The ruthless emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning Chapter 141 The happiest man is farming and women weaving
Chapter 141 The happiest man is farming and women weaving
Chapter 141 Men farm and women weave are the happiest
Zhu Cixiang was always paying attention to the situation in North Korea. Seven days after Seoul was breached, Jin Yiwei's spies passed the news back to Shanhaiguan.
By this time, hundreds of thousands of troops had already arrived at Shanhaiguan, and they had all completed the third comprehensive combat strength assessment.
The third assessment was not complicated either. Zhu Cixiang randomly selected 2,000 soldiers and generals from each of the five armies according to the roster, including 500 archers, sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and cavalry each.
After the selection, they were not given any time to reorganize and integrate, nor were they designated as the commander, and then a series of assessments were conducted.
It completely simulates a group of defeated and newly gathered troops.
The first is the assessment of the orders. Two thousand people followed the orders and conducted a series of drills.
As a result, except for the Chinese army, all other armies were in a mess.
Then came the physical test. Within half an hour, they marched twenty miles on foot in full gear, and very few people met the requirements.
Then there is the courage test, where two thousand people hold a group and face the cavalry charge, and if the formation is not disordered within fifty steps, they will be considered qualified.
Similarly, except for the Chinese army, the remaining four armies were in commotion. As for the last cavalry assessment, because the training time was too short, it was only a simple test of equestrian skills and horse hacking.
The two thousand men in each army were randomly selected and temporarily combined. Their quality can fully reflect the overall combat power and individual quality of each army.
After several days of assessment, Zhu Cixiang realized that it is not difficult to train an army that can fight. As long as there is no shortage of military pay and enough food, this can be achieved.
But training a strong army is definitely not an easy task.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty's daily soldier training and battlefield command are very chaotic. It is worse than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, let alone the Warring States Period.
Originally, Zhu Cixiang thought that if the strength of the armies was acceptable, he would take the opportunity to directly attack Liaodong and destroy Jiannu, but after the assessment, he immediately put an end to this idea.
If we fight an open and honest battle, the five armies combined are indeed not afraid of establishing slaves, and the defense is more than adequate.
But if you take the initiative to attack and conquer the city, if the cavalry does not have the advantage, you will probably suffer a big loss in the end.
Therefore, after receiving the news that North Korea had been conquered, he led his army back home. He decided that after returning, he would formulate a unified and standardized infantry drill code and must strictly follow the drill code to train.
Instead of like now, generals train individually and rely entirely on their own experience and ideas to train their soldiers.
Similarly, the command system on the battlefield must also be unified. Trumpets, drums, and flags must have a unified standard so that all soldiers can understand it.
For the sake of fairness, Zhu Cihong switched defenses between Huang Degong's right army and Zhou Yuji's rear army.
Zhou Yuji led the rear army to take over the defense of Shanhaiguan and Jizhen, while Huang Degong led the right army to march to Tongzhou first, accepting the test on the way.
Although this exercise test was time-consuming and laborious, Zhu Cihong gained a lot. At least it gave him a detailed understanding and clear understanding of ancient marching and fighting.
It also made all the soldiers realize the importance the emperor attached to the army.
Similarly, the officers and soldiers of all armies had a huge sense of belonging to the emperor, and the overall morale was greatly improved.
So he planned to leave his ancestral teachings behind, and future emperors would have to personally inspect their armies like this every two years.
After the army returned to Tongzhou, it was already May and it took two months.
Looking around, everything is golden, and more than eight million acres of wheat seedlings are about to be harvested.
Zhu Cixiang no longer cares about North Korea.
It's not that the mother country broke its promise, but that North Korea itself failed to live up to its expectations and failed to hold on even for the minimum one month. How can the mother country rescue it?
Following Zhu Cixiang's order, all armies returned to their respective stations one after another and began to help military households harvest summer grain.
This is also the first time the army has helped military households collect grain, and it may also be the last time.
