The next day, Cheng Hu and Cheng Mo came to Tang Zheng with a selection of 282 people, all aged between 16 and 30 years old, of which 170 were in the village, and 112 were selected from the 500 displaced people. Tang Zheng gave up the current establishment of five people and ten people. Directly according to the ten-person squad of a squadron of one squad leader, three squadrons for a squadron with a squadron with a squadron leader and one deputy squadron leader, and then three squadrons for a brigade with one captain and two vice-squadrons. After the assignment, Tang Zheng took people to the location where the city wall was going to be repaired and set up camp. When he was ready to build the walls, the barracks were set up under the walls.

Everything is ready, Tang Zheng plans to train recruits for a month in advance, Tang Zheng refers to the training methods of the army in later generations, and asks them to start by standing in a military posture and walking in a straight step, so that they can train their obedience. After the adaptation period of the recruits, Tang Zheng is slowly increasing the intensity of training, Tang Zheng originally wanted to extend the training period of recruits to three months, but the time is not enough, there are less than four months before the end of the year, that is, the seven years of light and the seventh year are coming, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in history occurred in early spring, and Tang Zheng does not know exactly what month it happened. Therefore, we can only shorten the training period of recruits and increase the degree of training. Tang Zheng led people to level out more than ten acres of vacant land for usual training, and the barracks were also built temporarily. It's not too cold now, but you can just wait until the recruited craftsmen arrive and then build a fixed barracks. Fortunately, when Tang Zheng built a coking kiln last time, he built a brick kiln by the way, as long as the fire is lit, the bricks can be burned immediately, and the raw materials for burning bricks are ready-made.

After training like this for about half a month, the recruits barely remembered the left and right, and at the beginning, in order to let these people remember the before and after, Tang Zheng tried his best to make them remember the corporal punishment from the beginning, and then Tang Zheng came up with the hungry method, that is, if one person in the team can't remember, the whole team will have no food, so the situation will slowly improve. Now I started to slowly add some physical training, got up in the morning, ran ten laps around the field, then had breakfast, rested for half an hour after breakfast, and began the morning training, including standing in a military posture, sit-ups, push-ups, and then lunch and rest for an hour, and then the afternoon training included queue training, obstacle course, frog jumping, etc. Then it's dinner, and after dinner, it's about running ten laps around the field, then push-ups and sit-ups, and then it's bedtime. Tang Zheng implemented a three-meal system in order to improve the physical fitness of these people, and although his physical fitness has not improved significantly since he was able to eat a full meal, it is much stronger than at the beginning. The strengthening of training has also increased the consumption of food, and now there is only consumption and no output, and Grandpa Cheng has already said that the money and grain will not be able to support it for long, and the money and grain in the county have not been allocated, and this time it is all dependent on the Cheng family's advance, Tang Zheng frowned and thought that he was going to find a way to make money, and it was not a way to sit and eat in this way.

After another three days, Cheng Pu came back with five hundred war horses purchased from Wuhuan, and also brought seven or eight hundred recruited craftsmen, which also exacerbated the consumption of money and grain, so that Tang Zheng's idea of making money had to speed up the plan. Tang Zheng originally wanted to leave the war horse for his own use, but the restriction of money and food had to let him sell the war horse, Tang Zheng's idea was to ask Cheng Pu to send someone to contact Yizhou Thorn Shi Jian to sell the war horse to him, first, Yizhou is rich and can afford the price, and second, Yizhou is far away from Youbeiping, which will not have much impact on Tang Zheng and them. Cheng Pu exchanged grain and salt for these war horses, which were sold to Yizhou, and it is estimated that they can be sold for between 15,000 and 20,000 yuan. Tang Zheng told Cheng Pu his thoughts, and Cheng Pu also felt that it was feasible, as long as there was money, war horses would continue to come in. So he went back and arranged for Cheng Mo's father to go to Yizhou to discuss this matter in person. The matter of the war horse came to an end, and Tang Zheng looked at the craftsmen who had just been recruited and made a simple count of them, the most of which was 284 stonemasons and 242 carpenters. The main blacksmiths are at least 87 people, mainly because most of the blacksmiths are now concentrated in the hands of the government, and there are still 139 chaotic craftsmen left. After the statistics, Tang Zheng asked people to take them down for a day of rest first, and they were arranging work tomorrow.

After the morning run the next day, Tang Zheng arranged for Cheng Hu to take them to training, Cheng Hu is now the captain of a large team, after this period of training, Cheng Hu can already stand alone. After explaining the training, Tang Zheng came to the place where the craftsmen lived, summoned the craftsmen to gather, and then took them to the place where the city wall was planned to be built. Some time ago, Tang Zheng took the whole village of laborers and recruits nearly 1,000 people to dig a ditch with a depth of three meters and a width of five meters, connecting the mountains on one side and approaching the river bank at the same time, with a length of 800 meters. Tang Zheng explained the construction principle to the craftsmen, focusing on the use of cement. Many people don't understand and don't believe that something will freeze when it encounters water. Later, Tang Zheng asked someone to bring cement and demonstrate it on the spot, which shocked these people to think it was a sacred object. After Tang Zheng explained the use of cement and how to build the city wall, the craftsmen began to work on their own, the carpenter went to prepare the plank, and the stonemason went to prepare the broken stone.

