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"If you do this again, you won't have to eat next year, and you will have to go out tomorrow, and follow the Great Khan to fight the barbarians, otherwise we won't have anything to eat next year."

Zhang Zhongqi walked into the courtyard in the snowflakes, put down the small grain bag on his shoulder in the main house, and said to the coat and father-in-law in front of him, he said what he ate twice.

When Lushun was played this year, a grain tax was levied in the flag, and after the spring wheat was harvested, most of it was taken away by the flag. When Zhang Zhongqi returned to Liaozhong, he was full of resentment towards Huang Taiji in his heart, and the gratitude he felt after grabbing things a few years ago was gone. His Niu Lu is a self-managed Niu Lu belonging to Mang Gurtai, and that Niu Lu is really a fortune teller, and he has fought a few battles with Dengzhou Town, except for being shot with an arrow in Luanzhou, he has never been injured again.

This Niu Lu's is really a grateful person, he has never forgotten Zhang Zhongqi's life-saving grace, and will always give Zhang Zhongqi some benefits in private to help him live. With the care of this Niu Lu master, Zhang Zhongqi can survive this cold and hungry winter, but no matter how poor he is, he will have to celebrate the New Year, so today he is going to change some food and get ready for a good New Year.

"Then you have to be careful, there are so many people who have died in the cow this year." The old man patted the snowflakes on Zhang Zhongqi's body, "Go and see the baby." ”

Zhang Zhongqi only ate half a multigrain cake a day, and his mind was a little dizzy after standing up, at this time there was a baby's wow sound in the house, Zhang Zhongqi's thin face floated a smile, and he hurriedly said to his father-in-law: "You have to hide this bag of grain, you have to save some food, and the silver under our manger is only a few dozen taels." There are also twenty pounds of salt to be hidden, and when they can't, they are to be exchanged for food. ”

After he finished speaking, he hurried into the house, the child's crying stopped again, and there was a brazier burning in the middle of the house, which was warmer than outside, Zhang Zhongqi closed the door and came to the bed to take a look. A baby with a wrinkled face is nursing in a mute bosom.

Zhang Zhongqi's face was full of kindness, squatting on the side of the bed and looking at the baby's face. The dumb man glanced up at Zhang Zhongqi and grinned.

The baby sucked a few mouthfuls and opened his mouth to cry, Zhang Zhongqi said anxiously: "Why is there no milk again, I told you to eat the cake, did you not eat it?" ”

The mute timidly took out a black cake from under the pillow and handed it to Zhang Zhongqi, who suddenly stood up and said angrily: "What can you do if you don't eat it yourself, and what will my son eat." I've told you how many times I've eaten everything you've been given, so why is it so laborious? ”

The dumb cake was hanging halfway, and seeing that Zhang Zhongqi was angry, he carefully brought it to his mouth and took a bite. Then he handed it to Zhang Zhongqi.

Zhang Zhongqi sat on the head of the bed and said slowly: "I've eaten, this is all reserved for you, you don't have to keep it for me, our baby still needs to be fed, where does the milk come from if you don't eat, eat quickly." ”

The mute held out a hand. Holding Zhang Zhongqi's thin hand, he cried with a whimper.

"Don't cry, don't cry, don't we still have food, this year's grain will be less. There is a lot in the flag. You said that Huang Shan died in Lushun, otherwise he would starve to death here. Zhang Zhongqi helped the dumb man wipe his tears and said, "Our family is ready." On the east side of the village...... Burning corpses again, two today. ”

The mute pulled the cake away. After dividing half of Zhang Zhongqi, Zhang Zhongqi didn't pick it up, but stood up and went to the door, and after a while, he came in with the small bag of grain, and said to the dumb man: "Look, we still have food, I just went to buy it today, I can't be hungry, you eat it quickly." ”

The mute smiled a little, and took a small bite of the black cake.

Zhang Zhongqi put the grain bag on the ground, watched the dumb man finish eating little by little, and secretly swallowed dozens of mouthfuls of saliva. This year, they were dragged down by Lushun, not only did they not grab anything, but they also lost a lot of money, and in previous years, there was still grain imported from Liaohai, but this year it was greatly reduced because Chen Xin and Wang Ting tried Lu Zhi's strict inspection of Liaohai.

