After the two hundred households returned to the village, they could slowly screen and select, and send the remaining soldiers and sturdy women one after another. In addition, you can also buy some pickles and the like in this place and hundreds of households in neighboring villages, and I am also buying food here one after another, but there are too few pickles and the like, and everyone can't just eat rice all the time. ”

"Yuan Qi rest assured." Li Guoding said: "Tomorrow, if I have picked a good person, I will go to Suocheng first, and if I can't go to Guannan County once, I will buy all the pickled vegetables and salted duck eggs in the pickle shops in the city and the south goods shops." ”

At this time, it is only in March, fresh vegetables have not been put on the market on a large scale, it is still good in the two Huai places, the number of various pickles in the pickle shop in the south goods shop is very large, if the bitter cold place in the northern border town, a jar of sauerkraut has to eat for a winter, the price of pickles is quite expensive, much more expensive than grain.

In previous years, Mongolian herders on the steppe would go to the border to trade with Han merchants before winter came, and tea bricks and sauerkraut were their main purchases, and of course, the most important thing was food.

Later generations thought that the Mongols could have enough meat, but this was of course a misunderstanding, if there was mutton to eat mare's milk every day, why risk losing their lives to go south to fight grass valleys? Even if the grassland harvest year is not every day to kill sheep and eat meat, most of the time is to live on mare's milk and goat's milk and solid cheese, the staple food is also to eat grain, Altan Khan and the Ming Dynasty after the peace, grain trade is an important commodity of bilateral trade, the Mongolians buy grain tea and a large number of vegetables, sold to the Ming side of the war horses, as well as cattle and sheep.

At this time, even the Hermes-Epitek gathering area lacked fresh vegetables, and many of the Nine Border Military Forts had records of distributing sauerkraut to soldiers. Min Yuanqi is also short of vegetables here, and people can gradually eat enough at the same time, there is a desire for various trace elements in the body, in other words, it is almost full and then they begin to be hungry.

Wang Sanyi also said that after going back, he tried to say goodbye to each other at the entrance of the village and at the junction, and the two hundred household officials looked very respectful and polite, but Wang Mingyuan kept his face up, even if the salt from the salt pond shocked him greatly, but in the eyes of this talented minister, this is just a technique and technique after all, and the reader is seeking the Tao, and the Tao is different.

Wang Ermei has always followed honestly, following in the same direction, and did not say much, which is very different from the decisive intelligence she showed before.

There are a lot of women who came this time, but the women can't stay in the accommodation, Min Yuanqi plans to open two more shack areas in the future, separated by fences, and now this one lives with bachelors, and another one can be a husband and wife family unit, and another one is a single woman like a widow.

Everyone didn't say much about these details, but they were amazed at the thoughtfulness of Min Yuanqi's work.

On the way back, the sky is getting dark, some people are lighting torches around, and there are many fields that are barren, mainly because of the drought and lack of paddy for many years, and the harvest per mu is very poor, and many fields are gradually abandoned and unplanted, or in a state of semi-barrenness. Most of these fields are official fields, and most of them are planted with grain grains, and the harvest is small, and the military households are not concerned about the official fields and let them be barren.

This kind of situation is not only in Dahewei, but also in most of the rest of the guards, so when Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of Xuanda, he could only increase the output of hundreds of thousands of stones a year, mainly to see if the officials in charge could sort out the distribution of interests between the military attachés and the military households, give the military households some benefits, and work hard, even in the year of famine, it can also increase production and income.

"You don't have to be depressed." When only his own people were left, Wang Sanyi said to Wang Mingyuan: "If this consequence can really divide the silver every year, you will not have to worry about studying all the way to Jinshi in the future, and you will study with peace of mind in the future, and you don't have to pay attention to the rest of the miscellaneous matters." ”

"My son is afraid that this person is bold and reckless, and we may be involved in the future."

"For a few thousand silver a year, the commander can't earn so much, even if he implicates the official, he will admit it." Wang Sanyi looked at his son and said in a deep voice: "It's just that you scholars look down on military attachés, but you forget that you yourself are also the military attache of the guard." ”

"There was something about Yang Shida before." Wang Mingyuan was seen through his thoughts, and said a little angrily: "Who knows if Yang Shili will send someone to retaliate, we get too close to him and be retaliated against, is it a trivial matter?" ”

"Min Yuanqi can not be prepared for this matter?" Wang Sanyi said lightly: "Min Qianhu has already told me that the children of the Min family and the capable family Ding Banner Army will send hundreds of people over for training, and after that, their Min family has enough money and food, and manpower is enough, and the idle bandits are definitely not Min Yuanqi's opponents." ”

"Yang Shida is waiting for idleness, Yang Shili is not," Wang Mingyuan said with a straight face: "To be fair, Min Yuanqi's killing of Yang Shida and his gang is also to eliminate harm for the people, but Yang Shili is Yang Shida's brother, and this matter will not be easily revealed." If this Yang Shili retaliates, he will not send a group of useless bandits to come, so he must be careful. ”

Wang Sanyi pondered for a while. This son is a bit extreme...... But in fact, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are like this: they boast of reading poetry and books, understand the principles of sages, tolerate friends who are also scholars, regard themselves as protectors to ordinary people, despise and beware of military attachés, suppress businessmen, and be completely hostile to eunuchs.

