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Chapter 122 Leaders Must Know the Art of Drawing Pieces
Yanxiang Club is short of people right now.

It's not just a lack of construction teams.

The most important thing is that we are still short of special forces personnel.

Currently, all the special forces of Yanxiang Society are walkers.

It’s still easy now, there are more than a hundred walkers.

But the problem is, as the production line of bolt-action rifles is built.

Production capacity has increased.

Even on a current production line, dozens of guns and thousands of bullets are produced every day.

Lu Yuan is now going to expand his team.

As I said before, this would require at least five or six hundred people.

But are all these five or six hundred people walkers?
This is not good, as the biggest use of a traveler is to escort caravans.

When they are outside, they know how to tell the directions, and know where is safe and where is unsafe.

Know where the water source is, and also know where to rest safely at night if you can't get to the next village in time.

They will not panic when encountering evil spirits and ghosts. They are all veterans and are very capable.

If we could get a few hundred walkers over, it's spring time soon, how can Yanxiang Club work without so many walkers?

And to be honest, it is too extravagant to form a special forces team using only Walkers.

After all, to put it bluntly, Lu Yuan's special forces team can be composed of ordinary strong men in their twenties.

In a team of twelve, an experienced traveler can be the team leader.

And can this strong young man in his twenties be just picked up from the street?

That definitely won’t work. You still have to be loyal.

Of course, we have to choose from the villages that have been harmed by bandits.

Choose the best from this group.

It's not just about physical condition, but also about whether the person has committed any criminal offenses or has any bad habits.

These are a mess.

Of course, this does not mean that the people selected in this way will be loyal or do this or that.

But the probability is good.

As for whether one can remain loyal, it naturally depends on the treatment.

After all, people change. You can't expect someone to be loyal to you for life just because he or she has done you a favor once.

At the very least, you should ensure that others will have no worries about food and drink.

This goes without saying. As long as you can become a member of the special forces, you will definitely be given the best treatment.

And what is the most important point besides this?

The most important point is that when the factory is built, people from these villages will come to work in the factory.

What does it mean?

To put it simply, the people in the special forces, their relatives, their friends, and their children all work for the Yanxiang Society.

This can ensure the special forces members' high loyalty to the Yanxiang Society.

In the future, their parents will have to rely on the doctors in the Yanxianghui factory for medical treatment.

Their children will study in the school inside the Yanxianghui factory.

It can be said that all of this is inextricably linked to the special forces.

Let me put it simply.

As I said, a community of interests.

With these intricate connections, the loyalty of the special forces is definitely the highest.

Without these, he would be a mercenary.

Now it’s time to recruit people.

Originally, Lu Yuan planned to announce the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and then start again.

But given the current situation, since they have come directly to us, let’s just start right away.

If you think about it carefully, I guess these people won’t be able to celebrate the New Year.

The only ones who can come are the helpless ones who have been tormented by the bandits in recent years and can't stand it anymore.

Like the village at the foot of Liangshan Mountain.

Before that, Lu Yuan also distributed rice, flour, grain and oil to them so that they could have a good New Year.

But only that one village has the conditions.

Do other villages celebrate the New Year?
I’m afraid I can’t even eat a meal of dumplings.

In that case, come on everyone!
All go directly to the open space.

All participated in the construction of the factory.

Lu Yuan made a rough estimate and found that people from seven or eight villages had come today alone.

These villages are not big.

After all, you live at the foot of a bandit mountain, so this village can't be big.

In a village like this, anyone whose family has a little money would have run away long ago.

Women from other villages would not marry here.

The women in my own village will only get married.

Most of these villages have less than a hundred households.

In other words, there are about three or four hundred people in a village.

There are fewer people.

Especially among those aged between 15 and 40, there are probably only about or middle-aged men in this period.

But there are so many villages.

Don’t think that only seven or eight villages have come today.

There are still some who have not arrived yet, and there are still some who are on the way.

After all, the area outside the Great Wall is so vast, and these are all close to Taining City.

The vast majority of villages, or villages that were plagued by bandits, were located in remote corners outside the Great Wall.

After all, bandits won't stay in places with a lot of people.

