"Bang bang bang..."
A harsh gong sound suddenly came from the village. Li Laiheng was stunned for a moment, not knowing what happened. The seven or eight-year-old child who was held in his arms said, "Uncle, please come down, it's time to practice martial arts."
"Exercise martial arts? Okay! Okay!" Li Laiheng smiled and put down the kid. The kid ran to the village with seven or eight other children, but there were still many children playing at the entrance of the village.
"Why don't you go practice martial arts?" Li Laiheng saw that there were boys and girls playing among the children at the entrance of the village, and some of the boys looked quite big.
"Sir, sir," one of the older boys bowed respectfully to Li Laiheng and replied in Mandarin with a Sichuan accent, "We are all farmers and we don't need to practice martial arts diligently."
"Oh." Li Laiheng nodded lightly and frowned again.
It turns out that under the feudal dynasty established by the "Peasant Rebel Army", the Dashun Dynasty, there was also a serious problem of class consolidation!
The solidification of classes in the Dashun Dynasty stems from the two fundamental systems of Dashun, the military service system and the dictated land system!
First of all, the soldiers of Dashun are all soldiers of the Tianfu. The land is granted not only in exchange for military service, but also to raise merit. Soldiers who have followed Dashun and Daxi for so many years must have a place where they can live and work. Family business, right? However, Dashun and Daxi fought for so many years, but they failed to take over the world. In the end, the two families joined forces to have Sichuan and Yunnan.
Although the territory is small, there are not many warriors who need to allocate land after the merger of Dashun and Daxi! The two old camps brought into Sichuan from Shaanxi and Huguang numbered more than 200,000 people!
After these more than 200,000 people entered Sichuan, they were transformed into more than 200,000 soldiers of the land granting government and 40,000 to 50,000 land granting officials - they are actually the same thing, mainly from Dashun and Daxi. Some of the old battalions took refuge in Huguang and Sichuan, but they all enjoyed the treatment of soldiers from the Tianfu. Only some of them were proficient in writing, passed the official examination, and became civil servants.
In order to grant farmland to more than 200,000 soldiers from the old camp, the Dashun court had to enclose a large amount of farmland in Sichuan and Yunnan, which it later captured. In order to cooperate with the land encirclement, the Dashun court had to implement a plan to allocate land and divide the remaining land equally. In this process, the scholar-bureaucrat class in Sichuan and Yunnan was also completely eliminated - this elimination was not physical, but It is economic annihilation!
After completing the two social reforms of enclosing land and granting farmland (for the soldiers of the government) and granting land by dictation (for the common people), a social structure was formed in Dashun with the soldiers at the top and the farmers at the bottom.
The government soldiers scattered in the countryside replaced the original scholar-bureaucrats and became the masters of the grassroots society in Sichuan and Yunnan.
They not only monopolized military service, but also the officialdom, and they also monopolized education!
Li Laiheng told the people around him: "Let's go and have a look!"
As he spoke, he walked towards the village on foot.
This village is where foreign Fu soldiers and Bishan local farmers live together. Looking at the houses in the village, you can tell that the Fu soldiers are all in the north and ordinary farmers are in the south - the houses of Fu soldiers are all tile-roofed houses, and the houses of farmers are all It's a thatched house.
In addition to living in different houses, adult soldiers and farmers also dress differently. The soldiers all wear blue linen robes with narrow sleeves, and have swords hanging from their belts. They walk with a swaying look that makes them look very awesome...
When Li Laiheng entered the village, all the soldiers in the village were heading to the martial arts field in the village. In addition to a waist knife, everyone had an extra weapon. Some held shields and javelins, and some carried javelins. There were spears, and some carried muskets. There were also some children and half-grown men jumping around with small wooden weapons and shouting slogans: "Practice martial arts, serve as soldiers, go to the south of the Yangtze River, seize Jinling, kill the Zhu family..." .”
The morale of Dashun’s little soldiers is very high!
If Emperor Zhu of Laoshan Palace knew about it, he would probably have to conduct military exercises with child soldiers several more times.
Now both sides of Ming Dynasty and Dashun are stretched, no one dares to rot!
