Wang Xinyu took the little girl home, and the mother saw her son bring back a dirty little girl, and asked, Wang Xinyu replied that it was a little beggar picked up by the soldiers during the conscription, and asked her to take a bath. In the future, let her be her sister as companions. Anyway, it's just a pair of dishes and chopsticks at home.

Wang is also a kind woman, and since she was an orphan brought back by her son, she agreed: "It's okay, you are also a general now, and your sister also needs a maid, so she will be a maid for your sister." ”

"Mother, let's choose a name for my sister!" Wang Xinyu thought of his sister who was getting older and smarter, and thought that he should also give her a name.

Since Wang Xinyu became the president, the family conditions have also improved a lot, my sister has eaten well, the originally yellowish skin has become watery, and the face has flesh, which looks more cute and delicate, and it is a beautiful embryo that is alive. My own conditions are good, my sister is not a lady, but she is also a small jasper.

"You come and choose a name, and by the way, give the little girl a name." Mother said.

Wang Xinyu racked his brains and thought for a long time, and finally came up with two names: "My sister will be called Wang Xiangyu in the future, and the little girl will be named Zhang Yan." ”

Originally, the maid could not use a name with a surname, but could only be called, for example, Qingwen, Mandarin Duck, Purple Juan, etc. But Wang Xinyu didn't treat this little girl as a maid, and her mother was born in poverty and didn't understand this, so the little girl used the name given by Wang Xinyu in the future.

Leaving the little girl at home and asking her sister to take her to take a bath, Wang Xinyu returned to the barracks alone.

After returning to the barracks, Wang Xinyu counted the recruits recruited by Xiamen Island in the past two days, and there were only a pitiful 437 people, including 94 children, that is, Xiamen Island was collected by him, and he could only pick out more than 300 people to be soldiers.

Among the more than 300 recruits, there are also teenagers who have been conscripted for the first time and have run away because they have failed to meet their training or who can't eat themselves, and this time they have returned to serve as soldiers. For this batch of recruits, after all, it is not to be on par with the pro-soldiers, Wang Xinyu appropriately relaxed the conditions, so that it is nothing for the first batch of soldiers who were screened out to come back as soldiers, and those soldiers who were screened out for the first time have gone through the most rigorous training, and now they are back, the training difficulty is not as strong as the first time, and it is easier for them to adapt, but it is faster to get started, and they only need to train for a period of time to go to battle.

Early the next morning, Wang Xinyu sailed to Kinmen with four large ships and more than a dozen small boats.

After two days on Kinmen Island, he eventually brought back only 226 recruits, including 55 orphans, and only 171 recruits were actually recruited.

The population of Kinmen is smaller than that of Xiamen, and those who can serve as soldiers have long been requisitioned by others, so Wang Xinyu tried his best to recruit so many people.

On the boat back, Wang Xinyu thought in his heart: he wants to develop, but the population is too small, what should he do? Now that Zheng Chenggong is alive, he can still take care of himself. But Wang Xinyu knows very well that in two years, Zheng Chenggong will be gone. Zheng Jing has no ambition and no talent, he only knows how to eliminate dissidents, and maybe he may even clear his head. When the time comes, he will definitely part ways with Zheng Jiajun. If you don't have enough strength, how can you stand on your own?

Thinking of going to Zhoushan first and then to Nanyang in a few days, Wang Xinyu had an idea: go to Zhoushan, let Zhang Shangshu help some disciples from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and also bring them over for training. When I went to Nanyang, I saw if I could recruit some new recruits from the Chinese in Nanyang, and then set up a training base in Nanyang.

Early the next morning, more than 500 new recruits began their training.

The eighty-seven soldiers left behind in the first batch of conscription, after a bloody battle, each of whom had killed someone, had become veterans. These veterans can bring new recruits now, and there is no need for Wang Xinyu to train himself.

The training of new recruits was carried out in accordance with Qi Jiguang's "Actual Record of Military Training," and the intensity of training was much easier than that of the first batch of pro-soldiers and later modern armies.

More than 500 recruits, plus 87 veterans, were named by Wang Xinyu: the second town of the Marine Division Infantry Battalion, which is the prototype of the future Marine Corps.

Wang Xinyu also confessed to Wu Haodong, who had just been promoted to general by himself: "Your sailors also have to train!" Because with me, you can't just hold on to the Daifuku boat with hard sails for the rest of your life, and you will have to learn soft sailing boats in the future! To control a soft sailing ship, you need to be extremely integral, and a boat is an organic whole! Dozens of cannons, or even hundreds of cannons, must ensure that one salvo will give the opponent the maximum damage! There are also sailors who operate soft sails, and the huge soft sails cannot be mastered by a few people, and all sail sailors need to cooperate! You haven't been trained in a queue before, and from today onwards, you're going to have to learn from scratch just like those recruits! Of course, your training intensity is much lower than that of the Land Division. ”

Compared with queue training, Wang Xinyu's requirements for water masters are mainly to be literate first. He demanded that every sailor learn to read and write, and for this reason he also recruited two Xiucai to teach sailors to read. Only after literacy, the sailor can truly become a navy, and can master a more powerful soft-sail cruiser, or even a future soft-sail battleship!

