Zhang Ning sat in the Weapon Bureau's room for a whole day, trying to figure out what the organization has done recently from the reported information accounts.
The winter moon has arrived, and it is not good to sit for a whole day in such a season, mainly because it is cold.
I can't remember the geography knowledge I have learned for a long time, and Zhang Ning doesn't know what climate the southwest region belongs to. Anyway, I feel that winter is not so easy.
During the day, the water outside does not freeze, and the temperature should not be lower than zero degrees, but it is abnormally wet and cold. As long as the body is inactive, you will find that the heat in your body is constantly losing and then trembles with coldness.
Everyone doesn’t burn charcoal during the day, and it is said that the more they grill, the more they will be, the more they will be afraid of the cold.
However, the military generals who were also chatting in the room were very excited and did not feel any discomfort.
Zhang Ning also felt that he was used to living a good life outside, but in comparison, he couldn't bear much hardship.
These generals were half-agricultural and half-war farmers not long ago. Even Wei Bin, a hundred households, had prestige and status in the village and had to go to the fields to farm.
Zhang Ning has seen the farming situation of the people in the southwest. There is obviously no agricultural tools derived from mechanochemistry and other aspects in this era. Everything depends on human power, and animal power is only the most useful when turning the ground.
Especially when harvesting rice, it is up to manpower to feed the grain from the rice ears into a container called half-dock. It is not a big deal to grind the blood blisters with both hands and then the wet millet is to be transported back to the village. A load of wet millet is about 200 kilograms, and it is up to people to carry it back from the mountain path, and even the animals cannot be used.
In such a living environment, Zhang Ning believes that these people are top-class soldiers who are used to hard work and hard work.
There is food and meat. Such treatment is not difficult for soldiers to walk hundreds of miles to fight, and training every day is not difficult, because there is food provided by the government.
Every day, the branch owners send people to join us, but there is not enough food.Zhang Ning said casually that this barren land cannot raise many people at all, and there is no way to fight for the soldiers if there is no food to eat.
Monk Yao, who was drinking tea, said: You can exchange silk silk and satin and nearby Tujia villages for food, but they can't exchange too much, so they also have to keep food.Why don’t you tell Mrs. Yao about this?I remember that the tutors in the tutors were in contact with the chieftains of Yongshunsi. It seemed that there were chieftains in the tutors. If they could buy food from Yongshunsi, they would not have to worry.
Zhang Ning nodded quickly when he heard this: If he could get a large amount of food from Yongshunsi, it would be easier to deal with, but transportation was a bit difficult... and weapons and armor were even more problematic, and everything was lacking.
He poked the file in front of him with his finger. The firearm was only enough to equip two brigades, and there were less than 300 soldiers who could equip them.If there is a shortage of iron, the cannon will not be relied on; if the army is expanded, it would be good for each person to get a spear and a single sword.Iron armor is definitely not equipped, one is iron deficiency, and the other is that forging consumes manpower and requires people to get fuel... Paper armor and cotton armor are also difficult, and there is not so much raw materials and manpower; if you don’t have armor, facing the regular armed forces of the government army, you will not be able to withstand long-range killing of the bow and crossbow.
He murmured and understood in his heart that it was still the limitation of productivity. Without territory and population, there would be no productivity, and he would not be able to raise troops.
At this moment, someone was talking outside heard the sound of someone talking in. There was an official here. If you go and ask, maybe Your Highness is also inside.
After a while, a man in a robe and a square scarf appeared at the door.
I saw that the man looked in his twenties or thirties, with a straight facial features and a tall figure, and his behavior was somewhat elegant.
He came in and looked around and bowed to Monk Yao: Master Yao is fine.
Then he greeted the people in the room one by one.
Zhang Ning pointed to the stranger who came in and asked: Do you know each other?
Monk Yao said: He is from the Dayong branch. He has seen him several times and is called Chen...Maocai. Everyone calls him that.Chen Maocai, isn’t this the third prince you were looking for just now?
Chen Maocai turned his head to look at Zhang Ning, stunned for a moment, and made a gesture to kneel down.
