It's not bad for Xiang Kang, because he was a step late, Yu Jian and Yu Zhi's father and son didn't see the intimate shots of Yu Jiao's little girl and Xiang Kang, and Xiang Kang also escaped the bad luck of being tortured and interrogated by his future father-in-law, and at the same time, because Xiang Kang was injured in last night's fight, the father and son of the Yu family, who were still a little conscientious, came up to ask for warmth and care about Xiang Kang's injury.

Xiang Kang was indeed not lightly injured, the wound on his left shoulder could almost see the bones, although he was young and could bear it, Yu Jian still ordered his eldest daughter Yu Miaoge to take care of Xiang Kang, Yu Miaoge agreed with a complicated expression, took over the task of being alone with Xiang Kang for a long time, and with the help and persuasion of others, Xiang Kang was carried back to Xiang Kang's dilapidated courtyard to rest, waiting for medicine, Feng Zhong and other Xiang family children were responsible for cleaning the battlefield and sending people to the city to report to the county temple without mentioning.

Driven by the money of Lao Yu's family, the medical worker soon came to Xiang Kang's dilapidated courtyard and gave Xiang Kang gold sore medicine, and then after the medical worker left, the second uncle and aunt who came to help take care of Xiang Kang also said goodbye and left with knowledge, deliberately leaving Xiang Kang and his fiancée time alone - not to mention, since he got acquainted with Yu Miaoge, Xiang Kang still had the opportunity to be alone with Yu Miaoge for the first time.

For the first time in the world, they got along alone, but Xiang Kang and Yu Miaoge didn't speak, and they rarely even touched each other's eyes, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing. In the end, he really couldn't hold back his weakness, so Xiang Kang said: "There is no other relationship between me and my little sister. ”

"Hmm."

Yu Miaoge snorted in reply, hanging her head and not seeing the look on her face. However, the more Yu Miaoge reacted like this, the more timid Xiang Kang's heart became, and he couldn't help but say again: "You have to believe me." ”

"I believe in you." Yu Miaoge finally spoke, and said softly in a gentle voice: "I won't take it to heart, and you don't have to take it to heart." ”

Quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but Xiang Kang couldn't find anything to say, but Yu Miaoge took the initiative to pour a bowl of boiling water in front of Xiang Kang, and said gently: "I have shed so much blood, I must be thirsty, right?" Drink some hot soup. ”

Xiang Kang nodded indiscriminately, stretched out his uninjured right hand and wanted to catch the water, but Yu Miaoge didn't hand it to Xiang Kang, just brought the water to the front and carefully blew it cold, and then fed it to Xiang Kang's mouth with his own hands, Xiang Kang couldn't help but feel a little moved and guilty when he saw it, and said, "Miaoge, you are so good." ”

Yu Miaoge's face flushed, and he didn't speak, but carefully fed the boiling water to Xiang Kang to drink, and then pulled Xiang Kang to lie down, and said softly: "Sleep, call me when you are thirsty." ”

Staring at Yu Miaoge's gentle gaze, and the pretty face that was in no way inferior to Yu Miaoge's little girl, Xiang Kang sighed quietly again, and said secretly: "Why didn't I meet you first?" If I had met you first, I would never have liked your naughty sister. ”

The injury was indeed not light, not long after lying down, Xiang Kang fell asleep groggily, but unfortunately, after the injury, Xiang Kang did not enjoy the treatment of sleeping until he woke up naturally, and in the afternoon, Xiang Kang was woken up by the noise outside the house. And then, before the sleepy-eyed Xiang Kang understood what was happening, the door was pushed open by Feng Zhong from the outside in, and before he entered the door, he shouted and asked Yu Miaoge: "Brother and sister, is my brother awake?" The county lord came, and the county lord himself came to visit him. ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Xianling, who admired Xiang Kang very much, really strode in from the outside in an official uniform, and just saw Yu Miaoge and said with a smile: "This is the future Mrs. Xiang, right?" It's better to be famous than to meet, and it's really as beautiful as a fairy. Mrs. Xiang, how is it? How is Xiang Gongzi doing now? ”

was treated directly as Xiang Kang's wife by Feng Zhong and the county commander one after another, and Yu Miaoge, who was extremely thin-skinned, was of course very shy, but he couldn't keep quiet, so he could only hurriedly salute Zhou County's order, and said with a red face: "The people's daughter has seen the county respect. ”

