Dayong is very concerned about the replenishment and reorganization of combat soldiers. He basically spends every day in the military camp in Yuanshuicheng. The 14,000 combat soldiers is the number reported by the generals. In fact, it is 4,000 armored soldiers, and Dongjiang, who all holds muskets.
Soldiers. Half of these people came from the new firearms army built by Sun Yuanhua with a lot of money, and the other half were Dongjiang soldiers who responded to Kong Youde's rebellion, and Mao Chenglu's subordinates were more among them.
The situation of the Dengzhou Navy is also worse than what Chief Military Officer Qian Dagang reported. He reported 148 large and small warships, but in fact only 125 are usable, and half of them are ships used for shipping.
They are not warships. Three large warships given to the Ming Dynasty by North Korea are also among them. There are 6,000 navy officers and soldiers, but only more than 1,500 can be called qualified navy soldiers, and the rest are mostly from the coastal areas of Denglai.
The fishermen and boat operators were okay, but they lacked experience and skills in sea combat. This was probably one of the reasons why Qian Dagang was willing to surrender instead of fighting stubbornly.
Dayong's placement in the farmland, military households, and the old and weak was completely left to Song Guanglan, Wang Hui, and others. Strictly speaking, the importance of these matters is actually no less important than the expansion and reorganization of the Jinzhou Army, but Dayong really has no redundancy.
Energy, you can only let go.
The Ming Dynasty has more than 200 years of experience to follow on how to farm. As long as you follow the rules and don't have to put much thought into it, you can get things done just right. Although the 200-year-old military household system of guard posts has long been rotten
It was a complete mess, but Dayong believed that this was due to the long history and various historical reasons. The method of single tuntian was still feasible for Dengzhou, which already had ten houses and nine empty houses.
In the management of these 35,000 young men, Dayong still adopted the guard system. He managed the young and strong disabled officers and soldiers who had retired from the old Songshan Department of the Jinzhou Army. In addition, Dayong also selected 50 officers and 500 veterans.
The army is responsible for the management of military villages. Most of these officers and soldiers serve as Qianhu, Baihu, general banner, and candidates for small banners are selected from among the young and strong.[
He expressed concern about the sudden appointment of thousands of households, hundreds of households, general bannermen, Song Guanglan and Wang Hui, etc., because Shi Dayong himself was only the deputy general of Jinzhou. How could he have the power to appoint these thousands of households and hundreds of households?
Does this approach go too far or violate taboos?
Dayong laughed at this. It was just a name that was easy to manage. Why bother with so much? He himself claimed to be the commander of Dengzhou Guards. Is it difficult? Is his commander-in-chief really the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou?
Do the state guards really exist? They are just for internal convenience. In fact, they are no different from the captains, village chiefs, and township chiefs of later generations. In other words, they are just Baojia in disguise. The left and right will not let the court know. Emperor Tiangao
Far away, I am afraid that no one in the court will come to clean up this mess in Dengzhou.
Shi Dayong didn't care, Song Guanglan and the others had nothing to say. Even though the people in the city were still as awed as before when they saw them, calling them adults, in fact they were not as good as these people. People are not afraid of losing their heads, but their heads are
It's not very stable.
In addition to the task of organizing and supervising production, Dayong also has another task for these thousands and hundreds of households, which are considered direct relatives, and that is to try to organize their young men to conduct some military training during the off-season. They are not expected to be like the Jinzhou Army.
At least you must have the ability to protect yourself. Today in the northwest, bandits are everywhere in the Central Plains, and Denglai has just experienced great chaos. No one knows whether Denglai will be hit by military disasters in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare in advance.
In addition, it can also provide troops for the Jinzhou Army. For this reason, Dayong specially allocated a batch of weapons.
Dayong is a modern person from later generations. Of course, he does not have the rigidity and conservatism of officials of this era. While requiring these young men to fulfill their obligations, he also gave them many rights. For example, they can return home after three years, or they can
The Jinzhou Army arranged to settle in Dengzhou, allocating land to them, exempting them from certain taxes, and also giving some compensation to those who were drafted and exiled. Dayong also explored such preferential policies step by step and tried his best to do his best. After all, in his previous life, he was just a soldier.
Gamblers who do everything have limited knowledge. They have to face the difficulties in this life and just cross the river by touching the stones. No one is born to be a master of literature and martial arts, and no one is born to be a genius.
The arrangements for the people in the city are also taken care of by Song Guanglan and other demoted officials. They were originally parents' officials, so this aspect is naturally their strength. Dayong does not ask them to do what he imagined, as long as they promise not to starve to death.
Restore the market so that the people can have fields, houses to live in, a source of income, and a market to buy and sell. As for the tax issue mentioned by the demoted officials, Dayong just waved his hand and said it would be exempted. How many years will it be exempted? In Dayong's mind
No idea, what he did in Dengzhou was not approved by the court, and he didn't know whether the new officials would support him, so he didn't dare to speak out loudly, so he said that he would be exempted for three years. Now in Dengzhou
In this case, the imperial court would be embarrassed if it did not waive taxes for three years. As for the future, we will talk about it later. A living person can still be suffocated to death.
