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In late November, the Northwest Army returned to the court after two exciting victories.

Li Xin Jianghu, Wang Li Su Jiao, and more than 3,000 soldiers who made great contributions in this battle to fight against the Hungarians and Hu returned to Xianyang with full of dust and murderous aura.

As the snow was drifting, the emperor went out of the city again to greet him thirty miles away.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Xianyang and several surrounding counties welcomed each other.

The emperor ordered Xianyang to celebrate for three days again.

That night, the emperor once again invited soldiers who returned to the court at Ganquan Palace, and millions of Xianyang people rushed to the streets to celebrate and wait for the arrival of the divine thunder and fireworks.

As late at night, with a few violent roars, several fires rose almost at the same time on the four gates in the southeast, west and northwest of Xianyang City and the square in the center of the city. Then, with a bunch of colorful fireworks exploded in the snowy night sky. For a moment, the colorful firelights in the sky rendered the entire Qin Dynasty like a fairyland.

This was an unprecedented victory, and this night was also an unprecedented jubilant celebration.

Fireworks were set off at the same time in five places in Xianyang City. Ninety-nine divine thunders exploded in the night sky for a full half hour, completely igniting the enthusiasm of millions of Xianyang people and the returning soldiers. They also shocked the captive Hun and Hu nobles, and they all lay on the cold snow and kowtowed to the sky one by one, which was constantly exploded like pounding garlic.

While Xianyang was celebrating the victory, Chen Xu had already brought his family back to Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village.

The Marquis of Qinghe married the fifth princess and Lord Meng's legitimate daughter back to his hometown to visit relatives and worship his ancestors, which was an unprecedented event for Qinghe Town and even the entire Nanyang County.

Therefore, since returning to Qinghe Town, hundreds of people including Nanyang County Magistrates, including officials and famous scholars from several nearby counties such as Zhi County, came to visit each other in a constant stream of carriages and horses every day.

There are also countless merchants in Nanyang business circles, including Shui and Fan, who also brought gifts to congratulate Chen Xu on his wedding.

In order not to lose etiquette, Chen Xu had to entertain these guests from afar at Qinghe Town Primary School for several days. Although many of them just came to give gifts and said they had to leave in a hurry, some well-known figures still needed to be entertained.

Therefore, after nearly five days of busyness, the lively and joyful Qinghe Town slowly calmed down.

After Qinghe Town finished his work, he returned to Xiaohe Village to invite all the villagers of Xiaohe Village and relatives of Yingzui Cliff Village again. After two days of lively Chen Xu got the opportunity to have a leisure time.

From the beginning of April when we married Shui Qingrou left Qinghe Town, and when we were only back at the end of November, it has passed since summer to winter.

The changes in Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village in the past six months can only be described as earth-shaking.

The porcelain workshops, wood workshops, copper and iron workshops, paper workshops, sugar and oil workshops, health centers, primary schools and granaries that were originally opened were all re-expanded and even rebuilt. The scales of each were expanded several times, and the houses were all rebuilt with large acres of bricks and wood to build spacious and bright factories.

Today, Qinghe Town has completely turned into an industrial town. In the past, all residents and workshops were concentrated in a narrow area of ​​only three miles long on the bank of Xiaoqing River. The roads were narrow and the houses were dilapidated, but now it has expanded to more than ten miles in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and there are brand new acres and brick houses and tall factories everywhere.

More than 3,000 villagers in six townships southwest of Chi County have become Chen Xu's fiefs. A large number of villagers gathered in these factories in Qinghe Town to work. Nearly 2,000 people work here to earn money. Caravans from south to north are constantly coming all day long. Even in this cold winter, when heavy snow is blowing, merchants who come to buy porcelain paper, medicine sugar and wine have never stopped.

The entire Qinghe Town is crowded with people coming and going all day long. Chen Xu's large amount of money has been spent. Now the focus of the entire economy of Zhi County is revolving around Qinghe Town. The newly appointed county magistrate even came to Qinghe Town every now and then to inspect and express condolences, warmly currying and pleasing Lidianniu Dashi and Youjiao Liupo.

