Chen Xin took Nie Hong and a few other personal soldiers, snorting and running on the circular runway designed by himself, surrounded by soldiers running according to the flag team, shouting one or two slogans loudly, the soldiers were tied with some heavy objects on their legs, for them, the morning running drill was the easiest, about 500 steps to run three laps of the runway, it was not hard for these slender men, fishermen and mountain people, not to mention the physique of slender men, fishermen and mountain people had to fight against the natural environment since childhood, and their body and willpower were stronger than those in ordinary plain areas.

Chen Xin's crossing used to be purely fitness exercises, and after arriving in Weihai, he began to run and drill with the soldiers, and later the affairs were complicated, and it became a morning exercise fitness nature. After he returned to the Wendeng camp, he was busy assessing and appointing new officers, inspecting the villagers, organizing and perfecting the drill code, and after he was busy with the training of the soldiers, he suddenly became such an intensity, and he was a little overwhelmed after just running a lap.

He didn't have a little weight on his body, his mouth was dry at this time, his heart was beating wildly, his breathing was short, he was surrounded by soldiers, he must not look too wasteful, and he had to desperately pretend to be relaxed, but his hands and feet were getting softer and softer, and his head was tense for a while, seeing that he couldn't finish three laps, he saw Liu Pojun walking out of the guard room and walking hurriedly in his direction.

Chen Xin secretly screamed thank God, and immediately stopped, he was so tired that he wanted to put his hands on his knees, he mustered up his last strength, and tried his best to meet Liu Pojun as steadily as possible, while adjusting his breathing in a big gulp.

"My lord, Mr. Liu is here. Have been picked up in your office. ”

Chen Xin couldn't speak, so he nodded calmly, and Liu Pojun saw that he didn't speak, and he didn't continue to report, so he followed behind. Chen Xin felt a little strange in his heart, Liu Min had more things to do than him, he was so busy all day long that his feet didn't touch the ground, and he usually didn't run to Wendeng Camp, why was he so free today.

Walked outside the official room, and saw Liu Minyou fidgeting inside from the window, Chen Xin walked in and laughed: "Rare guests, welcome Brother Liu to my Wendeng camp to inspect." ”

Liu Minyou looked at him and said hurriedly: "What kind of inspection, I'm too lazy to look at your child laborers, there are more and more people fleeing from the Dongjiang River, and now the purchase is almost three thousand, there are shacks everywhere, and the people in the surrounding dungeons know it, Yang Yunnong has already sent someone to inquire, and he asked Wang Yuanzheng to bring a message over to ask who they are." ”

Chen Xin knew that his recent movements were a bit big, and it was only a matter of time before he alarmed Yang Yunnong, and found a reason for him to give silver, and he also blamed himself for not being the number one leader, and he always had to be controlled by others.

"Then arrange them to come to Wendeng camp, and if they come, the people from Tuntian will be enough."

Liu Min heard Chen Xin say this, but a little reluctant, these people from the Dongjiang River are very hard, the workshop in the five dollars a month of gun barrel work, they all feel surprised, now there are countless people want to do, after the manpower is sufficient, the matter of Mazi Erdun is also a lot smoother, the output of the machine has increased to two hundred per month, and the iron armor has exceeded fifty pairs for the first time last month, so he doesn't want to let them go, he came to Chen Xin There are more important things.

Liu Minyou said dryly: "There is no silver." ”

Chen Xin scratched his head, he could roughly calculate that at the beginning of the year, he got some bandits' silver, plus there were more than 90,000 taels in total, his heart was darker, and he invested 80,000 taels into the sea trade, and Song Wenxian and Song Wenxian made up 100,000 taels of goods, where is the remaining more than 10,000 taels enough, now at the beginning of May, February to now, the wages of soldiers and workshops alone have been paid five or six thousand taels, plus grain has to be purchased from rice stores, more than 2,000 people in Weihai, more than 4,000 soldiers in Wendeng Battalion, and so many raw materials such as iron, gunpowder and cloth should be almost used up.

Chen Xin doesn't have much to do now, but he is the leader of this system, and he can only solve it, he turned around the house a few times, or only to fight bandits, and only by beating them can there be no trouble, immediately walked to a map, and looked along the border of Wendeng County, Laiyang in the west, Ninghai in the north, the bandits in Wendeng ran away, and no one was so stupid to wait for the Wendeng camp that was more vicious than them.

