The recruitment of new recruits was personally presided over by Yang Peng. Yang Peng asked the soldiers to go to other prefectures and counties in Cangzhou to post notices, saying that they would hold a four-day physical examination and interview from November 23 to 26 to recruit young people between the ages of 18 and 22 who were in good health. The treatment given is three or two months' money, and three meals with meat. This kind of treatment is much better than that of the Great Song Dynasty border army, and it is a very attractive salary.

Sure enough, on November 23, more than 20,000 young people had applied. Yang Peng's requirements for soldiers are to be healthy, honest and duty-bound, not only to be able to train into soldiers who dare to fight, but also to be loyal and reliable, and not to reveal the secrets of the flintlock rifle. Physical examinations check height and weight, exclude candidates with medical conditions, and check for night blindness and color blindness. After all, Yang Peng faced a variety of enemies, and if he was night blind or color blind, he might fail on a specific battlefield. For an elite army like the Tiger Division, any losing war is unbearable.

There were too many recruits, and Yang Peng took more than 50 senior officers such as Zhang Xiang, Duan Zhixian, and Zhan Jinguo to the battle, and each interviewed the recruits who passed the physical examination. On average, the interviewer chats with the interviewee for five minutes, and at the end of the day, he can interview six or seven thousand people. After four busy days, Yang Peng finally recruited 10,000 people. At the time of the interview, the interviewer will tell the applicant whether to recruit or not.

The recruits were overjoyed, smiling excitedly. In these years, the army is in chaos, all industries are depressed, and I can't farm well, so I am so lucky to be a soldier with three or two meals and meat in Tianjing New Town. The monthly money of three taels is not a joke, the soldiers who joined Tianjing New City have said that it is really distributed in time every month, and it can feed the four people. Most of the people who came to serve as soldiers were young people who had not married, and they could save thirty taels of silver for ten months this month, which was enough to marry a daughter-in-law for a dowry.

Although it is a soldier, the risk of being a soldier in Tianjing New City is extremely small. The troops of Tianjing New City are the troops that can recruit and cripple the Khitan North, and what other enemy can make the troops of Tianjing New City suffer defeat? Even if they were really injured or even killed in battle, the city lord of Tianjing New City would give the wounded or the families of the deceased one or two or five dollars a month. Even if he is injured and dies, he will not leave his family without food and clothing.

In short, as long as you enter Tianjing New Town, you will not be able to run away from a lifetime of well-off. The recruits have a sense of happiness in leaping into the dragon gate. After recruiting, the recruits do not enter the camp immediately, but have to spend the New Year, and wait for the barracks to be repaired before gathering in Tianjing New Town. After Yang Peng recruited 10,000 new soldiers, he asked the soldiers to hire masons in various prefectures and counties near Cangzhou, and built a new military camp for 10,000 soldiers within two months. 10,000 recruits, eight people per room, is 1,200 barracks, Yang Peng invited 1,000 masons from various states and counties. The villa complex in Tianjing New Town has been expanding, and now there are more than 300 villas that have just been built and no one lives in, and the masons who built the barracks can live in the villas first.

Lei San is the third in the family, and he has two older brothers. Lei San is an honest child, and he usually can't punch him out of a word, and his status at home is very low. Lei San's father didn't like this taciturn third son very much, and felt that this son was not like him at all. When eating on weekdays, Lei San's father would say as soon as he saw Lei San going to serve the meal: "Don't eat too much, the family still has to eat!" ”

Because of his father's mantra, Lei San almost never had enough. The Lei family is very poor, and the five people rent 30 acres of dry land, and half of the grain has to be handed over every year, and they eat bran for a few months every year. Lei San is the third son of a poor tenant farmer with the most no status, and he has no status in the village, and no one usually cares about him. But Lei San went to Tianjing New City to recruit soldiers this time, but he recruited them.