Just wait and see, people from the village will come every day in the next ten days or so.

Of course, since Lu Yuan intends to do this kind of thing, there is no need to wait for someone to come.

Direct door-to-door notification.

When people arrived, they were all taken directly to the factory area and started working right away.

What about a place to live?
After all, it's freezing cold now.

This is a simple matter. Just build a simple shed for these people.

There are four wooden stakes erected around the place, with a large shed on top, surrounded by wooden boards.

Such a simple large shantytown can directly accommodate hundreds of people.

At this time, someone will ask, is it possible to live here?
This thing needs to be ventilated, right?
Wouldn’t people freeze to death if they lived in there?

I can only say that the current conditions are indeed quite difficult, but there is no way, this is the point in time.

All Lu Yuan could do was to provide enough coal and bedding.

Just suffer for a while first.

Besides, for those who live under the rule of bandits and have nothing but bare walls, it is actually not that bad.

After all, their homes are not much different from these shanty towns.

They don't have anything good to eat at home.

But here Lu Yuan can ensure that they have oily meals three times a day.

And there is no need to chew sweet potatoes. Every meal consists of at least two bowls of noodles, and there is definitely pork in the stewed cabbage.

After all, they have to do physical work. This is not like in the mine, where there are spiritual stones for nourishment, but here they just have to rely on eating.

He did what he said. In the afternoon, Lu Yuan sent people to the villages under the bandit hills outside the Great Wall to notify them.

Just have everyone pack up and come over.

Of course, this does not require a time. If you have packed up today, then you can come today. If you have packed up tomorrow, then you can come tomorrow.

Anyway, good jobs are up for grabs.

If you come late and lose the good job, you will just have to do a bad job.

This is for ordinary people.

For example, older people, women, or the elderly.

As for the young people around 20 years old in the village, if you are willing to come, then come immediately.

I received the news tonight, so I took some food and headed to Taining City right away.

Lu Yuan had made plans and decided to gather the special forces team together first.

Then, after everyone has gathered, they will receive a little training to learn how to use guns and cannons, and then they can set out to practice in actual combat.

With so many bandits around, this is such a great opportunity for actual combat.

These bandits occupied the natural barrier, which was the best protection for the bandits and the special forces. They couldn't rush down and could only be beaten on the mountain.

For the special forces, this is simply the safest actual combat.

When the time comes, we will start training with these bandits!
The fifth and sixth days of the first lunar month.

During these two days, nearly 200 young people gathered at the factory.

And among these more than 200 young people, we will select some.

Those who have not committed crimes will be given priority.

In fact, there are basically no such crimes.

After all, if he really had a bad character, he would have gone up the mountain and become a bandit long ago.

Those who could come here were not only criminals, but mostly local militiamen who spontaneously organized themselves to resist the bandits.

Among these more than 200 people, as long as they have the right physique, not too thin or too short, they can be directly assigned to the special operations team.

Lu Yuan has also thought about this special forces team.

The special operations team is divided into five battalions.

A brigade is divided into ten teams.

Among these ten teams, there are eight combat teams, one logistics team and one cooking team.

The captains of each team are the travelers who followed Lu Yuan at the beginning.

The deputy captain is chosen by the team leader himself, who looks smart and reliable.

Noon on the fifth day.

The first full-strength battalion of 120 people was formed.

After emergency training in the afternoon and evening, the first team learned how to use weapons and troubleshoot.

We rested for a day on the sixth day and then set out in the evening under the cover of darkness.

In the following few days, as more and more people arrived, the fully staffed Second Battalion and the fully staffed Third Battalion were also formed.

Also stepping up training.

As long as they have mastered the use of bolt-action rifles and conscienceless cannons, they will be sent out to suppress bandits.

Each fully staffed brigade will be sent to different places to suppress bandits.

This is how the special forces team was basically formed.

Of course, this is just the basics.

But this does not mean that the special forces will be like this in the future and the personnel will be fixed.

That's not what it says.

When suppressing bandits, these individuals will also be assessed.

The captain of each team will assess the members of his team.

Let’s see what kind of character the members of this team have.

