After Zhao Gang bid farewell to Zeng Yun, he immediately prepared to recruit people in the name of mining. This time the government paid money to help Zhao Gang recruit people. Zhao Gang naturally would not save money for the government and recruit people everywhere, 500 cents a month. It is not owed or deducted. It is distributed on time on the fifteenth of every month. Now the young men from the northeast have come to Zhao Gang to register.

Among them, a young man named Hei Niu was so poor that his family couldn't bear to lose his money. He heard that Zhao Gang was full of food and had half a tael of silver every month, so he rushed over overnight. The three hundred miles of road arrived in three days.

When he arrived at the registration place, Hei Niu looked at it and said, "Drink"! The long queue was a mile long head and tail. Seeing the speed of the team was going to wait until dark. Hei Niu was anxious, so he didn't line up and walked straight to the registration office. The patrolman saw it and hurriedly shouted: "That big black guy, hurry up and go back to the team!" Hei Niu turned a deaf ear and kept leaving.

The patrol was anxious, and several people ran over to block the Hei Niu. However, they never thought that the Hei Niu would be rushed and knocked to the ground. The people in the queue cheered. The patrols blew whistles, and more than ten patrols came out from inside, and beat them down with wooden sticks. The Hei Niu became annoyed after being annoyed a few times. He grabbed a patrol wheel and started to beat the patrols. The people in the queue watched the fun and couldn't help but cheer. For a moment, the registration office was in chaos.

When those patrols were just unable to do anything, a man rushed out on a red horse, and the target was the black cow. Seeing that the horse was coming quickly and knew that it could not escape, the black cow threw the patrol aside. After squatting on a horse stance, he actually wanted to resist the galloping horse.

It was said that it was too late, and then it was quick. With a dull sound, the black bull and the horse collided fiercely. Although the horse was fast, it slowed down before the collision. Obviously, the knight immediately wanted to kill the black bull's majesty and had no intention of killing him. But even this was the impact. The black bull was knocked to fly and fell heavily to the ground.

The knight was not feeling well. He obviously did not expect that the black bull would have such divine power. He retracted his strength before the impact, and the strength of the black bull's counterattack. The horse under his crotch screamed, and his four hooves became weak and he was about to fall down. The knight quickly turned over and dismounted and held the horse. The team that registered was even more lively and they all gathered to see it.

The Knight frowned and said to the already stupid patrolmen:

"What are you looking at? Why don't you keep order quickly?"

The patrol responded quickly and went to maintain order.

The knight held it for a while, and saw that the horse was fine, he turned his head to see the black cow.

Before he could turn his head, a black hand had already been pressed on his shoulder. The knight immediately felt that half of his body was numb. He did not dare to neglect. A overlord took off his armor and shook the black hand away. The knight turned around and looked at him. The big black man who had just been knocked away was looking at him with anger.

Hei Niu said: "Why are you riding a horse and hitting me?"

The knight said, "You don't follow the rules and don't listen to the inspection and guidance. Of course, I will teach you a lesson. But if you can convince two of my friends, everything will be easy."

Hei Niu said: "What do you mean? Where are your two good friends now?"

The knight clenched his hands into fists, shook it in front of the black bull, and said:

"If you can beat him, everything will be up to you; if you hit him, you can't imagine it!"

The black bull said angrily: "I wish you good enough to come and stroke the tiger's beard? But your fists are not as big as mine. If you win, you will not be a hero. Well, I will use one fist to you!"

As he said, he swung his fist as big as a bowl, and watched the knight hit him. Everyone was shocked when they saw the black bull's body strong and his fist strength was amazing! But when they were about to move forward, the knight did not resist his fist, and actually flashed his body, and the iron bull's fist hit him. The iron bull's fist pressed against his body. The iron bull's fist turned around, punched another punch, and came across the wheel. The knight flashed his body to the left, pulled the black bull's collar with one hand, and flew up with the force. This kicked the black bull's left rib and flew to the ground.

The soldiers on the side waited for the opportunity to shout in unison: "Good martial arts! Good martial arts!"

The black bull climbed up and shouted: "I'm so angry. You guy is so authentic. I only use one hand. You not only use two hands, but also one foot. I'm at a disadvantage. This time, we compare once."

Those who watched the fun of the black bulls were slouched and they all started to swear. The black bulls were also a little worried, but when they thought of the two taels of silver a month, they still stood there with a thick face.

