On the 24th of the lunar month, after the auction of the shop foundation at the Lijia Road crossing, several important activities during the opening of the market basically ended.

Nearby businessmen left some people to take care of the business, have gone back for the New Year, the distance is simply stayed, anyway, there is good food, good to live, and even a courtyard called "Linhu Xuan" has been built, it is said that it is still a branch of the Beijing Alum Building, which will open within the year, so that these rich people have a lot of expectations.

Gu Haotian has been going back and forth frequently between Liangshan and Lijia Daokou these days, and it was also on the 24th, watching the operation of the market on the right track, that he handed over the matter to Han Jiangping, Pei Xuan and others, there are too many things backlogged at the end of the manor, and the time at the end of the year is running out.

I don't think it's another year, compared with before, Liangshan Manor in 1112 has undergone great changes in both internal strength and external environment.

In terms of its own strength, the population, financial resources, and escort force have all doubled compared with last year.

The most obvious is that the strength of the escort team has been greatly improved, first of all, a group of powerful generals have been added, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Xu Ning, Luan Tingyu, Yang Zhi, Zheng Yuanjue, Li Jun, Zhang Shun, Qin Ming, Tang Bin, Hao Siwen, etc., most of the top generals in the original Water Margin have been enrolled, and there are more real historical generals such as Wang Yu, Han Shizhong, Yang Zaixing, etc. At the end of last year, there were 14 battalions in total, with less than 10,000 cavalry and only one cavalry battalion. The cavalry has developed most rapidly, and if you count the seven cavalry battalions of Luan Tingyu, which will be established soon, the number can reach more than 4,000. The third is that the equipment has been comprehensively strengthened, with the continuous updating of the equipment of the ordnance workshop and the continuous expansion of the scale, all branches of the escort force have all used their own production of equipment, that is, each person has a plate armor, such as horizontal knives, swords, bows and arrows can meet the needs of the escort team. As for the products of the firearms workshop, there has been a substantial breakthrough, and it is just around the corner to put them into actual combat. The second is that the financial resources are more abundant. The two actions of Zhujiazhuang and Qingzhou Salt Farm to fight local tyrants suddenly increased the grain of 600,000 stone and the wealth of more than 800,000 taels to the treasury of Liangshan. Moreover, in the next step, with the Lijiadaokou market on the right track and the continuous output of private salt, Liangshan has no worries about financial resources.

What makes Gu Haotian even more pleased is that with the continuous participation of well-known literati such as Zhao Ding, Zhang Jiucheng, Zhang Suo, Jiang Jing, Pei Xuan, etc., Liangshan's governance ability has been greatly improved, and the arrival of professionals such as Gongsun Sheng, Hu Cheng, An Daoquan, Ling Zhen, Meng Kang, Jin Dajian, etc., has gradually made up for the shortcomings of various industries, and the career of Liangshan Manor is now showing a good trend of thriving and blooming.

On the 25th, Gongsun Sheng and Ma Ling returned to Liangshan with the third batch of Hebei Qingzhuang and the fourth battalion of sailors with Fei Bao, accompanied by Deng Fei, who had long wanted to come, and Yu Machuan left the fourth battalion of infantry of Teng Ji and Xue Can, as well as the logistics working group of Du Qian and Jiang Jing. So far, Yinmachuan has been completely integrated into the system of Liangshan and has become a fortress nailed to Liangshan Zhuangshan in Hebei.

On the 26th, Xiao Jiasui and Hao Siwen's first battalion of cavalry also returned to Liangshan. On December 15, he recalled the treasurers of Guangling Salt Industry from all over the country, and after the identification of the head of the Cui family, he cleaned up a group of Cui family friends, recruited a group of available people, and then sent people to Qingzhou to dredge the joints with Murong Yanda, and slowly took control of the Guangling salt industry. Later, he asked Li Jun to concurrently serve as the director, Jiao Ting and Zhang Heng as the deputy directors, temporarily managing the salt works in Laizhou Bay, and he and Hao Siwen went first

Come back.

On 27 July, Liangshan Manor held a meeting of the commanders of various departments and battalions in the conference room of the Zhonghua Hall, including eight chiefs of military administration, staff officers, civil affairs, education, finance, commerce, infrastructure, intelligence, and logistics, and 25 battalions of the escort unit.

Gu Haotian combined with the practice of his previous life, contrary to his own practice in previous years, and asked all departments to report on their work in the past year and their plans for the next year. Those battalion commanders were secretly relieved when they saw that they had not been able to point to themselves, but they listened to the little official who said that there were many battalions in the escort team, so they would not report them one by one at the meeting, but each battalion must write a written summary after the meeting and submit it to the Military and Political Department, which must indicate the good practices of the past year, the shortcomings, and the plans for the next year, and must not be lazy or perfunctory, and the quality of the summary is linked to the number of year-end merit evaluations in the battalion.

Gongsun Sheng was invited to attend such a meeting for the first time, he was very rare in this way of deliberation, but when he thought about it carefully, it was very subtle, so that it was clear at a glance whether he was good or bad, how much he did and how little he did, and avoided the possibility of indiscriminate filling, and also forced the leaders to study and study, but it was a good trick.

At the time when the battalion commanders were sad, Wen Huanzhang made a summary of the career development of the past year on behalf of the manor management office, systematically described the achievements of the year, the difficulties faced, and the tasks of the new year, and also announced the preliminary evaluation quota of each battalion in various places.

Who knew that Lu Zhishen immediately answered and said that he would rather go to the battlefield and kill you to the death than write this summary. When everyone heard this, they laughed together, and the atmosphere was much more lively.

