Upon hearing the news of Master Yang's arrival, the entire castle immediately became excited.
Yang Fan always brings a lot of supplies every time he comes.
A total of 20,000 people lived in this earthen castle. In addition to the transferred officers and their families, they were all refugees and disaster victims who supplemented the military households.
This year is the first year of Chongzhen. As soon as spring begins, a severe drought begins.
Food prices skyrocketed.
Spring plowing is about to begin, but the moisture content of the soil is extremely poor, with almost no water. When I grab it with my hands, the thin soil slips from my fingertips.
There was basically no snow last winter, and now the ground is so dry,
How dare farmers plant precious seeds?
Even if you plant it, it won't sprout. It's better to keep the precious seed food.
At the beginning of spring, farmers began to flee from famine.
Because under the influence of Yang Fan in Zunhua these years,
Especially because of the opening of the open-hearth furnace,
The demand for iron ore suddenly doubled several times, and all mines were desperately recruiting workers to expand production.
This solves the food problem for many people. So the victims from all over Beizhili are running to Zunhua. They don’t ask for wages, as long as they can feed their families.
Not only are farmers fleeing famine, but after the Spring Festival, grain merchants in various cities collectively increase their prices, more than doubling the price of miscellaneous grains, and rice has risen from five cents of silver per load to one, two, or three cents of silver per load.
A large number of handicraftsmen went bankrupt, and the poor in the cities could not afford to buy food with the wages they earned, and they began to flee in large numbers.
This gave Yang Fan the greatest convenience in recruiting troops.
At this time, the entire north was in an atmosphere of panic. As long as they could survive, no one cared whether they were soldiers or not.
Especially when I heard that when I became a military household, my family was given ten acres of paddy field.
People are going crazy.
Paddy fields, no land can compare to paddy fields in this era. Due to severe drought, the yield of crops in dry land is so low that it makes people cry.
However, paddy fields are not afraid of drought. Rice yields are high. With two crops of wheat and rice in a year, you can get two loads of rice and one load of wheat. According to the current market price, this is only two taels of silver.
Ten acres of land is worth twenty taels of silver.
Mr. Yang has said that all grains from farming will be exempted, and all excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes will be exempted. However, the surplus grain must be purchased and sold uniformly, and must be sold to the grain depot, but the materials will be discounted according to the market price.
Therefore, Yang Fan quickly recruited enough military households and selected the best among the best.
Although Yang Fan had to support them before the rice harvest in the first year, he could not afford the money.
Yang Fan established the first financial institution of the Yang Fan system - Xinghe Bank in Tulou.
Responsible for lending money to military households, Yang Fan distributed houses, farm tools, tools, cloth, general merchandise, bedding, grain, iron stoves and briquettes to these military households in the form of low-interest loans.
They became military households at once, provided everything they needed for their families, and then owed Yang Fan a huge debt.
Once there is a harvest, it will be paid off slowly over ten or fifteen years.
The steel is produced in his own factory, and these things are not worth much money. It is affordable to give them away for free. But in order to strengthen his control, Yang Fan decided to add a debt chain.
at the same time,
It prevents them from having extra food and property in their hands, and prevents officers from exploiting them. Once the officers start exploiting military households, it will be the beginning of the collapse of the garrison.
Each family can receive thirty kilograms of cornmeal or corn stubble per person every month according to the population. Even the children who are breastfeeding can get enough to feed the whole family.
As for vegetables, they can only be solved by letting the children go out to dig wild vegetables. Yang Fan has no place to get them. In terms of fat and meat, Yang Fan will bring some every time he comes.
With meat and oil, these victims soon began to look rosy and their bodies gradually began to have meat. The grocery store in the earth building could buy salt on credit and pay it back with grain after autumn. With salt to eat, their strength also recovered.
Woke up.
Otherwise, these hungry people will not be able to fight or train, and they will be so hungry that they can't even stand. They must first take good care of themselves.
This requires a lot of fat and meat. In order to treat night blindness, a large amount of animal offal must be provided to supplement vitamin A.
