Chen Xin estimated that he talked about it almost before going back, after the shopkeeper Yan clarified the interests, it was easy to talk a lot, he lowered the price of raw silk by two taels, the lake silk dropped by three taels, and other silk satin was also reduced, according to the rebate given to him, there were already more than 1,000 taels, Chen Xin went out on purpose, let Song Wenxian send the rebate as the shopkeeper, and came back at this time to listen to the final offer, and did not ask much, even if the shopkeeper Yan had a good relationship, he could buy some of the goods immediately.

After the meal, Song Wenxian went to Qunfang Building with Cai's shopkeeper, Song Wenxian did not consider Chen Xin as usual, Chen Xin had to take Nie Hong and Zhou Shifa, who were waiting outside, back to Erdao Street, to see the sky, Chen Xin went to the clothing store again, just as Zhou Laifu and others were closing, Chen Xin only left Lao Cai and Shen Li, and explained to them the purchase of goods.

Shen Li's arrangement is to inspect the goods, Chen Xin heard a word that day, so that he has a good impression of Shen Li, not only can write and settle accounts, it is rare to do things seriously without favoritism, all goods are purchased by Lao Cai and Lu You, Shen Li will pay by Chen Xin after inspection, if the second batch of ships is not Chen Xin, it will be paid by Miss Zhao or Song Wenxian, this is the best way Chen Xin can think of now.

When Shen Li heard that it was tens of thousands of taels of goods, he was so frightened that he resigned again and again, and after Chen Xin was relieved, Shen Li took over this important task in fear.

Chen Xin himself had 30,000 taels of silver tickets, plus 18,000 taels of Zhongdaotai brought by Song Wenxian, which was enough for the first ship's goods, and he began to load the Zhuyin ship in the next two days. Chen Xin estimated that Weihaiwei's newly repaired warehouse should be about the same, and planned to transport a ship back first, so that at least one ship of sea trade could be guaranteed this year.

After all the goods are ready, and wait for Huang Anshou to find several pyrotechnics, Chen Xin's trip is almost done, and now the difference is the payment for the second ship, Song Wenxian himself has to pay more than 10,000 taels, if Sun Guozhen can give more, and then how much he is blackened, this year's sea trade income is very good, if Sun Guozhen really does not produce silver, the second ship is not satisfied with the same to go to sea, in order to train sailors.

On March 2, Chen Xin returned to Dengzhou with a shipload of goods and Song Wenxian, accompanied by Huang Anshou and others, Zhang Dahui was sent to Beijing to replace Qin Lufang, Chen Xin gave him the task of finding out the candidates for the next governor of Denglai and Haiphong Dao, and then take Qin Lufang back to Weihai when the next ship arrived in Tianjin, and help Chen Xin control the water division.

When he was about to arrive in Dengzhou, Chen Xin told Song Wenxian about the Wendeng camp again, and Song Wenxian listened: "You still have some ranks to be a garrison, Wanquan is the Xingdu Division, and the commander is a military attache of the third grade, but it is not a matter of the guard, the head of the bandits is not worth much military merit, you can remove the word "Na level" this time, and it is only five grades." ”

Chen Xin was a little discouraged when he heard that there was still so much, when would he have to wait for such a slow promotion, but then the corners of his mouth flashed with a smile, Song Wenxian looked at him strangely, and asked, "Brother Chen is so good, what conspiracy does he think of?" ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "Yangmou, isn't there still a sentry officer in Wendeng Camp, and it's okay to mix up with a sentry officer." The garrison has no money and no food, and what can be managed, he is empty. ”

"Sentinel? That also has to be the commander of the guard, although it doesn't have to be a palm print command, but Brother Chen is still several levels behind. ”

Chen Xin said calmly: "If Sun Guozhen can last until July and August and is still in power, we will not be able to eat his money, and then we will kill more bandits, please Sun Guozhen will give me a promotion, Tongzhi and the like, and earn him a lot of silver, I think he will not refuse, the military department has money to take care of, what is the difficulty of being a sentry." ”

Song Wenxian's eyes rolled, "If Brother Chen has to go to the camp with this Wen, the generals of Denglai's battalion will also go and walk around." ”

"You said that Yang Guodong?"

"Yes, yes."

Because Chen Xin has always been in the guard system, the chief soldier of Denglai can't manage here, he only needs to take care of the civilian officials who manage the army, and the battalion system has not moved, and the current chief soldier of Denglai is Yang Guodong, and Chen Xin has also heard about it in the guard.

