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The camp is built with iron, and the officers are flowing with water.
This is Yang Fan's purpose in managing the health center.
Because military households cannot be deregistered, they are not casual soldiers, but officials can be transferred out by finding ways. If you can adapt to the life here, adapt. If you can't adapt, you can find ways to be transferred. If you can't find ways to be transferred, you can find ways to transfer.
You can naturally find a way to transfer him.
In the first year, Yang Fan provided food. According to the population, each person had thirty kilograms of corn stubble per month. It was the same from a thousand households to soldiers. From now on, they would be self-sufficient.
According to the Ming Dynasty's guard system, officers have a small amount of military pay. This part should be paid by the Ministry of War. But now that Ningyuan City is having a mutiny because of lack of pay, Yang Fan has no hope. He has to provide about 600 officers and officials himself.
Wages range from one tael per month to ten taels per thousand households.
If the Hundreds and Thousands of Households are too little, they don’t have to accept it, because this is Mr. Yang’s own money, which is considered to be loaned to the Guarding Thousands of Households, and will be returned later.
As for the weapons and armor, the emperor was still responsible. After all, Yang Fan had made a great contribution to the sky and asked Wang Chengen to personally go to the workshops and warehouses of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War to equip Yang Fan's soldiers with weapons, equipment, armor, and brand-new mandarin duck war jackets.
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The Yuanyang War Jacket is actually a cotton coat. It should be a military uniform in autumn and winter. It is red on the outside and filled with cotton inside. It is knee-length and has narrow sleeves. There should be other single-shirt military uniforms in summer.
After all, the emperor will still use Yang Fan's soldiers in the future, and giving him good equipment is for his own consideration. Therefore, Wang Chengen distributed a spear, a bow, 300 arrows, and a waist knife to each soldier.
On the armor, each soldier wears a set of chainmail armor, a small flag, a general flag, a hundred households, and a hundred households all have a set of fish scale armor. The deputy 1000 households and 1000 households, and the guard 1000 households all have a set of fine mountain armor.
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The imperial court was also short of horses, and only allocated a hundred war horses for officers. Although Yang Fan had horses of his own, he was unwilling to invest in the imperial army. One hundred horses were one hundred horses, except for those at the thousand-household level.
Except for horses, no one else had them, and the remaining horses were used for messengers and night scouts.
Yang Fan comes here once every ten days. When he comes, he has to learn how to perform exercises and check his work.
Every time, those who failed to complete the task and made mistakes lined up in a row and beat each other with military sticks. The scene was very spectacular. Even three thousand households were severely punished several times.
These officers found that they could not mobilize any of the small flags below. These grassroots infantry units were strictly trained under the leadership of the general flag. They, the officers themselves, also had to participate in such harsh training activities. They simply suffered
I can't bear this pain.
Yang Fan came, fully armed with armor, and carrying luggage and supplies for running exercises. Each person carried more than sixty kilograms of weight. Yang Fan took the lead and ran at the front, covering a total of twenty miles.
It made these officers miserable.
Not only can't make money, but the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law of a military household can't even be touched. They still spend all day archery, training, and running. Is this the life of a human being?
Chen Deng was transferred from Tianjin and served as Deputy Qianhu. He couldn't get enough of it there. He originally wanted to come to Zunhua to make some money, so he spent a lot of money to clear the way before being transferred here. After all, Zunhua is the central city of iron smelting in the north.
relatively wealthy.
He is a hereditary vice-president of a thousand households, and has been accustomed to pampering since childhood. How can he suffer this? The key is that he still can't say anything.
Everything here is governed by rules, and everything is done according to the Ming Law and Ming Military Law, and is meticulous. Moreover, when Lord Yang Fan comes to inspect, he usually trains with them.
They were asked to shoot thirty arrows, and Mr. Yang himself also shot thirty arrows, not one missing.
Running for twenty miles, Mr. Yang is at the front. If you can't run, what can you say?
So within two months of his arrival, he was beaten with a military stick three times.
Complaints to superiors generally flew to the Northern Zhili Capital Command and Envoy Department, and then were sent to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion by the Northern Zhili Capital Command and Envoy Department, and then arrived at Chongzhen's desk.
Chongzhen was in the West Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, looking at these memorials about Yang Fan, and he also had a headache. Yang Fan had been busy for half a year and finally put up the structure to guard Qianhu Station.
What satisfied him was that he secretly instructed Yang Fan to arrange all the officers assigned by the Northern Zhili Capital Command, and they were all mid-level and senior officers. Qianhu and Deputy Qianhu Yang Fan were useless, they were all The people sent by the emperor only used his own old people to enforce discipline in the North and South Zhenfu Division.
This is enough to show that Yang Fan is selfless.
Now the people he sent were all complaining, saying that Yang Fan was doing something stupid.
"Dad companion, Yang Tongzhi is very good at leading troops, why are you so stalemate with the people below now?"
Wang Chengen did not take away money from Yang Fan, and Yang Fan also gave him face and handled the matters the emperor told him very well. He still looked towards Yang Fan in his heart.
"Your Majesty, the main reason is that Yang Tongzhi's training was too hard, and these officers couldn't stand it anymore. That's why they complained one after another. The soldiers in the Ming Dynasty camp did drills once every three days. The guards did not drill once a month. Yang Tongzhi did two drills a day here. , it is indeed a bit bitter.”
"Oh, so that's what it is. Even though I have never led a soldier, I know that the soldiers will be exhausted if they don't have enough to eat and practice too much. Now the court is in trouble, there is a severe drought everywhere, and the fields are not harvesting. The same is true for his guard station. It is not easy to recruit all the people for the newly established one, and Yang Aiqing is too anxious."
Wang Chengen thought for a while and said: "Yang Tongzhi knew His Majesty's difficulties. He paid monthly salary to each soldier and officer out of his own pocket, and distributed food to the soldiers and their families on a per capita basis. He also allocated paddy fields, provided seeds, farm tools, and even clothes, bedding, shoes and socks. Wait, we were also allocated a house. There was no problem if we didn’t have enough to eat.”
"What, Yang Qing has given such good treatment, they still have trouble, do they still have conscience? Yang Qing is so anxious to train, is it because of my kindness that he works so diligently, they don't even think about it, who is now The guard station can still pay military salaries and have enough food to feed them, but they still want to make trouble. Isn't it their bounden duty to serve as soldiers and practice martial arts? How can they be so heartless and crazy?"
The emperor was angry. At first he thought it was Yang Fan who was anxious to form an army as soon as possible and trained too hard. Now it seems that Yang Fan has become so loyal to the country. Can't these bastards think about me?
The country is in troubled times now, and how can it be done without a few useful soldiers and horses?
If you don't train your troops, how can you go into battle and kill the enemy?
He remembered that when he was in the Forbidden City, he asked Yang Fan how to train soldiers. Yang Fan's answer still lingered in his ears.
"Your Majesty, there is nothing magical about military training. It's just one rule. As long as you can't practice to death, practice to death. Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war. If I am cruel to them, they may hate me, but on the battlefield, they will
Thank you to me."
Chongzhen pushed these memorials to the ground with a look of disgust and said: "Tell Yang Qing to train me to death. I only want a strong army. If anything happens, I will take care of him."
