Three months later.

Liu Zhan stood at the door of Qichun Supply and Marketing Cooperative, listening to the people from Xuanyi Department reading last month's newspaper.

"Horse Gao Cai declared that he would give up all fiefs and powers of the princes, and declared that Gao Cai's land was owned by the people in the ancient times of the three generations, and believed that he had stolen the land of the people and returned to himself as a thief..."

Many people next to him were listening with their ears on their backs. Liu Zhan thought to himself that Gao Caihou understood the truth, and it was meaningless to resist stubbornly, and it was better to surrender.

At the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, several people were buying salt there. The supply and marketing cooperative refused to exchange food directly. Even if it was like taking off his pants and farting, he had to sell the food into money at the supply and marketing cooperative before buying salt from the supply and marketing cooperative.

There are many people who are repaying installment loans for iron tools, farm tools, and seeds. Some of them are still illiterate, but they already know the face value of the banknotes.

In the elementary school decorated with a window next to it, Lang Lang's reading sound was heard. Many children did not have paper and pen, but just took a cheap bluestone slab and wrote it on it with talc.

The local dialects of Song, Chu, Qi, Yue and Yayin are blended with the dialects of Song, Chu, Qi, Yue and Yayin, which have changed the flavor here, but you can still understand the sounds of the sun, moon, fish, shrimp, rice, and rice that are read aloud by the children.

The order to recruit service has been issued and does not seem to have had much impact. The new agricultural tools and new planting technologies distributed and the villages and communities after the feudal labor service have been banned, and the future lives are full of hope. Moreover, since the service policy is a transitional policy, only one person is produced in each family, it will not have much impact on families with four or five children at this time.

At the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, Liu Zhan saw a familiar person who was selling money with a crocodile skin and carrying a big bullet.

When this man was picking his surname at home, he picked up the surname Liu. Not many people in the village community got the surname Liu, so Liu Zhan had some impression of it.

This person is the third child in the family, so after he got his surname, he was named Liu San.

Later, the county organized a crocodile fight. The man was quite brave and killed two crocodiles in a row. The county rewarded him with a coercion and some money.

Later, Liu Zhan learned that this man was not engaged in production at home. After each household divided the land, every family was busy planting and reclamation. However, he was lazy when he could be lazy. He didn't like farmland work and was quite unpopular at home.

The elder brothers and sisters-in-law had a big opinion of him, and no one in the village was willing to marry his daughter to him, but considering that he had to serve for a while, the elder brothers finally did not drive him out.

After getting the comb, I often go in and out of the mountains, rivers and sieges, and do not farm. I only hunt with a few people from nearby villages and communities who are "not engaged in production and idle" to exchange money for money, and my life is still prosperous.

However, although he doesn't like production labor, this person likes to listen to things outside and is full of curiosity about the distant Si Shang and the farther world.

After the order to serve was issued, he was the most happy one and felt that he should go out and take a look instead of farming at home all his life.

Liu San sold the crocodile skin, made some wine from the supply and marketing cooperative, and bought half a pound of gunpowder. After thinking about it, he asked about the price of the iron pot, gritted his teeth and sighed.

Seeing Liu Zhan standing next to him, he went over and said hello, "County magistrate, I will be in service in a few days. Can warriors like me in the Mo family army be company commanders?"

He has heard a lot about Si Shang these days and knows the establishment of the Si Shang army. The policy is intended to break the previous tradition of order and order, so Liu San is not afraid of this county magistrate who has taken charge of thousands of households.

Liu Zhan thought to himself, Jie Xuan’s army is not what you think, as you can do if you have courage.

Besides, you are not serving the combat troops. The soldiers recruited in the county went to Eyi to build, so they said, "It's not your turn to fight. But you must serve as a service. The victory of the Jiexuan Army is not something you can rely on."

"Si Shang is not a brave and desperate person everywhere, but there is no crocodile or a tiger now."

Liu San giggled and asked, "What are you going to do if you don't fight?"

Without waiting for Liu Zhan to answer, someone next to him called him, and he said goodbye and left in a hurry.

A few days later, the people serving in various villages and communities in the county gathered in Qichun. The next day, Liu San and these people took a boat across the river and went to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

When we arrived at the south bank of the Yangtze River, there was a military station where we took a shower together. Each of us gave us a military uniform and a soap, boar bristle toothbrush and a little tooth powder.

Liu San looked at the black and white foam on his hair and was stunned. He had seen this thing in the village community. In fact, the supply and marketing cooperative also sold it, but the people in the village community would not choose to buy these things.

Although we preach morality and new life hygiene and other things every day, it has not yet reached the point where everyone accepts it.

Everyone in Si Shang could accept it because in the past few years, Si Shang was a large barracks, literacy, sanitation movement, new living habits, new titles, etc., which were basically resolved during their service, and it took 30 years to form a trend.

Liu San did not expect that these things would be released in the army, which was completely different from what he imagined. Imagination always originated from reality, and the previous village and community systems and military systems formed the basis of his imagination.

Liu San knew that the Jie Xuan Army could fight, and according to his imagination, he must have chosen the Warriors to serve, but now it seems that it is not what he thought.

