The barracks of the "Wu'an Battalion" are centered on an almost oval-shaped school field, with a storehouse in the north, a soldier's dormitory in the east, a musket training ground in the west, a canteen in the south, a gate in the north and south, all with watchtowers and arrow towers, two horses on the outside, an iron door in the middle, and a horse on the inside.

Outside the barracks is the field of the families of the soldiers, the land has just been leveled, and the water conservancy has not had time to be repaired, as for the farm tools, seeds and cattle needed for farming, Zhou Shixian is still pulling with the household department, he hopes to ask for silver directly, and then send someone to purchase it himself.

After all, Daming's household department is really unreliable, and the quality of the things given is too poor, and he may have to buy it himself in the end, but the officials of the household department are still counting on this process of buying and selling, and they are still shirking.

Since Zhou Shixian was banned by Emperor Chongzhen, the momentum of those officials has risen again.

Zhou Shixian was even worried that Chongzhen would directly give up the reform of the court in order to balance him in the end.

But he no longer has time to deal with the other party, there is still half a year, the Shunqing War will end, and in less than a year, the Qing army will go south.

And these Jiangnan doctors, one by one, are still drunk and dreaming of death.

And Emperor Chongzhen seems to like to watch Zhou Shixian eat deflated, so that he can better control the other party, so in these matters, he did not put pressure on the household department with him.

Although Ni Yuanlu is in the household department, he can't manage everything, and the people below are not all his descendants, and it will take a while for Ni Yuanlu to fully master the household department.

In desperation, Zhou Shixian had no choice but to agree to the officials of the household department and directly accept their seeds, farm tools and ploughing cattle. Since the good things are not coming, then take this opportunity to get a group of people down, and Zhou Shixian never suffers.

Anyway, these wastelands don't expect to grow anything in the first year, so they just treat it as fertile land.

The soldiers with families were all allocated land, and correspondingly, Zhou Shixian also promised that if he married a wife and had children in the future, he would also have a share of the land, which was a very important material incentive.

For the people, land is the most precious asset of this era.

The army cannot rely on faith alone, and if it does not solve the problem of their death in battle or discharge, it will also affect its combat effectiveness.

As for where the land will come from, the upcoming chaos in the north will cause more abandoned land in the already barren northern provinces, and Zhou Shixian will naturally not give up these lands to others.

However, in the season before farming, or when the farming is not working, while the school has not yet been built, Zhou Shixian arranged those women and children in the workshop attached to the military camp to help make military uniforms and bedding and help craftsmen.

Of course, Zhou Shixian still has a conscience, he didn't want children under the age of five, those just play at home, and the rest can't be raised in vain.

He is now short of money, and after the military camp is built, it is not easy to invite too many outsiders, and he can't tolerate the kindness of those women. What's more, as long as he comes to work, he is in charge of the food, and he rushes to these three meals, and there is still no one to complain if there is no monthly salary.

In fact, for those parents in this era, they never thought that their children could still ask for money to work, and they didn't think that their children couldn't work, but that those who could work were good children.

As a result, the barracks still took care of the meal, which surprised them a little, and in this way, they saved several more meals.

It can only be said that in some aspects, Zhou Shixian, a person from later generations, actually thinks too much, people cannibalism is the norm in this era, the so-called old and young, male and female, life is not worth anything at all, and giving food is to save people from fire and water.

Zhou Shixian was supposed to recruit some displaced people, establish a fort on the periphery of the barracks, and train peasants as a reserve army, but the embarrassing financial situation of the Nanjing court and the strong gentry power of Nanzhili made him lack the corresponding money and land, and this combination of agriculture and warfare, the reserve system of self-sufficiency in food could only be postponed temporarily.

On the school field of the barracks, Zhuang Lidong was running towards the outside of the barracks with the team.

Chen Yu quietly glanced at Zhang Dong, and after seeing that he finally distinguished his left and right feet, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, and now he didn't have to be beaten with a military stick. But he didn't dare to look at it more, if Wang Di, who was killed by God, saw it, he would be beaten as soon as possible.

The team slowly increased its speed, and they were not the only ones in the phalanx, and a square array of more than 20 flag teams formed a wide long line on the circular runway.

It's just that as soon as the team ran up, the flag bearer in front of him suddenly played the flag of stopping, and the flag captain of each flag team immediately shouted that the soldiers under his command slowed down and stopped, although everyone was puzzled, but no one made a noise, and the first reaction of these recruits when they heard the order was to carry it out, not to question, which was practiced by dozens of military sticks and thousands of push-ups.