The sailors train in the morning and learn culture in the afternoon, and are taught the most basic literacy by Xiucai.

The orphans were also collected with the sailors, learning cultural knowledge in the afternoon and simple queues with the sailors in the morning.

After arranging everything, Wang Xinyu was ready to go to the craftsman's workshop to have a look.

At this moment, the messenger of the king of Yanping came again.

The envoy walked into the barracks and saw Wang Xinyu, and the two of them exchanged hands. Then the envoy pulled Wang Xinyu aside and whispered: "Lord Wang, the Franc machine you borrowed from the prince to make a fire on your own, and I brought it to you today." ”

Wang Xinyu hurriedly thanked: "Thank you for me, Lord Yanping!" ”

The messenger handed over a long object tightly wrapped in an oilcloth in his hand: "It's here, you can take it and see it first, I hope you can copy it as soon as possible." ”

After the envoy left, Wang Xinyu opened the oilcloth bag, revealing a seventy percent new flintlock spear inside.

This is a flintlock musket made in Portugal, the workmanship is very good, and the same as the Ming Dynasty's self-made bird gun, the barrel is also made of wrought iron, but Wang Xinyu, who is familiar with chemical industry and metal smelting, can see at a glance that this kind of barrel is not hammered out, but cast into an iron pillar, and the barrel drilled out with a boring machine. Because steel technology was not developed at that time, the caliber of the gun was very large, almost two centimeters, and the weight of the bullet was as fast as one small tael. Disassembling the bolt, there are springs, rams, flints and other parts inside, the structure is a bit complicated, Wang Xinyu studied for a while before drawing a sketch.

installed the gun again, and then Wang Xinyu went to find Chen Shuijie and handed him the flintlock pistol.

"Craftsman Chen, look at this kind of self-generated fire, can you imitate it?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Chen Shuijie took the flintlock pistol, took it in his hand and looked at it several times.

Wang Xinyu said again: "I have drawn the structural drawing, and then I will give you this self-generated fire gun, you can take it apart and see, it should be able to imitate it, right?" ”

Chen Shuijie was very conflicted at this time, he felt confident that the imitation was successful, but he felt a little difficult: "Back to my lord, it is not difficult to imitate a self-generated firebolt, but the processing is too slow, and the spring, as well as some small parts inside, must be carefully built." This canopy is also better than our bird's canopy, and it looks much stronger. It would take too much silver to make such a self-generated fire. It only costs a few taels of silver to make a bird's gun, but it is estimated that it will cost dozens of taels or even hundreds of silver to build a self-generated fire. The silver that made one of these self-made fires was enough to make many birds. ”

"It doesn't matter how much money you spend, it's good if you can copy it!" Wang Xinyu said.

"Okay then, let's go back and try it."

In the morning, after going around the gunpowder workshop and the blacksmith workshop, he asked his soldiers to lead a horse, and Wang Xinyu rode a horse to the construction site of the artillery factory.

When they arrived at the construction site and saw Zhu Jing, the two chatted a little and looked at the construction progress of the gun factory. Wang Xinyu seemed to remember something, and suddenly asked: "Those fake Tartars and real Tartars are still honest, right?" ”

"Lord Hui, these Tartars are quite honest, especially those fake Tartars, who work very hard. A few days ago, a real Tartar was dissatisfied and wanted to gather a crowd to make trouble, so several fake Tartars came to report the news. We dealt with it in time, and the real Tartar didn't incite a few Tartars, but the three real Tartars wanted to make trouble with him. Later, we beheaded the real tartar, and the other three real tartars to be echoed, and we were honest after two days of starvation. Zhu Jing replied.

Wang Xinyu nodded his head: "Let's go, let's go see those tartars." ”

When I arrived at the quarry, I saw those Qing prisoners shirtless, wearing only a pair of tattered shorts, sweating like rain carrying stones. The braids on the heads of the Qing prisoners had long been cut off, and a little short blue hair grew in front of their heads, and a small handful of hair in the back was relatively long, which looked funny.

The head of the troublemaker who was executed a few days ago was still hanging at the gate of the village to deter those banner men.

However, after they became honest, they were treated a little better, and they were able to eat a thicker soup, including wheat bran cakes, and occasionally a meal of rice soup, and a black flour bun made of buckwheat or barley. I can eat a little more and work more vigorously.

