Qingzhou Mansion in spring is also dry and rainless, whether it is bandits, ordinary people, officers and soldiers, the life is not easy. Although the four mountains of Qingzhou have failed repeatedly, they still have developed slightly under the correct leadership of Song Jiang, and they have to be carefully calculated and publicized as bandits in these years. Every time he went out to rob, Song Jiang would always throw some worthless objects to the nearby people, and the people got benefits, so they naturally thought that they had met the king of the Heavenly Way, and some even went directly to the mountain. Of course, Qin Ming, Huang Xin, and with the help of Gongsun Sheng, they also repeatedly hit the bandits, sometimes annihilating a hundred, sometimes annihilating two hundred. It's just that the years have not been peaceful, the peasants are miserable, and there are still people who are willing to fall into the grass.

After all, Qin Ming is an officer of the regular army, the training is clear-sighted, the prestige is also high, the military law is strict and the order is unified, but the training consumes a lot, fortunately, Liu Gao knows how to do it, and occasionally provides some material help, Qin Ming's life is also passable, but the training is not an overnight thing, it takes at least three months to train a sparse recruit into a team that can fight and run, and there is a short period of peace between the officers and soldiers and the bandits.

Gongsun Sheng also temporarily bid farewell to Qin Ming and started other business activities and recruitment. It is divided into two kinds, one is a variety of short-term workers, long-term factory workers, to work in Yuncheng, the salary is not high, every month converted into food is a hundred catties, but the food and shelter, the welfare is OK, this is the favorite of the people of Qingzhou, but the number of recruits is limited, not you can go if you want to. The second is to recruit long-term workers who go to Heilong Island to farm. The annual salary is opened, and the food and housing are given to one acre of land, or two thousand catties of grain, and the landless tenants, and the farmers who have suffered enough will choose to go here, although the vast island does not know where it is, but at least it will not starve to death.

The most attractive thing is that no matter whether you choose to have grain or land, as long as you sign up for the selection, you will be given 500 catties of coarse grain at home, the so-called coarse grain refers to sorghum, Tianwang rice and the like, although it can be eaten, but it is not as delicious as rice, millet, white flour and other fine grains.

Twenty miles south of Qingzhou City, here is a village called Wujiagou, most of the villagers in the village are surnamed Wu, although they are all surnamed Wu, but the difference is thousands of miles. The richest person in the village is called Wu Dashanren, who has 2,000 acres of good land and dozens of cattle. Most of the people in the village were tenants of his family. Wu Damao is one of them, Wu Damao is twenty years old this year, there is an old mother and father at home, and there is a fifteen-year-old brother below. leased ten acres of land and a cow in Wu Dashan's house. In the years when the wind and rain are good, you can earn three or four thousand catties of grain, but there are also many rents and taxes, at least 1,500 catties have to be paid, and there is not much left. I can make do with my birthday in a good year, but once I encounter a famine, such as this year, from the beginning of February to the middle of March, not a drop of rain has fallen. Looking at the growth of the crops in the field, Wu Damao wanted to cry without tears, as the song sang, the red sun was scorching like fire, and the fields and rice were half scorched. The farmer's heart is like soup boiling, and the prince and grandson shake the fan.

Don't look at Wu Dashan's name as a good man, when you really pay the rent, no one can be missing.

Seeing this year's situation, I am afraid that I will not even have enough food left to eat after paying the rent, Wu Damao was ruthless, stomped his feet, went to the neighboring village, made an appointment with three or five good companions, and left, and when he came back in the evening, a carriage came.

Father Wu saw a carriage coming from the door of his house and asked, "Da Mao, where did this carriage come from?" ”

"Dad, let's unload the car first, I'll talk about this later." Wu Damao said.

Daddy Wu didn't want to ask too much, and unloaded the five hundred catties of grain from the car. Then the carriage was sent away, and Daddy Wu asked with a straight face: "Tell me, what is the matter, although the family is poor, but you can't do things that lack morality." ”

Wu Damao said: "This year's drought is getting worse day by day, I'm afraid there will be nothing left after paying the rent, I found a guy who went to work overseas, originally it was 2,000 catties of grain a year, but after careful questioning, I knew that I would carpenter work, and promised to give an extra 1,000 catties, 3,000 catties of grain a year." This is the first 500 catties, and there is a settling-in allowance of seven yuan. "Not everyone has the settling-in allowance of seven money, mainly because Wu Damao knows how to carpenter, and in the past, he will arrange to be a craftsman in the army, which belongs to the technical soldiers.

Wu Damao took out the money and gave it to his father, Daddy Wu took the money, it was heavy, and the money was not much, and he could pay a cow in ordinary years, but where had the farmers seen so much money. Daddy Wu burst into tears and said, "Baby, you don't know if you will come back the year after tomorrow when you go to work overseas, the road is far away, and I don't know when we will be able to meet." ”

Wu Damao said with a smile: "It turns out that I also thought that I couldn't come back for many years, and I thought that working overseas was terrible, but in fact, it was very close, and it would take half a month to make a boat, and when I did it for a year, I could come back when I was on vacation." There were nearby workers, and they said, "It's good there." ”

"Oh, is that true?" Daddy Wu obviously didn't believe it.

"There are people in neighboring villages who are working overseas and just go home to visit relatives, if you don't believe it, you can ask."

