In the early morning, when the roosters crowed one after another all over the city, Wu Shigong immediately woke up. At this time, the sky was actually not white, Wu Shigong put the sleeping Zhu Yun on his chest arm, gently put it into the quilt, and wanted to crawl over from Zhu Yun's body to get up.

But Wu Shigong's move like this also woke up Zhu Yun, and she immediately stretched out her hands to wrap around Wu Shigong's waist, and said coquettishly like a child: "Uncle." Today is your first day home, so let's rest at home for the day. After a while, Zhu Yun added a little shyly: "The slave also wants my uncle to accompany me more." ”

Wu Shigong smiled, he pecked Zhu Yun's lips and said, "Good! This time, my uncle went to Yangzhou, and Uncle Yongli also recruited recruits at home, and today my uncle is going to see the situation of the recruits. While speaking, Wu Shigong stroked Zhu Yun's body up and down, sniffing Zhu Yun's alluring body fragrance.

Accompanied by beauties, although Wu Shigong also wants to lie in bed, but for the sake of his own home, he still has to restrain his desires and doesn't want to waste a little time. So Wu Shigong kissed Zhu Yun again and said, "Actually, uncle, I am a little busier now, just to accompany you more in the future." ”

Zhu Yun had actually been touched by Wu Shigong at this time, and she gasped: "But uncle, the slave also wants to have another son." ”

Wu Shigong listened to Zhu Yun's words and burst out laughing. He immediately said to Zhu Yun: "Then my uncle will accompany you tonight, and let you give birth to a few more big fat boys for my uncle and me in the future." ”

After washing, Wu Shigong went to the martial arts arena in the backyard as usual and had a morning exercise with a team of boy scouts led by Tao Xin. Tao Xin lived in Wu Shigong's house, and like Wu Shigong, he selected twenty relatively haode children from the Boy Scouts as his guards, and Tao Xin also took his guards in and out every day.

After the morning exercise, Wu Shigong walked his horse accompanied by the guards. Because the city gate had not yet opened at this time, and horses could not gallop in the city, Wu Shigong was just leading the horse for a walk.

In addition to the horse that Wu Shigong walked, there was also the three-legged little pitiful. The poor little little life force was indeed tenacious, and after the carpenter fitted it with a prosthetic leg, it was able to walk. As a result, every day on the streets of Runing Fucheng, there is a scene of Wu Shigong walking with a war horse and a crippled horse equipped with a prosthetic leg.

After walking the horse, it was already dawn, and Wu Shigong returned to the inner house to have breakfast with his wife and children, who had already gotten up. After breakfast, Wu Shigong began his day's work.

After Wu Shigong left Runing Mansion this time, Xue Yongli had recruited 1,500 recruits from military households, bandits who surrendered to Cheng, and local refugees in Runing Province. And these days, the training of those recruits, the transfer of cavalry from veterans, etc., has kept Xue Yongli very busy.

Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, Xue Yongli and other military attachés greeted him. After listening to Xue Yongli's introduction to the recruitment of new soldiers, Wu Shigong began to observe the training of the soldiers again.

Because the cavalry was added with a lot of veterans who couldn't ride horses before, and so many new recruits were recruited, the whole training scene was a bit chaotic. For this situation, Wu Shigong and they are not surprised. According to their experience, as long as they were trained strictly under the stick, in just a month, those soldiers could look a little better; In three months, you can train as a teacher; In half a year, you will be able to cope with the battle as a qualified soldier.

In addition, in the future, Wu Shigong is also ready to train those Tuntian Zhuang Ding to the level that they can go out of the army, so in the future, it will also greatly shorten the time for recruits to form combat effectiveness.

The only problem now is that Wu Shigong and the others have no experience in training a phalanx as large as a thousand people, and they can't conduct such phalanx training until the training of those recruits is completed.

After consulting Wu Shigong, Zhou Xun, who was in charge of the training of the phalanx, could only use the five or six hundred recruits recruited from Beizhili who had been trained for a period of time, plus those soldiers who were drawn from other armies to start the exploratory training of the phalanx.

This training was very bumpy. After discovering problems from time to time, Wu Shigong temporarily stopped training and gathered all the military attaches together to discuss the problem. Sometimes there are heated arguments. Even in the case that no one could convince anyone, the phalanx had to be divided into two teams, and sometimes even a team of cavalry had to be transferred over for simulated confrontation training.

On the side, several literate soldiers in the pro-soldier team acted as temporary clerks, recording the problems found and the methods to solve them, and then sorting them out and summarizing them later.

