The new year is approaching, and it is another bumper year. The atmosphere in the village has become lively. Except for the children who are getting into trouble and being beaten, everyone has a smiling face.
Seeing Zhu Chuanwu enter the house, Wang Yan led his men on horseback and ran towards the house with many red lanterns hanging high on the hillside opposite.
After entering the gate, through the second door, I saw Lao Zhu's wife walking out, and behind her were two women holding big bellies looking at her cutely.
"I heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance. Is the second son back?"
"I'm back and entering the house."
"Okay, I won't interrupt your couple's intimacy, I'm leaving."
"Slow down, sister-in-law, I won't send you off."
Looking at Lao Zhu's wife waving her hands and walking away, Wang Yan walked towards the yard: "Let's go back to the house. Why are you coming out with a big belly when it's so cold?"
"Isn't the boss back? Even if he is about to give birth, he still has to come out to pick her up." Liu Zhi said with a smile.
Liu Fanglan followed up and said, "Sister is right, otherwise I would have to send my sister-in-law as a gift."
"Okay, let's go into the house quickly." Wang Yan helped him into the house with one hand at a time.
He hired someone to take care of his life, but the New Year was coming soon. Except for a few people who had no home, most people took the red envelopes he gave and went home to celebrate the New Year. He has always been a good boss, and a group of people have been working for more than half a year, and they only started to come back after fifteen years.
There was no need for the two girls to wait for him to change clothes, so the two of them sat on a comfortable sofa specially made of solid wood and covered with animal skin cushions. He took out the tossing little thing from his arms and placed it on the big coffee table.
"Look, I found a playmate for our child."
"Is this a cat? It's pretty good-looking." Liu Zhi played with the fierce little one in front of her.
Liu Fanglan still has a life, and hesitantly said: "No, the cat cub is not like this. Look at the lines on its forehead. Cats don't have this, and it is stronger than the cat cub. Boss, is this a little tiger?"
"Yes." Wang Yan dragged the fur coat outside: "My men found it while patrolling the mountains. Let's keep it from now on."
"Is it really a tiger? The one that's grown so big?" Liu Zhi's eyes widened: "Then if it can't be trained, will it stop eating people when it grows up? I'd better find a cage to lock it up."
Wang Yan laughed and said, "Don't worry, I've got it all back. Are you still worried that this little thing will be ruined? I'm still waiting for our child to grow up and ride it. It'll be fine."
Liu Zhi glanced at Liu Fanglan, who was full of confidence in Wang Yan, and curled her lips at Wang Yan: "Then you have to train him well. If something happens, it will be too late to say anything."
Of course, it was Wang Yan's responsibility to take care of the kitten. In this era of lack of entertainment, it was good to add a little fun to life.
Of course, having two pregnant women is not a problem. He is very good at taking care of pregnant women. Over the years, he has taken care of all his wives, and they are all very good.
This is also where the two women are proud. In these days, it is unheard of for someone as awesome as Wang Yan to still serve his wife at home. Especially when Liu Zhi wrote to her parents' family, they didn't believe her. The family deliberately found time to come and stay for two days before leaving.
In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve, and the village was decorated with lights and colorful decorations. The joy that had been brewing for a long time broke out and became noisy early in the morning.
As the most prestigious person in the village, everyone knew that Wang Yan had gone to school in his early years, and his speech was full of culture. A group of children were sent over early by the adults at home to ask for couplets and eat candies. This is to support someone, even though he may be very tired.
Of course Wang Yan would not refuse such a happy event. The two daughters-in-law were directing the children to get candies and drink honey water while he waved his hands in front of the large solid wood table in the study. Various calligraphy techniques and auspicious words are readily available, which is quite enjoyable.
After writing the couplets, he sent them back to the well-fed and well-fed children, and asked Kuangwei to put up the couplets. Guessing that it was almost time, Wang Yan took his two wives, who were wrapped up in thick clothes, and walked slowly downhill. Lao Zhu's house in the distance. During the Chinese New Year this year, their family of three, and Xia Yuanzhang’s family of three from the town, all went to Lao Zhu’s house to celebrate the New Year. They are not outsiders, and they are not far away, so we simply get together, which makes it more lively.
