Chapter 509: Hungry Pillow

The horse thieves in the nearly 40,000 rogue team were basically unable to run away because they were the focus of the attack, and even Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayun died in the melee.

The "Red Banner Army" captured nearly 2,000 horses, of which 500 could barely be counted as combat horses, and there were actually more than 20 Arab war horses.

These horses may be owned by Ming officials or large landowners, and the final result is not only a good horse for the thief to ride, but also a wife and concubine.

In order to make the 30,000 displaced people go faster, the captured carts were all used, and all the carriages in Houjiazhuang were borrowed, so that the old and weak women and children did not need to stagger, they could get into the carriage.

Huang Han has prepared to ship 2,000 steel wheels to replace the wooden wheels of the cart to increase durability and load capacity, and the wheels in the system have been upgraded to use bearings.

The steel wheels and the cowhide tires with cork, hemp and other fillings make the quality of the carriage go to a higher level, because the cowhide used as the outer tire includes the cork as the filling soaked in tung oil, which can meet some waterproof and anti-corrosion requirements.

Crossing the Yellow River into the interior of Henan will be even more arid, and there should be no inland rivers to transport grain, and horse-drawn carriages will become the main means of transportation.

In the plains, the capacity and speed of the wheelbarrow are far less than that of the two-wheeled carriage, and the gap is even greater than that of the four-wheeled carriage that is about to be assembled.

Because of the four-wheeled carriage, the horses pulling the carriage do not need to produce carrying force, but only need to form a pulling force, which is not only much more comfortable to pull the horse, but also doubling the efficiency.

However, the four-wheeled carriage has higher requirements for road conditions than the two-wheeled carriage, and most places in the interior of Henan are flat and flat, and the original official road is easier to walk, and now the road conditions are even better when encountering drought.

The vast majority of ancient roads are dirt roads, and the official roads should be paved with processed sanhe soil, which is widely used in the Ming Dynasty, and the building materials widely used in the Ming Dynasty are composed of hydrated lime, clay and fine sand, and the waterproofness is certainly not as good as cement.

Therefore, at this time, people are most afraid of rain, once several cloudy days in a row, the official road is muddy, not only stuck in the wheels, even the hooves of the horses pulling the cart will fall into the mud.

There is no such thing as an absolute bad thing, even drought has a positive side, at least the roads are hard enough for horse-drawn carriages to gallop.

Henan's state capital on the north bank of the Yellow River, near Gyeonggi, is even more affected by drought, and the many rivers that originate in the Taihang Mountains have not dried up, so as long as there are manpower, they can fight drought and maintain a certain harvest.

After crossing the Yellow River, you should see the great drought in Henan recorded in the history books, starving for thousands of miles, and not carrying a large amount of food with the army, not only saving the people from hanging upside down, but also the army may starve to death if it does not rob.

Therefore, Huang Han was ready to go deep into the interior of Henan, and the four-wheeled and two-wheeled carriages plus the wheelbarrow must have the ability to transport 10,000 stone of grain and 5,000 stone of horse material at one time.

Fighting the rogue without cavalry is basically useless, because even if he wins, he will only fight the outcasts who serve as cannon fodder, and the old bandits in the rogue will run away nine times out of ten.

Therefore, it is necessary not only to have cavalry, but also to maintain two horses, but also to ensure that the war horses are well nourished and physically strong, only in this way can they ensure that they can catch up and fight the rogue horse thieves, and can also complete the tactics of running and raiding.

Adopting the step-by-step tactics of the Ming army in the interior basically could not beat the old camp of the rogues, and they were completely following the ass of the rogues and eating ashes, wasting time, energy and food.

The "Red Banner Army" is different from the officials and soldiers in the mainland, such as Zuo Liangyu, Chen Hongfan, and the like, who do not mind following the rogues; they can kill the rogues and cheat the military exploits, they can also rob the common people and count the crimes on the heads of the rogues, and they can also negotiate with the rogues to ask for gold and silver treasures to fight a live war.

All in all, it is definitely worse for the ordinary people who have encountered the rogue to encounter the officials and the army again, and the already unsustainable life is even more unbearable.

How could Huang Han be like this? The "Red Flag Army" still has to play the image of a savior, and must do everything possible to save people and kill thieves, and the main goal is to kill the rogue horses and thieves, so it is essential to transport a large amount of grain and grass!

Families who were screened out of the 20,000 or 30,000 captives in Houjiazhuang and proved to have been thieves for less than three months and had no bloody cases will be given the status of a tun min, and they will not need to serve a prison sentence, and will be given priority to 50 acres of land for reclamation.

The rogues who had less than three murders and did not participate in the rape and murder were sentenced to labor reform and entered the coal mines, iron mines, and stone mines to work as coolies, and those who performed well were to enter the steel mill to manipulate manpower and animal power hammers.

The meals of the families who are about to become cantons are better than those of the convicted people, because the cantonments are free people and citizens, and they must fulfill their obligations and must serve as the "Red Banner Army" according to the standard of taking one out of two.

There is Ding oral labor means that the family will have a basic income of six dollars of silver and five buckets of miscellaneous grains every month, and the people who serve the labor have no opinion, and the mood of the younger 1,000 people is stable and the mental state is good, plus the employment of some Houjiazhuang handlebar style, basically the people who drive the carriage are all together.

When he arrived at Sun Liuzhuang, Zhang Yang Equipment hired some more handlebar type, so that some of the people who were sentenced to labor reform in the current car would not be enough after they got on the ship and left.

Driving a carriage also requires a certain stance technology, but also to understand livestock, belongs to technical work, ordinary people always have to learn a month or two before they can barely get on the road, practice for a year and a half, to be able to master easily.

The proportion of farmers in Daming who have large livestock is not low, and when it comes to Chongzhen year, the days are not as good as a year, resulting in too many families not being able to raise large livestock, but the technology will not be lost after selling large livestock.

Some of the old men among the homeless people happily picked up the carriage and waved the horsewhip in the air with a "crackling" sound.

After hearing that they could get six dollars of silver a month for driving a car for the "Red Flag Army" and five buckets of miscellaneous grains, they all came to the familiar propaganda team to test the chief flag officer He Shouxin, propaganda team members Luo Mingshi, Cui Jinlan, and so on, and asked for this job.

In the end, He Shouxin asked for instructions and selected three or four hundred handlebar style services with good health and good posture skills.

Therefore, in some homeless families, two men have appeared to serve the "Red Banner Army," and their families will receive one or two taels of silver and one stone of miscellaneous grain a month, and they can eat dry food several times a month, or even three meals.

The power of role models is infinite, and the propaganda team members such as He Shouxin and Luo Mingshi have continuously encountered homeless people who have been recommended by Mao Sui, and even many thieves who have been sentenced to labor reform.

Among these people were blacksmiths, carpenters, plasterers, and even craftsmen who worked with jewelry.

He Shouxin and Luo Mingshi also wrote down their skills when they perfected their personal files, so that the resettled magistrates could be targeted.

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