The banner army dispersed one after another, rubbing their arms as they went, talking and laughing as they went.

The entire hundred villages are alive, this village has a history of at least 200 years, Dahewei and Huai'anwei were set up when Taizu first built the guard, and gradually organized the military households to enrich the defense of Jiangbei.

At this time, although there were only one hundred and twenty banner troops under the entire hundred households, there were at least three hundred, plus women, children and the elderly, and it was normal for a hundred households to have six or seven hundred people, or even more than a thousand people.

When the time came, the crowd of people who went down to hoe grass and pine ground in the morning also slowly walked back, the flag army after training was very eye-catching, many young people pulled the flag army to talk and laugh, there was no lack of curiosity in the words, and when they knew that each trained flag army could receive four liters of food, many people were moved.

Although it takes two more hours of suffering, four liters of food is enough to make up for these hardships.

How can poor military households be afraid of hardship?

In the slack time, if they are not ordered to carry out the long errand of the army, they stay at home and carry the flat shoulder out of the house, and there are five small cities in Yuntiguan, but most of them are in a semi-abandoned state, and there are not many people living in the city. Only the city of 1,000 households covers an area of more than three miles, there are 1,000 households and thousands of people living in the city, and if it is a relatively prosperous town, there are also some commercial houses and shops, and some of the Ding Zhuang of each 100 households go to the city of 1,000 households to work to earn money, and they may not be able to earn four liters of grain in a hard day.

Go far to Guannan, Haizhou, Shuyang, or Huai'an Fucheng, or to Yancheng, Andong, Baoying, to the cities or prosperous towns in these places to carry the work, earn more, but it is not easy to leave the hometown and live without a fixed place?

Practicing at home, although it is hard and tired and sweaty, it is worth it to get four liters of food a day.

Moreover, he also saved two meals, and he had the righteous name of protecting his wife and children, and this time, many people were moved.

Min Yuanqi didn't care too much, some things may not be good if they are forced, but they are subtle and silent, and the effect is better.

As Qi Jiguang said, the first thing to do is to pick up soldiers, first of all, people who are brave and simple, and then they are rich and powerful, and their brains must be flexible, and they can't be too stupid. The last condition is to have high courage in martial arts, because a person must first be brave to be qualified to be a soldier, then he is physically strong, and finally he can be martial arts, martial arts can be practiced in the army, and the innate conditions of the body are difficult to make up. The most important condition is courage and character, flashy and cowardly, even if he is tall and strong and has a body of martial arts, such a soldier will never be a good soldier.

This time the training, Min Yuanqi will never be forced at the beginning, but will only use a voluntary form, and when the salt pond is repaired and the income increases, he can also recruit brave people in other hundred households to train, and after training his subordinates with a certain foundation, he will consider whether to expand the scope of training according to the actual situation.

To be honest, although Min Yuanqi feels that things are on track, he can't figure out what will happen in the future and what kind of changes the situation will have now, and what Min Yuanqi wants to do most now is to have a reliable elite army, and he also has a certain amount of self-protection in the face of large-scale rogues or rebels.

With an elite escort and then amassing wealth, this is the right order. If you accumulate wealth first and do not have a military guard, I am afraid that you will make a wedding dress for others.

Something further, Min Yuanqi hadn't thought about it yet, and at the moment, it was beyond his ability.

At two o'clock, Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong rushed over, and the two of them led three donkeys and walked over with a smile.

Min Yuanqi wanted to cover his face and sigh, but he only frowned and led his donkey over.

There were only two cows in the entire 100 households, and one of them was over 10 years old, and he had no strength to plow the land. The cow is old, but it can't be slaughtered privately, the guard is stricter than the people, the old cow is going to die of injury and illness, and the report is up, and the military attache will send someone to peel the skin and divide the meat, and the private killing will be dealt with according to the law of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the Great Ming Law, anyone who deliberately kills other people's cattle and horses will be punished with 70 rods and one and a half years in prison. and he that slaughtereth his own cattle and horses shall have a hundred rods. If the death of a cow or horse is not reported to the government and is privately opened, he will be punished with forty lashes.

Among the households, there are many cases of private killings, but there are few mules, horses, donkeys and cattle in the guards, so the control is still stricter.

In the entire 300th household, there are two cows, mules and horses, and there are a lot of chickens and ducks, but Min Yuanqi can't ride, so the only ones who can ride are the three donkeys in front of him.

Fortunately, the head that Min Yuanqi rode was relatively tall, and it was estimated that it was similar to the average shorter horse, at least Min Yuanqi rode on this head, and his feet were not to be drawn to the ground, and he also prepared a saddle, which was considered to be Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong's heart.

Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong couldn't ride, there was no saddle, their feet could almost touch the ground, and the two evil animals were still not convinced, and they screamed.

