Chapter 13: Rectification of Military Affairs ()

Throughout the afternoon, Wu Shaoting did not make much trouble for these soldiers, but just inspected some infrastructure.

After inspecting the military uniforms, he checked the soldiers' weapons again. There were only eight Han-style rifles in the back whistle, two Manchester Express guns and a musket, and the rest were all sabers and spears. Obviously, the weapons had not been used for a long time, and these soldiers did not pay attention to maintenance. The bolts of the rifles showed rust marks, and many sabers and spears had blunt blades.

He demonstrated the soldiers how to clean up their guns on the spot, and then asked the soldiers to make sure that the weapons were spotless when they rechecked them tomorrow.

Then, Wu Shaoting walked around all the barracks and found that the soldiers lived in a very simple and messy place. He did not intend to rush to ask the soldiers to fold the quilts into potato cubes, because it seems that the soldiers' bedding was not uniform at present. However, he continued to pass the message and tonight all the battalions selected a chief, and the chief urged the soldiers in the battalions to take turns to be on duty, at least to keep the hygiene well.

Walking out of the last barracks, he turned to Li Wenqi who had been following him and said, "Let the soldiers living here move to other barracks, and then clean up, and I will work here from now on."

Li Wenqi replied repeatedly: "Yes, sir."

For the rest of the afternoon, Wu Shaoting met with four team officials.

After learning, he knew that the daily official duties of Shanziying were only responsible for patrolling the townships around the western suburbs, and taking turns to the Taiping Gate of Guangzhou City, and occasionally sent to patrol the area around Xishuiguan.

The working method of the five posts in Shanziying is generally to send one post to patrol the township for a month, and then guard the city gate for a month. In this way, each post basically only needs to do two months of work, and then you can rest for three consecutive months, and the task is still very easy.

In February and March, the whistle had just been on duty, so it was a three-month holiday since April. Because of this reason, most soldiers had just washed off their number uniforms yesterday, so when Wu Shaoting took office today, he saw that all the soldiers were not wearing military uniforms.

"So that's it," Wu Shaoting nodded slightly after hearing the introduction, "I'm wrong about you. Let's stop here today. Let's tell the soldiers later that they can wash off their number clothes and don't need to wear them tomorrow."

The four team officials secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this adult was quite reasonable. They had not seen some bosses who were willing to be honest. They were obviously wrong, but in order to protect their face, the boss became more and more responsible and pushed the blame on their subordinates.

Wu Shaoting paused and said, "In addition, Wang Xiucai, you can help me hard at night. I will reorganize the team system in the sentry. Allocate all the soldiers without team officials to team officials. From then on, we will only have four full teams in the back of the sentry."

Wang Lifa was a little anxious and said, "But, if Lord Wu does this, the monthly vacancy will be reduced by half. Even though we can't eat the vacancy now, for Lord Wu, it would be really not worth it if you don't take more than 30 taels of silver."

Wu Shaoting smiled and said, "Are you thinking about me?"

Wang Lifa said with a hilarious look: "That is nature, that is nature..."

Wu Shaoting said: "You help me reorganize it. In the future, this set of staff will be implemented in our post. As long as I don't report to the main camp, the full amount of money will be paid every month as usual."

Wang Li was stunned and sighed: "So that's it, Lord Wu is such a master."

Wu Shaoting smiled indifferently and said, "Okay, there is no need to say much about your good things on the surface. I know that after I leave, you will definitely scold me behind my back. Because I deducted the benefits of your vacancy. But it doesn't matter, I will give you good news tomorrow."

The four team officials looked at each other. They didn't care about the "good news" that Wu Shaoting said, but felt that Wu Shaoting seemed to be able to see what he thought in his heart. More importantly, in their eyes, Wu Shaoting did have the impression of hiding a knife in his smile, but if he thought about it carefully, this "hidden knife" did not seem to be sharp.

In the evening, Wu Shaoting returned to the dormitory of the camp from the camp. He had a plan in his mind. The soldiers at the back were used to being lazy, and each soldier's quality was extremely low. Since the whistle had three months to rest, why not use this gap to train them well?

Training is not only for the good of these soldiers, but more importantly, it reflects the value of his overseas officer.

He still remembered that Fuqi mentioned the vacancy of the new military camp officer. No matter whether he was in this position or not, he always had to pursue it. He wanted to prove to the above that he was a foreign officer, whether he was a new army or an old army, and he could be treated equally.

The next morning, just dawned, Wu Shaoting arrived at the camp.

At this time, the camp was naturally quiet, and even the cries of insects and beasts could not be heard. The twelve houses in the camp were dead, and the doors of each yard were locked.

Wu Shaoting started kicking the door clockwise one by one, and shouted loudly: "Get up, get up!"

The soldiers who were awakened were about to curse, but when they heard the sound, it was Wu Shaoting, they had to swallow their resentment into their stomachs and reluctantly got up from the earthen kang.

It took twenty minutes for forty soldiers and four team officials to gather in the open space in front of the camp with their sleepy eyes. They were still the same, loose formations, and even because they were not energetic, they had no minimum standing posture, and they were completely like a group of idle people gathering together.

Li Wenqi yawned and asked Wu Shaoting: "Mr. Wu, what are you doing so early?"

Wu Shaoting ignored Li Wenqi and announced to everyone seriously: "From the sky, you must get up at six o'clock in the morning. If you violate it, you will be fined five laps for the college field for the first time. The second time you will be deducted a monthly salary, and get out of here for the third time."

After hearing this, everyone became panicked and talked in private. What is this? Is this Lord Wu arguing torture them like this?

Team officer Wang Yun was obviously a little dissatisfied. He said angrily: "Mr. Wu, there are no clocks in our entire Shanzi Camp. How can we know when it is six o'clock? What's more, we didn't see other whistles getting up so early? You can't do it."

Wu Shaoting sneered: "There is no clock? Well, then we will take the rooster crowing. Every day when the rooster crows the first time, you must get up for me!"
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