"According to Li Zicheng's current strength, it will take at least one or two years for him to fight in the capital, so we still have a year or two to prepare, as for recruiting soldiers, I have my own plans, and you will know when the time comes."

Speaking of this, Zhou Xian changed his words and said: "Okay, don't think about Li Zicheng now, we now have more than 20,000 soldiers, I'll give you a promotion, I'll go to the barracks with you, you gather all the soldiers, I want to see these recruits." ”

Hearing Zhou Xian say that he was going to give them a promotion, the three of them were overjoyed.

Zhou Xian hadn't come to the barracks for a long time, and the barracks were still the same as before, but the number of people was doubled, and there were soldiers training everywhere.

Zhou Xian and Daniel Zhang walked to the high platform in the square and looked at the 20,000 soldiers densely packed below.

Zhou Xian was a little emotional, he couldn't imagine that he had so many soldiers in just over half a year after coming to this world.

Zhou Xian sighed for a while, then picked up the loudspeaker and said to the soldiers below: "Soldiers, you have worked hard! ”

"Don't work hard, serve the people." The soldiers shouted in unison.

"We have just joined a lot of recruits, and these recruits have just joined the army, and it must be very hard to get training, I know that, but you have to know what we are training so hard for."

After letting the soldiers think for a while, Zhou Xian continued: "This is to protect our homeland from being destroyed by the Manchu Tartars and Li Zicheng's peasant army, and to drive away the enemy who invaded our homeland, and it is our mission to destroy the invading enemy. ”

The soldiers were excited when they heard Zhou Xian's words, they finally knew what their mission was, and the soldiers applauded.

After the applause stopped, Zhou Xian continued: "Today I came to the barracks to promote those who have performed well, first of all, I announce that Daniel Zhang has been promoted to army commander, Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu have been promoted to division commanders, Liu Hu, Zhang Shan, Li Huaping, Bao Changwu, Ou Jiahua, Zhang Guodong, Zhang Qingyun, and Wu Haibin have been promoted to brigade commanders. ”

After Zhou Xian finished announcing, there was warm applause below.

In the next half hour, after Zhou Xian said some words of encouragement to the soldiers, he let everyone disband.

After stepping off the high platform, Zhou Xian said to Daniel Zhang: "You and Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu will go to the Great Hall in an hour, I have something important to announce." ”

After Zhou Xian returned to the mansion, he asked Xiaoqing to find Zhou Fugui.

"Uncle Zhou, you go and gather all the managers of our Monkey Mountain Village to the Great Hall, I have something important to announce." As soon as Zhou Fugui arrived in the main hall, Zhou Xian said to him.

Zhou Fugui agreed, and went directly to the convener without asking Zhou Xian anything important.

An hour later, all managers had arrived in the General Assembly Hall.

Everyone was discussing the reason why Zhou Xian summoned everyone here.

At this time, Zhou Xian walked in from outside, and everyone in the Great Hall fell silent.

Zhou Xian walked to the main podium in front of him and said to everyone: "I came to you today to change the name of Monkey Mountain Village. ”

At this time, Zhang Changfeng, the original patriarch of Monkey Mountain Village, said: "My lord, why do you want to change the name of Monkey Mountain Village? ”

Since Zhang Changfeng agreed with Zhou Xian to carry out construction in Monkey Mountain Village, Zhou Xian asked him to do the work of a city management committee, and all the sanitation and personnel living affairs in Monkey Mountain Village were under his management.

Hearing Zhang Changfeng's question, Zhou Xian explained: "This is because our Monkey Mountain Village will become more and more prosperous and well-known in the future, and we also use the name of Monkey Mountain Village, which will make others feel that our Monkey Mountain Village is very small and poor, so I decided to change the name of Monkey Mountain Village after thinking about it." ”

When everyone heard Zhou Xian's words, they all felt reasonable.

Monkey Mountain Village has only been established for half a year and has its current scale, and I dare not imagine what Monkey Mountain Village will become in the future.

Some people even think that Monkey Mountain Village can become as prosperous as the capital.

Zhang Changfeng heard Zhou Xian's explanation, thought for a while, and felt that what Zhou Xian said was reasonable.

Then he said, "My lord, what I said makes sense, I don't know what name my lord changed to." ”

Zhou Xian said: "I came up with a name, it's called Xingjing, let's see if it's okay." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard the name Xingjing, and then they applauded, and Zhang Changfeng also said: "The name Xingjing is good, atmospheric!" ”

"We decided by voting, everyone has one vote, and if you think it's called Xingjing, please raise your hand." Zhou Xian looked at the people below and said.

After a while, the dozens of people below all raised their hands and all approved it.

"Okay, since everyone agrees, then our Monkey Mountain Village will be officially renamed Xingjing in the future!"

The large stone next to the main road, which reads "Monkey Mountain Village", is being carved by several stonemasons with pliers.

Soon the three words of Monkey Mountain Village disappeared, and were replaced by two gilded characters of "Xingjing".

Soon, the news of Monkey Mountain Village's change of name to Xingjing spread throughout Monkey Mountain Village.

The people were very happy when they heard that the name was changed to Xingjing, as if it was the New Year.

People walked into the restaurant one after another to drink with relatives and friends.

Xingjing was lively early in the morning, and today was the day of the autumn grain harvest.

The production team gathered on the street early in the morning, Zhang Qing stood in front of them, and everyone seemed to be waiting for something.

There were still many people watching the excitement on the side of the street, and at this moment, the sound of neat footsteps could be heard in the distance.

Everyone looked over there, and saw a group of large soldiers walking towards this side with neat steps.

When they got closer, they saw that it was a group of soldiers wearing dark green military uniforms with a white seven-pointed star badge on their chests.

The group of soldiers did not squint and walked directly out of the city, and everyone immediately talked about it when they saw such a neat arrangement of soldiers.

Li Qing asked Wang Da next to him: "Who are these people, how do you feel that there is a murderous aura in them." ”

Wang Da replied: "This is our Zhou Jiajun in Xingjing, it is really better to hear than to see, and it is really imposing." ”

"Is it the Zhou family army that exterminated the bandits in Longhuzhai last time in Luomapo?" Li Qing said excitedly.

"Yes, with the Zhou family's army, we will no longer be afraid of those bandits, so we will be at ease." Wang Da also said excitedly.

Under the gaze of everyone, 20,000 soldiers came to the crop field majestically.

After tens of thousands of people have cultivated and cultivated, Xingjing already has 100,000 acres of fertile land.

After two days of harvesting through the joint efforts of soldiers and production teams, a total of 300,000 quintals of grain were harvested.

Hearing Zhang Qing's report, Zhou Xian also breathed a sigh of relief.

With these 300,000 loads of grain, he can continue to recruit troops and buy horses, and he can also take in some displaced people, which lays the foundation for what he will do next.

"You still have to arrange people to continue to open up the wasteland, we need more fertile land, don't worry about the water problem, I have arranged for the people in the steam engine workshop to make you two steam engines for pumping water for irrigation." Zhou Xian looked at Zhang Qing and said.

When Zhang Qing heard that he would install two steam engines for his production team, his face immediately flushed with joy, and he thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, my lord, with two steam engines, we don't have to worry about the problem of water." ”