"Tonight, the Chinese officer, the pacification officer, and the quartermaster will work with me to discuss the rules of the camp," Min Yuanqi looked at the many banner troops, and said calmly: "Those who enter the camp to receive salaries are my soldiers, and they must listen to my orders, and those who do not listen will only be engaged in military law." ”

Min Yuanqi's tone softened again, and he said to everyone: "The public practices martial arts hard every day, sweating through heavy clothes, isn't it just to protect the territory and kill the enemy when there is a foreign enemy, and protect the family?" If you want to run too, I will also run away, everyone has run away, and all the hundreds of households are scattered sand, let others cut and kill, isn't it the biggest fool in the world? The knives and guns in your hands are fake, and the knives and guns of your partners are also fake? The enemy is not three-headed and six-armed, the training is not as good as ours, the weapons are not as good as ours, and there is no armor and iron helmets, so you have run away, I'm sorry for my food, as soon as you run, the bandits come over, he recognizes you from the 300th household or the 4th or 900th household, and he recognizes which hundred households your family is small? When the time comes, you will behead you, rape your wife, kill your old father and mother, you and the Pao Ze brothers have practiced their skills, but they dispersed in a hurry because of cowardice, will you regret it or not? ”

Originally, when the army saw their comrades being beheaded, they were all a little uneasy in their hearts, especially the people from the same hundred households, and there was still some anger in their hearts.

After listening to Min Yuanqi's words, the gaze of the banner soldiers looking at the head changed, this person wanted to escape when he was in battle, and he also said words to deceive everyone, it was really a pity to die!

Min Yuanqi's tone was quite sad when he spoke, he was a human being in two lives, and he actually cherished people's lives quite a lot. Hefang killed Yang Shida and his gang during the first war, because this group of people was his enemy, and they usually did a lot of evil things, each of which was enough to be sentenced to death in the law, and those who died under his knife were all wicked people, and there were no good people.

Most of the hundreds of banner troops trained in the camp can be named, and even those who can't be named are familiar.

These people are the brothers of Paoze, and they are the subordinates that Min Yuanqi regards as his right-hand men, and killing any of them, even if they deserve their crimes, still makes Min Yuanqi's heart gloomy and unhappy.

The duty attendants lit oil lamps in the official room, although he had made a lot of money recently, Min Yuanqi was still quite frugal, and there were no good lamps or candles in the large number of materials he bought, these things were not urgent in his opinion.

Han Sen, Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin, Gao Cuncheng and others lined up one after another, and Min Yuanqi said to everyone: "The military regulations of the Ming battalion soldiers, there are too many beheadings, and there are arrows in the camp, and even cut off the ears, noses and other corporal punishments. I am in a different situation here, and I do not want to use severe punishment and corporal punishment to deter the army's morale, but today I realized that the battalion law and order must also be inevitable, and today's meeting will formulate a detailed military regulation, which will be regarded as a rule, and it can be supplemented later. ”

Han Sen said: "The pacification army has been established, it is best to find some literate people who know how to preach military law to soldiers." ”

"It's not good to be tough." Liang Shifa said: "Previously, the adults inspired the soldiers with benevolence, and I think it is best to preach the virtues of the adults, and give both grace and power." ”

"From daily training, to internal affairs, military salaries, to wartime discipline, regulations, and punishments for violations, there must be clear regulations.

Min Yuanqi pondered for a moment and said: "In the past two days, the military laws and regulations have been drafted, and if anyone regrets and wants to leave, and all the food and salary will be returned, he will be left to go." ”

Min Yuanjin said: "The enemy is current, it's not easy to let people go, right?" ”

Min Yuanqi said: "Many people are reluctant to pursue this one. If the iron heart wants to leave, even the food will be returned, so that it is useless for people to stay in the camp, and they are afraid that it will still be a scourge during the war. ”

Everyone agrees with this, and they simply stayed up late to do this, and everyone said the Ming military regulations in their memories one by one, and then combined with the actual situation in the camp at the moment, Min Yuanqi personally wrote and wrote until before and after the change, and everyone yawned and retreated.

Min Yuanqi looked at the military regulations in front of him, and was a little stunned for a while.

For example, there were some regulations in the camp before, and Min Yuanqi also led by example during training, and the morale of the flag army was relatively high.

However, many military regulations have not been determined, and many flag soldiers come to train only to recruit workers in the barracks, and when they preach daily, they say at most that they should beware of rogues guarding the township, but there are fewer realistic threats such as bandits, and when people find that there is really the possibility of going to the battlefield to fight bloodily, there is no military regulations and military law under the fear and fear, and naturally some people jump out to challenge Min Yuanqi's authority.

Tonight's incident can be regarded as a timely stop loss, and it can be regarded as a clear reminder and lesson to Min Yuanqi, many things, he may not be able to think carefully and be completely meticulous.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency?"

It's already the second watch, according to people's work and rest habits at this time, more than ninety percent of people have already slept, and there is a knock on the door outside the official room, Min Yuanqi came back to his senses and said in a deep voice: "Who is it?" Come on in. ”

"The villain has seen the adult."

It was a clerk in his twenties, who was supposed to be one of the scribes sent by Min Qiande from Suocheng to help. Min Yuanqi did not recruit scholars here, and for the time being, he could not attract scholars to come, so Min Qiande collected more than a dozen officials from the city and other places, and all of them sent helpers.

