Chapter 135 The fat pig comes but is disrespectful

Chapter 134

Although Cheng Shijie used banks to stimulate economic development in southern Liaoning, the late Ming Dynasty was not a generation after the information explosion. Whether it was for the people in southern Liaoning to build houses, or for businessmen to build factories, build roads and other projects, it all took time.

The refugees are like Populus euphratica in the desert. They have extremely strong vitality and will also look for water sources on their own in order to survive. Just when the special working group of the Immigration Bureau established by the Liaodong Management Committee arrived in Dengzhou, Shandong, they discovered

A large number of refugees have flocked to Shandong.

"Go to Liaonan. There is a way to survive in Liaonan!"

Last year, there was a drought in Henan, especially when the crops were jointing. There was no rain for more than 40 consecutive days. Except for a few fields that could be irrigated, most fields suffered a serious reduction in yield.

This year, it rained one after another, but it never stopped.

Forty miles west of Luoyang is a valley called Tanlong Valley. There is a group of bandits in Tanlong Valley, and the leader of the bandits is a young woman named Hong Niangzi.

Red Lady is her nickname. Her real surname is Tang. She is the third child, so she is called Tang Sanniang.

Originally, she followed her father and brother to perform in the entertainment industry. When she came to Luoyang to perform as an entertainer, the red lady was attracted by the leader of the Tanlong Valley bandits, nicknamed Yulangjun. The Yulangjun snatched the red lady back and became his wife.

When Tang Sanniang was captured in Tanlong Valley, under the arrangement of several women, she put on a bright red wedding dress and was forced to go to the church to marry Mr. Yulang.

After the ceremony, Mr. Yulang had a drink with his minions. When Mr. Yulang remembered that he had to enter the bridal chamber, the red lady broke free from her restraints, took a bright red candlestick, and smashed Mr. Yulang's head to pieces.

Tang Sanniang, who looked like no one else, was dressed in red and covered in blood. She was so frightened that everyone shouted: "The boss!"

In this way, Tang Sanniang became the red lady and the head of Tanlong Valley.

The Red Lady, who became the leader of the bandits, was originally kind-hearted. When she saw that Mengjin's crossing of the Yellow River burst its banks, and countless families were destroyed and their families were separated, she used the food stored in the village to help the victims.

This rescue was not a big deal, but it caused big trouble. More and more refugees came to her. In a short period of time, the number of people in Red Lady's village surged to three to four thousand.

Tanlong Valley was originally a small valley with limited grain reserves. Now the Red Lady was eaten by the victims and was almost bankrupt. 'The Red Lady wanted to find food, but most of her subordinates were old, weak, sick and disabled. She tried to attack a large landlord, but the result was

Instead of grabbing food, four to five hundred people were killed.

The Red Lady heard that Cheng Shijie was organizing people to farm in southern Liaoning, so she led these refugees all the way east to join Cheng Shijie.

"Have you heard of Marshal Cheng?"

"No!"

"Shuai Cheng is a good man. He led his people to reclaim wasteland and set up factories in southern Liaoning. When he arrived in southern Liaoning, as long as he worked, he would have food to eat!"

"Master, Marshal Cheng is an officer, and we are bandits. The officers and soldiers catch the bandits. If we go to Liaonan, won't we risk our lives?"

The red lady explained to everyone: "In southern Liaoning, if Marshal Cheng doesn't kill people, the big deal..."

"What's the big deal?"

"No big deal, I'll give it to him!"

Because the red lady interfered, Cheng Shijie's plan was disrupted.

The Red Lady's team is like the greedy snake in the game. Wherever it passes, the people who cannot survive will follow their team.

A large number of refugees have heard the news that there is work in southern Liaoning and they can survive. These refugees, dragging their families with them, begging and wandering, are pouring into southern Liaoning.

When walking east from Luoyang, the Red Lady had more than 4,000 people under her command. When she arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, she had tens of thousands of people by her side.

According to the investigation report of the Management Committee, the vanguard of the refugees has passed Jinan Prefecture and is heading towards Dengzhou Prefecture. The refugees will arrive in Dengzhou in up to ten days. In up to half a month, Liaonan will usher in a large number of people.

wave of refugees.

