The day when Li Yongji chose to go to Yangxinju was set on October 12, and to be honest, this day was not good, because this day was not only cloudy, but also when the ship was halfway through, it also snowed lightly, and the temperature plummeted below freezing.

It only snowed in mid-October, which may seem unusual to the Qingpu region of modern China, but given the historical situation at this time, there is nothing wrong with it.

Since China had not yet started industrialization at this time, and the global warming effect was not so obvious, well, in short, for various reasons, the land in China at this time was colder than that of modern China.

It is precisely because the temperature in ancient China was lower that the October of the lunar calendar is also called Mengdong, or early winter, which means the first month of winter. The day Li Yongji traveled to Yangxinju was October 12 of the lunar calendar, and according to the convention, there were two more days before the beginning of winter, so it was not unusual for the locals to have light snow at this time.

Although the temperature plummeted because of the snow, Li Yongji had prepared before, so he brought a lot of cotton clothes with him in the baggage that traveled with the boat. These cotton coats are all green military coats ordered by Zhang Xinda from later generations, the price is cheap and the weight is full, wrapped in this cotton coat, you are not afraid of the harsh winter, not to mention this little cold.

Li Yongji was wrapped in a cotton coat like this, carrying a small stove, and Wang Sanwu pointed at the bow of the boat facing the fluttering first snow, and came to the small pier of Yangxinju with a smile and a smile.

When the ship was about to dock, Li Yongji found that there were two rows of dense human walls standing on both sides of the wharf, and it turned out that Zhang Wei, who had received the news, had brought people over to line up to greet him early in the morning. Looking at the wet white flowers on their bodies, it is estimated that these people have been waiting for themselves here for a while.

When Li Yongji's boat came ashore, especially the moment when Li Yongji stepped on the dock, Zhang Wei was the first to kneel down and shout: "Welcome to the general office!" ”

Immediately afterwards, two rows of people standing like benchmarks also knelt down at the same time, and shouted at the same time: "Lord Supply General Office is here!" ”

I have to say that more than 3,000 people shouted and knelt at you at the same time, if you are not immersive, you can't feel it exactly, and Li Yongji, even if he was mentally prepared before, was stunned by this moment, and he was drunk in an instant.

Fortunately, Li Yongji at this time is no longer the one when he first came, and after all, he is an adult's mind, so he just regained his sanity in a little trance, nodded lightly, and then walked forward, as for Wang Sanwu, he automatically followed half a step behind.

When he walked to Zhang Wei, Li Yongji gently helped him up, and then nodded with a smile at Zhang Wei, who deliberately bent down and was parallel to him: "Yes, yes, Assistant Zhang is a good soldier." ”

"It's all adults who are well-guided and have powerful plans." Zhang Wei clasped his fists and saluted, and said with a resolute face, "Without the full support of adults, Zhen Tingkong has ambitions, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice." ”

Zhenting is Zhang Wei's word, and when Zhang Wei was sent over earlier, in order to make it convenient for him to bring people, he was given the title of assistant, assistant is actually the meaning of deputy commander, so far, only Wang Sanwu also has the title of assistant, as for Zhou Da and others, there is only one title of assistant.

This is also because Li Yongji's own status is not high, and the training of this regiment is not on the stage, so people in the army cannot hang the title of the official government, and can only be collectively referred to as the general office and the deputy office, but from another point of view, this also gives such a unit a lot of autonomy, such as the establishment of everything can be made up by itself, and there is no need to strictly follow the establishment of the Qing army.

"Where, where." Li Yongji continued to laugh, "Even if I provide all kinds of support, if you don't have the ability yourself, you can't train these people like this in a short period of time. In any case, I have seen your talents, and there will be places for you to display your talents in the future. ”

Hearing Li Yongji's constant praise, Zhang Wei, who has always been calm, also grinned at this time: "I don't dare to praise as an adult, in fact, I just did my part, and I changed someone else, such as Roewe, and it won't be bad." ”

Roewe is Wang Sanwu's word, speaking of which, when he first heard his word, Li Yongji always had the urge to pout, but fortunately, he listened to it a lot, and he got used to it, so now when he heard Zhang Wei say Roewe, he no longer had any special expression.

"It's not an outsider." Wang Sanwu spoke on the side at this time, "Plus it's so cold, how long do you still have to pretend to talk here?" Zhenting, they are all their own brothers, you weren't like this before, I have goosebumps all over my body from sourness. ”

"Hehe, goosebumps, that's probably because it's cold." Zhang Wei smiled and stopped talking, but thought in his heart, you are related to the general office, I am not, can you speak carelessly.

As for why he was so cautious, of course, it was a matter of course.

