Historically, Zhou Yuji began to emerge in the Ming Dynasty in the ninth year of Chongzhen, because of the meritorious service made by the Qing soldiers when they attacked Beijing.

Now he is only a guerrilla in the Beijing camp.

When he learned that Zhang Gui, the governor of the left capital of the Admiral Jingying Rongzheng, wanted to see him, he was also very surprised, and after coming to Zhang Gui, he hurriedly made a big salute: "I have seen Uncle Guo!" ”

"Lead your officers and soldiers to the school ground, and the governor will review them!"

Zhang Gui nodded and ordered.

"Yes!"

Not long after, Zhou Yuji came to the school with the officers and soldiers under his command, and said to Zhang Guiyu: "Commander, the officers and soldiers under the command of the last general have gathered here, please proofread!" ”

Zhang Gui looked at it and found that there were very few officers and soldiers under Zhou Yuji's command, but there were only about 500 soldiers, and he couldn't help but sigh that the phenomenon of empty salaries in this Beijing camp was really serious, and there were only about 500 soldiers led by a guerrilla station.

"Drill up!"

Zhang Gui then commanded.

"Yes!"

Zhou Yuji took his soldiers to practice.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

……

As the drill ended, Zhang Gui couldn't help nodding his head frequently: "All of them are strong pawns!" How many such strongmen are there in Jingying? ”

Zhou Yuji replied: "Back to the commander, I don't know how many camps there are in Beijing, but there are so many under the command of the last general, and the remaining more than 1,000 people are old, weak, sick and disabled." ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui nodded and said: "You Zhou Yuji is a military training talent, and my West Factory needs a talent like you!" ”

"In the future, you will concurrently serve as the criminal officer of my West Factory, and at the same time rectify the Beijing camp for the governor, take the official letter of the governor, and go to the entire Beijing camp to select the brave people who can be used to form a battalion, which is called the forward battalion, after being elected, the governor will ask His Majesty to grant you the general of the forward battalion!"

"You can't be lazy, this forward battalion will be the main force to defend Gyeonggi next, and the safety of the Beijing division must be borne by the forward battalion, understand?!"

Zhang Gui said and then instructed.

"The last will understand! Xie Dushuai helps! ”

Zhou Yuji was busy and gave another big gift.

He is not good at drilling, and in the original history, he had to survive until the ninth year of Chongzhen to get a promotion opportunity by strength, and now Zhang Gui suddenly promoted him, which naturally made him grateful.

"And the five hundred soldiers you have trained now are all talents, and I also need such talents in the West Factory, and when the Governor obtains the will, I will also serve as the official school of the West Factory, and the salary will be doubled, and I will be like you in the future, and listen to the orders of the Governor!"

Zhang Gui continued to command.

Zhou Yuji took his official school to thank him again.

Next, Zhang Gui asked Zhou Yuji to take his official letter to select the strength of other battalions in the Beijing camp and form the forward battalion.

And Zhang Gui came to Xishan with the five hundred soldiers that Zhou Yuji had trained.

As soon as he arrived in Xishan, Zhang Gui asked the five hundred soldiers: "Which of you has the highest official position?" ”

At this time, a strong man with a big shoulder and a round waist stood up in armor and said loudly: "The chief Sun Yingyuan has seen the commander!" ”

Zhang Gui nodded after hearing this: "From now on, you will concurrently serve as the official of the Xichang Punishment Hundred Households, and lead them to set up defenses and build a city in Xishan, once there is an offense, whether it is an official or a citizen, whether it is a person who is respected or humble, and anyone who trespasses in Xishan without notification will be killed!" ”

"Yes! Xie Dushuai helps! ”

Sun Yingyuan agreed.

Zhang Gui then came to see Man Gui and asked, "How is the training of the family in this mansion?" ”

Man Gui replied: "The queue training and long-distance running training required by Uncle Guo are already in progress, and the phalanx training will be carried out next. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui nodded: "Let them show me the drill tomorrow." ”

"Yes!"

Early the next morning, Zhang Gui came to the training ground in Xishan and watched the 800 families he had recruited were conducting a queue drill under the command of Man Gui and his subordinates.

After the queue drill, Zhang Gui's family members ran around the entire West Mountain under the personal leadership of Man Gui.

After finishing the run, Man Gui came to Zhang Gui: "What does Uncle Guo think?" ”

"It's not enough."

Zhang Gui said suddenly.

Man Gui was a little surprised: "What does Uncle Guo mean?" ”

Zhang Gui instructed: "I mean, their long-distance running training is not enough!" After all, there can't be too many families in the house, since there can't be too many, then it must be a surprise soldier in a hundred, and the best infantry must have the ability to travel a hundred miles a day and be good at fighting the enemy in sports. ”

"Uncle Guo, is this too demanding for the family members?"

Man Gui asked in surprise.

Interspersed with hundreds of miles of infantry in a day, even the battle-hardened Man Gui had to admit that this requirement was too high.