The influx of a large number of refugees to southern Liaoning will cause great pressure and burden on the people's livelihood in southern Liaoning. This is an inevitable phenomenon. Although population is strength, the problem is that this requires an upper line. Once the upper line is exceeded, there will be

More contradictions.

Looking at Cheng Shijie's attitude, Song Xiance did not persuade him any more. What Cheng Shijie decided must be done. What he needs to do is to do the essential work well to ensure the stability and normal operation of Liaonan, and also to ensure the success of the autumn harvest.

went smoothly.

Song Xiance frowned slightly and said: "My lord, my disciples are confused. Our Ning Navy obviously occupies a solid defense line, but Jiannu is not good at attacking fortified cities. If we take the initiative to attack, wouldn't we use our own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths?"

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"Although you are right, the problem is that we in the Ming Dynasty will be timid when facing the slaves!"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "We take the initiative to defend, but there is no Great Wall in Haizhou. Although we have built more than a dozen castles, can we defend Haizhou watertight?"

Song Xiance shook his head: "I'm afraid not!"

"It's absolutely impossible!"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "We have finally laid a little foundation in Jinzhou. Once Jiannu sends out a small elite force to learn from Deng Ai's old wisdom, go to Yinping, climb over Motian Ridge, and sneak attack Chengdu, it will be all over!"

There is another problem. If Haizhou is used as the location for the decisive battle, I am afraid that Haizhou and Fuzhou will suffer heavy losses. Cheng Shijie is not willing to defend passively, but is willing to fight decisively outside the country.

Song Xiance continued: "My lord, if we take the initiative to attack, our Ninghai navy will have too few troops!"

Cheng Shijie's total force is nearly 50,000 men, but in fact, among these men, 12,750 are affiliated with the Ning Navy Garrison Division and are responsible for guarding the fifteen towns and forts along Haizhou, as well as Jinzhou and Gaizhou.

During Fuzhou's defense work, these troops were unable to move.

During the actual war, Cheng Shijie could only mobilize more than 13,600 people from the left and right divisions, plus 4,000 cavalry, and more than 1,000 artillery, plus the reconnaissance force, the full force was less than 20,000.

When he first attracted more than 26,000 Dongjiang troops, Cheng Shijie did not expand the army. The most fundamental reason was not that Cheng Shijie had no food or money, but that there were too few veterans of Ning Haijun under his command. Ning Haijun

The real old foundation, the soldiers trained for more than three months, only Ning Haijun's original more than 2,500 horses.

More than 90% of the soldiers were either from the Denglai New Army, the Dongjiang Army, or the Dengzhou Navy. Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie did not dare to expand his army.

After more than half a year of continuous training and particularly strict ideological education, the Ning Navy has basically unified its thinking. Now the Ning Navy no longer distinguishes between the Denglai New Army, the Dengzhou Army, the Dengzhou Navy, and the Dongjiang Army. More importantly,

Yes, Cheng Shijie used the officer literacy class trained by Ma Shilin. Now there are more than 800 officers who can read more than a thousand words and can write one official official document, summary report, reconnaissance report, and military training report.

Many veterans can become officers. How long will it take if the army is not expanded?

Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance and asked: "If I want to expand the army, how much food and grass can the management committee provide?"

Food supply has always been the lifeblood of the farming nation. Most of the border areas are barren lands, such as Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, and of course Liaodong.

In fact, the land in these places is quite good. Although the rainfall is slightly less, the advantage is that the territory is large enough. As long as it is managed properly, it can completely support the frontier army.

But the problem is, affected by the disasters of the vassal towns and the Anshi Rebellion in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, people like the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties adopted a weak-edge policy.

Liaodong clearly has the most fertile land, but it does not immigrate to the border and does not spend any effort to manage it, allowing the border army to always accept the court's supply of food and grass.

Therefore, under deliberate control, the food produced in the border areas was not enough even for the local people, let alone to supply the army. Every grain of rice and every piece of cloth needed by the army had to be transported within the border.

From the inland to the frontier, it is more than a thousand miles away. The manpower required to transport grain thousands of miles is unimaginable, and the consumption on the way is also unimaginable. The state treasury allocates 100,000 shi of grain, and in the end, only 10,000 dan can be transported to the border.

