Chapter 252
Behind every outrageous regulation, there are even more outrageous accidents. Just like Bolivian law, which stipulates that married women can only have one glass of wine, this law is intended to prevent married women from drunkenly flirting with other men.
This makes you have to think that some of the legislators in Bolivia must have been given the green light to enact such a law. Otherwise, how could they enact such a ridiculous law?
There is also a British law that prohibits death in Parliament. Anyone who dies in Parliament will be granted a state funeral. Therefore, the United Kingdom specially made this provision to prevent unrelated people from "deliberately" dying in Parliament.
Cheng Shijie now understands this in his own life. The essence of the Marriage Protection Law he formulated is to prevent loopholes in Liaodong's laws from being exploited and not paying wages to workers in the name of concubinage.
The unlimited pursuit of profit is the nature of capitalists. There are actually many people like Chen Laosan, the father of Chen Dayong, and Fang Yongchun. For example, in Liaodong, there are as many as 89 people who have more than 30 concubines, and they all do so in the name of concubines. , buy free labor.
The problem now is that Cheng Shijie has tasted the evil consequences he planted. Fortunately, Zhu Weiti does not know about this matter now. Of course, this matter cannot be hidden for long, Zhu Weiti will definitely know.
What can Cheng Shijie do then?
Slap yourself in the mouth and amend the "Defense of Marriage Act"?
No matter which one he takes, it is unacceptable to Cheng Shijie. As Liaodong's industry becomes more and more developed and production efficiency becomes higher and higher, there are more and more jobs that women can do. However, women's status in Ming Dynasty If it is too low, it can be bought and sold like goods.
If a one-size-fits-all approach is adopted, it will only make things worse for ordinary people and push them into a bottomless abyss.
In fact, what parent would sell their daughter if there was any way to do so? If you sell it, you still have the possibility of living. If you don't sell it, you can only die, and the whole family will die together.
Cheng Shijie has a deep understanding of this. When Hanhai City banned motorcycles, ordinary people could ride motorcycles to and from get off work. However, after the ban on motorcycles, it caused the greatest harm to the people because the city is too big and charging is not safe, especially The rainy season in Hanhai City lasts for more than three months. There is no way to charge electric vehicles in rainy weather. When electric vehicles have no power, they can only take a taxi to travel.
Based on the transportation fee in Hanhai City, the distance between Cheng Shijie and his workplace costs 500 to 600 yuan per month, so he uses a removable battery. After buying a car, he will not buy a tram because open-air charging is too unsafe. , not convenient either.
The current Marriage Protection Law can only be maintained, at least at this stage, and needs to be maintained, unless there are no more poor people in the Ming Dynasty, and human trafficking can be directly eliminated and concubinage is prohibited.
Nowadays, this law is difficult to implement, otherwise it will turn into Wang Mang, a pacing prince, and easy to get involved.
"Commander, the imperial court has issued another imperial edict. I hope you can return to the capital as soon as possible!"
Cheng Shijie didn't want to go back. Once he returned to Beijing, he would have to face Zhu Weiti and his twelve concubines. Eight of his twelve concubines had only met once and could not even call them by name. They only knew , two were named Li, one was named Chen, one was named Lin, one was named Fang, one was named Wu, and one was named Zhang.
"My commander is busy with military affairs and it is not convenient for him to go back at the moment!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Liu Qingsong, who had just arrived in Luzon, and said, "How is the military discipline training of the new army?"
"Full of complaints and resentment!"
Cheng Shijie burst out laughing: "Military discipline must be strictly enforced!"
"Commander, we are in Luzon now, not in China. Isn't it too harsh?"
"No, Ning Haijun's military discipline only applies to all officers and men of Ning Haijun, regardless of whether they are in Liaodong or Luzon. In the future, we will have to go to the Central Plains to suppress the rebellion. Does it mean that the Central Plains is not the territory controlled by Ning Haijun, so we can do whatever we want? "
"Commander, are you making a fuss out of a molehill?"
Liu Qingsong asked: "Are indigenous people considered human beings?"
"Eating, buying and selling things, these are all trivial things, because small things have bad effects, so we must stop them!"
After finally staying up all night, turning around, taking three major steps, and demanding it in a military manner, these newly recruited soldiers of the Zheng Group discovered that the torture they faced had just begun.
