Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() Early in the morning, when roosters crowed all over the city one after another, Wu Shigong woke up immediately.At this time, the complexion hadn't turned pale yet, Wu Shigong put Zhu Yun, who was sleeping soundly beside him, on the arm in front of his chest, and gently put him into the bed, wanting to crawl over Zhu Yun's body and get up.

But Wu Shigong's movement woke Zhu Yun up, she immediately put her arms around Wu Shigong's waist, and said coquettishly: "My lord, today is your first day to go home, just rest at home for a day .” After a while, Zhu Yun added a little shyly: “I also want my uncle to accompany me more.”

Wu Shigong smiled, he pecked Zhu Yun's lips, and said: "Good boy! This time my uncle went to Yangzhou, and Uncle Yongli also recruited recruits at home, today my uncle is going to see the situation of the recruits." As he spoke, Wu Shigong stroked Zhu Yun's body up and down, sniffing Zhu Yun's seductive body fragrance.

Accompanied by a beautiful woman, although Wu Shigong really wanted to stay in bed, but for the sake of his family, he still had to restrain his desire and didn't want to waste any time.So Wu Shigong kissed Zhu Yun again, and said: "Actually, my uncle, I am a little busy now, just to spend more time with you in the future."

At this time, Zhu Yun was actually moved a little by Wu Shigong's touch, she gasped and said, "But my lord, this servant also wants to have a son."

Wu Shigong laughed out loud after hearing Zhu Yun's words.He immediately said to Zhu Yun: "The uncle will accompany you again tonight, so that you can give birth to more fat boys for my uncle in the future."

After washing up, Wu Shigong went to the martial arts arena in the backyard as usual, and had morning exercises with a group of boy scouts led by Tao Xin.Tao Xin lived in Wu Shigong's home, and like Wu Shigong, he chose [-] better children from the boy scouts as his guards, and Tao Xin brought his guards in and out every day.

After the morning exercise, Wu Shigong went for a walk accompanied by his guards.Because the gate of the city had not been opened at this time, and horses were not allowed to gallop inside the city, so Wu Shigong just led the horse for a walk.

Wu Shigong's horse was walking besides his own war horse, Ren Lai Crazy, and that poor three-legged horse.The poor little creature was really tenacious, and after the carpenter fitted it with a prosthetic leg, it was able to walk.Therefore, every day on the streets of Runing Fucheng, there are scenes of Wu Shigong walking with a war horse and a disabled horse with a prosthetic leg.

After walking the horse, the sky was already bright, and Wu Shigong went back to the inner house to have breakfast with his wives and children who had already woken up. <> After breakfast, Wu Shigong started his day's work.

After Wu Shigong left Runing Mansion this time, Xue Yongli had recruited [-] recruits from military households, defected bandits, and local refugees in Runing Mansion.And these days, Xue Yongli was very busy with the training of recruits and the transfer of cavalry from veterans.

Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, Xue Yongli and other military officers greeted him.After listening to Xue Yongli's introduction about recruiting recruits, Wu Shigong began to observe the training of the soldiers again.

Since many veterans who could not ride horses were added to the cavalry this time, and so many new recruits were recruited, the whole training scene was a bit chaotic.For this situation, Wu Shigong and the others were no strangers to it.According to their experience, as long as they train strictly under sticks, those soldiers can look good in just one month; The soldiers are ready for battle.

In addition, in the future, Wu Shigong also plans to train those Zhuang Ding who are in the field to the level that they can be sent to the army, so in the future, the time for recruits to form combat effectiveness will be greatly shortened.

The only problem now is that Wu Shigong and the others have no experience in training a phalanx as large as 1000 people, and they will not be able to conduct such a phalanx training before the training of the recruits is completed.

After asking Wu Shigong for instructions, Zhou Xun, who was in charge of the training of the phalanx, could only use the five or six hundred recruits recruited from Beizhili who had been trained for a period of time, plus those recruited from other armies for intensive training. The soldiers started the exploratory training of the phalanx together.

This training was very bumpy.From time to time, when a problem was discovered, Wu Shigong temporarily stopped training, and called the military officers together to discuss and solve the problem.Sometimes fierce disputes occurred.Even if no one can convince anyone, the phalanx has to be divided into two teams, and sometimes even a team of cavalry is transferred to carry out simulated confrontation training.

On the side, several literate soldiers in the personal army team acted as temporary clerks, recording the problems discovered and the solutions to them, and sorting out and summarizing them later.

