Chapter 85
On the day of the formal training, these 30 people came to the practice ground on time. Because it was the first day, Chang Xile also came, accompanied by Li Zhenghe clan elders.
Everyone feels that it is a special honor to be selected by the first batch, which is to affirm their strength, so they all want to show a particularly high-spirited outlook, and they all try their best to show themselves. Especially now they are wearing uniform clothes, and the logo of Taoyuan Village is embroidered on their chests, which makes everyone feel particularly honored, and they all stand up straight, not wanting to insult this dress.
But because they have not been trained, the team stands in a mess, and their standing postures are different, and they always feel that something is missing.
Chang Xile just stood aside with Li Zheng and a few clan elders and watched, but they didn't say anything.
At this time, Chang Yu led several children of the Chang family to run over. They were arranged in two rows according to their height, and they ran in this direction very neatly, moving in unison, and chanting "one-two-one, one-two-one." ”
When he arrived at the destination, Huaizi, who was the leader of the former team, said loudly: "Stand! ”
A group of children stopped in unison, put their hands down vertically, and put their legs together.
"Turn left!"
Huaizi gave an order, and everyone turned around in unison, and the movements were extremely neat, as if they were alone.
"Count!"
"One, two, three, four, five......"
The children quickly reported the number and got the final result, Huaizi ran to Chang Xile and several people to report, "Report, the training team should be fourteen people, but it is fourteen people, please instruct." ”
Li Zheng and the clan elders were directly dumbfounded, what is this doing?
Chang Xile was not surprised, and said calmly: "Continue training." ”
"Yes!"
Huaizi trotted back to the team, the action was very different from the usual running, and the group couldn't say what was the difference, so they felt very good-looking, the whole person was straight and straight, and the movements were crisp and neat to look at the special spirit, which made people can't help but straighten their waists.
Everyone knew what the Chang family was practicing, but they hadn't come to see it, so they didn't know what was going on. When I saw this scene, I felt very fresh, and I felt that after being practiced like this, these babies were different from ordinary babies, which made people feel very relieved, and they felt very comfortable looking at this group of people.
At a glance, the training team understood that they felt that something was wrong, and they looked at how neat and disciplined they were, and they were even more high-spirited.
Without Chang Yu's order, he began to think about standing in line. Although it took a lot of work, it was much better than the appearance of the chaos just now. It's just that it doesn't get the point, so the team will inevitably be crooked.
Chang Yu used a wooden stick to tidy up the team and correct the movements, until it looked more neat, then moved forward, and said loudly: "From today on, you are a member of the training team, I am your instructor, in the future, you can only obey my orders in the training, if you can't do it, just leave me, hear clearly!" ”
The crowd almost blurted out, "Hear me clearly." ”
"Louder, I didn't hear it!"
"Hear me clearly!"
The sound resounded in the sky, and people's hearts were shocked.
Chang Yu is like training the children of the Chang family, starting with queue training. This can establish a good sense of discipline and collectivity, so that everyone can do what is ordered and prohibited. The reason why the army has strong combat effectiveness is not only because of the individual people, but more importantly, because whether the whole collective can be twisted into a rope, which is a qualified team.
Starting from the parade exercise, let everyone gradually integrate themselves into the collective, and only when they are united can they have more powerful strength.
Although Li Zheng and the clan elders didn't quite understand the principle of this, they could watch a group of chaotic teams become more and more neat, and they probably had a score in their hearts. Such a team, even if it doesn't make a move, its mental outlook is enough to shock people.
Life experience has made it clear to them that the strength of individual units is very weak, and only when they are united can they be strong.
The first day was just a boring queue exercise, and some people in later generations felt that this kind of exercise was very meaningless. But no one here questioned such behavior, not only out of blind trust in Chang Xile and Chang Yu, but also out of the fact that he had seen the results of the day.
Especially when I saw the comparison between a group of children from the Chang family and the elites carefully selected by the training team, I could clearly feel the difference.
So no one complains about this kind of exercise that seems to be useless, and it is done very seriously. And Chang Xile and Li Zheng and the clan elders also watched it for a day to show their attitude of importance. This made the people in the training team more serious, and they didn't want to be compared to a few dolls.
So even though it's only a day's work, this team already has some shapes.
Chang Yu trained for a total of ten days, and nothing else. This kind of practice is very boring and tedious, and the most important thing is that you can't see the direct effect of force improvement, and you have to spend a whole day here, and you can't do anything else.
From the beginning to the end, no one questioned a word, and no one was in a hurry to ask when they would learn the 'real skills'. They didn't need to be instilled with the word obedience, which is the most important thing in the army, and they were already doing a good job.
