The next day, Huang Yi sent Huang Dayong and Huang Daquan to lead dozens of horses and more than 20 people to follow Bi Zitong to dig five thousand and several hundred kilograms of coal and transport it back.
The masons have built a carbon stove in the large teaching room according to the drawings drawn by Huang Yi. This coal-burning stove has a chimney, and the coal is fed in and the cinders are discharged outside the house, which can better prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
This charcoal stove has nine burners. When heating, just cover it with an iron plate. Most of the time, you can use a large iron pot to boil water.
Huang Yi has always emphasized hygiene and has long issued an order not to drink raw water.
However, due to limited conditions, there is no way to guarantee that everyone can drink boiled water at any time.
There will be no problem in the future. The carbon stove in the big classroom is staffed by six women in two shifts. They can boil water day and night, and the supply will definitely be guaranteed.
Huang Yi still took Zhang Dong and Hu Xiaochuan with him to explore the surrounding area at dawn. When he came back at night, he could tell stories to everyone in the big classroom as warm as spring.
The large classroom is crowded every day, because it is not only lively and warm, but also has hot water to drink, and you can also listen to stories in the evening.
Everyone has experienced the fun of collective life, and with Huang Yi's earnest guidance, they have begun to like the collectivist atmosphere in the base area.
Huang Yi, a semi-military collective, cannot be without discipline.
Discipline enforcement orders must be issued from the top.
Therefore it is necessary to divide the large collective in the base area into smaller units.
Of course Huang Yi could not use later generations to divide them into squads, platoons, companies, battalions and regiments.
Ming Dynasty has its own set of standards.
Therefore, Huang Yi divided them according to the Wu, Xiaoqi, Zongqi, Baizong (hundred households), Baizong (hundred households), and Qianzong (thousand households) of the Ming Dynasty guard army and frontier army.
Of course, the current number of people is too small, and President Bai, President Ba, and President Qian cannot use them at all.
Huang Yi appointed many corps commanders and small flags equivalent to senior commanders, but the general banner has not been appointed for the time being.
Because Huang Yi himself obtained the Ming Dynasty identity as the general flag officer of Xuanda garrison Zhangjiakou reinforcement camp.
Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, brothers Hu Xiaochuan, Yue Mufei, Zuo Guanghu, etc. have all become corps commanders or senior commanders, taking charge of four or ten subordinates respectively.
They listened to Huang Yi's lectures every day and practiced martial arts. From leading a few soldiers to leading dozens, dozens, hundreds, hundreds...
Huang Yi believes that stories from slaves to generals will continue to emerge among them.
Huang Yi is confident because he not only teaches them through words and deeds, but also often takes them to actual combat. Officers who have grown up in battle are the most able to withstand the test.
Of course, in order to lose as little as possible these seed troops who can become generals in the future, we must avoid wars of attrition and engage in ambushes and annihilation wars as much as possible.
We have to work and study every day, and everyone is busy.
Soon it was New Year's Eve, and Zuo Lianfang, Zhang and the two maids cut out a lot of window grilles from red paper and decorated the Mongolian package where Huang Yi stayed in a happy mood.
But Huang Yi is always unhappy. Without him, New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion. He appeared at the end of Ming Dynasty for no reason. How should his wife and children spend New Year's Eve in 2022?
Zuo Lianfang was the best at observing words and expressions. Seeing that the master was unhappy, she served him even more carefully.
After spending this time with Huang Yi, she felt that Huang Yi was a true hero and was extremely grateful for his choice at the critical moment.
After arriving at the base area and understanding the situation here, I felt even more that Huang Yi had lofty aspirations.
Therefore, she is not only well-behaved, but also does everything seriously, which has been unanimously recognized by Wang Baishan, Huang Dazhi, etc.
Zhang has a temperament that knows how to advance and retreat.
From the moment she saw Zuo Lianfang, she realized that none of the women here could compare to her.
Her reluctance to marry was not because she had any thoughts about Huang Yi, but because she felt that her son had hope when he was older and did not need to rely on other men to survive.
