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In late November, after two hearty victories, the Northwest Army returned to Korea.

Li Xinjianghu, Wang Lisujiao, and more than 3,000 soldiers who made great contributions in the battle against Hun Hu returned to Xianyang with a body full of dust and murderous energy.

In the midst of the heavy snowfall, the emperor went out of the city again thirty miles to greet him.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Xianyang and surrounding counties welcomed them.

The emperor decreed, and Xianyang celebrated three days again.

That night, the emperor once again feasted on the soldiers who had returned to the dynasty in Ganquan Palace, and millions of Xianyang people once again poured into the streets to celebrate and wait for the arrival of the divine thunder fireworks.

In the middle of the night, with a few violent roars, on the four gates of Xianyang City and the square in the center of the city, several fires rose almost at the same time, and then with the brilliant and colorful fireworks exploded in the snowy night sky, for a time the colorful firelight in the sky rendered the entire Great Qin Jingshi like a fairyland.

It was an unprecedented victory, and the night was an unprecedented celebration of jubilation.

Fireworks were set off in five places in Xianyang City at the same time, and a full ninety-nine divine thunder fireworks exploded in the night sky, lasting for half an hour, completely igniting the enthusiasm of millions of Xianyang people and returning soldiers, and also shattering the souls of those captured Hungarian nobles who were shocked, and they all lay on the cold snow and kowtowed to the fireworks that continued to explode one after another in the sky.

While Xianyang was celebrating the victory, Chen Xu had already returned to Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village with his family.

The Marquis of Qinghe married the fifth princess and the concubine of the Mengda people and returned to his hometown to visit relatives and worship his ancestors, which was an unprecedented event for Qinghe Town and even the entire Nanyang County.

Therefore, since returning to Qinghe Town, hundreds of officials, celebrities, and celebrities from several nearby counties such as Nanyang County, Shou County, Wei County, and Pheasant County have come to visit each other every day.

There are also countless businessmen in Nanyang, including Shui's and Fan's, who also came to congratulate Chen Xu on his wedding with congratulatory gifts.

In order not to lose etiquette, Chen Xu had to entertain these guests from afar at Qinghe Town Primary School for days, although many people just came to give gifts and then hurriedly said goodbye, but some people with heads and faces still need to be entertained.

Therefore, after being busy for nearly five days, the lively and jubilant Qinghe Town slowly stopped.

After Qinghe Town was busy, he returned to Xiaohe Village to feast all the villagers of Xiaohe Village and the relatives of Yingzui Cliff Village again, and then it was lively for two days before Chen Xu got a chance to relax.

From the beginning of April, Xia Shui left Qinghe Town gently, and now returned again at the end of November, and more than half a year has passed from summer to winter.

And the changes in Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village in the past half a year can only be described as earth-shaking.

The porcelain workshop, carpentry workshop, copper and iron workshop, paper mill, sugar and oil workshop, health center, primary school and granary were all re-expanded or even rebuilt, and their respective scales were expanded several times, and the houses were all rebuilt into spacious and bright factories with adobe bricks and wood.

Today, Qinghe Town has completely turned into an industrial town, and all the households and workshops used to be concentrated in a narrow area of no more than three miles on the bank of the Xiaoqing River, with narrow roads and dilapidated houses, but now it has expanded to more than ten miles in the south, south, west, and northwest, and is full of brand-new adobe houses and tall factories.

More than 3,000 villagers in six townships and towns in the southwest of the entire Pheasant County have become Chen Xu's food town, and a large number of villagers have gathered in these factories in Qinghe Town to work, nearly 2,000 people work here to earn money, and the caravans from the south to the north are endless all day long, even in this cold winter and heavy snowfall season, the merchants who come to buy porcelain, paper, medicine, sugar and wine have not stopped.

The whole Qinghe Town is noisy and jubilant all day long, in Chen Xu's large amount of money smashed down, now the center of gravity of the entire economy of Pheasant County is all around Qinghe Town, the new county order is to come to Qinghe Town every once in a while to inspect and condole, and warmly tie up and curry favor with Lidian Niu Dashi and Liu Po.

