The Red Mansions

Chapter 217 Personal Guard Camp, Xue Pan's Night Visit
The weather is gloomy and extremely dull. It is going to rain.

Xiaoshitan military camp spreads for more than ten miles.

The officers and soldiers are sweating profusely, conducting common subject assessments in full swing.

Common subjects, from a broad perspective, mainly include individual combat, formation formation, physical fitness, tactics, shooting, throwing, emergency assembly, etc.

Each of these major items also includes many sub-subjects.

For example, individual combat includes knife skills, marksmanship, fighting, wrestling and other content.

In addition to the most basic formations, formation formations also include changes in formations such as square formations, circular formations, number formations, geese formations and sparse formations.

It is accompanied by the recognition of various command signals such as semaphore, drums, gongs and horns.

Physical training includes ten-mile weight-bearing long-distance running, thirty-foot sprinting, push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, leapfrogs, lifting weights, stone throwing locks, long jumps, high jumps, and various weight-bearing jumps.

The training content of the common subjects was decided by Jia Yun in combination with the actual situation, adding some more scientific training subjects of later generations to the existing training subjects in ancient times, and after discussing with many veterans, it was decided.

All in all, these soldiers have undergone a lot of training, not only can they obey the orders and prohibitions, but the quality of individual soldiers has also been greatly improved.

On the training ground, Jia Yun was wearing a blue tights, with a long sword on her waist, and led her personal guards and a group of commanders, deputy commanders, and thousands of households to patrol everywhere.

After watching for a while, Jia Yun was quite satisfied with the assessment.

Most of these soldiers are refugees, and they didn't have food before, or they didn't have enough to eat.

After being selected into the patrol battalion as soldiers, they immediately lived a good life with three meals a day.

Therefore, these people cherish this hard-won opportunity very much, and they dare not hold back during training, for fear of being eliminated.

"From yesterday to now, out of tens of thousands of people, only a dozen or so people have been eliminated. Based on my humble estimate, after the assessment is over, the number of eliminated people will not exceed a hundred at most." Liu Xianglian reported next to Jia Yun.

Jia Yun nodded, and ordered: "All the eliminated people will be taken to Shibafang to work as a nursing home. In addition, you need to pay more attention to the establishment of a personal guard camp."

In the patrol battalion, it is natural to reorganize the guards, and the soldiers will be selected from the top soldiers in this assessment.

The number of people is patrolled in five cities, and a soldier of a hundred households is selected for each city.

There are a total of 110 people in a hundred households, that is to say, his personal guards will reach 560 people.

The statistics of the number of guards will no longer be included in the patrol camp, but will be independent, and they will still receive the salary issued by the court, and Jia Yun will also give them a certain amount of subsidies.

As for the soldiers who are missing from the guards of the patrol battalion, they will be selected from the soldiers and horses to join them after the extermination of bandits is over.

Nowadays, most of the hundreds and thousands of households in the patrol camp are people placed by Jia Yun.

Ninety percent of the group of people surrounding him now are Jia Yun's former personal guards.

Youdao means that one person attains the Tao, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, which is the bottom line.

Especially Liu Xianglian, who can read and write, and knows martial arts, so he easily got the position of a thousand households.

Liu Xianglian, who used to sleep in flowers and live in willows and sing on stage, has become calm and introverted after being nurtured and tempered by the army. Now she is focused on making contributions.

Jia Yun will give him this chance. Although Liu Xianglian has the character defect of acting hastily, she is still an excellent talent.

After listening to Jia Yun's order, Liu Xianglian cupped her hands and said, "The lowly position has selected nearly a hundred people who can serve as elite soldiers for your lord's personal guard. Are you interested in taking a look at this moment?"

"Oh? All right, call them here, I'll take a look first." Jia Yun nodded.

Soon, more than a dozen messengers got on their horses and went to various training grounds to send orders to those who were picked by Liu Xianglian to come over.

After a stick of incense, eighty or ninety soldiers gathered from all sides.

After queuing up, Liu Xianglian stepped aside.

Jia Yun looked at the people in front of her. They were all big and round, strong and tall, full of energy and full of intimidation.

Those who can serve as personal guards must be the best of the best.

The most important thing is to have a clean family background, follow Jia Yun from now on, and protect him from arrows, this is their mission.

Therefore, the selection criteria for personal guards are very strict.

Liu Xianglian picked so many people so quickly, it seems that it took a lot of effort.

Of course, it doesn't mean that after Liu Xianglian chooses these people, they can really be Jia Yun's personal guards.

Actually it's just a primary election.

After a few days, when the number of people has gathered, they will conduct an assessment.

At the same time, both Jia Yun and Jin Yiwei will send their own people to strictly investigate their eight generations of ancestors and life stories. Only after there are no problems, they will temporarily form an army.

After that, they will be led by Jia Dazheng, and they will train according to the standards of ancient special forces for half a year. Only after the assessment is over can they truly become Jia Yun's personal soldiers.

In the future, these people will not only be soldiers, but will also be able to complete many difficult tasks.

After Jia Yun looked at these people from beginning to end, she told Liu Xianglian:
"Just select according to this standard, remember to rather be short than excessive!"

……

evening.

