Forty, Gong reads Fang's outline

  For those eighty-three new boys, they didn't understand what titles were, but the rewards that followed shocked them.

  Nowadays, ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one hundred yuan, and three taels of silver can be exchanged for one hundred yuan in the past.

  A servant who is only seventeen or eighteen years old has a monthly salary of three taels of silver!

  In January and February, a year is thirty-six taels, plus the reward from the host family... almost just relying on this, it can reach the standard of an ordinary family!

  "Good luck!"

  "Agreed!"

  After the Grand Pillar, there is the Second Rank Pillar, with rewards similar to those of the Grand Pillar. Then come Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuyue, among others, although Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuyue have slightly lower official ranks, as Deputy Captains, second class.

  After all the home guards had been rewarded, Yu Guozhen also scolded those who were hesitant and indecisive. Three of them were even publicly flogged and punished by deducting a month's salary.

  What surprised the newcomer was that although these punished people were beaten until they were bruised and battered, not one of them cried out for mercy. After being docked a month's wages, no one showed any signs of dissatisfaction or resentment, but instead looked as if a weight had been lifted off their shoulders.

  "Are these guys not hitting hard?"

  "Or are they all fond of this tune, and still happy after being beaten and fined?"

  At this time, the new boy didn't know that for a family guard youth, being flogged and fined weren't considered the most severe punishments; being expelled from the family guard was truly the terrifying thing.

  Because that not only means losing the privileged treatment of being a house guard from now on, but also means losing the current respect and status in Xiang'an Town. Don't look at them as just the house guards of the Yu family's third house, but when they walk around Xiang'an Town, the stewards of other families may not be as glorious as them!

  Along with the people in their family, when they speak in Xiang'an Town, they all sound arrogant. When others mention their own sons, one says that he is a young servant of the Song family, and another says that he is an apprentice of the Qian family. As soon as they say that they are young guards of the Yu family, they can attract envious glances.

  "You guys are lucky, the young master is lenient. If it were up to me, I would have broken your legs and chased you out one by one. These days, you've been eating the young master's food and using his things, even your family members back home haven't missed out on the benefits from the young master. Let alone a few water bandits, if real officials were to come, we would still have to take action. If we can't protect the young master completely, what's the point of our worthless lives?"

  Gao Er Zhu whispered something in the ears of those few people, and this conversation was naturally not heard by the newly arrived youth.

  Next, the newly arrived young men were arranged by Yu Guozhen into ten groups, with three groups of nine people and seven groups of eight people. Then, Luo Jiuhe, Ye Wuyue and other outstanding young men in the night battle against the Taihu Water Gang were appointed as group leaders. The eight who hesitated or shrank back in the night battle were formed into a separate group, with Qi Niu as their leader. This was also a way of rewarding the good and punishing the bad, and all the Haowei young men understood this.

  Qíniú looked at his subordinates, they all had some dejected expressions. Those who joined the family guard together with the young master didn't become squad leaders, which means they were on an equal footing with the 83 new young recruits, this made the young men who had gradually developed a sense of self-respect feel unbearable.

  Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuyue had already enthusiastically led their men to practice drills, Qi Niu scratched his head, what formations, gun arrays and the like, this group was already very familiar with them, what did he need to do next?

  Then he heard Yu Guozhen's voice: "How, are you all ready like this?"

  Zi Niu hastily turned his head back, he was the tallest among the boys, half a head taller than Yu Guozhen, so he bowed his head and said: "Young master, what should we do?"

  "What you usually do, now continue to do. You are my model partners. Do you know what model partners mean? It means that your every move is a model for the other ten partners. From now on, all team leaders must be promoted from among you."

  Yu Guozhen's voice was not loud, but after hearing this sentence, all the people under Qi Niu were spirited and invigorated.

  Even if they were stupid, at this moment they understood Yu Guozhen's meaning. This group of people may not have risen like their other companions, but that was only temporary. Later, they would still have opportunities!

  "Your Honor, rest assured that from now on we will strictly follow orders. Even if the Emperor himself were to come, as long as you give the order, we will pull him off his horse!"

  There was a quick-witted opening, Yu Guozhen looked at him with a slight smile, then patted Qi Niu's shoulder: "Old Cow, this partner I'll leave to you, I'm extremely reassured, but if you want to surpass Jiuhe and Wuyue, there's still one thing lacking, do you know what it is?"

  Qī Niú looked at him foolishly, raised his hand and pointed to his own left chest: "Heart eye, I don't have as many heart eyes as they do."

  "Yes, you must also be more mindful of everything, your achievements will not be inferior to theirs. Go and do it well, let those newcomers know that you are different from them." Yu Guozhen encouraged.

  After he finished speaking, Qi Niu was like a man who had drunk strong liquor, his face flushed bright red and his eyes gleaming. After Yu Guozhen left, he shouted: "I have everything!"

  Hearing the spirited echo from behind him, Yu Guozhen's mouth corners rose into a faint smile.

