Chapter 477: Soldiers sent to Luzon
"There are four cents a month, and there are paid winter and summer vacations, and the benefits of various holidays are also very generous. There are also houses prepared by the college to live in. If you work for five years, you can still divide it into a yard. Wow, if this kind of good job is placed in later generations, it will definitely be more popular than civil servants!" Li Yan couldn't help but exclaimed repeatedly as he looked at the proposed teacher treatment.
In order to attract some scholars to join the education system, Xie Chun and Hua Guang made great efforts. The treatment offered alone was enough to make many people excited. Fortunately, Li Yan strongly supported him, otherwise Cui Wei would not agree with such a large amount of money.
Although it costs a little more money, as long as the education system can be built, all this is worth it in Li Yan's opinion. Moreover, teachers are responsible for teaching and educating people, so they naturally have to receive corresponding rewards. However, due to the limited conditions, the source of teachers is very wide, and their moral qualities cannot be guaranteed. However, now the main focus is to build schools, so this is the only way for the time being. When there are more talents in the future, it is not too late to improve the quality of the teaching team.
What made Li Yan very happy was that such high welfare benefits were not in vain. After hearing this news, many scholars from the Tang Dynasty began to come to teach. In fact, Li Yan also knew that the most attractive condition for these people was probably the one that could enter the officialdom. After all, it was good to teach and educate people and also had face, and it also had channels for promotion, so they were so eager.
However, this is exactly what Li Yan hopes to see. No matter what these people come for, the most important thing is that with their joining, Taiwan's education system was finally built. Just a few months later, several newly built primary schools in Keelung City officially began to recruit students. At the same time, primary schools were built one after another in Tainan and other cities, and these primary schools all use unified textbooks and are taught by teachers who have been trained. Although there is nothing left now, I believe that when the first batch of students enter society, everyone will understand the meaning of the saying that knowledge is power.
Just when Li Yan made great efforts to educate the people of Taiwan, he also sent another team to "educate" foreign races, but there were no gentle teachers in this team. Instead, they were all vicious people holding weapons. They set off on boats from all over the place, and there was only one destination, that is Manila, Luzon.
Manila in June is the time of storm. If it were before, half of the ships in this port would fall below normal, and the entire Manila would enter a period of economic depression. After all, no businessman would risk the wind cup ship to go out to sea.
However, June this year was very abnormal. Not only did the ships in the port not decrease, but they were 20% or 30% more than usual. The port was even more busy. Countless materials were unloaded from the ships and transported to Manila's warehouses for storage. In addition, countless merchants arrived here every day, waving gold and silver coins to find a place to live in Manila City.
After the arrival of the squat boat and the merchants, the troops transported ships finally arrived in Manila. However, when these troops came down from the ship, the soldiers in the army looked at the Manila city with awe. When the people in the city saw these soldiers, they also showed a look of disdain on their faces, because none of these troops were the direct troops of the Qi Palace, in other words, they were all Silla people, Japanese people and grassland people.
These troops rushed to Manila, and Yanbei, who had been staying in Linyi, also arrived here. Yanbei should have arrived in Manila for a long time, but when he was halfway, he received an order from Li Yan to ask him to go back to Taiwan. When he saw Li Yan, he realized that Li Yan felt that he was worried about using the alien army, so he transferred another 3,000 Han army, including one thousand musketeers and five hundred artillery soldiers who had just completed training.
Muskets and artillery shone brightly on the battlefield in Japan. After the war ended, Li Yan immediately increased the production of firearms, and also promoted the original musketeers and artillery soldiers to instructors to form a firearm training camp. Now, 5,000 musketeers and 1,500 artillery soldiers have been trained. Originally, these Syrian weapons were sent to Japan to suppress the rebellion, but this time, for the sake of Luzon, Li Yan forced to withdraw some and hand them over to Yanbei.
In fact, after Li Yan implemented the Chinese policy, the rule of Japan had greatly improved, and rebellion rarely occurred, so if Li Yan was willing, he could draw more firearm troops and hand them over to Yanbei. However, Li Yan also knew that the climate in Luzon was rainy and very humid. If the current firearm troops arrived there, they would probably not be much use, so they only drew a thousand musket teams and 500 artillery soldiers.
After Yanbei landed in Manila with a Han army of 3,000 people, all the troops involved in the battle against Luzon arrived. However, Yanbei was not responsible for commanding the army to fight. He had no ability at all. This battle was led by Zhou Long as the head coach and Hu Li as the deputy head coach, and all the troops were led by the two of them.