This time, I don't know how many people went to Tianjing New City to apply, I'm afraid that one out of ten people can be selected, and Lei San actually recruited it. More than a dozen young people went to Leijia Village, and only Lei San was selected. The other young people in the village were envious and jealous of Lei San, and they didn't understand why they were not selected when they were so smart, while Lei San, who was so honest, was chosen. Lei San's family produced a soldier like Lei San in Tianjing New Town, and his family's status in the village suddenly improved, as if he was in a show. Lei San's father is wandering around the village these days, and the neighbors take the initiative to greet him, which makes him feel very embarrassed.

However, if you have face, you have face, and Lei San's father also has to consider some practical problems. After dinner that night, Lei San's father called all three sons over and said important things in the courtyard. Lei San's father sat on a small chair, let the eldest son and the second son also sit on the chair, and said to Lei San who was standing: "Lei San, now you are lucky, you have been recruited into Tianjing New City as a soldier, you get three taels of silver a month, and you have three meals of meat, this is your blessing!" After a pause, Lei San's father said solemnly: "But! You can't eat alone! ”

patting the plaster on his pants, Lei San's father said: "Now your eldest brother is twenty-four years old, and he is not married, but he is short of money!" In the future, you will have food in the barracks, and you will not spend much on weekdays, I will leave you three dollars of silver to make clothes, and you will save two taels of silver every month, and save thirty taels of silver for your eldest brother to marry! ”

Lei San nodded and said, "Okay, Dad! Hearing Lei San's words, Lei San's eldest brother smiled and glanced at his father gratefully. Lei San's father said again: "And your second brother, you can't spend the money indiscriminately, and you have to save thirty taels of silver for him to marry!" ”

Lei San thought for a while and said, "Okay! Seeing that Lei San agreed, Lei San's second brother also laughed and stretched out his hands and feet proudly.

Lei San's father smiled, nodded and said, "Lei San, I didn't raise you in vain!" After a pause, he said again: "After your second brother gets married, you will give eight yuan to your eldest brother out of three taels of silver every month, eight dollars to your second brother, eight dollars to me, and you will keep six dollars of silver for yourself." You're single, and it's enough to keep six pieces of silver! ”

When Lei San heard this, he was silent for a long time and did not speak. Lei San's father rolled his eyes and said, "Lei San, why don't you agree?" Six dollars is not enough? After being hired by Tianjing New Town, Lei San felt much more confident. In the past, Lei San felt that he was a superfluous person in this world, and he ate an extra bite of food. Family members or outsiders bullied him, and Lei San didn't dare to resist at all. But now it's different, Tianjing Xincheng gave himself three or two months of money to hire himself, Lei San felt that he was a person who was needed, a decent person, and he had the confidence to resist the bullying of others.

Regarding his father's predatory arrangement, Lei San decided to resist. Lei San said resolutely: "After the second brother gets married, I can't take out the money anymore!" Lei San's father rolled his eyes and scolded loudly: "Lei San, do you want to rebel?" I've raised you for eighteen years for nothing? If you're not going to take the money out, get out of my house now!" Lei San puffed up his chest and said: "It's easy for me to get out, Tianjing New City can report in advance." It's just that in that case, then I won't save the money for the eldest brother and the second brother. ”

Lei San's father was so angry that his face turned red, and he wanted to have a seizure, but he couldn't speak. Lei San's two elder brothers glanced at each other, their eyes full of surprise. Unexpectedly, Lei San, who couldn't hold back a word for a long time, would actually rebel against his father's arrangement. Lei San looked at his angry and shocked father, and said Kankan: "In the future, I will be a soldier in Tianjing New City, and I will no longer be the superfluous third son of the Lei family, and I will no longer be the idiot who should not have enough to eat." I save money for my eldest brother and second brother, and it is my help to my family, don't think I'm stupid or I'm a bully! ”

After saying this, Lei San shook his hand and walked into the house and went to sleep. After finishing the work of recruiting soldiers, Yang Peng began to make boring machines.