Soon, Zhuang Lidong, who stopped, saw Zhou Shixian wearing gilded armor, surrounded by a group of elite cavalry, riding a tall horse from the outside of the runway to the barracks of the battalion office.

It's just that when Zhou Shixian rode by and the phalanx was restarted again, these people who had been trained for more than a month finally had some appearance, but they were far from being well-trained recruits, and there was chaos.

Before Chen Yu started again, he glanced at Zhang Dong again. Sure enough, this stupid big man couldn't tell the difference between left and right, even the yellow hair in front of him, and he also stretched the wrong foot at the beginning, but now it has been replaced.

Chen Yu sighed secretly in his heart, praying in his heart that Wang Di would not see it, but what kind of person is Wang Di, no one fights for a day, he is uncomfortable, he always feels that he eats white food, and he does not work after receiving the monthly salary of the horse master, he is not happy to go!

Wang Di, who had been patrolling the phalanx, soon noticed Zhang Dong, in the entire phalanx, this kid was beaten by him the most, and he was usually stupid, not clever at all, and he always made mistakes when training.

This is what the horse master said, and he is absolutely right.

So, Wang Di's eyes lit up, and he ran over with a military stick with an excited face, and a stick was on Zhang Dong's back.

He is very experienced in beating people now, and the military law has said that it hurts, but he can't be injured, and if he injures a military soldier, he will also be punished, and he will have to pay for medical expenses, but if he doesn't hurt, these recruits can't remember, and when the time comes, the military judge and the flag captain will have to be punished.

"Uh-huh~~~"

Zhang Dong was beaten, but he endured it and didn't call it out, because calling it out was to disturb the morale of the army, not only to be beaten, but also to be fined, one penny at a time, he had already been fined twice, plus the other seven, seven, eighty, eight, eight, and eight, now there is one or two dollars left a month.

But the stick on his back still didn't stop, Zhang Dong couldn't figure out the left and right, and now he was in pain, and he couldn't remember the mantra at this time, and soon left the team because of the chaos of his steps, and by the way, he also turned out the two people behind him, one of them was Chen Yu, and the other was the yellow hair that had finally adjusted his pace, and now he was messed up.

It's okay now, Wang Di is not fun to beat one, and two more came at once, and after the two broke away from the team, they didn't dare to run around, so they had to stop in place and wait for the military stick.

This is also military law, and those who do not listen to the orders of military law and soldiers will be punished more severely.

At this time, on the circular track of the oval school field, more than a dozen people have been arrested, and they are basically being beaten.

If he was kicked out of the barracks, it would be difficult for him to find a way to feed his family of four, and now he could live like this with enough food is something he never dared to think of before. He could only glare at the culprit Zhang Dong a few times viciously.

And Chen Yu is used to cheating, and he still wants to fish in troubled waters at this time.

"Ah, stop fighting, stop fighting." The last time Chen Yu was beaten with a military stick was the last time, and there was an interval of more than ten days, and Wang Di's stick came down, and he couldn't help but shout out in pain.

It's okay now, shouting indiscriminately is more serious than chaotic pace, Wang Di has been fighting for so long, at this time it is already a little unserious, hearing someone shouting out, a stick down, it hurts Chen Yu grinning, a conditioned reflex, and made a move to block.

Then, to everyone's surprise, the two actually scuffled, Zhang Dong saw that his good brother was beaten, and he didn't care about military discipline, so he hurriedly went over to fight.

And Huang Fa watched there, wanting to go up and pull the rack, but he was afraid that he would violate military discipline and continue to deduct money, he hesitated for a while, never made a decision, and just stood there.

The soldier actually fought with the military lawyer, and this is still the case?

Several military judges around him also immediately ran over, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, and directly hit Chen Yu and Zhang Dong, but they were measured in their hands, and they didn't hurt them.

Soon, the two were subdued, and poor Zhang Dong only came up to fight, but was regarded as an accomplice.

"What's going on? What's the fuss? Zhang Hong's roar resounded throughout the school field, and the officers and soldiers at all levels of the other two thousand generals who were training in the school field also immediately stopped and gathered to wait for orders.

Even the battalion officers were already alarmed, and the more than 1,000 recruits present were sweating for the two guys they didn't know. Even if you don't die, I'm afraid you'll have to roll up and leave.

However, there is also schadenfreude watching the excitement, but everyone stands in their own team, not daring to relax in any way, they have been beaten with a military stick and deducted their monthly salary because of this when they just started a month ago.

Chen Yu and Zhang Dong are now being escorted by military lawyers, and when they heard Zhang Hong's voice, they were already frightened and did not hold out hope.