Niu Dashi is still Lidian, but this Lidian is far more than the identity of Lidian, he is also the future brother-in-law of the Marquis of Qinghe, and he is the supervisor who controls the three thousand food towns for the Marquis of Qinghe, and the emperor also gave him a special title of Lang of the Nine Pins, and now he is a Daqin official with official robes, not just a township official, even if the county commander of the sixth rank sees him, he still has to respectfully salute and call Lord Niu.

And Niu Dashi's family has also soared because of this, and now lives in a spacious house, and is served by chariots, horses, and slaves in and out, from a poor peasant who walked without clothes three years ago and walked with his buttocks exposed to the outside to breathe the wind, completely became an exploiting class.

The porcelain factory recruited twenty or thirty pottery craftsmen and more than 100 apprentices, and nearly 400 helpers, and the chimneys of seven or eight large kilns were vacated every day, giving this remote town hidden in the majestic mountains a full industrial atmosphere.

In order to provide enough wooden boxes for the porcelain factory and the sugar and liquor factory, the carpentry factory also recruited nearly 200 apprentices and helpers, and carts of wood were transported and sawn into planks and strips, and the sound of tinkling came from them all day long.

The scale of the primary school was expanded, and more than 200 children of about 10 years old were enrolled in the fiefdom, and they learned to read and write, as well as simple math and abacus with several literate gentlemen from other towns and villages in the fiefdom.

The scale of the health center has not only expanded, but there was only one half-hung doctor Xu Yao before, although he followed Xu Fu for a few months, but his level was really not flattering, so after Chen Xu arrived in Xianyang, Xu Fu selected a doctor and two nurses from Xianyang Health Center to come to the health center to preside over the overall situation.

In a lifetime, in addition to food, clothing and housing, the most urgent thing to solve is medical problems, especially when women give birth to children, which is a major matter of human life, Chen Xu does not dare to be sloppy, Qinghe Town is not only his hometown, but also his own fiefdom, and everyone here must be taken care of.

Since there are famous doctors from Xianyang City, and later three doctors came to join the health center, so now Qinghe Town Health Center has become the largest department in the whole Nanyang County, the most complete and the most famous medical institution, the entire Pheasant County and even the surrounding counties of seriously ill patients will come to seek medical advice, and even some rich people in Wancheng have to travel hundreds of miles to Qinghe Town to see a doctor when they are sick.

In order to reduce pollution, the paper mill is repaired in Heihu Bend, and now the area has reached hundreds of acres, and more than 300 helpers have been recruited inside, hemp pulp paper and bamboo pulp paper are manufactured on a large scale, although the scale is far from catching up with the paper mill with tens of thousands of people outside Xianyang City, but in the remote mountainous county of Pheasant County, it is definitely second to none, and the whole Pheasant County now has other paper mills built by businessmen, but they are not as famous as Qinghe Town, because the paper mill here is not only the industry of Qinghe Hou, Moreover, there is also a kind of snow-white and delicate bamboo pulp paper here, but the production method is only known to a few core craftsmen, and they have never been inquired.

And these bamboo pulp and paper can't be bought even if they have money, so they can only be used by merchants and emperors allowed by the Marquis of Qinghe.

Although the sugar and liquor workshop has entered the cold winter and the sugar brewing has stopped, it is still in operation, making some kinds of rice cakes, biscuits and preserved fruits for Qinghe hotels all over the world.

After seven or eight days of busy work after coming back, Chen Xu finally inspected the entire Qinghe Town inside and out, accompanied by Niu Dashi and You Gui Liu Po and other management personnel of Qinghe Town, and Chen Xu also put forward some of his own opinions on the places that need to be rectified.

When he left, Chen Xu had made some plans for the development of Qinghe Town, and had guidance on the residential area and the location of each workshop, so although Chen Xu was not there for most of the year, Niu Dashi and everyone in Qinghe Town were still building and developing in strict accordance with Chen Xu's plan.

