Zhu Yixi didn't care so much and waved his hand: "Give me a forty blow and let him have a taste of it."
"No!" Baihu screamed pitifully as he was dragged down like a dead pig.
Zhu Yixi felt a little more comfortable now and ordered: "Everyone, please watch me."
"Even if a hundred households bully my soldiers, they will still be punished."
"In addition, no matter who it is, if anyone bullies my soldiers, I will never make it easy for you, so I will leave it at that."
Although Zhu Yixi was lying on her stomach, she put down her harsh words.
"Long live, long live——"
The soldiers in the new barracks cheered instantly, and the cold wind of winter was driven away.
Listening to General Zhu's contagious words and looking at the hundreds of households being beaten, my heart suddenly felt warm.
Although he was tired from the journey, he smiled from the bottom of his heart, and some even cried uncontrollably.
Seeing this, Zhu Yixi couldn't help but nodded. After all, the beating was not in vain.
Thinking about it, he glanced sideways at Zhu Yi.
This guy is too young and doesn't understand anything. He's freezing my ass off.
As soon as he arrived, Zhu Yixi entered this hundred-household residence, a huge village.
Inside the wall, which is as high as one person, are large tracts of thatched houses, which are dilapidated and dilapidated.
The ground was muddy, with all kinds of garbage, even feces and urine mixed together, and it was hard to tell what the color was.
The group of people covered their noses.
"Don't worry, old man, I'll send someone to rebuild the house for you."
Zhu Yixi said seriously.
"If you can't stay any longer, follow me to Nanzheng. It's much better than this."
It was the first time for Zhang Wudou to see such a high-ranking official, and he hurriedly said with a trembling voice: "General, I'd better stay here. We are all acquaintances here, and we can live a decent life."
"also."
Zhu Yixi nodded and took out another ingot of silver: "Just take this little money and repair the house."
Zhang Wudou looked hesitant, but the difficulties in life forced him to continue.
Not fully clothed, with sallow complexions and skinny muscles, these are not enough to describe the suffering of these military households.
The cold wind was biting, and Zhang Wudou and his family only wore a shabby linen clothes, with the straw underneath exposed, making them look a little bloated.
"Buy some cotton-padded jackets to wear." Zhu Yixi shook her head and sighed.
At least, ordinary households can still escape, but they can only be imprisoned, treated as slaves, have no land, and live only on charity.
Looking around, the dirty faces of the military households were full of numbness. The appearance of silver made them instantly moved.
"General, my son also wants to be your soldier!"
"General, will you accept a girl?"
For a moment, the military households were bustling and shouting, which was their desire for survival.
In response, Zhu Yixi said solemnly: "Except for only children, patients, and those under the age of sixteen, I will accept them all."
Now, the crowd was excited and everyone started greeting each other.
The next day, after staying overnight there, Zhu Yixi set off back to Nanzheng with the excited recruits.
He also brought with him thirty or forty new soldiers, which can be described as a mighty force.
When he returned to Nanzheng, he was questioned by Zhao Shu:
"My General Zhu, I approve of your move to win people's hearts."
"Although it is a bit old-fashioned and a little artificial, scholars cannot fool it, but soldiers are simple-minded, but they all fall into this trap."
"But!" Zhao Shu gritted his teeth and said, "You took thousands of people to Ningqiang and spent a lot of food and grass just to beat up hundreds of households. The gain outweighs the loss!"
"Can't you ask my opinion?"
"This -" Zhu Yixi said softly: "Do you have any good suggestions?"
"Instead of thousands of people working hard, it would be better to capture those hundreds of households and execute them directly in the military camp. At the same time, the firearms camp is also brought over to have a look."
Zhao Shu sighed helplessly: "In this way, we don't need a few people, but the effect will be better."
"Then, should I catch him and beat him again?"
Zhu Yixi asked carefully.
"never mind!"
Zhao Shu had no choice but to spread his hands and said: "I've beaten you all, just be careful next time."
Zhu Yixi shook his head and sighed: "The misery of military households is more serious than imagined. No wonder the bandits are suppressing more and more. It turns out that they are border troops and local military households who are joining in a steady stream."
"Um?"
When Zhao Shu heard this, his expression changed and he hurriedly said: "You don't want to disturb the military households, do you?"
"Why not?"
Zhu Yixi raised his brows and said in a deep voice: "Back then, when the great ancestor Taizu pacified the world, 30% of the land in the world was turned into military garrison land. During the Jiajing period, the military garrison was completely destroyed and we could only recruit troops."
"If we follow the example of superintendents and thoroughly inspect the fields, we will definitely gain countless soldiers, horses and land."
"My General Zhu, your thinking is too simple."
Zhao Shu shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Of the ten provinces in the world, only Governor Sun inspects the military garrison, and it is only the military garrison in Xi'an Prefecture."
As he spoke, his eyes couldn't help but become sharp: "Who among the knowledgeable people in the world doesn't know about the corruption of the military garrison? But those who destroyed it were the generals and the local gentry, and they can't afford to offend them."
"With the general's current power, it will be extremely difficult to do this."
"Believe it or not, as soon as you prepared to clear the settlement, someone immediately opened the city to guide the intruders?"
Zhu Yixi was silent.
This is indeed true. The new soldiers are being recruited and trained, and Hanzhong Mansion cannot suppress them, let alone offend the gentry all over the world.
"I see."
Zhu Yixi nodded.
Zhao Shu showed a happy smile.
"However, this account will be settled later."
After saying harsh words, Zhu Yixi covered her buttocks and walked away.
On the way, he thought a lot.
The Hanzhong Guards and Ningqiang Guards of Hanzhong Prefecture have twelve thousand people on their roster, which theoretically means twelve thousand hectares (one hundred acres per hectare), which can do a lot of things.
Historically, Sun Kewang relied on military garrisoning to govern Guizhou, which was the inheritance of the garrison policy from the Taizu period, so it became so prosperous.
You must know that in Guizhou Province, 90% of the land was reclaimed by the army at the beginning, so using the army to cultivate farmland was a correct choice.
In the late Ming Dynasty, when diseases and famines continued, only farming could survive safely.
"Learn from Grandfather Taizu and work hard in farming."
Zhu Yixi said in a deep voice.
When they returned to the courtyard, the Zhang sisters burst into tears with distress.
At this time, he unexpectedly met Miaoxian.
In the courtyard, the cold wind blew. She huddled up and looked around from time to time, her pretty face turned red from the cold.
The gazes from all around made her feel particularly uncomfortable, and her feet moved unconsciously.
"You're home!" She was overjoyed when she saw his figure and rushed towards him.
The woman, with red eyes, looked at him nervously, and said anxiously: "Are you okay? I heard you were beaten, why did you run so far away?"
"How to get out?"
Zhu Yixi forgot about the pain for a moment and said with a smile: "You can't get out of the door, don't you?"
"I feel sorry for you!" Her beautiful face was red, her beautiful eyes were watery, and tears were about to fall at any time.
"I'm fine, I'm fine."
Zhu Yixi hugged her and rested her chin on her shoulder.
"I heard that you are going to marry a young lady from the Sun Mansion. You won't want me, right?"
Miaoxian's beautiful eyes filled with mist, she pursed her lips, and in an instant her tears condensed, directly wetting his clothes.
"How could it be?" Zhu Yixi was stunned and quickly comforted: "I will never give up on you. When I marry her, I will marry you back home."
Miao Xian nodded. She was very affectionate towards her daughter. For a while, she didn't let go of her hug.
"Report, General, there is an urgent message from Dasanguan——"