Chapter 102
Cheng Shijie is still accustomed to the way of thinking of later generations. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. He must give some benefits to his subordinates no matter what. Even if he does not give out money, he must at least give out a few kilograms of meat and a bag of noodles. No matter how difficult it is, he must live well. This year.
But the problem is that now Ning Haijun is no longer the original Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Station. At that time, there were less than 20,000 people in total. Even if each person was given one tael of silver or one stone of food, Cheng Shijie's pressure would not Too big.
The population of southern Liaoning is increasing every day.
There is no way, there is too little arable land on the coastal islands, the sea wind is strong at sea, and the living environment is very poor. The key is that the Dongjiang Army has run out of food, and there is only a dead end if they stay on the island.
Therefore, people under the jurisdiction of the Dongjiang Army arrived in southern Liaoning one after another. These refugees from Liaodong who had skills were sent to factories, while those who did not have skills could only be incorporated into farming villages and farmed by hundreds of households. In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't know exactly how many people there were in southern Liaoning. He counted 492 people in just 100 households in Liaonan. This was the data from three days ago.
This means that there are 49,120 troops in the field alone, plus more than 20,000 Ning Navy officers and their families, the Dongjiang Army has more than 26,000 people, including more than 24,000 combat soldiers. people, and more than 2,000 auxiliary troops.
This means that during the New Year welfare period, even if one person is given 20 kilograms of grain, which requires 300,000 to 400,000 kilograms, the landlord will have no surplus grain. Cheng Shijie is still worried.
The Meng Xianhan proposed by Li Fang was simply a pillow given to him when he was dozing off.
However, when it comes to naval battles, Cheng Shijie is a complete layman, leaving professional matters to professionals. Cheng Shijie issued a combat order to Li Zhixiang, codenamed "Cleaning and Cleaning!"
The current Ning Navy Navy has more than 300 large and small warships, mainly concentrated in the two seaports of Jinzhou Port and Gaizhou Port, including Lushun Port. However, even if the Dongjiang Navy Navy is added, this number is nearly 500. The large and small warships have been acting as transport teams and there has never been a battle.
No battle means no reward. These officers and soldiers of the Ning Haijun navy are a little emotional. After all, the military regulations of the Ning Haijun are there. Only if they make meritorious service in the battle will they have the opportunity to be rewarded with land.
When Li Fang arrived at the naval camp in Jinzhou Port with the order written by Cheng Shijie, more than 8,000 naval officers and soldiers began to glow green: "Business is coming!"
At this time, Ning Haijun was trained by Cheng Shijie into a monster army. He was happy when he heard about the war, but became decadent when he didn't. Because of fighting, they can have everything they want, including fields, houses, and money.
This is more effective than any mobilization slogan.
For the battle operation of attacking the South Island, Cheng Shijie became the hands-off boss because he did not understand naval warfare. It would be a taboo for military strategists to command an expert by an outsider. More importantly, Cheng Shijie is very busy now and has endless tasks to do every day. things.
Just like going to the latrine, this problem is very acute now. In just one month, the Golden State Acropolis grew from scratch and increased its population by hundreds of thousands. Fortunately, Ning Haijun soldiers said that they had already developed the habit. Dongjiang Army's problem wasn't big either. Under the supervision of the instructor, they soon knew how to find a latrine to use the toilet.
If they still don’t know, the pointer in the instructor’s hand will let them know. If they don’t know yet, they will know after a few hungry meals.
But the problem is that the Jinzhou Guard is not only Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army, but also a large number of Liaodong refugees, especially most of these refugees have gastrointestinal problems. At the beginning, these Liaodong refugees will be all over the mountains and fields looking for places to solve their own problems. Excretion problem, but after having hundreds of thousands of people, this problem began to become acute.
If left unchecked, hundreds of thousands of people would soak in feces every day, enough to turn the area around the Golden State Acropolis into a large hut full of yellow and white things in a short period of time, a refugee isolation camp without military enforcement regulations. This trend has already begun.
Reform of the toilet system is imperative.