The reason why Zhou Long was made the general rather than Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui was mainly due to the environment in Luzon. The climate here is hot and a considerable number of them are tropical jungles. Fighting here is much more difficult than fighting on plains or mountains. In addition to facing the enemy, there are also various dangers in the jungle. If you do not have experience in this area, it is estimated that an army of 10,000 people will be thrown into the jungle. If you don’t have the experience in this area, you will have to lose half of it before you start a war with the enemy.
It was precisely because of this that Li Yan asked Zhou Long and Hu Li to lead the team. If Lu Qing was not in charge of the navy now, he really wanted Lu Qing to play the role of the Army General. When the three of them were in Taiwan, they had many people to fight with local natives. Although the weather in Taiwan was hotter than Luzon, they were somewhat similar, so they had rich combat experience in this tropical jungle.
Zhou Long and Hu Li came with those alien armies. This time, in order to pacify Luzon in one fell swoop, Li Yan mobilized a total of 20,000 Japanese, 20,000 Korean troops, and 10,000 grassland troops. Originally, Li Yan mobilized 20,000 grassland people, but Zhou Long raised objections to this. In the end, Li Yan followed his advice and transferred 10,000 grassland people to Linyi.
Luzon is a large island, and the 50,000 troops are naturally not enough. Zhou Long did not intend to let them be the main force. The real main force was the 50,000 troops of Linyi transferred from Linyi. These Linyi people were originally transferred to Japan, but were intercepted by Zhou Long because in his opinion, the grassland people, the Japanese people, and the three Koreans all lived in the north and were not adapted to the jungle war in the south. On the contrary, the climate in Linyi was similar to that in Luzon, so he suggested that Li Yan reduce the number of grassland people's troops and transfer all the Linyi troops to Luzon.
Li Yan naturally would not object to this reasonable suggestion, and he had already handed over the pacification of Luzon to Zhou Long, so these things were originally Zhou Long's duties.
After Zhou Long and Yan Bei and all arrived in Luzon, they did not rush to seize Luzon. Instead, they stationed all the troops outside Manila City. Then Zhou Long and Huli personally supervised them, and the 100,000 troops were subject to emergency adaptation training. In addition, they also found some people who were very familiar with the Luzon jungle to enter the army and served as temporary instructors, explaining to the soldiers the places to pay attention to in the jungle and various taboos.
Speaking of which, all these troops are aliens, Li Yan and Zhou Long do not care about the lives and deaths of these people. However, now Li Yan has implemented a policy of sinicization and has to use a harmonious means to these aliens, so it is not suitable to cause a large number of casualties in these alien troops. In addition, if there are too many casualties, the Qi Palace will also have to spend a lot of money as a pension. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Long, who received the instructions, did these preparations in this way.
In addition, Luzon is now in the rainy season. Not only is it rainy, but the weather is extremely hot, so it is not suitable for war. Only between October and February of the following year will the rain in Luzon become less and the temperature will drop a little. That is a good time to attack.
It's only June, which means that Zhou Long's army will stay in Manila for at least four months. Of course, these four months are not in vain, but they need to adapt to the local climate, and they need to take them to the jungle for adaptive training from time to time.
Originally, Li Yan didn't hide it from sending troops to Luzon. In addition, Li Yan started out as an industry and commerce, and all the merchants in the territory were of great power, so they knew in advance that Li Yan was going to send troops to Luzon. In addition, many smart people calculated that the army would definitely take action in the Kung Fu, and would definitely stay in Manila for the past few months.
It was precisely because of this that all merchants in Taiwan and other places were transporting goods to Luzon like crazy. Even in June when the windy and rainy, the ships traveling to Luzon were not cut off. After all, everyone knew that the army's money was the best to earn. A large army of 100,000 people was stationed in Manila, and the food and supplies consumed every day were not a small amount, so they were active and prepared all kinds of supplies in advance, and then they just waited for the army to come to purchase.
In this case, the military actually enjoys its benefits, because compared with the military's logistics transportation, these merchants transport faster and the cost is much lower than the military's transportation system. The only thing they need is to buy it with money.
Of course, these merchants transported some not-so-important materials. As for things like weapons and armor, they still need to be provided by the army's logistics system.
Chapter completed!