I traveled through time, starting with two acres of land and a dog

When my father came back in the evening, the spring courses for this year were completed and the summer vacation began. After dinner, they went to the bedroom and began to discuss future development plans.

"We have more than 500 yuan in cash. The store brings in 20 yuan in profit every month, and 10 yuan from selling gunpowder. 30 yuan a month is enough to keep the business going. We must spend the money as soon as possible to make it work," Du Chenyu said first.

"We should not recruit too many people at the moment. Without guns, it is useless to have more people. Guns are not available. Where do you plan to get the money?" said the father.

"The ratio of man to gun is 2:1. The quality of soldiers is more important than quantity. Now there are only 10 members for 20 guns, but I plan to recruit 20 people as reserve members to be responsible for training and military settlement. The most urgent task is to get guns; secondly, to purchase two acres of land in Wuying Township to build a civilian school there, taking into account military training and cultivating talents. Local talents are too scarce," he continued.

"We have to take our time with the school, and build it on a small scale in the early stages. If the investment is too large, we don't have the strength to do it at the moment. It will also be too ostentatious and easily arouse jealousy," said the father.

"In addition, I also want to hire some technical talents at a high price, such as blacksmiths, gun repairmen and other practical talents, as well as intellectuals who can speak and write," he thought for a while and continued.

"Talent is the foundation for the development and growth of talents, and this must be promoted. However, talents can only be found by chance, so we cannot hold too much hope. It depends on opportunities. The main thing is for us to slowly cultivate some ourselves," said the father.

"My grandfather has already harvested the opium. My grandfather and my grandfather-in-law boiled the opium together. I estimate there are 20 taels in total. You can give this to Teacher Yang. It's the best gift for him to use to smooth over relationships," he said.

"Wait a few days, I will go to the county to deal with the recruitment and land issues first," said my father.

Everyone is busy, new recruits are in training, some veterans are doing farm work, and some are transporting goods back from Hanzhong. The current society is stable, prices are low, President Yuan is actively preparing for the presidential election, and the North and the South are in harmony. Once Godfather Song is assassinated, the whole country will be in flames again.

Du Chenyu invested 50 oceans in several workshops, purchased machines, hired manpower, and greatly increased production.

While his grandfather was making opium, Du Chenyu and his father met a man in the afternoon. He was the prisoner brought back from the attack on Li's house that day. This man was injured in many places, but after two months of treatment he had basically recovered. During these two months, he locked this man in a corner of the training ground, brought him food every day, treated his injuries, but had not dealt with him. When he was ready to have a good talk, He Cunyi took him to an empty hut.

"Captain Jia, Master Chenyu, bring the person you want here," Hu Laosi then stood aside.

This man has short hair, a high forehead, straight eyebrows, a high nose bridge, a small square face, long arms, and is over 1 meters tall. Although his clothes are tattered, his handsome temperament is naturally revealed.

"Brother, you must have suffered a lot during this period. Have you fully recovered from your injuries?" my father asked politely.

"Don't worry, everything is fine. It's just that you arrested me and left me alone for two months, and I feel a little suffocated," he answered easily.

"First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Du Zongyi, and my son Zi Decai is my eldest son. Could you please briefly introduce yourself?" said my father, clasping his fists.

"My name is He Chaowu, Zi Jiacheng, and I live in Gaochengbao. Once I was chased by someone, and Mr. Tan saved me. Then I followed him as the captain of the guards, but we were still defeated by you. I feel ashamed of Mr. Tan," he said in one breath.

"I saw you commanding the team freely that night. If we didn't have two grenades, we could hardly hurt you guys. You led the team very well," he said as he sat next to me.

"How old are you, young man?" He looked at me with a little surprise and asked.

"Less than two years old," he replied.

"He expresses himself so clearly and thinks so quickly. He seems to be another child prodigy, but he is too young. No wonder they always bring a child with them during wars. He turned out to be another evildoer in troubled times. I was puzzled at the time, but now I understand," said He Chaowu.