Ninghai is too close to Dengzhou, forget it, Chen Xin looked at Laiyang, there are many bandits in this place, so he will find a few to alleviate the economic problem, by the way, train the troops, and integrate the newly joined Dongjiang soldiers, now there are more than 500 Dongjiang veterans selected, who have come to the Wendeng camp one after another, and some of them have basically recovered from Weihai. With guaranteed nutrition, you can train at high intensity, and by the way, you can also fight bandits.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin smiled at Liu Minyou: "The army spends the most money, and it should also earn some money." ”

Liu Minyou heard that he was going to fight the bandits, and urged: "Then we have to let them hurry, if they really run out, the workshop will have to stop." ”

Chen Xin is also calculating the time, Song Wenxian and they will go to sea in March, and they will probably not come back until the end of the month, if it doesn't go well, I'm afraid it will be early June. The profits this time are all his and Song Wenxian's, and he will be able to have more than 100,000 taels of silver in his hands, and he will be able to do things in the future. He has already planned several expenses for this year, Wen Tiren still has to go, as well as Qian Yuanke, Wang Tingxian, Zhang Keda, and Yang Yunnong. Wang Yuanzheng is like this, so there is no need to make a point, Chen Xinguang bought 3,000 stone of grain from him this year, and he earned a few hundred taels to say the least.

After thinking about it, he said to Liu Minyou: "I will do my best, I will go out in two days at most, and I will share the spoils with you after robbing the silver, since you are here, I will stay for a few more days, this side is now the same as the refugee camp, you plan by the way, and when the silver comes back, let's invest some money to improve." ”

Liu Minyou hesitated, shook his head and said: "There are too many things in Weihai, and I still don't stay, so how can Yang Yunnong answer him?" ”

Chen Xin laughed, Yang Yunnong is a sleek person, and he is also very good at things, he sent Wang Yuanzheng to ask, but he was looking for a reason to ask for silver, and said: "Reply with silver, I can't take it out now, I will write a letter to him, and the official will say that it is a homeless person, when you go back, take the cavalry back with twenty people, watch around the fort strictly, don't let those people from the Dongjiang River slip out a few and talk nonsense, Weihaiwei said, if it is transmitted to Dengzhou, I am afraid that Wang Ting will try to force me to hand people out." ”

Liu Min was a little angry, he couldn't understand the thoughts of these big officials, even if Mao Wenlong was not a thousand things, what was the crime of so many Liao people in Dongjiang Town, he said angrily: "All of them are Jinshi and first, human life is so worthless in their eyes, and those sage books are read into the dog's stomach." ”

Chen Xin hurriedly persuaded: "So it's called a dog official, I just said that it was possible, and Lord Wang may not be willing to do so." We can't control those things, but as long as they come to Weihai, no matter how much, we have to take them. ”

"But it's nearly three thousand, and more, how can we afford it, if we don't accept it, we can't bear it."

"Brother Liu don't have to worry, doesn't Wendeng Camp have nearly 20,000 acres of land, let them plant it."

Liu Minyou sighed and said: "The people who bought and those who escaped are all strong men and women, and there are basically no children, I am afraid that they are the first to be eaten." These people have no burden, they are all strong laborers, they hate Houjin the most, and they also hate the members of the court, you raise them, they only recognize you alone, I just figured this out, you should have already taken a fancy to the Liao people. ”

Chen Xinyu smiled: "I can't hide anything from Brother Liu, but I should also see my kind side." Since Brother Liu is here, why don't you hurry and go to see the school I built for those children? ”

"Are you willing to go to school? For the youngest? ”

"It's for kids big and small."

Speaking of the school, Liu Minyou finally mentioned the www.biquge.info of the pen and said: "I thought about it, we don't need all-round talents now. The training cycle for children is too long, so I plan to teach about 15 years old and have a crash course for half a year and a year. Just like vocational high school, I go to school for half a day every day, do half a day of work, and after a year, I can know some common words and know basic arithmetic. After graduation, they will be able to support themselves by working as low-level workers in the workshop and doing some simple positions, and in the future, they will have to learn by themselves, and we will run a night school like that, which can reduce the cost of our training. ”

Chen Xin looked at Liu Minyou in surprise, "Brother Liu's method is good, let's not teach those who break the eight strands, half-work and half-study, study and work have been done, and they are semi-skilled workers when they come out, I really admire them." Brother Liu has been a leader for a long time, and this compromise method has been successful. ”

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Because of the school, Liu Min planned to stay for one more day before leaving, Wendeng camp to Weihaiwei 100 miles, riding a horse also had to walk for a day, it was really a little tired, Liu Min had two assistants took the horse to the cavalry camp to find fodder. Liu Minyou followed Chen Xin to the dunbao outside the Wendeng camp to inspect the school, and after Xu Yuanhua's last complaint, Chen Xin did not clean up this person, he thought that Liu Minyou also needed some reliable subordinates, and it was inconvenient to attack their loyalty to Liu Minyou.

