After entering Lucheng County and working for two days, Wan Jun finally understood why the entry of the army into the city was called an exam in history.

Lucheng County alone is a small county with a population of less than a thousand households, which is fundamentally different from a village that manages hundreds of thousands of people.

Wan Jun could only think of one thing at a time, and manpower was becoming increasingly scarce. Zhao Boyuan and others stayed up for several nights, all with dark circles under their eyes.

But Wan Jun knows very well that whether a city can be managed well depends on the support of the people, and Lucheng County is just the beginning.

Historically, Li Zicheng entered Beijing, but was defeated in Xi'an in an instant, and soon died and his country was destroyed. This had a lot to do with his failure to govern the city well.

Running an army is like forging iron. It can be tempered with iron discipline and lofty beliefs.

But governing the people is different from governing the army. Managing the people is like managing water. You can build embankments to block it, or you can build canals to guide it. But you can't block it when it needs to be guided, and you can't guide it when it needs to be blocked, otherwise disaster will occur.

As Lao Tzu said, "Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes." Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar are all seasoning methods, but they cannot be overdone or missing, otherwise the taste of the dishes will be poor.

Following the instructions, Zhang Wuyang used Tang Kaigao's seal to control several passes and villages around Lucheng County without any bloodshed.

The early warning in Nanguan and Xiguan was basically established, and the hundreds of prisoners escorted back were all locked up with the prisoners from the county battle.

Wan Jun personally taught Li Youtian and educated the captives. Now there is a special name, 'Innate Awakening Meeting', to awaken the true hearts of these people so that some of them can be absorbed by the Chinese army as soon as possible.

Li Youtian acted as a supporter for Wan Jun last time, mingling among the prisoners and taking the lead to guide them quite effectively.

Wan Jun discovered that Li Youtian was very talented in ideological work, and he was very good at controlling the atmosphere of education and stimulating the emotions of the crowd.

Wan Jun specially came to watch the "wake-up party" today, and the wake-up party organized by Li Youtian just started.

Li Youtian took the life experience of his two brothers as an example, and added some words said by Wan Jun. He first said that his parents had died and his younger brother was dependent on each other. The two people suffered a lot and had a miserable fate.

Seeing that the emotions were almost exaggerated, he changed the subject and complained again about the unfairness of the world and the constant natural disasters in today's world.

He also pointed out that wars and bandits were common, the gentry and bureaucrats oppressed the people, and the court did not care about the life and death of the people.

Many prisoners burst into tears when he spoke directly, and some numb prisoners gradually began to resonate with him.

Wan Jun listened for a while and smiled, "This guy has his own tricks."

Wan Jun turned around and left, and Li Youtian's voice came from far behind him through the wall, "It's okay now! The Chinese army is here, and all the poor people have hope!"

According to the plan, after a few days of grievance meetings, some of these prisoners can be selected to join the new army.

Gui Dongliang has organized all the instructors who have been selected. These people have participated in the teaching team and are familiar with basic queue training, methods and passwords.

Before the recruitment of the New China Army is completed, these people organize one final preparation training!

Gui Dongliang was sitting on the edge of the school field in the south gate, and the tall hall wall was reflecting the morning sunshine.

Seeing Wan Jun approaching, a Chinese soldier who was organizing training suddenly shouted, "Stand at attention!"

According to the reporting procedure of the teaching team, this man ran to Wanjun's side.

Wan Jun barely recognized this person. He was the Taoist priest who took the lead down the mountain, "Cui Ziyi!"

Cui Ziyi straightened up when he heard this, gave a straight military salute and said, "Commander, the Chinese Army is organizing training, please review!"

The military salute of Wanjun did not follow the modern Western military salute. Instead, he made a fist with his right hand and raised his arm flat across his chest.

Wan Jun returned a military salute and said, "Continue."

train".

Cui Ziyi turned back to the front of the team and continued organizing training. Gui Dongliang ran over.

Seeing him sitting aside and not taking the lead in training, Wan Jun felt dissatisfied and walked to the table where he sat, "Commander, if you are not taking the lead in training, what are you doing sitting here?"

There were many papers on the table, all of which were written in Gui Dongliang's unskilled handwriting. Wan Jun flipped through a few pages and saw that they were recruitment lists.

Gui Dongliang said, "I haven't learned to write for a long time. Now I am responsible for recruiting soldiers. It is too slow to revise the roster. I can only watch the training at the training ground while sorting out the roster."

Wan Jun stood up and patted Gui Dongliang's shoulder and said, "Now that we don't have enough manpower, you have to work harder. You can organize the roster while training. You have to complete the training of the newly recruited soldiers as soon as possible. You performed well in this battle."

Gui Dongliang said excitedly, "Thank you, Captain, but there are too many people recruiting and signing up everywhere now, I'm afraid there will be overcrowding!"

Wan Jun asked, "Our requirements cannot be lowered. As long as the physical condition reaches the standard and there is no evil behavior, we can exceed it! They are all people who are looking for a way to survive. How many people will we exceed?"

Gui Dongliang said, "If we collect all the qualified ones, I'm afraid it will be more than double, there will be about six battalions!

Wan Jun thought for a while and said, "If this happens, our food supply will probably be very tight! But I feel that the war is coming, so let's go a little further. If you raise the standard a little bit, just collect three more battalions."

, I’ll think of another way to get food!”

Nowadays, there are more and more Chinese soldiers and horses, and the logistical pressure will probably be even greater.

All the grain stocks were only a few thousand dan brought from the first two villages.

The results of the inventory of materials stored in the county inventory have not yet been released, but if the military strength is expanded three times, I am afraid that it will not last for five months at most. Fortunately, the summer harvest is coming soon. Although this year has suffered from drought, the disaster relief was timely, and the harvest is probably better than previous years.

many!

