Chapter 874 Please come to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily
Jinyintan, Xichuan River.
Near the Triangle City of Han Dynasty, a new immigrant village was established on the beach. After Haiyan was established as a county, a large number of poor people from the mainland migrated. In a short period of time, more than 1,700 households, totaling more than 9,700 people, have been relocated.
Many dependents of the garrison came with the army.
Early in the morning, when Guo Shoufu woke up, the first thing he did was to fetch water.
When I first came here, everything started from scratch. There was no ready-made house, so I dug a temporary cellar, dug a hole in the ground, and covered it with Liuba thatch. Fortunately, it was summer and it wasn't cold yet.
It was just that when they first arrived, they were not accustomed to the climate and suffered from altitude sickness, which made them uncomfortable for a short period of time. Fortunately, they were not refugees and hungry people who had fled. They were immigrants, and the court had people to help them resettle.
Haiyan County quickly divided the immigrants into villages and established villages in various places. At first, they had nothing, so they set up temporary tents and then dug holes in the ground. Then everyone, men, women, old and young, went to work cutting down trees, digging soil, and ramming earth to build houses.
The village wall was built so that the villagers would not be afraid of attacks by tigers and wolves, and could also block the wind and sand.
At the same time that the wall was repaired, the warehouses and canteens in the village were also repaired, and rows of private houses were also under construction.
In addition to building houses and walls, the immigrants in the No. 7 Village of Sanjiaobao, Jintan Township, Haiyan County are also scrambling to open up wasteland, cultivate land, herd cattle and sheep, and start from scratch. Everyone helps each other, Xihai Mansion, Haiyan County
In addition, officers and cadres from Triangle Township, the garrison camp, and the imperial camp also sent people to stay and help.
Even in that lively and somewhat chaotic environment, Seventh Tun Elementary School has started school in the fall. They study for half a day and work at home for the remaining half of the day. Those energetic children also have a place of restraint, and they can still go to school in the evening.
Organize villagers to take a literacy class and learn Mandarin.
For immigrants, learning Mandarin is more important than literacy. Many immigrants from all over the world cannot understand each other.
Click on the immigration method.
For example, most of the immigrants in Haiyan County are from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, while the immigrants in Jintan Township are mainly from Sichuan, and the immigrants from Triangle Fort are mainly from northern Sichuan such as Baoning Prefecture. This arrangement is also to allow new immigrants to
Get familiar with it as quickly as possible and be able to establish yourself in a new place as quickly as possible.
Guo Shoufu came here from Baoning in northern Sichuan. He signed up as a bachelor immigrant on his own initiative. He was not a member of the military or an official. He originally wanted to sign up to join the army, but was not selected, so he came as an ordinary immigrant and joined the family of his fellow villagers.
Guo Huaian is different. Although Guo used to be a miner, he was assigned to Haiyan after signing up for the garrison army. Now he has brought his wife, children, and children here. His family has been assigned fifty acres of pasture and one hundred acres of land.
Guo Shoufu was not able to join the army and could only work in farming, because as a single person, he was only allocated 20 acres of land and 30 acres of pasture. Now he and the other nine immigrant households have formed a production mutual aid cooperative. Everyone helps each other and reclaims wasteland.
, and also raised some sheep.
However, there is not much output yet, and we mainly rely on the immigrant grain distributed by the county and township on a monthly basis.
After carrying a load of water back, Guo Shoufu was thinking about joining the army again. He still hoped to join the army. These days made him more and more convinced that only by joining the army can he change his background. Guo Huaian is the best example.
Not only were they given a lot of land, but they also received good food and salary, especially the new clothes and shoes that were issued every season, which was enviable. Even if he was just a garrison soldier, he was a decent person.
Soldiers were not only given land by the court but also wives.
As a bachelor, Guo Shoufu is now very envious of Guo Huaian. He is glorious and respectable and has an iron rice bowl. With the food, salary and land, he can live a decent life in the border area. His wife and children even divided the house when they came, although it is quite simple.
house, but that is also divided directly.
The camp schools recruit children from the garrison soldiers to attend school, and they don't have to pay any tuition fees. If they study well, they will be rewarded with rice and grain.
For a bachelor like him, being a soldier is the best way to change his destiny and transcend social classes. He has never read a book and cannot pass the imperial examination. His only capital is a relatively young life, so it is better to be a soldier.
Ah, the food and salary are generous and stable, and even the conscripts of the provincial patrol battalion, who have not been promoted to non-commissioned officers for several years and return from the army, can be given priority to work in county and township yamen, and are even recommended to work in some royal or official industries.
If the worst is not possible, you can become a mercenary. You can serve as a staff officer, instructor, or mercenary in the army of Mongolian Khan King Taiji or Yunnan-Guizhou chieftain.
It's better than mining. If a miner doesn't work long enough, he either dies underground, or he gets too old and his body can't bear it.
It's a pity that the opportunity to serve in the military is rare nowadays.
Because of the good treatment, poor people are now vying to become soldiers. Being a soldier is no longer a daunting prospect, and there is no longer a saying that a good man should not be a soldier. Instead, being a soldier has become a decent job, and his wife can choose to be a soldier.
