Yang Peng personally presided over the recruitment of new soldiers. To recruit 10,000 people this time, recruiting in the prefectures and counties near Tianjing New City was not enough. Yang Peng asked the soldiers to post notices in other prefectures and counties in Cangzhou, saying that if
A four-day physical examination and interview will be held from November 23rd to 26th to recruit healthy young people aged 18 to 22. The salary given is three to two months' salary and three meals of meat.
This kind of treatment is much better than that of the frontier troops of the Song Dynasty, and it is a very attractive salary.
Sure enough, on November 23, more than 20,000 young people came to apply. Yang Peng's requirements for the soldiers were to be healthy and honest. They must be able to train into soldiers who dare to fight, but also be loyal, reliable and not capable of fighting.
Revealing the secret of the flintlock rifle. The physical examination checks height and weight, excludes candidates with diseases, and also checks whether night blindness and color blindness. After all, Yang Peng faces all kinds of enemies. If he is night blind or color blind, he may be on a specific battlefield.
Failure. For elite troops like the Huben Division, any failed war is unbearable.
There were so many applicants that Yang Peng took Zhang Xiang, Duan Zhixian, Zhan Jinguo and more than 50 senior officers to the battle, and each interviewed the applicants who passed the physical examination. The interviewers chatted with the interviewers for an average of five minutes, and at the end of the day
It can interview six to seven thousand people. After four days of busy work, it feels like all the talk has been done. Yang Peng finally recruits 10,000 people. On the spot of the interview, the interviewer will tell the applicant whether to recruit.
The people who were recruited were overjoyed, and they were all beaming with excitement. In these years of war and chaos, all industries were depressed, and it was impossible to farm properly. It was so lucky to be a soldier in Tianjing New City with three liang of money and three meals of meat.
The monthly money is no joke. Soldiers who joined Tianjing New City in the past have said that it is real money and is paid out promptly every month. It can support four people with food, clothing, housing and transportation. Most of the people who join the army are young people who are not married.
If you save this monthly money for ten months, you can save thirty taels of silver, which is enough to pay a betrothal gift and marry a wife.
Although they are soldiers, the soldiers in Tianjing New City have very little risk. The troops in Tianjing New City are capable of recruiting Khitan North and crippling them. What other enemy can defeat the troops in Tianjing New City? Even if it is true.
If someone is injured or even killed in the battle, the lord of Tianjing New City will give the injured or the family members of the deceased one to two or five yuan a month. Even if they are injured and die, the family will not be left without food and clothing.
In short, as long as you enter Tianjing New City, you will never be able to escape a life of well-off life. The recruits who are recruited have a sense of happiness as if they are jumping over the dragon's gate. After the recruits are recruited, they do not enter the camp immediately, but wait for the military camp after the New Year.
After the barracks were repaired, they gathered in Tianjing New City. After Yang Peng recruited 10,000 new soldiers, he also asked the soldiers to hire masons in the states and counties near Cangzhou to build a new barracks for 10,000 soldiers within two months. Ten thousand new soldiers, eight people
One room is equivalent to 1,200 barracks, and Yang Peng invited a thousand masons from various states and counties. The villa complex in Tianjing New City has been expanding, and now there are more than 300 newly built and unoccupied villas to build military barracks.
The masons can live in the villa first.
Lei San is the third eldest child in the family, and he has two older brothers. Lei San is an honest boy. He can't even say a word when he is punched. His status in the family is very low. Lei San's father doesn't like this very much.
The taciturn third son felt that this son looked nothing like him. During normal meals, when Lei San's father saw Lei San going to serve the rice, he would say: "Don't serve too much, the whole family still needs to eat!"
Because of his father's mantra, Lei San almost never had enough to eat. The Lei family was very poor. The five members of the family rented 30 acres of dry land. Half of the grain was turned in every year, and they ate rice bran for several months every year.
Lei San was the third son with the least status in a poor tenant farmer's family, and he had even less status in the village. No one usually paid attention to him. But this time Lei San went to Tianjing New City to recruit soldiers, and he was recruited.