Now by purchasing grain from grain depots and dumping old grain from storage, Yang Fan has basically solved the problem of buying grain in bulk at low prices. But oil and meat are too expensive after all.
But, soon, Yang Fan came up with a way.
North America and Australia raise a large number of pigs, but they only eat lean meat.
They don't like fatty pork, pig trotters, pig tails, offal, pig heads, and even pork ribs, so they throw them away and have to pay to dispose of them.
The ribs can still be sold for some money, but the other prices are staggeringly cheap.
You don't even have to pay for it, it's just garbage, you just take it away from the slaughterhouse.
Yang Fan asked the scammers to set up companies in Canada, the United States, and Australia to purchase these things. After they were cleaned, they would be sent to the freezer warehouse, and then Yaoguang would be transported back to Zunhua in the Ming Dynasty.
Pigs from the United States and Australia are not castrated and have a strong smell of mutton, which must be covered up by adding more spices. However, the price of these things is the same as those picked up for free, which is very cheap.
Spices are not a problem. There are plenty of them in the Nanyang Islands all over the place. Now there are clipper ships, which can transport them back in large quantities.
The price of these meats is so cheap that Yang Fan can hardly believe his eyes. Especially in recent years, due to the epidemic, a large amount of pork cannot be sold. If the pigs are not slaughtered, they will consume feed. If they are slaughtered and cannot be sold, the farmers are going crazy.
Already.
I almost sold it for the money.
Yang Fan was going crazy with joy.
There are more than 80 million pigs in the beautiful country. There is absolutely enough supply here.
Yang Fan even considered opening braised pork restaurants in all counties in the Ming Dynasty. The braised pork is well prepared, sterilized with preservatives and canned at high temperatures, and then sealed and packaged. It will not go bad for two or three years.
Canning can be made in jars produced in Damingdu.
Chinese people love pig heads, pig tails, pig meat, pig trotters and other items. As long as the spices are sufficient and the taste is delicious, there is no need to worry about selling them.
And cans are perfect as military supplies.
Seeing Lord Yang coming, Zhou Yuji quickly went out of the city with five other chiefs and deputy Qianhu, and led hundreds of households to meet Yang Fan.
Looking at more than a hundred four-wheeled carriages behind Yang Fan's three hundred cavalry, the officers swallowed their saliva as they looked at the cargo.
These horse-drawn carriages are imitations of the beautiful caravans used in the Western Development of China, and they carry very high loads.
This kind of car is called a Conestoga caravan. It is a heavy-duty, wide-wheeled caravan widely used in the United States and Canada from the late 18th to the 19th century. It is pulled by horses, mules or oxen and has a load capacity of up to 7 tons.
This caravan is shaped like a boat, allowing it to cross rivers and streams.
The speed was 25 kilometers per day. Until the development of railway transportation, the Conestoga caravan was the main means of transportation in the Appalachian Mountains.
The caravan could be pulled by up to 8 horses or 12 oxen, often by specialized Conestoga horses.
Now Yang Fan's military operations and logistical supplies all rely on these heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages that can go off-road.
After the officers and their families came here, they found that the training here was hard and there was no gray income. Everyone was disappointed.
However, there is enough rice here, one piece of cloth is issued every month, and the officers and their families have meat to eat. There is a school in the earth building, and all the children go to school for free. The gentleman is more than thirty scholars invited from Beizhili.
.There is also a medical clinic with more than a dozen doctors, and you don’t have to spend money to see a doctor or take medicine.
Such good benefits are not unacceptable if you think about it.
Now everyone knows that those huge four-wheeled carriages are covered with tarpaulins and are frozen pork.
Although there is no lean meat, it is full of good things like pig heads, hooves, and ribs.
As long as it's cooked well, it's a good thing and very delicious.
There was white mist rising from the tarpaulin. Everyone knew that the meat was frozen, and they didn't know how Mr. Yang froze it. They all guessed that it was killed last year and taken out from the underground ice cellar.