Ning Haijun's military disciplines have more than 100 items, which are too strict! They are not allowed to fight in groups, drink alcohol or smoke without permission in the military camp, engage in any form of commercial activities, gamble, or have lewdness in the military camp, leave the military camp without permission, bring family members into the military camp without permission, or accept arbitrarily Any gifts given by outsiders must be traded fairly, and no credit is allowed... To put it simply, once you enter this military camp, you will be insulated from them from eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, smoking, cheating, cheating, abducting, cheating, and robbing.
Many people think that Ning Haijun's soldiers are not here to be soldiers, but to practice. What makes the recruits more satisfied is that these military disciplines are treated equally. Not only the recruits must abide by them, but also their instructors and the elite veterans of Ning Haijun.
In case of violation, officers will be punished more severely. In serious cases, their future will be ruined. Another point is that although military discipline is strict, it is not to the point where you lose your head easily.
In fact, corporal punishments such as cutting off ears, cutting off noses, gouging out eyes, tattooing characters, and inserting arrows into camps are not seen. There are only five punishment methods for Ning Haijun. For minor cases, they can be forced to stand in a military posture, do push-ups, or run long distances. , if the circumstances are serious, he will be placed in solitary confinement, and if the circumstances are serious, he will be beaten with a military stick. When he reaches the stage of being beaten with a military stick, he is not far away from getting out.
In other armies, beating with a military stick is the lightest punishment, but here, it is a great shame and humiliation. Of course, what is more serious than beating with military sticks and retreating is the death penalty. Behead those who take bribes! Those who are good at selling military supplies will be beheaded! If you retreat from the battle, those who escape will be beheaded! Anyone who betrays military secrets will be beheaded! Behead those who rape women! Those who kill good people and take credit for their merits will be beheaded!
Which offense requires corporal punishment, which offense requires confinement, which offense requires a military stick, which offense requires being rolled up and driven away, and which offense is a capital offense, are all written down clearly, and there is also one at the end: the law enforcement team uses their powers in general Whoever dies! Yes, even the law enforcement team is in danger of being enforced.
Although Zheng's recruits complained, they were trained as they should be, because in the Ning Haijun Army, in addition to generous material treatment, they also received respect that they had never enjoyed before. .
"There is no better soldier in the world than Youshan. He is hard-working, simple and determined and dares to fight. This southern soldier..."
Zheng Zhilong looked at his soldiers and once again realized what it means to compare goods with others, and to compare people with others is to die.
In the same military posture, Zheng's new recruits all seemed to be constipated. They could only hold on reluctantly. Once the order to disband was given, they would hide away.
However, the Ning Navy soldiers stood like a pine, sat like a bell, and were as motionless as a mountain. Especially when they were bitten by mosquitoes, these Ning Navy veterans were like wooden men, completely unconscious.
Zheng Zhilong saw that his old troops were eliminated one after another under Ning Haijun's training system, and his face became a little uneasy.
He actually didn't know that this was the result of Cheng Shijie's deliberate betrayal. Otherwise, out of the more than 170,000 Zheng's Army soldiers, excluding the old and weak, it would be good to have only 30,000 left.
In fact, the army soldiers of the Zheng Group are now organized into the 101st to 121st Regiments, a total of 21 regiments, with a total of more than 113,400 troops. As for retaining such Zheng's recruits, the main purpose is to implement a plan, which is to vacate the cage and replace the bird with Lu Song.
In Cheng Shijie's strategic plan, none of the natives in Luzon Island should be left alive, and all of them would be wiped out. Otherwise, keeping them would be a scourge. If such a plan is implemented, mass killings will definitely occur. Ordinary people may go crazy with this kind of work. , but the soldiers of the Zheng Group are different. They are pirates themselves, and killing is commonplace for them.
Cheng Shijie totaled more than 200,000 army soldiers of the Zheng Group, including their family members, almost one million people. They would be placed in Dayuan or Luzon. These veterans of the Zheng Group followed Ning Haijun's method. , every twelve people are in one team, and four teams are one whistle. There are three posts in a company, and each company plus company headquarters, twelve people from the communications team, and twelve people from the cooking team, the full strength of each company is one hundred and eighty-nine people.
