There are all the soldiers who have received the money all around, and each person's house has a cabinet and a lock, so there is no need to worry too much, but the soldiers who can't go out without leave are still entrusting people to take out most of the money that has just been issued.

Whether it is a homeless person or a nearby townsman who is selected for group training, his home is not far away, and the farthest is not more than 20 miles.

Two times the money seems to be not much, a man in the prime of life goes out to work as a casual worker every day, as little as thirty or forty wen, as much as fifty or sixty, and some crafts can earn a hundred wen a day.

But the money earned has to pay all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, and I can't save more than two dollars in a month's hard work. Being a soldier is also hard, but the food is not bad for three meals a day, and a few robes, shoes and boots are also issued, which is not comparable to going out as a casual worker. This money is equivalent to net gain.

And after being selected, each family was given a five-run settling-in fee, which made the soldiers feel more at ease, and then there were two times a month to go home, whether it was the country's positive endowment, or the discount money, the mouth counted the money, all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, almost a few months' salary was enough, and then the rest, I could always buy some meat for my wife and children, buy some clothes, and save some money for emergencies.

Ordinary people, what they ask for is nothing more than these, after receiving two monthly salaries, some people will leave three or five hundred yuan, some people will leave one or two hundred yuan on their bodies, some people will only leave a few dozen yuan, depending on each person's mind and family background, in fact, it is not much use to keep money, eat very well in the camp, everyone rarely goes outside to spend money, only occasionally when they are hungry, they make up dozens of yuan, everyone goes to the restaurant in the east of the town to make a tooth sacrifice, drink two cups.

The regiment is forbidden to drink alcohol in the camp, and it is forbidden to drink during the holidays, but it is strictly forbidden to get drunk and make trouble, if it is committed, it will be confined at the lightest, beaten with a military stick, and the heaviest is to be dismissed, and no one will be willing to give up this hard-won opportunity.

As for gambling money, it is strictly prohibited, and once discovered, it will be expelled from the camp immediately, and there is no need to negotiate.

It is not forbidden to go to the yard to find a girl, of course, it also costs money, and there are not many people who are willing to give it.

Lin Da sat on the ground and waited for a while, before Lin Lao Er came out with a blanket full of money.

As soon as the two brothers looked at each other, Lin Da grinned and said, "Got it?" ”

"Got it."

"How much?"

"Don't you know?" Lin Lao Er smiled all over his face and said, "Siguan! ”

"The rampant of dog days is twice as hard as Lao Tzu."

The two brothers were all laughing, and Lin Lao Er was able to receive double because he was picked by Ma Jun. Fujian is mountainous, watery, and offshore, of course, mainly boating, and there are not many people who raise horses, and of course there are even fewer who can ride horses.

When the Lin family was wealthy, they used to raise mules, and Lin Lao Er was bold, and he rode mules like the wind when he was a teenager, and his riding skills were not bad. When picking the horse army, Lin Lao Er was the first batch of horse picking.

In addition to practicing riding and archery, the horse army still has to take care of the war horses by themselves, feed the beans, wash them every day, and have to re-put on the farriers after a while.

And horseback riding is a skill, especially in a place like Fujian, which can't be said to be quite rare, but it's not something that everyone can do.

Riding a horse, including feeding the war horse, building and replacing the farrier, this is all learned, not riding a horse can not fall off the horse, can control the reins to run a few laps even if you can ride, so it is much more difficult to choose a horse army than 1,500 foot soldiers.

Fortunately, Fuzhou is a wealthy place, there are a lot of horses and mules, and there are always people who have some riding foundation, even if they can't fully meet Zhang Huchen's standards and requirements, they are unsatisfactory, as long as they are willing to learn and are not afraid of hardship, they can always stay.

"The second child does it well." Lin Da said: "Your riding skills are top-notch, and you have to be a team officer." ”

Lin Lao Er really has this kind of thought, the cavalry is more than 100 people, Zhang Huchen is the head of the capital, one is divided into two sentries, one of the sentry officers is a drum mountain thief who can ride a horse, called Lin Fengyi, and the other is the old tooth general of the Hou Mansion, and Wu Weisan, who is also a good horseman, each post is divided into five teams, the number of team officers is not even now, the sentry officers have to bring two or three teams, mainly there are not many young people who are proficient in horsemanship, and the top is not willing to pick people from all the Drum Mountain thieves, and there are not many people who are proficient in riding in the Drum Mountain thieves after all.

Of course, there is a chance, Lin Lao Er said quite deeply: "Last time, the prince summoned us to speak, and he also said so, now there is a shortage of officers, everyone has a chance, if you can't catch it, it's too late to regret it in the future." ”

"I picked a team officer, and the monthly salary was eight to ten." Lin Da patted his leg and said, "Lao Tzu didn't learn to ride a mule back then, it's really fucking stupid." ”

Lin Lao Er smiled but did not speak, and the two brothers went out together with Yulu, turning from the west of the camp to the north, with the Nan'an River on the left and a large camp on the right.

It had become a place they were quite familiar with, and many of the surrounding paths were trampled tightly.

I have to run every day, sometimes I arrange a long-distance run of 20 or even 40 miles, and I have run to several towns around me.

Every time the warriors went out for a long run in groups, or crossed the road for the night, it would always attract onlookers from the townspeople.