However, when the scholar enters the court, he will know that he needs to please the eunuch to get on the throne, and the noble military ministers also have to be false and wronged, and the military ministers are different from today and the past, and now it is the time when civil officials need to please the military generals!

These things, even if the current Xiucai ministers gradually reacted, but the real awakening was when the heads of the Jiangnan gentry killed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty with three major cases, and at that time, those Jiangnan gentry and Xiucai who attacked the courtiers at will in the Ming Dynasty, and even criticized the emperor, how they couldn't suppress it, and they couldn't beat the Jiangnan gentry and Xiucai were completely killed, one didn't kill ten people, ten people didn't kill a hundred, and a hundred people didn't kill a thousand people, and the three major cases were implicated in killing and raiding more than 10,000 Jiangnan gentry and students. The entire Jiangnan was originally the most prosperous and hardest in the Ming Dynasty, but when the place where the mining tax eunuchs of the God Sect were killed and controlled, the old scholars and the living class bowed their heads from then on. The original academic research and exchanges stopped, not only did people dare not write poems, but also did not dare to do serious learning, and all the psychology and science were stagnant......

Of course, Wang Sanyi will not know what will happen in a few years or decades, but he knows the mentality of Wang Mingyuan in front of him, he is a little ashamed of being born in the military attache family of the guard, and he is reserved and proud of his talent and public identity......

Glancing at Wang Mingyuan, Wang Sanyi turned to his daughter and said, "Second sister, do you think what your eldest brother said makes sense?" ”

"There's some truth to that." The second sister smiled and said: "So Dad, you have to quickly pick more martial arts to Min Baihu, who are brave and simple, and now our two families have the same interests, and helping Min Baihu is helping ourselves." ”

"Second sister?" Wang Mingyuan glared and said, "Didn't you say earlier that people like Min Yuanqi should stay away and be careful of being implicated by him?" ”

"That was before I saw the salt coming out of the salt pond." The second sister said quite calmly and calmly: "After the salt is released, according to the agreement between us, my father will get at least a few thousand silver a year, and if more than one commander makes it a year!" Dangerous people are also capable, if the interests are not enough, we will stay away, and if the interests are enough, we will cooperate with him, and now in this way, even if the entire hundred households are on board, it is worth it. Otherwise, the eldest brother will go to the hundred households to find out if everyone is willing to go to the 300th household to be salters, and whether those strong banner troops are willing to follow Min Yuanqi to train and fight? ”

"You read well, but you're not as good as your second sister in terms of scheming." Wang Sanyi said quite proudly: "Go to Yanchi with Li Guoding to observe, first negotiate the conditions with Yuan Qi, and then cooperate with him to contribute, and the great benefits will be in hand." Don't hold on to the defects in case of trouble, but change organically ......"

Wang Mingyuan didn't speak, only stared at his father and sister, at this moment, this Ming talent was fair, and his heart was extremely chaotic.

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"Datong is finished?"

"Well, the governor of the guard committed suicide, and the chief soldier Jiang Xiang surrendered in Kaicheng, this traitor has no loyalty to the country, damn it, damn it!"

"That's to be expected...... If generals like Caozhou Liu garrisoned Datong, they would inevitably surrender. ”

On the riverbank, Min Qiande came to see off Min Yuanqi and others, the uncle and nephew stood on the riverbank and talked, Min Qiande's expression was serious and cold, and the latest Tang News came back, and the situation was already very bad.

At the beginning of March, the Shun army went down to Datong, followed by the capture of Yanghe, and the surrender of Chonghua was set by the soldiers, which opened a precedent for the surrender of high-ranking civilian officials, which also shows that serious changes are taking place in the hearts of the people, not only the military generals are afraid of death and greedy for wealth and nobility to surrender, but also the civilian officials feel that Li Chuang may establish a new dynasty.

Prior to this, although some officials surrendered, they were all low-grade civil officials and unambitious scholars who would rebel, and ordinary civil officials refused to surrender even if they were killed.

After all, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were indeed quite disciplined before they were killed, corruption, a community of interests that held together to resist, and they did not understand practice, these are the shortcomings of the Ming literati and even the civil official group, there is no need to justify, but they are stiff, not afraid of the powerful, and pay attention to discipline, these advantages are also maintained by a considerable number of civil officials under the general trend.

In other words, the majority of people no longer think that loyalty to the Ming Dynasty is a wise act, which can explain why a large number of civilian officials surrendered in Beijing and Nanjing, not that they were quite shameless and afraid of death, otherwise it would not be possible to explain that a large number of civilian officials would rather die than surrender in the more than ten years of war against Houjin and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

When the old system no longer exists, it is meaningless to cling to it, and the morality of the monarch and the minister to abide by it loses its meaning, and this is the point.

Min Qiande continued: "Then he rebelled against the Xuanfu, the governor Zhu Zhifeng committed suicide, and the chief soldier Wang Chengyin opened the city and surrendered...... Thanks to him, he is still a veteran who has fought for decades! ”

"Datong and Xuanfu are different from Xi'an and Taiyuan." Min Yuanqi sighed and said: "This is the evil result of Sun Chuanting's death, there is no official who can really control the generals, Datong and Xuanfu not only did not stick to the hard battle, but also quickly surrendered, Li Chuang easily got the important town in the northwest of the Beijing Division, and the elite soldiers surrendered without a fight, which is not imagined by the Son of Heaven, if the emperor knew it earlier, I am afraid that he would have risked fleeing south in January." ”