Wu Ku is an oil seller in Tianjing New Town. He was originally an oil seller in Cangzhou City, with an old mother and a pair of children under him, and his life was hard. There were too many people selling oil in Cangzhou City, and everyone's business was not good, and he could only earn one or two taels of silver a month at that time, and sometimes he couldn't make any money. Without money, Wu Ku's family of five often starved. Wu Ku had a sad face every day at that time, and only said where to find a way out and make money to eat.

At the beginning of this year, he heard that Tianjing New Town was very rich and that all walks of life could make money, so he gritted his teeth and moved to Tianjing New Town. He asked his nephew, who worked in the salt factory, to be a guarantor, and sold the oil to Tianjing New Town. In order to prevent a large number of displaced people from gathering in Tianjing New Town, the lord of Tianjing New Town stipulated that only workers working in the workshops of Tianjing New Town could enter Tianjing New Town to do business, and each worker could only guarantee one merchant who came to Tianjing New Town. It is also thanks to Wu Ku that he has always loved this nephew since he was a child, so he got the opportunity to enter Tianjing New Town.

When he arrived in Tianjing New Town, Wu Ku found that business here was really much better. The entire Chengbei Bazaar corresponds to thousands of residents in the northern part of the city, but there are only four oil sellers in the bazaar. Not to mention that the people in Tianjing New Town are rich and eat a lot of oil. Although the price of oil is still the same as that of Cangzhou, there are many more buyers. Wu Ku has small profits and quick turnover, and can earn two taels and five dollars of silver a month.

Combined with his daughter-in-law's income from weaving cloth at home, his family has an income of three taels and eight dollars of silver a month. So much silver is enough for his family of five to live, not only can they eat enough, but they can also make cotton jackets in winter and single clothes in summer, and eat meat during the New Year's holidays. Not only that, but the rent in Tianjing New Town is also cheap. In the past, Wu Ku rented two leaky houses in the city lord for three dollars of silver per month, but now Wu Ku rents two houses in the villa of the general, a good house without worry, as long as the rent is two dollars and one cent.

Today's good life is something that Wu Ku didn't dare to think about before.

However, at the end of this year, something even better came, the lord of the castle gave the children free books to read, and let the children go to school to study! What a decent thing is reading a book? Wu Ku was born poor, never went to school for a day in his life, and admired the most scholars. Every time he saw a scholar, he was respectful and respectful, not daring to speak casually. Even the names of his eldest son and youngest daughter were obtained by him for a hundred yuan to hire a showman.

I heard that people who work in the industry of the lord of the city, as long as they have read and know how to read, will be promoted to supervisor in a year or two, and get a monthly salary of three taels or even four taels of silver, and their future is very different from that of illiteracy. In the past, Wu Ku was just an oil seller after all, and he couldn't afford to pay for it, so he couldn't provide for his two children to read and write. But now that the city lord has given his children to school for free, Wu Ku will not miss such a good thing, and he went to the official hall early to register. The people in the official hall said that this reading can be read by both boys and girls, with one class for boys and one class for girls. However, the first batch only allowed children over the age of eight to enroll, Wu Ku's eldest son went to school, and the younger daughter waited a few more years.

On December 20, the school opened, and Wu Ku's eldest son went to study in the school. It only took two days for my son to learn to write names. Wu Ku was excited to see that his son could write. He took his son's handwriting to the north of the city to show off in the market, and told others everywhere that his son had learned it in the school. Those who saw Wu Ku's son's "calligraphy" praised Wu Ku's son for his talent, which made Wu Ku very proud.

On this day, Wu Ku showed off his son's "calligraphy" outside before closing the stall, and then returned home. When he arrived at home, as soon as Wu Ku entered the door, he saw his son practicing writing with water on the table, and he was immediately overjoyed - his son studied so hard, it wouldn't be long before he could read and break words, wouldn't it be a good time? In the future, if my son grows up, if he can do things for the general, won't he be able to become a supervisor?

