As soon as Chen Ping heard Li Zhaoji say this, he immediately rejoiced in his heart, and Chen Ping said: "If this is the case, my twelve brothers will be driven by the eagle dog of Li's shopkeeper." ”

Li Zhaoji nodded, helped these people up, and said to Chen Ping: "I have long heard from your brothers that Brother Chen is a hereditary military family and has been familiar with the art of war since childhood. I saw you practicing martial arts just now, and I felt even more extraordinary, thinking that you were a dragon and tiger in the army. ”

"The shopkeeper's reputation is excessive, and the carving insect skills are not enough to worry about." Chen Ping said humbly, but his face was full of pride. This martial art is what he is most proud of, and now that it has been recognized by the person in charge, he is even more satisfied.

Li Zhaoji was praised again and again, which made Chen Ping feel even more valued.

The reason why this is so is because Li Zhaoji found that he really dug up a treasure by finding Chen Pingren. Before going to Hong Kong Island to buy piglets, he selected the capable ones to be trained by Yang Yandi, because he felt that Yang Yandi had been spanning for many years, and he was a good hand at fighting and killing, but after going back and forth for seven or eight days, he found that the so-called training had few results.

Yang Yandi is a reckless man who dares to fight, and he is very unfamiliar with the skills of the battle formation, and he has not taught these brothers any skills at all, and he has not even done discipline and obedience to orders. After all, he led his subordinates before, relying on personality charm, not rules.

As a result, Yang Yandi groped for two days and came up with a training method - fighting.

It's just two by two, with a wooden stick, or hand-to-hand, in short, you have to divide the winner and loser.

When Li Zhaoji came back, what he saw was that his brothers were in tatters, all of them hung lottery, some had broken ribs, and some had hanging arms, which was really pitiful.

But to say, Yang Yandi's training is not completely fruitless, at least he completed the selection, those who really have no courage were directly eliminated, and it stimulated everyone's blood, this group of honest fishermen and farmers, fighting with their own people bare-chested every day, but if you endure it, you will suffer, how can you not do your best?

Yang Yandi is like this, Li Zhaoji knows that it is the same for Chen Liuzi and Liu Mingde, maybe they are not as good as Yang Yandi.

Li Zhaoji has a way to train these people, not to mention anything else, just relying on the means of military training in later generations, he can train their discipline and obedience, but he doesn't know anything about fighting skills and battle formation skills, although Li Zhaoji, who was born in the military, has also learned some fighting techniques such as military boxing, but in the end, the later generations are the era of firepower, and this era of cold weapons is completely different.

Chen Ping is completely different, these people are all military households, they have been familiar with things in the army since they were children, and they are the best candidates for training soldiers.

Wearing a few high hats to Chen Ping in a row, Li Zhaoji also made his original intention clear, and when he heard that Li Zhaoji wanted to train by himself, Chen Ping immediately took over the job and said: "Li Shopkeeper is really a famous general." ”

Li Zhaoji laughed: "You and I have only known each other for a few days, and we have little contact, where did I come from to be a famous general?" ”

Chen Ping said: "In the past few days, the shopkeeper has entertained us with very rich food, except for the pro-army of the general army, there is no second general in Guangdong who is as bold as you." A general who is not stingy in eating is a general who cherishes his soldiers. What's more, you also asked me to train soldiers, the so-called training is to improve combat effectiveness and reduce casualties. Let them learn the skill, so that they can be saved when they kill the four surnames in the future. You are so carefully arranged for their lives, what is this not a famous general? ”

"Yes, just now you said let us all watch you do it, and we will do whatever you do. We have never seen such a general who takes the lead in enduring hardships and sets an example for the whole army, and it is not something that ordinary people can do. There is also Chen Ping's brother Zhao Dahe echoed.

"Okay, about the training, Brother Chen will come to the stone building to discuss." Lee Siu Kee said.

Chen Ping nodded: "I'll arrange for the brothers, let them prepare a little, and go over immediately." ”

After Li Zhaoji left, Chen Ping's subordinates said: "Big brother, we really want to help this Oriental trading company train the army, this is a rebellion." ”

"What kind of rebellion, the left is just training guards." Another person said dissatisfied.

"Nonsense, he's going to be the enemy of the four surnames, not the army?"

The two were arguing, and seeing that they were about to do something, Chen Ping pushed the two away and said, "Listen to me." We are now under the fence, and we can no longer let our own temperament come. Brother Dahe said rebellion, but I don't think so. Brothers, our lives were saved by the shopkeeper Li, how can we not repay it, otherwise we are still men?

I have thought carefully about what you are worried about, although this Oriental trading company has gunboats, is equipped with muskets and iron cannons, and now trains soldiers, and the orders are unified and disciplined, it is not like a trading company, but it is not an enemy of the imperial court. ”

"How do you know?"

"You think, if they are enemies of the imperial court, what is the use of them calling a trading company. Appearing in the world under the name of a trading company is to deal with the imperial court. How to deal with rebellion? Therefore, let's help them train soldiers, and it will not spoil the peace of the court. And......... When Chen Ping said this, he bowed to everyone.