Zhang Ning hurriedly said: I'm fine.
However, he still knelt down and bowed three times before standing up and clasping his fists and said: The leader sent a letter to him, saying that his highness was missing an envoy, so his father ordered his ministers to come to Fengxia Mountain to wait for his Highness to send him.
It turns out that the person we want is Mr. Chen.
Zhang Ning's titles changed immediately and he stood up with a passionate look on his face, because finding someone to go to Miaojiang is not a good job, and he doesn't know how the Miao people will treat the Han people who go to negotiate. It's a bit dangerous anyway.
Chen Maocai was a little flattered when he saw this and hurriedly said: Don’t dare, don’t dare.
Zhang Ning hurriedly asked him to sit down and talk, checked the letters he handed over, and said straight to the point: Mr. Chen should understand the situation?The Miao people are now in Chenzhou, so we have to send people to discuss the alliance... Of course, those Miao people may not be interested in all of a alliance. Your task this time is mainly to show our kindness to the Miao leaders and then establish contact with them. I will prepare some gifts for Mr. Chen, and you must find a way to make friends with the Miao people.
In this way, this errand is not bad.Chen Maocai pretended to be a smile and said, "We have no malice and we are giving money and property, so the Miao people should not get into evil with us."
Zhang Ning said: The customs of Miao and Han are different. You should prepare more before you set out and don’t violate other people’s taboos as soon as you arrive at the place.
Chen Maocai bowed and said: Your Highness is right, I am ready.There are many Miao and Tujia people near our Dayong Branch, and they also have contacts during normal times. When I came here, I brought a follower, who was the Miao people of the Laershan Miao people.
After hearing this, Zhang Ning was very satisfied and nodded.
At this time, Wei Bin joked: I heard that the Miao people can use Gu, you have to be careful and don’t get hit.
Chen Maocai smiled calmly and said: I have no grudges with the Miao people in Laershan. Why do they use Gu to harm me?As far as I know, the Miao people who use Gu are also excluded in their own tribe and do not enter the elegant hall.What's more, the saints don't say that magic. Although I have heard of that thing, I don't believe that it can really harm people. If that witchcraft is useful, why don't the Miao people use to gull the Han officials who bully and persecut them die of curses and risk raising an army to rebel?
Wei Bin looked back at Zhang Ning and said: This gentleman is very good at speaking, and his mouth is very good.
Chen Maocai smiled without saying a word, not saying anything.
Chen Gai, the chief bannerman sitting next to him, smiled and said: Mr. Chen is a talented person, so he doesn’t have to bring any money. I heard that Miao girl is passionate and might just look down on you. Why just have a marriage alliance? Isn’t everything solved?
After hearing this, everyone burst into laughter.
Chen Maocai was not angry, but just shook his head slightly and said: Unfortunately, I have already gotten married, and even the dogs can run away all over the mountain. The ancients had the virtue of "a wife with a bad scoundrel will not leave the court", so I never thought of marrying another wife.If the Miao girl is willing to be a concubine, she would give me a beauty and would not be able to ask for it, why would she be reluctant?
Haha... Everyone laughed again.
Zhang Ning smiled and did not affect everyone's good mood, but he was not interested in spending time making jokes with the generals here to make fun of them.
He stood up immediately: My uncle sent someone to settle Mr. Chen and I went to the grassland to take a look.It's really cold if you don't walk around.
Wei Bin said: Zhang Baihu (Chengzong) and others train sergeants on the grassland, and their subordinates will accompany you.
OK.Zhang Ning nodded, said goodbye to Yao and Chen Maocai and others.
There is a flat grassland outside the east entrance of the village. It used to be a place where Wei Baihu and others trained and armed villagers, and it was a natural schoolyard.
This period was quite lively, with more than 700 people active there every day, and the grass in the middle was completely trampled, leaving only a solid wasteland.
More than 700 people were divided into five brigades, forming a complete system of left scepter.
