Chapter Twenty-Three: Pulling Up the Ranks
After solving the identity problem in three days, what should I do next? The first priority, of course, is to recruit soldiers.
Huang Yizhou, wearing the official clothes of 100 households, personally went out to announce the conditions for recruiting family soldiers, and Jiulitai Village responded positively.
On that day, more than eighty percent of the young adults between the ages of 15 and 40 came to the village, but there were not many people in Jiulitai Village, and there were only 100 young adults.
With the degree of trust of the villagers in Huang Yizhou, you can recruit soldiers with a general banner in Jiulitai, Huang Sheng knows that time is in a hurry, and he is currently facing war, and it is absolutely impossible to train troops in Tuntian now, what is needed now is a Huijiazi who can pull out and fight with the Houjin army.
In the end, the enthusiastic young man was persuaded to return home, and only twelve were chosen.
They are all members of the family who often follow Huang Yizhou to dance with guns and sticks, there are four people who are not bad in equestrian skills, and they can ride with a little practice, and the remaining eight people can also ride horses, but I am afraid that it will not be able to achieve overnight skills in riding and fighting.
Among the twelve, Yang Hanwei, Yang Guoen, Yang Danian, Huang Sifang, and Huang Feng are the most outstanding.
Because they not only know how to ride a gun and a horse, they all have hunting bows at home, often shoot prey to support their families, and their archery skills are completely up to the standard of becoming archers.
There are also three people who are also very good, they are Huang Jian, Yang Jian, and Yang Guobing, although they can't shoot arrows, they all have family martial arts, and they have two strokes in their hands.
There are also four people who are Huang Chunsheng, Huang Nongsheng, Yang Gu, and Yang Jiahe, all of whom have guns and sticks, and they are tall and big, and all of them are powerful.
Jiulitai actually has only two surnames, three adults have the surname Huang, and the rest are surnamed Yang.
In the winter, young and middle-aged people have nothing to do, and I heard that Huang Yizhou became an official and wanted to recruit a family member, and offered a good price of one or two silver a month plus five buckets of miscellaneous grains, and the young and middle-aged people in the whole Zhuangzi naturally flocked to it.
It's a pity that the final result is close to one out of ten, but after seeing clearly who was selected, the unsuccessful descendants are convinced, because everyone is a fellow villager, and they don't see each other when they look up, and they know the details of each other.
Obviously, what Lord Huang wants is to be able to fight heroes who dare to fight and excel in martial arts, it seems that what Huang Han said is true, and it is possible to fight with the Houjin Army within a month.
At this time, there is no time to slowly train young people who have no combat skills, and wait until May next year, if the Huang family's father and son do not die in battle, a large number of hometown children will be recruited as family members at that time.
The chosen people are honored, they know that the Houjin army plundered Zunhua, and the surrounding people all suffered, and the best choice for the troubled times is to take up arms and serve as soldiers near their hometown to protect the people.
When Huang Han spoke on behalf of the general flag officer, he frankly told everyone that when he fought with the Houjin army, he would definitely die, but there was one rule, as long as Huang Yizhou was alive, every brother who died in the war would receive a pension of thirty taels of silver.
But how do you save up for your pension and the food you need? There is no good way at the moment, only to rely on the battlefield capture.
Therefore, all seizures were returned to the public government, which became the first rule and basic regulation when the army was formed.
The second military discipline is the key to whether or not it can develop and grow: "Die of starvation, and do not rob the people." ”
Hanzi has a kind temperament, Song Pengfei is a good boy, and the twelve people recruited are also their own people, they have martial arts and do not bully others, they take it for granted that it is natural not to rob, not to rape women, and not to kill people for no reason.
The small team was opened, there were 16 people below Huangyi Prefecture, the general flag of 100 households, 25 war horses, 3 horses, and every soldier would have armor and equipment.
Among them, Hanzi, Yang Hanwei, Huang Feng and other seven people not only have to equip them with fine iron armor, but also cotton armor and Ming army mandarin duck battle jackets, and their defense can be compared with Jiannu vests.
Because more than half of the armor needed to be repaired, all the family members wore the Ming army's standard battle jackets for drills.
The uniform can really bring people a sense of identity, and more than a dozen ordinary people immediately seem to have changed after changing into mandarin duck battle jackets.
All the family members stood in a military posture in high spirits, which aroused the envy of the onlookers.
There is righteousness, people and horses also have, the next step is to solve the needs of survival, people eat horses and chew, the consumption of grain and grass is a bottomless pit,
Huang Han asked his father to go out to Wulitai Village, about seven miles away from Jiulitai, to borrow grain and grass, where there was a large family, and the family never lacked grain and grass.
Putting Yinzi money is almost every big family in the Ming Dynasty to generate income, but some people are benevolent and righteous, and they don't force the small people to a dead end.
Wulitai is much richer than Jiulitai, because the acres of land here are all owned by the Gao family and do not have to pay taxes.
The old lady of the Gao family is the second grade of the Ming Dynasty, and there are so many protégés, his home is not far from Yongping Mansion City in Luanzhou, and the land under his name is probably not too exaggerated to describe it as ten thousand hectares.
Huang Yizhou went to Wulitai Gaojia Manor to borrow 500 stone of wheat and 300 stone of horse material, and used the ancestral fifteen acres of land as collateral for one year, and then paid an additional 30% as interest after repaying the principal.
With such a trivial loan, there is no need to see the eldest master of the Gao family or even the younger master, of course, there is no master of the Gao family in the Gao family manor in Wulitai.
A steward in the manor directly bargained for the matter, and the IOU indicated that the collateral was still the Huang family's ancestral fifteen land, but Huang Yizhou only borrowed 400 stone wheat and 250 stone horse feed, and the interest was still 30%.
All the big cattle and carts in Jiulitai were dispatched, and it took five trips to transport the grain and horse feed.
Huangyizhou has staked all the ancestral acres of land for development, and his ambition is not small, but it is inevitable that he will be a little disappointed when he returns home.
Huang Han obviously had five or six thousand taels of silver, but he encouraged his father to mortgage the land and borrow as much grain and grass as possible, in fact, he was just preparing to play with the white wolf with empty gloves.
The Gao family in Luanzhou is naturally the famous retired Liaodong Jingluo Gaodi, who will soon take a large family to escape when Jiannu attacks Luanzhou, and finally was imprisoned by the imperial court.
The law of the Ming Dynasty, all the officials in a city have the responsibility to defend the land, even the retired old man who returns to his hometown is no exception, so Gao Di, the second rank of the main officer, was planted in this matter.
Huang Han was very suspicious that the Gao family steward in Wulitai Zhuangzi would also run away early, if he didn't dare to leave the Gao family's property and run away, what would the final outcome be?
In the end, who will come to the Huang family with an IOU to ask for food and grass? It was said that the land property was used as collateral, which was written on paper, and the title deed was still in the hands of the Huang Zhang family if the Huang family did not breach the contract.
In this era, people's credibility is completely different, there is no need for agreements, and most verbal promises are final, and basically there will be no rogue behavior.
Besides, with the power of the Gao family, I really don't worry about the appearance of people who default on their debts when there are documents in black and white.