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Chapter 35 General Banner
Of course, it is impossible for Bai Yuanjie to rely on Bai Yuanjie to be promoted by casually saying "Deputy Qianhu Bai Yuanjie has orders". The Secretary, the Chief Secretary, and even the former military governor's office all sent letters to them, and this was the only way to get a relatively fair evaluation of the battle outside Qingyuan City—they had made great contributions to defending against the enemy.

Only when it is confirmed that it is meritorious rather than disobedient can it be further possible to receive rewards. When all the dust settles, that is when Chen Mu and others heard that Bai Yuanjie was promoted to deputy thousand households.After that, Bai Yuanjie took a boat all the way up the Beijiang River and traveled along the river to Shaozhou and other places. He did a great thing.

Recruitment.

Recruiting Mandi people called Man Liao to fill the missing military households of his five tribes and hundreds of households. For this reason, Bai Yuanjie recruited an army of more than [-] Zhengding and more than [-] Yuding, and returned to Qingyuan downstream. .

"Qianhu, is this what you said you recruited some soldiers?"

Following Bai Yuanjie's return, when Chen Mu stepped into the Thousand Households House in Qingcheng, thousands of people inside the walled village were working in full swing. Men and women embroidered face tattoos. The dragon and snake flags were planted, these visitors were obviously barbarians of different customs and races.Climb up the wall of the village and look up at the Beijiang River not far from Qianhu in Qingcheng. Hundreds of fishing boats are docked on the shore.

More than 400 households with thousands of family members were recruited by Bai Yuanjie as family soldiers and used as military households.

This kind of operation seemed very confusing to Chen Mu. Emperor Taizu didn't say that Zhoushang Danhu couldn't become a military household, nor did he say that he couldn't be recruited as a family soldier, but no matter how rich the Bai family was, they couldn't resist such tossing, right?
"Chen Erlang, what do you think of the battle between Qingyuan and the Japanese pirates?" Bai Yuanjie did not respond to Chen Mu's teasing question, and lightly looked at the Qianhu House in Qingcheng with his hands folded, and said with a solemn face: "The soldiers in the guard house are useless, Bai I know. But Bai didn’t know that they were so useless! More than 210 military households were scared by hundreds of Japanese pirates and lived in the city and dared not fight, and the number of soldiers led by a hundred households was only forty... You know Bai’s thousand How many registered military households are there in five hundred households under Hu's command? Two hundred, seven households in [-]. The military discipline is lax and morale is low, so this kind of guard army is still my Ming Dynasty's army to protect the country?"

Chen Mu looked down at his feet, and then at those Danhus with tattoos that looked like dragons, but didn't speak.What can he say?Tell Bai Yuanjie that all the guards in the entire Ming Dynasty are like this, and some guards even have only one thousand households left?
"It will be different from now on." With excitement written on Bai Yuanjie's young face, he stretched out his hand and waved towards the Qianhu House in Qingcheng, pointing at the busy Danren and said: "The natives say that Danren use boats as their homes to float on the sea. They do not intermarry. The Dan people take the meaning of the dragon from the tattoo on the picture, and claim to be a dragon household seeking to live in the sea, so people call them Man Dan. But look at these Dan people, they have thick arms, big hips, wide waists, and hard waists. From my point of view, he is the best soldier—from today onwards, the five hundred households in Qingcheng will be called the Barbarian Camp!"

Under Bai Yuanjie's ambition, Chen Mu carefully observed the busy Danren and knew that Bai Yuanjie's words were true.In the past, people said that swimmers had the most beautiful figure, with shoulders wide and arms long and inverted triangle, which was shaped by the water pressure of a lot of water sports.Danren's figure is not as good-looking as that, but more powerful. Every Danren man's figure is like a door panel, broad and strong. Although they may not be as burly as Shao Tingda, no one can deny that Danren is indeed very good. sergeant.

