Today's mission was successfully completed. Isiha managed to pull out fifty men in one morning. After leaving the village in a sedan chair, Isiha called several of his subordinates to come to him!
"How was the harvest today?"
"Ouch... back to Mr. Erha! In addition to the thirty acres of irrigated land, the other extravagance collected today is a total of eighty-six silver dollars, three and a half copper coins..."
"Well...I will leave twenty acres of irrigated land, and the remaining ten acres will be divided equally between the four of you..."
"As for the extravagant wealth, leave forty silver dollars and put it into the public account, and the remaining brothers will share it equally... Since you all have land, just give a little less, and give a little more to the younger brothers below..."
"Oh...thank you Erha, I'm kowtowing to you! It's so refreshing to follow me, this is a big deal!"
All they needed was ten acres of land and so many silver dollars. These people were actually small-time local gangsters who had never made such a fortune before, but now they have made it through following Isiha!
The income in one month was more than they had in the previous year!
Isiha looked at the group of people tied with ropes in front, stretched out his hand to pick up the big and strong ones inside and pointed, "This, this...and the one over there... these six people were picked up individually and sent to the road protection team." go!"
"Hey... don't worry, sir, I guarantee it will be tied up well!"
Several gangsters rushed over and pulled people from the crowd. These strong men were already worried, and their legs were weak with fear. They wanted to separate them halfway, and they started to make noises.
"What are you doing here...Aren't you going to work on the construction site? What are you doing by taking us out alone?"
"Stop talking nonsense to me, just do whatever I ask you to do..." A whip was whipped around, which suppressed the commotion.
Isiha watched the team split into two teams, "Take a third of the brothers to escort the strong men to the construction site to sift sand, and the remaining six will follow my sedan!"
"Don't be afraid, you two. Starting today, you will reach the sky in one step! The construction site not only needs workers, but also a road protection team!"
"The people who supervise these work are not doing their best. After the railway is built, you will still have to patrol back and forth to prevent those blind thieves from stealing the iron!"
"If you drink spicy food and don't have to work, you are lucky! Take it away..."
A group of people escorted six of the strongest farmers and headed straight to the small camp to the north of the construction site!
When the six farmers arrived at the camp and took a look, they suddenly took a breath of air. This was not a construction site, it was simply a military camp!
The camp surrounded by wooden fences is open on all sides and is guarded by soldiers with guns. There are deep trenches outside the camp. Instead of building railways, many civilians are digging deep trenches and widening them!
The bottom of the trench was filled with sharpened wooden sticks, and even caltrops were sprinkled on it!
There is a large playground in the open area of the camp, surrounded by densely packed tents. On this playground, teams after teams of strong men are being trained!
When the six farmers saw the trainee, their eyes widened: "Ouch...a foreigner with a big nose?"
"That's right...that's a training officer from the United States, teaching you how to patrol roads and protect roads, and how to fight against iron thieves!"
"Hurry in, someone will catch you!" Yisiha handed over six strong men, and immediately several small bosses rushed over to take over these people.
"Damn it! Take off your clothes... take them all off, take them off immediately, don't leave any of them behind, as long as you enter this military camp, all your previous marks will be wiped clean by me!"
The soldiers rushed in with knives and whips, forcing these strong men to take off their clothes in public. In a short time, these strong men were stripped clean!
"Burn...burn all these clothes, they're all full of f**king fleas!"
"Ouch... why are you burning my clothes? They are the new cloth my mother pulled years ago..." The poor people in the countryside cherish things the most. When their good clothes are burned, they can't bear the pain.
The soldier chuckled and picked up the whip and whipped him to death. "Dirty devil! If you dare to disobey orders after entering the military camp, I will beat you to death..."
The peasant man screamed as he was being whipped, and none of the other strong men dared to resist!
The people who were queuing up and down the training ground were actually ordinary farmers who came first. They had already experienced it once and seen the same scene many times, and it was no longer new!
The soldier was tired and put the torch into the hand of the unlucky young man. "Bah... aren't you reluctant to part with it? I will let you burn it yourself!"
"Burn this pile of clothes immediately...burn them all! If you dare not burn them, I will whip you to death!"
"Stop fighting...I'm burning, I'm burning! Wuwuwu..." The naked young man cried and raised the torch, feeling extremely distressed and burning the clothes that his mother had sewn!
"Let's all go...go to the bathhouse to take a shower and spread insecticide powder, you dirty pigs!"
Isiha was not the only team recruiting young men from the countryside. The other teams also sent dozens of young men, which added up to more than thirty people.
Under the leadership of the veteran, we went directly to take a bath. The so-called bathing hall is a section of the river that is enclosed. The bank is paved with blue bricks and stones, and there are many wooden barrels!
Each person had a piece of soap, a towel and a wooden bucket, and fetched water from the river to wash them. The veterans also supervised that they must be washed clean, and they also sprinkled white powder on their bodies, which was said to be able to kill bacteria and insects!
Isiha had already entered the tile-roofed house in the middle of the camp. This was the quadrangle where the camp commanders lived, and it was also the headquarters. Through the window, he watched the naked pigs taking a bath by the river. Standing next to him was Prince Dun. The iron pagoda monk under his command, but today he is not wearing a monk's robe, but is wearing casual clothes.
"Today we have become a platoon of troops again. Let's train well. In the future, these will be the direct troops of the prince!"
Isiha nodded, "Mr. Li was smart enough to ask the prince to ask for a supervision task for railway construction, so that he could have the opportunity to form a road protection team!"
"The Xishan Camp is still worried. It will definitely not be possible without its own soldiers these days. We must have direct descendants! Can those Americans be trusted?"
"It doesn't matter whether he is trustworthy or not, as long as he teaches our soldiers well, we will not rebel. We have formed a road protection team. The foreigners also have road protection teams! Including Tanggu, they also have road protection teams!"
"Just under this banner, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway can be built with 3,000 people, which is not much at all..."
"Yes, after the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is completed, His Majesty will also build a railway from the capital to Baoding Prefecture and then to Henan and even further south. By then, the size of the road protection team will be expanded to tens of thousands!"
"If we don't grab this opportunity, we won't have another chance in the future! You Yisiha is now anonymous. No one can protect you except Prince Dun!"
"You must know how to repay your kindness! In the future, when the prince becomes more powerful, he will be able to rescue Prince Gong. Then you can indirectly repay your kindness!"
Isiha looked at the lively training scene outside and suddenly said in a low voice, "I am not going to do the job of pulling strong men. The few people under me have been trained and there is no problem..."
"I want...I want to join this training camp. I want...to let these American instructors practice..."
"I wonder if the prince is willing?"
The Iron Pagoda Monk smiled and said, "Haha... You have such thoughts, the prince can only ask for it! You go today and practice hard. You will be indispensable as a general in the future!"
