Chao Xun was very thoughtful, and immediately arranged for Liu Youtian not to tell the characteristics of these four crops, so that the secret could be kept until autumn. Then there is the planting of Tianwang rice and Tianwang cotton arranged in the black mountain col south of Dongxi Village, that valley has more than 5,000 acres of land, the entrance is small, and there are steep slopes on both sides to defend, as for peanuts and peppers occupy a small area, it is really impossible to reclaim hundreds of acres.

After sending Liu Youtian away, Chao Xun spread his hands: "Tomorrow, as soon as the shops and workshops receive the money, there will be less than 2,000 yuan left in the treasury." ”

"Haha, these two thousand guan also have to be used, I plan to recruit and train a hundred guards from the new recruit, we can't help but guard against it when our business grows." Chao Gai said.

"Okay, let's do these things, and I'll take care of our business and farmland." Chao Xun is a little helpless, this owner is good anywhere, but he is too righteous and squandering money, and some people often come to the village to cheat and cheat.

"Uncle Xun, don't worry, I plan to find four or five good players, and all the rest will recruit some descendants from poor families nearby, and it won't cost too much money."

The next day, Xu Hai, the shopkeeper of the hotel, Liu Liang, the shopkeeper of the grain store, Li Qingzi, the manager of the herdsman, Lu Tamp of the woodware workshop, and Zhang Tiehan of the ironware workshop applied for the funds needed for development. Chao Xun is an expert in this regard, with an independent account room audit, what money should be spent, what money should not be spent, there is a supervision system, otherwise with Chao Gai's character of only fighting righteousness and squandering money and not managing money, the Chao family would have been finished.

A recruitment boom broke out in Dongxi Village on the same day, the hotel recruited Xiaoer, the grain store recruited men, and the carpentry workshop and ironware workshop recruited apprentices, but unfortunately these had requirements, and the requirements must be tenants of the Chao family. This is nothing, the most shocking thing is that the Chao family is going to recruit guards, the so-called guards and the bodyguards of later generations have the same meaning, as the name suggests, to protect the personal safety of the Chao family and the safety of various property. This guard does not require any swords, guns and clubs, ordinary peasant children are fine, and they are required to be over eighteen years old and under twenty-five years old. Once officially selected, in addition to food, shelter and clothing, each person will receive a cow at home, 12 yuan per person a year, and a subsidy of five stones of grain. It's not easy to mix these years, although the rent of Chao Gai's house is lower than others, but as a tenant, it's good to be able to mix with his own house, most of the cattle are not available, and now there is such an opportunity to have cattle, almost most of the young descendants are tempted.

Chao Ran, Chao Zhang, the two of them are in special spirit today, a black dress fits very well, brand-new cloth shoes under their feet, and a waist knife on their waists, the two of them are responsible for recruiting guards today, and the other account is responsible for registration, Chao Ran is responsible for checking people's physique, that is, to see the height, muscles, lifting stones, etc. Chao Zhang is responsible for asking about the basic information of these people, but most of them are known from their own village or neighboring villages, and they know who is clear.

At the end of the registration, there were 300 people, and more than 300 people were whispering in groups on the martial arts training ground of Chao Gai's family.

"The owner is here, the owner is here." Everyone stopped their activities one after another and looked at Chao Gai. Chao Gai said: "Run three laps around the village, and the top 200 will stay. ”

Everyone didn't understand what it meant, when the guards didn't all learn swordsmanship and swordsmanship, no matter how bad they were, they practiced boxing a few times, so why run as soon as they came up. However, everyone didn't dare to slack off, and they ran out and began to circle around Zhuangzi. Dongxi Village was originally not big, but later Chao Gai successively recruited Zhuang Ke tenants, and now it is close to the scale of 3,000 people, three laps down, not to mention six miles of land, Chao Gai couldn't help nodding, these strong guys are really good, and the endurance of adult hard work is good, but this time it is really not so much, select the fastest 200 people, and the rest of each person will be given four steamed buns, let them go back.

When he returned to the martial arts training ground again, Chao Gai stood majestically, carrying a large waist knife on his waist, which was Chao Gai's weapon, the Heavenly King Mountain Opening Knife.

"Congratulations on passing the first test, go back and prepare, gather here at dawn tomorrow, and then go to the Black Mountain Pass four miles south of the village."

"Okay."

"Okay,"

"Got it." The crowd replied in a haphazard manner.

Early the next morning, the cold wind was blowing, Chao Gai led Chao Zhang Chao Ran, and more than ten people from Chao Xiong's team of smuggling salt dealers, a total of fifteen people rode horses and held whistle sticks. Two hundred newcomers also hurried to the Black Mountain Pass with whistle sticks like sheep, and the level of the mountain pass had been fenced with a tall fence, and there were more than two dozen simple tents inside, and a spacious open space in the middle.

"Owner, let me train them." Chao Xiong said. Chao Xiong's height is a little more fierce than Chao Gai, although it is not as exaggerated as Chao Gai's strength, but it is no problem to scare crying children with a door panel and a bearded face.

"You just take your team to maintain order and perimeter security, and I'm going to adopt a new training method." Chao Gai said.

