Chapter 56 Sweat more, bleed less!

"Run!"

"Don't stop!"

Beside the small river at the foot of Linguanbao Mountain, one hundred soldiers were running under the drive of Yang Zhengshan and others.

They were wearing thin short shirts, and everyone was sweating and panting heavily.

"You are soldiers, and you will go to the battlefield in the future!"

"On the battlefield, the stronger you are, the more chances you have to survive!"

"Sweat more, bleed less!"

"Sweating now is better than bleeding after going to the battlefield!"

Yang Zhengshan followed the team, shouting loudly while running.

He held a short stick, and if anyone fell behind, he would be very cruel to reward a stick.

There was no exception, even Yang Chengze and others had to face his stick.

After half an hour of morning running, the soldiers returned to the garrison to eat breakfast. After breakfast, it was exactly Chenshi, that is, seven o'clock in the morning, and the one hundred soldiers stood neatly in the training ground again.

"Very good, compared with half a month ago, now you can be called a mob!"

"You have become stronger and more powerful!"

Yang Zhengshan walked leisurely in the queue, and from time to time he reached out and patted the shoulders of the soldiers around him.

"You must understand that the real training has just begun, and the hard days are still ahead!"

He grinned, "Let me give you a hellish training, are you ready?"

The basic training has ended, and the next step is the devil training formulated by Yang Zhengshan.

As for the training content, refer to the special forces.

You haven't eaten pork yet, but you haven't seen pigs run?

"Mingwu, Mingcheng! Issue weapons and equipment!"

Until now, these soldiers have not touched weapons.

"Here!"

The weapons and cotton armor in the warehouse are all complete.

There are still many items that need to be trained next.

Physical training will not decrease, but increase, and at the same time, battle formations, night training, various weapons training, etc. will be added.

Training these soldiers is different from training the young and strong men in Yangjia Village. The young and strong men in Yangjia Village can use spears, so when they were trained, Yang Zhengshan only let them practice spears.

Now, training these soldiers requires the coordination of various weapons and training in battle formations.

Each small flag must have sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and archers.

On the battlefield, the small flag is the smallest combat unit, and the small flag officer leads ten soldiers to fight.

Yang Zhengshan helps them choose weapons according to the specialties of each soldier.

Spear training is the easiest, whether it is Yang Zhengshan, Yang Mingzhi, or Yang Mingwu, they are all good at spears.

As for the martial arts of swords and shields, Yang Zhengshan is not very familiar with it. His predecessor did not leave him the corresponding martial arts, and he had never practiced it before.

But it doesn't matter. This is Chongshan Pass, and the most lacking thing is the martial arts in the army.

There are many basic martial arts in the army in his study, as well as some books on battle formations.

These are all prepared by Lao Li.

The soldiers are training, and Yang Zhengshan is also learning.

Martial arts, battle formations, military tactics, etc., are all things Yang Zhengshan needs to learn.

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"Sir, this is the profit from sewing cloth shoes during this period!"

In the study, Lao Li handed Yang Zhengshan a few taels of silver.

"Where is the account book? Let me see it." Yang Zhengshan took the silver and said.

Lao Li handed him the account book again.

Looking at the numbers on the account book, Yang Zhengshan nodded with satisfaction.

As he expected, the business of sewing cloth shoes can still be done.

In about fifteen days, the women in the garrison sewed nearly a thousand pairs of cloth shoes, most of which were sold.

The profit of each pair of cloth shoes is about fifteen cents, without taking into account the labor cost. Of the profit of fifteen cents, Yang Zhengshan only took three cents, and the women who sewed cloth shoes took twelve cents.

For a thousand pairs of cloth shoes, Yang Zhengshan earned almost three taels of silver, while more than a hundred women earned twelve taels of silver, and each woman could get more than a hundred cents on average.

Less than ten coins per person per day, such an income can be said to be very low, but it is already very rare for those women.

And they are not sewing cloth shoes all the time. They also have to take care of the work in the fields, the elderly and children at home, and they sew cloth shoes in their spare time.

With such an income, they have some spare money in their hands, not even without a copper coin.

In fact, the one who earns the most is Shopkeeper Luo. For every pair of cloth shoes sold, he can earn eight coins. In half a month, he earned seven or eight taels of silver.

The demand for cloth shoes by the soldiers is greater than Yang Zhengshan expected, and it also exceeds Shopkeeper Luo's expectations.

Now Shopkeeper Luo is much more active in this business. He doesn't need Yang Zhengshan to deliver the goods to the door. He will arrange people to come to the door to pick up the goods.

The first stage of poverty alleviation is a perfect success, and the next step is to enter the second stage.

"Have the pig sty and chicken coop been built?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Built!" Lao Li replied.

Yang Zhengshan handed him the silver again and said, "Go buy some chickens and piglets, and then hire a few half-grown children to raise them!"

"When they grow up, we won't have to buy meat!"

During this period, he often subsidized the soldiers' food, and asked Lao Li to buy some pork every two or three days.

Although it didn't cost much silver, it was his own silver.

As a garrison officer, he didn't make money from the military households, but had to pay out of his own money to subsidize these military households. I guess he was the only one in the whole Chongshan Town.

"Yes, I understand!" Lao Li replied.

Yang Zhengshan said again: "Take some time to find Zhao Yuan and ask him to get us another batch of food."

Although there is still some food left from the ten carts of food transported before, it is time to distribute food and wages to the soldiers soon, and the remaining food is definitely not enough.

"Will Lord Zhao give us?" Lao Li was a little worried.

"Yes." Yang Zhengshan said affirmatively.

Lao Li was a little relieved.

In the afternoon, Lao Li brought back ten piglets and hundreds of chickens from Guancheng. The pigpen and chicken coop next to the cowshed immediately became lively, and the sound of chirping and humming sounded noisily.

Yang Zhengshan looked at these piglets and chickens and nodded with satisfaction.

"Build another sheepfold and raise more than a dozen sheep!"

He thought of lamb skewers, lamb soup, stir-fried lamb with green onions, lamb steamed buns, etc., and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

Although he has solved the problem of food and clothing now, he has not yet achieved good and satisfying eating.

"I'll arrange it now!" Lao Li responded.

Yang Zhengshan nodded, turned around and went to the stable, and led Hongyun out.

Now they have thirteen horses in Linguanbao, three of which they brought, and the other ten were prepared by Zhou Lan, all of which are fine war horses from the north.

Zhou Lan asked people to prepare these ten war horses, probably to train the soldiers' riding skills.

But until now, the soldiers have not touched war horses.

Riding Hongyun, Yang Zhengshan walked out of Linguanbao slowly.

A layer of green wheat seedlings has emerged on the fields around Linguanbao. From a distance, it looks full of vitality, but if you look closely, you will find that these wheat seedlings are not growing very lushly.

Although the military households take good care of these fields, they still cannot make up for the defects of poor land.

Yang Zhengshan has given up saving these wheat seedlings, or he has no way to save them, after all, he can't make fertilizers now.

As for farmyard manure, haha, there is no shortage of old farmers who have been farming for a lifetime in the fort, and they are much better at using farmyard manure than Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan's meager agricultural knowledge is not even comparable to Yang Mingcheng and Yang Mingzhi, let alone those old farmers.