The last time the Tartars entered the Kou, they bypassed the important towns to carry out harassing looting in the central and southern parts of Zhili, but fortunately the damage was not very severe, and even then the number of victims reached 23 out of ten, and almost every family of these people had suffered from the plague of Tartars. After Lu Zhifan announced Li Xin as the instructor of this people's strong army, he announced another appointment, and the county priest Zhou Jin was appointed as the supervisor of the army. At the same time, the terms of reference were announced, and only the clan of Dian Shi Lu had the right to promote and dispatch, the instructor was only responsible for daily training, and the supervising army was to supervise whether the authority was offside.

Li Xin smiled bitterly, Lu Zhifan can be said to have taken great pains, the two civil officials stubbornly suppressed him, a non-literati who had no merit, and it could be regarded as a complete tradition of the Ming Dynasty to use literature and martial arts. But he doesn't care, as long as he can train an army that can resist the Tartars, what if he is wronged! At this point, Li Xin served as the general office of building the wall and also served as the teacher of Minzhuang, and another point, he was very curious to know what method Lu Zhifan used to gather these 600 people overnight.

The grass platform team of 600 people was set up in this way, and Zhou Jin, the county teacher, was also a middle-aged man of medium height, not smiling, with a bitter and bitter face. Li Xin went over to say hello, but was pushed back by the hard bangbang.

"Time is pressing, no gossip ......"

Lu Zhifan hurriedly came up to play the round: "Six hundred people are the first batch, and the rest will be made up in turn, the time is really urgent, so let's start training today!" Also, don't delay the construction period......" After explaining, under the pretext that there was still something in the yamen, he walked away. Zhou Jin, the county magistrate who was the supervising army, didn't leave, moved a chair and sat under the porch, bowed his head and flipped up the book he brought with him.

The people are basically the crops and horses of the county, the people of Yanzhao in Hebei are already fierce, and it is common to fight fiercely, and when Lu Zhifan is there, they are all in order, and when he walks on the front foot, these people will suddenly become active.

"Hey! Do you plan to teach the grandfathers to ride horses? It's boring, it's better to tell a few paragraphs about robbing houses and robbing houses, and give the big guys a lot of fun......"

"Is there a lady of the Naliang family, say a few paragraphs......"

The crowd burst into laughter and applauded. Zhou Jin really couldn't listen to it, and coughed a few times, but it was all suppressed by laughter, and no one heard it at all. Li Xinyi's head was black, and he had temporarily prepared a few passionate inaugural speeches, but the current situation was useless, and the people obviously didn't buy his account, so it seemed that they had to think of a way to do it. In any case, these are strong men who dare to stand up and resist the Tatars surrounding their homeland, and they cannot be humiliated. So he raised his voice and shouted: "Listen to it, immediately the training order is forbidden, everyone stands still, and no one is allowed to leave without an order!" ”

He was afraid that this group of unruly men would not be able to hear clearly, so he shouted a few more times and left without looking back. Seeing Li Xin walking away, Minzhuang quieted down, and it was not to stand in place one by one, nor to walk. At this time, the man who took the lead in ridiculing Li Xin just now had the courage to ask Zhou Jin, who was still reading a book under the corridor:

"Master Zhou, the teaching and learning are gone, shouldn't we also disperse and go back to our respective homes?"

"Zhang Shi, if you want to go, you can go, just let my uncle's family take you and avoid those two years of forced labor."

Zhou Jin didn't raise his head and replied: "Isn't there a word to order and forbid, without an order, who dares to go home?" ”

The people were short of breath for a while, and they complained one after another, but no one dared to leave. Zhou Jin shook his head, he knew what method Lu Zhifan used to recruit these people, these people present were allowed to be used as a substitute for the people, that is to say, as long as they came to participate in the people's strong, they could be exempted from serving as a household for two years...... As for these people, who is willing to leave for the sake of those two years of conscription?

Li Xin left the county treasury and went straight out of the north gate, first went to the construction site to take a look, the people worked very easily, and only a few days of kung fu wooden shelves have been built in the prototype. After walking around, he found that the craftsmanship was far beyond his imagination, and he couldn't help but sigh that the wisdom of the ancient working people should not be underestimated. It's a pity that there are obviously not enough people for a thousand people, and at this rate, let alone a month, even another month may not be able to complete it on schedule. It is necessary to add a civil husband, but for some reason, Sun Chengzong is avoiding him now, and Lei County Order can't count on it.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xin still decided to clean up these unruly people first. So he returned to the county treasury, and saw that those people were sitting crookedly all over the ground, and few people seemed to have dispersed, and he was surprised for a while, and he ignored them and went back to the house, spread out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, picked up the brush and wrote crookedly. After half an hour, he satisfactorily folded a few pieces of paper full of simplified Chinese characters and went out to find Zhou Jin.

As a teacher, Zhou Jin even moved the office to the county treasury, and the county's soap subordinate placed a table and a chair in a secluded place in the gatehouse. When Li Xin came to look for Zhou Jin, he was holding a book and burying his head in notes.

