At the end of April, the blacksmiths built their own stoves one by one and began mass production of bayonets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter the first batch of 1,000 bayonets was produced, Li Zhi equipped the bayonets with the selection regiment.

On this day, the catkins on the Fanjiazhuang training ground were flying, and the April sun was warm on people's bodies, which made people feel very comfortable. Li Zhi stood on the training ground in the thin clothes of early summer, watching the soldiers of the 1,000 Election Front Regiment practice bayonets.

"Thorn!"

"Thorn!"

Under the orders of the various platoon commanders, 1,000 soldiers raised their guns one after another. I saw a flash of swords, and a thousand bayonets rushed forward in unison, bringing out a terrifying murderous aura.

"Cut!"

"Cut!"

The soldiers swung their spears and slashed from above, and it was another blade.

Even if the enemy broke through the musket array and fired at him, Li Zhi's musketeers could also fight.

The soldiers grabbed their rifles and practiced the simple chopping and stabbing again and again until they were mastered.

Now Li Zhi has 4,000 soldiers, of which 3,700 are musketeers, who form the Selective Regiments and the Breaking Regiments respectively. The other 300 men were artillerymen, known to Li Zhi as the Thunder Battalion, responsible for operating fifty six-pounder guns - in the Battle of Ru 0 State, Li Zhi found that five people were still short of manpower to operate a six-pounder gun, so he changed it to six people to operate one cannon.

The two regiments and an artillery battalion were combined to form a division, called the Huben Division, with Li Zhi as the division commander. Of course, Li Zhi also served as the head of the selection team.

But in this way, there is no one to operate the heavy artillery of the city defense. Li Zhi planned to let the veterans of the artillery battalion be the backbone of the city's defense heavy artillery artillery, and then recruit another 130 recruits to supplement the Thunder Battalion and the city's defense artillery team.

In early May, Li Zhi set up a tent for physical examination in Fanjiazhuang and recruited another 130 artillerymen.

In addition to the Jiading team, Li Zhi, the Fanjiazhuang integrity officer, also has 400 regular soldiers, and his subordinate defense and management teams have a total of 450 regular soldiers. The salaries of these 850 regular soldiers should have been 1,700 taels per month, but the imperial court had insufficient funds, and with layers of deductions, only 600 taels were paid to Li Zhi every month in the past few months.

However, compared with the military salary of six cents per soldier when he was a defensive officer, the military salary paid in the conduct post was still one penny more, and each regular soldier was paid seven cents of silver per month.

If Li Zhi gave all the monthly salary of seven yuan per soldier, then he should give three hundred and fifteen taels of silver to his subordinates. However, Li Zhi knew that if he did not deduct the silver, the extra silver would also fall into the private pockets of the junior military attachés, so he simply deducted the salary of one penny of silver per soldier, and only issued two hundred and seventy taels of silver -- the lower defensive officers still received six silver taels per soldier as before.

Of the six hundred taels of silver that had been sent down, there were three hundred and thirty taels left.

Fanjiazhuang originally had 36 guards and soldiers, which were used by Li Zhi as armed police and soldiers defending the city. At this time, Li Zhi had 330 taels of silver, so according to the standard of 2 taels of silver per person, he recruited another 129 sturdy regular soldiers, forming a total of 165 regular soldiers, which served as auxiliaries to defend the city walls, stand guard and patrol the city.

Of course, in line with the principle of making the best use of people, Li Zhi has also formulated high-intensity training tasks for this team, so he also provides three meals with meat. This kind of food costs one or two taels of silver per person per month, which is equivalent to Li Zhi's loss of two hundred and fifty taels of silver per month.

Fortunately, Li Zhi has many industries, and this bit of money can afford it.

In mid-May, Zheng Kaicheng, commander of the fourth battalion of the Xuanfeng Regiment, got married.

Zheng Kaicheng took out a loan to buy a luxury villa in Fanjiazhuang, and the wedding was held in his luxury villa. The bride is the daughter of the tailor of the Dou family in the east of the Acropolis, and she was born very smart. Zheng Kaicheng is twenty-one years old this year, and according to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, he married late. The woman is only fifteen years old this year, six years younger than Zheng Kaicheng.

That is, Zheng Kaicheng is now a senior officer, so he can marry such a young and beautiful girl.

