Although he was closed today, Han Daoxun took a trip around the city, and after having dinner in the afternoon, he hurried to the official office.

The Hongwen Pavilion, where the secretary and the secretary and the young eunuch are on duty, can be said to be between the Jianghuai and the National Library and the General Administration of Publication, which is equivalent to the dream world in Chu State, and only the Hongwen Pavilion can consult the most complete various documents left over from the previous dynasty.

To find information about the water plague, the Hongwen Pavilion is more complete than the Shang Medical Bureau.

Seeing that his father's attention was temporarily shifted to the Water Gu Plague, Han Qian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that with his father's mind, he would not regard the effective prevention and control of the Water Gu Disease as a trivial matter.

In the afternoon, Han Qian took Han Laoshan, Zhao Kuo and others to continue to select women who were healthy and had many heirs around them outside the city, and promised to marry Zhao Kuo, Fan Xicheng and others as wives.

The hungry people relied on the fish, crabs, shrimps and snails from the lakes and streams to prevent them from starving to death, but this made the water plague more and more serious among the hungry people outside the city, so that the rich and wealthy officials in the city were unwilling to choose slaves and tenant farmers from these hungry people.

Hundreds of thousands of hungry people were in a daze, stranded outside the city to catch their breath, and there was no other way to live at all, Han Qian and they went out of the city to pick people, and countless people flocked to sell themselves.

Even if he was sold into Goolan Courtyard as a slave and a prostitute, he did not hesitate, how could he refuse to drag his children and daughters and marry the soldiers of the Han Mansion as his wife?

Choosing people is not a problem, Han Qian took Fan Xicheng to find Liu Yuan, the county lieutenant of Jiangcheng County, and Zhang Qian, who was in Taowu Jili, and completed the civil recruitment, naturalization and other things together in the time when they were resting for three days and did not need to go to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion to respond to Mao.

In addition to Fan Dahei and Lin Haizheng, who are still young and do not need to marry in a hurry, Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo and other ten family soldiers in the house have no wives, and two of them are injured and sick, and they stay in the villa at this time to take care of the farm house over there.

At this time, Han Qian also selected a healthy woman for the two injured and sick soldiers and promised to marry them.

It's just that the stepson who passed to their knees, this time he lived in Wuli Lane with the other children of the soldiers.

After the matter was properly arranged, in addition to the ten family soldiers in the city, such as Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, Fan Dahei, and Lin Haizheng, there were forty more children of thirteen or fourteen-year-old soldiers in the city.

Among them, there are twenty-seven people, all of whom are the stepsons of Zhao Kuo and Fan Xicheng.

The house by the Shitang River is specially used for the food and lodging of the children of the writers and soldiers and the occasion for learning swords, bows and soldiers.

Fan Xicheng was very ridiculous that he had an extra wife, two stepdaughters, and three stepsons within three days, but he couldn't refuse this matter, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

When Fan Wucheng was there, he bullied Fan Dahei with an honest temperament.

Although both of them are Fan Xicheng's adopted sons, their relationship is not close, and at this time, there are five younger brothers and sisters at once, but Fan Dahei is very happy.

Zhao Kuofang also has an extra mother-in-law, two stepsons, and a stepdaughter.

The house near the Shitang River, in addition to Han Qian's daily practice of swords and bows, also doubles as a martial arts academy for many teenagers, teaching swords, bows, fists and feet and literacy; Han Laoshan and Lin Haizheng can usually take care of these things.

The only problem is that there are so many more dings at once, and the cost of the house has increased dramatically.

In the mountain villa, even if the soldiers can eat some meat, the so-called meat is actually very rare, and it can only be said that it is an occasional tooth sacrifice; Their family's status in the Han family is equivalent to a domestic slave, coarse tea and light rice, and it is already good to be able to eat three meals a day without being hungry.

Han Daoxun and Han Qian had to raise an extra fifty people in the world and not let them starve to death, which was not too difficult, and it was enough to select these people from the hungry people and give them food, but the problem was that if Han Qian really wanted to train and train these teenagers as reservists, the cost would be large.

The so-called poor and rich martial arts, thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, it is the time to grow their bodies, and they will have to practice fists, feet, knives and bows all day long, and the consumption is good, and their appetite is so big that they can eat a whole sheep every day.

Although Jinling is located in the south of the Yangtze River and is rich in products, the Jianghuai wars are endless, and Sichuan-Chongqing, Jingchu, Fujian and Guangdong are actually out of the control of Chu, and a large number of nobles have poured into Jinling City, which is still peaceful, which has made the prices in Jinling City, especially the price of meat, soar.

However, Han Qian couldn't let Zhao Kuo and Fan Xicheng, who were forced to marry their wives, bear these things, so that the daily expenses of the extra subsidized food alone would be thousands of dollars more.

In addition, additional gifts such as clothes are also given during the New Year's holidays.

These are far from enough to rely on Han Daoxun's official income and the harvest of the grange.

