Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 118
On December 1590, 12 AD, the Wuzhai Fort barracks.

As soon as the sky was light, there was a sound of horns outside, and the sergeant Zhang Dasan immediately turned over, left the warm kang, and began to dress and fold the quilt.Then the sergeants in the room also got up one after another.

Under Xiaoqi Zhou Dajin's command, everyone dressed and dressed one after another. Two of the sergeants went to the kitchen to bring a bucket of hot water, and then everyone washed and cleaned again, and the front and back of the house were busy.After more than four months of life in the military camp, everyone is very familiar with the procedures here.

Soon, each of them arranged everything in the house, and then looked at their own faces at the big bronze mirror in the house, arranged each other's armor, took out a soft cloth, and wiped their own weapons.Xiaoqi Zhou Dajin looked at the proficiency of the soldiers, and then looked at the spotless ground inside the house, and nodded with satisfaction. It seems that his own house will not be left behind in this month's barracks sanitation evaluation .

According to the internal affairs regulations of the Wuzhaibao army, the internal relations, etiquette, military discipline, work and rest, daily system, duty, guard, inspection, emergency battle preparation and emergency assembly, as well as equipment and military horses, food and finance, sanitation, and production , camping management, etc.They are all under strict management. The internal affairs of every hundred households and every small flag will be evaluated once a month, and those who fail the evaluation will be punished.

After this strict management system, the military appearance and style of the Wuzhaibao army can be said to be completely new.Coupled with several months of rigorous training, the army of Wuzhaibao is already quite tough.

After breakfast, everyone went to the training field outside.

Today is everyone's free training, so everyone is busy according to his own schedule, some are lifting stone locks, some are practicing weapons, and some are practicing horse stance.

Xiaoqi Zhou Dajin plays the lifting stone lock. In addition to practicing arm strength, lifting the stone lock can also practice the whole body strength, especially the strength of the waist and hips.In the period of cold weapons, the strength of the waist and hips is the most important.This stone lock weighs a hundred catties, but in Zhou Dajin's hands, he lifts it lightly, whether he swings it or picks it up, it makes others admire him.

Zhang Dasan roared again and again, and danced a 5-meter-long, extremely heavy wolf trap like a tiger and a tiger. No one dares to approach him!

The bird gunner Wang Guixiu is practicing the shooting of the bird gun. The scientific name of the bird gun is the beak gun, commonly known as the bird gun. Of course, the current bird guns are all ignited with matchlocks. It will take decades for the flintlock gun without ignition. It appeared during the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty.

The blunderbuss in Wang Guixiu's hand is made of wrought iron, with a long and straight barrel, weighing about 200 jins, with a front sight and a rear sight, mounted on a wooden support.The mouth of the gun is [-] inches longer than the wooden support, and [-] inches behind the support is bent downward. The bottom of the gun tube is closed with bolts, and there is a stick (cleaning rod) on the support abdomen.The caliber of the muzzle is [-] cm, the range can reach [-] steps, and the lethality is about [-] steps.

The quality of firearms in the Ming Dynasty is very problematic, but the bird gun in Wang Guixiu’s hand was made of refined iron by the Wuzhaibao Military Group. , It takes only one month to drill a gun, so there is absolutely no problem in quality, and you can use it with confidence.

The standard equipment of the Ming Army's bird gunners is a long knife, a bird gun, a few sticks, tin turtle sleeves, lead bags and medicine tubes, and a number of gunpowder and lead matchlocks. The weight here is about 19 catties. , plus armor, dry food, drinking water, etc., the load is not small.However, Huang Laifu has a rule that the sergeants should be fully armed during training, so at this time Wang Guixiu is also fully armed to practice shooting.

At this time, Wang Guixiu skillfully took out the gunpowder from the gunpowder tank on his back, first put the gunpowder into the blunderbuss, delivered it with a stick, and then took out a piece of lead, and sent it down with a stick.Open the fire door, pour some gunpowder into the fire door, and take a lit matchstick and put it in the faucet.

Wang Guixiu held the waist of the bird gun with his front hand, and aimed at a wooden board dozens of steps away in front of him with the star. After aiming for a while, he moved the trigger with his right index finger. Suddenly, the pungent smell of gunpowder came, and the board was crushed.

Wang Guixiu blew a whistle proudly, which he learned from the guard.From a rookie to the current sharpshooter, nine out of ten hits. On average, he can shoot about two rounds per minute, and the fastest can reach three rounds. This is also the result of Wang Guixiu's hard work.

