On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the year was approaching and the Liaodong Plain was freezing.
Work in the fields has stopped long ago, and the ground is frozen harder than iron.
From now to March next year, it is the cat winter season in Liaoning. It is the normal life of most Liaoning people for their wives and children to stay warm on the kang.
Liu Zhaosun envied these farmers, but he was not so lucky.
He has not been back to the General Military Mansion to play with the two girls for five or six days. He has been running around outside in the cold every day.
During the day, he was busy training soldiers and arranging camp affairs. He occasionally discussed the progress of the establishment of a trading company with Yuan Chonghuan.
He didn't go home in time at night, so he stayed in the military camp outside the city and slept in his general tent.
Before going to bed, Liu Zhaosun had to look at the unrefined map of Liaodong over and over again. Several times he fell asleep next to the map while wearing armor.
"Zhu Yuanzhang is really awesome, but I am not as energetic as him."
When he was sleepy, Liu Zhaosun said to himself that now he only occupied five cities in Liaodong, and he was almost exhausted. He didn't know how Zhu Yuanzhang, who had to deal with every detail in his life, persisted.
Fortunately, Liu Zhaosun is a typical Capricorn. Once he gets into working mode, he burns himself day and night without feeling any pain.
From this perspective, Liu Zhaosun's time travel is perfect. Before time travel, he was a 996 programmer. After time travel, he evolved into 007. There is a risk of sudden death at any time.
Fortunately, Qi Jin, Yuan Chonghuan, Kang Yingqian, Qiao Yiqi and others helped him share some of the burden.
Qi Jin was responsible for the daily training of peasant soldiers.
More than 3,000 people were brought back from Shenyang and more than 2,000 refugees were recruited locally. People from all over Beizhili and Shandong also defected one after another.
As of the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month, the total number of refugees who had applied to join the peasant soldiers exceeded 8,000.
Liu Zhaosun conducted a preliminary screening of these people and eliminated hundreds of soldiers.
However, when there are too many people, it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of fish and dragons, just like the high piles of sand on the beach, which collapse when the water washes away.
Qi Jin's task was to check the situation for Marquis Ping Liao, squeeze the water out of the sand, and then assist Liu Zhaosun to build a new strong army.
Liu Zhaosun told Qi Jin that only two thousand peasant soldiers could be left out of the eight thousand men, and the rest would be eliminated.
When General Liu goes to war, he always believes in the following principle: it’s not about having too many soldiers, but about being good.
As long as those who are removed are of good conduct, able to endure hardships and stand hard work, and are loyal to the Marquis of Ping Liao, they can also stay in Liaodong and participate in the land distribution. If they perform well, they can strive to become an auxiliary soldier or a fire soldier in the future.
Of course, the treatment of the auxiliary fire soldiers was worse than that of the peasant soldiers, with each person being allocated thirty acres of land.
The weather is cold and we can't work in the fields, but the training of new recruits cannot stop.
Winter training 39 is not just talk.
Later generations commented on Qi Jiguang: "General Jiyu of the Ming Dynasty, with both civil and military qualifications, most favored Nantang (Qi Jiguang)."
Military books such as "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Record of Military Training" were written earlier. By the middle of Wanli period, they began to become popular in the Jiubian mainland and were regarded as the standard by many generals.
Although Liu Zhaosun was the adopted son of Liu Wei, he was already familiar with Yuanyang Formation and other formations when he was a teenager.
However, his military training skills were nothing compared to Qi Jin's.
Qi Jin was the adopted son of Qi Jiguang, and he had received the true biography of Qi Shuai. He was more professional than Liu Zhaosun, who was born in the army, in terms of selecting, organizing, and awarding weapons.
However, Liu Zhaosun still trained in person, and Qi Jin was responsible for correcting some mistakes that occurred during the training.
In addition, Deng Changxiong and Wang Erhu each led two generals to come to assist.
The military training was scheduled to take place at the large campus at the east gate of Kaiyuan. More than 8,000 people crowded the campus, leaving almost no room for those coming from behind.
After Qi Jin's repeated persuasion, Liu Zhaosun reduced the proportion of long-distance running training and increased the number of drum and trumpet formation exercises.
At present, farmers and soldiers do not have to work in the fields for the time being, so they are scheduled to practice every three days.
