227: The first step to becoming a lantern bearer
The steamer suddenly puffed white smoke and cleaved the waves. Everyone else was talking about the sudden tsunami a few days ago, but Liang Dajia looked at the sea by himself, and his heart was unsettled with the boat and the waves.
The place where the ship was going was originally called Crouching Tiger Island, and now it is called Admiral Island, which is the station of the Admiral's Yamen in the Falling Star Sea. He was requisitioned to the island with a large number of craftsmen, nominally as a battalion under the command of the Admiral, but in fact there were other arrangements.
He had never thought about being a soldier......
Liang Dajia was full of bitterness, and he was in charge of the bar during these days, which was the most lively time in his life. He thought that such days were just the beginning, and there was a greater future in the future, but he didn't expect that this would be the peak of his life.
There was a big change in the organization at the beginning, and the gray realm couldn't enter. The boss Wang Jiu also didn't show up for a long time, and all kinds of underground forces from all walks of life who didn't know where to come from had come to him and wanted to take him to the tavern to eat, but he refused. He doesn't really care if he can practice, he only cares about whether he can live a relaxed life. And he is angry, since he has entered the organization and recognized his boss, how can he defect casually.
A few days ago, Wang Jiu finally appeared, and actually asked him to pack up and go to Admiral Island. At that time, he really had the idea of secretly running away and even joining other forces, but when he saw that Wang Jiu was sent over by Jinyiwei's Antarctic Star Bread, he realized that the background of the organization was extraordinary, so he gave up his thoughts.
Soldier...... At his age, let alone killing the enemy, just coarse tea and light rice can kill him every day. Three glasses of Yuanhai wine a day, soy milk with cake in the morning, fried rice with salad dressing at noon, and lo mein with cheese in the evening are gone.
"This is a rare opportunity, and I have won it for you. Wang Jiu also said, "You are the representative of my group, work hard and perform positively when you get to the ground, and don't live up to my expectations of you." β
At that time, Liang Dajia almost cried, this expectation was too heavy for him to bear.
But what can he do, he is righteous. It was Wang Jiu who entrusted the tavern to him and brought him into the organization, so that he got rid of his identity as just a tavern boy, and no longer had to sink to the bottom like other guys on the street and struggle for dozens of silver horns every day.
Wang Jiu said that it was good to survive the beginning, but he didn't take it to heart. The life he looks forward to is to stay in a tavern or some other shop, live the same life every day, see old faces, and all the novelties and dangers are just topics for him to talk to others.
He didn't know how long he could survive, so he was mentally prepared to be scolded and even whipped and thrown back to Xicheng, and even kicked out of the tavern by Wang Jiu and left on the streets. At that time, his life can only start from scratch, and it is not too bad to think about it, his life of more than 20 years has been such a round.
The craftsmen in the same company were all happily calculating how much wages they would have, but Liang Dajia was shrouded in the gray low pressure, and he only felt that his life was not bright.
The steamer departed from Imperial Harbour and traveled east for nearly two hours before finally reaching a large island. In the past, it was called Crouching Tiger Island, but there was no water and no scenery here, and no one cared what it was called, even if it was a desert island, the new name of Admiral Island must be more popular than the old one.
The ship was docked at a rather strange pier, and the berth and trestle bridge turned out to be made of several wrecks of seagoing ships put together and a layer of steel plates. Behind the wharf is a large construction site, a number of excavators and pile drivers roared to the sky, roads, warehouses, housing and other large buildings have shown their prototype, or in a few months, here is a considerable scale of the city.
The depression in Liang Dajia's heart was dispelled a lot by this lively scene, and he also faintly looked forward to the prospect of this admiral's yamen. After getting off the steamer, he found a place with the flag of "Battalion Reception" in the corner of the wharf, and showed the military order given to him by Wang Jiu, and the official dressed as a brocade guard asked him to wait in the shed next to him, and there were already many people crowded in the shed.
They are all young men who are about the same age as him, and they look at everything they are wearing, and at first glance they are no different from ordinary people talking and laughing. When Liang Dajia entered the shed, he didn't feel right. These people faintly exude a strange aura, which may be an illusion of warmth and coldness to others, but it is all too familiar to him, it is the same alien as him.
The original idea of saying hello and making a familiar face suddenly dispersed, Liang Dajia lowered his eyebrows and trembled, trying to weaken his sense of existence. His heart was also turbulent, this Admiral Yamen recruited battalion soldiers, and all the recruits were strangers?
Soon the battalion soldiers who had come to report on the ship had arrived, and the officer came to the shed, raised his hand and gave a thumbs up behind him, and told them to walk to the barracks.
"Two quarters of an hour arrived, and the last three people were responsible for cleaning the toilet for ten days. β
As soon as he saw that it was a mountainside far away from the wharf, and the tents were spread out like a forest, Liang Dajia secretly complained, not only did he have to walk, but he also had a time limit of two moments?