Relatively speaking, the bird gun is more accurate because the barrel is slender, and the body of the gun is supported by both hands when aiming, and there is no need to consider temporarily lighting the match.But to be honest, compared with the battlefield, the firing speed of the bird gun at this time is still relatively slow.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, the Ming army usually adopted the three-row firing method at this time, which is similar to the current Western army. One row is loaded, the other is loaded, and the other is discharged. The guns are loaded in one row, and the second row advances to the first row to release the guns, so they fire in turn.

This is an excellent method, and Huang Laifu naturally inherited and learned from it.

in the afternoon.

The weather outside the barracks was cold, but the atmosphere on the battlefield was hot at this time, and the sergeants were chatting happily with each other.Because today is the end of the month, and it's time to pay the military salary again.Everyone lined up neatly on the teaching field, waiting for the guard to give their names by roll call.

The monthly salary of the Wuzhaibao sergeants is one stone, and of course you can also get one tael of silver per month.Between one stone of grain and one tael of silver, most of the sergeants chose to take one stone of moon grain.

And now a rule has been formed. For those who have a family, at the end of each month, the military members will gather and wait outside the barracks. Everyone is talking happily to each other. After talking with my men for a while, I happily pushed the food with the men in a wheelbarrow and went home. Anyway, my men or children took care of food, housing, washing and dressing in the barracks, all of which were covered by the army. There is no need to spend, and these grains are enough to feed the whole family after being pushed back.

At this moment in the teaching field, Huang Laifu was standing on it with a smile, and several servants were distributing food and salaries. At this time, there were bags of food piled up around him, each of which was a stone of rice, and wrapped with a supervisor's chisel. There are boxes of silver, and when the name of a sergeant is sung, the sergeant will come up, or receive rice, or receive silver.After receiving the food and payment, everyone bowed down to thank Huang Laifu, and then went down happily.

Compared with other places where embezzlement of military pay is a common practice, Huang Laifu is not fond of this. The monthly military pay is real. There are large scales and small scales beside him. The large scale is for rice, and the small scale is for silver. The food and salaries received by the sergeants are all in full.If there is insufficient silver in one letter, the person in charge of the logistics will be prosecuted for all the envelopes.

All the sergeants stepped forward one by one, and after receiving their rations, they were all happily discussing where to go for entertainment after leaving the camp, and those with families would naturally go home.According to Huang Laifu's regulations, on the day and the next day of receiving the military salary every month, except for some people on duty, the sergeants can have a day and a half off. Otherwise, they must stay in the barracks at ordinary times, and are not allowed to go out except on holidays.

Zhang Dasan received his own one tael of silver, which was the result of discussions between him and his family. The rice noodles at home had been enough for several months, and since the Chinese New Year was approaching, he received the silver tael this time, and was going to go home to buy some new year’s goods. Thinking of seeing his wife in the evening, he couldn't help feeling hot all over his body...

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On January 1591, 1, the official office of Wuzhai Fort.

There was a burst of laughter in the official office, headed by Vice He Qianhu and other veteran officers, all of them could not hide their joy, because the dividends promised to them by the garrison at the beginning of the year were fulfilled.

This time, Huang Laifu took out 4000 taels of silver for dividends, He Fu’s thousand households received 3000 taels of silver, the two old town governors each received 1000 taels of silver, and the rest of the hundred households each received [-] taels of silver.

When they received the money, everyone's faces were full of smiles. They couldn't imagine so much money before. Just last year, their annual income of tens of taels of silver was already pretty good. Thinking of having a good day today?This strengthened everyone's determination to follow Huang Laifu.

4000 taels of silver weighed four hundred catties. With the strength of a thousand households, he couldn't carry it. He specially summoned three family members to carry the money.As for Jiang Yongsheng Jiang Baihu, a thousand taels of silver and a hundred catties is naturally not a problem for him. He just put the cloth bag containing the silver on his shoulder and it's done.

After everyone returned home with the money back, it was natural that the whole family, young and old, had prepared presents and went to visit Huang Sihao, an old householder in the Garrison Mansion.

January 1591, 1 AD.On the field outside Wuzhai Fort.

The weather is very cold, how many degrees below zero, and when the wind blows on the body, it feels like bone-piercing. Everyone uses scarves to wrap their heads and faces tightly. Fortunately, although the weather is cold, the weather today is very good , and there was no snow, and only a light breeze.