"This person was originally the guard officer of the Shandong Metropolitan Division, when Xu Hongru's smelling incense sect was in chaos, Yang Guodong was defeated first, and then Dai Sin led the army, made great contributions, escorted Xu Hongru and others into Beijing to offer prisoners His Majesty is him, and later he was promoted all the way, to the chief military officer of Shanhai and Haikou, and the sixth year of the Apocalypse before he was appointed as the chief soldier of Denglai, and the right governor of the military capital is many levels higher than you."

Chen Xin was a little moved: "This Yang Guodong is still promoted through military merit, which is not bad." ”

Song Wenxian said with a smile: "There are some military merits, but it's nothing, the demon soldiers of the Wenxiang Sect are just a rabble, this person can be promoted by befriending Wei Wei, and offering countless gold and silver every year, which is a smooth official career." ”

Chen Xin smiled: "I see, then what is his way to make money?" ”

"It's not like eating empty salaries, and many of the Liao people who came across the sea by harsh rope can't bear it and return to Dongjiang Island."

"It's a pity, how good these Liao people are to me. Since Yang Guodong is also Wei Wei's gang, it is difficult to say whether he can protect himself this time. It's better to make friends slowly. ”

This Yang Guodong gave Chen Xin the impression that he was a general soldier who was very good at being an official and a little good at fighting, and he was demanding the people or eating empty salaries, which is also what most officers are doing now. This kind of person is also very easy to make friends, but Yang Guodong's own shape has not been decided, and Chen Xin has not yet entered the camp, so he will let it go for the time being.

Song Wenxian smiled when he heard this: "Yang Guodong still has thousands of Liao people in his hands, all of whom are detained by him for labor, if Brother Chen wants it, buy it from him." ”

"I'm going to pay him a visit."

"Brother Chen really wants to buy Liaomin?"

"Of course, didn't Mr. Song say that the Liao people are strong and hard-working, and they hate Jiannu the most, so I want such soldiers."

Song Wenxian looked at Chen Xin for a while, shook his head and said, "Brother Chen originally said that he was going to fight Jiannu, but now it doesn't look like a joke. I can't guess what you're doing. I didn't want to say it, but if Brother Chen really wants to get the garrison of Wendeng Camp, he can give you an idea, and you can rely on Jiannu's head to get it. ”

"Where can I find this?"

"Where else can I come from, in addition to Dongjiang, where else is there a Jiannu head, you can pay a high price and buy it from Dongjiang Town, the imperial court reward is only thirty taels and one level, you give two or three hundred taels, it is strange that these poor ghosts in Dongjiang do not sell."

"So expensive!? Xiao Jiahua is only ten taels with a head and body! ”

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"Kill!" Zhou Shao'er rushed forward with a knife and stick in his hand, and after running for more than ten steps, he swept and smashed a two-foot-high wooden stick on the ground, and the two-meter-long knife stick with a whining wind sound, smashed the wooden stick on the ground with a snap, Zhou Shao'er smashed it to the top of a four-foot-high wooden stick next to him, and after smashing it again, he sprinted a few steps to the side, and shouted that the blade with a head of more than two inches of the stick was smashed into the chest position of a wheat straw human-shaped target.

"Qualified." Huang Yuan, the captain next to him, shouted, "Twenty-nine times, come back to rest again." ”

After Zhou Shao'er stood up the two wooden sticks again, he slowly walked back to the starting position, took a short break and prepared to repeat the next time, he is still a fireman, and the firefighters of the original three other teams have been used as other soldiers and become real soldiers, Zhou Shao'er's current team officer is Huang Yuan, the original captain Wang Changfu and Wu Changzheng Sanhu have gone to lead the recruits, and three more people have been transferred from other teams to supplement the first team, they are the only veteran team that has been retained, and all of them have participated in the last crackdown on bandits.

Zhou Shao'er has practiced knives and sticks and knives and shields, he himself prefers knives and sticks, the tricks are just a dozen and a stab, according to the training officer of the infantry team Dai Zhenggang said, other tricks are all flowers, can not be used on the battlefield, Zhou Shao'er touched a long strip-like bulge at the grip of the knife stick, which indicates the direction of the blade of the stick blade, to avoid smashing the enemy's head with the plane of the blade at night.

Zhou Shao'er stood at the starting point again and looked at the three targets in front of him, the two-foot wooden stick was the horse's leg, the four-foot was the horse's head (Note 1), and the humanoid target was to practice assassination. The three main functions of the knife and stick are all there, and each set is three goals. It is said that several instructors are still discussing the action of smashing people after smashing horses' heads.