The official drove away on a steam motorcycle, and dozens of people in the shed were in a commotion, complaining and strange words endlessly, and Liang Dajia was extremely comfortable to hear. Unexpectedly, these people, like him, were reluctant to come here.
It's a pity that these people are the same as him, complaining is complaining, and no one dares to take the words of officials as the wind in their ears. Many people even cursed in their mouths, and their bodies had rushed out of the shed and ran like the wind.
Dozens of people came out of the slaughter like a group of dogs, rushing to the mountainside. The artisans along the route have the usual expressions on their faces, and this kind of situation seems to be played out every day.
At first, Liang Dajia also fought bravely, at least not one of the last three. But as he ran, he felt that this goal was getting closer and closer to him. Although he is an alien, his real ability is to pop out that bloody claw. This skill has never really been used, and it was shown that the few times it was to scare people, and once it was the object of scare...... That is, the brocade guard who was more beautiful than a woman was scared back. He has never fought and killed, and he has never exercised physical fitness at all.
When he ran out of the camp under construction and stepped on the mountain road paved with cinders and gravel, there were only a few people left and right and behind Liang Dajia. He was in a hurry, and he thought about it.
"Man, it's not a matter of let's fight like this!"
Although he doesn't have the ability to fight, he is good at observing the tone and atmosphere, and Liang Dajia beckoned to the others: "Even if you don't fall behind, it's not cost-effective to be tired and tired." β
There were more than a dozen people before and after, all of whom stared at him vigilantly, and one of them asked a good thing: "What do you want to say?"
"I mean......" Liang Dajia thought about it and felt that there should be no flaws in doing so, "Let's not compete with each other and go together, then there will be no bottom three, and no one will have to be punished." β
"Want to rely on this little clever mess around?" These people are not brainless and uninformed hillbillies, and someone immediately sneered: "When the time comes, it will not be the last three to brush the toilet, it will be our group of people who brush the toilet." β
"Call everyone else?" Liang Dajia didn't just think about this, from being a partner to running a tavern alone, the most impressive scene he remembered was that the guests had changed from a group to a group. A group of people crying or laughing, or talking in a low voice, as long as it is a group, the atmosphere in the tavern is very different. It was as if everyone had taken out a bit of strength and gathered into an invisible beast, which was extremely powerful and oppressed the souls of his neighbors and his bystanders.
"Call all the people in front," Liang Dajia said, "Let's go over together and go to the ground at the same time." β
The others were silent for a moment, then agreed.
"The punishment is not responsible, it is impossible for the official to punish dozens of people to clean the toilet. β
Those who ignore us, we'll give them little shoes to wear when the time comes!"
"Since you are a battalion soldier, you should go out to enlist in the army, and you can't act alone, which is a good reason!"
So the dozen or so people no longer competed with each other, but gathered together and marched in line. From time to time, he also beckoned the people in front to join, and even sent out those who ran fast to the front to say hello.
More than a quarter of an hour later, except for a few people who arrived first with long legs and fast feet, sixty or seventy people ran neatly to the gate of the barracks. The official who was leaning on the steam motorcycle, waiting bored, was startled.
"You ......"
The official is not very old, but he is quite capable, and he understands what is going on when he looks at this posture.
After hesitating for a moment, the official asked, "Is there no one behind?"
Liang Dajia shook his head with everyone, no one made a sound, for fear of being taken out and disposed of as a leader.
"Even if no one teaches you military salutes," the official suddenly became angry: "You should also know how to salute the commander! Why, I, the general commander of the Jinyi Guard and the commander of the military battalion, are not qualified to let you speak?"
The official waved his hand neatly: "In the next ten days, the toilets of the whole camp will be cleaned by you!"
Liang Dajia and the others were in an uproar, arguing dissatisfiedly, and the clamor spread to the big tent on the top of the mountain.
"The Hu Dajiang you recommended is indeed suitable for teaching," Outside the big tent, Gao De looked at the barracks with a telescope, and said to Wang Kunlun beside him: "It's just that you have to make trouble for a while every day, in case someone inside can't help but move, or even use special abilities, it will be dangerous." β
Since the last time she made a joke with Xiaoli that shouldn't have been made, she hasn't come back for more than half a month now. It's not that she's really angry, it's that the high-ranking members of the Taiyi Demon Sect haunt the four cities of Zhongjing from time to time, and she is busy with Granny Yao presiding over the guard of the Endless Palace, so she has no time to clone. When chatting with her on the intercom, she began to gradually assume the role of her fiancΓ©e, shushing the cold and asking for all kinds of advice.
