About 6 minutes later, Shimada Kui finished the race easily.

At the finish line, there were a lot of people standing, leaning, and sitting, all staggering here and there.

The gasping sounds of "Huffing, puffing" were heard together, and the hot air puffed out rose up and turned into thick clouds.

"Hurry up! It's just you! Everyone is waiting for you!"

Under Qingden's encouragement... ah, correction, it should be said that it was under Qingden's stimulation that the person running at the back finally crossed the finish line after spending more than ten minutes, barely finishing.

train.

"Haah...! Haah...! Haah...!"

"My flank... hurts so much!"

"Hiss...! My waist...can't straighten up..."

…

It was like a medical clinic, with moans, wails, and shouts coming and going.

Qingdeng put his hands behind his back, glanced sideways, and glanced around the group of "patients" in front of him, frowning slightly.

"Your speed is really too slow! Extremely slow!"

"However, since this is your first training, I will be merciful!"

"I'll give you half a month to adapt."

"In these half a month, no matter whether you run fast or slow, I will not punish you."

"However, after half a month, anyone whose speed is slower than 7 minutes will be punished!"

"For every half-minute overtime, run 2 extra laps! If the time is less than half a minute, it will be counted as half a minute!"

Considering that clocks have not yet become popular in Japan, most people do not understand the concepts of "clock" and "minute".

So Qingdeng took out his pocket watch, opened the cover, and showed everyone how long seven minutes was.

"So, cheer up, all of you!"

"If you are not confident in your physical ability, find more opportunities to practice in private!"

"From now on, I will continue to increase the difficulty of training!"

"Gradually increase from 5 laps to 7 laps and 10 laps."

“From ‘running with empty hands’ to ‘running with weapons’ and ‘running with weights’!”

"If someone cannot adapt to such intensity of training, I will kick him out of the Shinsengumi without hesitation!"

"Don't think that as long as you join the Shinsengumi, everything will be fine and you will be able to enjoy the hard-core crops!"

"The Shinsengumi is an army! Not a health center!"

"Guys who are not strong enough and not determined will die on the battlefield!"

"Weak people are not qualified to stay in the Shinsengumi!"

"You can take care of yourself!"

As soon as this statement came out, many people's faces immediately turned pale.

Looking at the entire audience, there are only a handful of people who have reached Qingdeng's "7-minute" target.

Moreover, after completing the training, most people's cheeks were so red that they seemed to be bleeding at any time, and their breathing was so short that they almost vomited out the lungs in their chests.

There are only a very small number of "high-quality warriors" like Shimada Kui who not only successfully achieved the target, but also looked like a normal person after finishing the race, with only a slight confusion of breath and sweating.

Shimada Kui's inner shirt was soaked by a waterfall of sweat. The hot sweat in such a cold weather made him feel so comfortable and happy.

While wiping the sweat on his forehead with the lapel of his clothes, he turned his head and observed Qingdeng and the officers not far away.

After a while, he thought to himself with admiration on his face:

——The reason why these people were promoted by Niou-sama is really not because of nepotism! They are indeed clever!

In fact, when Seito announced the list of Shinsengumi officers, there were a lot of complaints within the Shinsengumi.

"Four Chiefs", staff officers, and 10 squad captains with the name of Bato - excluding the position of "chief" for which no suitable candidate has yet been found. Among the 14 senior positions, in addition to staff officer Hachiro Kiyokawa, the captain of the fourth squad, Kamo Serizawa,

Except for Niimi Nishiki, the captain of the fifth division, the others are all from the same school as Aoshito Aoshi, the "Shiweikan faction"!

The Shoeikan faction - a collective name given to Souji and others who came from the Shoeikan by some busybodies within the Shinsengumi.

This practice of using a large number of one's own people will naturally arouse criticism from others - Shimada Kui is one of them.

Shimada Kui is determined to climb to the high position of the Shinsengumi and establish great achievements that will shock the past and the present. A lofty-minded and pretentious person like him is naturally very disgusted with this kind of "nepotism" behavior.

But now, after witnessing the superb skills of the "Tsueikan School" time and time again, Shimada Kui and others have experienced a psychological transformation from dissatisfaction to surprise, and then to admiration.