As soon as these two aspects were superimposed, the price of grain in Liaodong rose to ten taels per stone, there was more silver and less grain, the powerful masters were still hoarding, and there were fewer and fewer people who were willing to sell grain, and they often could not necessarily buy it with silver.

Prices in Liaodong have skyrocketed, including other consumer goods, and Jindeng, which is produced in Denglai, was sold for one or two silver and a bag, and tea, silk and other items have also doubled as before. Although Huang Taiji repeatedly ordered it, the banner owners and nobles below were still keen on smuggling, and the winter roads were mainly Korean and Mongolian, and most of Mongolia's goods came from Xuanfu.

Zhang Zhongqi got into the quilt, took the baby lovingly, wrapped it outside with a black quilt cover, and grimaced at the baby, the baby looked at Zhang Zhongqi's face intently, and screamed a few times.

Zhang Zhongqi teased for a while before saying to the dumb man: "I'm going to go to Xuanfu again, this time I have to grab some more things and come back, and grab a few more coats." ”

The dumb man cried with a whin, and cried like tears in a moment, the last time Zhang Zhongqi went to Lushun, he said that it was very easy, but when he came back, the coat in the Niu Lu was all dead, including their coat Huang Shan.

Zhang Zhongqi patted the dumb shoulder, "This time I went to Xuanfu, your hometown, the barbarian army there is really bad, don't worry at all." He immediately added, "As long as the Dengzhou army doesn't come, it will be done, the Great Khan...... It should have all been planned. ”

Zhang Zhongqi said with some hesitation, he actually has little confidence in Huang Taiji now. There was no way to worry about it, so he put his forehead on his son's face, feeling the heat in that little body, "Wait for Dad, I will definitely bring you something back." ”……

At the shooting range in Linxian County, the sound of bumping gunshots rang out.

Brother Guan was sweating profusely and operated a flintlock pistol, he envied the detachment when he attacked Zijinliang at night, but now he really got it, but it was very difficult to operate.

"Brother Guan, you idiot, fuck off, you are ten times stupider than Emperor Guanmiao! Look at the way you hold a gun, did your mother hit you in the stomach with a stone when she gave birth to you! ”

Zhong Laosi roared like thunder beside him, and the stick in his hand hit Brother Guan at once.

"You're still a non-commissioned officer, look at the recruit next to you, a few years younger than you, you hit one shot, you shoot two shots, kill one more person than you, you know no, if you kill one less person, you will die one more comrade-in-arms, you are murdering your comrade-in-arms...... Dog's day, if you don't take the stab, you dare to open to the firing state! ”

Zhong Laosi went up and punched and kicked. Brother Guan hurriedly took off the stabbing strip, and before he could touch his hand, he was beaten by Zhong Laosi again, "You don't want to do it on a dog day!" Shake it out below! ”

Under the beating of Zhong Laosi, Brother Guan finally completed a shot, and the recruit next to him had already fired three shots.

Zhou Shao'er was also on the other side, beating and scolding a few sluggish soldiers, and the scolding was thunderous throughout the training ground......

Liu Minyou had just left when a new batch of muskets arrived. This batch of munitions was transported by the trading company's dart bureau, which was mixed with some non-commissioned officers of martial arts, and after arriving, Zhong Laosi began to train the soldiers he was best at, and each soldier had to complete five live firing and two hundred empty gun firing every day.

Although Brother Guan is strong. He had basic training, but his reflexes and reactions were average, and his finger dexterity was almost poor, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of others, first the captain trained him alone, then the company commander, and finally the non-commissioned officer chief of the thousand headquarters. After becoming the slowest progressing person, now he has finally attracted Zhong Laosi's personal beating.

At the end of the afternoon of a hundred empty gun drills, the trumpeters blew the rallying trumpet, and the weary soldiers gathered. Gather under that little exercise stand.

Zhong Laosi stood on the stage, followed by the deputy general manager, the military judge and the instructor of the thousand headquarters, and he roared angrily below: "Among the four companies, there are only twenty squads that are fully qualified. Don't think it's qualified, that's just the standard of the Department of Military Affairs. Lao Tzu's thousand headquarters should exceed the standard of the Military Affairs Division, and those who did not shoot three shots after the hourglass were completed, they would all practice fifty times after night training, and the squad that was at the bottom of the total number of shots in each company would practice one hundred times, and each person would be punished for running five laps of the school field, and each person would have two hundred arms to support."

