"We captured more than 20,000 Qing horses, 1.3 million taels of silver, 12,000 taels of gold, and 10,000 quintals of grain and grass." Daniel Zhang reported.

"The harvest is not bad, this time our biggest harvest is still these 200,000 people, and the 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Qing army were exterminated and forced out of the pass, they will not dare to attack again for a while, giving us time to develop and grow." Zhou Xian nodded with satisfaction.

Next, Zhou Xian praised everyone again and asked everyone to go back to rest, and tomorrow there will be a funeral for the soldiers who died in battle, so that everyone can go back and prepare.

The next day, the sky was drizzling, and on a small hillside east of Xingjing, there were people standing.

This is the martyr's cemetery built by Zhou Xian when Daniel Zhang and others supported the capital city of Shanxi Province.

Xingjing's managers and officers were all present and stood at the front, standing in the back were Zhou Jiajun, and the outermost were the people of Xingjing.

Zhou Xian stood on a high platform, looked at the crowd and said: "Today is the first time that our martyrs' cemetery in Xingjing has held a funeral, we have deep condolences for the soldiers who died on the battlefield, they died for our compatriots not to be killed by the Manchu Tartars, and died for our Xingjing to have a better future, they are the martyrs of our Xingjing, everyone mourned for three minutes for the martyrs who sacrificed for us." ”

After speaking, Zhou Xian lowered his head and stood still.

When the people below saw Zhou Xian's appearance, they also bowed their heads and stood still, and the martyr's cemetery fell into a kind of silence.

Standing quietly with their heads bowed, a sense of pain surged in everyone's hearts.

Three minutes later, Zhou Xian raised his head, "Shoot and bury!" ”

Under the sound of "bang-bang" gunshots, forty soldiers were buried one after another.

After the burial, Zhou Xian wrote the names of these forty soldiers on the huge tombstone behind him, and these names will be carved on the tombstone by stonemasons later, so that their names will be remembered forever by future generations.

After Zhou Xian finished writing, he turned around, "Every year on the Qingming Festival in the future, all our managers and officers will come to pay tribute to our martyrs, so that we will always remember why they died." ”

Everyone nodded yes!

After the funeral was completed, Zhou Xian led everyone out of the martyr's cemetery.

The reason why Zhou Xian wanted to hold such a grand funeral for these forty soldiers was because Zhou Xian wanted to strengthen the cohesion of everyone in Xingjing.

It is also to let more people become soldiers, so that soldiers can kill the enemy bravely on the battlefield without fear of death.

Let them know that even if they die, their relatives can get pensions and living guarantees, and when they die, they can enter the martyrs' cemetery so that future generations will always remember them.

After this funeral, the entrance to the barracks was surrounded by a large number of civilians.

They all shouted that they wanted to join the Zhou family's army, and after Zhou Xian knew about it, he directly said that he would recruit as many people as he could.

As a result, another 30,000 recruits were recruited, which was the result of Daniel Zhang raising their requirements and later stopping recruitment.

Zhou Xianyi was also very surprised when he heard the news, he didn't expect that so many people wanted to join the army, and he understood after thinking about it.

Now the people can't eat enough, they can eat and live when they join the Zhou family's army, they have three taels of silver a month, and they have pensions and subsidies after they die on the battlefield.

After Zhou Xian returned to the mansion, he asked Zhang Dabiao to find his disciples Xu Qiang and Xu Xiaosong.

Half an hour later, Xu Qiang and Xu Xiaosong came to Zhou Xian, and after the two of them gave Zhou Xian a salute, they sat down under Zhou Xian's instructions

"How are you two doing in the barracks? But you can get used to it. Zhou Xian looked at the two and asked.

"Back to Master, teaching the soldiers literacy every day in the barracks is also fulfilling, but I think it's too boring." Xu Qiang said first.

"It won't be boring in the future, let you come today, just to arrange work for you, I have two projects that you need to do now, one is to build roads, the other is to build a shipyard, you brothers and sisters choose one by one." Zhou Xian said with a straight face.

"Master, let the third junior brother choose first." Xu Qiang glanced at Xu Xiaosong and said.

"Thank you, Second Senior Brother, Master, I will choose to build a shipyard, but I don't know much about shipyards, so I ask Master for advice." Xu Xiaosong thanked Xu Qiang.

"It's a sure thing to guide you, you just need to do what I teach you, then Xu Qiang will go and build the road." Zhou Xian arranged.

Zhou Xian then said: "I plan for Xu Qiang to build an eight-meter-wide cement road to Jiaozhou Bay, and Xu Xiaosong to build a shipyard in Jiaozhou Bay. ”

After Xu Qiang and Xu Xiaosong heard Zhou Xian's words, they were immediately excited, the master finally arranged a job for him, and he was finally able to show his skills in front of the master.

Then Zhou Xian picked up a drawing from the table, opened the drawing and drew a road map, Zhou Xian introduced to Xu Qiang: "This is the road map I drew from Xingjing to Jiaozhou Bay, the whole journey is twenty-three kilometers, you first widen the road and then build the cement road, and arrange 20,000 people for you, must be completed by the end of the year Have you confidence." ”

"Back to Master, I am confident that it will be completed." Xu Qiang is colorful.

Zhou Xian nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, Master is optimistic about you, I'll teach you some knowledge about building cement roads." ”

In the next half hour, the knowledge of building a cement road was taught to Xu Qiang through a mysterious ball of light.

After Xu Qiang received the knowledge that Zhou Xian had imparted to him, he bowed to Zhou Xian, "Thank you Master for teaching him." ”

After Zhou Xian handed over the drawings to Xu Qiang, he said to Xu Xiaosong: "Xiaosong, you first lead two thousand workers to Jiaozhou Bay to buy a port and build a shipyard, this is the structural diagram of the shipyard, you come and take a look." ”

Xu Xiaosong stepped forward and looked at the structural diagram, but he couldn't understand the structural diagram drawn by Zhou Xian at all.

"Master, I can't understand this structure diagram at all." Xu Xiaosong said embarrassedly.

"I'll teach you and you'll understand." Zhou Xian said with a smile.

In the next hour, Zhou Xian taught Xu Xiaosong all the matters related to the construction of the shipyard through the mysterious ball of light.

After Xu Xiaosong received the shipbuilding knowledge taught to him by Zhou Xian, he was once again impressed by Zhou Xian's erudition, and he bowed to Zhou Xian, "Thank you Master for teaching him." ”

"No need to be polite, you can do things well in the future and complete the things I have explained." Zhou Xian waved his hand.

Xu Qiang and Xu Xiaosong bowed to Zhou Xian again, "The disciple obeys the master's orders." ”

After explaining the affairs of the two disciples, Zhou Xianliu and the two had lunch with him, and during the meal, Zhou Xian talked a lot with them about the future development of Xingjing, and the master-apprentice relationship between them deepened a lot.

After lunch, Zhou Xian found Zhou Fugui and asked him to recruit 20,000 workers for Xu Qiang to build roads, and for Xu Xiaosong to find 2,000 craftsmen to build a shipyard in Jiaozhou Bay.

As soon as Zhou Xian saw off Xu Qiang and the others, Xiaoqing came in and said, "My lord, the magistrate is here outside the house." ”

When Zhou Xian heard that Teng Haoran was coming, he immediately stood up and walked outside the house.