There are those who get extremely panicked and scared when a fight breaks out, and don't know what to do. They will be eliminated directly when they come back.

When it’s time to build a house, build a house; when it’s time to be a craftsman, be a craftsman.

The vacancy will be filled by the person who comes later.

The ninth day of the first lunar month.

The First Special Operations Battalion is back with full strength.

As soon as he came back, the captain of the First Special Operations Brigade handed a roster to Lu Yuan.

“So many eliminated?”

Looking at the roster in his hand, Lu Yuan looked at the captain of the first team with some surprise and said.

A team with a full complement of 120 people.

Except for eleven people who were original practitioners of Yanxiang Society, the others were newcomers recruited this time.

Among these one hundred people, more than thirty failed.

One third were eliminated.

Those circled in red on this roster are unqualified.

And behind this person's name, it will also be written why he or she is not qualified.

For example, he was timid and would tremble with fear when the bandits shouted.

Either they are too stupid or too panicky.

The captain of this large team looked at Lu Yuan and nodded awkwardly:

“It’s really bad.

Some people just can’t be taught no matter how hard you try.”

Lu Yuan nodded, and didn't say much. He just signed his name on the list of substitutions and said:
"Go and choose again."

There is nothing else here in Lu Yuan now, except a lot of people.

With the successful formation of the fully staffed Fifth Brigade the night before yesterday.

These days, some young men of suitable age and conditions have nowhere to go.

Because Lu Yuan planned to form five battalions first, the remaining people were taught how to use guns and cannons in the next two days.

It's considered a reserve force.

If the captain feels that the team members are not suitable, he will come back and select new members.

After selecting the people, I came back to train again and also took a day off.

After a good rest, we set off again.

Those who were selected were delighted, while those who were dismissed shook their heads and sighed.

The wages of special forces are very high.

Six cents of silver a month was higher than the wages of laborers in the factory, and he could also eat meat and white flour buns for every meal.

And the most important thing is that if you can join the special forces team, doesn’t that mean you will be a direct descendant of Yanxiang Society in the future?
This is the current situation of the special forces, and the basic framework has been established.

But what is Lu Yuan thinking about?

These are the individuals...

The current marching speed is really slow!

Like the very first special forces team, those more than a hundred people were all walkers and could ride horses.

But these newly selected people have never even touched a horse, let alone ridden one.

What does Lu Yuan want from this special forces team?
Of course it’s the reaction speed and quick support.

If we rely on walking the whole way, it will be very tiring and slow.

Then let these people learn to ride horses?

First of all, I don’t have the time.

Secondly, where can we find so many horses?
The special forces team alone occupies five or six hundred fast horses. Can the Yanxiang Society still do business?
Ok……

We have to think of a solution.

However, no matter what method is used, this big factory must be built first.

Once the factory and workshop were completed and the production line was in operation, Lu Yuan could finally do something.

And how is the factory doing these days?

all the best.

There is work for everyone.

This strong and sturdy man was tamping the foundation by pulling the ropes on both sides of the big rock.

Everywhere around the factory you could see people shouting slogans, pulling ropes, throwing huge rocks up, and then smashing them down.

Since women were unable to do this kind of heavy work, they were assigned to carry building materials, dig ditches, and transport loose soil.

Those old men or women in their forties or fifties who are unable to do heavy work prepare meals.

Even children aged seven or eight, or eleven or twelve would carry a basket and bring water and food to the adults working in the fields.

Everyone's enthusiasm is very high.

As for why it is so high.

All we can say is that leaders must master the art of making promises.

Lu Yuan told these people.

In the future, everyone will live in a brick house, and there will be a library in the living area. They will hire private school teachers to teach their children to read and write for free, without charging a penny.

There are health clinics in both the factory and living areas.

If you get sick, you won’t be charged for minor illnesses such as colds, fevers, or injuries, but serious illnesses will be reimbursed.

Lu Yuan will ensure that everyone has enough food and warm clothes, and does not have to worry about making a living.

Ok……

Are these just empty promises?

Lu Yuan thought about it carefully and realized that it was not the case.

In fact, Lu Yuan really thought so.

(End of this chapter)