The residential area has expanded several times, and some of the mountain people who live in the mountains are willing to move down the mountain have planned the foundation of the houses in the town, and at the same time, tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been reclaimed along the downstream banks of the Xiaoqing River for distribution, so that the Qinghe Town has exceeded 600 households today, and because of the continuous caravans coming and going every day, the town has also specially built several post houses, food houses, commercial houses and service places for repairing vehicles, all of which are operated by the villagers in the town.

At this time, the business travelers in Qinghe Town are constantly crowded, and the people who are busy are all neatly dressed villagers, and all of them have ruddy and shiny faces, and they can no longer see the miserable and wooden color of the past.

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In the past, the vicinity of the Wild Wolf Valley, where wild wolves were rampant, was designated as a forbidden area, and except for those who opened the brewery, they could enter and exit the cave where wine was stored, and no one could approach it without the permission of Niu Dashi and Liu Po.

The mouth of the valley is still overgrown with vines and thorns, but the towering trees and thorns inside have long been cleared and turned into a hidden valley with more than 300 acres.

On one side of the valley, a long row of wood-and-stone houses was built, and there were ancillary facilities such as canteens and toilets.

In the middle of the valley was a large flat field, and there were five hundred teenagers over the age of ten who were training in five formations to walk and sit, although they all looked dark and their clothes were tattered, but all of them had serious faces, and followed the orders of a few teenagers who looked a little burly and strong.

On the eighth day after returning home, Chen Xu finally had the leisure to watch the training of these teenagers in person.

Since Guiguzi sneakily came in the middle of the night to save Wang Qingsleeve, Chen Xu later guessed the catastrophe that Guiguzi said, so he began to plan to establish a military force that he could fully control, not to rebel, but just in case.

Therefore, after many things in Xianyang were slowly on the right track, and after having the annex that Li Xin sent, Chen Xu began to secretly produce more gunpowder, making muskets and even artillery.

Almost all of these teenagers were recruited in Pheasant County, and most of them were orphans in nearby fiefdoms.

This is only a part of the selection that meets the requirements, and the number is already so large, you can imagine how many adult strong men died in the two Qin and Chu battles.

These teenagers are either like Chen Xuniu Dashi, dependent on their mothers at home, or they are completely orphans, wandering around the neighborhood with big families and some craftsmen as helpers, just to survive for a bite of food.

The five hundred young men in front of him will be about twenty years old in nine years, and they are brave young men.

Chen Xu doesn't need them to have a strong physique and extraordinary wisdom, and he doesn't need them to have the force value of one enemy and ten like the forbidden army, what he needs is to prohibit absolute obedience to orders.

The musket does not require much strength, so the requirements for physical fitness are not too high, but since it has to be trained, Chen Xu feels that it can still be trained strictly, at least stronger than ordinary soldiers.

The ordinary soldiers under Daqin at the moment are actually ordinary peasants, and they have not undergone strict training, and they are deployed in the border passes to open up wasteland and cultivate land, while carrying out some simple stabbing training and familiarity with military orders, once they are on the battlefield, they only need to understand the orders to attack and retreat.

If you attack, you will fight to the death, and if you kill the enemy, you will have military merit.

If you retreat, you can't panic in an orderly manner, otherwise you will be dealt with by military law.

Nothing else.

In this era, in addition to the horsemen, chariot soldiers and archers, the main combat infantry is not very trained, and there is no unified training method, once on the battlefield, the victory or defeat depends on the main general, and life and death depend on luck.

What stimulated the Qin army's invincibility was the reward for military exploits.

If you have military merits, you can divide the fields and land, and if you can confer knighthood, you can get a fixed annual salary and even chariots, horses, and slaves.

As long as you are brave enough and not afraid of death and lucky enough, even if you are a beggar, you can climb to the position of a general step by step.

With military exploits as glory, the Qin army like a tiger and wolf was born, which is the key to the rise of Great Qin.

And the group of teenagers that Yu Wuya was responsible for recruiting, Chen Xu's advice was strict training discipline, eating, drinking, Lazar, sitting, lying and walking all need to strictly abide by the system and discipline, and all the naughty and mischievous people who do not obey orders are eliminated.

Although it is not required to fold tofu cubes for such perverted housekeeping, it must be forbidden to train daily life.