The Knight laughed: "It doesn't matter, as long as you want, I will accompany you to the end today."

Seeing that the Knight agreed, Black Bull grabbed the Knight with one step. However, although Black Bull was extremely powerful, the opponent he encountered was not inferior to him, and his martial arts were much higher than him. In just a quarter of an hour, Black Bull had already beaten seven times.

Seeing that there was no hope of winning, Hei Niu gave up and stood up and wanted to hit the wall.

The knight hurriedly hugged him in the waist and shouted: "Brother, why is this?"

Hei Niu struggled hard, but couldn't get away, and said anxiously: "I, Hei Niu, have never been defeated. Today I am ugly and can't be a soldier. I'm just ridiculous and ridiculous when I go back! I'm so shameless to survive!"

The knight said, "You brother, you are really an impatient person! I fight with you because you have not eaten in the morning and have fallen a few times. If you commit suicide like this, wouldn't it be useless to lose your life? Why don't you go to the camp with me to have breakfast and then compete."

The black bull turned around and looked at the knight and said, "What a great effort! What's your name?"

The knight said: "My surname is Zhao Gang, what's your name?"

Hei Niu reported his name, and the two entered the military camp. One of them watched the fun and asked the patrol beside him, "Official, who is that Zhao Gang? He has such a good martial arts skills, so he must be an official."

The patrolman turned his head and looked at the person who was asking: "Light up the trick. This is Zhao Gang and Mr. Zhao who killed the big bandit Du Lishan a few days ago. How could the martial arts be described in one word? I was following Mr. Zhao at that time, with 10,000 bandits in front of me. I said, 'Mr. Zhao, the bandits retreat, we have held it'"

The inspection said this and kept it in hiding. Everyone begged the inspection to continue. The inspection had enough good things and just continued: "Master Zhao slapped me in the face, pulled out his knife, and rushed out. The bullets shot by the bandits flew over, but they didn't hurt Mr. Zhao's hair. Master Zhao slashed with one knife and killed more than a dozen..."

The inspection was full of words and running the train, which made Zhao Gang blow to the sky. Zhao Gang was entertaining the black cow at this time.

Zhao Gang was treating the black beef at this time, and the black beef was not full for a few days and was so hungry that he ate all the rice in a blink of an eye. Seeing that the black beef was not full, Zhao Gang asked the chef to make dozens of large oil cakes and serve a few kilograms of beef. He was not polite to black beef, and the oil cake rolled beef, and ate eighteen pieces in a row before he could get full.

Hei Niu burped in satisfaction and said, "I finally got eighty percent full." Zhao Gang, who was beside him, was shocked, "What a guy! I ate the meal of ten people alone, and it was only eighty percent full. It was such a big bucket of food.

Hei Niu: "I won't beat you anymore, and I can't beat you even if I have enough food. Thank you for this meal. If you have any trouble in the future, I will come here as long as you say a word."

After saying these words, Hei Niu left. Zhao Gang hurriedly called Hei Niu

"I think you have good martial arts skills. I'll give you five taels of silver a month, or not."

In this way, Hei Niu became one of the 15,000 miners.

In the next month, the training intensity of these miners reached a crazy level.

Get up at five o'clock every morning and do a five-kilometer cross-country running first. Those who are less than half an hour will be eliminated;

After the cross-country running, the training pace is one hour, and breakfast is eaten at half past six to seven.

At about seven o'clock, carry out an armed march

Armed marchs are usually 15 kilometers, and those who are less than two hours will be eliminated.

From 9:00 to 11:00, train your standing posture.

Practice from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Have lunch from 1:00 to 1:30

Physical training from 1:30 to 4:00 pm

Those who run in the four-5 km cross-country within half an hour will be eliminated

Firearm practice, aiming practice, live ammunition shooting practice, firearm dismantling practice

Dinner time from 6:30 to 7:00

These are not difficult for Hei Niu. He ranked first in almost every item, so he quickly became the head of the miner group, with more than 1,000 people under his command. Moreover, what fascinated Hei Niu most was that he arranged some sports events every night from 7:00 to 9:00 to 9:00 to relax these tired miners.

Hei Niu became obsessed with a sport, and everyone called it basketball: during the game, each team consists of 5 players, and there must be no less than 5 players on the field. The two teams are in a confrontation, and each attack must be completed within half a minute.

