The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 713 Standardization

Crossing the Yellow River is the city of Luoyang. I heard that after King Lu gave financial support to King Tang, King Fu was not far behind.

The arranger recruited 5000 young and middle-aged men to transport a thousand shi of grain, and gave [-] taels of silver to support the king of Tang in fighting the bandits.

The king of Zhou in Kaifeng mansion made a lot of moves, not less than the money, food and manpower given by King Fu, and many county kings also gave money and food to people and horses more or less.

Henan was in turmoil, and hungry people were everywhere. The prince paid money and food to recruit tens of thousands of young and strong responders, but the vassal kings knew how to take it easy, and 800 people became the upper limit.

Everyone longs for freedom, and the Prince of Ming Dynasty is no exception. They are all fed up with life like a bird in a cage, and hope that one day they can swim around the world.

Tang Wang is undoubtedly breaking the ancestral system, and the rest of the vassals and county kings are full of expectations for him.

On the 25th day of the first lunar month, when the army came to Xingyang, the king of Tang had more than [-] men and horses, and more than [-] wheelbarrows were loaded with military supplies and [-] shi of grain.

Helping relatives and neighbors, the king of Zhujiafan and the king of the county sympathized with what happened to King Tang and King Xiang, and it is understandable to support King Tang to rescue King Xiang and avenge the murdered family.

After Jin Yiwei and Dongchang played the emperor with the facts they had grasped, Chongzhen chose not to support or deny it and wait and see what happened.

The young emperor cared about face, he felt uncomfortable when the feudal king and county king were killed and arrested, and felt that he was wronged, so the fate of the Tang king was better than history, and he was not sent to Fengyang to be imprisoned for leaving the fief for private fundraising.

The consistent style of the "Red Banner Army" is to develop wherever it goes, wherever the propaganda slogans are written, more ordinary people know that there is a "Red Banner Army" in Ming Dynasty that starves to death and does not plunder the common people.

Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun, Gu Rushan, and Pei Yuanwu all demanded cavalry. After attacking Jiannu, they seized 1000 or 10,000 war horses, captured more than [-] mules and donkeys, and rescued [-]+ ordinary people who were kidnapped by the Qing army.

Today's "Red Banner Army" is already the savior in the minds of the common people. There are tens of thousands of young and middle-aged people who want to follow the "Red Banner Army" to kill Tartars and exterminate bandits without publicity.

In the end, Zhao Kun selected two thousand young and middle-aged men with special skills or good physical fitness to serve as handymen in the army.

Along the way, Gu Rushan led less than [-] cavalry to follow and attack the Qing army, and captured more than [-] horses. When they arrived in Yansui Town for repairs, many Yansui men took the initiative to join the "Red Banner Army".

Yansui Town is one of the Nine Sides. The folk customs here are tough, and there are many young and middle-aged men who can ride horses and have the ability to ride and fight. Zhao Kun and Gu Zhun personally participated in the screening and selected a thousand men who passed the test as alternate cavalry Participate in training camps.

The selected Yansui men can bring their families with the army as long as they want, and will eventually send them to the Liaoxi Corridor for reclamation.

The main task of the "Red Banner Army" in the next stage is to seize the south of the Han River in North Korea and then advance north to take the entire Korean Peninsula. At that time, there will be no problem of too many people and too little land.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng envied the "Red Banner Army" for their lack of scruples, and envied them that they always had ample food and wages. Seeing the "Red Banner Army" team getting bigger and bigger, he was filled with emotion.

This righteous frontier official felt that his head was as big as a fight, and even a fool could see that the general who conquered the captives had a heart of disobedience, but the "Red Banner Army" not only starved to death or robbed the people, but also repeatedly saved the people from fire and water. .

The general who did not respect the emperor's orders and was not restrained by the imperial power was not a treacherous person. He attacked corrupt officials, punished profiteers, returned millions of people alive, and even defeated the invading slaves and tartars.

What if the emperor orders the Tianxiong Army to attack the "Red Banner Army" in the future?
The grassroots soldiers under his command are so close to the "Red Banner Army", and everyone has the intention of following the General Zhenglu.

When I receive the order to fight the "Red Banner Army", will the Tianxiong Army slack off?Will the "Red Banner Army" wave their hands, and more than half of their subordinates will follow them?
It has been the ninth year since Huang Han came to Ming Dynasty. Last year, the value of gold and silver treasures obtained by Shanxi merchants and corrupt officials has exceeded 3000 million taels of silver. This does not include the confiscated furniture, real estate, shops and millions of acres of fertile land. the value of.

It has been a year and a month since I left the capital as a general who conquered captives, and the five-year period for flattening Liao has been less than four years. With this huge income, Liao's salary is not only sufficient, but there must be surplus.

Moreover, the commercial activities of the "Red Banner Army" system are booming, with factories, workshops, and shops everywhere, and the demand for capital is endless.

Twenty million taels of cash are deposited in the "Sifang Bank", and the interest on a large fixed-year deposit is 120/[-] a month, and an annual income of more than [-] million taels will be obtained.

With more development funds in the system, the benefits generated by the investment and the job opportunities it brings will increase tax revenue and increase the strength of ships and guns. How can the increasingly powerful "Red Banner Army" pretend to be a grandson?
Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun and other generals will soon participate in the suppression of the bandits. Huang Han did not give them too many reinforcements because he was preparing to launch a spring offensive to take North Korea in one fell swoop.

They were supplemented with [-] self-generating guns, [-] miniguns, [-] self-generating short guns, and a total artillery.

The artillery officer always received training from Sun Yuanhua, E Honglue, and Gong Sayu for four or five years, Cheng Luyong, the former artillery general banner officer.

There are four hundred gunners in this case, and they carry a total of thirty one-pounder Fron cannons, three twelve-pounder, six-pounder, and three-pounder field guns,
Artillery only has [-]% of the total veterans, and [-]% are academic teenagers who have systematically studied the principles of artillery firing and have a rough understanding of ballistics.

Facing the competition of thousands of educated young artillerymen from the academy, Cheng Luyong was able to be promoted step by step until he became the top artilleryman, which was directly proportional to his talent and dedication.

Because his theoretical knowledge may be poor, but his accumulated operating experience and practical knowledge are unparalleled. With him personally controlling the twelve-pound gun, he can hit the highest hit rate without calculating the elevation angle and only by visual inspection.

He can also quickly estimate the coordinates of the artillery being fired by listening to the sound of the cannon and seeing the landing point of the shell. Under his precepts and deeds, many young artillerymen are all-round in theory and actual combat.

In the past few years, Huang Han has led master craftsmen and engineering students to write too many standards, so that the quality of products in the system is no longer the experience of veteran craftsmen, but all have data reference.

The cannons used by the "Red Banner Army" are already standardized products, and the gunners can adapt to the new cannons by firing them a few times after taking up their duties.

There is also a huge benefit of standardized production of weapons. The parts are common, which reduces production costs, reduces maintenance costs, and improves efficiency.

Not only military products are standardized, but civilian products are also standardized. There are unified standards for waterproof canvas, valves, toilets, nickel-white copper pipes, tin-plated and galvanized steel pipes, screws and nuts, etc.

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