Every four companies form a battalion, plus medical posts, military law posts, communication posts, baggage posts and battalion headquarters. Each battalion has 976 people.
Every four battalions form a regiment. Including the regiment headquarters, directly affiliated medical company, baggage company, reconnaissance and guard company, and military law company, each regiment has about 5,400 people.
Although Cheng Shijie reformed the Zheng Group's military, habits still played a huge role, especially for battalion commanders. The soldiers were accustomed to calling each other "Qianhu Master". After all, a battalion commander was in charge of about the same number of troops as Qianhu. As for the regiment leader, in the eyes of the recruits, he is the commander.
As for the company commander, he is the commander-in-chief in their eyes, but the level of commander-in-chief has been cancelled.
The reorganized army of Zheng's army soldiers is about 113,400 people. This is no longer important to Zheng Zhilong. In order to avoid suspicion, he will not show up unless Cheng Shijie intentionally invites him. Show your face.
No matter how die-hard his soldiers were, including Zheng Zhilong's servants, they were soon bought off by Ning Haijun's welfare benefits.
Although Ning Haijun's training was very hard, no one was willing to back down. Why did they raise their heads? Isn’t it just to survive?
Besides joining the Ning Navy, what else can they do?
Cheng Shijie's first reorganization for Ning Haijun was to see if this regiment could undertake tactical-level tasks. A full regiment of more than 5,400 men was formed. But the problem was that once they suffered casualties, the regiment's supplementary troops would The replenishment will be suspended, the actual combat effects will be determined, and the staffing issues of the regiment-level tactical units will be evaluated.
It has been a month since the first batch of new army troops were trained.
Cheng Shijie said to Liu Qingsong, who was in charge of commanding the new army: "We can start the weeding plan!"
"Commander, these soldiers are actually far from good!"
Liu Qingsong was transferred to Luzon to serve as the commander of the New Army. Of course, it was only temporary. These twenty-one regiments would be disrupted and reorganized into ordinary regiments in the future, and they would be reorganized into brigades with the rest of Ning Haijun. In Cheng Shijie's plan, every three infantry regiments were reorganized into a brigade of 15,800 people. For example, in Luzon, Daguan and Medan, a brigade-level unit was stationed, which was enough to meet the demand.
Except for the three garrison brigades, other units belong to the field army units. The field brigades are different from the garrison brigades. An artillery battalion, a rocket launcher battalion, and a cavalry battalion are added. The total strength of each brigade exceeds 20,000.
"You have been in Ning Haijun's army for a long time. All you have seen are first-class elite troops. You are used to first-class soldiers and first-class officers. When you look at other troops, nothing seems right."
"Commander, when will we let them take action?"
"It's coming soon, maybe within the next few days."
Liu Qingsong looked at his subordinates who were training with some confusion, and sighed: "I just don't know how many of them can survive this bloody storm?"
Cheng Shijie patted Liu Qingsong on the shoulder: "Don't think like that. Even without us, they will still die. Either they will be swallowed by the sea and die silently, or they will be killed by others when they rob a merchant ship, or they will die silently. If you are killed by officers and soldiers, you will inevitably die. If you follow us, they may die faster, and maybe they can still fight!"
Liu Qingsong took a deep breath: "Commander, you are right, the general is acting like a child."
Cheng Shijie said: "We are different from the Dutch and Spanish. Their biggest weakness is that they have too few people. But our Ming Dynasty lacks the most population. You must first figure out, what is our position in Luzon?"
Liu Qingsong asked with some confusion: "What is it?"
"Leave no one behind!"
Cheng Shijie said seriously: "We suffered losses in this regard when we were in Annan!"
The Ming Dynasty once occupied Vietnam. At that time, civil strife broke out in Vietnam and the king was ousted. The king's grandson came to the Ming Dynasty and asked Zhu Di for help in quelling the rebellion. Zhu Di agreed and sent 5,000 elite troops to escort Wang Sun back to Vietnam and put down the rebellion. But Zhu Di still underestimated the Vietnamese. The rebels have stabilized Vietnam's political situation and ascended the throne as the new king of Vietnam. When the five thousand elite soldiers escorted them halfway, they were attacked by the new king's army and were caught off guard. All five thousand elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were annihilated, and the king and grandson of Vietnam were also killed.
