The Guards should have reached one hundred and ninety, but they were one hundred and eighty. In addition to the sentry staff, there are a few who get up in the dark and twist their feet. After the assembly, all the people ran out of the barracks of the 'coal mining village' in two columns, and began the first day of training with resentment under the bright white belly of the fish.

There were people in the team who were shirtless, some were only wearing pants, and some were barefoot, and embarrassment abounded. Even though it has been repeatedly emphasized, there are still people who don't take training seriously and panic when it comes to it. Zhou Qingfeng was even more annoyed with Tan Feng - wasting a month or two in vain and raising the soldiers lazy.

'Dog Meat' turned into a wolf and followed the group, and the four wolf cubs ran around on both sides of the queue with great energy. Whoever is lazy will immediately attract a wolf howl. If left uncorrected, the wolf cub will immediately come up and bite the unlucky man on the leg and stomach.

Qiao Xuenian ran in the middle of the communication class with a backpack. Many people stared at the suona he was carrying, all of them gritted their teeth and hated it. No one dared to complain about Zhou Qingfeng, who took the lead, so he could only vent his grievances on this innocent suona.

Qiao Xuenian himself was actually complaining, and he was already out of breath after running a kilometer. In fact, there are too many unqualified physique in the team, and many people are so tired that their feet are vain, dizzy and nauseous and almost unbearable.

"Walk slowly." Zhou Qingfeng quickly discovered this situation in the military array link, and he immediately jumped from the front of the queue to the side of the road, "Tall Niu, you come to lead the team, you don't have to go too fast." ”

The Guards are the foundation of the armed forces of the future traversers, and Xu Bing and Li Shuwei are very concerned. They arrived at the 'coal mining village' last night, and they planned to run three kilometers together in order to find out the situation on the spot the next morning. But as Zhou Qingfeng said 'stroll away', they also stood on the side of the road and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The soldiers' physique is too poor." Zhou Qingfeng said, "They can't hold on. ”

Alas..... Xu Bing and Li Shuwei both sighed.

The team's physique is indeed too poor, which is obvious to anyone with a discerning eye - the word 'chicken breast' is rarely mentioned in modern society, but before China's reopening, this sternal deformity caused by malnutrition was still common. And hundreds of years ago, in ancient times, it was literally everywhere.

Li Shuwei studied agriculture and also has some understanding of nutrition. He has been going everywhere in the past few days, and wrote a report to Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing about what he knew———— Zhou Qingfeng only knew that his subordinates were generally malnourished, and Li Shuwei listed the consequences and causes of malnutrition in detail.

Chicken breasts, tooth decay, night blindness, flat feet, rickets, etc., etc., etc., ......etc., Professional personnel is just different. After Li Shuwei arrived at the barracks, he only looked at it for an hour, and he found a lot of faults with the guards selected by Zhou Qingfeng. Before this, Zhou Qingfeng felt that his subordinates were full of crooked jujubes and cracked pears.

Zhou Qingfeng wanted to train the guards as a seed unit, and the first condition for soldiers was to be politically qualified, and he absolutely should not be an opportunist who was easily shaken by his thinking. This is also the reason why he drove away an old-style border army officer like Tan Feng, otherwise the better the training, the more troublesome it would be.

Many of the people in the team are from the bottom of the society like Qiao Xuenian, and after education, the 'revolutionary enthusiasm' is relatively high, not easy to waver, and they are also solid and hard-working. But their physical fitness is too poor, not only because they are not educated, but also because they are not in good health. Practice too hard, and they'll die to show you.

Xu Bing slowly approached Zhou Qingfeng and asked in a low voice, "Can your spiritual power be used to improve their physique?" For this batch of seed personnel, it is worth spending a little more money. ”

Zhou Qingfeng smiled bitterly: "I was beaten by Mang Gultai as a sandbag in the 'Ghost Mound', and a large number of wishers abandoned me, and now I can provide less than one-tenth of the original wishing power. I've tried my best to improve the physique of these people, but my spiritual power recovery rate can't keep up with the consumption rate. ”

Li Shuwei also asked: "Can you give them more nutrition?" ”

"The average soldier here has an egg or twenty grams of meat per person a day. The staple esophagus is full, but with some coarse grains. Zhou Qingfeng replied.

