The strong man next to him watched it with relish, and felt that before the Chinese New Year, he could see the high-ranking sergeants and men playing tricks on weekdays, even if it was just a simple exercise, it was not worth the trip. The sergeant has practiced too much, and his movements are uniform and beautiful.

After the sergeant drill was finished, Shang Zhongxin saw that the strong men below had a look of surprise and admiration on their faces, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Now what I say, you will do it, and those who dare to slack off will be served by the military stick." He paused, then suddenly shouted, "Squat!"

Not only was his voice loud, but more than 200 sergeants repeated the captain's military order together, "Squat!" "Squat!" Many strong men who were a little slower were immediately knocked on their backs and legs by sticks, and people had to squat down because of the pain.

The school field was full of squatting strong men, and it seemed that more than two hundred sergeants with short sticks stood out from the crowd, Shang Zhongxin nodded with satisfaction, and shouted loudly: "Stand up!" At this time, some awake strong men, such as Liang De, Zhang Tai and others, were busy standing up, and they were kicked by the sergeants again when they stood up slowly.

"Okay," Shang Zhongxin nodded, and shouted again, "Squat!" The strong men who remembered the stick with a deep memory paused for a while, and only a few ate the stick. "Stand up!" all the strong men did not hesitate to stand up like springs for the first time.

"This is the first lesson taught to you, the drill is like fighting with the army, and it must be forbidden!" Shang Zhongxin said loudly, "The military order is like a mountain, forward, even the sword mountain and arrow rain must rush forward, retreat, even the gold and silver treasures must retreat in front of you, hold on, even if you die in battle, you can't go!" He paused, took a deep breath, and said loudly: "Now, listen to my military order, out of the left foot!" There was another crackling of sticks at the bottom of the schoolyard, and each sergeant stood behind twenty strong men, and the short stick was whipped all the way to the wrong right thigh.

After training for more than an hour, the strong men barely managed to squat, stand up, and put out their left and right feet according to the command, and only then did Shang Zhongxin allow them to rest on the spot and loosen their muscles and bones. It was a cold winter at this time, but many people were already sweating on their foreheads under high nervous tension, and the croppers complained that these simple actions were even more torturous than doing heavy work.

"Brother Liang, do you still want to be a sergeant?" Zhang Tai rubbed his legs and feet with a sad face, when the inn business was busy, he cut vegetables and cooked in the back kitchen, and stood casually for two or three hours without moving, but he didn't stand for more than an hour today, and his legs were stiff, it was really damn. "Absolutely. Liang De looked at the sergeants holding short sticks with envy, gathered together to talk and chat, and several energetic sergeants actually used short sticks as weapons to compare with each other.

"Thank you Zhang Xianling for raising food and grass for the orchestra's practice. Shang Zhongxin said with a smile, usually in order to govern the affairs of the shade, the officer has to deal with the tax collector's room and the lawsuit room of the county government from time to time, and he and Zhang Hao get along relatively well in these daily affairs. In the past few years, the construction of water conservancy in the winter, sometimes it is difficult to buy urgently needed materials in the market, the county government coordination class, the treasury are very helpful, this time the orchestra practice concentrated drills, nearly 5,000 people need food for a month, but also the Huile County government in accordance with the Prime Minister's Office military service Cao requirements raised.

"Captain Shang has won the award. Zhang Hao, the county order, also smiled and returned the salute, the function of the Xiaguo County Yaban room has been completely different from the Central Plains, the three classes are the soap class, the overall planning class, and the Zhuang class, and the six rooms are the treasury room, the fast catching room, the tax collector's room, the Wenli room, the lawsuit room, and the investigation room. Among them, the head of the third shift of the county government can be appointed by the county order, and the rest of the officials and the head of the six houses are formulated by the prime minister's office, and there is a separate selection procedure. Although the authority of the county order is much inferior to that of the Central Plains, after all, it is the head of the local civil officials, and its power is not weaker than that of the garrison captain, the magistrate of the court, the tribune and the parish priest.