"No courtesy, no courtesy." Zhou Xian Ling waved his hand a few times, and smiled at Xiang Kang, who had just been woken up: "Xiang Gongzi, I came uninvited, and I didn't disturb you and Mrs. Zun's grace, right?" Alas, you have an injury, you don't have to get up, lie down quickly. ”

Quickly stepped forward and pressed Xiang Kang, who was struggling to get up, to lie down again, Zhou Xianling first carefully looked at Xiang Kang's wound bandage, and then said with half complaint: "Xiang Gongzi, it's not the official who said you, martial arts are not your strength, why do you still capture the thief yourself?" This should be Feng You's business, what are you trying to do? You see, it's just a shoulder injury, but what if it hurts in something fatal? ”

"There are too many bandits, and Brother Feng's men are short of manpower, so they have no choice but to follow." Xiang Kang endured the pain and explained, and said: "There is Lao County Zun to visit in person, and the younger generation is really terrified. ”

"Haha, it should be, let's not say that you have made great contributions to the two counties of Xia Xiang and Xia Pi this time, and have benefited the people of the two counties, so you should also come to visit you by virtue of your friendship with your own official." Zhou Xianling laughed, and said: "Xiang Gongzi, the situation before and after this time, Feng Youyi has already told me just now, Xiang Gongzi, you are really resourceful, and in one fell swoop, you have eliminated a big harm for the two counties of Xia Xiang and Xia Pi, and you have worked hard. Don't worry, the reward that should be given to you has already been brought to you by the official, and it will be officially distributed in a while. ”

Xiang Kang hurriedly thanked him, but Zhou County Ling shook his head and smiled: "You don't have to thank me, it's the official who should thank you, the bandits in Malingshan should have been exterminated by Donghai County and Xiapi County, but I didn't expect it to fall into the hands of you and Feng Youyi. Hahaha. ”

Seeing that Zhou Xianling was smiling happily, Xiang Kang hurriedly took the opportunity to say: "County Zun, the juniors still have something to say about this matter. The bandits in Malingshan have been temporarily exterminated, but whether there will be a resurgence of bandits there, no one knows, in addition, in our Xiaxiang County and the surrounding counties of Xiaxiang County, there are still many small thieves who are harming the people, and whether they will be like the bandits in Malingshan in the future, and no one dares to guarantee that about this, I don't know what the county Zun has planned? ”

As mentioned above, because of the frequency of Qin II's conscription, many fleeing people were forced to gather for thieves. So after listening to Xiang Kang's words, the smile on Zhou Countyling's face suddenly became a little bitter, and said: "What Gongzi said is extremely true, the situation in and around the county is indeed like this, but there is no way, it can only be to see one group and suppress one group, and not give them a chance to sit down." ”

"But what if a large number of bandits from other counties rush into the next phase to commit crimes?" Xiang Kang asked again: "As far as the younger generation knows, the subordinate prime minister's southern Yu County, the eastern Ling county, and the western side of the pregnancy all have a large number of bandits no less than the Malingshan bandits. ”

Zhou County Ling was completely silent, and his brows couldn't help frowning, Xiang Kang observed his words and took the opportunity to say: "County Zun, about this, the younger generation has an immature idea, I don't know if it can be done?" ”

"If Xiang Gongzi has any good ideas, please feel free to say it." Zhou County Ling replied.

"How about letting the prime minister form a militia in all the townships?" Xiang Kangtu saw the dagger and said: "The younger generation thinks that the county may wish to go to the townships, let the wealthy families in the townships of the lower prime minister enthusiastically donate funds, and recommend the leaders to form a militia team, work in the fields when they are busy, and receive military training when they are not working, and learn the methods of army combat. In this way, when encountering a large number of bandits flowing into the lower prime minister, the lower prime minister's townships can immediately gather militia without asking the county for help, and assist the pavilion guards in each township and pavilion to resist and exterminate the bandits. ”

The method that Xiang Kang said is actually the prototype of regimental training in later generations, and it is also roughly similar to the private soldiers of the lords in various places during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period - except that the private soldiers are loyal to the lord, not to the country. Therefore, Zhou County Ling only pondered for a while to understand what Xiang Kang meant, and also used his brain to ponder the feasibility of this suggestion, and said after thinking about it: "The method is not bad, but our Great Qin Imperial Court has already made it clear that it is strictly forbidden to have private soldiers in various places, and all armies can only be ...... under the jurisdiction of the imperial court." ”

