Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 166
The greatest thing in China is not the emperors and generals, but the peasants who face the loess and back to the sky. It is they who created the Chinese civilization with their hands and sweat.

The Dusi can be regarded as the most basic level in the military system of the Ming Dynasty. The Dusi is also called the Commanding Envoy. Hong Chengchou accepted the order of Song Qingshu. No limit, this is the military system established by Zhu Yuanzhang after imitating the military system of the Tang Dynasty. This military system once supported the conquest of the early Ming Dynasty and the spectacular war of Emperor Yongle's five conquests of Mongolia.

However, becoming a military household is not a good thing. Guard soldiers have been soldiers for generations, and most of them cannot pass the imperial examination. .Especially in order to support the army, the taxes paid by the farming army are several times higher than that of ordinary farmers, and they are often assigned to serve for no reason.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the guards had almost lost their combat effectiveness. During the Anti-Japanese War, two thousand Ming soldiers were chased and killed by a few Japanese pirates. It's not that they were forced to do nothing. In fact, the peasant army in Funiu Mountain really didn't want to be the soldiers of the guard.

But there is no choice. Ganquanwei, who has fled and disappeared for decades, in order to survive, the peasant army who put down their knives and picked up their hoes still had to bend down and rely on their hands to work hard to find a way out. Come.

And Song Qingshu, the capital, didn't care about things at all, after all, there were still hundreds of soldiers loyal to him who needed to be taken care of.

A guard commander has two guards under his command, five thousand generals, and fifty generals. Song Qingshu's Qingquan Guard was almost split into three pieces. Scarface served as the left guard, leading the hundreds of soldiers who were still loyal to Song Qingshu during the mutiny. Among them, Liu Zongmin served as the general manager, Dian Dengzi transferred to a civilian position as the chief guard, and Li Tiezhu became the general manager of the personal army.

On the other side, old man Xing became the right guard, Liu Dazhuzi had become a boss, and Xiao Luobo also wanted to be a boss, but unfortunately his altitude was too low, so in the end he had no choice but to let Liu Dazhuzi's .

The third force is the more than 1 peasant army harvested from Wang Zuohang, with more than 3000 strong men, exactly three thousand generals. The leader is Miao Dengyun, also known as Miao Mei, the leader of Wang Zuohang's command.

However, this group of people is also the weakest group in the guard, almost let Song Qingshu infiltrate most of them.

Speaking of it, it has something to do with Wang Zuohang. This person really wants to be a cousin, but also wants to set up a memorial archway. He sent Miao Mei, a powerful general under his command, and wants to be loyal to him under Song Qingshu's hands, but Wang Zuohang is reluctant to part with 1 yuan. For the things of many people, the old farmers who are honest and fearful are picked, not to mention the weapons before they are sent over, and they almost pulled out their pants.

They are poor and poor and not very good at fighting and looting. When they come here, they all rely on Song Qingshu to survive. They are in the hands of Song Qingshu. They are still honest people. It’s strange to be disobedient. , Monk Zhao, almost all of the bosses are in the hands of Song Qingshu, and Miao Mei is the only team left to hold on. Even so, every time she sees Song Qingshu, Miao Mei has to bow down and bow down. Shangguan.

After more than two months, this Qingquanwei has undergone a big change now.

Originally, there were barren mountains and wild mountains everywhere, without even a tree on the mountain, and the remains of Qingquanwei were all collapsed. Now, this area is densely covered with residential houses.

Loess high slopes are everywhere in northern Shaanxi. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the situation here has deteriorated dramatically. The Song Dynasty would rather put the capital in Kaifeng, which is safe to defend, than put it in Guanzhong, because the environment in Guanzhong is already bad enough to bear the burden. It's not as good as the capital once, and there is not a single tree in Qingquanwei that can be cut down to build a house.

However, the wisdom of the working people is really limitless. If you don’t have good wood to build a house, you can dig down. The cave dwelling, which has always been a unique folk house in northern Shaanxi, shines in Qingquanwei.

On the fifth day after being placed in Qingquanwei, Liu Zongmin came back with thousands of catties of iron ingots, and then hundreds of blacksmiths in the army began to make shovels day and night, and they leveled the cliffs on the nearby Huangtu Mountain, and dug out at the foot of the mountain. When the cave dwellings came, hundreds of soldiers loyal to Song Qingshu and more than 1000 family members dug at first. Later, the old man Xing followed suit. Later, he really didn’t want to live in the open air. Monk Zhao and Wang Biao, who ate loess, turned to Song Qingshu one after another. Tens of thousands of people worked together, and within a month, more than 2000 caves were dug out, forming a huge town in Qingquanwei.

Surrounded by an irregular heptagonal loess slope, more than 500 village kilns were built, which played the role of a city wall. Several gaps were also piled up with loess to form a city gate. The street divides Qingquanwei into nine pieces, the Dusi Yamen is in the middle, and the piece of Song Qingshu's land next to Yan'an Mansion on the west is pushed out twice to the northeast with the Funiu Mountain people. They were all harvested from Wang Zuohang, but now they can be regarded as Song Qingshu's men.

