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After Tang Sigou's funeral, there was a wave of naming fever in the valley.This trend first arose among slave soldiers, and slowly spread to other slaves.

After the name-naming craze passed, Zheng Yuming thought about it, and felt that the craze started when the second son came to find Chu Chaohui.

"My lord! Sir! Please help the second son choose a better name." After dinner, the second son went to the villa to look for Chu Chaohui. When he saw Zheng Chu, he stood at attention and made a military salute.

"Is your surname a place name?" Chu Chaohui frowned. He remembered that the second son's information was from the Tang Dynasty, and he lived in a place called Madi in the Tang Dynasty. Could it be that the second son should take Ma as his surname?

"Yes!" Er Zi replied loudly.

Zheng Yuming laughed beside him. "The surname Ma is called Erzi, so it's better to be called Ermazi Shunliu."

"I just don't think Ma Er sounds good, so I want to ask your lord and the officer to name it." The second son scratched his head, and Zheng Yuming laughed like this, and felt that the name Ma Er was not on the table.

"How about this, your surname will be Ma from now on. Ma sounds similar to Ma, so you can commemorate your hometown. Your nickname is Erzi, so your name should be Ren." Chu Zhaohui thought for a while, and thought of a name for Erzi.

"Ma Ren." The second son read it for a while, and thought it sounded much better than Ma Er, and he was much more knowledgeable.Immediately, he paid a military salute to Chu Chaohui: "Thank you, sir!"

The slave soldiers learned that the second son had asked Chu Chaohui for a name. Those who didn't have a surname wanted to ask for a surname, those who didn't have a name wanted a name, and some who didn't think their name sounded good wanted a good name.These slave soldiers did not dare to ask Chu Chaohui for their name like the second son did, because the second son was the captain of the slave soldiers and was highly regarded by Chu Chaohui. The other slave soldiers felt that their status was not enough, so they did not dare to trouble Chu Chaohui.

The slave soldiers didn't dare to trouble Chu Chaohui, they all went to trouble the valley's soul engineer, Teacher Fan Jin.When other slaves saw that the slave soldiers were asking for their names, they followed suit.

Fan Jin's limited knowledge could not cope with the throng of slaves seeking names, so he had to ask Zheng Yuming for advice. Zheng Yuming was very straightforward, and threw Fan Jin a list of family names and a dictionary.Although half of the simplified characters in the hundred surnames and the dictionary are not from this time and space, there are still other half of the characters that are similar to the Daqin characters. After Fan Jin has the hundred surnames and the dictionary, the name becomes trivial.

On the second day after Tang Sigou was buried, Chu Chaohui began to reward the slave soldiers based on their performance in battle.There are three grades for recording merits. The first grade is first-class merit, which rewards [-] gold. There are three people who were rated as first-class merit, Wei Qing, Ma Ren, and a slave named Zhou Cheng.Followed by the second-class merit, ten slave soldiers were evaluated, and the reward was ten gold.The last is the third-class merit. As long as the slave soldiers who participated in the bandit suppression were awarded this evaluation, the reward for the third-class merit was hardware.

After the rewards were distributed, the slave soldiers in the valley burst into joy.The rewards and bonuses that Chu Chaohui set were not generous. He didn't want to stimulate the soldiers completely with material things. What was really used to motivate the soldiers was the merit record system, which was military merit and had a sense of honor. The promotion of soldiers in the army in the future was linked to military merit.

During the one-and-a-half-month bandit suppression operation, Chu Chaohui led the slave soldiers to strictly follow the steps of the army. Every day they marched, they must send scouts, that is, scouts to investigate the situation first, and the large army marched only after obtaining safe information.After approaching the bandit stronghold, find out the terrain of the stronghold, and formulate a battle plan. During the battle, the archers and crossbowmen cooperate with the infantry. With a combat force of 52, Chu Chaohui is acting as a force of tens of thousands of people. How is the company's logistics? The arrangement was to teach these soldiers. After several battles against bandits, the slave soldiers had a three-dimensional impression of how to fight the enemy.

