Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 62

Standing on a relatively high mound of dirt, Zhao Wen looked at the fighting soldiers with red faces and thick necks, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

Zhao Daniu walked to the front of the crowd and shouted at them: "Now, everyone, stop for me. My lord has something to say."

Hearing Zhao Daniu's words, those soldiers who were fighting hurriedly dropped their sticks and stood together.

"My lord, do you have anything to say to them?" Zhao Daniu cupped his hands at Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen nodded, jumped off the mound, and walked in front of them.

"Is the training hard?" Zhao Wen cleared his throat and asked loudly.

"It's not bitter. There are white flour steamed buns and pork to eat every day. It's not bitter at all."

The food in these guard camps is the best in the entire Longmen Fort. White flour steamed buns are standard, and they can eat a meal of pork every three or four days.

For these soldiers who have just thrown away their hoes and sickles, this kind of food is like heaven.

Where did the peasants eat such good food?Even the local rich man in the village does not have such a good meal.

It is also fortunate that the number of people in the personal guard camp is small, otherwise, Zhao Wen really wouldn't be able to support them.After a month, the money spent on food alone is no less than a hundred taels.Fortunately, there is still a lot of money that Fan Zheng used to support Zhao Wen before, otherwise, he would have to drink the northwest wind.

Zhao Wen looked at these soldiers with bruised noses and swollen faces, and shouted loudly: "You are the best soldiers in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the most outstanding soldiers under my Zhao Wen. You carry a heavy burden on your shoulders."

Zhao Wen stopped suddenly, his eyes swept over the faces of these soldiers.

From their faces, Zhao Wen saw blood and loyalty.

"I hope that you can fight the enemy bravely like the champion. I hope that in the future, you will gallop on the battlefield and be the master of tigers and wolves that will make the enemy fearful."

Looking at them, Zhao Wen felt a hot current rushing from his heart to his forehead.

These soldiers were not as slack, worried, depressed, and listless as the frontier soldiers in other military towns. Each of these soldiers was filled with anger.

When this anger bursts out of the chest, it is the time when the world changes color.

Zhao Wen saw Zhou Laoliu, Zhou Laoqi and Zhou Laoba in the crowd.

They all knelt down on one knee at the top of their voices, clasped their fists with both hands, raised their heads above their heads, and shouted at Zhao Wen: "Follow the general to the death, follow the general to the death, follow the general to the death."

Their voices echoed on the plain, and they could not disperse for a long time.

Hearing their shouts, Zhao Wen nodded in satisfaction.

"I already know your loyalty, so get up first." Zhao Wen waved his hands and said, "I hope you will always remember your promise, so you can continue training."

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, he turned and left.

Zhao Daniu looked at these soldiers and shouted: "Your Excellency is very satisfied with you today, you all train me well, don't embarrass me."

Zhao Daniu greeted them and hurriedly followed behind Zhao Wen.

The thousand-ply bottom officer's boots creaked as they stepped on the snow.

Zhao Wen looked at the cement kiln and brick kiln that kept emitting black smoke outside Longmen Fort, and whispered to Zhao Daniu: "Go and tell Wang Liuqi, let him work harder these few days, and try to build it after the beginning of spring." The cement and bricks and tiles from the cement factory are fired."

Now there are only three or four cement kilns in Longmenbao, and the output is limited.

When the Longmen Fort was being repaired before, all the cement stock had been used up.

Now in the warehouse of Longmen Fort, there is not even a bag of cement.

So, just after the Chinese New Year, Zhao Wen couldn't wait to find Wang Liuqi and ask him to supervise the firing of cement and bricks.

Wang Liuqi is now a manager of a cement kiln and a brick kiln, and now his whole person is like a second spring, with a cheerful look every day, which is completely different from before.But recently he encountered a sad thing.

Just as Zhao Daniu was about to look for Wang Liuqi, Wang Liuqi got the news before he could take a few steps, and ran out wearing a dirty cotton coat.

Looking at him like this, Zhao Wen couldn't help asking: "Why are you dressed like this? You are in charge now, and you get seven taels of silver every month. Why don't you buy some more clothes?"

Wang Liuqi hastily kowtowed respectfully.

"My lord, it's not that the villain doesn't want to buy more, but that I really can't buy more." Wang Liuqi's face was full of sorrow, and his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes.

When Zhao Daniu heard this, he thought that Wang Liuqi thought the salary was too low, so he became angry at that time.

Zhao Daniu glared at the boss, then at Wang Liuqi, and said viciously: "You old man, don't you think that the salary that the lord gives you is too little?"

Wang Liuqi's complexion changed, and he said hastily: "How can a villain dislike the low wages that adults give? It's just that something happened at home."

"You stand up first." Zhao Wen looked at Wang Liuqi, who looked sad and exhausted, and said unbearably.

"Thank you sir."

Wang Liuqi hurriedly thanked him, then stood up staggeringly from the ground.

"What happened? Can you still worry like this?" Zhao Wen looked at Wang Liuqi curiously.

But Wang Liuqi hesitated, as if he didn't want to say anything.

