The year Wu Siyuan came out of Taoyuan Valley, he was 22 years old and Zhang Wuji was 16 years old.
If converted into AD, it is 1352.
In the previous year, in October 1351, Xu Shouhui, a native of Huguang, captured Qishui. He was proclaimed emperor and his country was named Tianwan.
This year, Xu Shouhui's troops mobilized the masses with slogans such as "Destroy the rich and benefit the poor" to successively capture large areas such as today's Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Hunan, with millions of soldiers.
In other words, Wudang County in Junzhou, where the Wudang Sect is now located, is actually under the control of Xu Shouhui's tribe.
It's just that in this place where martial arts masters come and go, the major martial arts sects have always been independent kingdoms, secretly controlling the surrounding areas. Xu Shouhui's tribe only occupied it in name, and never dared to offend the Wudang Clan, the most powerful group in the martial arts world.
Taishan Beidou is as famous as Shaolin Temple.
If Zhang Sanfeng of the Wudang Clan does not object and Song Yuanqiao supports it, Wu Siyuan will have a higher starting point. With the help of the power of the Wudang Clan, he will begin to invade Wudang County.
After Wu Siyuan took control of the situation, he began to build field camps, recruit refugees, and open up wasteland.
At that time, the outside world was in chaos, and there were many refugees fleeing the famine. Not to mention that there were many low-class people in the local area who were oppressed by the landlords and could not survive.
All of them were recruited by Wu Siyuan's field camp and given a mouthful of food and something to do.
That year, 3,000 people were recruited and 50,000 acres of farmland were reclaimed along the wasteland around Wudang County.
These fields are planted with rice seeds that Wu Siyuan took out from [Shennongjiao Space].
In [Shennongjiao Space], this rice seed yields 480 kilograms per mu and is harvested three times a year.
Of course, this is not possible in Wudang County. It can only be harvested three times every two years, and the yield per mu has also shrunk to 350 kilograms, and fertilization must keep up.
But even 350 kilograms is still a shocking and unbelievable output in this era.
Limited by productivity, the yield per mu of good farmland in this era is no more than 300 kilograms.
It’s 300 pounds.
The yield of rice seeds presented by Wu Siyuan, converted into kilograms, is 700 kilograms.
A full 400 kilograms more, more than doubled.
If this news spread, it would definitely shock the world, but the Tuntian camp was firmly controlled by Wu Siyuan and implemented militarized management, so such a high output has not been leaked.
That year, excluding consumption, Wu Siyuan still had 10 million kilograms of rice in his hands.
At the same time as the Tuntian Camp, there was also the War Barracks.
Select loyal people from among the refugees and organize them into the war camp.
A team of 5 people, a team of 10 people. A platoon of 50 people in a 5th team, a company of 150 people in a 3rd platoon, and a battalion of 600 people in a 4th company.
Wu Siyuan built a total of 2 combat camps, with some lay disciples of the Wudang Sect as the backbone, and he personally trained troops.
Military training is a costly endeavor.
Because the fields Wu Siyuan opened up in the early stage have not yet produced any output, he can only invest in it himself.
Over the years, he searched for corpses, especially after plundering the entire property of Zhuwu Lianzhuang Village, and threw them all in, so that he could barely continue to operate.
Military training is also a tiring job.
Because Wu Siyuan's requirements were too strict, soldiers often couldn't bear it and wanted to escape.
Wu Siyuan's countermeasure is also very simple: clarify the military regulations and behead him in public!
What he wants is an army with laws and regulations, not a weak brigade.
However, Wu Siyuan saw the hard work of the soldiers. He took out some of the preserved peaches in the [Shennongjiao Space], crushed them and distributed them among the daily food for the soldiers to eat.
Flat peach has the effect of strengthening vitality and replenishing qi. Although each soldier does not eat much, it will have some effect.
In this way, after practicing for half a year, and with the actual combat of suppressing bandits, Wu Siyuan finally developed the strong team he wanted.
With the Tuntian Camp and the War Barracks as the backbone, there were other organizational units established by Wu Siyuan.
For example, the medical team under the leadership of Zhang Wuji.
Zhang Wuji was persuaded by Wu Siyuan to join his team and established a medical team under Wu Siyuan's arrangement.
The medical personnel he trained are mainly divided into two types, one is pharmacists for the common people, and the other is military doctors who accompany the army.
At the same time, Zhang Wuji was still under Wu Siyuan's order to produce large quantities of marching powder, golden sore medicine and other materials suitable for the battlefield.
There is also a publicity team.
The propaganda group is mainly used to eliminate illiteracy and is an institution used by Wu Siyuan to provide scientific education to the public.
Due to the limitations of the times, the first target of literacy education could only be soldiers in the war barracks in Wu Siyuan's hands, and later gradually expanded to include the Tuntian camp.
Wu Siyuan does not require them to be highly talented, as long as they can read a few Chinese characters, know their own name, understand numbers, and know some basic common sense.
Wu Siyuan regards them as seeds for future expansion, and each one is extremely precious.
In addition to the medical team and the publicity team, there are three more important organizations.
One is the housing and construction battalion, which is mainly used to plan urban construction and build city wall defenses. It is somewhat equivalent to an engineering battalion.
The other is the research institute, which recruits skilled craftsmen and mainly studies several topics sent by Wu Siyuan.
One is simple cement.
The second is indigenous fertilizers.
The third is gunpowder.
The fourth is steelmaking by local methods.
The fifth is...
These topics were all seen by Wu Siyuan when he read online articles before. Because they are relatively vague and many only have a rough concept, he can only use collective strength. He hopes that the "scientists" of this era can help him solve them.
Wu Siyuan has promised that anyone who can solve a problem will be left vacant.
In an ancient society based on officialdom, this would definitely drive these skilled craftsmen crazy!
The last organization is relatively secretive. It is the Intelligence Department, which operates in secret and reports directly to Wu Siyuan himself.
Although there were bumps and bumps in the beginning, it has to be established no matter how difficult it is.
The role of intelligence is very critical and can even directly determine the success or failure of a war.