The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 268
Huang Han earnestly persuaded: "So we must be willing to pay salaries and benefits to the soldiers and civilians who follow the Huang family with all their heart, so that more people can see the superiority of the 'Red Banner Army' system, and more people will come to seek refuge."

Huang Yizhou nodded and said: "Okay! What you said makes sense, listen to you! The soldiers and civilians will have a better life with money, and the city of 'Tiger Cave' will soon be full of merchants. It is estimated that the taxes collected next year will not be less Woolen cloth!"

Huang Yizhou was still quite clear-headed, and realized that his son's actions would bring prosperity to the city of "Tiger's Cave". He happily returned to Kaiping to hold a meeting to reward those who made meritorious service, and gave benefits to all soldiers and civilians before going to "Tiger's Cave" city to celebrate the New Year.

How could Huang Han waste his time in the capital? Qiwei had already investigated and visited many craftsmen with superb craftsmanship. These people represented the most advanced productivity of Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty was dominated by the top literati and bureaucrats. They never regarded the lowly craftsmen as the pillars of the country, not to mention ordinary craftsmen, even the lives of big craftsmen were not moist.

Supplementing the "Red Banner Army" and rebuilding the Funing Guard is a regulation approved by the Ministry of War approved by the Holy Son of Heaven. Therefore, Huang Han's request to allocate some craftsmen to Fu Ning Guard is reasonable and legal, and it is also reasonable to replenish the population to enrich the military households.

At this time, Huang Han was a big celebrity in the imperial court. Many ministers of the Ministry of War and officials at all levels received Huang Han's filial piety. Therefore, Huang Han took this opportunity to engage in craftsmen, gunpowder, and Huang Han. The bows and crossbows produced, including feather arrows, were transported by Sifang Express to the city of "Tiger Cave".

At this time, the vagrants of the Ming Dynasty tended to start a prairie fire, and the number of refugees increased year by year, and there were many small beggars in the capital.

The survival of these half-grown children is quite difficult. In order to survive, they will inevitably steal or even rob. They may be taken in by green skins and gangsters to become thugs. They grew up in a harsh environment since childhood, and those who survived must have learned a lot of bad things.

Now there are many guards in Jinyi who are doing one thing for Huang Han, arresting little beggars and sending them to the 360 ​​juvenile soldiers in the capital for management.

Huang Han, who has money and grain, is going to bring as many vagrants from the capital as possible back to the city of "Tiger Cave" for militarized management, and give them food and clothing to train them in fighting skills. These orphans will become the bravest fighters in the future.

The captured children thought of running away at first, but later they heard from the youngsters who were in charge of them that they learned that the general of the "Red Banner Army" didn't want them to be thieves and beggars and wanted to take them in as soldiers.

The "Red Banner Army" was so famous, the little beggar was of course well-informed, and when he knew what was going on, the older little beggar immediately put on the unique uniform of a student soldier and took the initiative to find the waif he knew.

It is estimated that there will be no beggars aged ten to fifteen in the capital before the New Year's Eve, and there will be no beggars under the age of ten, because the women who sell roasted sweet potatoes in the capital have accepted the task of adopting orphans as much as possible.

There are almost no women who are not willing to do such good deeds, because their income is not bad, and they can fully support one or two children.

Many of those who were selected to sell baked sweet potatoes and fried potato chips in the capital were poor people like Mrs. Li San who had lost their husbands, and many of them had no children.

They picked up their sons to be their adoptive mothers, and when they raised their children until they were 12 years old, they could be sent to serve as young soldiers. If the adopted sons were promising in the future, they would be able to honor their families, and they would also be obliged to provide for them until their death.

Mrs. Li San is the most active, because she has two incomes, so she has the financial ability. She adopted two seven or eight-year-old boys and one girl.

There are very few girls among the street children, which may be the reason why these children will be sold for a price by human traffickers.

Mrs. Li San knew that after adopting a girl, she might not be able to send her to serve as a soldier, but she did it anyway. She thought that she even had three sons from her adopted son.

Chongzhen is more concerned about Huang Han's every move. He waited on Li Taiyi to judge the terminally ill Qin Yuyi for three days in the posthouse.

Qin Yuyi's illness was caused by galloping through the Shanhaiguan Pass. If she died of illness, it should be considered as a death on duty. Sending an imperial doctor to live in the posthouse to keep abreast of her illness is not only for Qin Liangyu's face, but also the emperor's will.

How to reward Huang Han and his "Red Banner Army" officials, the civil and military officials in the court had different opinions, and the emperor was very troubled.

The young emperor was a little confused, what kind of genius is this Huang Han?Is there anything else he doesn't know?What Cao Huachun said next made Chongzhen feel even more incredible.

Chongzhen's health is very good, basically never fell ill.But Emperor Chongzhen knew Li Zhonghua from the Imperial Hospital, because it was this Xinglin master who was nearly half a century old who often came to the palace to consult his concubines.

Such a person is actually willing to worship Huang Han as his teacher, and he is very high-profile. He has invited many relatives and friends to the ceremony held in Tai Hospital three days later, and it is said that he will also congratulate Yichun Court with a banquet.

Chongzhen asked Cao Huachun who had come to the imperial study to report the situation: "Cao Banban, I am a little confused, what is Huang Guerrilla's intention? Is he so good as a teacher?"

"The old slave also sees the clouds and mist. It is true that Huang Guerrilla is a good teacher. It is also true that he claims to have three thousand disciples, because all the members of the 'Red Banner Army' have been taught by him personally. It stands to reason that they are all his disciples. Now' There are no illiterate people in the Red Banner Army.

He also did a great deed in the capital. He took in hundreds of little beggars without father and mother. Huang Guerrilla also planned to teach these half-grown children to read and train them to form an army in the future. "

"It's really interesting, why is this yellow guerrilla so different? Good luck or bad luck?"

"The old slave thinks that such a good general should be my lucky star. So far, all the information collected from Dongchang and Jinyiwei shows that Huang Gueran is loyal and brave. Even if he is a little greedy, it is just a small loss."

"Greedy? Cao Banban thinks so?"

"Actually, this old slave doesn't think so. Huang Guerrilla is not greedy for money, but because he needs too much money, so he has a bad reputation because of some unscrupulous methods when dealing with money."

"Yeah! Huang Guerrilla needs too much money to keep the people safe and support soldiers. Cao Banban, you have to take care of your subordinates so that they don't ruin the good thing that Huang Guerrilla can make money. As long as Huang Guerrilla doesn't cause public resentment, he will let him go!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry. According to the investigation during this period, Huang Guerrilla basically did not plunder, let alone bully Shengdou's ordinary people. It can be said that there is basically no possibility of public grievances. It is possible to cause official grievances."

(End of this chapter)