Chapter 95 The trump card that changes your life experience
Throughout the camp, 10,000 new troops were at their respective positions, unpacking self-heating rice with excitement. Even the first batch of Jin Yiwei who had been in the camp for five days were still not tired of eating these self-heating rice.
But they won't be able to eat any more soon. Better hot dishes and rice will be put into operation after the new army's cooking class is selected.
Xing Feiyue put everything away with a satisfied look on his face, reluctant to look at the water bag and bottle that had been drained, and handed it over to the sergeant from Camp Bianjiao who came to collect the garbage.
It's not that they were so obedient, but those generals with loud voices and treasures said that if they don't obey, they will have no food in the afternoon and will be kicked out of the military camp.
Thinking about the fact that there is still food in the afternoon, I have to endure it!
After packing up, the royal students took Xing Feiyue and the others and walked three miles to their temporary camp.
Wang Chengen had become familiar with driving in the past two days, pulling in all the supplies and practicing his straight-forward driving skills in an instant.
"Now people from Xiaoqi and above will come and learn how to set up tents with us, and then you will teach it to others."
Sixty royal students went out together to train the little flags to set up the first sixty tents.
Then they continued to lead people separately. After two hours, the tents were tied up one by one, and the keel screws were tightened. The final camp area was completed.
Three thousand people could only live in 250 tents. After Wang Chengen led his people to separate and quickly check the tents, they fixed the unerected tents again.
The later iron frame beds were even simpler, and everyone received their own bedding before lunch.
All the soldiers were shocked when they opened the packages one by one. They never expected that new bedding and personal toiletries would be distributed uniformly.
A yellow plastic basin, a green plastic cup, a toothpaste, two toothbrushes, two towels. There are also small packages of shampoo and soap.
"Everyone, listen, these things are not for you to use yet. Everyone has to go to the river to take a bath for me tonight before going to bed. I will check them regularly in the future."
"Brother Feiyue, I can't bear to part with it. This quilt is so clean, if I step on it."
"I can't bear it either."
Xing Feiyue hugged the quilt tremblingly. He remembered that when he was a child, because there was a lack of quilts at home, they were used to cover him and his father, but they could not cover his sister and her mother.
So his father asked his mother and daughter to build a straw mat, and eventually the sister contracted a fever and died.
I also remembered that in Shenshu Camp, more than ten people lived in a big bunk bed. The quilts were full of dirt and there was no ventilation. Look at it now.
All the soldiers of the Shenshu Camp looked at the clean tents and pure steel bunk beds, and thought that everyone had a bed and did not have to sleep in a big bunk. It was unreal.
It seems that it is a good time to stay in the New Army?
After dinner, all the new troops gathered at the training ground of the military camp. This open space the size of six football fields was filled with sergeants in various military uniforms and different mental states.
Directly in front, a four-meter high platform has been set up. Wang Chengen led all the royal students to stand neatly on the platform.
The uniform Mingguang armor, the flintlock gun held in his hand, and the cold-gleaming bayonet on the flintlock gun all made the students below looking up with envy.
"These are the elite soldiers."
"Look at their clothes and armor. Doesn't the imperial court still have money? Why did they keep saying they had no money and were in arrears with their food and salary?"
"You don't want your life? You dare to say anything. Being able to join the New Army is already a good thing, so don't talk about that."
The New Army, which was talking a lot, became completely quiet after Wang Chengen took the microphone and said a few words to be quiet.
"Many people in our family don't know each other, so I'd like to tell you a little bit.
Our family is Wang Chengen, the supervisor of His Majesty's Royal Academy, and a teacher at the Ming Dynasty Royal Academy. These generals behind him are not eunuchs in the palace, but students from the Royal Academy.
The President of the Ming Dynasty Royal Academy is His Majesty, and we are the direct leaders appointed by His Majesty to cooperate with military affairs."
Wang Chengen paused. He said this to tell the people below that their words are very effective and they represent His Majesty.
At the same time, he also temporarily changed his address to Chongzhen and turned to address him as a foreign minister.
"Your Majesty established the new army in order to have an invincible lion that can win every battle, so you can see it when you enter this military camp.
The entire camp costs no less than ten million taels, and if it is evenly divided on each of you, the average cost is over a hundred taels."
"Wow!!!"
The sergeants below were in an uproar. They were told that the entire camp had spent tens of millions of taels and they had no idea. But when it was said that they had spent hundreds of taels, they were the first to refuse to accept it.
You've only been here a few days and you've already spent a hundred taels?
"Quiet!"
"We have a basis for saying this. Look at what material your tents are made of, but are they linen or rotten cotton and straw?
Look, your bed is made of wood. Is the rice and meat you eat every day damaged by a few pebbles? Are any of the personal items issued to you old?
Those are all genuine treasures, and I will give them to you directly for your use."
Hearing what Wang Chengen said, the sergeants below became quiet. Indeed, now that I think about it, that tent alone would cost dozens of taels of silver, as well as those iron beds. Iron is not cheap nowadays.
"But what I want to say is that this is not enough, because His Majesty will give you more in order to allow everyone to train with peace of mind and train hard.
First, His Majesty will provide each household with five taels of silver as a settlement allowance for all qualified New Army officers and soldiers.