The cave has been dug, the place to live has been solved, and food has become a problem again.

In the previous month, all the food was in the name of Hong Chengchou, and he led troops to nearby Zhuangzi to "borrow" from the landlords of each Zhuangzi!More than 1000 soldiers had to be dispatched to fight Caogu every day. In order to win over Wang Zuohang's troops, Song Qingshu had to give half of the food, which made him hungry and full. Some of them were given to Song Qingshu, but he directly pushed them away.

In a month, the sprouting potatoes and sweet potatoes sent by Hong Chengchou had already sprouted at the foreign monk Tang Ruowang. Song Qingshu pulled it out and started to cultivate wasteland.

Speaking of it, Hong Chengchou is really good to Song Qingshu, here in Qingquanwei, more than 400 years later, there is still a famous name, Nanniwan!

Near here is the birthplace of the Fen River. In Shaanxi, which is full of catastrophic droughts, the water source here can barely maintain irrigation. When the Kuomintang army swept and blocked the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area in later generations, the famous 26th Brigade was under the command of brigade commander Wang Zhen. Under the leadership, they entered here and reclaimed [-] mu of wasteland, which is equivalent to [-] hectares.

Of course, it would not be possible to reclaim so much in a month. Fortunately, Song Qingshu’s army had horses, so they converted the war horses into plow horses, two horses and one plow, and used horse manure to fertilize the field. More than 300 war horses can plow four to five hectares a day. The land came, but the only thing that made Song Qingshu uncomfortable was that Li Xin was still staying at Qingquanwei.

Excluding personal grievances, Li Xin actually played a big role. His father, Li Jingbai, was born in the county magistrate, and his family has a long history. Li Xin is really knowledgeable about land reclamation and caring for cattle and horses. More than 700 horses will die instead of only losing two or three hundred horses. For that matter, Song Qingshu sees that this person is still awkward. The first horses were not willing to use them. In the end, Old Man Xing communicated with Zhao Sheng, the lamp lighter, and put all the horses in the guard for public use, which made the reclamation speed a bit faster.

Although it can't compare with the glorious record of the 100th Brigade, Song Qingshu's subordinates have reclaimed more than 50 hectares of land in the valley and plain near Qingquanwei in one month. We planted more than ten hectares of wheat, more than ten hectares of cotton, a large vegetable field, and more than [-] acres of peppers that Han Juaner never leaves. In a month, the red peppers have already grown fruit, and some soldiers I couldn't help stealing it, and was immediately jumped up and down by the spicy food.

Although I have not been self-sufficient until now, I still go out to harvest food every day, offending the nearby landlords and nobles, but as long as I persist in harvesting until December, I will produce about 6000 catties of corn per mu More than 12 tans can be harvested, 12 tans of potatoes with a yield of about 40 jin per mu, [-] tans of sweet potatoes with a yield of about [-] jins per mu, [-] tans of wheat, [-] tans of corn, and [-] tans of cotton Jin, a thousand loads of peanuts.

As long as you can survive until the end of the year, let alone feed the 6000 people in Qingquanwei, even if it is 16, the food is enough. Let alone standing on the loess slope where you live here and looking down, there is a green color in your eyes. Reading Song Qingshu really gave me a sense of accomplishment, and I didn't even want to leave.

No wonder, when I was a rogue, I was on the move every day, living in the open air, not to mention hungry and full, and worrying about the officers and soldiers, other rogues, armed landlords, and all kinds of enemies coming to kill me, so I couldn’t sleep well One day, with such a stable residence, even Song Qingshu gained a few pounds. It is so important to have a stable base!

"Brother! Come down to eat!"

Just when Song Qingshu was fascinated by reading, suddenly a clear and sweet sound rang out from under the mountain ridge, Song Qingshu hurriedly turned his head, it turned out that Caiwei was shouting from below.

Now Caiwei is becoming more and more rustic. A set of big red earthen cloth short jacket, trousers, and disheveled hair looks a bit like the protagonist Jiuer in "Red Sorghum", but the dry environment in northern Shaanxi has not changed. Xiangmeizi's skin is fair and juicy. Although she is still a little young, she still has the young woman's charm of being a new wife.

"Sister Juan has delivered the food, come down and eat!"

Han Juan'er is now the only person in Xing's class who is still in contact with Song Qingshu. She delivers three meals a day, morning, afternoon and evening, to the Dusi Yamen, and only leaves after eating. Song Qingshu treats her very well. There is no blame, after all, the mutiny that night had nothing to do with her as a woman, but when she was mentioned, Song Qingshu shook his head helplessly.

"Understood, come down now!"

Caiwei didn't let Caiwei yell anymore, and looked at the soldiers who were still farming in the fields. Song Qingshu slid down the loess slope and quickly slid down...

(End of this chapter)