The first team was a veteran who attacked Shimen County. They were equipped with relatively complete equipment, but lacked armor and their blue uniforms were also neat. They usually trained fighting skills in scattered manner; the second team was Hou Mao's Dasheng Village soldiers, and these people's queue training barely passed the test because the Weapon Bureau also had more than 100 convex guns, which were equipped with them. They trained musket technology on weekdays, loading, shooting, queue conversion, maintenance of guns, etc.
The other three teams were recruited from several villages under the rule of Monk Yao, and the potential of the military source of Fengxia Mountain villages was almost maximized by Zhang Ning.
These farmers are still practicing military discipline, and whip whip and beating are indispensable.
Hundreds of people from the three teams were split on both sides, with a wooden board tied on their chests, each of which was more than meter long, lined up in front of them. Zhang Chengzong shouted, and both sides lined up from a hundred steps away from the outside.
Retreat, run around, tie up and give twenty whips!
Zhang Chengzong stared at the gradually approaching queue on both sides and shouted loudly.
After a while, the two sides bumped together, and most of the long wooden sticks poked directly into people's chests. Some were not lucky and were stabbed in their stomachs, making them scream in pain; some were not physically poked directly to the ground.
Zhang Chengzong shouted: Make up the ones behind and keep the formation. If there are too many people, you can defeat the opponent!
Several generals riding horses rushed forward with whips, and threw them over when they saw anyone they didn't like, and they cursed.
……
Hundreds of people from Fengxia Mountain usually train to bring food from their own families, because Zhang Ning could allocate the food supply so much that they could bring their own food and subsidize three cents of military salary. During this period, the first brigade's military salary was one, two or three cents per person, and eight cents of other people except the second brigade.
The people who came from Dasheng Village had no choice but to have no land or food here, so they had to rely on Zhang Ning to find ways to supply them. The families who came from Dasheng Village also had to rely on food relief, which was really a burden.
The clothes on the school ground were messy, and almost all the people in the first brigade were wearing old blue clothes they had used to be. The second brigade was equipped with gray clothes in Shimen County. The others just wore whatever their homes were wearing now.
Zhang Ning planned to pay for the soldiers' families to customize unified military uniforms...
In his opinion, even his clothes were not neatly dressed like an army?
The winter moon has arrived, and it is not good to sit for a whole day in such a season, mainly because it is cold.
I can't remember the geography knowledge I have learned for a long time, and Zhang Ning doesn't know what climate the southwest region belongs to. Anyway, I feel that winter is not so easy.
During the day, the water outside does not freeze, and the temperature should not be lower than zero degrees, but it is abnormally wet and cold. As long as the body is inactive, you will find that the heat in your body is constantly losing and then trembles with coldness.
Everyone doesn’t burn charcoal during the day, and it is said that the more they grill, the more they will be, the more they will be afraid of the cold.
However, the military generals who were also chatting in the room were very excited and did not feel any discomfort.
Zhang Ning also felt that he was used to living a good life outside, but in comparison, he couldn't bear much hardship.
These generals were half-agricultural and half-war farmers not long ago. Even Wei Bin, a hundred households, had prestige and status in the village and had to go to the fields to farm.
Zhang Ning has seen the farming situation of the people in the southwest. There is obviously no agricultural tools derived from mechanochemistry and other aspects in this era. Everything depends on human power, and animal power is only the most useful when turning the ground.
Especially when harvesting rice, it is up to manpower to feed the grain from the rice ears into a container called half-dock. It is not a big deal to grind the blood blisters with both hands and then the wet millet is to be transported back to the village. A load of wet millet is about 200 kilograms, and it is up to people to carry it back from the mountain path, and even the animals cannot be used.
In such a living environment, Zhang Ning believes that these people are top-class soldiers who are used to hard work and hard work.
There is food and meat. Such treatment is not difficult for soldiers to walk hundreds of miles to fight, and training every day is not difficult, because there is food provided by the government.
Every day, the branch owners send people to join us, but there is not enough food.Zhang Ning said casually that this barren land cannot raise many people at all, and there is no way to fight for the soldiers if there is no food to eat.