Let their families have money to move to the Shunde area and build an Army Family City there.
Wasteland can be allocated for your family to cultivate, and factories can be set up there to recruit your parents and brothers as workers to provide enough food.
You don’t have to worry about not being able to take care of your family members in time when they are being bullied, because the people in Family City are all family members of brothers in the military, and they will all take care of each other.”
As soon as Wang Chengen finished speaking, there was a lot of discussion below. This sounds really good, but it is also a bit like the current military household system.
Wang Chengen followed the procedure in the manual, appropriately named the person below, handed him the microphone, had a conversation, and responded to the sergeants' simplest questions.
"Second, Your Majesty has said that the food and salary for the officers and soldiers of the new army will be adjusted to a monthly value of one tael of silver, a military coupon subsidy of two hundred yuan, and two taels of cash silver coins.
The officers have improved on this basis, and the pacesetters are trained every month, and the assessments at all levels will increase. As long as you dare to practice, Your Majesty will give you money!"
"Using military coupons, you can withdraw anything you want to buy from military merchants and Ming Dynasty royal merchants outside. At the same time, military coupons can also be stored, and storage will generate interest.
A military coupon of 200 yuan can buy: two pounds of sugar, twenty pounds of salt, or one stone of rice.
There are also some good clothes, good pants, and even bicycles that you have never seen before. These are good things that cannot be bought with money outside. Please see the pictures and prices above for details."
Above Wang Chengen's head, the content played on the screen changed into pictures, and the sergeants below were excited when they saw it.
The salt or sugar look like high-quality products, and the clothes, pants, and shoes in the back are even more unbearable. The prices don't seem expensive. They can buy them for 200 yuan a month.
Even a bicycle can be bought after five months of saving. It is a bicycle only owned by the ministers of the DPRK! Putting one at home will make it easy for matchmakers.
As for buying and selling salt? There are many people who have ideas, but Chongzhen will not give them this opportunity. Selling salt with military coupons is definitely not worthwhile.
In the Ming Dynasty, a pound of salt now cost only thirty pennies. In the early years, there were still a few pennies.
The specific calculation is that the salary of an official is one hundred and twenty kilograms of salt or one kilogram of rice. With one kilogram of silver per kilogram of salt, one kilogram of salt is less than ten cents.
The soldiers from Shenshu Camp, Shenji Camp and the Fifth Army Camp who came in late were even more excited. These days, the value of military coupons is being spread everywhere in the inner city.
"Eunuch Wang, are all these things you said true? If so, just let the training go as long as most people can handle it. If I, Xing Feiyue, quit, I will have no eggs."
"Before answering your question, I want you to do twenty push-ups by yourself, just like this student. As for the reason, I will tell you after you do it."
Xing Feiyue, who was named to ask questions, felt quite relaxed when he saw the student's movements. Although he didn't know why he was asked to do this, he still learned to do it.
From the first few, which were easy, to gradually becoming more difficult, he realized that this push-up was not easy to do either.
"Is that okay, Xing Feiyue?"
"Oh, this little flag you are flying looks like a bitch. The little general in the stands did it easily."
"You fart, Brother Feiyue is so hard, there must be something wrong with these push-ups."
Xing Feiyue gradually slowed down, and after finally finishing, he stood up with a heavy breath and looked at Wang Chengen.
"We are telling you now that we ask you to do push-ups. It's not that you shouldn't ask questions, but that you shouldn't question His Majesty.
As for your question, His Majesty said he would give it to you, and that means giving it to you. The authenticity can be seen from what you eat and from this military camp."
After Wang Chengen finished speaking, everyone below him regained his composure, listened carefully again, and released his final trump card.
"Third, and most importantly, His Majesty has ordered that all new army officers and soldiers, as long as they pass the training, can have their families remove their military status and convert them to civilian status.
All qualified New Army officers and soldiers can study with the trainees every night, and they will teach you how to read and write. The military will set up a military examination, and those who pass the examination can directly become officers.
You don't have to worry about whether you can learn this. His Majesty gave the students a fatal order. Within half a year, if more than 10% of the New Army's people are illiterate, that regiment will be overtaken, and the students who teach in that regiment will be cut off.
Your children who move to the family city, as long as they are younger than ten years old, can attend the family school for free. Those who are over ten years old can send them to school at your own expense. Those who are fifteen to eighteen years old can enter the reserve officer.
Academy study.”
This knife seemed to have pierced the main artery of this group of people. A group of sergeants and flagmen looked at Wang Chengen in disbelief.
If numbness is the normal state of the Ming Dynasty soldiers, and darkness is the color in front of their eyes, then this third point is the dawn that breaks through the darkness.
The people here are all sergeants under the age of thirty-five, and they are selected elite soldiers. Naturally, they have the idea of changing their destiny.
It's just that they didn't have that opportunity before, and their class was determined from birth. Now suddenly someone tells them that the emperor has arranged it, and the army can teach you to learn, and your children can also learn.
Those who were calm, indifferent and unbelieving just now were all shouting in Wang Chengen's direction, wanting to get proof.
Listening to the roaring noise below, Wang Chengen could understand their excitement.