Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1099 Three Hundred Shadows
Ye Chen strongly advocated and vigorously promoted that more than 20 cotton fields in the Hexi Corridor, Taozhou, and Hehuang areas are about to mature, and with Ye Chen's guidance, the cotton-specific spinning and looms researched and manufactured by the Civil Research Department are also When the refugees began to migrate to various places in full swing, they were sent to the cotton producing area. There is a cotton spinning factory built by the Ministry of Industry. Most of the first cotton planters are Uighurs and Tubo people. They were coerced and lured by the government to plant this kind of cotton in the spring. The cotton I ate, I realized at the time that I still had a lot of worries.But when the cotton in their own fields was purchased at a high price by local workshops designated by the government, and then turned into cotton cloth not long after, that feeling was something they had never felt before.In short, this kind of feeling made them fall in love with growing cotton all of a sudden, because the money exchanged for cotton can be used to buy food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is much more comfortable than their past grazing or robbing as horse thieves. .They don't know how profitable cotton is after weaving it into cotton cloth. As the source of this emerging industry and the provider of raw materials, they account for less than one-twentieth of the total profit.

There are more than 70 mu of cotton fields, which are enough to harvest millions of catties of lint, all of which are woven into cotton cloth for sale. Excluding various costs, the net profit is as much as 500 million taels of silver, and this is also the income of the Xiangfu Kingdom court.

The profit of growing cotton is so high, Ye Chen doesn't have to worry that no one will grow cotton in the next year. According to the preliminary estimate of the imperial court, the field of cotton planting may increase tenfold in the coming year, reaching more than 200 million mu.In a few years, we may have to control it, lest everyone grow cotton and have no food.

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The military headquarters has selected 2 new recruits from the first batch of refugees, and has already started basic training for enlistment. Now it has only been intensive training for one month, and they can be used as baggage soldiers, but the treatment of baggage soldiers is only one-third of that of field soldiers. Moreover, there is no pension that the Xiangfu Kingdom court has just issued to court officials and military officers and soldiers relying on Xiangfu Bank, but it is just the right to immediately settle his family in Longzhou, Yanzhou, Yinzhou and other Wangzhous, and the right to ten acres of land , they easily recruited [-] people.

Speaking of the pension policy, in this era when almost everyone feels insecure, it has been enthusiastically supported by all officials and soldiers. The imperial court of the country can get supplements through the Xiangfu Bank at any time when it really uses the money.

Compared with the inaction of the Song Dynasty court, and even the expulsion of refugees, the actions of the Xiangfu Kingdom court immediately brought great popularity to Ye Chen and the Xiangfu Kingdom court in a very short period of time.Of course, it is also a great attraction to all the refugees. Most of the refugees who are still stranded in Song State do not need the Song State government to send troops to drive them away, so they choose to come to Xiangfu Kingdom. On the way, even some Song people who were not seriously affected by the disaster also turned to Xiangfu Kingdom.

In late August, the number of refugees reached its climax, and tens of thousands of people entered the territory of Xiangfu Kingdom every day. No one died of starvation.All the refugees were grateful to Ye Chen, and many of them quietly set up longevity tablets for Ye Chen.

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On this day, Wang Boju brought two staff members and more than a dozen guards to the porridge place first, and chatted with a family of refugees with children. The refugees around him all knelt down. After getting up, he personally picked up a child and took out candies for him to eat. The refugees gradually became less nervous, with simple smiles on their faces.This is already the second batch of refugees that Huayang County has received. The first batch of refugees has gone according to the plan.

The staff next to him took the opportunity to shout loudly: "Fellow folks, this is Mr. Wang, the magistrate of Huayang County in Xiangfu Country. Now I have something to tell you. Please listen carefully..."

The words of the staff made the refugees' eyes shine, their breaths were short of breath, and there was a buzz of discussion. Wang Boju waved his hand a few times to silence everyone, and then began to speak his carefully prepared speeches. When a group of refugees came, he had said it many times.

The two sang together and spoke in a hypnotic manner, the minds of the refugees were already excited, they all knelt down and sang praises.While talking, Wang Bo went to the pot to look at the porridge, and scooped it up with a spoon. There were rice and coarse grains in it, and the concentration was still up to standard.

After finishing, Wang Boju went to check the fire prevention situation around the huts. Not long ago, another camp accidentally used fire, burned dozens of huts, and killed more than a dozen people. Fire prevention is a difficult problem in this era. The huts are mixed with thatched huts and brick huts, and they are actually not fireproof. They mostly use firewood and charcoal for cooking and heating, and there are a lot of combustible materials accumulated in the huts.

