In front of Xiahe Village is Qianhusuo City, in Qianhuguan Hall.
Liu Yan stood in the bedroom in the backyard with an embarrassed expression, looking at Wang Yunhe who was sitting opposite him, smiled coquettishly, and then said, "Well, madam, you are so tired from traveling, why don't you go to bed early."
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Wang Yunhe snorted and said: "The sun has not set yet, and you want to rest? It seems that our Lord Liu is living a very comfortable life!"
Liu Yanqian laughed a few times and said: "I didn't ask for those two women, they were sent to me by Dai Qianhu. I just arrived..."
"When you first arrived at the Qianhu Castle in front of Xiahe Village, you needed the help of a reliable person here. That Dai Fu Qianhu met the conditions both in terms of status and ability, so you accepted those two women, right? ?”
Liu Yan looked at Wang Yunhe, sighed, sat next to Wang Yunhe, and said: "It turns out that Madam knows about it, so I won't say anything more. I will not touch those two women, so I will stay with Madam." Just be a maid."
"How bad is this? What's that word for?"
Wang Yunhe looked like he was thinking, then clapped his hands, pointed at Liu Yan's forehead and said, "A waste of natural resources! Yes, that's the word. It's so bad for two teenage girls to use it on the spot."
"Haha, madam, stop making trouble, let's just do it."
"no!"
Wang Yunhe stood up and said: "You, you better listen to me. I have sent two perfect maids from Dai Qianhu, but you don't touch them and treat them like old ladies? The people in Qianhu's official hall are so talkative that once they let them I know, what will Dai Fuqianhu think?"
Liu Yan stood up suddenly, frowning and said: "Fortunately, Madam is careful, I was rash!"
Then Liu Yan asked: "What should we do with these two women?"
Wang Yunhe stared at Liu Yan for a while, then sighed slightly and said, "Husband, please take over the house and count it as two concubines to warm your feet."
"In addition, I am already pregnant. It is also a good thing to have two people to take care of my husband."
After saying that, Wang Yunhe turned and left. Liu Yan looked at Wang Yunhe's back, but he was thinking in his heart: "This Dai Jingbin, why did you do this to me after a meal? He actually dressed up two women as prostitutes. What a deliberate move." Got it!"
At the same time, Liu Yan also understood Wang Yunhe's thoughts. Wang Yunhe was now pregnant. In this era, when a woman gave birth to a child, she had to go through the ghost gate again. The degree of danger was very high, so Wang Yunhe arranged people around her in advance for Liu Yan.
Thinking of this, Liu Yan sighed in his heart and couldn't help but feel more pity and admiration for Wang Yunhe.
Then Liu Yan brought two women into the room, one named Shang Shan and the other Ruoshui, which made Liu Yan laugh, secretly thinking that Dai Jingbin was arty.
However, although Liu Yan accepted the two of them, he did not hold a happy event. He simply hosted a banquet for Dai Jingbin, Chen Xun, Wang Yue and other hundreds of households and hundreds of households, which was regarded as giving Dai Jingbin an explanation and reassuring him.
Of course, Liu Yan did this to appease Wang Yunhe and did not want to make Wang Yunhe feel too disappointed. This time Wang Yunhe had such insight and foresight, which also impressed Liu Yan.
On October 14, Liu Yan summoned a group of generals in Qianhusuo City to discuss government affairs. Before that, Liu Yan had asked the official Zhang Xueyi to get relevant documents for him to review.
According to statistics in the book, there are more than 980 military households in the city of Qianhusuo in front of Xiahe Village, with a population of more than 4,900. According to the book, there are a total of 460 hectares, 17 acres, 6 and 5 cents of farmland. The summer grain collection for natural wheat is 736 stone, three liters and two tons, and the autumn grain collection for natural rice and beans is 1,619 stone and four buckets. Seven liters and four combined, a total of more than 2,350 kilograms of summer taxes and autumn grains were collected.
In addition, there are more than 19,600 bundles of Nama grass. There are more than 2,400 kilograms of poplar firewood at the age of 10.
In terms of the army, there are 1,237 officers and soldiers, and 368 horses and mules. In terms of weapons, except for swords, guns, shields and spears. The city of Qianhusuo in front of Xiahe Village currently has five iron cannons for the invincible general, forty bronze and iron franc machines, eighty-five small bronze cannons and small iron cannons, and a large number of squatting tiger cannons. Cannons, etc.
