Chapter two hundred and thirteenth chapter buy land
In the early morning, when the city was full of roosters crowing one after another, Wu Shigong woke up immediately. The sky had not turned white yet at this time. Wu Shigong put Zhu Yun, who was sleeping beside him, on his arm on his chest and gently put him into bed.
, I just wanted to crawl over Zhu Yun’s body and get up.
But Wu Shigong's move also woke Zhu Yun up. She immediately stretched out her arms and hugged Wu Shigong's waist, acting like a child and saying coquettishly: "Uncle, today is your first day home. Just rest at home for the day."
." After a while, Zhu Yun added a little shyly: "I also want my uncle to spend more time with me."
Wu Shigong smiled, pecked Zhu Yun on the lips, and said: "Good boy! This time I went to Yangzhou, and Uncle Yongli also recruited new soldiers at home. Today I am going to see how the new recruits are doing." He said as he said
While sitting, Wu Shigong stroked Zhu Yun's body up and down, smelling Zhu Yun's alluring body fragrance.
Although Wu Shigong wanted to stay in bed with the beauty, he still had to restrain his desire for the sake of his family and did not want to waste any time. So Wu Shigong kissed Zhuyun again and said, "Actually, uncle
I am more busy now so that I can spend more time with you in the future."
Zhuyun was actually touched by Wu Shigong's touch at this time. She gasped and said: "But my aunt, I also want to have another son."
Wu Shigong laughed out loud after listening to Zhu Yun's words. He immediately said to Zhu Yun: "Then I will accompany you tonight and ask you to give birth to more fat boys for me in the future."
After washing up, Wu Shigong went to the martial arts field in the backyard as usual and conducted morning exercises with a group of boy scouts led by Tao Xin. Tao Xin lived in Wu Shigong's home, and like Wu Shigong, he selected twenty comparisons among the boy scouts.
A good child serves as his bodyguard, and Tao Xin also goes in and out with his bodyguard every day.
After the morning exercise, Wu Shigong walked the horse accompanied by the guards. Because the city gate had not yet opened at this time, and horses were not allowed to gallop in the city, Wu Shigong just took the horse for a walk.
In addition to his own war horse, Wu Shigong also walked the three-legged little pitiful horse. The little pitiful one was really strong in vitality. After the carpenter installed a prosthetic leg on it, it was able to walk. So,
Every day on the streets of Runing Fucheng, there is a scene of Wu Shigong walking with a war horse and a disabled horse with a prosthetic leg.
After walking the horse, it was already bright, so Wu Shigong returned to the inner house and had breakfast with his wife and children who had already gotten up. After breakfast, Wu Shigong began his day's work.
After Wu Shigong left Runing Mansion this time, Xue Yongli had recruited 1,500 recruits from military households, surrendered bandits, and local refugees in Runing Mansion. And these days, the training of those recruits has begun from veterans.
Xue Yongli was extremely busy with tasks such as deploying cavalry.
Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, Xue Yongli and other military attachés came over to welcome him. After listening to Xue Yongli's introduction to the recruitment of new soldiers, Wu Shigong began to observe the training of the soldiers again.
Since many veterans who could not ride horses were added to the cavalry this time, and so many new soldiers were recruited, the entire training scene was a bit chaotic. Wu Shigong and the others were not surprised by this situation. According to their experience
, as long as they train strictly under sticks, in one month, those soldiers will be able to look good; in three months, they can be trained as a division; and in half a year, they can be fully qualified soldiers to handle battles
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In addition, in the future, Wu Shigong will also prepare to train the villagers who are stationed in the fields to the level where they can go out into the army. Therefore, in the future, the time for recruits to form combat effectiveness will be greatly shortened.
The only problem now is that Wu Shigong and the others have no experience in training a square formation as large as a thousand people, and they cannot conduct such square formation training before the formation training of the new recruits is completed.
After consulting Wu Shigong, Zhou Xun, who was in charge of phalanx training, could only use the five to six hundred recruits recruited from Beizhili who had been trained for a period of time, plus those who were transferred from other armies for intensive training.
The soldiers began the exploratory training of the phalanx together.
This training was very bumpy. From time to time, problems were discovered, and Wu Shigong temporarily stopped the training and called all the military attachés together to discuss solving the problems. Sometimes there would be fierce disputes, and even someone would be confused.
If you can't convince anyone, you have to divide the square formation into two teams, and sometimes even bring in a team of cavalry to conduct simulated confrontation training.
On the side, several more literate soldiers in the Guards Team acted as temporary scribes, recording the problems discovered and solutions to them, and then sorting and summarizing them later.