The tall and strong black bull became the center of their group with his strong and tall physical conditions and became the most popular player in the miners' group. Every night, you can see the black bull's agile posture under the bonfire lighting. The strong black bull can get the highest score in every competition. Of course, there is a reward for each highest score. In a month, the black bull has already won dozens of taels, and the black bull has sent all the money to his family.

After one day, the training time was more than twelve hours, and the strict standards allowed many unqualified miners to be eliminated. According to statistics, the number of miners eliminated in the first stage was as high as 7,000, with an elimination rate of as high as 1/2. In the end, there were only 5,000 miners left, with an elimination rate of as high as 2/3. After a month of high-intensity training, the miners gradually adapted, and an iron army gradually took shape.

Seeing the new recruits gradually mature, Zhao Gang was very happy. He was worried that the standards set were too high and not many people passed. Now it seems that the physique of these new recruits could withstand such training intensity. For the eliminated new recruits, Zhao Gang formed another army, with about 10,000 people, called the Pingkou Army. The salary was reduced by half. The top 500 people were promoted to the Pingkou Army, and the last 500 people were cleared out. The same was true for the Pingkou Army. Zhao Gang made such a regulation, and the soldiers of each army naturally fought for the first place, fearing that they would fall behind.

After half a month of basic training, the Pingko Army began to conduct weapon shooting training. When Zhao Gang recalled the training of his new recruits in his era, he made a lot of rakes, arranged them in complex terrain, and trained soldiers' field skills. This combined basic tactical and action training, so that the new recruits could learn skills such as movement, observation, target recognition, distance determination, camouflage and concealment while conducting shooting training, and improve the comprehensive quality of individual soldiers.

In the bitter cold wind, in the cold ice river, on the wide snowfield, the Pingkou army can be seen everywhere, and the people of Liaoyang have gradually become familiar with this strange army.

After this training, the Pingkou Army's appearance was completely renewed. The troops' marching strength has greatly improved, and their tactical level has reached a higher level.

However, this has a lot to do with some money in Zhao Gang's hands. Zhao Gang set up a weekly fastest progress award, weekly best award, and one-month championship award, based on class, with prizes of 100 taels, 500 taels, and 2,000 taels respectively. If you have good exam results, you will get the prize. The entire soldiers of the Pingko Army want to win the prize, and they have to practice more every day after training. It is almost the end of the month, and everyone is holding back their energy and want to win the monthly championship.

It was already the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye. As the saying goes, "La Qi La Ba, chin is frozen." At this time, it is the coldest time, and every year there are unprepared protection and ears are frozen. At that time, the large bandits in Shengjing were defeated by the battle of Lianshanguan, and the small bandits were transferred to Jilin, Heilongjiang, Mongolia and other places to shelter from the wind.

But seeing that Zhao Gang had not been moved, he ran back with some courage and did some "small business" half-light and half-dark. Zhao Gang didn't catch him. Seeing that the bandits were relieved, they had no income for several months, and it was not a solution to sit in vain. They took the courage to go back to their nests to do business. However, Zhao Gang did not appear in front of people for several months, as if they had disappeared.

At this time, Zhao Gang had already returned to Shengjing, and his father-in-law Zhang Jian handed over the 450,000 taels of silver bill to Zhao Gang:

"Zhao Gang, this was something that General Zeng had just made. It can be said that Shengjing would never have raised so much money in a few years. You must use these money well. Foreigners are cunning. Can you buy heavy industrial equipment in China?"

Zhao Gang took the silver note and looked very serious:

"My father-in-law, the son-in-law must go to Europe once. The last time Zhang Zhidong bought equipment in Hankou, because there was only one supply, and it was impossible to compare, so he was deceived by foreigners. This time, the son-in-law came to Europe and must have visited many companies to compete with each other, so that they could buy cheap equipment."

Zhang Jian nodded: "I am old, and the world will belong to you in the future. You can go there with confidence. This is 100,000 taels of silver, which is mine. You can use it. Remember to go early and return early."

After saying that, Zhang Jian took out a silver note from his arms and placed it on the coffee table, his eyes full of love.

Zhao Gang looked at the silver bill and couldn't speak...

The next day, Zhao Gang took 550,000 taels of silver on a steamship to Europe. There, Britain, France, Germany and Russia experienced the Second Industrial Revolution and was in the strongest era of large-scale industrialization.
Chapter completed!