The next day, Huang Yi sent Huang Dayong and Huang Daquan to lead dozens of horses and more than 20 people to follow Bi Zitong to dig out five thousand and several hundred kilograms of coal and transport it back.

The masons have built a carbon stove in the large teaching room according to the drawings drawn by Huang Yi. This type of coal-burning stove has a chimney, and the coal is fed in and the cinders are discharged outside the house, which can better prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.

This charcoal stove has nine burners. When heating, just cover it with an iron plate. Most of the time, you can use a large iron pot to boil water.

Huang Yi has always emphasized the importance of hygiene and has long issued an order not to drink raw water.

However, due to limited conditions, there is no way to guarantee that everyone can drink boiled water at any time.

There will be no problem in the future. The carbon stove in the big classroom has six women on duty in two shifts. It can boil water day and night, and the supply will definitely be guaranteed.

Huang Yi still took Zhang Dong, Hu Xiaochuan and others to explore the surrounding area as soon as dawn. After returning at night, he could tell stories to everyone in the big classroom as warm as spring.

The large classroom is crowded every day, because it is not only lively and warm, but also has hot water, and you can also listen to stories in the evening.

Everyone has experienced the fun of collective life, and with Huang Yi's earnest guidance, they have begun to like the collectivist atmosphere in the base area.

Huang Yi, a semi-military collective, cannot be without discipline.

Discipline enforcement orders must be issued from the top.

Therefore, it is necessary to divide the large collective in the base area into smaller units.

Of course Huang Yi could not use later generations to divide them into squads, platoons, companies, battalions and regiments.

Ming Dynasty has its own set of standards.

Therefore, Huang Yi divided the Ming Dynasty guard army and frontier army into groups, small banners, general banners, hundred generals (hundred households), generals, and Qian generals (thousands of households).

Of course, the current number of people is too small, and President Bai, General Manager, and President Qian cannot be used at all.

Huang Yi appointed many corps commanders and small flags equivalent to senior commanders, but the general banner has not been appointed for the time being.

Because Huang Yi himself obtained the Ming Dynasty identity of being the general flag officer of Xuanda garrison Zhangjiakou reinforcement camp.

Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Brother Hu Xiaochuan, Yue Mufei, Zuo Guanghu, etc. all became corps commanders or senior commanders, responsible for four or ten subordinates respectively.

They listened to Huang Yi's lectures every day, practiced literature and martial arts, and progressed from leading a few soldiers to leading dozens, dozens, hundreds, hundreds...

Huang Yi believes that stories from slaves to generals will continue to emerge among them.

Huang Yi is confident because he not only teaches them through words and deeds, but also often takes them to actual combat. Officers who have grown up in battle are the most able to withstand the test.

Of course, in order to lose as little as possible these seed troops who will become generals in the future, we must avoid wars of attrition and engage in ambush and annihilation wars as much as possible.

We have to work and study every day, and everyone is busy.

It was New Year's Eve soon, and two maids, Zuo Lianfang and Zhang, cut a lot of window grilles out of red paper to decorate the Mongolian package where Huang Yi stayed.

But Huang Yi is always unhappy. Without him, New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion. He appeared in the late Ming Dynasty for no reason. How should his wife and children spend New Year's Eve in 2022?

Zuo Lianfang was the best at observing words and expressions. Seeing that the master was unhappy, she served him even more carefully.

After spending time with Huang Yi, she felt that Huang Yi was a true hero and was extremely grateful for his choice at the critical moment.

After arriving at the base area and understanding the situation here, I felt even more that Huang Yi had lofty aspirations.

Therefore, she is not only well-behaved, but also does everything seriously, which has been unanimously recognized by Wang Baishan, Huang Dazhi, etc.

Zhang has a temperament that knows how to advance and retreat.

From the moment she saw Zuo Lianfang, she realized that none of the women here could compare to her.

Her reluctance to marry was not because she had any thoughts about Huang Yi, but because she felt that her son had hope when he was older and did not need to rely on other men to survive.