Wan Jun left the school grounds with his thoughts on his mind, and when he rushed to the county government office, Wang Lihui was waiting here to go to Wulipu together.

According to the arrangement, we also have to visit the Makaogou Iron Mine and Wulipu Blacksmith. Making firearms is an urgent matter.

Wan Jun and others had just passed the archway when suddenly a woman knelt down in front of Wan Jun. With her delicate figure, she was clearly Xie Xiaoni, whose marriage had just been witnessed by Wan Jun not long ago.

When Wan Jun saw it was Xie Xiaoni, he smiled and said, "If the bride doesn't stay at home with her husband, why are you kneeling here?"

Xie Xiaoni felt a little embarrassed, thought for a moment and said, "I don't know how to say something."

Wan Jun said, "If you have any trouble, just tell me, I still have something to do!"

Xie Xiaoni said, "Since your Excellency asked my man to leave the Huaxia Army, he has been frowning these days, especially since you started to fight against the traitors. I see that he is depressed, and I beg you to let him return to the Chinese Army."

Wan Jun said, "It is no longer possible to return to the Huaxia Army. I originally intended to let him stay with you for a few days. Then there will be an important thing for him. In this case, you tell him that if he is ready, then

You can come to the county government office to find me."

Xie Xiaoni bowed her head, stood up and left with a lot of thanks.

Wulipu is located five miles east of the city. It was originally just a blacksmith shop. Because it was five miles away, it was called "Wulipu". Later, the iron ore from Makaogou was transported here for processing, and gradually a large number of people gathered here.

Forged iron industry, Wulipai became a place name.

Wang Lihui is quite familiar with this place. The Wang family made its fortune in the forged iron industry, and Wulipu was an important industry.

Wan Jun and others rode to Wulipu. Wang Lihui pointed to a large area of ​​dilapidated houses and said, "Wulipu was much more prosperous back then than it is now. People lived in the dilapidated houses here, not just the blacksmith shops along the river.

Baijia, keep going up

There are two miles of land, half of which belonged to our Wang family at that time!"

Wan Jun rode on his horse and looked around. Wulipu now looked like a village. There were about twenty or thirty blacksmiths, and there was the sound of clanking.

Wang Lihui led a few people into the street of Wulipuli. The road inside was paved with cinders. The heat and the smell of coal hit their faces. The open-minded blacksmiths were forging iron hard.

Two groups of Chinese Army soldiers in the north were stationed by the river. They were originally forging weapons for the Xi'an Prefecture, but now it seems that everything in Wulipu is running normally.

Under Wang Lihui's guidance, several people arrived at the door of a shop. Wang Lihui shouted, "Old man, I'm here to see you!"

A strong man came out, looked at everyone, and finally looked at Wang Lihui again and again, and asked, "Are you the young master of the Wang family?"

Wang Lihui smiled and said, "It's me, I'm back!"

The man looked at Wang Lihui happily and said, "After the shopkeeper left, I heard that you became a monk. Why did you shave your eyebrows when you became a monk? What are you going to do when you come back?"

Wang Lihui said, "It's a long story. I'm no longer a monk. I want to ask you for a favor this time!"

The man patted his chest and said, "If you need any help, just ask, as long as I can do it!"

Wang Lihui said, "Thief Li caused my family to be destroyed. This hatred is irreconcilable. I want you to help me make some weapons to take revenge!"

The man's expression changed, "You are talking nonsense. Now that King Chuang has defeated him and has become the emperor in Beijing, how can you, a monk, take revenge?"

Wang Lihui pointed at Wan Jundao, "Don't you know that Lucheng County is now in our hands?"

The man was stunned for a moment, "You rebelled?"

Wang Lihui smiled and said, "What kind of rebellion? Did Li Thief not rebel against the Ming Dynasty? Now that I am rebelling against Li Thief, the Ming Dynasty wants to appoint me an official, but I am not interested in Ming officials. This Lord Wan has the people of the world in mind and wants to

Create a peaceful world for all the poor people. I am serving him now. If you help me build weapons for him, you are helping me take revenge. How about it?"

Seeing the man's hesitation, Wang Lihui said, "My father treated you well in the past. I have been like brothers to you and my sister since we were young. Now, aren't you willing to help them avenge you?"

The man gritted his teeth and said, "I risked my life when I was young. What kind of weapons are you going to make?"

Wan Jun said, "You are indeed my good brother. Brother Nian, please tell me. My master wants to make some muskets. Do your best, the more the better!"

Nian Mingli said, "Making muskets is easy. In the past during the Ming Dynasty, Wulipu also made some muskets for Shangzhou Prefecture. Each shot cost only one tael of silver. Later, the court only took things without giving money. Some people could do it with just a few coins."

Make it!”

Wang Lihui said, "What we are making this time is not an ordinary musket."

Wan Jun said, "Let's find a place to discuss it in detail."

The three of them went to the Chinese Army station in the north and found a quiet place. Wang Lihui explained the design!

After Nian Mingli listened, he thought for a while and said, "Can the spiral make the bullet shoot farther?"

Wan Jun said, "It's true. It's like a top that a child smokes. The spinning top will be very stable. The spiral line is what makes the bullet rotate. If it flies stably after being fired, it can shoot farther."

Nian Mingli said, "Then I will give it a try, but it will take a lot of effort!"

Wan Jun said, "Brother Nian, just do it. I will supply all the iron materials from Mancaogou. If you make a musket, I will give you two taels of hard-earned money. If you do more every month, I will also give you a reward."

money!"
Chapter completed!