Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 201 Lu Daqi returns home and enters Chengdu
In fact, Wang Xiang, Luo Yuxin and other generals began to be rubbed before they saw Aimee Zhu.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zeng Ying conveyed to Wang Xiang and other generals of the Zunyi Army an order from the Military Affairs Department of the Jianguo Mansion to conduct training for their soldiers.

The so-called training includes reorganization and training, and then the positions of the generals also need to be re-determined.

Although Wang Xiang, Luo Yushen and others have not developed into real military leaders like Kuizhou Santan, they can be regarded as half-military leaders.

In the past, they regarded the army as their own private army. In the army, they were the only ones who were the only ones, and they were used to being free and majestic. How could they be willing to accept reorganization?

But I don't want to and I can't help it.

Among the more than [-] "elite soldiers" in Zunyi City, Wang Xiang had the most troops, about [-], and his overall strength was the strongest.

The second largest is Luo Yuxin, with two to 3000 soldiers, but the quality of the soldiers is very average.

It is Hou Tianci who has the highest quality soldiers, but there are only more than 300 soldiers under Hou Tianci's command.

There are only a few army leaders left, and there are at most a thousand people under their command, or there are only a few hundred people at all, and the quality of the soldiers is average.

If these people are supposed to defend, they can still defend Zunyi for a while without the enemy's siege cannons.

But now Zeng Ying and other elite soldiers from the three towns have settled in Zunyi City. They not only have excellent armor, but also bring dozens of artillery pieces of various types.

Today, I used martial arts to calm everyone down.

Therefore, no matter how reluctant they were, Wang Xiang and the others did not dare to say no to the request of the Military Affairs Office of the Jian Guofu for training.

Of course, the training was jointly undertaken by the Recruitment Division and the Military Training Division of the Military Affairs Office of the Supervisory Government, and had little to do with generals such as Zeng Ying.

Because these more than [-] people were eliminated through the war, and there should not be many eliminated during the training, so the plan is to reorganize three battalions of people.

In the end, soldiers with sufficient quality may be absorbed into the Janissaries and Frontier Guards, and most of them will be included in the garrison ranks.

As for Wang Xiang, Luo Yushen and other generals, they will be sent to the general officer training camp in Chengdu for further training, and will not be re-assigned to the appropriate general post until they meet the requirements of the Jian Guofu.

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a few days later.

Inside the big tent of the Zengying Army Camp in Zunyi City.

Zeng Ying, Liu Zhenfan, and Liu Wenxiu are discussing military affairs.

"This is the latest military order from the Military Affairs Department of the Supervisory Government, ordering General Liu Wenxiu to lead the second town of the Imperial Guards back to Chengdu.

That being the case, Wang Yingxiong and others were going to Chengdu to meet the civilian and military generals they had met, so they asked Liu Zongbing to escort them by the way. "

Liu Wenxiu took a look at the military order from Zeng Ying, then nodded and said, "No problem, I will send all of these people to Chengdu. What about you, what are you going to do next?"

Zeng Ying and Liu Zhenfan looked at each other, and then Zeng Ying said: "I have ordered the Chongqing garrison to garrison Chongqing in accordance with the military order of the Jian Guofu, and continue to eliminate the remaining bandits.

Another garrison was left in Zunyi, responsible for deterring the soldiers and horses of the third battalion and the surrounding chieftains who were undergoing training, and cleaning up some minor banditry by the way.

As for Guizhou, we can go there with the first and second border guards and two garrison troops.

Wang Yingxiong has already sent letters to the Chief Secretary of Guizhou and the Secretary of Xuanwei of Shuixi. Even if those people's hearts are biased towards the Nanjing puppet emperor, they will have some scruples when they know that Wang Yingxiong has joined the prison country and see our army.

Besides, the rest of the Western Army led by Zhang Kewang is making trouble in Guizhou, and they need our help. "

At the end, Zeng Ying smiled.

Obviously, in his opinion, it is not difficult to win Guizhou.

The difficulty lies in whether they can catch up with the rest of Zhang Kewang's Daxi Army in Guizhou and wipe them out.

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early december.

In the Little Ice Age, even though Sichuan belongs to the basin, it is quite cold at this time.

It even snowed lightly in Chengdu this day.

However, snowflakes cannot conceal the prosperity of Chengdu, and the cold cannot retreat the enthusiasm of Chengdu people for life.

For Lu Daqi, a Suining native who has been to Chengdu many times, he has already felt the prosperity and heat of the city only a mile away from the gate of Chengdu.

"We're hiring. The construction company in Chengdu is looking for road repair workers. Thirty renminbi a day, including lunch, and the salary is paid every day!"

"Huayang No. [-] Cement Factory is recruiting workers! The monthly salary is one tael, including room and board!"

"Steamed buns, just out of the cage, steamed buns!"

"Fruit wine! The secret fruit wine made by Jian Guo Mansion! It's delicious but not intoxicating. Everyone who returns home buys two jars..."

