In Songshan Village, Funiu Mountain, Lin Dongsheng, dressed in military uniform, walked up to Luo Zhixue, bowed and said, "General, my first sentry to collect food has returned safely."
"This time when we went south to collect grain, our sentry went to five villages one after another. The landowners of the other two villages did not resist and handed over the grain directly. The landowners of the remaining three villages resisted, and we captured the manors one by one."
"Not only did a large amount of grain be confiscated, but also a batch of gold, silver, iron and bronze materials, mules, horses, cloth and other goods were obtained."
While listening, Luo Zhixue also looked at the large amount of grain and other goods being stored not far away, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Sentinel Lin, for your hard work. The first sentry on this trip has made a great contribution."
The first post led by Lin Dongsheng went south to collect grain, and the results can be said to be great. The grain they have brought back now is more than thirty carts. Not only the carts, but also the soldiers who went out and the civilian men recruited along the way also carried a lot of grain. .
In addition to food, there are also very important iron and bronze utensils.
Copper can actually be directly used as money. After all, copper coins are made of copper. In the future, Luo Zhixue plans to use copper directly to cast artillery.
Iron is more important. Nowadays, Baoxiang Camp has a very large demand for iron materials, not only for making weapons, but also for making agricultural tools. However, there are no iron mines here in Funiu Mountain, so all iron materials require external input. Some were purchased through caravans, while others were seized, but relying solely on current channels, the gap in iron materials was still very large. Luo Zhixue was already thinking about how to get in touch with the big merchants from the outside world to get more information. Lots of iron.
In order to bring these supplies back, Lin Dongsheng naturally bought a large number of carriages, mules and horses, and these carriages, mules and horses were naturally another big source of income.
There are six riding horses, and a total of thirty-five working mules, horses, and donkeys.
The first sentry sent out a great reward, and Luo Zhixue would not be stingy about rewarding the first sentry. He directly made it clear to Lin Dongsheng that after the first sentry went out, he would be the next batch of infantry sentries equipped with muskets.
In addition, the first sentry officers, including Lin Dongsheng, will receive additional rewards according to their positions and merits.
Mainly to provide additional subsidies.
As the Baoxiang camp gradually became formalized, Luo Zhixue also established a formal salary system, not in the name of formal salary, but in the name of subsidies, and the subsidies were very small, with ordinary soldiers only having three hundred cash per month.
Because the system of the Baoxiang Camp is different from that of the ordinary army, the food, drink, clothing, and weapons of the soldiers of the Baoxiang Camp are all provided uniformly. Like other armies, the soldiers are not paid nominally high salaries, but The cost of rations, clothing, and even weapons will be deducted from it. In the end, the soldiers will not get much.
Moreover, this kind of deduction is often used as shoddy goods, depriving soldiers of their rations, etc.
But there is no need for this in the Baoxiang camp. Rations, clothing and other daily necessities are uniformly distributed by the logistics department, and due to the high-intensity training, the standard of rations given is still lower than the living standards of ordinary people in this era. relatively high.
Therefore, although the subsidies that soldiers can receive seem to be small, the soldiers have no objections to this at all, and even still think that the treatment is extremely generous.
Everyone is not stupid, and the soldiers also know that just because they eat so much food every day, this adds up to four or five taels of silver a month.
As for the subsidy, it is purely extra pocket money.
This time, the first sentry went out to collect food and was successful. Luo Zhixue waved his hand and directly issued an additional certain amount of subsidies to the soldiers of the first sentry.
Nowadays, Songshan Village also has a warehouse set up by the Commerce Department, which sells some daily necessities to mountain residents or insiders. Soldiers can also find places to spend money after receiving pocket money.
After arranging the first post, the second post led by Wang Dazhuang returned to Songshan Village successfully within a few days. Wang Dazhuang of the second post had sent a message a few days ago, saying that the second post had also completed the food collection. The operation is currently escorting the loot back to Songshan Village. It is expected to return to Songshan Village in another four or five days.
There were no surprises in the follow-up, and we returned to Songshan Village smoothly, bringing back a large amount of food and other supplies.
These two posts went south this time and basically moved away more than a dozen villages in the southern periphery of Funiu Mountain. They can't actually control these places for the time being, but at least they have completed the food collection and turned the resources of these places into their own. use.
And there is no need to worry about not being able to recruit soldiers in these places or causing large-scale famine.
Because these two posts did not target ordinary people when collecting food, but only targeted the landlords in each village.
All kinds of food, mules, horses and other materials confiscated were collected from these landowners and had nothing to do with ordinary people.
It can even have some benefits for ordinary people.
Because during the grain requisition process, except for five landowners in these dozen villages who saw that the situation was not good and obediently donated grain, mules, horses and other financial resources, the other landowners resisted stubbornly and were attacked by soldiers led by Lin Dongsheng and Wang Dazhuang. .
With Lin Dongsheng and Wang Dazhuang's temperament, they would naturally not just take food after breaking through the manor. In fact, the fate of these landowners was not good.
