It's not that Zhang Chu hasn't seen the poor, but he has seen a lot of disaster victims in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info But when he went to Weihai, he always unconsciously brought the impression of a tourist mecca in later generations. He could never have imagined that Weihai, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there is no serious disaster in Shaanxi, the soldiers of the guard station are so poor. It seems that no matter how good the natural environment is, it will not work without a good tank bottom.

"Zhong Qianhu, this year is a long life." Zhang Chu asked Zhong Xiuli, who had white hair.

"My subordinates are fifty-five years old this year, and I dare not call them longevity." Zhong Xiuli bowed down and replied.

Zhang Chu couldn't help but look Zhong Xiuli up and down again, the hard years not only destroyed people's bodies, but also made people's spirits age early, this Zhong Qianhu's every move was no different from an old man in his seventies and eighties in Zhang Chu's opinion.

"Let's go, take me inside." Zhang Chu is already mentally prepared, and it shouldn't be much better here.

The other hundred households, the general and other petty officials, scattered to both sides, made way for the way, and Zhong Xiuli and the five of them led Zhang Chu and the team of the security army into Weihaiwei.

Looking at the neat queue of soldiers of the security army with excellent equipment, the low-level officers of the guard post who watched from the side thought that this general soldier was really rich, and he had raised so many pro-soldiers, I hope he didn't reach out to everyone with more money, and a little bit of his fingers was enough for everyone to eat.

The team entered Weihaiwei, and Zhang Chu looked at the situation inside the guard as Zhang Chu thought, all the fortifications were in disrepair, dilapidated, and no longer functional.

The soldiers' houses were even more miserable, in tatters everywhere, some were just sheds built with grass, the children must have been told not to run around, or there were naughty children who probed their brains there, and were soon pulled back into the house by their parents, even so Zhang Chu could see clearly that they were unclothed and unkempt.

"What is the total population of the health center now? I'm asking about real numbers. "Zhang saw that although Zhong Xiuli was old and frail, the other four thousand households still respected him very much, indicating that he still had a certain prestige. So I asked Zhong Xiuli about the question.

"How many people? Does it also include women and children? Zhong Xiuli was a little puzzled, the newly appointed officials at the Wei Institute would ask some questions, this Zhong Xiuli knew, and he had also made preparations in advance, and he would generally ask the Wei all how many young and strong soldiers there were and how many soldiers could fight. He even prepared two sets of numbers for the truth and falsehood of these questions, if the commander knew how to tell the truth, if he didn't understand, he would say it falsely, but he didn't expect that the new young general soldier didn't understand anything, and came up to the bottom and asked about the population of the guard, and theoretically it was true that the soldiers of the guard had returned to the guard for generations. If you have a child, you can count as a person in the guard, but now no one cares about that. As long as there are young and strong people who contribute to the chief, there is no life or death for officials, wives and children.

"For all the population, are there any soldiers who can go to war?" Zhang Chu asked.

"The total population of the health center now is more than 30,000 people, and the exact number has not been counted. Those who can really go to the battlefield, if they can eat enough, how can there be four or five hundred people. "Now the management of the guard is becoming more and more chaotic, no one counts the number of people in the guard in time, the less trained the soldiers in the guard, only a few families still insist on practicing martial arts, and know some attack and killing formations.

"How much food is left in the guard now?" Zhang Chu finally asked the most critical place.

"Now there is no money or food in the guardhouse, and the things produced in the fields of the guard house have been eaten by everyone, and the original commander pulled the rest away when he left." Zhong Xiuli gritted his teeth and said the truth if Zhang Chu was unhappy, and Zhang Chu from the province came to loot again.

"This lord is also neat, and he didn't leave me at all?" Zhang Chu asked unwillingly.

"I didn't leave any of them, even the seeds for next year's spring planting." Zhong Xiuli told Zhang Chu even worse news.

"Is there a water source here?" Since there is nothing left, Zhang Chu can only start to build production by himself.

"There is a lot of water here, and there is a sow river flowing through the middle of the guardhouse, irrigating the farmland, and there is no shortage of domestic water." Zhong Xiuli didn't know why Zhang Chu suddenly thought of the question of water sources, but he still answered truthfully.

"It's good to have water." Zhang Chu finally heard a good news. Because many of the things Zhang Chu will do in the future are inseparable from water and strength.

"The four of you elect a candidate to be in charge of the military, and the rest of the people listen to Zhong Qianhu and command to be in charge of the daily affairs in the guardhouse." Zhang Chu didn't want to say more and gave the order directly, it seems that everyone is still convinced by Zhong Xiuli, and directly put several other people under his leadership.

The five thousand households of them muttered at home for a long time before they elected a young thousand households named Duan Gang to be responsible for the military affairs that Zhang Chu said. Zhang Chu didn't say what he wanted, and everyone always felt that there would be nothing good.

Zhang Chu looked at Duan Gang and saw that he was not very old, and he still maintained a little bit of a soldier's temperament. So he asked, "Are you hereditary and hereditary?" You have thought about it, if you are in charge of the military, you have to go to the battlefield, and if you don't want to, I won't blame you, I will choose someone else. ”

"My thousand households are hereditary, I am not afraid of death, as long as I can be fed, there is no problem in going to the battlefield. The children of our military families were born to go to the battlefield. Duan Gang replied with a straight chest.

"That's good." Zhang Chu was very satisfied with Duan Gang's performance, and then said: "You go to the officer in charge of training in our team and take them to pick out the young people who are willing to go to the battlefield and suitable for the battlefield, and by the way, ask me about the treatment of the soldiers in my team, and publicize it to everyone after I go back." ”

Everyone else is thinking about what kind of good treatment the soldiers will have, and even a little military salary is still deducted by meager efforts, and there are not many people who really get it. But the official university is reasonable, and others dare not say anything.

Zhang Chu walked towards the center of the guard, and came to the original commander's yamen, although this yamen is also in disrepair, there should be no big problem with the residents. When I walked into the Yamen, all the things inside were moved by the commander. Zhang Chu said to Zhong Xiuli and the others: "From tomorrow onwards, you will have to report to the yamen every day, and I will arrange work for you." ”

"Yes, at your command." Five of them hurriedly agreed. Although I report here every day, and I have to delay a lot of work, this is not the time to refute, and everyone can only accept it first.

"Okay, Zhong Qianhu, you will be organized by Duan Gang and the remaining young people, and when I choose the factory site, you will take them to build the factory." Zhang Chu began to arrange the work.

It was normal for soldiers to work in the guards. This chief soldier has nothing to scavenge, and it is not too much to send everyone to work.

But the next order, Zhong Xiuli and the others listened to it very absurdly. "Zhong Qianhu, you immediately organize the women and children of each household to build a toilet for each household according to the standards of the security army." (To be continued.) )