Chapter 16

"Thousand-household Lord." In the thousand-household office of Wangxiang Fort, Su Fan looked at the middle-aged man who came slowly, stood up to salute, and felt the body that was hollowed out like the other party, and there was nothing else but contempt in his heart.

But this is also good. If it were a strong general, it would also hinder his future plans.

"You are Su Fan, you look extraordinary. I heard that this time, you brought back the heads of more than a dozen Tatar scouts?"

Thousand-household Hu Wei glanced at Su Fan and said lightly: "Not bad, worthy of being a good man of my thousand-household office."

"This is all because of your proper command, Thousand-household Lord, that we were able to kill those Tatars." Su Fan agreed hurriedly when he heard this.

"Thousand-household Lord, this is the first time we meet, a small meeting gift is not a respect." Saying that, Su Fan took out a few silver notes from his arms and sent them directly.

Anyway, in the other party's mansion, Su Fan was not afraid of anything, and sending silver notes directly was the simplest.

Sure enough, after the other party glanced at it, his face changed, and then the look at Su Fan became kind.

It was just that a trace of greed in the depths of his eyes flashed away, but it was seen by Su Fan.

Regarding this, Su Fan sneered in his heart. He was not afraid. If the other party really dared to take action against him, then he would counterattack fiercely.

He was a disciple of the Huashan Sect, a martial arts expert, and assassinating someone who didn't know martial arts was too easy.

After sending the silver notes, after the other party's enthusiastic greeting, Su Fan left after a while. Although he didn't get any promises, Su Fan knew that this hundred-household position was already stable.

Although this hundred-household was the sixth rank, it was a military official. If it were a civil official, let alone a thousand-household, even the guard commander would not be easy to handle.

"Go, check out what this person's background is."

After Su Fan left, this thousand-household lord played with the silver notes in his hand playfully. Five thousand taels was really generous.

After a while, he said a word to the steward beside him.

The latter didn't speak and left.

Su Fan naturally didn't know all this, but it didn't matter if he knew.

A few days later, the award came down. After all, killing more than a dozen Tatar scouts was a merit.

At the moment, the Tatars, after Batumengke ascended the throne, opened the revival of the middle, and their strength recovered rapidly. The whole grassland was the largest force.

It already had the possibility of threatening the Central Plains.

And during this period, the Nine Borders and the Tatars constantly had small conflicts, with casualties on both sides, but most of them were the Ming Dynasty suffering losses.

Su Fan killed more than a dozen Tatars, which was also somewhat encouraging for the Shenyang Guard, and naturally, the award was given quickly from above.

The position of hundred-household, as for silver, after layers of deduction, there was not much left.

Regarding this, Su Fan didn't care. It was just a few hundred taels of silver.

Getting the position of hundred-household, Su Fan could at least recruit soldiers openly. Being in the border area, having a battle-capable army in his hands could protect his wealth.

In these few months, the Su family's caravan entered Liaodong and made a lot of money. Especially the mountain ginseng and leather in Liaodong were very cheap, but a trip to the southeast was several times the profit.

Su Fan already felt that there were small people peeking behind this.

Forced, he must have a force. Relying on their dozen senior and junior brothers was not enough.

After all, this was the land of foreign races, and those foreign races were very fierce and didn't care about them.

Recruiting people and building a fort was what Su Fan was going to do next.

Su Fan was preparing to build a defensive fort at the foot of Qipan Mountain. This kind of defensive fort was not few in Liaodong.

After all, the thousand-household offices in Liaodong were not in Shenyang City, but around it.

Su Fan's hundred-household office would naturally not be built in the thousand-household office. He had many secrets.

As the Huashan branch, Qipan Mountain naturally needed a small city below to supply it.

The construction of a border defense fort would definitely cost money and food, but fortunately, for the sake of the future, he didn't care.

Originally, because of the construction of the Huashan branch on Qipan Mountain, many people were used, and some villagers gathered under Qipan Mountain.

Now Su Fan used the name of a hundred-household to build a defensive fort, which was even simpler.

Recruiting people in the hundred-household office, Su Fan used the guards of the Su family.

Over the years, the Su family's guards had been expanding, and Liu Tong had done a good job over the years, with almost two thousand people.

Of course, these people were arranged in a dozen large and small escort agencies. Otherwise, if you were a gentry and made two thousand family guards, what did you want to do?

These guards had been trained for at least five years, especially some orphans who had been cultivated by the Su family since childhood, practicing various outer sect martial arts.

Their strength was not very strong, but at least some reached the third-class level.

Mobilizing one hundred people, equipped with excellent equipment, placed in Liaodong, was already not a small force.

As for the martial arts hall in Shenyang City, after a few months of development, Fan Ming and the others did a good job, and also recruited more than a hundred people. Being in the border area, many men were quite brave.

Even some had martial arts foundations, and after Fan Ming and the others' training, their strength had increased.

In this way, after more than half a year, Su Fan and the others had completely established a firm foothold in Liaodong.

As for the other places, it was not so satisfactory.

Especially in the Central Plains of Henan, those inner sect disciples of the Huashan Sect had suffered not small losses.

Of course, in the news passed by Master Xiong Qingyuan, there was one person who made Su Fan curious, and that was Yue Buqun.

This person was a disciple of the Sect Leader and also became a person in charge of a branch.

Regarding this, Su Fan was not surprised. After all, Yue Buqun's identity, Su Fan already knew, was the descendant of that Yue Su.

Worthy of being the old schemer of later generations, this person went to the south, not as reckless as others, but visited the Fuwei Escort Agency from the beginning.

At this time, the Fuwei Escort Agency was not the Fuwei Escort Agency of Lin Zhennan in later generations. At the moment, that Lin Yuantu had not died yet.

As a super first-class expert in the southeast, the Fuwei Escort Agency's prestige in the southeast area was still very high.

Yue Buqun was very smart. After visiting Lin Yuantu, the local snake, it was naturally very easy to establish the Huashan branch.

After all, Lin Yuantu and the Huashan Sect still had some origins.

The construction of the ten major branches, it could be said that Yue Buqun was only second to Su Fan.

Su Fan was not too surprised that Yue Buqun could stand out. He was not talented in martial arts, but he was gifted in playing conspiracies and politics.

The construction of the Huashan branch, other disciples were not as good, which was very normal. Not everyone had Su Fan's vision and pattern.

Su Fan had no great interest in the information of those disciples, but another piece of news passed by his master made Su Fan vibrate.

The Sun Moon Holy Cult on Black Wood Cliff had action again.

Since the great war twenty years ago, the Demon Cult lost ten elders and retreated, starting to recuperate.

Twenty years passed, and the Demon Cult had action again, so the Huashan Sect's eyes turned to the Sun Moon Holy Cult.

The great war twenty years ago, although the Five Mountains Sword Sects won, the loss was not small.

However, fortunately, in these twenty years, the Huashan Sect grew rapidly after that war.

Its strength increased greatly. Relying on one sect alone was definitely not the opponent of the Sun Moon Holy Cult, but the Five Mountains added together were not much worse.