After the bandit suppression was over, Chu Chaohui felt that these slave soldiers could lead recruits, and he planned to expand the armed guards.To expand the army, Chu Chaohui faced a problem, that is, the source of troops.

In the slave market in Dacheng, Zheng and Chu didn’t dare to buy more. There are numerical records of nobles buying slaves there. Compared with other nobles, the number of slaves purchased in Nanbu is already too much. Going on will definitely arouse Wei Shen's suspicion and vigilance. The exiles in the prison can only choose skilled criminals, and other exiles cannot be bought all.

The only people who can be supplemented with labor and not let the other nobles in Dacheng perceive it are the foreign civilians who come to Nanbu to survive. It aroused the suspicion of the nobles in Dacheng.

Chu Chaohui wanted to expand the number of troops to more than 500. The slave soldiers who had participated in the suppression of bandits each brought ten recruits.More than 100 people were selected from the valley, plus 200 captive bandits, barely made up [-] people, and there were still [-] gaps in the [-] targets.

"Yu Ming, I want to buy people." Chu Zhaohui thought about it, and felt that there was only one way for him to gather five hundred troops.

"Buy people, go to the slave market? Didn't you say that you can't buy there?" Zheng Yuming stopped writing, he was writing a tutorial just now.

"It's not in Dacheng. I want to go abroad to buy people." Chu Chaohui meant to use the merchants in the business to secretly buy those disaster victims to come to Nanbu.

"How do you buy it?" Wei and Tang are densely populated, the drought there is more severe than Dacheng, the Little Ice Age is also more serious than Dacheng, the nobles there are more brutal, and there are many civilians who cannot survive. Fee, and promise to pay, I believe that many strong men can be recruited to come to Nanbu."

"Will they be willing to be slaves?"

"I don't want to turn them into slaves. I just want to set a five-year contract with the strong men. During these five years, the strong men are not allowed to move around at will. This can still guarantee the secrecy of the valley." Chu Zhaohui took a breath, for the sake of the night He stopped smoking some cigarettes, and now he stipulates that he only smokes two cigarettes a day.

"What about in five years?" Zheng Yuming frowned, training soldiers cost a lot, well-trained soldiers, should they be let go after five years?

With an army of 500 people, the expenses are more than half of the profits of the textile factory. Fortunately, the production of porcelain in the porcelain kiln has increased. In addition to supplying Yu Kui, the porcelain is also sold to Chu, Tang, and Wei. To Zhao, Qi, Lu.The profits of these porcelains are very objective. As the output increases, the profits directly catch up with the textile factories.Otherwise, relying on the textile factory alone, like Chu Chaohui's training at no cost, Nanbu would go bankrupt sooner or later.

"After staying for five years, do you think they will still want to leave?" Chu Chaohui raised his eyebrows. Now to deal with slaves who have made mistakes, as long as they say "get out of the valley", the slaves who made mistakes will beg for mercy desperately. In his eyes, driving out of the valley became the biggest punishment.

"If they ask to go back to their hometown to visit relatives in five years, they will expose our strength." Although Zheng Yuming said so, he felt very mysterious whether the valley could keep it secret for five years.

"King Wu is already in his fifties, and his life of debauchery and debauchery has made him weak. According to the news sent back by Yu Kuigang, King Wu had a cold after the Spring Festival and he had to lie in bed for more than a month before recovering. With King Wu's physical health , Can he live to five years later?"

Chu Chaohui analyzed with Zheng Yuming. "If something happens to the King of Wu, the royal court will be in chaos. Yi Ji is not a good opponent. It is still uncertain who will win between her and Prince Zhao. It is Prince Zhao who ascends the throne, and Prince Guang is not in immediate danger. But if Yi Ji succeeds, she His son Yong has become the king of Wu, so is it necessary for our valley to keep it a secret?"

