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After purchasing the manor, Zhao Wuxian began to renovate the place.

The main role of the manor was not to live and farm, but to garrison and train, and as a foothold for Wuxian in the Song Kingdom.

Therefore, he hired the people of the surrounding countryside to build a small fortress with a structure of earth and stone.

Of course, he was a dead man of the Jin Kingdom, so in order not to make people suspicious, the wall height was limited, but it was very strong. Like the last time Chengxiang attacked and defended, someone knocked it open with a wooden stake, but there will be no more.

Outside the wall is a flat field for horses, armies, and keju, and on the other side is a shooting range for crossbowmen training.

The watchtower of the earth and stone structure is erected in the four corners of the manor, and now five or six hundred people eat horses and chew, and they have to consume fifty or sixty stones of grain every day, and the rest of the meat, onions and leeks are not counted. Therefore, the warehouses located on the dry hills were filled with grain bought from all over the country, which could ensure the use of millet for a year.

In the low-lying corners of the manor, there was also a small craftsman's workshop where small quantities of arrowheads, blades could be forged, leather armor could be braided and repaired, and the structure of the crossbow machine could be improved. He had the bowmen and casters work together, and fifty crossbows were added to spare, the bronze brackets were updated, and a lookout was installed for aiming.

Of course, the main body of this manor is still the rows of civil barracks, which were originally mostly empty, but after the influx of newly recruited Song people, they were suddenly crowded.

Qi Wan, a native of Mengcheng, lives in it, and he is quite satisfied with this room, there is a futon at night, and it is very dry on rainy days, and there are no various unpleasant smells in the lacquer garden. The only fly in the ointment was that he originally wanted to live with his cousin, but he was reprimanded by the Wu chief of Wen County.

"Here according to the soldiers assigned to the dwellings, no wandering around, a large house twenty-six beds. Headed by the two chiefs, I am the chief of your army; The bedding has to be folded neatly for me when I wake up in the morning, don't ask why. Don't ask what the use is, the brigade commander is also stacked like this! If you forget. Or just do it and freeze naked at night! ”

"In addition, in order to prevent epidemics, the inside and outside of the house are cleaned by each team in turn every day, and the internal emergency is to go to the public, and it is strictly forbidden to drown in the open, and violators will be severely punished!"

So here, the daily life of the former lacquer maker has become a stacked quilt. Morning food, training, eating, sleeping.

In the first half of the decade, the basic thing to do every day was to distinguish between the Wu and the two to which you belonged, and to recognize your own superiors and the orders they shouted.

However, at this stage, or rather, from the moment the Song recruits entered the manor, Zhao Wuxian found himself encountering an insurmountable difficulty.

Language Problem! It is sometimes a medium of communication. Sometimes, in turn, it hinders communication.

According to the model of 10 people who have completed their studies and taught 100 people, Zhao Wuxian promoted the old soldiers who were more familiar with the drills and the new military law to two chiefs and military commanders. And yet they shouted the password. The people of the Song Kingdom didn't understand!

Only then did Wu Xian react that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jinnan region and the Huaisi area were completely two dialect areas, or in other words, from ancient times to the present, they were originally inhabited by different ethnic groups. The Xinjiang dialect is a mixture of Zongzhou Yayin, Rongdi Miscellaneous Language, and Xia Miscellaneous Language, while Shangqiu Dialect is a mixture of Shang Sound and Huaiyi Miscellaneous Language.

For example, the pronunciation of the Tiger in the Shangqiu dialect of the Song Kingdom is "Father Li", and the pronunciation of the Qin and Jin Dynasty is "Bodu".

Chicken. The Song people called it "Suman", and the Jin people called it "chicken chicks".

This kind of tool. The Song called it "plough", and the Jin people called it "喿".

The dialect gap between the two places is much larger than that of Shanxi and Henan in later generations. It's impossible to understand it when you're a newcomer.

Should we use a universal language? Before he came to the Song Kingdom, he used Cheng Zhou Yayin to talk to Le Qi and Le Lingzi, but Yayin was only popular among scholars, and the lower-class people listened to this "Mandarin" like chickens and ducks, so it was not feasible.

In the end, it was Su Shouyu from Wen County who provided the solution.

