Auma looked at the neat army in front of him, and for a while he felt a little strange. Originally, they were all villagers from Nansang Village, and they were people that Auma was all too familiar with. But wearing a half-new but cleaned Ming army-style cloth and face armor, the heroic appearance is completely different from the past.

"Baihu, where did they get these armors from?" Auma turned his head and asked Jiang Yuyan. Being able to arm a hundred-strong army so quickly, Auma had a new understanding of the strength of the Ming army. He is a man who has seen the world, so he pays more attention to these details.

Jiang Yu said: "Shipped from Mengyang City, we don't have the ability to make armor now, and of course we don't have inventory. He didn't elaborate on how the cloth armor came about, but in fact it might be a little uncomfortable if it were to be told.

Most of these cloth armors were harvested from Ming soldiers who had died on the battlefield, and they were hoarded in temporary warehouses in Mengyang City, and many of them had already stinked. Jiang Yu asked Lu Chong to send some apprentice craftsmen to be responsible for the cleaning and repair of the cloth armor, and he did a good job, and after a few days, he handed over hundreds of sets of new armor.

Jiang Yuyan did not think about replacing this relatively heavy and troublesome cloth armor with a modern and more convenient and comfortable new military uniform, but now his weapon level cannot fully support long-range firepower combat, nor has he yet achieved absolute firepower suppression of the archers of the Luchuan Army.

Not to mention that he can't equip all the troops with bird guns now, even if he does, the firepower of bird guns is not enough for them to completely get rid of the combat mode of cold weapon warfare, in his estimation, at least to enter the full preparation of flintlock pistols, in order to basically give up the cold weapon combat of the troops, and this kind of armor used to resist the damage of cold weapons has a suitable opportunity to retreat from the stage.

"That... Mine still? Auma looked at the single clothes on his body, and he still looked like a hunter, light but light, and it looked a little ugly compared to the neat cloth armor of the soldiers. Not to mention the lack of some prestige, it seems that there is a lot of lack of security.

Jiang Yu sneered and said: "Of course you have yours, in addition to the cloth face armor, there is also a thicker body armor, it depends on whether you like it or not, I think the cloth face armor is easier to move, after all, you will be my Ming soldier in the future, and you will also use a musket." ”

"Okay, then I'll wear this cloth armor like everyone else." Auma nodded.

"In the future, you will be responsible for the daily training and duty arrangement of this second company," Jiang Yu pointed to the troops in front of him: "Yu Shi will help you, in addition, there should be some tasks to suppress bandits and exterminate a small Luchuan army, all of which need to be commanded by you———— so I will leave it to you here." ”

Auma listened to Jiang Yu's arrangement, and the surroundings fell into silence. He was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and also followed the example of other soldiers, and saluted Jiang Yu: "Baihu, I will definitely take the second company well." ”

Jiang Yu waved his hand: "Don't relax, we may have a relatively big move soon." After saying that, he turned to leave, leaving Awuma, who was still pondering the meaning of Jiang Yu's words, haunted in place.

"Company commander, we can start training," Yu Shi walked up to Aouma's side, "The firearms are not yet complete, we mainly need to do some physical training and melee training." ”

"Okay." Auma came back to his senses and clapped his hands and announced, "Start training!" ”

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Mang Castle is under construction, the army of Mang Castle is gradually expanding, and everything seems to be developing in a good direction, but there are still things that make Jiang Yu have a headache at the moment, that is, some cottages are not attached. In particular, the two big cottages of Mangyun and Manglu took the lead in reluctance to return, causing some other small cottages to follow suit, and they also followed the blockade of the gate and excluded the forces of Manggu Castle.

Jiang Yuyan can't say what to do with them, although he currently has more than 200 soldiers who are much stronger than the scattered Orion thugs in the cottage, but if he uses strong persecution, it will be the same road as the Luchuan Army, losing people's hearts, and it is definitely a point of no return.

"So what to do?" Ah Tian was lying on the wooden table of Jiang Yu's own 100-household tent, his face pressed against the various documents submitted by the Ministry of Intelligence, and the undried ink stained her cheeks.

All kinds of information show that some of the big cottage forces in the Manggu Mountains are now disgusted by the construction of the Mang Castle, after all, before the establishment of the Mang Castle, the Ming army stationed here was just an independent and irrelevant army for them, and now it has begun to change in the direction of trying to manage and dominate their masters.

Regardless of whether this domination and management of Mang Castle brought them more benefits or disadvantages, those powerful people in the original cottage still had an instinctive aversion to this kind of behavior.

After all, they are not Nansangzhai, because the battle led to the death of a large number of former leaders, Jiang Yuxuan took the intelligence department for several months to lurk, provide food, treat diseases and save people, and gradually won the full trust of the villagers, and finally the cottage was burned down, Nansangzhai had more doubts and hesitations, and finally only chose to join the Mang Castle.

The situation of other cottages is obviously different, and those who can still maintain the basic stability of the cottage without collapsing are still something, even if the old inheritor of power like the owner of the village may have been killed by the Luchuan army, but in addition to this, some of the leading figures still hold power, just like the young village master Mangge of Nansang Village.