Cheng Shijie felt a little tired. In later generations, even a five or six-year-old child would know how to find a bathroom to go to the toilet. But the problem is that these Liaodong refugees have become accustomed to urinating everywhere, especially in the inner city and the inner city of Jinzhou City. In a very short period of time, the outer city wall became smelly and unpleasant, and patches of alkaline flowers even grew in the corners.
There is no better solution. As Ning Haijun's Ten Thousand Oil Farming House, it assumed this task. Ning Haijun's first organic farm was established at the junction of Jinzhouwei and Lushun, outside the north city of Weiwu City. Fertilizer distribution center. In the era without chemical fertilizers, Cheng Shijie would not waste these excrements.
When crops start to be cultivated in the spring next year, hundreds of households in the field can come here to pick up fertilizer at any time. The conditions are difficult and no resources can be wasted.
Starting from Mighty City, more than 800 public toilets were built successively that could accommodate 200 men and women at the same time. However, this problem was not completely solved because many people were simply illiterate. In the end, they had no choice but to find a painter. , painting a picture of a man and a woman on the door of the toilet finally solved this problem.
This also made Cheng Shijie realize that it is urgent for all people to be freed from illiteracy.
In addition to convenience issues, there are also hygiene issues. Even if the weather is cold, the problem of bathing for Ning Haijun soldiers and Dongjiang Army soldiers still needs to be solved urgently. Because the problem of infectious diseases cannot be completely eliminated, Cheng Shijie did not build a large pool for later generations, but asked craftsmen to make showers.
Even if there is no need for plastic pipes or steel pipes, craftsmen have solved this problem with bamboo pipes. This problem is solved simply and crudely. The public bathhouse is built in two floors. The first floor is used for bathing, and the second floor is used for adding water. The bamboos are connected directly to the lower layer, and small holes are punched in a gourd. The problem is solved simply.
Of course, when heating water, it still needs to be added manually. Hundreds of large buckets are rotated back and forth, which can not only exercise the physical strength of Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army soldiers, but also allow them to solve the bathing problem by themselves.
There are too many people, so we can’t do anything in a swarm. Basic daily tasks such as eating, defecating and bathing need to be taken care of one by one. Everything is not isolated. The overall arrangement of time involves daily training, mobilization, and all aspects of theoretical study and cultural study. Only an extremely detailed time schedule can coordinate everything well, ensuring that no time is wasted. It also ensures that every soldier will not miss any learning and training items.
Cheng Shijie handed over this job to Chen Guodong, euphemistically calling it decentralization, but in fact he was being lazy.
Cheng Shijie suffered from too few talents. He envied the bosses of later generations. As long as they had the capital and offered high enough wages, they could recruit outstanding talents. That was really convenient.
But the problem is that Cheng Shijie can't find enough talents even though he has money. Ma Shilin under him is busy, Song Xiance is almost divided into three people, Zhou Yandong is busy, and Chen Guodong is also busy.
In desperation, he just wanted to publish a recruitment announcement... Cheng Shijie also knew that Liaonan was different from Shandong at this time. Shandong was a cultural and educational province, while Liaonan was a cultural desert.
With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, I never thought...
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Zhang Huaize is thirty-two years old this year. His father, Zhang Siyou, was once the head of the Zhang family in Laiyang. In the thirty-seventh year of Wanli (1609), he served as a Hucao in Nanjing and later became the county magistrate of Changsha. Ordinarily, since Zhang Huaize is backed by the Laiyang Zhang family and has a father who is a county magistrate, it should not be difficult for him to find a good background.
However, the problem is that a large family is actually equivalent to a small imperial court. Zhang Siyou and Zhang Sicheng once competed for the position of head of the Zhang family in Laiyang, which was equivalent to intervening in the imperial throne battle. Zhang Siyou was defeated and died violently. At that time, Zhang Huaize was still young, orphaned, widowed and helpless. Zhang Sicheng was forced by the pressure from the clan but did not eradicate all the people. Zhang Huaize was able to grow up under the care of his widowed mother.