"The county is not a private soldier, let alone an army, but a militia." Xiang Kang hurriedly took advantage of the noun and said: "The militia is also under the jurisdiction of the government, and the government has the power to appoint and dismiss the militia captain at any time, and also has the power to disband the militia at any time. In this way, there is no need to increase the burden on the imperial court, and it can become a team of bandits who come and go at any time when the county respects you, and guards the safety of the townships and pavilions of the prime minister at any time. ”

If it was changed to the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, or even the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, Xiang Kang dared to say such a thing, I am afraid that before the words were finished, Zhou County Ling already understood that Xiang Kang, the remnant of the nobles of the Chu State, was holding back his bad intentions and preparing to rebel. But there is no way, this era is at the turn of the Qin and Han dynasties, and there has never been any warlord secession before, so of course Zhou Xianling doesn't know the great harm of doing this, and he doesn't understand Xiang Kang's bad water. After thinking about the impact and help of this on his political performance, Zhou Xianling couldn't help but be tempted, and said hesitantly: "The method may work, but if you want to make the wealthy families in various townships and pavilions voluntarily contribute money and food, I'm afraid it's not so easy." ”

"County Zun, how about letting the juniors give it a try?" Xiang Kang said kindly: "Please let the county be gracious, let the younger generations first form a militia team of fifty or sixty people in Dongxiang, and persuade the rich businessmen in the pavilions of Dongxiang to contribute money and grain to arm this militia team. ”

Zhou County Ling rolled his eyes and didn't speak, and stared at Xiang Kang's expression several times, Xiang Kang, who was good at pretending, had a pure face, a frank and clear gaze, and finally succeeded in deceiving Zhou County Order, who was somewhat suspicious of Xiang Kang's intentions, so that Zhou County Ling made up his mind after thinking about it for a long time, and said: "Okay, this official will go back and discuss it with the county Cheng, if they also think it is feasible, this official will allow you to form a militia team of fifty people first." ”

Failed to get Zhou County Ling to agree, Xiang Kang was of course a little disappointed, but considering that he was injured after all, even if Zhou County Ling agreed immediately, he couldn't immediately start forming a private army, Xiang Kang still respectfully thanked Zhou County Order, and Zhou County Ling cared for Xiang Kang a few words, and then handed over the more than 200 gold rewards that should be given to Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong, and let Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong discuss the distribution of merit on their own.

Out of the need to buy people's hearts, Xiang Kang of course urged Feng Zhong to distribute the bounty more fairly, and when the pavilion guards and the apprentices in the blacksmith shop cheered to receive the reward, Xiang Kang took out the bounty he deserved without leaving a penny, and used it all to buy wine and meat to reward everyone. As a result, the pavilion guards of the Shiling Pavilion and the apprentices of the blacksmith shop were of course grateful to Xiang Kang, and they didn't need Xiang Kang to hint or say it explicitly, so they rushed to take the initiative to say that if Xiang Kang was dispatched in the future, he would definitely saddle up the horse and horse, and never frown when he went up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire.

In the next few days, Yu Miaoge took care of Xiang Kang day and night almost undressed, and Yu Miaoge's little girl seemed to have disappeared, and never appeared in front of Xiang Kang and Yu Miaoge again. And although Xiang Kang has been thinking about that little girl in his heart, after a few days of getting along with Yu Miaoge day and night, the relationship between the two has still made a lot of progress. After a change of medicine, Xiang Kang, who had never been a good thing in his bones, suddenly hugged Yu Miaoge and kissed her on the cherry lips, Yu Miaoge blushed and struggled, but his attitude was not resolute, but it was a pity that Xiang Kang had just put his hand into Yu Miaoge's coat, and there was a sudden noise of the children of the Xiang family outside the door, Yu Miaoge hurriedly struggled to break away, and Xiang Kang, who was not well-intentioned, also missed a precious opportunity.

However, Xiang Kang was lucky in another aspect, also in the past few days, when the signs of imminent chaos in the world became more and more obvious, there was really a relatively large bandit flow in the southern part of Xiaxiang County, ransacked a pavilion, and robbed a lot of people's money and food, and the local wanderers and pavilion chiefs were unable to resist at all because of the lack of strength in their hands, and when Zhou County ordered to send the right lieutenant of Xia Xiang to the scene with a large group of officers and soldiers, the bandits had already fled, and they didn't even catch a single hair of the bandits.