Monk Yao, who was drinking tea, said: You can exchange silk silk and satin and nearby Tujia villages for food, but they can't exchange too much, so they also have to keep food.Why don’t you tell Mrs. Yao about this?I remember that the tutors in the tutors were in contact with the chieftains of Yongshunsi. It seemed that there were chieftains in the tutors. If they could buy food from Yongshunsi, they would not have to worry.
Zhang Ning nodded quickly when he heard this: If he could get a large amount of food from Yongshunsi, it would be easier to deal with, but transportation was a bit difficult... and weapons and armor were even more problematic, and everything was lacking.
He poked the file in front of him with his finger. The firearm was only enough to equip two brigades, and there were less than 300 soldiers who could equip them.If there is a shortage of iron, the cannon will not be relied on; if the army is expanded, it would be good for each person to get a spear and a single sword.Iron armor is definitely not equipped, one is iron deficiency, and the other is that forging consumes manpower and requires people to get fuel... Paper armor and cotton armor are also difficult, and there is not so much raw materials and manpower; if you don’t have armor, facing the regular armed forces of the government army, you will not be able to withstand long-range killing of the bow and crossbow.
He murmured and understood in his heart that it was still the limitation of productivity. Without territory and population, there would be no productivity, and he would not be able to raise troops.
At this moment, someone was talking outside heard the sound of someone talking in. There was an official here. If you go and ask, maybe Your Highness is also inside.
After a while, a man in a robe and a square scarf appeared at the door.
I saw that the man looked in his twenties or thirties, with a straight facial features and a tall figure, and his behavior was somewhat elegant.
He came in and looked around and bowed to Monk Yao: Master Yao is fine.
Then he greeted the people in the room one by one.
Zhang Ning pointed to the stranger who came in and asked: Do you know each other?
Monk Yao said: He is from the Dayong branch. He has seen him several times and is called Chen...Maocai. Everyone calls him that.Chen Maocai, isn’t this the third prince you were looking for just now?
Chen Maocai turned his head to look at Zhang Ning, stunned for a moment, and made a gesture to kneel down.
Zhang Ning hurriedly said: I'm fine.
However, he still knelt down and bowed three times before standing up and clasping his fists and said: The leader sent a letter to him, saying that his highness was missing an envoy, so his father ordered his ministers to come to Fengxia Mountain to wait for his Highness to send him.
It turns out that the person we want is Mr. Chen.
Zhang Ning's titles changed immediately and he stood up with a passionate look on his face, because finding someone to go to Miaojiang is not a good job, and he doesn't know how the Miao people will treat the Han people who go to negotiate. It's a bit dangerous anyway.
Chen Maocai was a little flattered when he saw this and hurriedly said: Don’t dare, don’t dare.
Zhang Ning hurriedly asked him to sit down and talk, checked the letters he handed over, and said straight to the point: Mr. Chen should understand the situation?The Miao people are now in Chenzhou, so we have to send people to discuss the alliance... Of course, those Miao people may not be interested in all of a alliance. Your task this time is mainly to show our kindness to the Miao leaders and then establish contact with them. I will prepare some gifts for Mr. Chen, and you must find a way to make friends with the Miao people.
In this way, this errand is not bad.Chen Maocai pretended to be a smile and said, "We have no malice and we are giving money and property, so the Miao people should not get into evil with us."
Zhang Ning said: The customs of Miao and Han are different. You should prepare more before you set out and don’t violate other people’s taboos as soon as you arrive at the place.
Chen Maocai bowed and said: Your Highness is right, I am ready.There are many Miao and Tujia people near our Dayong Branch, and they also have contacts during normal times. When I came here, I brought a follower, who was the Miao people of the Laershan Miao people.
After hearing this, Zhang Ning was very satisfied and nodded.
At this time, Wei Bin joked: I heard that the Miao people can use Gu, you have to be careful and don’t get hit.
Chen Maocai smiled calmly and said: I have no grudges with the Miao people in Laershan. Why do they use Gu to harm me?As far as I know, the Miao people who use Gu are also excluded in their own tribe and do not enter the elegant hall.What's more, the saints don't say that magic. Although I have heard of that thing, I don't believe that it can really harm people. If that witchcraft is useful, why don't the Miao people use to gull the Han officials who bully and persecut them die of curses and risk raising an army to rebel?
