Water Margin begins as a captain in Yanggu County

Chapter 78 Let’s call him Li Yunlong!”

After leaving the yamen and returning to the military camp, Su Wu was obviously not planning to buy a house for the time being. One reason was that he was reluctant to spend money, as the housing prices in Dongping Prefecture were not low.

Secondly, since we are training troops recently, I have to eat, sleep and live with my brothers in the army.

There were still things to arrange. In the military camp, Su Wu called Lin Mao and asked him, "Brother Lin, how are the preparations for Jingyang Village going?"

Lin Mao replied: "Brother, we have already chosen a location and started recruiting people. We will start the construction as soon as I return."

"Well, that's great. You can take seven or eight older brothers back to take charge. The rest of the brothers will stay in the army to train. When you go back, go to Dulonggang first. I will write you a letter."

"Brother, do you have anything else to tell me?"

"That's right. Since you are going to collect tolls on Jingyang Ridge, you should do it in a legitimate way. This time, not only will you build a village, but you will also repair the road on Jingyang Ridge, flatten the slopes, straighten the curves, expand and compact the road surface, and make it easier for people and vehicles to pass. You are building a village and repairing the road. I am afraid that you cannot recruit many people for the time being, so please ask the three villages on Dulong Ridge to help you. Just give them money, and I will give you two thousand strings of money later..."

Su Wu is still willing to invest.

"I understand. I will do my job well." Lin Mao bowed and nodded.

"Don't worry about anything. I have already discussed this matter with the county magistrate. Just do it."

"As long as it's my brother's order, I won't worry. Even if the county magistrate is not here, I can collect the money for my brother." Lin Mao seemed to have learned something now.

"Okay, let's put it this way." Su Wu put the matter first.

Then he went to see Yu Baosi and asked the local tyrant to help him find a big and good shop facing the street. If he couldn't find one, he could just find a house or land facing the street and let Meng Yulou rebuild it.

He also asked Yu Baosi to take care of Meng Yulou on the street and not let anyone bully her.

The main reason is that Su Wu has to go out by himself, so he probably won’t be able to see Meng Yulou open the main store.

Of course, you also have to go around and say hello in the yamen. Just tell Zhang Zhen about this and give him some money. Zhang Zhen will naturally go around and visit everyone one by one. This is a face-giving to each other and will naturally be convenient for both parties.

It’s easy to talk in the army, just a matter of a word.

He also had to write a charter for collecting taxes on rivers and docks for Wu Song and have someone send it to Yanggu County.

In fact, Su Wu suddenly realized one thing: the amount of money circulating in the Song Dynasty society actually had a fixed amount. How could he make more?
It is still easier to make money with public power, no matter what era it is. Thinking about producing soaps and perfumes, it may not be as quick as relying on public power.

There are three of them: a river and a wharf, a highway toll station, and a main store. Although Su Wu has not yet estimated the profits, he already knows that the profits must be considerable.

In this way, Su Wu's inner pressure was relieved a lot, and he seemed to be getting on the right track slowly. Although the money was definitely not enough, fortunately he got rid of the situation of only spending and not earning, and he could still make a steady income.

Not long after, Luan Tingyu brought Lin Chong back.

When he arrived at Su Wu's classroom to meet him in person, Lin Chong had gauze on his face and smelled of medicine, and was bowing deeply.

Su Wu looked at Lin Chong and sighed, "Alas... In this case, the Lin Chong of the past is considered dead, and today's Yang Tian is alive. I'm afraid no one in the world will recognize you as the Lin Chong of Tokyo anymore."

Lin Chong said hoarsely: "Thank you for saving my life, Chief Eunuch."

Su Wu sighed and said, "I said I promise to help you get revenge in the future, I think you won't believe it easily. But if you really want to die alone, you can't get revenge. Since you are Yang Tian, ​​from today on, you have joined the army in Dongping Prefecture, so you should work hard, make achievements, get rewards and promotions, and maybe it will not be difficult to get revenge in the future."

At this moment, Lin Chong looked at Su Wu with some anticipation in his eyes.

After hearing this, Luan Tingyu also nodded: "What the general said makes sense."

Lin Chong nodded immediately and said, "Just follow the orders of the eunuch."

"Yang Tian from Dongjing will be appointed as the commander of the army under Dongping Prefecture and be responsible for training the soldiers. What do you think?" Su Wu asked again.

"I will do my best to train a strong army for the governor!" Lin Chong bowed again.

"Have you eaten?" Su Wu asked casually.

Lin Chong nodded and replied, "I ate it."

"It's hard to eat because of the wound on your face, right?" Su Wu asked again.

