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When passing by Eagle Claw Fort, Xiao Ye didn't go over, but just talked to Liu Shuihe, who was greeted from afar, and then turned around and went to Madao Stone Fort. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Madao Stone Fort, because of the return of the big leader, the spirit of the people in the stone fort is more energetic, and under the greeting of Sun Xiaoming's personal guards, Xiao Ye returned to the house after a month of absence.

After a day of lively reunion with his three wives and concubines and children, and meeting and talking to his father-in-law, Xiao Ye made time to issue a military order to Wang Gui to collect the fine stucco in the warehouse, as well as those in Eagle Claw Fort, all of which were transported to Gujiabao by a convoy.

After looking at the medical hall and warehouse in the fort, Xiao Ye took two guards to the communication team, and took Wang Ziliang to the Shijia shop, and together with Xin Weilin, the three of them drank tea and chatted for half a night.

Although Xin Weilin was jealous and unwilling to show his face, Xiao Ye was still quite satisfied with the suggestions he gave Xiao Ye from time to time, and there was still a long time to come, and this Xiucai would sit next to him sooner or later, instead of guarding a shop to pass the time.

After leaving Madao Stone Fort for more than a month, after turning around, Xiao Ye was pleased to find that there were a lot of fresh faces in the stone fort, and the arrival of these people added a lot of benefits to everyone.

In Hu Shibiao's warm cellar, green vegetables have already been produced, and his first meal at home, there are not only rare green vegetables on the table, but also tofu.

When Wang Gui selected the homeless people in Shiguantun, he picked them up with either skilled or strong people, and the worst way to farm was good, and a person who was selected could bring his family to Shibao.

As a result, craftsmen of all trades, homeless people who can farm and have strength were pulled over by a cart, and after the roster was printed, except for those who could be selected by the war barracks, the others were quickly requisitioned by the logistics team.

Now there are not only tofu factories and garment factories built in the stone forts, but also in the houses of the stone forts, and they have also begun to increase the number of people, and these new men have some unique skills in their hands, but first let Wang Meng's sergeants not have to eat bread, soup and boiled broth every day.

Of course, the potion in Xiao Ye's hand is not enough to use on a large scale, as soon as these people enter the stone castle, someone will specifically tell them which places they can't go, once they rush in, after three warnings, they will bear the consequences.

The most important thing is that the gate of the stone castle cannot be entered and exited casually, even if the brigade goes out to dig stones, it is also organized into a team and supervised.

These rules were written out by Xin Rulin one by one, and after Wang Meng took them to Yang Tianshou and let them be seen, he quickly implemented them temporarily with Wang Gui, and waited until Xiao Ye approved them and declared them military discipline.

The medical hall presided over by Li Muchen and Liu Yi has more than a dozen Gujiacun Langzhong joined, and it can already cope with the needs of Shibao for medical treatment, and Eagle Claw Fort sent three Langzhong to teach more medical soldiers.

The orderly stone fort was noisy, the sergeants patrolled and shuttled on the fort wall, and the ox carts and horse-drawn carts pulling stones kept coming and going, all of which made Xiao Ye very satisfied.

What he is most worried about now is the supply of goods in the processing center, which is the current guarantee of the safety of the three stone forts and the two tribes, and he must not be careless.

However, in view of the extremely slow repair of the processing center, now Xiao Ye's development has reached a bottleneck, and there are so many supplies, and he is helpless to take which one or the other will be less.

There was no way, Xiao Ye could only lay his own foundation first, and sent his guards down to the various war barracks to be a centurion or even a chief, and even the guards were gradually delegated to the communication team, in order to hold the war barracks firmly in his hands.

With a large number of Shi Chang and Centurion who have used potions, and the commander of the war camp is his henchmen, Xiao Ye doesn't believe that anyone has the ability to provoke his strength. This is also the reason why he refuses to use potions for the homeless people anymore, it is really a waste.

These backbones who support the war barracks, as long as they are not lost in the middle of the road, will soon stand out; The various battle barracks that began to recruit soldiers, I think that the number of Mongol Tatar soldiers in them will gradually increase, and without the addition of strong descendants, they will soon be out of his control.