Fortunately, Han Qian, as the companion of the Marquis of Linjiang this time, had a lot of rewards in the palace, and the cloth, silk, cotton and other things were exchanged for grain, which could barely support for a while.

Three days later, Han Daoxun returned from the Hongwen Pavilion, and Han Qian invited his father to the courtyard by the Shitang River to see Fan Xicheng and Zhao Kuo The forty teenagers they had assembled in the courtyard of the river.

"All the Youths Have Made a Register......"

Fan Xicheng held the roster in his hand and introduced the teenagers lined up in the courtyard to Han Daoxun and Han Qian one by one.

In addition to his ancestral hometown, whose children and stepsons, as well as the temperament of these teenagers, etc., Fan Xicheng used three days to find out a rough idea, and they were all recorded clearly in the roster, which shows that he has been by Han Daoxun's side for all these years, and he is no longer an ordinary junior colonel in the army.

Fan Xicheng also divided these teenagers into five teams, and planned to select the five most clever teenagers as captains for key training.

Han Qian directly took the roster and looked through it, thinking that Fan Xicheng had learned some skills by following his father Han Daoxun, but he would not agree to Fan Xicheng's arrangement, so he took a red pen to outline the names of the other five teenagers, and said:

"You can choose these five people to be the captains, and discipline others to teach knives, bows, fists, and feet, and literacy."

"This ......" Fan Xicheng's old face turned red and argued, "These young people's life experience and temperament, the old slaves have asked carefully, and they will never dare to deceive at all." ”

Zhao Kuo tilted his head and looked over, and saw that the five teenagers selected by Han Qian were all people with relatively straightforward temperaments, and they could be said to be the most unsuitable candidates to be captains.

Don't say that Fan Xicheng suddenly became excited, feeling questioned by Han Qian for no reason, and he didn't understand why Han Qian chose these five people.

"Why these five?" Han Daoxun also asked suspiciously.

"I believe that Fan Ye's eyesight of people, these teenagers are not deeply involved in the world, and their temperament will not hide from Fan Ye's eyes, and it is precisely because of this that I think I should use five other people as captains...... Han Qian said.

As soon as Han Qian said this, Fan Xicheng and the others were even more confused.

Fan Xicheng is usually imperceptibly influenced by Han Daoxun, and he believes that the head of the family will arrange these teenagers, and he will also choose smart and clever people to be the first to focus on training.

This can be said to be the use of people because of their talents, each showing its ability, he can't understand why the young master wants to do the opposite?

Zhao Kuo narrowed his eyes and looked at these teenagers standing in the courtyard, some were bold and curious, some were sluggish, and some were cowering, thinking that if it was him, he would also use those teenagers who were bold and intelligent and eager to try, but seeing that Han Qian was so determined, it seemed that he had a good reason.

Han Qian didn't sell Guan Zi either, and explained to his father Han Daoxun:

"Fan Ye's method of selecting people, there is nothing unsafe, good teaching, maybe it won't take a year or two, these people can be used, but Fan Ye's method of selecting people can be achieved quickly, but it is not the best method in the minds of children. Those bold and intelligent teenagers who are eager to try, they also have a lot of self-confidence in their hearts that can surpass ordinary people, and at this time, use them as captains, whether it is to teach them fists, feet, knives and bows, or to arrange troops, or to arrange family rules, I believe they can master them faster than others; And for those loyal and simple teenagers, they feel inferior in their hearts, and it is not too difficult to follow orders with knives, guns and sticks. There may not seem to be anything wrong with this arrangement, but the biggest drawback is that there may only be four or five people who can really take charge of themselves in the future. And these four or five people may not be grateful to my Han family, because they think that they are superior to others in their hearts, and even if they can take charge of themselves in the future, they will think that they deserve it. In this way, how powerful can the Han family be in their minds? ”

Han Qian was talking about the placement of these teenagers, but Fan Xicheng, Lin Haizheng and others were restrained and uneasy when they heard it, and Han Qian's words may not have no intention of accusing them of slacking off the master's family.

Han Qian continued to explain to his father, Han Dohoon:

"Children do the opposite, in addition to learning knives, bows, fists, and feet, reading and literacy, the simple and humble young man is the first, and the smart young man is the last, and the usual things are also the opposite. For example, in the seemingly boring things of guarding the house, we should choose active people to hone their patience, and when it comes to running and transmitting messages, we should use seemingly clumsy teenagers to improve their agility. It would take even longer for these young men to really do their own thing, but in the end the loyal and simple ones were able to stretch their temperament and have the opportunity to stand alone, and the wise and bold were more calm, which made everyone useful, not just five. And whether it is learning knives, bows and fists, reading and writing, or assigning all kinds of affairs, if it is good, it will be rewarded, and if it is insufficient, it will be punished heavily, and those who are smart and bold and violate the rules will be punished even more severely - the child also believes that as long as the rewards and punishments of my Han family are clear, they can make them more impressed, so that the father can truly enforce the order and prohibition, and the power will gradually increase, and no one dares to slack off......"