 49 years old and is a farmer and bamboo craftsman.The mother, Zhao Cuirong, is 48 years old. In addition to ordinary farm work and housework, she can also weave and make simple clothes.

In the second house, the male owner is Zhou Maohua, a 27-year-old farmer who can also bake bricks and pottery, and is from Jiaxian County, Ruzhou.

His wife Liu Erni, 26 years old, is a farmer, can weave, and is a female worker.The eldest son Zhou Daobao is 10 years old, and the second son Zhou Debao is 7 years old.

The male owner of the third family is Zheng Erli, 25 years old, a farmer and part-time mason, from Nanzhao, Nanyang Prefecture.

His wife He Chunfang, 23 years old, is a weaver and a female worker.Daughter Zheng Zhenzhen, 5 years old.Zheng Ershuan's father-in-law, He Guiyou, is 49 years old and an old farmer.

The fourth family is mother and daughter Zou Runniang and Li Xiangyun.Zou Runniang is 29 years old and Li Xiangyun is 14 years old. They are from Lu family in Henan Prefecture.

Zou has some knowledge of weaving, female workers, some medical skills, and can identify and process herbal medicines.Li Xianglan is literate, good at arithmetic, and has some skills as a female worker.

After registration, Liu Sheng was very happy.

In addition to farming, the men of each family also have skills, which is because he deliberately selected part-time craftsmen.

But the ladies of each house knew how to weave and work, which made him a little happy.However, in ancient times, it was normal for women from the lower class to be able to weave and work.

During the registration process, Liu Dachuan and others were not only curious but also admired the notebooks and pens used by Liu Sheng, a kind of admiration that illiterate people have for scholars.

Only Zou Runniang and Li Xiangyun, who had some experience in pens, inks, paper and inkstones, were curious and seemed to want to explore.

Because Liu Sheng's writing tools and methods were all new to them.

The notebook is easier to understand, but it is just a more beautifully made blank book.But they had never heard of the pen that could write fine fonts, and they didn't know what it was made of.

In addition, Liu Sheng actually wrote horizontally from left to right!

The use of simplified characters is not so strange - at this time, scholars often used simplified characters when sketching or writing wildly, but simplified characters accounted for only a small proportion, while Liu Sheng almost always used simplified characters.

Li Xianglan didn't even recognize some of the simplified Chinese characters and could only guess their meaning.

Although she was full of doubts, she was worried that this matter would involve Liu Sheng's secrets and offend Liu Sheng, so she suppressed the doubts in her heart for the time being.Liu Sheng put away his notebook and saw everyone simply washing themselves by the stream and starting to work again.

He then found He Chunfang, who was washing his daughter's face and tying her hair, and said, "Xiao He, I will take Xiang Yun to cook some millet porridge for everyone for breakfast."

He Chunfang was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly asked: "Master, you eat so early, what should you do if you are hungry at noon?"

Liu Dongsheng smiled, "What should we do? Of course it's lunch."

"My boss, are you going to take care of our three meals a day?!" He Chunfang was happy at first, and then reminded with a hint of worry, "My boss, eating three meals a day will consume food very quickly. We have brought these I’m afraid I won’t last many days.”

Liu Sheng said: "I will take care of it when the food is gone. Just cook as I say."

After saying that, Liu Sheng climbed onto the big rock again and said loudly: "Everyone, let's work hard for an hour. When we're done, we'll have breakfast!"

The men in Xiaoli Village all looked surprised after hearing this.

The year is not good, and most of them now eat two meals a day. They didn't expect that they could eat three meals while working for Liu Sheng. It was really beautiful.

"Thank you, Mr. Liu!"

"Dong Liu is generous!"

"We promise to work hard!"

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Everyone thanked him one after another, and it turned out that they were very efficient in their work, and they were all full of energy.

Although Liu Dachuan, Li Xiangyun and others were also worried about the food problem, they were wise enough not to ask any more questions.

Liu Sheng took out a new notebook and registered the men in Xiaoli Village.

Li Rongguang asked in confusion: "Brother Liu, why are you registering people from our village?"

"It's convenient for them to calculate their wages. In addition, I will also write down who performs well and who is lazy in this book to prevent anyone from cheating."

After hearing this, Li Rongguang praised sincerely: "Brother Liu is really good at both civil and military skills."

Does this mean you are both civil and military?
Liu Sheng smiled and shook his head slightly.

His purpose in registering the information of the men in Xiaoli Village was not simple - he even asked about these people's family situation one by one, and he would look for these people to do work again in the future.

As time went by, most of the men in Xiaoli Village had to become his wage earners.

In the morning, everyone ate millet porridge with pickles.

At noon, there is brown rice and dry rice with minced meat stew.

In the evening, we make steamed buns in bone soup and boil cabbage in water.

Liu Sheng had no appetite for such three meals, but everyone ate with gusto and looked happy.

If you eat well, you will naturally be more active at work.

So it took seven days for everyone to build five wooden houses, two thatched houses, two wooden sheds, and a wooden fence surrounding dozens of acres of land from scratch according to Liu Sheng's request.

The five wooden houses are only a dozen square meters each, divided into two rooms, each with a simple door and window.The body of the house is made of roughly processed thick wooden boards, and the roof is made of wooden boards plus thatch and mud.

There are two wooden sheds, one big and one small. The big one is a kitchen and canteen, and the smaller one is a stable for feeding mules and donkeys.

The log fence outside is about half a foot high, and the simple gate is right on the main road leading up to the slope from below, with a slight defensive effect.

The latrine was built in a corner inside the fence, for one man and one woman. The cesspool was directly cut out of the stone floor by the stonemason Zheng Erli.

These buildings are difficult to live in permanently, but they can be used for temporary housing for a few months.After all, it’s warm late spring now, not cold autumn and winter...

April seventeenth.

After lunch.

Liu Sheng paid wages to the men in Xiaoli Village one by one.

These people worked for him for six and a half days, and according to the agreement, the standard wage was 130 cash.

Almost no one was lazy during the process, and since it was the first time for "cooperation", Liu Sheng didn't deduct anyone's wages. Instead, he rewarded the hardest worker and the best worker ten cents each.

This made the ten men from Xiaoli Village smile with joy, even Li Rongguang was no exception.

Because he also received 130 wages.

This was the first time in his 20 years of life that he had made money. Although it was not much, it was very meaningful.

"Brother Liu, if we don't have to go back to the village to do farm work, we all wish we could continue working here."

Liu Sheng said with a smile: "When the farm work is finished, Brother Li can bring everyone over again. I won't be busy here for three to five months."

"Okay, that's settled!"

Li Rongguang happily left with the young men of Xiaoli Village.

When Liu Sheng turned around, he saw more than a dozen people from four families looking at him eagerly.

He knew very well what these people expected, so he said loudly with a smile without further ado, "Let's allocate rooms!"

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