"I also passed the examination to become a student at the age of 16, but later my father fell ill and died, my mother couldn't afford to send me to school, and the imperial examination was gradually abolished, so I went to a Taoist temple in Guangyuan alone to learn martial arts. A wandering Taoist in the temple saw that I was smart and clever, so he took me in as his apprentice, and taught me martial arts, pharmacology, arithmetic, military knowledge, and a lot of other things. After three years, he said that I could leave the mountain, and then the master quietly left and continued to travel. I also left the Taoist temple and wandered until I met my boss a year ago." He did not hide his experience.

"Since you also agree that I am a monster, it is difficult for a monster to achieve great things, and it is not easy to live. Just follow me, and I will help you realize your dreams, no matter what your dreams are now. Of course, we have to fight together in the process," Du Chenyu went straight to the point and said sincerely. There is no need to be too euphemistic when dealing with smart people.

"I'm sorry, I can't betray my boss. He saved my life and helped me," said He Chaowu.

"If you don't follow me, I will capture your boss, Chief Tan, and bring him to you within three months, and make you beg me personally not to kill him. Your boss will definitely sell you to me in order to save his own life. If you follow me now, I will not kill him in the future and let him live well," I said.

"I believe you can do this. It seems I have no choice. Okay, I'm willing to follow you," He said with a sigh.

"Old man Tan should indeed thank you. He is on my kill list. You know the reason. I can only develop eastward. It's his fault for getting close to us and doing all kinds of evil in Youfangping," said Du Chenyu.

"I understand what you mean. There can't be two tigers in one mountain," He Chaowu nodded.

He was very happy when He Chaowu officially joined. It could be seen that he was a very talented person with the highest cultural level. His conversation and knowledge surpassed his father's, especially the sentence "In troubled times, evildoers emerge, but only one can succeed." This sentence profoundly explains that all the founding emperors of the dynasties were born with sins.

He had He Chaowu wear a half mask to avoid being recognized, and then trained with He Cunyi in the rules and some basic military skills.

Four people were recruited locally, and six were recruited in Youfangba. Four of them were tenants of the wealthy Li family. They had been bullied before, so they handed over the land deeds to them and promised to support them. Starting this year, they would no longer pay rent to the Li family, so they were willing to join the team for free. The others were also inspired to join after seeing them defeat the Li family at the beginning of the year. The rest were recruited from the streets of Wuying Township. This time, the training of the 4 people was given to Li Long.

At present, whoever will be their squad leader in the future will train them, which is conducive to the initial operation command.

His father took the newly brewed high-quality opium to the county, and he supervised their training at home, while also thinking about how to get a batch of guns.

"Master Chenyu, Hu Laowu was beaten by the Gelaohui this morning." Huang Kunyang ran back, panting, his whole body as if he had been fished out of water.

"Drink some water and tell me slowly what happened," he asked.

"These days, village chief Wu took the team to carry out a mission. There were not many people left on the street. Four people from the Gelaohui came to the store to buy salt. Lao Wu asked them to pay. Without saying a word, three of them pinned Lao Wu to the ground and beat him, while the other one carried the bag of salt and left. I heard the noise and ran out. I saw Lao Wu being pinned to the ground and beaten. I picked up a gun and shot. I shot two people with two shots before they were scared away. They dragged the injured one away and fled, and threatened to take revenge," Huang Kunyang recounted the incident in detail.

"How is Lao Wu's injury?" he asked.

"It's nothing serious. I was just punched and kicked a few times, but it's nothing serious. He asked me to come back immediately to report the news, and he will temporarily close the store and guard it," he continued.

"Do you know the situation of the Gelaohui?" he asked.

"I also have some information about the major forces on the street. The Gelaohui is currently mainly composed of backpackers and hooligans walking on Migang Road. We often see them gathering. There are 30-40 main members. They are one of the three major forces in the Wuyin area, and their strength is second only to Village Chief Wu and Security Chief Yu. They also have guns, but I don't know the exact number," Huang Kunyang continued.

