The task of eliminating soldiers and dividing the battalion, which was thought to take three days to complete, was finally completed in only two and a half days.

Zhu Daolin was deeply satisfied with the diligence and efficiency displayed by the instructor team, which had increased to 690 people, and wrote down the names and resumes of more than 150 young instructors in detail based on his own observations and the reports of chief instructor Li Yiliang and deputy chief instructor Wu Jicheng.

Many instructors deeply regretted the 3,171 recruits who had been dismissed, believing that although these soldiers were a little slack, had some problems, or were a little slow in adapting, they were much better than the officers and men of the current guards in Jiangnan in terms of discipline and physical condition, and that as long as they worked hard, they would be able to train most of them into excellent soldiers.

However, thinking of Zhu Daolin's indifferent attitude of watching the whole process for two days, no one dared to make suggestions to him, and the 3,171 young people who had been training for 30 to 50 days lost the best opportunity in their lives, and left in a gloomy manner to receive the 1 tael of silver military salaries issued by them.

Immediately afterwards, the 120 left-behind officers and soldiers of the Shangyuan Thousand Households Institute of the Naval Division came running, took over the roster and training plan delivered by Zhu Daolin, and immediately took away the 6,000 engineers who had been eliminated from the first camp.

The remaining 15,000 recruits were quickly disorganized into three large battalions of 5,000 people, and under the leadership of the instructors, they returned to their respective camps and were redivided into 100-man teams.

Chief instructor Li Yiliang, deputy chief instructor Wu Jicheng and two Spanish instructor captains were invited into the general's mansion by Zhu Daolin, and as soon as they sat down, Zhu Daolin asked directly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I plan to rectify Baoshanwei within half a month, from the more than 600 hereditary hundred households, general banners, and small banners in Baoshanwei, Wusong, Chongmingsha, and Chongmingzhong under the jurisdiction of Baoshanwei. 100 people under the age of 32 will be sent here for 30 days of special training, according to the training requirements of the second stage of the recruits, plus basic training in guns, can you help me with this? ”

Several senior instructors were slightly surprised, and Wu Jicheng quickly understood Zhu Daolin's intention: "Our artillery group can draw out two excellent instructors. ”

Li Yiliang, who was an old man, immediately understood, grinned and asked in a low voice, "How many do you plan to leave in the end?" ”

"Just give me a hard on them. If these 100 hereditary officers can't endure hardships and can't stand the constraints of military law and military orders, it is not a pity that they are all gone, if there are still people who can endure it, obey the command, train seriously, keep a few of them, and hand them over to me after 30 days, and I will send them to the battleship to continue training for half a year. Then look at their performance and ability before making appointments. Zhu Daolin did not hide it.

Li Yiliang, who understood it, nodded in agreement, and the two Spanish instructor captains realized the importance of these 100 officers, and had a hunch that it would be beneficial for them to train these 100 people for Zhu Daolin, so after a little discussion, Captain Mai Li said that he would personally serve as the military technical instructor of these 100 specially trained officers.

After Zhu Daolin dealt with the last headache for him, he immediately issued a commendation order: "In order to commend the sincere unity and excellent training achievements of all the instructors in the past few months, a bonus will be issued as encouragement, and the chief and deputy chief instructors and the captain of the principal and deputy instructors of the Franc machine will each be 50 taels of silver." Instructors at the rank of acting battalion commander are 30 taels of silver each, and instructors at the level of acting captain are 20 taels of silver each. I will pay for this money, and you will be responsible for collecting and distributing it. ”

Li Yiliang immediately took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the desk, and asked Zhu Daolin to write a comment, which made everyone laugh, Zhu Daolin took the brush without hesitation and signed his name in the lower left corner of the blank paper.

Late at night. The melodious sound of the piano and the pipa, flute and echo in the main courtyard of Hushan gradually disappeared, Zhu Daolin and his wife and concubines played together for more than three hours, during which they said a lot of interesting things that happened recently, and when they saw that midnight was approaching, they couldn't help but sigh that the good night was short, and told everyone to rest early until now.

