"Brother, do you really want to recruit Meng Kang?"

Li Dalang ran to Li Kui sneakily and asked in a low voice.

Li Kui nodded and said, "He is at least much more reliable than the ship craftsmen you recruit. He is also good at drawing and writing. If he is really talented, he might be able to build a big ship in a year."

Li Dalang was very confused. He seemed to have offended Meng Kang before. From the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to work with Meng Kang. Besides, Meng Kang is a cruel man who dares to kill even people. Li Dalang was worried that he would not be able to control it in the future. He had to slander Li Kui with a bitter face: "But he is not a good person."

It is a bit too much to use the standard of good people to evaluate Meng Kang. How can a murderer be a good person?

Li Kui glanced at his brother and asked, "Do you think Uncle Wu is a good person?"

The second generation of the Li family, Lao Wu, is Li Lin, who is often suppressed by his third uncle. His greatest wishes in life are two, including having a son, robbing a fat bandit, and getting rich overnight. In addition to his first wish, he was still working hard. He really did the water bandit. The white-clothed scholar Wang Lun died tragically at his hands. Unfortunately, Liangshan was very poor at that time and did not make him rich. Of course, this was the past. Now Li Lin is the largest shipowner of the two routes of Jingdong. He occupied the Bian River, Wuzhang River, and a large number of docks and cargo warehouses in the canal.

Nowadays, Li Lin's power is no longer afraid to provoke Liangshan.

What is the old saying in the ship operation industry?

If you have a car and boat shop, you should be killed even if you are not guilty.

Li Lin's business is getting bigger and bigger, not because he has made money. This is the business he has killed with people with one sword and one shot. I don't know how many local bullies who occupy the dock and local green skins were sunk into the bottom of the river by him, and he became a lonely ghost who could never speak.

Of course, Li Dalang also knew Li Lin's business path. If he wanted to tell him that the fifth uncle Li Lin was a good person, he might not even be able to say this. But it would not prevent him from being smart! He immediately replied: "The fifth uncle is his family."

Anyway, for your own family, whether it is good or bad, the key is to be reliable.

Li Kui was speechless for a long time and sighed: "Forget it, I'll find you a guard."

"Just give Xiaowu to me." Li Dalang didn't dislike him, thinking that Xiaowu was very useful. But the question is, this guy didn't think about whether Xiaowu would dislike him?

Li Kui said: "Xiao Wu, don't think about it. Let me write to the capital and ask Xiao Qi to come to Dengzhou to serve as a guard. It is hard to say that his martial arts can be used as a celebrity in the world, but it is enough to deal with Meng Kang."

After a pause, Li Kui told Li Dalang: "You take care of money, he does things. When it comes to employed people, don't get stuck in people. You can't get stuck in money either. But you have to keep a close eye on Mengkang and don't let him contact people in the martial arts world. This guy is too straightforward, so how can he run to someone else's house to commit murder in broad daylight? His brain is not easy to use, and it makes sense but becomes unreasonable."

"A person like this is easily decided by his confidant. So you can't embarrass him. But you must also urge him to make progress and leave him no time to go out for fun. Don't spend money like you, but the ship he built has sunk."

Li Dalang said a little depressedly: "Okay, I will give him a gift as my ancestor. But what if he doesn't succeed?"

"If you can manage enough money, he will choose any person. If you can't even build a wooden boat, what else can I do?" Li Kui said proudly. In his eyes, the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty have always been the best craftsmen in the world, no doubt. How could they not be built?

I have to say that Li Kui has great expectations for Meng Kang.

The current shipbuilding level of Song Dynasty is definitely the highest in the world. But even so, the sea ships of Song Dynasty are only offshore ships. If they are really ocean-going, it is a bit difficult for the sea ships of Song Dynasty. The ability to resist wind and waves is too poor.

It must be pushed back and started over. Liao Kingdom was just a pretext for Li Kui.

The world is very big, how can we let the Western barbarians occupy it?

The sea ships of the Song Dynasty did not agree with Li Kui's request, so he had to find another way. The reason for choosing Meng Kang was very simple. This guy was easy to control and his level was not bad.

After all, the shipbuilding industry in the Song Dynasty was so developed that there would definitely be no Meng Kang. There were more people like Meng Kang. But such ship craftsmen basically served as master craftsmen in the shipyard and had a low income. In order not to give their opponents the opportunity to poach core ship craftsmen, the host family usually signs very strict contracts.

Even a slave contract with very long years.

Of course, the treatment will definitely not be bad. If you want a horse to run away, you are reluctant to give it to the horse. I am afraid that the shipyard will only be a few years after the shipyard will be ruined.

After dealing with Li Dalang, Li Kui asked Ruan Xiaowu to call Meng Kang.

When I saw Li Kui again, there were traces of being beaten by Ruan Xiaowu on Meng Kang's face.

It was only one day that the injuries on the face were impossible to fade away. Youdao is not to slap people in the face, and Li Kui couldn't figure out why Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu both like to greet people in the face when they are doing something.

Meng Kang opened his mouth and bowed and said, "The little man has seen Lord Li."

Then he shrank his head and Li Kui stared at him like a tiger, making him feel uncomfortable. But he didn't dare to challenge Li Kui. He hurt everywhere on his face and the feeling of being beaten was not good.

"Meng Kang, do you know the intention of this official to find you?"

"The villain doesn't know."

