Xu Hongji and Wu Jingxian left by car, Zhu Daolin returned to the dock barracks where there were only two young hundred household officials and fifty recruits stationed, inspected the circle and went to the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall, and transferred four instructors who had been in the army with Shi Qingyang, and after obtaining their consent, he ordered them to go back immediately to pack their burdens and temporarily transfer to the Nanda Camp under the Lion Rock to assist him in training recruits.

Thanks to Wu Jingxian's care, the Imperial City Arsenal and the Yulin Guard Army Warehouse sent 15,000 sets of military uniforms, 2,800 sets of leather armor and 200 sets of Sanwen armor that had been stored for nearly ten years, so that 13,000 recruits could wear sturdy military uniforms, and more than 300 infantry and horse army instructors were also put on new leather armor.

However, most of the recruits only had a set of military uniforms, and their feet were still tattered straw sandals, their calloused feet were frozen out of the cracks, and they stood on the playground shivering one by one, unable to even straighten their spines, and could not implement the high-intensity training plan formulated by Zhu Daolin.

In view of this, Zhu Daolin had to send people to the shoe-making workshop to snatch 800 pairs of rubber-soled cloth shoes from the merchants who were queuing up to order all kinds of rubber-soled shoes, and he could only wait for half a year to get them, unless he planned to smash the signboard of the shoe-making workshop and let the shoe-making workshop only produce shoes for the army in the future.

The cruel reality made Zhu Daolin feel very uncomfortable, so he could only take out a large sum of silver again, buy back enough grain and a large number of horse feed for 15,000 officers and soldiers in one go from the granary of the Yan family for six months, and also signed agreements with six reputable slaughterhouses and joint large shops to purchase meat, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and other materials for a long time, and then entrusted Wu Jingxian to urgently order 10,000 sets of military uniforms from the palace's garment workshop.

After doing all this, Zhu Daolin urgently convened a meeting of 330 instructors, regardless of directly issuing three orders:

Article 1: Within 10 days from now on, all 120 centuriens must have three meals a day in full and one meal of meat per day. Who dares to be greedy for a penny of food for the officers and soldiers, and there is no mercy for killing!

Article 2: The instructors of each team shall return to their respective units immediately after the meeting, organize the soldiers to elect the chief and the commander, record the family situation of the officers and soldiers in detail, and register them, and then start a 10-day queue training and study of military regulations and military orders, and explain and recite military regulations and military laws in the morning. In the afternoon, the queue training will be conducted, and those who violate the military order will be severely punished!

Article 3: From now on, Li Yiliang, an instructor of the Ma Army, will temporarily act as the chief instructor, Lu Qisheng, an instructor of the infantry army, and Wu Jicheng, an instructor of the artillery team, will serve as the deputy chief instructor, and Han Yuhu, an officer of 100 households of the law enforcement team, will serve as the chief military judge!

After the issuance of the three orders, an emergency meeting of one and a half minutes was adjourned, and Zhu Daolin left three chief instructors and his junior brother Yuhu, who served as the judge of the general army, and told everyone that he would leave for five days to collect military shoes, rice bowls, quilts, mosquito nets, face plates, towels and other daily necessities for the brothers in the army. I hope that you will unite and work together to ensure that all the brothers are well fed and sheltered, and that they will be able to recite the 10 Catch-10 and the two major commandments within five days.

After the affairs of the army were arranged, Zhu Daolin rushed to the Ying family's Baoyue Xuan by car alone.

After hearing the news, Changpei hurriedly came, and after listening to Zhu Daolin's request, he immediately instructed five courtiers and shop mates to pack six Sui and Tang calligraphy paintings and two Tang and Song antiques, and then accompanied Zhu Daolin to the antique shop of Zhang Houye's house by the Qinhuai River. I couldn't help but say that I first took an IOU and took three small bronzes and a white jade Guanyin priced at 5,000 taels of silver.

The shopkeeper Zhang Guizhi received a set of pastel bone china tableware presented by Zhu Daolin a few days ago, and he was very grateful. Seeing that Zhu Daolin was leaving, he hurriedly begged him to wait a while, and took out two beautifully carved turquoise jadeites for Zhu Daolin to enjoy:

"Young Master, can you see if this is useful? This palm-sized square piece is a jade paperweight carved with elk, and this small fist-sized piece is a three-layer hollow jade ball, and the price is not as good as mutton fat jade. Don't know if you like it or not? ”

Zhu Daolin didn't have any research on jade jadeite, and vaguely remembered that jadeite didn't seem to be cheaper than mutton fat jade, and after listening to the words of the shopkeeper, he asked suspiciously: "This hollow jade ball is very beautiful, the price should not be low, right?" ”

"Much lower. At least seventy percent lower, it is the goods from Yunnan, the caravan of the Mu family and the Zhu Hou family in Yunnan send a batch every year, and the price is about the same as Nanyang Moyu, and there is no comparison with mutton fat jade, and the rich and noble people prefer mutton fat jade......"

"The reason why this jade ball is sold for 800 taels of silver is because the craftsmanship of this carving is really clever, and the two delicate and transparent balls in it can be rotated, and the price of this jade paperweight carved with two elks is much lower, and no one wants to buy 500 taels of silver!"

"If you don't like it, forget it, the old man will continue to look for the sheep fat jade for you." After Zhang Guizhi finished speaking, he picked it up and prepared to put it on the counter.

Zhu Daolin thought for a while and took the jade ball in his hand: "I'll take this first, if my friends like it, I'll trouble you to get a few pieces later." ”

"Okay, this jade paperweight will also be kept for you, wait until you come next time, if you don't like it, we won't enter this thing in the future, and enter more ivory and agate stones." Zhang Guizhi put away the jade paperweight and sent Zhu Daolin out of the door, and he stood at the door for a long time.

Zhu Daolin hurried out of Jinchuan Gate before the city gate closed, and returned directly to the Ziyang Guannei Pharmacy, and in the helpless eyes of the master and uncle, he packed and took away more than 50 catties of musk, 26 dried bear bile, 8 pieces of bezoar and 2 century-old ginseng stored in the pharmacy.

Midnight is approaching, Zhu Daolin said goodbye to Xiaoying and went out alone, first went to the empty shipbuilding workshop warehouse to incorporate two huge huanghuali logs, and after going out, he avoided the escort team patrolling in the rain, and silently walked to the foot of Tiger Mountain, where the cold wind was blowing bamboo and trees, and soon disappeared into the drizzly night.

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