These clerks register account books, check people's names and residences, record construction periods, and do trivial tasks, which are also what they are good at, but they are quite handy and do not find it difficult.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty is also hereditary, Zhu Yuanzhang may have suffered a lot of anger from the officials of the Dayuan court when he was a teenager, and after the establishment of the empire, he cut off the road of the officials, the two thousand stones of the Han Dynasty in addition to the sons of the family, most of them were officials first, and then officials, so most of the officials of the Han Dynasty were familiar with political affairs, familiar with the world, and were quite proficient in both military and political affairs and laws and decrees when governing the country. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the family of gate lords controlled the positions of high-ranking officials, and the middle and lower-level officials were either obtained by the imperial examination or for the accumulation of officials, and the road to the advancement of officials was not cut off. Treat the Song people to the imperial examination, sweep the door valve, no meritorious officials want to be motivated, to the Ming Dynasty, in the early years there are officials to accumulate labor for miscellaneous officials, to later the imperial examination of the great prosperity, miscellaneous official positions have been lifted and the prisoners have been divided, the road of officials to accumulate labor for officials has been completely cut off.

This brought two problems and troubles, Emperor Taizu despised the officials, regarded them as lowly jobs, and cut off their path of advancement. However, the officials are allowed to be hereditary, which makes the officials in the central and local yamen from generation to generation, connected with each other, and the interests are connected, and the daily operation of the Ming government affairs is actually controlled by the officials of the yamen.

The officials joined hands to elevate the officials, so that the officials either ruled vertically, and the local government affairs were handed over to the officials and gentry clans, or they had to rely on the hired master, the original official affairs became private politics, and the officials had to have gray income to raise the staff to do things, the staff was not officials, and most of them came from a certain place, and the officials liked to collude with each other, the politics of this dynasty, half of them were in the officials, half were in the curtain, and the officials only controlled the general direction, and the military and political affairs were actually in the hands of the master and the officials.

In the more than 270 years of the Ming Dynasty, many officials did not even bother to do the work of tinkering, and they had neither the ability nor the motivation, because the law of placing officials was wrong from the beginning.

The officials of the government are all fat and poor, but the officials in front of them have a shabby face, their robes are worn and patched, and their bodies are extremely thin, and they look like they have been malnourished for a long time.

The military officials of the guard are also from generation to generation, in addition to the officials who command the yamen in the guard, there are some oil and water, the officials of the first thousand households are quite poor, the military field of the guard is empty, of course the officials do not have the strength to divide, and there is nothing to do with it, a thousand households so many people, in addition to thousands of households, there are thousands of households, deputy thousand households, each hundred households, try a hundred households, deputy hundred households, general flag, small flag, the upper and lower levels are clear, the profit division is clean, and it is from generation to generation to know each other's roots, The officials have no room to control government affairs at all, and their salaries are low, and they only receive a few buckets of grain every month, and in most cases they cannot receive all of them.

As far as the official in front of him is called Zhuwen, he usually goes to Min Qiande's house to help, and Min Yuanqi is busy with work here to send him over, and these guards are not easy to do.

Looking at the cautious and cautious appearance of the officials in front of him, Min Yuanqi smiled slightly, pointed to the stool in front of him, and said, "You sit down and talk, don't be restrained, just say it directly." ”

"Yes, the villain thanked the adult." Zhu Wen carefully sat down with his ass tilted, and after sitting down, he hugged his fists and said: "There are a lot of salt workers left today, and I am afraid that I will have to go more tomorrow, and there are things that everyone did not listen to the command of the craftsmen before. The villain is a little foolish and wants to report a thing or two to the adult. ”

Min Yuanqi's eyes lit up and said, "You hurry up, don't have any worries, whoever speaks here is not guilty, even if it is wrong, it doesn't matter." ”

"Yes, thank you, sir." Zhuwen actually had an idea for a long time, but he had no worries to say, but after more than ten days here, he slowly figured out Min Yuanqi's temperament, and he also knew that the real instrument in front of him was grandiose and would not sin because of his words.

Zhu Wen still thanked him first, and then said: "There are more and more people at the Yanchi construction site, and the villain thinks that it should be divided into three parts. One is divided into labor, whether it is to burn kilns to make bricks, tiles, or to build houses, dig ditches, this piece is given to a special person to manage, the big workers do not divide the mud and wood to get a share of money, a small worker, a labor one, divided into categories, can not be a bowl of water flat. There is another piece of salt pond workers, from morning to night to push the salt pond, very hard, if there is no other work, four liters of grain a day to do things, everyone is willing, after all, everyone was poor and afraid before, but now it is very different, the villain inquired in many ways, knowing that the salt in the salt pond people have been quite dissatisfied. The third is the people who dig the new salt pond, these people come from all over the hundred households, the largest number of people, but also the most difficult to manage, the villain thinks that the construction site is large and small, miscellaneous labor, the work at hand is completed one will settle one, according to the difference between large workers and small workers and miscellaneous labor, this can not be a bowl of water level. The workers of the salt pond often receive grain, but every time they produce salt, they give a little reward, and the more they produce, the more they will be rewarded. The laborer who digs the salt pond, every basket of soil he digs, receives as many things as the master instructs, and every liter of grain he raises, and receives more grain, and the grain cannot be put every day, half of it is put every few days, and those who leave without reason will not give them the rest of the grain. In this way, the power in the hands of each hundred households will be much smaller, and most of the power will be on our side. ”