The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 24 Preparing for War and Famine
Huang Han completed his identity change within a few days after returning home, and together with his father, he formed a team of more than a dozen people, barely considered an army.

Song Pengfei, Huang Yong, Huang Xin, and Xiao Wei have already counted all the seizures. They have washed out the cotton armor and clothes. Of course, the iron armor, knives and guns have been wiped clean, and those that need to be repaired have been sent to the blacksmith Yang. Be honest there.

Now Huang Han owns nearly 6000 taels of precious metals in terms of silver, plus the Huang family has grain and horse fodder close to [-] shi.

Huang Han, who has been a man for two lifetimes, not only looked down on life and death, but also really didn't care about yellow and white things like gold and silver.

Because he knew that being a miser in this chaotic world at the end of the Ming Dynasty was impossible to live by. When the Manchu Qing swept across China, there were countless Han landlords who would inevitably go bankrupt after their families went bankrupt.

If gold, silver, money and food can be converted into combat power, Huang Han will never tire of it.

After joining the army, he trained intensively for seven days, and ran cross-country with a weight of [-] catties every morning. He not only exercised his body, but also made contributions to Jiulitai Village.

Because the load is a sack of wheat, and the destination is the mountain where the villagers are going to take refuge, although it is not enough to send the wheat to the destination, but the ten-mile mountain road also reduces the workload of other grain transporters.

There is really no good way to transport things into the mountains. The only way is to use human shoulders to carry them, and use animal power to carry them. Now the animals in the village, including some of the war horses of the Huang family, are scrambling to transport food up the mountain.

Huang Han trainer Ding will of course refer to the military training regulations of later generations, and will stand in the military posture for half an hour every day, and practice in line for half an hour.

Running, queue drills, standing in a military posture and evening literacy classes are compulsory courses for every family member, and other subjects will vary from person to person.

For example, Yang Danian and Huang Sifang, who are good at riding skills, practice riding and fighting hard. Huang Feng and Yang Guoen, who are outstanding in archery, practice professional archery. Yang Jian and Huang Jian have basic throwing skills. throw guns.

The tolerance of servants is not simple, they can bear the amount of exercise for six hours a day, of course Huang Han will not treat them badly, he strives to give everyone meat to eat every day, and on days when pork is really not available, everyone must be guaranteed There are two eggs to eat.

During this time, there are always a few young people from Jiulitai Village wandering around nearby villages. They use cash to buy pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, and also buy up the eggs and duck eggs accumulated by the common people.

Huang Yizhou and Huang Han had to give lectures at the pre-dinner meeting every evening. Of course, the content was to praise the advanced, criticize the backward, and comment on the experience and lessons learned in the training.

In a few days, the servants got used to the praise and criticism at the pre-dinner meeting, and the servants who thought they performed well today hoped to get comments from the hundred household officials.

On November [-]th, the pre-meal meeting on this day will definitely impress all the servants, because at the meeting, Huang Yizhou announced that three months of food and salaries will be paid in advance to all servants, which means that each servant will be able to get three months. Two silvers and five buckets of miscellaneous grains for one stone.

This is when Huang Han mobilized the villagers of Jiulitai to go to the mountains to build the camps that the elders used to take refuge and hoard food. .

This is not surprising. During the slack season, the ordinary people sleep as much as possible and move as little as possible. Basically, they eat two thin meals a day. Now they have to carry things up the mountain on their shoulders. No one can bear it without two dry meals, so Food consumption doubled.

The young and middle-aged men who became servants came from twelve families. They were originally the main labor force in the family, and of course they were also the main people who consumed food.

Now they are training with the Huang family. Although it is very hard to get up early and go dark, the Huang family manages three meals a day and there is a meaty meal. If there is no meat, they will eat two eggs.

Not only that, they will also earn a stone, five buckets of miscellaneous grains and three liang of silver for their family, and their family will not have to worry about food and clothing immediately.

On the second day, there were too many relocation activists, most of whom were brothers and uncles of the servants. They worked tirelessly to take the lead in carrying the pots and pans at home up the mountain.

In order to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the common people and reduce the food consumption of their families, Huang Han arranged for Huang Yong to recruit forty young and middle-aged men according to the principle of one household per household.

These young and middle-aged laborers are given three meals of dry food, and a bucket of miscellaneous grains are paid one hundred copper coins every ten days. They are asked to repair simple fortifications at the pass of the back mountain, and collect stones and logs in case of emergencies.

Huang Han believes that no one can get something for nothing. Although the Huang family has enough money and food to support the villagers to overcome the immediate crisis, Huang Han did not do this, but gave relief with work.

Let every household contribute labor to participate in the construction of the fortifications of the mountain pass, implement the awareness of self-sufficiency into the hearts of the small people in Shengdou, and strive to let everyone feel the power of the collective and realize that unity is strength.

In the era of cold weapons, when guarding against danger, as long as enough stones and rolling logs are collected, not only strong men can participate in soil defense, but even healthy women can throw stones down the mountain to hit the enemy.

If the later Jin army came less, it would be impossible to break through the mountain pass and harass the people hiding on the mountain.

As for whether Jiannu will mobilize thousands of troops to come?This problem should not exist.

This is not a strategic place, and there are no important people on the mountain, and there are no appreciable seizures. Could it be that Jiannu has lost his mind?Instead of robbing where you can get it, do you have to fight with a bunch of unruly people in the deep mountains and old forests?
The women, children and disabled elderly in Jiulitai Village obeyed the advice and moved to the refuge on the mountain. This place is actually a relatively large cave, and the only way to get here is to walk on the rugged mountain road.

According to the old people in the village, this refuge sheltered the ancestors of Yang and Huang as early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the year of the Tumu Fort change, Wacha Mongolia surrounded the capital, and the villagers of Jiulitai also relied on this refuge. Escaped.

Later, the Jin army took down Santunying, where the General Army Mansion of Jizhen was located, and the people in the four townships and eight fields of Yongping Prefecture were in panic, and the people in Jiulitai were no exception.

Now that the Huang family is taking the lead and subsidizing money and food, the old, weak, women and children in the village can hide in the shelter as early as possible. The young and middle-aged people who are busy working and the servants participating in the training are all at ease.

Huang Yizhou already had prestige in the village, and the patriarchs of the Huang and Yang families would consult with him on any major matters.

Although the head of the Yang family is the head of Jiulitai Village, he has never bullied members of the Huang clan. All in all, Jiulitai Village is considered harmonious even though it is not rich.

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