Fu Song

Chapter 661 Hardworking People
When the dense drumbeat sounded, the quiet barracks boiled instantly.

One by one, soldiers rushed out of the warm room and lined up in the ankle-deep snow.

And at the very front, a tall figure was poking there firmly, with falcon-like eyes scanning the soldiers under his command.

Before the three-tone drum had finished beating, eight hundred-man phalanxes had already been neatly arranged in front of him.

The other two centurions, one is a cavalry team, responsible for the detection and security of the periphery, and one infantry team is in charge of guarding the camp today.

Zhang Ren nodded in satisfaction. Compared with half a month ago, the ten breath time has been fully improved.

After waving his hand, he didn't say a word, but the team started to run along the outer fence of the barracks familiarly.And the one who runs the most is Zhang Ren.

The morning class every day, no matter whether it is sunny or raining, it will not be shaken.

It will not be canceled unless it is in combat.

The veterans are used to it, but the newly joined soldiers are complaining to the sky. They originally thought that the life in the new barracks was already a hell mode, but they didn’t expect that after entering the barracks, they realized that the new barracks were completely children’s play. Family.

In the boot camp, everyone is good anyway.

But after arriving in the army, a group of rookies met a group of tigers and wolves, and life was miserable that day.

Veterans can easily complete the task, but the recruits are struggling.

For the veterans, the indicators of the new barracks are just the passing line, not the final line.

Especially Zhang Ren's battalion.

Among the thousand soldiers, 800 of them are veterans of the White Feather Army, all around 30 years old, and only 200 of them are new recruits.

Zhou Quan leads a group of 5000 people. Apart from Zhou Quan's own old battalion, Zhang Ren's battalion has the strongest combat effectiveness.

After Zhang Ren came back from visiting relatives, he was handed over to such an army.

In front of Zhang Ren, none of the tough old soldiers had a hair.

The reason is very simple, Zhang Ren is a big guy with hard fists, he is definitely not going to be able to beat him.

The point is, if the crime is in his hands, he will beat you up first, and then he will explain the reason to you.

As a scholar, Zhang Ren talked about the truth, which is also a set of rules, which makes people's scalp tingle.

Most of the old soldiers were illiterate, and they respected the battalion generals who were educated.

Of course, it was not without thorns, but in the process of being beaten, listening to the reasoning, being beaten again, and listening to the reasoning again, everyone was convinced.

This is true for veterans, let alone recruits.

Especially when the battalion general was sweating profusely, took off his shirt, and stood shirtless in front of them, no one had the courage to resist him.

The scars on his body are forgettable and daunting.

How can a leader who is capable of writing and martial arts, who can speak and fight, not be convinced!
As for veterans, such a person is still their son-in-law in Guangxi, so they have to give a little more face.

It has been a full month since Zhang Ren brought his subordinates to Qi County.

He was fifty miles to the left of Zhouquan's camp.

Zhou Quan, the newly appointed ruler, is very courageous.

He himself was at the forefront, facing his opponent directly.

In his words, Lao Tzu is at the forefront. If there is any danger, people on the left and right flanks have to rush to help me, otherwise, Lao Tzu will chop off your head later, and you have nothing to say.

Even Wei Wu couldn't do anything about him with such a bastard logic.

Garrisoning Qi County is a comprehensive task, and he has the final say on how to arrange the troops.

Of course, this kind of control also convinced the entire army of 5000 people.

Now the White Feather Army has expanded to a full 2 people.

And the army led by Zhou Quan is second only to Wei Wu's main force, with the fewest recruits, accounting for only [-]%, and the rest are veterans who have fought many battles.

Like Zhang Juan, another commander, although there are 5000 people under his command, he basically doesn't have many old backgrounds in the Baiyu Army. They are either surrendered soldiers for training, or new troops who have just entered the army.

It's just that Zhang Tie is also very legendary, he belongs to the kind of lucky general who is born with a halo, and sometimes the credit can be found on his head.

Based on this alone, Wei Wu never underestimated him.

Luck is also an indispensable part of generals.

You can't tell the truth about this matter, but he really exists.

After defeating Lu Ben'an in the Battle of Sui County, the Song army immediately advanced, and did not stop until it occupied Qi County.

And Qixian County is only a hundred miles away from Tokyo, so it can be said that it is very close at hand.

