Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Zhao Gan read the writing on the ground again, and then said cautiously: "Brother Cheng, I'll just say it!"

"What nonsense? If you tell me, just say it!" Cheng Niu's face became even darker.

Zhao Gan asked hesitantly: "Brother Cheng! Then I really said it."

Seeing Zhao Gan's cautious look, Cheng Niu felt a little guilty.But people can't fall apart, so Cheng Niu pretended not to care, and said, "Tell me! Which word did I write wrong? Tell the truth, and I won't be angry."

Zhao Gan looked at Cheng Niu's face, summoned up his courage and replied, "It's not one word, but three mistakes."

The spectators were silent for a while, and then there was a deafening burst of laughter. Cheng Niu immediately became angry from embarrassment, and he yelled at Zhao Gan: "You have only learned how to read for a few days, kid? How many words can you know? Do you still know?" Right or wrong! Well, my old Cheng is also tired, and I have to go back to the house to rest. It’s gone! It’s gone!” After he finished speaking, he was about to wipe off the writing on the ground with the sole of his shoe, ready to destroy the corpse .

But how could Hu Zhuotou on the side let Cheng Niu pass the test easily? He immediately grabbed Cheng Niu and said, "Don't! Let us learn it too. Brother, please work hard, go into the room and take out the literacy book and read it. Can't you understand it at a glance?"

Seeing Cheng Niu struggling to break free, the soldiers worked even harder.Several people surrounded Cheng Niu to prevent him from getting close to the writing on the ground, and ran to the barracks alone.

After a while, the person who went to the barracks brought the literacy book, and everyone compared it word by word, and when they found a typo, there was a burst of laughter.In the end, no more, no less, exactly three words were wrong.

Cheng Niu's face turned pale, but when he rolled his eyes, he immediately wanted to change the subject: "Great boy is not bad! It's only been a month since I've been able to read, and I've learned a lot. Tell Brother Cheng, the literacy book How many characters have you learned?"

The curiosity of those onlookers also aroused, and they all pricked up their ears to listen to Zhao Gan's answer.

"Almost all learned." Zhao Gan replied

"Huh?" Everyone showed expressions of disbelief.Because the Runing Army's literacy book has five hundred characters.In less than a month, Zhao Gan was able to learn the same thing, which is a bit unreal.

Hu Zhuotou also asked: "Have you really learned everything?"

But before Zhao Gan could answer, Cheng Niu immediately stepped forward and said, "What? Are you not convinced? Brother Ganzi is already smart, and I will teach him. What's so great about learning such broken characters?"

"It's nothing special." Hu Shuitou immediately retorted, "Big Niu Pi! I admit that Brother Ganzi is smart. But what does his fast literacy have to do with you? Just at your level? You still teach? Think about it first. Will I pass the cultural assessment!"

at this time.Their company commander Meng passed by with a red face. He saw Cheng Niu in the crowd and immediately said happily: "Cheng Niu! Congratulations! You have jumped over the Xiaolongmen this time. It's just that the results of the cultural assessment are not good enough. But I interceded with the team leader, so this time you have also been admitted!"

"Ah!" Cheng Niu was immediately overjoyed.He yelled and hugged Company Commander Meng and said, "Commander, thank you! You are my brother!"

"A treat! A treat!" Although they were still bickering just now.But Hu Zhuotou and the others were still happy that Cheng Niu had passed the examination.

"Don't do this!" Company Commander Meng struggled to break free from Cheng Niu's embrace, and his goosebumps were about to rise. "This time, only three of our company passed the assessment. I also asked the team leader. Waiting for you After the training of the Teaching Corps is completed, they all return to our company to serve. Cheng Niu! Don't have diarrhea there, if you don't perform well, you won't pass. Then see how I come to fuck you!"

In the Runing Army, officers also have the same assessment as soldiers. One of the most important items is to see how many people in their own troops are transferred to the teaching corps and personal soldiers.So this time Company Commander Meng himself will get a lot of extra points.

certainly.The various troops are also scrambling for the officers and non-commissioned officers assigned by the teaching legion and the personal army.Therefore, it has become a customary thing for each army to transfer personnel back to its own army.

But Cheng Niu immediately turned bitter, and begged, "Company commander! I want to go to the cavalry!"

"Dreaming!" Company Commander Meng's face suddenly became serious, "If you Cheng Niu is called Cheng Ma, I will let you go. Since you have the word 'niu', you will be a person on the ground all your life." Life."

Then Company Commander Meng gave Cheng Niu a candied date: "What do you think? You are not familiar with the cavalry, when will you be able to make a difference? Why don't you go back to our old army. I promise here, as long as you come back , After a year or so, I will recommend you to jump to the Great Dragon Gate. And who cares about you so much outside?"

Now that Company Commander Meng had spoken to this extent, Cheng Niu was silent.Suddenly he remembered something, and immediately pulled Zhao Gan to recommend it to Company Commander Meng: "Company Commander, you always know this dare. This kid is amazing! Within a month, he had read the words in the literacy book, I recognize a woman who is close to ten."

