Jiang Zhiping was originally strong, but because of his injury, the wound had just healed, and Li Rui, who served as an instructor, asked him to rest for a few days and not to participate in training, but he did not listen. Now, Jiang Zhiping feels that he regrets it a little, and originally thought that as a veteran, it should be very simple to participate in this recruit training. But after you start training, how can it be so hard?

Every morning, Yin has to get up at three o'clock, which is equivalent to getting up at half past four in the morning. After getting up, assemble, and then go for a ten-mile trail run.

Trail running is actually nothing to people in this era, when there were no roads, railways, no trains and cars. The long journey, including the entry of scholars into Beijing to take the exam, all depends on the two legs of people, and the people who can afford to hire cars and boats are after all a small number of rich people.

But the next training is a bit boring: standing queue training.

Every day after breakfast, that is, at 7 o'clock in the morning, I start to stand, and then listen to the instructor's orders, and train in standing upright, taking a break, aligning forward, aligning to the left, aligning to the right, turning left, turning right, walking in unison, trotting in unison, horizontal formation, column, assembly, disbandment, and reporting the number.

Compared with some recruits who have just entered the escort team, Jiang Zhiping is good.

Many recruits couldn't even tell the difference between left and right, and when everyone turned left, some turned to the right, and as a result, they came face to face with their comrades. When they saw the recruits who had made a mistake, the foreign soldiers who were wearing bright red uniforms, tall and tall, and holding leather whips in their hands unceremoniously whipped down.

Although Jiang Zhiping can tell the difference between left and right, he has to stand under the scorching sun every day from morning to afternoon, not to mention how uncomfortable it feels.

In the autumn of Borneo Island, the sun is still so poisonous, just like the summer in Jiangnan. Stand in the sun and be exposed, and no sweat is allowed to wipe or do anything else. By the end of the morning's training, the clothes had already been fished out of the water. Change into clean clothes, a training session in the afternoon, it gets wet again, and you have to change it again.

And General Wang's requirements for hygiene are very strict, they are simply harsh: dirty clothes should be washed off in time, and they should be bathed at least twice a day.

If you make a mistake in training, you will be punished for running around the barracks.

One circle around the barracks is close to two miles, and the soldiers who are punished must run at least ten laps, and those who cannot complete it are not allowed to eat.

Sandwiched between the training cohorts is the construction of new barracks, which are currently occupied by tents. According to Wang Xinyu's request, the recruits had to cut down trees, dig trenches, and build barracks.

In the afternoon, the training reached the time of Shen, and then it was two hours of cutting wood, digging trenches, repairing earth cities, and building barracks.

At night, when I lie in bed, I feel as if I have shed a layer of skin. All the recruits have been tanned, and some have begun to shed their skin.

Wang Xinyu personally led his own soldiers to inspect the tents one by one, and asked the recruits to puncture the blisters with needles.

"General, we're all soldiers, right?" Seeing Wang Xinyu come in, Jiang Zhiping raised the question in his heart.

Wang Xinyu looked at Jiang Zhiping and told him with certainty: "Yes! You're all soldiers! ”

"Then why do we still need to train to dig trenches, build earthen cities, and build camps?"

"That's a good question!" Wang Xinyu sat down on the bed of a non-commissioned officer, "Today I will talk to you about the difference between the company's escort team and the official army!" In the company's escort team, the auxiliary soldiers are reduced as much as possible and the combat soldiers are increased. Therefore, the soldiers also need to undertake the work of digging trenches and building fortifications. As for the transportation of supplies, it is directly handled by the company's transportation department, so that we can reduce a large part of the auxiliaries. And when besieging a city, building siege equipment is the task of the craftsmen accompanying the army. Of course, there are still auxiliary soldiers, such as cutting down trees, pushing carts forward during siege, or digging tunnels to carry out cave attacks, all of which must be completed by auxiliary soldiers. However, one thing is that in wartime, whether it is the use of the company's transport team or the recruitment of craftsmen with the army, the company must pay wages. ”

In this way, everyone understands that because it is a company and a money-making organization, it is impossible to raise so many auxiliary soldiers in normal times. Fewer auxiliaries also reduces the company's overhead.

