It has been half a month since Tian Chou and the others left Rinshan City, and there is no news back for the time being. All the 8,000 people recruited by Cheng Pu this time were also brought back.

According to the previous plan, Tang Zheng divided the 8,000 people out of 4,374 people to form the Modao Battalion, and all the old people in the Modao Battalion were scattered to the middle and grassroots level to do a management.

The establishment has also been restructured, from the previous three squadrons as one squadron to the current four squadrons as one squadron and four squadrons as one squadron.

There is a tun above the brigade, and the four brigades are one tun, and one is the chief and deputy commander, and then the four tuns are one battalion, and the battalion commander is one and two deputy battalion commanders, which are divided into two battalions, with a total of 5,120 people.

The remaining more than 3,600 people were combined with Wu Yifan's original 1,374 people (Wu Yifan's original 1,682 people, and some of them were injured and retired after returning to the mountain) to form two battalions of light cavalry, just 5,000 people.

In this way, there are more than 10,000 people in Rinyama Castle, and they barely have a certain amount of self-protection. After the recruits are assigned, it is time for three months of recruit training.

None of this matters Tang Zheng's business, Tang Zheng only provided a general direction, and the others were responsible.

Tang Zheng also returned to the exercise some time ago. Only occasionally do I visit the weapons workshop. Everything is going on in order, and the end of the year of 183 is approaching, and there are 46 days to go until the end of the year.

Chinese New Year has always been a tradition for all Chinese people, and no matter how busy they usually are, they will stop moving forward during this time.

Rinyama Castle is no exception, and it is full of villagers preparing New Year's goods. There is a festive atmosphere everywhere, this is Tang Zheng's first New Year in this world, and it may also be the smoothest New Year in recent decades.

Next year, Zhang Jiao will have an incident in Julu, and the Eastern Han Dynasty court will also exist in name only after this uprising of Zhang Jiao.

Then there is the great scuffle between the warlords, and I don't know how many people will be reduced to grass mustard, and how many families will be separated.

Just like the Han Dynasty folk songs recorded by Cui Wei in "Zheng Lun".