The two took their own soldiers and walked around in a dungeon outside the south gate, and then came to the Tuntian area outside the east gate, where there were nine dungeons. Liu Min has seen too many poor people, and he already has a strong tolerance for these shack areas, and after turning the two bunkers, he directly asked to see the school.

Chen Xin seemed to have worked hard, Xu Yuanhua told him in Liu Minyou's ear, saying that Chen Xin had pulled a flag team to cooperate with the repair, and the progress was very fast, and he would start school when Mr. came.

Liu Minyou nodded again and again, he trained a group of young teachers in Mazi Erdun, and he was about to graduate, he had learned more words, and he also knew some arithmetic, and he also taught some basic education methods, in view of Chen Xin's use of child labor, he originally did not plan to send teachers over, but now since Chen Xin wants to build a school, he immediately decided to send half of the teachers over. Liu Minyou asked Xu Yuanhua to take him to see Tuntian and water conservancy, the Baolong River is much larger than the Qincun River, and more than a dozen waterwheels have been erected by the river, constantly rotating to lift the river water and then pour it into the canal. The 20,000 mu of land occupied by Chen Xin has only been abandoned for a short time, and the 3,000 mu of land planted last year has matured, and the yield per mu is one stone, two or three buckets, and the peasant households in Wendengying are now harvesting.

After Liu Minyou went to several shack areas to take a closer look, he felt that the sanitation was too poor and asked to build a ditch and a manure pit in the shantytown. Xu Yuanhua agreed to come down one by one. Then Chen Xin took Liu Minyou to watch the township drill again, the queue was neat, and he was already in a strong army.

Liu Minyou has recently complained about the army, but after all, he is the one who supplies the army, and he still feels honored. After watching for a while, it was time for dinner, and several people followed Xiang Yong to mix dinner before going back to the barracks, when they came back to the barracks, the horn of the return camp had already sounded, Chen Xin took the initiative to take out the waist card to the sentry, and after the sentry saluted, Chen Xin helped Liu Minyou register, and then took Liu Minyou in.

After dinner, each team handled the internal affairs by itself, and if there was no emergency assembly and drill in the evening, the soldiers would move on their own, but they could not leave the camp. Chen Xinjun is forbidden to gamble, and these soldiers have been training intensively recently, so they usually rest directly. The dark field was quiet, except for the lanterns of the night patrol officers flickering in the barracks area.

When the two of them passed by the side of the arena with their own soldiers, Chen Xin heard the sound of whirring knives and sticks, and when he got closer, he saw a black figure in the arena.

Nie Hong went up and shouted, "Stop! ”

The black shadow immediately stopped, and Nie Hong lifted the lantern over and shook it in front of his eyes, it was Li Donghua, the Dongjiang soldier who came first. Chen Xin and Liu Minyou knew him, and Liu Minyou went over and asked, "Li Donghua, have you been promoted to a soldier?" ”

Li Donghua said respectfully: "Yes, I was promoted three days ago, the villain was first led by the instructor in Weihai, and it was not long before I arrived at the Wendeng camp. ”

"Then why do you practice knives and sticks?"

"There is no sledgehammer in the Wenden camp, I use this knife and stick to practice, and if the gun breaks, I can also use firefighters."

Chen Xin approvingly: "It's good to be willing to practice, how is your body recovering?" ”

"Back to the adults, the villain was originally powerful, and he could grab food on the island, so he didn't get hungry too hard."

Liu Minyou persuaded him: "Don't practice just now." ”

Chen Xin also knows that the army's high-intensity training has an impact on the human body, and after being stimulated, it can burst out with strong physical strength in a short period of time, and the body will fail faster than ordinary people in the future. But who cared about these during the war years, he asked Li Donghua: "How long do you practice at night?" ”

"After practicing weapons, you have to run five laps, add some physical fitness hundreds of times each, and only go back when you can't practice, the villain doesn't like to talk, and there is nothing to do in the barracks."

Liu Minyou said: "Don't be too yourself, the battalion is already hard, you just follow the plan." ”

"Mr. Liu, you are not ruthless to yourself, how can you be ruthless against Jiannu on the battlefield."

Chen Xin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he also felt that the recent training of soldiers was too step-by-step, so he immediately said to Li Donghua: "Report to the Chinese army's guard room tomorrow and let this ...... This training staff officer, first according to the captain's treatment, next month's training plan is up to you to modify. ”