Meng Kang actually guessed that Li Kui was an official. He had a very large official position and could scare the sixth-rank civil servants to the point of being possessed by him at any time. The fifth-rank magistrate would definitely not be able to do it.

A senior official in the court?

But it depends on Li Kui’s age, thirty or forty?

Some people are like this, their skin is dark, which makes them less obvious. They look like they are thirty at the age of twenty, and they look like they are 40 at the age of thirty. Why doesn’t Meng Kang dare to think that Li Kui may be in his twenties?

Mainly, it is an official position that is greater than that of the prefect, so how can a young man in his twenties be held?

Unless this person is the top scholar and the top scholar, the Song Dynasty's love for the top scholar will continue until its demise. Even if it is the top scholar, the top scholar at the age of seventeen or eighteen, is it possible?

As for his fate, he probably guessed it. He signed a slave contract and then signed a huge loan contract. This money was the amount he could not afford at all, and he could not afford the interest. It was equivalent to selling him to Li Kui for the rest of his life. How could a free man lose his freedom?

If he could resist, Meng Kang would never hesitate. But his opponent was too strong, he could not beat him or escape, what else could he do?

Especially after he killed someone, he chose to run away. There was no way back. The law of the Song Dynasty was a provision that the armed fight accidentally injured people to death and was exiled to the army. But running away was not in it. Just like hit-and-run, it was not his fault, but also his fault.

But Meng Kangzhen didn't have the patience to work for dog officials all his life. As long as he waited for the opportunity, he decided to run away.

With a little thought in his heart, he didn't dare to look up at Li Kui.

Meng Kang was waiting for Li Kui to fall, but he didn't expect that Li Kui threw a bronze medal in front of him, and a cold voice came: "Pick it up!"

Meng Kang bent down and picked up the bronze medal. He pressed his hands down. It looked very similar to the one used by officials in the yamen. Could it be a real guy?

Front: Secretariat.

Reverse: Military Command.

Meng Kang of the Secretariat knew that this was the largest yamen in the Song Dynasty. However, he had never heard of the military commander. But this did not prevent him from thinking that this military commander should be the yamen in command of the army. It should be the Privy Council, right?

After all, he is a ship craftsman, and he has many merchants and minor officials who come and go, and he is knowledgeable.

If it were ordinary people, they would never have imagined these yamen.

Li Kui said to himself: "I am the supervisor of the Military Control Bureau of the Secretariat, and the Tianzhang Pavilion is waiting for the system, and the fourth-rank official of the Beijing Office. Since you picked up this waist card, you are the subordinate of my Military Control Bureau, and you are temporarily under my command."

"Wait... sir."

Meng Kang was stunned. Shouldn’t he sign a contract for selling his body?

Why did he become a yamen in a blink of an eye? He was also an official under the Secretariat. Although there were regulations in the Song Dynasty, officials could never be officials.

But there is nothing forever in the world. As long as the backer is big enough, everything is possible.

Li Kui was very satisfied with Meng Kang's reaction. How big is he now? He can't afford to collect talents and use inconvenient means such as selling his body contract.

Isn't it just for a minor official?

Now that there are everything in the military command, there are not many people. It is the best choice for Li Kui to install people whom he can trust or give favors. You will not attract all the people like Cai Jing into the military command, right?

Facing Cai Jing, Li Kui had to be on guard against one move, and probably had to spend a lot of effort. It would be better to use his own promoted hands to make it easier.

Li Kui grinned and said, "Isn't it just a minor official, his salary is not much, and he is only enough to eat in the capital. But your situation is different. You don't have to follow me to the capital and stay in Dengzhou to build ships. If I satisfy my official position, I can't get a position of the fourth and fifth rank, and can't I get a position of the eighth and ninth rank?"

As he spoke, Li Kui changed the subject: "As for what you think, I guessed it. Didn't I just want to sign a slave contract? If you want to sign a contract for sale, I won't stop you and ask Ruan Xiaowu to take you to the yamen to sign a copy."

If you can be a minor official, who is stuck in the door panel and become a slave?

When ordinary people saw him, wouldn’t they be respectfully shouting: “Master!”

Meng Kang didn't expect that the identity of a subordinate official would be so easy. If the Deng family wanted him to work hard, would he have to kill someone if he had the identity of a minor official?

It's okay to hire people, but you have to give some benefits, right?

Besides, although minor officials are not officials, ordinary people want to enter the yamen to become officials, be filial and go through the road, and they have to handle all the ways, and they can't miss them. Can a lord like Song Jiang be able to get on a job with just a few years of study? Without the money of Old Man Song, Song Jiang could not even enter the yamen. Back then, when the third uncle wanted to send Li Kui to the yamen to be a catcher, he didn't have to prepare a large sum of money to go to the yamen to handle some money? The constable is not an official, and even the head of the yamen is not an official. However, the constable can get some money when doing things in the yamen. Not to mention the constable, even the head of the yamen is far inferior to the official.

"Little man, Mr. Xie cultivated it."

All Meng Kang's resentment and dissatisfaction disappeared at this moment. He immediately knelt in front of Li Kui and sweared that he would never betray him.

Li Kui doesn't care about these things at all. His subordinates betrayal, in addition to being wronged, they also have no future. Li Kui can solve both of these aspects, so why should he betray him?

Of course, those who are not good at brain work do not count.

After Meng Kang left, he was still a little sighing, but he never thought that the Zhu brothers were waiting for him: "Brother Meng, our brothers have prepared a banquet, so please ask Brother Meng to enjoy the gift."
Chapter completed!