The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 23 Raising the Team
The identity problem was settled in three days, what should I do next?Naturally, the most urgent task is to recruit soldiers.

Wearing the official clothes of hundreds of households, Huang Yizhou personally announced the conditions for recruiting family soldiers, and Jiulitai Village responded positively.

More than 40% of the young and middle-aged people aged [-] to [-] came to the village that day, but there are really not many people in Jiulitai Village, and there are only [-] young and middle-aged people.

With the trust of the folks in Huangyi Prefecture, they can recruit enough soldiers for a general banner at Jiulitai. Huang Han knows that time is running out, and he is about to face a war. It is absolutely impossible to train troops in the fields. Hui Jiazi, who fought with the Jin army later.

In the end, the enthusiastic young and middle-aged people were persuaded to return home, and only 12 people were selected.

They are all clubbers who often dance guns with Huang Yizhou. Four of them are good at equestrian skills and can ride and fight with a little practice. The other eight can also ride horses, but it may not be achieved overnight. .

Among the 12 people, Yang Hanwei, Yang Guoen, Yang Danian, Huang Sifang and Huang Feng are the most outstanding.

Because they not only know guns and sticks and can ride horses, they have hunting bows at home, and they often shoot prey to subsidize their families, and their shooting skills fully meet the standards of becoming archers.

There are three other people who are also very good. They are Huang Jian, Yang Jian, and Yang Guobing. Although they don't know how to shoot arrows, they all have family martial arts and have a lot of skills.

The other four are Huang Chunsheng, Huang Nongsheng, Yang Gu, and Yang Jiahe. They all know how to handle guns and sticks, and they are tall and powerful, and they are all powerful.

In fact, there are only two surnames in Jiulitai, [-]% of them are surnamed Huang, and the rest are surnamed Yang.

Young and middle-aged people have nothing to do in winter. I heard that Huang Yizhou has become an official and wants to recruit servants.

It's a pity that the final result was close to one out of ten, but after seeing clearly who was selected, the young people who were not selected were convinced, because everyone was from the same village, and they knew each other's details.

Obviously what Master Huang wants is a hero who can fight, dare to fight, and has outstanding martial arts skills. It seems that what Huang Han said is true, and it is possible to fight against the Jin army within a month.

At this time, there is no time to slowly train young people without combat skills. Wait until next May, if the Huang family father and son do not die in battle, then a large number of children from their hometown will be recruited as servants.

Those who were selected were all honored. They knew that the Jin army plundered Zunhua, and all the surrounding people suffered. The best choice in troubled times is to take up arms and serve as soldiers near their hometown to protect the people.

Huang Han told everyone frankly during the lecture on behalf of the general banner officer that soldiers will definitely die when fighting with the Jin army, but there is one thing, as long as Huang Yizhou is alive, every brother who dies in battle will receive a pension of 30 taels of silver .

But now how to accumulate pensions and food and salaries that everyone needs?Right now there is no good way, only by capturing them on the battlefield.

Therefore, everything captured and returned to the public became the first and basic regulation when forming an army.

The second military discipline is the key to whether it can develop and grow "starve to death without looting the common people."

Hanzi is kind by nature, Song Pengfei is a good boy, and the 12 people he recruited are also responsible people. They have martial arts skills and don't bully others. They take it for granted that they don't rob, rape women, or kill without reason.

The small team was opened. There were 16 people under the general banner of Huangyizhou who had been appointed officials of hundreds of households. There were 25 war horses and three draft horses. Every soldier was going to have armor and equipment.

Seven of them, including Hanzi, Yang Hanwei, and Huang Feng, not only had to equip them with refined iron armor, but also superimposed cotton armor and Ming army mandarin duck battle jacket, and their defense power could be compared with Jiannu vest.

Because more than half of the armor needs to be repaired, all the servants put on the Ming army's standard war jackets for drills.

Uniforms can really bring people a sense of identity. After a dozen ordinary people put on mandarin duck jackets, they immediately seemed to be different people.

All the servants stood in a military posture full of energy, which made everyone onlookers envious.

With righteousness, there are people and horses. The next step is to solve the needs of survival. People eat horses, and the consumption of food and grass is a bottomless pit.

Huang Han asked his father to go to Wulitai Village, about seven miles away from Jiulitai, to borrow food and grass. There was a big family there, and the family was never short of food and grass.

Giving loan sharks was something that almost every big family in the Ming Dynasty did to generate income, but some people were benevolent and just enough not to push Shengdou people to a dead end.

Wulitai is much richer than Jiulitai, because all the fields here belong to the Gao family and there is no need to pay taxes.

The old man of the Gao family was a civil official of the second grade in the Ming Dynasty. He had so many former officials. His family was in Luanzhou, not far from Yongping Prefecture. The property under his name might not be too exaggerated to describe it as ten thousand hectares.

Huang Yizhou went to the Wulitai Gaojia Manor to borrow [-] shi of wheat and [-] shi of horse feed, using the ancestral [-] farm land as collateral for a one-year loan period, and then paying [-]% more as interest after repaying the principal.

For such a trivial matter of borrowing money, there is no need to meet the elder or even the younger master of the Gao family. Of course, there is no master of the Gao family in the Gao family manor in Wulitai.

A steward in the manor directly negotiated the price and settled the matter. The IOU stated that the collateral was still the 250th land inherited from the Huang family, but Huang Yizhou only borrowed [-] shi of wheat and [-] shi of horse feed, and the interest remained the same. It is [-]%.

All the big animals and carts in Jiulitai were dispatched, and it took five trips to transport the grain and horse fodder.

Huang Yizhou bet all his ancestral land and acres for development. He has a lot of pride and ambition, but he will inevitably feel a little disappointed when he returns home.

Huang Han obviously has five or six thousand taels of silver in his family, but he encourages his father to mortgage the land to borrow as much food and grass as possible. In fact, he is just preparing to play empty hands.

The Gao family in Luanzhou is naturally the well-known retired Liaodong Jinglue Gaodi. He will soon flee with his family when Jiannu attacks Luanzhou, and will be questioned and imprisoned by the court.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, all officials in a city have the responsibility of guarding the soil, even retired old men who have returned to their hometowns. Therefore, Gao Di, a second-rank official, fell down in this matter.

Huang Han wondered if the manager of Gao's family who was far away in Wulitai Zhuangzi would also run away early. If he didn't dare to leave the property of Gao's family and run away, what would happen in the end?

In the end, who would come to Huang's house with an IOU to ask for food?The agreement to use the land as collateral was written on paper, and the title deed is still in Huang Zhang's hands even if the Huang family has not breached the contract.

The credibility of people in this era is completely different. There is no need for an agreement. Most of the verbal promises are final, and basically there will be no rogue behavior.

Besides, with the power of the Gao family, they really don't have to worry about someone who reneges on their accounts when there are documents in black and white.

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