"Drink more minced meat porridge and rice." Lin Chong answered again.

It seemed that this person had changed a little, become strange, and Su Wu was wondering, what had changed?
Suddenly I figured it out, and became less emotional and more indifferent.

also!

"From tomorrow on, you will be responsible for military training, and I will train with you," said Su Wu.

"I know that the general has great ambitions and wants a strong army, so the training is particularly hard," said Lin Chong.

"Don't worry, I can handle it! Not only can I handle the training, I will also practice with Master Luan morning and night!"

Su Wu had experienced such hard training before. Physical fatigue was nothing to him, and the spiritual gains were more important than anything else.

Lin Chong said, "If the general trains with the soldiers and trains with them morning and night, perhaps we can train a strong army under the command of the governor!"

When it comes to work, as long as everyone is united and working together, people will work harder.

"Have some rest early and see you at the training ground early tomorrow morning!" Su Wu ordered.

Luan Tingyu said, "General, I will go and give him a house."

Both of them went. Su Wu did not rest either. He went to the parade ground again, rode his horse and galloped away without slacking for a moment.

Early the next morning, on the parade ground, Luan Tingyu and Su Wu were the first to get up, spears in hand, and march back and forth.

Lin Chong also got up early, holding a spear in one hand and a large roll of paper in the other. He arrived not far from Luan Tingyu and Su Wu. At this time, he really realized that the chief supervisor's words about practicing more in the morning and evening were not a joke.

I really got up at dawn to practice more.

When Su Wu had a short rest, he walked towards Lin Chong. Lin Chong greeted him again, but Su Wu asked, "What is that thing in Yang Tijie's hand?"

Lin Chong replied, "It is the military training rules, the military camp management regulations, and the military orders and disciplines."

As he said this, Lin Chong handed it to Su Wu to see.

When I opened it, it was not just one large piece of paper, but three sheets, all filled with writing. The handwriting was... a little bit delicate.

Su Wu read the three pieces of paper carefully. These three pieces of paper were very important for a strong army, but Su Wu felt that what was more important was Lin Chong's work attitude.

Su Wu already approved of it.

"Thank you for your hard work, Chief Yang." Su Wu said this seriously, which showed his recognition.

"It's my job!" Lin Chong replied, and then he added directly: "I see that the eunuch is serious about learning martial arts. I also have some skills in pistol and stick. I wonder if the eunuch is willing to learn?"

Su Wu's eyes lit up, and he said, "Of course I want to learn, the more the better."

"Okay!" Lin Chong finished speaking, with his spear in hand, and added: "I will go and have a look with the eunuch first, and then we will explain the details one by one."

Lin Chong was dancing with the spear in his hand so wildly that it was dazzling. Only his afterimage could be seen, and his body was flying up and down.

Su Wu watched very seriously, and Luan Tingyu beside him also praised: "What a great skill!"

As soon as Lin Chong's spear stopped, he turned around and said, "There is another way on horseback."

Su Wu immediately said, "I will learn the horse riding method in the evening. Let's learn this first."

Lin Chong also bowed to Luan Tingyu and said, "Master Luan, please don't blame me..."

Luan Tingyu immediately said: "It is exactly that they complement each other and take advantage of each other's strengths!"

Su Wu looked around and saw two great masters serving him alone. What else could he say?
Just do it, spear in hand, and move forward.

Since then, Huhe has come and gone...

While Lin Chong was teaching, Luan Tingyu watched and nodded repeatedly.

When Luan Tingyu was teaching, Lin Chong watched and nodded repeatedly, and he wanted to get more familiar with it, so he also walked forward with a gun and followed him to learn. Since he was nominally Luan Tingyu's apprentice Yang Tian, ​​how could there not be some similarities?
Only an hour later, drums began to beat in the military parade ground.

Many new recruits began to gather slowly on the training ground. Lin Chong went up to the podium, while Su Wu stood below.

Many people looked at him strangely, but no one dared to ask more questions at this moment.

As soon as Lin Chong repeatedly emphasized the training rules, control regulations, military orders and discipline, he gave the order to start running.

No matter what era the military is trained in, running is always the first method.

Su Wu also followed about a thousand people and ran around the parade ground, talking to people as he ran.

Su Wu smiled and asked, "Are you tired?"

"General, I'm not tired, not tired at all. How can this be considered tiring? Can it be more tiring than plowing the fields?"

Su Wu smiled and asked, "Can you hold on?"

"I can hold on, General. I can hold on for a few more miles."

Su Wu was very pleased. These children from good families really had good physical fitness.