One exercise every three days was also the standard for training a strong army in ancient times. As the training continued, some people soon became exhausted and were eliminated.
Six days later, more than 500 people lost their qualifications as peasant soldiers. The remaining recruits were finally able to follow the beat of the drums and barely formed a line.
Liu Zhaosun was quite satisfied with the progress, so he handed over the next training to Qi Jin, and his focus shifted from training to fortification.
In addition to Jingan Fort, there are thirty-two forts around Kaiyuan.
The number of households in each fort ranged from thirty or forty to two to three hundred, with a total population of more than three thousand. When Zhengbai Banner besieged Kaiyuan, most of these households retreated to Kaiyuan City, so the losses were not great.
Since the military and civilians were separated before the Kaiyuan system, the military and civilians were not affected by the war. As professional soldiers, the soldiers only focused on fighting, while the Liao people who were assigned to them devoted themselves to farming.
Liu Zhaosun was not prepared to train this group of Liao people who were assigned to the area first.
Most of these people were old people who had followed them from Hunjiang, and many of them were known to Liu Zhaosun and Liu Zhaosun.
It can be said that this Liao people are the direct descendants of Liu Zongbing, and like the Kaiyuan soldiers, they can be completely relied on.
Because they have followed him for so long and never leave him, Liu Zhaosun can't do anything like killing a donkey.
The civil affairs officer accompanied Liu Zhaosun to inspect Tunpu.
General Liu has a high prestige among this group of Liao people. Everywhere he goes, he will arouse warm cheers from the people.
During the inspection, some problems gradually surfaced, which made Mr. Liu very angry.
Liu Zhaosun had always been quite tolerant of these old brothers and did not restrict them as strictly as he did to the soldiers.
Unexpectedly, in just two months, various problems arose among the thirty-two village chiefs.
Mainly corruption and malfeasance.
A mediocre village chief, from the bloody battle of Hunhe River to the present, has managed 2,000 acres of farmland in two months and has not yet finished surveying it, let alone allocating it to the new refugees.
A village chief lied that his cattle had died of illness, and falsely received 100 taels of silver from Yuan Chonghuan to buy cattle. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, he farmed cattle and "those who fell down were ordered to buy compensation" (1).
After receiving the money, the village chief did not go to buy cattle, but squandered all the money. At the end of the day, he raised money from the villagers to buy cattle. If Liu Zhaosun hadn't personally inspected the villagers and reported the matter, the matter would have been concealed.
Liu Zhaosun remembered that the farm cow that died of illness was transferred from Shenyang by Xiong Jinglue half a year ago. He recalled that Xiong Tingbi spared no effort to support him, and he couldn't help but feel sad. In accordance with Kaiyuan military regulations, he beheaded the village commander in public.
The problem goes far beyond that. There are two camp commanders who heard that the Zhengbai Banner army was approaching and Kaiyuan, Liaodong, was bound to fall. They ignored the people in the camp and escaped first.
Fortunately, they were captured by Kai Yuan Ye Bu Shuang on the way to escape. Before Qiao Yiqi had time to convict the two of them, they were kept in prison.
So Liu Zhaosun personally beheaded the two people in front of hundreds of villagers.
Killing three people in one day is enough to establish your authority.
Next, Liu Zhaosun rewarded five village chiefs who worked well and protected the people.
They were regarded as examples and each received thirty taels of silver.
Among them was a young village commander named Hu Quan. During the Battle of Kaiyuan, he led the villagers to ambush and kill a horse riding a Zhengbai flag sentry horse. He intercepted important information about the enemy and made a great contribution.
General Liu promoted Hu Quan to Kaiyuan City civil affairs official on the spot, responsible for assisting the civil affairs director in managing logistics support.
Although the position of Kaiyuan Tun Chief is humble and does not even have a rank, if you do well, you can be directly promoted to a civil affairs officer.
It is not impossible to become General Liu's right-hand man in the future.
It should be noted that this is equivalent to ten years of hard work for a scholar.
Therefore, many people compete fiercely for the position of village chief.
On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Zhaosun took Kang Yingqian, Yuan Chonghuan and other officials to a banquet with five outstanding village chiefs for lunch at Jingan Fort.
The dishes here are all home-cooked dishes, not very rich, but this meal is of great significance to the five village chiefs present.
Three of the five people later became important figures in the Kaiyuan system.
Their promotion and success all started from this meal.