The Ming army eliminated the Luchuan army forces in Manggu Mountain, but made the power of these people more stable. And some other small cottages that have long been bullied by the Luchuan army and can't survive have long been abandoned, most of the villagers fled in all directions, and there are some who came to the Ming army's Manggu Mountain camp, about nearly 100 people.

After all, in the society of the Ming Dynasty, people's communication range and survival ability are still extremely limited.

Since the establishment of the Mang Castle, more and more people have come here to provide shelter and work for these fleeing people———— whether they are plowing the fields and hunting, or joining the army, or entering the alchemy academy. However, there is still a certain gap with the one-time attachment of nearly 500 people to the big cottage.

Resolving the attachment of these large cottages is the top priority of the Ministry of Intelligence at present. They used the model of Nansang Village to gain the trust of some small cottages and win their attachment, but the power of the big cottages was relatively much more complicated, and the progress of the work was still at an impasse.

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Speaking of the Ministry of Intelligence, in the past few months, the work of the Ministry of Intelligence has gradually been on the right track. This brings us to another important matter, the introduction of Hanyu Pinyin, Simplified Chinese characters and the ensuing literacy campaign.

Jiang Yuyan himself doesn't know much about linguistics, let alone language education, but he still has two major weapons for literacy eradication in the future: Hanyu Pinyin and Simplified Chinese characters. In order to reduce the number of illiterate soldiers and craftsmen as soon as possible, he began to set up study classes to teach Hanyu Pinyin and simplified Chinese characters, and then used some ancient books and classics bought from merchants in Mengyangcheng as an advanced educational test.

The head of the class was still Ah Tian, and her first students were members of the Intelligence Department, who had the most urgent need for a learning culture.

It took Jiang Yu almost two days to learn all the content of Chinese pinyin from scratch, almost cramming, and nearly a week to correct her accent, and finally achieved an effect close to Mandarin.

Since he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he has inexplicably been able to speak the dialect of this area, but it is impossible for him to forget the original Mandarin, and he almost cried when he heard Ah Tian say it in a soft voice that he was familiar with and a little unfamiliar, and it could almost be said that he was haunted by a dream, and the voice of modern Mandarin that could only be heard in the memory of the dream, he almost cried.

Jiang Yugang would never have imagined that he would have such a day, when he heard Mandarin, he burst into tears and couldn't help himself.

But Ah Tian was a little puzzled by this Chinese pinyin: "Brother Yu, what's the use of learning this strange 'alphabet' and this strange 'Mandarin'?" How does saying such strange words help you learn to read and write? ”

Jiang Yuyan shook his head: "You don't understand this, being able to read is a great help to be able to recognize and write, it can help you memorize———— if you encounter an unfamiliar word, but at the same time you can't read it, then the result is that the word stays in an unfamiliar symbol, and it is difficult to leave any impression in memory." ”

Hearing Jiang Yu's analysis, Ah Tian nodded thoughtfully: "Listening, speaking, reading and writing, all in one, understanding the text is not only to know his appearance, but also to know what the word is, and in the case of not knowing the specific meaning, you can use the pronunciation to easily remember." ”

"Uh... You have a lot of point. Jiang Yu couldn't help but scratch his head, in fact, he didn't think about it so much, he was just copying the method of learning to recognize words when he was a child in his memory, and Ah Tian, who had always admired his thinking, said a more powerful statement on the basis of his half-retelling of his former teacher's words and half-his own blind fabrication.

Ah Tian heard Jiang Yu's approval, smiled brightly, and began to slowly repeat Jiang Yu's selected words in Mandarin one by one, the beautiful voice made Jiang Yugang subconsciously squint his eyes, and his ears seemed to be gently touched, and he was slowly about to fall asleep.

He pushed the back of the chair back, and the bamboo chair turned into a flat bamboo bed. The cushion that was originally tied to the back of the chair and filled with bamboo leaves became a soft mattress, and he simply lay down comfortably, listening to the sound of Ah Tian's quiet chanting.

This ingenious bamboo bed was also made by a skilled craftsman named Dao Yunyue in Nansang Village after the annexation of Nansang Village. This person is the apprentice of the most powerful old craftsman in the entire Manggu Mountain, and he is also the other person in the Nansang Village who knows the secret path besides Aouma.

According to his words, this secret path was made by his master's master. Although Jiang Yuyan has no way to verify the authenticity of his statement, Dao Yunyue's ability is real. Having participated in the construction of many buildings in the village, his understanding of various basic civil structures is not inferior to that of Zhang Dake, who was born in a craftsman household.

And the chaise longue under Jiang Yu's body is Dao Yunyue's proud work, and it is also a gift for him to join the Alchemy Academy. Jiang Yugang naturally laughed, and the quality of rest in his camp for a period of time also greatly improved, so he simply asked Zhang Dake to send someone to expand his camp, and all affairs were handled in the camp.

And for Ah Tian's convenience, Jiang Yu asked people to build a smaller tent on the side of his tent for accommodation only, and Ah Tian lived here. In her capacity as a co-director of the Ministry of Intelligence, it is not an exaggeration to have a camp account for one person.

"That's good." Jiang Yu thought so before falling asleep in a daze. The spring of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy has arrived, and it has been almost four months since he came here in the winter of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, from the small banner of only five craftsmen under his command to the hundred households with nearly 1,000 people, including more than 200 soldiers, and now he finally has a feeling of settling down a little.