It was precisely because of such a big loss that Zhou County Ling and Xiaxiang County Temple, who had been a little hesitant, finally made up their minds and officially allowed Xiang Kang to form a militia team of 50 people in Xiaxiang Dongxiang to try to implement the local self-protection strategy proposed by Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang was overjoyed to receive the text, and hurriedly lobbied around with his injuries to lobby the wealthy businessmen in the pavilions of Dongxiang to donate money and grain to form a militia team, but because Xiang Kang fought a beautiful battle in Shiling Pavilion, Xiang Kang really said that he moved some local big households to lose money and grain to help him form a militia to save himself and protect himself.

With money and food in hand, Xiang Kang of course it was much easier to recruit troops, selected 20 people from his blacksmith shop to be the team, and recruited 30 strong men to join in the Dongxiang pavilions, and then moved out the ancestral training method of the Xiang family, with the modern army training method that he was familiar with, the formal training of the Dongxiang militia team was carried out vividly, and Xiang Kang also officially and legally owned a quasi-army that obeyed his own dispatch as the acting militia captain.

Only after trying did he know that the water was deep and shallow, and it was also when it was time to really train his troops, Xiang Kang found that he still neglected a very important point - the soldiers he trained did not have any characteristics, just very ordinary infantry, although they were equipped with the best swords made by the blacksmith shop of Shiling Pavilion, but in front of the extremely mature bronze weapons, even if they could take advantage of it, it was not much, and they could not form any absolute advantage. At the same time, limited by the intensity, frequency and length of training time, even if he worked hard to train this militia team with a good sword and ran into the elite of the Qin army with bronze weapons, he would definitely not have the upper hand, on the contrary, he might be easily killed by the enemy.

"This is my starting capital, and I must use the best weapons, preferably advanced weapons and equipment that surpass this era, so that they can form an absolute advantage on the battlefield, so that they can play the role of the core backbone in the future."

When racking his brains to find advanced weapons for his starting capital, Xiang Kang once considered gunpowder that no one knew about in this era, but considering the huge cost and difficult to obtain raw materials, Xiang Kang had to give up, and when he continued to think about other aspects, Xiang Kang inadvertently noticed the Qin Changjian given to him by Zhou County, and also remembered the evaluation of Qin Changjian by his good brother Xiang Zhuang......

“…… At the beginning, a key reason why our Chu State couldn't win against the army of Tyrant Qin was that the sword was not as good as the long sword of Tyrant Qin, and the weapon was an inch long and an inch strong, and the sword of our Chu State was because it couldn't fight too long, and it was shorter than Tyrant Qin's long sword, so it suffered enough losses on the battlefield. If the soldiers under the command of our eldest father Wu Xinjun at that time could be equipped with the long sword of the tyrannical Qin, in the battle of Qixian, our eldest father might not have lost to the tyrannical Qin's Wang Qian. ”

One inch long, one inch strong! This made Xiang Kang find inspiration, but Xiang Kang did not plan to equip his descendant army with a steel sword that was longer than Qin Changjian, because Xiang Kang also heard Xiang Zhuang and others say that limited by the hard and easy to break material of bronze weapons, as well as the relatively backward iron-making technology of this era, whether it is a bronze Qin Changjian or a Six Kingdoms iron sword made of wrought iron, the combat method on the battlefield is mainly assassination, and it is rarely used for slashing for fear of breaking. And the iron sword made of strip steel, limited by the material and the thickness of the sword body, will definitely not have much advantage in chopping, so Xiang Kang, who is still a history teacher, soon set his sights on the king of melee weapons on the cold weapon battlefield in the later generations - the knife!

The iron knives made by the Shiling Pavilion blacksmith shop before were all cast from the straight-edged knives of the Warring States period, and the length was not as long as Qin Changjian, far from giving full play to the toughness advantages of steel, and Xiang Kang had not tried to lengthen the length of the iron knife intentionally or unintentionally. At this time, there was no need to hide anything, Xiang Kang of course thought of lengthening the blade, and soon thought of a term that often appeared in later games and novels - horse chopping knife!

"It's decided, just use a horse chopping knife! An inch long and an inch strong, when it comes to the battlefield, my army will surprise the enemy with a horse chopping saber! ”