Late Tang

Although a supervising army came to Shamen Town, it didn't seem to have any effect on the town.At the beginning, everyone was very afraid of this new supervisor, although Li Jing repeatedly stated that this supervisor would be different from other supervisors, and asked everyone to respect Zhang Chengye as much as possible.However, there is still some fear in the hearts of the people. In the eyes of the people in the late Tang Dynasty, the eunuch is an arrogant and domineering existence. In Wang Zhong's words, if ten eunuchs are arranged in a row and assassinated with guns, it is possible that only one of them will be killed unjustly. of.

Although these words are a bit exaggerated, it can also be seen that the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty had an impression in the hearts of ordinary people and soldiers.However, after Zhang Chengye went to the island, he did not make any follow-up actions except after calling all the troops to review the next day, and meeting all the ten generals and deputy ten generals of each battalion.

He didn't intervene in the military affairs of Shamen Town as everyone imagined. Instead, these days, he followed the island's chief steward Cao Canjun and Zhang Hong all day, busy packing boxes and dedicating the preparations of Shamen Town to the emperor. Those tributes are busy preparing.Everything on the island remains the same, and nothing has changed much because of his existence.

After carefully probing Zhang Chengye a few times, Li Jing finally affirmed that this was Zhang Chengye, the most loyal eunuch in the history of the late Tang Dynasty.After confirming, Li Jing was no longer so careful, and simply threw him to Zhang Hong but stayed with him.

For Li Jing, he still has more things to deal with.

Although the garrisons of one town, two forts and nine garrisons have been properly arranged, there are too many things to deal with.First of all, it was the matter of Zhao'an Town Donghai. Li Jing immediately invited the three leaders of the yellow beards, and then invited the white beards who had already washed their hands in the gold basin, and even Megan and Julie.

"My idea is to organize the brothers in Zhendonghai into a sailor battalion of 1000 people, the battalion name is Raging Waves, with [-] soldiers in charge, divided into five capitals."

Huang Huzi and the others were very satisfied with Qingzhou's decision to throw them to Li Jing. If they really wanted them to accept other people's recruiting, they had no idea.Anyway, the current situation is almost followed by Li Jing, what is missing is only a name.After hearing Li Jing's preliminary reorganization plan, Huang Huzi asked: "I have 2000 brothers, young and old, in Donghai Township, and another 1000 family members. If only [-] people are kept at the head of the battalion, what about the rest?"

"Choose one thousand of the most elite brothers to reorganize the Rage Camp, and the rest of the brothers can go ashore to enter the workshop, and can also be granted land. They can even join the caravan that is being built in the town. As for the brothers' families, they can We can all move to Shamen Town and arrange them on the big and small Black Mountain Islands. The brothers who stay in the army after reorganization will naturally have salaries and food in the future. Even the brothers who quit the army will also have to settle down and arrange work, so that they will not make their lives miserable. The brothers’ wives can work in the workshop, and their children can go to the church like the children on the island.”

The three with the yellow beards still hesitated, "Can't we set up a battalion head of 3000 people and include all the brothers?"

White Beard understands Li Jing's thoughts. Officers are different from pirates. Everything is bound by many rules. He said: "Since accepting the recruitment, we can no longer be as unruly as before. What should we do? Everyone listen to Ji Yu That is, he will arrange it properly, and it will never be a loss to the brothers."

Li Jing chuckled, "We have known each other for a day or two, and we are brothers who have been killed shoulder to shoulder in blood and fire many times. I will not treat you badly, Huang will be the ten generals of the Rage Camp , the red master and the black master will serve as the deputy ten generals and the battalion capital Yuhou. In addition, the white master will serve as the commander in chief of the battalion, and the rest of the original captains will also serve as the first ranks of the generals. Currently, the Nutao camp will be completely controlled by Zhendonghai Brothers, and the officers are all brothers from Zhendonghai, I will not send other people into the Raging Wave Camp."

Things have to be done step by step, Li Jing is unwilling to act too hastily, and let these pirates have other psychology.As long as he accepts the recruitment, Zhendonghai will completely become a part of Shamen Town in a short time, and this cannot be changed.

With Li Jing's promise, the adaptation went very smoothly. On the second day, under the witness of the generals, Li Jing specially brought Zhang Chengye together to hold a surrender ceremony. The fleet of the East China Sea came to surrender from the sea, presenting command flags, swords and rosters.Li Jing announced the recruitment on the spot, and reorganized Zhendonghai into the Rage Camp, appointed Yellow Beard and other pirate leaders as officers of the Rage Camp on the spot, and then specially selected Shuanglujiao as the base of the Rage Camp.

Among the [-] pirates, the most elite [-] young men were retained and incorporated into the Raging Wave Camp, while the remaining [-] left the army and went ashore to become ordinary people. Into the diary, and some arranged to join the caravan, fishing team, etc., all of them received a large amount of settling allowance, and had a new life.The settling expenses were a lot, a total of one hundred guan for one person, among which Li Jing gave [-] guan, and Huang Huzi and others took out Zhendonghai's savings, and each gave [-] guan.With this hundred guan money, it is enough for them to start their lives again.

