The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 134
After Liu Zhilun confirmed that the main force of the Jin army had returned to the north, he immediately dismissed the people in Zunhua City.

Because his family has been farming for generations, he has helped his father and brother with farm work since he was a child, and he used to collect firewood and sell it to supplement the family.

How important farming season should be. This grassroots scholar-bureaucrat knew very well, so he dismissed the Zunhua people and asked them to go home to farm. Within a few days, only a part of the aborigines remained in Zunhua city.

On the day Huang Han received the imperial decree, he entrusted the eunuch who delivered the decree and Lou Yun, the chief banner official of Jinyiwei who escorted the angels to Zunhua, to do a good deed.

The eunuch who passed the decree was an acquaintance, and had followed Fang Zhenghua to Jiulitai Village.Lou Yun was the school lieutenant and captain of the Jin Army's transportation team after staying with Li Ruolian to participate in the attack. It was because of that time that he was promoted two ranks and became the chief banner officer.

The two saw that Huang Han was very friendly, and listened carefully to Huang Han's talk about the recent offensive and defensive battles in Zunhua, and learned that Jiannu actually drove out the Han people to take advantage of the chaos to seize the city, and those ordinary people who walked slower would be massacred.

When Zunhua’s offensive and defensive battle was at its most tense, civil servant Liu Zhilun actually went up to the city wall to participate in the defense of the city, and operated a bed crossbow to shoot and kill several enemy soldiers. Among them was Jiannu Bayala. The body of the white armored soldier was snatched back.

Huang Han entrusted Lou Yun and the others to bring back to the capital the heads of more than [-] grades of real slaves, [-] grades of Tartars, and [-] grades of flag Ding collected during this period, and let them cut Liu Zhilun's array by one grade. Yala's deeds were widely publicized.

This is a great thing, of course Lou Yun agreed, he promised that within ten days the capital would definitely talk about the Zunhua garrison's willingness to take risks to save thousands of Ming people's deeds, and Liu Shilang's great achievements would spread throughout the capital.

Liu Zhilun, who was always with the angel, was amazed to see that Huang Han dealt with eunuchs and Jin Yiwei with ease, and arranged them to do things grandiosely.He knew that Huang Han's move was to make him famous, of course he was grateful.

This is officialdom, people must be carried in sedan chairs, if Liu Zhilun repays the victory, with his background as a scholar-bureaucrat, how can he talk about killing a white-armored soldier who built slaves with his own hands?

It was completely different when Huang Han came to preside over the report. He not only wanted to publicize it but also added fuel to it. Presumably with the help of those big mouths of Jin Yiwei, Liu Zhilun's glorious image of being brave to save the people must be extremely tall.

The "Red Banner Army" set off from Zunhua on April 800th. There were already [-] armored knights, [-] mounted infantry, and more than [-] horses and draft horses.

There are also three or four hundred donkeys, mules, and steers each, and eighteen hundred horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and wheelbarrows.

Huang Han took a fancy to the gun-carrying unicycle designed by Liu Zhilun, and asked for it cheekily. Liu Zhilun has not yet put this big killer into practice. Now equip the "Red Banner Army" and he will be able to experience actual combat soon.

Liu Zhilun generously gave Huang Han fifteen guns in a wheelbarrow, and asked Huang Han to observe more in actual combat to see if there was a better way to improve it.

Song Pengfei is in charge of the newly formed firearms unit, and now there are enough troops for two general banners. These 110 people have all been former Ming army musketeers without exception.

At the end of March, many Han people rescued by the "Red Banner Army" learned that the "Red Banner Army" provided three meals and returned [-] Wen a day to take them into the army for labor. They all tried their best to express themselves, hoping to get this opportunity.

Tens of thousands of ordinary people in Zunhua City also took a fancy to this good job, and they signed up one after another to accept the selection.

Therefore, Huang Han selected two thousand strong and skilled men to accompany the army. Of course, bachelors and the elderly were given priority. Follow the "Red Banner Army" to ensure that everyone will not be hungry.

The "Red Banner Army" team that left the south gate of Zunhua numbered [-] people. They not only took the gold and silver treasures, silk, cloth, and iron materials accumulated during this period, but also brought a total of [-] grains. stone.

Liu Zhilun knew that he, the bureaucratic team of the governor of Shuntian, would rush to Zunhua to take office after the Jin army retreated. There were too many supplies and food hoarded in Zunhua city, and these things would be checked and put into the warehouse by the imperial court immediately. At that time, I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it by myself.

Of course Liu Zhilun spared no effort to be able to provide help within his ability to Huang Han whom he admired, and to contribute to the development of the "Red Banner Army".

Therefore, when Huang Han left with his men and horses, he asked to bring some food and iron. He generously agreed to Huang Han, and he would count as much as he could.

Food was scarce everywhere in the places that had been plagued by slavery, and food was the most important thing for the people. How could Huang Han feel at ease if he brought so many troops and didn't bring enough food with the army?

The fields in Yongping Prefecture still don't know whether there will be a harvest this year, Huang Han must ensure that his troops have a year's worth of grain.

Most of Huang Han's subordinates and accompanying troops came from the grassroots, and they were all ordinary people who were struggling to eat in the soil. They were even more reluctant to bear food, so they shipped as much food as possible. Even the cavalry dismounted and marched, and the horses carried a stone of wheat.

A stone of wheat on a war horse is divided into two sacks. If a cavalry soldier needs to ride a horse to fight, he can just throw down two grain bags and get on the horse without much effort.

In this era, the unit of measurement "stone" is very fucked up. It is actually a unit of volume measurement, which is calculated with measuring tools. One stone is ten buckets, one bucket is ten liters, one liter is ten heels, and ten stones are one dendrobium.

As for how many kilograms a stone should be in later generations, there is a problem of specific gravity here, and it cannot be generalized.

The heaviest polished rice is about 75 kilograms per stone, and wheat is much lighter, around [-] kilograms per stone. Miscellaneous grains and coarse grains may be lighter than wheat, but they will never be less than [-] kilograms.

However, the market jin in the Ming Dynasty was different from that of the later generations, which was about [-] grams per jin. Therefore, Huang Han brought thousands of people, thousands of oxen and horses, and carts to carry [-] shi of wheat, which was equivalent to [-] tons. The loading capacity of a riverboat.

The team marched out of the city for less than five miles. More than [-] people knelt on the side of the road and howled, blocking the way of the army. More than [-]% of these people were women, and [-]% were children.

"Master Huang, please take us with you! We orphans and widows can't survive. Huh..."

"General, we are helpless, please have mercy, sir, and give us a way to survive..."

"My lord, the man from the slave family has taken care of him with his eyes closed and followed the 'Red Banner Army' to survive. The slave family has been waiting here for a long time, and today finally came..."

How many Han families were ruined by the establishment of slaves to plunder China?Too many families have lost their strong labor force, and the more than 500 helpless women and children here are just the tip of the iceberg.

(End of this chapter)