Out of the Taishou Mansion, Zhang Yi turned over and got on his horse, took a group of people, and set off towards Xicheng. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

followed Zhang Yi to Xicheng, in addition to An Changshi and Dian Wei, the personal bodyguards who led the way in front, there were also Sima Wei who rushed to report on government affairs and Wen Ping who came to report on military affairs, in addition to Zhou Wu and a middle-aged man with a mustache.

Yizihu's name is Pi Chang, thirty-three years old, Zhang Yi's "personal disciple", the chief helmsman of the twelve-minute rudder of Qingping Dao, and Zhang Yi's fanatical follower.

Riding on the horse, Wen Ping hugged his fists at Zhang Yi and said, "Lord Qi, the recruits recruited from various Xian have arrived one after another, and the two generals Guan Zhang are now undergoing strict training according to the requirements of the lord. ”

More than a month ago, Zhang Yi issued an order to the Xian, let the Xian recruit 500 young and middle-aged people as a source of soldiers to Anyi, at the beginning of this task did not go smoothly, there were very few people who took the initiative to sign up, most of the people who signed up wanted to eat well, but with the spread of Qingping Road in Hedong County, slowly more and more young adults signed up to join the army, and about 600 to 700 people in each county were sent to Anyi, so far in the east camp of Anyi, tens of thousands of recruits have been gathered, Zhang Fei was assigned by Zhang Yi as the chief instructor of the Dongda Battalion, responsible for the training of these recruits.

In addition to the recruits recruited by the Xian, the recruits gathered in the Nanda camp are all recruits who have signed up to join the army among the displaced people, there are about 6,000 people, these recruits are different from the recruits in the East Battalion, they all take the initiative to sign up, and have been trained for more than a month, in addition to these recruits, the South Camp also has more than 3,000 veterans recruited before, and hundreds of young and middle-aged people who followed Zhang Fei from Zhuo County, and the chief instructor of these soldiers is Guan Yu.

Counting the original garrison forces of each Xian, on the whole, the armed forces under Zhang Yi's command now have more than 30,000, but of these more than 30,000 troops, about 15,000 belong to the local garrison forces, and the remaining 15,000 also belong to the recruits, and they still need to strengthen training, and the recruits' equipment is not neat, so it will take a lot of time and a lot of money to form a combat force from these armed forces.

On the whole, the training of recruits is quite smooth, although there are also recruits who do not obey discipline, but the vast majority of recruits are quite obedient, and there is no problem of recruits mutiny, and the reason why the recruits are so honest and obedient is that one is due to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's force, and the other is because of Zhang Yi's ideological education of the recruits.

After listening to Wen Ping's report, Zhang Yi turned his head to look at Pi Chang on the left and said: "Old Pi, the ideological education of recruits must be paid close attention to, ideological education and military training are two sharp swords to strengthen the combat effectiveness of recruits, you gentlemen can't relax." ”

"No, my subordinates must obey the decree," after arching his hand at Zhang Yi, Pi Chang said to Zhang Yi again: "Sect Master Qiqi, the helmsman of the twelve rudders, has just reported the number of new congregations, and within ten days, there have been three thousand new sect members in each rudder. ”

"Well," after nodding, Zhang Yi said to Pi Chang again: "Old Pi, you have to remember that the helmsmen of each branch of the rudder are strictly ordered not to accept a penny or a grain of rice from the people below, let alone take the opportunity of preaching to harm the people. Remember, we only preach doctrine to do good. ”

Although Zhang Yi founded Qingping Dao, he was very afraid that the future development of Qingping Dao would be the same as the later Taiping Dao, from the original saving the people, to the scourge of the people, so he formulated strict canons, and the means of dealing with violators were never soft, under the control of strict canons, the development of Qingping Dao was quite decent, and there was no deviant behavior to harm the people, which made Zhang Yi very pleased, but even so, he would often tell those high-level members of the church, just like he told Pi Chang now.

Seeing Zhang Yi's grim face, Pi Chang hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, the subordinates must strictly restrain their subordinates, and there will never be the situation that the lord said." ”

After telling Pi Chang, Zhang Yi turned his head to look at Sima Wei again.

Seeing that Zhang Yi finally noticed him, Sima Wei hurriedly gave his hand and said: "Lord Qi, the cleaning operation has achieved initial results, in addition to the Dashi clan led by the Wei and Pei families and several big gentry, those small gentry and squires who have not been swept have donated money and food to seek refuge, are we ......?"

Sima Wei's clean-up operation refers to Lan Zheng and Zhuo Ye's looting of the Xian Xiaoshi clan and the gentry, but later Zhang Yi also let the black tiger join in, so that the scope of the looting is getting bigger and bigger, making those Xiaoshi and Hao Gentry everyone in danger, and they have to donate money and food to seek the protection of the Xian armed forces, in general, Zhang Yi's clean-up operation has had the effect he wants.

"Very good, it's only been less than half of the sweeping, and those iron roosters have begun to pluck their feathers, yes, I told Lan Zheng and Heihu that they can already collect troops back to their respective territories, as for Hansheng and Jingde, who are in charge of sweeping the tail......" At the mention of Huang Zhong and Gao Shun, Zhang Yi pondered slightly, and said: "Didn't Yongan and Puzi also build a new village for the displaced people?" Let Chen Gong and Zhuge Jue also set up a military camp, and let Han Sheng and Jingde be in charge of the training of recruits in the past. ”

"No, my subordinates will send someone to give the order immediately."

Arching his hand, Sima Wei planned to immediately turn the horse's head to give the order, but was stopped by Zhang Yi.

"Decao, don't be in a hurry," after stopping Sima Wei, Zhang Yi pointed to the front and said: "Not far ahead is the foundry, after coming with me to see the newly created weapons of the foundry, it's not too late for you to give orders." ”

The foundry was prepared by An Changshi before Zhang Yi sent troops to Yong'an and Puzi, and at present, it not only gathers the best blacksmiths in Hedong, but also blacksmiths who are proficient in forging selected from the homeless people.

Bingzhou is actually the later mountain XI, and mountain XI has many mineral deposits, especially iron ore and coal mines, whether it is ancient or later generations, mountain XI is the main coal and iron production area, especially in the Qin and Han dynasties and later Sui and Tang dynasties, the iron ore of mountain XI occupies as much as 8 percent of the country, as the so-called mountain eats the mountain, the iron ore is more, and the mountain XI will naturally produce a lot of blacksmiths, and now those blacksmiths who can't stay in the state, many of them have flowed to Hedong County, and Sima Wei and Chen Gong took over the county orders of Yongan and Puzi, He even went to Bingzhou to recruit a few famous blacksmiths, and now those blacksmiths are all in Zhang Yi's forge.

After talking about the follow-up of the clean-up operation, Zhang Yi thought about it, turned his head and said to An Changshi: "An Changshi, have you arranged the training of carrier pigeons and iron ore mining?" ”

Hearing that Zhang Yi had clicked on himself, An Changshi, who was leading the way in front, hurriedly turned around and reported to Zhang Yi what Zhang Yi asked.