Yang Fan arranged the autumn harvest affairs, and then authorized the people of the Militia Department to organize a two-month military training after the autumn harvest. There are systems for these, just follow them and implement them.
This militia training is open to all men and women, as long as they are over 15 years old and under 50 years old. Farmers train intensively for two months after the autumn harvest. The factory is in a special situation and has to produce weapons and ammunition in three shifts. Steel plants produce steel around the clock. Production cannot be discontinued. Two days out of every ten days were used to train the eliminated Fran machine guns, various models of general guns, portal guns, spear assassination and grenade throwing. It lasts for three months.
The reason why workers are given spears is because spears and lances are different.
The long gun is the standard equipment of the army and requires long-term and rigorous training to use it. The spear can be used if it is sent out. The folk simplified version of this thing is also called a spear. Come and throw the enemy again. Can also be assassinated.
Both of these weapons are large, long pole weapons. It looks very confusing. But the difference is very big. Completely two things.
The gun has a red tassel, which is used to block the blood flowing from the assassinated enemy along the barrel of the gun, causing the hand to slip and unable to hold the barrel of the gun. Spears generally do not have red tassels. The spear head is short and sharp, and is generally used for assassination. The spearhead is relatively long. The spear head is flat, like a short sword, and has a certain slashing function. The main techniques include picking, stabbing, splitting, chopping, etc.
The biggest difference between a gun and a spear is in use. The shaft of a long gun is a soft ash wood pole that is elastic. Use waist and wrist strength when using. The force starts from the heels, from the ground. Without professional and long-term training, it will not be used well at all.
The shaft of the spear is hard and relies on physical strength. As long as the arm has strength, it can be used.
This is also a suitable weapon for militiamen. Yang Fan had no shortage of steel, and Erlunzi had plenty of scrap axle steel and spring steel plates, so it was perfect to build a spearhead for them.
At the same time, orders for material reserves were issued.
Xinghe supermarkets in Beijing and Zunhua posted notices that in the past month, corn purchases were allowed ten times as much as the grain cost. Sales of corn will be stopped for one year starting next month. If you want to buy, hurry up.
Xinghe Supermarket is ready to sell all the grain in the warehouse.
As soon as the news came out, panic immediately arose.
In the past two years, the poor in the capital have become accustomed to it. With their grain budget, each person can buy thirty kilograms of cornmeal or crushed corn every month. Many poor people currently rely on corn for their livelihood. Because so far, the price of rice has risen to five cents a load. Even grains cost two cents of silver per load. Chen Mi also costs three cents and five cents.
Their average monthly salary is only two to three cents of silver. Only a few who can read or write or can keep accounts can earn three to five cents of silver.
At this food price, they can no longer afford to eat. Their wages are only enough to buy a load of grain.
This is the food ration for the whole family. One hundred and twenty kilograms of miscellaneous grains. According to a family of five, one person weighs twenty-four kilograms. In this era without oil, water and non-staple food, people have a lot of appetite. You can't do heavy work without eating enough. Moreover, it is impossible to spend all the money on food.
At least buy salt, eat vegetables, and buy clothes. If the old man is sick, he should see a doctor. It would be fine if they had their own shabby thatched cottage inherited from their ancestors, but if they don't have a house, they have to rent a house. That would be even more stretched.
Since the opening of Xinghe Supermarket, according to the grain book, three pounds of corn can be purchased for one penny. Almost like a free gift. In the past two years, regardless of the external situation, whether it was floods, droughts, or soaring prices. This price is unbeatable. There has never been a price increase.
The only restriction is that you must have a grain book to purchase it. If there is no food, we will not sell it.
In the food book, in addition to the monthly food stamps, there are also meat stamps for one pound of fat pork. Three feet of muslin and ten feet of burlap. This cloth ticket is the most treasured by the poor.
They are reluctant to use it, and usually they wait until the end of the year to use it intensively. Thirty-six feet of cloth with a width of two meters, and one hundred and twenty feet of linen with a width of two meters. You can make new clothes for the whole family.
However, the notice that suddenly appeared alarmed everyone. The poor people didn't know what was going on.
In recent years, people in and around the capital have had many job opportunities, and they have saved a lot of money.
Ten taels of silver.
Especially the railway community in Nancheng. This huge community covering an area of four square kilometers is home to 100,000 families. The one-meter-thick and five-meter-high wall is densely packed with six-story tube buildings.
Their men went to other places to build railways, roads, bridges, and tunnels. Their families live here. There are hospitals, schools, post offices, Xinghe supermarkets, tailor shops, laundry shops, grocery stores, commercial streets... in this community. It is simply a city within a city.
The railway community is located in the southeast corner of Nancheng, roughly the area south of today's Guangqumen Nei Street and outside the east wall of the Temple of Heaven. .net
In this era, this place is deserted. Although in later generations the southern half of this place was where Longtan Lake Park was located. But in the late Ming Dynasty, there were only some ponds and wasteland here.
Longxugou flows through this place, so it was named "Longtan Lake". It is an area that the ancient Gaoliang River passes through. Belonging to the Haihe River Basin, the North Canal tributary flows into the Huihe River tributary moat water system. It was formed due to the accumulation of water in the kiln pits used for digging earth and burning city bricks to build the outer city wall in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
Yang Fan likes this place mainly because the land price is cheap. The grass here is deep and sparsely populated. Land is so cheap it's like giving it away for free. Just like the original demolition community for poor people in Beicheng, which was placed in the southwest corner. Just to reduce costs.
Now this little corner on the east side of the Temple of Heaven has become prosperous because of the families of railway workers. One hundred thousand households means a population of five to six hundred thousand. There is still a population with spending power.
Yang Fan built a tube tower with a total of 300,000 rooms in the northern half of the land. The southern half is planned to follow the example of later generations, to dig Longtan Lake and then build a park.
The feng shui of this area is very bad, otherwise it would be very suitable to be developed into a water-friendly villa area.
The corner of the South Second Ring Road is a famous Feng Shui problem in the imperial capital.
There are several buildings here, and there are always some problems that are difficult to explain. People in this era are more superstitious, and rich people will definitely not live here. So Yang Fan just planned to build it into a park.
Railroad workers earned high wages. Because they all work in the field, it is very hard. There are also dangers of natural disasters, engineering injuries, bandits, wild animals, and climate disasters.
And it’s also heavy physical labor. Therefore, their wages are basically no less than one tael of silver. They are also responsible for food and housing, and are given four sets of clothes and shoes a year. Enjoy free medical care.
Their wages are paid to their accounts through Xinghe Bank. Family members can receive it through deposit and redemption in Beijing. Therefore, these people have spending power.
There are three gates in the south of Nancheng, and the Yongding Gate is on the central axis in the middle. In the middle of the west is You'anmen. But Zuo'anmen on the left is indeed close to the east edge.
Now as soon as you enter Zuo'anmen Street, there are dense shops and businesses on both sides. Go all the way north to Liangguang Road. These shops are basically various convenience service shops opened by workers’ families. Because both the house and the land belong to Yang Fan. He only rents to workers' families.
Even if other businessmen see business opportunities and want to do business, they can't rent a house.