You must know that in the past, Zhang Wei was just an unambitious servant who had never managed more than 30 people under his hands, but now he is asked to lead more than 3,000 people at once, can the situation be the same?

And he has a very poisonous eye, knowing that these people are of a very high level, as long as they have sufficient pay and equipment, and with a little training, they can immediately become a strong army.

As the so-called power makes people intoxicated, seeing the hope of development, Zhang Wei's bones naturally softened, at least when facing Li Yongji.

"Okay, Assistant Wang is also kind, now that I have just arrived, the weather is cold, I see that everyone is still wearing single clothes, it is not good to go on like this, it is not good to have a cold and typhoid fever, it is better to let everyone disperse as soon as possible." There were outsiders present, and Li Yongji also said officially, "It just so happens that I still have new cotton clothes and quilts on the boat, Assistant Zhang, you can find someone to press people's hair later, and make sure that everyone has something to keep out the cold." ”

"Thank you, for your heart." Zhang Wei clenched his fists again, "However, when the adults first arrive, they always have to say something to the big guy to boost their morale, so that everyone has waited for so long." ”

"That's right." Li Yongji nodded, and then under the guidance of Zhang Wei, he came to a wooden platform for review that had been built a long time ago.

After arriving at the wooden platform, I found that the original two rows of people had been reorganized in order, and the black pressure formed a large square array, and there was basically no big noise. Judging from the speed and process of the assembly, the level of these people has exceeded Li Yongji's expectations, in other words, the first impression of this group of recruits on Li Yongji is very good.

However, this was not the time to consider the reason, so Li Yongji quickly cleared his throat and began his first speech.

To tell the truth, Li Yongji is not good at speeches, and his incitement ability is not strong, and he can not tremble on the stage under the attention of so many people, and he does not speak out of tune, because he has been trained regularly, so it is unrealistic to expect him to say any shocking rhetoric as soon as he comes up.

Fortunately, Li Yongji didn't plan to say anything grandiose, so he just took out an electronic amplifier brought by later generations and made a simple statement about the following:

"Brothers, it's cold, and you've been waiting for me for so long, you must be freezing through, so we'll make a long story short here.

From the day you signed the contract and pressed your handprint, you are a member of my elite army, and when you enter my elite army, the first thing is to unconditionally obey the orders of your superiors!

If you are obedient, you can not only eat and drink spicy food, but also have enough meritorious honors waiting for you to get, so that you can be a beautiful person in the future, so that no one can bully you casually; If you are disobedient, military law is ruthless, no matter how much merit you have made before, you will not hesitate to shoot and kill your head!

In short, in the Jingwu Army, you only need to understand the most important point, that is, a qiē action to listen to the command, so that's right, do you understand! ”

"Understood." The following is sparsely lala's response and road.

"I can't hear clearly!" Li Yongji increased the volume of the loudspeaker again, "Say it again, do you understand!" ”

"Got it!" This time it's a lot neater underneath.

"I still can't hear clearly!" Li Yongji roared again, "Do you understand!" ”

"Got it!" Although this time it was still not neat, the overall sound was very loud and loud, and there was a little bit of a tsunami in the mountains, which should be because most people were roaring in unison.

"Good, so I'm relieved." Li Yongji nodded with satisfaction, "My words are over, after I say disbandment, you will line up in turn to receive winter clothes according to the previous regulations, under the leadership of your respective chiefs, okay, all of them will be disbanded!" ”

It seems that because of the foreshadowing and roaring before, after the director Li Yongji said the order to disband, these people really lined up and began to disband according to the original queue arrangement, although there was inevitably some chaos during the period, but on the whole it was still good, at least it was much better than the disbandment of middle school students.

After that, Li Yongji went to the main house of Yangxinju, which had been cleaned a long time ago, and summoned Wang Sanwu, Zhang Wei, Zhou Da, Lin Chunsheng, Jiang Yun and Jiang Hai, and began to surround a copper stove, eating hot pot, and holding a small circle of senior officers to meet with them.

It was at this meeting to eat hot pot that Li Yongji knew why these people were so obedient, or why these people could be so organized.

This is actually thanks to Zhang Wei.

It turned out that when Zhang Wei came here to build the barracks, after seeing that there were so many people, he thought about doing a big job, so he summed it up with Zhou Da and others, and then according to the experience of training new people in the past, plus some hearsay about the military system of the green battalion and the Taiping Army, he made a set of establishments by himself and organized everyone.

Zhang Wei's establishment is not complicated, that is, with 5 people as 1 team, there is a team chief; 2 teams of 10 people for 1 team, with a team leader; 5 teams of 50 people for 1 sentry and a sentry commander, and 10 sentry with 500 people for a battalion with a battalion commander.