"The soldiers want to build their own fortifications, so after the fortifications are built, will they still have the strength to fight?" Jiang Zhiping asked another question.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "The construction of fortifications is in turn, after you have fortifications, you are sweating, but the opponent has to pay the price of blood!" Because it is much safer and less laborious for you to fight the enemy by hiding in the fortifications than when the enemy attacks! ”

After a few days of acclimatization, every evening there is a cultural class, where all the recruits have to learn.

At first, the soldiers were very resistant to learning, but Wang Xinyu told them: "If you want to learn to use artillery, you must have cultural knowledge!" To learn various tactics, calculate the number of enemies and food and forage, these require cultural knowledge! To develop a strategic plan against the enemy, cultural knowledge is also needed! If you are going to fight at sea, you need more cultural knowledge! ”

Xiucai Yang Runqing didn't know how to farm, and originally went to a gold mine of a Chinese businessman, but he was fired for squid in a few days. At this time, he couldn't even eat. As a result, seeing that Wang Xinyu was recruiting a teacher here, Yang Runqing ran over to apply.

Hearing that it was to teach those big-headed soldiers, Yang Runqing regretted that his face turned blue: "No! They can't read a single word, so it's too difficult to teach them to read, right? ”

Wang Xinyu told Yang Runqing: "Your task is very simple, I don't want them to be famous, as long as the soldiers can be literate!" ”

"General Wang, how can you teach so many students to read and write by one person in a late life?" Yang Runqing's heart relaxed, but he was still worried that so many people would not be able to teach.

saw Wang Xinyu take out a blackboard and chalk, and told Yang Runqing: "This is simple!" You write on the blackboard with chalk and teach them to read! ”

"Are they going to learn to write? We don't have that many brushes, do we? ”

"You don't need a brush, just teach them how to use a quill pen." Wang Xinyu made many quill pens by himself. This was learned from foreigners, when Westerners had two kinds of graphite pens and quill pens, while Chinese liked to use ink, so Wang Xinyu chose quills. Because the goose feathers are relatively large and hard, they are suitable for making quill pens and the cost is low. Besides, learning to write with a hard pen is much easier than learning to write with a brush.

Pan Ying also became a teacher in the barracks, and in addition to teaching the soldiers literacy, she mainly taught the geography of Nanyang.

In order to stimulate morale, Wang Xinyu also made up a poem himself: If we don't go to war, the enemy kills us with a butcher's knife, and he will point to our head and say: Look, this is a slave!

Although the training was very hard, life in the barracks was guaranteed, and the rice and white flour were full every day, there was meat to eat, and there were two taels of silver to get every month. But even so, there are still many people who have been screened by the company's escort team because they are not qualified.

For those who were screened out, Wang Xinyu gave them two ways: the first way was to go to other departments of the company to do things; The second path is self-employment, such as digging into wasteland or mining. Most of them chose to work for Nanyang to get a job, such as a dock worker, sailor, porter, or to work on a Nanyang company's construction site.

Preparations have already begun for several large construction sites of the Nanyang Company, one of which is the construction of a barrage dam on the Capuas Mountains in the upper reaches of the Capuas River, where cement, glass, brick and ceramics factories will be built. Using the energy provided by hydraulics, the furnace can be supplied with wind power, the furnace temperature can be increased, and cement and glass can be fired. As for the manufacturing methods of cement and glass, Wang Xinyu knows how to make them, as long as he leaves them to the Pan family to do when the time comes. In Pontianak City, a textile factory and garment factory are being built, and the Pan family has money, which they are not afraid of not being able to recover if they invest it. In the Pontianak port area, a shipyard was built for the construction of merchant ships and fishing boats.