"I understand. This is a clear provocation to us. You injured their people, so they will definitely take the opportunity to retaliate. Gather the team immediately. Let Li Long take 10 new recruits, and let He Cunyi take the rest of the veterans. Leave the training guns at home, and take 5 second-generation mines. Everyone needs 30 minutes to be ready and set off immediately," he ordered.

"Yes," Huang Kunyang saluted and left.

Du Chenyu thought, his father took away Wang Quan and a rifle, Hu Laosi took away four people and two guns, there were not many guns left in the house, but they had to take them all, Laowu’s safety was the most important and could not be delayed.

Half an hour later, the new team members finished changing their clothes and the 8 old team members gathered. Some of them were going out, and they could only take 4 guns with them. There were not enough guns, so the second uncle carried him on his back and set off.

He jogged all the way and arrived at Wuyin Street in two hours. When he arrived at the shop, he saw that the door had been smashed and the inside was looted. Hu Laowu was not there.

"Find Lao Wu quickly," he shouted.

"Where is Lao Wu?" Li Long shouted.

At this time, Hu Laowu was seen running out of the township office with a gun.

"Mr. Chenyu, I'm sorry, I didn't guard the shop. There were too many of them, so I could only go out through the back door with the account books and the money in the account. When they saw that there was no one around, they smashed the shop and stole the goods. Later, when several militiamen arrived, they retreated. That's why they didn't find our warehouse behind," Hu Laowu ran over crying, knelt in front of his second uncle, and said miserably.

"Pull it up quickly, as long as no one is injured, the cargo is not important," he said.

My second uncle pulled me up and helped wipe my tears.

"You're such a grown-up boy, and you're still crying. Isn't that shameful?" the second uncle joked.

The tense atmosphere eased immediately. This was the first time in their lives that their door had been smashed. Everyone was very angry. They hadn't suffered such a great injustice for a long time.

"Everyone, please clean up and cook something to eat, and then we can make long-term plans," said Du Chenyu. He had no other choice at the moment.

Hu Laowu was tidying up the store and preparing to cook noodles. He called Li Long, He Cunyi, He Chaowu and Huang Kunyang together to discuss countermeasures. He had no idea now as their strength was about the same. Every previous action he took was either a surprise attack or a crushing victory, so he won easily.

"Everyone, think about how to deal with the Gelaohui. They demolished our stores and cut off our source of income. At the moment, our strength is estimated to be about the same as theirs. Should we take action immediately, or wait for Lao Si and the others to come back and act together, or just swallow our anger?" he asked.

"Do it now, don't be afraid of him," said Li Long.

"We don't have enough guns at the moment, and we're not quite sure about the other side's strength," said He Cunyi.

Huang Kunyang also agreed with He Cunyi's statement.

"Brother Chaowu, what's your opinion?" Seeing that He Chaowu didn't say anything, he asked directly.

"We don't know the strength of others, and others don't know our strength even more. In less than a quarter of an hour, they will know we are coming. Once everything is ready, it will be difficult to attack again. The two sides will be facing each other with chariots and horses, and the militia in the village will let you continue fighting. Taking them by surprise is the only way," said He Chaowu.

Indeed, this is not a battle between two armies. As long as they form a battle formation, the head of the village militia and Yu Yuedong can destroy them in minutes. Why didn't he think of this?

"Eat some dry food and prepare for battle immediately," Du Chenyu ordered.

“Mr. Chenyu, we need to prepare wooden boards and sandbags and the like. We are the attacking party and need to block the bullets,” Zhou Kui said. As expected of someone who had participated in the patrol battalion, practical experience was indeed important.

"Wet the quilts in the warehouse and spread them on the door panels. They can be used to block the fire and iron sand," he ordered.

The whole preparation time is only 5 minutes, and you can set off immediately.

"Everyone has it, let's move forward in a leisurely manner," He Cunyi shouted.

The neat team and the neat running sound attracted people from all over the street to watch the fun. It is estimated that except for the officers and soldiers of the inspection hall in the past who were so neat, the soldiers of the regiment were all messy double-gun soldiers.

