The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 259 Start to shine the sword
In the early morning, Xu Mingtao was still in a dream when he was awakened by shouts from outside.

When there were no military missions, the military discipline of Bu Kuiyuan's garrison was relatively loose.

The quality of the officers and soldiers here varies from good to bad, and the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.In the past, when General Guining Guta was under the jurisdiction, because the place was remote and relatively poor, few people came to the General's Mansion.

Even if they came, they would just take a look at it and leave after finishing their business.

There is no one to supervise and check, and the environment here is difficult, with no future and hope in sight, so the officers have to muddle along and drift with the flow. Although they are officers, they are just like monks hitting the clock for a day.

In fact, this is not only true of officers, but also of soldiers.Some serve as soldiers just to change their status as exiles, while others just want to find a meal ticket.

Usually there is no decent training, and the equipment is nothing more than cold weapons such as bows, arrows, knives and guns.

In many cases, when encountering bandits and armed local fishing and hunting tribes, they cannot beat them.It is even more difficult to meet the Cossack cavalry of the Ross Empire.That is to say, there is still some skill in bullying unarmed criminals and ordinary people.

Therefore, although the officers and soldiers of the Bukui Garrison Bureau often show off their power, they look down on or even hate them in the eyes of the local people or exiles.

Xu Mingtao got up in a daze. Standing at the door, he saw the morning exercises of the military regiment in the courtyard.

The earth-shattering slogans, the unstoppable pace, and the uniform queue all shocked him.

Although he had never seen such a team, the feeling in his heart told him: This is definitely a well-trained army.

At some point, banners were hung on the walls of the Fubingtuan dormitory.Above are some slogans.

Although Xu Mingtao didn't know many characters, he could still recognize most of those slogans.

"Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime", "We are honored when the team thrives, and we are ashamed when the team declines", "People practice in hardship, and knives are sharpened on stone", "It is better to go one step forward and die than to retreat half a step to live" , "Being a soldier is not afraid of death, and not being a soldier if you are afraid of death", "Shedding skin, losing flesh, not falling behind, bleeding, sweating, and not shedding tears", "The sentry is the battlefield, and the duty is the battle"....

Where did all these things come from?
Xu Mingtao walked up to the sentries, and sure enough, he saw two sentries standing upright.

Since last night, sentries have been set up in the barracks. This is the first time in so many years.

Seeing the two sentries standing straight and motionless, Xu Mingtao wondered if they were just pretending. After standing for a while, the sentries would relax when they saw that no one was there.

So he sent someone to observe secretly.The result let him down.

Each group of sentries lasts an hour, except for checking pedestrians, when they don't move, they seem to be like a wooden man, even if there is no one around, they will always stand like that.

The team retreated, and after a while, the gong for dinner sounded.Xu Mingtao stood at the door again, wanting to see if the members of the government corps were still queuing up to eat like last night.

The result was still the same as yesterday, but there was one thing that made him feel a little awkward.That is his own soldier.

Compared with the people in the Fubingtuan, my own soldiers are in twos and threes, loose and loose, walking out of shape, standing in every way, compared with others, they are like beggars.

That's what people call soldiers.

Not long after eating, the government troops were dispatched one after another.

Taking the company as the unit, the soldiers rode on the horses, and the sabers around their waists were shining brightly, and under the sunlight, they glowed with a dazzling cold light.

The neat cavalry marched in small steps, and even when they reached the street, they marched neatly to the right.After leaving the short street in Bukui, they spread out to various places and gradually disappeared from people's sight.

Residents and passers-by on the street looked at these groups of very different cavalrymen and kept discussing.

Not long after, a convoy came out of the barracks, also lining up.

Just when people were wondering what they were going to do, these soldiers who drove the carriages began to load the garbage that had accumulated on the street for a long time into the carts.Then, it was pulled outside the town, dug and buried, and then came back to install the second load.

At first, people watched from a distance, even if they were pretending to be their own garbage, they didn't come forward.

During the second trip, some people began to chat with the soldiers.While talking, I found out that there were fellow soldiers among the soldiers, so they became more intimate.

Why do you have the nerve to always ask the soldiers to clean up the garbage in your own house?As a result, the masters also moved their hands, forming a scene where soldiers and civilians work together and communicate with each other.

This garbage cleaning team is directly under Wei Ruoshui's team.Their task is to establish a good relationship with the local residents through this way of interacting with the local residents, and then establish the image of the Fubingtuan.

Wei Ruolan and Jia Qin are also in this team. Their task is to collect as much information as possible from the locals, find suitable personnel, and develop into their own informants.Gradually establish the intelligence system of the Fubingtuan.

After Wei Ruolan arrived in Bukui, in addition to arranging to welcome the Fu Bingtuan, she also received some intelligence materials and several informants from the garrison yamen.

These materials are said to be useful, and they are also useful.It is useless to say it is useless.

It is useful because you can get a general understanding of Bu Kui's general situation and customs.

It is useless because these materials are no different from those in the yamen that do not need to be kept secret.All information is available through public means.

From the perspective of military intelligence, there is not much value.He also had contact with those few informants, and they were not the ones who could obtain much valuable information.

