There were more than 100 young people in 1-03 village who were asked to stay in the village, and when Zhao Min'an, Qian Yuanshan and others entered the threshing floor, they were lining up in a chaotic queue under the command of the village chief and the head of the joint defense team. Although Village Chief Guo and Captain Jiang were sweating profusely, the formation of the young and strong people was still crooked, and they didn't look the same at all.

When Village Chief Guo saw Zhao Min'an and others coming in, he asked Captain Jiang to continue to command the team, and he himself hurriedly greeted him, and said to Zhao Min'an and Qian Yuanshan with an apologetic face: "Master Zhao, Master Eleven, these young people in the village have never seen much of the world, and they don't know how to stand in line, and I hope you will bear with me." ”

Zhao Min'an didn't speak when he heard this, but turned his head to look at Qian Yuanshan next to him, waiting for the professional to express his opinion. Qian Yuanshan waved his hand and said, "Don't get in the way, the master came here today just to see the physique of these men and count the number of people." They can't stand in line now, and when they get to the master, there will naturally be a head coach to teach them well. ”

Qian Yuanshan's words, the previous words were quite pleasant, and when he said zuihou, especially when he said "there is a head to teach them well", he was already full of solemnity, which frightened the village chief Guo next to him, and he was very sweaty for the future life of his group of villagers. At the same time, he also prayed silently in his heart, this eleventh master who is like a fierce god and evil must not pick his son, otherwise with that kid's stupidity, he is afraid that he will shed his skin if he does not die

The young Zhuang in the threshing floor did not know the purpose of summoning them here, but this village chief Guo and the members of the village committee like Captain Jiang knew very well that the purpose of these masters to check on the young Zhuang was not to hang out for nothing, but to draw Ding - of course, this Guo village chief was only told that these masters were here to select Qing Zhuang to be the villagers, and did not know that many of these young and strong lieutenant generals would be selected to be real full-time soldiers in the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion".

Qian Yuanshan naturally didn't know that this little Jiujiu in Captain Guo's heart, his mind had now shifted to the group of young men in front of him who were still chaotic, and he was carefully observing them.

Unlike Qian Yuanshan, Zhao Min'an's focus was not on these young and strong physiques, but on their numbers, and he asked with some dissatisfaction: "Village Chief Guo, I remember that although there are some old and weak women and children among the nearly 400 villagers in these three villages, there are no less than 200 strong men who can hold knives and guns. But why are there only about 100 people in front of you, could it be that you didn't notify Village Chief Guo, or maybe some villagers are afraid of being smoked and hiding? ”

Hearing that Zhao Min'an seemed to suspect that he had not done a good job, Village Chief Guo hurriedly defended himself: "Zhao Ye is aware that the villain sent Captain Jiang to inform him door to door last night, and he never missed a qualified young man. The reason why all the dingkou in the village did not arrive was entirely because some strong men did not meet the conditions told the villain by the steward of the resettlement site yesterday. ”

"Not eligible?" Zhao Minan was a little strange and turned his head to look at Qian Yuanshan.

Qian Yuanshan explained: "This village chief Guo is right, the military department's requirements for young people are indeed relatively high. We are looking for villagers who are over 16 years old and under 35 years old, in good health, and have not violated the rules of the resettlement site. ”

"Exactly, exactly," Village Chief Guo echoed, "The villain selects the young and strong in strict accordance with these requirements, and there is no selfish situation. ”

After listening to Qian Yuanshan's explanation, Zhao Minan nodded and said, "I see, no wonder there are only so many people." ”

Qian Yuanshan saw that Zhao Min'an no longer had any objections, so he took Zeng Zhilin and Xin Feiyu, accompanied by Village Chief Guo and Captain Jiang, to the hundreds of young people, looked at them carefully from beginning to end, and asked some of them some questions, and then returned to Zhao Min'an and others.

Qian Yuanshan pointed out some of the young Zhuang to Qingchen and several agents from the Internal Affairs Section of the Ministry of Intelligence, and Qingchen wrote them down one by one, and then took a few detectives to the village committee to take the dozen or so young men pointed out by Qian Yuanshan to the village committee, and examined their identities and past experiences -- of course, Qingchen and the others would not only listen to the words of these young people, but after questioning them, they also verified with Village Chief Guo, Captain Jiang, and other young people who were not selected.

After the relevant review was completed, Qian Yuanshan instructed Village Chief Guo and Captain Jiang to say: "These ten or so people have been selected, and you will tell them to prepare, and when this year's autumn harvest is over, the master will send someone to take them away and receive military training, so that they can serve as low-level officials in the township in the future." You should make it clear to them that all the young men who are taken to participate in the training this time and pass the official examination will receive preferential treatment from the government for themselves and their families. Whether it is land rent or other forced labor, it will be much lighter, so that they do not have to worry about the loss of labor in their families because of their departure, which will affect the lives of their families. ”,

Village Chief Guo and Captain Jiang nodded again and again when they heard this, saying that they had written it down, and they would definitely convey it to these selected young men word for word, so that they could go to the township training with peace of mind, and there would never be a situation where anyone was unwilling to go.

Qian Yuanshan nodded after hearing this, and said, "That's the best." This errand is done, and it is considered a merit, and the master will show it to the fifth master and the seventh master. ”

When Village Chief Guo and Captain Jiang heard Qian Yuanshan say that they would report to Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin, the two masters who spoke the most effectively, they were immediately overjoyed, and immediately thanked Qian Yuanshan with a smile on their faces, saying that they would definitely do this errand well. If you can't do it yourself, you're willing to be punished.