Song Guanglan and the others mentioned one thing, that is, the Jinzhou Army rescued many women who were snatched away by the rebels along the way. There were probably more than 10,000 women before and after them. These women are now dependent on them. Can they be allowed to interact with the young people in the field?
The reorganization of the family is a reward for the young people. This will definitely leave a lot of young people to continue to take root in Dengzhou after the three-year period is over.
A place can only prosper if there are people. Without people, no matter how big the place is, it is useless. Song Guanglan and the others are not natives of Dengzhou. Now they are just thinking about doing the things Dayong told them to save their lives. They have no long-term plans for the future of Dengzhou. Proposed
The people who took this approach were a few petty officials from Dengzhou Prefecture. These people watched their hometowns turn into ruins and saw so many people with the same surname die. It was impossible not to feel sad in their hearts. When they woke up from the grief, they would naturally
For the sake of their hometown, they heard that the Jinzhou Army stipulated that the young men stationed in the fields could return home after three years. They were anxious. If everyone left, how long would it take for Dengzhou to regain stability and prosperity based on its current population?
The best way to keep men is to let them have women. With women, they will have children, and with the land given by the government, they will naturally become Dengzhou people. How can they want to return to the home they don’t know if they are there?
After thinking about it, the petty officials thought that it would be a good thing to keep the people, so they reported the idea. Song Guanglan and others also said that it was a good thing to think about it. It would also reduce the burden of these women on the military households in the field, and it would also reduce the burden on them.
It's not fun to do it.
This method was good, but Song Guanglan and the others didn't mention it. Dayong almost forgot that he still had thousands of women in his hands, and also thought that he had taken in these women not only to enable them to survive, but also to marry his subordinates.
Dayong felt sad when he thought of his subordinates who had died in a foreign land after fighting with him. For the dead, he could only bring their bones back to their hometown, but for the living, he could do better.
Thanks to the deep-rooted idea that the rich are noble and the military is cheap, although it is no longer a time of peace, the idea that "a good man should not be a soldier" is still the mainstream idea among the people. Therefore, the vast majority of civilians will not marry their daughters off.
To serve as soldiers, this resulted in Ming soldiers either marrying in the same military household in their own garrison, or they could only marry women who were disabled or had other problems, basically women who were unwanted by others.
Right now, except for dozens of married women who came from military households in the guards, no one in the Jinzhou Army has a wife. Even Dayong doesn’t have a wife. Sometimes late at night, all the things that go through Dayong’s mind are women.
figure.
At such a young age, he has to carry his head and follow him into the battlefield to kill the enemy. He may not be able to grow up at any time. He has never tasted the taste of a woman before dying, nor can he experience the warmth of family, and there is no blood left behind. Thinking of these
, Dayong is not only sad but also heartbroken. As their general, he cannot let these young people who have followed him through life and death die like this. He wants to compensate them, and he wants to marry them and start a family.
Dayong did what he said and immediately told Cao Bianjiao, Jiang Wanli, Li Dashan and others about his idea of getting married for his subordinates. To his surprise, these subordinates did not agree with Dayong doing this. They told Dayong that if they married for the sergeants,
If they start a family, it is likely that they will not dare to fight again after going to the battlefield, because they all want to get back alive.
This concern cannot but be right, but it cannot but be completely right. Dayong repeatedly thought about the possibility of this good thing turning into bad things, and finally made up his mind, and ordered the generals to go back and convey their orders. All officers and soldiers who were willing to marry would come to Guo
If you sign up there, the Jinzhou Army will match them with suitable wives according to their conditions. Those who do not want to start a family for the time being can sign up again after a period of time. In short, as long as there are people who want to start a family, Dayong will satisfy them.
Don't let your subordinates stop you.
Dayong insisted on this, and Cao Bianjiao and the others had no choice but to go back and carry out the plan. On that day, more than 400 officers and soldiers from the Jinzhou headquarters signed up to get married, and many others were waiting to watch.
After hearing the news, the surrendered generals also rushed to Dayong to ask for wives for their subordinates. However, Dayong refused their request and told them that at present, they could only give wives to the soldiers of Jinzhou's own army, and their original subordinates wanted to marry them.
Waiting for the next batch. Moreover, not everyone can marry this wife, they must meet the conditions. This condition is that they have served in the Jinzhou Army for three years, escaped in battle or beheaded to the fifth level.
After hearing this condition, the surrendered generals could only shake their heads and disperse. They came with the idea of joining in the fun, but they had no intention of marrying their former subordinates. The condition offered by Shi Dayong is obviously one
The threshold is also a touchstone to test their loyalty. The generals know that none of their subordinates can meet this requirement, so they should not join in the fun. Shi Dayong didn't close the door anyway. There are still three years left, and five people will be beheaded.