Li Shuwei immediately exclaimed: "This bit of nutrition is far from enough to consume." I know that it is not easy to choose qualified soldiers, but I need to raise them with more money. ”

Zhou Qingfeng smiled bitterly: "It's not that I'm reluctant to make money, but almost all the meat and eggs in the market are sold short by us." Since I created my forces, the price of grain in Fushun has increased by three to five percent, and the price of meat and eggs has doubled. The Jurchens and Mongolian herdsmen in Mashi have learned well, and the price of cattle and sheep has also increased a lot. I'm waiting now for you to solve the food problem. ”

The food problem is really difficult to solve, even in a few hundred years from now, many people on the planet will still be hungry. Li Shuwei scratched his head, "Maybe we can develop the chicken industry, but the problem is that we don't have high-quality breeders with fast growth and high meat yield." This is also a difficult problem. Alas......, I'll figure it out. ”

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Zhou Qingfeng currently has to ensure that the food of a large number of craftsmen and students in his power is higher than that of ordinary people, so as to enhance cohesion, and food supply is even more difficult. Xu Bing could only be relieved: "Don't worry, things will always be resolved." I have people raising pigs in the model village, and I currently have more than 20 pigs in stock. When I get more fat, I'll have people pull them over and kill the meat and eat it. ”

How many days can a dozen pigs eat? Zhou Qingfeng and Li Shuwei both smiled bitterly, feeling that they couldn't wait.

After getting up and running for three kilometers, the cooking team immediately began to cook when the team returned to the camp. Li Shuwei reminded: "Xiao Zhou, don't let the cooking class do morning exercises, let them get up and cook." It is enough to ensure daily training. ”

It is also thanks to Zhou Qingfeng that he accommodated a lot of cooks when he recruited craftsmen, otherwise the cooking class would not be able to get together enough manpower. Since he had already built a water-powered mill, cheap flour began to be supplied, and steamed steamed buns were eaten in the morning. As a result, I waited for half a day for the steamed buns, and it was almost nine o'clock when the steamed buns were eaten. Zhou Qingfeng took this as a lesson and wrote it down in his notebook.

Breakfast was postponed, and the Guards were already hungry. However, when the fragrant steamed buns were served, everyone's resentment accumulated in the morning immediately disappeared, and all the appetites were stuffed into their stomachs.

In the morning, queue and housekeeping training are carried out to strengthen discipline. In the afternoon, there is a cultural class, and everyone must attend a beginner literacy class to improve language and cognitive skills. Xu Bing had to use the particularity of his 'voice' spiritual power to give a big lesson to the guards, and finally he was so tired that his spiritual power was exhausted and he almost fainted. Fortunately, there is now one more Li Shuwei, so I can help share some other work.

Waiting for it to get dark again, not to mention the trainees of the guards, even Zhou Qingfeng and the three of them were exhausted. The originally scheduled night classes and training sessions were naturally cancelled, so everyone had a good rest. The three of them had a meeting, and Xu Bing and Li Shuwei both raised a problem that had to be solved: the soldiers and officers of the Guards must be well fed, otherwise the training would not be sustainable.

"Old Man Sun has tried his best to buy all the food he can buy. You must know that because of the recent rise in food prices in Fushun, the people have already complained. Zhou Qingfeng spread his hands and said that he had done his best.

Xu Bing twisted his eyebrows and asked: "It is said that grain is in the hands of big landlords, who is the biggest landlord in Fushun?" ”

"Li Yongfang." Zhou Qingfeng didn't have to think much about it to reveal the name of this rival.

"Kill him."

"What?"

"Didn't you install Tan Feng to Li Yongfang's side?"

"My placement of Tan Feng is just the next idle move, hoping that there will be a channel to get information. And killing Li Yongfang doesn't mean we can get his property. ”

"What about replacing him? It's as if you returned to Fushun and replaced Han Gui, the head catcher, and mastered his family property as the first pot of gold. ”

"Li Yongfang is not more expensive than Han, this is too difficult."

"Guo Budo can you help?"

"Hiss......, looking for Guo Budo?"

Sometimes women are bolder than men, and what Zhou Qingfeng didn't dare to think about was revealed by Xu Bing's questioning. He frowned and was considering the feasibility, when suddenly a sentry reported that Wang Kunpeng, the section chief of the city's supervision department, had asked to see him.

Wang Kunpeng was wearing a hood when he walked into the house, and when he took off the hat, he looked around at the people in the room. This timid and cowardly scholar in the past has become the intelligence leader under Zhou Qingfeng. At that time, he wrote a lot of idle books, which were compiled by Zhou Qingfeng into "Research and Analysis of the Surrounding Situation in Fushun", which is a bit of a specialty in spying and summarizing information.