Of course, there is still valuable information.The garrison office has been established here for more than a hundred years. Can you save some wealth?

It's just that Zhao Dahai might not hand over these core things to them.

In fact, Zhao Dahai hasn't handed over the most core things, whether it is the intelligence data or the intelligence collection system, to them yet.

As for the cavalry of the Fubing regiment who were dispatched everywhere, they took on another mission.

The first is to walk around to familiarize yourself with the local environment, including the geographical environment, cultural environment, road traffic in various places, rivers and mountains, villages, official villages, and the distribution of checkpoints.

If you don't understand these situations, what will happen in the future? When you go out, your eyes will be darkened, so why talk about war?
The second purpose is to demonstrate military might and show off force.

Announce to the people here that the Fubingtuan has arrived, and from now on, the Fubingtuan will be the master in Bukui.

The third purpose is combat readiness patrols.

This is both training and actual combat. In the future, this kind of patrol will become one of the daily duties, deterring the bad guys and appeasing the good guys.

Even the best sword, hidden in the box, is just a collectible.Only when it is out of the box and out of its sheath is it a sharp weapon.When it's time to shine the sword, you have to shine the sword.

Feng Ziying stayed in the yamen of the Dusi, representing Jia Min and making various handovers with Zhao Dahai.After the handover, it means that the Fubingtuan will officially take over Bu Kui's defense. From today, Jia Min has become Bu Kui's highest military and political officer.

Of course, while taking over the power, it also means that he has taken over the responsibilities and obligations.Bu Kui's future safety will depend on him.

After handing over the handover to Feng Ziying, Jia Min came out with someone.

His team is a mixture of soldiers and civilians.

The soldiers are his own soldiers and a company of Qin Zhong's.

The people are Miaoyu, Ping'er, Qingwen and other female relatives.

When I first arrived in Bukui, I first came out to familiarize myself with the environment, and second, I took them out to relax.

After leaving Bukui City, we arrived at the suburbs.

Although it is already the end of spring, the weather in the morning is still a little cool.However, the sun shining on the body still gives people a warm feeling.

On both sides of the road, apart from some cultivated land nearby, there are boundless grasslands a little further away.

The soil here is very fertile, thick black soil.The boundless wilderness, as long as it is reclaimed, is the best fertile land.

These grasslands are ownerless, oh.To be precise, they are not unowned, they all belong to the emperor.

The grassland has been covered with green grass. From a distance, it is just a boundless greenery.From time to time, there will be patches of white, red, and yellow flowers dotted in the middle of the greenery, which is refreshing to see.

Following a fork in the road, they entered the grassland, the carriage stopped, Miaoyu and Ping'er and others got off to pick wild flowers.

The blue sky and white clouds, flowers and green grass, together with a group of beauties, constitute a beautiful picture.

Seeing Miaoyu and others cheering and jumping there, Jia Min felt a deep sense of relief.

After letting them play for more than an hour, a group of female relatives returned to the car with flowers in their arms.

A pair of soldiers came to this side, walked in, and found that it was Xu Mingtao, the leader of the third commander, and Shi Liu, the commander of the third battalion and the first company of the Fubing regiment.

"Officer Min, what a coincidence?"

Xu Mingtao dismounted first and saluted Jia Min.

"Where are you going?"

"Go to the Sijiazi in front, send these criminals there, and leave a few soldiers from the Fubing Regiment."

Sijiazi is a village.Because there were four families there at first, hence the name.

Around Sijiazi, there are three official villages of the Dusi Yamen.There is a garrison in each Guanzhuang, and each takes nine prisoners to farm the land there.

Today is where the few prisoners who were escorted yesterday were sent.

Shi Liu's company followed, first to go out on patrol and familiarize themselves with the environment, and second, to send the three soldiers of his company to several official villages.

According to Jia Min's request, the government corps will send some soldiers to Guanzhuang to familiarize themselves with and learn the management of Guanzhuang from the original old soldiers.

One is that when new farms are opened in the future, these people can directly be the head of the farm, and the other is that when the old farm heads are incompetent or there are vacancies due to other reasons, these people can be used to fill in.

Guanzhuang is the basic production unit under the Dusi Yamen and the basic supervision unit for prisoners. If the work of Guanzhuang is done well, the work of the entire Dusi Yamen is almost half completed.

Therefore, Jia Min attached great importance to this, and the first thing that he pushed forward with all his strength was the entry of Fubing into Guanzhuang.

Yesterday's veterans' disturbance made Jia Min feel very disappointed with the original garrison yamen soldiers.

From this incident alone, we can see the quality of these veterans.

Without culture, loose military discipline, lax style of work, and lack of training, it is undoubtedly unrealistic to expect these people to be able to carry out their plans well in the future.

Therefore, you must be ready to use the soldiers you brought to take over their errands.

Those veterans, Jia Min plans to transfer them all back at the right time, conduct intensive training, study and rectify, and completely reform them.

Jia Min inadvertently glanced at the prisoners who had been escorted, and suddenly smiled.

He found an acquaintance - the glove man.

(End of this chapter)