Niu Dashi is still Lidian, but this Lidian is far more than Lidian's identity. He is also the future brother-in-law of Qinghe Hou. He is the supervisor who controls the three thousand fiefs for Qinghe Hou. The emperor also specially granted him a ninth-rank man's position as a man. Now he is an official of the Qin Dynasty with an official robe, not just a town official. Even if a sixth-rank county magistrate meets him, he still respectfully salutes and calls him Lord Niu.

Niu Dashi's family has become a success because of this. Now they live in a spacious house, and they are served by carriages and horses when they enter and exit. From a poor peasant who walks without covering his clothes and his butt is exposed to the airflow outside three years ago, they have completely turned into an exploiting class.

The porcelain factory recruited twenty or thirty pottery craftsmen and more than one hundred apprentices, and nearly four hundred helpers. The chimneys of seven or eight kilns are flying every day, making this remote town hidden in the towering mountains look full of industrial atmosphere.

In order to provide enough packaging wooden boxes for the porcelain factory and the sugar and winery, the wooden factory also recruited nearly 200 apprentices and helpers. The big trucks of wood were transported to saw it into wooden boards and strips, and there were jingling sounds all day long.

The primary school has expanded in size and recruited more than 200 children aged about ten in the fiefdom. They followed Niu Quan and several literate men from other townships in the fiefdom to learn reading and literacy, as well as simple mathematics and abacus. After learning, all of these children will be arranged to help manage the workshops in Qinghe Town.

The scale of the health center has not only expanded. The doctor Bu Xu's formerly only had one and a half-time master. Although he had been with Xu Fu for several months, his level was really not satisfactory. Therefore, after Chen Xu arrived in Xianyang, he asked Xu Fu to select a doctor and two nurses from Xianyang Health Center to come to the health center to take charge of the overall situation.

In life, in addition to food, clothing, housing and use, the most urgent problem is medical problems, especially for women to have children, which is a major matter of life. Chen Xu dare not be careless. Qinghe Town is not only his hometown, but also his own fief. He must take good care of everyone here.

Since the famous doctors from Xianyang City, three doctors came to join the health center afterwards. Therefore, the Qinghe Town Health Center has become the largest department and the most famous medical institution in Nanyang County. Seriously ill patients in the entire Chi County and even the surrounding counties will come to seek medical treatment. Even some rich people in Wancheng will have to travel hundreds of miles to Qinghe Town to see the doctor when they get sick.

In order to reduce pollution, the paper mill has built Heihu Wan. Its area has reached hundreds of acres and has recruited more than 300 helpers. Hemp pulp and bamboo pulp paper are being manufactured on a large scale. Although the scale is far from the size of the paper mill outside Xianyang City, it is definitely the first-class factory in remote mountainous county like Zhi County. There are also paper mills built by other merchants in the entire Zhi County, but they are not as famous as Qinghe Town, because the paper mill here is not only the industry of Qinghehou, but also a kind of snow-white and delicate bamboo pulp paper is also produced here. However, only a few core craftsmen know about the production method and never inquire.

Even if you have money, you can't buy these bamboo pulp papers, and can only be used by merchants and emperors allowed by Qinghehou.

Although the sugar wine shop has entered the cold winter and the cooking of sugar wine has stopped, it is still working on the production of various rice cakes, biscuits and preserved fruits, etc., which are supplied to Qinghe Hotels in various places.

After seven or eight days of busy work after returning, Chen Xu finally inspected the entire Qinghe Town, accompanied by Niu Dashi and Youjiao Liupo and other managers. Chen Xu also put forward some of his own opinions on the areas that needed rectification.

When he left, Chen Xu had made some plans for the development of Qinghe Town and had guidance on the living area and the locations of various workshops. Therefore, although Chen Xu was not here for more than half a year, Niu Dashi and everyone in Qinghe Town were still building and developing strictly in accordance with Chen Xu's plan.

