After sending away Liu Lanchang, a political officer in eastern Sichuan, and Li Zhanchun, a staff general, Yang Lin glared at Qian Bangxin and said: "Qian Jianjun, a qualified supervisor is not only to ensure that the generals accurately carry out the orders of the court and superiors, but also to consider the headquarters from the perspective of the headquarters, including military morale, morale, logistics, grain and grass, etc.

It has been more than three months since my arrival at our headquarters, and apart from a few cases that I have reluctantly broken off at my behest, what useful contributions have you made to the morale, logistics, and grain and grass of the army? ”

Qian Bangqi was quite annoyed, his face turned pale, he took off his hat and said: "Lord Yang Ruzhen Yang, in the past few months, the old man has tried the corruption case of the former Shunqing prefect Shi Jinchen under the instruction of the adult, and raised 100,000 taels of silver for the army.

Under the instruction of the adults, the old man rectified the Guang'an Thousand Households, not only urging the officials of the guard to pay 20,000 quintals of grain and grass, but also adding 8,000 quintals of grain and grass every year in the future.

My lord, the old man admits that he is a little reluctant to do these things, but our loyal army does not lack this kind of food and grass. ”

Yang Lin laughed, walked in front of Qian Bangqi and asked, "Qian Jianjun, tell me, although the official is young, has the official done these things wrong?"

At least in these troubled times, should it be done? ”

Qian Bangqi felt shocked in his heart, especially when he saw that although the other party was full of smiles, his two eyes were staring at him, beads of sweat were left one by one, his voice was a little hoarse, and he replied: "If it is in a peaceful and prosperous world, it is absolutely wrong for adults to do this." But now are troubled times, and it is not impossible for adults to do so. ”

He picked up his hat, fiddled with it twice, put it back on Qian Bangxin's head, and sighed: "This government doesn't pity this bit of grain and grass, it's really because these grains and grass have already been arranged."

The government plans to recruit the local tyrants at the end of the year and the rogue next year, but in order to do this, the loyal army will inevitably more than double in size, and by then we will not have more than enough food, but no food at all.

Lord Qian, you are the supervisor of the army, the supervisor is responsible for military discipline, army morale, and army food, we have long agreed that you should be responsible for these things, you say, if there is no food in the army in the future, how can you ask me to ask you for the guilt? ”

Qian Bangxin was shocked, wiped the beads of sweat from his face and said, "My lord, this, why didn't you say this earlier?" ”

Yang Lin also looked quite surprised, and looked at everyone: "You guys, you are really a civil official, why didn't you notice such an obvious thing?"

We've been working together for a few months, and although I haven't said a lot of things explicitly, you should be aware of it. ”

Qian Bangxin, Fan Wenguang, Zhao Sixuan and others shook their heads again and again, indicating that they didn't know.

Yang Lin sighed and said: "Three adults, why did the literati lead the troops in the past, it was because the literati's strategic thinking was clearer, and because fighting a war was not only about courage and perseverance, but also about money and food." ”

Seeing this, the three of them looked at each other and confessed one after another.

At this time, Liu Liangchang, a political officer in eastern Sichuan, and Li Zhanchun, a staff general, returned to Chongqing and reported to Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general, about borrowing grain.

Hearing Yang Lin say that his 50,000 people were just a rabble, Zeng Ying was furious, and pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife to the left and right: "This Yang Lin is ungrateful, if it weren't for the old man to report to the governor of the four provinces, Lord Wang Yingxiong, that he had occupied Shunqing Mansion, how could he, a small Qianzong, be in charge of one side and be promoted to the prefect, a general or something?" ”

Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, was also quite annoyed, he was the governor of Sichuan, and the other party was just a prefect general of unknown origin, and now he actually did something of public disobedience.

This kind of thing, no matter which Shangguan does, does not allow it.

What's more, this time he had to transfer 10,000 loads of grain and grass, and spent a lot of effort to allocate 5,000 loads, but he also had to capture Hezhou by the Ming army and take it himself.

Zeng Ying, on the other hand, was full of confidence in attacking Hezhou, not to mention anything else, his troops had just defeated Zhang Wenxiu's tens of thousands of troops, and now the morale of all departments was booming.