Thank God for the stone. Where did the other 90,000 stones go?

Of course they were eaten on the road! In addition, officials at all levels were greedy for it, and the consumption was even more alarming.

When Sun Chengzong served as the economic envoy to Liaodong, he adopted the policy of establishing farmland to strengthen the border area. In fact, he had already achieved results. He reported to the court that the farmland produced "more than 500,000 shi of grain!"

Although these 500,000 shi of grain are not much, they are enough to feed an army of 50,000 to 60,000 shi. If these 500,000 shi of grain are transported from the mainland, despite the advantage of sea transportation, tens or even millions of shi of grain will be lost.

Unfortunately, Sun Chengzong was kicked out just as he made some achievements.

Cheng Shijie's biggest advantage was that he emptied Dengzhou's treasury and took advantage of Kong Youde. In short, his entrepreneurial capital was stronger than that of Sun Chengzong, and he cultivated more than five million acres of grain fields in one go.

"Don't worry, my lord, even though we have cultivated more than five million acres of land and can harvest in the autumn in two months, we have never given up buying grain from the pass!"

Song Xiance smiled proudly and said: "Currently, the Management Committee has established six permanent grain depots in Jinzhou, four in Gaizhou, two in Fuzhou, and two in Haizhou. A total of 14 can store 100,000 dan.

Our grain depot currently has more than 160,000 shi of rice, 90,000 shi of wheat, 30,000 shi of flour, and a total of more than 300,000 shi of miscellaneous grains. Even if another 100,000 immigrants arrive, we can still support it until the autumn harvest!"

"With more than 300,000 stones of grain, I am confident enough!"

On July 6, the fifth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie issued a recruitment order for the Ninghai Navy. With the issuance of this recruitment order, the entire southern Liaoning region, and even Shandong and Henan regions caused a sensation.

There are many benefits to serving as soldiers in Ning Haijun's army. These young men who came to sign up to join the army have already found out that as long as they pass the recruit training period for three months, they can be allocated fifty acres of military land.

This is the welfare of Ning Haijun soldiers. Of course, this military land is definitely not fertile land and needs to be cultivated by oneself.

Of course, if you are lucky enough and cut off the head of a slave on the battlefield, congratulations, you can get fifty acres of land as a reward. If you are a white-armored soldier, that is even better. You can be promoted and become a reserve officer.

, you can become a real officer if you pass the training in the officer training class.

As Ning Haijun's development becomes more and more formal, it is no longer possible to reach the sky in one step. It is even said that it is already difficult to reach the sky from the captain to the hundred commander level.

Not to mention that it is difficult to get promoted in the Ning Haijun, it is even difficult to become a soldier. The recruitment requirements of the Ning Haijun are very strict. The first is age. Young soldiers are not recruited and must be over 16 years old. Originally, Cheng Shijie wanted to set the age at 10

Eight years old, but the problem is that the sixteen-year-old boy in the Ming Dynasty has no idea how many fathers he has.

Marriage means starting a family and starting a business, so the age limit should be between sixteen and twenty-two. If you have a skill, the age can be relaxed to twenty-five, for example, if you can operate artillery, can operate firecrackers, or can shoot arrows.

Yes, you can ride a horse... If you are literate, your age can be relaxed to under thirty-five.

If you are qualified, you cannot become a Ning Navy soldier. This requires a height assessment. The height requirement must be more than 1.65 meters. Cheng Shijie is very unaccustomed to the measurement units of the Ming Dynasty. For example, a pound of 16 taels, grain and flour, etc.

Everything uses "stone" as the unit of measurement.

The units of length are inches, feet, and feet.

Cheng Shijie originally thought about moving the units of measurement from later generations, but then he thought about it. The craftsmen and people of the Ming Dynasty were already accustomed to units such as feet, inches, feet, and steps.

I am also accustomed to weight measurement units such as liters, buckets, and stones. If I have to move the units of later generations, it will be very uncomfortable.

Thinking about the small country of Great Britain, they can spread their feet and inches to the whole world, so why can't Ming Dynasty?
To be continued...