The fifty people suddenly felt that they were serving as Lin Xuan's soldiers just to earn a living and allow their families to enjoy tax exemption.
If someone dares to leave, what's the point?
Lin Xuan guessed what they were thinking, but he didn't say anything, as long as they train seriously now.
Loyalty and other things can be cultivated slowly.
Lin Xuan corrected their postures again, and when the time was up, he asked them to disperse and rest for a while.
Maybe it was because Lin Xuan's words just now were so serious that those soldiers didn't even dare to say anything while they were resting.
Lin Xuan shook his head, told Liu Da to keep an eye on them, and left the yard.
The soldiers started talking when they saw Lin Xuan leaving.
"Your Majesty asked us to practice standing. Isn't this just a fool's errand?"
"That's right, what's the use of standing? Is it possible that on the battlefield, we should stand and chop down the enemy?"
"I have no choice. If I want to eat this bowl of rice, I have to let him do whatever he wants."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, it will be troublesome if the lord hears it." Liu Da frowned and said.
Regarding Lin Xuan's training method, Liu Da also felt that it was a fool's errand.
As a captain, he is also an official. As far as he knows, no one in the Sixteenth Guards trains like this.
The generals of the Sixteenth Guards were Chi Jingde, Chai Shao, Zhang Liang, Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, Cheng Yaojin, Li Ji, Qin Qiong...
Which of these people is not a world-famous general? None of them have trained soldiers like this.
But before coming, Cheng Yaojin specifically asked him to assist Lin Xuan in managing his soldiers.
Although he now has some complaints against Lin Xuan, Liu Da does not want to live up to Cheng Yaojin's entrustment to him.
"Captain, how can you say there is such a training?"
They are not afraid of Liu Da at all. Liu Da was their captain before. They have been together for so long, and they understand Liu Da.
Although Liu Da is also dissatisfied with Lin Xuan's training methods, he can't say it now. These soldiers are already dissatisfied, and as long as someone takes the lead, they are not allowed to cause trouble.
"Brothers, training is nothing more than a little hard work. Once we are driven away, the brothers leading the left army will not laugh at us if they know about it." Liu Da consoled us.
"Captain, don't worry, we're just talking. There won't be any trouble."
"That's right, Captain, our family can live a good life only because we serve as soldiers and get tax exemptions. It's a blessing if we are lucky, and we will definitely stick to it."
Liu Da breathed a sigh of relief.
…
Lin Xuan found the housekeeper and asked him to instruct the kitchen to ensure that these soldiers had eggs every morning and meat at noon and evening. The portions must be sufficient.
He didn't say anything about keeping it full, otherwise the soldiers would eat the meat desperately when they saw it.
Eating too much meat is not good. It's not that Lin Xuan feels sorry for the money, he is afraid that they will ruin their health.
To get those people to return to their hearts and be loyal to him, it is nothing more than giving them kindness and power at the same time.
Improving their food was Lin Xuan's first step.
You must know that when they were in the army, they could only eat two meals when not in war. Only in wartime, in order to keep soldiers with sufficient physical strength to fight, they would be given three meals.
Although such a standard of food is very expensive, Lin Xuan doesn't care.
He would definitely not be able to support an entire army, but it would be a piece of cake for him to support fifty soldiers.
After the explanation, Lin Xuan returned to the yard.
"Gather!" Lin Xuan shouted.
The fifty soldiers quickly returned to the middle of the courtyard and stood up.
Lin Xuan frowned slightly, these people did not follow their previous positions at all.
"Have you forgotten where you were standing before? Where are you standing now?" Lin Xuan said loudly.
The soldiers quickly adjusted their positions, and the scene was chaotic.
It took a few minutes to stand up again.
"Remember your position and stand in this position from now on. Start training now." Lin Xuan said.
This time Lin Xuan did not ask them to continue to stand in the military posture, but taught them to stand at attention, take a rest, and turn back and forth, left and right.
It was okay at first, but when I taught them to turn left and right, many of them couldn't tell the difference between left and right.
You teach him to turn left and he turns right; you tell him to turn right and he turns left.
What was even more irritating was that someone turned back, and Lin Xuan was so angry that he cursed.
Lin Xuan had no choice but to ask someone to bring a piece of cloth, tore some strips of cloth and asked them to tie it on his left arm.
After they were all tied, Lin Xuan said loudly: "Remember, the side with the strips tied is the left, and the side without the strips is the right."
Even so, there were still a few mistakes, and Lin Xuan corrected them several times before correcting them.
After training for half an hour, Lin Xuan asked them to rest for a while and continued training in military posture.
When I was resting after standing in military posture this time, the kitchen brought me the food.
Lin Xuan said: "It's time to eat, get in line, and don't jump in line."
The soldiers were stunned. They usually had two meals, but now it was just noon, so they had to eat?
They didn't dare to ask. They smelled the aroma of meat, swallowed their saliva, and lined up obediently.
Lunch is very simple, mutton soup and flatbread.
The flatbread is enough, but don't waste it. There is only one bowl of mutton soup per person. There is almost two taels of meat.
Two taels of meat was already a lot, and these soldiers were very happy to eat it.
They haven't eaten meat for half a month.
After they finished eating, Lin Xuan called them together and asked: "Is the meat delicious?"
"It's delicious." Everyone shouted.
"Listening to your voices, I know that you are well fed. Let me tell you, as long as you train seriously, you will have meat to eat every day, and it will not be less than just now." Lin Xuan said.
Lin Xuan paused and continued: "But meat is for people who train seriously. If someone doesn't train seriously, he can only watch when others eat meat."
The soldiers were very excited when they heard that they were training seriously and had meat to eat every day.
As for the hardship and fatigue of training, it is nothing compared to the physical training.
Seeing that the soldiers' emotions had been aroused by him, Lin Xuan ordered them to take a lunch break and left.
The soldiers were full, but he hadn't eaten yet. He had thought about eating with the soldiers before, so as to win over the morale of the soldiers.
But after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. The food he gave them was so good, and eating with them didn't count as sharing the joys and sorrows. It was unnecessary.
…
Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin talked about Lin Xuan's training of personal soldiers.
Let them think of ways to persuade Lin Xuan.
Yuchi Baolin and the others had no idea what to do. They discussed it for a long time but still could not come up with a result.
Cheng Chumo had no choice but to go home to find Cheng Yaojin. Lin Xuan should have listened to his father's words.
Cheng Chumo returned home, found Cheng Yaojin, and told Cheng Yaojin how Lin Xuan trained those soldiers.
"It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders..." Cheng Yaojin repeated this sentence repeatedly.
Cheng Yaojin's eyes lit up and he shouted: "That's right, this is what soldiers should do."
Cheng Chumo was dumbfounded. I asked you to persuade Lin Xuan, but you still agreed.
"Dad, you have to persuade Lin Xuan." Cheng Chumo said quickly.
"Do you think Lin Xuan's training method is not good?" Cheng Yaojin asked, twirling his beard.
Cheng Chumo said: "Of course."
Cheng Yaojin thought for a while and said: "Have you known Lin Xuan for so long, have you ever seen him target without reason? I think his training method is not simple. Let him train for a while first. I want to see how he can train the soldiers.
What kind of training is it?”
It's one thing for Cheng Yaojin to be curious about Lin Xuan's training methods.
Another reason is because he arranged those soldiers and he was interfering. What would Lin Xuan think?