His close guards were busy working with the homeless people in the house, drinking and eating meat in a lively manner. As for those people in Yuanbao Town, Bingcheng, and Laojingou Mountain, of course they also eat and drink a lot, and it is definitely impossible to give them a holiday. When these people were bandits in the past, they never felt homesick. Why did his subordinates complain about homesickness? That's because I'm tired of living, and no one even mentions it.
Besides, there are holidays on weekdays, and it's not like you can't go home all year round. Master Wang is still very humane. At first the bandits surrendered to Yuwei, but today, at least half of them should be grateful to him for letting them just train and fight. Although there is a possibility of death, the salary while alive is high enough and the pension after death is generous enough. It is much better than being a low-level bandit and watching the upper-class people drink and eat meat.
As for the remaining half, they miss the unrestrained days before. To put it bluntly, they want to die because they have lived enough. Such people will not survive long under the leadership of the king. They will either be killed in battle or be executed for committing crimes. No one can pretend for so long, sooner or later they will be exposed.
Little by little, this violent army composed purely of bandits will transform into purely fearless fighters fighting for something great. If they can't, Wang Yan will help them...
When they arrived at Lao Zhu's house, Xia Yuanzhang, his daughter, and his father had already arrived. The old man could live for more than ten years. It was Xia Yuanzhang who heard Zhu Kaishan say that he had superb medical skills and knew how to maintain health, so he begged for treatment. There is no explanation in the original play, but by the time Zhu Chuanjie grew up, the old man was gone, so Wang Yan changed the fate of the characters in the play again.
"Get on the kang quickly, get on the kang quickly. My two sisters must pay attention. The end of the kang is too hot, so we are sitting on the edge. Their buttocks are thick, so let them cook there."
Seeing Wang Yan coming in with his two wives, Lao Zhu's wife greeted him warmly.
Counting Xia Yushu, who has not yet grown up, there are only four women in the three families. Old Zhu's wife still has to take charge of the food, and only three of them are left chatting. Xia Yuanzhang's father, an old man, did not interfere in the matter. He stayed aside and listened to Wang Yan and the others. Zhu Chuanwen may have come over when he was begging for food, so he attached great importance to food and ingredients. By the way, he may have activated his cooking talent and cooked meals with Lao Zhu's wife. Zhu Chuanjie looked calm, but he still hadn't grown up yet. He would go to Xia Yushu's place to listen to his words, come to Wang Yan and the others, and go outside to help his mother cook. Zhu Chuanwu was simple and direct, lying on the edge of the kang with a wooden stool, and just listened.
Wang Yan, Zhu Kaishan and Xia Yuanzhang chatted happily and never stopped.
What we talked about was nothing important. It was just that Xia Yuanzhang briefly talked about the development of various industries in the past year, and then thought about next year's goals, and finally expressed his emotions. After all, he is engaged in emerging businesses, and the people he contacts are basically those who are doing this, or some officials. It is not difficult to feel that the current situation is becoming increasingly tense and to foresee the coming turmoil. It is inevitable to lament that a peaceful life is not easy, and to express concern about future unrest.
Zhu Kaishan is not stupid. After this conversation, he also understood what his good brother has been doing in the past two years. He must have been prepared for it. He wasn't worried. It had nothing to do with him anyway. After all, he had good brothers here and could protect them no matter what.
Don't blame him for thinking so, he is really a good brother. Over the past year, his love of smoking and drinking has not stopped at all. The two of them drank whenever they had nothing to do, and they were both drunk and had nothing to say, but sitting together like that made them feel natural, comfortable and at ease. Moreover, their second brother followed him to practice martial arts. Not to mention the superb secret kung fu that could not be learned easily, the amount of money he spent just on drinking medicine to replenish his body this year was so much. Although the boss was not close to him, he still prepared medicine for his wife, saying that it would help him live longer, but it was not cheap anyway. Not to mention the third child, at a young age, he has basically become the boss of Xia Yuanzhang's shop, and this is the starting point.
To be honest, he is also very helpful to his good brothers. His gold vein diagram is true. He is the one who deserves the most credit for his success as a good brother. Otherwise, raising so many people would cost so much money, and Xia Yuanzhang would be losing money if he had the boss. Without his golden veins, it would be really difficult to function.