Wen County and Xinjiang are separated by Taihang Mountain, and the difference in dialects is also very large, the key is that the Jin people can understand it, and the Song people can also understand it!

The reason is that the land of Nanyang, where Wen County is located, was originally the hometown of Daji, the country of the Su family, and it was also an area where the remnants of the Yin Shang gathered, and Shangyin was left behind.

As a result, a veteran from Wen County who had participated in the Battle of Jianjin was put into the two middle schools of each recruit to act as a "translator", and the password was also shouted by them.

After this incident, Zhao Wuxian deeply felt that in recruiting soldiers in foreign countries, and even in business and rule, the language problem was a terrible ravine.

"It seems that talents like Zigong and Feng Rin who can speak the dialects of various countries must be cultivated or recruited, otherwise they will be caught blind again in the future."

The language barrier was resolved and the training was carried out in an orderly manner.

"Stop", "Turn right", "Turn left" and "Qi Yan", the military chief of Wen County has already mastered the township model in four months, and every password issued will be demonstrated to the recruits.

So, in the first few days, on the ring road outside the manor, I saw two new soldiers each beginning to line up in horizontal columns, walking with the soldiers, trotting, running, and standing, while shouting slogans stupidly.

"The bowl is left, the chopsticks are right! The bowl is left, and the chopsticks are right! The bowl is left, and the chopsticks are right! ”

It only took half a day for Qi Wan to distinguish between left and right, because he had done the job of painting in the lacquer garden, with the paint bucket on the left and the paint brush on the right, which was easy to understand. It's a pity that when he accidentally shouted out, he was whipped a few times by Wu Chang with a small stick.

"They all say that the Song people are stupid, I think you are smart, but the gentleman said, don't be smart among the martial arts, you honestly follow the slogan to Naigong, let you do whatever you want, and next time, you will be confined!"

"Confinement" has become a punishment for the new pawns to talk about the tiger's color, and that small and dark space is their nightmare.

So Qi Wan only dared to read his "cheats" in his heart.

Half a decade later, everyone's queue was already a little shaped, but the next test caught Qi Wan off guard. On this day, they were taken to a swamp that had not been completely drained, and it was also the place where many of the filth of life were discharged, buzzing with mosquitoes and flies.

However, the officers did not let them stop.

"Let's go, keep going! A quagmire is like this, when you get to the battle formation, look at the chariot rushing on the opposite side, the spear on the opposite side, you still have to turn around and run? Walk! ”

According to the military law that the commander briefly described to them. The two chiefs didn't stop, so they had to move forward, otherwise they would be disobeyed.

The cane was whipping and urging. Qi Wan hesitated for a moment before stepping forward. And most of the people behind him chose to obey. So the front row filled the pit, and the back row walked over.

When they help people in the fields, don't they trample on their feet full of mud one day? The hesitation of everyone is actually reluctant to bear the brown clothes under the new hair, as well as the sturdy Ge cloth shoes.

In the next few days, this kind of quagmire became commonplace, and you had to keep a queue when you left, and if you rushed forward or dragged back, you just waited to wash the clothes for all the two people!

Zhang Mengtan was a little puzzled by these seemingly useless methods. However, as soon as Zhao Wuxian explained a little, he understood.

Whether it is folding bedding, walking in queues, or wading through the quagmire, it is to cultivate the obedience and discipline of the soldiers from the details, because these are the foundation of an army. After more than a year in charge of the army, Zhao Wuxian now clearly understands that only with discipline can there be combat effectiveness, and this is the most efficient set of methods.

It is necessary to make the soldiers afraid of the soldiers, and the military law is more than the arrows and spears. In order to achieve the order and prohibition, and after the follow-up combat skills and tactical training can keep up, "Zhao Wushu" will be invincible in this classical era when the art of war has just started!

The so-called soldiers of Sun and Wu in later generations? And that's it!

……

Late April. The two began to merge together to form a new formation: as many as a hundred soldiers.

The "Zhao Wushu", which was composed of new recruits and veterans, was divided into six regular pawns by Zhao Wuxian, in addition to two directly subordinate pawns and one baggage pawn, totaling more than 700 people, equivalent to a reinforced brigade.

As a result, in this barracks manor called "Zhao Qiu", Zhao Wuxian no longer let people call him a gentleman, but appointed himself as a brigade commander.

