Zhang Chu mentioned that his daughter really scared Li Zhongxiao a lot, Li Zhongxiao married his wife very early, but in the first few years of hard work day and night there was no result, so that everyone secretly thought that there was something wrong with him, but he didn't expect that a few years later, two years later, he gave birth to four daughters in succession, so although it was a daughter, he also loved it very much, regarded it as a pearl in his palm, and said that he couldn't let his daughter attract the attention of this thief. But he had no choice but to answer, so he whispered, "I have four daughters, all of whom are still very young, and I have no sons." ”

"You're the Hou Ye, aren't you? Hou Yeguan is big, right? You've been in officialdom for years, right? It's no problem for you to take care of the county or something, right? Zhang Chu suddenly had a new idea, so he asked one after another.

"Lord Hou is just a title representing status, which was earned by my ancestors from birth to death, and I used to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites than a county official." It's terrible to have no culture, the title and official position are not clear, there is no one sitting and standing there, there is no standing face, and he speaks upside down, he is really a rude and ignorant bandit, Li Zhongxiao is dissatisfied in his heart, but he still has to answer Zhang Chu's question.

"You're literate, aren't you?" Another strange question was asked, Zhang Chu heard that the descendants of the old Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty were all raised as pigs, and there were not many literate people, Li Zhongxiao, the noble hereditary marquis, would not be just relying on the aura of his ancestors.

Li Zhongxiao almost vomited out a mouthful of blood, his brain really couldn't keep up with the young bandit's train of thought, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites would be illiterate. I didn't care if it would anger Zhang Chu, he said proudly: "Our ancestors were crowned marquis with military exploits, and then for hundreds of years, poetry and books have been handed down, although there is no need to fight with those literati for the imperial examination, I still recognize a few words." ”

"That's good, our literate people here earn a lot of wages, you work hard and maybe you can support your family, you say that your poetry and books heirloom then your daughter is also literate?" Zhang Chu led the topic to the direction he wanted to hear again.

Li Zhongxiao regrets this, he has nothing to do, what kind of poetry and books are heirlooms. After being silent for a long time, seeing that Zhang Chu was still waiting for him to answer, he said, "I also taught the little girl to read." ”

"Well, there's a girls' literacy class here, I'm going to turn it into a girls' school, just so that your wife and daughter can teach those girls to read, the teachers' salaries are very high, and your family will work and live a good life." Zhang Chu couldn't help but be happy when he found that this family was useful.

Hearing that it was only to teach girls to read, and that there was still a special school for girls, Li Zhongxiao's nervous mood relaxed a little. But the next sentence of Zhang Chu scared him enough.

Zhang Chu said: "The words we teach here are different from yours, and I will teach them to read when I have time." ”

"Don't dare to have King Lao, the little girl's knowledge is very good." Li Zhongxiao couldn't wait to kneel down and plead.

"Then let's talk about this later, you do your work well first, you first follow me to do some paperwork copying, remember that we have a system of protecting armor and sitting here, one person who escapes and the others will be punished, you have to explain to your family and guards, if any of them make a mistake, you will have something less on you, if you make a mistake, I will let you choose one of them to kill first." You do it well, if you don't do it well, you will be crowned a prince first. Zhang Chu didn't bother to reason with him anymore, and wanted them to work, but he was too scared to run away first.

If you can't make a king, what kind of logic is this, Li Zhongxiao just wanted to laugh at Zhang Chu's incompatible, but he instantly figured it out, the marquis of the Ming Dynasty became a prince in the bandits' den, if the emperor knows, his nine clans may not be able to keep it, this is too insidious, people have to bow their heads under the low eaves, and hurriedly said: "I must work hard to do a good job." ”

Zhang Chu took the thousand-character text that made the literati vomit blood again, but fortunately, this time Zhu Xiucai had copied it in two languages. Zhang Chu asked Li Zhongxiao to go back and study carefully, and he must learn to simplify the characters as soon as possible, and teach his daughter. At this time, Li Zhongxiao knew that Zhang Chu wanted to teach them literacy and it was really not a simple talk.

Next, Zhang Chu completely changed his face, just like a star chaser seeing a star he worshipped, and began to ask Li Zhongxiao all kinds of questions, from what the emperor looks like, how to salute when he sees the emperor, what rules the officialdom has, and how much salary Li Zhongxiao can earn in a year. Li Zhongxiao could only answer them one by one, and at the same time knew that this bandit leader was unlearned, and many things that were well known in Daming, he also took them out and asked, and when Li Zhongxiao answered, he listened to them with relish, as if he had never heard of them.

It wasn't until lunch that Zhang Chu stopped, but he was still unsatisfied, you go back and give me a picture of how to do a good job in governing a county, Zhang Chu, the unkind boss, directly deployed overtime work. As an intellectual useful to the security army, Zhang Chu gave Li Zhongxiao's family a very high salary, the family was arranged in a special courtyard, of course, it was still guarded by people, but the accompanying maid-in-law was dismissed by Zhang Chu to work separately, and the dozen or so guards Zhang Chu directly dispersed them into various teams, it was a pity that these people's physical conditions and skills were not used, just tell the team members to pay more attention and educate them more.

Unexpectedly, a treasure fell from the sky, and Zhang Chu decided to make good use of it. If you can understand the operation mode of the court, it will be completely different if you confront the court. This Li Zhongxiao has become such a big official, he must have looted a lot, let people count it for a while, and leave other valuable things in the silver money, and he can do a lot of things as soon as he sells them. Zhang Chu's mood suddenly improved.

When you're in the mood, get to work and keep working. After Zhang Chu finished lunch, he called He Jin, Li Yi, Yang Biao and other captains who led the troops, and he decided to study the reorganization of the security army. After half a day of discussion, the decision was finally made. The security team was officially reorganized into the security army, and the army was filled to 500 people, Zhang Chu was the supreme leader called the marshal, Li Yi's cavalry formed a brigade of its own, with the goal of expanding to 150 people, and He Jin led the first brigade with a post of 200 people. Yang Biao led the second brigade, also with 200 people. On the basis of the two deputy captains sent by Zhang Chu to manage the ideological work of the team members last time, the deputy team leaders who manage the thoughts and lives of the team members have also been added to the team. Zhu Xiucai was responsible for the allocation of logistics materials and the management of migrant workers recruited during the war. In terms of weapons, it is necessary to gradually increase the number of artillery pieces and increase the proportion of muskets.

Arrange for the members of the team who were injured in the battle and lost their combat effectiveness to be discharged from the army and assigned to each village to serve as the chief of the security guard, and the security army will pay the salary uniformly, and they are official members of the security army. During this period, Li Yi's cavalry was all dispatched as emergency training, and the police were assembled in which direction to defeat all the forces that hindered it.

The busy life passed quickly, and another month passed in the blink of an eye, and the reorganization of the security team went smoothly, and the resources and weapons were replenished. The armor protection system was also implemented in the county, and with the momentum of the newly defeated official army, the local landlords did not dare to openly oppose the security army, while the poor people saw that the security army could control Yanchang County for a long time, and some began to quietly support the security army.

Seeing that everything was going according to plan, Zhang Chu decided to take the opportunity to take another step forward. So he ordered each ministry to prepare separately, and the next step: security guards entered the city.