The eldest son of the red mansion

In the days to come, Jia Ke, with the help of veteran Liu and other veterans, began to train the soldiers in martial arts. All of them were practiced in actual combat, without showing off their skills.

And Jia Ke conducts regular assessments of the personal soldiers, and the assessment method is actual combat.The rules are as follows: the two sides fight, if you win, you will be upgraded, and you will be rewarded with one point for upgrading to a higher level. If you lose, you will be downgraded.

This is embarrassing. The rules are simply summarized as: If you don’t hit me, I’ll hit you. Anyway, if you can’t beat your comrades, you will be beaten by Jia Ke. You will be beaten anyway. It’s better to beat your comrades desperately, and you can earn some pocket money by the way. money.

Therefore, under this almost inhumane training method, the recruits lived in dire straits and were covered with cuts and bruises every day. However, it was in this cruel environment that they practiced extraordinary martial arts and achieved extraordinary careers in the future.

For this special army, people in later generations have a popular title-Jia Jiajun.

And Jia's army's training method has also become the tradition of Jia's army. The recruits just folded the quilt, stood in the military posture, walked in the queue, and then practiced martial arts.

Just when everyone thought that the training of the personal soldiers had been completed, Jia Ke started another training, the formation training, and Jia Ke did not train ancient Chinese formations, but very simple and practical ancient European formations. Macedonian square.

The Macedonian phalanx has a large gap between soldiers and soldiers. Macedonian spears are usually held 3 to 6 feet (4-6 meters) from the handle end, and the spearheads of [-] to [-] rows of soldiers at the head of the phalanx are aligned. The postures of the soldiers holding the spears in the front and rear rows are different, some are inclined, some are perpendicular to the ground.The first three men and the last man in each column belong to the key positions, so brave and highly skilled soldiers are selected.When fighting, the entire phalanx often runs forward in a solid dense formation, like a battering ram violently hitting the enemy's team.They mainly rely on dense formations and the weapons of their opponents to protect their own safety, because few enemies can rush through the layers of guns to kill them.

It’s not that Jia Ke worships foreigners, but rather, most of the ancient Chinese formations are comprehensive, and there are many types of weapons used in them. However, in the court law, there is a rule that "the family of the common people should not store weapons privately". Jia Ke now Also dare not offend.Therefore, other ancient formations are not suitable for the current personal army. When there are no other weapons, bamboo poles can only be used instead of spears, and the most simple but powerful Macedonian phalanx is used.

When practicing the Macedonian phalanx again, the effect of the marching formation that was trained before showed its effect. The soldiers marched forward slowly with their bamboo spears upright, and the formation was neat and fast.A little bit of meaning was quickly practiced.

It only took more than a month for the personal soldiers to practice the Macedonian phalanx from the slow step at the beginning, to the fast step, and then to the running. It can be said that the progress has been rapid.

Old man Liu and the other veterans thought that it was all right, that the bodyguards were ready to go to the battlefield, even if they faced off against the elite cavalry of the prairie barbarians, they would be able to win.

But Jia Ke thinks that there is one thing missing, which is to practice courage. Although the personal soldiers have undergone rigorous training, they have not seen blood. They may flee on the battlefield because they are afraid of escaping, which is prone to chain reactions. , causing the army to collapse, so at the end of the training, Jia Ke decided to let the personal soldiers see blood, but they couldn't kill people, so they could only kill pigs.

As a result, from the second day onwards, one pig was driven into the camp every day, and from the first five onwards, one five every day, no one could pull them out. Everyone had to stab the pig a few times, otherwise they were not qualified, and came back the next day. until the task is completed.

In this way, it took a total of three months from the beginning of training to the completion of courage training, and finally completed the training of the personal soldiers. The personal soldiers were also baptized and became a real soldier.

Chapter 31 Drought

The training of the soldiers team lasted for more than three months. Jia Ke stayed in the camp and never went home. Although Chuncao and Qiaolian often came to visit, Jia Ke didn't want to do anything special, so he went to the camp in a short time. drove them back.

Now the training of the personal soldiers is finally completed, and the rest is the daily maintenance training. Jia Ke asked Liu Yu, the captain of the personal soldiers, to lead the training every day. Liu Yu is loyal to Jia Ke and is meticulous to his orders. Jia Ke was relieved by the execution.

And Jia Ke can also take a break. After returning to the small courtyard where she had been away for more than three months, after being taken into the inner room by Chuncao and Qiaolian and others, it seemed like a lifetime away. Jealousy, now I don't find it bothersome, but it's pleasant to listen to.

In the evening, Jia Ke ate a delicious meal specially prepared by Mrs. Chuncao, and then she sat in the bathtub contentedly, enjoying the first hot bath in more than three months.In the barracks, Jia Ke took a cold bath in the small river with the soldiers.That's comfortable taking a bath at home.