In addition, everyone is more envious of the life of the loyal and righteous army, although the Ming army has just defeated the Great Western Army and occupied Chongqing, but the damage in various places is serious, the people's livelihood is hard, and many wealthy families are not willing to pay taxes at all, everyone lives a hard life.

And Yang Lin's life is extremely luxurious, I heard that he eats tiger meat every once in a while, eats bear's paws or something, not to mention that there is chaos now, even in the peaceful and prosperous world, everyone is not so rich. (I hit it myself)

Everyone secretly made up their minds to capture Hezhou first, and after the two armies bordered, they would use force to force the loyal army to borrow more grain and borrow more silver taels.

Not to mention how Zeng Ying actively dispatched troops and prepared to attack Hezhou, just say that the situation in Shunqing Mansion has taken a sharp turn for the worse in the past two days.

In late July, after three months of study, the cadets of the first officer training camp completed training in ordnance, tactics, terrain, and human body.

On this day, Yang Lin came to the training base at the foot of the West Mountain early, and after the three drums, Yang Lin met with the students who had completed the graduation one by one, and distributed the loyal sword as a sword.

For the generals who have performed well in the course of study, such as squadron leaders Wang Zhiyao and Yang Guangtai, more than 10 outstanding cadets will be appointed as staff officers or transferred to the guard battalion to take up posts for future promotion.

For other trainees, they generally return to their original battalions, or take their original units, or reorganize their brigades and squadrons to be promoted again in the future.

As the saying goes, the three armies are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find, which is the case in peaceful and prosperous times, and even more so in the chaotic times of war and chaos.

This time, more than 100 grassroots officers have been trained, and through three months of study, they have learned and trained some methods of leading troops to fight wars, and they will become the backbone of the army in the future.

With these backbones, it is much easier to form an army.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Lin also decided to expand the scale of the Loyal and Righteous Army, expanding the escort battalion to 5 infantry brigades, and the other infantry battalions to 4 infantry battalions, of which one brigade is a supplementary brigade.

The cavalry battalion was truly formed and expanded to four brigades, and Yang Lin planned to improve the quality of middle and lower-level officers through the officer training camp, and after a winter of training, and then after the whole army was expanded to more than 10,000 people next year (the second year of Hongguang), he would lead his troops to go out to expel Zhang Xianzhong.

The autumn harvest is imminent, and in addition to the Shunqing Prefecture to get a bumper harvest, in order to prevent the surrounding local rioters from snatching grain and protecting the territory and the people, these newly graduated students are first dispatched to various places to train security brigades and control local security forces to support the army's operations.

Yang Lin decided to postpone the expansion time until after the autumn harvest, and after determining the rectification plan, he immediately devoted himself to the autumn harvest activities.

In this era, due to the sparse population (less than 10% of the previous life, even if you deduct the towns, less than 20%), and the lack of large-scale promotion of high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, the land cultivated by the people was relatively flat.

It's still morning, and the fog in the mountains has not completely cleared, while in the plains there are endless rice fields, and it is harvest season, and the rice fields that used to be green are now golden.

The rice is heavy, pressed low ears of rice, like fruits, looking at it from a distance, it is particularly attractive.

The old farmer around him pulled an ear of rice from time to time, carefully counted how many grains of grain were on an ear of rice, and looked at the full grain, the old farmer did not crack his wrinkled black face, and bluntly said that this year's wind and rain were smooth, and the harvest was quite rare.

In the past few years, natural disasters have continued, and from time to time there are heavy floods, that is, drought, the weather is quite cold, and the rice in the sky is sparse and pulled, less than six or seven percent of the normal year.

This year, the weather has improved, there are no major disasters, and the weather is not as abnormal as in previous years, and the rice in this field has probably recovered to eighty or ninety percent of the harvest year.

Listening to the old peasants nagging on the side, I was shocked in my heart, in my previous life, I said that during the Xiaoice River period, from the last years of Wanli to the last years of Chongzhen, the Xiaoice River period, which lasted more than 50 years, was in great drought in northern Shaanxi, everyone had nothing to eat, and the displaced people rose everywhere, and finally caused a peasant uprising (or liukou).

Of course, the old farmers don't know what the Xiaoice River period is, the old farmers nag about the harvest in the field, just as this field has an area of more than three acres, and the parents said that they can harvest more than ten loads of rice, but since they have understood things, they have never exceeded nine loads, and most years are more than seven or eight loads.

