Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 140: Hard study and integration!

Liu Feiyun finally returned home, but before he could spend two days at home peacefully, he entered the rural military camp of Anping County as the nephew of a workshop manager of the Green Willow Chamber of Commerce.

The military system of the Great Chen Dynasty had dozens of imperial guards directly under the imperial court, which were elite first-class troops.

At the local level, two levels of permanent local armies were set up: state division, county brigade. Of course, generally speaking, these local armies were far inferior to the imperial army in terms of both the quality of their soldiers and their weapons and equipment.

At the county level, there are local soldiers who only need to serve for a few months a year. Of course, if the county government can get enough money, it is not impossible to let these local soldiers serve full-time throughout the year.

However, maintaining an army is extremely costly. Weapons, armor, and food all cost money.

Armored soldiers, armored soldiers, only those wearing armor are soldiers, and those without armor are guards! The armor alone limited the number of local soldiers that most county governments could use in peacetime, and they had to serve in rotation.

Of course, in Anping County, there is the wealthy Liu family, and the Liu family is willing to use their own private army's weapons and armor to train local soldiers, so naturally these local soldiers can be freed from work and serve all year round.

In fact, except for half of the militiamen in Anping County who were on duty in various places, the rest were stationed in the military camp of the Tiger Power Iron Guard.

After Liu Feiyun changed his appearance, he followed more than a hundred militiamen into the camp and began a one-month selection and training. During this month, these militiamen ate, lived and trained with the official militiamen, living the same life in the military camp. Liu Feiyun also had the opportunity to get to know these ordinary grassroots soldiers and learn the most basic military formation skills.

The so-called militia were actually temporary armed forces spontaneously formed by the people. In essence, they were civilians rather than soldiers, but they were established with the approval of the government. They were mostly seen in border counties, but not in many of them in the heartland of the empire.

While Liu Feiyun was in the military camp, some things happened in some places of the Liu family.

These days, some people have been coming to Mrs. Chu, Chu Bihe, to complain. They complained that Liu Feiyun did not sympathize with his old subordinates and the elders of the Liu family, and arbitrarily drove his younger generation out of Fuyouyuan, which really made them feel disheartened.

Not only did they complain to Chu Bihe, they also spread the news in the mansion, causing the old subordinates to become uneasy and complain.

This made Chu Bihe very annoyed as she had to persuade and comfort him. At the same time, she also blamed her son for not thinking things through and acting too impulsively. She drove away nearly half of the people sent to Fuyou Courtyard at once. She must find a chance to talk to him later.

But later, housekeeper Qin and his sons and the manager of Yaoxiang Garden successively reported that those who were driven out really had it all to blame, and they gave up on their own because they couldn't bear the hardship, and it had nothing to do with the young master.

Later, more and more people stood up to defend Liu Feiyun, and the rumors that disturbed the hearts of the old people in the Liu Mansion were broken. Chu Bihe no longer tried to persuade and comfort him, but complained to everyone that some people did not know how to educate their children, and let their children become useless and blame their own son.

"Humph, in order to teach these old men some lessons, I sent 15 children there at once. Most of them managed to stick with it, but those six were the only ones who gave up because they couldn't stand the hardship. Who can you blame?"

"Madam is right. Even Dr. Jiang's 13-year-old grandson managed to make it, but those losers didn't. They still have the nerve to say that the young master is heartless! How shameless!"

"Yes, many people saw it that night, even the young master did the work himself. Could it be that those rubbish are more valuable than the young master?"

As the young master's ruthless rumors rose and fell, Fuyou Courtyard was in an uproar.

When they were training, some scholars who were afraid of hardship, idlers and young masters were trained by Liu Shihu and other martial artists until they cried for their parents, which made the Tiemu brothers who were watching them laugh. On the contrary, Si Mingrui gritted her teeth and persisted, and never said she would give up no matter how hard, tired or painful it was.

Seeing that the Tiemu brothers were laughing so happily, Liu Shihu also chuckled and said, "You two wooden men, how many words do you know?"

The Tiemu brothers shuddered suddenly and stopped laughing.

"Why aren't you laughing? Hehehe! You can write all the fifty words that the scholar taught you this morning. You didn't remember them, right? Well, Qin Jiu, Song Tao, Tuo Dajun, don't worry about them for now. Let's beat up the two logs first!"

Tiemushan yelled, "I can write three now, you can't hit me more than that!" "I can write five, so I should hit you two less than my brother, ah!"

"Idiot, you pig-brained guy. Three-fifty-five is not fifty. Why are you so stupid? What is five-seven? You forgot again!" Lu Qun pointed at the nine people below and scolded them one by one.

At this time, the Tiemu brothers, with bruised faces and noses, were laughing at the joke again, "It's thirty-five! A bunch of stupid people!" Tiemuling laughed.

Lu Qun was even more angry after hearing this and said, "Ah! Look, even the wooden head has become smart, but you still have the nerve to boast that you are smart and clever! Keep reciting. If you can't recite it, you are not allowed to sleep."

In a small valley among the mountains, a hidden manor rose from the ground. However, apart from the tall walls and towering watchtowers, all the houses were extremely simple and could only be used for living and storage. Soon, countless supplies were delivered to the manor, filling up the simple warehouse.

Before they knew it, a month had passed and the selection and training for the rural military camp was over. As expected, Liu Feiyun had an "accident". He was injured in the final test and failed, and left the military camp.

When he returned to Fuyou Temple, he saw an incredible scene as soon as he entered the temple:

The Tiemu brothers skillfully wrote crooked characters on the sand with sticks. Liu Shihu and his men recited the multiplication table with bitter faces. Lu Qun and his men were brandishing swords, but their lethality was basically zero.

Liu Feiyun shook his head speechlessly. In fact, he did not expect these people to make breakthroughs in their shortcomings in just one month, so he set the requirements very low. The reason for doing this is nothing more than to let these twelve people communicate and integrate with each other and strengthen their relationship.

Liu Feiyun signaled everyone to stop what they were doing, and then said, "Starting from today, I will give you three days off, so you can go home and relax for a few days! You must come back before noon in the morning three days later, and then you must stay by my side and work all the time. You will not be able to go home and meet your family before the New Year! Did you hear that clearly?"

"I heard it clearly, sir!" Everyone was overjoyed and responded immediately.

"Ah! Are we not going to take the test? I can write ninety-nine characters, only one is missing!" Tiemuling suddenly asked timidly, immediately attracting everyone's angry gazes, and he quickly lowered his head again.

"You are such a real piece of wood! It doesn't matter if you miss one, you should go home and see your mother!"

"Oh? Ah! That's great!" After hearing this, Tiemuling threw the branch in his hand, and then rushed out of the yard happily.

"Brother, wait for me!" Tiemushan also shouted and followed.