Due to misfortune in his childhood, Zhang Huaize was relatively precocious and had no contact with the other Zhang brothers in the clan, and his life was quite miserable. Until Chen Guodong led Ning Haijun to arrest more than 600 members of the Zhang clan in Laiyang, and Zhang Huaize was arrested because his surname was Zhang, and then sent to Jinzhou.
Although Zhang Huaize was lonely, he worked hard and studied classics and history since he was a child. Although in order to avoid being in the limelight and being jealous of the children of the clan, he never took the national examination and did not receive any honors, but he was steady and down-to-earth in his life and was willing to do everything. Be careful.
Zhang Huaize did not take advantage of the benefits of the Zhang family in Laiyang. Instead, he became a prisoner of Ning Haijun and accepted Ning Haijun's labor reform. The other Zhang family's children hated Cheng Shijie with itch, but Zhang Huaize not only did not hate it, but admired and appreciated it. .
Zhang Huaize has been secretly observing Cheng Shijie's every move. When he learned that Cheng Shijie had recruited a large number of refugees to serve as tenants of Ning Haijun, it was naturally a rare act of kindness for these refugees or prisoners of war to become tenants of Ning Haijun's public land.
But as Ning Haijun recruited more and more refugees, Zhang Huaize sensed Cheng Shijie's ambition and pattern, and other generals in the guard station were all focused on making money.
Cheng Shijie was not only a good hand in fighting, but also a good hand in local management. Hundreds of thousands of refugees flocked to southern Liaoning without causing any trouble. This was much more capable than the Laiyang County Magistrate.
How much food do hundreds of thousands of refugees need to consume in one day? Recruiting so many refugees, even a mountain of food will be eaten up...
At this time, Zhang Huaize saw Cheng Shijie's recruitment notice. This was his opportunity. He immediately returned to the diwozi where he lived and discussed with the widow and his mother, not for anything else but the monthly salary of five silver cents offered by Cheng Shijie. Zhang Huaize can now earn one stone and five buckets of food through physical labor. The mother and son can barely survive. Five taels of silver is a very considerable income for Zhang Huaize.
Zhang Huaize's mother, Zhang Li, was very supportive of her son joining Cheng Shijie, especially since Zhang Huaize could not be integrated into the Laiyang Zhang family. It was not easy for Zhang Huaize to live to this day. A thirty-two-year-old man was not considered old in later generations, but the problem was that Zhang Huaize was in the late Ming Dynasty. At an age when others his age are becoming grandfathers, he is still unmarried, and the Zhang family's incense is about to end.
If you can earn five taels of silver, then why worry about not getting a wife?
Encouraged by his mother Zhang Li, Zhang Huaize decided to take the risk.
After learning that Zhang Huaize was going to apply for Cheng Shijie's recruitment, the soldiers responsible for guarding Ning Haijun were very polite to him. They not only took Zhang Huaize from Fenglin Town to Jinzhou Acropolis, but also provided meals and escorts along the way.
Even though there are now hundreds of thousands of people in southern Liaoning, there are really not a few large wild animals such as jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains and forests. A few days ago, there was an incident where wild boars attacked a refugee settlement. There were about fifty wild boars. The wild boars rushed towards the refugee resettlement site, and they happened to be discovered by the Ning Navy patrol team. With a meal of crossbows and firecrackers, these more than fifty wild boars became a snack for the Ning Navy soldiers.
When we arrived at the south of Jinzhou Acropolis, a huge camp that could accommodate tens of thousands of refugees was busy in the open space in the south of the city. Rows of neat but very simple adobe houses appeared on the ground. , farmers in ragged clothes were busy in front of and behind the house.
"Why is this house built outside the city?"
"Haha, what happened outside the city? Isn't there a city wall outside?"
"This chest-high low wall can only protect against wild beasts, right?"
"It's enough to be able to guard against wild beasts!"
This Ning Haijun soldier said with some pride: "Jian Nu had better come..." "
"Better come?"
"Yes, when the Jian slaves come, I have the opportunity to chop off their heads. One Jian slave's head can be rewarded with fifty acres of land, which is much more valuable than the bandits!"
