After seeing the precious Andalusian horse and the Indian horse, which are descendants of the Arabian horse, Zhu Daolin came to the barracks where 120 Franco-machine instructors lived.

See the thirty-five-year-old instructor captain Álvaro. Simeno greeted him with a smile on his face, and Zhu Daolin hurriedly stopped and deliberately looked him up and down.

Simeno, who is only about 168mm tall, was very embarrassed by Zhu Daolin, shrugged helplessly, and complained in tongue-twisting Cantonese official dialect:

"Dear general, there has never been a general in the world who threatens his subordinates with no salary to shave their beards, bathe and wash their feet every day, and you are the first and the most ruthless person we have ever seen in our lives! Fortunately, God Almighty heard our painful prayers and finally gave us the right to keep our upper lip beard, otherwise I am afraid that nearly half of us would have left this damn place immediately! ”

Zhu Daolin couldn't help but laugh: "Captain Simeno, don't you think that after shaving off your dirty beard, you are much more handsome than before?" ”

Simeno shook his head: "Let's forget about these little things for a while, General, I suggest that you arrange something for us to do as soon as possible, instead of learning the Ming language with those so-called interpreters, which is the common request of our 120 warriors from Europe." ”

Zhu Daolin understood very well: "Tomorrow morning, the 450-ton battleship and the other two 500-ton armed merchant ships that arrived with you will be transferred to the two docks vacated for refit and maintenance, and then you can go to the shipyard south of the dock with the ship, and these two warships will accompany you in the next three years to perform your duties. ”

Simeno's dark green eyes suddenly lit up: "Are you really allowed to make a suggestion?" ”

"Yes, you are the experts in navigation, our esteemed naval instructors. We will take your opinions seriously...... Before that, though, you'll have to work with the tailor, and I'll make you a few beautiful and convenient military uniforms, shoes and hats for each of you. ”

"Your clothes are too messy, unaesthetically pleasing and very impractical, and I can't stand it the most. Almost everyone is very dirty and gives off an unpleasant stench, which is definitely not the image of a naval officer. "Zhu Daolin gave Simeno face, but he wouldn't make him too proud.

Simeno was very embarrassed: "Dear general, we don't want to do this either, you know that most of us are penniless adventurers, and the legend of the East is full of gold and jewels, and we have not seen it since we arrived. ”

Zhu Daolin smiled and asked: "Isn't my place here full of gold?" ”

Simeno also smiled: "Thank you for your generosity, you are more generous than we expected. Richer, and worthy of our trust. ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "Dear captain, please convey my following words to your companions: obey my command, abide by my military law, and show the professional ethics that a professional soldier should have!" As long as you do these three things, I will give you more wealth and honor than you can imagine! ”

"If anyone is unable to comply with the military laws I have instituted, then he may leave now, and I will give him the equivalent of 50 Spanish silver coins. Send him away politely, if you want to stay. and those who do not obey my military law will be severely punished. ”

"In my army, anyone who dares to challenge the supreme military law, I will cut off his head without mercy!"

Simeno's heart was shocked, and he immediately straightened up and replied loudly: "Obey!" I will immediately relay the general's words to everyone, by tomorrow morning. I will definitely give the general a satisfactory answer! ”

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The middle and late April of the lunar calendar should be the time when the north and south of the river enter the rainy season, but in recent years, the weather has become more and more strange and unpredictable, and the gloomy weather is full of chill, and the winter clothes on the vast majority of people still cannot be taken off.

On the playground of the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall. After three months of adjustment and supplementation, everything has been on the right track, and the teaching time has been fixed.

From seven o'clock in the evening to half past nine o'clock, it is the free study time of martial arts disciples, the disciples can read the embroidery script, they can get together to chat, and they can also choose a certain musical instrument, but they must turn off the lights and go to bed at ten o'clock in the evening, and every ten days there is a day off, all the disciples can go out to play, but they cannot leave the range where Ziyangguan and Hushan Manor are located.

A total of 104 outstanding disciples in the first and second classes have begun to study the second grade of primary school, 246 people in the third to seventh classes are still at the level of the first grade of primary school, and 56 people in the eighth class with the worst foundation are completely in a state of enlightenment, so they need to be divided into classes according to different levels in order to facilitate cultural teaching, but the progress of military basic teaching is exactly the same, and more than 100 disciples who came late need to work hard to catch up.

At the end of the morning exercise, Zhu Daolin, who was full of worries, did not leave breakfast and planned to go home to eat casually, and then change into his official uniform and go to the sailor barracks to walk around, and then rush to the military camp under the Lion Rock to select new recruits.

Zhu Daolin returned home and found that none of his women had come to eat breakfast with him, and in confusion, he called the little girl on the side to ask the reason, only to know that everyone, including Xu Fu, had already eaten breakfast, and now they were all fiddling with sewing machines in Dongyuan, where the girl lived like smoke.

Zhu Daolin was speechless after listening, the hand-cranked shoe-making sewing machine he brought had been handed over to the iron workshop machinery research group, 16 "Flying Man" pedal sewing machines were left in Dongyuan, 6 of which he only opened the box and installed them last night, and placed them in the idle side room of Dongyuan for women to learn to use, and the remaining 10 have not yet been opened.

Zhu Daolin and his junior brother Yuhu hurriedly had breakfast, changed into official uniforms and rushed to the dock in a carriage, and before entering the barracks, they heard a lot of noise and scolding.

Hundreds of veterans with the rank of general flag and small flag blocked the conference room, surrounded and abused Xu Wentao, the deputy thousand households, and more than a dozen young hundred household officials promoted by Zhu Daolin, and the rest of the hundreds of old soldiers stood on the periphery to watch the excitement, many people had gloating smiles on their faces, and 120 Francophiles gathered at the door of the barracks inside to watch from afar.

With a frightened "General Zhu is here", the noisy military camp immediately fell silent.

Zhu Daolin, who put on the four-rank military attache uniform for the first time, slowly got out of the carriage, his eyes were shining, his face was extremely gloomy, and the jade tiger wearing the official uniform of a hundred households behind him had already held the swarthy Tang knife in his hand, and his young face was full of murderous aura. (To be continued......)