On the tenth day, Chang Xile, Li Zheng, and the clan elders went to see again, if some people still had a little doubt in their hearts, they all dissipated completely.
After ten days of practice, everyone's mental outlook was completely different, as if they had been reborn. Especially when they gather together in uniform costumes, they look high-spirited and full of confidence, and every time they recite the slogan, they make everyone present feel a sense of blood boiling.
Although I have seen the Chang family's children lined up before, the children are too young, and the cuteness is stronger, and the strictness is worse.
And now when I see the adults, and there are still more characters, the feeling of sassiness rushes towards me, and people can't take their eyes off it at all.
That's a team! And not a group of people!
On the eleventh day, Chang Yu began to increase his physical training and martial arts training, and he divided into two teams according to the previous test. One team is mostly female, while the other is male. The requirements of the two teams are not the same, and the direction, content and requirements of the training are also different.
The women's team mainly focuses on shooting, hiding and sneak attacking, as well as how to transport the wounded to the rear, how to first aid and other knowledge; The training direction of the men's team is to charge into battle, with the goal of carrying the enemy with their own strong strength.
Because the previous test also let everyone know what the situation really is, so no one has any objections. On the contrary, everyone was working too hard, and Chang Yu had to control them not to practice too much, so as not to hurt their bodies.
Training is not the same as normal work, and if you want to have a good physique, you should also be very particular about your diet. Chang Xile specially organizes people to cook, and the daily recipes are very scientific.
Although Taoyuan Village is now doing well, many people have used woks, but in the end, this trend has just emerged, so it is still mainly hot dishes. Although they are more accustomed to this kind of diet, the stir-fry is very fragrant, and they still can't refuse this taste. Not to mention the people who are often happy to pick, and they also personally guide, not to mention the craftsmanship.
Every time we eat, it becomes the most anticipated moment for everyone, with all the colors and flavors, and no one can resist this temptation. Not to mention that every time I practice, I am hungry, and I just feel that these things are the same as the delicacies eaten by the gods in the sky.
Many people laughed and said that just for this meal, they have to express themselves well.
After a month of intensive training, Chang Yu began to increase field training and actual combat training, using hunting to improve everyone's actual combat level.
Two months later, it was even more different to see this group of people. When you are alone, you can feel the temperament that distinguishes you from others, and when you gather together, you have an inexplicable sense of awe. Looking at a group of people standing there, it's like it's going to shine.
Especially when I saw that every time this group of people entered the mountain, they could catch a lot of prey, and the injuries were only very simple wooden thorns and bows and arrows with wooden thorns as arrows, and I was even more impressed.
Wooden thorns are made of specially selected hardwood, and you can't buy weapons at will, and if you have a large number of weapons, it will only cause trouble, so you can only use wooden thorns and other things as weapons.
Just defending the village, not really going to war, and it's enough for a large team to have these.
Chang Xile went to the county to apply for five sticks of grass and five big knives, because he and Chang Yu's status as lifters, and they were their own people in the county order, so it was not difficult. Not only is it not difficult, but the county order finally directly approved ten sticks of grass and ten big knives, saying that the previous bandit was fearful, and a rich village like them should take more to defend the village.
Chang Xile naturally has nothing to do, and more weapons also have more protection. Otherwise, if you really encounter a bandit with a murder weapon, you don't have a weapon at hand, and even if you can defeat the other party, you will suffer heavy losses. Not everyone has Chang Yu's ability, and the bonus of weapons is still very terrifying.
When these weapons were taken back to the village, everyone was red-eyed, especially the hot-blooded man, who naturally had an inexplicable love for weapons. These weapons are all owned by the security team, and because of this, many people want to join this team even stronger, and the training atmosphere is unprecedentedly high.
After the training team took off work for three months, it began to become a half-day of training, and the other half day could be used to take care of family affairs. In another three months, you will only need to exercise in the morning.
After all, they are still farmers and not soldiers, and they are only for self-defense, so they don't need to make too much sabre-rattling, and living a good life is the most important thing.
The first group of training has a look, and usually only needs to let them deepen their practice without staring at it all the time, and then start to gather the second group of people.
The second group was twice as large as the first, sixty men, forty men and twenty women. They were divided into three teams, all of whom were taught by the best people in the first batch, and Chang Yu supervised them. Among the three new instructors is Oeiko, who was previously assigned to a male-dominated squad, so she also taught the men's group. And because the women's team is also taught by a woman, the instructor becomes more female than male, which is very rare.
