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"Alright, today's drill is over." Min Yuanqi waved his hand and ordered everyone to place the spears in their hands and place them neatly one by one.

It's a psychological suggestion that weapons are extremely precious and vital to everyone's life, and they need to be taken seriously.

Such an attitude towards weapons, and training and practicing martial arts and training formations, naturally must be taken extremely seriously.

"Tomorrow morning, let's continue." Min Yuanqi looked at a few small flag officers and ordered, "Each one has brought a pocket, right?" Four liters per person, don't give less...... Don't give more, and you can't do it with one. ”

The joke of the hundred household officials was not too funny, but everyone cooperated and laughed.

When everyone was laughing, they were staring at the side compartment on the left side of the official hall compound, where was the granary where the grain was stored, and when the door was pushed in, there was a large grain hoard made of bamboo, which was poured out of wheat, and the rest of the houses were stacked with grain, and there were also brown rice and black beans that were beaten.

A total of more than 20 stone grains, more than 20,000 catties, for an ordinary military household, this is a wealth that cannot be saved in a lifetime.

But for the really rich, more than 20 stone grains are only worth about ten taels of silver, and I am afraid that it is not enough for even one meal.

Several small flag officials are responsible for moving grain, unpacking and putting grain, the tools are ready-made, wooden buckets, and liters are quite standard, as long as they do not learn from the county's yacha, they deliberately kick when collecting grain, and the kick that falls down is considered to be lost, and normally there will be no error.

All the flag soldiers, Xie Xiang, Guo Shangyi, Xu Wenhuan and others were holding cloth pockets, and they were standing in front of the wing room with heavy breathing.

They came to train, in a sense, there is nothing to say, everyone knows that such a year is quite dangerous, even if there are no rogues or officers and soldiers coming, pirates and bandits alone have a very real threat.

Over the years, because it was a coastal area, small-scale pirate harassment has not stopped at all. It's just that this piece of sea is barren and poor, the pirates were originally mixed in the Denglai area, and later the imperial court because of the support of Dongjiang Town and the great development of the water division, the main force of the water division is in Tianjin and Dengzhou, the northern pirate force is not strong, a large number of people were driven south, and some went to the Yunti Pass area to harass...... This is also an unavoidable thing, the north is not like the coastal area of Guangzhou, Fujian, the local interests are big, but it is easy to appear control of the pirates, such as Li Dan and Zheng Zhilong, most of the pirates here in Yunti Pass are a mess of scattered sand, at most a gang of more than 1,000 people is good.

Yunti Pass is one of the important outlets for shipping in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is also the shipping artery for the people in Sulu to go to sea in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is not surprising that there are many pirates and bandits in the last days of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Even with such vigilance, if there is no benefit of half a penny, these people who come to train will definitely be mercilessly ridiculed.

It's useless to tie up a hundred households this year, the benefits of the big head have long been divided up by the high-level of the guard, and the power of the hundred households is limited, and there is really no reward to take out anything, and the punishment is also responsible for the pacification officer under the command of Wei, and the hundred households have no direct power.

Only when he received the four liters of food in front of him, the sweat of today's day was a real reward.

A smile appeared on the face of every flag soldier, including the junior flag officers.

These men are black and thin, they can endure hardships and are not afraid of sweat, they have been working hard since childhood, it is difficult for later generations to imagine their hard life, from childhood to adulthood, marrying children, they have been so bitter from generation to generation, this kind of suffering is like a red-hot iron, giving them a lot of marks, even in modern society hundreds of years later, this gene is also passed on.

The grain distributed was the autumn grain that was harvested last autumn, and the rice did not hull, so it was easier to preserve.

In this year, every household has a tool to remove the shell, but it takes a little effort.

The rice husk exudes a peculiar fragrance, and each flag army comes with cloth bags, four liters of grain is indeed not much, and an inconspicuous oval shape is propped up at the bottom of the cloth bag, and it is not too heavy to carry in the hand.

But even such a little brown rice that has not been shelled still moved all the flag soldiers present.

Four liters of rice a day, ten days is four buckets, and a month is more than one stone.

As long as you come to the 100 official halls and practice for two hours a day, you will have more food than one stone a month?

Ninety percent of the land planted by these banner soldiers was planted for the high-ranking military attachés, and only about one percent of the harvest belonged to them, planting more than a dozen acres of land, harvesting fifty or sixty stone of grain in one season, and only five or six stone fell into their own hands, plus miscellaneous grains, rice and beans, and there could be more than ten stone of grain for the whole family to eat in a year.