At this time, in the arena, it was full of people, the venue was full of tables and chairs, and the tables were full of steaming wine and dishes. Everyone was sitting at the table, eating, drinking, talking and laughing, while watching In the middle of the venue, the Wuzhaibao Propaganda Singing Team performed one after another wonderful programs, which was really lively.

Among these people, most of them were from many old farms, and there were also [-] representatives from new farms who came to watch the ceremony.In addition, the outside of the contest was also crowded with all kinds of spectators, looking at everything inside with envious eyes.

Today, the annual award commendation meeting is being held in the arena. At this time, in the Martial Arts Hall, apart from Huang Laifu, Huang Sihao, He Fuqianhu, Jiang Baihu, Yang Baihu, Wang Qinian, Zhou Wendong and others, Eunuch Ma Jiuying and Jin Yiweiqian Hu Yang Dawei was also invited to attend the meeting.

For everything in front of him, Yang Dawei, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, was better, while Ma Jiuying, father-in-law, was very curious and kept asking Huang Laifu left and right, while Huang Laifu explained to him in a low voice.

According to Huang Laifu's tenure treatment system implemented in each farm, each farm will select a number of first-class and second-class tenures every month.The rewards for each level of Tuding vary.As for the first-class and second-class villages, if they remain unchanged for at least 7 months, they will be awarded annual awards.

According to the roster compiled by the supervisory villages of each farm, among the 87 villages in the ten old farms, a total of 257 people won the annual award of the first-class villager, and [-] people won the annual award of the second-class villager.It seems that this annual award system has indeed fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the Tunting people.

Huang Laifu and Mr. Ma Jiuying whispered to each other in the martial arts hall, and there was a lot of discussion in the competition below, especially those who were expected to win the annual award, all smiling happily, talking loudly to others, planning to wait for the meeting After receiving the annual award, what will I do with these properties.

Soon, the award ceremony officially began. First of all, the annual awards for the first-class villagers. When Huang Laifu announced their names, they stepped forward one by one, their faces flushed with excitement, and their chests raised high. .And the family members of these award-winning villagers are also allowed to enter the arena. At this time, their family members also followed their own men to the stage to enjoy this glory.

Huang Laifu encouraged and praised them one by one with a smile, each awarded them a pennant, and then distributed them silver rewards. The annual award for the first-class Zhuang Ding included 5 liang of silver, one fat pig, three chickens, and three ducks. There are also salt wine and so on.Of course, the money was given on the spot, and the family members held the salt and wine. As for the fat pig, chicken and duck, etc., Huang Laifu gave a wooden sign with the words "one fat pig, three chickens, and three ducks." The word "three" was also stamped with the seal of the garrison master, and the award-winning villagers went to the Wuzhaibao Livestock Farm to collect it, and Wang Qinian was responsible for the payment.

The first-class villagers and family members all bent their backs to [-] degrees, received the reward from Huang Laifu with gratitude, and then filed down with pride on their faces, attracting countless envious eyes from below.

Then there is the annual award for the second-class villager. The annual award for the second-class villager includes five catties of silver, 10 catties of pork, 1 chicken, 1 duck, 2 catties of salt, and 5 catties of wine.When Huang Laifu announced their names, they also went up to the stage with their family members one by one and received the rewards from the guards. Although their annual awards were not as good as those of the first-class soldiers, they were enough to make people enviable.

And this annual award conference has inspired the enthusiasm of the villagers, presumably after the second year, they will work more happily.And the Tun Ding representatives of the 20 new farms were all enthusiastic about seeing it, and wished they could become one of the rewarded ones.

Back then, Huang Laifu had spent several thousand taels of silver for this annual award. Seeing the villagers receiving the rewards from Huang Laifu one by one, Eunuch Ma Jiuying looked very regretful. In the end, he couldn't help but said: " Mr. Huang, isn't the reward you gave these farmers too high? This will increase the cost of farming a lot."

Huang Laifu smiled and said: "Dare to let my father-in-law know that only with high rewards can the tenants work hard. My Wuzhaibao can get a bumper harvest in autumn. It is because of these rewards that mobilized the enthusiasm of the tenants. We won’t lose money on the sheep.”

Eunuch Ma Jiuying nodded thoughtfully.

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After the annual award conference ended, it still became a hot topic among the people in Wuzhaibao in the next few days.

The time soon came to January 1591, 1 AD, which was the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Ming Dynasty.

In the 19th year of Wanli, the new year of the Ming Dynasty has arrived.

(End of this chapter)