With such a busy schedule, the whole morning passed quickly.After lunch in the camp, Wu Shigong left most of the guards around him in the camp, and asked them to participate in and perfect the training of the phalanx.Wu Shigong himself returned to the garrison yamen with more than [-] guards.

After taking a nap, Wu Shigong began to deal with some civil affairs.Anyway, there were many tedious tasks, but what caught Wu Shigong's attention the most this day was Zheng Zhen's garrison affairs.

"My lord, after using your method, the people are very enthusiastic. There is an endless stream of people who come to us to sell land and participate in our farming. The villain is so bold that he lowered the purchase price per mu of land to The price is one and a half stones. In this way, you can also buy more land for adults."

Wu Shigong immediately praised Zheng Zhendao with a smile: "You have done a good job. But you add another condition to the common people, as long as there is a natural disaster and the grain harvest fails, I will correspondingly exempt the share of the land that should be paid, and extend Time to pay back our food. And even if there is no harvest, I will guarantee the ration supply of those people here. I not only want the land, but also the hearts of the people. Only when these people have no worries about the future will they give me The officer sacrificed his life."

Zheng Zhen also smiled and nodded in agreement.He then asked Wu Shigong: "My lord, but in this way, there will be too many people coming to sell the land. Besides, the villain also asked some old farmers, and they all said that this year is not very good!"

"Let's hurry up to repair the water conservancy. This food, if you can get a little from God's hand, you can check it carefully with the accountant. For the land you buy later, part of it will be paid with food, and the other part will be paid with the food coupons we issued. , move the payment date of those food stamps back a bit. I also asked Tang Liu to buy grain again to ensure that those people can survive this famine year. Remember, don’t force those people to accept food stamps , and we must also pay attention to credibility, and don’t let good things turn into bad things, so as to tarnish our own reputation.”

"My lord, and near the land we bought, some gentry saw that we were overhauling the water conservancy, and they also wanted to cooperate with us to bring water to their land."

"That's no problem. Let's discuss this matter with Mr. Zhang again. I have an idea that those gentry can cooperate with us, but their families have to donate their children to our army."

"That's it. My army gives these gentry's children 50 military attaches, and then selects [-] veterans from the army to form a centurion of personal soldiers. It will be a training team for backup military officers. However, I have to make it clear to those gentry that these [-] places are selected on merit and subject to assessment. Of course, among those gentry, if there are children of directors of the Literacy Association joining my army, I will also welcome them very much. Then All the gentlemen are working very hard on civil affairs, so it's time to find some people to help."

"And the matter of contacting those gentry is mainly left to Mr. Zhang. Let him not forget Yao Yuanwai and the others in Guide Mansion. It is best to let Yao Yuanwai and the others integrate into our system. Do remember: put this The purpose of thoroughly managing the land is to integrate the gentry on this land into our system."

What Wu Shigong said today is a bit naked.Although in the past, Wu Shigong's staff already felt that Wu Shigong had the tendency to become a warlord, but Wu Shigong's statement today fully expressed his own thoughts.Zheng Zhen pondered Wu Shigong's words carefully, and thought to himself: "Since your lord has already made up his mind. And now I'm in the same boat as your lord, so we can only row forward together."

Wu Shigong's policy of garrisoning farmland was quite successful, but in the following year, Henan suffered a severe drought, and because Wu Shigong's water conservancy was relatively good, Wu Shigong's food was self-sufficient.

In addition, Wu Shigong also acquired a total of 10,000+ mu of land and collected more than 8000 farm households.These lands formed villages one by one, and the young and strong in the farm households formed village protection teams after military training, and the total number of village protection teams reached more than 8000 people.This also effectively guaranteed Wu Shigong's supply of soldiers.

In his contact with those gentry, Zhang Xuebin also made the tenant farmers of those gentry form a militia similar to Wu Shigong's village guard team, and these militias were also under Wu Shigong's command, and the total number of militias reached 1000. many people.

There are also those sons of the gentry who entered Wu Shigong's army and civil affairs system in large numbers. In addition to the knowledge and ability of these children who gave Wu Shigong a lot of help, Wu Shigong also formed a very close union with the gentry in these places. .

It should be said that it was not until this time that Wu Shigong really laid down his own foundation in Henan.

However, after such a costly action, Wu Shigong's accumulated food, grass and money are not much.