Quan Dashan was in the queue, and all his movements were done meticulously. Because there was a guard guard watching their training. Quan Dashan felt that every time the guard guard appeared, the commander's orders would be louder.
After the recruits of the company made a mistake, the small wooden stick that the commander-in-chief fell on the recruits also regained three points of strength.
Ever since the recruits arrived at Runing Camp and started training, Wu Shigong has never spent less than an hour on the training ground every day. There was no way, Wu Shigong felt that time was too tight, so he wanted to get those recruits out as soon as possible.
Train it out.
However, Wu Shigong basically watched his military attachés training the recruits on the training ground and would not say anything casually. Only when the recruits were resting, Wu Shigong would arrange a kitchen and cook a pot of ginger soup for the recruits to warm them up.
In order to show that he, the garrison master, cares about the new recruits.
In fact, after more than two years of training, those military attachés already have a mature method for training new soldiers. Wu Shigong is now arranging some senior military attachés and several literati to sort out the training outline and drills for the soldiers.
Today at the training ground, Wu Shigong watched the new recruits train all morning. After lunch, Wu Shigong took a nap in a separate room built for officers next to the barracks.
After taking a nap, Qiong Niang came in with a washbasin and served Wu Shigong to wipe his face. Qiong Niang's current identity is Wu Shigong's personal maid, Wu Shigong cannot take her as a concubine now, because if he wants to take a concubine
, then at least there would be a concubine-taking ceremony, but if you do that, someone might know Qiong Niang. Therefore, for the sake of safety, Wu Shigong had to wait for a while before arranging to take Qiong Niang as a concubine.
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In the living room outside, Zheng Zhen had been waiting for Wu Shigong. He wanted to discuss with Wu Shigong the purchase of land and the establishment of Zhuangzi. During this period of time, Zheng Zhen had already traveled to many places in Runing Mansion.
Just waiting for Wu Shigong to decide how to buy the land.
When Zheng Zhen saw Wu Shigong coming out, he bowed his hands and said, "Sir, there are many people in Guide Mansion who want to sell their land now, but the land price is not valuable at all. Those people who have fled, as long as they are given three taels of silver per acre,
They were willing to sell the land. And the current price of grain has exceeded two taels of silver per stone. If you want to buy land, now is indeed a good opportunity."
Zheng Zhen went on to introduce: "However, those lands have basically been abandoned for a year. If the weather is still bad next year, there will still be no crops in these lands. And now the officials and gentry who buy the land from the common people will not be able to grow any crops."
They don’t even look forward to next year, they are all hoarding land now.”
"Oh?" Wu Shigong listened carefully and asked, "So is there anyone selling land in the places we need?"
"Nowadays, a large amount of land is being sold in various parts of Runing Prefecture. Even some small landowners can't stand the successive years of disasters and want to sell their land. As for the places designated by the Lord to set up Zhuangzi,
, there are many places for us to choose from.”
"But there is a severe drought in Henan, and there is no harvest. These officials all know it. But why is it that the land where Qianhu fort is located has no impact on the harvest?"
"This is also the result of our major water conservancy projects in the past few years. In fact, despite the severe drought, there is still plenty of water in the river. As long as the water conservancy projects are constructed effectively, there will actually be some harvest. This was also the wisdom of the adults at that time!
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Wu Shigong smiled and waved his hand, and said: "Mr. Zheng deserves the award. If you want to count the credit, it is also your credit. I have been fighting outside, so Mr. Zheng is still in charge of the affairs in this field."
Zheng Zhen also stroked his beard and laughed. He then said to Wu Shigong: "Sir, if you decide, I will immediately arrange the purchase of the land."
Wu Shigong thought for a while, and suddenly he frowned and started thinking. After a while, Wu Shigong said to Zheng Zhen: "Since we have a lot of grain, let's use the grain to buy land. Let's set it as three stones per acre.
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"Sir!" Zheng Zhen immediately exclaimed, "This price is too high."
Wu Shigong waved his hands again and said with a smile: "If we don't raise a high price, we will be competing for land with local officials and gentry, which will cause some trouble. However, in the past few years, the price of food was only about five yuan per stone.
According to this calculation, we actually still have an advantage."
"Also, there are two options for the people who are selling their land. One is three shi of grain per mu, and the land will be bought out. The other is two shi of grain per mu, but these people have to work on the land.
They must also accept our arrangements for labor and military training. However, as long as they return us four shi per acre of grain within ten years, the land will also be returned to them."