Of course, even if his good brother didn't treat him like this, he wouldn't be able to fault him. But there are no good brothers, and it is still the same. That is true love, so it should not be mixed too much. It is not interesting that you help me and I help you.
Thinking of this, Zhu Kaishan glanced at the listless Zhu Chuanwu, cleared his throat and said, "Brother, what do you think of this kid?"
Looking at the boy who was excited for a moment, he left his military posture and was sitting there, his eyes twitching. Wang Yan took a sip of tea and nodded with a smile: "Second brother is not bad. He is only seventeen after the New Year, and he can follow us for three months." The military training, Brother Zhu, you also know how terrible my military training was, not to mention it was still winter this time. He insisted on persevering without saying a word. He has a strong bone, it’s up to you. And among those people, he is also one of the best in marksmanship and military training. He is good at shooting and fighting, he is a good soldier. Have you figured it out? I want him to follow me?"
Zhu Kaishan nodded and scolded with a smile: "This little bastard rubs my ears every day, and I'm tired of it. He's already seventeen during the Chinese New Year, and he's not young anymore. It's okay to practice and fight with an uncle like you. Find him something to do.”
Speaking of three months of military training, Zhu Chuanwu's biggest gain was to shut up. That was a real kick, and he didn't get used to it at all. Pain is the driving force behind people's long memory and progress. So even though he was about to jump up with joy at this moment, he still held back and sat there.
"Look at this kid, he's only three months old. He's completely transformed. If he had heard my consent before, he wouldn't have jumped three feet high?" Zhu Kaishan pointed at his second child, proud and helpless.
Wang Yan understood his feeling and hoped that the son who was most like him would be better than his master. It was Zhu Chuanwu who had learned from him when he went out to fight bandits. He agreed that he might have discovered that Zhu Chuanwu was a soldier, but he was worried that a man with white hair would send a man with black hair, which was very complicated.
"Then just stay with me as a guard. Basically, nothing will happen. It's quite relaxing."
"I don't know you? Is there any difference between working as a guard for you and staying at home?" Without Zhu Chuanwu speaking, Lao Zhu became unhappy: "Brother, I know you want to take care of him, and I also know that you want to take care of him." The situation. The men of our Lao Zhu family are not that cowardly. If you ask him to fight the bandits, he must go. I know the situation over there. It is unpleasant to say that the second brother was killed by the bandits. I still have two A son."
"Don't worry, I definitely don't blame you. Brother, I also know your temper. If this was your son, he would have been thrown out to fight long ago. Our relationship is here, you treat him as your son. He is not even old. When he is young, he understands everything he should know. He has chosen his own path. He cannot blame others for anything. Whether he lives or dies depends entirely on himself."
What Zhu Kaishan said was true. In these days, even his biological son had to work his way up from the ranks if he wanted to become an official. It can only be said that he would be promoted faster. Just like in the days of his emperor, the sons of soldiers all worked their way up from the rank of soldier, and there was absolutely no such thing as hiding behind to gain seniority. Not to mention that when the country is in crisis, his son Wang is not much, and it is not impossible to die.
"Since you said so, I already knew the meaning of Chuanwu, so it's settled. Let him go to Yuanbao Town after another year. Although he still won't be able to come back easily, it is still closer to home. .”
"That's it." Zhu Kaishan laughed, looked at his second son who couldn't help grinning, waved his hand and said: "Go outside and jump."
Without saying a word, Zhu Chuanwu got up and ran away. After a while, excited shouts came from outside, as well as old Zhu's wife scolding him angrily.
The lunch was very sumptuous and lively, with drinks from noon to evening. Xia Yuanzhang's family didn't leave either. They stayed here today and played mahjong with Wang Yan and others. It didn't matter whether he won or lost, and the game wasn't big. He just passed the time out of boredom and talked. The two daughters-in-law were not very energetic, so they ate dumplings early and went back to rest. In the evening, everyone made dumplings together, and we had to wait until twelve o'clock to eat them.
He gave a group of juniors a small yellow croaker each as lucky money. Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Wang Yan wandered back home. The New Year was over...