At that time, Yi Ji will not let Young Master Guang go, and Young Master Guang will never be so pedantic that he will be caught without a fight. Even if the power of the valley is exposed, compared to Yi Ji's son Yong succeeding to the throne, it will be good news for Young Master Guang.Gongzi Guang can use the power of the valley to deal with Yi Ji.

If Prince Zhao succeeds to the throne, Young Master Guang has the power of the valley in his hands, which is also a deterrent.Of course, Young Master Guang must trust Prince Zhao very much, and the power of the valley is a threat to him.

"The five years you set, is it estimated that King Wu will not survive this number of years?"

According to the news sent back by Yu Kui, if King Wu didn't pay attention to his health, he wouldn't have a few years to live, but King Wu refused to accept his old age and still treated himself as a man in his prime, with no restraint in drinking and sex.Doctor Jiang learned from the palace doctor that King Wu could live up to three years if he continued like this.

"That's right, even if the King of Wu doesn't die in five years, we don't have to be afraid of the nobles of the Wu Kingdom."

Chu Chaohui was very confident. As long as he had [-] elite soldiers in his hands, he would dare to fight any noble in Wu Kingdom.Like Dacheng's armed forces, as long as he trains a thousand soldiers, he can properly destroy them.

In fact, the total armed force of the city lord of Dacheng is only more than 1000 people. Young Master Guang called on the private armed forces of other nobles in Dacheng to assemble an army of 3000 people.

"When you go to Tang and Wei to buy young men, you have to choose reliable businessmen." Hearing Chu Chaohui's analysis, Zheng Yuming felt that the plan was feasible.

"Let's send a big ship to dock on the coast of the Tang Dynasty, and the merchants will send them to our big ship when they buy young men."

The merchant’s boat is too small, and it can carry two or thirty people at most at one time. The twenty-material ship sold by Nanbu Shipyard to Wu Mu can carry a hundred people at one time. Go ashore in the west of the valley, so that the outside world will not notice that there are more people in the valley.

After deciding on the plan to buy a strong man, Zheng and Chu acted immediately. Wu Mu's big ship was requisitioned. It turned out to be the second son of Tang people, that is, Ma Ren, who was sent to the ship and went to Tang with the ship. Several merchants were carefully selected. , was promised a huge profit, and if they recruited a strong man, they would be rewarded with two gold.After recruiting a strong man, they only need to send the strong man to the berth of the big ship, and the travel expenses will be reimbursed separately.

These merchants are from Tang and Wei, and they know the local area very well, and the locals also know them. After the merchants offered their recruiting rewards, disaster victims soon applied. After receiving the hardware settlement allowance first, they couldn't help being moved.Five coins is not much, but it is enough for a family to maintain food and clothing for more than two months. Now it is the end of February, and it will be just in time for the summer harvest in more than two months. With this settling allowance, a family can survive until the grain harvest.

Because of the attraction of the resettlement fee, in addition to the desperate victims who signed up, civilians with extra labor at home also signed up. Although they will not be able to go home for five years, they will get money every month. The money can be brought back by businessmen, and the family has With this money, if the harvest in the fields is not good, you can still have a meal.

In just over a month, Chu Chaohui gathered 500 people, but the plan for the strong men did not stop, and the big ship continued to load young men on the coast of Tang State, because Zheng Yuming realized that buying strong men was also a shortcut to supplement the labor force in the valley.As for when the contract expires in five years, the valley will face the departure of the young men. Zheng Yuming thinks that by then, the conditions in the valley will be comparable to the United States in the 21st century, and the external conditions will be like Mexico. Move relatives to the valley.After the development of the valley, it can accommodate at least 5 people. As long as the finances are sufficient, Zheng Yuming decided to implement the long-term buying plan.

After the buying plan became long-term, Wu Mu was dissatisfied, because his large ship of [-] materials was requisitioned for a long time, which seriously affected his business in Chu State.Zheng Yuming got a headache from Wu Mu's nagging, and finally promised that he would sell him the [-]-material ship that the shipyard would build in the second half of the year.