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By the end of September, more than 200 million refugees had come to Xiangfu Kingdom from Song Guohe East Road, Yongxing Jun Road, and Qinfeng Road.Under the condition that Xiangfu Kingdom was well prepared, the imperial court and governments at all levels operated efficiently, and 1404 million people were relocated to various places, of which 43 refugees were relocated to Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Guazhou in the Hexi Corridor. 27 refugees migrated to the Hehuang area, and 35 people migrated to the Hetao Plain. 19 people migrated to Qinghe Prefecture.The remaining people were also organized in large numbers to build glass and cotton spinning workshops in Longzhou, Yanzhou, Yinzhou, Fuzhou, Weizhou, Lanzhou, Taozhou, etc., and to build roads and schools between villages, towns, and counties. , to reclaim wasteland.

In addition, the military headquarters recruited another 4 troops from the refugees, and divided them into various legions. They are hurrying to carry out intensive training for enlistment.In this way, each of the nine major armies of Xiangfu Kingdom has a strength of 36 troops. Not counting the second-line troops such as logistics and city defense, the number of first-line field troops in Xiangfu Kingdom has reached [-].

And the more than 200 million refugees who came to Xiangfu Kingdom accounted for only half of the refugees from the disaster in Song Dynasty.Most of the remaining refugees are too far away from Xiangfu Kingdom. On the contrary, these people are closer to Kaifeng, Luoyang, or the rich places in Sichuan and Sichuan. The country will be starved to death, so I still try my best to go to the Central Plains and Sichuan and Shu.

It is conceivable that these people were violently blocked by the government of Song State. The direct result of this violence was that riots finally broke out in Song State. It can be said that chaos has already occurred. Hundreds of rogues, as many as tens of thousands of people.Some of these people escaped the obstruction of the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, fled to Hebei, the Central Plains, Sichuan and other places, and continued to plunder.

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September 24.

Ye Chen secretly came to the east hundred miles of Xiajing City, where the special brigade was stationed, accompanied only by Zhu Guo's general Yang Jiye and the special brigade's deputy captain Gao Wuyang.

"The special brigade is the elite of our Xiangfu country's army. The nine major armies in the country now have nearly 30 troops, and the special brigade has only 5000 people. Your five thousand soldiers are undoubtedly the best among hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and your 300 people , is the elite among the five thousand elites."

The three hundred officers and soldiers of the special brigade in front of them were flushed with excitement. It was the greatest honor in itself to be selected to stand here, not to mention the great emperor personally receiving them.

"Willing to die for His Majesty!" The deep voices of three hundred of the most powerful fighters sounded in this enclosed area, they did not shout loudly, but they seemed more solemn and solemn.

"Now that the world is in chaos, I want to conquer the world, and the 300 of you will be the Anzi sent by me. And you are different from the Anzi from the Ministry of Security. You are not ordinary Anzi. The specific task is for you to be the deputy captain. I've already told you, so I won't say more, I just want to ask, are you afraid that you are going to die here?" Ye Chen asked.

"Don't be afraid!" A look of determination flashed in the eyes of the [-] special brigade soldiers, life and death had indeed been put aside by them.

"Among the 300 of you, there are 300 officers. Each officer will lead ten team members to disperse in Song, Liao, Wu, Wu, and Yue countries, and send them to the designated areas for you. The task you want to accomplish is not just relying on bravery It can be done, and you need to use your brains and wisdom to complete it." Ye Chen walked in front of everyone, looked at everyone, and then handed over a booklet called "Strategy for Developing Base Areas Behind the Enemy" Handed over to [-] officers, facing His Majesty at such a close distance, the excitement of these [-] people was almost uncontrollable.

"The content in this book was written by myself. When you go deep into the enemy's rear, you should follow what is written on it. But this book must not fall into the hands of the enemy, otherwise your identities may be exposed. Therefore, the After remembering all the contents inside, destroy them." Ye Chen said solemnly.

"I would like to obey His Majesty's will." Thirty military officers respectfully said yes.

"When our army is fighting the world and needs you to reveal your identities, if each of you has a company, you are the company commander; if you have a battalion, you are the battalion commander; if you have a brigade, You are the brigade commander." Ye Chen said solemnly: "In short, as many people as you can recruit, you can get the corresponding position. Of course, what I see should be a well-trained team with a certain combat power. , not a group of homeless horse thieves."

"Your Majesty, what if the humble post can have more than [-] troops?" A military officer with the honor of the Major Commander said loudly.

Ye Chen laughed loudly and said, "Then you are a general, and you are at least a deputy army chief or army chief of staff."

The eyes of the 300 special brigade soldiers are all bright. A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, but these [-] soldiers are the best soldiers in the world.

(End of this chapter)