Under the premise of lack of meat, eggs and oils, the intake of staple foods alone is a serious nutritional deficiency. A sturdy man in this year can only be considered full if he eats five or six catties of rice at one meal, and only ten catties of rice can be eaten at three meals a day to consume a day's work. Even for ordinary children, it is not difficult to eat a bowl full of basins in later generations, nor is it unimaginable. However, the grain of ten or so stones is definitely not enough to eat and consume, and each family has to exchange some cash to buy some necessary daily necessities.

The needle and thread sent by the merchant must be bought, otherwise how can the clothes be repaired if they are torn? Farm tools should be bought and repaired, otherwise how to plow? Even if the small-scale peasant economy makes their own clothes and hats, there are always some items that need to be exchanged for food before they can be bought, so that the meager income of the military households is even more difficult to maintain.

In Min Yuanqi's view, almost all military households are yellow-faced and thin, thin and capable, women are also generally thin, children are malnourished, slow development, the average height of this village is about 1.6 meters for men, about 1.5 meters for women, Min Yuanqi and other people from a family of military officers The height can be described as standing out among the crowd, and it can be seen at a glance that the identity is different from the ordinary flag army.

Although men have to practice every day and consume more, they can still save half of it for their parents, wives and children at home, even if they can be told to eat an extra liter of food.

Xie Xiang held the cloth bag, his eyes were first suspicious, then his eyes were red, and he almost burst into tears.

Many flag troops are similar, there are still some people waiting outside to watch, when the food is distributed, the onlookers make envious voices, which also sets off the atmosphere, many flag soldiers are quite excited, but also extremely moved.

When everyone received the food they deserved, they were not too moved, after all, the income from frying salt is their own hard work, and it is also the normal income of the year...... In this 100-household village, children can be heard crying every night, it is the spring famine season, adults can't eat enough to grit their teeth and endure, but children will cry, especially lactating young children, women can't eat enough milk, water is insufficient, and there is no rice porridge to fill the children's hunger, there will be children crying in the middle of the night every day.

These children who can't eat enough, even if they recite the Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of the Earth 10,000 times, it is useless.

The food in front of him is an additional gift, and the hundred households think of this place, so that everyone practices martial arts in order to improve themselves, and as a result, they also send their own food to everyone, which is very respectful.

Although most of the flag soldiers don't know a single big word, they still understand the reason, Min Yuanqi's move to distribute food tonight is actually not far-reaching, and the intention is relatively simple, but the effect is beyond Min Yuanqi's expectations.

"The little Xie Xiang has thanked more than 100 households, and he will definitely take his life to repay the kindness of 100 households."

"The little Guo Shangyi has thanked more than 100 households, and he will definitely serve wholeheartedly from now on."

"The little Xu Wenhuan has thanked more than 100 households, and he must practice hard ...... after that"

One by one, the flag soldiers came to thank them, their faces were full of gratitude, and many people's eyes were red, obviously quite excited.

Min Yuanqi smiled and gave these flag soldiers half a salute, the effect of the food distribution tonight was so good, it made him feel very good.

There are some flag soldiers, although they shout and shout with the drill, but they also sweat, but they didn't pay much attention and effort to the drill this day, for example, Xu Wenhuan is, this flag army has a clever face, if there is no four liters of food, how can such a person really work?

The person in front of him is not a famous general, but he is also a living person, Min Yuanqi still nodded slightly to everyone, and he realized something in his heart.

Everyone lined up one by one to receive the grain, and then thanked Min Yuanqi one by one, after carrying the grain out, there were already many family members of the flag army who heard the news, and the outside of the official hall and the whole village were soon boiling, people were walking on the road, chatting and laughing while walking, and people's mood became excellent...... Although there is a big war going on in the far north, the capital division is in danger, and the emperor is in danger, what does this have to do with everyone? As long as the water and soil are protected, so that parents, wives and children are safe, if they can be warmed and fed, then there is nothing else to ask for.

Min Yuanqi's state of mind has also become extremely good, and he can only use everything he can use at the moment, this village, these flag troops, and his identity as a hundred household officials.

Looking back, his grandfather and father, in addition to raising a small number of family members, had never had the initiative to concentrate on training and distributing food to the banner army.

Fortunately, it is now the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you are in the Jiajing or Wanli years, I am afraid that I will be regarded as a heretic by my superiors, or even considered to have different ambitions and plot against him.

Training troops to be strong in order to protect oneself is an excuse that even if he goes to the Governor's Office of the Chinese Army in Nanjing, no one will think that what he has done is wrong.

Under the starry sky, Min Yuanqi faintly felt that although he came from the next generation, after more than ten days of precipitation and thinking, as well as his experience and practice his own ideas, he had faintly pushed open a door in this era, and there was a great scenery behind the door, but he still needed to go step by step, and he could not be complacent, nor could he slack off.

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