Zhang Laoshi is a native of Qingyang, Sizhou Prefecture, and grew up in this small town since he was a child, and the Sui Canal flows from the upstream to the town and divides into two, with the Sui River in the north and the Bianhe River in the south and the Hongze Lake in the south. The town is sandwiched between two rivers, since ancient times it is the land of fish and rice, the ancestors of the family left him an oil mill, at the age of eighteen he took the daughter of Mr. Xu, who taught in the town, and his wife Xu's carefully managed, a family of six lived a rich life, four years ago Huaisi drought, there was a shortage of grain everywhere, and then there was no excess grain for oil extraction, fortunately, the family had more savings, and finally passed the most difficult time, seeing that the autumn grain was about to be harvested, never expected, the Yan army went south, and the whole family had to go south to avoid the military disaster, Along the way, the parents and son died of illness one after another, and when they were desperate, they saw the large group of victims heading south, so they followed them and came to the Yangtze River. I met Xiangyang Wang Gan's family soup kitchen.

Originally, his family of three did not belong to this team, when a sergeant shouted to line up and receive porridge in order. Zhang Laoshi's family of three is in the back position. At this time, I saw a group of officials walking by with an eight- or nine-year-old young master, only to hear the young master say to the people around him: "I see that the queue here is too long, and the women, children and elderly people in the back are relatively weak. ”

Xu came to the front with the officers and soldiers and saw that the displaced people were divided into dozens of groups, one in front of each cauldron, and first those who were obviously hungry and dying, then women, children, and the elderly. Looking at the steaming, fragrant rice pot and homeless people, there was obviously a commotion, and some young people in the back were ready to move, but seeing that the military masters next to him were all strong and strong, looking at each other, holding the sword in their hands, who dared to move slightly?

In fact, everyone thinks that it is more important to save women and children first, but since the little prince has spoken, everyone naturally follows meticulously.

The women led the children, and they all came out in surprise with broken bowls like themselves, and in such an army of displaced people, weak people like them had always been the first to be abandoned, and they were hungry and even in danger of being eaten.

Looking at the rice porridge scooped into the bowl, many of them were busy gulping and drinking, many of them were full of tears, Xu suddenly knelt down, although she looked quite haggard, but did not change her beauty, choked up: "Dare to ask the uncle to be happy with the name, high grace and friendship, the little woman is a cow and a horse, and there is no way to repay it." ”

Immediately knelt down a piece of people, for them to scoop porridge is a stout army fireman, see their grateful Dade look, he also quite enjoyed, he said: "These money and grain are from the little prince of Xiangyang, he is a handsome little son, you drink porridge, but remember his old man's kindness." ”

Xu saw Gan Tang walking towards the Yangtze River with a few officials, and asked, "Which little boy is it?" ”

The man nodded. Her daughter Zhang Jiayu firmly remembered the appearance and name of her little brother. The mother and daughter held the bowl but did not drink, and returned to the crowd happily. Coming to Zhang Laoshi, Zhang Jiayu handed the porridge to his father and said, "Daddy, you drink porridge." Zhang said honestly: "I don't drink it, Yu'er does." Zhang Jiayu responded and drank happily, and Xu comforted her softly and asked her daughter to drink slowly.

Seeing her daughter's sweet porridge, she remembered the appearance of her parents and son before they died, her eyes were red, and she suddenly hugged her head and cried. An old man said: "I see that the little prince first saves women and children, and then saves the young and strong, although it is contrary to common sense, but it is secretly in line with the way of the sage." A Xiucai next to him, who seemed to have read a book, sneered: "Saint? My family's land was robbed by the saint's disciples and grandchildren, and the saint still died a good death. The old gentleman's face was red.

The healers accompanying the team, looking at the homeless people, repeatedly emphasized to the people who shared the porridge that each person could only drink two bowls, otherwise they would be worried about violent death. Then everyone was arranged to cross the river on the boat, and when they arrived in Jiangnan, men and women were separated, and they entered two large houses respectively, after Zhang Laoshi entered, he saw a large pool of hot water boiling inside, and the officers and soldiers inside urged everyone to take off their clothes, let everyone wash dry and quietly, and each person was given two sets of new clothes. The old clothes were burned down. This is the request of Gantang, so as not to spread the disease and cause the plague to occur.