In the morning of late March, Wang Yan, Zhu Kaishan, Zhu Chuanwen and his son were sitting in rows smoking at the door of the main house. What echoed in their ears was the painful scream of a woman giving birth to a child.
Maybe it was because he activated his skills back and forth, and because Liu Zhi and Liu Fanglan were together all day long, and the two children were similar, they got into trouble in the middle of the night yesterday. Fortunately, Wang Yan had already found two experienced stable women to stay here and was fully prepared.
"Brother, your wife is giving birth to a baby in the house. Why can't she be a little worried?"
Wang Yan stroked the little kitten that was lying affectionately in his arms, and blew out the smoke gently: "I have taken good care of them both, and I told Mrs. Wen to call me if there is any problem. There is nothing to worry about."
Zhu Chuanwen on the other side smiled and asked: "Dad, when my mother gave birth to us, were you in a hurry to go to the house to uncover the tiles?"
"I didn't. Didn't you watch your mother when she gave birth to the third child? She was very safe." Noticing his son secretly curling his lips, Lao Zhu slapped him angrily: "You little bastard, are you kidding me? Get out of here. go."
At this moment, Lao Zhu has quite a temper, mainly because he is still young and energetic. Of course, he didn't beat the child severely. He was just making trouble, and the beating was neither light nor severe.
After a while, a loud baby cry came.
"It's happening, it's happening, I'm quite energetic when I hear the noise." Lao Zhu stood up with excitement.
Wang Yan shook his head. He heard the noise coming from the west room where Liu Fanglan was sitting. Perhaps he heard the noise from the next door. Liu Zhi in the east room also screamed, then there was no movement, followed by the same loud cry. Liu Fanglan's children were all quiet at first, but they howled twice more when they heard the noise.
After a while, Lao Zhu's wife ran out and said with a grin: "His uncle, my two siblings are really good at fighting for each other. They are both brats. Now your Lao Wang family has a daughter."
In this era of simple thinking, Lao Zhu's wife gave birth to three children, all of whom were boys, and she was very tough when she went out. Although giving birth to a child, whether it is a boy or a girl is a matter of chance, but it is not possible for ordinary people to have three children in a row. It is the best display of a woman's fertility and pride.
Wang Yan threw away the kitten in his arms and laughed: "Sorry, sister-in-law."
"If you don't speak the same language as one family, all right, think of a name for your two sons. I'm going to make some chicken soup for them. They need to make up for it."
"There's no need to be busy. He can cook by himself. It's also a medicinal diet. He killed two chickens and cooked it in the morning. You go get two bowls and feed them both. After spending so much effort, I'll add a little something first. Go back to sleep."
Just as Wang Yan was about to speak, the wives on both sides came out. Although they felt a little uncomfortable being deprived of the job of announcing the good news by Lao Zhu's wife, they congratulated him wholeheartedly. This was a famous rich man.
After dealing with it, one person gave them a bag of silver coins, treated them with delicious food and drinks, and then they were sent away.
After entering the house and looking at the two women and two sons, Wang Yan took the two placentas and buried them in the garden behind, and drank some wine with Zhu Kaishan to celebrate.
As for the name of the child, I decided on it early, but also before giving birth. The eldest son of Liu Fanglan is named Wang Wenhao, and the second son of Liu Zhisheng is named Wang Wenran.
This time, it is strictly based on the character generation, which is the sixteen characters of "civilization and martial arts prosper the country, help the world and strengthen the country, God bless China, and eternal prosperity". Of course, he will definitely not be able to do it later, just like himself, he doesn't even know what his family's seniority ranking is. I don’t really expect it to be passed on, it’s just a good wish.
He had already finished copying the materials in his mind, and they were all on the bookshelves on a small wall. He had written them one stroke at a time for more than two years. Now that I have a child, I have found a new thing to do. In addition to the occasional inspections in a few lairs, or the visits to the factories and shops run by Xia Yuanzhang, and occasionally taking a few-month-old kitten up the mountain to beat and beat, to feel the natural atmosphere and practice the instinct of the beast, the rest is basically I just stay at home with my two wives and play with the kids.