I don’t know how many people went to Tianjing New City to apply for the recruitment this time. I am afraid that only one out of ten people will be selected, and Lei San was actually recruited. More than a dozen young people went to Leijia Village, and only Lei San was selected. Others in the village
Young people are envious of Lei San and don't understand why they, who are so smart, were not selected, while Lei San, who is so honest and good-natured, was chosen. The Lei San family has a Tianjing New City soldier like Lei San, and his family's status in the village
He improved all of a sudden, as if he had been selected as a scholar. Lei San's father was walking around the village these days, and the neighbors took the initiative to say hello to him, which made him feel very proud.
But after all, there is face, and Lei San’s father also had to consider some practical issues. After dinner that night, Lei San’s father called all three sons over and said important words in the yard. Lei San’s father
Sitting on a small chair, he asked his eldest son and second son to sit on the chairs as well, and said to Lei San, who was standing: "Lei San, you are very lucky now. You have been recruited into Tianjing New City as a soldier, and you will get three taels a month."
You are lucky to have three meals of meat for your monthly money!" After a pause, Lei San's father said seriously: "But! You can't eat alone!"
Patting the dust on his trousers, Lei San's father said: "Your eldest brother is twenty-four years old now, and he is not married yet. He just needs money! From now on, you will have food to eat in the military camp, and you will not have any expenses on weekdays. I will give it to you."
Leave three taels of silver to make clothes, you save 20 taels of silver every month, and save 30 taels of silver for your eldest brother to get married!"
Lei San nodded and said: "Okay, dad!" Hearing Lei San's words, Lei San's eldest brother smiled and glanced at his father gratefully. Lei San's father said again: "And your second brother, you can't
The money has been spent carelessly, so I still have to save thirty taels of silver for him to get married!"
Lei San thought for a while and said, "Okay!" Seeing Lei San agree, Lei San's second brother also laughed and stretched out his hands and feet proudly.
Lei San's father smiled, nodded and said, "Lei San, I didn't support you in vain!" After a pause, he said again: "When your second brother gets married, you will give me eight taels of silver every month.
Your eldest brother, give eight cents to your second brother, eight cents to me, and keep six cents for yourself. You are single, six cents is enough!"
When Lei San heard this, he was silent for a while. Lei San's father rolled his eyes and said, "Lei San, why don't you agree? Six dollars is not enough?" After being hired by Tianjing New City, Lei San felt confident.
More. In the past, Lei San felt that he was a superfluous person in this world, eating an extra mouthful of food. When his family or outsiders bullied him, Lei San did not dare to resist. But it is different now. Tianjing New City gives him three
With two months to hire himself, Lei San felt that he was a needed person and a decent person. He had the confidence to resist bullying by others.
Lei San decided to resist his father's predatory arrangement. Lei San said resolutely: "After my second brother gets married, I can't take out any more money!" Lei San's father rolled his eyes and cursed loudly: "Lei San,
Are you going to rebel? I have raised you for eighteen years in vain? If you are not prepared to take out the money, you should get out of my house now!" Lei San puffed up his chest and said: "It's easy for me to get out, Tianjing New City
You can report it in advance. But if that is the case, then I won’t give the eldest brother and the second brother any money for marriage."
Lei San's father's face turned red with anger, and he wanted to explode, but could not speak. Lei San's two brothers looked at each other, their eyes full of surprise. Unexpectedly, Lei San, who could not hold back a word for a long time,
He actually resisted his father's arrangement. Lei San looked at his angry and shocked father and said: "From now on, I will be a soldier of Tianjing New City. I will no longer be the third superfluous son of the Lei family, and I will not be able to eat enough."
I'm such a fool. I save money for my eldest brother and my second brother. This is how I support my family. Don't think it's because I'm stupid or because I'm easy to bully!"
After saying this, Lei San walked into the house and went to sleep. After finishing the work of recruiting soldiers, Yang Peng started making boring machines.