Yang Fan was surrounded by people and entered the earth building. When the soldiers saw the master coming, they were all excited. They knelt down on both sides of the road and kowtowed to Yang Fan.
When the master comes, he will give everyone fat.
In this era, no one likes lean pork, everyone likes fatty pork. The fatter the pork, the more popular it is. The more expensive it is at the meat stalls.
The pork sent by Mr. Yang is pure fat meat and can be directly used for oil refining.
In beautiful countries, fat pork is garbage, usually just like throwing it away, and the price is extremely low.
During the recent period, Yang Fan leveled the land outside the castle and built a regular 400-meter obstacle course. It made these officers and soldiers miserable, and they staggered home every day.
Basically, he opened his eyes, turned out the lights, was so busy that his whole body was cramped, and his limbs were limp. The general bannermen truly implemented Yang Fan's cross policy.
"As long as you can't practice to death, practice to death."
After Yang Fan arrived, he first stood on the general stage and glanced around majestically.
Under the power of Yang Fan's military stick, the audience suddenly fell into silence and silence.
Zhou Yuji hurriedly sent up the training situation of the last ten days. He was appointed as the training director by Yang Fan. These are his duties. His hands and feet are very numb now, because he has also been beaten with a military stick three times. As long as
When the training failed to meet the requirements, Yang Fan was the first to hit him.
Zhou Yuji didn't dare to breathe, and carefully looked at Yang Fan's expression. However, he soon breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on Yang Fan's face.
Yang Fan was very satisfied after reading this report.
The training goal was basically achieved. Only a dozen people did not complete the training. There is nothing to say about this. They just took off their pants and slapped them.
Yang Fan's military principles are very simple.
Those who are obedient and complete my instructions will be rewarded. Those who fail to complete will be punished. Those who violate military discipline will be jailed. Those who disobey orders will be knifed.
Suddenly, the audience was filled with white buttocks. The executioner, the policeman Si Lishi, picked up the paddle and started beating. The beatings made these people cry for father and mother, and their skin and flesh were torn.
One by one, they assured Mr. Yang that they would complete the training next time.
Then, for those who exceeded their training quota, the officers were given silver and the soldiers were given fattened pork, worth ten kilograms each.
Officers and soldiers who completed their training tasks were given fattened pork, five pounds each.
In addition, all officers and soldiers were given a set of sewage, each with a set of pig's heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidney, large intestine, and small intestine. Go back and let your wife clean it up, and cook and eat it yourself.
Each officer is given an extra fan of pork ribs.
Suddenly there was a boiling sound below.
Everyone was very excited. Only five kilograms of fat meat were distributed ten days ago. Today, another fifteen kilograms of meat and a set of semen were distributed. Now the whole family can eat well again.
The children are as excited as the Chinese New Year.
Yang Fan's next words brought the atmosphere to a climax.
"You are all very good. You have successfully completed the first training mission. Now every officer and soldier can meet the requirements of the training syllabus. Everyone can shoot a hundred arrows in a row, shake a gun for an hour, and be fully armed and carry three loads.
Ten kilograms, a quick march of fifty miles. Each wooden sword fight will result in more than fifty points. I declare that from now on, I will take a ten-day holiday and start the second phase of training ten days later."
When they heard that there were still ten days of vacation, everyone almost went crazy with joy.
During this period, they were forced by military law to train during the day and read and write at night. They had no free time and were highly stressed.
Now that I heard that I was actually given a ten-day holiday, I was very excited.
Yang Fan pressed his hands down, indicating that everyone should stop making noise. He continued: "This time I brought 3,700 pig heads, all of which were stewed into pig head meat. Each household of officers and soldiers was given a pig head. There was also one pig head for each household.
A jar of ten kilograms of Shaodaozi liquor. Everyone, please listen to me. As long as you can meet my requirements, the benefits will be yours. I hope you can continue your efforts in the second training period. I will not hesitate to reward you. Now we are disbanded."
Immediately, the officers and soldiers dispersed in a hurry and lined up to receive their rewards. The whole earth building was as happy as the Chinese New Year.
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