All the landowners were dead. According to the instructions of Lin Dongsheng and Wang Dazhuang, the land deeds, loan documents and other documents of the land were burned on the spot.
By the way, he also presided over a wave of land distribution.
This land was not divided randomly, it was mainly given to the tenants who originally cultivated the land.
This is the first time Luo Zhixue has tried to kill landlords and divide the land. We have to wait and see how effective it will be.
As for before, there was no such thing as landlords in the villages deep in Funiu Mountain, let alone tenants, so there was no land distribution.
The mountain people in the depths of Funiu Mountain are all refugees who have fled into the mountains one after another in recent years. After they escape into the mountains, they will reclaim the wasteland for planting.
After all, no one is in charge of them in the mountains. If you want important land, you can just open up wasteland yourself. Although the land in these mountains is relatively barren, no one will care about you. You can open up wasteland as you like.
Therefore, in a short period of time, there was no large-scale relationship between landlords and tenants in the dozen or so villages deep in the Funiu Mountains, only sporadic ones.
This time the two sentries went out to collect food. It was the first time that they had done this kind of thing.
Luo Zhixue also paid more attention to this and listened carefully to the reports of Lin Dongsheng and Wang Dazhuang. However, according to the reports of Lin Dongsheng and Wang Dazhuang, it was said that the progress of the land distribution was average.
The tenants were not too touched by this. Many people did not even think that they had obtained the land when a group of rebel thieves presided over the land distribution.
In this regard, Luo Zhixue also knew what the problem was. It was simply that although the Baoxiang camp attacked the landlords in some villages and presided over the distribution of land, the Baoxiang camp always left after the distribution of the land. At most, it was I just appointed a local person as the village chief as instructed.
In other words, Baoxiang Camp has not yet established actual control over these villages.
Since there is no actual control, people will naturally think that what you say is fart.
Luo Zhixue had already expected this. After he had figured out the internal structure of Baoxiang Camp, he would optimize and adjust the management of each village, establish a real jurisdiction system, and station some troops to guard and patrol the periphery. Completely control the territory of Funiu Mountain.
Before that, he had to continue to fiddle with the internal structure of the Baoxiang Camp. Although various departments had been established and department directors had been appointed, in fact they were all just empty frames and could not play a real role.
The problem causing this situation is the lack of people.
Because there are so many illiterates in the Baoxiang camp, and even the managers at all levels are illiterate, Luo Zhixue hasn't even come up with various rules and regulations yet.
Recruiting talents and establishing a complete administrative and military management system have become important guarantees for the further development of the Baoxiang Camp.
The question is, where to get enough talent?
After much deliberation, Luo Zhixue still set his sights on the seven scholars Lin Dongsheng brought back.
These seven scholars were all scholars brought back by Lin Dongsheng when he swept through the villages in the southern periphery.
Of course, they were not the children of the local lords attacked by the Baoxiang camp.
Lin Dongsheng and the others were not stupid. It was impossible for them to kill their family members and then bring them back to be used as talents.
In fact, although the seven scholars came back tied up, they were not the children of the landlords whose families were wiped out, but the children of the landlord families from various places who surrendered to food restrictions.
On the one hand, bringing them back is to serve as hostages, so that the surrendered landowners will not mess around, and it will also make it easier for them to continue to collect grain next time.
On the other hand, Lin Dongsheng heard from Luo Zhixue that there was a shortage of scholars several times, so he simply kidnapped these people and brought them back.
After Luo Zhixue saw these seven scholars, he did not recruit them immediately. Instead, he first threw them into a prisoner-of-war camp to work for a few days, and then asked them to talk to them one by one.
It was nothing more than giving them two choices, one to continue working in the prisoner of war camp, and the other to work as a clerk everywhere.
They are all working, but the treatment is completely different.
These seven scholars are not stupid. They also know that once they go to work somewhere, they are tantamount to turning into thieves. Once the matter is exposed after turning into thieves, let alone wanting to take the imperial examination in the future, the family may be destroyed. disaster.
So they all refused at first.
However, after a few days, they all gave in one after another.
Life in a prisoner of war camp is not easy. You are so tired every day that you are almost dead and you don't have enough to eat. No matter how hard-core a man is, he can't survive for long.
Even Huang Guangmao, a fourth-grade Dusi general, couldn't stand the suffering in the prisoner of war camp. The day before yesterday, he took the initiative to do his best for the rural protection camp. Luo Zhixue paid more attention to this man and directly gave him a staff position. There is no need to do anything with the empty title of senior staff officer, just observe first.
After those few scholars couldn't stand it, they started to work everywhere regardless of whether they wanted to or not.
After seeing the good results, Luo Zhixue simply asked Wang Dazhuang to take another trip and 'recruit' scholars from the villages he had visited before.
Luo Zhixue estimated that with this group of senior talents, coupled with the talents from the mountain people recruited previously and the talents from the prisoners of war who surrendered, this preliminary management system should be able to be established.
At least, the official document was written and read.
And this is already a huge progress for Baoxiang Camp.
