In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 196 Miss Madam
Those thirty or so ungrateful scholars broke Marshal Lin's heart, leaving Lin Rui to place all his hopes on the women of wealthy families.

After all, after seeing Mrs. Lu and others' abilities, Lin Rui had a deep understanding of the ladies of this era.

When it comes to imperial examinations, these noble ladies are naturally not as good as real scholars, but when it comes to accounting and management, these ladies are not necessarily worse than real scholars, especially older ladies.

Because these noble ladies learned how to run a household from an early age, and large families in ancient times were often very large. They not only had many servants, accountants, maids, and wives, but also a large number of land tenants, shopkeepers, and clerks. To manage such a huge industry, complex personnel, abilities, skills and experience are all indispensable.

It can be said that the head wife of a wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty is like the CEO of a modern company, while the man who is the head of the family is like the chairman. He only needs to concentrate on studying, getting fame, studying abroad and making friends, and having a romantic relationship.

The life was so comfortable. It can be said that the ancient Chinese scholar-bureaucrats really enjoyed all their blessings.

Compared with the mere [-] scholars, there were much more wives, concubines, ladies and maids of the wealthy families who were robbed by slaves this time, more than [-] people.

Half of them are maids and concubines who are illiterate, and the other half are literate ladies and maids.

Lin Rui just waved away illiterate maids and concubines, no matter how good-looking they were. His energy was mainly focused on those women, especially the more than 100 wives who were over 30 years old. Lin Rui He called them aside alone and did it again.

The tone should be as gentle as possible.

As a result, these ladies all looked sad and miserable, and they all expressed their unwillingness to return to the Ming Dynasty and be ridiculed by others.

In fact, Lin Rui also knew that the reason why they all chose to stay was not because they wanted to repay their kindness, but because they were afraid of being disliked by others when they returned, but he did not dislike them at all.

After testing them one by one, I was very happy and immediately gave these more than 100 ladies the status of a hundred households.

Other young ladies and young women were also given the status of general banner, and the literate maids were given the status of small flags. The illiterate concubines and maids could only be ordinary veterans and soldiers.

Compared to Mrs. Lu and the others, Lin Rui actually trusted these ladies and young ladies he rescued more, because the grateful looks in their eyes made him feel very at ease.

What's more, these women are now helpless. They have no other choice but to rely on him. They don't have too many ideas and ambitions. They are definitely easier to use than those scholars.

If you let them go east, they will never go west.

Therefore, Lin Rui did not look at appearance at all, and awarded titles based entirely on each person's ability and knowledge.

"Sister Xiuying, from now on, these ladies and ladies will be under your control. In addition to the due treatment, you can also take special care. Each of them will be assigned one or two maids and concubines to serve, especially the more than 100 ladies, so that they can Work for us with peace of mind."

"Well, don't worry Rui Lang, I will arrange it!"

Zhang Xiuying nodded. Naturally, she would not object. She was also born in a wealthy family. No one knew better than her that these ladies and ladies would not be able to comb their hair or walk very far if they had no maids to help them. I don't have the energy to do anything.

Lin Rui is naturally aware of the shortcomings of these ladies and ladies, so he plans to take time to train them and improve their physical fitness.

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In the next few days, in order to better facilitate long-distance migration, Lin Rui began to roughly organize all non-combatants.First, the original soldiers and horses in the village were mobilized. The two thousand young soldiers were dispersed into eight infantry battalions, which just made up for the lack of personnel in the past few months.

The 3 traitor soldiers who were originally captured were incorporated into the [-] Han soldiers brought from Liaodong. These more than [-] people will be used as second-class soldiers, mainly used for defense, escorting vehicles, guarding prisoners, etc.

Then there are the non-combatants, which are divided into several large pieces.

A total of 14 Korean maids, Mongolian women, and Eight Banners women over [-] years old were organized into slave camps, with [-] people per team, a total of eight teams. After arriving in the Hetao, these women will be rewarded.

Next were the Eight Banner girls under the age of 14, who were also made into slaves. The 5 people were not broken down because Lin Rui had no intention of taking them on the road at all.

Then all Han women, literate and pampered, whether they were exchanged or rescued from Liaodong, were all organized into the rear camp.

These women must ride in carriages, and Zhang Xiuying is responsible for the management and leadership. In addition to the concubines and maids serving them, there are a total of 3 people. Although these women are a burden, they are precious resources.

Even Lin Rui would carry them to the Loop.

Then came all the civilian Han women, a total of 15 people, which was also the largest group of people.

Among them, [-] strong and healthy women were selected and temporarily organized into female barracks, equipped with weapons, and led by Niu Sister-in-law, who would be responsible for guarding female slaves on the road.

The remaining 12 people are organized into women's camps, divided into 12 teams, each with 1 people. They will be managed by the rear camp led by Zhang Xiuying, who will be mainly responsible for escorting supplies, washing and cooking, and other logistical chores on the road.

Finally, there are the Han men and the more than 100 scholars. After excluding the more than 3 second-class soldiers, there are still nearly 6 people left.

Among them, more than 1 various craftsmen were organized into craftsman camps, led by Liu Si and Wang Wu. Most of them were awarded small banners and general banners, and some even had hundreds of households.

The remaining more than 5 Han people, all ordinary middle-aged and young men, were temporarily unified into the male camp.

These 100 male battalions are divided into a brigade of [-] men, a squadron of [-] men, and a small team of [-] men. They are led and managed by more than [-] scholars. These people will also be responsible for escorting supplies.

When we arrived, all the supplies were transported on sleds, but now that the snow has melted, we had to use horse-drawn carriages instead.

After some calculations, I found that if I wanted to bring all the supplies, even if more than 20 ordinary Han men and women and 3 Jurchen ladies each carried some, it would still take more than [-] carriages to load them.

So next, the carpenters began to build wheels to install on the sleds. Fortunately, there were [-] to [-] sleds brought this time, and there was no shortage of wood.

Lin Rui was busy installing wheels on sleds in the valley and Dorgon was also busy building siege equipment in Shengjing. In order to recruit Shang Kexi and [-] traitor soldiers again, Huang Taiji even dragged his sick body and committed suicide himself.

"Yuanji, you must know how I have treated you since you surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. This time, I also know that you had no choice but to surrender to Lin Rui.

I can swear to God that as long as you open the city gate, no matter what you have done with the soldiers in the city, I will never forget it and will still trust you! "

(End of this chapter)