Early the next morning, Zhang Dianshi gathered his subordinates early and came to Li Yan's barracks in the city, waiting for Li Yan's arrival.

Although he could still nominally lead these yasmen, he did not dare to directly send the mission as before. Even if he sent the task down, these officials would not dare to go out to collect taxes. Not to mention such a major event as collecting taxes, even if they go to the market in the northeast corner to change something, they are all in accordance with the rules, and they dare not take advantage of it at all.

If it is reported to the soldiers by the people in the market, the next month's food will be deducted, and if it is serious, it is possible to be beaten. The key is that no matter how much advantage you take, you will be punished back exponentially, and you are completely unsympathetic, so that they don't dare to be greedy.

When Li Yan rode a horse and came to the barracks with his own soldiers. It was still far away, and those officials all clasped their fists and saluted, shouting loudly: "See General Li!" ”

Zhang Dianshi is also helpless, now the affairs of the county have basically been controlled by Li Yan, and nothing can be done without Li Yan's consent. And now Ma Dianshi, who is in charge of affairs in the county government, is like the mouthpiece of Li Yan and Su County, without any power to make his own decisions.

Li Yan approached, raised his whip on his horse, and said loudly: "No courtesy!" ”

"General Xie!" After thanking them, these yacha dared to put down their hands, crossed their waists with one hand, held their waist knives in the other, and stood in place with their chests folded, as solemn as they were in the county office.

Li Yan arrived at the camp gate, and only after dismounting did he ask Zhang Dianshi: "Zhang Dianshi, what is the matter with you bringing your brothers here?" ”

Zhang Dianshi hurriedly replied: "On the orders of the county honor, I came to cooperate with General Li to collect the summer tax." ”

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Take the brothers back, you don't have to worry about the summer tax." All you need to do is keep the county in order, and if you can find the brothers, I will greet the leaders. ”

Zhang Dianshi arched his hand in embarrassment and said: "Mr. Li, this is not good, after all, it is the order of the county honor." ”

Li Yan smiled and said: "You go home and wait, I'll do the summer tax thing." When the time comes to report to the county, the name of Zhang Dianshi is naturally indispensable. ”

After finishing speaking, Li Yan entered the barracks. Zhang Dianshi also wanted to follow up, but was stopped by the guards at the camp gate.

"General Li, General Li, this is what the county lord ordered." Zhang Dianshi shouted loudly outside the camp gate. But Li Yan ignored it and walked towards the depths of the camp without looking back.

Seeing that there was no errand, the yacha said hello to Zhang Dianshi, who was still looking inside outside the camp gate, and dispersed. The patrol of the patrol, the station of the station, the rest of the rest.

Zhang Dianshi was considered to have lost face, and the yamen in the yamen all saw his jokes. But he can't do anything now, and the Huang Tuiguan in Kaifeng has not heard back now, and the relationship in the capital is also those Beijing officials in the Guide Mansion. But now all the energy of these Beijing officials in Guide is focused on letting the imperial court send troops to exterminate the thieves in Guide Province. They can only wait now, and they can only talk about it when the matter of Guide Mansion is resolved.

And they haven't figured out whether to leave this relationship or not, after all, Li Yan only received a cut of 20% from them, and if they use the relationship in the capital, they will not have a small amount of money. Although the value of the money is now depreciating, according to the situation in Qi County, as long as Henan can restore order and there are no thieves to disturb it, even if there is some drought, the price of grain will not rise to the current height. At that time, the money was a good thing again, and if you spend it now, you will regret it in the future.

Zhang Dianshi flicked his sleeves helplessly and had no choice but to leave the barracks. He knew that the deputy general Chen Yongfu was coming soon, and when the time came, he would see if he could light a fire and let this high-ranking military attache clean up Li Yan, the head of the army.

Li Yan entered the barracks and first looked at the sanitary situation in the barracks. This year was again dry and rainless, and many displaced people fled, and Dr. Wu and Dr. He both reminded him to pay attention to the spread of various diseases.

He found that the hygiene in the barracks was not bad, and after beating some people's boards, these recruits who came here for rotation training finally knew that they could not defecate in the open, and they also knew that their clothes, shoes and socks had to be changed frequently.

Although the barracks in the north and south have not yet been repaired, Li Yan can't let these recruits finish their training all the time, who knows that there will be a way of thieves to come here to plunder? So he asked the recruits to take turns to train in the barracks in the city, and although the progress of the project was slow, he had more troops at his disposal when something happened. Anyway, it's still summer, so as long as it doesn't rain, sleeping in the open air is no problem at all.

After that, Li Yan watched the recruits train on the school field. This training is a bit more fun, that is, to train the obedience and courage of the recruits.

The veterans had the recruits stand in a phalanx, and they shot at them with crossbow arrows that were not on the top and were wrapped in cotton. The distance of the shot was thirty paces, and all the recruits had to do was to stand up, and no matter what happened, they had to stick to their formation. But even when wrapped in cotton cloth, a powerful arrow can cause great pain and redness to the person who is hit by the arrow.

"All stand! If you don't get shot, you can't hide! Don't run! If it moves, ten sticks! If you are shot, you can lie on the ground, but you can't cry out in pain! The people in the back have to make up for it and keep the formation! Those who shout, those who hesitate, five military sticks! After eating this bowl of rice, you must have the consciousness of being injured and even dying! If you can't stand it, get out of here now! Our general is not a benevolent church, and he doesn't raise waste for idle meals! The veterans reminded loudly outside the formation.

Don't look at the few military sticks, only five and ten shots, but the military sticks here are all real hits, and five strokes are enough to make people's skin open. Although you can recuperate in the barracks after being beaten with a military stick, you can only lie on your stomach and can't sit down, and you can't scratch the itching after scabbing, and it will take at least half a month to get better, and no one wants to try that kind of pain. Therefore, the recruits all tensed their muscles, and although they trembled, they all gritted their teeth and stood, and no one dared to move.

"Ready," one of the captains commanded in a loud voice, "release!" ”

The veterans who were reprimanding all avoided the sides when they heard the sound of "preparation". After that, the arrows wrapped in cotton cloth flew round after round, and the sound of "boom", "boom" bowstrings, and the sound of "squeak" and "squeak" winding were endless.

There was a muffled grunt from the formation, and then the recruits who had been shot fell to the ground and crawled backwards through the gaps in the soldiers, while the soldiers behind stepped forward to fill the void in front of them.

None of the recruits dodged, and they all consciously moved forward, filling the gaps in front of them, until everyone in the entire array was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground.