Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 476

"A total of 3000 scholars were recruited. They were matched with [-] literate officers. Isn't this too much for the governor?"

After Huang Yuan saw Yang Chao's order to select one hundred literate officers, he immediately found Yang Chao.

There are few scholars in the army. After Yang Chao recruited more than 1000 people for the imperial examination, there is a serious shortage. These people train and fight during the day, and usually belong to Huang Yuan and others at night. Filling out the file records, among the 50 troops, less than 2 are literate, and Yang Chao's army has always had far more copywriting work than other armies, which is not enough to use, and [-] people have to be transferred, which is more than the literate officers of other armies. There are too many, maybe the number is wrong, it is thirty instead of three hundred.

"Ordinary people have shallow knowledge. Only these scholars can cultivate a sense of mission."

Yang Chao sighed.

He tried his best to cultivate the culture in the army, but in the end he found that the culture of prostitution prevailed instead. It was not that scholars assimilated ordinary soldiers, but ordinary soldiers assimilated scholars. It took less than a year for each of them to become vulgar after a few battles.

This is not the regular army in Yang Chao's mind. Regular soldiers should have a full sense of justice, instead of the vulgar views of being a soldier and getting rich.

But things like a sense of mission are difficult to form without a certain cultural level.

The students of later generations were the first to rise up this kind of thinking, to sacrifice for the country, to contribute to the country, only the educated people can wake up, the children of poor families, the first thing they think about is how to have enough food.

"Build an army of scholars and cultivate a military culture."

Yang Chao's fundamental purpose.

Scholars do not join the army, those who have not served in the battle, are not eligible to take the imperial examination. In the future, all the officials who have been in the battle have seen blood, just like the literati like Changsun Wuji in the Tang Dynasty, they can ride a horse with Li Shimin It is impossible for such a country run by civil servants to be without blood for the master who charged into battle.

As for whether or not the Ming Dynasty will produce a corrupt culture, Yang Chao can't think about it. Anyway, if such a big country really has a corrupt culture, it won't be him who will be unlucky, and other people will be unlucky. Unlucky, Yang Chao can't control the death of a fellow Taoist and not a poor Taoist.

"All right!"

Huang Yuan heard Yang Chao say a bunch of fallacies again, and knew that Yang Chao knew about it, and it wasn't because the numbers were wrong or something.

After three months of military training, Xia Wanchun completed the basic training. It was very hard work, and his attitude was actually not correct, because his purpose was not to kill the enemy, but to serve as a soldier as a way to get promoted.

His good friend Sun Kexian is much more relaxed. Sun Kexian has practiced martial arts since he was a child. He has both civil and military skills. He can shoot money in the eye.

Three months later, Xia Wanchun and Sun Kexian joined the cavalry army and went to Shandong to serve under Zhao Kang.

But their army is quite special, it is called the scholar army, all the soldiers in the army are scholars, even the officers can read and write.

When I arrived in Shandong, I didn’t see the battle formation immediately, but continued to train. The training in the army is different from the training in the new barracks. In the new barracks, they trained the basics, which was infantry training. Only here can I really ride a horse. It is how to maintain the same formation as the infantry formation on horseback. After riding a horse, you can keep the formation stable. After jogging in small steps, you can start riding a horse to contact hacking, and finally charge training.

It was half a year later that Xia Wanchun started his first battle. He was responsible for infiltrating into Northern Zhili and attacking a manor of an Eight Banners nobleman.

The strange thing is that they sneaked into Shuntian Mansion after stealing the Vietnam Four Banners defense zone.

This is an earthen castle, which is called Baozi by the northerners. It is surrounded by circles of adobe walls, and houses are built inside.

Because the Yang family army often made surprise attacks, the slaves in Beizhili liked to build this kind of earthen castle very much.

But it was too easy to beat her, because someone opened the gate of the fort at night, let them in, killed Zhuangtou and the others, and then a group of Baoyi retreated with them.

Xia Wanchun felt dissatisfied, but he also had many confusions. After returning, he realized that the whole of Beizhili was full of hidden threads of the development of the Yang family army. , Then contact Yang Jiajun.

What the Yang family cavalry had to do was actually send troops to meet them and prevent the cavalry of the Eight Banners master from chasing them.

The biggest ones in the fort are these domineering old Baoyi village heads. They usually bully Baoyi and accept filial piety, but whenever they are offended, they get angry and become more ruthless than their masters.

As for the owners of the fort, the nobles of the Eight Banners, they will not live in such an unsafe earthen fortress. They all live in the city, and those with a little bit of status will live in Beijing, so it is generally difficult to catch the bannermen. .

There were three small-scale infiltration operations of this kind in succession, and only the last one encountered the Eight Banners army from the city, and then this infiltration operation ended, Xia Wanchun also changed from a private to a third-class soldier, and he could get one or two Half the monthly salary.

Then there is the assembly. I heard that the Qing army has a large-scale operation and a war is about to be fought.

At the beginning of October, the summer and autumn grains in Jiangnan and other places have been collected. The common people have paid 1000 million dans of grain, and there are still 400 million taels of silver (bank notes).

All of them have rice and silver, because Yang Chao has always adopted the protective grain tax system. As soon as the grain superintendents of the counties arrive to collect grain, they immediately open official warehouses in each county to purchase unlimited grain. The purchase price is guaranteed at two taels of silver per dan, while the tax per mu of land is only one tael, that is, paying a tael of grain or one tael of silver is considered tax-paid.

For the good fields in the Jiangnan area that can produce five or six loads of grain, this tax is not too heavy.

But not every farmer knows how to grow grain, and there is almost no land in Huzhou that is completely used for growing grain. Wherever there are conditions for growing mulberry and sericulture, there are all mulberry forests.

So some people pay the grain, and some pay the silver, but as for who pays the grain and who pays the silver, this is really hard to say. Some farmers sell the grain to the grain merchants and then pay the silver, and some farmers buy grain instead. It is very complicated, sometimes because of fluctuations in grain prices, and sometimes because of transportation. Maybe the Sang farmers are more willing to buy grain if they have a small boat, while farmers are willing to sell it to grain merchants at a price slightly lower than one tael.

There is another situation that Yang Chao doesn't want to see, that is, it is too difficult to deal with the government. The common people are not willing to hand over grain to the picky government. Carrying grain all the way to the official warehouse to sell.

This is the case for the small people who operate independently. They have no bargaining power over grain merchants and are completely at a disadvantage against the government. The income of farmers is not worth mentioning. The income of farmers growing grain is not as good as going out to work, and they are still at the bottom.

Yang Chao is also very helpless about this, and has already ruled out the grain supervisors. These grain supervisors are still conscientious, but the strict tax collection system will also make farmers uncomfortable and feel that the government is picky. If all the grain is harvested, the farmers will show their cunning and dare to use old grain to pay for it.

Unless all public officials can cultivate the awareness of serving the public, this situation can't be changed even if a food supervisor is sent, and neither can Yang Chao.

But in comparison, Yang Chao's grain harvesting system is much better than in the past when he was bullied by the three big mountains of grain merchants, wealthy families, and the government. At least small farmers have one more choice, so even if they can't get a tael of grain price , under the government's protective price, you can also get a price close to it.

Just like this, he is already grateful to Yang Chao. In the words of a civil official, "The foolish people in the countryside don't know righteousness. They only know that there is Governor Yang, not only the Holy Son of Heaven."

"It's time, this year's autumn grain harvest is bumper! The tax grain has collected 1000 million dans of grain, and the tax silver is 400 million taels."

After Yang Chao got the tax status, he felt that the time had come. He held back for a year and gave the Qing court a year. Now it's time to fight. Let's see how the Qing court's military training has been going this year. Yes, let's also test the combat effectiveness of our army.

"The main attack direction, Li Wuliu marched into Henan, Zhao Kang defended Shandong, and Wang Pu was in the middle to support."

Let Li Wuliu attack Henan, in fact, the main thing is to train troops. Li Wuliu's new musket formation, boasting that he is invincible in the world, Yang Chao is going to test it.Zhao Kang is a cavalry army, and there will be no maneuvering disadvantages against the Northern Zhili Qing army, which is dominated by the Eight Banners. Putting Wang Pu in the middle can ensure that neither side will get into trouble.

And Yang Chao also planned to go to Henan in person.

The military order was passed on at the same time, and when Yang Chao arrived in the north, all the troops were definitely ready, otherwise, the officers were slack and the military discipline was not strict, and Yang Chao should carry a big stick to deal with this group of people.

"As for the south? Feng Mansion, the negotiation with the Manchu Qing should also be terminated. In this way, sending Sony to Guangdong means that I have no right to negotiate, and everything will be decided by the emperor in the end. But the release of Suksaha Go back and do some small movements, you believe you can understand."

The Manchu Qing came back and forth for more than half a year, and finally sent a heavyweight representative, Sony, the important minister of the Zhenghuang Banner, and Su Kesaha, the minister of the Xiangbai Banner. Dagon's confidant, it should be said that Baqi is still sincere.

It's just that Yang Chao has never planned to negotiate with them. Even if he intended to negotiate, the conditions proposed by these two people are too outrageous. Even if it were the little emperor, he would never accept it.

As for why Sony was sent to Guangdong, but Suksaha was sent back, it was because these two people represented two different forces. Maybe they could participate in the negotiation at the same time, which also represented the opinions of both parties. Maybe it was just that Dorgon had no one. Available, so I sent an old and cunning figure like Sony, and at the same time worried, I sent Suksaha to monitor.

Anyway, as long as they represent two different forces, it’s fine to put one back, send the other to Guangdong to the emperor, let the two separate, and then create a little disharmonious rumors, which will make the Eight Banners internally turmoil.

(End of this chapter)