Wei Bin looked back at Zhang Ning and said: This gentleman is very good at speaking, and his mouth is very good.
Chen Maocai smiled without saying a word, not saying anything.
Chen Gai, the chief bannerman sitting next to him, smiled and said: Mr. Chen is a talented person, so he doesn’t have to bring any money. I heard that Miao girl is passionate and might just look down on you. Why just have a marriage alliance? Isn’t everything solved?
After hearing this, everyone burst into laughter.
Chen Maocai was not angry, but just shook his head slightly and said: Unfortunately, I have already gotten married, and even the dogs can run away all over the mountain. The ancients had the virtue of "a wife with a bad scoundrel will not leave the court", so I never thought of marrying another wife.If the Miao girl is willing to be a concubine, she would give me a beauty and would not be able to ask for it, why would she be reluctant?
Haha... Everyone laughed again.
Zhang Ning smiled and did not affect everyone's good mood, but he was not interested in spending time making jokes with the generals here to make fun of them.
He stood up immediately: My uncle sent someone to settle Mr. Chen and I went to the grassland to take a look.It's really cold if you don't walk around.
Wei Bin said: Zhang Baihu (Chengzong) and others train sergeants on the grassland, and their subordinates will accompany you.
OK.Zhang Ning nodded, said goodbye to Yao and Chen Maocai and others.
There is a flat grassland outside the east entrance of the village. It used to be a place where Wei Baihu and others trained and armed villagers, and it was a natural schoolyard.
This period was quite lively, with more than 700 people active there every day, and the grass in the middle was completely trampled, leaving only a solid wasteland.
More than 700 people were divided into five brigades, forming a complete system of left scepter.
The first team was a veteran who attacked Shimen County. They were equipped with relatively complete equipment, but lacked armor and their blue uniforms were also neat. They usually trained fighting skills in scattered manner; the second team was Hou Mao's Dasheng Village soldiers, and these people's queue training barely passed the test because the Weapon Bureau also had more than 100 convex guns, which were equipped with them. They trained musket technology on weekdays, loading, shooting, queue conversion, maintenance of guns, etc.
The other three teams were recruited from several villages under the rule of Monk Yao, and the potential of the military source of Fengxia Mountain villages was almost maximized by Zhang Ning.
These farmers are still practicing military discipline, and whip whip and beating are indispensable.
Hundreds of people from the three teams were split on both sides, with a wooden board tied on their chests, each of which was more than meter long, lined up in front of them. Zhang Chengzong shouted, and both sides lined up from a hundred steps away from the outside.
Retreat, run around, tie up and give twenty whips!
Zhang Chengzong stared at the gradually approaching queue on both sides and shouted loudly.
After a while, the two sides bumped together, and most of the long wooden sticks poked directly into people's chests. Some were not lucky and were stabbed in their stomachs, making them scream in pain; some were not physically poked directly to the ground.
Zhang Chengzong shouted: Make up the ones behind and keep the formation. If there are too many people, you can defeat the opponent!
Several generals riding horses rushed forward with whips, and threw them over when they saw anyone they didn't like, and they cursed.
……
Hundreds of people from Fengxia Mountain usually train to bring food from their own families, because Zhang Ning could allocate the food supply so much that they could bring their own food and subsidize three cents of military salary. During this period, the first brigade's military salary was one, two or three cents per person, and eight cents of other people except the second brigade.
The people who came from Dasheng Village had no choice but to have no land or food here, so they had to rely on Zhang Ning to find ways to supply them. The families who came from Dasheng Village also had to rely on food relief, which was really a burden.
The clothes on the school ground were messy, and almost all the people in the first brigade were wearing old blue clothes they had used to be. The second brigade was equipped with gray clothes in Shimen County. The others just wore whatever their homes were wearing now.
Zhang Ning planned to pay for the soldiers' families to customize unified military uniforms...
In his opinion, even his clothes were not neatly dressed like an army?
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