The Jiangfang battalion stationed on the riverside has just left, and the Xiang army has always been full of food and sleep, and the rare drill is also to fiddle with a few knives and guns in the camp, or to rehearse the formation map, and the people see it in their eyes and know that such an army cannot fight any hard battles and cannot be relied on.

It is a regimental training of martial arts, and every day is a bitter practice, often running dozens of miles.

Originally, those who were thin and weak ran stronger, ate well, slept well, ran more, and practiced more equipment and other strength-growing ones. The soldiers were originally mostly peasants, and the work in the field required strength, but when it was hard, it was idle when it was idle, and it was rare to exercise so systematically, and after a few months, everyone's strength and endurance had increased a lot, and the military temperament was also quite outstanding, and every time they came out to run, they could always attract a bunch of idlers to watch.

Among them, there are also big girls and little daughters-in-law, the Lin brothers were originally poor singles, and recently someone actually wanted to talk to the two brothers for the matchmaker.

However, Lin Boss hasn't saved much money yet, and Lin Lao Er is not in a hurry, he wants to be an officer, and after becoming an officer, he will talk about his relatives, and the family affairs he said at that time are probably more satisfactory.

The two brothers walked along the embankment with their heads held high, and the women who passed by looked at them, and the brothers raised their chests higher, pretending not to squint, but they couldn't help but squint at the women.

Finally walked through the camp, and there was a large vegetable garden at the head of the garden, only the men who irrigated the garden and a small number of servants, and the Lin brothers were also relieved.

The vegetable park is also built very large, open out hundreds of acres of wasteland to grow vegetables, in addition to raising a thousand pigs, a piece of pig pen looks magnificent, a small number of chicken coops in the chicken coop is not much, and quite scattered, according to Xu Zixian's instructions, the pig pen chicken coop must be regularly transported back from the ash field to lime to disinfection, so raised for a few months, the pigs have grown up a few laps, but there are not a few dead heads, the chicken coop has not been sent chicken plague, not far away there is a group of workers in the chicken coop, it seems that it is going to raise more.

There are flocks of ducks on the beach and in the river, half the size of the ducks, and the duck shed is also on the ground by the river, flocks of pieces, which looks reassuring.

The brothers of the Lin family knew that these were all for the preparation of the soldiers, so that they would continue to be fishy, and after the two brothers entered the camp, they first gained a few laps, and then practiced hard and lost weight, but this kind of thinness is not hard to lose weight, but quite robust and well-proportioned, most of the soldiers are like this, when they meet naked in the bathhouse, most of them see strong and powerful bodies.

Of course, the two brothers are very satisfied with their current life, but what is uneasy is that their grandfather is old and confused, but he does not know how to live outside.

The residence of the Lin family's father is by the river not far from the vegetable garden, and Xu Zixian specially asked someone to build a courtyard, more than a dozen rooms, specifically to house the relatives of the Lin brothers in the martial arts, since the martial arts are inconvenient to take care of, the Hou Mansion is responsible.

In fact, there are many people who oppose this matter.

Among the martial soldiers, you can pick out those who are tired of having no family, tens of thousands of strong men nearby, and it is too easy to pick one or two thousand people who are not tired of families, and there is no need to spend a lot of money and manpower to do this.

Xu Zixian is alone, and he has his own opinions.

Although the military soldiers gave a settlement fee, regardless of the death or injury in the battle, the five guan money really didn't last long.

If you ask people to work hard, they will naturally have nothing to say if they give money.

But going into battle to fight is a desperate business, and the money given is less, and everyone is worried about the wife and the elderly at home, how can they put life and death out of the way?

Comparing hearts to hearts, when Xu Zixian went into battle by himself, if he had a wife and children at home, could he really rush to the enemy formation regardless of everything, with the military flag waving, regardless of life and death?

If it is said that the settlement fee of dozens or hundreds of times is only to make the soldiers feel at ease a little in terms of money, it cannot be said that there are no worries at all.

Moreover, there has never been such a precedent, and this example should not be opened lightly, and if it is spread, it will make the patrol press intervene, and a "person who invites people to buy people's hearts" can easily put on the big hat of "plotting against others".

As a clan, there are a lot of cheap, and it is relatively easy to get started, but Xu Zixian also has a deep understanding, that is, everything can not be out of the circle, act in the circle, the people behind him are easy to protect, and they can speak on the truth, once they are out of the circle, no one can protect them, compared to ordinary civil and military officials and local gentry, they have to be more cautious.

The yard built here is called the Nan'an Tuan Lian Nursing Home, now a small courtyard with more than ten rooms, but there are many open spaces around it, and the road is also divided, and the channel is dug up, and it is expected that two more courtyards will be built in the near future, which are connected to each other by roads, very close to each other, and easy to take care of.

Of course, there are not so many lonely and widowed elderly people who need to be taken care of, but build a place in advance, and declare in advance that once a soldier is killed or even seriously injured, and can not take care of himself or make money, his family can move here to live, and distribute the house for free.

This initiative, to be honest, does not cost much, to build these houses, but a few hundred yuan is enough.

The people who take care of it every day are women from nearby villages or older men, who raise pigs and grow vegetables, sprinkle and sweep here to do housework, and cook along the way, but it is just a gesture of effort, giving dozens of dollars a day, and a large number of people rush to do this work.

The cost is small, but the significance is incomparable.