In this ordinary life, the power of his men is expanding rapidly.
The number of gold diggers recruited is increasing year by year, but the number is always controlled at around 5,000. This movement was not small, but Wang Yan didn't give it in vain. He controlled Zhang Yian and the county magistrate, and reported it to four to five hundred people. The big people couldn't hear or see, the little people couldn't help it, and those who had ambitions to get involved were all killed, and they were always safe.
The campaign against bandits has been going on, almost as expected. The entire Black Province has been wiped out, and the number of soldiers under his command has reached more than 7,500. After sweeping Ji Province, the number expanded to more than 30,000. After pacifying Feng Province, his men numbered more than 68,000, including seven divisions. Counting other miscellaneous logistics personnel, there are almost 80,000 people eating under his command.
Of course, the cost of raising so many people is huge, and he is really screwed. Even if it doesn't work if he guards the gold mine, he has to dig it out. Therefore, after unifying the bandits in the Northeast, he could not even fully arm all of them because his production capacity could not supply enough, and he could only ensure that all of them could live a passable life. Of course, even if the equipment is equipped, it is useless, mainly because there is no battle to fight.
With his current strength, the officers and soldiers fighting in the Northeast are just like playing for fun. Even the new troops who are organized and trained are like this. Their combat effectiveness is too poor and they are not good enough.
But considering some messy situations, considering Yuan Datou, considering Beiyang, considering Lao Zhang who had not yet made his debut, and considering all the future, he did not lift the plate. Instead, only a few thousand men were left in Feng Province, and all the remaining bandits were withdrawn and dispersed to Hei Province and Ji Province. It is necessary to use Feng Province as a buffer. After all, the situation is complicated and complicated. Who knows what will happen? It would be better to avoid not having everything sorted out by then and directly launching a Northern Expedition to attack someone else. That would be too fucked up.
Although he said he was poor, he was not that poor, otherwise he would not have been able to support so many people and wipe out the bandits in the Northeast so quickly. In fact, as time went by, Xia Yuanzhang traveled all over the country, giving money and encouraging others to open up product sales, and he had already started to make money. Those are all factories that ensure the operation of the army. They are all armed bandits at cost prices, and the difference is not even a little bit different from time to time.
Behind this is the persistent search for talents, who are constantly improving, inventing and creating. Being able to produce your own equipment and be self-sufficient has a high initial cost, but with results, it will be enough to offset the expenses of imported equipment and other aspects.
Ordinary factories are like this, and the results of military factories are naturally greater. A few years have passed, and all the general necessities for fighting have been produced, including pistols, grenades, light and heavy machine guns, cannons, small cannons, etc. Talents are important at all times. If Wang Yan and his full-time blacksmiths and carpenters could achieve the current results, I don't know how long it would take to achieve this.
However, it has been created, but it is not that easy to produce it on a large scale. Manufacturing capabilities, resources, etc. are still far behind. It would be good if the manufacturing capacity could be gradually improved. After all, he couldn't do Shui Lianzhu armed with 70,000 people, so what else would he need for a bicycle? However, it is always right to study the high-end ones first. Relatively speaking, these guns are not very difficult. The talents who have been searched for them have already begun to study cars, tanks, fighter jets, and bombers.
Wang Yan can give relatively little guidance in this regard. Although he has had contact with it, he has not had much contact with it. He can't do cars or tanks, he can only beep a few words. On the contrary, he has seen fighter jets and bombers, and even flown fighter jets. Moreover, he has all the information about the space shuttle, so he can learn from them. But after all, they are two things, with different uses, and most of them are different. It is still up to these people to figure it out for themselves. As time goes by, it can always be created. As for the navy, he gave up. Compared with increasing the caliber of cannons, increasing the range, and saturating strikes, building a navy is not the best choice.
People cannot be idle, as soon as they are idle, they will become useless. Although there are no bandits to kill and the officers and soldiers are not worthy of taking action, there are other targets to attack, such as the Russian old man who controls the railway.
