October 15, Jishui County

October refers to the monthly calendar, if it is the solar calendar of the future, it is the end of November, and winter has completely come.

The group came, first of all, there were several knights in front, more than a dozen ox carts in the back, and on the left and right, dozens of young men, on the ox carts, there were piles of clothes, farm tools, and even several scribes.

The group was huge, and when they arrived at the gate of the county seat, they were greeted by He Wulang and Zhang Yi.

"The team is Zhang Yi, and the team is He Wulang. Wang Shoutian said: "This is my senior brother Xue Yuanxue of my private school, today I invite me to manage internal affairs and serve as an official, you can't be lazy." ”

Zhang Yi and He Wulang looked at each other for a moment, and saluted together: "Mr. Xue!"

Xue Yuan didn't dare to be arrogant, and immediately returned the salute: "Don't dare!"

After a few days of cultivation, Xue Yuan's complexion improved a lot, and he even gritted his teeth and brought all his family members with him, just on the ox cart behind.

"You don't have to be polite, let's go in and have a look!" Wang Shoutian said.

All the people were ordered to enter the county.

I haven't seen it for a while, but I saw that the city was demolished empty, and on some sites, there were piles of wood and stones, and in the earthen kiln in the distance, thick smoke was billowing out, and from time to time there were adobe bricks that continued to be transported over.

The plan is very simple, with the street as the line, and the two sides are exactly the same houses, all made of adobe bricks, each group of six households, but it is exactly a military formation, each fire is long, twelve households.

The five fires are one district on both sides of the road, two districts per square, symmetrical, with one hundred and twenty-sixty households.

Now there are five squares, and the barracks, too, have been built, which is more than enough to accommodate five hundred people.

The yamen in the middle has been built, and it occupies a very large area.

Seeing this, Zhang Yi and He Wulang couldn't help but be proud, and Xue Yuan was also very surprised, and said: "My lord, this governing the people is like governing the army, it is very rigorous, and the lower officials admire it." ”

"This has made only a third of the dwellings of the people, and it is not worth boasting about. Wang Shoutian disagreed, and said.

"The dwellings have been built, the fields have been tuned, it can only be said that it is the beginning of the peace, there are two things below, the first is to train the troops, the second is to build a wall, Sichuan is based on Taisu County, Taisu County is also a big county, although this time the loss in Sichuan is huge, even the main general was also cut by us, but we must not be on guard. ”

"Only when the city wall is built and the soldiers are trained can we relax some hearts. ”

"Zhang Yi, He Wulang!"

"Mark it in!"

"You don't have to worry about civil affairs when you wait, starting tomorrow, prepare to train soldiers and strictly enforce military discipline. ”

"No!"

"Mr. Xue!"

"Xia Guan is here!" Xue Yuan hurriedly responded.

"You will take over these more than 500 households today, concentrate on the affairs of this city wall, and hope to complete it before spring comes!"

"When spring comes, the earth thaws, and we have to dig rivers and canals to irrigate the 3,000 acres of land, and all this will be completed. ”

"Don't worry, I just looked, the foundation of the city wall is still there, more than half of the city wall is still there, repairing the city wall, it is much less labor-saving than rebuilding, loess and river sand, there must be no shortage, just this glutinous rice, please show me. ”

“...... "Wang Shoutian seems to have heard that this thing is needed to build the city wall, but the specifics are not very clear.

"My lord, to build a city, you need bricks, loess, river sand, lime and other things, these are all there, there are everywhere, but after the city wall, the expensive thing is that a large amount of glutinous rice is boiled into juice and built!"

Just the explanation made Wang Shoutian's face turn blue, it turned out that glutinous rice milk must be used as the binder, so that the city wall built in this way can be strong for a long time.

If you are slightly more grade, you need to add tung oil, and then better, even brown sugar, egg whites, and red beans.

Listening to Xue Yuan's words, Wang Shoutian shook his head again and again, although this county is not big, if you want to use glutinous rice, I am afraid that the three thousand taels of silver in your hand can only be built by one-third, how can this work.

Just thinking about it, he said, "This method is very easy, you can use plaster." ”

“...... Please let me know. ”

Gypsum has existed since ancient times, that is, it is called gypsum, or cold water stone.

It's just that in ancient times, most of them were used as medicines, "dissolving muscle and clearing heat, removing annoyance and quenching thirst, clearing heat and detoxifying", the main treatment of fever and strong fever does not go away, upset and dizzy, delirious speech, thirst and dry throat, lung heat and shortness of breath, heat stroke and sweating, stomach fire, headache, toothache, heat poison, spotted rash, mouth and tongue sores.

It's not uncommon, it's everywhere.

“...... You can grind slag, broken bricks and tiles, stone rock, lime kiln slag, etc. with a stone mill, mix a small amount of lime and gypsum powder, and it can be mixed into mud, no less than glutinous rice juice. ”

"The key to this method is gypsum, which you can try with a variety of materials. ”

Wang Shoutian does not understand the method of cement, but he also knows that the key difference between ancient materials and modern materials is that only gypsum can be added, and there are many specific methods.