They moved forward at full speed and arrived at the other end of the street in less than ten minutes. They surrounded a courtyard brick house near a creek, which was the headquarters of the Gelaohui.

"Zhou Kui, go and blow up the gate wall for me. I'll reward you with two silver dollars and promote you to team leader," Du Chenyu ordered.

"Make sure to complete the mission," he turned around and went to prepare.

"Throw me two mines and kill all the sentries," he gave the order.

As soon as the gunshots were heard here, the other side's sentry also opened fire.

"Ouch," a new recruit in our team was injured and hit in the upper shoulder. The three enemy sentries outside were all knocked down. Only inside there was gunfire. At this time, Li Long threw two bombs in from the ridge above the house and from behind the house. One fell on the roof and the other fell in the yard and exploded.

Zhou Kui took the opportunity to jump across the road and advance along the embankment of the road, which was the enemy's blind spot. He moved forward 50 meters and placed the explosive pack next to the wall. There were several shooting holes on the wall, and they were still firing outside.

"Boom..." The wall collapsed and the gunfire from the two shooting holes stopped. As the wall arrived and the view opened, the sniper on their side, He Cunyi, fired several consecutive shots and several more fell down. There was no more gunfire from the opposite side.

"Hold them out and surrender. Count down from 20. If they don't come out, we will blow up the building and leave no one alive," Du Chenyu ordered.

"Listen up, everyone inside, put down your weapons and surrender immediately. If you refuse to surrender, after 20 counts, we will blow up the houses and not leave anyone alive," Huang Kunyang shouted.

“20、19、18……10……9、8、7……5、4、3”,刚数到3。

"Stop, stop, we surrender," the people inside shouted.

"Raise your hands, come out everyone," said Huang Kunyang.

The people inside came out one after another, and sat on the side of the road, with their hands tied behind their backs by their men.

"Clean up the scene. He Cunyi, lead the team to rush in and ask everyone to come out. Huang Kunyang, lead the team to clean up the scene, treat all the wounded, and prevent others from launching a sneak attack," he ordered.

"Yes," they both answered and went about their business.

"Dang... dang..., stop it everyone." At this time, seven or eight militiamen rushed towards them with guns raised and beating gongs. The leader was shouting. It seems that the police always speak after the event. This is something they learned from their teachers, he thought.

"Tell them that we are organizing an exercise and it is done. Give them 1 dollar each and let them go and have a drink," he instructed Huang Kunyang.

The militiamen took the money and went to drink. In half an hour, they cleaned up the scene, washed away the blood, treated the wounded, and cleared the spoils.

The spoils are summarized as follows:

There were 5 rifles, 2 muskets, and 1 pistol, one of which was damaged.

6 enemies were killed, 5 were wounded, and about 18 were taken prisoners.

One of our men was injured.

More than 300 silver dollars, 100 taels of silver ingots, a 1-tael gold bar, and 5 jin of opium were found. There were also a lot of other miscellaneous items and land deeds for more than 5 acres of land.

This time the harvest was unprecedentedly rich. Their strength doubled in an instant. After wiping out the so-called third force of Wuying, they took over and began to develop the Three Kingdoms era with the Wu and Yu families. Of course, they are the weakest at the moment.

Of course, gains and risks coexist. The Gelaohui in Wuying Township is a small branch of the Paogehui. The Paogehui is the dominant force in Sichuan. Many of the revolutionaries represented by Xiong Kewu have connections with the Paogehui.

Yu Yuedong and Wu Weihan have been allowing the Gelaohui to grow, mainly because they did not dare to offend the Paogehui for fear of involving too many people.

Today they took advantage of their unpreparedness and ate them while the enemy had just finished lunch and many of them were drunk. They quickly wiped out the patrol personnel outside and blew up the rifle firing points. There were only two pistols inside, so they were definitely unable to stop the attack and had to surrender. It was mostly luck. Of course, now they have to face the violent revenge of Pao Ge behind them at any time.