Originally, according to Chen Xu's plan, this team was trained by Yu Wuya, because the most reassuring thing at the moment was only Yu Wuya, after half a year of basic command training, and then after some simple martial arts training and cross-country training, he could start training musket operation, once he could master it, these teenagers could first arrange to act as a security team in Qinghe Town, and at the same time, they could also transfer some to protect the safety of themselves and their families.

Once Qin Da is really unable to continue his life, and Da Qin is in danger of turmoil, this team will immediately become a musketeer that surpasses this era for two thousand years, using the three-stage musket attack mode of the British and French coalition forces, equipped with several small artillery, as long as there is no problem with the ammunition, these 500 people can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of people.

However, Shui's gentle departure completely disrupted Chen Xu's arrangement.

At present, Yu Wuya leaves and does not know when he will be able to turn around, and this team has no training instructors and main generals at the moment.

There were only two people accompanying Chen Xu, one was You Gu Liu Po, and the other was Niu Dashi.

"Drop~~"

After riding into the Wild Wolf Valley, Liu Po blew a bamboo flute hanging on his chest, and suddenly the teenagers who were training stopped their movements one after another, although it seemed that the reaction was fast and slow, but basically no one made a noise.

Chen Xu felt very satisfied with the reaction of the teenagers, after all, it had only been about a month or two of training, and it was already very good to be able to quickly line up when he heard the bamboo flute.

At least there is already a strict obedience to orders.

The five leading teenagers ran over and clasped their fists and saluted: "Yu You and Lidian, we are training to walk, and we have never been lazy, and no one is slacking!" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Po nodded and pointed at Chen Xu and said, "Who do you know about him?" ”

Chen Xu returned to Qinghe Town, and did not wear the usual brocade robe, but wore a sweater inside, a fur jacket with a fur outside, a woolen hat on his head, and a woolen scarf around his neck.

The five teenagers each stared at Chen Xu for a few moments and then shook their heads together, one of them clasped his fists and said, "You Jiao, I don't know this Lang Jun!" ”

"I'm Chen Xu, have you ever heard of it?" Chen Xu said with a smile.

The young man who replied "Chen Xu ......" was stunned for a moment, and then knelt on the ground with a puff and said in a panic, "I don't know the face of Hou Ye, and I ask Hou Ye to forgive me!" ”

As soon as the young man said this, the other four teenagers also understood instantly, and knelt down together almost at the same time and kowtowed and said: "It turned out that the Hou Ye came back, and I heard that the Hou Ye said that the Hou Ye gave us food and clothing, thank you Hou Ye for his great kindness!" ”

A few teenagers banged their heads on the cold muddy ground, Chen Xu stretched out his hand and pulled the five teenagers up and said with a smile: "You are all the commanders selected by Brother Yu, you all look good, in the future, carefully lead these companions to train well, and in a few months I will select some to follow me to Xianyang!" ”

"Master Hou, I'm ...... Can we follow you to Xianyang too? Several teenagers couldn't help but exclaim.

"Well, but only a few dozen can be selected, and the rest will continue to train here for more content, and there will be a new weapon to learn to use, so you must meet my requirements, what are your names?" Chen Xu nodded and said.

"Back to Master Hou, my name is Xu Shan!" The first boy saluted.

"Master Hou, my surname is Li, I am the second oldest in the family, I have pockmarks on my face, it turns out that everyone calls me Li Erma, I have no name!" The second boy saluted with some embarrassment.

"Erma is not bad, the carpenter in the town is called Liu Erwa, I also met a craftsman named Lu Erdan in Xianyang, your name is much better than theirs!" Chen Xu patted the young man on the shoulder, and several teenagers laughed along with him.

"Master Hou, named Chen Xia."

"Return, Master Hou, my name is Liu Shugen."

"Master Hou, I didn't have a father or mother since I was a child, and I didn't know what my surname was, I grew up with an old carpenter, and everyone else called me Hei ......Yu since I was a child," the last teenager said with a red face.

"Hehe, the black meat is delicious!" The other teenagers couldn't help but joke. (https:)

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