In the "Kusunoki-gumi annihilation operation" a few days ago, Souji took the lead, Nagakura Shinpachi's one-horse rider, and Saito Kazu's charge... Their bravery was even more impressive than that of Kui Shimada, who considered himself highly skilled.

, I can’t help but feel deep admiration.

Even Mai Kinoshita, who looks very weak and seems to make her cry for a long time if she is punched, can complete the arduous task of "infiltration investigation" on her own.

In the long-distance run just now, Qingdeng and the officers who accompanied him did not miss a single lap and completed the training together with the team members.

If you look closely, you will be surprised to find that one of them - including the girls Sanako and Mai Kinoshita - after running the entire 2500 meters, they are just short of breath and sweating.

Not a few drops were shed.

This is very incredible!

The most exaggerated thing has to be Qingdeng - not only did he not sweat at all, but his breathing was still steady and not messy at all, as if he had just finished a walk!

A glimpse of the leopard... Just from this detail, you can see how big the strength gap is between the officers of the Shinsengumi and the ordinary soldiers.

——Is this the strength of Niou...!

Thinking of this, Shimada Kui lowered his head and glanced at his sweaty clothes.

After intuitively feeling the distance between himself and the top warriors, he was amazed and at the same time felt a sense of frustration in his heart.

At this time, Qingdeng's voice brought him back to reality:

"That's all I have to say! Now, let's all go have breakfast!"

Breakfast - upon hearing this word, a pair of eyes lit up immediately.

…

…

Under Qingdeng's personal leadership, the officers and soldiers lined up in four columns and strode towards the canteen.

The canteen of the station was directly transformed from the old tea room of the residence.

The original owner of this mansion was also a cultural man. He not only built a courtyard covering an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters, but also built a teahouse of more than 200 square meters inside the mansion.

A standard Japanese teahouse is a room surrounded by paper sliding doors, with no real walls.

The entire tea room adopts light green tones.

Tatami is the highest quality Hiroshima-produced "bingo table".

Each paper sliding door surrounding the tea room is painted with exquisite pictures.

It has to be said that the original owner of this mansion was really generous. Not only did he abandon the huge and luxurious mansion, but also abandoned the quite high-end tatami mats and paper sliding doors in the tea room.

Here, it was not taken away, just packaged and given to Qingdeng.

People have to sigh again: the level of luxury of the powerful class in feudal society can always make people jaw-dropping.

This kind of room, which is spacious and has no complicated layout, is perfect for transforming into a canteen!

There is no need for drastic changes, as long as these high-end tatami mats and paper sliding doors are removed, and then replaced with ordinary style paper sliding doors.

Why does a mere canteen need such high-end decoration?

You mean tatami? There is no need for tatami in the cafeteria! You are so polite! Sitting on the tatami and eating, within a month, the tatami will be stained with oil!

These dismantled tatami mats, paper sliding doors, and Qingdeng didn't waste any of them. He dragged them all and sold them for a total of 35 taels of gold, which was more valuable than the broken trees in the courtyard.

The money earned from selling tatami mats and paper sliding doors was also used to subsidize military expenses.

When he was working as a "traitor" in Qingdeng, Qinghe Hachilang came to him and suggested that he keep the original appearance of the teahouse.

"Tachibana-sama, this teahouse is quite beautiful, why not keep it and use it as a special venue for receiving distinguished guests in the future!" - These are the original words of Qinghe Hachiro.

Faced with Qinghe Hachilang's suggestion, Qingdeng rejected it without hesitation.

The army's combat effectiveness has not yet been formed, so they are first thinking about entertaining the guests... Thinking of this, Qingdeng couldn't help but laugh.

The Shinsengumi is now in a state of exhaustion, and there are too many places where money needs to be spent.

Instead of keeping this teahouse as a facade, it is better to demolish it, sell it, use the ground as a canteen, and sell all the dismantled items - in Qingdeng's eyes, this is the best way to treat this teahouse.

The most effective way to use it!

Just when the group of people were getting closer and closer to the canteen... suddenly, the sound of noses twitching suddenly sounded in the queue, becoming more and more numerous, denser and louder.

"Sniff...sniff...it smells so good! It smells so good!"
To be continued...