In the midst of such a hectic and hectic situation, the morning passed quickly. After having lunch in the camp, Wu Shigong left most of the personal soldiers of the personal guards around him in the camp and let them also participate in and improve the training of the phalanx. Wu Shigong himself returned to the garrison yamen with more than 20 guards.

After taking a nap, Wu Shigong began to deal with some affairs of civil affairs. Anyway, there are a lot of cumbersome affairs, and what attracted Wu Shigong's attention the most on this day was the Tuntian affairs that Zheng Zhen was in charge of.

"My lord, after your method was used, the people were very enthusiastic. Those who come to us to sell their land, and the people who participate in our tuntian are endless. The villain was also emboldened and lowered the purchase price per mu to one and a half stones. This can also buy more land for adults. ”

Wu Shigong immediately praised Zheng Zhen with a smile and said, "You did a good job." However, you add another condition to the people, as long as there is a natural disaster and the grain harvest fails, this official will also exempt the share of the land that should be paid accordingly and prolong the time for returning our grain. And even if there is no harvest, the official will ensure the ration supply of those people here. This official is not only important land, but also the hearts of those people. These people have no worries, and they will work hard for their officials. ”

Zheng Zhen also smiled and nodded in agreement. He then asked Wu Shigong: "My lord, but in this way, there will be too many people who come to sell the land. Besides, the villain also asked some old farmers, and they all said that this year's year is not very good! ”

"Let's get a good grasp of water conservancy. This grain can be fought for a little bit from God's hands. You will carefully calculate with the bookkeeper that part of the land you bought after that will be paid for with grain, and the other part will be paid with the food stamps we have issued, and the payment date of those food stamps will be moved back a little. The official also asked Tang Liu to buy grain again to ensure that those people could survive this famine year. Remember, don't force those people to accept food stamps, and don't do good things and bad things, and ruin our own reputation. ”

"My lord, and in the vicinity of the land we bought, some gentry saw that we were overhauling the water conservancy, and they also wanted to cooperate with us and wanted to bring water to their land."

"That's fine. Let's discuss this matter with Mr. Zhang. The official had the idea that it was okay for the gentry to cooperate with us, but their families would also have to sacrifice their children to our army. ”

"So be it. The army of this officer gave the children of these gentry fifty places of military attachés, and then selected fifty from among the veterans of the army, and then formed a team of 100 pro-soldiers. As a training team for a reserve military attaché. However, it should be made clear to those gentry that these fifty places are admitted on the basis of merit and are to be assessed. Of course, in the families of the gentry, if the children of the directors of the literacy society joined the army, the officials would be very welcome. The gentlemen are working very the civil affairs now, and it is time to find some people to help. ”

"And the matter of contacting those gentry is mainly left to Mr. Zhang. Let him not forget the Yao Yuanwai of Guide Mansion, and it is best to let Yao Yuanwai and them also integrate into our system. Don't forget: to manage this land thoroughly is to integrate the gentry on this land into our system. ”

What Wu Shigong said today is already a bit naked. Although in the past, Wu Shigong's aides had already sensed that Wu Shigong had that kind of militaristic tendency, but today's statement by Wu Shigong completely clearly stated his idea of wanting to be independent. Zheng Zhen pondered Wu Shigong's words carefully, and thought to himself, "Since the adults have already made up their minds. And now I'm in the same boat with the adults, so I can only row forward in unison. ”

Wu Shigong's policy of tuntian was quite successful, and in the following year, there was still a major drought in Henan, and because Wu Shigong's water conservancy was relatively good, Wu Shigong's grain was self-sufficient.

In addition, Wu Shigong also purchased a total of more than 100,000 acres of land and collected more than 8,000 tuntian households. These lands formed a number of villages, and the young and strong people in those tuntian households formed a team of village guards after military training, and the total number of village guards reached more than 8,000 people. This also effectively guaranteed Wu Shigong's supply of troops.

In his liaison with the gentry, Zhang Xuebin also drew inferences from the tenant farmers of the gentry to form a militia similar to Wu Shigong's village protection team, and these militia groups were also under the command of Wu Shigong, and the total number of this militia group also reached more than 1,000 people.

There are also the children of those gentry, a large number of them entered Wu Shigong's army and civil affairs system, in addition to the knowledge and ability of these children gave Wu Shigong a great help, Wu Shigong also formed a very close association with these local gentry.

It should be said that it was not until this time that Wu Shigong really laid his own foundation in Henan.

However, after such a costly action, Wu Shigong did not have much grain, grass and silver to accumulate.