The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 141 The Happiest Man Farms and Women Weaves

As for the situation in North Korea, Zhu Cihong was always paying attention. Seven days after Seoul was breached, Jin Yiwei's spies sent the news back to Shanhaiguan.

At this time, hundreds of thousands of troops have already arrived at Shanhaiguan, and they have all completed the third comprehensive combat power assessment.

The third assessment was not complicated. According to the roster, Zhu Cihong randomly selected [-] soldiers and generals from each of the five armies, including [-] archers, sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, and cavalry each.

After the selection, they were not given any reorganization and integration time at all, and they were not designated as the commander, and then a series of assessments were carried out.

It is completely simulating a group of defeated and newly gathered rout soldiers.

The first is the assessment of the order. 2000 people conducted a series of drills according to the order.

As a result, except for the Chinese army, the rest of the armies were in a mess.

Then there was the physical strength test. Within half an hour, they marched for [-] miles in full armor, and there were very few people who also met the requirements.

Then there is the test of courage, 2000 people form a group, face the cavalry charge directly, and if the formation is not chaotic within [-] steps, they are considered qualified.

Similarly, apart from the Central Army, there were riots in the remaining four armies. As for the last cavalry assessment, because the training time was too short, it was only a simple test of equestrian skills and horse chopping.

The 2000 members of each army are randomly selected and combined temporarily. Their quality can fully reflect the overall combat power and individual quality of each army.

After several days of assessment, Zhu Cihong also realized that it is not difficult to train an army capable of fighting, as long as the army's salary is not lacking and the food is sufficient, it can be done.

But it is definitely not a simple matter to train a strong army.

Nowadays, the daily drills of Ming soldiers and the command of the battlefield are very chaotic, not as good as in the Han and Tang Dynasties, let alone the Warring States Period.

Originally, Zhu Cilang thought that if the strength of the various armies was not bad, he would take the opportunity to go directly to Liaodong and destroy Jiannu, but after the assessment, he immediately put an end to this idea.

If they were fighting an upright battle, the combined five armies would not be afraid of building slaves, and the defense would be more than sufficient.

But if they take the initiative to attack and attack the city, if the cavalry is not dominant, they will probably suffer a big loss in the end.

So when he received that the North Korean country had been breached, he led the army back home. He decided to formulate a uniform and standardized infantry drill code after returning home, which must be trained in strict accordance with the drill code.

Instead of the current situation, the generals trained their own, relying entirely on their own experience and ideas to train their soldiers.

Similarly, the command system on the battlefield must also be unified. The sound of trumpets, drums, and semaphore must have a unified standard so that all soldiers can understand it.

In order to be fair, Zhu Cilang switched defenses between Huang Degong's right army and Zhou Yuji's rear army.

Zhou Yuji led the rear army to take over the defense of Shanhaiguan and Jizhen, while Huang Degong led the right army to march to Tongzhou first, and was tested halfway.

Although this parade inspection was time-consuming and labor-intensive, Zhu Cihong gained a lot. At least it gave him a specific and clear understanding of the ancient marching and fighting.

It also made all the soldiers realize that the emperor attached great importance to the army.

Similarly, the soldiers of all armies had a great sense of belonging to the emperor, and the overall morale increased a lot.

So he intends to leave behind the teachings of his ancestors, and the future emperors will personally inspect the army like this every two years.

After the army returned to Tongzhou, it was already May, and it took two full months.

Looking around, there is a piece of gold everywhere, and more than 800 million mu of wheat seedlings have come to harvest time.

Zhu Cihong didn't care about North Korea's affairs.

It's not that the mother country broke its promise, but that North Korea itself failed to live up to it and didn't even hold on for the lowest month. How can the mother country rescue it?
Following Zhu Cihong's order, all the armies returned to their respective camps one after another, and began to help the military households harvest summer grain.

And this is also the first time that the army has helped military households collect food, and it may also be the last time.