This immediately made Zhu Di furious. The King of Vietnam didn't take my country seriously, didn't he? Do you dare to kill my soldiers? This is clearly a provocation! Zhu Di immediately sent 300,000 troops straight to Vietnam. These soldiers were basically elite soldiers who had participated in the "Battle of Jingnan" and maintained high combat effectiveness, so they quickly conquered the entire territory of Vietnam.
However, after occupying Vietnam for only more than thirty years, it was abandoned. The real reason for abandoning Vietnam was because it was not cost-effective. At that time, Vietnam was a foreign land with extremely harsh environment and extremely backward economy. The Ming Dynasty government collected taxes from Vietnam of only 70,000 taels of silver per year at most, but ended up paying millions more taels of silver. In addition to the huge expenses of local garrison and administrative agencies, a total of 300 taels of silver was thrown into Vietnam in a year. More than ten thousand taels of silver! This amount of money was very large for the Ming government, and it could be described as a heavy ambition.
Cheng Shijie said: "Luzon used to be very closed and has formed a de facto independent kingdom. They have their own language, culture and national beliefs. No matter how good we are to them, they will rebel from time to time. It is better to settle it once and for all. solve this problem!"
Liu Qingsong smiled and said: "You can understand that the general is actually training troops. These soldiers are still very poor. No matter how you train on the training ground, you can't train good soldiers!"
"That's right, the best soldiers are all produced by fighting!"
"Those natives who surrendered..."
When the words came to his lips, Liu Qingsong immediately shut up. Is this an order from Cheng Shijie?
It is impossible for Cheng Shijie to leave any stains. If there are stains and mistakes, they are also Liu Qingsong's mistakes.
Cheng Shijie reorganized the soldiers of the Zheng Group and established regiment-level combat units mainly because it was a cold weapon operation. Ning Haijun's rifled rifles had not yet reached Cheng Shijie's real goal, and Ning Haijun's current size was too large to be possible. Easily change outfits.
You must know that after several expansions of the Ning Navy, especially after the annexation of the Zheng Group, the number of troops has exceeded 200,000. To replace more than 200,000 troops requires a large amount of money.
Just like the Wotu Army in later generations, it has been using the backward modern 59 tanks for a long time. Until now, it has not been completely retired. There are still more than 2,000 59 tanks in the army.
Why not replace the 99 main battle tank?
The answer is actually very simple. First of all, it is almost impossible for our torrent of tanks to gallop on the battlefield. Needless to say, no country in the world is willing to fight a land army showdown with our rabbit. If it is a modern war , even if it is 99A, facing missiles or aerial bombing, the result will be the same.
Even if it's 59, it's still enough.
The Ming Dynasty's army, including Ming Dynasty's current enemies, are almost all equipped with cold weapons, with a small number of muskets and even worse quality. At this stage, Ning Haijun's equipment can already crush the equipment of all forces in the Ming Dynasty.
As Ning Haijun's equipment was transported from Liaodong to Luzon, the newly formed 101st regiment and the three regiments 102 and 103 began to change their equipment first. The first was the long gun produced by Ning Haijun. The long gun standard of Ning Haijun was bundled into a large bundle. A large bundle, like sugar cane, with a spear shaft of more than three and a half meters in length, and a combined length of the spear head and barrel reaching half a meter, making it four meters long in total.
Each person has one of these spears, especially the straight-edged sword of the Tang Dynasty. It can also be said to be a two-handed sword, one for each person. This two-handed sword has a scabbard sewn from calfskin, which is black and shiny, but has no decoration. Seems unremarkable. The Hengdao sword is three feet long, the blade is two and a half fingers wide, the spine is very thick, and the blade does not look very sharp, but veterans who have been on the battlefield know that this is a weapon that can really be used in battle, like that The blade of the sword is thinner than paper, and when you pull it casually, the sword flashes wildly. It seems like a light and agile sword, but it can only be used to show off.
Next is the armor. This armor includes the helmet, shoulder armor, breastplate, and greaves. They are all made of fine steel, and the weight is not very heavy. It only weighs 20 pounds including the helmet. With just such a piece of armor, it is basically immune to bows and arrows, and any shot will only bounce off.