Su Wu went on to say: "Let me compete with you to see which is faster."

"How dare you underestimate me, General? I can run faster than you!"

Then he saw the young man behind him running away, and Su Wu naturally chased him.

Lin Chong, who was on the platform, did not supervise anything, but asked Luan Tingyu for the military register, including his name, height, weight, number of relatives, and hometown...

doing what?
Starting to arrange the organization, this is a delicate job, and there are many tricks involved. The most basic thing is to disrupt and reorganize the people of the three villages. How to configure a squad, a brigade, or a capital first, how to adjust it later, how to let them elect grassroots officers themselves, and so on, are all under consideration.

And how to test and teach Zhu Long, Hu Cheng, and Du Xing, and how to arrange them...

This job is extremely complicated, and this is just the beginning.

After running, Su Wu had made arrangements for eating, and Du Xing was responsible for matters such as food in the army.

The food was not bad. Su Wu ate with them, too. He looked around, asking if this was enough to eat, asking if that was full...

After dinner, we started to receive basic weapons, swords, and spears.

It will be some time before military uniforms are distributed, and even after some time, maybe they will start wearing armor.

Just let Lin Chong arrange these step by step.

In the afternoon, Lin Chong began to organize the troops. There were about 1,500 people in three battalions. After a period of chaos, they gradually became orderly.

Even the residence had to be re-arranged. Lin Chong was so busy that he had no time to spare. Fortunately, Zhu Longhucheng and Du Xing came to help.

Everyone in the camp was busy coming and going.

Su Wu began to ride his horse at a gallop with Luan Tingyu again, sometimes stabbing the straw man, sometimes the two of them rode against each other, and even rode together to attack each other.

Many young men had finished their work and crowded around the training ground to watch.

"Our general has endless energy. He is always busy and is training very hard."

"This kind of horse fighting is really fun to watch..."

"I wish I could ride a horse someday."

"I heard there are cavalry. It is said that... the general said there are 500 cavalry. The best of the best will be the cavalry."

"Then I want to be a horse soldier!"

"You? Look...just look at the general's heroic posture of riding a horse. Can you imitate him?"

"Don't underestimate me. If you let me learn, how can I not learn it? I haven't ridden a horse before, but haven't I ridden a cow before?"

"Look, look, the general is attacking again!"

"The general is mighty, the general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

Su Wu was fighting with Luan Tingyu, but he turned around and smiled: "Practice well, we will send out the horses tomorrow!"

What is the meaning of "Fa Ma"? It is the meaning of "Fa Ferrari"!
The young men all listened with their eyes wide open.

"Are you really sending horses?"

"How can this not be taken seriously? The general said it himself."

"That's definitely not given to everyone..."

"I know. It's five hundred people."

The general went over there again.

Then again: "The general is mighty, the general is mighty!"

"Train well, so we can send out the horses tomorrow!" the general shouted again.

After a few rounds of fighting, the general was finally tired and out of breath. He had boasted everywhere and now he had to make good on his boasting.

The trip to Daming Prefecture could not be delayed any longer. Once the military training issues were sorted out and Su Wu got more familiar with the new recruits, we would set off immediately.

Su Wu also started to think about it. He had a lot of experience, so the first thing he did was to keep remembering names and matching them with faces.

Even if you can't remember more than a thousand names, you should at least remember two or three hundred. Especially for those who perform well, you must remember their names.

When you encounter these people performing well, you should blurt out their names. Don't underestimate this small trick. For the parties involved, it is a supreme honor and motivation.

By the afternoon of the next day, the military camp had already started marching drills, and they even had to coordinate the beating of drums, the beats of the drums, the pace... Lin Chong really tried his best.

Su Wu's general flag and banner were also made, and a large flag with the word "Su" on it was erected in the center of the parade ground.

They also have to select a flag-bearing officer, which is also a form of motivation. It all depends on how everyone performs, and the best of the best are chosen. Not only does they select a flag-bearing officer, they also have to select dozens of soldiers to guard the flag.

Lin Chong has his own expertise, and Su Wu has his own little tricks. The army also set up training bonuses, which were awarded once a day, fifty coins per day, for ten people.

For example, the one who runs the fastest, has the best queue, remembers the drum beats the fastest, and so on.

We also set up a wall of honor. When we win a bonus, we write our name in big letters and hang it on the wall. This is our daily honor.

There will also be a monthly honor system, where the best will be selected and 500 coins will be given to ten people. Even Su Wu wanted to get a painter to paint the portrait and hang it up, a majestic portrait of a man in armor leading soldiers.

