When he got up in the morning, before he washed up, Li Qiu hurriedly walked in and said, "Young master, the third master is here, and he has brought many people, who are in the mountains south of the iron mine. Say it's the mine guard you asked him to recruit. ”

Li Jing understood, but he sent Bai Yu to deliver the message before, and brought it to his grandfather and third uncle, which said that he would recruit a group of shanty people in the border area of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, and ask for young people with families. According to historical records, the name of shanty people originated in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces. In the counties of each county, there are people who live in sheds, art hemp seeds, open and fan iron, and make paper and mushrooms for the industry. These people are refugees who are trying to escape taxes, surviving in the deep mountains and old forests, life is very difficult, fighting with wild beasts all day long to survive, snakes, insects, mosquitoes, ants, centipedes, worms, and countless dangers in the deep mountains, these people dare not go down the mountain, and live outside the civilized world for generations.

The third uncle is in charge of the family's horse team, and the caravan of the Li family travels in eastern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi, western Zhejiang, and northern Fujian all year round. The main thing is to do the business of the shantymen, and to buy herbs, ores, furs, and all kinds of mountain goods from them, and to trade with them salt, grain, and cloth. This piece can bring 5,000 taels of income to the Li family every year.

And the Li family is also a familiar partner in the shantytowns. Li Jing thought for a moment. Let Li Qiu go down first, don't tell others, Li Qiu will preside over here first, put on his own stab-proof clothing and underwear, wear a short and strong suit outside, ride a black horse, and rush to the place where the third uncle said alone.

When he arrived at a place where no one was, Li Jing opened the light curtain, and the customer service sister appeared, and Li Jing directly purchased a hundred cyborg officers. Hurry with a large group of men.

When he arrived at the mouth of the valley, he saw the third uncle and some of the family's leaders waiting for him from a distance. Li Jing led people to the third uncle. The third uncle punched Li Jing's shoulder, full of strength, and Li Jingci grinned in pain, this is the way the third uncle and Li Jing are intimate. Li Jing smiled.

"According to your request, three thousand people were recruited, all of them were dragged with their families, and there were not too many people on the mountain, with the reproduction of the population, every two years, there are always some people who have to be squeezed out and go to other places to survive, this time the leaders of the various cottages simply handed over these people to me. These are young men from eighteen to twenty-five years old, and they are paid a good monthly salary of one tael of silver. My family members all went to Meihuawu to work for my Li family. Wages are calculated separately according to the market. And what you promised, to open a maritime academy on Nanao Island, their children under the age of 15 can be enrolled for free. If he dies in battle, his family will arrange work, and his children will be raised and educated by the Li family. After becoming an adult, the Li family arranged work. ”

"There is no problem with this, I will do what I say, the third uncle will gather the people, and I will say a few words to them" Li Jing and the third uncle said.

Soon a large number of people poured out of the valley, and in the open space in front of the iron mine, the leaders of the Li family's soldiers drove them to stand in line.

The third uncle stood on a high place and looked at these yellow-skinned shantytown boys, most of whom were less than twenty years old. Li Jing asked the third uncle, what did I say. They can understand, the third uncle said, you can basically understand the official language.

"Everyone pay attention, my name is Li Jing, the word Zhengyi, I am the eldest grandson of the Li family in Meihuawu, you are the soldiers I recruited. I am the town guard of Nanao Town, Zhengqipin, and from today onwards, you will be officers and soldiers. But I'm not going to turn you into soldiers, you're recruits. Your family members are all workers hired by the Li family. Your whole family will be under the wing of the Li family, and no one will ask you to collect taxes, and no one will dare to send you conscription. You have three cents of silver for a day of service, and your family members have a day's worth of silver for the last day's work. No one can bully you from now on. “

"Your children can read and write for free, and your family can have money to treat their illnesses, so you don't have to hide in the mountains and forests and wait for death. I have only one requirement, that the subordinates obey the superiors and that all actions be under command. Those who disobey military orders are to be flogged, clubbed, confined, hanged, and beheaded. The imperial court has not paid military salaries to Nanao Town for more than ten years. Since ancient times, it is natural for soldiers to fight with whoever they eat, so you must remember that you are not soldiers of the imperial court, but my Li Jing's family. You are paid by your householders. Do you understand?"

There was a howl below, "I understand" The Li family is worthy of them, solved all their worries, and gave such a generous salary. Poor people also know good and bad, if you don't give Li Jing a good life, it really can't be said.

Li Jing waved his hand at the 100 biochemical officers, each of these officers went down, each picked 30 people, just one platoon of troops, each took them away, and began to set up tents, build barracks, dig toilets, drain ditches, flatten the ground with stone grinders, and then began to organize non-commissioned soldiers according to the infantry drill code bought on the platform.

The coexistence of the army and the soldier was a unique military system in the Ming Dynasty. The army refers to the army of the guard. Generally called a certain army, it must be the guard army of a certain place. Bing refers to recruitment, and soldiers are under the jurisdiction of the battalion. Called so-and-so battalion. Those called so-and-so soldiers, such as the Mao soldiers in Henan, are all temporarily recruited soldiers.

The military subordinate guard is under the jurisdiction of the small banner, the general banner, the hundred households, the thousand households, the commander of the guard, the commander of the capital, and the governor's office of the five armies. The military and officials of the guard are hereditary, and only the governors of the five armies and the capital are not hereditary, and they are the current officials, and they are selected by the officials of the hereditary guard and the martial arts. The military and official military registrations of the guards, with their families, live in the same place, and are passed down from generation to generation, basically no longer changing. The station of each guard post is fixed, the number of sergeants is fixed, and there are also regulations on the establishment of generals. In short, under the system of guards, power is decentralized, and soldiers and generals are separated. But after Jingtai, the power of the military department rose, especially after the change of the civil fort, the nobles died collectively, the reserve teenager has not yet grown up, and the strength of the civil officials has risen sharply (there have always been conspiracy theorists in the past dynasties, thinking that the change of the civil fort was planned by the civilian officials), and took the opportunity to seize the military power, and the military department was still the governor of military affairs, seized the power of the five prefectures, and the officials of the five prefectures were changed to false titles. The military power of the guard house fell into the hands of civilian officials, who loved money and took the opportunity to wantonly squeeze military households, completely corrupting the guard system.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the army of the guard army fled very largely, and according to the statistics of the Ministry of War in September of the second year of orthodoxy, there were 1.2 million fugitive soldiers from the guard station in the world, equivalent to about half of the country's rated soldiers. As for Zhengde, according to Wang Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, it is estimated that the number of escapees from the guard has accounted for eight or nine out of ten. Most of the fugitives were strong, and those who did not flee were all weak, so it is not difficult to understand that the guards had no combat effectiveness.

The battalion is subordinate to the commander, the captain, the sentinel, the general, the garrison, the commander, the guerrilla, the general, the deputy commander-in-chief, and the general soldier, and is directly under the military department. Soldiers are generally not hereditary, with the exception of those who have been converted from the guard army to the soldier. There is no regulation on the registration of soldiers, the period of military service is not long, and they generally do not serve for life. The battalion soldiers do not follow their families, and they are closer to the modern military system.

There is no rank of battalion officers, and some are official products under the system of the guard, with no fixed number and no hereditary. The battalion soldiers and the battalion generals are accustomed to each other, and there is no need to be appointed by the imperial court in wartime, and they are directly led by the general deputy to the expedition. After the relative increase in the power of the general, the soldiers can be recruited by the generals themselves, and the callers have a close relationship with the callees, and even when the main general changes, the soldiers will disperse.