For this reason, the day after Xiao Ye returned, Sun Xiaoming's personal guard team quickly shrank to a team of 100 people, and there were fifty people left in the guards, including those who went out on military affairs.

The only thing that surprised the commanders of the various barracks was that Xiao Ye's guards privately called the captain of the commander, and the veteran guard Xiao Ye did not approve, but let Yang 18 sit in the position of captain.

The news of Xiao Ye's ability to employ people soon spread throughout the stone forts and was reconfirmed by everyone, which also made the Mongolian Tatar recruits who joined the war camp feel hot in their hearts and worked harder in the exercises.

However, those who are interested can still see that there are only a few Tartar sergeants in Hao Yongliang's artillery team, and they are still wearing black uniforms, and the Shenche Battalion in Yushan is even more rare to have the faces of Tatar sergeants.

The Hongjia opera troupe also returned to Madao Stone Fort, and the sound of gongs and drums and huqin resounded again in the brightly lit Stone Fort Square at night.

In the study of the big boss's mansion, Xiao Yejing was naked, wearing mattresses and trousers, sitting in a thick wooden barrel, and the cold clean water was soaked in his chest; Yang Eighteen, who was full of worry on the side, his palms were full of wet sweat stains.

He now knows that this potion that can improve physical strength is simply half of the pros and cons, and it can survive the burning and burning of the potion, needless to say that there are many benefits, but on the top of the mountain to the west, there are many soldiers lying in the cemetery, and many people have died from this potion.

Reaching out from the stool next to the barrel, he picked up a potion, picked up the soft stopper with his thumb, Xiao Ye smiled at Yang Eighteen, raised his head and swallowed one of the pills in the bottle; The gray five-star pill melted in the mouth, and the slightest warm current exploded into a heat wave, rushing straight into the abdominal cavity.

This kind of pill made of the essence blood of forty people and a large number of Chinese medicinal materials is ridiculously expensive in terms of medicinal materials, but in order to walk in front of those guards, Xiao Ye had to be brave enough to use it.

He doesn't have a strong strength as a foundation, no matter how loyal the people around him are, it will be difficult for Xiao Ye to sleep. Once he was bitten by a snake and was afraid of the well rope for ten years, the stimulation that Zhang Zhong gave him was too hurtful.

Soon, Xiao Ye, whose muscles were trembling all over his face, began to glow red and emit hot air, curling white smoke gushed out from the top of his head, and the cold and bone-oozing pure water gradually began to steam up strands of water vapor, and after a while, the water surface began to churn.

The hot purified water was quickly evaporated, and it was time for Yang Eighteen to make a move.

Carrying the bucket and constantly pouring the clean water into the wooden bucket, Yang Shibai looked at the big leader in the smoke with a dry throat, like a white chicken boiled in hot water, enduring the torment of the potion alive, and his eyes were shocked to the extreme.

The guards waiting outside kept bringing buckets of clean water in, and then took out empty wooden barrels one by one, and quickly ran to the vat to scoop up the water and prepare it.

After the guards were busy for half an hour, there was no longer a need for a large amount of clean water in the study, but it was not until an hour and a half later that there was a sound in the misty study, Yang Shibai pushed open the closed window, and the smoke drifted away.

Xiao Ye, who was assisted by the chip, spent two difficult hours, and with the help of Yang Shiba, he put on his clothes and rested for a while, and then sat down at the table and began to eat.

People who can survive with medicine basically have a lot of food, a guard team of fifty people, and the monthly food consumption can fight two hundred-person teams, which is still not limited to canned meat, and ordinary people can't afford to eat this item.

After taking a nap in the study for two hours, Xiao Ye, who had recovered his spirits, stepped on the morning light of dawn and came to the backyard martial arts arena.

"Peng Peng, Peng, Peng," more than a dozen wooden stakes erected on the edge of the martial arts arena, each as thick as a thigh, Xiao Ye, who waved his fists, pounced on it, roared like a vent, the shadow of his fists flashed, and all the wooden stakes were smashed with a click, and rags splashed on his thick clothes, but his hands and arms were not red and swollen at all.

