Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 873 Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily

Jinyintan, Xichuan River.

Near the Han Triangle City, a new immigrant village was established on the beach. After Haiyan was established as a county, a large number of poor people from the mainland migrated here. Many members of the garrison came with the army.

Early in the morning, when Guo Shoufu woke up, the first thing he did was to fetch water.

When I first came here, everything started from scratch. There was no ready-made house, so I temporarily dug a cellar, dug a hole in the ground, and covered it with Liuba thatch. Fortunately, it was summer when I came here, and it was not cold.

It's just that when I first came here, I was not acclimatized to the environment and had altitude sickness, which made me uncomfortable for a short period of time.Fortunately, they were not refugees and hungry people who had fled. They were immigrants, and the imperial court had arranged for them.

Haiyan County quickly divided the relocated people and divided them into various places to build villages. At first, they had nothing, so they set up temporary tents, and then dug the ground. The fence of Tunzhuang was built, so that it would not be afraid of tigers and wolves, and it could also block the wind and sand.

At the same time that the fence was repaired, the warehouses and canteens in the village were also repaired, and the rows of private houses were also under intense construction.

In addition to building houses and building walls, immigrants from the No. [-] Village of Sanjiaobao, Jintan Township, Haiyan County, are rushing to open up wasteland and farm land, and herding cattle and sheep for breeding. Everything starts from scratch, and everyone helps each other. There are also officers and cadres in Sanjiao Township, as well as the garrison camp and the imperial camp, who have also sent people to garrison and help out.

Even in the bustling and somewhat chaotic place, the Seventh Tun Primary School started in autumn. They read half a day a day and helped the family with the rest of the day. Those energetic children also had a place to restrain themselves. Organize villagers to take a literacy class and learn Mandarin for a while.

For immigrants, learning Mandarin is more important than literacy. Many immigrants from all over the world can’t understand each other. They can’t understand each other. If Mandarin is not popularized, it will be very troublesome. way of immigration.

For example, most of the immigrants in Haiyan County come from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, while the immigrants in Jintan Township are mainly from Sichuan, and the immigrants from Sanjiaobao are mainly from northern Sichuan such as Baoning Prefecture. This arrangement is also to allow new immigrants Get familiar with it as soon as possible, and be able to gain a foothold in a new place as soon as possible.

Guo Shoufu came here from Baoning in northern Sichuan. He was a bachelor immigrant who signed up on his own initiative. He was not a member of the military or a family member of an official. He originally wanted to sign up to join the army, but he was not selected. It's different, although Guo used to be a miner, but he was assigned to Haiyan after signing up for the garrison, and now he has brought his wife and children here, and his family has been allocated [-] acres of grassland and [-] acres of land.

Guo Shoufu failed to join the army, so he could only work as a farmer. Because he was single, he was only allocated [-] mu of land and [-] mu of pasture. Now he has immigrated with the other nine households and formed a production mutual aid cooperative. Everyone helps each other and cultivates wasteland together. , also raised some sheep.

However, there is not much output yet, mainly relying on the immigrant food distributed by the counties and townships on a monthly basis.

After returning with a load of water, Guo Shoufu was thinking about being a soldier again. He still hoped to join the army.These days made him more and more convinced that only by joining the army can he change his background. Guo Huaian is the best example.

Not only are they allotted a lot of land, but the food and pay are also good, especially the new clothes, hats and shoes that are distributed every season, which is enviable.Even if it is just a soldier, he is a decent person.

Those who served as soldiers not only distributed the land but also distributed their wives.

As a bachelor, Guo Shoufu envies Guo Huai'an very much now. He looks decent and has an iron rice bowl. With the food and land, he can live decently in the outskirts. His wife and children even divided the house when they came, although it is quite rudimentary. house, but that is also directly divided.

Tunying schools recruited the children of the soldiers to go to school, and they didn't have to pay tuition fees. If they read well, they would be rewarded with rice and grain.

For a bachelor like him, being a soldier is the best way to change his destiny and cross classes. He has never studied and cannot take the imperial examination.His only capital is a young life. It is good to be a soldier, the food is rich and stable, and even if he is a conscript in the provincial patrol battalion, if he has not been promoted to a non-commissioned officer for a few years and comes back from the army, he can give priority to the county and township yamen Work, and even recommend to work in some royal or government-run industries.

No matter how bad it is, you can be a mercenary, a staff officer, a coach, or a mercenary in the army of the Mongolian Khan Taiji or the chieftain of Yunnan and Guizhou. It's better than mining. Miners don't work for a long time, and they either die in the mine, or they are too old and can't bear it.

It's a pity that the opportunity to serve as a soldier is rare now.

Because of the good pay, poor people are now vying to be soldiers. Being a soldier is no longer a fear of the road, and there is no longer a saying that a good man should not be a soldier. Instead, being a soldier has become a decent job.