Zhang Hao and Shang Zhongxin exchanged a few words, and Shang Zhongxin said goodbye and went back to explain the next drill subjects to the sergeants.

"Brother Zhang, Captain Shang uses the military to rule the people, and the practice is often used with military sticks, which is too much. Wu Yuan, the director of Huile County, frowned and said to Zhang Hao, the county commander.

"This is not true," Zhang Hao watched Shang Zhongxin return to the sergeant in a majestic manner, "The people can be happy, but they can't worry about the beginning, it is a definite conclusion in ancient and modern times." A few years ago, the sergeants drove the shade to repair the water conservancy, and there were no complaints at the bottom, but after a few bumper harvests, everyone was smiling. He paused for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty uses the Prime Minister's Mansion to coordinate the overall situation, the prefectures and counties as assistants, and the sergeants as minions. At present, although the group practice and drill are hard, it is better than the barbarians who can only stretch their necks and wait for others to slaughter. ”

He smiled slightly and bowed his hand to Shang Zhongxin in the distance again. In case of something, His Majesty must personally issue an order, and the prime minister and the meetings of the protectors at all levels should sign it, and after the meetings of the county protectors witnessed it, they can be dispatched by the state regimental training envoys and cooperate with the army to fight.

"As soon as the state and county regiments are trained, China will regain the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. Since then, I saw that Master Wang drove deep and ploughed the court to sweep the caves, but the Hu people were unable to go deep into the Central Plains. Zhang Hao said in a low voice, "And the deployment of the regimental training army is firmly controlled in the hands of Your Majesty, even if there is a traitor like the Zhao clan to steal the army and plot to rebel." His Majesty's edict sent hundreds of thousands of Qinwang divisions to the Zhou County Regiment, even if a strong army came to attack, it could resist for a long time, and then the imperial court would slowly select generals to train and turn things around. ”

"Oh?" Wu Yuan looked at the strong men who stood up under the shouts of the sergeant in the distance, they had already distinguished the left and right, and now everyone had a one-man high stick, and held it together from end to end, so that the horizontal line was neat, and then staggered forward in unison under the sergeant's command. Shang Zhongxin still looked at the drills on the school field with a majestic face.

"You don't have to be surprised by this," Zhang Hao saw that Wu Yuan seemed to have a look of surprise in his eyes, "The way of the king, for the sake of not fighting, not for the sake of not using." Now all the armies are loyal to His Majesty, and the hundreds of thousands of regiments are naturally only the backing to deal with the barbarians of the enemy country. If there are really those ill-intentioned people, and there are hundreds of thousands of regiments to deter in the country, as long as the people's hearts are in the imperial court, these heroes will naturally have no choice but to accept their antipathy and honestly be His Majesty's eagle dogs. In the evening, Zhang Hao returned to the yamen, closed the door of the study, looked left and right, took out a copybook, flattened the white paper, and practiced the words upright. "The thread in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt, is densely sewn before leaving, and I am afraid that I will return late. Zhang Hao thought about the past, orphans and widows were bullied in the clan, the fields were occupied by the uncle, the mother sold jewelry for herself to enter a private school, and then copied books for a living for large families.

What he wrote was not the Chinese characters commonly used in the Central Plains, but the lack of pen commonly used in the official documents of the Xia Kingdom. Before seeking the official, he visited a bachelor's house, which made Zhang Hao frustrated, and there were many learned people in it, not only the long history of Liang Zuoqiu to learn the rich five cars, but also his notorious literary friend Cai Zhongyin's attainments in poetry and literature made people have a sense of admiration in the mountains, Zhang Hao has since ceased to seek progress with knowledge, and concentrate on being a capable official. Many of the officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion have such thoughts as him, and even the practice of calligraphy is mainly due to the lack of pen commonly used in official documents.