Wu Ku pushed the oil cart to the wall of the hall, walked to the table and asked his son, "Son, what kind of writing are you writing?" Wu Ku's son raised his head and said, "This is the word that Mr. Protestant taught me today, which is my father's name, Wu Ku's word for Ku!" Wu Ku smiled when he heard this, and said, "Dad can't write his name, but you can write it, it's really good!" Wu Ku's son pulled out a piece of paper and said, "Dad, I'll teach you to write your name!" Wu Ku was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Okay, son, you teach your father to write his name!" ”

Wu Ku's son took out a piece of white paper, dipped the brush in ink, wrote Wu Ku's name on the paper, handed the two words to Wu Ku, and said, "Dad, you can take a chopstick and practice the words I wrote." Seeing that his son was proficient in handwriting, Wu Ku smiled happily and said, "Okay! Good! My son is really capable, and he will definitely be better than his father in the future! ”

Boring machine is a machine tool used to process the holes of perforated workpieces, which appeared as early as a few years ago, and is used to process furniture. As a designer, Yang Peng certainly knows the principle of boring machines. Yang Peng has now made a bearing, and it is a matter of course to make a boring machine. Yang Peng is a manpower boring machine. After casting a few gears as a transmission device, Yang Peng transmitted the rotational force of human rotation to the boring bar. The boring bar rotating in the bearing is very stable, and the boring bar gradually moves forward during high-speed rotation, which gradually expands the hole of the workpiece.

Using a boring machine to process holes in the workpiece is much more accurate than drilling with a drill bit, and can be used to drill holes with higher accuracy. The boring machine made by Yang Peng is used to make the barrel of the flintlock pistol, and the boring rod Yang Peng uses the best steel he can collect - stainless steel. Although there is no alloy steel, it is no problem to cut wrought iron from quenched and tempered steel.

Yang Peng took ten blacksmiths to work in the blacksmith shop for fifteen days and made the first boring machine in the Great Song Dynasty. After the boring machine was done, Yang Peng made a special fixing groove for the barrel on the boring machine, and let the gunsmith use the boring machine to bore the barrel. The gunsmiths first used a thin boring bar and then a thick boring bar, and it took a day to bore a barrel.

The barrel was bored out, and it looked good, but Yang Peng didn't know the bottom of his heart. He asked the gunsmith to inspect the boring barrel with four times the usual amount of gunpowder, and found that there was no crack in the barrel after the gunpowder was exploded, and there was no problem. After the experiment was successful, the gunsmiths looked around the boring machine and looked left and right, and were amazed at the castle lord's ability to build such an ingenious machine. The city lord must be the reincarnation of Lu Ban, otherwise how could he invent a new thing every once in a while?

Follow the city lord to do things, and the future is bright. "Your Excellency is clever!" "The lord of the city is really a fairy-like figure!" "I've been making bird guns for a few years, and I don't know I can do this with a barrel!" Hearing the admiration of the craftsmen, Yang Peng smiled proudly. With this boring machine, the manufacturing speed of flintlock rifles can be greatly increased. Now the barrel can be bored in one day, and a gunsmith can complete the entire process of producing a flintlock rifle in just seven days. Compared to the previous speed of making a rifle in a month, the boring machine can make it three times faster.

In the past, there was no boring machine, so Yang Peng had to hire more craftsmen to make flintlock pistols. In fact, Yang Peng has already collected all the craftsmen from several surrounding states and counties, and then hired more gunsmiths to go to the capital or Shandong, which is very unsatisfactory in terms of operation and cost. But with the boring machine, the barrel is much faster, and Yang Peng does not need to continue to expand his team of gunsmiths.

After making the boring machine, Yang Peng seemed to have seen tens of thousands of flintlock rifles piled up in the warehouse. With more rifles, soldiers will be able to organize more target training and not be afraid of shooting too many scrapped guns. Because of regular target training, the flintlock rifles of 10,000 veterans are now nearing the end of their service life and need to be equipped with new guns. In addition, 10,000 recruits need a lot of target training, and the number of guns required for training is very large.