They control the railway line north of Spring City, and the south was compensated to Little Japan during the previous Russo-Japanese War. Railways are undoubtedly the lifeblood of the economy. Manzhouli, Hailar, Hecheng, Bingcheng, etc. along the northern line have all developed in this way. Whether it is transporting plundered resources, transporting goods for merchants, or speeding up the circulation of goods, they are all benefits.
Wang Yan has been jealous for a long time. Of course, fighting head-on will not work. Although Lao Maozi has only about 100,000 troops stationed at the border, he can mobilize millions of troops behind his back, so he will definitely not be able to do it. You can't fight hard, and you can't outwit them. You can only train your troops in small fights to maintain your combat effectiveness.
It was in the autumn of 2009 that the bandits in the Northeast were completely wiped out. After a period of recuperation, the 60,000 troops scattered in Heilongjiang and Kyrgyzstan transformed into real bandits.
At first, a small group of people were killing people and stealing goods, scraping the flesh bit by bit with blunt knives. The Lao Maozi managers on the road section put pressure on the government to send troops to suppress the bandits. After the Russo-Japanese War, Lao Maozi's troops withdrew from the Northeast and stayed at the border. It would be different if they sent troops in. However, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers was so poor that they did not dare to stand up after being beaten. And little by little, small groups of bandits looted other sections of the road, and the officers and soldiers simply couldn't take care of them, causing too much damage.
In order to protect its own interests, Russia had no choice but to send 10,000 troops to guard near the road section in the name of helping to suppress the bandits. Ten thousand people were separated and deployed along such a long railway. Moreover, Wang Yan's men were no worse equipped than them, so it was not easy to use at all. Within a month, they were defeated, and more than two thousand people died. The losses were even greater.
Lao Maozi was furious. Under the pressure, he directly sent 50,000 people in, divided into several large groups, and patrolled the mountains along the railway. Jungle fighting is what these bandits are good at, after all, this is how they fought along the way. Although there is no such large-scale combat experience, there are several small battlefields as the battle line is stretched. After suffering some losses at the beginning and killing some people, the rest were just running around all over the mountain. Wanting to encircle, Lao Maozi didn't have enough troops to pursue, and there were enough traps along the way to drink a pot, not to mention that the bandits' marksmanship was pretty good, and they shot in half.
Of course Wang Yan didn't dare to hit him too hard. He couldn't move even if he could kill these fifty thousand people. The stakes were too high. So there were hundreds of thousands of people on both sides going around in circles in the mountains, with a few casualties and casualties, and the fight was considered to be a back-and-forth. Moreover, his troops are all small groups, and they don't even wear standard military uniforms. There have never been thousands of people in a group, so that's different. There are many groups, they are bandits from different hills, and one group is a force.
Although some people had suspicions, the situation was too chaotic and they could not care about the affairs in the Northeast. They could only lament that the regular army could not defeat the bandits, and then turned around and got busy with big things.
After fighting like this for ten years, Lao Maozi withdrew. One was because the external pressure was too great. Western countries, including Japan, stopped doing it. They held meetings every day to argue. The other was that there were no bandits anymore. Maybe they couldn't support it because they had no money. It may be something else, but it is gone anyway, and their railways are no longer destroyed, goods are no longer robbed, and people are no longer killed. So that's it, Lao Maozi withdrew from Heilongjiang and Kyrgyzstan.
So where have all the bandits gone? Some are hiding in the mountains, some are joining the army, some are working in various places, and some are wandering around with nothing to do.
Mr. Wang is about to do something big, so he needs to prepare first. Various personnel and materials were mobilized and deployed, and all kinds of intelligence were collected and summarized. The two provinces of Heilongjiang and Kyrgyzstan became quiet.
Of course, bandits still have to be eliminated. There are always people who want to die, so two people go up the mountain to rob someone. When people wandering around the outside heard that there were bandits, they would send a message directly, and it would be delivered within three days.
This is still where they are stationed, Xiang Feng Province. They have been withdrawn for nearly a year, and people have come up the mountain to resurrect one after another. Although there is no original weather, it is still a big disaster if given enough time to develop. But that was not what Wang Yan considered. For a short period of time, he had no idea about Feng Sheng...
In the blink of an eye, a year has passed, and the time has come to one year, which is the third year of Guangxu. This year, the Lunar Calendar Xinhai...
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