And even if the nobles and nobles are powerful, their children still compete for the rank of soldiers, because the Emperor of Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to military merit, military resume is a very good qualification, and having military merit makes it easier to rise. Now the status of the meritorious military generals group in the DPRK can be
They are no worse than the civil servants. Even those who can earn military honors and titles can still beat the civil servants who came from the second rank of Jinshi.
Under this trend.
In the current Ming Dynasty, warriors have become a high-status class, and military attachés are the first choice for the children of nobles. They have the characteristics of soldiers from good families in the early Han and Tang Dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, soldiers belonged to the elite class, and only the children of landlords, rich peasants, noble officials
Only those who are eligible to be selected are not eligible to serve as soldiers.
In the final analysis, it is the tilt of the court's policy. The military personnel are treated generously, not just in terms of food and salary, but also in political status, including the granting of military land, exemption from taxes, exemption from miscellaneous service, and breakthroughs such as the awarding of military honors and titles, etc.
Class restrictions.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As the imperial court progresses, the status of warriors will naturally be high, but if the imperial court begins to stop expanding, the status of warriors will continue to decrease.
These made the soldiers in the Han and Tang Dynasties capable of fighting and having high status.
Compared to the Song Dynasty, where soldiers were tattooed with tattoos, and the Ming Dynasty, the guardsmen were almost reduced to tenant slaves, and the warriors were trampled to the bottom of the mud. There was a huge difference.
The Ming Dynasty now treats military personnel very well. Generals who have been awarded titles for military merit can be allocated a large or even many pieces of land. Although most of them are border areas and do not have the right to tax exemption, the amount of these lands is not small, and thousands of them can be moved.
Eight hundred acres or even thousands of acres, even if the border land is not valuable, the land has many characteristics and can become the foundation of a family.
Not to mention that warriors can also serve as generals and prime ministers, enter the cabinet, and enter the prime minister's office. The title can be passed down to descendants. In addition to the title of land, food, town, and reduced salary, the title also has many privileges, such as the title of wife.
It is a very rare opportunity for a son to enter the Imperial Academy, or to be admitted to the Imperial Guards, or to enter the martial arts hall, etc. In comparison, civilians used to have to rely on studying, crossing the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops, and taking the exam to become a scholar.
All the way to the Jinshi exam.
Moreover, the imperial examination cannot be inherited hereditary. It can only be used to train children to take the imperial examination. However, compared with military merit and nobility, which can directly pass on land, titles, and favors, there is still some gap.
"Old Six,"
"Third brother, why are you here?"
Guo Shoufu, who was carrying water, had just arrived in front of the door when he saw Guo Huaian, wearing a red garrison uniform, squatting at the door smoking a pot and waiting for him.
"There is a good thing, but do you want your wife or not?"
"Yes, third brother, do you have something suitable?" Guo Shoufu put down the bucket and replied with a smile.
"Just want it. There is a good one. Your sister-in-law told me that there are many newly arrived military families in our military-affiliated villages in the camp. There is one family who is also from northern Sichuan and moved from Bazhou.
, there is a 16-year-old girl in their family. Your sister-in-law said she is very tall, but a bit thin, but has a pretty good physique, especially with a big butt, so she must be easy to give birth to. "
"Sixteen years old? Her brother is still stationed in the army, maybe he doesn't look down on a bachelor like me?" Guo Shoufu hesitated upon hearing this.
"There is another good thing." Guo Huaian took out the tobacco bag and handed it to Guo Yongfu. There was tobacco and paper in it, and asked him to roll it himself. "I have received a mission. Our camp is going to send sentries to escort a batch of supplies to Tibet.
Gyantse, we will go with the Kunlun Expeditionary Force to attack Nasha Ali's Ladakh country. Although our outpost soldiers are only transporting supplies, there will always be opportunities to play in the past.
Moreover, our battalion commander has said that we are allowed to bring some of our children who are willing to accompany us, and each person can bring at most one.
Would you like to go?"
The title of "disciples who accompany the expedition" is not unusual. In the past, there were Yu Ding in addition to the main army of the Ming military guard. Sometimes there would be disciples accompanying them in battles. Even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when the soldiers went out to fight, they often brought their disciples with them.
The main purpose of voluntarily participating in the conscription was to help capture prisoners, transport trophies, guard horses and guard camps.
Even when the nomadic troops on the grassland sent out troops, they often took their children or slaves with them to clear grass and valleys, feed horses, guard camps, guard prisoners, transport captured animals, etc., and sometimes went to the battlefield as well.
Guo Yongfu became a little excited. He was struggling to find an opportunity to join the army. There were too many young people who wanted to join the army, but there were very few opportunities. Many people were trying to get in, and even three-year conscripts could hardly get a position.
"I heard that the goal of this Kunlun camp is very big. It is estimated that it will be a big job. After Ladakh, it seems that we will also fight some small kingdoms such as Kanjuti, Jammu and Kashmir, and maybe even some other small countries.