Gu Haotian looked at the reactions of the battalion commanders, and knew very well what they were thinking, in the later generations, he was also the most troublesome to write reports and summaries, but he also knew that if this thing was to really write a famous name, it would not work without real materials. Therefore, he wants to slowly inculcate this concept, one is to let everyone form a good habit of doing things, and the other is to force these people to learn and practice calligraphy.

The escort team already has a good learning mechanism, but in the second half of this year, the number of team members increased sharply, Xiao Rang's manpower was insufficient, coupled with the resistance of Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Zheng Yuanjue and other big bosses, the education part was invisibly a little loose, so Gu Haotian wanted to start from these leaders and re-grasp this piece.

At the end of the meeting, Gu Haotian emphasized the grim situation facing next year, and asked everyone to work together to tide over the difficulties.

But the twenty or so battalion commanders didn't pay attention to what the imperial court requisitioned and the like, but were entangled in the summary that was going to be handed in in the near future.

As soon as the meeting ended, Xiao Jiasui pestered Xiao Jiasui and complained: "Director Xiao, the first battalion has stayed in the manor this year, and it is not my turn to go there, what do you want me to summarize?" ”

It turned out that he went out to Cangzhou to pick up horses this year, and spent the rest of the time training in the manor, and felt that he had no achievements in making a move.

"Although your first infantry battalion has participated in very few battles this year, have you ever thought about how many talents you have sent to other battalions, and the achievements of that battalion are not due to you?"

He was stunned for a moment when he heard Xiao Jiasui's words, and his heart suddenly brightened, and he suddenly felt that the petty officials had continuously drawn people from his battalion and invisibly improved the status of his battalion, but they valued him.

Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong walked all the way, with his cannon barrel

temper, if it weren't for the third brother talking about this today, I was afraid that he would have rebelled at that time.

"Brother, I know you don't think so, but the third brother has good intentions! You think, he wants to do great things, if all his subordinates are illiterate, how will he use it in the future, even if he lays down this country, who will rule the country, you and I are his dearest brothers, I am afraid that others will look at our words and deeds! ”

"I said, the Sprinkle family will also go to Xiao Rang to suffer in the future!"

Although Lu Zhishen is irritable, he is shrewd, and Lin Chong will be thorough with him.

Xiao Rang has been rarely sought after these days, and since he was transferred to the Education Department, he has organized the personnel of the escort team to conduct rotational training step by step, and also selected clever teenagers from among the children of the common people for education at the request of the petty officials. However, it was too few people to be considerate, and it was only later that the Manor Management Office asked the directors of the departments to take time to participate in the teaching, which improved, but the Education Department did not pay as much attention as the Civil Affairs Office. But in the past two days, many battalion commanders and directors have taken the initiative to find him here, and have asked him to recommend talents to help teach, he was busy, and suddenly thought that this education department was not actually a quiet place, but he did not play his due role, and remembered the explanation between the petty officials and Mr. Wen that day, and did not feel guilty.

For the next two days, Liangshan Manor was spent in joy and tension. The Gu family once again set up a pig killing feast, and the people who worked hard in the manor for a year were once again glorified; The appraisal of meritorious service was enthusiastically carried out in all battalions and localities, and the system of democratic centralism was once again brought into play and perfected. The Civil Affairs Department and the Military Administration Department carried out year-end condolences in the manor, and received wide praise. Unlike last year, the training of the escort team has not been relaxed, and the Spring Festival holiday has not yet been determined. The Intelligence Division has become even busier, and intelligence officers are constantly traveling back and forth to collect all kinds of information.

Until the morning of the 29th, Liangshan Manor held an annual commendation meeting in the main hall of the Zhonghua Hall, where nearly 100 people, including the 52 leaders of the escort team at home, the directors and deputy directors of various departments, and Gongsun Sheng, Luan Tingyu, Ma Ling, Yang Xiong, Deng Fei, Jin Dajian and others who had not yet been appointed. According to the usual practice, the manor management office commended the first, second, and third-class meritorious personnel, and then Gu Haotian delivered a New Year's speech, followed by a grand New Year's banquet at Liangshan Restaurant.

On the last day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Gu Haotian took the relevant personnel to visit every camp stationed in the manor, and then he went to the homes of Xu Zhiren and Hua Rong.

Xu Churen is now watching the changes in Liangshan as a bystander, but at least he is no longer rejecting Liangshan Manor, and he is also happy to accept the gift of Gu Haotianxing's teachers and students. The Hua family now has no head of the family, Gu Haotian's visit made the family women and children grateful, and Hua Rong's wife said at the time that if Hua Rong came back, he would not let him leave.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Gu Hao returned home, but he couldn't be easy, the scale of the Gu family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has always been unpredictable, and there have been a lot of people added this year, so he has to worry about it.

The Gu family's dinner tonight this year has been eaten from six tables to more than ten tables, after the beginning of the dispersal, Gu Haotian returned to the back house to greet his parents, and then sat down to accompany the New Year, but was driven out by the Li family and asked him to go back to his yard.

Gu Haotian was inexplicable, when he returned to the courtyard, he found that the room was lit with orange lights, and when he pushed the door in, he saw a few plates of melons and fruits on the table, and three flower-like women were sitting around one side, it was Li Shishi, Hu Sanniang, and Pan Jinlian. For a moment, he felt a little sudden, and couldn't help but think of the two infatuated women who were far away in Jeju and Beijing, and suddenly a strong emotion surged in his heart:

Life loves me so much, how can I live up to it!

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