"Huhu, huhu," the six-hundred-pound thick stone lock flipped and danced in Xiao Ye's hand, and he tossed it more than twenty times in a row, and then he threw it down with great satisfaction, and picked up a heavy long-handled chopping horse/knife again, drawing out a cold light.

Yang 18 and a few guards on duty at night watched the figure of the big boss churning and jumping on the martial arts arena in a daze, and in the shadow of the sword light, the cold eyes that looked forward to it left and right stood on end at first glance.

For a while, the guards all turned red, and there was a hint of longing in their eyes, the current strength of the adults is their future prospects.

Yang Eighteen, who was sweating coldly in his palms, asked himself that although he was proficient in Xingyi Boxing, but when he encountered a strong character like an adult, it was estimated that he would be able to reduce ten times with one force, and it would be difficult for him to block ten rounds with the speed of an adult.

After a stick of incense, Xiao Ye, who was covered in fine sweat, stopped his steps by putting away the knife, put the chopping horse/knife back on the weapon rack, took the towel handed by the guard, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and frowned at the figure fifty steps away, "Little Liuzi, don't hurry over,"

"Hey, hey, it's coming," the little six sons, who were wearing an earthy yellow uniform, ran over, but the shocked look on his face still did not fade, and he looked at his old boss with admiration.

To say that Xiao Ye took care of Xiao Liuzi and sent him to Wang Meng to be a centurion, but Wang Meng, who is good at defense, will only have a merit unless Madao Stone Fort encounters an enemy attack, which also makes Xiao Liuzi leave Xiao Ye's sight, which is what he is most unwilling to do.

The eldest brother is like a father, the marriage of the younger sixth son and Han Juan, after Xiao Ye consulted Yang Tianshou, he also gave it, how could he not know the grievances of his brother-in-law. The private ridicule of everyone in the stone castle, although it is not true, but presumably Xiao Liuzi is uncomfortable for a day or two.

"Sixth son, what are you doing here?" Xiao Ye, who was in a good mood, patted Xiao Liuzi on the shoulder, and the strength was not well controlled for a while, so he almost slapped him down.

"Hehe," the little six who was slapped grinning his teeth, looked at the guards around him with big waists and round waists, and the helplessness in his eyes was revealed, "My lord, I, I still want to come back and do things next to my lord,"

He can muster up the courage to walk to Xiao Ye, he has been planning for a long time, and Xiao Ye can see that this guy is unwilling.

"That's the case, does Hanjuan know?" Xiao Ye muttered, "The guards have to go out on military affairs, which is very risky,"

"My lord, my subordinates have already agreed with Han Juan, and she has agreed," the eager little sixth son couldn't wait to say, this is probably his last chance, otherwise once he gets married next year, it will be impossible for him to join the guards, and he will become a warehouse guard.

"Okay, you go to Wang Xiucai to get my warrant, go to Wang Meng and hand over your duties, come to the study tonight, there is still a day to think about it, you think about it," Looking at Xiao Liuzi's expectant eyes, Xiao Ye said helplessly.

"A sergeant can retire as a military household, but a guard will not retire from military service until he dies, you have to think about it, military discipline is ruthless,"

Once he becomes a guard, the feeling of controlling the power can't be stopped, even Xiao Ye himself, and he can't resist the desire in his heart, and he pursues stronger power one after another, not to mention them.

What made him most uneasy was the proportion of non-combat casualties brought by the potion, which simply made Xiao Ye happy and hateful.

The pill he took last night was a fifth-order potion made from the essence blood of forty people and a large number of herbs, the feeling of despair that had no end in the flames, the refreshing horror, he would not want to experience it again for at least a year.

Not to mention the painful feeling of tearing the whole body and then blending together, tearing and then mixing and kneading repeatedly, it can simply hurt people to death.

"Yes, Master Xie, my subordinates have thought about it," the overjoyed little sixth son left in a hurry after thanking him, and it was very complicated to hand over his duties, and he was going to hurry up to do Lisuo. Behind him, a guard quickly followed at Xiao Ye's signal and accompanied Xiao Liuzi to Wang Ziliang.

