Peng Xiaoliu has been an honest farmer for generations, and his ancestors have been digging in the soil for eight generations. The times are honest people, a few days ago, the Anqing New Army bombed the battalion, carrying a gun to fight the governor's yamen, but Peng Xiaoliu hid in the toilet all night and didn't go to join the excitement.

Peng Xiaoliu's grandfather's generation, relying on the diligence and thrift of several generations, finally had a few acres of thin fields, and he finally had a head. But fortunately, it was always too short, and in the hands of his father Peng Heitou, everything changed.

First of all, the annual national tax on imperial grain is twice as much, Peng Heitou doesn't understand, the tax silver of that year is one or two silver per person, which is only 800 copper plates, even if you add the dots to the land security and government officials, at most 1,100 copper coins. In his hand, it was the same one or two pieces of silver, but it required more than 2,300 copper plates, and after being stripped by the servants, it would cost more than 2,600 copper plates to pay the tax.

There is so much grain in the field, and the copper money needed to pay taxes is increasing year by year. What's worse is that this food is not worth much. The steamers of the foreigners on the Yangtze River emitted black smoke and pulled the fine rice piled up into the small mountains to the city of Anqing. The face was as white as the first snow in winter, and he was stunned when he saw Peng's black head. Such a good noodle is actually sold at a price similar to the rough noodles that he grinds, how is this foreigner neat?

The prices of brown rice and coarse noodles in China have plummeted, but the taxes to the imperial court cannot be less, and since the imperial court has implemented a "new policy", saying that it is to train the new army, it is even more impossible to live.

If you have a big car at home, you have to pay the car and horse tax, rent two houses to subsidize the family, you have to pay the bed tax first, and you have to pay the retort donation for brewing two jars of old wine, and then you even have to pay the "drowning donation" for feces and urine, saying that it is the salary of the patrol police!

Peng Heizi is getting more and more confused, could it be that he will have to pay taxes for farting in the future? If you can't pay taxes, it's terrible, the people who resist the donation were caught in the yamen, and the eighty-pound wooden shackle was put around the neck, and the iron-beaten man couldn't last three days!

Seeing that the family's few acres of land were gradually sold out, Peng Heizi also became thin into a handful of dry firewood, lying on the kang and coughing up blood, and died silently.

Peng Xiaoliu grew up eating hundreds of family meals, and later the new army recruited, in order to eat a mouthful of food, he became this recruit who had three taels or four dollars and five cents of silver every month, and carried five and a half feet (foreign guns).

It is said that three taels and four dollars and five dollars a month is really a lot, deducting the money for salt vegetables, laying boards, and quilts, and you can still save more than two taels every month. But Peng Xiaoliu has been a soldier for more than a year, and he has never seen what the silver looks like, and the silver allocated from the domain treasury must first let the lord of the domain peel off a layer of skin, and then the secretary and the committee members will naturally share the profits, and after arriving at the camp, they will peel off the skin layer by layer, and when it reaches the hands of the big head soldiers, that is, the silver slag that leaks from the cracks!

But today, his heart is warm, the camp has been paid silver, five shining dragon oceans! The new Governor personally sent them to the soldiers one by one, and from then on, he no longer deducted the food money of the soldiers.

"Brothers, wash your feet, burn your feet and sleep well!" A tent carrying a huge white iron kettle, with a smile on his face, poured hot water into the wooden tray where the soldiers washed their feet.

"Lord Memasa, how dare you bother? It should be the villain who poured you footwater! The little ones are not sensible, damn it! Peng Xiaoliu's face was colorless in fright, and he stretched out his hand and slapped himself in the mouth.

Mu Zheng hurriedly grabbed his hand, hugged his shoulder affectionately and said: "Brother, this pouring foot washing water for soldiers every day is the order of our Metropolitan Governor, every squad leader has to do this... Brother, if you feel sorry for your brother, let your brother serve you, otherwise my squad leader will be done!" ”

Monitor? By the way, on the colonel's field today, the control of the army has been renamed, the head is called the squad leader, the team officer is called the platoon leader, the sentry officer is called the company commander, and the pipe band is called the battalion commander!

This squad leader is serving the little soldiers, and the sun is really coming out of the west!

"Brothers, I have a bad temper, I used to be sorry for you, please bear with me, and I will still stir the horse spoon in a pot in the future!"

The squad leader beckoned the soldiers to wash their feet while making a hoop.

Peng Xiaoliu looked at the electric lamp hanging in the barracks that fascinated him, felt the sense of fulfillment brought by the five pieces of Longyang in his arms, and the comfort brought by the hot water on the wooden plate under his feet, although he didn't understand what these changes represented, but he clearly knew that this was the benefit of the new Chai Dudu to everyone.

Eat Chai Dudu's food, take Chai Dudu's money, this life has to be sold to Chai Dudu!

"Wash your feet and go to sleep, you have to train early tomorrow morning, everyone sell some strength, most of us have no sand in our eyes!" The squad leader gave his hand again and waved at everyone.

The night was very late, but Peng Xiaoliu couldn't sleep, and the bones of the five-yuan diaphragm in his chest hurt, which made him very comfortable! Five yuan a month, 60 yuan a year, 10 yuan can buy one acre of medium dry land in the countryside, and a year's military salary can buy six acres of land in your hometown! The fields sold by my father back then will be bought back in the future, so that his old man can also be blinded under Jiuquan!