Tang Zheng took the blacksmith to the small blast furnace repaired by the river, pointed to the seven or eight blacksmiths who were working inside, and said to the new blacksmith: "Now you follow them to see how they operate, and then slowly operate it yourself, I want you all to master this new steelmaking method as soon as possible." The blacksmiths looked at the busy crowd and were amazed at this method of steelmaking. When the iron ore was discovered, Tang Zheng built this blast furnace, although he couldn't make modern high-quality alloy steel, but he could still make some high-quality strip steel than the current era. The first is to smelt the iron ore into molten iron, add the mineral powder, and stir continuously until the color of the molten iron turns blue. Then pour in the previously made mold, so that the initial steel billet is ready. Although the quality of the steel is not very good, it is still much higher than this era, and the quality of the steel can be improved if it is further forged. After this period of smelting, a lot of thumb-thick and 6-meter-long steel bars have been piled up here, which Tang Zheng had previously ordered to be smelted for the purpose of repairing the city wall and house. Tang Zheng went back to the camp after arranging the craftsmen, and when he returned to the barracks, the morning training was just over, Tang Zheng gathered people and talked about the arrangements for the afternoon, and from the afternoon to reduce physical training to collaborative training, that is, to cultivate everyone's tacit understanding. When the steel bars are brought back to the blast furnace, they must be carried back in groups of two people, and there must be no less than five at a time.

After arranging these, Tang Zheng is ready to go back to the village, during this time he has been living in the barracks and everyone eats and lives and trains, and now the craftsmen are in place, Tang Zheng can also start the plan that he stopped before, first go back and arrange for people to transport the cement and burned bricks over, the road surface in the village is basically hardened, and the transportation is more convenient. Now it is mainly from the village entrance to the barracks, this distance is in 5.6 miles, usually walk down, there is nothing to do, if it is inconvenient to transport things. Now there is a surplus of cement in addition to the cement for the construction of the city wall and the barracks, and most of the people in the village are now idle. Tang Zheng was going to build a cement road along the river, and he had dug a temporary passage to use when he cleaned up the silt in the river last time. When he returned home, Grandpa Cheng was not there, Cheng Pu went to the county seat and had not come back, and he, the county lieutenant, seemed to have become a decoration, and Tang Zheng was in charge of all affairs.

In the evening, Cheng Pu and Grandpa Cheng came back together, and they were surprised to see Tang Zheng come back. "Why did you kid come back? What's the matter? Grandpa Cheng asked in surprise. Now I will hand over the training of the soldiers to Cheng Hu, and the construction of the city wall is still preparing materials, so there is nothing to do, so I will come back and take a look. Tang Zheng replied. Grandpa, I plan to build a cement road along the river until the barracks, and then plant some pear trees on both sides, so that you can walk under the pear trees in the summer and pick pears in the autumn. "That's good, anyway, most of the villagers are idle for them to repair, you only need to be responsible for the city wall and the barracks, and the safety of our village will depend on them in the future." Grandpa Cheng divided the army into a village in a word. Tang Zheng and Cheng Pu looked at each other and shook them funny, saying that they had nothing to do with Grandpa Cheng, and they were still thinking about the imperial court some time ago, so it didn't take long for them to start digging the corners of the imperial court. Although Xiang Yongming is under the jurisdiction of the county, in fact, it has always been the Cheng family that provides money and food to support. Now at this time, the soldiers are all obeying whoever can let them have enough to eat, and the landlords in various places are becoming more and more armed, and the imperial court is becoming more and more unbinding. The Cheng family paid for this, and the food soldiers alone consumed about 75 stones every month. Cheng Pu said to Tang Zheng: "Yesterday, Lord Xu has already sent a total of 200 stones of food for recruitment, and I plan to recruit some more." "I also think that our manpower is too small now, and it would be best to recruit another five hundred people, and now these are basically trained, although the combat power is not yet good, and it can basically be ordered and prohibited. You can let the well-trained ones be delegated to the newly recruited ones to be a squad leader or something, so that they can play a leading role. Tang Zheng said.

Grandpa Cheng felt that standing here disturbed their brothers to discuss things, so he said: "The old man doesn't know how to recruit and train soldiers, as for how to recruit and train soldiers, you can do it yourself, and I will do the logistics for you." Tang Zheng and Cheng Pu bowed deeply to Grandpa Cheng and thanked him for his understanding and support. Grandpa Cheng waved his hand and left. After Grandpa Cheng left, Tang Zheng and Cheng Pu felt much more relaxed. "During this time, I have worked hard, and I have to train and build the city wall." "What did the eldest brother say, and the younger brother can do so much because of the eldest brother's unabandonment and trust." Tang Zheng felt that Cheng Pu was too polite. "The eldest brother has been running around for a long time, and Yingying has complained that the eldest brother hasn't played with her for a long time." "That girl knows how to play all day long, don't talk about these recruitment, I'll come, and the training will be handed over to the virtuous brother, I recommended the virtuous brother to Lord Xu, and Lord Xu also felt that the virtuous brother stayed in the village and wasted the talent of the virtuous brother, and the county lieutenant still has a vacancy Lord Xu plans to hire the virtuous brother as a county lieutenant to train the army." Cheng Pu said happily to Tang Zheng. I feel that my brother has the ability, and I am really happy for him to be a leader. Tang Zheng was stunned, and then thanked Cheng Pu for his recommendation, he didn't expect that he would also be an official, although he was only a small county lieutenant, but he was not a good person. To be honest, Tang Zheng really didn't expect that he could still be an official after coming to this world for almost a year, Tang Zheng felt dizzy, not that he was an official fan, but that this was a kind of recognition that affirmed him. The happy Cheng Pu pulled Tang Zheng and drank the wine in the middle of the night.