In order for Li Xuan to survive in the future, or live longer, it can be said that he spent a lot of energy on the newly formed Guards.
Basically, I go to the playground every day to watch the training of these children, and I even go to the field to guide the training in person.
It’s just that I don’t know whether the inertia of the times is too strong for Li Xuan to change, or whether the thinking of these half-year-old children has been fixed. It is more difficult for them to distinguish left and right and hear some complex passwords clearly.
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After more than ten days of continuous training, some people still can't tell the difference between left and right. Every time they shout the command to turn left or turn right, someone always turns the wrong way.
Whenever this happens, the bandits nearby who are wielding swords and guns will burst into laughter.
The formation is not even organized yet, so naturally there is no way to conduct higher-level combat skills training, such as marksmanship, swordsmanship, etc.
As the training time passed, the summer harvest time soon came. At this time, whether it was the half-grown children in Li Xuan's Guards or the strong bandits who followed Fang Dongquan every day to dance with swords and guns, all of them were
Put down the sword, pick up the sickle and hoe and start the summer harvest.
When the summer harvest began, Li Xuan also went to the fields and observed the ancient summer harvest work for the first time. Unfortunately, Li Xuan was not born into a farmer's family in his previous life, and his understanding of farming was limited to words and pictures. Neither did his original self.
A son of a landlord, he has been dealing with the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and he has never worked in the fields.
So at this moment, he recognizes rice, but rice does not recognize him.
But even so, he could tell from the ears of rice in the field that the yield of the rice seemed a bit low.
It can't even be said to be somewhat low, but very low.
Basically, he could not see the full and dense ears of rice, but the extremely sparse ears. Just looking at the ears of rice, he knew that the yield could not be too high.
However, Liu Bagou, who accompanied him to inspect the summer harvest, looked satisfied: "Although it rained some time ago, the impact on the harvest was not great. This year is another bumper year!"
"Is this the harvest year?" Li Xuan seemed a little unable to believe what Liu Bagou said.
Liu Bagou naturally knew that his young master had never been in the fields in his life, so he was not surprised by Li Xuan's words. Instead, he said: "Yes, the rain this year has been abundant, and the fields here are quite fertile, better than ours."
The harvest in Lijiacun will be greater!"
Although Li Xuan still had doubts in his heart, he consciously did not continue to ask questions, because he had no real experience in field affairs in his two lifetimes and had no say in this matter.
"If the harvest is good, can we survive until the autumn harvest?" Li Xuan was more concerned about this issue.
After hearing Li Xuan's question, Liu Bagou's original happy expression suddenly disappeared, and he frowned slightly and said: "It should be a little difficult. Judging from the current situation, even if there is a bumper harvest this summer, it is probably difficult to survive."
When it comes time for the autumn harvest, the main reason is that there are too few fields for cultivation in the summer, and we have too many people.”
"We have planned to open up more fields and plant more food this summer. After the autumn harvest, there should be no shortage of food. However, in the second half of this year, we may be short of food for at least one and a half months!"
Although there was a bumper harvest this summer, the shadow of food shortage has always been hanging over the hearts of everyone in Huangzhushan.
After the busy summer, just after planting crops in the newly reclaimed fields, Fang Dongquan, Chen Butcher, Bai Yunqi and others began to discuss how to solve this autumn's food crisis.
In August, Fang Dongquan formally requested an order from Li Xuan, saying that he wanted to take people out of the mountains to collect grain!
Li Xuan knew very well that when he mentioned harvesting grain, he did not mean using money to purchase grain, but using swords to plunder.
Li Xuan, who has the soul of future generations, was disgusted with this kind of thing, so he tried to stop it, but Fang Dongquan's attitude was very determined. Even Liu Bagou, Bai Yunqi and others agreed without exception.
In this case, Li Xuan, the puppet emperor's objection was invalid.
On the day he came out of the mountain, Li Xuan looked at Fang Dongquan and more than 60 young bandits going out one after another, and said to Dong Yunyun beside him: "Do you think this is my fault?"
Dong Yunyun stood about one foot away from Li Xuan, very close. She raised her head slightly and glanced at Li Xuan: "How could it be your fault? You have already advised them, but they refused to listen and insisted on going out.
How can the robbery and the sins caused by it be your fault? It is all their fault!"
"Really?" Li Xuan asked repeatedly as if he still couldn't believe it after listening to Dong Yunyun's words.
Dong Yunyun nodded without hesitation: "Yes!"
Although Dong Yunyun said so, Li Xuan still felt a little uncomfortable.
As a person with a modern soul, he cannot accept Fang Dongquan and the others going out to rob, because it means death and injury!
If the robbery is successful, they will come back with food, but how can the people who have been robbed of food survive?
If the plunder was not successful, but the troops were lost, how many of the young men who went out to attack would come back alive?
he does not know!
If I had opposed it more resolutely, I should have been able to prevent this from happening.
But Dong Yunyun may have seen his opposition, but she would never know that Li Xuan's opposition was not firm enough.
Because what Li Xuan himself would not admit was that in his heart, he was vaguely expecting Fang Dongquan and the others to plunder enough food and come back.
Because it is a fact that Huangzhushan is short of food. Without enough food, we don’t know how many people in Huangzhushan will starve to death.
The busy summer season has ended, Fang Dongquan has also left the mountain with his youth, and Huangzhu Mountain has once again returned to its former peace.
The mountain people of Huangzhu Mountain still have many endless things to do, while Li Xuan is once again immersed in the training of the Guards.
At this time, only the Guards could make him forget his many worries and give him hope for the future.
Many nights, he would dream that the Guards he had trained became an invincible army, killing the officers and soldiers, and then sweeping across the world, entering the capital, and capturing the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers alive.
Although this was just a dream, it still made Li Xuan rarely excited.
After a month of training, the half-year-old children were finally able to distinguish left and right and hear commands clearly.
At this time, Li Xuan asked them to start the next round of training.
When forming this Guards army with only more than 20 people, Li Xuan began to think about what kind of weapons they should be equipped with and what kind of army they should become.
It was originally planned to train them into single sword and shield soldiers or spear soldiers, but later it was discovered that the shortcomings of too single a unit were too great, so even though there were few people, Li Xuan divided them into sword and shield soldiers and spear soldiers.
Originally, he planned to train longbowmen, but longbowmen cannot be trained in a short time. Strong bows are not as good as spears and swords, which can be obtained by just finding a blacksmith. Instead, it takes many years to make one.
He has a qualified strong bow, so he can only let go of this thought.
Just when Li Xuan was training the Guards wholeheartedly, Fang Dongquan and other young men who had gone out to collect grain finally came back. But when they returned to Huangzhu Mountain, what sounded in Huangzhu Mountain was not cheers, but cheers.