"Squeak", the barracks door was pushed open.

Several officers entered the house with gas lamps, and Peng Xiaoliu hurriedly closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. The leader seems to be the Governor himself? A straight military uniform, a delicate face like a scholar! Yes, indeed the Governor! He used his hands to test the thickness of the straw on the paving board, and then personally kicked off the quilts for the soldiers who were not in a good sleeping position, tucked the quilts one by one, and then quietly retreated.

Oh my God, Lord Governor covered the quilt for me with his own hands? Thinking about his father being cornered by the land security back then, Peng Xiaoliu's eyes were red, and he felt like there was a breath in his chest blocked, and his blood wanted to gush out!

This life was sold to Chai Dudu!

・・・・・ dividing line...

"Li Darttou, you are well aware of the righteousness and dedicated the ancestral secret recipe to the Military Advisory Office, Chai represents the soldiers of the new army, thank you!" Chai Dongliang bowed deeply to a rough man.

"Governor, how can this be done! You can afford us charlatans, we have to be worthy of you... not to blow to you, our 'Sanyi' dart game's ancestral recipe for bone-breaking is the most effective! If you hurt your strength and damage your muscles and bones, rub it with my family's fire wine, and the next day you will be fierce! Li Dart patted his chest and showed off.

Chai Dongliang has discovered a fatal problem in the past few days, the training of the new army in the Qing Dynasty is similar to the training of the juggling team, the soldiers' military posture is strict, and the standard of kicking is the same, and the foreigners are stunned. Climbing trenches and jumping over obstacles are also like walking on the ground, but after so much physical training beyond the limit of bearing, but there is not enough nutritional guarantee, it destroys the soldiers' bodies. Shooting that is really useful for fighting a war is rarely trained.

Anyway, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are all trained to be shown by foreigners and court bigwigs, and it is not good to shoot this thing, and it can't show the great military power of our Qing Dynasty, so don't practice at all, save a few bullets and sell it for money!

Chai Dongliang understands that in this troubled era, the army is the biggest capital. Therefore, he formulated a strict system and personally paid the soldiers to avoid corruption in the intermediate links. It also stipulates that the squad leader pours water for washing the soldiers' feet every day, and that the officers on duty inspect every day to ensure that the soldiers sleep and eat, so as to strengthen the relationship between the officers and soldiers.

The key to success or failure is the details, which are necessary means to win the hearts of the new army, and more importantly, to change the kind of training methods that are useless in the show. Strict training in the army is a must, and in the future, it will have to face challenges from all sides, and it is the most inhumane to let them go to the battlefield without brutal training!

The bullets on the shooting range are like rain, and there is no shortcut to marksmanship, only to use thousands of bullets to feed them. On the training ground, the soldiers used wooden guns to fight hard, and the red-eyed new army played with their opponents as enemies...

However, training must be scientific, so Chai Dongliang asked someone to solicit training recovery methods and medicine, so he came up with the idea of a dart game.

The dart game is a training runner, that can't be a showman, the green forest hero will not play with you, there is no hard kung fu under the hands, it is definitely a joke with the surname and the signboard of the dart game.

Chai Dongliang personally went to Anqing's most famous "Sanyi" dart bureau to find the head of the dart, and asked him for a prescription that could treat the loss of training.

"Li Darttou, this is a hundred yuan, be careful, don't dislike it!" Chai Dongliang handed over a leading silver ticket.

Li Dart's face turned red, and he waved his hand and said, "Dudu, you are slapping me in the face!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled, put away the silver ticket, and said to his soldiers: "Send ten jars of good wine to the brothers of 'Sanyi' for me, and I invite you brothers to have a drink... ”

Li Dart's big hand like a fan slapped Chai Dongliang on the shoulder with one palm and said: "Dudu, from today on, we are brothers, no matter what else you say, as long as the brothers say a word in the future, the brothers of the 'Three Righteousness' will not hesitate to go to the soup and fight the fire!" ”

Sending away Li Darttou of "Sanyi", before Chai Dongliang had time to take a breath, Lu Kai came upside down: "Governor, Liu Xiangli of Guanghua Bank has arrived, and the money banks and ticket number shopkeepers in Wuhu and Anqing are waiting in the signing room!" Master Gao and Mr. Wu are drinking tea with them! ”

Chai Dong nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go over!" ”

Looking at the window on the second floor where Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian lived not far away, Chai Dongliang sighed, this is really not good! Busy and busy, he can only sleep five or six hours a day, not to mention for the time being, just guarding two beautiful beauties who are charming and charming, it is inconvenient to even say a word, which is enough to make Chai Dongliang depressed!

Yesterday when we had dinner together, in front of Wu Xingzhou, it was really inconvenient to hook up with his daughter, just a few sneak glances, and immediately looked at the nose and nose and heart, and made an old monk who regarded red pink as a skeleton!

However, it seems that those two little beauties are a little interesting to themselves, and when she peeks at them, Wu Meiqi's eyes are also crooked like hooks, and that Mo Xiaolian's face is crimson with shame!

There must be a play, there must be a play!