Therefore, she enthusiastically persuaded other poor women to find a loving man to marry, while she still stayed to serve Huang Yi and assist Wang Baishan in managing the money, food and materials in the base area.
Now there are several more people involved in management.
Among them, of course, there is Zuo Lianfang, who can write and do calculations.
Huang Yi felt that his life was much better, because since Zuo Lianfang took care of his food and daily life, he was really free of lice and fleas.
The yurt is always fragrant and warm.
On New Year's Eve, all Han Chinese, including 26 Mongolian households, ate hot dumplings stuffed with mutton.
It wouldn’t be lively without the crackling of firecrackers!
So Zhao Yong and Li Wanquan led thirty musketeers to fire their muskets separately, firing a total of ninety-nine shots.
This was the first time for the fire gunners to fire live ammunition. The twenty male gunners were relatively calm, but the ten female gunners were extremely excited.
Not just them, more than a thousand people who were watching were overjoyed, and more than half of them cried with joy.
Huang Yi took a deep breath and smelled the pervasive smell of gunpowder smoke. He felt that this was the smell of the New Year after a long absence.
Huang Yi's hometown may have the best public security management in China. The social atmosphere is good. There are no "big tigers" and at most a few "flies". There are no gangs. Fireworks and firecrackers have been banned for several years, resulting in a New Year atmosphere. Too watered down.
In my childhood memory, the sound of firecrackers started just after dark on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, and then continued until the first day of the first lunar month and then to the fifth day of the first lunar month.
During the Chinese New Year, you should walk on the smoky streets with firecrackers everywhere and the smell of gunpowder smoke...
Bi Zitong's family was also invited to watch the New Year's Eve and listen to stories. Perhaps because they had not tasted this kind of New Year's flavor for many, many years, Bi Zitong and his wife were so excited that they cried.
Sixteen-year-old Bi Daxi and ten-year-old Bi Shuangxi did not cry. They were fascinated by the story of "The Legend of Yue Fei".
It was a special case on the eve of the New Year, and students were not taught Chinese characters or arithmetic. Huang Yi lectured on "Yue Fei's Biography" for two hours. In the past, it only lasted half an hour.
The New Year in the base area was peaceful. Amidst the long-lost "Congratulations, congratulations", the Han people who were no longer slaves finally had the consciousness to stand up again.
No one is lazy, everyone is training hard and working hard.
The transported coal and mined limestone are piled higher and higher, more and more irrigation wells are completed, and more and more complete agricultural tools are made.
The refined iron bought by Huang Yi and the scrap iron collected during this period will be exhausted.
Mrs. Zhang has also been reminding Huang Yi that the stored grain will definitely not be enough to last until the autumn harvest, and recommends that everyone eat sparingly and eat half full at most.
But Huang Yi didn't listen at all.
Because Huang Yi wanted all the Han people to be strong and work hard to train fighting skills. If they were not 70% full, they would definitely not be able to eat meat.
What to do if you run out of food?
Easy to handle! I have a knife and a gun in my hand!
Huang Yi had thought about it. Before spring plowing, he would lead the teenagers and young adults who had been trained for several months to rob horse thieves, or eliminate one or two small tribes that had taken refuge in the slave establishment.
It doesn't matter if you can't catch up with the fleeing knight, as long as you rob cattle, sheep, grain, tea, cloth, etc., you will win.
The powerful Hedanbaat'er tribe is grazing outside the mountains, and it is basically certain that safety will be guaranteed within the next two years.
In fact, the biggest danger should come from Huang Taiji's second expedition to Chahar in the fifth year of Chongzhen.
That time, the Jiannu attack forced Lin Danhan to flee three thousand miles, all the way to Qinghai, and even lost the city of Guihua.
The base area Huang Yi chose was in the mountains, where there were many slave horses. There were plains to travel on during the march, and he would not choose to go through the mountains.
But if it is revealed that there is a small anti-gold army here, Jiannu will definitely destroy it.
Therefore, we must master the premise of developing quietly, and try to go as far east as possible when robbing small tribes.