This is the situation of the Qianhusuo City alone, in addition to the registration of hundreds of households such as the Ancient Town Inspection Department.
From a superficial point of view, the situation in Qianhusuo City and Baihusuo City is still optimistic, but who knows what the actual situation is. Officials of the Ming Dynasty had always been very good at making false accounts. In Wangjiazhuang alone, the situation I saw when I took office was completely different from what was recorded in the documents.
What's more, after the Battle of Yaoshan Mountain Road, the troops and horses of the Qianhu Station in front of Xiahe Village were seriously damaged. However, the number of troops and equipment on the books has not changed, which shows that the actual accounts are now inconsistent.
Compared with the Baihu Government Hall in Wangjiazhuang, the lobby of the Qianhu Government Hall in Qianhusuo City in front of Xiahe Village is much wider and more luxurious. In the lobby, all the military attachés and generals from Qianhusuo City in front of Xiahe Village gathered together, and the new defense master discussed matters. It’s about cheering up and trying your best to express yourself.
Dai Jingbin, the deputy Qianhusuo urban management garrison official, reported to Liu Yan with the garrison brochure: "Sir, autumn sowing in Qianhusuo City was completed two months ago. The garrison land of more than three hundred hectares has been planted with wheat grains. By next summer, the grain collection will be ready."
Liu Yan nodded. He knew that the number of farmland and military households in Qianhusuo City was certainly not true, but he just kept his expression calm.
Tian Huixu, the official of the 100th household in charge of the affairs of the city of Qianhu, seemed to be awake when it came to business. He yawned, tried his best to cheer up, and said to Liu Yan: "Sir, I am Qianhu There are 1,237 officers and soldiers in the city, including 977 operational officers and soldiers, and the rest are all miscellaneous officers and soldiers. The military register is here, please take a look." m.
Liu Yan took over the military register. He did not comment, but said: "Soldier training is related to the safety and security of our Qianhu city. Tian Baihu, Chi Baihu, Huang Baihu, you recruit soldiers, and I will order them personally." Inspect the troops and horses during the parade."
Liu Yan then said to the town governor Wang Yichuan: "Wang town fu, you are responsible for supervising and maintaining military discipline. In half an hour, I will see all the officers and soldiers of Qianhusuo City on the school grounds.
Tian Huixu still looked like he couldn't wake up, but Baihu Chixu and Baihu Huang Wenxian looked at each other and the town governor Wang Yichuan, thinking that Liu Yan, the new official, had three fires when he took office, and now he was lighting the first fire. Fortunately, they have made corresponding preparations these days. If they are careless, they should be able to cope with it.
Half an hour later, hundreds of officers and soldiers gathered in the school grounds in a noisy manner. Seeing that they moved slowly, they did not form a formation for a long time. From these people, Liu Yan could see that their appearance and treatment were better than those in Wangjiazhuang before. At least the majority of them were not old and weak.
Talking about equipment, everyone also has a new and old mandarin duck war jacket, and they also have weapons in their hands. In particular, the servants under the names of hundreds of households often wear leather armor, cotton armor or iron armor.
Although they neglected to practice, they finally formed a sparse array and stood listlessly all over the place. There was an estimated force of three hundred households in front of him. Tian Huixu, a hundred households, controlled Baihu Chixu and Huang Wenxian, and personally led an army of one hundred households, including hundreds of servants. There are also hundreds of families, Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian, and probably a team of fifty servants. Even the governor of the town, Wang Yichuan, also raised a team of servants.
Liu Yan saw the problem with these servants. Although most of them were young and strong veterans, most of them were soldiers who were careless and careless. Liu Yan had seen too many of these people. They were not good at fighting and were good at causing harm to the people. The remaining ordinary soldiers were either looking around or yawning, showing no signs of being soldiers.
Mu Qi is heavy, can such soldiers fight? Chen Xun, who was behind Liu Yan, had a sneer on his face. Such soldiers were not even as strong as the military households in Wangjiazhuang.
Liu Yan looked at it for a long time. Tian Hui said that there were 1,237 military officers and soldiers in Qianhusuo City. There were probably less than 1,000 people here. He said lightly: " Wang Zhenfu, please call your names according to the military register."
The town governor Wang Yichuan had been standing behind Liu Yan coldly. At this time, he responded and called out names one by one according to the military register. He and Huang Wenxian looked at each other for a while, with uneasy expressions on their faces. They originally thought Liu Yan was just going through the motions, but he didn't expect to become so serious.