We will fight against the Mughal Empire. On the surface this time, the court will only send 1,500 troops. In addition, we will recruit 13,500 troops from Weizang and others. But in fact, we will send some troops there, mainly to mobilize provincial camps and garrison camps.
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Bidige
"I guess as long as you have this experience, regardless of whether you have a chance to go into battle or not, then you will have a better chance of signing up to join the army in the future. If there is a war, wouldn't you join the army on the front line? It's better than doing it here.
Waiting for strength, right?"
Like Guo Huaian, there are still many troops who have been tasked with transporting supplies. They are all deployed in Xining, Gansu, and Anxi. They are mainly based in local camps. The public task given to them is to transport military supplies with arms.
Providing grain and grass to the Kunlun camp was actually for the imperial court's other purposes.
The Kunlun camp mobilized 15,000 soldiers and horses, while the Ming army only dispatched 1,500 imperial camps. Troops were sent from two directions: Weizang and the Western Regions. This was also intended to alleviate the worries of the Mongolian princes. If tens of thousands of Ming troops were directly dispatched, then they would
One has to wonder if Ming Dynasty is going to directly seize their territory.
Only 1,500 troops will be dispatched, which will give them a relatively secure feeling. For example, the Ming army now deliberately maintains a troop strength of 500 troops in Tibet, from 500 troops stationed in Tibet to 500 troops stationed in Lhasa and Gyantse each.
In the name of militia, the Ming army also had militia battalions of 500 people each, and even in the capacity of merchants, guards, etc., there were actually several hundred armed soldiers each, but at least on the surface, there were only 500 Ming troops in the front and rear.
This number is a relatively reassuring number.
The imperial court stated that it would only send 1,500 troops to the expeditionary force, but in the name of transporting military supplies, it sent garrison troops there. Firstly, it is indeed safer to transport military supplies with arms. Secondly, these garrison troops are reserve forces. They can not only escort supplies, but also be available at any time.
Able to draw on the battlefield.
You can even set up warehouses, military posts, military depots, etc. in Qiemo, Khotan, Yarkand and other places in the name of transshipment, reserve military supplies, etc., and then march and garrison troops.
It would definitely be more convenient to act in the name of the garrison soldiers.
It can be advanced or retreated, so as not to cause too violent a reaction, but still able to achieve the strategic intention of the imperial court to seize the opportunity to enter that area.
And dispatching some garrison troops to transport military supplies to Ali and back to Xinjiang, and recruiting some children to voluntarily join the army, further reduced the number of Ming troops on the surface. After all, garrison troops were originally half-farmers, half-soldiers, and their children participated in transporting supplies. They
Not even soldiers, just common people.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "If you are willing to go, I will ask our battalion to join the army to get you a document, and then take it to your township security office to report and register. Just complete the procedures
Once it’s done, you can go with us.”
"Even if we can't win the war by then, we still have wages for transporting military supplies, so we won't go in vain."
"Yes, I am willing, of course I am willing, thank you third brother." Lao Liu rolled his cigarette hand and said excitedly.
In fact, he is still a restless person at heart, or he is unwilling to be ordinary and unwilling to continue mining, so he rejected the widow whose husband died in the mine with her children, and also gave up the relatively good-paying job of a miner to trek
After traveling thousands of miles to Haiyan, he wanted to settle in the border areas and serve as a soldier, but before he became a soldier, he was not willing to just settle down and become a farmer in the border areas.
Although a piece of land has been allocated for him to work hard to cultivate and plant, and the hard work and sweat can buy him stability and food and clothing, he is not willing to accept it.
He was only in his early twenties, and he wanted to be admired by others, and he didn't want to end his life at a glance. Although a few years ago, he would not have dared to dream of this kind of life now, but when he saw the people around him, he
He also envies and yearns for a better future and wants to strive for it.
It is human nature to have to go to Long and look forward to Shu.
"If the Kunlun Expeditionary Force conquers Ladakh, Kashmir or whatever, and wants to recruit troops there, will you be willing to serve as a soldier there?" Lao San asked while smoking a cigarette pot.
Lao Liu thought about it for a while. Although he had no idea about the distant Ladakh, he only knew that it must be an extremely remote place, just as far away as coming from his hometown in northern Sichuan to the Qinghai Lake, but he still gritted his teeth and agreed.
"Yes. When we were in literacy class, Master read some poems from the Tang Dynasty. There is a line called, Please go to Lingyan Pavilion for a while, and you will be like a scholar with ten thousand households."
Guo Huaian said with a smile, "Well, this is such a grand statement. I remember there was also a saying that in those days, those who traveled thousands of miles to search for a feudal lord and defended Liangzhou on horseback were also very domineering!"
"There is another saying: Why don't men take Wu hook and collect Guanshan and fifty states?"
"Hahaha, that's right, a man born between heaven and earth, how can he live in depression for a long time under others, hahaha!"
"Hahaha, with such ambition, are you afraid that you will never get ahead in this life? What happened to Kunlun, and what are you afraid of in Ladakh? When the time comes, you will be awarded military honors and promoted all the way back. Then you will not only return to Qinghai Lake, but also return to Qinghai Lake.
I want to be promoted to the imperial court in Beijing."