But no one dared to say anything, originally Dayingzi was a terrible character, but now that he has practiced for such a while, he is stronger and more energetic than before. As soon as everyone saw Ding Ning's small body, they couldn't help but sigh.
Ding Ning didn't care at all, and happily admired his mother's strong biceps and eight-pack abs......
At this time, the Scouts also began to train, but the intensity was not as great as that of the adult group, and at the beginning there were only ten days of practice in the whole day, then half a day of practice in a month, and finally like the children of the Chang family, they could practice for an hour or two every morning.
The cost of such exercises is very large, not only for food, but most importantly for many people who do not produce or contribute less during this time, which is an invisible loss. Naturally, this part of the loss cannot be fully borne by the villagers, and most of it is supported by the village. Because the life of the villagers is only just improving, there is not enough money to support it.
The money that everyone paid to the public middle school before also played a role at this time, but whether it is the public middle school or the Chang family, too much money has been invested in recent times, so the pockets have become clean.
The people of Taoyuan Village saw it, they knew what this qiē was for, and they had more respect for Lizheng, the clan elders and the Chang family, and the cohesion of the whole village was stronger.
After all, not all the elders of the Lizheng clan in the village do things for the big guys like this, and there is never a shortage of their own people. In some villages, the elders of the Zhenghe clan are so fat that they are hungry, and where they are like their village, everything that Li Zheng and his party have done is for the whole village.
As soon as his pockets were empty, Chang Xile felt very insecure. Now that the scale of the workshops in the village has basically been finalized, there are restrictions on whether it is raw materials or market demand to expand production.
Only the mill can expand steadily, but not too much. This business has also sprung up in many places, especially mung bean vermicelli, which has been developed, and Taoyuan Village has lost its unique advantages. Although many people still recognize the Taoyuan Village brand, the market has still been cut away by others.
"Hey, I have to make money."
Chang Xile finished the abacus with a crackle and couldn't help but sigh.
They don't have a problem with food and clothing now, but their purses are still empty, and they usually don't have enough, if they encounter a famine year or something, they won't be enough. Chang Xile's ideal state is a well-off level, which is not so rich that people feel that their Taoyuan Village is a big fat meat, but also allows life to not only have food and clothing, but also some quality. If there is a famine year, it can last for a period of time and not go hungry.
When Song Bangcheng heard him think like this, he couldn't help but sigh, it doesn't matter if his mentality of being rich and safe is not in officialdom. Who has the ability like him doesn't want to be a master. is so unenterprising, it is really not suitable for ups and downs in officialdom.
When Chang Yu came back from taking a bath, he heard such a sentence, that is, "I have it." ”
Chang Xile waved his finger and pushed the ledger in his hand in front of him, "You don't have it now, you have no money, I will help you spend it all." ”
Chang Yu pondered for a moment, thought for a while, and said: "I heard that there are tigers in the mountains of Linxian County, which have bitten many people to death, and the county has a high price for rewards, so I will go and see it tomorrow." ”
Chang Xile smiled, "I used up all your money, don't you have anything to say?" ”
Chang Yu blinked and said firmly: "I will make more money." ”
Chang Xile couldn't help but hug Chang Yu's head, "Why do you say you are so painful!" If I have some dirty thoughts, you will be killed by me. ”
Chang Yu took advantage of the situation to hug Chang Xile's waist and kissed Chang Xile's lips, "Anyway, you are mine, and I am also yours, don't be afraid." ”
Then regardless of Chang Xile's reaction, he directly picked him up and put him on his doubles, and gnawed on him enthusiastically. Chang Xile didn't dodge, and directly greeted him, making Chang Yu's movements even hotter.
The two bodies were intertwined, and the air in the room was rising sharply, and it was inseparable for a while.
But at the last moment, he was still blocked by Chang Xile. Chang Yu was suffocated uncomfortably, his eyes were full of questions, and he didn't understand why Chang Xile was unwilling to do something more pleasant. They are very close now, what scruples.
Since Chang Yu started training the villagers, he has come into contact with more people, and there are several pairs of men and women in the team, which makes him know a lot of things.
Chang Xile tried to calm his breath and kissed his eyes, "Wait two more years." ”
Although Chang Yu was puzzled, he didn't insist, and the two released their own * in mutual masturbation.
The pocket became empty, and Chang Xile began to think about opening up another battlefield.
This is also what he had thought about before, but he was afraid that he would make a bunch of things in one go, which would not only be dazzling but also easy to fail due to inexperience.
Now that all the workshops are on track, he has the energy to get something new, and that new thing is weaving.