Min Yuanqi smiled bitterly and waved his hand, and said, "Let's go quickly, ten miles away." ”

It was really embarrassing for the three strong men to ride on donkeys, and along the way, many military households stood on the side of the road and saluted with crossed hands, with a strange expression on their faces.

If it weren't for Min Yuanqi, just Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong, I'm afraid there would be a lot of people laughing and making fun.

Min Yuanqi is also forced to go, he is going to the city of thousands of households, which is more than 100 households and 16 miles, although he is not tired of walking, but it is too much delay to walk from such a distance.

From the village out to the northwest direction, the city of Qianhu is not far from the Huai River, from west to east, all the way to the mouth of the sea, the south bank is scattered and staggered to sit five earth cities, time invades, the outer walls of many earth cities are potholes and uneven. After leaving the village, there is a road to the northwest that can accommodate a chicken bus, or a small two-wheeled cart.

Yuntiguan here is not set up a state county, within a radius of 100 miles there are only guards and market towns and villages, and then more than 200 miles to the south is a large area of blank area, if you look at the historical map in later generations, you will find that the whole Jiangbei is half of the territory of Jiangsu Province in later generations, only Huai'an and Yangzhou two prefectures, Xuzhou at that time was only Zhili Prefecture, Suqian is the next county of Huai'an, Haizhou is also only Zhili Prefecture of Lianyungang. In later generations, there were many counties and cities in the Yancheng area, and the huge area of more than 17,000 square kilometers in later generations, the core area of the current is only one county in Yancheng in addition to the health office, which is also under the jurisdiction of Huai'an Prefecture.

Obviously, at this time, Yancheng and the surrounding area can not be a no-man's land, Min Yuanqi estimated that at least one million people live in this area, there is no government agency, it can only be explained that the Ming Dynasty is lazy, or although the population is large, the residence is relatively scattered, and a large number of coastal places are tidal flats and saline-alkali land, the population density of people living in coastal places is not high, and the court is lazy, which has caused the current situation.

In the case of Yunti Pass, the population is at least more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, although there are only 1,000 households in Dahewei, more than 1,000 banner troops, at least 3,000 or 4,000 people, and the population of family members and children is about 10,000 to 20,000.

Coupled with a large number of residential villages and market towns, there must be a population of more than 100,000 people.

Fortunately, in this era, people believe in dealing less with the government, and the government also regards not disturbing the people as good governance, and it is not a bad thing to be far away from the county seat.

Coming out of the entrance of the hundred households, there are several forks in each road, to the city of thousands of households, there are also small roads to other hundred households, when Min Yuanqi and others walked halfway, the pedestrians gradually increased, and many people were also rushing to the city.

Most of them are ordinary banner soldiers, dirty fat jackets or ordinary shabby jackets, there are single people walking and carrying a flat burden, this is to go to the city to find work, there are many poor families around, the city is not big, and there is not much hope of successfully finding work in the city.

There are also chicken carts with luggage on them, or wives and children sitting on the left and right, most of them are going to visit relatives and friends.

There were also masters pushing grain bales, and there were also some merchants who were full of goods and went along the road to the villages to sell.

When it was almost noon, the sun was high, the weather was gradually warming, there were farmland everywhere, sparse dense forests, and passers-by with their own goals, and there was no dry sound, and people would avoid it when they saw the military attaché on a donkey passing by, or take the initiative to cross their hands and salute...... After all, seven or eight out of ten passers-by are also military households of 100 households, and when they meet military attachés, they still have to have the number of courtesies.

As we approached the city, the crowd became denser and there were more villages. These villages are not hundreds of households under the guardianship, but the surplus that breeds and gathers into villages, and the foreign households live in the city.

The reason for the formation is also very simple, Jiajing to Wanli period of the Japanese invaders, Yuntiguan here also have the Japanese invaded from Haikou, many households ran to the city of thousands of households, but also in seeking refuge, after the Japanese rebellion was pacified, the formation of the village also retained.

There are only two gates in the north and south of the city, and there are some shops outside the city, most of which are hotels and rice shops and tea sheds, etc., for guests from afar to rest their feet, and there are also some porters who carry goods to the wharf for foreign merchants. There are also mule and horse shops, providing mules, horses, donkeys and mule drivers, these shops are found all over the Ming Dynasty, but the scale here is not large.

The five cities are like a string of scattered beads, spread out on the south bank of the Huai River, and when approaching the city, Min Yuanqi watched an earthen city nearby.

It is more than three feet high, and the rammed earth city wall is overgrown with wild grass, and now it is all withered and yellow, and it looks even more bleak.

These small cities for Japanese use are less than a mile in radius, and their main function is to garrison soldiers and horses to defend against Japanese invaders, and they are spread along the banks of the Huai River, and there is one every few miles, sheltering many market towns and villages behind them.

This is similar to the military platforms and fire road piers in the north, and similar to many forts in Liaodong.

Now there are no soldiers and horses stationed, only traces left by history.