Leveling up doesn't seem to be a difficult task. During the rebellion, no one has passed level 10 or level 8.[
The registration period was three days. In the end, 824 people signed up to marry. Among them, there were more than 60 people from Songshan, more than 400 children from Changping who surrendered to the army, and the first batch to surrender and participate in the Battle of Xiaoguantun.
Yuan Chen sometimes rebels. As for what kind of wife to marry, they also say that everything is left to the arrangements of the superiors.
Dayong did not take this month old job into his own hands, but gave it to Song Guanglan and the others. The time limit given was ten days. Within ten days, each of these officers and soldiers must have a wife, and they must be in the city.
Have a place to live.
This stumped Song Guanglan and the others. They really couldn't bear to do this matchmaking thing, and finally it fell on those few minor officials who made the suggestion. Since you brought up this matter, you should handle the aftermath.
Those small officials were quite capable, but they were all local snakes in Dengzhou. Which of the surviving families had daughters that could be married to them? They were well-connected. In order to flatter the Jinzhou Army, the first thing they thought of was not the thousands of people who had been killed.
A woman captured by the rebels.
For a time, all the scribes in Dengzhou Yamen became matchmakers. The betrothal gift given by Shi Dayong was not bad. In addition to the house in Dengzhou City (there are ten rooms in the city and nine are empty, the owner's house is not too many), he was also given 30 points.
acres of land, and an additional one hundred taels of silver will be given to support the family. In addition, they can also enjoy dividends from the harvest of the fields every year. The bride’s parents will also receive an additional gift of fifty taels of silver, and enjoy the benefits of being an official.
that power.
The original big families in the city had long been robbed and killed by the rebels. There were not many daughters left who could be married, barely a few dozen. This number was obviously far from the Jinzhou Army's requirements for more than 800 wives.
, so the officials turned their attention to those families who had moved from surrounding counties. In the face of their constant lobbying and generous betrothal gifts, how could these families who had saved their lives from the butcher's knife disagree.
Although marrying your daughter to a soldier is unsafe and looked down upon by others, it is a better way out than living a hard life on your own. And if you don’t bow to an official, isn’t it just a scholar? I don’t know a word.
Now he can be as good as a scholar, this is the incense burned by his ancestors.
Once the ten-day deadline was up, more than 800 brides were finally gathered together. Dayong gave the order and there was no need to go door to door. It was too time-consuming. He didn't have much time to waste time in Dengzhou. He just held a wedding together.
That’s it.
The host of the wedding was Song Guanglan, and Wang Hui and other demoted officials were also forced to participate under Dayong's order. The wedding was not scheduled to be held elsewhere. Originally, Dayong planned to hold it in Shuicheng, but Shuicheng was full of soldiers, and some were uncomfortable.
Convenient. In the end, Dayong slapped the table and realized that the Dengzhou Governor’s Yamen was still empty, and it was not damaged. The place was quite big, so what would it be empty for? It would be perfect for a wedding banquet.
The choice of this location frightened Song Guanglan and the others. It was the Denglai Governor's Yamen! Although the two governors had been loyal to the country and the court did not appoint a new governor, this Yamen was after all the official office of the Ming Dynasty's feudal officials.
How can you use it to hold a wedding banquet? It doesn’t need the dignity of the government. What if the imperial court knows about it?
Dayong is still a so-called person who has no regard for the official face at all. Under his strength, what else can Song Guanglan and others do? They just arrange it honestly. Although they have no experience in this kind of group wedding, they have also participated in it.
It is not uncommon for wedding banquets of wealthy families to have dozens or even hundreds of tables. For this collective wedding, more tables should be set up. The newlyweds can pay their respects to Shi Dayong in batches. Others who are paying homage to their parents can go home alone.
Just a symbolic kowtow.
For more than 800 couples to get married, including the generals of the Jinzhou Army, the Dengzhou officials presiding over, and the woman's relatives and friends, there will be at least 500 tables. No matter how big the governor's office is, it will not be able to accommodate so many tables.
In the end, it was Dayong who made the decision. The officers should be placed inside the yamen, and the soldiers should be placed outside the yamen. Anyway, the large front area in front of the yamen is very wide.
On the day of the wedding, the officers in charge of purchasing were really busy. In order to complete the required beef, mutton and wedding items, Jiang Wanli in Laizhou not only bought up the market in Laizhou, but also sent people to surrounding prefectures and counties.
The purchase made people in those places very curious: Which wealthy family is responsible for this big happy event.
After accepting the last batch of newcomers to salute him, Dayong took Cao Bianjiao, Li Dashan and the others to hide in the back hall of the Yamen and have a good drink. That night, Dayong was so drunk that he fell unconscious. Fortunately, there was Jiang Wanli outside, who had rushed back from Laizhou.
, Song Qing, Guo Cheng, Wang Tiande and others were maintaining it, but there was no trouble.