Except for the general loyalty to the sovereign in this age. He also wants to portray himself as the supreme commander who will be feared and respected by his soldiers! Only the name and the instrument, not the dummy. Keeping military power firmly in one's own hands is also an extremely important means.

Under his command. a sword and shield bearer with two pieces of leather armor, with Mucha as the commander; The spearmen of the three pawns and light armor were served by Wu Jing and others. Most of these hundreds of leather armor and sword weapons were captured in the Battle of Jianjin, and some of the money and silk obtained from Zigong goods were purchased from the Le's treasury.

In addition, there are two unarmored crossbowmen, who are headed by Su Shouyu and a Chengxiang Shishi Sang Rope.

The Song Kingdom had few horses, so the two light knights could only maintain their original scale and be used as tactical troops. Commander Tian Ben's fierce soldiers, after supplementing those light chivalrous and evil teenagers with their own strengths, are known in number, they do not participate in ordinary training, but are positioned as a "special class" by Zhao Wuxian, which is said to be of great use.

There were also 100 heavy soldiers, mostly those merchants who were recruited, and the Song people who were not enough to become soldiers during the physical examination, they were responsible for grain and transportation, and Feng Rin also went to Shangqiu to buy dozens of carts to prepare for Zhao Wuxian's northward trip to Luwei.

And the commander of this pawn was Cheng Jian who came from the Jin Kingdom a few days ago to serve his life.

Even Zhao Wuxian did not expect that after he was exiled, although his subordinates were also homesick for a while, there was no incident of rebellion and separation, and Yu Xi, Mu Xia and other newlyweds firmly stayed.

The few people who were not strong-willed and made excuses to leave the team were despised and looked down upon by everyone, and some people viciously predicted that they would also be pointed at by thousands of people when they returned to their hometowns!

Even the people who stayed behind in the township, there are quite a few people who come from thousands of miles to defect.

Cheng Jian and that material scholar took the lead, and more than a dozen villagers were the first to arrive, and there were more than ten scattered after that. Yang Yurong, Ji Qiao and others also wanted to come, but they were dissuaded by Zhao Wuxian's letter.

Chengxiang is still a territory under his name, and it is still creating a steady stream of money, and it is also the hometown that the Chengxiang people under his command will not forget. He asked all the village officials to perform their duties, waiting for him to return to the country or serve in the various territories of the Zhao clan, because it was more useful for them to stay there than to come to the Song Kingdom!

In addition, Cheng Jian also brought domestic news: the new general of the Chinese army of the Jin State, Zhisong, together with the Chinese army Zuo Zhao Ying, the general of the Shang army Zhong Xingyin, and the generals of the various divisions attacked Zheng Guo in order to report the battle of Yique in which Zheng Guo betrayed the alliance and invaded Zhou Tianzi the year before last.

This crime is considered fried cold rice, and it is estimated that Zheng Guo himself forgot about it.

Having said that, after all, it was the first fire that was ignited after Zhisong took office, but although the Jin army was menacing, this battle was just a casual fight.

Because Zheng Jun's combat effectiveness is very strong, in order to preserve his strength, Sanqing did not collide with it, but only attacked the insect prison in the border area, and besieged the city for several days to show off his might, as if he had already slapped Zheng Guo in the face, which was also the norm of the Spring and Autumn War.

After that, the Jin army will return to the land of Nanyang to repair, and then go east to attack Weiguo, and it is expected to arrive at Weijing in mid-May!

In the past few days, after the completion of the recruitment of new soldiers, Feng Rin, who was sent by Zhao Wuxian to Lu and Wei to familiarize himself with the roads, also returned, and he marked the cities and rivers that needed to be passed along the way on the map.

Everything is in place, only the east wind is owed, and Zhao Wuxian knows from this that the deadline for his northward journey is getting closer and closer.

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ps: The content of the pre-Qin dialect comes from the Han Dynasty Yangxiong's "Xuan Envoy Peerless Language Interpretation of Other Country Dialects" (to be continued)

PS: Thank you book friend cat demon? , Nine Heavens Yanyu, a bubble fish that loves to brag, up and down, up and down, up and down, the death of the blood swastika, 丨fans丨, the miracle of Xiaoqi civilization, the reward of the island 001!

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