The porter's boy helped Cao Zhi take out his mount. While Cao Zhi was waiting at the door, Uncle Fu caught up with him.
Uncle Fu pushed the apple to Cao Zhi and complained: "How long can I delay eating a bowl of noodles?"
Cao Zhi knew that the old man was kind-hearted, so he had to respond: "I'm really in a hurry, I know Uncle Fu loves me, hehe... Oh! Daddy, get up and tell him that I'm busy with work in the military camp and I need to
If you live in a military camp, you may not be able to come back after a few months, so let him not worry about it."
"Ah! Are you going to be homeless for a month?" Uncle Fu asked anxiously. After a pause, Uncle Fu thought of something and said anxiously: "Second Young Master, there is one more thing. My grandpa is planning to buy a house in Liyang.
When you return home in a few months, we may have moved. Please take the time to ask Cao An to come back, and I will show him the new residence so that you don't have to find it yourself."
"Ah? Dad wants to buy a property in Liyang, so he won't go to Langxie? Or is the other courtyard not allowed to live there?" When Cao Zhi heard that Cao Song wanted to buy a property in Liyang, he stopped and asked in confusion.
"Langxie won't go. The grandpa said that Liyang is a good place. You are an official in Yangzhou again, so he won't leave. But he can't live in Chen Governor's house all the time. Just yesterday I heard that the Huang Mansion on Nanling Street is going to
For sale, my grandpa asked the housekeeper of the Chen family to ask, as long as the price is right, my grandma would like to buy it." Uncle Fu finished in one breath.
"Oh! Dad is still here. I just took office, and he has already made arrangements to settle down. Okay, I will ask Cao An to come back later, and I have to write a letter to the elder brother." After speaking, Cao Zhi turned around and stepped on the stirrup to go.
Mounted the horse. Suddenly, he remembered something, withdrew half of his foot from the stirrup, turned around and said to Uncle Fu: "Uncle Fu, Mi Heng may be coming back in two days. Ask him to report to the military camp as soon as he comes back."
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"Oh! I know." Fu Bo responded.
"There is also Hua Tuo. Is Mr. Hua still in the house?" Cao Zhi said.
"Yes, it's at home."
"When Mi Heng comes back, ask him to bring his medicine-making equipment to the military camp, oh! Find a mason to come with him," Cao Zhi said as he thought.
"Ah! Are the masons and doctors going to your military camp together?" Uncle Fu looked at Cao Zhi doubtfully and repeated Cao Zhi's words.
"Yes, it works for me."
Cao Zhi rushed back to the military camp before the soldiers on night duty changed their posts. What he did in one day yesterday, I dare not say that he has gained absolute control over the Western Camp, but he at least gained control over the entire army.
Zhu Bin's gang of troublemaking officers are all attending a "short-term study class" in the state capital, and I believe Chen Wen will control them well. The only thing left to consider is how Cao Zhi can gain the true loyalty of the entire army.
By the time Cao Zhi returned to the military tent, it was almost morning. Cao Zhi woke up Cao An and started patrolling the camp with a few personal guards.
After patrolling the camp all the way, Cao Zhi was very satisfied with the reaction of the officers and soldiers. Looking at the shocked and grateful expressions of those sleepy-eyed guys, Cao Zhi couldn't stop laughing. Although there were still some "old fritters" who were sleeping soundly in bed, they were pushed awake by their companions.
Yes, but Cao Zhi did not reprimand these officers and soldiers as much as yesterday. This is the lazy style they have developed over many years of lax military discipline. No wonder they are. Besides, in the coming days, I am afraid these soldiers will have a mixture of love and hate for Cao Zhi. Cao Zhi first asked them to relax
one time.
On the second day, Cao Zhi inspected the morning drill for the first time. Before dawn, Cao Zhi and several team officers were waiting on the playground. The sergeant who was late was not as lucky as yesterday and was severely punished.
Ten laps around the school grounds and no breakfast.
In the morning exercises, the whole army practiced swords, guns and equipment. For breakfast, Cao Zhi went to the barracks of ordinary sergeants to eat steamed buns and drink cold water with them. Later generations of the Party's PLA instructors used this trick to refine the organization's care into every aspect of life. I don't know.
It touched the hearts of so many young soldiers. Now that Cao Zhi is taking a class, these young feudal soldiers are indeed moved to tears.