After taking a shower, he ate. The meal was worse than life in the village community. At least he ate meat occasionally, but eating enough here was not a problem.

Each person had a bowl of coarse rice, sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and the vegetables were radishes that he had never seen before. There were some beans in the coarse rice and peanuts he had only known today, and some vegetable oils in the vegetables that he didn't know either.

The next two months were painful and exhausted.

Liu San learned a lot in this military station.

For example, you have to wash your face and brush your teeth every day, wash your clothes every few days, and you can't urinate anywhere when you go to the toilet, and you have to call each other comrades.

For example, after lunch every day, you should learn to recognize words and sing; practice running queues; understand discipline and obedience; understand equality and love; understand all the meanings of the existence of this army.

For example, someone specifically talks about some simple natural principles and shows some experiments that seem like miracles but are easy to do now.

At least for two months, everything Liu San could see was understandable.

When two months later, when thousands of people who seemed to be reborn were standing again on the wasteland, they could at least stand straight, stand firmly, and understand various commands.

When someone recited his name, he almost subconsciously shouted "yes" and then stood up with the command.

The two-month exercise ended. Liu San thought he would receive a musket, but what he unexpectedly expected was that he received a shovel.

He was assigned to an army called the "Third Division of the Construction Legion" and became a soldier of the Construction Legion in a company.

Some of the people from the same village and community who came with him were assigned to "fishing companies" and some were assigned to "logging companies". In any case, it didn't sound like they were going to fight.

Only then did Liu San understand how the fish he ate during the training period in the past two months came from.

He thought that this service was interesting. He had to fish without fighting; he had to cut down wood without cutting down the enemy.

Although I was confused, I could only accept such an arrangement, thinking that this was not similar to the previous labor service? But it was different. At least it was responsible for food. In the past, when I was farming for the owner of the fief, I needed to deliver food to my family.

Soon, the company elected the Soldiers Committee. Because he was smart, he had learned a few words before and could calculate some simple numbers, so he became a member of the Soldiers Committee, mainly to supervise the distribution of pocket money.

Although it is usually a supply system and meals are three meals a day, I still give some money to the company every month.

He did not know that this was to make everyone in the company realize that money could buy things; secondly, it was to cultivate the soldiers in the company's understanding of equality and supervision, and did not seek to do so in the future, but also to cultivate some cognition that did not belong to this era.

This money can be bought from supply and marketing cooperatives near the military camp and military vendors, such as cotton, jerky, sugar, tea and other things.

The same money is exactly the same as the money they see in the village community. Many people know that they can buy iron and cotton cloth and other things they need at home, so they usually save as much as possible, and save it for a few months and then save it themselves.

Shortly after they joined the company, in May, the army had a strange meal: rice wrapped in big leaves or bamboo leaves, and there were some things that were hard to see here called dates. I heard that it was to commemorate the comrades who sacrificed their lives to benefit the world in the Battle of Jiangkou.

Later, Liu San learned that this thing was called Zongzi, and a few years later they retired and returned to the village community and became a habit. Every household would have such a habit every year.

But at this time, after Liu San had eaten the rice dumplings, the company issued an order, saying that everyone would pack their bedding and carry-on supplies and go to Eyi tomorrow.

He had heard of Eyi, but in fact it was only a few dozen miles away from here, and it was only a Yangtze River from their village, but for him it was once a very distant place.

In fact, on the second day, they did not go directly to Eyi, but to the riverside southeast of Eyi, where there were already some simple housing, and many companies were temporarily stationed there.

Early the next morning, their company received a task and went to the dock by the river to transport some goods.

He had seen the ship, and although the ship he saw the next day was a little bigger, the ship was still a ship, with sails on it and rudders behind it, but it was a little bigger.

But when he was unloading, he saw something he had never seen before.

A long foot is as long as seven or eight people, and heavy as it requires many people to lift it. The strange-looking one is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and it is made of iron.

After asking with courage and curiosity, I realized that this thing is called "track". After repairing it, you can use a special carriage to pull goods on it.

I heard that some iron-producing places on Si Shang have used this kind of thing instead of roads. Because horses can pull more, they can produce more iron, then build more rails, pull more ores, and produce more iron.

He couldn't figure out what kind of carriage could run on it.

After loading and unloading for two days, the ships continued to head north. I heard that there were still many iron and agricultural tools in the ship, which were to be delivered upstream and then transported the upstream rice and grain here.

After the loading and unloading items appeared on the third day, he couldn't understand them even more.

It was a bunch of strange-looking iron tools. He recognized it as iron, but he couldn't understand what it was.

After asking, he realized that this thing could be relied on burning a black stone to lift water. The large copper mine near Eyi had been dug under the waterline more than ten years ago, causing a large number of slaves and slave workers to drain water out every day.

Liu San racked his brains and couldn't think of how these strange iron things could lift water.

Of course, he couldn't even think of how the mines under the waterline were mined before, but he knew that this thing might save a lot of people. The people who saved drainage could dig more mines, smel more copper, and build more cannons - the kind of thing that made them terrified on the battlefield back then.
Chapter completed!