Four days later, Liu Minyou was stunned in front of the camp in Wendeng Camp, with endless shacks and noisy people.

Song Wenxian didn't care about civil affairs anyway, in short, it was better to have more people, and he touched his beard and said to Chen Xin proudly: "My lord, your peasant soldiers have fallen." ”

Chen Xin and his entourage passed through the shack area, Chen Xin went to the barracks, Liu Minyou entered the old Wendeng camp fort, after Zhou Hongmo left, the garrison here gave up, Chen Xin only lived in the back house, and the public houses in front were given to the civil affairs system.

Liu Minyou hurriedly went in and rushed to Xu Yuanhua's door, only to hear him inside and say loudly: "There are too many homeless people now, how can I bother to pay attention to your store, Miss Wang will come back in a few days." ”

Liu Minyou quietly took a look at the door, inside was a woman who had never seen before, and her back looked quite delicate, listening to what they were talking about, it should be Li Ranzhu who sent Wendeng to prepare for the expansion of the comprehensive store. Liu Min thought that the woman would leave, and was about to go in, when the delicate girl Wang suddenly slapped on the table with a bang, and she screamed: "The surname Xu is good for the old lady, if you don't vacate the store in the old camp today, you don't want to do anything else, you see that I am a little woman, you think you can perfunctory to me, others are afraid of you Xu Yuanhua, I am not afraid of the old lady, don't think I don't know that you have two shops in this old camp, both of which are opened by your family's three relatives and four relatives. ”

This Miss Wang had a very loud voice, and some people in the surrounding room looked over here, and when they saw Liu Minyou at the door, they quickly shrank back, and Xu Yuanhua hurriedly said to her: "Don't talk nonsense." Even if I have relatives running shops, they are private shops, and the official shops in the old camp are in the hands of those relatives of Shangguan, and Lord Chen has explained that they can't be moved......"

"Fart." The woman interrupted loudly again, "What was that Zhou Tang's original name, is it surnamed Xu, who doesn't know that he is your relative." If you have to pretend that it is Zhou Hongmo's relatives who occupy the official shop, the collapsed house should be used by the public, why should we spend money to rent a private shop. Others don't dare to say it, but the old lady wants to say that if you place the shop well. The old lady also ignored him, if the store is not settled, let's go to Mr. Liu and say. ”

Xu Yuanhua was caught and hurt his feet, and hurriedly whispered: "Miss Wang, you keep your voice down, no one said that they would not resettle you, you see that there are countless homeless people in and out of this camp, which is not more anxious than your store." ”

"Why are you in a hurry than my store, I've been here for more than ten days, you can go tomorrow and tomorrow, no matter how many homeless people he has. You should also have a first-come, first-come, first-come, Sister Li asked me to take care of the store in Wendeng Camp, if the shop hasn't even been decided for half a month, how can I explain when I go back, the old lady can't let people treat me as a straw bag. If you don't do this today, I will go back to Weihai tomorrow, and everyone will say that our shop has been occupied by you. ”

Xu Yuanhua coughed dryly, he didn't expect this woman to be so difficult, and because the other party was a woman, he didn't even close the door. This was heard by many people outside, and sooner or later it reached Liu Minyou's ears, and he estimated that the shop would not be opened after all, and he was ruthless, planning to let the shop out, so that his relatives could build a simple shop in the shack area first, and they could also make money.

"In that case, then I'll go and talk to that Zhou Tang first, but I explained in advance that Zhou Tang is not my relative, and it's up to him whether he can move or not."

The girl Wang was relieved when she saw Xu Yuanhua, and she no longer had to pay attention to the unforgiving people, but just lightly made a blessing and said: "That little girl thanked Lord Xu first, in this Wendeng camp fort, who dares not to buy Lord Xu's account, I don't believe that Zhou Tang is a King Kong head, it must be okay." ”

Xu Yuanhua snorted, sighing in his heart that he was unlucky, and he didn't know how this woman learned about Zhou Tang, he shook his head and walked to the door, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Liu Minyou with a bad face at the door.

Xu Yuanhua looked at Liu Minyou blankly, and said in his mouth: "Liu Xian...... Sir, when will you come back? ”

Liu Minyou stared at him without speaking, and the girl Wang behind looked at the two strangely for a while, and said to Liu Minyou: "You are Mr. Liu?" ”

Liu Minyou looked at her carefully at this time, and saw that there might be ten ** girls, who looked average, anyway, they were not old women, "Exactly, the girl was sent by the comprehensive store?" Listen to someone with your accent like Bei Zhili. ”

"Yes, the little girl's surname is Wang, and the adults call me Wang Erya, it turned out that in Yongping to do business with her parents, when Jiannu entered the Kou, the little girl was in Shanhaiguan, and she couldn't get out of the city, and finally the Tartar retreated to know that everyone in the family was dead, and the little girl only hated not a man, and couldn't kill Jiannu, but I heard that Wendeng Camp could be killed, so she sold her property and came here by boat, and it happened that Sister Li was recruiting salesmen, so I went."

