Li Changyue only brought fifty family members with him this time, and did not bring those who were willing to follow the Zhuang family to Jinshanwei, the Zhuangzi over there in Jiangyin was temporarily handed over to his son to take care of, and those who were willing to come to Jinshanwei will move over one after another in the future.

"Put aside other things first, and organize family affairs for me as soon as possible."

In the study, Li Chuan was explaining to Li Changyue: "My little sister has no name with me, after all, it is not a long-term solution, I will handle the family affairs as soon as possible, give her a name, and some gossip can be blocked." ”

"Yes, young master!"

Li Changyue responded happily, and the smile on his face was a little more.

The young master is about to get married, which is a great joy for the servants of the Li family.

No matter how prominent the family background is, the inheritance of incense is the top priority.

Especially for Li Changyue, the excitement of the Li family is closely related to his happy life, and he has always felt that the young master and Miss Su are a good match, and with such a shrewd and capable housewife as Su Xiaomei, the Li family will definitely be excited in the future.

The Li family was excited, and their servants naturally rose.

Now that he is finally looking forward to this day, Li Changyue is sincerely happy for his young master.

Even more admired for the young master's courage to ignore the world's eyes and marry Miss Su.

The next day, Li Chuan went out and dragged back twenty mortars with people.

Even the family members who had been following him didn't know where these cannons came from, but he only saw the young master talking to a few Westerners in a nearby town, and led everyone to find these cannons from the forest.

Alas, the family members were surprised.

They never knew that their young master would say the words of those foreign devils.

Twenty mortars were covered with sackcloth and dragged directly into Zhuangzi.

In addition to these mortars, there were two thousand shells.

"Young master, with these artillery, we are not afraid of any more people from the Zheng family."

Huang Tianxiang was very excited, he had seen the power of this kind of artillery.

Previously, when there was only one artillery, the three Dafu ships of the Zheng family that had been hit had no power to fight back, but now there are twenty more artillery pieces at once, as long as there are enough cannonballs, there is no fear of how many enemies come.

"Don't be complacent, give me time to train the gunners."

Li Chuan is very dissatisfied with the family members, what he lacks now is not money and blood, but enough manpower, and the family members are either half-white and half-black people like Huang Tianxiang, or farmers who have just let go of farming.

Even though I trained for several months, I still couldn't take on the responsibility.

"Yes, young master!"

Huang Tianxiang responded and looked at the mortars with great interest.

Li Chuan asked again: "How is the repair of the water village?" ”

Huang Tianxiang replied: "Three thousand people have been recruited and are cleaning up the sediment, which was enough for one month, but according to the young master's instructions, the water village will still spread, and it is estimated that it will not be completed until the end of the year." ”

Li Chuan nodded and said, "Hurry up the construction period and try to finish it before the New Year." ”

Huang Tianxiang hurriedly responded, hesitated and said, "Young Master, should we recruit a crew?" ”

Li Chuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood that this was because he was worried that the sailors under him were only responsible for steering the ship and would be marginalized in the future, and he immediately realized that leading a team was not as simple as he imagined.

Although they are all family members, they do different jobs, and their status will be different.

Even if you can't see it now, you will definitely face it sooner or later in the future.

Huang Tianxiang has thought of this question now, which fully shows that he is not stupid.

These sailors are also considered to be veterans, and there is no problem in terms of loyalty.

Li Chuan said: "In the future, we will definitely go to sea economically, and all the family members must learn to operate the ship at the helm, you are responsible for this aspect, look back and think more, how can we teach those family members to operate the boat and steer as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, young master!"

Huang Tianxiang perked up and responded loudly.

In the afternoon, Hu Laosi came back.

"Young master, three thousand people have been recruited, this is the roster."

Hu Laosi handed Li Chuan a thick roster, on which were recruited from those military households left by Yan Gang, a full 3,000 people, all of them were registered, if it wasn't for Li Chuan's decision to recruit only 3,000, I was afraid that more would be recruited.

Jin Shanwei has a bit of a surplus labor force, and there are even more military households who want to squeeze into the queue of family members.

"Is the barracks packed?"

Li Chuan asked while flipping through the booklet.

"Packed up."

Hu Laozi replied: "Most of the camp defense is a little dilapidated, but it can be lived in if it is improvised." ”

Jinshanwei has a training barracks outside the city, but most of them have been in disrepair for many years, most of them have been abandoned, and it is okay to live in a short period of time, and if it takes a long time, it will have to be repaired again, but what Li Chuan lacks most is time.

"Then arrange the drill as soon as possible!"

Li Chuan casually ordered: "Just follow my method of practicing you first, and exercise your physical strength and endurance for the time being." ”

"Yes, young master!"

Hu Laozi was refreshed when he heard this, and immediately answered loudly with his head held high. Thinking of the unforgettable hardships and tortures that I suffered when I was trained by the young master after becoming a family member, I couldn't wait.

We can finally train others, if we don't train those lazy military households, how can we be worthy of the young master's trust and the hardships I suffered at the beginning.

Li Chuan was reading the booklet, and there was an introduction under each person's name.

At the top of the list are a few hundred, and there are more than a dozen deputy hundreds.

Behind the hundred households and the deputy hundred households, there are low-level officers such as the general flag and the small flag, and finally the military households.

"How can there still be officials?"

Li Chuan was very surprised, how could these officials and flag officials of hundreds of households come to be his family.

Hu Laosi said: "Back to the master, these petty officials are all unwilling, and their lives are no better than ordinary military households, and the little ones saw that they didn't have a fat belly and a fat face as the young master said, so they accepted them." ”

Li Chuan thought for a moment and said, "Go, call these hundred household officials and flag officials." ”

Hu Laosi answered, and immediately went to call those hundred household officials and flag officials.

Soon, several hundred household officials and a dozen deputy hundred households, and more than forty general and small flag officials were brought.

"Meet the Commander."

The officials of the hundred households and the flag officials saluted one after another, and their eyes were full of indifference.

"Excuse me!"

Li Chuan waved his hand and looked at some people carefully.

Unlike those hundred household officials who eat with big bellies and fat faces, these guys are unwilling, they are not better than those ordinary military households, they have a vegetable face, their eyes are also numb, and even a touch of shame is hidden.

"As a military attache of the imperial court, I don't want to end up like this."

Li Chuan was a little touched, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, so he asked in turn what these hundred household officials and flag officials would be and what their specialties were, but they were very disappointed, these people had no military literacy at all, and they were a group of outright peasants like those ordinary military households, and their only advantage was that they could read and write.

It's okay to be able to read and hyphenation, and it's not a place.

Li Chuan changed his mind and asked Hu Laosi to send these people to the barracks.