I'm Receiving Viceroy Zhang's Pay
Zhenguan six years, December 10.
Beiliu Ball City.
The weather in North Flow Ball was clear. Even though it was winter, it wasn't cold on Flowing Ball Island.
After two months of construction.
At this moment, the outline of a city had already begun to appear.
In the middle of a busy construction site, a small palace complex that was mainly made of stone was almost completed.
This was Zhang Xun's Grand Governor's Office. The front hall would become the residence of the officials of the Governor's Office. The middle hall would be the meeting area. The back hall had already been built and would be Zhang Xun's residence.
It was worth mentioning that Zhangsun and the others also lived in the back hall. Zhang Xun did not restrict Zhangsun and the others 'residence, but it was Zhangsun Pinting who suggested staying here.
At this moment, Zhang Xun had put on his helmet and armor. He walked out of the door and jumped onto a black horse. Dozens of bodyguards followed behind him.
He was going to inspect the training of the new recruits and pay the soldiers.
After a round of expansion. Zhang Xun now had 9,000 infantry, 4,000 navy, 13 galleys, and 25 three-masted ships.
After the Great Arabian Dhows were repaired, there were sixteen usable ships!
This was the main naval force under Zhang Xun.
According to the plan, the last three-masted sailboat would be equipped with cannons today.
Smelting bronze cannons was not a complicated process. Currently, all twenty-five three-masted ships had been installed with six-jin bronze cannons!
These 25 gunboats would be the most invincible naval force in the world!
If the Arabian Sea and the Zheng Clan attacked again, even if their numbers were several times greater, they would still be no match for these twenty-five gunboats!
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"Maintain formation! Carrying a gun! Let's go!"
On the spacious drill ground, a total of eight thousand recruits were divided into sixteen battalions and were undergoing training.
"Stop!"
"Spear in hand! Stab!"
"Kill!"
After more than two months of training, these recruits could already follow the instructor's orders and had the appearance of elites.
Deacon Yuan stood in the middle of the line. Sweat trickled down his forehead and landed on his cheeks. He did not dare to wipe it off.
Anyone who dared to move in the formation would immediately receive a beating from the instructor!
Deacon Yuan Yu's camp was the 11th camp. The commander of the camp was a Zhang brother named Zhang 23. He was extremely burly and meticulous. Most of the officers under him were from the adopted brothers and adopted sons of the Zhang family.
Each and every one of them was impartial, and no one could slack off. Every day, they trained from morning till night.
If it were any other army, this kind of training method would have long worn them out.
However, in the Zhang Family's Army, such training was nothing special.
This was because the Zhang Family's Army ate three meals a day, including millet and whale meat. Governor Zhang had more than 20 whaling fleets under his command.
Whale meat was the cheapest meat in North Flow City.
When they first started eating, the group of people were stuffed. Who could eat meat for every meal?
In short, with food and meat, this kind of training wouldn't break people down.
Other than eating well, the good treatment was also the reason why everyone could endure such training.
Every month, six strings of copper would be distributed to everyone on the 10th of each month.
No one dared to be greedy!
Today was the day of payment.
At the thought of this, Deacon Yuan could not help but secretly turn his head to look at the rows of houses not far away.
Rows after rows were very neat, which was why they were called terraced houses. They were all made of green bricks and tiles, and they even used something called cement. There was a cement factory downstream. Deacon Yuan had never been clear about what cement was, but that did not stop him from yearning for terraced houses.
This was a type of residential building built by the Grand Governor's Office's construction team. Everyone was eligible to buy it. A courtyard, a large tile-roofed house with green bricks. The price was 20 strings of silver, and could be paid in installments. Half a string of silver was paid every month, and it could be repaid in 40 months!
Almost all the soldiers and civilians under the Viceroy's command wanted to buy one, because that way, they wouldn't have to live in temporary wooden houses.
Who didn't want to live in a better place?
Deacon Yuan naturally wanted to buy one too. That way, his mother would not have to live in a low wooden shed.
Pa!
Deacon Yuan was slightly distracted, and a stick as thick as a thumb smashed down on his face.
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Zhang Xun was in a good mood as he looked at his ten thousand soldiers.
"Whose salary are you receiving?"
"I'm receiving Viceroy Zhang's pay!"
"Who are you working for?"
"I serve Governor Zhang!"
A soldier who went up to receive his pay had to go through this process.
Zhang Xun would appear in the military camp every day. The army was the most important thing to him.
When it was Deacon Yuan's turn.
Deacon Yuan Yu, who had a bloody scar on his face, knelt down on one knee respectfully and shouted,"I serve Governor Zhang!"
Then, he received his six strings of copper coins for the month.
Zhang Xun did not know that the fifteen-year-old young man kneeling on the ground…It was actually Deacon Yuan Yu, the fierce person who had forced Zhangsun Wuji to death in history. He was now an ordinary soldier under Zhang Xun.
Zhang Xun had to go through this process in every camp.
When he returned to his residence.
Yang Youniang, who was acting as his secretary, delivered a piece of information from Zhang Shi 'er.
"Viceroy, Duke Lu of the Tang Dynasty has built a hundred centipede boats…I'll be going out to sea soon!"
When Zhang Xun heard this, his expression remained the same.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty was still in its infancy, so it was quite efficient.
A hundred centipede boats were built in just over two months.
It seemed that he needed to let Cheng Yaojin know…A mere hundred centipede boats could not cause much trouble.
It would also let the sea merchants of Ci Tong and Yang Cheng know which temple to worship if they wanted to go out to sea!
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