Wu Ku is an oil seller in Tianjing New Town. He was originally an oil seller in Cangzhou City. He has an old mother and two children, and his life is poor. There are too many oil sellers in Cangzhou City, and everyone’s
Business was not going well. He could only earn one or two taels of silver a month at that time, and sometimes he could not earn even this amount. Without money, Wuku's family of five would often go hungry. Wuku looked sad every day at that time.
I just want to find a way out and make money to eat.
At the beginning of this year, he heard that Tianjing New City was very prosperous and people could make money in all walks of life, so he gritted his teeth and moved to Tianjing New City. He asked his nephew, who worked in a salt factory, to act as a guarantor and sold the oil to Tianjing New City. Tianjing
In order to prevent a large number of refugees from gathering in Tianjing New City, the city lord of the new city stipulated that only workers working in the workshops of Tianjing New City can provide guarantees before outsiders can enter Tianjing New City to do business, and each worker can only guarantee one foreign merchant.
.Thanks to Wu Ku who has always loved this nephew since childhood, he got the opportunity to enter Tianjing New City.
When they arrived at Tianjing New City, Wu Ku found that business here was indeed much easier. The entire market in the north of the city corresponded to thousands of residents in the north of the city, but there were only four oil sellers in the market. Not to mention that the people in Tianjing New City were rich and ate a lot of oil.
Although the price of selling oil is still the same as that in Cangzhou, there are many more buyers. Wuku makes small profits but quick turnover, and can earn two or two and five yuan of silver a month.
Including his wife's income from weaving at home, his family has an income of 328 yuan a month. This amount of money is enough for his family of five to live. Not only can they have enough to eat, but they can also make cotton-padded jackets in winter and single clothes in summer.
Eat meat during the festival. Not only that, the rent in Tianjing New City is also cheap. In the past, Wuku rented two leaky and dilapidated houses in the city owner for three coins per month, but now Wuku rents two houses in the general's villa.
A good house with no worries about wind and rain, the rent only costs two cents and one cent.
Today's good life is something Wu Ku never dared to imagine before.
However, something even better came at the end of this year. The city lord gave the children free books and let them go to school! What a decent thing it is to study? Wuku was born in poverty and never went to school for a day in his life.
What he admired was the scholar. Every time he saw the scholar, he would stay with him respectfully and not dare to talk casually. Even the names of his eldest son and youngest daughter were chosen by him for a hundred pence from a scholar.
I heard that people who work in the city lord's property, as long as they have read and know how to read, will be promoted to supervisors in a year or two, and will be paid three taels or even four taels of silver a month. Their futures are very different from those of illiterate people. In the past, Wu
After all, Wu Ku was just an oil seller. He couldn't afford to pay for repairs and couldn't support his two children in studying and literacy. But now that the city lord has sent his children to school for free, Wu Ku would not miss such a good thing. He went to the official hall early.
I signed up. The people in the government office said that both boys and girls can study here. There will be one class for boys and one class for girls. However, only children over eight years old will be admitted in the first batch. Wu Ku’s eldest son will go to school, and his younger daughter will have to wait.
several years.
On December 20th, school started, and Wu Ku’s eldest son went to school. It only took two days for his son to learn to write his name. Wu Ku was very excited when he saw that his son could write. He took his son with him
The calligraphy he wrote was shown off everywhere in the market in the north of the city, telling others that it was what his son had learned in school. Those who saw Wuku's son's "calligraphy" praised Wuku's son for his future, which made Wuku very proud.
On this day, before closing the stall, Wu Ku showed off his son's "calligraphy" outside again, and then returned home. When he arrived at home, as soon as Wu Ku entered the door, he saw his son practicing writing with water on the table, and he was immediately overjoyed -
- If my son studies so hard, he will be able to read and write in a short time. Doesn’t that mean he will be successful? If my son grows up and can work for the general, won’t he also be able to become a supervisor?
Wu Ku pushed the oil cart to the wall of the hall, walked to the table and asked his son: "Son, what word did you write?" Wu Ku's son raised his head and said: "This is what my husband taught me today."