As long as Su Wu was around, he would personally conduct this ceremony. After the training in the afternoon, he would make the ceremony very grand on the stage to let everyone show off.

There are also various competitions between the various groups, and competitions between the various camps. If you win, you get more meat, and if you lose, you get punished with more training.

Even personal hygiene and team hygiene were included in Su Wu's assessment. When things like the mobile red flag were set up, he would also be rewarded. To be more straightforward, he would just give money, ten or eight cents, which was not a small amount.

The lower class people of this era did not pay much attention to hygiene. But in Su Wu's army, this matter must be taken seriously. In fact, it is a personal health issue. People cannot always be sick. It can also effectively prevent plague in the army.

This is indirectly a form of honor and obedience training, but if you make it like a game and give money and meat to eat, people will feel no resistance to participating and may even enjoy it.

Su Wu racked his brains every day for things like this.

A few more days.

Su Wu got up early again and asked the two masters to serve him. Then he suddenly found that some soldiers had also gotten up early like him to practice.

Su Wu immediately called out his name: "Li Erdan."

"General!" The young man ran towards Su Wu with a smile on his face. He was very excited and bowed in front of him.

"Why do you get up so early?" Su Wu asked deliberately.

"Hehe... General, I received the general's bonus yesterday, but I was almost surpassed by Cheng Sangou yesterday. I won by luck. Even if I practice more, I will definitely not let Cheng Sangou surpass me."

The young man is in very good spirits, sunny and simple, and very cheerful.

General Su immediately looked pleased and nodded in approval: "Well, not bad, not bad, very energetic!"

"Hehe..." The young man smiled innocently and said, "I am also learning from the general. The general gets up so early every day, practices so much, and practices with us. If the general can do it, then so can I!"

There is sincerity in this guy's eyes!

General Su encouraged him even more: "If you still want the bonus today, I will secretly give you another ten dollars tomorrow morning."

"Really?" The young man didn't beat around the bush and was just excited.

"Take it seriously, how can you not take it seriously? But you can't tell anyone else!" Su Wu added another reminder.

"Then I'll go and practice right away!" The young man was eager to try, and his steps took shape before he even walked.

Su Wu pulled him back and said, "Don't worry, you've been working so hard, maybe you'll achieve something in the future, and then you can be a clerk, and it will be bad for Erdan's reputation."

It’s not that people want to be called Erdan, Sangou, Heitun, etc., but the lower-class people of that era were illiterate and could not afford to ask others to name them, so they would rather have a cheap name to live up to their name, and that was the case for most of them.

The young man's face was full of emotion, and he looked a little apologetic. He said, "General, I know that this title is not presentable. If I really have a job in the future, it will be embarrassing for you. I will think of a solution myself."

"No need, just think of a way and I'll give you one!" Su Wu waved his hand.

"General, are you really going to give me a name?" The young man was very excited, and was full of joy and anticipation.

"Hmm... let me think..." Su Wu pretended to think seriously, but he had already thought it through. Then he said, "Your last name is Li. You will have great potential in the future. I will give you a big name, Li Yunlong!"

This may be Su Wu's bad taste, but this name is really good for a soldier. "Long" is not a taboo as a surname. Some people are called "Zilong" and some are just named Long.

The young man looked surprised: "General, Li Yunlong, the flying dragon above the clouds? Yes and no?"

"That's right. I'll write it for you to see." Su Wu squatted down and wrote three words on the ground in the parade ground: Li Yunlong.

"Thank you, General, for giving me such a nice name. I really like it. From now on, if anyone calls me Erdan, I will definitely not agree. I will call you Yunlong instead."

The young man was very excited. He turned around and looked at the three words on the ground. He knew the word "Li", but he didn't know the words "Yunlong".

Su Wu was also very happy and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't remember it. Come with me to the classroom and I will write it down on paper for you. You can take it out and read it when you have nothing to do. If you take it out and remember it more, you will learn to write!"

"General!" Li Yunlong was so excited that he couldn't speak for a while.

"Come on, follow me to the classroom." Su Wu took Li Yunlong's hand and went to the classroom.

As soon as he came out of the classroom again, he saw Li Yunlong, a handsome young man from the surrounding area, running like a horse. Then he saw the general on the training ground, with his spear like a dragon.

After just two days, the general was very pleased to see that there were already more than one or two people getting up early to practice, and Li Yunlong was the leader.

Even generals would shout when they saw him: "Li Yunlong, not bad, not bad, you won another award today!"

"Yes, sir!" Li Yunlong shouted at the top of his voice, running at full speed with a high-spirited look on his face. Looking around, his face was the most radiant.

(End of this chapter)