Chapter 19 First Guests
After recruits join the army, in addition to practicing simple array formation changes and assassination protection techniques, they also need to know the sound of orders such as banners in the army. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the whole army must follow the orders of the commander-in-chief, if you want to go forward, if you want to retreat, if you want to retreat, if you want to attack, if you want to defend, and the whole army can really become an army. Otherwise, it can only be regarded as a rabble, and it is vulnerable.
After forming an army, you also need to understand the way of mountain and river geography, the method of camping, the art of marching into battle, the protection of grain transportation and many other military affairs. If a soldier is not trained, he cannot easily send troops to fight. If you force yourself to send troops, you will only end up with the annihilation of the whole army.
If a soldier knows how to fight, he is not a veteran and cannot be the main general. Nowadays, many scholars are just familiar with a few military books, and they are pretentious, thinking that they are the descendants of the Taigong, Sun Wu Linfan, and leading the troops to fight can be invincible. However, the commander-in-chief of an army must not only know the art of commanding in battle, but also know how to plan and recognize the enemy, and the people's hearts will go against the principle of morale and rise. It is also necessary to have a perseverance, indifference to life and death, and indomitable heart. Otherwise, don't be good.
After Qiu Yi heard this, he was greatly impressed, but he didn't expect that he was just a simple and simple old soldier in the central district of the county, and he could understand so many things after only 20 years of military experience. It seems that Gao District is also a person with a heart, but unfortunately because of the family, he can't get a high position. Otherwise, with his talent, even being a county lieutenant is more than enough.
Qiu Yi was secretly happy that Gao District had such a talent, and he must not be let go. Ten stones in a month is really a good deal. It's just that Qiu Rui only set a time for hiring Gao District for one month, and if Qiu Yi wants to continue to keep him, he needs to make his own money.
Qiu Yi, as a military candidate, if according to the regulations of the imperial court, is a first-class officer of a large county and county captain with 400 stone per year, he can actually receive 600 stone of Yulu, an average of about 50 stone per month. However, this 1,200 army was not the regular establishment of the imperial court, and the Yulu was greatly reduced and reduced, and it was only about 100 stone that could only be received. On average, you can actually receive about 16 stone per month. If you want to keep the high area with this, Yulu is just right, and there is still some leftover.
When there was nothing to do that day, Qiu Yi went from the most basic method of military training to the later way of general, and asked the high district for advice. At the end of the day, he learned a lot, Qiu Yi felt fulfilled, and admired Gao District's talents more and more. At night, Qiu Yi had a night talk with Gao Ou Bing Candle, and it was not until late at night that the consultation came to an end temporarily.
Before leaving, Qiu Yi casually chatted with Gao District and asked, "I don't know who else is in the family of the head of the high school?" ”
Gao District seemed to think for a while, and said with some sadness: "A plague many years ago caused the loss of most of my relatives in my family. Last year's plague caused all the remaining relatives to be lost. There was no one but a nine-year-old child. ”
Qiu Yi apologized and said, "It's me who is wrong, I mentioned your sadness." There are still children to raise under the knees of higher education...... I don't know how much money is paid every month when the county is recruiting soldiers? ”
Gao Qu shook his head and said: "It's nothing, although my relatives have been lost, there are still children, and I have been able to accept it for more than a year." This till was worth four stone of food per month plus four hundred denarii. Originally, he wanted to retire this year and return to his hometown to cultivate his 30 acres of land. It's a pity that after the two plagues, many relatives were mourned, and in order to bury them, all the fields at home were sold. Therefore, Gao had to work as a recruiter in the county for another ten years, and when my kid was raised as an adult, and when he could also be a recruiter to support his family, I would be able to retire with peace of mind. ”
The Zhu family is engaged in grain and pottery, and Qiu Yi, as the son-in-law of the Zhu family, also knows some things about grain prices and ordinary prices. Relatively speaking, the recruits in the county are higher than the salaries of the small officials in the county, which is enough to support the daily life of several people in the county. It's just that the military rules in the army are strict, and it is not as good as the petty officials who can embezzle and accept bribes from top to bottom, and their lives are worse than those of the petty officials.
So he said: "Four hundred yuan, four or five years ago you might have been able to buy four stone of grain, but since last year, the price of grain has increased to two hundred yuan and one stone." This year, there was a rebellion of the Yellow Turban Moth and Thieves, and I heard that the chaos had spread all over the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and the price of grain had increased to 300 yuan and one stone. In the future, I am afraid that there will be some growth, and it is more likely that there will be a price but no market. Four stones of food and four hundred yuan of money, just to eat, a child is enough, but if you want to cultivate Ling'er to learn literature and martial arts into a pillar, or re-purchase your family's land, I'm afraid it's not enough, right? ”
Gao Qu scratched his sideburns and some pale hair, and said with a simple smile: "I never thought that my own children could become much of a talent, as long as they can be like me, they can be a recruiter." It's just that it is indeed difficult to redeem my family's thirty acres of land as soon as possible, otherwise Qiu Sima would have to summon a veteran soldier among the county soldiers that day, and I would not have fought with others to win this position. It's just that chaos is coming, and it is difficult to cultivate land with land, so only by quelling the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Moth thieves as soon as possible can we live safely. ”
Qiu Yi asked tentatively: "Is the head of the higher education only willing to stay in this song for a month, can you stay longer?" It's best to stay for more than two years. ”
Gao Ou said happily: "Qiu Junhou is still willing to hire Gao in a month?" Or is it ten stones? No, no, it doesn't take ten stones, but eight stones. ”
Qiu Yi laughed when he heard this: "I have sixteen stone of Yulu every month, anyway, no one wants me to support it, so I will give you ten stone of Yulu every month, okay?" ”
Gao District rubbed his hands happily, seeing that the world was about to be in chaos, I don't know how many years it will take to calm down? In times of turmoil, grain and cloth are better than five baht. Seeing that the five baht money in his hand was becoming less and less valuable, and he couldn't buy anything, he didn't want Qiu Yi to continue to hire himself with ten stones.
