It’s finally time to set off and leave Kaifeng Prefecture!

Although he was a family member, Wu Haogu still maintained his decisive style and did not take the slow official boat, but chose a carriage and horse. On the ninth day of the ninth month of the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo in the Song Dynasty, he left Kaifeng Prefecture in a mighty manner.

In addition to family and female friends such as Pan Qiaolian, Ximen Qing, Oliga, Du Wenyu, etc., there were also Tong Guan and his entourage from the National Trust Institute led by Zhou Yunqing, as well as Su Che's son Su Shi.

Zhou Tong's son has now replaced Lin Wancheng, Lin Chong and his son, and has become the captain of Wu Haogu's guard. His martial arts are the true teachings of Zhou Tong and are definitely not inferior to the Lin family's father and son. Moreover, he also has a skill that the Lin family is not very good at - according to the standards of later generations, he is a first-class fitness coach.

Well, the Imperial Boxing Gym managed by his father is probably the number one gym in Kaifeng Prefecture?

In short, Zhou Yunqing is very knowledgeable about the method of "struggling for strength" - this is a science!

According to Zhou Yunqing, "strengthening hard work" is not only about hard practice, but also about being able to control yourself. What to eat, what to drink, when to sleep, when to get up, how many women you get involved? You must have strict plans and you must not be chaotic.

Otherwise, even if you have brute force, you will be exhausted by wealth and gentleness in a short time - Wu Haogu is a little indulgent now! And Tong Guan is very good and can be self-disciplined! So he is still in a good physical condition at a young age.

In addition, in Zhou Yunqing's opinion, real elite soldiers must not be "indulged". It is absolutely impossible to go home every day to warm up the kang with your wife and children. You must be like the sumo wrestlers in the Imperial Boxing Gym, and they are circled most of the time. There are only a few days in a month to be released to reunite with your family.

Moreover, when reuniting with your family, you should also ban alcohol and avoid eating. You must not be so happy. Otherwise, you will have to gain a lot of weight when you return to the camp after "breaking" and getting back to school. How troublesome will it be to practice again?

Like those guys in "Water Margin" who always come with dozens of kilograms of beef and many jars of wine, it's good if they have no problems in their health. They want to make a fortune in Jiuzhou? That's impossible!

"Brother Zhou," Tong Guan, who was walking with Wu Haogu and Zhou Yunqing, was a little idle and chatted with Zhou Yunqing to train soldiers, "According to your family's rules, aren't I, the Song Dynasty, have no elite soldiers?"

"Why didn't it?" Zhou Yunqing smiled, "Isn't there two or three hundred in the imperial fist tube? They may all stand out in the imperial front competition in October next year!"

"Can you really stand out?" Wu Haogu also asked, "How long has it been? You can practice it by just cramming the Buddha's feet?"

"Why can't it?" Zhou Yunqing patted his chest and said, "I think it's so difficult to train troops? As long as there is a strong man, even if I don't have any martial arts skills, at most two or three years, I will keep the physique and martial arts of Wei Wuzhang!"

Zhou Yunqing is a "fitness coach". He doesn't understand tactics, battle formations, etc. Apart from "fitness", he is just using weapons, and his immediate skills are not very good, not as good as those of the Lin family's father and son, but his individual infantry fighting skills are absolutely first-class.

However, his ability is worth 3,000 yuan a year... When he arrived at Jiehe, Wu Haogu was preparing to go to Jiehe Branch of Yuntai Academy to serve as a "military training instructor" and "sports department professor", specializing in the training of armed doctors and the training of military "sports instructors".

"According to your words," Tong Guan also said, "There is a 50,000 farmer who can be defeated by practicing for two or three years?"

"Okay!" Zhou Yunqing smiled, "But the Xiaguan can't manage 50,000 per person, it would be great if he could manage 100 people!

Official Tong, don’t you know how many times the stick-headed scalp whip in the Imperial Boxing Gym has been broken... All the strength is made by sticks!"

Corporal punishment is indispensable! Not to mention the Song Dynasty, even in the modern European army, which one could have lost corporal punishment?

Physical punishment is needed, which means that the soldiers are actually not conscious enough. If there is no strict supervision from the officer, they will be lazy. Therefore, there is no possibility of an instructor training tens of thousands of people, and it is even more impossible for a passionate speech to stimulate blood and then scream and practice hard.

Tong Guan sighed softly, "It seems that Mr. Murong is right... This soldier still has to be forced to be trained by officials! This team, the military power of a unit, still has to be put down."

Like what Zhou Yunqing said, it would not work without the lump sum system...

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Daofu, isn't there still a system of government troops now? Government troops do not need to be so elite, they can win by relying on more people."

"Military soldier?" Tong Guan just shook his head.

He had been with Li Xian in front of the army for many years, and had seen the Western Army, Baojia, the marginal archers (similar to the troops of the government soldiers) and the army of the Zhe family (also similar to the troops of the government soldiers). Of course, he knew that the troops were difficult to deal with!