Zhang Laoshi came out from inside and saw his wife and daughter, all dressed in brand new dresses, a family of three, like a dream, more than 10,000 people lined up for twelve hours

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Wu bathed for nearly five or six days. On the third day, a sergeant with a loud voice announced that 4,000 young men would be selected from more than 10,000 people to be trained in the troops, and that those who lagged behind would be returned at any time during the training, and in the end only 3,000 people would be retained. Families who have entered the army can eat rice and broth. Other families can only drink porridge and one steamed bun per person per day. Among the more than 10,000 people, more than eighty percent of them are young and strong, and most of the old and weak have not been able to persist until now, so the competition is quite fierce.

Since Zhang Laoshi and his wife both studied in private schools, they were arranged to teach children between the ages of five and twelve to read and write, and the family of three also received the same treatment as military dependents.

Ten days later, the 4,000 homeless people selected Qingzhuang and 1,000 disciples of various factions began to gather and train, as early as after the Shangyuan Festival, Gan Tang selected 150 literate people from the 1,000 Mingjiao and Jiangbei martial arts that arrived first, plus 100 old soldiers in the family, to form an officer training group. These officer training regiments were conducted in advance. He personally compiled the "Minutes of Infantry Training." Strictly follow this book for training.

He now relies on the essence of military training in the three eras and edited into a book, since there is a wealth of knowledge in later generations, but Gan Tang believes that practicality is the best, so he takes the Ming Dynasty Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Practical Record of Military Training" two military books as the main body. Integrate a small number of Gan Mao's "Military Secretaries" in the "Military Secrets" "Training Strategy", and integrate a small number of modern "Infantry Recruit Training Outline". Such a military book, Gan Tang thinks that this is the most suitable trial manual for the contemporary army.

From the first day, the recruits were divided into 500 teams of 10 people, including 250 teams of 10 people, led by Han Chong, Fang Tianhua, and Duan Shuchang in the morning for 3-kilometer long-distance running physical training, to see the overall physical condition, and then gradually increase the distance of long-distance running, and for each long-distance run, you can rest for ten minutes, and then continue. In addition, there are 250 teams of 10 people, each led by a member of the officer training corps, and conducts small team training such as turning left and right and walking in unison. In the afternoon, the two sides exchanged training content.

On the first day, the team of long-distance running was nothing, but the 2,500 people who participated in the queue training, the queue can be said to be miserable, the team is crooked, not to mention, everyone can't even tell the left and right, fortunately, there is the experience of the previous 250 people training, each person tied a rope on his right arm, marked left and right. At the end of the day, the crowd was more tired than the runners.

By the third day, corporal punishment began to be carried out on the left and right, and in the early years of the Southern Summer, the social literacy rate was less than 10%, and the cohort training alone lasted for 20 days. In these 20 days, the other young people who were not selected were built in the place where the displaced people in the south of the Yangtze River were stayed, rows of simple houses were erected, and the nearby roads were renovated. After the renovation of the surrounding area is completed, they will also extend to the surrounding area to renovate the roads and bridges around Jiangning.

Some women, children, and elderly people who were okay went to the training ground every day to watch the training of recruits, and every time they saw the recruits lining up for training and making jokes, they burst into laughter. This is the first time in several years that they are smiling happily, and the laughter is gradually increasing among the refugees.

On the twentieth day, the recruits began their first assessment, starting with a 10-kilometer run in the morning, and the last 500 were eliminated, and the rest began in the afternoon with a parade performance, and another 500 were eliminated. Of the 4,000 people who were temporarily retained, the first 1,000 family members were given a new set of clothes and the opportunity to attend the dinner. And those family members who were eliminated felt too ashamed and couldn't hold their heads up in front of everyone.

Such measures have further stimulated the enthusiasm of the remaining soldiers for training. From the 22nd, the troops began to carry out individual weapon training and team cooperation training, and the methods used were completely in accordance with Qi Jiguang's training methods.

In the last half month, the soldiers were divided into groups of five, the tall one in the middle held a two-zhang long bamboo, and the branches in front of the bamboo were left two or three feet long, and each branch was sharpened with a knife, and a two-inch-long double-edged thin blade was hung. One person on each side of the bamboo-bearer holds a large shield to protect him, and two people in the rear, one holding a single knife and one holding a spear to guard the rear. This is Qi Jiguang's invention of mountain and plain warfare, an invincible battle formation of infantry against infantry.

This is the real hedgehog, with this Qi Jiguang once broke the record of 20,000 widows with 1,000 people, and the brilliant record of less than 10 people was killed and wounded. Imagine a circle of 1,000 people

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, what is the situation of moving forward. No matter how many people in that era were given in vain.

