In the Wangjiazhuang school grounds, Liu Yan moved a chair and sat on a high platform. Next to him, the flag officer Yue Ming was taking roll call according to the reorganized military register, and personally placed the food plaques in the hands of each Dun army. The soldiers were extremely grateful, and their families looked back with joy.
This military book contains the old and weak soldiers who are about to be eliminated. Liu Yan plans to give everyone a month's pay and rations before sending them home.
Miao Shao stood beside Liu Yan. He just watched quietly. At this time, Yue Ming was calling an old soldier by name. The old soldier came up. He was probably sixty years old and had a gray beard. Looking at him like this, Can we still fight?
Yue Ming handed the grain card to him, and the old soldier burst out laughing, his front teeth already gone.
Miao Shao suddenly asked him: "Whose food do you eat and who do you work for?"
The old soldier cracked his mouth and said with a smile: "The little one eats Master Liu's food, and the whole family of the little one works hard for Master Liu!"
After hearing what he said, Miao Shao nodded and asked no more questions.
Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan next to them looked at each other, and they both realized something was wrong.
After all the Dun army rations and wages were released, the Wangjiazhuang warehouse was already empty. While everyone was watching what Liu Yan would do, Liu Yan ordered Xu Ming to go to the Wangjiazhuang Fort to take care of it. It didn't take long for him to arrive. Seeing a shocking scene, grain trucks entered the school grounds one after another, and then filled the warehouse. Liu Yan secretly transported enough grain for everyone to eat for two months, as well as a large amount of money!
Everyone was greatly surprised. Sure enough, the new leader of the team had a way. For a moment, everyone in Wangjiazhuang felt at ease. It seemed that in the future they could live a good life just like the military households in Dapanbao. The dull atmosphere in Wangjiazhuang It was empty, and for the first time, a burst of vitality appeared.
Only Liu Yu, Sun Mingyuan and Feng Changyi were worried all day long. The three of them did not expect that Liu Yan knew how to manipulate people's hearts, and not only had a strong army in his hands, but also a large amount of money and food.
In just a few days, Liu Yan's prestige in the fort has increased rapidly. Now when he walks on the street, many military households cheer to him: "Master Liu, Master Liu."
A few days later, Liu Yan mobilized the military households in the fort to conduct a general cleaning. Everywhere was cleaned inside and outside the houses, up and down the streets, and in the ditches. In the end, dozens of carts of large garbage were swept out. Looking at the garbage, everyone was surprised. They didn't expect there to be so much garbage around them.
After the general cleaning, everything in Wangjiazhuang Fort was clean, especially the bluestones on the three main streets, which had some water sprinkled on them, making it even more refreshing. Although the clothes of the military households are still shabby now, when walking on the street, their temperament has obviously changed. Wangjiazhuang has the tendency to become a large-scale fortress.
On this day, the flag officers Miao Shao and Xu Ming had just reported to Liu Yan the dismantling of old and weak troops in various places. Now they have basically been completed. Then Zhao Min, the chief officer, brought the statistics of young and strong soldiers in Wangjiazhuang. This is a document that Zhao Min has worked overtime to compile over the past few days.
I saw Zhao Min bowing respectfully to Liu Yan, and then smiled at Liu Yan and said: "Sir, the records have been calculated. The total number of households in Wangjiazhuang, including the craftsmen's, is 2,300. One hundred and fifteen households, with a population of 5,417. Among them, 2,812 are male, 1,998 are male, and 814 are not."
"There are 2,605 women, 1,715 strong girls, and 890 young girls. According to statistics, there are 1,437 young men in Wangjiazhuang!"
Liu Yan said oh, took the book and looked through it carefully. Zhao Min was very careful in his work. The age of each household, military role, male and female, adult, etc. were all noted one by one. All the information was clear at a glance. He is a very capable person.
In fact, the population in Wangjiazhuang is not small anymore, at least in the Baihusuo system, it is already densely populated.
It's just that Liu Yan's stalls everywhere are too big. The newly formed Dunjun alone has occupied more than 1,100 young men. Together with the remaining Dunjun temporarily left in various places, it has basically been The general drained the young and strong labor force from all over Wangjiazhuang.