Over the next month, he had to endure two potions, surviving to join the guard. In Xiao Ye's eyes, it would be a pity if he unfortunately died.

However, in the years to come, the subordinates who can't keep up with Xiao Ye's footsteps, Xiao Ye will not waste much energy to pay attention to it, and the custom of respecting the strong on the grassland has infiltrated into his and his subordinates' bones.

On the martial arts arena when the sky was getting brighter, Xiao Ye picked up a large bag of 300 pounds of stones, and began to jog steadily around the venue, leaving two guards around the side, and the other guards also took off their coats, hung their weapon belts on wooden frames, and carried uneven cloth bags on their naked upper bodies, and followed him to jog in line.

One lap of six hundred steps, fifty laps a day is normal, must be completed within two pillars of incense, unless the matter is urgent, Xiao Ye will even take the guards to the west of the mountain to run back and forth a few times, he has long liked the various drills in the infantry tactics books.

When he warms up, Yang Eighteen will teach everyone some basic Xingyi boxing techniques, which is also a point that Xiao Ye values him, and he is also learning from it, there is a brute force guard, and he doesn't know that there is no difference between sending and receiving power and bison on the grassland.

After the morning exercise, after taking a bath and having breakfast with his family, Xiao Ye went to the mill, he had a lot of things at hand today, and it took a lot of time to straighten it out.

Shiguantun, the displaced people under the mountain are still accumulating more and more, but the goods transported here by the Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce are not only much less, but also the types of goods are single and ordinary.

Coarse porcelain pots, coarse cloth and satin, crooked and twisted wood, mountains of charcoal, as well as jars of soy sauce and vinegar tea, and jars of ale wine, piled up on both sides of the road in the open space below the mountain, and the merchants' guards were less than half of the manpower to take care of them.

However, there is no trace of the grain, green salt, copper, lead, tin and other minerals that Madao Stone Fort needs most. The benefits of exclusive sales are starting to show their power.

You have to buy what kind of goods I sell, and bargaining is just a process, but the result is that you can't get what you want.

Fortunately, the porridge shed with porridge on credit was not removed because Xiao Ye went to the grassland, but the gruel in the dozen or so cauldrons was too bright.

The homeless people huddled around, relying on a small amount of gruel to survive, had the strength to do some rough work for the merchants, and they could replace a few cold dough cakes.

Zhang Zichang's military household in Shiguan Tunli has been recruited, and he can go up the mountain to live in Tunli, so that his family has a place to sleep, and there is food to fill his stomach, which is enough to make the homeless people flock to it.

The 500 catties of grain allocated by the Thousand Households of the Gravel Fort every month were not enough for Zhang Zichang and the sergeants to eat, let alone their families; If it weren't for the Tian family's secret trade of 2,000 catties of grain with Zhang Zichang every month according to Xiao Ye's request, it is estimated that he would have cried and gone to Qianhu to ask for food.

Each person is calculated at least one pound of grain per day, 30 pounds in a month, barely enough to eat, 100 sergeants plus the families of the tunli, more than 400 people are 1,200 catties, which is still half full.

There are vines and grasses all over the vicinity here, and even if you use water, you have to rely on a water umbrella, where to find wild grasses to eat; Now, in addition to training every day, Zhang Zichang goes out to a remote place once a day to practice fire/gun, and the rest is to send people to risk carrying water in the back mountains to pretend.

Able to train a hundred capable sergeants for Ma Dao Stone Fort, even if it is the kind with a knife and an iron spear, Zhang Zichang has done his best.

Reverse out of the stone mountain to the horse road stone fort? Without Xiao Ye nodding, Zhang Zichang didn't dare to move, and he was the best candidate for contact with Lao Yangkou and several other Huodun military households.

The weather is soon cold, the morning and evening are very cold, the homeless people under the stone mountain, now they are also in a dilemma, the brocade guards and horses cruising there in the gravel fort will not let go of the homeless people to return to Gansu Town, and the surrounding tun is also unwilling to take in the homeless, after crossing the big ditch in the east of Gansu Town, the homeless people can only continue to move forward, and no one cares about life or death.