Even though he was from Shandong, Zhang Huaize had heard of the evil reputation of being a slave. Being a slave in Shandong could make a child stop crying, but in the hearts of Ning Haijun, being a slave was actually a reward in their eyes.
Zhang Huaize was a little confused.
This is confidence.
Strong self-confidence.
Thinking about future generations, why did the three PLAs who were alone dare to fight against Yinjun's camp? If an online author dares to write such a plot, he will definitely be scolded to death.
This is a war with hot weapons, not a war with cold weapons.
However, it is true.
At that time, armed with weapons of the Wanguo brand, he actually launched an attack on the most powerful army on the planet, and defeated this powerful army with a powerful air force, army, and navy.
What does this rely on?
In fact, it is because of having strong self-confidence.
Because of his self-confidence, Jiannu boasted that "the Jurchens are invincible if they are not equal to ten thousand."
Jiannu, just like Niulu, rushed towards a Ming army of ten thousand people without any scruples, and had an absolute chance of defeating this Ming army.
This is the self-confidence of the slaves.
Of course, the Tang army was also confident. Li Jing led three thousand cavalry to attack Yinshan Mountain at night. If they didn't have confidence, what kind of courage would they have to fight three thousand against hundreds of thousands? And win?
But the problem is that with the Battle of Saarhu, the Battle of Hunhe, the Battle of Liuhe, and the Battle of Dalinghe, the Ming army suffered a lot of defeats, their morale was gone, and their self-confidence was also gone.
However, the problem is that Ning Haijun is the biggest alien in the world. They are not afraid of Jiannu because they believe that they can defeat Jiannu and make Jiannu's head become the silver in their hands and the land as a reward.
"I humbly Zhang Huaize pays homage to Marshal Cheng!"
When Zhang Huaize saw Cheng Shijie, he was in a work shed, instructing the craftsmen to process some unnamed parts, but these parts made Zhang Huaize speculate what kind of machinery they should be.
"Are you here to apply?"
"yes!"
"I want to build a road!"
Zhang Huaize bowed and said: "As long as someone has money, it doesn't take much effort to build a road like this... Should we build it in Jinzhou City?"
Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "No, this road is very long!"
"how long?"
"Almost five hundred miles!"
Cheng Shijie pointed to the south and said: "From Lushun to Gaizhou, the whole journey is five hundred miles!"
Ning Haijun is now an army made of mules and horses. A four-wheeled carriage can carry a team of twelve fully armed soldiers. They can run for thirty or forty miles and change horses every time, which can last twelve hours a day. Within, Jinzhou's troops were sent two hundred miles away.
There is a prerequisite for this, which is to have a horse-raising station. Now that the station has been established, a relatively complete official road is still needed.
People without thought, he must worry about.
Cheng Shijie is now beginning to think about building a highway. Of course, this highway and the highways of later generations are two completely different concepts. Although Cheng Shijie did not have enough ambition to build a complete transportation network in this backward environment in the late Ming Dynasty.
However, this does not prevent Cheng Shijie from better clearing his transportation lines. Next year, the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ning Haijun will definitely start a fierce bloody battle with Jiannu, because Huang Taiji cannot watch Cheng Shijie start farming.
If Huang Taiji did not send troops in the spring, he would lose the entire southern Liaoning forever. At that time, the Ning Navy would have a firm foothold in southern Liaoning.
Cheng Shijie's army has expanded to 20,000 troops, and the Dongjiang Army has more than 40,000 troops. The army cannot be expanded any more. Any further expansion will exceed the limit of Cheng Shijie's financial resources.
How to solve the security problem in southern Liaoning when the number of people is relatively small? We can only learn from the German army during World War II and carry out mobile defense.
This faced a serious problem. Southern Liaoning must have roads that can smoothly pass four-wheeled carriages.
However, the problem is that in the view of Zhang Huaize, who is proficient in general affairs, Cheng Shijie is too whimsical.
More than five hundred miles of hard road requires a lot of money. If you have money, it is not impossible.