When leaving the quarry and walking on the road, Wang Xinyu thought to himself: In the future, the gun factory can still make a little flintlock pistol, and the number is not large, it is good to make more than a dozen or dozens of guns every month.

At noon, in a small restaurant near the gun factory, Wang Xinyu gave a banquet.

After lunch, Wang Xinyu returned to the barracks in the afternoon.

On the training ground, the recruits are drilling, led by veterans.

In the south of the fifth lunar month, the climate is very hot and unbearable. The recruits stood under the scorching sun in the afternoon to train, and the uncomfortable feeling can be imagined. However, these honest peasant disciples, when they harvested and ploughed in the summer in the past, they also came over like this, and they were used to enduring hardships, and they all endured the scorching sun for military salaries, and honestly obeyed the commanders of the veterans.

It's just that the fly in the ointment is that many recruits can't even distinguish between left and right, and the queue is also very non-standard.

The veterans didn't bother talking to those recruits, and when they saw that something was wrong, they just shouted and kicked and beaten, but they couldn't do it, so they were punished from the queue, went outside to run around the martial arts arena, and when they were tired of running, they came back and continued to stand.

At the request of Wang Xinyu, the sailors who had always been lazy in the sailors were also learning cultural knowledge in the barracks in the afternoon after completing the morning queue training. The leader is the new general Wu Haodong.

Suddenly, Wang Xinyu thought of one more thing: among the five hundred recruits, there will be 100 musketeers, and a sharpshooter is needed to be an instructor. Isn't Gong Xiaoda the best sharpshooter? Let's find Chen Python to borrow someone.

After making up his mind, Wang Xinyu went to find Chen Python.

Seeing Wang Xinyu coming up, Chen Python patted him on the shoulder as soon as he saw him: "Okay, you Wang Yu!" The sailors you practice, the queues they walk, the formations they take, are more hard than my land divisions! Your sailor is going ashore to fight? ”

"Big brother is right!" Wang Xinyu smiled and arched his hand, "The recruits recruited by the junior brother are the Lu Division Battalion of the Second Town of the Water Division, and they will go ashore to fight in the future." ”

"Brother, your soldiers are indeed good soldiers! But how come there are so many children in your sailor? ”

"They are all orphans, brother, I recruited them to the sailor first, and trained with the officers and soldiers of the sailor. When they grow up, they will be assigned either a water division or a land division according to their personal ability. ”

Chen Python seemed to understand something: "These children have been training since they were young, and when they grow up, they will definitely be invincible warriors with one hundred and hundred!" ”

Wang Xinyu smiled, and then turned to the topic: "Brother Chen, that Gong Xiaoda here is very accurate, brother, can I borrow him to my water master?" When you run out, I'll give it back to you. ”

Chen Python laughed: "I'll just say, why did you come to me if you have nothing to do?" As the saying goes, if you have nothing to do, you will not go to the Three Treasures Palace, and you are here today to borrow someone. ”

"Big brother, the younger brother lacks a bird gun commander here, then Gong Xiaoda's marksmanship is accurate, he is fully qualified for this position."

"They are all good brothers, what do you have to borrow someone! That's it, then Gong Xiaoda, if you like it, brother, I'll give him to you! ”

"Thank you, big brother, for making it happen!" Wang Xinyu hurriedly gave up.

"Don't rush to thank you, I have one more condition!" Chen Python laughed and said, "The conditions are very simple, in the future, your blacksmith workshop will also have a cannon factory, with good armor, treasure knives, bird guns or iron cannons, send a little to my brother." ”

Wang Xinyu took off the treasure knife from his waist and handed it over with both hands: "What the eldest brother said is right, I want someone, and I should also give the eldest brother a gift." This treasure knife will be given to the eldest brother! ”

I had long heard that Wang Xinyu's treasure knife was extremely sharp, and when he saw that he was going to give the treasure knife to himself, Chen Python didn't believe his eyes: "This knife really wants to be given to me?" ”

Wang Xinyu showed a firm look in his eyes: "Really! ”

"Then you're welcome! Hahaha! Chen Python took the sword with joy.

At this time, someone from outside came to report: "Two adults, two women on horseback came outside the camp, who looked like young ladies from the official eunuch's family, and said by name that they were looking for Lord Wang." ”

"Two women looking for you?" Chen Python leaned forward and leaned back with a smile, "You kid has lost your peach blossom luck, why don't you hurry up and take a look?" ”

Before Wang Xinyu walked out of the gate, he heard a woman's voice scolding outside: "Wang Yu, you wolf-hearted thing!" Don't hide from being a shrunken turtle! Get out of here and see my aunt! ”