Zhao Taohua said, "There are about thirty young people in the square right now, all around twenty years old. Please take a few days to choose one. From now on, you can return to Wu County every day or stay in the village. The carriage at home is at your disposal."

The escort masters were respected. After all, these carriages were not cheap. With so many carriages coming and going, only wealthy families like the Zhao family could afford it.

"It's troublesome to travel back and forth. It would be nice if you could stay here. I don't have any money at home for now." Although the escort felt that the treatment was good, he couldn't be pretentious. It wouldn't be kind to ask someone to pick him up and drop him off every day.

The two sides reached an agreement again.

Zhao Taohua handed over the training tasks to the escort master, Zhao Sanzhu and Song Mao from the Song family accompanied her, while Zhao Taohua went to Song Lizheng to continue buying land and prepare to mark out a training ground.

"Taohua, why do I always feel that you are doing so many things, it doesn't seem like you are just doing business?"

Song Lizheng was considered a man of some knowledge and experience in the village. Initially, he fully supported Zhao Taohua, but gradually, he felt that what the girl did was a bit exaggerated.

"If I don't do business, what else can I do as a woman?" Zhao Taohua asked with a smile.

"Yes, you are a girl. If you were a boy, I would have thought you were going to rebel," Song Lizheng said half-jokingly.

Zhao Taohua was stunned. Indeed, her behavior was somewhat unorthodox.

Unconsciously, ask.

"Uncle Village Chief, how old are you?"

Song Lizheng was also stunned. After thinking for a while, he said, "I'm fifty-two. What's wrong?"

"You've lived for so long, but have you ever seen such chaos?"

Song Lizheng was stunned again. His memory went back a long time. "When I was eight or nine, there was a famine. I fled here with my family and settled down here. There are people with all kinds of surnames in our village. Most of them came here to live with relatives at that time. When I was in my twenties, there was a famine and war. The county recruited many soldiers, but I didn't go because I was a scholar. Of those who joined the army, few stayed..."

"During those years of war, could the surrounding villages have peace?"

"Hey, there's a war going on up there, and people are taking advantage of the situation down there..."

Speaking of this, Song Lizheng was stunned and looked at Zhao Taohua in astonishment. Could it be that this girl felt that the world would be in chaos in the future?

"Girl..."

"Uncle Lizheng, don't let your imagination run wild. I really want to do business. It's just that I'm thinking about other things besides doing business. I also heard it from others... My second brother went to Gu County. I heard that there was a war in Linzhou, and I couldn't sleep well. Later, I heard from the old people in the village that there was a war before, when you were in your twenties. At that time, bandits were rampant, looting homes, and officials couldn't take care of it, nor did they want to. They were too busy making money... It's the people below who are crying. Robbing money and food is easy to deal with, but rape, looting, and all kinds of evil..."

"Yes, they say that dealing with the King of Hell is easier than dealing with the little devils. Most generals value their reputations and don't mess with the people, but the bandits and soldiers below are the most vicious..."

Song Lizheng seemed to have remembered something, but he didn't want to mention it because it was some bad things.

"You little girl."

Song Lizheng looked at Zhao Taohua again for a moment. This matter was a little secret between the two of them. Song Lizheng would not expose everything and just let Zhao Taohua do whatever she wanted.

The situation is still progressing steadily.

Two days later.

"Third sister, come here, there's something."

While Zhao Taohua was still directing the production, she was called over by Sanzhu. It turned out that there was a man who came to the training ground on Sunday. He was a hunter from the village.

Their family was an outsider, and because they had no land, they made a living by hunting, so they were not shareholders. But the hunter's son, Feng Zheng, was very good at archery. He had been fighting wild beasts in the mountains for many years and was very smart. He wanted to learn, and the escort officer had a special eye on Feng Zheng, but their family was not a shareholder.

Zhao Taohua was intrigued when she heard this. "It's rare for our village to have such talent. Tell Mr. Wei to take him. I'll give him a share privately to the Feng family. If he's truly capable and can become the captain of the guard, all my efforts will be worthwhile."

The open space of the training ground was quickly marked out. The facilities were simple to begin with, and Master Wei, along with a group of students, finished it in just one day.

On the training ground, some were dancing with stone locks, some were running circles...it was very busy.