Zhu Hongsan ignored Feng for his own use and took Zhao Goudan away.

Zhu Hongsan is going to the farm today to see how the thirty children are doing. The day before yesterday, a word came from the farm, and all thirty children had been delivered. Originally, Zhu Hongsan was supposed to go to see it that day, but he was busy getting married at the time, so he delayed it. Now that the dust has settled on the matter with Ma Xiaofang, it's time to start working on the foundation of his life.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhao Goudan beside him and said, "Big cousin, how is your uncle?" ”

Zhao Goudan lowered his head and said, "My father is still like that, it seems that he can't survive the New Year." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded. Zhao Goudan continued: "Cousin, I have something I want to tell you. ”

Zhu Hongsan was stunned, Zhao Goudan had been following him for ten years, and for the first time he took the initiative to talk to himself, Zhu Hongsan looked at him and said, "Cousin, say it." ”

Zhao Goudan said: "I'm eighteen years old this year, my father sees that this is almost over, my mother is afraid that I and my younger brother will compete for the family property, so I tell me to get out of this house in front of my father every day." I want to ask my cousin for one thing, can you tell my father, I changed my surname to Zhu. I know that my cousin's surname is a national surname, and I just want my father to go with peace of mind. ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhao Goudan who bowed his head, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You will be my eldest brother in the future, I will give you a name, Zhu Hongyi, if you die in the future, I will let you enter the ancestral grave of the Zhu family." I'll talk to my uncle when I get back in a while. ”

Zhao Goudan, no, Zhu Hongyi nodded vigorously.

The farm is not too far from the county seat, and the two of them arrived outside the farm in half an hour. Dismounted and walked into the yard. I saw Ma Youfu commanding the pack horse team to unload the cargo. Ma Youfu saw Zhu Hongsan coming, and stepped forward to salute, "Uncle is here." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked, "Old Ma, how is it, is the first trip good to sell?" ”

Ma Youfu said: "We just went to Luoyang this time, not to the north, the south of Luoyang is quite peaceful, and the north is too chaotic, I dare not go." Our steel ingots are very sellable, and they were bought up by the dock fort on the way before they arrived in Luoyang. The main thing I went to Luoyang was to buy pig iron and coal. This time, he took away 1,000 catties of 100 steels and 1,000 catties of ordinary steel, and sold a total of 80,000 taels of silver. After deducting the remaining 20,000 taels of pig iron and coal, I brought them back. But the pig iron in Luoyang is very expensive, if it weren't for the good quality of our steel ingots and the high sales, it would not be cost-effective to buy pig iron from there, I think the next time I will take the silver from Luoyang to Nanzhili into the pig iron shop. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "You have the final say in business, you can do whatever you want, you don't need to tell me the details, I just need to know how much money we make." How about the ten horizontal knives I asked you to bring this time? ”

Ma Youfu said: "The sales are quite good, one of them I gave to the Fu King of Luoyang, you know that my uncle was transferred from HN to BJ a few years ago, and now we have no backer in HN." So in the name of the YN sword, I would like to dedicate it to King Fu. King Fu is very happy and has saved us a lot of trouble in HN. The others were bought by local officers, and nine were bought for a total of nine hundred taels. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "******, it seems that it is still making money with arms. ”

Ma Youcai didn't know what arms meant, so he had to laugh with them.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked him to get busy. He also called Lao Liu Tou and asked him to start producing steel, how many raw materials are produced. Then he found Iron Bull and asked him how his armor was doing.

Tie Niu said: "I have already made one, and I will show it to you when you come." As he spoke, he went back to the house and took out an iron-gray half-length armor.

Zhu Hongsan weighed it, about twenty pounds. Tie Niu said on the side: "The armor weighs twenty-five catties, which is very heavy in the half-body armor." After all, paper armor also costs twenty pounds. We tried a frontal slash that could block the sword, and our own horizontal slash was fine as long as it didn't hit the same spot multiple times. There were no bows and arrows, so there were no trials. But I think it can block a direct shot from fifty paces away. ”

Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied and said: "What are the difficulties, if you don't have it, this kind of half-body armor will make a hundred collars first." ”

Tie Niu said: "The steel sheet and rivets are easy to get, but this cowhide is not easy to get, this cowhide is a military material, and a cowhide can make three-collar armor, and the cowhide has a big gap." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "What is lacking for Ma Youfu to buy goods." No, use the pigskin to top it first. ”

Iron Bull nodded and left.

Zhu Hongsan walked to the backyard and saw a group of half-grown children standing in the courtyard, some tall and some short. The spirit is okay, I sent a letter to Tie Niu a few days ago, asking him to take a bath for these children first, and make clothes. Now, after two days, I have eaten a few meals and it looks pretty good.

Zhu Hongsan found a box and stood on it. He said loudly: "I am your master, your life is mine now, and I will do whatever I tell you to do in the future." If you don't want to do it, you can leave now. ”

Of course, no one wants to leave, and their family has already received the death deed of the tooth man, just because their child is dead, and the contract says that the master's family will be killed. It's already past August 15, and it's already starting to get colder, and you can only wait to die if you go out without food or clothing.