In the next few days, Liu Zhaosun dismissed five incompetent village chiefs and promoted a group of young people to replace the vacant positions in the village.
With the influx of a large number of refugees in the spring of next year, the number of households in Tunpu will explode. At Kang Yingqian's suggestion, and taking advantage of this renovation, Liu Zhaosun took advantage of the situation and added the position of deputy chief of Tunpu.
The deputy village chief is paid one or two months a month and is responsible for supervising and correcting the affairs of the village and the village chief. He has the power to make suggestions and supervision, but has no decision-making power.
After some combination of kindness and power, Liu Zongbing's prestige among the villagers was unprecedentedly high. At the same time, he also took the power of the civilian government more firmly into his own hands.
Mrs. Gaoming sent people to the military camp every now and then to bring some ginseng soup and cordyceps, asking her husband to take care of himself, and told Mr. Liu not to run outside in the cold weather, and to deal with anything after spring.
Liu Zhaosun gave all the best nourishing decoctions to the wounded soldiers. He also went to the wounded soldiers' camp every two days to personally feed the wounded soldiers soup and change their dressings.
Along the way, Kang Yingqian saw Liu Zhaosun insisting on taking care of the wounded soldiers when he came from Saerhu, and then he realized that he was not acting, but really loved his soldiers like his own son.
Thinking of this, Kang Jianjun rolled his eyes and persuaded Liu Zhaosun to establish an heir as soon as possible.
After all, he is still the original supervisor of the army and feels that it is necessary to remind Liu Zhaosun.
"Let's not talk about Bumbutai. If we raise a little girl of seven or eight years old for a few more years, Mrs. Gaoming and the North Korean girl will both be able to have children, especially Jin Yuji. Look at her body... "
Liu Zhaosun was speechless for a while.
He didn't know what Kang Yingqian was thinking about all day long. He was almost too busy to die suddenly, so he had no leisure time.
Kang Yingqian had been with Liu Zhaosun for a long time and knew that he didn't like women, so he had no choice but to persuade him:
"General Liu, you are now the Marquis of Ping Liao. You have money and food, strong soldiers and horses, and many people in the court. You are truly considered a prince. It is not difficult to become the world leader in three to five years. If Mrs. Gaoming can give birth to a little prince, that will be considered." The icing on the cake. Mrs. Gaoming is fifteen years old, just in time..."
Liu Zhaosun didn't know much about ancient patriarchal ethics and couldn't understand what Kang Yingqian was talking about. He just thought it was the old man who wanted to promote his Vajra Powder again. He was too lazy to talk nonsense with Kang Ying, so he turned around and left, preparing to go to Yuan Chonghuan to discuss trade with North Korea. He heard that North Korea had another Someone has been sent.
"General Liu!"
Kang Yingqian suddenly raised his voice, which startled Liu Zhaosun.
Kang Yingqian looked around, lowered his voice and said anxiously.
"General Liu! Look at the group of officers and soldiers below, who doesn't want to fight for a future with you! Everyone is risking the annihilation of the nine tribes and has a huge relationship to follow you. They are not just looking for your salary. ! Whether you rebel or become the king of Liaodong in the future, if you have no heirs, how can everyone feel at ease?!"
Liu Zhaosun looked at Supervisor Kang suspiciously and savored these words carefully.
"I have to say something ugly. If you were assassinated by Jinyiwei today, Kaiyuan would fall apart within half a month. I don't know how many people would suffer by then. I would be taken back to the capital and executed in Lingchi! Can you bear to do this?"
Liu Zhaosun shook his head.
Kang Ying smiled dryly and nodded, showing a teachable expression to Liu Zhaosun, patting him on the shoulder, and took out a colorful vial from his arms.
"Why don't you go back to the General Military Mansion every day? The New Year is almost here, and you will return to the manor in a few days. I and Master Yuan can handle these matters outside."
"This is the Vajra Powder I always tell you. Take two pills before going to bed tonight. A little prince will be born soon. It will reassure everyone, and the people below will be more motivated to rebel! Don't you think so? If not If you like your wife, you can also give her a concubine. You must take a concubine first and then marry her. It’s not like we don’t have this rule in the Ming Dynasty.”
Note: (1) "Da Ming Huidian", 202, "Ministry of Industry" 22, "Tuntian Qing Officials Division·Cow"
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