Chao Gai looked at Chao Zhang next to him, and Chao Ran said, "Don't make a special difference between you two and stand with them." ”

"Yes." The two also stood with the big guy.

"Assemble." Chao Gai's voice thunder generally gathered everyone, but everyone didn't know how to stand, Chao Gai had to patiently divide the two hundred people into four columns, each team of fifty people, arranged according to the size of the head, left and right turn and walk in unison This action is highly difficult, naturally it is impossible to practice as soon as you get started, the first project is to stand in line, know what is called standing upright, what is called a break, almost a morning time has only practiced a beginning, breakfast time is up.

Chao Gai said: "It's time to eat, let's all go to eat." ”

The camp's canteen is also very rudimentary, with a wooden fence topped with layers of straw.

It's time to eat, it's time to eat. The canteen man has already prepared the meal, and the breakfast is still hearty, white flour steamed buns, sorghum rice porridge, pickle strips, and an egg per person. Ten people sat down around a rough table and started eating, all young and strong young men, white-flour steamed buns were eaten vigorously, except for eggs, there was a limit to one per person, and the others were casual.

After eating and resting for a while, Chao Gai blew the whistle for the assembly, this time everyone progressed, knowing that this sounded and had to hurry to the playground to gather, everyone took a lot of effort to assemble.

"Stand upright, take a break." Chao Gai shouted.

Looking at the team, Chao Gai said: "I taught you to stand in the morning, although I didn't learn it, but I have to teach you to walk at noon, and you are all optimistic." ”

Saying that, Chao Gai turned around in a standard military posture, walked up in a standard forward posture, and shouted as he walked: "One-two-one, one-two-one, one-two-one, stand." ”

"Haha, this farmer, it's a bit funny to walk." The crowd didn't know who was laughing.

"Don't laugh, my requirements are very simple, that is, stand, walk, run, turn left and right, only one hundred of you two hundred people can stay, and the assessment will be assessed in five days, and if you don't want to leave, give me a good practice." Chao Gai said with a tiger face.

"Yes." The crowd answered.

They are all strong young men in their twenties, although they have not learned this thing, but they still have the ability to imitate, Chao Gai has taught seven or eight times, and slowly someone has learned a little bit, and there are smart ones who have learned at noon, among which Chao Zhang, Chao Ran and the two performances are more outstanding, of course, this is also with Chao Gai and they said, as long as they practice well, they will teach them two martial arts.

Chao Xiong, who was on duty at the gate of the barracks, looked at the way these people walked on the field, Chao Xiong's eyebrows twisted into pimples: "Is this okay?" ”

"Haha, the owner is so funny." And the people said.

"No matter how good you go, you can't use it as a knife, if you let me teach it, I'll teach them my unique weapon, the double hook, which is very powerful." Said a man who made a double hook.

Chao Xiong pouted, "How powerful is that hook, I tried two tricks with the owner in the past." ”

"No, no, the owner is busy, your axe is powerful, or you will have two tricks with the owner in the past."

Chao Xiong touched the two big teeth missing in his mouth: "Brother, this iron fist is too powerful, don't dare to provoke him." ”

The private salt team led by Chao Xiong is a team of Jianghu people who spent a lot of money to recruit Chao Gai a few years ago, and there are no special masters, but on fighting alone can beat five or six ordinary strong men, it is still very suitable to go to the rivers and lakes to sell smuggled salt, a total of more than ten good hands, plus some children of Zhuangzhong, a total of 50 private salt team.

When it was time for lunch, Chao Gai disbanded the team and went into the cafeteria with everyone, and smelled the fragrance from afar, fragrant mutton soup.

"The smell of mutton, but also the smell of green onions and sesame oil." A member of the team with a sharp nose smelled it from afar.

Lunch is ready, Chinese cabbage stewed with vermicelli, lamb soup topped with coriander and chopped green onions.

Chao Gai inspected with bamboo strips, the team members lined up separately, each person took a big rice bowl to get their own mutton soup, each person had a bowl of mutton soup, as for the cabbage stewed vermicelli were put on the table in a porcelain basin, the staple food is sorghum rice, eat as you like, you can eat a few bowls and eat a few bowls, but the team members understand that they can't eat too much, otherwise their stomachs will swell during training.

Many people add boiled water to a bowl after drinking mutton soup, and drink it again, and mutton cannot be eaten several times a year.

The afternoon training was obviously much smoother, no one dared to joke anymore, the family was looking forward to the cow, and then there was the fact that life here was so good that they couldn't bear to give up.

Five days have passed in a blink of an eye, Chao Gai is quite satisfied, this batch of college students who are definitely more powerful than military training under their careful training, Lizheng takes a break and turns left and right, is walking, walking in unison have learned a little bit of the same, cross-country running has also run a few times, most of them are no problem. But Chao Gai still conducted an assessment and selected the top 100, and the last 100 team members had red eyes.

"Owner, take us in, we must practice hard." Said one of the eliminated team members.

"Although this is only the escort of my Chao family, the requirements are from the barracks, and the person who leads the troops must be as good as a mountain, when have you heard of what I Chao Gai said." Chao Gai said.

Everyone was speechless, and the eliminated hundred people silently lowered their heads and stopped talking, everyone knew that Chao Gai made a promise and did what he said.