The coal yard compound outside the city has now become very lively, more than 20 military households are working in full swing every day, and the prepared briquettes occupy half of the yard, so that the military households have to carry the dried briquettes to the warehouse, so that they can have a free space to continue to dry the newly made briquettes. The money is paid according to the amount of briquettes made, which makes these military households extremely motivated.

Du Yuan's wife, Ma Shi, and Gu, another military wife, were picking vegetables by the kitchen, chatting and laughing in a low voice while looking up at the men working in the courtyard. Just washing, washing, cooking, and earning a tael of silver a month, which makes them very satisfied.

Chen Yan, Chen Ping, and Chen Mo stood in the corner of the courtyard with a bitter face practicing their military posture, helplessly letting the military households guide them and laugh, compared to this boring training, the three of them would rather do the tiring work of making briquettes. But Chen Yue's orders did not dare to disobey, let alone have lazy thoughts.

Since more than 30 military households joined in, Chen Yue and his three family members were relieved from heavy labor and resumed their previous training. No, not only has it recovered, but the intensity has increased much more than before, for the three families, how long the military households work every day, how long will the three of them train......

After these days of training, the military posture of the three families has been in shape, and they have a military temperament during the march, which is more like a soldier than these real military households in the courtyard. In a few days, they could be taught martial arts, marksmanship, marching formations, and other military knowledge, and Chen Yue trained them as officers.

"Turn left, turn right, turn back, walk in unison......" Chen Yue sat on the rattan chair at the door, directing their training while thinking about business in his heart.

For the fourteen military households responsible for selling honeycomb coal, Chen Yue has taught them the essentials of sales as much as possible, and the reason why he no longer sells coal in person is because there are more important things he needs to do, such as training three family members, such as taking the time to design the drawings of crossbow arrows and muskets. The weapons of this era were both hot and cold, strong bows and crossbows and muskets and artillery coexisted, but in the current imperial army, due to corruption, most of the muskets and muskets produced by the ordnance could not be used, and Chen Yue secretly trained his own private army, and he could not buy weapons openly, so he had to make them by himself. Chen Yue loved handmade in his previous life, and he had done all kinds of sailboat models with strong bows and crossbows, but he had never touched firearms when it came to steel casting, so he could only take the time to draw the drawings of the crossbows he had made before, and designed a very small hand crossbow that could be tied to his arm. But when you have some free time, you can buy some corresponding materials and make them yourself.

As the days passed, the time from the fall of Beijing will be closer, Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng to defeat Sun Chuanting's army, is galloping in the Central Plains, how to calculate the time from the fall of Beijing is less than two years. Until then, you have to have a force that is truly your own. The group of military households under my father are okay to work, and if they are strictly trained, they are all good soldiers, but unfortunately they all drag their families and need to make money to support their families, how can they follow their father and son to fight in the Quartet? So Chen Yue has the idea of cultivating a family that belongs to him completely, Chen Ping and the three of them are just an experiment, and when the business really makes money, he has to buy more boys for training, and he must train an elite army with at least 100 people within a year, so as to ensure that his father and son can survive as much as possible in the troubled times. But how much money do you need to raise soldiers every day? With Chen Yue's father and son's current financial resources, they can't afford to support them at all, so they have to speed up the pace of making money!

Wu Wan'er sat in front of the bookcase, the abacus beads were "crackling" by her, every time she settled an account, she used a brush to record it in the account book, the snow-white paper was covered with her delicate small characters and the crooked symbols mixed in the period, that was the Xiyi number that Chen Yue taught her called Arabic numerals, which was very easy to use for counting.

After seeing Chen Yue's account book on the table when tidying up the room for Chen Yue, Wu Wan'er actively asked Chen Yue to take the position of the account room. Chen Yue is eager for someone to share his increasingly heavy work, so he told her the essentials of bookkeeping, he was not an accountant in his previous life, and only knew how to divide the accounts into the accounts to make bookkeeping tables and other simple accounting knowledge, at the same time Chen Yue also taught Wu Wan'er Arabic numerals, and planned to give her the arithmetic knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of the four operations, who knew that Wu Wan'er was only interested in Arabic numerals, disdainful of the so-called formula he taught, and the abacus was moved by her like flying, It's even a point faster than his oral arithmetic. It turns out that she has studied both "Zhou Ji Arithmetic" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", but she is a genius in arithmetic!

With the two women of the Ma and Gu families, Wu Wan'er is now freed from the kitchen, and her current job is to keep accounts, record the number of briquettes made by each group of military households every day, and then calculate the amount of money they have changed, record the number of briquettes pulled out by the military households in charge of sales every day, and the number of sales, and enter the copper coins they brought back into the account.

Wu Wan'er did a very good job in this work, and the accounts in her hands were almost exactly the same, which made all the military households extremely impressed by her, and called her "Mr. Woman".

However, the current female gentleman has a trouble, that is, Chen Yue once again refused her to let Chen Ping help manage the accounts, she did not want her younger brother to embark on the road of fighting and killing martial arts after practicing martial arts every day, but Chen Yue told her that this is a troubled era, and only true warriors can survive in this troubled world and decide their own fate! Maybe what he said was right, thinking about the fate of her family, Wu Wan'er could only sigh wordlessly.

At noon, Chen Jianghe came from the city, and since the military brothers joined, Chen Jianghe worked tirelessly to rush to the compound outside the city every day to eat, and talk and laugh with the brothers. Chen Yue asked him to move the blacksmith shop outside the city, anyway, the place here is very large, and if it is really not possible, it will build more than ten rooms, and now the Chen family has financial and human resources, Chen Jianghe hesitated for a long time, I don't know whether he is reluctant to build a few large tiled houses or Aunt Zhang.

"Dad, you better move here, the stalls here are getting bigger and bigger, I can't take care of it alone......" Chen Yue tried his best to persuade him, it was not a matter to leave his father alone in the house in the city, he would be much easier when he came, at least the training of the three families did not need to worry about themselves.

Maybe it was because his son was really hard, and in addition to being busy with business, he also needed to train his family, Chen Jianghe hesitated for a while and agreed, and in the afternoon, he would move the blacksmith shop outside the city.