Although the newly-built barracks are earth-embryo thatched houses, there are fire kangs built inside. The soldiers, from their hoods to their shoes and socks, are all brand-new winter clothes newly issued before winter, and there are two sets.

It is said that two more sets will be released every year in the future.

One set is light down and the other is thicker cotton.

When studying in the martial arts school, Zhang Ren once visited many workshops of military supplies.

The military uniform workshop is among them.

As far as Zhang Ren knows, the workshops that specialize in making winter clothes are basically the property of the chief assistant Xiao's family.

Down is a new garment that has just emerged. The upstream is large-scale poultry breeding and purchase. Now when walking in the countryside, the most common things you see are chickens, ducks and geese. The best feathers can be used as eagle feathers, and ordinary feathers After being crushed and nitrated, it becomes stuffing in winter clothes, and the meat can be made into jerky. Even the large amount of manure produced by these things every day is sold to farmers as fertilizer.

In the entire industrial chain, tens of thousands of people rely on this for food, not counting the scattered farmers.

Over the years, cotton has also begun to enter the homes of ordinary people from high-end products.

The thing called jibei cloth, which was first produced in Leizhou, was first planted on a large scale in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places. Although cotton cloth is still a luxury for ordinary people, it has been supplied on a large scale to the army.

Shoufu has always put the army in the first position.

Tall sentry towers stood on both sides of the gate of the barracks. After the earth was rammed and covered with blue bricks, the ground was extremely solid. On the top of the sentry tower, the muzzle of a bronze artillery was aimed straight at the front of the barracks. Chi Road.

Except for this road, there are deep trenches around the barracks, in which there are countless sharpened wooden stakes and bamboo guns.

This is a new gadget, and Zhang Ren has only heard of its power.

It is said that in the battle of Suixian, Gao Shuai assembled forty cannons to bombard the Liao army, the sound shook the world, the smoke covered the sky and the sun, and the enemy suffered heavy losses.

Zhang Ren really wanted to have a shot.

Of course, just thinking about it.

This thing is precious!
It is said that it has a lifespan. A bronze cannon can only fire more than a hundred cannons. After shooting, this thing has to be rebuilt.

After breakfast, the soldiers began to clean the barracks.

All the snow must be swept clean, and the internal affairs of the barracks must be tidied up.

The Great Song Infantry Regulations took the trouble to arrange the soldiers clearly from head to toe, from inside to outside, from sleeping to eating.

And the biggest task of the military judges every day is to find faults.

Zhang Ren doesn't need to worry about these things.

Sitting on the top of the sentry tower, he couldn't help but think of his fiancée brought back from Guangxi.

Although it is darker, it still looks very upright.

What's more, although he was born in a farming family, he was generous, and he was not at a loss in front of his mother, and he spoke and acted in an orderly manner.

This made the mother who was full of dislikes feel a little more comfortable.

After my father wrote back to express his firm support, my mother had no choice but to do so.

But the girl's life in the past three years will definitely not be too comfortable.

To learn literacy, to be a housekeeper, and always to learn some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to show off. Thinking of this, Zhang Ren couldn't help but smile softly.

Traveling thousands of miles, that girl gave her a really good image.

This wife will definitely not be bad in the future, she should be someone who can be taken out.

"General, what good things did you think of?" The soldier on duty next to him asked with a smile.

"I miss my daughter-in-law!"

Both of them laughed out loud.

Who wouldn't like a general who can teach his soldiers how to read in the silent night, and who can also explain to them a series of new policies that the court has just issued, and at the same time make jokes with them? Woolen cloth!

Outside the gate, when Zhou Hong saw Zhang Ren, his face was full of surprise.Behind Zhou Hong, there was a long line of dozens of people. They were driving more than a dozen carts. The trailers included mules, donkeys, and cattle. The carts contained the supplies needed by the army.

He didn't expect to see Zhang Ren here, let alone that not long ago, he was obviously just a soldier, but now he can lead a battalion of soldiers.

"Where is the elder?" Seeing Zhang Ren, he subconsciously looked behind Zhang Ren. That familiar figure had taken Zhang Ren and the others to their villages countless times to help them plow, dig canals, and harvest. , Building houses, until one day, they suddenly left and never came back.

