"Chen De, and Li Tiansheng, Tianyang, Tianfu...... This time it's mostly up to you. Min Yuanqi smiled and looked at everyone, a stone work, a tile work, and a clay work, no matter how many people these three cooperated, no matter how huge the building complex could be built.

However, if you want to build a palace and erect a beam, you have to cooperate with the woodworkers.

The height, diameter, and how to cooperate with the installation of the pillars of the palace also have detailed regulations on the construction of the French style, and these craftsmen may not know many words, but the various data and rules within their professional scope are quite clear and understandable.

Of course, if you can really organize the construction of large-scale palaces, at least you are a well-known master, and there are even craftsmen who are high-ranking officials during the Jiajing period, because the standard is extremely high, and it is very within the reach of people.

The three craftsmen surnamed Li are of the same lineage, but they are not brothers, but the descendants of a family of craftsmen who mainly work in clay and stone, they are all about five feet tall, thin but not weak, especially near the arms and chest, all of which have obvious muscle bulges.

Although these craftsmen were malnourished, their bodies were noticeably stronger and more powerful than ordinary people due to their long hours of hard work.

Of course, this is also overdrawing their vitality, and their lifespan will be shorter than that of ordinary people.

"Tomorrow someone will come and help you fix your house, help you set up the pots, fix the pits, and bring you some firewood and food." Min Yuanqi stood solemnly and said to many craftsmen: "I came here to meet you in person and say a few words." I need you to do what I want to do, so I will treat you well, you must sleep and eat well, otherwise it will delay my big business. Not only do you have this house to live in, but I will also give each family four liters of rice every day, and another liter of oil and salt every month. As long as I do the things I have assigned to do well, what I say will not be discounted! Rice, a grain is a lot of yours, you have to live warmly, and there will be no banner army who dares to bully you at will, I know that you can't eat or dress well elsewhere, and you are often bullied, in my place, as long as you do things with peace of mind, the rest don't have to worry. ”

After Min Yuanqi finished speaking, there was no imaginary warm scene, and many craftsmen behaved quite woodenly, and they didn't seem to understand what Min Yuanqi meant.

Only among the dilapidated houses could there be faint sounds of surprise.

For these artisan households, the normal income is four buckets of grain a month, and Min Yuanqi's treatment for them has tripled, four liters a day, which is enough for these craftsmen and their families to eat.

But that is, they are full, so most of the craftsmen are still very wooden, but judging from the performance of their families, Min Yuanqi knows that the treatment he gives is enough.

Of course, Min Yuanqi will not give the craftsmen higher treatment, one is to see their performance, and the other is to find craftsmen to save money, and the few hundred taels of silver given by Zhu Wanchun are barely enough to do things.

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In the evening, Min Yuanqi was on the steps of the official hall, sweating profusely.

The same was true of the more than 30 people in the courtyard, and their robes were soaked with sweat.

There are not many people watching the excitement outside, and the people in the hundred households are not surprised, and now even other hundred households know that Min Yuanqi is distributing food and training, and there are many people in the city of the thousand households who know it.

Some people looked at it as a joke and thought that Min Yuanqi was stupid and ridiculous, and grinned when he mentioned it.

Some people think that training is not bad, and that rebellious soldiers, rogues, pirates, and salt lords are not easy to get along with, and it is also a good thing to be able to train a soldier.

More people were indifferent with a trace of concern, they wanted to know if other 100 households also trained, whether they would also receive four liters of grain one day, but unfortunately the other 100 households were all silent.

Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi of Baihu have all come to see, and the two middle-aged people squatted under the eaves of the official hall to smoke dry cigarettes, and after watching it for a long time, they didn't say much, but their attitude towards Min Yuanqi was more affectionate.

At this time, as long as you are not stupid, you know that you need to master some force. It's just that some people understand, but they are really powerless.

When the sun set, Min Yuanqi stood in front of everyone, waved his hand and said, "Okay, that's it today." ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a sound of exhalation in the courtyard.

In a few days, Min Yuanqi's life was quite regular.

In the morning, he took people to run, practice physical fitness, and practice boxing, and the flag army that followed the practice rose to more than 30 people, and even Han Sen participated.

This general banner went from resisting to doubting and then accepting Min Yuanqi, and the non-stop training for several days made Han Sen and others see Min Yuanqi's determination, and more importantly, his faithfulness.

Four litres of food per person is not less than one heit, and this is quite important.

Even Han Sen's general banner is actually mainly for four liters of grain, Min Yuanqi's family's grain tun is getting smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye, dozens of people are consuming more than one stone of grain a day even if it is only four liters a day, plus the food for craftsmen, so a little grain is indeed far from enough.

Fortunately, there was still money, Min Yuanjin and Liang Shifa were ordered to go to Yancheng to buy grain, considering that they had to use a lot of small labor, and the grain had to be bought at least more than 100 stones.

There are tributaries of the Guan River and the Lixia River to Yancheng, most of the way is the water journey, and the small half has to rely on the foot to carry the driver, the distance is a lot farther, but it is not safe to go to Shanyang and Dongyang and Huai'an, Yang Shida is not a good man and a woman, even the boat of a thousand households dare to stop, if you meet Min Yuanjin and others, I am afraid that it will be light, most of them will unload their hands and legs, and most of the salt lords will act like this, the heart is not black, and the hands are not ruthless can not do Yang Shida's status.