The recruits of the Zheng family got these equipments and were even more glad that joining the Ning navy was the right thing for them to do. You must know that the equipment of the Zheng family's army is good even if it has a long sword. Most of them are spearmen, and the spears are not long. A spear that is more than two meters tall and has a blade less than three inches.
Located at the fourth company station of the 101st Regiment, the commander level of the new regiment is naturally a veteran of Ning Haijun. The commander of the fourth company is Yue Chaoqun, a veteran of Ning Haijun who participated in the Battle of Bali Bay in Haizhou.
Yue Chaoqun looked at the soldiers of the Fourth Company showing off their equipment and said: "Everyone, be quiet and listen to me!"
"Well, the equipment has been sent to you. You must seize the time to train, adapt to the new equipment, and prepare for the next decisive battle!"
Yue Chaoqun continued: "Our next step is to carry out a weeding operation. This operation is very simple. It is to eliminate the enemy in front of us. The task is not difficult, even quite easy, but I still ask you to give 100% of your attention. Don't because If it’s not difficult, then it’s careless!”
Yue Chaoqun looked at the more than a hundred recruits under his command and said: "We will set off tomorrow. As usual, we have to leave a suicide note. A suicide note is a letter written to our family. Relax, leaving a suicide note does not mean that we are going to die. But so that you won’t have any regrets. If we unfortunately die in battle, don’t worry, the pension will allow our families to bury us happily.”
Yue Chaoqun's words not only failed to ease the atmosphere, but made the recruits feel extremely depressed.
"Company Commander Yue, if we die in battle, how much pension will our family get?"
One of the new recruits dared to ask.
Yue Chaoqun asked: "What is your current monthly rate?"
"One tael of silver!"
"How many years have you been in the army?"
"Eight years!"
"The pension is your two years' salary, plus the number of years in the army, so it is about thirty-two taels of silver, plus a minimum of one hundred acres of land!"
"Thirty-two taels of silver?"
"Really that many?"
"You won't refuse to give it, right?"
The recruits finally broke the silence and expressed their surprise at the number.
There is nothing surprising. Human life is worth this price these days. Not to mention thirty-two taels of silver, for a few copper coins of food, some people will take risks and kill people to steal goods.
"There is no doubt that if one of you unfortunately dies in battle, his family will definitely get the money."
Cheng Shijie has emphasized many times that pensions are very important, not only to comfort the families of soldiers who died in battle, but also to encourage other soldiers, so it is impossible not to give them.
Yue Chaoqun smiled faintly and said: "Although you are said to be recruits of Ning Haijun, most of you have been on the battlefield and know what the battlefield is like. If you want to be promoted and make a fortune, then kill the enemy bravely. Our Ning Haijun Among them, there are quite a lot of wealthy landowners who own several thousand acres, including this company commander, who is also a small landowner of the 17th level and owns 750 acres."
Luzon City is 90 kilometers south of Manila, which is Batangas. Batangas Port was also a larger fishing village at this time. There is no trace of the big cities of later generations. The most prosperous area is in Taal Lake.
Taal Lake is 25 kilometers long, 18 kilometers wide, with an average depth of 100 meters, the deepest reaching 172 meters, and a surface area of 234.2 square kilometers.
In the center of Taal Lake is the famous Taal Volcano Island. There is a volcanic lake in the middle of the volcano, also known as the "crater", covering an area of about 1 square kilometers, creating a beautiful landscape of mountains in the lake and lakes in the mountains.
In another time and space, this is the third largest lake in the Philippines. This lake vividly interprets the lakeside scenery of the tropical rainforest. What is unique about it is that there is an island in the lake, and there is also the world's smallest Taal Volcano on the island. This volcano is the lowest active volcano in the Philippines. Every time white smoke rises from the mountainside, tourists watching from a distance on the lakeshore are all amazed by this beautiful scene.
However, it is a pity that Taal Lake has become a slaughterhouse at this time.
"Commander, do you want to interfere?"
Wu Shangzhi received the latest news and said to Cheng Shijie: "Commander, the soldiers of those three regiments have gone crazy. They killed people when they saw them and robbed villages when they saw them. Hundreds of nearby villages were burned down by those guys. Taal Lake originally had more than 50 plantations and a population of more than 200,000, but now it is believed that two-thirds have been killed, and the lake is dyed red!"
(End of chapter)
