Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 78
"What? That fat man?" Ran Yu felt that Chen Ying was angry from the bottom of his heart. Chen Ying gave Ran Yu a bad impression. He first stole Ji Yunniang's chicken porridge, and then knocked Gao Jingzong unconscious. Time also ate Ji Yunniang's pet dog, causing Ji Yunniang to cry for several days.At this moment, Ran Yu wanted to take Chen Ying's skin off.As soon as Chen Yingranyu heard it, he bluffed: "No, absolutely not!"

Gao Jingzong found that this proposal did not even have a voice of agreement.

Gao Jingzong said with a wry smile: "Do you not agree that Chen Ying should be our Lieutenant and join the army?"

"This?" Although Ji Kan had a bad impression of Chen Ying, he also knew that there was a shortage of talented people in the Xiangxian Valley. In addition to the people of Tianjiabao, there were nearly 5 people under his jurisdiction at this time. Together less than 200 people.Among them, dead army officers accounted for more than two-thirds.The rest are almost all under Lu Yonghua as accountants and notes.

To be precise, Chen Ying does not belong to the Immortal Valley. Gao Jingzong has always caught Chen Ying, a living treasure, and used it to death. Chen Ying was eaten to death by Gao Jingzong, and every time he drove ducks to the shelves However, Chen Ying managed to get things done.Especially this time when the Tian family army was sent as an envoy to lure the Tian family army's marshal Long Zhi and others, Chen Ying contributed a lot.

"I agree," he said after pondering for a moment.

Ji Kan agreed, but Ran Yu had no choice.I had to sit down angrily.

Feng Lei said: "It's just that we have too few talents, I'm afraid we won't be able to open up our mansion as the governor wishes."

Gao Jingzong said: "This is easy to handle. If we don't have talents, we will cultivate them ourselves. Although the governor of the capital is not well-educated, he is talented, but it is still possible to train some people who are proficient in literature and ink!"

Ji Kan was not very interested in the so-called Jianghuai Governor. His most important question was the army. He asked, "Our dead army now has more than [-] surrendered soldiers from the Tian Family Army. Can it be expanded to the army?"

Gao Jingzong said: "We don't count the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the dead army. The old, weak, sick and disabled in the soldiers of the Tian family army are all laid off. How many people are there?"

Feng Lei said: "There are 40 soldiers who surrendered, and there are more than [-] young and strong people between the ages of [-] and [-]. Excluding the old, the so-called weak are just long-term malnutrition. If the food can keep up, they will be at most one You can develop tendons in just a month."

Gao Jingzong said: "More than 200 young and strong men were drawn from the Valley of the Immortals. The whole army of the dead army was expanded into five parts and ten songs, with more than [-] people in the army. Tu, Liu Meng, and Su Gu were promoted. In addition, [-] soldiers were drawn from the old and weak soldiers of the Tian family army, and [-] people were drawn from the Banished Immortal Valley to form a baggage song."

Ran Yu said leisurely: "What about my youth army?"

"It's the same expansion!" Gao Jingzong said: "The dead army is our front-line troops. In case a soldier is killed or injured, it will not work if there is no follow-up to replenish the force. The Youth Army will draw out 12 to 16-year-old soldiers from Tianjiabao. Boys, how much is counted, all join the Boys Army, each boy soldier will be supplemented with a ration, and each boy soldier will be given three buckets of food every month!"

In ancient times, half-aged children like the Boys Army were actually the main force in the work of the family. If they were not allowed to help the family with work, they would definitely attract complaints.Although three buckets of food per month is not much, and each year, one person is less than four shi of food, but half-grown boys eat poor old people, so that it can also reduce the burden on the families of the young soldiers.

Ji Kan asked, "What about the soldiers of the dead army? Do we also have to pay them?"

"Send it, why not?" Gao Jingzong said: "Our Lu Changshi was afraid that we would be hungry, so he bought 50 shi of grain from the Xin'an Business League. Let alone we have less than 5 people, we have 10 yuan. Thousands of people can eat for half a year. The soldiers of the dead army each have five buckets of food and one liter of salt per month. The auxiliary soldiers eat [-]% of the food and wages of the soldiers!"

Everyone was overjoyed upon hearing this.When the news reached Tian's army's descending army, all the descendants were also elated and cheered thunderously.

However, they soon stopped laughing.Six shi grains and twelve liters of salt per year are really not easy to get.The dead army adopts the method of matching old and new, dilutes the surrendered troops of the Tian family army, and conducts serious training with the backbone of the dead army as the pacesetter.Ten kilometers of armed cross-country in the morning, followed by two hours of formation training, one hour of military posture in the afternoon, and another hour of assassination training.

And it was rain or shine, these soldiers of the Tian family army who were used to being loose at ordinary times couldn't bear the hardship at all, and many of them were so tired that they wanted to scold their mothers.However, they were unwilling to leave the collective of the Army of the Dead.

The main reason is that they are reluctant to part with the ten mu of land of the dead soldiers, especially the occupation of Tianjiabao and the 30 mu of paddy fields under the name of Tian Bao.One child per family is enough for the family to live comfortably.People who are used to hard times cherish this opportunity very much, not to mention suffering, let them not be afraid of death!
"Crackling..." With the sound of firecrackers, the Xianxian Academy in Banxian Valley officially opened.There was no gunpowder in this era, so the so-called fireworks and firecrackers naturally did not appear, but the wise ancients cut the bamboo into sections and put them in the fire to burn, making a crackling sound.Later, people discovered that nitrate can support combustion and make the sound of firecrackers louder, so people stuffed some nitrate into firecrackers.

About three or four hundred children aged eight to 12 happily walked into the Xianxian Academy.But what made Gao Jingzong very helpless was that almost all of them were boys, and there were very few girls.A rough count shows that there are less than 30 of these girls, or even less than one-tenth of them.

These children lined up and walked slowly into the classroom. The desks and stools in the classroom were all newly made by the workshop, and they still smelled of tung oil.When Gao Jingzong entered the classroom, the originally extremely noisy classroom immediately became completely silent.These three or four hundred children stood up neatly and bowed to Gao Jingzong: "Hello, sir!"

Gao Jingzong said: "Children, please sit down!"

At this time Gao Jingzong hadn't come to print the Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, and Thousand Character Classic. Naturally, the first batch of students in the Banished Immortal Valley didn't even have textbooks.

However, Gao Jingzong produced a blackboard and chalk, two low-tech teaching aids.Gao Jingzong wrote a big herringbone with chalk on the blackboard.

Gao Jingzong said: "Children, the first character I teach you today is called ren. This character has only two strokes, one stroke and one stroke, forming a human character."

As he spoke, Gao Jingzong turned to face the students, picked up the hem of his shirt and tied it around his waist, spread his legs wide apart, raised his chest and raised his head, and folded his arms with his arms in a very high-spirited posture.He said loudly: "People stand upright, this is a person! Remember, a person is a person who stands upright!"

The little heads of the whole room kept moving, like the spring breeze blowing the grass, it was too simple and vivid, and they knew this word immediately.As for the pun in Gao Jingzong's words, they naturally couldn't understand it, but Gao Jingzong wanted to instill first and then understand. It's not nice to say, this is called... psychological hint.

(End of this chapter)