Because rice in a big pot cannot be eaten for too long, Zhu Cixi knows this better than anyone else, so after the summer harvest, each military camp must also carry out reforms, like Datong in Xuanfu, where the fields are assigned to each military household, and each is cultivated separately.
Each household cooks the pot alone.
Regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in each army, except for a small number of veterans who have retired, must also be completely converted into professional soldiers.
As the saying goes, the camp is made of iron, the soldiers are flowing, and some elderly veterans, even if they have experienced hundreds of battles, are not as good as young men of 17 or 18 years old.
Wheat harvests were being vigorously harvested everywhere, but Zhu Cixiang once again focused his energy on the industrial zone in the west of the city.
I saw that in the original open space in the west of the city, there were already two hundred large brick bungalows neatly arranged, each of which was almost two hundred square meters in size.
There was a crunching sound coming from inside, and it was obvious that spinning had begun.
Further out, bungalow residential areas, and more large bungalow workshops and warehouses are also being built.
Although the military households near the capital went back to harvest in the summer, the military attachés recruited hundreds of thousands of young men from Datong, Xuanfu, who had just finished sowing in spring.
"Your Majesty, five thousand yarn-proof looms have been invested so far. Each bungalow can accommodate forty spinning machines. If the looms are not put in as soon as possible, the number of spindles in the warehouse will soon be overrun."
Zhu Cixiang looked at the dozens of women operating spinning machines in the workshop, and had an unreal feeling, as if he had returned to a factory in his previous life. Liu Xinlan on the side introduced it.
During the two months that Zhu Cixi was away, she had been taking care of the spinning and weaving matters.
"Xinlan, where did these women get recruited from?"
Zhu Cixiang asked, looking at the women whose hands and feet were slightly unfamiliar. The youngest among these women was only twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest were forty or fifty years old.
"Your Majesty, they are all family members of the craftsmen's families under the Ordnance Supervisor. According to the construction supervisor's regulations for recruiting young people to work, each of them will be paid thirty cents per day, so there are many female relatives of the craftsmen's families shouting
Come and spin yarn too.
Your Majesty has now built tens of thousands of looms, so why not free up a few rooms for weaving, otherwise the spindles in the warehouse will really not be able to be piled up."
Liu Xinlan finished explaining, and then tried to suggest something.
"Okay, then temporarily free up a few houses for weaving, and first train hundreds of women who can weave, and then let them be responsible for teaching the women of military families.
However, this spinning should not be based on a fixed wage of thirty cash per day, but should be paid according to how many qualified spindles they spin each month, and the price of each spindle can be stipulated.
Each workshop sends a literate palace maid or eunuch to be responsible for record management, and their salary must also be determined according to the number of spindles spun in the entire workshop. It may be a little unfamiliar at first, so give it a month to adapt!"
As Zhu Cihong walked, he taught her some modern factory management systems.
For spinning, wages must be calculated based on quantity.
"Yes, I have all remembered it, but Your Majesty, I think it would save a lot of time and effort if the weaving was centralized in the industrial area."
"I have also thought about this issue. Concentrating weaving will indeed reduce a lot of troubles, but in this way many women will have to leave home and be separated from their relatives for a long time. Girls are okay, but women are more troublesome, so I thought about it,
It’s better to let them weave at home.”
Zhu Cixi waved his hands and sighed.
This is ancient times, and I am afraid that no man is willing to let his wife and daughter leave home for a long time.
Not to mention being away from home for many years, even spending a night alone outside is a big deal.
Therefore, for the time being, we can only engage in a small-scale peasant economy, with men farming and women weaving at home.
This kind of life in which men farmed and women weaved, and their husbands raised their children, was what all ancient Chinese people pursued.
It was nothing more than sending the yarn spindles to each village and then collecting the cloth, which was a bit troublesome, but for the happiness of the people, Zhu Cixiang thought it was worth the trouble.
As for industrialization, we should wait until the steam engine is invented. Then we can specially cultivate some worker families. It is definitely not possible to separate wives and children. That is not in line with the concepts of people of this era.