Ordinary military training in Tuntian is certainly boring, and it is difficult for it to develop rapidly. Luo Cheng is not the kind of person who is willing to be lonely, although he is willing to live an ordinary life, he is never willing to live a lonely life.

The troubled times are coming, there are knives, guns and brothers in his hands, that is the power of self-preservation, he knows this better than anyone else, without these, then even if he Luo Cheng can make more money to buy more land, as soon as the curtain of this troubled world opens, then he is just the target of the rebels of the homeless people, and he is just the fat meat they covet.

The future is too far away, Luo Cheng won't think too much, but the troubled times are just around the corner, and the counties of Henan are still the places that will suffer the most severe and repeated ravages in the troubled times, so he has to prepare early.

Three hundred recruits were recruited, and Luo Cheng asked the eight brigade commanders of Heiye and Lao Wang and other old leaders to train every day. The summer harvest has just passed, and the autumn planting has just been settled, and although the weather is hot now, time waits for no one.

Every ten years, Luo Cheng would summarize the information on bandits sent by the township regiments and county camps in each county, then verify and verify it, and finally gather it together, and then have people copy it and send it back to each county.

Now there are as many as eighteen counties that have joined his alliance, not only in Henan, but also in Hebei and Huainan. There are more than 100 counties in 18 counties, hundreds of townships, and a huge network of township league alliances has been opened.

There is more and more information gathered, and Luo Cheng can't be busy at all.

So he recruited a group of people who were specifically responsible for collating this information. Someone sorts it out, someone checks it, someone analyzes it, and someone copies it.

Because there was a lot of information, Luo Cheng simply made this intelligence sharing into a newspaper, and the name was Reference News. This newspaper is actually a hand-copied newspaper, which is published every ten days, with an interval of ten days. The above is basically a collection of bandit information from various counties and counties, and later added some news of the latest decrees of the imperial court, or the disaster situation in some places.

Later, Luo Cheng also deliberately added local legends, geographical customs, etc. in various counties. Later, he would even make some advertisements on it, such as what goods were for sale in the hands of merchants in such and such counties.

From the first more than 10 copies, to now this reference information is CC 500 copies every ten years, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger.

For this reason, he also specially built a courtyard in Zhangqiu City, and invited many poor scholars to be responsible for doing these things here, and there were more than a dozen newspaper copyers alone.

Now this newspaper is not only in the hands of the county governors and township school captains of various counties, but even the officials of various counties, such as the Taishou County Governor and the County Commander, are also very interested in this newspaper.

These people usually borrow from the governors of various counties, because there are a lot of practical news on it, not only local bandit news, but also current political news of the court, and even the people's livelihood economy in various places, local customs, etc., sometimes there will be some advertisements, sometimes there will be some strange stories, legendary stories, etc., although it is a little vulgar, but everyone can understand it, and it is more time-sensitive and anecdotal, etc., it is good to turn it over.

Nowadays, many officials want to order a copy directly, and they don't have to wait for others to read it every time to borrow it.

Therefore, now Luo Cheng thinks that he can increase the number of copies of this "Reference News" to 3,000 copies, after all, this newspaper has now spread to 18 counties, and even radiated to 20 or 30 counties, mapping to 1,200 counties, so many officials, so many local wealthy and powerful households, are quite interested in this newspaper.

However, if the newspaper is distributed to 3,000 copies, even if it is only published every ten years, it will not be possible to copy it by hand.

He decided to try engraving and printing, find someone to engrave woodblocks, and then print, so that as long as he engraved a plate, then thousands of copies and more could be printed, which greatly saved manpower and material resources.

Luo Cheng found some carving masters, told them the concept of this engraving, explained it for a long time, and then asked them to try. The result is good, for the masters, engraving and engraving are connected, but it is covered with paper on the board, and then carved against it, although it is carved in reverse, but for them, there is no difference between anti and not, many engraving masters are illiterate at all, they just carve the same pattern.

All Luo Cheng needs is a book writer, and after writing, he will hand it over to the engraver, and then he will be responsible for checking the layout, and the rest is printing.