Their team is a veteran, the basic queue training is very little, but the squad attack and defense practice occupies most of the time, and the personal skills time is also more, Zhou Shao'er can now follow the learning of two weapons, since he arrived in Weihai, his physique has been a lot stronger, although the stick is very heavy, he has to smash hundreds of times a day, but he can still persevere.

There was a shout next to him, Zhong Laosi also rushed out like Zhou Shao'er, after smashing his own target, he was stronger than Zhou Shao'er, the knife and stick castrated quickly and urgently, and the four-foot wooden stick was smashed by him and flew ten steps away. Zhou Shao'er secretly smacked his tongue, this Zhong Laosi was originally a long knife hand, Lord Chen canceled the long knife, Zhong Laosi was very bored with this big stick at first, and often said that the long knife was comfortable to use, and he stopped nagging after being deducted two disciplinary points by Huang Yuan.

Sure enough, he was more murderous after fighting, Zhou Shao'er had to admit that Zhong Laosi was more powerful than himself, but he was also on the battlefield, he squinted and looked at a small armband sewn on his left arm, there was a mountain shape, it was the first combat commemorative armband designed by Lord Chen, with this thing, he was not a recruit.

Zhou Shao'er thought of the recruits, raised his eyes and looked at the foot of the mountain in the distance, a team of recruits were training in a queue, more than 200 people were divided into nearly 20 teams, slogans came and went, there were constantly instructors carrying sticks in the queue to beat people, these recruits only had a monthly salary of five yuan, and the monthly salary of the official soldiers was one or two five, I heard that no one quit because of hard work, these mountain people and fishermen selected by Dai Zhenggang were very able to endure hardships, but they were a little worse in the queue, and after training for a long time, most of them still couldn't tell the difference between left and right, and they didn't know how to listen to slogans, They suffered far more corporal punishment than the old group of slender men.

"I'm still good." A sense of superiority arose in Zhou Shao'er's heart, although he was not as strong as others, but he was one of the fastest learners to listen to the slogan, and he basically did not get beaten because of this.

"Zhou Shao'er, you have been thinking about your mother-in-law for so long." Huang Yuan's angry scolding came from the front, Zhou Shao'er was excited, but fortunately, Huang Yuan hadn't come out with a military stick, so he hurriedly calmed down, took a deep breath, and was about to rush out, when suddenly Huang Yuan shouted again, "All line up!" ”

Zhou Shao'er was already waiting under his feet, he was tense and just about to let go, he was panicked by Huang Yuan's shout, a dog ate and fell to the ground, and everyone else around him hurriedly ran to Huang Yuan's side to line up, Zhou Shao'er quickly got up, didn't even care about the dirt on his face, and stood at the end of the line.

"Stand upright!" Zhou Shao'er hurriedly puffed up his chest, leaned on the right side of the knife and stick, put his left hand on his pants, looked ahead, and saw Dai Zhenggang striding over from the corner of his eye, standing in front of the team like an iron tower.

After Huang Yuan ordered the whole team to salute, Dai Zhenggang returned a military salute and began to lecture them, "The first squad of the killer team, the only killer team that is all veterans, you are specially left by Lord Chen, the recruits will start team training from tomorrow, and your first killer team will be trained as their opponents, and it will be called the blue team in the future, this is the team number set by Lord Chen, I don't have to change it, I don't like it." Fucking good student training, don't lose the face of the veteran, that's all, Captain Huang, you continue. ”

Dai Zheng just finished saying a few words and left, Huang Yuan was also a little confused, and walked up after a while, and said to everyone: "Everyone has heard it, we will be this blue team soon, everyone practice hard, if you can't beat this gang of recruits who can't go smoothly, where will Lao Tzu's face go." Lao Tzu's face is gone, don't think about it well. In addition, tonight I will practice a night march and go back and forth for five miles. There are no questions to ask. ”

Zhong Laosi raised his hand, Huang Yuan glanced at him, "Zhong Laosi is not allowed to speak, you are his mother's complaint." ”

Everyone else held back their laughter, and Zhong Laosi looked angry, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to put his hand down.

"If you don't, you will continue to train your skills and disband."

"Blue team? It's really ugly, why do you want a tiger, a leopard or something. Zhou Shao'er read a sentence in his heart.

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Note 1: The training stick for beating the horse's head in the "New Book of Ji Xiao" is four feet, about 1.25 meters, and the average height of Mongolian horses is 125-135 centimeters, so it can be inferred that the Mongolian horses at that time were about the same height.

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