Syndicate Growth Manual

A few days later, Jiaxun brought news that Lu Hui had arrived at Xiguan.

Zhao Chen was very surprised. Five years ago, Lu Hui asked him to stay to take care of his family business and maintain contacts. In five years, he only came two or three times with the food transportation team. At this time, the food transportation team had come earlier. Suddenly?

He thought for a while and said: "You are going back, sir. I have no choice but to leave the camp at the moment. Let the master come to the camp tomorrow for a gathering. Anu happens to be going back today, so you go with him and give him a badge to enter and leave the barracks by the way. "

"Here." Jia Xun responded with a bow.

When he went to the camp of the junior soldiers, Lu Hui pretending to be old-fashioned appeared in his mind, so he couldn't help but smile.

Zhao Yuan and the rest of the soldiers were sitting on the felt playing cards. When they looked up and saw Jia Xun, they couldn't help being surprised: "Are you all right? Why are you smiling... so what?"

Jia Xun's smile disappeared immediately, and he stared at him expressionlessly.

Several soldiers laughed, and one of them, a [-]-year-old man with a beard, winked pointingly and said: "Da Lang, you are still young, it's spring, he wants to..." Then he made a Straightforward and vulgar gestures.

A dozen or so soldiers lying in the tent laughed, Zhao Yuan's mouth twitched, but he had to pretend to be innocent.Although I know that the military camp is black and yellow, but is it really good to say such things in front of an 11-year-old child?Fortunately, he was still a few years older. At that time, there were only more yellow ones in their school. This kind of battle can't scare him, Uncle Zhao Yuan!

"Da Lang, let's keep playing!" Another soldier kicked Zhao Yuan, "I haven't finished drawing the cards yet!"

Yes, the biggest invention Zhao Yuan is currently using is playing cards.Because paper is expensive, thick cardboard is rare, so the popular playing cards in the military camp are thin wood chips cut from wood, with simple suits engraved on them, so they are called flower cards.The veterans here are self-taught, and even started to gamble with flower cards, which made him go to surrender to his father, for fear that the wind of gambling would prevail in the barracks and damage the morale of the army.

Unexpectedly, his father didn't care about it.Gambling is common in the army, and there are hundreds of prohibitions. His father only stipulates in the military regulations how to deal with those caught. In fact, he tells everyone that you can play it, but you can only play it secretly. Once you catch it, you will be whipped.

Another reason why Zhao Chen is not worried is that the soldiers stationed at the border are not so free.In addition to preparing for war during wartime, they train every day, and when there is no war, they have to disarm and farm, and train in slack.He has been stationed in Xiguan for more than five years, but he was not self-sufficient in the first two years. The grain he produced later and the trade with the border residents could basically supply two-thirds of the army's rations.This system is more like the Fubing system, but the details are different.

In any case, if you don't gamble, playing flower cards can have unexpected effects.

Zhao Yuan didn't know that there was another phenomenon in the army called Yingxiao since he arrived in Xiguan.Gein's military camp has strict rules, and his father's "Seventeen Points and 54 Cuts" are well-known in several frontier camps in Zhao State. No soldier under his command dares to challenge him. It is an out-and-out killing place, and the mental depression of the soldiers over the years can be imagined.

On the other hand, no matter how strict the discipline is in the army, it is after all a place where male creatures gather, and it is instinctive to bully the weak.Bullying recruits, forming cliques, fighting openly and secretly, and conflicts have accumulated year after year.Usually it is all based on military discipline, but when the battle is intense, everyone's life and death are uncertain, and they don't know when they will die, and their spirits are on the verge of collapse.

In the first two years of Zhao Chen's arrival, he focused on rectifying the barracks and preserving strength, mainly focusing on defending the city.Quan Rongxu thought that Zhao Chen was a strong outsider, and the border raids in spring were extremely crazy, attacking the city almost three times a month.One night, a wounded soldier screamed in his nightmare, and the soldiers in the entire camp began to howl one after another. Some vented their fear, and some took the opportunity to take revenge. Because most of the soldiers were recruited from the same village , so the melee began.

A total of 40 people were killed or injured that time, and it was because Zhao Chen led people to stop them in time. Afterwards, 18 people were beheaded.

Zhao Yuan borrowed the idea of ​​playing cards, and there is a purpose in making pastimes like flower cards.Don't look at it as a small thing, but with this thing, the atmosphere of the whole camp will be better.Those who were originally close friends who could not lose face began to call each other brothers after a game of cards, and the pressure of training and farming on weekdays was also relieved.Originally, when it was Xunxiu, most of the soldiers would fight and make trouble, or go to the prefectural city to have sex with prostitutes, but now many people prefer to hide in the tents and play cards.

This is the third and most important reason why Zhao Chen acquiesced in playing cards.

Zhao Yuan threw the cards to the bearded man, stood up and stretched his waist: "I don't want to play anymore! I'm going home after ten days off today. Pay attention to the time and put it away quickly."

The bearded man hurriedly said: "Don't forget to bring me wine, and two catties of roast meat!"

"Understood!" Zhao Yuan glared at him, then walked out of the tent with Jia Xun in a guilty conscience.Damn, if you want my father to know that he is drinking secretly, you have to beat his ass!

