The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 285

From the very beginning of Huang Han's development, he was based on the idea of ​​treating craftsmen well, and the monthly salary of the masters who came to the "Tiger Cave" city was not lower than the standard of the "Red Banner Army" battalion.

Not only did they get respect, but they also got the opportunity to be promoted. Already, more than a dozen craftsmen such as Yang Laoshi, Shen Cunli, Peng Jiawang, etc. have received the treatment of seventh-rank and subordinate seven-rank officers.

The factory has also stepped up publicity efforts, giving spiritual rewards to great craftsmen who are brave enough to develop and create inventions, riding a horse through the streets with big red flowers, and giving them various material rewards such as merit credit, monthly salary, and cash rewards. Great artisans are still the priority for promotion.

Everyone likes the working atmosphere with good treatment and human rights. The artisans produce meticulously with full enthusiasm for work every day. Huang's products must be high-quality goods and will become the corporate culture.

There is another city more than ten miles away from the "Tiger Cave" city, which is the former Funing Wei Qianhu City.

Now it has also been repaired and reinforced, and the Yamen of the Commander of Funingwei and the Xingyuan of the generals are located here.

Since the imperial court did not allocate the cost of maintaining the guards, and Yongping Mansion only sent some corvees, Huang Han only built a city of thousands of households as the command center of the Funing Guard. The fort was abandoned by Huang Han.

When the enemy comes, it is useless to disperse the defense. Only concentrated forces can turn the tide. The Acropolis is close to the "Tiger's Cave" city.

The reception of visitors from the imperial court was arranged in the Acropolis, and the offices of the officials sent by the imperial court were also located in the Acropolis. The "Tiger Cave" city was Huang Han's private fortress, and visitors were refused.

There is a specially built road between Funing Acropolis and "Tiger Cave" city. The width is more than three times that of the average official road. Now the land on both sides of the road has skyrocketed.

Many merchants believed that the "Tiger Cave" city and the Funing Acropolis had a large population and a lot of money, and the two cities were too small to be fully loaded, and the space between the two cities might develop into a city's outer wall, so they bought land to build houses and open shops. Business.

Seeing the gradual prosperity here, the living facilities are constantly improving, and it is very convenient to buy and sell things, the common people who have not settled in the city also choose to settle in between the two cities.

At the beginning of April, the dispatched ship was launched again after being repaired and maintained. Huang Han began to train all the infantry and cavalry to adapt to sailing, and also selected some war horses to adapt to the ship.

There is no good way, only by going out to sea frequently can all the horses be exercised. Soldiers who still get seasick after many attempts can only give up taking them to sea to fight.

Huang Han specially took the fleet to Dengzhou to visit his brother Sun Yuanhua, and presented him with a gift of 3000 taels of silver and a pair of golden armour.

Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, the censor of the right capital, was very enthusiastic when he saw the master's closed disciple. At this time, he was full of ambition to sit on the side, so of course he would support the younger brother.

Hearing that the "Red Banner Army" was about to form an artillery force and was in short supply of instructors, he gave Fulang Yalanda, Fang Sigu, E Honglue, and Gong Sayu four Frangji instructors and twenty Ming soldiers who had already left the army without saying a word. Army Artillery, gave four old twelve-pound guns for teaching.

But he has a premise that these people still have to return to Dengzhou after a year of teaching in the "Red Banner Army".

Huang Han knew that when Governor Sun Yuanhua ascended to Lai, there were as many as 10,000+ Liao people fleeing the war and living in Shandong. There were probably [-] to [-] Liao people in Denglai. The influx of such a large population has become a local burden.

Because Sun Yuanhua and other civil servants and military generals are completely different from Huang Han's investment in factories and mines, increasing the number of acres of land to resettle the common people, they can only solve the refugee problem by allocating relief food from the court.

If Kong Youde still harmed Denglai as in history, these Liao people would definitely participate in making waves. At this time, being able to take away some people is just an addition. Daming will have fewer enemies and more taxpayers and soldiers.

He negotiated with Sun Yuanhua and told his senior brother that there is a serious shortage of military households in Funingwei, and he has created a large number of acres to solve the manpower problem for farming.

The problem with Sun Yuanhua is that there are too many people and not enough land, because he is also a scholar-bureaucrat and a party member of Donglin, so it is impossible for him to harm the interests of the scholar-bureaucrats. Many Beizhili refugees came.

Of course he knew that many people in Beizhili were taken away by the Hou Jin army. It was reasonable for Huang Han to have a shortage of people. He supported Huang Han to come to Denglai to search for people, and immediately arranged for the commander-in-chief Zhang Keda and deputy general Zhang Tao to assist in handling the matter. .

Due to the limited transport capacity, although the Denglai Navy was there to help transport, Huang Han only brought back a thousand households of Liao people when he returned to the "Tiger Cave" city.

In the future, there will be more ships involved in transporting the Liao people to Denglai. Even if Kong Youde is a disaster, the loss of Daming will be reduced a lot. At least these people who Huang Han brought back to the "Tiger Cave" city will save their lives.

At the end of April, the Red Banner Army bird gunners held a big competition. Three hundred gunners won the honor of first-class shooter. Their uniforms will be embroidered with a golden flower of glory on the left arm. This honor is not just an honor. Vanity will also bring them a five-dollar salary increase every month.

There are [-] musketeers who have been rated as second-level shooters. They have a small star on their left arm, and their monthly salary will be increased by [-] qian. money penalty.

In the future, this kind of competition will be held once every three months, with the survival of the fittest, the first-level gunners can be promoted to the special level, and there is no guarantee that they will be downgraded to the second-level gunner. honor.

Seventy Miniguns have been shipped out of the factory. Huang Han, who attaches great importance to this big killer, has kept five for personal practice, and also summed up experience in personal use and put forward suggestions for improvement.

Huang Han selected four children from among the 13-year-old apprentices to stay with him as loaders, also counted as personal guards.

The four children are Gu Rushan, son of Gu Mancang, Shen Ming, son of Shen Cunli, Peng Huaiyi, son of Peng Jiawang, a great craftsman, and Yu Fei, son of old sailor Yu Quanyou.

Song Pengfei and Zhao Kun selected 65 of the remaining 60 Miniguns for adaptive training among the [-] first-level shooters. They were the first batch of Minigun shooters, and they would become a nightmare for enemy generals on the battlefield.

The commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town is now Huang Long, who was recommended by Sun Yuanhua. The generals of Dongjiang Town are also under the control of Governor Denglai. Huang Han asked his senior brother to write to him.

The purpose is to keep in touch with Dongjiang Town, to ensure that the "Red Banner Army" will pass through the defense area of ​​Dongjiang Town to attack Jiannu at an appropriate time. Another purpose is to accept as many soldiers and civilians as possible from Dongjiang Town.

(End of this chapter)