And even if the gentry are powerful and nobles, their children are still competing for the rank of soldiers, because the emperor of Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to military merits, military experience is very good qualifications, and military merits are easier to rise. They are no worse than civil servants at all, and even as long as they are the gang of honorable ministers who can earn military merits and titles, they can still overwhelm the civil servants who were born as Jinshi in the two rankings.

Under this atmosphere.

In the current Ming Dynasty, warriors have become a high-status class, and military officers are the first choice for noble children. They have a bit of the characteristics of good families in the early Han and Tang Dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, the soldiers belonged to the elite class. Only those who are eligible to be selected, ordinary people are not eligible to serve as soldiers.

In the final analysis, it is the inclination of the imperial court's policy. The treatment of warriors is generous, not just food and salary, but political status, including granting military land, exempting from taxation, not serving miscellaneous services, and military merits are awarded honors, titles, and officials. Class restrictions.

If the court is aggressive, the status of the warriors will naturally be high, but if the court stops expanding, the status of the warriors will continue to decline.

These made the soldiers of the Han and Tang Dynasties able to fight and have high status.

Compared with the tattoos on the faces of soldiers in the Song Dynasty, the soldiers of the guards in the Ming Dynasty were almost reduced to tenant army slaves, and the warriors were trampled to the bottom of the mud, it is indeed a world of difference.

Daming now treats warriors very well. Those generals who have made military achievements can be allocated a large piece of land or even many pieces of land. Although most of them are frontier lands and do not have the right to tax exemption, the number of these lands is not small. Eight hundred mu or even tens of thousands of mu, even if the frontier land is worthless, the land has many characteristics and can become the foundation of a family.

Not to mention that warriors can also become generals and prime ministers, they can enter the cabinet and the prime minister's office, and the titles of the world can be passed on to their descendants. In addition to enfeoffing land and food, there are many privileges, such as conferring a wife's shade. Son, children enter the Imperial College, or enter the Xunyiwu Neiwei, enter the martial arts hall, etc. Such opportunities are very rare. Compared with ordinary people, they can only rely on reading in the past, and thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge. Juren took the Jinshi examination all the way up.

Moreover, the imperial examination cannot be hereditary. It can only be said to be the way to train children for the imperial examination. However, there is still a gap compared to the ability to directly inherit land, titles, and favors compared with military merits.

"Old Six,"

"Third brother, why are you here?"

As soon as Guo Shoufu, who was carrying water, arrived at the door, he saw Guo Huaian, who was dressed in a red military uniform, squatting at the door, smoking a pot and waiting for him.

"It's a good thing, do you want a wife?"

"Yes, the third brother is suitable?" Guo Shoufu put down the bucket and replied with a smile.

"If you want, there is a good one. Your sister-in-law told me that there are many new military family members in our military village, and one family is also from northern Sichuan, and moved from Bazhou. , There is a 16-year-old girl in their family, and my sister-in-law said she is tall, but she is thinner, but she has a good physique, especially her big buttocks, she must be easy to bear."

"16 years old? Her brother is still in the army. I'm afraid he won't look down on a bachelor like me?" Guo Shoufu hesitated when he heard this.

"There is another good thing." Guo Huaian took out a cigarette pouch and handed it to Guo Yongfu. There were shredded tobacco and paper in it, and asked him to roll it himself. "I have received a mission. Our camp will send sentries to escort a batch of supplies to Gyantse, Tibet. At that time, we will follow the Kunlun Expeditionary Force to attack the Ladakh country in Nahan Ali, although our sentry is only transporting supplies. Yes, but there are always some opportunities to play in the past.

Moreover, our battalion commander said that we are allowed to bring some children who voluntarily accompany us, and each person can bring at most one.

Would you like to go? "

This name is not uncommon. In the past, there were Yu Ding in addition to the main army of the Ming Army Guards. Sometimes, when fighting or something, there would be children accompanying them. Even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when the soldiers went out to war, they often brought their children with them. The main purpose of voluntary conscription is to help capture captives and transport spoils to watch horses guard the camp and so on.

Even when the nomadic troops on the grassland sent troops, they often took their children or servants to plough the grass, feed the horses, guard the camp, guard the prisoners, transport the captured things, and sometimes went to the battlefield.

Guo Yongfu became a little excited. He couldn't find the opportunity to join the army. There are too many young people who want to join the army, but there are very few opportunities.

"I heard that the Kunlun camp has a big goal this time. It is estimated that it will be a big job. After Ladakh, it seems that some small countries such as Khamjuti, Jammu, and Kashmir will be attacked. We will fight against the Mughal Empire. We will only send [-] troops from the imperial court this time, and we will also recruit [-] troops from U-Tsang, etc., but in fact we will send some troops there, mainly to transfer provincial camps and garrison camps. .”