Only Momoda Teresu was rubbing his two big bubble eyes, still looking like he wanted to sleep, not knowing what he was thinking about.
In the end, including servants, there were a total of 954 officers and soldiers on the school grounds, with a vacancy of more than 400 people. Moreover, Liu Yan felt that many of them were not officers and soldiers of Qianhusuo City, but soldiers. Hutun Dingzhong was temporarily brought in to fill up the number.
Liu Yan remained silent upon seeing this, and both Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian became uneasy. Baihu Tian Huixu felt the atmosphere in the field and did not dare to yawn loudly at this time.
"Why is there such a serious shortage of officers and soldiers in Qianhusuo City?"
Huang Wenxian, a member of a hundred households on the side, nodded and bowed and said: "Your Excellency, it is clear that the army is short of pay, soldiers are constantly fleeing, and there is nothing that can be done by the subordinate officials."
Liu Yan said: "Why not fill the vacancies in the army from military households?"
Chi Xu had been looking at Liu Yan, and at this time he said: "Your Excellency, it is clear that since the year of Xuande, the military households guarded by Qianhu in front of Xiahe Village have been fleeing for years. If we replace the remaining soldiers from the military households, I am afraid that Dai Fuqian will There is a shortage of manpower for farming over there."
Liu Yan was silent and looked at the veteran soldiers on the school field. After a long time, he said: "There is no need to conduct the parade. Let the soldiers return to camp."
They didn't expect to pass the test so easily, which surprised Chi Xu, Huang Wenxian and others. They glanced at the town governor Wang Yichuan, and a smile appeared on Wang Yichuan's gloomy face. Afterwards, although several people treated Liu Yan with great respect, they showed disdain without realizing it. Only Momoda Terusu looked like he wanted to doze off again.
"The government affairs of the city with thousands of households are so ruined that there are more than a thousand officers and soldiers, but there is no one available."
A lamp was as bright as a bean, and in the Qianhu official hall, Liu Yan let out a long sigh.
During the day, he inspected various places in Qianhusuo City. The defenses in various parts of the city were extremely lax, and the military camp discipline system was almost non-existent. There were also those weapons. Not only did the inventory number not match the number in the manual, but the quality was also disappointing. Very worried.
In addition to advanced fire cannons, some of the weapons used by the officers and soldiers of various garrison stations in the Ming Dynasty were allocated by the Ministry of Industry, and some were made by the garrison stations themselves. Liu Yan had seen the craftsmen's camp in the city, and it all had the same shortcomings as Wangjiazhuang before.
There are a total of 165 military craftsmen households in the city records of the Thousand Households in front of Xiahe Village. It is estimated that there are less than 120 households in existence. These craftsman households are all determined by their registration. After joining a craftsman's household, he will be a craftsman for the rest of his life, and he will serve as a slave once he becomes a young man. They are treated poorly. The officials in charge of arms manufacturing deducted raw materials and misappropriated the price of materials. The craftsmen have to make up for the insufficient raw materials themselves.
The craftsmen complained that they had no enthusiasm at all when making them, and the quality of the weapons they made was extremely inferior. Liu Yan took a quick look and knew that the knives, guns, and armors made by the craftsmen were inferior. Most of the bows and arrows, the three-eyed dysprosium, the bird system, etc. are unusable.
Only the artillery situation in Senhusho Castle will be better. Those artillery pieces were all weapons taken from the Ming Dynasty Ordnance Bureau or Military Warfare Bureau. When Ming Dynasty was manufacturing various cannons. All have special design drawings. There are strict standard dimensions for the length of the gun and the thickness of the tube, so it is difficult for the craftsman supervisor to pass off the inferior ones. Unlike fire weapons and guns, which have holes to penetrate, the quality of these artillery can be guaranteed.
It's just that the maintenance is unsatisfactory. Many good artillery have been ruined due to improper maintenance. Moreover, the number of these artillery pieces was also wrong, and the books and the physical objects did not match up at all. When Liu Yan asked, the answer he got was that they were just battle losses.
There should have been more than 260 artillerymen in the city. Liu Yan estimated that half of the people were missing.
Seeing Liu Yan sighing, Dai Jingbin lowered his body and said: "My lord, please forgive me for saying something that I shouldn't say. I can hardly imagine the ruin of a city with thousands of households. Your Majesty is conducting a military parade today. There are many vacancies in the army, including those in the city." The result of the excessive service and indulgence of the generals."
Some people died, but not completely...
