It's better to be an empress than a county magistrate

These people in Xing County, especially the soldiers, are actually very complicated.

After all, they have experienced two dynasties. You may see ordinary farmers now, but five or ten years ago, they may have been soldiers killing enemies on the battlefield, and some were even generals.

The fall of one dynasty and the rise of another will inevitably involve a bloody massacre.

And it was these soldiers who rushed to the front of the massacre.

They have experienced the baptism of real battlefields and are people with command capabilities.

She will firmly hold all the power in Xing County in her own hands.

Lu Xingchen met Zhang Fan and Wei Hu, who were training their troops on the training ground.

There are a total of two thousand combat-capable soldiers in Xing County.

However, these half-farmer, half-soldier soldiers were classified differently.

Among them, about 800 people are soldiers as their main occupation and only go to the fields during the busy farming season.

The remaining 1,200-odd soldiers were mainly farmers and would only participate in drills during their slack season.

Just like on the training ground right now, there are about eight hundred soldiers training.

After the spring rain a few days ago, it was time for sowing, and everyone else had already gone to the fields.

Even these eight hundred people do not practice every day.

Lu Xingchen did not interrupt their training process, but stood in the distance watching the dust flying on the training ground.

They were just practicing very simple movements, chopping, slashing, and stabbing.

For ordinary soldiers, as long as they practice these three actions until they can do them with their eyes closed, their chances of survival on the battlefield will be greatly increased.

After about two quarters of an hour, Wei Hu and Zhang Fan stopped the training and walked quickly to Lu Xingchen.

"Master, why are you here?"

"I came to watch you practice and tell you something." Lu Xingchen said.

"Master, did we train very well? We all look so powerful and vigorous." Zhang Fan said with some pride.

Wei Hu was a low-key and reserved person. But he was also looking at Lu Xingchen, wanting to get a positive answer.

Lu Xingchen nodded and said, "The training was very good. Thank you for your hard work, brothers."

Zhang Fan showed an excited and embarrassed smile.

The expression on Wei Hu's face also relaxed a little.

In fact, in Lu Xingchen's eyes, the training of these soldiers was not good enough.

But she can't have too high expectations for ordinary soldiers.

"What instructions does the young master have for us?" Wei Hu asked.

"Yes, Master, just tell me what you want me to do." Zhang Fan patted his strong chest vigorously.

It seemed as if no matter what Lu Xingchen said, his strong chest could do it.

"I want to pick out a hundred people from these people who are good at rock climbing and mountain climbing and have good martial arts. Can you pick them out?" Lu Xingchen looked at Wei Hu and said.

Wei Hu didn't know what Lu Xingchen was going to do, but he nodded anyway.

Although they are Lu Kui's adopted sons, he also knows that they are Lu Xingcheng's servants.

If it weren't for the Lu family, he would have starved to death more than 20 years ago.

Where is the chance to get married and have children?

Therefore, he would carry out Lu Kui and Lu Xingchen's orders without hesitation.

"One hundred people, yes." Wei Hu replied firmly.

Lu Xingchen looked at Wei Hu's determined eyes and knew that Wei Hu was the one who knew the troops in Xing County best.

"Then select these one hundred people for me as soon as possible. I want to use them." Lu Xingchen said.

Wei Hu nodded in agreement.

"Zhang Fan, here are some blueprints. Go find some blacksmith shops and make these iron hooks and iron rings as quickly as possible according to the blueprints I drew."

"And I need ropes. Not just ordinary straw ropes. I need the strongest ropes."

Zhang Fan also agreed solemnly, but there was still a look of doubt on his face.

"Master, what do you want these things for?"

"You go and prepare first, and you will know tomorrow." Lu Xingchen said.

Zhang Fan nodded in agreement.

"How many war horses do we have in Xing County?"

"There are about eighty better war horses, sixty inferior ones, and the rest are some old horses and horses for plowing fields." Wei Hu replied.

There is a great shortage of war horses. Training a group of good war horses is not much different from raising a good soldier.

A good war horse is trained from a young age and follows its master into battle. It will not reach its peak until it is ten years old.

It can accompany its owner for almost twenty years.

Buying and feeding war horses requires a lot of silver.

"Okay, let's get ready first." Lu Xingchen said as he stood up, turned and left.

Zhang Fan looked at Wei Hu, "Do you think the young master has changed in some way?"

"Why do I feel that the young master is very different from before?"

"But I can't tell what's different."

Wei Hu naturally felt it as well, but he liked the change in the young master.

So he was too lazy to pay attention to Zhang Fan.

"The young master said that your side is extremely urgent, why don't you go quickly."

Zhang Fan said "oh" and hurried away with the drawings.

Lu Xingchen did not return to the government office, but went to the only academy in Xing County.

Now the academy is in a state of decline. Because of the war, no one dared to go out to take the imperial examination, not to mention that Liang State had just been established and no notice had been issued for students to go to the capital to take the imperial examination.

In this era, the only way out for scholars seemed to be to pass the imperial examination and become an official in the government.

They have no exams to take, so naturally their studies have no end.

In the school, an old gentleman in his sixties was holding a book and reciting it at the podium, shaking his head. There were a few scholars sitting below.

But most of them are children aged six or seven.

Only one of them looked to be around twenty years old.