The local nobles were not unaware of Nanbu's purchase of strong men in Tang and Wei.These nobles were neither willing to reduce rent nor provide relief. Seeing more and more victims, they were afraid that the victims would riot like the civilians in Qilu.Now that some people take away the victims and eliminate the riots, they are happy to hear it. As for where the victims go, they don't care at all.

Apart from secretly training soldiers in the valley, Chu Chaohui also had other arrangements for Nanbu.Although the bandits around Nanbu were wiped out, Nanbu without a protective wall is not safe. Nanbu has a special geographical location. Even if a wall is built, bandits can come from the waterway. If the waterway also builds protection , This project is a bit too big. There are more than 3000 people in Nanbu now. All of these people are going to repair the protection. It will take a year to complete the construction.To ensure the safety of Nanbu, guards can only be set up in the south.

Chu Chaohui planned to build the guard into a reserve team for later generations, so that he could go to the battlefield just by wearing a military uniform.Therefore, recruiting guards in Nanbu has strict physical requirements and generous treatment, which is similar to slave soldiers, and the monthly salary is the same as hardware.The quota is tentatively set at 30 people.During the public recruitment, it was claimed that the guards of the governor's mansion were recruited to protect the safety of the governor's mansion.

As soon as the recruitment announcement was posted, hundreds of people surrounded the recruitment and selection office. Apart from the generous treatment to attract them, the other was the value of this time and space.Daqin people believe that being a soldier is a decent profession, even if the soldier is not a tiger, but a guard, in people's minds, he is still superior to others.

Originally, the selection of guards was conditional, and they could only be from Nanbu Village, or refugees who had settled in Nanbu.But two villagers from the back slope quarreled in front of Zheng Yuming and insisted on joining the guard. These two were the two cousins ​​of Tian Hu and Tian Bao who had robbed Wu Da.

Tian Hu and Tian Bao worked in Nanbu to support their mother, widowed sister-in-law, nephews and nieces.Some factories in Nanbu only employ local people. Tianhu and Tianbao have been doing hard work in Nanbu, and the two have been doing portage at the dock.Because the Nanbu Wharf is busy, the two are willing to endure hardships, and their monthly income is very high. They can support a family without planting the fields on the back slope.It took an hour and a half to walk from Houpo to Nanbu, and it took too much time to go back and forth, so the two reported to Wu Da, and built a mud hut against the refugee's hut as a stop.

After the two lived in Nanbu, they learned that there was a night school in the ancestral hall of Nanbu Village, and all the villagers went to study. Non-Nanbu villagers could also go, but they did not enjoy the literacy reward.After Tian Hu and Tian Bao went to school for two days, they learned from the night school teacher that the ancestral school in Nanbu Village is open to all children, and the children who go to school there can also have a free lunch at noon every day.Hearing this news, Tian Bao and Tian Hu were moved. They wanted to bring their nephew and niece to Nanbu, so that they could enjoy compulsory education.

When nephews and nieces are coming, the widowed sister-in-law has to come and take care of her. When the widowed sister-in-law comes, the old mother can't stay in Houpo alone, but also has to live in Nanbu.After Tian Hu and Tian Bao went back to discuss, they built two houses next to the mud house in Nanbu. The fields on the back slope were given back to the landlord, and the whole family moved to Nanbu.The Spring Festival of Tian's family was spent in Nanbu.

The recruiting guard stipulated that only Nanbu residents were recruited. Tian Hu and Tian Bao believed that their family had moved to Nanbu, and they were regarded as settled residents, so they could not be regarded as Houpo villagers.They fully meet the recruitment requirements, and the recruitment office should hire them.

When the lawsuit came to Zheng Yuming, Zheng Yuming looked at Tian Hu and Tian Bao's longing eyes, and nodded to let the recruiting office hire the brothers from the Tian family.After this incident, Zheng Yuming vaguely felt that the first conflict between Nanbu and Dacheng nobles was about to erupt.Sure enough, not long after, Dacheng Wenzai Wei Shen summoned him and Chu Chaohui.