Pei Ruyan, Xu Fu, Ru Ya and Mei Ya, who were full of crimson, knew that their beloved man still had things to do. Reluctantly, he took the musical instrument and said goodbye and left.

The virtuous Xiaoying hugged Zhu Daolin and talked for a while before taking out the rucksack that Zhu Daolin had packed and sending him to the door of the main hall for a long time and was reluctant to turn back.

In the early hours of the morning, Zhu Daolin appeared again in the old courtyard in the western suburbs of the Qianzhong Provincial Government, where the iron gate was closed and deserted, and he did not disturb his good brother Duan Deming, who was 100 kilometers away, after dawn, he changed into a casual autumn dress and went out, took a bus to the Chengdong Steel Market, and bought 500 tons of 24MM rebar, 1,000 tons of 16MM rebar, 1,500 TONS OF 6.5MM WIRE ROD WAS DELIVERED TO THE SMALL WAREHOUSE YARD IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS BY ENTRUSTING THE BOSS TO ASK THE STEEL MARKET TO TRANSPORT TRUCKS ON THE SPOT.

The next morning, Zhu Daolin woke up from the comfortable bed of the four-star hotel in the center of the city, and through the wired telephone in the room, he talked to his parents, Chu Mei, Liang Cheng, and Lu Jianmin who were far away in Jinling, telling everyone that he was doing well in the southwest and that he would be able to go back in about five days.

After all the phone calls were made, it was past noon, Zhu Daolin went out to find a local restaurant, filled his stomach and immediately went to the building materials market, searched for a long time, and finally found the cement quick-setting agent produced by an old local factory, bought 300 tons according to the proportion of 3%, rushed to another cement wholesale company to buy 1,500 cement, and completed the payment procedures It was five o'clock in the afternoon.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Zhu Daolin, who had bought five large boxes of Chinese patent medicine after visiting the night market, returned to his hotel room, gave a 50 yuan bill to the waiter who delivered the goods to him, closed the door and lay down on the bed to think quietly.

According to the time calculation, the Xuanzhi Qincha from the capital will soon arrive at the Baoshan Acropolis, and Zhu Daolin must rush to Baoshanwei to wait for the order.

In order not to affect the transportation of migrants by the freshwater fleet, Zhu Daolin decided not to use the ships of the fleet, and asked Guo Zhongjun, the chief of the guard, and two 300-ton brigs from the patrol battalion of the Longtan Navy Division to sail to Baoshan Port to stand by, and then escorted himself into Beijing by sea.

Fortunately, the southeast wind season has not yet passed, and it will take about 12 days to reach Tianjin Port if it is smooth, and it may take 15 days or even more if it is slow.

Zhu Daolin wants to use the one-month deadline to send more than 60,000 sets of old military uniforms, military blankets, military quilts, military kettles, shovels, pickaxes, and 5,000 tons of steel and cement to Tamsui Port, which must be completed within the next 15 days, otherwise he will not know how long it will take to return after entering Beijing.

Fortunately, after winning the grain war and solving the most difficult grain problem, at most 500,000 taels of silver and 1,000 tons of sugar, several local grain merchants in Huguang and Huainan who established cooperation could transport more than 800,000 stone of grain to Longtan and Baoshan ports, and there was no longer any need to buy a large amount of grain from multiple round-trips, otherwise I really don't know what kind of chaos would be.

After repeatedly calculating the time, Zhu Daolin found that it was too late to transport the materials to bribe Emperor Chongzhen from several major workshops in Hushan, and the four-wheeled carriages and embroidered spring knives produced by the subordinate branches of the iron workshop did not have time to transport them to Baoshan Port.

Thinking of this, Zhu Daolin immediately got up, found a pen and paper and wrote down the tributes that needed to be purchased and the gifts to bribe the great eunuchs in the capital one by one. (To be continued......)