Chen Mu could find the reason from another angle. Due to their low status, these Dan people seldom go ashore. They live a hard life, but they are much better than military households in terms of food. Their diet does not lack fish and meat, and they have fine protein supplements for nutrition. Boats for tens of miles, whether swimming, fishing or paddle boarding, can give them a huge amount of exercise.

So they are strong and powerful.

Bai Yuanjie originally wanted to invite Chen Mu to drink in the Bai family's courtyard on Fenghuang Street in Qingyuan City, but the late emperor's funeral had not yet been taken off, and it was obviously inappropriate to drink and have fun, so the two of them led a horse and led a few soldiers along the official road Walking and chatting, "Nowadays, the guards are quiet and military, and the officers of the guards are even more so. There are three thousand banner troops in Qingyuan, but the number of fighters is probably only a few hundred. Now Bai is recruiting a barbarian battalion. From now on, he will reorganize the army and train the army. Regarding matters, since you, Chen Erlang, have laid down the general banner for my family, you have to take on more."

Said Bai Yuanjie turned her head, "Your headquarter will cultivate fifty hectares of land."

Chen Mu naturally nodded in response, but after a turn in his head, he widened his eyes and said in surprise, "Fifty hectares?!"

Fifty hectares is five thousand mu of land.

In the Ming Dynasty, military households had [-] acres of military land per person, which was the ancestral system.In the beginning, the ancestral system was the land of each military household, but after a hundred years, the ancestral system could not help but be destroyed by the years. Nowadays, most of the military fields are privately owned by military officers, and less than two-thirds of the harvest belongs to the military households.Fifty hectares of land, regardless of whether it is fertile or bad, means that Chen Mu's headquarters will have to cultivate the land of a hundred households in the past. Wouldn't this exhaust him to death?
"You don't need to stare so wide. In the past, when Bai was in charge of a hundred households, the hundred households cultivated fifty hectares of land, and the banner army was only more than sixty households. You should be satisfied with a superior like Bai. Maybe you can find a small flag with enough amount under your command, but you will never find a full amount of general flag under your command, you are the first." Bai Yuanjie raised his finger and pointed at Chen Mu, then breathed out deeply and slowly, and said: " In the past 54 military households, excluding those who died in battle, a total of 54 households participated in the battle against the Japanese in Qingyuan City, 210 Zhengding and [-] Yuding, all of them were assigned to your banner."

Chen Mu's heart was hanging when he heard this. If he was really asked to lead more than 20 households to cultivate [-] mu of land, he would never be able to do this. give it a try.

He could sense the changes in Bai Yuanjie, obviously disobeying orders had a great impact on Bai Yuanjie for a while, otherwise he wouldn't have just been promoted to deputy thousand households and then implemented drastic reforms in Qingyuanwei's own subordinates like now. I can't help worrying, the composition of power in any place is intricate, it is easy for a small flag to completely control ten households under its banner, but can a deputy thousand households completely control five hundred households under its command?

This is bullshit!

Even Qi Jiguang, if he didn't have Hu Zongxian's full support in the early years, could he have recruited and trained Qi's army who are brave and good at fighting?
What's more, Bai Yuanjie from Qingyuanwei!
"Those military households who dare not fight have been expelled by Bai, and let them go to recruit servants or recruit soldiers. Bai is not greedy for money like the Guangdong defense. He only wants to train the army and fight to protect the land of Lingnan. .According to the custom, you can get three hectares of harvest from the military field as private property, Chen Erlang—you can think about where the fifty hectares of the military field will be allocated?"

Where is Juntian, can I choose by myself?

Chen Mu said without thinking: "On the south bank of the Beijiang River, Anyuan Station is near Ji."

But he didn't want to, Bai Yuanjie was furious when he heard it, looked at him with contempt, and reprimanded him: "Eating and living for nothing, are you addicted?"

Note: The defense of Guangdong at that time was the battle of Wanli to aid Korea, and the commander of the Ming army in the Luliang naval battle was Chen Lin.

Lin has strategy and is good at generals, but he is greedy and arrogant——"History of Ming Dynasty"

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