The word " is my father's name, the word "KU" of Wuku!" Wu Ku burst into laughter when he heard this and said, "Dad can't even write his own name, but you can, you're so promising!" Wuku's son
He pulled out a piece of paper and said: "Dad, I will teach you how to write your name!" Wu Ku was delighted when he heard this and said: "Okay, son, you teach me how to write your name!"
Wu Ku's son took out a piece of white paper, dipped his brush in ink and wrote Wu Ku's name on the paper. He handed the two words to Wu Ku and said, "Dad, take a chopstick and point it at what I wrote."
Let's practice calligraphy." Seeing that his son wrote proficiently, Wu Ku smiled happily and said: "Okay! Okay! My son is really capable and will definitely be more promising than his father in the future!"
Boring machines are machine tools used to process holes in workpieces with holes. They appeared a few years ago and were used to process furniture. As a designer, Yang Peng certainly knows the principles of boring machines. Yang Peng has now made
Bearings, making a boring machine is a matter of course. Yang Peng makes a manual boring machine. After casting several gears as transmission devices, Yang Peng transmits the rotational force of human rotation to the boring bar. The boring bar rotating in the bearing is very
Stable, the boring bar gradually moves forward during high-speed rotation, which can gradually expand the hole in the workpiece.
Using a boring machine to process holes in the workpiece is much more accurate than using a drill to drill holes, and can produce holes with higher precision. The boring machine made by Yang Peng is used to make flintlock barrels, and the boring rod Yang Peng uses
The best steel I can collect is fine steel. Although there is no alloy steel, there is no problem in cutting wrought iron with fine steel after quenching and tempering.
Yang Peng and ten blacksmiths worked in the blacksmith shop for fifteen days and made the first boring machine in the Song Dynasty. After the boring machine was completed, Yang Peng made a special fixing groove for the gun barrel on the boring machine, so that
The gunsmith uses a boring machine to boring the gun barrel. The gunsmiths first use a fine boring bar to boring, and then a coarse boring bar. It takes a day to boring a gun barrel.
The barrel was bored out and looked good, but Yang Peng was unsure. He asked the gunsmith to test the bored barrel with four times the usual amount of gunpowder. He found that there were no cracks in the barrel after the gunpowder exploded, and there was no problem. Test
After the success, the gunsmiths gathered around the boring machine and looked around, marveling at the city lord for creating such an exquisite machine. The city lord must be the reincarnation of Lu Ban, otherwise how could he invent a new thing every once in a while?
If you work with the Lord of the City, you will have a bright future. "Sir, you are brilliant!" "The Lord of the City is really a fairy-like figure!" "I have been making blunderbuss for several years, and I still don't know that I can make barrels like this!" I heard the craftsmen say.
Admired, Yang Peng smiled proudly. With this boring machine, the manufacturing speed of flintlock rifles can be greatly improved. Now the barrel can be bored in one day, and a gunsmith only needs seven days to complete the production of a flintlock rifle.
All processes. Compared with the previous speed of manufacturing a rifle in one month, the boring machine can increase the speed by three times.
There were no boring machines before, so Yang Peng could only rely on hiring more craftsmen to make flintlock guns. In fact, Yang Peng had already recruited all the craftsmen from several surrounding counties and counties, and then hired more gunsmiths to go to the capital or Shandong. This kind of
The operability and cost of this idea are very unsatisfactory. But with the boring machine, the gun barrel is much faster, and Yang Peng does not need to continue to expand his team of gunsmiths.
After making a boring machine, Yang Peng seemed to have seen tens of thousands of flintlock rifles piled up in the warehouse. With more rifles, soldiers can organize more target training and are not afraid of having too many targets and scrapping their guns. Because often
Target training. Nowadays, the flintlock rifles of 10,000 veterans are almost reaching the end of their service life, and they need to be equipped with new guns. In addition, 10,000 recruits need a lot of target training, and the number of guns required for training is very large.
The materials used for scrapped guns can be dismantled and recycled, and each component of the gun can be recast separately. This means that remanufacturing scrapped guns does not require much material cost, only labor cost. Boring machines greatly reduce the labor cost of making guns.