Qian Yuanshan said two more words of encouragement, and then accompanied by Village Chief Guo and Captain Jiang, they had a lunch meal together in the village committee. After eating, everyone rested for a while, and then left Village 1-03 for the next village.

For a whole afternoon, except for not eating in other villages, Qian Yuanshan and the others were almost exactly repeating what Village 1-03 did. The group inspected five small villages, and Qian Yuanshan selected nearly 50 young people before and after.

Although this place is only a dozen miles away from the county seat of Liangxiang, considering that they will continue to inspect this resettlement site the next day, Zhao Min'an, Qian Yuanshan and others decided to stay in the village that night after completing the inspection of the sixth small village of the day, 1-06 villages, so as to save the need to rush from the city to this side the next day.

In this way, from the 15th day of the seventh month to the 25th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, for a full ten days, Zhao Min'an, Qian Yuanshan and others traveled all the fields and properties of the team in the surrounding counties, and inspected all the resettlement sites of the displaced people on these fields. In these ten days, Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Xin Feiyu and others selected nearly 260 young people. This figure has greatly exceeded the expectations of Qian Yuanshan and others, and it is more than enough to establish a new backbone training squadron in Jihua to train the most grassroots cadres for the subsequent expansion of the army.

However, the purpose of Qian Yuanshan and others' trip was not only to select a group of relatively outstanding young men to establish a training squadron, but also to investigate the quality and distribution of all young men under the control of the team. Therefore, after inspecting the small village of the resettlement site in Lu County, numbered 04-, Qian Yuanshan and others, who had already inspected all the villages in the resettlement site of the team, went to an iron mine in Danzhou under the guidance of the housekeeper Deng An, and prepared to inspect the miners there - because the mine was not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhao Minan did not continue to accompany Qian Yuanshan and others to inspect, but the housekeeper Deng An was responsible for leading the way.

From Luzhou to Danzhou, that is, from Tongzhou District of Beijing to Miyun County in the previous life, although the distance is only about 60 kilometers, that is, more than 100 miles, but due to the restrictions of roads and means of transportation, this period needs to walk for four or five hours in the previous life. Since there was still a long way to go from Danzhou City to the team's iron mine, it was already late at this time, so it was not suitable to continue the journey. Therefore, at the suggestion of the housekeeper Deng An, everyone rested in the city for one night, and then left for the iron mine the next morning.

At noon the next day, Qian Yuanshan and others rushed to the mine, which was named "Danzhou No. 1 Iron Mine" by the team. The mine manager, who had already received the news before, led a group of subordinates to wait in front of the mine early, and welcomed Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Xin Feiyu and others in.

Unlike when inspecting the fields before, because the miners in the mine basically met the conditions proposed by Qian Yuanshan, and the specific time when Qian Yuanshan and others arrived was difficult to determine. Therefore, in order not to affect the production of the mine too much, when Qian Yuanshan and others sent people to send a message, they did not ask the mine manager to stop work and wait for their arrival, but asked the miners to go down the mine as usual, and then recruit the miners from the mine after they arrived. Therefore, after arriving at the mine, Qian Yuanshan and the others did not refuse the banquet of the mine manager, but waited for the miners to come up from the mine while eating.

After everyone finished eating, the miners lined up in the open space of the mine. When Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Xin Feiyu and others saw the nearly 1,000 miners in front of them who were a little untidy and covered in dust, a thought immediately popped up in their minds -- the criteria for selecting people among the tenants in front of them were a little low, and the young and strong people selected were a little indiscriminate.

The reason why several people have this feeling is mainly because the miners in front of them, whether they are strong, or fierce, temperament, and neatness of the formation, are far from being comparable to those farmers who face the loess with their backs to the sky. ,

These miners were physically stronger because they had to do much more physical labor every day than farming, and they became more fierce and disciplined because of the daily experience of dealing with death - the safety factor of the mines in this era was too low, the risk of mining was high, and without the strong spirit and the consciousness to abide by the mining rules, not only did the miners not work for long, but they also easily lost their lives.

Such a young man -- strong, tough, disciplined -- is exactly the type that the military department needs most. Therefore, after seeing these miners, Qian Yuanshan did not select a few members who looked excellent from among them as he did when he selected them before, but ordered Qingchen and several other agents to review and register these miners one by one.

However, although Qian Yuanshan and other brothers from the military department are very satisfied with this group of miners, considering that this iron mine is the main supplier of steel smelting raw materials for the Ministry of Science and Technology, if too many miners are transferred, it will inevitably affect the work of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Therefore, when they left the mine on the third day, Qian Yuanshan and the others only asked the mine manager to send the 40 of the most elite miners to the "Feilong Village" after they left, as one of the first members of the new backbone training squadron -- because of the large number of miners, the examination work of Qingchen and the others was carried out for more than a day, nearly two days.

After leaving the Danzhou Iron Ore Mine, Qian Yuanshan and his entourage inspected two coal mines in Xishan. After selecting 80 people from among the equally strong, fierce, and disciplined coal miners, Qian Yuanshan and others finally returned to "Qingyuan" on the afternoon of the fifth day of the eighth lunar month -- the salt works located by the sea were too far away, and Qian Yuanshan and others still had to prepare for an attack on "Feiyunzhai" at the end of this month and early next month.

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