It's finally time to leave Kaifeng Mansion!

Although he dragged his family with his mouth, Wu Haogu still maintained a vigorous and resolute style, and did not take a slow official boat, but chose a carriage and horse. On the ninth day of September in the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, he left Kaifeng Mansion in a mighty way.

In addition to Pan Qiaolian, Ximen Qing, Olga, Du Wenyu and other family members and female friends, there were also the guards led by Zhou Yunqing and Tong Guan and his entourage who went to and from the Guoxin Office, as well as Su Zhe's son Su Shi.

Zhou Tong's son has now replaced Lin Wancheng and Lin Chong's father and son, and has become the captain of Wu Haogu's guard. His martial arts are the true inheritance of Zhou Tong, and he is by no means under the father and son of the Lin family. And he also has a skill that the Lin family father and son are not very good at - by the standards of later generations, he is a first-class fitness coach.

Uh, the Royal Boxing Gym managed by his father is probably the No. 1 gym in Kaifeng Prefecture, right?

In short, Zhou Yunqing has a lot of research on the method of "boiling strength" - this is a science!

According to Zhou Yunqing, "boiling strength" is not only hard training, but also being able to control yourself. What to eat? What to drink? What time do you sleep? What time does it start? How many women are on? You have to have a strict plan, and you can't mess around with your temperament.

Otherwise, even if you have a body of brute strength, it won't be long before you will be exhausted by wealth and gentleness - Wu Haogu is a little indulgent now! And Tong Guan is very good and very self-disciplined! So a lot of people are still in good physical condition.

In addition, in Zhou Yunqing's view, the real elite soldiers must not be "indulged", and it is absolutely not okay to go home every day to warm the kang head of the wife and children. Like the sumo wrestlers and fighters in the gym, they have to be circled most of the time, and only a few days of the month can they be released to reunite with their families.

Moreover, when reuniting with your family, you must also abstain from alcohol, and you must not be so happy, otherwise you will have to gain a lot of weight when you return to the camp on vacation, and how troublesome it will be to practice again?

Like those guys in "Water Margin" who come with dozens of catties of beef and how many tanks of wine at every turn, it's good if there is nothing wrong with their health, and they still want to break into Kyushu? That's impossible!

"Brother Zhou," Tong Guan, who was walking side by side with Wu Haogu and Zhou Yunqing, was a little panicked, so he chatted with Zhou Yunqing about military training, "According to the rules of your family, wouldn't my Great Song Dynasty have no elite soldiers?" ”

"Why not?" Zhou Yunqing said with a smile, "Aren't there two or three hundred in the Imperial Fist Tube?" They will all be able to stand out in the Imperial Contest next October! ”

"Can you really stand out?" Wu Haogu also asked, "How long has it been?" Can you practice it by cramming it temporarily? ”

"Why not?" Zhou Yunqing patted his chest and said, "How difficult does the guest province think it is to train soldiers?" As long as I have a strong man for me, even if I don't have any martial arts, I will have two or three years at most to keep and practice Wei Wushu's physique and martial arts! ”

Zhou Yunqing is a "fitness coach", and he doesn't understand tactics and battle formations. In addition to "fitness", it is the use of weapons, and his kung fu is not good, not as good as the Lin family father and son, but the skills of individual infantry combat are absolutely first-class.

However, his ability is still worth 3,000 yuan a year...... When he arrived at Jiehe, Wu Haogu was ready to let him go to the Jiehe Branch of the Yuntai Academy to serve as a "military training instructor" and a "professor of physical education", specifically responsible for the training of armed doctors and the training of military "physical education instructors".

"According to what you said," Tong Guan also said, "there are 50,000 farmers, who have practiced for two or three years, and they can go to destroy Liao Pingxia?" ”

"Okay!" Zhou Yunqing said with a smile, "But Xia Guan can't manage 50,000 people alone, it's good to be able to manage 100 people!"

Tong Daguan, don't you know how many times the stick scalp whip in the Royal Boxing Gym has been interrupted...... The strength of the whole body is all beaten with sticks! ”

Corporal punishment is indispensable! Not to mention in the Song Dynasty, even in the modern armies of Europe, which family can be less corporal punishment?

Corporal punishment is needed, which means that the soldiers are not self-conscious enough, and if there is no strict supervision from the officers, they will be lazy. Therefore, there is no possibility for an instructor to train tens of thousands of people, let alone an impassioned speech to stimulate the blood, and then scream and practice hard.

Tong Guan sighed softly, "It seems that Old Mr. Murong is right...... This soldier still has to rely on the officials to force him to practice! The military power of this team and one part still has to be put down. ”

Like what Zhou Yunqing said, it will not work without a lump sum system......

Wu Haogu smiled: "Daofu, isn't there still a government military system now?" The government soldiers don't have to be so elite, they can rely on more people to win. ”

"Soldiers?" Tong Guan just shook his head.

He has been with Li Xian in front of the army for many years, and has seen the Western Army, Baojia, Yuanbian Archers (similar to the troops of the Fu Soldiers) and the army of the Zhejia Family (also similar to the Fu Soldiers). Of course, I know that the government soldiers are difficult!