Zhu Hongsan looked at no one leaving, nodded and said: "Okay, since no one is leaving, then I'll talk about my rules, just one, that is, to listen to my orders, if I make you laugh, you will laugh, if I make you cry, you will cry, the first time you violate the order, the first time you will be whipped, the second time you will be whipped five times, and the third time you will be directly beheaded, do you hear clearly?" ”

There were a few sparse sounds below, and I heard it clearly. Zhu Hongsan nodded at Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongyi took out the whip and went in to split his head and cover his face, and the children said loudly while hiding: I heard clearly.

Zhu Hongsan said: "You can only answer two sentences when you answer the question, it's the chief, I don't know the chief, do you hear it clearly now." ”

The children below shouted, "It's sir." ”

Zhu Hongyi nodded and said, "The first thing I want to do today is to teach you discipline, what is discipline?" Sir, that is, me, what he says is discipline, and if you listen to me, you will not violate discipline, and if you don't listen to me, you will violate discipline, and you will be whipped, do you understand? ”

"It's sir"

"There is too little voice, haven't you eaten?"

"It's sir"

"Bigger"

The children opened their mouths wide and shouted with all their strength, "It's sir"

Zhu Hongyi nodded. Then he said: "Practice standing in line today, and in the future, you will stand in line for everything you do, you have to stand in line for fighting, you have to stand in line for eating, you have to stand in line for, even prostitutes and women have to stand in line." There was a burst of laughter from below.

Zhu Hongyi said: "Now ten people are in a row, standing in three rows. ”

These children can't read, let alone count, and they stand in long rows and short rows. Zhu Hongsan went down to adjust the team and said: "Remember your current position, this will be your position in the future, and you will die in your own position." You know. ”

"It's sir"

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Very good." Now that's it, keep your head up, chest up, and belly tucked. Very good, just stand like this, move without my order, Zhu Hongyi, you whip it. Zhu Hongyi nodded on the side.

Zhu Hongsan was so strict with these children that he had read a post on the forum of later generations, which talked about the difference between the ancient army and the current army. Two words, that is, discipline. Now the army has outrageously harsh military discipline, and that post said that without any modern weapons, only cold weapons, a modern army of 10,000 can defeat an ancient army of 100,000.

In the Battle of Baliqiao in the Second Opium War, more than half of the 30,000 Qing troops suffered casualties, while only 12 of the 6,000-strong British and French troops were killed. These more than 30,000 Qing troops were not a green battalion army, but an elite Mongolian horse team commanded by Seng Lingqin. This is the contrast between ancient armies and modern armies.

From a very young age, Zhu Hongsan considered the issue of building up the army in the future. He thought a lot, what brown bass rifles, Napoleon guns, etc., it's not that they can't be made, what can be done if they are made? But the second Manchu army.

Not to mention the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, that is, the current Ming Dynasty, firearms are not weaker than the Western army at all, but slightly surpass the West in some aspects. However, the country's army of several million was wiped out by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with a total population of only more than 200,000.

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan knows that the theory of equipment alone cannot completely solve the problem. Zhu Hongsan was a township cadre in his later years, and he was still a government official. Let him pick up houses and sell land, this is the business, and he knows a little bit about getting some steel and gunpowder, but he has never done this ideology and culture, and the interlacing is like a mountain. I knew that I was going to come to the Ming Dynasty, did I first tell the leader to be a propaganda committee member for half a year.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and thought of what would be the fastest brainwashing in later generations, that is, pyramid schemes. The eight million *** army has wiped out the motherland, and you see how many years the pyramid scheme has not been caught. Zhu Hongsan knew a little bit about pyramid schemes, and in the past, the township police station borrowed people from the organs to arrest pyramid schemes.

Zhu Hongsan* has been there a few times, and I have seen some of their courses, which is very simple, that is, first draw a big pie, and then let you recite it every day to do it with me to make a fortune. Zhu Hongsan heard them say with his own ears that some people didn't believe it at all when they came, but after half a month, you can see that they all believe it. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan set such a military training plan, using military discipline to restrain their behavior and using pyramid schemes to control their thinking. In this way, you will probably be able to train an iron army that is loyal to you.

Zhu Hong's three souls flew out of the sky, and the children standing below couldn't hold on anymore, and began to make all kinds of small movements. Zhu Hongyi faithfully carried out Zhu Hongsan's order, see who moves up is a whip, Zhu Hongyi's body, with all his strength, can whip these boys to death. Of course, Zhu Hongyi can't really beat them to death, but he can't stand it like this.

Zhu Hongsan looked and stood for an hour, almost, these children are not physically strong now, don't kill anyone. He said, "Okay, it's time to rest." When these children heard this, they immediately squatted and squatted. Zhu Hongsan frowned and shouted, "What I said just now, what should you say." ”

The boys immediately stood up and shouted, "It's sir." Zhu Hongsan smiled and nodded.

After letting them rest for ten minutes, Zhu Hongsan said, "Get up and start eating." "Everyone rushed up. I'm going to eat in the cafeteria. Zhu Hongsan shouted: "What did you say just now, you have to stand in line for everything, Zhu Hongyi." Zhu Hongyi stepped forward and whipped him with a black face, and the children immediately lined up obediently.

More than a dozen of these 30 children survived to the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and at that time, all of them were at the level of lieutenant generals and generals, and their subordinates were tens of thousands of horses, and seven of them were dissatisfied and eight were not angry. But no matter how unruly they are, they are all cautious when they see Zhu Hongyi, and a few of them tremble when they see Zhu Hongyi's legs, all of which are the psychological shadows left at this time.