So it doesn’t take much money to scrap the guns and rebuild them. Yang Peng immediately asked all 500 craftsmen to stop making Mini rifles and organize them all to make boring machines. They wanted to build 100 boring machines within a month. As long as they have
One hundred boring machines, and five hundred craftsmen using the boring machines in turn, can produce more than two thousand flintlock rifles in one month, meeting the training needs of 28,000 soldiers.
In mid-November, the temperature in the city was already very low, and the cold wind was howling. The earthen houses in the north of the city could no longer help the refugees withstand the severe cold, and wind leaked everywhere. Fortunately, the houses for the refugees had been built - Yang Peng was in surrounding states in September
The county recruited 1,500 masons, and the refugees themselves provided labor for the masons. All the new houses of more than 2,000 refugee families were built by mid-November.
The houses of the refugees are covered with tile roofs, which is no problem to prevent rain and wind. However, in order to meet the construction deadline, the bricks of the houses are not plastered with lime. The cement brick walls are exposed and do not look so beautiful. However, the refugees are not so particular. They used to
Most of the people who live in my hometown are mud houses with thatched roofs that leak. I am very happy to live in a house made of bricks and tiles.
In the future, when the refugees have harvested food and become rich, it will not be too late to find someone to apply whitewash. Not only that, the houses built for the refugees will also be relatively small. 1,500 masons built a total of 3,200 houses.
, three refugees have to share one house. But this is not a big problem: the houses built for the poor are clustered in small villages, leaving a lot of room between houses. It can be dealt with in the first year.
In the second year, when the poor have harvested food and earned money, they can expand their houses on the reserved space.
In addition, the refugees lacked cotton-padded quilts and clothes. Although the refugees carried cotton-padded clothes and quilts when they were plundered by Khitan soldiers, which were the only valuable things for poor families, they would still bring cotton-padded clothes even if they were plundered by Khitan soldiers and sent to Liaodong.
Quilts. But by the standards of Tianjing New City, the cotton-padded clothes and quilts of these poor people in the Song Dynasty were very shabby - tattered cotton-padded clothes and quilts shared by several people. It was difficult to survive the winter with such equipment.
inevitable.
Yang Peng didn't want anyone to die of frostbite in his territory, so in October he sent people to surrounding states and counties to buy 6,000 quilts, and ordered 6,000 sets of standard cotton-padded jackets worn by soldiers in Tianjing New City.
Tianjing. These things were in place by mid-November. Yang Peng sent them to the villages of the poor and distributed them to the poor. These cotton-padded jackets were large enough for the poor to wear whatever they could. Of course.
Yang Peng also distributed sewing scissors to the poor - if the size of the cotton-padded jacket was too different, he could change the size himself. Women in the Song Dynasty were all good at needlework, and they were also good at changing clothes.
The farmers heard that the city lord had distributed winter clothes, and they happily received them. Zheng Hui organized officials to record which household received several quilts and sets of cotton clothes - Yang Peng did not give these winter equipment to the poor in vain.
Yes, these quilts and cotton-padded jackets cost Yang Peng 5,000 taels of silver, and they were required to be returned to Yang Peng after the farmers collected the rent in the first year. The farmers planted spring wheat in the first year, and it was estimated that each household could earn 23, 4 taels of silver.
In terms of food, if you eat it for five mouths, you can still have ten stones of food left in exchange for twenty taels of silver. You can afford to buy some cotton clothes and quilts.
Seeing that the poor people were not well prepared for the winter and that all kinds of expenses were insufficient, Yang Peng was afraid that the farmers would be short of miscellaneous supplies for the winter, so he simply lent each household five taels of silver to the farmers, asking them to find whatever they needed from vendors and make an appointment.
When the wheat is harvested next year, they will pay back the money with grain. The farmers gratefully took the money, but they were reluctant to use it and saved it all. However, with money in hand, these poor farmers will have something to rely on when they encounter difficulties.
After the farmers were settled, the weather turned cold immediately and winter came.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.