"Daofu," Wu Haogu said again at this time, "I will be able to see Wu Yanpet in a few days...... When the time comes, you might as well propose to him to send someone to Goryeo to observe the army. If you are not afraid of hardships and dangers, how about you also go and see the soldiers and Jurchens of Goryeo with your own eyes? ”

The so-called "viewing the military appearance" is the military observation group! Watching how others fight wars is also a way to accumulate military experience.

Wu Haogu was ready to take advantage of the opportunity of the great war between the Goryeo Kingdom and the Jurchens to send a "Guanjunrong Mission" to see how people fought.

"Zhong Nan," Wu Haogu turned back to Su Shi, who was riding a rabbit horse, and said, "You can follow along." ”

Su Shi didn't want to do anything Taichang Temple now, Wu Haogu arranged for him a supervisor of the Jiehe City Shipping Division - the supervisor was in charge of the municipal shipping affairs of the branch office under the Municipal Shipping Division, but now there is no municipal shipping service under the Jiehe City Shipping Division, but he is only preparing to set up a rice grain business in Tianya Town, Haizhou. Su Shi is the nominal supervisor of this rice and grain business, but Wu Haogu will not let him really care about buying grain. He wanted Su Shi to participate in diplomatic activities with Goryeo and Japan.

"I'm going too?" Su Shi was stunned, "Da Lang, I don't know how to fight, but I can also watch the army?" ”

"Of course you don't need to look at the army," Wu Haogu smiled, "You go and spend money!" ”

"Spending money? Whose money is it spent? ”

"Of course, it's the money of the Jiehe City Bo Division...... "Wu Haogu smiled, "How can you make a lot of money without spending a little money?" Zhongnan, will you spend money? ”

Su Shi thought about it seriously, then nodded and said, "Da Lang, I will spend money, even if I have gold and silver, I will keep what I can spend." ”

Wu Haogu laughed: "Then it's hard for you." ”

Su Shi said: "It's not hard, it's not hard, it's hard to do things for the court, it's very fortunate!" ”

Spending money is actually very hard!

Especially for a righteous gentleman like Wu Haogu, who has a lot of money and is about to make trouble, socializing with all kinds of people all day long is simply burning his life. That's why he pulled Su Zhe's son to his side, just to find a talent who can help spend money, and can also spend money and be sociable.

Just when Wu Haogu was tired of spending money, his good brother Wu Haowen was worried about lack of money.

Of course, Wu Haowen didn't have no money to spend, when he left Kaifeng Mansion, Wu Haogu gave him 5,000 yuan, and Wu Chengzhi also gave him 5,000 yuan, a total of 10,000 yuan of "pocket money", which was enough for him to squander in a place like Jingzhao Mansion.

However, his wealth does not mean that the Lantian County he leads is rich - Lantian County is located in the Guanzhong Plain, very close to Jingzhaofu City, and it was also a rich and prosperous place back then. However, after the rise of the western thieves, the northwest fought for many years, and the Silk Road to the west was cut off, and the entire Guanzhong inevitably declined.

So when Wu Haowen arrived in Lantian County, he saw a rather depressed and declining city.

The county seat of Lantian is actually very large, and it should have been built in the Tang Dynasty, because the pattern of the county seat is Tang style, and there are twelve squares within the city wall, each separated by a wall. However, the walls and walls are not made of masonry, but rammed earth, which has fallen into disrepair and is very dilapidated.

On the city wall of the county seat, Wu Haowen found many breaches, the largest of which could even accommodate carriages entering and exiting.

In addition to the dilapidated walls, the population of the city was also very small. The original county seat could probably accommodate tens of thousands of people, with neat streets and many houses. But now, most of the square is empty, and there are collapsed houses everywhere. Only in a few squares around the county government can there be a relatively large number of residents, and the population of the county seat is about a few thousand people, and business is depressed, let alone at night, and there are no pedestrians on the streets in the afternoon.

However, the entire Lantian County still has a bit of a hukou, more than 8,000 households, and about 40,000 mouths (referring to men), which is worthy of the name of Qi County (Jingzhao Mansion is one of the five capitals).

However, among the 8,000 households, there are only more than 400,000 mu of land in the field register, and almost all of them are barren and barren. There was also no industry or commerce, very few taxes were received, and the people were very poor.

As for the wealthy households, there is probably only the Lantian Lu family, with a huge family and the famous "Lu Township Covenant", as well as a large number of in-laws, as well as the Lu family, at least half of Lantian County is under the actual control of the Lu family.

For Wu Haowen, the prime minister's son-in-law who came from afar, the Lantian Lu family also seemed very cold, Lu Jingshan, the patriarch of the Lu family, and Lu Yishan, a university scholar of the Lu family's generation, did not even come forward to greet Wu Haowen, but only sent a side branch of the Lu family (except for the descendants of Lantian Silu) Lu Haishan to stay in the county seat and interact with county officials like Wu Haowen.

And the set of "wooing the gentry" handed over by Wu Haogu to Wu Haowen, the Lantian Lu family did not dare to be interested at all. For the trial of government soldiers or something, the Lu family is even less interested.

Anyway, the Lantian Lu family has long been accustomed to the "Armor Protection Law", and being able to be a person in Lantian County who is upright and upright is also recognized by the Lantian Lu family. Why bother to engage in Rausch soldiers again? For the Lantian Lu family, what kind of benefits can the government military system bring?