Jia Yun returned home, took a bath and changed clothes, and came to Xue Baochai's courtyard.

The whole family was there, all sitting around under the big tree.

Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu sat next to Mrs. Bu, chatting and laughing.

Xi Ren, Mei Ren, Qin Keqing and others beside him added a few words from time to time, and the atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious.

Seeing Jia Yun coming in, Xue Baochai and others stood up and saluted.

Jia Yun stepped forward to salute Mrs. Bu, then supported Xue Baochai, and said with a smile:
"You are pregnant, so don't talk about etiquette in the future, the child is important."

Mrs. Bu got up and said that the vegetable field had not yet boiled water, so she took Xiangling's mother Fengshi and Aunt Miao away first.

Don't stay here and make these juniors worry too much about talking.

After sending Mrs. Bu away, Jia Yun, Xue Baochai and the others sat down to talk.

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "Miss Ping'er came over this morning and said something."

"What's the matter?" Jia Yun took her hand and asked with a smile.

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Just yesterday afternoon, Jia Rong and the girl from Xia's family fought again, and I heard that the two sides are arguing to divorce again."

"Hehe, there really are them. They beat you to death before they even get married. If they get married in the future, how can they pay off?" Jia Yun said with a smile.

Xue Baochai covered her mouth and said with a smile: "What's even more incomprehensible is that while the two were arguing about retiring, the preparations for the wedding did not stop and continued."

Jia Yun raised her eyebrows and said, "That means that both parties understand that it is impossible to withdraw from the engagement?"

"I guess that's what it means. The two are also enemies, so why can't they be quiet for a while?" Xue Baochai shook his head and pouted.

The attacker next to him interjected: "I'm afraid it won't be clean. The concubine was in Jia's mansion yesterday. I heard that the girl from the Xia family was very difficult to get along with and had a weird temper. She was spoiled and raised by her mother since she was a child. She was angry." I often hit the maidservants with my hands."

"Think about it, this kind of temperament, even if it's okay, will find something to come out, and Jia Rong can't stand up, after the Xia family girl enters the door, she must first light three fires to shake her prestige. stand up?"

Jia Yun smiled and nodded, glanced at Qin Keqing next to her, reached out and held her hand in hers to play with.

"I'm fine. Now that I hear the news from Ningguo Mansion, my heart is calm and there won't be any disturbances. Master, don't worry!" Qin Keqing said softly.

Jia Yun didn't say much, but turned around and asked Xue Baochai, "When did Ping'er leave?"

"Leave after lunch." Xue Baochai replied.

After a pause, she smiled and continued: "When I left, I took some cooling oil that my husband made some time ago, and said that you made this to prevent mosquito bites and refresh your mind. It is very useful."

Jia Yun nodded and said, "She probably didn't want to use it when she took it away."

"Is it going to be sent to Sister Tanchun?" Xue Baochai asked in a low voice after getting closer.

After Jia Yun came back last night, she told Xue Baochai about him and Jia Tanchun.

Jia Yun nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "It should be, Ping'er is also careful."

Xue Baochai smiled, didn't ask any more questions, and said with a smile: "Aunt Miao is talking about making mooncakes today, what kind of mooncakes do you want to eat?"

"I'll prepare more puff pastry mooncakes this year!" Jia Yun replied after thinking about it.

The crispy moon cakes are filled with pine nuts, walnuts, melon seeds, sugar and lard. The skin is crispy and has many layers, crispy and dregs, and the filling is delicious.

The moon cakes made at home are not only eaten by the family, but also given to some clan members, classmates and colleagues as gifts.

Speaking of which, the cakes sent out by Jia Yun's family are very popular during Chinese New Year.

This means that he is not short of money now, and his source of income is stable. Otherwise, he can earn a lot of money by selling pastries.

After sitting and talking for a while, the sky slowly darkened.

After dinner at night, they couldn't stay in the room.

Even if I got some ice cubes to cool down, it was still a bit stuffy.

Especially Xue Baochai, who was already pregnant with a child, had a hard time, and she was even more upset when encountering this sweltering weather.

Jia Yun felt sorry for her, so she suggested: "Why don't you go to sleep in the attic today, it's more windy over there."

"Will it be too much work?" Xue Baochai hesitated.

Jia Yun shook her head and said, "Don't worry about it, I ordered Xiren to take someone to arrange it."

"Let Ying'er and the others go with me!" Xue Baochai nodded.

Xiren was flustered all day long, but when he had something to do, he was extremely happy, and immediately took Qingwen and a few maidservants to the attic in the garden to make arrangements.

There are several rooms in the attic, not only Jia Yun and Xue Baochai can sleep there, but also aunts like Xi Ren, Mei Ren, and Qin Keqing can follow.

Of course, they need to bring their maids to decorate their rooms.

Soon, Xiren sent Qingwen back, saying that the room in the attic had been furnished.

So Jia Yun didn't delay, took Xue Baochai's little hand, and walked towards the garden.

As soon as they reached the back house, a little girl ran in panting and said that Xue Pan was here.

"Why don't you go there first, Baochai? I'll go see Brother Xue." Jia Yun looked at Xue Baochai and asked.

Xue Baochai shook her head and said: "Brother came so late, there must be something urgent, my family should go and listen too!"

(End of this chapter)