"Doom," Wu Haogu said at this time, "I will see Wu Yanpeng in a few days... At that time, you might as well propose to send someone to Goryeo to see the military appearance. If you are not afraid of hardships and storms, you can also see the soldiers and Jurchens of Goryeo with your own eyes?"

The so-called "military appearance" is a military observation group! It is also a way to accumulate military experience when others fight.

Wu Haogu was preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the war between the Goryeo Kingdom and the Jurchens to send a "military mission" to see how they fought.

"Zhongnan," Wu Haogu turned around and said to Su Shi, who was riding a rabbit horse, "You can follow him too."

Su Shi is not a Taichang Temple now, so Wu Haogu arranged for him a supervisor of Jiehe Maritime Bureau. The supervisor is an official in charge of the Maritime Bureau's branch office. However, now the subordinates of Jiehe Maritime Bureau do not have Maritime Bureau, but are just preparing to set up a rice and grain service in Tianya Town, Haizhou. Su Shi is the nominal supervisor of the rice and grain service, but Wu Haogu would not let him really care about buying grain. He wanted Su Shi to participate in diplomatic activities with Goryeo and Japan.

"I'll go too?" Su Shi was stunned, "Dalang, I don't know how to fight, can I go to see the military appearance?"

"Of course you don't have to watch Junrong," Wu Haogu smiled, "You go and spend money!"

"Spend money? Whose money?"

"Of course it's the money of Jiehe Shibo Department..." Wu Haogu smiled, "How can you make a lot of money without spending a little money? Zhongnan, will you spend money?"

Su Shi thought about it carefully, then nodded and said, "Dalang, I can spend money. Even if there are mountains of gold and silver, I can keep it to spend it."

Wu Haogu laughed: "That's thank you for your hard work."

Su Shi said seriously: "It's not hard, it's so hard to do things for the court!"

Spending money is actually very hard!

Especially for a gentleman like Wu Haogu who is so much money that he is almost causing trouble, socializing with all kinds of people all day is simply burning life. That's why he pulled Su Che's son to his side, just to find someone who can help spend money, and who can also spend money and communicate.

Just when Wu Haogu was tired of spending money, his good brother Wu Haowen was worried about his lack of money.

Of course, Wu Haowen was not out of money. When he left Kaifeng Prefecture, Wu Haogu gave him five thousand pieces, and Wu Chengzhi also gave him five thousand pieces, a total of ten thousand pieces of "spocket money", which was enough for him to squander in places like Jingzhao Prefecture.

However, his wealth does not mean that the Lantian County he led is rich. Lantian County is located in the Guanzhong Plain, very close to Jingzhao Prefecture City, and it was also a prosperous place back then. However, after the rise of Western thieves, the northwest had been fighting for years, and the Silk Road to the west was cut off, and the entire Guanzhong inevitably declined.

So when Wu Haowen arrived in Lantian County, he saw a rather depressed city.

The county town of Lantian is actually very large. It should have been built in the Tang Dynasty because the county town is in the Tang style. There are twelve yards within the city walls, each separated by walls. However, the city walls and the walls are not bricks and stones, but built with rammed earth. They have been disrepaired and are very dilapidated.

On the walls of the county town, Wu Haowen discovered many broken holes, and the largest broken holes could even accommodate carriages.

In addition to the ruined city walls, the city has a small population. The original county town could accommodate about tens of thousands of people, with neat streets and numerous houses. But now, most of the yards are empty and collapsed houses can be seen everywhere. Only in the few yards around the county government offices have a relatively large number of residents. The population in the county town is about a few thousand, and the business is depressed. Not to mention, there are no pedestrians on the streets in the afternoon.

However, Lantian County still has a household registration, with more than 8,000 households and an account of about 40,000 (referring to males), which is worthy of the title of Ji County (Jingzhao Prefecture is one of the five capitals).

However, among the eight thousand household counties, the land on the land list is only more than 400,000 mu, and almost all are barren land. There is no industry and commerce, and there is very little tax to receive, and the people are also very poor.

As for the wealthy families, there is probably only the Lv family in Lantian. With its huge family and the famous "Lü Family Township Agreement", a large number of in-laws and Lu Family Schools, at least half of Lantian County is under the actual control of the Lü Family.

The Lu family in Lantian also seemed very cold to the prime minister's son-in-law Wu Haowen who came from afar. The leader of the Lu clan, Lu Jingshan, and the great scholar of the Lu family of the Lu family, did not even come forward to welcome Wu Haowen. They just sent a Lu Haishan, a branch of the Lu family (except for the descendants of the Silu of Lantian), to live in the county and interact with county officials like Wu Haowen.

The Lu family in Lantian was not interested in the "grabbing the gentry" that Wu Haogu gave to Wu Haowen. The Lu family was even less interested in the trial of the military soldiers.
Chapter completed!