"Oh?" Company Commander Meng's eyes lit up. When he saw the literacy book in the hands of the soldiers next to him, he immediately took it over and flipped through a page, then read a sentence and said, "Zhao Gan, write down what I just read. come out."

Cheng Niu immediately handed the bamboo pole in his hand to Zhao Gan. After Zhao Gan gave a military salute to Company Commander Meng, he took the bamboo pole and wrote this sentence on the ground.

Seeing Zhao Gan writing, Company Commander Meng became more and more happy as he watched, and finally endured until Zhao Gan finished writing, Company Commander Meng immediately looked up to the sky and smiled: "Hahaha——! I didn't expect God to send us so many words. a talent."

Then Company Commander Meng looked left and right, and immediately pointed to Hu Zhuotou and ordered: "Hu Qiang! Don't stay in the kitchen team all the time. Come out for training, and try to jump the small dragon gate next time. Also, help me hurry up I will keep an eye on Zhao Gan as I practice, and try to let him master all the 'attacks' in the shortest possible time. Haha! I can pick up a treasure this time! I will have to see the expressions of Lao Yang and Lao Lu at that time. ah?"

When recruiting soldiers, except for most of the non-commissioned officers who have reached the assessment scores, a small number of places will be reserved for the whole army and local recruitment each time.For such students, in addition to the necessary physical conditions, the cultural assessment takes the bulk.And this kind of cultural assessment is not at the level of Cheng Niu's literacy class, at least it is equivalent to the Chinese level of modern high schools.

Of course, this kind of students also need to be recommended by the chief officer of the army and the local gentry who have good friends with the Runing Army.However, due to the influence of civility and martial arts, no one who is a child student or above will apply for the exam, so the difficulty of the cultural assessment is not too high.Therefore, Company Commander Meng wanted to train Zhao Gan to participate in this kind of assessment.

Although the admission ratio of this kind of assessment is quite low, and the training time of this kind of students in the personal army is much longer, but after all, they are jumping over the dragon's gate, so Company Commander Meng will not let go of such an opportunity.

After returning to Runing Mansion, although Wu Shigong and his family lived comfortably every night, he was still too busy with trivial matters during the day.After finally finding a free time, Wu Shigong asked Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli to have a drink in his house.

But after drinking for three rounds, the three of them naturally talked about business.

Xue Yongli said: "Grandpa! There is no doubt that the expansion of the army is small this time. But the cost of the Navy and Marine Corps is a bit higher. With this money, our Runing Army can expand two or three regiments, right? Is it a waste?"

Wu Shigong replied with a smile: "In our Ming Dynasty, the north was dominated by cavalry, and the south relied on waterways to transport troops. The place where our Runing Army is staying is exactly where the north and the south meet."

"And our Runing Army now has two major enemies. Let's talk about the Shaanxi bandits in front of us first. They have activities in our north and south regions. This time our Runing Army fought very well in the north, but there are so many in the south. Shui Dao, our Runing Army is a little bit powerless."

"Although our Runing Army wiped out more than [-] Shan bandits this time, most of them were old and weak, and they didn't hurt the Shan bandits at all. The Shan bandits are also quite cunning, and they put these old and weak behind their backs." , if something goes wrong, his main force will slip."

"If we have a navy and marine force that arrives behind the Shaanxi bandits by ship, then we will definitely achieve greater results, and it will be much less difficult for us to wipe out the Shaanxi bandits in the future. Therefore, I think the navy and marines The number of people is still too small, it is better to have a legion."

"Look at the Tartars. Although the Tartars are still far away from us, we will meet sooner or later. No matter how you fight against the Tartars, their cavalry has an advantage. At most, it is to repel the Tartars, and it must be very difficult to pursue and encircle them."

"Besides, the Tartars are not fools. Once or twice they may suffer from our firearms. If they happen more times, they will definitely find a way to deal with us. That's why the current Navy and Marine Corps are fighting in the inland river. In the future, my vision is to let them run to the sea."

"If we go through the sea, if the Tartars enter the customs again like last time when we were kings, we can look for opportunities to land in Shandong, Tianjin and other places by sea, and let the navy and marine regiment intercept the retreat of the Tartars. And our Runing Army If we press it further, we can get better results. Even our Runing Army can send surprise soldiers directly to the hometown of Liaodong to fight the Tartars, to encircle Wei and save Zhao."

"However, this topic is far away. It is better to cultivate the seeds of our navy and marine regiment first! But no matter what, the role of our navy will become more and more important in the future, so we have to grit our teeth. The Navy and Marine Corps made huge investments. That’s why I sent Zhang Rubao and the others to Zheng Guerrilla.”

Hearing that Wu Shigong is no longer limited to the current battle situation, but is planning chess pieces for future hegemony, Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli have no objections. (to be continued..)