Zheng Kaicheng is a lively personality and is good at human feelings. On the day of the wedding, Zheng Kaicheng went to pick up the bride early, and then left the bride in the new house, standing at the door of his own courtyard to greet the guests who came to the banquet. Most of the people who came to Zheng Kaicheng's wedding were the senior managers of the Li family, the officers of the Xuanfeng Regiment and the Breaking Regiment, and the senior officials in the command office. These people are all well-known figures in Fanjiazhuang, and Zheng Kaicheng greeted them one by one, very enthusiastic.

When he arrived at Zhengyou, Li Zhi traveled lightly and came to the door of Zheng Kaicheng's house with two guards. Zheng Kaicheng was very happy to see Li Zhi coming, and walked up and said, "Teacher! You're here in person! ”

Li Zhi smiled: "How can I not come when you get married!" ”

Zheng Kaicheng placed the wedding banquet in the main hall and courtyard, with three tables in the main hall and four tables outside, which were arranged in an orderly manner. Li Zhi sat at the main table in the center of the hall, of course. Li Xing, Li Laosi, Zhong Feng and other officers, Zheng Yuan, Li Dao and other senior executives, Zheng Hui and other senior officials also sat at the main table with Li Zhi.

As soon as Li Zhi was in place, Zheng Kaicheng made the wedding banquet begin. Everyone was a little hungry at this time, and it was not lively to eat vegetables and meat.

After eating for a while, Zheng Kaicheng stood up and saluted Li Zhi with a glass of wine.

"Divisional commander! Thanks to you, I, Zheng Kaicheng, can marry a wife today, and it is the luck of the Zheng family to have such a good relative as a teacher! Zheng Kaicheng will always be grateful to you, my lord! Subordinates toast you! ”

Seeing that Zheng Kaicheng's words were still so good, Li Zhi raised his wine glass with a smile and drank all the Jinhua wine in the cup in one gulp.

The officers and executives present were very moved when they saw Li Zhi toasting his subordinates so crisply. It's really not easy to find a gentle Shangguan these days, not to mention that this Shangguan is so capable, so that the subordinates who follow him have a bright future!

After Zheng Kaicheng finished drinking, Li Xing stood up and said, "Big brother! I'll toast you too. Our Li family has today, and it all depends on the eldest brother alone! Originally, both of us were going to be servants! ”

Li Xing's admiration for Li Zhi in his words was overflowing, and it was obvious that he was very proud of the Li family's achievements today.

However, when Li Xing's last sentence was heard, everyone burst into laughter, as if they had heard an impossible thing.

After speaking, Li Xing drank all the wine in the wine glass. Li Zhi saw that his younger brother was heroic, and he could only drink the soju in the glass.

After Li Xing finished toasting, Li Laosi stood up and said very excitedly: "Host, I toast you." If it weren't for the owner, I wouldn't be able to eat Li Laosi, I would be hungry and full, and I don't know if I could survive the winter of the previous year! Owner, you are my reborn parents! Li Laosi can only repay you with a lifetime of charging into battle! ”

After saying this, Li Laosi raised his head excitedly and finished drinking.

Seeing that Li Laosi was still so grateful, Li Zhi smiled and took another drink.

Zhong Feng, the commander of the second battalion of the Xuanfeng Regiment, stood up at this time, he was always arrogant and not good at words, but at this time he just said loudly: "My lord! I, Zhong Feng, also thank you for giving me such a good errand! I toast you! ”

After drinking three glasses of wine in a row, Li Zhi's face was already a little red, and he said, "Today is Zheng Kaicheng's marriage, why do you come to respect me?" ”

Zhong Feng didn't dare to persuade him to drink anymore when he heard this, he was a little embarrassed to stand there with a wine glass, and he could only sit down.

Li Zhi waited for him to sit down, and drank the wine from the wine glass with his head up. Seeing this, Zhong Feng quickly stood up again, raised his head and drank the soju in his hand.

After Li Zhi drank this cup, Zheng Yuan, Li Dao and others also came up to toast, but Li Zhi didn't give them a chance. He stood up and said loudly, "Don't respect me, I'll drink high if I drink any more." Come, let's toast the groom together! ”

Everyone at the main table stood up, raised their glasses to Zheng Kaicheng and said, "We toast the groom!" ”

Zheng Kaicheng hurriedly stood up and said to Li Zhi: "Subordinates don't dare to be!" ”

After saying this, Zheng Kaicheng raised his head and drank the wine in the wine glass.