However, there was a bit of a problem in the middle, and the printing failed after using ordinary ink. In the end, he remembered the word ink, which must have been mixed with oil, and then found an ink master to ask him to find a way to make ink that could be printed without sticky, and after giving the ten times bounty, the master spent more than ten days to get it out, although the effect was not particularly good, but at least it could be printed.

For a reference newspaper of about thirty or forty pages bound into a volume, Luo Cheng charges fifty yuan, which is about the price of a pound of beef, and three thousand copies at a time are sold for one hundred and fifty yuan, and the cost can account for about one hundred yuan.

Luo Cheng can earn fifty yuan in the first period, and the profit is not high, but he attaches great importance to this matter, because he knows that the reference news newspaper is not just a money-making commodity, this is a platform, and it is a public opinion position.

As long as the newspaper has enough news, it means that he speaks loud enough to let more people hear him.

Although he didn't really want to say anything about it now, he had the ability.

The main cost of newspapers is still paper and ink, and labor is not expensive, but the cost of paper and ink is too expensive these days.

Qi Guoyuan and Li Ruqi did not participate in this newspaper, they were concentrating on training, preparing to suppress bandits and make money.

It's Shan Binbin, this girl hasn't gone back yet, and Shan Xiongxin hasn't sent anyone to pick her up. Luo Cheng sent a few letters, and finally Shan Xiongxin finally replied, but said that he would let Luo Cheng help take care of him for a while, and then he sent a group of domestic servants with the letter and sent Luo Cheng three hundred yuan.

This made Luo Cheng cry and laugh, no matter how you look at it, it looks like Shan Xiongxin threw away this girl as a burden, or because he has been here with Luo Cheng for a long time, he simply gave it to Luo Cheng.

Shan Binbin has no heart and lungs all day long, and the two of them are crazy and crazy with the red line, they are tired of wandering around, so they will run to Luo Cheng to torture him for a while, sometimes they come to learn to ride and shoot with Luo Cheng, and let him give him guidance. Sometimes I come to his house to search for something new, or go to the newspaper office to ask for a freshly published newspaper, or come to Luo Cheng to eat and drink.

Recently, the two became obsessed with the legendary stories in the reference newspaper, and after reading them, they couldn't enjoy it, and then they went around collecting all kinds of folk rumors and myths, and actually became writers and began to submit articles to the newspaper.

It made Luo Cheng really quiet for a while.

Luo Cheng is now Sima of Yingyang Mansion, but he used his influence to form a team directly under Sima, this team of fifty people, commanded by him personally, Guo Xiaoke, Wang Junkuo, Li Junxian, Zhang Liang and Wang Tiehan five people served as the fire chief, Kan Ling, Ximen Junyi, Wang Xiongdan's three righteous sons still served as his heralds and attendants.

This team of fifty people is directly under the team, everyone is equipped with horses, all of them have horizontal knives, spears, strong bows, and crossbows, one person and two armor and black iron helmets, and those who can be selected are basically more than seven and a half feet tall and can ride and shoot well.

Qi Biao and Li Bao were secretly dissatisfied with Luo Cheng's transfer of the elite in the mansion and the formation of such a team, but because of Luo Cheng's prestige in the camp, the two still didn't say anything in the end.

Luo Cheng personally trained this team, and his training method was simpler and more direct than Li Qi and others, and he directly led the team out to run. March, camping, and then looking for bandits, if there is no large group, look for the guys, and even some thieves are caught.

Not only can you train the army, but you can also make some foreign money.

Because Luo Cheng's fifty horsemen were all dressed in red, and the helmet was also red, they were called red horses by the people of Qi County.

Red cavalry often galloped around in the Changbai Mountains or in the counties outside the mountains, and wherever they went, they could always bring out some bandits or fleeing Dingkou.

Now that the red riders are infested, they already have the effect of making thieves frightened.

"The scorching heat of this midsummer is almost over, we should also send troops!" On this day, Luo Cheng took the red horse back, entered the military camp, and directly faced Qi Guoyuan and Li Ruqi.

"Well, it's almost, these little cubs have been trained for two months, and they are already a little hot, so just pull them out and try it!"