In recent years, the planting of cotton has gradually begun to be promoted, and cotton has been planted in many places, especially in Daoxiang County. This is all because of the leading role of Taoyuan Village, and for ordinary people, cotton is very economical and indeed a good object.
Not to mention that Taoyuan Village has been harvesting cotton, which gives them another livelihood.
Cotton doesn't need to be planted in the field, which makes them happy to do it. There have also been people who saw that cotton was highly profitable and wanted to use the field to grow cotton, but they were stopped.
The county directly ordered that no cotton could be planted on fertile land, otherwise it would be heavily fined, and everyone gave up.
This is also what Chang Xile heard the signs and told the county order. In this world, the grain output is very low, and it is a problem to solve the problem of food and clothing in those fields, if all the cash crops are planted, the grain production will be reduced during the harvest time, which will definitely lead to an increase in grain prices, and in the end it is very likely that the gains will outweigh the losses.
Moreover, the imperial court was also opposed to this kind of behavior, and it was mainly based on food at all times. Although cotton is about 'clothing', it is not as important as food, after all, everyone can come over without this thing before. But if there is no food, then it will not work.
Even so, there are still people who grow a large amount of cotton by means of clearing the wasteland, so that cotton fabrics have gradually entered the realization of people and gradually become the most important textiles.
Although Chang Xile has not set up a special textile workshop, he will buy cotton from outside and distribute it to everyone for processing. With the cultivation of cotton in large quantities, the manpower is also cramped.
Because Taoyuan Village was the first group of people to come into contact with cotton, it was also the first group to start producing cotton fabrics. With the efforts of the Shen family, the cloth woven in Taoyuan Village has opened up the market in the house and formed a certain reputation.
Because it was the first to come out, even with the promotion of cotton and the prevalence of cotton cloth, it never suppressed the limelight of Taoyuan Village.
It's just that Chang Xile didn't transform the textile tools in order to avoid suspicion and to make the people in the woodworking workshop more creative, so he didn't transform the textile tools, but let them explore them by themselves first. And the woodworking workshop did not disappoint them, and really transformed the spinning wheel that was more suitable for spinning cotton.
Because the properties of different materials and fibers are not the same, this also requires different requirements for the diameter of the rope pulley and the number of spindles on the spinning wheel. If the hemp fiber does not need to be drawn, the wheel diameter can be increased as much as possible when the twisting line is twisted, and the number of spindles can be as many as five; The situation is different in the case of cotton spinning, which is limited by the draft and cannot be too high, so the wheel diameter is smaller, and the maximum number of spindles is three.
The transformation of the spinning wheel in the woodworking workshop starts from the wheel diameter and the number of spindles. And it has also been transformed from the previous hand-cranked spinning wheel to a pedal spinning wheel, which is very similar to the spinning wheel transformed by Huang Daopo, which makes the efficiency increase a lot.
These are the crystallization of the wisdom of the masses, for which Chang Xile wrapped a big red envelope for them as a reward.
What he knows is what these people have created and handed down, but he is relying on the wisdom of his ancestors to fake a capable person, in fact, the real capable people are these people in front of him.
However, although the efficiency of the pedal spinning wheel is relatively high compared to that of the hand crank, if you want to produce it in large quantities, you have to consume a lot of manpower.
Chang Xile originally wanted to wait another two years before starting the overhaul, but he didn't expect that the speed of cotton promotion would be faster than he predicted. In the history he knows, there is still a process of promoting cotton, where to think that in just a few years, everyone has changed from disdain to very sought after.
In order to save labor and allow more labor to do other things, he is ready to start building a large spinning wheel.
Today's Taoyuan Village has been very proficient in the use of water power, and the village's oil mill and rice mill have made use of water power, which has greatly saved labor and improved efficiency.
The ordinary hand-spinning wheel or pedal spinning wheel can spin up to one to three catties of yarn a day, while the water-powered spinning wheel can spin more than 100 catties in a day and night.
The transformation of the spinning wheel is only the first step, and the focus is still on the weaving and dyeing of the cloth in the back, especially the dyeing cloth.
The value of the products that have been deeply processed will be higher, and the dyeing technology here is not good, and ordinary people cannot master it, but are accused of being in the hands of a few people. Therefore, the finished cloth is relatively very expensive, and the profit is very large.
Cotton cloth is an emerging product, and the material is different from others, so the dyeing technology is quite conservative.
Chang Xile was optimistic about this market before, but he had too many things in his brain at that time, and he always felt that it was abnormal, and he only had theoretical knowledge of dyeing cloth, and he had to be tested.