Seeing Wang Liuqi's appearance, Li Xiaosan immediately became anxious, "You old man, if you tell me what to say, just say it. Could it be that adults can still eat you?"

"Don't dare." Wang Liuqi hastily confessed his guilt, and spoke in a low voice.

"The villain lives in a small village called Wangjiazhuang five miles south of Longmen Fort. There are two sons in the family, including my wife. There are four people in total. My wife has a younger brother who lives fifty miles west of Longmen Fort. Although there were Tartars raging before, they were beaten out by the adults within a short time. Therefore, the people in Xuanfu Town all returned to their places of residence."

Wang Liuqi's face was full of sadness. He sighed and continued, "I escaped the ravages of the Tartars, but I did not escape the looting of the bandits. There are three hundred people in the village where my wife and brother live." , One night, most of them were killed by the bandits. The whole village was ordered by the bandits. If my brother-in-law happened to be away from the village before, I guess my brother-in-law would die too."

"Bandits?" Zhao Daniu's face changed, and he looked at Wang Liuqi.

"It's the bandits. My brother-in-law fled to my house the day before yesterday and said it was a bandit called Black Whirlwind."

Zhao Wen squeezed his chin and sighed, "You go to work first, I know about it."

Zhao Wen waved at Wang Liuqi, then took Zhao Daniu and Li Xiaosan back to the defense mansion.

As soon as he stepped through the gate, Zhao Wen said to Li Xiaosan: "Go and find Song Hu, Wang Qi and Liu Wu. I have something to ask him."

Li Xiaosan cupped his hands and ran out quickly.

"Your Excellency, do you want to exterminate this group of bandits?"

Zhao Wen said: "How can a wave of bandits satisfy my appetite? My goal is to draw a circle with a distance of [-] miles from Longmen Fort, and I will not let any of the bandits inside go away."

Zhao Wen's eyes lit up and he called out loudly.

In fact, exterminating these bandits now can not only protect the environment and the people, but also play a role in training soldiers.

In addition, these bandits robbed the people all the year round and accumulated a lot of money.

Kill all these bandits, wouldn't all the money in the bandits' den belong to him?

Although the bandits spend money lavishly, they can't save much money.But for Zhao Wen, who is almost poor and crazy now, mosquito legs are also meat.

Zhao Wen sat on the main seat and said in a low voice: "It's time for these recruits to experience the flames of war."

A quarter of an hour later, Song Hu, Wang Qi and Liu Wu stood in the hall wearing brand new armor.

The armors on their bodies are all newly made, each of them is shiny, reflecting the cold light, and the red cherry on the helmet is slowly fluttering behind their heads, which looks quite imposing.

"Everyone, please sit down. Daniel, tell them something." Zhao Wen pointed to Daniel, then picked up the teacup on the table, and drank it on his own.

Zhao Daniu stood in the middle of the hall, looked at the people sitting on both sides of the hall, cleared his throat, and said.

Zhao Daniu's loud voice kept echoing in the hall, half a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Daniu stepped back and stood by Zhao Wen's side.

Zhao Wen put down his teacup and said, "Do you understand?"

Song Hu's face turned red, he stood up suddenly, and shouted loudly: "My lord, it's time for this. After so long, my hands are already itchy. Besides, it's time for these new recruits to experience it." . Otherwise, they will always be recruits."

"I agree with Huzi, and I also think we should suppress the bandits." Liu Wu also stood up, his eyes squinted, his face flashing fiercely.

Wang Qi sat on his seat, motionless, his brows were tightly knit together, as if he was thinking about something.

Zhao Wen looked at Wang Qi who was frowning, and asked, "Wang Qi, what are you thinking? Why don't you tell me your own opinion?"

Wang Qi raised his head, watched everyone looking at him expectantly, and slowly stood up.

"I also agree with your lord's idea very much. However, if we do this, will other guards say that we are nosy? Within a radius of a hundred miles, there are many places that do not belong to the boundaries of our Longmen Castle." Wang Qi frowned, expressing his worries.

Zhao Wen laughed loudly when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Haha, in this territory of the Xuanfu, who dares to control me? I dare to kill Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, let alone other people?"

Zhao Wen's eyes kept beating fiercely, and with a powerful weapon in his hand, even if he couldn't run amok throughout the entire Daming territory, it would still be more than enough to run amok in the Xuan Mansion.

As long as the frontier troops in the entire Xuanfu territory are not assembled, Zhao Wen is still not afraid of them.

"Since the adults have the rules in mind, then the villain will obey the adults."

Wang Qi arched his hands and said respectfully.

"Okay, if that's the case, then you all go to prepare and officially set off in three days. Our first goal is the Black Whirlwind." Zhao Wen stood up from the chair, waved his hands, and said in a confident manner.

When everyone had just walked out of the hall, Zhao Wen said to Zhao Daniu: "By the way, the personal guard camp will also go together at that time, you go to prepare. Besides, you can find Wang Liuqi for me along the way. "

"Yes!"

Zhao Daniu clasped his fists together, then turned around and left.

Zhao Wen looked at Zhao Daniu who was leaving, raised his head to the sky and let out a loud roar: "Da Ming, I, Zhao Wen, have officially made my debut."

(End of this chapter)