The residential area has expanded several times. Some mountain people who live on the mountain who are willing to move down the mountain have uniformly planned the foundation of the house in the town, and at the same time, tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been reclaimed along the Xiaoqing River to the two sides of the downstream for distribution. Therefore, Qinghe Town has now exceeded 600 households. Moreover, because there are continuous caravans every day, the town has also built several inns, food houses, shopping houses and vehicle repair service places, all of which are responsible for the operation of the town.

At this day, Qinghe Town's business travelers kept ringing, and those who were busy were all neatly dressed and hooded villagers. Everyone's faces were rosy and shiny, and they could no longer see the miserable and dull look of the past.

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In the past, the Wild Wolf Valley was marked as a forbidden area. Except for those who were out of the winery, people who could enter and exit the cave with wine storage, there was no permission from Niu Dashi and Liu Po ​​that no one could get close to it.

There is still vines and thorns at the entrance of the valley, but the towering trees and thorns inside have long been cleared out and turned into a hidden valley with a total of more than 300 acres.

A long row of wooden and stone houses were built on one side of the valley, and all the ancillary facilities such as canteens and toilets were available.

There is a large flat field in the middle of the valley, with 500 teenagers over ten years old walking and standing in five teams. Although they all looked dark and their clothes were torn, all of them were serious and serious, and they followed the commands of several teenagers who looked slightly tall and tall, making various movements.

On the eighth day after returning home, Chen Xu finally had the time to come to watch the training of these teenagers in person.

Since Guiguzi suddenly came to save Wang Qingxiu in the middle of the night, Chen Xu later guessed the disaster that Guiguzi mentioned, so he began to plan and build a military force that he could completely control, not for rebellion, but just in case.

Therefore, after many things in Xianyang were slowly getting on track, and after the villa sent by Li Xin, Chen Xu began to secretly produce more gunpowder and build muskets and even cannons.

Almost all these teenagers were recruited in Chi County, and most of them were orphans from nearby fiefs.

This is only a part of the selected ones that meet the requirements, and there are so many numbers. You can imagine how many adult men died in the two Qin and Chu battles.

These teenagers were either like Chen Xu and Niu Dashi, dependent on their mothers at home, or were completely orphans, wandering around with wealthy families and some craftsmen as helpers just to survive with a bite of food.

The five hundred young men in front of me will be around twenty years later, and they will be brave young men around the age of twenty.

Chen Xu didn't need them to have a strong body and extraordinary wisdom, nor did he need them to have the power to fight ten like the imperial guards. All he needed was to obey orders absolutely without obeying orders.

Muskets do not require too much strength, so the requirements for physical fitness are not too high. However, since training is required, Chen Xu feels that he can still train more strictly, at least he must be stronger than ordinary military soldiers.

The ordinary military soldiers in Daqin are actually ordinary farmers. They have not undergone rigorous training and are deployed to the border to garrison and cultivate land, and conduct some simple sting training and familiarity with military orders. Once they go to the battlefield, they only need to understand the orders of attack and retreat.

Attacking, you will be rushing to death, and killing the enemy will make military achievements.

If you retreat, you will be in order and don’t panic, otherwise you will be dealt with by military law.

There is nothing else to ask for.

In this era, except for the pawns, chariots and bowmen, the infantry that mainly fights are not trained very much, and there is no unified training method. Once you go to the battlefield, the victory or defeat depends entirely on the main general, and life and death depend entirely on luck.

What stimulates the Qin army to be invincible is the rewards brought by military merits.

If you have military achievements, you can divide the land and land. If you can be awarded a title, you can get a fixed annual salary or even a chariot, horse and slave.

As long as you are brave enough and not afraid of death and have good luck, even if you are a beggar, you can climb to the position of the general step by step.

Taking military merits as glory, the Qin army was born like tigers and wolves. This is the key to the rise of the Qin Dynasty.

Chen Xu reminded the group of teenagers who Yu Wuya was responsible for recruiting to strictly train disciplines, and to strictly abide by the system and disciplines when eating, drinking, defecating, sitting, lying and walking, and to eliminate all naughty people who do not obey orders.

Although it is not required to organize the perverted housework such as stacking tofu cubes, daily life training must be prohibited.