Zhu Cihong knows this better than anyone else because the big pot of rice cannot be eaten for too long. Therefore, after the summer harvest, all military villages will also carry out reforms. Open the pot separately.

The main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of each army, except for a small number of retired veterans, must also be completely converted into professional soldiers.

As the so-called iron-clad camps, flowing soldiers, some elderly veterans, even after hundreds of battles, are not as good as seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys.

Everywhere is harvesting wheat vigorously and reaping big harvests, but Zhu Cihong once again put his energy on the industrial area in the west of the city.

On the original open space in the west of the city, there are already two hundred large brick and tile bungalows neatly arranged, each of which is about two hundred square meters in size.

There was a creaking sound coming from inside, apparently spinning had begun.

The one-story residential areas farther away, and more large one-story workshops and warehouses are also being built.

Although the military households near the capital went back for summer harvest, the military officers recruited hundreds of thousands of young men who had just finished spring sowing from Xuanfu Datong.

"Your Majesty, [-] yarn-preventing machines have been invested so far, and each bungalow can accommodate forty spinning machines. If the looms are not put into operation as soon as possible, the spindles in the warehouse will soon be overwhelmed."

Seeing dozens of women in the workshop operating the spinning machines, Zhu Cilang felt unreal, as if he had returned to a factory in his previous life, and Liu Xinlan on the side introduced it.

During the two months that Zhu Cihong was away, she had been taking care of spinning and weaving.

"Xinlan, where are these women recruited from?"

Zhu Cihong looked at the women with slightly unfamiliar hands and feet and asked, the youngest of these women was only twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest were in their 50s and [-]s.

"Returning to Your Majesty, they are all family members of craftsmen under the Ordnance Supervision. According to the construction supervisor's regulations on recruiting young and strong workers, each person is paid [-] yuan a day, so there are still many female family members of craftsmen who are shouting. Also come to spin.

Your Majesty has built tens of thousands of looms now, why don't you spare a few rooms for weaving, otherwise the spindles in the warehouse will really be overwhelmed. "

After Liu Xinlan explained, she tried to suggest again.

"Okay, then temporarily empty a few houses for weaving, and first train hundreds of women who can weave, and then let them be responsible for teaching the female relatives of the military households.

However, this spinning cannot be based on a fixed wage of [-] Wen a day, but should be paid according to how many qualified spindles they spin every month, and the amount of each spindle can be stipulated.

Each workshop sends a literate court lady or eunuch to be responsible for record management, and their salaries are also determined according to the number of spindles spun by the entire workshop.It may be a little rusty at the beginning, so give it a one-month adaptation period! "

Zhu Cihong taught her some modern factory management systems while walking.

Spinning must be calculated according to the quantity.

"Well, this servant has memorized it, but Your Majesty, this servant thinks that if the weaving is also concentrated in the industrial area, it should save a lot of time and effort."

"I've also thought about this issue. Centralizing weaving will indeed reduce a lot of troubles, but in this way, many women will have to leave home and be separated from their relatives for a long time. Girls are fine, but women are more troublesome, so I thought about it. Let them weave at home."

Zhu Cihong waved his hands and sighed.

This is ancient times, and I am afraid that no man is willing to let his wife and daughter leave home for a long time.

Not to mention being away from home for many years, even spending a night outside alone is a big deal.

Therefore, for the time being, we can only engage in small-scale farming, with men farming and women weaving at home.

This kind of life where men farm and women weave, and support their husbands and children is what all ancient Chinese people pursued.

It's nothing more than sending the spindles to the villages and then collecting the cloth. It's a bit troublesome, but for the happiness of the people, Zhu Cihong thinks this trouble is worth it.

As for industrialization, let’s wait until the steam engine is invented. At that time, some workers’ families can be specially cultivated. It is definitely not possible to disperse wives and children, which is not in line with the concept of people of this era.

(End of this chapter)