"My Lord, I'm sorry for you!"

Zhou Jin sighed in response. Seeing that the other party still had an attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away, Li Xin cheekily put the results of his half-hour hook and wipe on the table.

"There are no rules, there is no circle, this is the discipline rule I formulated, Li Xin is inconvenient to overstep the bounds, please tell the people in the military camp to know."

Zhou Jin just disdained to be with Li Xin, which didn't mean that he would shirk his business, so he stopped his pen and picked up the paper on the table, and looked at it for a long time, and his brows twisted into a heavy Sichuan character. Li Xin patted his head, remembering that he wrote simplified Chinese characters, and he was not used to using a brush, and the size was different like a ghost drawing symbol, this crying face must not be incomprehensible. So he took the initiative to step forward and explain them one by one. Zhou Jin was not ambiguous, every time Li Xin explained a piece, he copied one on a piece of paper, and there were as many as forty-one copies after all of them.

The scope of the rules is very wide, from clothing, food, housing and transportation to military training, and even toilets have to be carried out at designated places, and the punishment method is also very unique, different from the usual military camp beating sticks, but around the county treasury compound to run circles, with ten laps as the basic unit, one by one. In this regard, Zhou Jin felt very fresh, this is not in any military book and war strategy, I don't know what this rough man is based on? If it weren't for this unsightly word, he would really be impressed!

Looking at the fly-headed Xiaokai in Zhou Jiaoyu's hand, Li Xin had a flash of inspiration, "Please also ask your Excellency to copy the important rules into a notice, and I will post it." ”

Li Xin looked at the discipline rules posted on the wall, Zhou Jin's handwriting was very beautiful, and he couldn't help but admire it again, which was worthy of engaging in cultural work. The old soap who was watching the library on the side looked at the strange and asked, "What is written on this notice?" ”

Li Xin pointed to the people gathered in the distance and said, "What restrains them." ”

The old soap looked disappreciative, coughed vigorously, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

"What can a few words on a piece of paper constrain? It's not that the canon has exempted them from two years of forced labor per household! ”

Li Xin was inexplicable, "What, what did you say?" ”

Lao Sooli learned all the reasons he had heard, and Li Xin suddenly realized, where are these people who dare to stand up against the Tartars and defend their homeland, and it is Lu Dianshi who has promised enough benefits for a long time.

Li Xin fell into deep thought, it is necessary to give policy care to the people, but it must not be the main factor for them to join the ranks of the people, how can an army that fights for money win the war? What's more, the enemy is still outnumbered, and the enemy is an unprecedentedly powerful Manchu Tartar.

At noon, Lu Zhifan sent the military tent and the grain used as military rations, only to see a group of people gathered in a pile, neither the imaginary martial arts, nor the training of firearms, I felt a little puzzled, and wanted to ask Li Xin about it, but I didn't find it. In the end, I learned from the mouth of the old soap Li who was looking at the library that he saw him go out of the north gate with a heavy heart.

This Lu Dianshi was also in a hurry, and was about to go out of the north gate to look for him, when Li Xin led a group of ragged people to rush back, so he asked, "Why is this?" ”

Li Xin said: "My lord will know later!" Then he pulled Lu Zhifan straight to the Minzhuang team.

When the people saw that the teachers and trainees had brought back a group of ragged people, who were clearly refugees crossing the border outside the city, their hearts were beating, did they want to replace them with these homeless people? Soon, Li Xin's actions explained the doubts in their hearts.

"Fathers and brothers, do you know where they are from?"

"It's not like they fled from the north."

"The ...... who came from the Tartars"

Li Xin nodded, stretched out his hand to let an old man with white hair and hair ask loudly, "Uncle, where did you come from?" ”

"From Liangxiang."

"Who came with the family?"

Hearing Li Xin's question, the old man's eyes turned red, and his voice began to choke.

"Only this six-year-old grandson, mother-in-law and son are gone...... All of them, all let the Tartars ......"

The old man couldn't stop crying, and he couldn't say any more. Li Xin immediately pulled over another half-grown boy, who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old, unkempt, and his eyes were full of uneasiness.

"Little brother, where are you from?"

"If you come from Zhuozhou, you're left with ...... on my own."

The scene, which was originally still a little restless, suddenly fell silent, as if there was something invisible pressing everyone who couldn't breathe, Li Xin was silent for a moment, and then glanced at the people present before he spoke: "As far as I know, you have also suffered from the scourge of Tartars. Now, this gang of killers with a thousand knives is here again, not only besieging Zhuozhou, but also going south to rob your family and property......" Li Xin paused, and suddenly pointed to the strong man who teased him in the morning and said: "This brother, yes, it's you, tell me, what evil things have the Tartars done!"

Zhang Shi was stunned, his face instantly flushed, and his teeth clucked. There are good things for him: "The stone is miserable, the year before last, the Tartar took away his daughter-in-law who had just passed the door a few days ago, and the old lady was also ......."

"Hu Ergou, don't say it! If I don't take revenge, I swear not to be a person! ”