While Liu Yan watched carefully, Zhao Min just looked at Liu Yan's face carefully.
After a long time, Liu Yan closed the book in his hand and said to Zhao Min with satisfaction: "Master Zhao has done a good job. I, Liu Yan, will be rewarded for my merits. You can receive double salary this month."
Zhao Min was overjoyed. He thanked Liu Yan with his hand, and then said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the students under me also contributed a lot to this statistical collection. They can be regarded as my right and left arms."
Liu Yan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that these Professor Zhao Min's students would be put to use so quickly.
Zhao Min explained a few words with a smile. It turned out that although these students had not been with him for a long time, they were very good at counting and quite accomplished in logic. A lot of effort was indeed put into this statistical collection, and the notes from each household were the suggestions of those students.
Liu Yan smiled and said: "In this case, those students should also pay for their extra money this month. In addition, if there is anyone who Director Zhao thinks can be promoted, he can also recommend it to me."
Zhao Minhuan happily accepted the order with clasped fists.
Liu Yan then said to Zhao Min: "From now on, I have to ask Mr. Zhao to worry about the paperwork in the Hundred Household Office."
Zhao Min cupped his hands with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, your words are serious. It is an honor for me to serve you."
After the population statistics of Wangjiazhuang were compiled, Liu Yan asked the flag officer Chen Xun to select some old and weak men and women in the fort to reclaim wasteland, which could be regarded as supporting the military camp.
The original forts and the fields in the Huolu piers were already seriously ill. Liu Yan did not expect the original commanders and officers to manage the forts well. At present, Wangjiazhuang and the fields of its subordinate forts involve the interests of a large number of powerful officers. Liu Yan has no time to spend more time with them, so he plans to open up new fields and re-plan the Wangjiazhuang's fields. If there are talented people in each fort, they can be gradually absorbed into the fort in the future.
Of course, this does not mean that Liu Yan compromises with the commanders, but he does not want to cause trouble when preparing for the slave war. After Wangjiazhuang successfully survives this year's slave war disaster, Liu Yan will definitely find opportunities to reorganize the cultivated land everywhere. matters.
Along the periphery of Wangjiazhuang, there is a large amount of wasteland that can be reclaimed. Liu Yan is planning to ask Chief Flag Officer Yue Ming to organize manpower and cattle to reclaim part of the land while plowing this spring. Liu Yan asked Yue Ming to go ahead and spend money on rations needed to cultivate the fields, and he would find a way. Judging from the current income in Dapanbao, Liu Yan can still support the expenses of reclaiming surrounding wasteland, building some water conservancy facilities, etc.
In the first stage, Liu Yan planned to cultivate 3,000 acres of land, dig irrigation wells in the Dapanbao method, and then distribute the fields to households. He would first allocate 30 acres of land to each of the 100 households in Wangjiazhuang. As for whether these fields should be paid for in the future, Liu Yan will go to the Qianhu Station in front of Xiahe Village to do some activities. The defense officer Zhang Hailin values himself, and Wang Wenzhen, an old Shangguan, is here. Liu Yan hopes to recruit a new member of Wangjiazhuang. The policy of not receiving grain from cultivated fields for three years.
Everyone has heard about Dapanbao more or less, and everyone is envious of it. At this time, Wangjiazhuang also had to open up wasteland and build irrigation wells like Dapanbao. I also heard that if you work hard, you will be able to eat well, and there will be fields to farm and cattle to share in the future. For a time, everyone was scrambling to be the first, just circling around the flag officer Yue Ming, hoping to be selected to work.
Liu Yan left the field affairs to Yue Ming. The training of the existing soldiers and horses, as well as the training of the remaining old Dun army, depended on Chen Xun, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, Xu Ming, Miao Shao, and Shen Tuo. These six general flag officers belong to them.
In the blink of an eye, on April 10th, Liu Yan ordered Miao Shao to gather all the remaining 137 Dunjun soldiers in the Wang family's main fort on the school grounds.