(The yield of paddy fields is high, in the early years of the Republic of China, the yield of paddy fields per mu was more than four quintals of grain.)

In the late 70s and early 80s, when the fields were divided, the hometown divided the paddy fields according to four quintals of grain and one acre)

Don't underestimate these two or three loads of grain, which is equivalent to the rations of many families of four for two or three months, without these grains, the whole livelihood has become very difficult.

The old farmer seems quite proud, he has twenty-five acres, including ten acres of paddy fields, fifteen acres of dry land, belongs to the well-off level in the village, when he was young, the wind and rain were smooth, the family also made wine, when he was small, he went out to herd cattle, and his grandfather often poured a small glass of wine, which could keep out the cold.

(Grandpa always said that before liberation, the family had 20 acres of paddy fields, and could harvest hundreds of loads of grain a year, and did not hire people to farm, and was rated as a middle peasant during the land reform.

The cultivated area of the Ming Dynasty was 700 million mu, and the population of the Ming Dynasty was conservatively estimated to be between 100 million and 140 million. ）

But when he grew up, although he tended to this field all day and night, the harvest was limited, and the officials made it difficult in every way, and there were many local taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the days were tight, and every July and August when the green and yellow were not harvested, he only drank gruel all day long.

The old farmer just counted the number of rice grains in the field, not only is it much fuller than in previous years, but also one or two more than in previous years, and the old farmer is full of confidence, and this year it may exceed nine quintals.

In addition to the harvest in the field, the old farmers are also particularly concerned about the field endowment, in previous years, each mu of paddy field was full of 2 yuan of silver, which is worth 50 or 60 catties of grain, and the dry land also had 1 yuan of silver, which is equivalent to more than 20 catties of wheat.

At present, it is written that every traffic artery will give 6 buckets of rice (1 liter of rice) per mu of fertile land, and if the township and village are apportioned, it will still be the same as in previous years, which is more than double that of the past.

In order to avoid paying taxes, many people in the past registered their fields in the names of the gentry in order to avoid paying taxes by the imperial court.

Seeing the excited appearance of the old peasant, Yang Lin explained again and again, and in the end, he bluntly said that it was the failure of local governance, and all the burden was put on the ordinary people, so that everyone couldn't stand it, and finally became a homeless person and a rogue.

Seeing Yang Lin's fierce criticism of the past policies, Qian Bangzhi's face turned blue, and he endured it several times, and finally did not say anything against it.

Of course, today to the farmland, not only to see the local harvest, but to test the new threshing machine, last year felt that everyone threshing hard, Yang Lin hopes to reduce the burden of the people through the threshing machine.

In his previous life, he was born in a farmer's family, and he also threshed grain when he was a child, and he vaguely remembered the appearance of the threshing machine, and drew the drawings as early as ten months ago, so that the craftsmen tried to make them according to the drawings and appearances, but many things, from the idea to the actual implementation still take time.

It was half a month ago that the trial production of the tenth sample was completed, and it was tested in half a barrel, and it was still presentable, and it was used in the sky today.

The master of the blacksmith workshop was installing, and when he saw Yang Lin bending down and taking off his boots, pulling up his pants and preparing to go to the field, everyone admonished him repeatedly.

The magistrate is the lord of the blue sky, the magistrate travels to open the way, and the surrounding people who beat gongs and drums avoid it, Yang Lin is the prefect, how can he do this kind of farm work?

Yang Lin smiled and pushed everyone away: "Everyone, why are the homeless people everywhere and the gangsters are rampant in the township, it is because many of our officials keep saying that they are farmers and businessmen, and they say that it is a big deal to go home and farm.

In fact, he thinks that he is superior to others and looks down on peasant households and workers.

As you know, every year the Son of Heaven will personally farm, and he will find old farmers to help with farm tools, and all the cabinet scholars have a decent kind of farming.

In Xia Tian as a magistrate, he should be an example for everyone, and he will threw grain with everyone today, everyone says okay? ”

How dare everyone sweep Yang Lin's excitement, they all applauded loudly, Qian Bangji, Fan Wenguang, Zhao Sixuan and others had to pull up their pants and work in the fields.