"The little people's hair is like a leek, cut and revived; The head is like a chicken, cutting and singing. Officials need not be fearful, they must never be light. But I want to be peaceful. At a time when one dynasty is about to end and another is about to rise, this is when society is at its darkest. There are many bandits who burn and kill and plunder, and there are small squires who are cool officials. The people are bitter when they are prosperous, and the people who are dying are bitter. Tang Zheng just wanted this group of people who created the great Chinese civilization to suffer less and have more rights to be human beings. He has been working in this direction as well. Looking at the pedestrians passing by in front of Tang Zheng with a satisfied and happy face, Tang Zheng felt that what he had done was not in vain. In fact, at this time, people's requirements are really low, as long as they can eat enough, and the family has some surplus food to ask a daughter-in-law to have two or three children. People who passed by and knew Tang Zheng would stop and say hello to Tang Zheng for a while, usually saying something to thank Tang Zheng. Since Tang Zheng came to this world, he discovered coal and built cement kilns, brick kilns and some other workshops, everyone's life has been a little better. Every family can also fill their stomachs, and the family also has spare money to tear a few feet of cloth for their wives and children to make a new dress. In the workshop opened by Tang Zheng, the work was paid for work, and in this era, helping the government to do things was called servitude, and there was no salary for it, and it was stipulated that every family must serve for a certain period of time every year. Even if he works for the landlord's family, at most, he is in charge of food, and there is no salary. Only when you work in Tang Zheng's workshop can you get paid, and it is also stipulated how long you can only do it every day, and Tang Zheng will also issue some welfare subsidies such as grain and oil on holidays. Although the villagers are very simple, they all know who has made them live a good life now. Now there are no landlords in Rinyama Castle, and everyone has their own land. In the past, Cheng Pu's family had the most land, and after Tang Zheng and Cheng Pu said that it was powerful, Cheng Pu took Tang Zheng to reason with Grandpa Cheng and talked about it. Grandpa Cheng is also a reasonable person, and finally donated more than 10,000 acres of his family's land to the recruited refugees, leaving only about 200 acres for his family. Later, he lobbied the big families in the village to donate their land to keep only enough land for their own homes. This matter spread quickly, and the people in Rinshan City spontaneously erected an immortal card for Grandpa Cheng. Tang Zheng didn't let these people donate their land in vain, he handed over some not very important workshops to these people who donated land, such as Cheng Pu's family, and now the right to sell cement and honeycomb coal is his, but with Cheng's grandfather's temperament, there is no difference between the Cheng family and Tang Zheng. If there is anyone who is most respected in Rinshan City, it is not Tang Zheng, nor Cheng Pu, who used to be an errand in the county seat, but the old lady of the Cheng family, Cheng Mingting, and Grandpa Cheng now generally call him Cheng Taigong to show respect. Grandpa Cheng used to be the head of the village, and he was highly respected and kind. He will be approached for anything that can't be solved in the village, and since he distributed the world at home, he has become more virtuous and respectful. Tang Zheng also took the initiative to say hello to the people he knew, usually three uncles and five aunts, and chatted about the length of the family, whether the children were obedient, whether the children were filial piety or something, all of which were long and short in the family. And so the days passed. With the exception of the barracks, all other workshops began to prepare for the holidays. When cartloads of grain, meat, wine, and copper coins were pulled to each workshop, the envious eyes of those who had just joined the city were red. People are not afraid of hard work, only afraid of hard work and no place to want, since here as long as you pay the effort there is a harvest, as well as meat and wine, which strengthens the hearts of these people, and so on vacation to go to the workshop to work, although there is no technology, but to go to the coal mine is also a good way. As Rinyama Castle grew, so did the demand for coal, which was always insufficient. When the truckload of grain, wine, meat and copper coins was distributed, the holiday also began, from today until the fifteenth day of the first month, all workshops and factories were not working, and it was not until the sixteenth day of the first month that they officially worked. The barracks do not have holidays, which has also been discussed with everyone, most of the recruits in the barracks are recruits who have undergone a month or two of training, mainly homeless people, not to mention family members, this is Tang Zheng's requirement for Cheng Pu when recruiting, such soldiers are trained well, and after cultivating a sense of belonging, they tend to be more brave and more desperate. Therefore, the result of the unanimous discussion is that there is no holiday, except for the five-kilometer cross-country run in the morning and evening, other training items can be appropriately reduced. From the thirtieth day of the lunar month to the third day of the first lunar month, the prohibition of alcohol can be lifted, and soldiers are allowed to drink alcohol. On the 30th night of the lunar month, all the soldiers of the battalion had a reunion dinner together, which meant that everyone would be a family in the future, and they would be able to give their backs to each other with peace of mind like relatives. The venue of the barracks is full of tables, and these tables are also scraped together, Tang Zheng gave up the meal system, thinking that everyone should happily sit around a table when they eat together, so that there is an atmosphere of group members, this is busy preparing meals, this is a meal for thousands of people, and it feels terrifying to think about it. This dinner was prepared from the first two days to the day when it was approaching, and there were still many dishes that were not prepared. In the end, a lot of temporary stoves were built in the open space by the river in the barracks for those who can cook to do it themselves, which is barely usable, as for the taste, I don't know, but now Rinyama Castle has no firewood to burn coal, which has solved a lot of trouble, otherwise firewood alone is a big problem. In the evening, everyone sat together and chatted with great interest, and when the dishes were served, everyone looked at each other, they had never seen such a meal, and they didn't know what to do for a while. At this time, Tang Zheng stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet, listen to me first, there are too many people, I'm afraid you won't be able to hear it later." Waiting for his voice to calm down, Tang Zheng continued: "Tonight is the last day of the year, which is what we call Chinese New Year's Eve, after tonight, the light and six years will completely say goodbye to us, tomorrow will be the new year and the beginning of our happy life." I'm very happy to be together with you, although we didn't know each other before, but in the future we are a brother in life and death who scoops food in a pot, I hope everyone must love each other, no matter what is usually not passing, on the battlefield, I hope everyone can rest assured to give each other their backs. Maybe you did him a small favor today, and tomorrow you may be the one who carries the wounded you off on the battlefield. On the battlefield, we can't believe that the enemy will mercifully let us go, we can only believe in these brothers who usually get along with us day and night, so on the battlefield, everyone is a relative who depends on each other for life and death, and it is worth giving us the safety of our backs to each other. Tang Zheng suddenly burst into warm applause when he said this, Tang Zheng pressed his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet, Tang Zheng continued: "In order to let everyone have a pleasant dining process, I gave up the meal system, I think that kind of diet is only suitable for high-ranking officials and nobles, only for those who think they are superior." We are different, we will be siblings in the future, and we will be lovers who depend on each other for life and death. So I think it's best for everyone to sit around a table, and it's not possible to have a table that can seat all of us. This year's preparation time was a bit rushed, there were a lot of things that were not well prepared, the meals were a little shabby, we were here next year, and I hope to sit with you next year and eat and drink together. Okay, I don't have much, everyone starts eating. As Tang Zheng finished speaking, there was warm applause around him, this is not how infectious and incendiary Tang Zheng said, it's just that he treats everyone as a human being.

Tang Zheng and Grandpa Cheng, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Wu Yifan, Cheng Hu, Zhang Chao, Cheng Mo, Xu Dayou, Guo Mingda, and a series of chief officials held wine glasses and toasted table by table, of course, it was only symbolic, if you really dare to have a table and a glass, Tang Zheng didn't know that dynasty had arrived.

Although the alcohol content of wine in this era is very low, only about 20 degrees, it is not like the beer of later generations, and it was solved after drinking too much beer and going to the toilet a few times, but it can't stand a lot, 10,000 people sit at a table, eleven or twelve, and there are nearly 1,000 tables, that is, 1,000 glasses of wine.

By the time Tang Zheng and his entourage finished toasting one by one, it was already late at night, and everyone's nature was still very high, and there were fires around them so that they didn't feel cold.

There are those who are drawing boxing and those who are jousting. Tang Zheng also slowly integrated into it, but then he slowly lost consciousness.