Father Wu naturally didn't believe it, so he followed Wu Damao to the neighboring village to ask.

This man said: "Don't worry at all, like I don't have any skills, and I don't know any other crafts, just farming, I go to work in the field at dawn in the morning, and I come back for breakfast after a short while." In the morning, if it is hot, you can go to the shade of the tree to take a nap, there is no need to say about the meal, three meals a day are full, and you can eat meat and fish three or five times a month. The climate there is good, there is little drought, and the land is fertile. The most important thing is that the treatment is good, if you don't want money, you will be given three acres of land in the third to fourth year. ”

Father Wu said: "Is it true? ”

"Of course it's true, it's not just three acres, if your family is willing to go over, or marry a daughter-in-law or have children, everyone is also three acres of land. This land is called the grain field. From the moment of birth the land is divided, but when the man is old and dies, the land will be taken back. Of course, there are also conditions that the waste land cannot be abandoned, and the waste land will be automatically recovered after two years. ”

Daddy Wu was also full of confidence after hearing this, and on the way back, Daddy Wu said: "Da Mao, you can do a good job when you get there, if you can really divide the land, then our whole family will go over, this Qingzhou is not willing to stay, the government is too ruthless, collect taxes to death." ”

Wu Damao said: "Dad, don't worry, I will do a good job." ”

Just when Gongsun Sheng was busy recruiting people, Heilong Island, thousands of miles away, ushered in a large number of immigrants.

When the huge fleet arrived at Whitefish Harbor, the people on the shore were dumbfounded, they had never seen so many large ships before. The first batch is Liu Tang, Wen Zhongrong, Yuye, and Guo Sheng. There were very few soldiers, only two hundred cavalry, five hundred infantry. But there are as many as 10,000 strong men, among whom there are farmers and other craftsmen.

In March, the snow on Heilong Island has not yet melted, and the weather is still cold. Lu Fang, Yan Kuohai, Yan Huaiyuan and others greeted Liu Tang and others at the port.

It's been more than half a year, and this time I finally saw my own people, Liu Tang strode off the pedal and came over and said, "Brother Lu Fang has worked hard, everything is fine." ”

Lu Fangdao: "It's all okay, it's normal to develop together." ”

Liu Tang said: "Let me introduce to you, you know Wen Zhongrong and Xuye, but this one named Guo Sheng, who also uses a halberd, is a new general accepted by my brother, and he is not convinced by your martial arts and wants to challenge you." ”

Lu Fang looked at Guo Sheng, good guy, this person is really similar to his height and physique, Guo Sheng is also looking at Lu Fang, seeing that Lu Fang has a killing aura, obviously he has been fighting a lot during this time.

Lu Fangdao: "Accompany you at any time." ”

Liu Tang said: "The order for this Chao regimental training is for me to form the Black Dragon Island Reclamation Corps, and to train a team of about 5,000 people, with Wen Zhongrong, Xuye, Lu Fang, and Guo Sheng as my lieutenants. This is a military order, you see. ”

Lu Fang took the order and looked at it, and immediately said, "Yes." ”

Whether it is qualifications or skills, Lu Fang still admires Liu Tang very much, and it is also very suitable to be Liu Tang's deputy general.

The first priority was not to fight the war, but to assist Wang Lun and other general administrators in relocating immigrants. It's a fertile land, and it's also a barren land. There was no house, so everyone set up temporary tents, and then took soil to burn bricks, and quarried stones to burn lime. Large-scale construction is in full swing.

The place was so large that it was easy to accommodate 350,000 people. It took seven or eight days to build the temporary resettlement villages, and this was the end of the work. Liu Tang began to reorganize the army, and after discussion, a separate cavalry team was formed, with a scale of five hundred cavalry, and the captains Lu Fang and Guo Sheng were deputies. The cavalry used bows and arrows as their main weapons, and gradually moved from lancers to cavalry archers.

Liu Tang said: "The first batch of immigrants in Heilongde is to settle in the central part of the country, where the terrain is flat and mainly plains, so cavalry is the preferred type of troops, and the strength of cavalry combat effectiveness is directly related to whether we can stand here." Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, do you two have the confidence to lead a good team. ”

Lu Fangdao: "Have confidence." Five hundred well-trained cavalry were enough to crisscross the center. ”

Guo Sheng is not as vigorous as he was at the beginning, and he has fought with Lu Fang, which is worse than Lu Fang, mainly because of Lu Fang's continuous learning during this time.

Guo Sheng said: "I will also work hard." ”

Liu Tang looked at Yan Kuohai again and said, "Yan Kuohai, considering that you are a seaside fisherman, and you are a cavalry or infantryman, would you like to temporarily let you form a small fleet?" ”

Yan Kuohai said: "Is there a big warship?" ”

Liu Tang shook his head and said, "Not for the time being, but I can fight for ten centipede warships, each of which is equipped with a tiger squat cannon and four Lianfa giant crossbows, and the combat effectiveness is also quite strong." The 200-strong warship team is under your command, and the treatment is the same as that of the capital, of course, this is only a temporary arrangement, and the military department will be reused in a few years. ”

Yan Kuohai said: "Everything obeys orders." ”

Arrangements have been made on land and at sea. Liu Tang personally formed a new infantry, and the infantry was mainly archers, artillery, pikemen, etc.

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