“...... I don't know where the adults can use this method?" Xue Yuan whispered again: "If it is true, it must not be revealed, this is a difficult and easy way." ”

Wang Shoutian couldn't help but laugh a little, and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, indeed, one of the conditions that restricted the construction of the city in ancient times was the need for a large amount of glutinous rice juice, if it was replaced by cheap soil and cement, which greatly changed the pattern of ancient times, and he was shocked, and said: "This is God's gift, and it cannot be leaked." ”

Zhang Yi and He Wulang's faces changed, and they hurriedly said, "I don't dare to leak it." ”

Now that this most important problem has been solved, Wang Shoutian proposed to build drainage ditches and sewers between neighborhoods.

Xue Yuan didn't care about this, and said: "This thing is very easy, it only takes some time to call manpower!"

"If this method works, how long will it take to build the city?"

"My lord, this is not a new construction, but just a repair, and it only takes a month for 500 households. Xue Yuan is not a special student, his family is poor, in the township, he does a lot of work, but he is familiar with these, and he is full of confidence at this time.

After inspecting the county seat, the representatives of the people gathered in the square and announced the appointment.

"Kowtow to Xue Guanren!" At this time, thousands of people kowtowed and accepted their superiors.

When kowtowing, Xue Yuan was dizzy and excited.

And everyone understands this, and they can't help but laugh.

Wang Shoutian said again: "This time, on the ox cart, I brought some seeds, farm tools, cotton clothes, and the county grain depot, and you can take over it." ”

"The lower officials know, please rest assured. ”

The internal affairs were completed, Xue Yuan stayed, and the group went to the barracks again.

The barracks have been built, and according to the orders, four barracks have been built, which are exactly the establishment of four teams.

"He Wulang, is your team of fifty people already full?" asked Wang Shoutian.

"My lord, it's full, and the sons and daughters are eager to join the army, and there are still many unwilling!"

"Zhang Yi, you led the original team, and if you are dissatisfied, you can add it, I think there are many of the five hundred households who can be soldiers. Wang Shoutian said.

"No!" Zhang Yi responded, this matter was very easy for him.

"I brought sixty township soldiers this time, and recruited some more locally, so that it can be all over the four teams and two battalions, and now although the winter is hard, there is nothing to do, but there is nothing to do, and the soldiers can be trained on a large scale, and the officer will also personally stay in the army, and the soldiers will share the joys and sorrows. Wang Shoutian said.

Training recruits, the party is the key, recruits are the easiest to be brainwashed, anyone who appoints other people to train recruits will be married clothes, in the history of the earth, the Qing Dynasty trained recruits and became Yuan Shikai's private soldiers, and Sun trained recruits, but almost became Jiang someone's private soldiers.

At the beginning of this military training, vulgarly speaking, it is who shoots sperm, and only by doing everything yourself can determine who the "bloodline" of the army is!

Therefore, before, Wang Shoutian would rather not train than entrust others to train, but now that the conditions are ripe, he can concentrate on training troops without asking about foreign affairs and in person.

"No!" neither of them had anything to say, so they answered.

At this time, sixty teenagers gathered together, not knowing the suffering that would follow, and everyone was excited, and although there was a temporary Wu Changhuo Chang temperance, they were still scattered.

A soldier who has not been rigorously trained is a rabble, as it is in ancient times and in modern times.

In ancient times, it was not that there were strict queues and strict military discipline, and they always attached great importance to it, but in ancient times, they were not promoted to the theoretical level, and they did not regard "standing in line" as a training course training!

Moreover, many of these teenagers have a bad family background and a bit of a loss in health, so they practiced hard at the beginning, just afraid that it would backfire.

However, the key to military training is food, and grain alone is more than enough because of the large amount of military rations, but meat is a big problem.

Without meat, you can't train elite soldiers, that's the theorem, at least until it evolved to pull the trigger.

Thinking of this, Wang Shoutian felt that he had been negligent.

At that moment, he said to the soldiers: "You go and tell Mr. Xue that we want to raise pigs, even if we spend more food, we must raise pigs, and now it is too late, you can buy them specially, and you can also catch fish in the river, and you can also hunt in the mountains, in short, you must gather enough meat to supply the barracks every day." ”

After saying this, he summoned a few more old battalions over: "You will be a patrol soldier in the future, if someone is unbearable to train in the future, he will flee halfway and kill him." ”

When he said this, a murderous aura permeated his tongue.

Since he went to Fucheng this time, Wang Shoutian felt that he was in danger, and he didn't know how much strength he had, and in this case, only the military power he personally held gave him a sense of security.

Many feudal towns promoted brave tooth soldiers as henchmen, but Wang Shoutian was not ready to do so, the first is that the material of tooth soldiers is too rare, among a hundred people, there are only a few people with the quality of tooth soldiers, and some of them have been picked up.

The second is that the soldiers are rebellious, although the battle is still called brave, but the military discipline is not strict, and there are sometimes mistakes, which cannot be relied on.

Then the only way to do this is to take the path of standardized training, which is actually far from being able to defeat the tooth soldiers, but it is expensive in cheapness and assembly lines.

If a hundred people fight, the tooth soldiers can easily win, a thousand people fight, the tooth soldiers will be difficult to win, and ten thousand people fight, this system will win.

Wang Shoutian can be merciful in many ways, but he is not prepared to be merciful in this regard, and all deserters can only kill one word.

When you get on the boat, do you still want to get off?

In the case of no guarantee, for the fugitive recruits, it is already considered Wang Shoutian's restraint not to harm his wife and children.