Seeing a familiar old man again, and hearing the other party's question, Zhang Ren not only felt a sore nose.

"Old Shichang, they are all gone!"

Zhou Hong was stunned. The man who spoke with a Guangxi accent and yelled like an old cousin, like a honest elder brother, is gone?
Zhang Ren invited Zhou Hong to his room.

Unlike the Datong bunk where the soldiers slept, Zhang Ren, a battalion general, had a separate room.

Zhou Hong also had a deep impression on Zhang Ren, because at that time, he often asked Zhang Ren to help him read the imperial palace newspaper or Jiangning monthly newspaper. He was called Zhang Xiucai by everyone, and he was also loved by everyone.

Because he can also help everyone write letters, write blessings, and even help name the dolls who have not yet been named.

His name is always eye-catching.

Not only is it nice to hear, but every name is quite particular.

The past always makes people feel sad, but both of them are also people who have gone through ups and downs and read the vicissitudes of life. They are used to seeing life and death, so they are no longer obsessed with life and death.

People are always going to die, it's just sooner or later.

From birth, we all run wildly on the road to death.

Lao Shi grew up with them, but he just ran faster.

One day, he, Zhang Ren, must also join them.

At that time, let's have a good time together and talk about our hearts.

"You now" poured Zhou Hong a cup of tea, Zhang Ren asked.

"After the winter, there was nothing to do in the fields, so I organized a few strong laborers from the villages to work together." Zhou Hong said with a smile: "Thanks to the trust from above, it is the task of sending supplies to the garrisons in various places. If you leave me, won’t you come here?”

After the imperial court began to collect money for exemption from service, it stopped forcing the people to perform corvee service, but instead paid for the government to hire people to do these things.

Soon, someone discovered the huge business opportunity.

Some people with foresight took the opportunity to organize some teams to find the government to contract these businesses in order to earn money.

Zhou Hong is one of these people.

But there is a problem, he does have eyesight, but the background is not very good.If he hadn't met Shoufu once in the refugee camp, and the fish sauce at home had been praised by Shoufu, he might not be able to do even some scattered small projects.

But even so, the several villages under his jurisdiction are obviously much richer than the surrounding villages because he can get some jobs.

Jobs like delivering supplies to the army are something that those who specialize in contract jobs are unwilling to do.

Because there is not much oil and water, the responsibility is not small.

Moreover, people in the army have a lot of temper, and now no one dares to embezzle their things, especially the troops stationed on the front line, and no one dares to do anything to their things.

So, it was Zhou Hong's turn to do this job.

However, Zhou Hong also took this opportunity to send some of the harvest accumulated over the past year by the several villages under his command as supplies to the army, which is considered to be the first to get the most out of the water.Not only did the price sell well, but there was still a lot of money in the delivery, so it was considered a second-best profit.

"So, you've been promoted to an official now!" Zhang Ren said with a smile.

"What kind of official is there?" Zhou Hong waved his hands again and again: "Nowadays there are townships under the county, and villages in the countryside. Zhou is just a township head now."

"If you go further up, you will have to work in the county. Even if you start from the ninth rank, it can be regarded as a high rank!" Zhang Ren felt a little bit emotional about these policies of Xiao Cheng. People opened a gap in the door, although it is still very narrow, it is a typical single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses crossing, but it is always a way out.

Just like the Jinshi examination, why not cross the single-plank bridge?
It's like I have been promoted all the way to the present, so why not cross the single-plank bridge!
Its degree of danger is still beyond it!
"To tell you the truth, Zhang Xiucai, I really want to fight." Zhou Hong said seriously: "In the spring of next year, I have decided to let the next few villages all grow cotton. At the time of the annual review, it still depends on the actual performance. Growing cotton is now better than growing grain in terms of income."

The income from growing cotton is naturally higher than that from grain.

"The people below, are you willing?"

"So I brought the young people in the village out to make money this year, and I plan to distribute next year's grain to those who are willing to grow cotton." Zhou Hong said: "But after one year, all the proceeds from growing cotton must go to the village! "

"Great!" Zhang Ren admired this illiterate fellow in front of him very much. His vision and courage were far inferior to many people who had read books. "But Lao Zhou, you still have to be able to read and write. If you want to go further, it is absolutely impossible to be illiterate."

"I'm already learning!" Zhou Hong said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)