A single trip to Yancheng is more than 200 miles, more than half a water journey, a small half a land journey, and it takes five or six days to go back and forth.

Min Yuanqi waved his hand, and everyone, including Han Sen, gasped.

The training of the hundred household officials is getting more and more ruthless, and every time it is almost close to the limit of physical fitness.

Min Yuanqi's training, in addition to learning from Qi Jiguang, also has some experience in later generations. How to stand and how to practice physical fitness, the experience of later generations is also tempered and proven to be more effective, in addition to improving the function of the human body, it can also better protect itself and prevent others from being injured.

Min Yuanqi is not an expert, but he went to the gym with the crowd, received military training in college, and had some superficial combination of theory and practice, fortunately, the flag army in front of him is quite obedient, this is a group of bitter people who have been fried into a scorched yellow by life over and over again, everyone is a belly of bitter water, they are quite silent during training, and there is no complaint, because they have received food, and they feel that they need to obey orders, and the identity of Min Yuanqi's hundred household officials is only a part of the authority, and what really works is the insignificant four-liter food.

Everyone obeys orders, like a group of silent cattle, Min Yuanqi is the cattle herder, and everyone listens to his shouts and acts.

Running laps, physical exercises, a variety of hand-to-hand training movements, and then practicing splitting and hanging boxing, from solo training to fighting each other.

Then there is the training of spears and swordsmanship, the training of these cold weapons, Min Yuanqi himself has no experience, everything is trained according to the method of the new book of discipline.

On the fifth day, Min Yuanqi picked six sword players, and lowered the shields, and began to order everyone to practice the mandarin duck formation in the evening.

This kind of small array was originally invented by Qi Jiguang for small-scale battles and urban street battles, and the team officers were in the front, and there were originally wolf wedgers, but Min Yuanqi did not have wolf wedges here, so he added two pikemen with zhang eight.

The spears of the Ming army are mostly based on five-foot guns, and the battlefield action is to stab, and the five-foot gun is said to be a long spear, which is actually more conducive to stabbing at close range, because the gun body is shorter, and it is also easy to do actions such as picking, racking, and gridding.

When Min Yuanqi was training, he found that if a single five-foot gun was the mainstay, then it would be weaker in long-range attacks, and it was no wonder that Qi Jiguang would add a wolf lance and a longer spear.

The Ming army's spear also has a cone gun, a three-eyed gun, a flame gun, a line gun, a hook and sickle gun, a protrusion gun and a grabbing gun, the grabbing gun and the abduction gun are extremely heavy, that is, the standard spear of the Qi family army in addition to the five-foot gun, there is also a longer one-foot eight-foot gun, the head of this gun weighs four taels, the head of the gun is shaped like a duck's beak, open two edges, obviously, this kind of spear is designed to be two-sided blade is not used to poke, but to use its length, if necessary, you can swing and directly smash the enemy with the head of the gun.

Hundreds, thousands of pikemen, holding spears more than five meters long, smashed at the enemy in unison, this is what Qi Jiguang said about the public's single-mindedness, he poked me and I poked, and I smashed him back.

As for the mandarin duck formation, it is used in small-scale street battles and battles in dense places in the southern water network, a team has a captain, two wolf players, two knife players, four pikemen, two boring handles, and finally an array of firemen, if necessary, you can come forward with short soldiers to engage the enemy, and defend against the enemy from the flank attack together with the boring handle.

This kind of long and short array is quite reasonable, whether it is attack or defense is quite sharp and tight, if the two small formations together is a double talent array, and then the formation is a small three-material array, and then with the cavalry archers reach the number of about 1,000 people is the big three-material array.

Qi Jiajun is to use these kinds of quite practical arrays and the Japanese to play a quite amazing battle loss ratio, in the late period of the war, often the Qi army lost dozens of people and hundreds of people can be beheaded thousands, the Japanese are a small number of real Japanese with the southern Han pirates, they are indeed quite fierce and brave, there are many Japanese personal martial arts are quite good, but in front of the well-trained Qi family army, the two sides are actually fighting an asymmetrical war, the battle loss ratio is quite asymmetrical.

The experience of Min Yuanqi's later generations could not be applied to the battlefield dominated by cold weapons, and in this era, even Europe could not completely engage with muskets, and the pure musket combat method of queuing up to shoot was at least a hundred years before it became mainstream. In the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming army was equipped with a large number of firearms, and a large number of artillery pieces were cast during the Chongzhen period, the main combat method was mainly cold weapons. At this time, Min Yuanqi gradually understood that the Ming army had taken a crooked path, and as far as he knew, there were not a few qualified muskets in the entire guard, not even qualified assault muskets.

There are many firearms in the battalion, but the variety is overflowing, the quality is extremely poor, the battalion lacks training, and the battlefield looks spectacular, but as long as you understand the tactics of the Ming army, it is easy to be targeted by the enemy.

The range is short, the power is small, the training is poor, the quality is poor, and the Ming army with these firearms gave up the strong crossbow and bow and arrow, the qualified archers of the Ming army are quite rare, and the situation at the beginning of the founding of the country is very different, firearms are not good, melee combat is not good, armor and weapons are scarce, and the archers are seriously insufficient, close combat and long combat are not successful, no wonder every battle must be defeated.