Liu Min looked at her a little strangely, this woman didn't feel sad when she said that her family was dead, and she couldn't help asking, "Girl, your family is dead?" Do you miss them? ”

"Mom and Dad, my eldest brother's family, a younger brother, and my husband's family who didn't pass through the door, the family is full of bloodstains, I have been in Yongping for more than a month, and I haven't seen them come back, but they are all dead, most of them are buried in those big pits by our Wendeng camp, I don't think about it, what is the use, my father has taught me since I was a child, do more and talk less, don't think about useless things. I only have one plan now, to help Lord Chen earn more silver, so that Lord Chen can have the money to build slaves. ”

Liu Min nodded a little and asked this Wang Erya, "How do you know that person is Mr. Xu's relative?" ”

Wang Erya glanced at Xu Yuanhua, "Don't blame Mr. Liu, the little woman went to inquire about the official shop, and only lied to them that I wanted to buy a large amount of commercial goods, and everyone told me who they were and whose relatives they were, so that I could buy them elsewhere with confidence, and this Zhou Tang said that it was Lord Xu's relatives, but maybe that Zhou Tang was also a guise for beating Lord Xu." ”

Liu Minyou looked at Xu Yuanhua, who was sweating on his forehead, and sighed: "You go, deal with this matter, and then report to me about the homeless people and the wasteland when you come back." ”――

Within the walls of the Wenden camp, a group of two hundred musketeers was marching in formation. Two drummers beat the step drums, an officer is giving orders loudly, and the soldiers next to him repeat his orders loudly for all soldiers to hear, the equivalent of a human megaphone. After a change of formation, the group of soldiers formed a three-row linear queue facing the stonewall target.

"Shoot!"

The front muskets fired a volley, then retreated from the gap to the rear row to reload.

Chen Xin, who was on the stage, noticed that there were still about thirty percent of the muskets that had not been fired. Wang Zuoxiang beside him explained: "My lord, this batch of flintlock pistols is made according to the original style, and the new guns have been improved a lot. A lot of accessories have been reduced, and now the weapon research room is in charge, and it is said that the firing rate with granules is more than 70%. ”

Chen Xin nodded and asked, "Has the firearms workshop moved now?" ”

"Back to my lord. It hasn't been moved yet, these days to catch up with the weapons of the new soldiers, as well as to make these new guns and new artillery, only the research room has moved, the water power of the Baolong River here is far more sufficient than Weihai, and it is indeed more suitable than Weihai. ”

Chen Xin didn't continue to ask, this is not a particularly urgent matter at the moment, he looked at the flintlock musketeers below without smiling, and a dissatisfied look slowly appeared on his face. Look down and pick up a few pages of paperwork. Behind him, a group of officers in the Wendeng battalion were a little apprehensive, especially Shi Pingli and Zhu Daichun, who were in charge of the flintlock test. After all the Wendeng battalions returned to Wendeng, all the soldiers left Weihai, and the defense there was handed over to the sailors and peasants.

At last the officer gave the order, and all the flintlock musketeers stopped.

"This is the plan for the flintlock pistol unit that you wrote?" Chen Xin stared at Zhu Daichun and the others, and Chen Xin was very stern in front of the officers. Especially after King Qin, the authority was even stronger. Zhu Daichun muttered a few words with a little weakness, he himself felt okay with this test team, and he didn't know where Chen Xin was dissatisfied.

Chen Xin leaned back on the back of the chair, looking at the appearance of several people, and his heart was not too happy. The flintlock pistol was what he was most concerned about, and he didn't even look at the bronze cannon, and first inspected this flintlock test team of only 200 people, and half of them used fake guns.

"You're going to replace the firearms team's bird guns with flintlock pistols and you're done? The tactics are still the same, and the formation, spacing, and formation changes are also the same, with the killer team. ”

Shi Pingli, Liu Pojun and the others all lowered their heads and remained silent, and they really didn't know where to start.

"When I asked you to engage in this test team, it was explained that it was an infantry system with flintlock pistol as the core, not the original mixed bureau, although all aspects were written in it, but there was no breakthrough in tactics, even the distance between soldiers was three feet as before, why do you need a three-foot distance from the flintlock pistol, people can go from person to person, so that you can increase your firepower exponentially, and with new weapons, you will not be allowed to replace only one gun. Take it back and rewrite it, and before handing in this kind of thing next time, ask yourself if it can be better, and if you can't write it, let the non-commissioned officers and officers participating in the training give their opinions together. ”

Chen Xin handed their paperwork back to Zhu Daichun, he originally meant to train these officers, but obviously did not achieve the effect, although he said it harshly, but Chen Xin also knew that this was a new weapon, it was not so easy to form a complete tactical, establishment and training system, his own understanding of the flintlock pistol only came from the movie, the real use is naturally much more complicated than the movie, and it needs to be slowly improved, France invented this impact flintlock pistol, but it also took more than 50 years to form the first full flintlock pistol unit, Although he was not satisfied with the test team this time, he did not think it was urgent, it was foreseeable that the bayonet and the barrel could not be standardized in the short term, and the current situation of this mixed combination of hot and cold weapons could only be maintained, although the bayonet was small, but without it, the flintlock musketeers were never an independent combat force, so Chen Xin still had time to slowly explore and improve. However, he hoped to take advantage of the flintlock pistol to greatly improve the effect of firepower output, Chen Xin asked Pu Zhuang to take out the military records and martial arts general books and give them to Liu Pojun, so that he could keep them first, and then transfer some literate officers to compile them as teaching materials.

Chen Xin turned to look at Zhu Guobin and the others behind him, and said lightly: "The imperial court has sent a new supervisor, who is patrolling the border on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and may come to us to inspect military affairs recently. ”

A group of officers agreed, and they saw many high-ranking officials on this trip, even the emperor had seen them from afar, and their knowledge was very different from before, and they were not as sincere and fearful of ordinary officials as they had been.

Song Wenxian whispered to Chen Xin: "My lord, do you want your subordinates to go to Dengzhou first." ”

Chen Xin thought for a while and said, "It's okay, if that Lu Zhi wants to come, you can accompany him and take care of him on the way." Tomorrow you go to Weihai with me, I will give you the silver ticket, and then you will take a boat to Dengzhou. ”