Chapter 91 - 89: Horse Farm
The following day, Liu Yuanfu brought six of the Liu family’s youths to the government office, where Yang Zhenshan had a chat with him and then led them to the school.
The so-called school was actually just a small courtyard, the usual three rooms were combined into one large room, accommodating forty students at the same time.
The east and west wing rooms were used as the teachers’ office and rest room.
Next door, there was a slightly larger courtyard prepared by Yang Zhenshan for the soldiers to learn literacy.
On the 8th of October, the school opened, and the first batch of students were forty children selected from the garrison, where Lin Zhan was also included.
On the same day, the first batch of soldiers completed a month of basic training.
After the basic training, they were to return and take over the tasks of guarding the signal towers and fire road piles from others, allowing other soldiers to come to Yinghe Castle for basic training.
Of course, their return did not imply the end of training.
After returning, they had to conduct their own combat training, including saber skills, spear techniques, archery, etc., which they needed to practice on their own.
Yang Zhenshan set the date for the martial contest at Yinghe Castle after the new year, by that time all the soldiers should have finished basic training, and he could select some distinguished talents to fill the lacking official positions.