"I reckon that as long as you pass, no matter whether you have the opportunity to fight or not, at least you have this experience. After that, if you sign up to join the army, the chances will always be better? If you really encounter a war, wouldn't you join the army at the front line? It's better than doing it here Wait for it to be strong, right?"

Like Guo Huaian, there are still quite a few troops who have received the task of transporting supplies. They are all deployed in Xining, Gansu, and Anxi, and they are all based in local camps. The provision of food and grass for the Kunlun camp was actually another purpose of the imperial court.

The Kunlun camp mobilized [-] soldiers and horses, and the Ming army only dispatched [-] imperial battalions. They still sent troops from the two directions of U-Tsang and the Western Regions, which was also intended to alleviate the worries of the Mongolian princes. You have to wonder if Daming is going to grab their territory directly.

Only one thousand and five dollars will be dispatched, which will give them a more at ease feeling.Just like the current Ming army stationed in Tibet from 500 to [-] each in Lhasa and Gyantse, they deliberately maintained [-] soldiers. As merchants, guards, etc., each actually has a few hundred armed forces, but at least on the surface, there are only [-] Ming troops in each of the front and rear.

This number is a relatively reassuring number.

On the surface, the imperial court only sent [-] expeditionary troops, but in the name of transporting military supplies, they dispatched garrison troops. First, it is indeed safer to transport military supplies with armed forces. Secondly, these garrison troops are the reserve team. Able to pull into the battlefield.

It is even possible to set up warehouses, military posts, military depots, etc. in Qiemo, Khotan, Yarkand and other places in the name of transshipment and reserve military resources, etc., and then march into the garrison.

It is definitely more convenient to act in the name of the camp soldiers.

It can be advanced or retreated, so that it will not cause too violent a reaction, but it can also achieve the strategic intention of the imperial court to take the opportunity to enter that area.

The deployment of some soldiers to transport military supplies to Ali and return to Xinjiang, and the conscripting of some children to join the army voluntarily further reduced the number of Ming troops on the surface. After all, the soldiers were originally half-farmers and half-soldier camps, and their children participated in the delivery of supplies. It's not even soldiers, it's just people.

"If you want to go, I'll ask our battalion to join the army to get you a document, and then get it to your township security for registration. As long as the formalities are completed, you can go with us."

"Even if we don't get a fight by then, there will still be wages for transporting military supplies, and we won't run away in vain."

"I am willing, I am willing, of course I am willing, Xie Sange." The sixth son stopped rolling tobacco and said excitedly.

In fact, he is still a restless person in his bones, or he is unwilling to be ordinary and does not want to keep mining, so he rejected the widow whose husband died in the mine and brought her children, and also gave up the miner's job with a decent income. He came to Haiyan thousands of miles away because he wanted to come to the frontier to cultivate and serve as a soldier, but he didn't become a soldier. He didn't want to just be a farmer on the border.

Although a piece of land has been allocated, waiting for him to work hard to cultivate and plant it, hard work and sweat can be exchanged for stability and food and clothing, but he is not reconciled.

He is only in his early twenties, and he wants to stand out from others, and he doesn't want to see the end of his life at a glance. Although a few years ago, the life he is living now is something that he would not have dared to dream of at that time, but when he sees the people around him, He also envies and yearns for a better future, and wants to fight for it.

It is human nature to look forward to Shu.

"If the Kunlun Expeditionary Army captures Ladakh and Kashmir, and they want to station troops there to recruit soldiers, would you like to serve there?" the third child asked while smoking a pipe.

Lao Liu thought for a while, although he had no idea about the distant Ladakh, he only knew that it must be in a very far away place, as far away as coming from his hometown in northern Sichuan to the Qinghai Lake, but he still gritted his teeth and agreed, "Yes, when we were in the literacy class, the master read some poems from the Tang Dynasty. There is a sentence called, please go to Lingyan Pavilion for a while, if you are a scholar."

Guo Huaian smiled and said, "Well, this sentence is very powerful, I remember that there was also the first one who called the Marquis of Wanli, and Liangzhou on a horse, which was also very aggressive!"

"There is also a saying that why don't men take the Wu hook and charge Guanshan fifty states?"

"Hahaha, that's right, a man born between heaven and earth, how can he be depressed for a long time, hahaha!"

"Hahaha, with this ambition, are you afraid that you will not succeed in this life? What's wrong with Kunlun? What are you afraid of in Ladakh? At that time, the military merits will be awarded, and you will be promoted all the way back. At that time, not only will you return to Qinghai Lake, I want to be promoted to the court in Beijing."

The two brothers joked with a bit of bragging.

(End of this chapter)