Chapter XVII: Escort Work
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In addition to the acquisition, Li Meng and these people can't be idle, they also have to set up a stove pot on the beach to boil sea salt, and they can't be idle.
However, what makes Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai very depressed is that they say that they are partners to sell private salt, but in addition to boiling the sea and boiling salt, Li Meng let them practice martial arts.
Since the promotion of recruitment, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who went into battle to fight were recruited by the generals in a certain place, and the soldiers who paid for the meal, the most in the military household was to repair the city and fortifications, and most of the time was farming, and the rest of the time was for the thousands of households and the commander of the guard.
Everyone is an authentic peasant, and there is still any military background there, but Li Meng doesn't care about these at all, insisting that they run in circles on the beach every day, or stand still and line up in a row, tired every day like a dog, and many people can't stand it.
But no one dared to say anything, or quit, what Li Meng did, although less than twenty people really knew about it, but everyone had vaguely heard about something, rumors were often more terrible than true, everyone was afraid that he would cut off his head after disobeying Li Meng's order.
So Li Meng's words, although everyone didn't understand or resisted in their hearts, they were still trembling, but what Li Meng did was generous enough, and he almost took out all the money he earned in the past (on the salt ding, the income from trafficking in illicit salt), and made the grain he bought into dry food for everyone to eat.
Everyone eats two meals a day, but when the sea is boiled and salt is boiled on the beach, Li Meng lets everyone eat lunch, and the wotou and cakes made of the grain they buy, as well as the amazingly cheap fish and shrimp bought in the hands of fishermen, everyone must be full, and they can't bring food to their families.
What are you trying to do these days, isn't it just to eat a full stomach? The days are harder, and the usual tiredness is nothing, much better than being hungry.
Li Meng was also depressed in his heart, silver money was a trivial matter, and he still had a lot of it in his hand, but the understanding of these young people around him was too low, running every day, push-ups and the like, those simple commands and actions such as standing in line, standing upright, and turning to the right were taught several times, more than a dozen times, or even hundreds of times, but they were still forgotten. It takes about a month to get an idea.
In the past, when he was a soldier on the beach, he was also assigned to a nearby university as a military training instructor, and the queue of those college students, walking in unison and the like, was already a big head, and several comrades-in-arms got together at that time and complained:
"I sure won't encounter anything more difficult to teach."
Unexpectedly, compared to those casual college students, these people are worse and I don't know how much, those college students are probably out of shape after a month of military training, but these people have just started in a month.
In particular, Zhao Neng and Chen Liuzi also looked for Li Meng in private, and asked very suspiciously:
"We buy and sell salt just to live a comfortable life, why are we so tired every day?"
Li Meng replied angrily:
"If you don't practice, you can't beat Yanding when you encounter it, and you can't run, so it's not going to die."
This sentence suddenly blocked everyone's mouths, yes, now Yan Ding does not come to Lingshanwei, because they are fighting endlessly, a lot of oil and water are still unevenly divided, who can take care of this place, this does not mean that Yan Ding does not have, think about it on the road that day, if it were not for Li Meng's bravery, who knows how much disaster they would encounter.
Maybe it was Zhao Neng and Chen Liuzi who passed the word on to everyone, in the future, only people complained about being tired, no one complained about being useless, and everyone still practiced according to what Li Meng said.
In fact, Li Meng has done a very good job, modern military training college students, starting from elementary school and even kindergarten, junior high school, high school and university, all have preliminary queue training, military training is just strengthening, and the training of these peasants is almost from scratch.
In fact, when the European colonizers trained the indigenous army, they encountered no less difficulties than Li Meng, or even more, when the British officers trained the indigenous soldiers in India, some people once lamented that "it took me half a year to train these natives to distinguish between left and right", if he knew this example, Li Meng should be content.
In the practice of these things, Li Meng began to persuade and reprimand, but these people giggling and laughing should not be taken seriously at all, a few days later, Li Meng, who couldn't bear it, slapped a person, kicked two feet, and immediately had an immediate effect, as a result, a month later, when Li Meng trained, he was holding a wooden stick in his hands, and if anyone made a mistake, he would immediately smoke it over, don't say it, the effect is very good.
Maybe it was when Li Meng came back from Jiaozhou City, or even later, among the people who didn't know Li Meng in the thousands of households of the Xue family, a rumor began to gradually circulate, saying that the fool of the Li family was possessed by Erlang Zhenjun, otherwise how could there be such a knowledgeable and resolute appearance.
The people of these years all believe in this, and for a while, looking at Li Meng's eyes, in addition to awe, they also had a little admiration.
Whether it is Zhao Neng, who is older than Li Meng, or Wang Hai, who is younger than Li Meng, they all feel that they are becoming more and more unable to understand what Li Meng is doing, for example, the salt sent from everywhere cannot be mixed with sand, and the less dirty grass and dirt, the better, and arrange for everyone to take turns to enter the city, and to tell him the news in the city, and the notice outside the city must understand the content, everyone does not know how to read, but they also have to beg someone to tell themselves.
There are a lot of things that these people are confused about, but one thing is clear, after these sixteen people have been on the beach for a month, although they have turned black, their faces are healthy and ruddy, and they seem to have a posture in them when they walk and do things, and many young people are very envious.
Whenever they practiced at the beach, there were always a lot of children and young people watching, of course, there were also some girls, which made Zhao Neng and Chen Liuzi more energetic to train.
It's almost August, the weather is hotter during the day and night, according to Wang Haihui, who went to Jiaozhou City, the imperial army has besieged Kong Youde, who was in the Dengzhou Mansion, in Dengzhou City, and it seems that peace is just around the corner. However, the massacre led by Kong Youde and the Liao soldiers inside and outside the city had already caused the victims.
Outside the city of Jiaozhou, you can already see the refugees from Dengzhou, and then there is the position of the Jiaozhou Salt Administration Department inspection is still vacant, Wang Hai heard people gossip, saying that the Lord Zhizhou thinks that the vacancy is not bad, at least the various forces of Yanding have sent him money, there was no such good thing in the past, the inspection will pay attention to the local officials of Zhizhou, so there has been no opinion on the candidates for the inspection.