Zhang Huaize asked: "I wonder how much money Cheng Shuai can give Zhang, how many people, and how much stone?"
"this?"
Cheng Shijie said: "I don't have the stone materials at the moment. I can transfer 25 villages and 100 households to give you 2,500 people, and give you a group of 2,600 young and strong refugees. If there are more refugees in the future, A few can give you six thousand heads!"
Zhang Huaize felt that his head was as big as a bucket. There were only 6,000 people on the 500-mile road. He really wanted to ask Cheng Shijie if he knew how big a project this was?
Cheng Shijie continued: "I don't have any money, but I can give you 30,000 shi of food!"
Zhang Huaize silently calculated in his mind that if the road was narrower, it could be completed: "How wide does this road need to be?"
"Two cars can run parallel to each other, four lanes in both directions, and it can't be any narrower!"
Cheng Shijie thought for a while, and found that the two-way four-lane carriageway in later generations was 26 meters long, but the width of the four-wheeled carriages in the late Ming Dynasty was about 1.86 meters, so it could be made narrower.
"It needs to be at least eight feet wide!"
"How long does it take for the commander to finish?"
"How long will it take you to build it?"
"At least three years!"
"Three years is too long!"
"Commander, you only gave 6,000 humble men, and there are no ready-made stones. This is already the shortest time. There is no place to buy stones in southern Liaoning. They can only be collected and mined from everywhere. Fortunately, in Jinzhou There are a lot of usable stones that can be mined, but these stones must be smashed and ground with hammers until they are usable. How many more than a million kilograms of stones are used for one mile of road surface?"
Zhang Huaize smiled bitterly and said: "Six thousand people are just pounding stones day and night. Each person can only break out seven or eight hundred kilograms of stones per day, and they have to be pounded and crushed before they can be used... In this way, the stones used for one mile of pavement must be at least 100 kilograms. It takes five to ten days, and three years to cover 500 miles of road, which is already very fast..."
Song Xiance also advised: "My lord, if you want to use work as a relief, it is better than letting these people idle here, but spring plowing will be done in three months at most. Don't you need people in the fields? Building roads and bridges, although it is also Good governance always hurts farmers. If the timing is missed, it will affect a year's harvest..."
Only then did Cheng Shijie finally understand what Zhang Huaize was worried about. He smiled, patted Zhang Huaize's shoulder, and whispered: "Don't worry, I will not do anything to damage the harvest or the farming season. You They only considered the progress of human power, but did not consider that machines are more powerful than humans!"
"mechanical!"
"That's right!"
Cheng Shijie then laughed and said: "Look at this machine, it is a hydraulic crusher. As long as the water flow is strong in the spring, the stone can be broken into enough to pave roads!"
The working principle of the crusher is very simple. This machine was prepared by Cheng Shijie to bake cement. In addition to the crusher, there is also a ball mill for making cement. However, this thing has not been manufactured yet, and there is still a long way to go.
While Cheng Shijie and Zhang Huaize were discussing how to build a highway in southern Liaoning, densely packed warships appeared on the sea on the South Island. These warships were sailing against the wind and waves and sailing at full sail. There were still dozens of nautical miles away from the South Island, and the navy soldiers of the Ning Navy on the battleship couldn't wait to remove the gun jackets and prepare the shells.
On the flagship of Ning Haijun Navy, Li Fang stood on the deck, looking very excited. He was ready to move and gear up.
"You're just here for a girl..."
Li Zhixiang glared at Li Fang and said, "How dare you trick the commander into sending troops?"
"What is bewitchment?"
Li Fangqiang said rationally: "The commander-in-chief also needs this big fat pig, Meng Xianhan. This bastard Meng Xianhan has a lot of money. The commander-in-chief took Meng Xianhan's money, and I get it."
Li Zhixiang asked in confusion: "Is it not difficult for you to marry a good family with your current status? Are you just staring at an abandoned woman?"
"What is an abandoned wife? That is my true love!"
"Okay, my dear, what's the point?"
Li Fang shook his head and said, "That's because you don't understand the beauty of a mature woman!"
(End of chapter)