"Sir!" Zheng Zhen exclaimed again: "Why don't all the people choose the second option? Then my lord, you will be at a huge disadvantage."
Zheng Zhen knew in his heart that in the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty at that time, land was simply their lifeblood. They would never sell their land unless they could no longer survive.
And Wu Shigong gave them an option to take back their land. How could this not make the people who sold their land excited? Besides, within ten years Wu Shigong set a very low interest rate for paying two stones of grain for four stones of grain, which was relatively low.
At that time, Wu Shigong's interest on usury money was simply an interest-free loan.
"It is to ask them to choose the second option. Only by organizing their manpower can they build water conservancy; only by giving them military training can my army have reserve sources. Relatively speaking, how much food can be harvested from these fields?
It should be considered last. After all, if I really need food, why don't I let Tang Liu go to Huguang to buy it?"
Zheng Zhen nodded. He understood what Wu Shigong meant, so he said to Wu Shigong: "The little man will set off immediately. By gathering manpower as soon as possible, we can also build some water conservancy projects and irrigate more fields before spring starts."
In fact, from beginning to end, Wu Shigong never thought about what to do with these lands in ten years. According to Wu Shigong's estimation, after ten years, the world will definitely be in chaos.
At that time, the army is fighting to the death, and the people are in danger. The land that cannot be taken away is of no use at all. It is better to hold food in your hands to make people feel at ease.
In addition, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli also discovered that if recruits go to fight without training for more than half a year, it is simply making fun of the recruits' lives. Wu Shigong adopts the policy of elite troops. The safety of every soldier is of great importance to Wu Shigong.
is very important. If you want to solve this problem, you must let new recruits receive some basic military training before recruiting them.
So regarding this issue, Wu Shigong also discussed this issue several times with Deng Qifan, Xue Yongli and others. Finally, Deng Qifan dug out the method of farming from the pile of old friends' papers. That is, to prepare soldiers for farming in peacetime and fighting in wartime.
Therefore, Wu Shigong purchased the land this time for the purpose of farming. And the reason why Wu Shigong adopted this method now is that there is another wonderful thing. The people who are farming on the land still have hope to take the land back to their own homes. If anything happens
In a war, they won't fight for their land?
Of course, Wu Shigong would also allocate the land he had seized in the mountainous area of Runing Prefecture to his domestic slaves for farming. Now among Wu Shigong's domestic slaves, Wu Shigong also divided them into three levels.
The lowest-level domestic slaves did menial work, their daily rations were barely enough to survive hunger, and they basically had no personal freedom. These domestic slaves were basically the bandits captured by Wu Shigong during the bandit suppression and his family members.
And every year, among the lowest-level domestic slaves, there are always some who are not very obedient and will be selected and executed by Wu Shigong.
However, those lowest-level domestic slaves are not without any hope. As long as they work for two years, they will be promoted to ordinary domestic slaves. Of course, those who perform well will have their time shortened.
As for ordinary domestic slaves, Wu Shigong not only allows them to have enough food, but also allows them to own some family property. The personal freedom of ordinary domestic slaves is greater. However, in the same way, the poor performance of ordinary domestic slaves will be minimized.
Waiting house slave.
However, if ordinary domestic slaves work for Wu Shigong for five years, they will be converted into servants. Wu Shigong will distribute land to those servant families. Of course, the ownership of these lands belongs to Wu Shigong, and Wu Shigong only works in those households.
On the land, about 20% of the land rent is collected. However, all male domestic slaves must undergo military training.
In addition, there is a shortcut for ordinary domestic slaves to be promoted to servants. That is, someone in the family is recruited as Wu Shigong's soldier. Now Wu Shigong's ordinary domestic slaves are mainly the rogues of the Holy Spirit Society whom he captured. Also, Tao Xin's Qianhu
Military households in the institute, as long as their families did not join Wu Shigong's army, will also enjoy this treatment.
Of course, at higher levels, there are stewards, butlers, and other levels, but these are beyond the reach of ordinary domestic slaves.
The craftsmen and clerks in workshops such as Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop, the clerks in merchants, the gentlemen who teach, and the doctors trained here in Zhizhi. If they were originally slaves of Wu Shigong's family, they would all enjoy the benefits of servants.
treatment.
Therefore, Wu Shigong formed a hierarchy among domestic slaves, just like the army. Officers like Xue Yongli and staff like Deng Qifan had actually formed a vague aristocratic class. However, this class was not all
Closed, theoretically speaking, as long as through hard work, it is possible to rise from the lowest domestic slave to this aristocratic class.