The newly recruited archers are well treated, in addition to being issued a brand new military uniform, three meals a day, and a monthly subsidy of one or two silver.

In such a cold winter, for most of the young villagers, all day long the cat in the house bragging and fart, no work can be done in vain, in order to save food, many families implement two meals a day or simply one meal a day, many people are hungry in winter, the front heart is close to the back, can only lie honestly in bed.

And now, after joining the inspection department as an archer, I can't help but be able to eat three meals a day and eat a meal, so many people want to come in because they break their heads, not to mention that there is still a tael of silver every month.

When the young men who had been selected as archers ran home during a break to tell their families what had happened, their parents were overjoyed and glad that their son had not been prevented from signing up. And those families who refused to let their sons join because they were afraid of fighting with the brutal Manchu Tartars were deeply regretted.

"Come back to the inspection department, don't you dare to miss the drill!" Before his son's ass sat on the hot bench, the parents urged the son to go out, for fear that he would be swept out of the house by the inspector for violating military discipline. On the day of the issuance of military uniforms, Chen Yue announced military discipline, and anyone who was late for training three times and absent once would be swept out of the house, and all benefits would be completely deprived.

As the saying goes, there is no food in the world that is eaten for free, and to enjoy such a good treatment, you have to pay a lot accordingly. For these new young archers, what they paid was extremely rigorous and boring training.

Every morning, they line up and run ten laps around the inspection department, one lap is one mile, and one run is ten miles, even if it snows in the sky. After running laps, I had breakfast, rested for a moment after breakfast, and began to train in the queue, just in the snow, more than 200 recruits began boring training under the leadership of the officers, as if to burst out the depression of the previous training, the family members who had just become officers were extremely strict, and the small flag officers all had a wooden stick, whose movements were not standard or made mistakes, and immediately followed the ass is a gang, and the sound of ghosts crying wolves came and went, and it spread far away to Xishan Town outside the hospital, and those parents turned pale one by one. looked worriedly in the direction of the inspection division.

Training for an hour allows a quarter of an hour of rest, and when resting, each Xiaoqi's man hurriedly brought the hot ginger soup over to dispel the cold for the big guys, and one stop in the cold courtyard is an hour, and no matter how young Ren is, his lips are blue.

Heavy snow closed the roads, and there was nowhere to buy meat, and all the meat in the butcher shop in Xishan Town was not enough for all the soldiers to eat. Therefore, the daily diet is mainly vegetarian, steamed brown and fragrant corn mixed with white flour wotou, boiled and rotten millet porridge, accompanied by pickled salty pickles, and fried cabbage and radish stew, which is enough to make every soldier bite off his tongue.

For the sake of such food, in order to be able to eat a full stomach, no matter how boring and strict these trainings were, these young people from mountain people gritted their teeth and endured it, showing good hard-working and obedient spirit, which made the training go very smoothly.

No wonder Qi Shaobao has always recruited soldiers to the countryside, and is unwilling to accept urban soldiers, looking at these hard-working young soldiers, Chen Yue couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Of course, there are also slippery people among the villagers, such as Liu Neng, a young man nicknamed Liu Da Neng, but after being beaten with a few military sticks, Ren is no matter how slippery he is, he is honest and obediently follows the team for training. And Liu Neng's performance is getting better and better, maybe because of the brilliance of his head, he can practice many action essentials, and after a few days of hard work, he has become a pacesetter among recruits.

There is an appointed chief flag officer of Xiaoqi, and Chen Yue does not need to do the training himself, he just made a training outline, and the rest of the training is naturally carried out by Chen Ping and others for him.

But the fact that he doesn't need to practice himself doesn't mean he can be idle, and there are still too many things for him to worry about.

The production of military uniforms, the daily food, the procurement of various substances of vegetarian vegetables, oil and salt, and the various chores of the Yamen of the Inspection Division, at the end of the day, Chen Yue found that he was busy with his feet, and it was rare to have a little leisure, even if Yang Zhengping helped share a lot of things, but he still felt a little unbearable, in the past, when he was in the coal yard outside Beijing, Chen Yue only worried about the training of the family, such as food procurement, etc., Wu Wan'er was worried, responsible for letting people buy, and his father Chen Jianghe helped from time to time, Chen Yue did not feel much pressure.

No, I have to recruit people to help me, and I and Yang Zhengping's energy can't be wasted on this kind of mundane work every day! So Chen Yue wrote a proclamation to recruit the scribes of the inspection department and sent people to post it on the streets of Xishan Town.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the chief official of the inspection department, there are also clerks in charge of clerical exchanges, and several officials in charge of affairs in the department, these people are all within the establishment, but the Xishan Inspection Division died in the hands of the Mantars a few years ago, and all the officials and officials were killed. With a salary of one or two or five thousand a month and three meals a day, I don't believe that I can't find someone who can handle everything with rough words.

Unexpectedly, on the day the notice was posted, someone came to Sicheng to apply.

"I saw the inspector in the next order!" The person who came was in his thirties, dressed in a moon-white robe, with a handsome face and polite manners, and he looked like a person who had read a book.

"I don't know where Mr. Shan is from, have you ever read a book, why do you want to be this little scribe?" Chen Yue didn't want mushrooms, Lian Zhu asked.

"I am a person from Nanzhili, and I have read books for a few years and have a reputation for showing off my talents." Shan Minglei smiled slightly, neither arrogant nor humble.

"It turned out to be a talented man!" Chen Yue couldn't help but be in awe, the status of famous scholars in this era was very high, even if Chen Yue was very disdainful of many readers who were not diligent and indiscriminate, such as Lu Xiucai, he had to show a trace of respect.

"Alas, I'm ashamed, I haven't only studied for many years, and I have no progress in my fame, and I have to give up my fame to do business after failing in several township exams. A few years ago, a batch of fine Songjiang cotton cloth was transported to the north, and it was intended to be sent to Datong to make a big profit, but how did you know that the caravan was robbed by a group of robbers just after Puyin Trail, and all the goods were looted, and they barely escaped with their lives.

When he returned to Xishan Town, he was about to report to the official, but it coincided with the Manchu invasion, and the people of Manchu Town were slaughtered.

After a few tosses, he was penniless, and he had no choice but to work as a bookkeeper in the grocery store in the town and mix bowls of rice. Today, I saw that the inspector sent someone to post a notice, so I came to apply. ”