"If you don't meet this requirement, don't be my family member of the Comber Mansion! Tie them up with punching bags and continue their long-distance running training! Supplying them with so much meat every day cannot be provided in vain. ”

Zhang Gui commanded.

In Zhang Gui's view, he will need a lot of horses in the West Factory in the future, and this means that his current family training must be strict, so as to ensure that these family members will be released from the house in the future and arranged to become the backbone of the West Factory immediately.

Therefore, Zhang Gui is not so much training his family, but rather cultivating backbones for the future expansion of the scale of the West Factory.

"Yes!"

Man Gui had no choice but to agree.

After all, this is not training for himself, nor is it for him to pay for money, and there is no need for him to stop it.

"Are my family members in class at night?"

Zhang Gui then asked Song Yingxing.

He did not let Song Yingxing only be responsible for mining, steelmaking and other industrial matters, but also asked Song Yingxing, a person, to give night classes to his family and spread knowledge, mainly to let his family have the national spirit and the idea of being loyal to the head of the family, and to prepare for the future to follow Zhang Gui to reverse the world and die at the hands of foreign races.

After all, Zhang Gui is essentially cultivating his own family as the backbone of controlling the world for himself in the future, so it is naturally impossible not to educate.

Song Yingxing nodded and said, "The disciples have been giving them all the time, and they are now basically literate." ”

"Good!"

……

"Strap on punching bags! Run with me! ”

One day not long after Zhang Gui's instructions, Man Gui asked Zhang Gui's 800 families to tie sandbags and run.

"Ahh How can you run with such a heavy sandbag! ”

Jia Ding couldn't help but complain.

Seeing this, Man Gui immediately shouted an order to the head of the headquarters under his command who carried out military law: "Immediately press him under the bottom and beat him with twenty military sticks!" If there is a repeat offense, be expelled from the queue! ”

Saying that, Man Gui looked at the other family members and said: "When you are a housekeeper, you must obey all the orders of the family master, and you can't have any complaints, how many times has Lao Tzu said it, don't you understand?!" In addition, don't fucking complain to Lao Tzu here, your uncle can watch it from the mountain, and if you can't stand it, you can ask to quit and give up your qualification to become a family member of the Earl's Court! ”

These family members were hungry refugees not long ago, where are they willing to give up their identity as Taikang Bofu family members.

You must know that in Xishan, the families of the Taikang Bofu family are all first-class glorious households, and the subsidies are the highest, and they are treated differently by Uncle Guo.

Therefore, no one is willing to easily give up the qualification to be a member of the Taikang Mansion.

The family members honestly tied heavy sandbags to their legs and continued to run.

At first, the family members were naturally very tired from running, and their chests were burning like fire.

But as they trained like this every day, they began to get used to the intensity of this training.

While training his own family, Zhang Gui is also thinking about what equipment is better for his family.

As for equipment, whether it is firearms, armor, knives and guns, they are inseparable from high-quality steel.

And good steel has always been said to be made into steel.

In other words, the manufacturing process of good steel takes a long time and takes a lot of refining to complete.

But fortunately, now Zhang Gui has asked Song Yingxing to organize people in the steel mill to make crucible steel and wicker frying.

Through crucible steelmaking, coal can finally become a fuel for steelmaking, because the crucible in the crucible steelmaking method effectively isolates the contact between coal and molten iron, and then avoids the impurities in the coal from entering the molten iron to affect the steelmaking effect, which also improves the steelmaking efficiency.

The key is that when the crucible is made into steel, graphite will also be applied to the crucible, so that the molten iron can absorb the elemental carbon in the graphite, and then the high-carbon steel can be smelted.

High-carbon steel can be used as tool steel to process all kinds of steel.

This is a steel smelting method that only appeared in the eighteenth century, but because it is not difficult to operate, it is only a breakthrough in scientific theory, that is, it is enough to know that graphite is elemental carbon, so it was directly used by Zhang Gui as a new steelmaking process in Xishan Steelmaking.

As for wicker frying steel, it is to control the carbon content of steel by mixing molten steel through willow wood, and then to achieve various steels.

This is the iron-smelting method written by Song Yingxing in the Chongzhen period in "Tiangong Kaiwu" in history, and it has not yet appeared.

However, it has only been more than ten years since its appearance, and it is not technically difficult to achieve.

Zhang Gui also let Song Yingxing know this method in advance, and it was also used as a new steelmaking process for Xishan Steelmaking Workshop.

In this way, to sum up, it is no longer a problem for Zhang Gui to obtain a large amount of good steel in a short period of time.

"The steel with the effect of 100 steel-making is now in our Xishan, and it can indeed be produced in large quantities through crucible steelmaking and wicker frying, and it can also be directly filed, whether it is to make gun barrels or armor is very fast, not to mention, the weaving workshop in Xishan is also faster than other workshops in weaving, so the family members of Uncle Guo can achieve all the cloth and face armor in a short period of time, and use the best bird guns."

Song Yingxing also reported when Zhang Gui asked about Xishan's ability to make guns and armor.