The soldiers below stood straight, numb to the loud roar.

"The penultimate place in the whole thousand headquarters is the first brother Guan who won the first-class white-bladed assault medal, and the daily punishment of his squad is doubled, and the punishment of his platoon is increased by fifty percent, until Brother Guan reaches my standard, and the company commander Zhou Shao'er is punished for standing guard at the camp gate for two shifts tonight."

There was a slight inhalation sound in the first company queue, Brother Guan drooped his head, next to him was Zhou Shao'er, Brother Guan lowered his head and peeked, only to see Zhou Shao'er's face indifferent, only his mouth was moving slightly, I don't know if he was scolding Zhong Laosi or scolding himself.

"The company commanders led the troops back to the camp for dinner, and after dinner, they gathered for night training and disbanded!"

"Tiger!" After a loud shout, the day's training was finally over......

"Open the hammer to charge"

"Open the medicine pot!"

"Get the medicine kit!"

"Flip the medicine bag!"

"Finger jamming!"

"Bite through the medicine bag!"

"Loading the primer!"

"Close the fire door cover!"

"Spear!"

"Charge!"

"Lead!"

"Stuff it in a paper bag!"

"Take the stab!"

In the middle of the night, Zhou Shao'er's voice was still echoing, and there was a lantern next to it, swaying and emitting a dim light.

Brother Guan operates again and again with the password, like a person who listens to the password and acts.

After shouting ten times, Zhou Shao'er's voice was already hoarse, he shouted for a day, his throat was like smoke, and Brother Guan shouted by himself, and Zhou Shao'er reminded him when he forgot jì.

has been practicing fifty times, Brother Guan has become weak in his hands and feet, he can only stop, he doesn't know how many times it is today, after the whole team sits in the evening and the punishment is over, Zhou Shao'er is still opening a small stove for him alone.

Zhou Shao'er beckoned Brother Guan to come to the lantern and put his hand on the lantern to roast the fire.

"Eldest brother, don't complain about Zhong Laosi, he is also for everyone, but also for you to survive, he always remembers the affairs of Guandi Temple, Guandi Temple is a firefighter on weekdays, Zhong Laosi did not practice hard for him at that time, and often helped to fight sloppily."

Brother Guan hadn't mentioned this younger brother for a long time, and after listening to it, he asked in a low voice: "My brother followed your team back then, did you practice like this at that time?" ”

Zhou Shao'er raised his head slightly to look at the inky black night sky, and said a little distractedly: "When he was still the captain, I was the captain of his army, Guandi Temple was the firefighter of our team, and the staff officer of the training was Li Donghua, the current director of the Military Affairs Department, did you say he would let us go?" At that time, Li Donghua was as ruthless as Zhong Laosi now. When Zhong Lao Si scolded Li Donghua more than all of us, I later learned that although Li Donghua was usually ruthless, he did let many people survive on the battlefield. ”

Brother Guan lowered his head and said: "I don't blame Officer Zhong, I received the silver, shouldn't I practice, who called me stupid, and dragged the whole platoon to be punished together, do I not have the talent to be a musketeer." ”

Zhou Shao'er laughed and patted him on the shoulder, "Do you think Zhong Laosi is that day?" Bullshit, he was beaten the most when he was a recruit, Lao Tzu was with him, he stood in front of Lao Tzu, and no one knew about Lao Tzu. At that time, there were Dai Zhenggang, Zhu Daichun, and Lu Chuanzong who led the team to train, Zhong Laosi was much more stupid than me, he practiced in unison for a long time, this musket is just like you use a hoe at home to farm the land, just use it more, let's almost practice more, and in the future, I will definitely fight faster than him on the dog day. ”

Brother Guan grinned, and he said to Zhou Shao'er: "Company commander, I will help you stand at the night guard at the camp gate." ”

Zhou Shao'er yawned and waved his hand: "Zhong Laosi, this dog thing was arranged for me, if you go and are seen by his patrol, Lao Tzu will suffer more, your mother's Zhong Laosi, Lao Tzu must overturn him next time he drinks, you remember to help." ”

"Hey, help." Brother Guan smirked.

Zhou Shao'er jumped twice on the spot and said, "Come on, come again twenty times, and then you go back to the barracks to report and rest." ”

"No, I'll practice fifty more times."