The current ten stone grain is more valuable than the twenty or thirty stone grain in the good year. And all the food I eat in the army is paid by the public, and I usually have no use for it. As long as you work for two years, you will have 240 stone of grain, and at least 70,000 yuan per stone, and maybe more. The best medium field is about 4,000 yuan, and more than 70,000 yuan can already redeem nearly 20 acres of land.
Gao Ou said: "How this makes it, how does this make it." ”
Qiu Yi smiled: "How can this not be done. If I don't have to leave some surplus food to be useful, it doesn't hurt to give it all to you. ”
Gao District couldn't help but be overjoyed, and wondered if he would follow Qiu Yi to do errands for a few more years, so he tried to bow down and bowed deeply: "Gao District is here to meet the lord." ”
When Qiu Yi heard the word "lord", his heart became dazed for a while. The term lord is the title given to the monarch by his subordinates; the honorific title of a servant to his master; It is also the honorific title of the guest to the hostess.
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the "scholar" class has risen, and the nobles and those in power often have thousands of guests under their doors, forming an atmosphere. The nobles were either resourceful or talented, and the nobles used the "corporals" to compete for power, deal with political affairs, and run for orders to expand their power.
During the Warring States Period, Meng Weijun of Qi, Xinling Jun of Wei, Pingyuan Jun of Zhao, and Shenjun of Chu, the four princes of the Warring States Period were all famous for their many monks.
Qiu Yi, as the son-in-law of the Zhu family, has always been the person who sends people under the fence. Although he was accompanied by two servants, he was a long-term servant who had grown up together since childhood, and Qiu Yi never regarded the two of them as servants, but relatives. But I never thought that there would be such a day, and I would be able to support the guests and summon my subordinates.
Facing the first guest under his command, Qiu Yixi said: "Okay, good, good, you need to worry a lot about the performance of the soldiers in this song." Although this song is a guard song, it can't be too different from other songs. ”
Gao District arched his hand and said: "It is the lord, and in the future, the district will seriously perform the soldiers for the lord, not inferior to other songs, and become an army as soon as possible." ”
Qiu Yi also bowed and said: "I'm not good at military affairs, so I'll leave everything to you." ”
Gao District responded: "The district will live up to the trust of the lord." ”
Qiu Yi discussed with Gao District that after a month, troops might be sent to fight, and the daily drills should continue to be strengthened, and they should not be done according to the usual regulations. However, Gao District was worried that Sergeant Qu might complain, and Qiu Yi had his own way to deal with it.
Most of the soldiers are from the people of extreme poverty, and it is a great blessing to have enough food to eat every day, and they can't eat any hard work, and they are not old soldiers and ruffians, so they don't do it if they practice too much.
The soldiers complained, that is, although there was enough food, there was no oil and water in it. There are only two meals and four catties of rations a day, just eating wild vegetables and corn porridge, it is good that you usually don't practice much, but when you have a lot of training, you won't be hungry.
Qiu Yiruo wanted the soldiers to increase the amount of training without complaining, unless it was an extra meal every day, so that the soldiers would not have to starve. It's just that a meal should have at least two catties of corn, and 200 people need 100 stone of corn in a month. Qiu Yi has no money to spare, but he can't use his private wealth to support his soldiers.
However, Qiu Yi often walks in the countryside, but he knows that the villagers often raise pigs. Each pig weighs four or five hundred catties, but the price is very cheap, and the price of a pig is only about six hundred yuan. And the amount of meat and oil and water of the pig is quite large, which is just used to make up for the lack of oil and water of the soldiers.
Not all places are cheap, this is only for the county of Runan, some counties in the north have a price of about 1,800 yuan. The main reason for this is that there are many middle and middle families in Runan County. The people of the world are very particular about eating, and there are clouds in "Zhou Li: Tianguan Tomb Zai": fishy, shameful and inedible. The so-called "fishy" is not the smell of meat, but the dots in the meat, which refers to the dots of flesh like rice grains in the pork; The so-called "shame" refers to the smell of oil on the pig's body. Therefore, the value of the pig is the lowest among the six animals.
The clans in Runan County know a lot about poetry and books, so most of them are disgusted with pigs, and never eat pigs, and the meat they often eat is mainly sheep. Xu Shen, the grandfather of Xu Pu, the most noble family in the Zhaoling clan and the most low-key patriarch of the Xu clan, once wrote "Shuo Wen Jie Zi", which explained the meaning of the word sheep: "Beautiful, sweet." From sheep to large. The sheep are fed by the six owners. "Therefore, the nobles eat sheep, the untouchables eat pigs, and the meat is only eaten by the lowest lowly people, so the meat is very cheap in Runan County.
The sum of Qiu Yi's Yulu and Lu Ping and Chengqi's Yulu this month is about 30 stones, which is enough to exchange for fifteen pigs. Every two days, a 4 or 500 catties of domestic pigs are eaten, and the soldiers have no complaints about the meals compared to the soldiers of other songs, even if they have more hours of practice.