Therefore, she enthusiastically persuaded other poor women to find a loving man to marry, while she remained to serve Huang Yi and assist Wang Baishan in managing the money, food and materials in the base area.

Now there are several more people involved in management.

Among them, of course, there is Zuo Lianfang, who can write and do calculations.

Huang Yi felt that his life was much better, because since Zuo Lianfang took care of his food and daily life, he was really free of lice and fleas.

The yurt is always fragrant and warm.

On New Year's Eve, all Han Chinese, including 26 Mongolian households, ate hot dumplings stuffed with mutton.

It wouldn’t be lively without the crackling of firecrackers!

So Zhao Yong and Li Wanquan led thirty musketeers to fire their muskets separately, firing a total of ninety-nine shots.

This was the first time for fire gunners to fire live ammunition. The twenty male gunners were relatively calm, but the ten female gunners were extremely excited.

Not just them, more than a thousand people who were watching were overjoyed, and more than half of them cried with joy.

Huang Yi took a deep breath and smelled the pervasive smell of gunpowder smoke. He felt that this was the smell of the New Year after a long absence.

Huang Yi's hometown may have the best public security management in China. The social atmosphere is good. There are no "big tigers" and at most a few "flies". There are no gangs. Fireworks and firecrackers have been banned for several years, resulting in a New Year atmosphere.

It's too light.

In my childhood memory, the sound of firecrackers started just after dark on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, and continued to crackle one after another until the first day of the first lunar month and then to the fifth day of the first lunar month.

During the Chinese New Year, you should walk on the smoky streets with firecrackers everywhere and the smell of gunpowder smoke...

Bi Zitong's family was also invited to watch the New Year's Eve and listen to stories. Perhaps because they had not tasted this kind of New Year's flavor for many, many years, Bi Zitong and his wife were so excited that they cried.

Sixteen-year-old Bi Daxi and ten-year-old Bi Shuangxi did not cry. They were fascinated by the story of "Yue Fei".

It was a special case on the eve of the New Year, and students were not allowed to learn Chinese characters or arithmetic. Huang Yi lectured on "Yue Fei's Biography" for two hours. In the past, it only lasted half an hour.

The New Year in the base area was peaceful. Amidst the long-lost "Congratulations, congratulations", the Han people who were no longer slaves finally had the consciousness to stand up again.

No one is lazy, everyone is training hard and working hard.

The coal that was transported back and the limestone that was mined were piled higher and higher, more and more irrigation wells were completed, and the agricultural tools that were made became more and more complete.

The refined iron bought by Huang Yi and the scrap iron collected during this period will be used up.

Mrs. Zhang has also been reminding Huang Yi that the grain reserves will definitely not be enough to last until the autumn harvest. She recommends that everyone eat sparingly and eat half full at most.

But Huang Yi didn't listen at all.

Because Huang Yi wanted all the Han people to be strong and strong, and worked hard to train fighting skills, it would definitely not work if they were not 70% full and could not eat meat.

What to do if you run out of food?

Easy to handle! I have a knife and a gun in my hand!

Huang Yi thought about it, and led the teenagers and young adults who had been trained for several months before spring plowing to rob horse thieves, or eliminate one or two small tribes that had taken refuge in the slave establishment.

It doesn't matter if you can't catch up with the fleeing knight, as long as you rob cattle, sheep, grain, tea, cloth, etc., you will win.

The powerful Hedanbaat'er tribe is grazing outside the mountains, and it is basically certain that their safety will be guaranteed within the next two years.

In fact, the biggest danger probably came from Huang Taiji's second expedition to Chahar in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

That time, the Jiannu attack forced Lin Danhan to flee three thousand miles, all the way to Qinghai, and even lost the city of Guihua.

The base area Huang Yi chose was in the mountains, where there were many slave horses. There were plains to travel on during the march, and he would not choose to go through the mountains.

But if it is revealed that there is a small anti-gold army here, Jiannu will definitely destroy it.
Chapter completed!