Li Zhi nodded and said: "Okay, then you will be my servant captain from today on. I will recruit ten subordinates for you. Then you will send someone to stand guard at the door of the workshop every day, and the others will train in the yard.
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"Although you have become the captain, your current monthly salary is still two taels. If your servant team performs meritorious service in the future, I will increase your monthly salary!"
Zhong Feng flushed with joy and said: "Okay, Brother Zhi is so interesting, give me ten subordinates! Brother Zhi, don't worry, I will be a good captain of the servants, stand guard well, and do a good job in training."
! Beat up those low-income people who covet our workshops."
Li Zhi nodded and then left.
Back home, Li Zhi called the second grandfather again and asked him to recommend six relatives to be servants. Naturally, Li Yousheng would not give up the good deed of visiting the house, so he recommended six distant relatives whom Li Zhi had never met before.
They were all big men. Li Zhi showed off to his grandfather again, and his grandfather Zheng Pinchun immediately recommended four taller distant relatives to come over, and together they formed a team of ten people.
Li Zhi recruited another person from the neighborhood to work as a workshop helper to fill the vacancy after Zhong Feng left.
The Servant Team is the first force that Li Zhi has mastered since he traveled to this era, and Li Zhi attaches great importance to it.
After the JD team was established, it began to carry out daily guard duty and training. For the first training, Li Zhi personally led the team.
Standing in the courtyard of the soap workshop, Li Zhi looked at the team of servants standing in a row and nodded.
In the Ming Dynasty, people were prohibited from wearing swords in the city, but they were allowed to hold swords in their own homes. Li Zhi bought a pear blossom spear for each of his eleven servants. He usually kept it in his workshop and only took it out when there was a police situation.
When standing guard, each person holds a long stick as a weapon.
Standing in the yard at this time, eleven servants were holding pear blossom guns, looking quite impressive.
Standing in front of the servant team, Li Zhi, a man of two generations, lectured loudly: "Do you know the purpose of forming this servant team?"
Upon hearing Li Zhi's question, the eleven servants were unsure of the answer and did not dare to answer.
"The short-term goal is to deal with the traitors who covet the soap workshop and protect the soap workshop. However, this is not the fundamental goal of the establishment of the Jade Team."
"The fundamental goal of the establishment of the Jia Ding Team is to defeat the Tatars and return peace to the Han people."
After hearing Li Zhi's words, the servants were stunned. Defeating the Tatars was too far away for this small servant team, right?
Li Zhi continued: "If we don't defeat the Tatars, our Han people's land will be plundered from time to time, and there will never be peace in the north of the Ming Dynasty. If we don't defeat the Tatars, the Ming Dynasty will fall sooner or later, and we Han people will die under the butcher's knife one by one. We
I will shave my head and become a slave."
Hearing Li Zhi's generous words, all the servants looked at Brother Zhi differently and respected him more and more. A benevolent person has the world in his heart, and a person who has the world in his heart must not be an ordinary man. If an ordinary person said these truths
, I'm afraid he will be regarded as an idiot. But Li Zhi, who has accomplished such a great undertaking in just a few months, is convincing when he says such words.
Brother Zhi is not a mortal, maybe he can really lead us to defeat the Tatars and end this year of war and chaos.
But Li Zhi’s inspiring words kept coming: “Perhaps today you are still very weak and cannot bear the attack of the Tatars. But as our business expands, the team of servants will become bigger and bigger. By then, we will have enough qualifications.
Become an enemy of the Tatars."
After a pause, Li Zhi took back the topic and said: "Of course, we are not relying on a bloody bravery to fight against the Tatars. From now on, I will arm the Jia Ding team with the best equipment and make the Jia Ding team an elite soldier armed to the teeth."
"And today you are the eleven seeds of the Jia Ding Team. As long as you perform well and don't fall behind, you will become the veterans of the Jia Ding Team in the future. You will all become officers and enjoy the honor and income of an officer."
Hearing Li Zhi's description of the future, the eyes of the eleven servants lit up, as if they had already seen their future achievements.
"Of course, now we don't have iron armor, strong horses, no muskets, or cannons. We only have a pear flower gun. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Our training begins with this pear flower gun formation. Everyone follows
I'm the same, practicing thrusting!"
Twelve scarecrows had already been erected in the yard. Li Zhi grabbed the pear blossom gun and stabbed one of the scarecrows in the chest. There was a fist-sized wooden ball placed on the heart of the scarecrow's chest. It was this wooden ball that Li Zhi stabbed.
"Hi!"
The shot passed by, but Li Zhi missed the wooden ball and missed.
Turning his head, Li Zhi said to the servants: "Everyone is like me, practicing thrusting the wooden ball until the gun can hit the target!"
The servants loudly agreed: "Okay!"
Zhong Feng took the lead, and the servants joined in the training one after another and began to lunge at the scarecrow. For a moment, the courtyard was filled with the shouts of the servants as they lunged.
At the beginning of March, the south wind gradually picked up, and it was the time when the warmth returned to the cold. The thick cotton-padded jacket had been taken off, but the clothes underneath were still worn.
Optimistic about the future of soap, Xu Mince, one of the eight major merchants in Tianjin, attaches great importance to Li Zhi. In recent days, Xu Mince has often visited Li Zhi and talked with Li Zhi in the yard of Li's house, not caring about the dilapidation and dilapidation of Li's yard.
The tea was simple. From Xu Mince's mouth, Li Zhi learned a lot of information about the upper class. After going back and forth, Li Zhi gradually became familiar with Xu Mince. Xu Mince called Li Zhi Li's younger brother, and Li Zhi called Xu Mince Xu's elder brother.
Forgetting friends.
On this day, Xu Mince said that Lu Siqi, the owner of Longshengxing, the second largest business in Tianjin, was hosting a birthday banquet and invited Li Zhi to go with him. In order to see the world, Li Zhi wore new clothes and went to Zuixian Tower with Xu Mince for the banquet.
Li Zhi walked to the door of Zuixian Tower and found that the entire Zuixian Tower had been taken down.
Lu Siqi's family stood at the entrance of Zuixian Tower to greet the guests. When they saw Xu Mince coming, the family members said with smiles on their faces: "Master Xu is here, my master's face is bright. Master Xu, please follow me to the top floor!"
Xu Mince handed a birthday gift list to Lu Siqi's family. Lu Siqi's family quickly accepted it, leaving the other guests behind, and led Xu Mince and Li Zhi upstairs.
Zuixian Tower has three floors, and it is full of people at this time. There are ten tables on the bottom floor, and the people sitting at the tables are ordinary businessmen, probably Nalong Shengxing Lu Siqi's business partners, retail channels. Although these businessmen are also wearing silk clothes
, but he has little aura and cannot be compared with wealthy businessmen like Xu Mince.
There were four large tables on the second floor, and the seats were occupied by big businessmen. Not only were these businessmen dressed luxuriously, but they also had an air of aura when talking and laughing. Li Zhi stood at the top of the stairs and looked around, and found Xue, who was selling soda ash to him.