The next day, Jia Ke got up in the morning and began to practice Fang Tian's painting halberd for more than three months. During these three months, he had made great progress in absorbing Lu Bu's courage. It's a little easier than before.

After breakfast in the morning, Jia Ke rode a green-maned horse for a few laps outside the village, and practiced halberd techniques a few times on the horse, but Jia Ke found that although the green-maned horse was also a good horse, he danced squarely on it. When drawing a halberd, he felt a little weak, not to mention that his running speed slowed down, and he was also inflexible when slowing down. This was because he didn't wear that pair of armor.It seems that in the future we still have to get a thousand li horse.

Jia Ke didn't practice martial arts after lunch. After all, he should take a rest after working so hard for so many days.

In the afternoon, I managed to take a nap, but was disturbed. Chuncao came in to report, saying that it was Lin Zhixiao who asked to see her.Lin Zhixiao was still very steady, and he was afraid that something might happen if he asked to see him at this time.While letting Lin Zhixiao in, Jia Ke wailed, why can't he let him rest.Lin Zhixiao didn't know what was going on as soon as the matter with the soldiers was over.

Jia Ke received Lin Zhixiao in the living room of the inner house.

As soon as Lin Zhixiao saw Jia Ke, he greeted Jia Ke and said, "The little one pays my respects to the old man."

Jia Ke waved his hand and said, "Get up, if you have something to say, hurry up, I still have something to do."

Lin Zhixiao hurriedly said to Jia Ke: "Master, something has happened. Your Zhuangzi has a drought this year, and I'm afraid the harvest will be lost."

Jia Ke was a little confused when he heard that, and said, "My village is suffering from drought, and the harvest will be zero this year? How do you know?"

Lin Zhixiao replied to Jia Ke and said: "Master, the young man who came to deliver the case a few days ago passed the words to him on behalf of the second master. I thought I would report back to you a few days ago, but you don't want people to disturb you in the barracks. I just dragged it down. It’s not that the uncle has no time to practice in the morning, so I’m here to report now.”

Jia Ke sat on it and thought for a while, he is not a real dandy and a rich man who doesn't know the sufferings of the world.If this is a failure, people will starve to death.As a landlord, he also has responsibilities.

When he thought of his Zhuangzi dying of hunger, he couldn't sit still, and wanted to go and have a look right away.But he has never been in touch with rural affairs in his two lifetimes, so he needs a knowledgeable colleague.Looking at Lin Zhixiao, this person used to stay in the capital all the time except collecting rent, so he might not be much better than him.In the end, I thought of Liu Hong. Liu Hong had been in charge of Xiacao Village for decades, so he must be very familiar with rural affairs, so I might as well ask him.

So Jia Ke asked Zhou Wang to find Liu Hong, and said that he had something to ask him.

In a quarter of an hour, Liu Hong came.After meeting Jia Ke and asking for peace, Liu Hong asked Jia Ke, "Master, did you call me here, I wonder if there is anything I can do for you?"

Jia Ke was not polite to him, and went straight to the point: "One of my villages has suffered a drought this year, and I'm afraid it will have to be harvested. I grew up in the mansion, so I don't know about the family, so I came to ask you. What should be done to help the people.”

Liu Hong is also an old manager. He has worked in Xiacaozhuang all his life and has experienced various disasters several times. He is no stranger to drought, so he calmly replied to Jia Ke, "The most important thing in a drought is to dig a deep well to solve the problem of drinking water for humans and animals. The next thing is to transport grain into the disaster area. Just after the drought, everyone still has a certain amount of grain in stock. This is the second. Then there is epidemic prevention. You have to keep up. There is one more thing you must pay attention to, because the drought-stricken area generally has a large area, you must send more people to transport grain to the drought-stricken area, or you will be robbed by the victims of the disaster area if you don’t reach the uncle’s village.”

After Liu Hong finished speaking, he comforted Jia Ke and said, "My lord, don't worry too much. Every time there is a disaster, the imperial court will preside over the disaster relief. Usually, it will distribute food and relief to the disaster area. After the disaster, it will take measures to exempt and defer rent collection." Waiting for measures to restore people's livelihood."

Jia Ke was relieved now, but she was still going to have a look, since it was her own Zhuangzi after all.

When they were discussing how much food to bring when they went, Zhou Wanglai reported that Jia Zheng had sent someone to deliver a letter.Jia Ke hurriedly asked someone to come in, and saw that it was one of Jia Zheng's servants.The young man came in and saw Jia Ke, knelt down and saluted Jia Ke, and then delivered Jia Zheng's letter.

Jia Ke asked Zhou Wang to arrange the messenger in the front yard and let him rest overnight. After he wrote a reply, he would go back tomorrow.