These people are all young and strong men between the ages of sixteen and forty. In the future, Liu Yan plans to organize all of them into a new army. Shen Tuo's team is good. They can use Huangshan Dun's Dun army as the basis. Then organize and train a team of troops to come out.
According to the rules of Dapanbao, after they become an army, they can eat enough every day and receive higher military pay than elsewhere. Their families can be allocated fifty acres of land, cattle and farm tools and other supplies, and they are free of charge in the first year. grain.
These Dunjun soldiers will all become part-time soldiers, and their wives and children will do the work in the fields. Liu Yan did not have time to let them plow and practice. After a few months of training, Liu Yan would take them out to suppress bandits, allowing these Dunjun troops to grow rapidly in fierce battles in order to face the Jiannu cavalry that was about to go south in the future.
Next to these Dunjun troops were the two chief flag officers, Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan. After some layoffs, not only were the two servants directly incorporated into the Dun army by Liu Yan, but most of the Dun army under the two men were also dismissed. Now the two stood below with gloomy faces, trying to secretly recruit some more servants. , only to find that no one was available.
Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan had no choice. Now Liu Yan basically controls all the young people in Wangjiazhuang. Especially since Wangjiazhuang wants to open up new fields, each new army family can be allocated fifty acres of land. The first year was free of grain, and in the second and third years, only one and two buckets of grain were required. This was too attractive to them, and no one wanted to follow Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan anymore.
However, Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan are not good people. Before Liu Yan gathered his troops to check the training results, the two had already connected several subordinates and prepared to put on a good show for Liu Yan here.
At this time, Liu Yan ordered Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan to lead the team to drill the queue. They saw the two walking out listlessly, and then weakly shouted a few orders, but they heard several Dunjun soldiers shouting loudly in the queue.
"Your Majesty, the Commander-in-Chief, has laid off many brothers for no reason. Why don't you see your Master lay off the troops in Dapanbao?"
"I want to speak for the brothers who have been laid off. Please ask the team leader to come down and speak!"
Soon, the crowd in the school grounds became commotion. Xu Ming and Miao Shao were furious and were about to lead people down to suppress them, but Liu Yan stopped them.
I saw Liu Yan saying to Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan: "Those are your subordinates. You two go over and deal with them."
Sun Mingyuan snorted coldly and stood there silently, but Liu Yu said with a smile: "My lord, don't blame me. Now that your lord has laid off many brothers, it makes everyone feel cold. There is no way for my subordinates to let it go." Let’s talk, right?”
Liu Yan smiled and said, "Okay, very good!"
After saying that, Liu Yan stood up and took a few steps forward, and then said loudly: "What kind of army did I eliminate? You all know how old and weak soldiers go into battle! Since you are making trouble here, you just don't listen. What will happen to those who do not obey orders in the army?"
Miao Shao and Xu Ming on the side shouted in unison: "Kill without mercy!"
Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan were immediately startled. They didn't believe that Liu Yan would kill someone right away.
But the two of them thought wrong. Now Liu Yan wants to quickly integrate Wangjiazhuang's resources with thunderous means, and no one will be allowed to cause trouble.
I saw Liu Yan saying angrily: "Arrest those who disrupt the school grounds, contradict the superiors, and keep giving orders, and behead them on the spot!"
"Got the order!"
Xu Ming and Miao Shao had already suppressed their anger. They rushed into the crowd with a few subordinates and dragged out the three-year-old Dun Jun.
Everyone was dumbfounded now. When the three people passed by Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan, they all cried for help.
"You asked me to do this, you two adults can't ignore it now!"
"Mr. Liu, help me, I still have a family to support, please help me!"
But Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan had already been restrained by Liu Yan, and he was still standing there, confused, and how could he be in the mood to pay attention to these three unlucky guys.
I saw Miao Shao and Xu Ming raising their swords and beheading the three Dunjun soldiers on the spot. Everyone present was silent, and Liu Yu and Sun Mingyuan looked extremely ugly.
Liu Yan looked at everyone, and then said coldly: "Today, the reorganization and dismantling of the Dunjun Army has come to an end. I would like to warn you to practice well and not to be used as a weapon by people with ulterior motives, otherwise these three will end up. !”
For a time, all the soldiers were as silent as a cicada.