Another big construction site is in Dingguo Bay. Some people who sign up to work in the company will be taken to Dingguo Bay by Wang Xinyu. Dingguo Bay, there will be a steel mill and an arsenal, and new cities and ports will be built, all of which will require a lot of manpower.

As for Pan Ying's plan to go to Annam to mine iron ore and coal mines, it will have to wait until she returns to Manila to discuss with Pan Liu. Wang Xinyu doesn't have so much money in his hands, and he can't do so many things at all, all of which need the Pan family's money.

"To do so many projects, just our Pan family, we don't have so much money!" Pan Ying said helplessly, "I have to wait for grandpa to ask them to invest, if they are willing to invest in shares, then these plans will not be a problem." ”

Wang Xinyu also knows that although the Pan family has a lot of money, it is impossible to complete so many projects with the strength of the Pan family alone, which requires the investment of Chinese businessmen in Nanyang to build a real super large company that can compete with the country.

In fact, Pan Ying was very willing to let her grandfather invest all the money in Nanyang because she saw a bright future for Nanyang Company. In the dead of night, Pan Ying always plays with a small clay puppet she has made. If you look closely, you can find that the little clay puppet is very similar to Wang Xinyu.

"Prince Wang, it's a pity that you have a fiancée! If not, how nice it would be! Pan Ying gently touched the clay puppet.

In real history, Pan Liu, because his son and grandson were very incompetent, finally did not agree with the old man to inherit the inheritance to his granddaughter on the issue of inheritance. In the end, the Pan family was torn apart, and Pan Ying later married a Chinese businessman from Java surnamed Li. And the Pan family, those losers soon lost their property. After Pan Ying married on Java Island, the Li family developed into a wealthy merchant on Java Island with her help, but later encountered the Dutch in Indonesia massacring the Chinese, so Pan Ying had to go to Singapore with the descendants of the Li family. Although the Li family is rich, but the wealth is not more than three generations, a few decades later, after Pan Ying's death, the descendants of the Li family have lost their property again, such a strange woman, has not left a reputation in history, and the accumulated wealth has been ruined by future generations. But Pan Ying left good genes to the descendants of the Li family, and more than 100 years later, the descendants of the Li family turned over again, some became rich people in Singapore, and some became important figures in Singapore's political circles.

On the island of Borneo, farmers are digging out wasteland. With the protection of the company's escort team, after repelling several attacks by cannibals, those cannibals in the mountains no longer dared to attack the Han people who were pioneering the wasteland.

Jiang Zhiping's father and the villagers were very happy, because the Nanyang Company was different from the original government, the company's escort team protected the safety of the peasants, but did not levy harsh taxes on them, and did not have to serve forced labor, and there were no county ordinances or officials to deprive them of their income, and the income from the development of wasteland was all the peasants themselves. The grain that could not be eaten could be sold to the Nanyang Company, and livestock and poultry could also be raised, and then sold to the Nanyang Company. The company buys agricultural products from farmers according to the purchase price.

However, the villagers did not know that in fact, they sold agricultural products, and Nanyang Company actually made money. On the surface, the peasants do not pay taxes, but the agricultural products they sell, the daily necessities they buy, and the agricultural tools they buy are actually equivalent to handing over part of their income to Nanyang Company.

In addition, Nanyang Company has also set up courts, police and other institutions in Pontianak City to settle civil disputes, handle criminal cases, etc. Nanyang Company became the de facto government of Borneo.

married her daughter to Jiang Zhiping's Aunt Liu, and she was worried at this time: because she was a woman after all, and her labor ability was limited. Watching others happily reclaim one wasteland after another under the protection of the escorts, she could only stare dryly.

At this time, her daughter brought her good news: Nanyang Company encourages the breeding industry, and the mother can raise pigs, chickens and ducks, so that there is no need for too much land, as long as there is a farm, Nanyang Company can provide loans. As for the grain and feed for raising livestock and poultry, you can buy it from Nanyang.