Jia Ke watched the boy go down, opened the letter, and told Jia Ke in the letter that he already knew about the drought in his village, so he didn't have to worry about it. He had asked Lai Da to send someone to send 300 taels of silver, and there were five hundred taels left. Take food.Zhuang Zishang also replied that the villagers have been resettled, so that he can practice martial arts with peace of mind and don't have to worry about it.And said that Aunt Zhou is also very good, so he can rest assured at home.

After reading Jia Zheng's letter, Jia Ke was really relieved, put down the letter and told Lin Zhixiao and Liu Hong that the second master had already taken care of the affairs of the Zhuangzi, and the food and money had been delivered.Then let them go.

After dinner in the evening, Jia Ke took out Jia Zheng's letter and wanted to read it again so that he could reply to Jia Zheng's letter, but Jia Ke's brows frowned.

Jia Zheng's letter said that the money and food had been sent, and Zhuangzi also replied that the victims had been resettled.But in the past few days, Jia's mansion and Zhuangzi had several phone calls, and Jia's mansion sent all the food and called him back, which was too fast.This shows that Zhuangzi is not far from the capital city. He was also in the suburbs of Beijing when he was in Xiacaozhuang. He did not hear Liu Hong say that the harvest in the village was not good. Moreover, Liu Hong also said that the drought-affected area is generally very wide. It is impossible that only his village suffers from drought. , the rest of Beijing is fine.

It seems that either there is something wrong with Jia's mansion or there is something wrong with Chuang Tzu.It is impossible for Jia Zheng in Jia's mansion to lie, that is, there is a problem with Zhuangzi, and he may even be in collusion with the housekeeper of Jia's mansion.

This is because he is young, so come to trick him. When Zhuangzi was in Jiamu's hands, the weather was good every year, but once in his hands, disasters would happen.Not only does this year's grandfather not have to give it, but he also gets the money and food from the mansion for free.This matter cannot be concealed by a manager in the village no matter what, and the only one in Jia's mansion who can accomplish this matter is Lai Da.

Around this time, at least 3000 taels of silver can be obtained, which is not a small sum there.

When I saw the Red Mansion before, it was said that Lai's family also has pavilions and pavilions, and there is a big back garden. I also asked Jia Mu to visit it. Where did he get his money?It's all from the corrupt government.

Jia Ke never thought of embarrassing Lai, after all Lai Nanny is Jia Mu's confidant.But when he stretched his hand to his head, I'm afraid it's not just greed, it's because he didn't take himself seriously at all, and played Jia Zheng in his hands.

Jia Ke's economy is tight now (subsidized a lot of food expenses for the soldiers), and he thought that renting out the house would ease the relief, but he never thought that something like this would happen, and he would never let it go.

Chapter 32

The next day, Jia Ke practiced Fang Tian's painting of a halberd in the morning, and then practiced the Spring and Autumn Daoyin technique.

Then after having breakfast served by Chuncao and Qiaolian, she asked Qiaolian to call Lin Zhixiao and Zhou Wang, and asked them to notify Liu Hong, the steward of the village, and Liu Yu, the guard of the personal army, to come over. He had something to do to order.

After a while Liu Hong and Liu Yu came, and Lin Zhixiao was about to leave when he saw the people coming. At this moment, Jia Ke stopped him and said, "Boss Lin, you stay too."

Sitting on it, Jia Ke first said to Liu Yu: "The training of the soldiers is almost done, but the long-distance training is missing. Today I will make up for it. Now you go back and let the kitchen make cakes and distribute them as dry food for the soldiers. One Gather outside my courtyard gate after hours."

Liu Yu didn't say much, and only replied to Jia Ke in a muffled voice, "I guarantee it will be completed, and there will be no delay."

Jia Ke waved him to go down, and then said to Liu Hong: "I'm still worried about my Zhuangzi, I still want to go and have a look, Liu Hong, you are the old Zhuangtou, you can go and have a look with me, in case If there is anything wrong with me, please remind me. This trip will take a few days, so prepare yourself." After saying this, Liu Hong was asked to go down and prepare without waiting for a reply.

When we arrived at Lin Zhixiao, Jia Ke said, "You are familiar with all the villages in the house, so just be a guide and arrange carriages, horses, board and lodging. Go down and get ready, and leave on time in an hour." After speaking, she dismissed Lin Zhixiao. Zhixiao went directly to the back house.

Lin Zhixiao went out of the hall, walked into the yard, looked at the sky, thinking that the sky was about to change.He had doubts about Jia Ke's incident at Zhuangzi, but firstly, he relied on the general trend, and secondly, he didn't dare to imagine that they would be so bold, and then there was no evidence, so he didn't report it to Jia Ke, but judging by Jia Ke's appearance today, He was afraid that he had seen a flaw, and he was afraid that something would happen this time, but he went to do what Jia Ke told him.

When Jia Ke returned to the back house, Chuncao immediately served tea. While drinking tea, Jia Ke said to Chuncao, "Prepare some clothes for me. I will go out soon, and it may take a few days."