Gaode also calmed down during this time and focused on the things in front of him. On the surface, he grasped the construction of the two battalions of Admiral Island and Admiral's Yamen personal soldiers and sailors, and secretly stepped up the operation of both sides of the Valley of the Absolute Soul and the Blood Fury Field. By now, the work of light and dark has gradually begun to intertwine, moving towards convergence.
The movement in the barracks is one of them, and Gao De, the Admiral of the Falling Star Sea, has the same command power as the general army. It's not that he can recruit troops at will, and the military department is staring at him.
He set up two battalions under the Admiral's Yamen, the Navy Division Battalion was responsible for patrolling the sea and anti-smuggling, and the personal soldiers were responsible for his personal and Yamen security. From the guns of the battleship to the specific posts, to the officials at all levels, he had to submit a detailed application to the Ministry of War, and then the Ministry of War submitted it to the court, and only after obtaining permission could he put it into practice. Once there is a discrepancy, being impeached by the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a major crime of plotting misdeeds without permission.
But this is just an official process, he just grabbed Wang Kunlun and did the paperwork. On the side of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Lu Shixing is half of his own person, as long as there is no big problem, Scholar Lu will only turn a blind eye. What's more, his command of the army is only at the level of the general army, and he has no independent financial power, so there is no way to compare with the two warlords who are suppressing bandits in Songzhou and Wenzhou, and the military department and the court are not interested in keeping an eye on his small business.
In the details under the big picture, AutoNavi has ample discretion. For example, he alone has the final say on recruiting and appointing officers. The guerrilla attack of the sailor battalion promised to Niu Delu has been put in place, Niu Delu pulled out three more warships from Jinghaiwei, gave the position of commander Qianzong of the three ships, and the sailor battalion composed of four fast cruisers has begun to patrol the sea to make money...... No, smuggling.
The Navy Battalion is only the face and business department of the Admiral's Yamen, and the pro-military battalion is the core department of Gaode, and he is ready to make the pro-military battalion a "lantern man alternate battalion". The captain of the sentry in the battalion is a special agent of the miscellaneous section of the elephant training station, and the first battalion soldiers are the abnormal people recommended by the elephant training station and the existing five lantern bearers.
Gao De did not have much hope for the first battalion soldiers, and he was very satisfied that a third of them would become the lantern bearer candidates. These supernatural people are all from the rivers and lakes, and many of them even come from demon organizations such as the Dark Hand Blood Tower, and their habits are difficult to change. He really had high hopes for the miners of the Tonggushan Mine, but it would take a few months for the first batch of miners organized by Qiu Zhengren to arrive.
Of course, the barracks are a melting pot, and it's always good to be able to smelt more good materials. Gao De handed over the matter of teaching and learning chores to Hu Dajiang, who was recommended by Wang Kunlun, who was Wang Kunlun's hair young, who was also a guard and a Jinyi guard, and was also a stranger, staying at the grassroots level in Menzhou.
"There will definitely be movement to clean up these ruffians," Wang Kunlun said weakly with dark eyes, he was not beaten, but tired, and Gao De used him too hard. It's no wonder that Gao De sent a few soldiers to join the army for him to deploy, and he still bowed to everything. Fortunately, because the blood of the demon is thick, even if he is tired and has convulsions, Granny Sun can pull him up and continue to use it...... Ah no, keep working.
"And those guys all know in their hearts, and they all think that they have been sent to carry out special tasks, and they should not dare to make trouble. β
"I hope so, hey......" Gao De saw someone he didn't know well but recognized, if that guy hadn't been protected by Lu Jiumei, he would have become the seasoning of the Yuanhai Tavern.
"Did that guy organize the people?" Seeing that the other battalion soldiers were pointing at the man as if he was pushing a pot, Gao De became a little interested.
No wonder Lu Jiumei will keep this person, it's really a bit special.
"Inform everyone, all of us are gathered in the Bloodwrath Fields tonight. "I remember that Lu Jiumei gave this person the Chaos Scale of the Blood Tower in his secret hand, and Gao De felt that he could transfer this person to the Blood Fury Field, and it happened to be the time to spread fire to the Blood Fury Field...... It's time to ignite.
"Boss ......"
Wang Kunlun finally complained, "I'm a little too busy, don't forget that in this world, I am almost acting as the commander, and I am the one who fights with the military department, Zhongjing Mansion, Huanggang and other departments, and I have to do this kind of thing personally when I stare at the assembly of the battalion, and now I am still in charge of the blood and anger field, and I don't even have a post allowance, isn't it too ...... Reasonable, huh?"
"That's okay," Gao De spoke well, "You can leave the Blood Fury Field alone and leave it to Lu Jiumei." β
"Lu Jiumei?" Wang Kunlun smacked his lips, and his tone suddenly changed. "I'm still busy now, so I won't bother her, she's a guerrilla in the Admiral's own military camp. β
Gao De pursed his lips and smiled secretly, this trick is really good, this guy just can't see Lu Jiumei sharing his power.