  Establishing a model company is just the first step, and in the future, this model company will be expanded into a model battalion. Cultivating lower-level military officers is an essential requirement for a force with sustained combat effectiveness. Yu Guozhen firmly believes that no one can do better than him on this point in this era.

  The only constraint on him was the territory, Xiang'an was not his territory. Although the Yu family gave him the greatest power, not only were his own 80 mu of land called up, but also more than 10 mu of land were allocated to him from the clan. However, Yu Guozhen did not dare to make large-scale constructions. Therefore, the current scale was already his limit. He still had to worry about how to settle the family members who moved with the 83 young men, although there were only 47 households and a population of only 119 people. Adding the 83 young men, there were also 202 mouths to feed.

  Yu Guozhen would not raise them for nothing, according to the prior agreement, these people had all signed a contract of servitude and were considered Yu's family servants. If it weren't for the war, it wouldn't be easy to buy so many people in a short period of time.

  They were housed in simple earthen huts, overseen by the couple Gao and Bu, among whom eighteen were children between six and twelve years old, and twenty girls under eighteen, who were handed over to Xiao Lian and Liu Ruzi.

  "Little official handed them over to us two... Little Lian sister, you say, how should we deal with this?"

  Liu Ruyi looked at the people in front of her and began to feel anxious. She wasn't afraid of trouble, but seeing Dazhu and Erzhu assigning new young couples and family members, all doing a neat job, she worried that if these people assigned to them weren't handled properly, it would greatly affect her image in Yu Guozhen's heart.

  "The young master gave us a charter, and we just followed it."

  Xiao Lian said as she took out a stack of paper, Liu Ruo Si received it and looked at it. It was a small booklet with the six words "Half-work Half-study Method" written on the first page.

  "Half-work and half-study?" Liu Ruo's heart skipped a beat: "These people... actually let them read books?"

  "Just look down and you'll know."

  Xiao Lian smiled slightly proudly, this little book was given to her by Yu Guozhen a long time ago. When Liu Ruzi had not yet arrived in Xiang'an and Yu Yixuan had just gone to Shandong to recruit people, Yu Guozhen had already written this little book and handed it over to her, explaining each one in detail so that she could become familiar with it.

  "Half Work Half Study Method" starts with practical content from the first page, and the first chapter emphasizes hygiene. Thinking of Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuyue forcing those new young men to take a bath every day, Liu Ruo smiled slightly: "Young Master attaches great importance to...hygiene."

  "That's right." Xiaolian replied, "Yes, sister, it was really hard when we forced Dazhu and Erzhu to take a bath at first. Every day, the young master would use a stick to beat them into the water. And there was Uncle Gao, he didn't have such a good temper back then, always scolding people left and right. Although he didn't dare scold the young master, he wasn't pleased with anyone else either. The young master called him 'sprayer'... Hehe, there were really many interesting things back then."

  Thinking of the now taciturn and reserved Gao, who was once a man loved to complain about heaven and earth, Liu Ruyi couldn't help but smile again. She knew that some capable people, when they didn't get their way, would inevitably curse and scold, but now Old Gao's whole family was in the Yu household, not only did he live comfortably himself, but his two sons were also favored by the master of the house, what more could they have to complain about?

  "They're actually mainly afraid of wasting fabric, one piece of clothing washed a few more times will easily break." Xiaolian feared that Liu Ru was misunderstanding and explained: "It's not that they really didn't listen, it got better later..."

  While listening to Xiaolian talk about some old anecdotes, Liu Ru continued to read on. The second thing emphasized in "Fanglue" is discipline, which not only includes articles that require obedience and respect for the master of a wealthy family, but also prohibits stealing, adultery, and leaking secrets. The articles are so detailed that after reading them once, Liu Ru took a deep breath: "This chapter on discipline can be used to restrain soldiers..."

  Even ordinary officers and soldiers do not have such strict discipline. Although there are various rules in the army, now that military discipline is corrupt, who cares about so many things? Moreover, Liu Ruzi also noticed that Yu Guozhen proposed that cultivating discipline relies not only on reciting family rules but also on training through drills and classroom constraints. For example, the morning run, which Liu Ruzi is no longer unfamiliar with, has clear requirements.

  Seeing this, Liu Ruo was stunned for a while, and her eyes involuntarily looked down at her own feet again.

  "What's wrong, sister?"

  "Want to go for a morning run... I'm afraid only Xiaolian can take them running, my legs... can't run anymore."

  "There's nothing that can't be run away from, just open up the quilt and it's done!" Xiaolian said nonchalantly.

  Liu Ruyi lowered her head and didn't say anything for a while. She had been binding her feet since she was several years old, but she couldn't remember exactly when it started.

  "You're afraid of what Young Master will say? Young Master hates bound feet the most, and this time he let Fifth Master go find someone, he specifically said that if there's a girl coming along, she must unbind her feet, if she doesn't want to unbind them then don't bring her." Xiaolian lowered her voice: "If it were Sister, you should just unbind your feet!"

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