Although the feudal dynasty could not cure the terminal disease of corruption, corruption does not mean decay. Now both sides are holding back their strength, not daring to let go, let alone losing their killing skills. Not only do you not dare to lose it, but you also have to practice hard to improve it.
Zhu Cixiang established a youth military academy to train the second and third generations, and also established the Nine-Border Youth Army to train elite soldiers, while also adding fresh blood to the Xungui Group.
Dashun does not have as many resources as Daming, but it is not willing to wait for death casually, so it can only concentrate on strengthening the Fubing Group. Not only do the old soldiers have to practice martial arts diligently, but the second generation of soldiers also have to follow the path of being civilized and martial since they were young, and they mainly focus on practicing martial arts - combat effectiveness must be grasped from childhood!
In addition, the Dashun Dynasty also opened the Yunnan Military Lecture Hall and the Chongqing Official School (to train officials), and selected elites from the "Baby Mansion Soldiers" across the country to enroll.
As the Prince of Dashun, Li Laiheng is now dressed almost like an ordinary Dashun warrior. The linen blue robe has turned a bit white after washing. He has a white felt hat on his head and a sword hanging from his belt. The only difference is that It is a red cloak, which is particularly eye-catching.
In the Dashun Dynasty, the red cloak was originally the symbol of King Chuang and could only be used with Li Guo's permission. In the entire Dashun, there are no more than 20 people who can wear red cloaks, except for the prince Li Laiheng and the eight political kings, all of whom are heroes and generals of Dashun.
So when the "blue warriors" in the village saw Li Laiheng's red cloak, they all knelt down and saluted him. Some of them even recognized Li Laiheng, knelt on the ground and shouted, "Prince Qianlong".
Li Laiheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Reward! A soldier in the family will be rewarded with one tael of silver first! If he practices well, he will be rewarded with another one tael!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty the Crown Prince!"
"Write about Chitose Master!"
Amidst the shouts of gratitude, Li Laiheng, surrounded by a group of soldiers and his son Li Jicheng, strode into the martial arts field in the village, ready to watch the "fu soldiers" in the village demonstrate their daily martial arts!
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"Oh, you watched the Fu Bing Village martial arts performance in Bishan? How was it? Is it okay?"
"It's not bad. I can throw the javelin very well, I can shoot the musket very accurately, and the spear formation is also well-formed. And those guys are practicing well, it's not easy!"
"Haha, it's all their capital for improvement. How can it be done if they don't practice hard?"
"only......"
"Just what?"
"Ada...the soldiers are giving birth to too many babies!"
Chongqing, in the Chaotian Palace, Emperor Dashun Li Guo and Prince Li Laiheng were walking in the small palace garden while talking about Li Laiheng watching a martial arts performance in a Fubing village in Bishan.
"How much?" Li Guo, who was already in his fifties, looked back at Li Laiheng and said with a wry smile, "What can I do? Isn't it enough to eat and drink enough to do this? Your daughter-in-law is already pregnant... In a few months, you will be grandpa!"
Li Laiheng's son Li Jicheng married Sun Kewang's daughter, a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl...their descendants are all junior high school students, and now they are all going to be parents!
Of course, this is the 17th century! People get married early. Not only did Li Guo's grandson get married early, but the children of ordinary soldiers below and the children of ordinary farmers also got married early and became parents.
In contrast, the nobles of Pukou, Zhu Cihong's hometown, generally "married late". Because they have become urbanized and have to undergo a long period of education, they have delayed getting married.
The reason for this arrangement was mainly because Emperor Zhu did not want these powerful people to live in scattered places and become powerful families. In addition, the concentration in Laoshan-Pukou is also conducive to education and training. They are all under the eyes of Emperor Zhu, and the emperor is staring at them, but they dare not fail!
Therefore, the reproduction speed of the privileged class of the Ming Dynasty is far less than that of the Fubing class of Dashun, and their base is not that large. In the Ming Dynasty, only officials with titles or titles of heroes who overcame difficulties were considered a privileged class (soldiers with titles that overcame difficulties were not a privileged class), so the number was limited. And the territory they occupy and the outlets they have are far broader than that of the Dashun Prefecture military class.
Therefore, the weaker Dashun has stronger war needs...
