"Lord Qiqi, the work in Tuntian is not going well."

Qi Wen's face turned red, obviously very guilty.

"Oh? Let's talk about it. ”

Ning Xiu didn't show the slightest hint of anger, but said lightly.

"My lord, these rabbit cubs think that adults are going to engage in military households, so they are very resistant, and they don't have a hard time working. It has been ten days now, and the entire island has not even been measured. ”

"Can you explain to them the county's incentives?"

"My subordinates have told them. Including those who are pacesetters in production. ”

Qi Wen shook his head and said, "But they probably don't believe it, and they are not willing to work hard to survey and reclaim." ”

Ning Xiu frowned when he heard this. It didn't look like what he had envisioned.

When he recruited these soldiers, these people must have thought that they were battalion soldiers who ate food like the Qi family's army. And that was true in the beginning.

But Ning Xiu obviously hoped that these soldiers could reclaim the land and combine it.

After all, it is still a bit stressful for him to raise thousands of soldiers who are out of work.

The most important reason is that Ning Xiu wants to turn Wuzhushan Island into his base, which requires a large amount of land to be reclaimed.

"I'll talk to them myself."

After speaking, Ning Xiu flicked his sleeves and walked towards the barracks.

He went to the Xuanwu camp first.

The instructors and management officers of the Xuanwu battalion, and even the officers of the rank of fire chief hurriedly rushed outside the barracks to greet them.

Ning Xiu nodded and motioned for them to gather the soldiers.

The officers hurriedly blew their horns, and soon the soldiers were assembled.

"My lord, please speak!"

Ning Xiu cleared his throat and said, "You have worked hard. This official came to Wuzhushan Island to see how you are training. You should know that this official organized and trained this village soldier to guard against the pirates and exterminate the bandits. And to do this, it will not take a day. How can you do without food supply for a long time? We need to have our own tuntian! This Wuzhushan Island is our home, and of course we should cultivate the fields and grow crops. The official now declares that as much land you have cultivated on this island, all of it will belong to you! ”

The land belongs to you!

This sentence sounded a little deafening to the soldiers.

They are all a little dizzy, which land belongs to them?

Even if it is a military household, it is only renting land, and the land belongs to the Ming Dynasty!

In the Wanli Dynasty, the military household system could no longer collapse, and the military households became tenant farmers of officers, with no freedom at all.

Against this backdrop, the soldiers on Wuzhushan Island naturally did not want to become the second in the military household. It is not difficult to understand that Ning Xianzun had a cold and perfunctory attitude towards the Tuntian policy.

But when Ning Xiu said those words impassionedly, they found out that they were wrong, completely wrong!

Where does Lord Ning want them to be tenant farmers, Lord Ning wants to give them land! A land of their own!

Wu Ergou swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked boldly, "My lord, do you mean that we don't need to change to military status?" ”

Most of the soldiers recruited by Ning Xiu this time were all registered as civilians, and they were naturally reluctant to change their household registration to lowly military registration.

"Of course."

Ning Xiu swore and said: "You can all keep your hometown, you can get the same monthly military salary, and you can also get your own land." ”

Hiss! Everyone gasped.

There is such a good thing in the world!

"My lord, you are truly our reborn parent!"

Wu Ergou's mind was lively, he pounced, fell to his knees and kowtowed.

"Your Excellency is wise! Adults are our reborn parents! ”

Everyone did the same, kneeling down and kowtowing.

Ning Xiu raised his hand and said, "Get up." This county is a county parent official. If you can't even cherish the people, what face will you wear this official uniform. ”

Qi Wen on the side was stunned and couldn't say a word.

Obediently, adults are officials in the end, and the level of speaking is not ordinary.

Why is it that when he says the same thing, the soldiers are resistant, and the adults bow down when they say it?

Maybe that's the personality charm of adults.

Ning Xiu left the barracks, and Qi Wen immediately came up and said, "The county is not only Wenqu Xing, but also Wuqu Xing." Such a person who is both civil and military, except for Qi Shuai, is the only adult. ”

Ning Xiu accepted all of Qi Wen's sycophants, and said with a smile: "You have become flamboyant now." ”

Qi Wen stiffened his neck and said: "The subordinates are all from the bottom of their hearts. ”

"Okay, I'm doing a good start, and then I'll have to keep an eye on it. After all, cultivating a field is hard work. I'm afraid that after a long time, the soldiers will be slack. ”

Qi Wen immediately patted his chest and said, "My lord, rest assured, the rest of the things are covered by his subordinates." The subordinates guarantee to complete the Tuntian project on schedule. ”

Ning Xiu nodded and said, "I heard that there is a copper mountain on this Wuzhu Mountain Island, you send someone to see if you can mine it." ”

"My lord, this shouldn't be fake. I heard from one of the captured pirates that there was indeed a copper mountain on this island. However, the pirates have not mined it. ”

Ning Xiuzhi is a great joy. He said in his heart that Haikou is Haikou, and it is just a matter of farming and production. Even if there is a copper mountain nearby, it will not be mined.

Although the copper mountain is not comparable to the gold and silver mountains, it is also endless wealth.

Especially now in the Ming Dynasty, copper coins are legal currency, and the main raw material of copper coins is copper.

Ning Xiu immediately had a plan in his heart.

He is now barely able to feed more than a thousand soldiers by walking through the sea and tuntian. But it will definitely not be enough after the expansion of the army in the future.

In addition to throttling, it is also necessary to open source. What's faster than making money from counterfeiting?

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the copper coin regulations were copper eight lead two. But the reality is that it is very difficult to achieve, and it would be nice to have copper six lead four.

Some are even inferior to copper, four, lead, and six. This kind of bad money is circulating on a large scale in the market, and although the people resist it, they have to use it.

If Ning Xiu can achieve seven copper and three leads, even if copper is six and lead four, then he can successfully enter the market and be accepted by the people.

The most important thing is that this is basically a no-brainer business.

Copper ore is readily available, and mining is.

Ning Xiu spent some labor at most, and he didn't even have to pay his salary, because it was already included in the monthly money for recruits.

The only problem is how to get the money into the market safely.

"I'm going to mine copper to mint coins."

Qi Wen can also be regarded as Ning Xiu's confidant, so Ning Xiu explained to him directly.

"My lord, don't do it!"

Who knew that Qi Wen showed a frightened expression, and then fell to his knees with a thud and said, "My lord must not do such a thing as raiding the family and destroying the clan." Adults don't think about themselves, they have to think about Mrs. and Qi Shuai. ”

Ning Xiu frowned, he really didn't expect Qi Wen's reaction to be so strong. It seems that there is still a big difference between his thinking and that of the ancients.

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