With such busy work, the whole morning passed quickly. After having lunch in the camp, Wu Shigong left most of the personal guards around him in the camp and asked them to join him.
Participating in and improving the training of the phalanx, Wu Shigong himself returned to the garrison yamen with more than 20 guards.
After taking a nap, Wu Shigong began to deal with some civil affairs affairs. Anyway, there were many tedious affairs, and what caught Wu Shigong's attention most that day was the farming affairs that Zheng Zhen was responsible for.
"Sir, after your method was used, the people were very enthusiastic. People came to us to sell land, and there were many people who participated in our farming. The villain became bold and lowered the purchase price per acre of land to
The price is one stone and a half. This can also buy some more land for adults."
Wu Shigong immediately praised Zheng Zhen with a smile and said: "You have done a good job. But you can add another condition to the people. As long as there is a natural disaster and the grain harvest is poor, I will exempt the share of the land and extend it accordingly."
It’s time to return our food. And even if there is no harvest, I will ensure the supply of food rations for the people. I not only need the land, but also the people’s hearts. Only when these people have no worries will they give me the food.
Officials sacrifice their lives."
Zheng Zhen also smiled and nodded in agreement. He then asked Wu Shigong: "Sir, if this happens, there will be too many people coming to sell their land. Besides, I also asked some old farmers, and they all said that this year will be good.
It’s not very good either!”
"It's better to hurry up and repair water conservancy. It's only a little bit of food that can be snatched from God's hands. You can calculate it carefully with the accountant. For the land you will buy later, part of it will be paid with food, and the other part will be paid with food stamps issued by us.
Pay, move the payment date of those food stamps back some time. I also asked Tang Liu to buy food again to ensure that the people can survive this famine year. Remember, do not force those people to accept food stamps.
, we must also be trustworthy and not let good things turn into bad things and tarnish our own reputation."
"Sir, there are also some gentry near the land we bought who saw us overhauling water conservancy. They also want to cooperate with us and divert water to their land."
"That's no problem. Let's discuss this matter with Mr. Zhang more. I have an idea. Those gentry can cooperate with us, but their families must also donate their children to our army."
"Let's do this. My army will give these gentry's sons fifty places as military attachés, and then select fifty of them from the veterans in the army to form a hundred-man team of personal soldiers as a training team for reserve military attachés.
However, I need to make it clear to the gentry that these fifty places are admitted on a merit-based basis and must be assessed. Of course, if any of the gentry’s families have children who are directors of the Literacy Association, they will join my army. I will also welcome them very much.
.As for civil affairs, all gentlemen are working very hard now, and it’s time to find some people to help.”
"As for the matter of contacting those gentry, I mainly leave it to Mr. Zhang. Let him not forget about Yao Yuanwai and others in Guide Mansion. It is best to let Yao Yuanwai and others integrate into our system. Do remember: put this
To manage a piece of land thoroughly, we need to integrate all the gentry on this piece of land into our system."
What Wu Shigong said today is already a bit naked. Although in the past, Wu Shigong's staff had felt that Wu Shigong had a tendency to become a warlord, but today Wu Shigong's statement clearly stated his desire to be independent.
Zheng Zhen pondered Wu Shigong's words carefully and thought to himself: "Since you have made this decision, and I am now in the same boat with you, I can only row forward together."
Wu Shigong's farmland policy was quite successful. However, in the next year, a severe drought still occurred in Henan. However, because Wu Shigong's water conservancy construction was better, Wu Shigong was able to be self-sufficient in food.
In addition, Wu Shigong also purchased a total of more than 100,000 acres of land and gathered more than 8,000 farming households. These lands formed villages, and the young men from those farming households formed teams to protect the villages after receiving military training.
The total number of troops protecting the village reached more than 8,000. This also effectively guaranteed Wu Shigong's supply of troops.
In his contacts with the gentry, Zhang Xuebin also asked the gentry's tenant farmers to form a militia similar to Wu Shigong's village protection team. These militia were also commanded by Wu Shigong, and the total number of people in this militia reached one.
More than a thousand people.
There are also those children of the gentry who have entered Wu Shigong's military and civil affairs systems in large numbers. In addition to the knowledge and ability of these children giving Wu Shigong a great help, Wu Shigong also formed a very close alliance with the gentry in these places.
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It should be said that it was not until this time that Wu Shigong truly laid down his own foundation in Henan.
However, after such a costly operation, Wu Shigong did not have much food, grass and silver accumulated.