But the training that followed in the morning made them understand that the angel in their eyes turned out to be the incarnation of the devil. After breakfast, the soldiers participated in a novel training called armed cross-country training. The requirements were very simple, and they only needed to bring weapons.
Get out of bed and run a lap along the wall of Liyang City. The distance of this lap is not far, at most a dozen miles. At the beginning, the soldiers ran very vigorously, but in less than half a lap, the swords, guns and quilts became too weak.
It became heavier and heavier, and my legs felt as heavy as lead.
Many people pulled down, but they didn't dare to stop, because at the end, there were Cao Zhi's personal cavalry following with whips. Cao Zhi announced before setting off, from himself to the ordinary sergeants,
The earlier you arrive at the finish line, the richer the lunch you can enjoy. If the sergeant can't run fast, he can jog. If he can't jog, he can walk slowly. If he stops, he won't have to talk about lunch and he will be whipped.
By the time all the sergeants finished running around, it was already close to ten o'clock in the afternoon. The sergeants were complaining and wailing. Almost everyone was scolding Cao Zhi in their hearts. Everyone dragged their sore legs, dragged their knives and guns under the bed.
When I returned to the military camp, I was immediately frightened by what I saw. On the campus grounds, there were dozens of cooks, dozens of pots and stoves, smoke lingered from the stoves, and the aroma of meat filled the air, making it a busy scene.
When Cao Zhi announced that "dinner is ready", the group of sergeants immediately forgot all their resentments and ran towards their goal in joy.
In the joyful atmosphere of the whole stadium, only Cao Zhi stood on the sidelines and was heartbroken, because only he knew how much money three meals a day like this cost. In the early morning, he was sent by Cao Zhi to the city to purchase food.
The standard one-day meal expenses for the entire army is four times the normal food budget. In other words, his master has to bear the four times more expenses every day. Cao An has been in the Cao family since he was a child, and he has long regarded the Cao family as a
It's his own home. Cao Zhi usually puts his money with Cao Zhi, so Cao An has long regarded Cao Zhi's money as his own. How could he not feel heartbroken if he was asked to take out money like this every day?
Cao Zhicai doesn't care about the money. Although this is not his own private army, and his investment may be to make wedding clothes for others, if the army he commands can be good at fighting, it may be a guarantee for his life.
The unarmed combat training in the afternoon was a bit cruel. As soon as Cao Zhi waved his flag, three thousand people immediately started fighting in the playground, shouting loudly. Cao Zhi chose a group of three to collaboratively train in fighting. One soldier
If he goes to the battlefield, if he is interspersed, there will often be several comrades around him, and there may only be a few enemies. This requires soldiers to have a good sense of cooperation, borrow the strength of their comrades and contribute their own strength to form a
Strong collaboration mechanism.
Cao Zhi believes that this method not only improves fighting skills and quick thinking, but more importantly, improves the teamwork of the sergeants.
Ten days later, Cao Zhi returned to the state capital and asked for more horses. His army had too few cavalry and lacked mobility. Although Yangzhou was not poor, Chen Wen could not provide so many horses.
There are constant disputes, so owners who have some good horses in their hands have either been snapped up long ago, or they keep them for their own use. The most sought-after horses on the market now are war horses.
Cao Zhi had no choice but to take the next step and asked for a thousand more sets of bows and arrows. As the governor of a state, Chen Wen still had this inventory.
Cao Zhi got these bows and arrows as he wished, and proposed to Chen Wen that the entire army move to the mountainous area, use various facilities, natural dangers and other natural environments to train day and night, hoping to take advantage of the severe cold at the end of the year to quickly develop an elite army that can adapt to a certain combat environment.
Come.
Chen Wen listened to Cao Zhi's explanation and thought it made sense, so he readily agreed. This made Deng Ai very anxious. When Cao Zhi explained the benefits of field training to Chen Wen, Chen Wen winked frequently.
Chen Wen signaled that he could not agree, but Chen Wen just turned a blind eye. Deng Ai, who had no choice but to do anything, rushed to Dongying after the meeting and persuaded Zao Zhuan to also lead the team out of the city to participate in field training in order to monitor Cao Zhi.
When Chen Wen heard Zaozhuan's petition, he thought his stupid son-in-law had enlightened him! After thinking about it, he looked at Deng Ai next to him with a wicked smile on his face, and he understood that it must have been done by Deng Ai.