"Big brother, what are you doing?" At that moment, everyone stopped Chen Ping.

Chen Ping said: "Brothers, I just said in front of Shopkeeper Li, we are military households, we do not rebel, and we are not enemies of the imperial court, but will we really be like this?" Yes, killing the four surnames, our brothers are duty-bound, and they are even more happy. But should Lin Rong be killed? ”

"Damn it!"

"But he is the president of Qian, an official, in order not to rebel, don't we even take revenge on this sea of blood?" Chen Ping's eyes turned red at once, the reason was that there were more than twelve of their original brothers, and the rest had been killed or tortured to death by Lin Rong.

Everyone was silent, and Chen Ping said: "Brothers, this time I voted for this Li shopkeeper, and I have secretly sworn that I have the opportunity to not only kill the four surnames, but also kill Lin Rong." But I think that the shopkeeper Li may not be willing to kill Lin Rong, after all, he has no grudge against Lin Rong.

If I have the opportunity, I will beg him to give me such a chance to slash the enemy, if he does, I will kill Lin Rong, and I will not be able to go back to the guard, and I will follow this Li shopkeeper in the future, as long as I don't rebel, I will follow him. If he doesn't give it, sooner or later, I will kill Lin Rong to avenge my dead brother. No matter what, I can't go back, and in the future, the big guy will go back to the guard, please take care of my wife and children. ”

"Brother, don't say this, come to that point, our brothers will live and die together." Someone is taking a stand at the moment.

Some people also said: "I see that the shopkeeper Li is a righteous person, I heard that he is a hero in the world, in Nanyang, in order to save our compatriots in the Ming Dynasty, he can lead his brothers to attack foreign ships." Such a chivalrous person, if we serve him and bear kindness, how can he not help us avenge us? ”

"Okay, then let's not talk about it, let's get to that point and see." Chen Ping made a decision at the moment.

Confessing to his brother, Chen Ping jumped into the sea, cleaned his body, put on a new set of straw sandals, and went straight to the stone building. It is the only intact building on the island, and the main body is made of stone masonry, which is rare in oriental architecture. In fact, whether it is the choice of materials or the style, it is a Western-style design.

This was originally a church built here by Portuguese merchants, but later the Portuguese were expelled from this place by pirates, and the wooden buildings on the island were burned down that day.

As soon as Chen Ping entered the stone building, Li Zhaoji took the lead in greeting him, holding a set of clothes in his hand, and said, "Come on, Brother Chen Ping, try this dress." ”

As he spoke, Li Zhaoji put it on his body, and in front of everyone, Chen Ping was a little embarrassed. Li Zhaoji insisted on this, and said: "Don't dislike it, I bought it for myself when I was in Hong Kong and have been wearing it for a few days." You and I are about the same size, so I guess it's also appropriate to wear it. ”

"The eldest brother is so biased, I am still wearing old clothes, you give such good clothes to Brother Chen, and you don't feel sorry for my sworn brother at all." Chen Liuzi quipped.

Li Zhaoji laughed: "The sixth brother's heart is small, but Brother Chen is still bare-chested, you have clothes to wrap yourself." When you have a bare ass, I'll give you the clothes. ”

The two of them spoke funny, and everyone laughed. Chen Ping changed this dress half-pushed, and after wearing it, it was really suitable.

"I'll just say, my clothes, Chen Ping absolutely fits."

"Although it fits, it doesn't have the style of a shopkeeper." Chen Ping has been mixed in the army in the end, although he is more upright, he can still say flattery.

After he changed his clothes, Li Zhaoji invited him to sit down, and went straight to the topic: "People bought it back, they are all enemies with the four surnames, and they are all tough men in the water prison, which is difficult to manage, but they are all real men and good soldiers." How to train is a question. ”

Yang Yandi smiled embarrassedly, he originally wanted to do a big job to prove himself, but Li Zhaoji gave him an errand to train soldiers, but he messed up. Yang Yandi said: "It's me who can't ....... ”

Chen Ping interrupted him, and immediately said: "Brother Yang's words are bad, I have also met a few of the brothers left behind on the Dongfang, and I have heard the brothers talk about it. Although Brother Yang's training methods were a bit rough, they were extremely effective and played out the blood of the brothers.

Shopkeeper, brothers, you don't know, the training soldiers in this army, the most afraid is not the thorn head soldier, but the nest man, it seems that the three-legged kick can't get a fart, the most difficult. As the saying goes, a soldier will bear a nest. This is the words on the battle array, if the soldiers are trained, there is a nest of soldiers among the soldiers, and everyone is not angry, it is a nest of soldiers. ”

Yang Yandi heard this, nodded slightly, and felt that he had saved a lot of face.

Chen Ping was a little relieved, he knew that he was the only one who could train soldiers, but he wanted to rob Yang Yandi of his errand, if he offended him, he would make trouble, but it would be difficult to do things. Helping him speak at this time is paving the way for the future.