At the beginning, Huang Huzi and others in Zhendonghai were worried that everyone would be unwilling, but they unexpectedly found that everyone was very satisfied with accepting the adaptation of Li Jing's recruitment, and even washing their hands and going ashore.Although life at sea is free and easy, it is actually blood licking with a knife head. No one knows that one day he will suddenly die in battle at sea, nor when the lair will be suppressed by the army, and he is always worried.Now that they have accepted the recruitment, they still believe in Li Jing's recruitment. They have seen the safety and prosperity of Salmon Island before, and they have always been secretly envious of it.Everyone is very satisfied to be able to join Shamen Town now.

After recruiting Zhendonghai and moving their families to Zishamen Town, the population of Shamen Township increased by nearly 2 again.Counting the looting of Turtle Island and other islands last time, under Li Jing's rule, the entire population of Shamen Town has exceeded 15, and the permanent population is also It has exceeded 12 people, and there are nearly 3 migrant workers.

Although Shamen Town has seventeen islands at once, many of them are small islands and reefs, many of which are not suitable for human habitation, and some of them have also been used as military bases.In the end, only Daheishan Island, Xiaoheishan Island and Shamen Island are the only islands that can be really inhabited.The total area is estimated to be [-] mu, and the cultivated land area is more than [-] mu.

Li Jing resettled the people from other fortresses in Daxie Village who had been plundered several times to the big and small Heishan Islands. There are about [-] households and [-] people in this part.With so many people, even if all the land was allocated to them, each household would only have two and a half mu of land, which was not enough to settle down at all.

In this regard, Li Jing simply implemented the hoarding system, using 250 households as a fort, divided these immigrants into sixteen forts, and allocated [-] mu of land for each fort.In addition, Beibao built pig and sheep farms and chicken and duck farms to raise pigs, chickens and ducks for the town.In addition, all the forts were asked to form fishing teams to go fishing in the sea, supply the caught fish to the town and the army, and sell them, and store the excess in salted dried fish.In addition, some handicraft workshops are set up in each Tunbao to do some external processing for some large workshops in Shamen Town.Calculated in this way, although the output of the field is insufficient, adding up other incomes, it is completely enough to maintain life, and even a little richer than before.

After finishing these people, all that remained were the [-] captive slaves from Qingnipu, and the captives and surrendered soldiers from Daxie Village.

"Let's arrange everything in the workshop." Li Jing replied directly to Li Chun, the new town recorder.Due to the limited conditions of Shamen Island, it is difficult to truly hoard land and support the army.However, Shamen Town also has a huge advantage that the mainland cannot match, that is, they guard the largest Dengzhou Port in the north and the sea trade route.It would be foolish not to do business under such conditions, but to focus on eating the ten thousand acres of land.Li Jing has already made a plan for Shamen Town, that is, the big and small Montenegro Fortresses are the places to hoard land and calm the people, and the other islands and reefs are places for military training, and Shamen Town will be built into a military and commercial center.

Salmon Island will focus on the development of those workshops, from ordnance workshops to clothing workshops, and even liquor workshops, rock sugar workshops, perfume workshops, etc. Li Jing will try his best to expand their scale and take advantage of the prosperity of Dengzhou Port , Start a unique business of deep processing.Use commercial output, or even profits from maritime trade, to exchange for food and various necessary materials.

Standing on the school grounds, Li Jing said to the gathered slaves in the black crows: "You are slaves now, but you will not be slaves forever. You have lost your freedom now, but I am willing to give you back your freedom. But There is only one premise, and that is to stay in Shamen Town with peace of mind. Some of you will be selected as soldiers, and you will be given weapons and armor to fight for me. Some of you will be sent to the workshop to pick up tools to make various products No matter what kind of destiny you are, as long as you can stay and do things with peace of mind, I can promise you here, you will all be free."

Li Jing's promise is very simple. The slaves who are selected to join the army, as long as they cut off five enemy heads during a big battle, or serve for five years, they will be granted the status of free citizens, and they can choose to stay in the army , or you can choose to leave.The slaves working in other workshops are similar. They either have to serve eight years of labor service or perform outstandingly, and they can get free status in advance.During their service, they get half the salary of other workers.

As for those female slaves, Li Jing was more straightforward. They either served eight years or married officers and soldiers in Shamen Town. Once they married officers and soldiers in the town, they could immediately obtain the status of free citizens.

Those captured Daxie soldiers will be treated worse. They will be sent to prisoner-of-war camps as free labor for three years.Those who have performed outstandingly after three years can be transferred to labor camps, where they will work at half pay for five years, and they will be released at the end of the year or they can choose to stay.Then they can become free permanent residents of the island.Of course, they can also choose to apply to serve in the logistics battalion of the town army after one year in the prisoner-of-war camp, and exchange their military exploits for freeman status.

As for the group of 2000 people who surrendered, they will be directly organized into a transportation battalion, and they will be responsible for logistics transportation as logistics soldiers. After serving for three years or obtaining the heads of three battlefield enemies, they will be able to obtain the free people of Shamen Town. identity or leave.

"Fight for freedom. As long as you work hard, your freedom is not a problem. It is not a dream to get rich rewards, even promote officers, even get a house in the town, and marry a beautiful woman from Liaodong. Fight hard , Your freedom is in your own hands." After Li Jing announced all the conditions for their redemption of their freedom, he passionately incited loudly.

Although Li Jing insisted that they could leave at any time as long as they fulfilled the conditions, Li Jing believed that there would not be many people who were really willing to leave after that time.He has that confidence, and by that time, no one wants to leave.

(To be continued)