According to Chen Xu's plan, Yu Wuya was responsible for training this team, because the only thing he felt most at ease about now was Yu Wuya. After half a year of basic order training, and then some simple martial arts training and off-road training, he could start training musket operations. Once he could master it, these teenagers could first arrange to serve as a security team in Qinghe Town, and at the same time they could also adjust some people to protect themselves and their families' safety.

Once Qin Dada really cannot sustain his life and the Qin Dynasty is in danger of turmoil, the team will immediately become a musketeer who has surpassed this era for two thousand years. It adopts the three-stage musket attack mode of the British and French coalition forces, and is equipped with several small cannons. As long as there is no problem with ammunition, these five hundred people can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of people.

However, Shui Qingru's departure completely disrupted Chen Xu's arrangements.

Now that Yu Wuya leaves, he doesn't know when he will turn around. The team has no training instructors and leaders.

There were only two people accompanying Chen Xu, one was You Jiao Liu Po ​​and the other was Niu Dashi.

"Drip~~"

After riding a horse into the Wild Wolf Valley, Liu Po ​​blew a bamboo flute hanging on his chest. The teenagers who were training stopped. Although they seemed to have a fast and slow reaction, basically no one was making noises and making noises.

Chen Xu felt very satisfied with the reactions of the teenagers. After all, it was only about one or two months of training, and it was already very good to be able to line up quickly when hearing the bamboo flute.

At least I have a strict obedience to orders.

The five young men in the team led the team came over and bowed: "I am training and walking, and I have never been lazy, and no one has slacked off!"

"Yes!" Liu Po ​​nodded and pointed at Chen Xu and said, "Who are he who you can recognize?"

When Chen Xu returned to Qinghe Town, he did not wear his usual brocade robe, but was wearing a sweater inside, a fur coat on his outside, a wool hat on his head and a wool scarf around his neck. The sweater and hat scarf were knitted by Shuighingrou in Xiaohe Village last year. Now the clothes are still there, but the beauty is missing. However, Chen Xu is used to this outfit. Therefore, Chen Xu now looks like a rich boy from a good family, with a gentle expression and no sign of the marquis.

The five teenagers stared at Chen Xu for a few glances and shook their heads together. One of them clasped his fists and said, "You Jiao, I can't recognize this gentleman!"

"I am Chen Xu, have you heard of it?" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Chen Xu..." The young man who answered was a little stunned, then knelt on the ground with a thud and said in panic, "I don't know the face of the marquis, please forgive me!"

After the boy said this, the other four boys also understood immediately, and knelt down and kowtowed together almost at the same time, saying, "It turns out that the Marquis is back. I heard from Mr. Yu that it is the Marquis who give us food and clothing. Thank you for your kindness and virtue!"

Several teenagers pounded their heads on the cold mud, and Chen Xu reached out and pulled the five teenagers up and said with a smile: "You are all the commanders selected by Brother Yu, and they all look good. In the future, I will carefully lead these companions to train well. In a few months, I will select some to follow me to Xianyang!"

"Marty, I... can we follow you to Xianyang?" Several teenagers couldn't help but exclaim.

"Well, but you can only choose dozens of them. The rest is to continue training more content here. There will be a new weapon to learn to apply, so you must meet my requirements. What are your names?" Chen Xu nodded and said.

"Go back to the Marquis, my name is Xu Shan!" said the first young man.

"Mr. Marquis, my surname is Li. I am the second child at home. I have a pockmark on my face. It turns out that everyone calls me Li Erma, but I don't have a name!" The second boy saluted a little embarrassedly.

"Erma is not bad either. The carpenter in the town is called Liu Erwa. I met a craftsman in Xianyang named Lu Erdan. Your name sounds much better than theirs!" Chen Xu patted the boy's shoulder, and several boys laughed.

"The Marquis, whose name is Chen Xia."

"Back, Marquis, my name is Liu Shugen."

"Mr. Marquis, I have no parents since I was a child, and I don't know what my surname was. I grew up with an old carpenter. Since I was a child, others have called me black pig..." The last young man said with a blushing face.
Chapter completed!