In early spring, the time is to the morning, when walking through the market by the Xuanwu Lake River, there are pedestrians near and far, after the snow melts in spring, the carriages and horses come and go in Jiankang along the way, the original merchants come to Jiankang, in the capital of this great summer, you can also relax a little, the dart masters with knives and guns look left and right in the market, speak loudly, and discuss the prosperity of the city with their companions. Once out of the city and really on the road, such a prosperous scene is rare. Soon after the snow melted, the surrounding willow trees had not yet sprouted, but some birds flew over and chirped gracefully. Boats shuttle on the river, and fishing songs are bursting.

In this early spring weather, there is not much nervousness. Gan Tang sat in the car, holding a stack of manuscripts and looking at them, the simplified font, combined with a part of the Chinese pinyin, the articles written with a quill pen, the people around him could not see it. Behind the side, there was a man with a low-key dress and a burly figure, riding a horse and following closely beside the carriage, this person was the Danba of the Great Light Sect, and the other guards followed the surrounding area relatively far away. The group came to a compound not far from the city, which was given to Gan Tang by Queen Xie, and was originally a royal courtyard.

The door opened, and a man in his fifties, tall and thin, dressed as a civil official, but with a rigorous aura that had been cultivated by the perennial commanding spirit, looked respectful to Gan Tang and others. This person Gan Tang was seen once by Emperor Suzong, and he was a member of the Ministry of Industry, named Zhang Rui, who was said to be highly valued by Qian Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Seeing Gan Tang getting out of the car, he hurriedly saluted: "Xiaguan is waiting for the prince, the people the prince wants to see, the lower official will ask them to wait in the hall, please come with the lowering official." ”

Coming to the hall, a few people saluted Gan Tang, at this time these people stood in front of Gan Tang, all of them were rough, full of wind and frost, and the clothes on their bodies were also tattered, and they all bowed their heads nervously, not daring to look at Gan Tang.

Gan Tang carefully inquired about the application of iron making and gunpowder, and got the news that made Gan Tang very frustrated. Black gunpowder has not yet been invented, and now it is commonly used in the military is yellow powder, and iron making is not enough, because the carbon content of iron is too high, and the process of building iron pipes can not get Gantang's requirements, so now I have to give up the idea of building muskets. Technological innovation cannot be completed overnight, but depends on the accumulation of experience and continuous improvement of technology. Rockets and Divine Fire Crows, which are now relatively mature in military applications, are both military applications at the most basic level of gunpowder.

But Gantang is not without harvest, an old carpenter brought a surprise to Gantang, the carpenter head is called Yu Mao, around fifty years old, very stout, but his face is shrewd, Gan Tang carefully asked him some carpentry process questions.

Yu Mao said: "Back to the prince, it's not a small boast, what you asked about punching holes in the wood, the small one assured you that the small one can make small holes with the thickness of needle and thread on all the hardwood, as for what the prince said, the small one can be made completely." ”

This era is the most developed era of Chinese woodworking technology, and several halls of the Ouchi Imperial Palace, without a single iron nail, are all made of wooden sockets. By hand alone, even more than in the 21st century with modern tools.

Gan Tang took out a drawing and gave it to Yu Mao and asked him if he could make it, Yu Mao looked at it and replied: "This is too easy, give me three days to come up with a sample." The wood you said is also easy, in the southern mountains, there are thousands of years of red sandalwood, and there are harder wood iron pears than this, hard as steel, fine as silk. However, there are not many large materials in the iron pear workshop like His Royal Highness, and the main production areas of raw materials are in Piao Country (Myanmar), and there are also in the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou, but there are few. ”

"Okay, as long as you can do what I want, I will pay you three times the money, and I will hand over one hundred carpenters out of five hundred craftsmen to you to manage. I will make samples first, and if it is combined, I will send people to the south to buy a large amount of wood needed. ”

Gan Tang also took out the firing of cement, the construction of the blast furnace, the method of decarbonizing the steel, the waterwheel and its linkage device, the formula of black gunpowder and the method of making the fire rope, and handed them to the relevant craftsmen and asked them to test them. As long as the results are present, the reward method is the same as Yu Mao.

In mid-June, the imperial court sent more than 100 seagoing ships, all more than 10,000 displaced people and their supplies, loaded into ships and sailed to the East China Sea.

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