Hua Long said happily: "King Zhou, after your analysis, I also think it makes sense, the princess seems to be really me." ”

King Zhou sighed: "You have a lot of little women, and you don't care about the widows, but the position in the main room should be left to my Ling'er." ”

Hua Long replied, "That's for sure." Then I chatted with King Zhou for a while, and happily returned to the barracks.

When Hualong rested at night, he was still thinking: his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law have all done it, and even his rivals in love support him, even Ji Ling himself can't do it for a while, but he is still very happy in his heart.

King Zhou chose an auspicious day, and officially canonized Yan as the prime minister of the Zhou Dynasty, Xiang Yu and Hualong came over. All the ministers congratulated Yan Shuo, and everyone said, Yan Xiangguo, you have to set up a banquet tonight and entertain everyone.

Yan Rate is still a little embarrassed, he doesn't have any money, and there are so many people here, which is a lot of expenses. But he still said, "Okay, I will definitely hold a banquet tonight, and everyone must go to the party." ”

Hua Long immediately said: "Everyone is here to congratulate Yan Xiangguo today, so can he treat him, I will be the master and set up a banquet for Yan Xiangguo to entertain everyone, I don't know if Yan Xiangguo gave me this opportunity." ”

Yan Shu knew that Hua Long wanted to help him pay for it, so he said: "General Hua is willing to help me be the east, I am honored, and I can't ask for it." But you can't give gifts tonight, if you give it, you look down on me, and it also brings bad atmosphere to the court. ”

Everyone knows that Yan is honest and upright, and they all say: "We don't give gifts, we drink." ”

Hua Long said to King Zhou: "King Zhou, why don't you go over at night to join in the fun." ”

King Zhou said: "How can a widow not go to say hello to such a major event as the prime minister." ”

When they were seated in the evening, everyone toasted Yan Shu one after another, and then they toasted to King Zhou and Xiang Yu, and Hua Long also toasted Yan Shu a few glasses. Everyone knew that Hualong couldn't drink enough, so they didn't toast him. But I want to find an opportunity to get close to Hualong, everyone knows that Yan Rate is usually close to Hualong this time, and now the affairs of the DPRK and China are basically Hualong's ideas.

In the past, the Zhou Dynasty was too young, and everyone didn't think that being an official was very prestigious, and it was enough to have money. Now it is different, although the Zhou Dynasty is at a medium level among the nine kingdoms, its development momentum is relatively strong, especially the development of Luoyi City in the past year, everyone has seen it. Now I can't wait to have some relationship with Hualong Xiang Yu and them.

Xiang Yu is very bold every time he comes out to drink, and everyone respects him as ordered, and they return the salute one by one. Xiang Yu saw that Yan Shu and King Zhou were not free, so he saw that whoever was empty was available, he would find someone to drink.

Hua Long sat next to Xiang Yu, and said, "Big brother, when I see you drinking, I envy you, I can only sit here and watch every time." ”

Xiang Yu said with a smile: "Second brother, if there is a drinking scene in the future, you call me, I will drink yours together, and our two brothers will not suffer." ”

Hua Long also smiled and said: "Then you can suffer, you have drunk the wine of several people alone, and in the future, when you meet a master who has no money, we had better prepare some money to buy wine for the owner, otherwise you will be poor by drinking." ”

Xiang Yu smiled again: "So you make a fairy dance now and work hard to make money, it won't be left for me to buy wine and drink when I'm old." ”

Hua Long also smiled and said, "It's almost like that." Then he picked up the wine glass and drank it with Xiang Yu.

The feast lasted for a few hours.

Two days later, Cao Di found Xiang Yu and Hua Long and said: "Our army, there has been no war for a long time now, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will become weaker if this continues, why don't we have a competition in the army, give a certain reward to the participating personnel, and get a heavy reward for the ranking, what do the two generals think?" ”

Xiang Yu said: "This idea is good, it can greatly improve the combat ability of soldiers, what is General Cao going to do?" ”

Cao Di said: "I want to inform the news in the barracks first, and let all the soldiers practice for two months." The competition is classified according to archery, martial arts, riding and other items, and the more detailed the division, the better. Then, in the barracks, each brigade conducts a selection competition, and out of 2,000 people in each brigade, 10 representatives are selected from each category, and then a knockout round is conducted. ”

Xiang Yu said: "Then General Cao is responsible for this matter." ”

Hua Long said: "General Cao, why don't you make it bigger and let the soldiers of Yiling and Qufu participate." ”

Cao Di said: "Yes, I want them all to participate, the two generals will talk slowly, and I will arrange this matter." ”

Hua Long hurriedly said: "General Cao, wait, according to the plan you just proposed, I suddenly have an idea, and everyone is just going to discuss it." ”

Cao Di said: "Okay, General Hua is right for this competition, is there any improvement plan?" ”

Hua Long said: "I want to change your plan, my idea is: to screen the whole army, according to 5:1 to select the best people." We have a total of 300,000 troops, and there will be 60,000 people selected, and we will let General Xiang train these 60,000 people for three months, and then eliminate half of them. The remaining 30,000 people will be armed into a special force and given the best treatment, and General Xiang will only lead this team in the future. The number of people can be slowly increased in the future, and it is enough to keep it at 50,000. ”

Xiang Yu agreed: "Second brother's idea is good, after General Cao selects the personnel, I will personally come to conduct training, and after forming such a team, under my leadership, the combat effectiveness will be increased many times." The number of people should not be too much, according to what the second brother said, choose 30,000 people first, and no more than 50,000 at most. ”

Cao Di said: "General Hua's idea is good, after this army is formed, the combat effectiveness can be as good as ten. ”

Hua Long said: "This team does not publicize to the outside world, try to keep it secret, General Cao is in charge of the selection of this team, I am in charge of the weapons and equipment of this team, and my eldest brother is responsible for the rest." In addition, I will come up with a plan for the treatment of the personnel and meritorious service awards of this team, and General Cao will improve it. ”

Cao Di said, "Okay, I'll arrange it now." ”

After Cao Di left, Xiang Yu said: "Second brother, your idea is really suitable for the eldest brother, I have never come up with this kind of team, and I have wasted so much time in vain." ”

Hua Long said: "Big brother, it's not Cao Di who talked about the military competition today, and I can't think of it, but it's not too late to do it now." ”

Xiang Yu said: "It's also making my heart itch now, and I wish I could start training tomorrow." ”

Hua Long said: "The initial screening of this person is very fast, and it will be more than half a month. I won't accompany you anymore, I'll go design weapons and equipment and programs. ”

Hua Long hasn't been out for the past few days, thinking about how this team should be armed and how to stimulate their combat effectiveness.

After thinking about it for five or six days, Hua Long found Xiang Yu and Cao Di and said his initial thoughts, which probably contained nine items:

First, the number of people is not large, but in the fine, everyone must have outstanding ability, the total number of people does not exceed 50,000.

Second, the equipment should be very luxurious, when fighting, everyone should wear heavy armor and iron helmets, each person should carry 60-80 crossbow arrows on their backs, the weapon in their hands is Changge, and the sword pinned to their waist is also a long sword.

3. The individual's ability to move should be particularly strong, the speed of marching should be fast, and the endurance should be very good, and the horses should be the best.