Chapter 50: The Great Smoke Pavilion
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Time flies, three months go by in a flash. Since the arrival of Hua Liangfu, Zhang Renjie has also let go in an all-round way, and all affairs except for military training have been handed over to him to deal with. Zhang Renjie focused on the training of the team, and the effect of the training also improved linearly.
The number of people in the battalion has increased as a whole, but the increase is all non-combatants, and the largest proportion of them is the addition of a baggage brigade, and those who raise mules and horses need manpower, which is under the management of the logistics department. In addition, a month ago, an old surgeon Stuart came to the team, and there were two fake foreign devils who studied Western medicine, so the medical team was also formed. Stuart is British, and Jardine Matheson helped to find it, and the fake foreign devil was recruited by himself with a high salary in Qingjiangpu.
What made Zhang Renjie happiest was that when Stuart, the foreign devil doctor, arrived, Jardine Matheson sent two Gatling machine guns and three Mark 121-pounder guns ordered by Zhang Renjie. Originally, Zhang Renjie asked for Wumen, but this thing has not yet begun to be exported to China, and if Zhang Renjie hadn't specifically mentioned it, Harrison would not have helped to ask. In the end, only three guns were brought in, and each cannon had only a pitiful two hundred shells. Because it was the latest new artillery, even though it was a one-pound gun, the price was as high as 2,000 taels of silver per piece, and 200 taels of silver for every 100 shells.
The cannonball used in the Mark 121-pound cannon is not big, just like the flower water bottle used by Zhang Renjie in the summer, such a small cannonball actually costs two taels of silver, this is really not a cannonball, it is silver! For such a baby, Zhang Renjie is still a little reluctant to immediately let these novices use it for training, and he must first let these guys know all the theoretical knowledge they teach, so that they can get started.
"Brother Zuochen, I didn't lie to you, look, after more than two months, your body is much stronger than before!" After all, this is a military camp, not a local government, and the affairs are complicated and limited, Hua Liangfu is very shrewd and capable, and it only took half a month to clean up and arrange it properly after arriving in Anton. Later, every day was very free, so Zhang Renjie also grabbed him to participate in the training. At first, Hua Liangfu was very resistant, but Zhang Renjie only said one sentence: When he joined the Renzi Battalion, everyone had to obey military law, and he was no exception. Therefore, Hua Liangfu began to participate in training with great reluctance.
The two walked to the edge of the school field, and Hua Liangfu put down the kettle: "Your Excellency, you are good enough, just a powerless scholar like me, now I can actually pick up a knife and play a set of knife techniques, this must let my father know, I have to bulge my eyes." ”
"I'm also a scholar! I told you a long time ago that people's greatest capital lies in themselves, and if they don't have a good body, no matter how much they have, they will be blind. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Guo Fengxiao, the top strategist under Cao Mengde, died early! Zhuge Liang is so good, he is only in his early fifties and died! Look at Sima Yi again, who can be literate and martial, has lived for more than 70 years, and has killed all the heroes and heroes. ”
"That's right, but I do feel much better now than I used to!" After speaking, he poured another sip of water, the tiger is still so hot in September and autumn, God has not rained for more than a month, and the rice in the field is about to reduce the yield. "My lord, there is one more thing I would like to ask my lord."
"You said, I said, there is nothing you can't ask about the affairs of our Renzi Camp."
"I would like to ask your Excellency, what do you do with those ten people who train on the side every day. Your training is completely different from that of the army, and that's why, some of the soldiers, including me, don't understand! Hua Liangfu asked the doubts in his heart.
Zhang Renjie smiled. "Think I'm going to open a small stove for them? It's only been a few days of training, and you can't hold it back? In the last big competition in the camp, I picked out the ten people with the strongest personal skills to train individually, just to teach them more things, let's call this team a special combat team. You wait, don't look at the number of them is a little smaller, and when the training is completed, at least one can be ten! ”
"Special Forces? What fame?! ”
"Brother Zuochen, have you noticed, what are the characteristics of these ten people I selected?" Zhang Renjie asked.
