Qiming 1158

Chapter 1478 The Army Doing Farmwork
Seeing that the local bureaucrats were about to do something unpleasant, the Ming army officers and instructors quickly stopped them and told the local bureaucrats not to force them.

They are here to work, not to do other things. It's not that the people don't have eyes. They can understand what they should understand.

The soldiers of the Ming army were not familiar with the local crops and production methods at first, so they asked local officials to find experienced old farmers to teach the officers and instructors how to use it and experience, and to understand some taboos that were different from those in the Central Plains.

Then the officers and instructors told the soldiers about these things, and the soldiers went down to the fields, and then the farmers continued to work on the unfinished farm work.

When it was time for dinner, they took the food and water they brought with them to eat and drink together. After that, there was a one-hour lunch break at noon. The soldiers found a shady place such as a tree and put straw mats on them. Rest in silence.

After the lunch break was over, they gathered to continue working on the farm until the sun went down, then put the farm tools neatly on the field ridges, tied the livestock, sorted out the places where they slept and passed by, sorted out all the garbage, and then lined up to leave.

After repeating this for a few days, the local farmers were curious about the army, and found that they really did not commit any crimes on their own side. I will compensate myself.

Not to mention the peasants, even the local officials find it strange.

At first, they all thought that Ming Jun was joking, pretending to be close to the people and making things mysterious. After a while, they would be fine. After all, that's what the above means.

So they just wanted to help the Ming army get over this freshness quickly, so that they could return to the barracks as soon as possible.

As a result, it turns out that they are actually doing farm work, they are doing well, and they seem to be very experienced, and they really do not offend the people. , do not enter the house.

When it rains, they will bring their own clothes, bamboo hats and canopies to shelter themselves from the rain.

After the day's farm work is over, I take all my belongings away, and leave all the farmers' belongings behind, and the fields are well taken care of, quite a bit like intensive farming.

They are really engaged in agricultural production, and the level of agricultural production is quite good.

Is this really something the military can do?
In the agricultural production areas of the entire Hezhong area, wherever there are Ming soldiers going, similar news has come. These news are summed up in the ears of Maas Ude, Ma Su Ude is really surprised and surprised.

He found Su Haisheng, and found that Su Haisheng also looked like he had just returned from the farmland. He was wearing rough cloth and a bucket hat. He was dirty and had a strong sour smell all over his body.

He couldn't believe that this person was the senior general of the Ming Dynasty who had been drinking and laughing with him before.

So he expressed his doubts.

"Why do you really do farm work? What's the problem with you? Didn't I say it? Stop and stop, but things have to be done. Daming soldiers do things like this in the country. Your country is a vassal state of Daming. The treatment is the same as that in Daming, and of course the Daming army will do the same."

Su Haisheng took off his sweaty clothes and kept scooping water to rinse himself.

"Basically, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all farmers. I also did farm work in my early years, and I am not unfamiliar with farming. Even after joining the army, if there is any emergency production task or rescue task in the local area, it is normal to organize the army to help. ."

Masoud was dumbfounded.

"Actually...there is such a thing..."

"The soldiers of the army are also the children of farmers. Everyone is a family. If there is any difficulty, they must help each other. The grains the soldiers eat are all grown by farmers. What if they help them with farm work? Isn't this normal?

Su Haisheng's words surprised Masoud even more.

Because he was very sure that such a thing could not have happened in the kingdom of Sikarakhan.

It's all uncles who hold knives. How could it be possible to put down the knives and do farm work?
The peasants are afraid of the big head soldiers to death, and in the big head soldiers' point of view, the farmers are their mobile food replenishment warehouses, the kind that they can take at will.

And the Ming Army...

All of these can be released later. The thing that Maas Ude is most concerned about now is Su Haisheng's next plan.

Does he plan to lead troops to farm here all the time?

"The crusade against Khwarizmo country..."

"Don't worry, sooner or later, it's up to them to see if there will be any problems within them."

Su Haisheng smiled, wiped his hair and patted Masoud on the shoulder. He said with a smile, "I help you to do farm work during the stay, which is considered to be the cost of food. It's not harsh to you, right?"

"That's... it's true."

Masoud nodded with a smile.

What Su Haisheng said was indeed reasonable.

Half of the rations currently used by the Ming army are from the Kingdom of Sikara Khan. Originally, Masoud planned to make up for this part of the expenditure from the trophies of the Khwarizm kingdom after the war, but now it seems that it is not. need.

These soldiers of the Ming army are all top-notch strong men, and they are also first-class experts in agricultural work. However, because of the Western Liao conscription and this Daming conscription, the Xikarakhan Kingdom lost a lot of strong men and delayed the agricultural time. This year's harvest is a bit in jeopardy.

But these strong men of the Ming Dynasty did a good job in the farm work, and the military discipline was so good that they could wake up with a smile when they dreamed, which made Masoud think that this year's agricultural harvest might not be too bad.

Why don't you keep watching?
Masoud has never seen an army like the Ming Army, mainly because such an army has appeared too few and too short in the long history, but it is by no means that it has never appeared.

The Han army under the rule of Zhuge Liang once did this. Zhuge Liang's troops went out to the Wuzhangyuan to settle the fields, and the Han soldiers lived together with the local Wei people to cultivate the fields, and nothing bad happened.

It can be seen that even in ancient times, as long as the ruler has the will, he can do such a thing, but for most rulers, this kind of thing is really unnecessary, and Zhuge Liang is only one of them.

But for Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing is very necessary.

Not to mention, with the great help of the [-] strong men in Daming, the agricultural time in the Hezhong area that had been delayed due to the war and conscription was really recovered little by little.

Su Haisheng led the soldiers shirtless and waved their hoes in the field against the sun, and drove cattle, donkeys, mules and other livestock to help plough the fields. The crops in the fields were growing really well.

During this period of time, the local farmers also had a huge change in the Ming army. From the beginning, they avoided it and then took the initiative to send water and food to the busy Ming army soldiers in the fields, which only took about half a month. .

The two sides do not understand the language and have completely different living habits. For example, the Ming army eats three meals a day, while these farmers can only eat two meals a day, but this does not prevent emotional contact and blending.

The soldiers of the Ming army came to help with the farm work in the morning, and they lined up to go back in the evening. The military discipline was outrageous, so the local farmers had to believe that the soldiers of the Ming army really came to help them with the farm work.

And they are very disciplined, they did not destroy the utensils and houses of the peasants at all, and they kept the whole village clean.

The peasants discussed for a while and felt that they could try to get in touch with the Ming army, so they sent some men to deliver some food to the Ming army.

The Ming army soldiers accepted it with a smile, and then took out copper coins and gave them to them.

(End of this chapter)