Seeing that there are tea and wine shops, food stalls, and even people recruiting workers by the official road one mile away from the city gate, there is almost an endless stream of pedestrians entering and leaving the city, Lu Daqi couldn't help but stop and watch.

He felt that this kind of prosperity was completely different from that in Nanjing.

Although there are more people inside and outside the city of Nanjing, if you look carefully, you can find that there are many northerners who have fled. Refugees can be seen everywhere on the streets.

Here in Chengdu is full of vigor and vitality, almost everyone has a high-spirited vigor on their faces, and even the smell of the air is different from that in Nanjing.

Then he felt that it might not be a bad thing to be dismissed from office and return to Sichuan because of being excluded by Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying.

It can even be said to be a good thing.

If he had stayed in Nanjing all the time, he might not have known that there was a princess in charge of the country in central Sichuan. Not only did he defeat Zhang Xianzhong, but also regained the entire Sichuan, and he even did a lot of things in less than half a year.

Although not all of those things are good things, such as those rumors of gods and gods.

But since he first went to Chongqing in November, then returned to Tongchuan, and this time he came to Chengdu, what he saw along the way was basically peaceful everywhere, and it was a fact that people's lives tended to be stable.

However, as he got to know more about the princess of the prison country, he found that not only did his cognition not become clearer, but he felt that the fog shrouded in more and more.

At this moment, the prosperity of the city of Chengdu allows small businesses and hawkers to make money outside the city, and he understands and is happy to see it.

But what the hell are those two recruiters?

When he came back to his senses, Lu Daqi led his entourage to the cloth banner of the "Huayang No. [-] Cement Plant Recruitment Site", which had been surrounded by dozens of people.

Several attendants pushed aside the crowd for Lu Daqi.

In addition, Lu Daqi was dressed in silk and had been an official for many years with extraordinary aura, which could even make people feel his aura.

Those people who had been asking and shouting at once quieted down and made way for him.

Lu Daqi didn't look at the person shouting, but instead looked at the person in charge of writing and recording, and said, "May I ask your Excellency, what does your Huayang No. [-] Cement Factory do? Why are you recruiting workers outside the city?"

He suspected that these people used the outside of the city as a place outside the law, and cheated here.

The middle-aged man who recorded the information of the applicants saw that Lu Daqi was extraordinary, so he stood up and bowed, and said, "The cement factory naturally produces cement. As for why they don't recruit workers in the city, one is because the labor in the city is expensive now, and the other is because the cement factory needs more labor." Built in the eastern suburbs, it will be more convenient for people in the villages and towns in the eastern suburbs to go to work."

Lu Daqi nodded slightly at first, and then asked: "What is this cement? This old man has traveled all over the world and asked himself a lot. How come he has never heard of it?"

When he said this, before the recorded middle-aged man could answer, many people around him laughed.

Someone asked with a smile: "This member has not been to Chengdu in the past two months, has he?"

Lu Daqi didn't feel that he was losing face - these people's identities were too different from his, and he wouldn't feel ridiculed at all.

So he said solemnly: "The old man has been doing business abroad for many years, and this is the first time he has returned to Sichuan in recent years."

"No wonder," the man said, "so that the outsiders can know that this cement is said to be the fairy soil that the princess invited from the fairy world, and it is born from the soil, as long as it is mixed with water and waited for a day or two, it will be as hard as a stone.

A few days ago, after this object came out, it was first used by the government to repair the city wall, and then began to build roads in and around the city.

Tsk tsk, I must have never seen that scene before, the cement is mixed with sand and gravel, and the road construction is so fast..."

Hearing this, Lu Daqi frowned.

Because the last thing he wants to hear is that the princess is connected with this kind of ghost legend.

As a Confucian disciple, although he does not say that he does not believe in ghosts and gods at all, he also knows that governing the country should be done in the right way, not by witchcraft.

It would be fine if these strange rumors were just made up by ignorant people. If they were true, the small imperial court of Jianguo in Sichuan might have a bigger problem than that in Nanjing, and it would never be able to shoulder the important task of recovering the northern provinces.

Thinking of this, Lu Daqi couldn't help scolding: "Nonsense, how can there be soil mixed with water that turns into stone?"

After all, Lu Daqi had served as governor several times, and the people around fell silent when he scolded, and the timid ones even retreated into the distance in fright.

The man who had been eloquently telling him about "Legend of Cement" also shut up.

But the middle-aged person who recorded the registration information was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's normal for the members not to believe it, and I didn't believe it when I first heard about it.

However, the construction company over there is recruiting small workers to build a cement road leading to Longquanyi.

Moreover, the cement road in the city has been repaired, and the outsiders can see it a hundred steps ahead.

Whether it is true or not, the staff can tell at a glance, why bother arguing with us here? "

Lu Daqi also realized that it was useless for him to scold these ignorant people, so he waved his sleeves, snorted coldly, and walked towards the east gate with his entourage.

Although as he walked, he realized that there might be something in the cement.

But when he walked more than a hundred steps and really saw the construction site in front of him and the entire "stone road" extending straight into the city, Lu Daqi still widened his eyes and showed an incredulous expression.

　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)