The scrapped firearm materials can be disassembled for recycling, and each part of the gun can be recast separately, which means that the scrapped firearm is remanufactured without much material cost, only labor cost. The boring machine greatly reduces the labor cost of making guns. So it doesn't take much silver to scrap and rebuild guns. Yang Peng immediately asked all 500 craftsmen to stop the production of Mini rifles, and all of them organized to make boring machines, and 100 boring machines were to be built within a month. With 100 boring machines, and 500 craftsmen taking turns using them, more than 2,000 flintlock rifles could be produced in a month, which could meet the training needs of 28,000 soldiers.

In the middle of November, the temperature in the castle lord was already very low, and the cold wind was howling. The mud nests in the north of the city are no longer able to help the refugees withstand the bitter cold, and the wind is leaking everywhere. Fortunately, the houses for the refugees have already been built – Yang Peng recruited 1,500 masons from the surrounding prefectures and counties in September, and the refugees have done their own work to help the masons themselves, and the new houses of more than 2,000 refugee families have been built by mid-November.

The refugee's house has a tiled roof, which is protected from rain and wind, but the bricks of the house are not plastered with lime in order to meet the deadline. The cement brick walls are bare, and they don't look so beautiful. However, the refugees are not so particular, and they used to live in leaky thatched-roof mud houses in their hometowns, and they are very happy to live in brick houses.

In the future, when the refugees have harvested food and lived a prosperous life, it will not be too late to find someone to paint white lime. Not only that, but the houses built for the refugees were also relatively small, with 1,500 masons building 3,200 rooms, which would mean that three refugees would share a room. But this is not a big problem: the houses built for the poor are clustered in small villages, leaving a lot of room between houses. When the first year has passed, and when the poor have harvested food and silver in the second year, they can expand their houses on the reserved space.

In addition, the refugees did not have enough quilts and clothing. Although the refugees were plundered by the Khitan soldiers, they also carried cotton clothes and quilts, which was the only valuable thing for the poor family, even if they were plundered by the Khitan soldiers to Liaodong, they would also carry cotton clothes and quilts. But judging from the standards of Tianjing New Town, the cotton clothes and quilts of these poor people in the Great Song Dynasty are very cold - tattered cotton clothes, quilts shared by several people. Relying on such equipment to survive the winter, it is inevitable to suffer from freezing.

Yang Peng didn't want someone in his territory to freeze to death, so in October, he asked people to go to the surrounding states and counties to buy 6,000 quilts, and ordered 6,000 sets of standard cotton jackets worn by soldiers in Tianjing New Town, and the cotton jackets were dyed with the big word Tianjing. These things were in place by mid-November. Yang Peng sent them to the poor people's villages and distributed them to the poor people. These padded jackets were wide, and the poor people could put them on if they could. Of course, Yang Peng also gave needlework scissors to the poor - if the size of the padded jacket is too different, he will change the size by himself. The women of the Song Dynasty were all able to do needlework, and they were all able to change their clothes.

When the peasants heard that the lord of the castle had given them clothes for the winter, they took them with joy. Zheng Hui organized officials to record which family received a few quilts and several sets of cotton clothes - these winter equipment Yang Peng did not give to the poor in vain, these quilts and cotton jackets Yang Peng spent 5,000 taels of silver, which was to be returned to Yang Peng after the farmers collected the rent in the first year. When peasants plant spring wheat in the first year, it is estimated that each household can earn 23 or 4 stone of grain, and if they dig up food between five mouthfuls, they can still exchange 10 stone of grain for 20 taels of silver, and they can afford to buy some cotton clothes and quilts.

Seeing that the poor people were not well prepared for the winter and that all kinds of expenses were insufficient, Yang Peng was afraid that the farmers would lack miscellaneous materials for the winter, so he simply borrowed five taels of silver from each household to the farmers, so that they could find the merchants to buy what they lacked, and make an appointment to repay the money with grain when the wheat was harvested next year. The peasants took the silver with great gratitude, but one by one they were reluctant to use it, and saved it all. However, with money in hand, these poor peasants really have to rely on when they encounter difficulties. After settling the peasants, the weather immediately turned cold, and the cold winter came.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.