"Isn't it just the prominence of the training table, what else? Oh, these ten people seem to know a lot of kung fu, and their skills are better than everyone else. ”
"What else? There are a lot of tricks in our team, and thirty or fifty people can still make it up. ”
"Well, let me think about it, these ten people, six veterans, four recruits, by the way, are all literate and have flexible heads! My lord, do you want to train them to be officers at the level of company commanders? ”
Zhang Renjie smiled, there is no such special thing as special forces in this world, and it is normal for Hua Liangfu not to understand. "It's basically impossible for them to be company commanders or battalion commanders or anything, and they will be captains or something like that in the future, and the number of people has expanded, and there will be no more than ten people under them."
"Why is that?"
"Brother Zuochen will slowly understand in the future, these I picked out, outstanding personal skills, literacy and kung fu, the most important thing is that they have good conduct, and they all know the roots. In a few days, I will take them to do big things, and you will have to cover me in the barracks! Zhang Renjie smiled, and then continued to ask: "I haven't been on the street for some days, have you?!" ”
"I have to deal with the affairs of the team, and you will be pulled over for training for the rest of the time, where will I have time to go shopping!" Hua Liangfu had a bitter face.
"I didn't go to the street either, but do you remember half a month ago when I asked you to send someone to the street to count how many big "Smoke" halls there are in the county?"
"My lord, the student emphasized last time that if the adult also wants to open the "Smoke" museum, then please forgive the student for not being able to continue to serve, and I will pack up and return to my hometown." When Hua Liangfu heard Zhang Renjie's words, his face immediately turned red, and he hated the big "Smoke" very much. Half a month ago, Zhang Renjie asked him to send someone to investigate how many big "Smoke" museums there are in the county, but he didn't explain the reason, and he was left with a pimple in his heart.
Zhang Renjie knew that he was thinking bad when he saw his expression, no wonder his expression was wrong when he asked him to send someone out to check the number of the big "Smoke" hall last time, and he thought he was going to open a big "Smoke" hall! "Brother Zuochen misunderstood me, let's get along for three months, don't you know what kind of person I am? What I said about preparing to lead the special forces to do some big things is related to ** "Smoke", but not to sell the big "Smoke", but to destroy the big "Smoke"! ”
Hua Liangfu was taken aback: "Your Excellency, you want it"
"That's right, one of the root causes of the weakness of the Qing Dynasty at the moment is this big "smoke" that is not shallow, and the danger of the big "smoke" is not to be said more, just last time you sued me, just in this small county seat of Andong County, there are thirteen large and small "smoke" museums, hundreds of people in the county who smoked **, how many people were killed and their families were destroyed, so the scourge is under our noses, I really can't swallow this breath. Unplugging these big "Smoke" halls, I'm imperative! Zhang Renjie said coldly, from his tone, Hua Liangfu felt a strong murderous aura, and he couldn't help but shudder violently.
He hurriedly said: "My lord, you can think about it, if you want to ban "Smoking", it will cut off the financial resources of countless people, and the biggest beneficiary of these people is the government. They can't destroy this reliable and considerable financial revenue! If you do this, it will not be one or two people who will be offended, how many big families in Anton, how many large and small officials, and even the large and small officials of Huai'an Mansion will be offended by you all at once. And the consequences of this"
"Can I still not know this? That's why I'm training this special operations team! I'm not ready to do it openly, hehehe, the moon is dark and the night is killing, the wind is high and the sky is on fire! Lord Ben will also go to the bandits in a few days, and the bandits will rob the big households in the county, what do you think of this news? ”
"My lord, this" Hua Liangfu looked at Zhang Renjie with some stunned.
Zhang Renjie really felt funny when he looked like this: "What, do you think that I am an official of the imperial court, how can I do such a thing?!" Hehe, you are still conservative and rigid, if you want to die and care about your identity, those harmful things will always exist in this land, and you will continue to poison the people within a radius of 300 miles. I can't take care of the rest of the place for the time being, but in front of us, I will definitely eradicate it! ”