After getting Zhou Qingfeng's approval, Wang Kunpeng spoke: "Boss, the two things you asked me to pay attention to have eyebrows. ”

Xu Bing and Li Shuwei were puzzled and looked at Zhou Qingfeng. Zhou Qingfeng asked Wang Kunpeng to say directly.

"First, Tan Feng stayed in Fushun City for a day after being driven away by the owner. The subordinates saw him go to the tavern to get drunk, and he looked confused. However, just after confirming the news, he asked to see Li Yongfang through Wang Kai, and he happened to live in Lord Li's mansion tonight. ”

This was expected, and Zhou Qingfeng was not surprised. However, Wang Kunpeng's next news was moving, he said: "The owner asked me to pay more attention to Hetuala, but we Han people are difficult to move over there, and recently I bought a few Mongolian merchants to go there." The proprietor told me to pay attention to the 'repair of the stables', which has already happened. ”

Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing were suddenly shocked, as if they had heard something terrible that they knew would happen but didn't want it to happen. Li Shuwei has only been here for a long time, and although he doesn't know why, he is also nervous. Wang Kunpeng said in detail: "After the owner returned from the 'Oni Mound', it is said that Nurhachi was furious several times and summoned his subordinate minister Baylor to discuss for several days.

What was discussed, no one knows. Hetuara is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and it is already difficult to get any news. The Mongol merchant I had bribed reported that Nurhachi had ordered the repair of stables for Zhubel and had sent hundreds of men to cut wood. ”

If it weren't for Zhou Qingfeng's deliberate request to pay attention to any 'stable', Wang Kunpeng would not have cared about such a thing. can look at Zhou Qingfeng's expression, but he also knows that this matter is only afraid that it is very important. However, the news about this matter was only a few simple sentences, and Wang Kunpeng was waved back by Zhou Qingfeng after he finished speaking.

As soon as Wang Kunpeng left, Li Shuwei, who was confused, asked, "What's wrong with this stable?" ”

After glancing at Zhou Qingfeng, Xu Bing said in a low voice: "We have some history books in our hands, including the part about Nurhachi launching the Battle of Fushun and starting to swallow the Ming Dynasty. In the preparation for this war, there was a detail that Nurhachi ordered the repair of siege equipment, and in order to disguise the purpose of his actions, he used the excuse of repairing the stables for Zhubel. ”

Li Shuwei was immediately taken aback, and said in shock: "This means that Nurhachi is going to fight?" But we're not ready for anything. The Guards are so bad, and it is ridiculous to pull them out. ”

Xu Bing continued: "According to historical records, Nurhachi began to mobilize in January 1618 and launched an attack in April. Although it is only 1616 now, it is obvious that history has been changed, and the wild boar skin is only afraid that it will be angered by Zhou Qingfeng. However, the preparation process for combat in ancient times was very long, and we still have at least two months to prepare. ”

As soon as I heard that there were still two months to go, Li Shuwei's pounding heart was re-settled. He smiled bitterly and said: "My psychological quality is really poor, I originally thought that I would be able to be a general by the end of the Ming Dynasty, but now I panic just when I hear that the enemy is coming." ”

Xu Bing was relieved: "We are people living in an era of peace, and war only happens in the news. It will definitely take a process to face the war head-on now, you don't have to feel sad and blame yourself, you will naturally adapt to it after a long time. ”

Li Shuwei smiled bitterly, but he didn't know the bottom of the war in his heart. He asked Zhou Qingfeng, "Is Nurhachi powerful?" ”

Zhou Qingfeng nodded, "Nurhachi is still powerful." People have struggled for more than 30 years, and it is not in vain. With our current strength, it's hard to do much damage to it. If the front is tough, we are meat buns and dogs. ”

"So what do we do now?" Li Shuwei was a little panicked again, "You planned to go to Lushun before, so let's leave quickly." When we are well developed, we will come back to find a field. Now if you really want to fight, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave. ”

Zhou Qingfeng said with a tense face: "Don't panic." You can't deal with wild boar skin, you can always deal with others, and you have to make a fortune before leaving. Xu Bing's suggestion just now reminded me that I didn't want to kill Li Yongfang before, but now I can't keep him cheap Nurhachi. ”