In addition to the 3,000 displaced people who were picked up one after another, there are still nearly 10,000 displaced people here who are still living in the wilderness, and the caravans that come and go are accustomed to seeing the scenery and are also familiar with it.

There is food and clothing there in Madao Stone Fort, no matter how many rumors are spread in secret, the homeless people who have run here can only be convinced, waiting for the strange car, the next time they can pull themselves and their families away, it doesn't matter where they go, they can't survive this winter.

The golden crow hung in the east, and the fog between the grass on the ground had just dissipated, "trample, trample," a team of fast horses galloped over, and the deacons and guards of the merchants standing outside the tent saw a team of officers and soldiers come to the edge of the open space with white lines, erect two wooden signs, and put notices/notices on them, and then left in a hurry.

"Buzz, buzz," the smoke and dust kicked up by the horse's hooves did not fall, and on the road full of poisonous weeds, a few suspended cars turned out, and Wang Gui and the sergeant came again.

However, Wang Gui, who had not yet gotten out of the car, raised his eyes and saw the eye-catching notice/notice, and after looking at it closely, his face suddenly changed greatly, and when the car drove to the open ground and stopped, he went out to pull the notice/notice, and the assault car retreated to the road.

The two transports followed behind, and a group of armed sergeants jumped out of the carriages, and under the command of the commander, they stood on the inside of the white line with fire/guns; Someone had sharp eyes, and after sweeping his gaze, he found that these eleven sergeants were all Tartar soldiers with flat noses and pigtails.

There were also two short sergeants, who got out of the car with a backpack and hid behind a low wall that had been erected long ago; As a precaution, Wang Gui asked the craftsmen to build a curved stucco stone wall in the open space, three zhang long, with a horse road behind the side, and the sergeants could rest and change shifts in the back.

Only the two sergeants who looked at the car were the appearance of Ming people, but they didn't get out of the car at all.

The Tartar with the fire/gun on his back, carrying a bulging backpack, walked out of the designated trading space without squinting, and walked to the homeless, "The artisan comes first,"

Although the emphasis of Shi Chang's speech was strange, some of the outcasts stood up; With a casual wave of his big hand, Shi Chang ordered more than 20 homeless people with expectant faces, and beckoned them to bring their families to follow.

When he turned around, Shi Chang seemed to think of something, his face full of horizontal meat, squeezed out a little smile, it looked more ugly than crying, and took out canned food from his backpack one by one, and he didn't pick the fried noodles of meat, but took them out and threw them into the pile of homeless people.

This little canned food every day gave the displaced people a little hope, and it was also the reason why they were reluctant to leave, otherwise a large number of displaced people would rush back to Gansu Town, no matter how fierce Jinyiwei was, he couldn't kill them all.

More than 20 one-pound cans were quickly thrown away, how could they be pried open and no one cared about eating, Shi Chang took the empty backpack, turned around and left.

Those who have grabbed the canned food and can survive may be picked up next time, and those who are weak and powerless will live or die.

Hula, the homeless people immediately became chaotic, after the cans were snatched by bees, some people pleaded in the back, and some people shouted loudly to leave, but, except for the twenty or so lucky homeless, the footsteps of the chaotic flow of people still stopped at the white line.

The ten Tartar soldiers with fire/guns were lined up in a line one step apart, and the muzzles of the fire/guns in the black holes were indifferently facing the homeless people who poured up, as long as someone was not invited to break in, the thick lead bullets were not to be watched and played; There are several homeless people who died at gunpoint in this group who were killed in vain for not obeying the rules.

Soon, the two assault vehicles took the displaced people who crowded the rear compartment, buzzed around, and drove leisurely onto the road. The sergeants who remained in place, some on duty and others resting, all hid behind waist-high low walls, ten paces away from the white line, and the homeless retreated in frustration.

To the creek in the back mountain of Shiguantun, the road has been stepped out directly by the homeless people who are not afraid of death, and those who are too hungry can go there to drink a round belly.

Wang Gui did not appear, which indicated that the transaction would not be carried out, and these sergeants who came to perform guard military affairs every day only played a deterrent role, and no one saw that the herald behind the low wall was in contact with Shiguantun again.