At present, the entire Jingwu army is mixed up, not counting the people brought by Li Yongji this time, there are a total of 3,485 people, excluding the gangsters, miscellaneous carpenters, masons and others, there are 3,250 real soldiers. Zhang Wei divided these people into six battalions, in addition to personally commanding two battalions, the remaining four battalions were managed by Zhou Da, Jiang Yun, Jiang Hai, and Lin Chunsheng, and as for the remaining 250 people, they were scattered and acted as the personal soldiers of Zhang Wei and others.

In the appointment of middle and low-level officers, Zhang Wei also has his own set of plans, that is, the sentry commanders in the team are promoted by their respective battalion officers, and only the captain and the captain are not familiar with each other, because there are too many people and they are not familiar with each other, so the strategy of Wenbi and Wubi is implemented.

For the captain, it is to take the literary examination, whoever has the best score in the literary examination in this ten-person squad will be the captain, the content of the literary examination is similar to the content of the original selection of soldiers, but it is just a different test paper, Li Yongji was originally in order to select the knowledge level of the soldiers, but Zhang Xinda made five sets of test papers, and they actually only used one set when recruiting soldiers, and now there are a lot of spare.

As for the selection of the Wu Commander, there will be no literary competition, but a direct competition, that is, whoever has a hard fist and who can fight the most will be the Wu Commander.

Not to mention, in this way, the original stranger more than 3,000 people were quickly twisted into a rope, and everyone was no longer the same swarm of bees as before, but had a clear hierarchy up and down, and had formed an organization, so that when Zhang Wei issued orders again, he could issue them layer by layer, and quickly achieve his goal.

Then, Zhang Wei, Zhou Da and others let these people not only build the barracks and build the color steel house, but also carried out some basic parade training, and after the initial construction of the barracks was completed, Zhang Wei and others regarded the parade as the first priority.

In the days when the barracks were built, Zhang Wei and the others did nothing else every day, that is, they trained these people vigorously, and if they complained at all, they immediately whipped them up, and if there was further resistance, they would pull out their pants in public and beat them with a military stick, and they would not be given food after the end, only water to drink, and they would let you kneel in front of the camp gate for three days, so that you would be painful, hungry and hurt your self-esteem, so that at most three days, it would be guaranteed that you would not have any temper at all.

If you encounter those super thorns with stinky and hard tempers, these methods are also disobedient, according to Zhang Wei's words, they can't be used, and they can really be killed in public, but fortunately, so far, there has been no such super thorn, so under the radish in one hand and the stick in the other, everyone is very obedient, and every qiē is carried out in an orderly manner.

In fact, at this time, China, that is, the army of the Qing Dynasty, from the Eight Banners to the Green Battalion, from the regular army to the regimental training, paid great attention to the parade drills, more precisely, it was very important to pay attention to the drills of the military formation.

However, unlike the West, which emphasizes obedience and uniformity, the practice of the Qing Kingdom at this time is more about forming a formation, that is, as long as you arrange the rows according to the height of the height, and then form a formation with the lines, what is aligned with the right at the same time, and at the same time to the left is not mandatory.

To put it bluntly, the formation of the Chinese army at this time, especially for the irregular army, is as long as you can stand in your position within the specified time, stand in the formation as quickly as possible, and ensure that you do not make a loud noise in the process, even if you are qualified, it is very loose, and it does not emphasize uniformity.

Of course, the regular army must pay attention to uniformity, but that is to be able to stand in battle faster and better, and everyone spontaneously forms a cooperation in continuous drills, and does not force every soldier to make the same standardized actions under a slogan.

In any case, this shows that China's army is not without the training of parade drills, on the contrary, since ancient times, the Chinese army has attached great importance to the training of parade parade, and the discipline of some strong armies in ancient times is not as bad as that of modern soldiers, but because the army of the late Qing Dynasty was corrupt and strict as a whole, the treatment of soldiers was poor, the training passion was low, and the commanders were loose and did not dare to enforce it, so it caused the late Qing army to be loose and loose, and finally formed an atmosphere of upward and downward effect. This has led to the notion that the Chinese army as a whole will not be lined up.

The reason why Zhang Wei's methods can be successful is not because he is special and has any domineering spirit, but because Li Yongji gave him high treatment, after all, he is given two taels of silver a month and food and lodging, and he is still full of rice when he eats, and he can drink broth every seven days!

Such a good food, ordinary small landlords can't get by, just obedient and can, compared to those treatments, this little hardship is not difficult.

After hearing this, Li Yongji felt more confident and more optimistic about the future prospects.