Jia Xun didn't expose him, and looked around: "You don't stay in your own tent, what are you doing here? Where are those?"

Zhao Yuan didn't care and said: "They haven't finished their training tasks today, they are still doing exercises." He looked up at Jia Xun, and asked curiously, "You haven't said anything yet, why did you laugh like that just now?"

"..." Jia Xun touched his nose uncomfortably, and changed the subject, "Let's hurry back to the residence, Mr. Lu is here this time."

"Uncle Lu?" Zhao Yuan looked surprised, and immediately started to trot, "Let's go, let me see if Uncle Lu brought me any fun and delicious food!"

You are too easy to be fooled.Jia Xun thought silently.

He shouted: "Slow down, you haven't got the big red dates yet!"

Zhao Yuan waved his hand: "I won't take that little traitor with me!"

It's okay not to mention it, but when Maomao is mentioned, he panics.He still counted on Maomao to help him take care of those horses, but who would have thought that this guy would run back to the barracks to complain!It caused him to be laughed at by Cui Ming and the others for a few days!

Jia Xun went to lead his own horse. When Da Hong Zao saw him coming, he thought he was going home, so he walked over by himself and turned his horse's mouth back on him.Jia Xun patted Da Hong Zao's head, and said with a smirk, "You complainant, you still want to go home? Da Lang doesn't want you anymore!"

Dahongzao seemed to understand, and quit immediately, jumped out of the stable with a neighing sound, and looked in the direction to the camp.Jia Xun didn't go after him, he shook his head and led his horse out.Sure enough, it depends on the person to raise a horse. This little Anu has grown into a monster when raising a horse... When he arrived at the gate of the barracks, he saw Zhao Yuan riding on the back of a big red date with a face full of reluctance. This time, he had a low-browed and pleasing appearance, and the soldiers guarding the gate on both sides had serious expressions on their faces, but they were actually holding back their laughter.

After five years of recuperation, the entire three counties of Jiangzhou have slowly returned to their former prosperity, especially Huai County.Zhao Chen strictly guarded Xiguan every year, drove the Quanrong Kingdom out of Baili, liberated many grassland herdsmen, and asked Zhao Gong for instructions to open a reciprocity exchange.Over the past few years, Huai County's prefectural city has become more prosperous and bustling than before, with rapid commercial development and numerous shops. Many Huai County people who moved away have returned one after another, and even those who have moved away voluntarily moved here with their families.

Every time Zhao Yuan rides home on horseback, he can't help but feel proud when he sees the peaceful scene full of people in the square market.If his father hadn't attacked the dog army from outside, promoted business from inside, and led troops to reclaim farmland, Huai County would still recover slowly, but it would definitely not be as prosperous as it is today.

There was no one in Fucheng who didn't know Zhao Chen and his son. When they saw Zhao Yuan and his big red horse, they all gave way.Along the way, the people who greeted him one after another, and the ones who immediately hung up baskets and stuffed him with food one after another, made Zhao Xiaoyuan over the sour and refreshing addiction of throwing fruits and vegetables.His father only came back once a month, every time in the middle of the night, so this honor can only be enjoyed by him!

Lichun was waiting at the door, wearing a light green double-breasted short jacket with willow leaf patterns and a lotus-colored satin cotton skirt, with a hare of rabbit fur around her bun, which was fashionable in border towns.

"Da Lang!" When she saw the big red horse from a distance, a happy smile appeared on her face.

Zhao Yuan trotted his horse, turned over and jumped off, and said, "Why is my sister waiting at the door again? It's very windy here!"

Lichun bowed to him, greeted Jiaxun again, and dragged Zhao Yuan in with a smile: "Why don't you wait? You only come back a few times in January. I have been idle for a few days, looking forward to it every day." Are you not happy to see you and your lord come back!"

"Feed some hot water to Maomao!" Zhao Yuan turned his head and shouted to the groom, and then let her drag him across the school yard in the vestibule helplessly, "Didn't you say that Uncle Lu is here? Where is he?"

"Sir, I was reading in the study. I arrived at Yinshi. Lixia went to the kitchen and cooked a bowl of fine noodles with chicken soup. I even ate up the soup and the noodles... It can be seen how much I suffered on the road, but it was such a cold day. They came." Li Chun paused as he spoke, and added with a very strange expression, "Besides, Fang Ling and Fang Jin came together."

Zhao Yuan stopped, tilted his head and thought for a while, then put his hands together and said, "Remember, Fang Ling is the daughter of Zhao Da in the outer court, that little girl... Fang Jin, I can't remember her face."

Li Chun said angrily: "Their names were given by Da Lang. They were the maids in your room. Although they don't pay much attention in the border towns now, they have recovered in the past two years, and people often visit them in the mansion. There are not many of them." The next person can't do it."

Jiaxun's expression was even more strange.He knew what the Lord Lang was thinking, and he had ordered Lu Hui privately in the camp to go back this time and find some girls of the right age, and bring them here after they were educated.Could it be that Lu Hui thought of this a long time ago and sent two little girls here in advance?

But this is better.Da Lang used to be a nostalgic, if he knew someone well, he would not be so resistant at that time.