"Damn, it seems that the deal won't work out today," the deacon of the Tian family squinted at the car in the distance, grumbled in a low voice, and walked to the notice/sign without stopping; Like him, other large and small merchants also hurried over to take a look.

A team of sergeants sent from Shiguan Tunli was originally to cooperate with the merchants to maintain order, and the flag officers who watched the caravan from a distance also came to see the excitement.

In the past month, the cars from Madao Stone Fort have not been there for a day, especially after the foreign troops are stationed in the Gravel Fort, they show up every two days, and the transaction is also completed in a hurry, but there are a lot of displaced people who take away, which makes the merchants very impatient.

This kind of irregular transaction has affected the business of merchants in Gansu Town, but it has caused a lot of complaints about Wang Gui.

"Zhao'an notice, hey, this is the big seal of the Yamen of Shaanxi Xingdu," the merchant door in front of the notice can basically understand the meaning of it, but the people who have seen it have a changed look on their faces, and they are faintly uneasy.

Shaanxi Xingdu Division began to set up a new barracks, not only recruited the elites of the guards, but also posted the notice to Shiguantun, looking at the sergeant salaries on it, even the merchants were very surprised.

"Obediently, the sergeant has five hundred in a month, one or two in wartime, the promotion fee is calculated separately, the pension is doubled, and the government has made a bloody investment," the merchants who talked a lot were quite surprised that the imperial court looked at the rebuilt barracks so much.

"Hehe, what is this," the well-informed merchant deacon pouted, "The original military household in Shiguantun, but I heard that the sergeant has long been one or two pieces of silver a month, and a thousand yuan of money, which is more than enough to feed the family,"

"Yes, yes, I heard that the sergeant and the Tartar were fighting, and the seized money," the merchants who exchanged their ears told the gossip that they could inquire about, and they were idle anyway.

Their words were listened to word by word by the flag officer standing on the periphery, and the flag officer retreated without moving, but his eyes were flashing with a little light.

On Shiguantun Mountain, Zhang Zichang, who was standing on the wall of Shibao Fort, put down his binoculars and said to the priest beside him, "Tell everyone that you can go to the martial arts arena to practice, there will be no transaction under the mountain today,"

"Okay," the priest walked to the inside of the corridor, leaned over and waved his hand downward, and the five flag teams assembled in the stone fort soon drove out of the stone castle under the order of the flag officer, and the whole team set off to the martial arts arena.

The remaining two flag team sergeants patrolled the stone fort wall in front, and the two flag teams patrolled at night, in view of Xiao Ye's arrangement of personal guards and guards to come over from time to time, Zhang Zichang did not dare to be lazy for a day.

"Brother Li, what's the contact between Lao Yangkou and the various fire piers?" Zhang Zichang asked as he walked down the corridor.

"Hundred households, our people came back last night, Huodun is basically in contact, there are more than 70 households willing to go, and those who don't go don't even have half of the secret salary, just with that bit of rations, a large family drinks the northwest wind," the priest Li Shun smashed his mouth a few times.

"Lao Yangkou Tunzi, the original soldiers, sergeants, and their families, but they have to go more than half of it, adding up to more than 1,000 military households, I'm afraid that the face of the thousands of households in the gravel fort is not good," Li Shun's words made Zhang Zichang sneer, there was no interface.

Madao Stone Fort, Xiao Ye arranged for Kang Hongyuan to organize manpower to go to the end of the cave to pull the goods, this time, he finally made up his mind and gave up a batch of firearms such as rear-loading fires/guns, and even the supplies such as pocket watches and protective clothing were reduced by half, and the three transport vehicles were turned around.

By tomorrow, there would be five transporters in the Shenche Battalion, and in order to fill the number of soldiers in the battalion, he had to move the east wall to make up the west wall, and try to prepare as many vehicles as possible.

In Wang Gui's warehouse, boxes of black batteries that had been processed also began to leave the warehouse and be transported to the military compound of the Shenche Battalion, and the young men of the logistics team once again set up cowhide tents in the open space to the south outside the stone fort.

The sergeant of Wang Meng's barracks, stationed in the stone fort and on the top of the hill to the west, stepped up his patrols.