On the ninth day of July, it has been nearly a month since the end of the war, and the Zhejiang Martial Arts School has also regained its popularity early. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The expansion of the army, the expansion of the occupied areas, and the replenishment of vacancies all require a large number of officers to replenish, and according to the regulations of the Zhejiang Ming Army, it is okay to follow the power, but if the officers want to obtain the corresponding rank, they must always complete the corresponding studies of the martial arts school. However, for those officers, what is really terrible in the martial arts academy is not the courses of each branch of the military, nor the courses of other arms, but the most basic literacy courses.

"Left, Jinya, right, Xiangya. The gold, one of the five elements, the sword you use on weekdays is gold, and the folded color issued by the Hou Ye is also counted in the category of gold; Xiangzhi takes the meaning of the package. This left and right together is the inlay, the inlay of the red flag, the inlay of the white flag, the inlay of the blue flag, the inlay of the yellow flag, are all this inlay, very vivid, just like the flag of the Tartar, the outer strip of cloth wraps the cloth inside. Every stroke must be memorized, and this is a necessary word to be used on the battlefield. ”

As he spoke, Mr. Shen, who was in charge of teaching literacy, picked up a charcoal pen and slowly wrote the inlay on the whiteboard, one stroke at a time, so that the officers below could remember it clearly.

The officers below were still wary of literacy classes, but for some reason, this time when they returned, the gentleman surnamed Shen seemed to be less difficult to speak, and the teaching of literacy was much more vivid than before.

Just like this inlay, a few old students who have not completed this period of study still remember that before the four provincial capitals were suppressed, Mr. Shen just wrote the words directly, and did not explain, not to mention that this is the word to be used in at least four flags in the Eight Banners of the Tartars, so dry and let it be memorized, and those who can't remember it will be punished if they can't remember it in the inspection the next day. And now, not only is it more detailed than before, but it also fills in an explanation, but the gritted teeth with pleasure still makes people feel a little puzzled.

"This Mr. Shen is a native of Ningbo, farming and reading heirlooms, his parents died early, and his wife depended on each other, and later Hangzhou garrisoned Eight Banners stationed in Ningbo, an officer robbed his wife to be a concubine, and the local government did not dare to take care of it, so he ran to Siming Mountain to join the army. However, this person is a sour talent, no more than Chief Quartermaster Gu and Chief Judge Qi who came to vote more than a month earlier than him, so Hou Ye found him a teaching career. ”

The person who spoke was Liu Cheng, the last time Jinhua defended the city, he led a group of recruits to defend the intersection north of Tongyuan Gate, after the battle, there were many wounds on his body, but they were all relatively light flesh wounds, and he was able to walk around in the ground this month.

After listening to Liu Cheng's introduction, Ni Liangxu couldn't help but nodded. In these years, not to mention the officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, even the lawless things of the officers of the Green Battalion are not uncommon, when he was on the Luocheng Rock, a man who went up the mountain not only had his wife and daughter snatched away by Ma Jinbao's subordinates, but even his father was killed. The hatred of killing his father and taking his wife, it is no wonder that Mr. Shen would let out that wild laugh like a night owl after picking up a head in the head pile of the Eight Banners of the Han Army for a long time that day.

Liu Cheng was met by Ni Liangxu in the injury center, in fact, the two of them knew each other for a long time, but they had never met. This time Jinhua defended the city, Liu Cheng fought with the sharp soldiers of the Han Army Eight Banners in front of the city, Ni Liangxu came up to act as a supervising team, and later also rushed up to kill the Qing army.

In fact, in addition to Liu Cheng, Ni Liangxu recently intersected with Zhang Gongyan, a staff scientist who came from Yunnan to join the army. However, Zhang Gongyan didn't like this Liu Cheng very much, so this time Liu Cheng came out of the injury center, and the two made an appointment to gather Ni Liangxu but didn't dare to call Zhang Gongyan.

Liu Cheng was the first batch of officers of the Nantang Battalion, the sixth battalion of the Ming Army in Dalanshan, the predecessor of the Ming Army in Zhejiang, and the first captain of the Fourth Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team of the First Outpost. Ni Liangxu and Liu Cheng left the martial arts school with a smile, and soon arrived at the shop that Ni Liangxu had said in the injury center that sold Ningbo snacks.

The shopkeeper was still the chubby cook, but the shop had doubled in size, and the empty shop next to it had been taken down as the last time the diners had said. It's just that this shop is too big, and I can't keep myself busy just by relying on my wife and daughter, so I recruited another junior to help in the shop.

"Shopkeeper, listen to me, this sesame seed has risen a little, but the price of glutinous rice has fallen, and you won't lose it."

As soon as the two of them sat down, they listened to a man dressed as a merchant at the table next to him, talking to the shopkeeper with a hippie smile. And the shopkeeper is also full of smiles, it seems that he is not welcome, but also sincerely happy that the business is starting to get better and better.

Three meals a day is not uncommon in wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially in the army, where you are used to eating three meals a day, and it is difficult to change it if you want to. It's still early in the morning, and it seems that the merchant has also come to Dongshi Street to purchase goods and go to the countryside. However, the shopkeeper is still as quick as usual, and the merchant has not finished eating, and Ni Liangxu and Liu Cheng's side have already done it.

Although the dumplings and black sesame crisp are all black sesame seeds, they are presented in the mouth with different processing techniques and raw materials.

After breakfast, the two continued to walk around the city, this is Ni Liangxu's habit, Liu Cheng heard him say, although it is far better to find a restaurant to eat a little wine, but he does not want to lose his interest.

The Battle of Jinhua City took place, and not long ago, the Ming army began to rebuild the damaged city wall. However, it was the west of the city, but it was the east of the city, and after breakfast they walked all the way down the East Market Street, only to smell some disgusting smell from a distance before turning around and walking towards the city.

The smell is a newly built public thatched house on Dongshi Street, which is used for the convenience of the people. It is said that it is being built in all counties and towns, but it is only the earliest in the prefecture.

When the people in the countryside had dung, they had to use it to fertilize their fields, and they even had to go to the road to collect the dung of the animals. In the city, however, it is common for housewives to get up early in the morning and give the day's excrement to those who pour incense, and then they carry it out of the city and sell it to the peasants in need. At the end of the day, the work is not clean, but the income is also very much, and there are also those who make a fortune by this, and even in the novel "Digging a New Pit and Saving Ghosts to Become Rich Lords" made by the owner of the Yuan Pavilion in the early Qing Dynasty, it also vividly describes the story of the murder of people in the Jiangnan area at that time because of the robbery of the dung pit business.

However, these public thatched houses are rented by the guards to those who do the manure business, and in addition to taking care of the work of the public thatched houses, they also have to hand over a fixed amount of nitrate at regular intervals according to the regulations. You can get it from the public thatched house, you can get it from each family, these nitrate soil is the rental fee for them to rent the public thatched house, if you have more, you can also get a relative subsidy, but if the quality of the nitrate is not qualified, the fine is still light, and if you don't get it, you will have to revoke the qualification to do this business.

Nitrate, just by hearing the name, you know that it must have something to do with gunpowder, and as far as officers like them know, it seems that the gunpowder manufacturing workshop of the Military Industry Department has been expanding recently, and it may be prepared for this. But they don't know how to turn nitrate into gunpowder material.

The two of them had already been convenient before they went out, so they didn't need to be there at the moment. Walking and chatting, I soon walked a few streets, not far from the small shop that I said to eat at noon, according to Liu Cheng, he had been to that small shop last year, the dishes were average, but the taste of private brewing was quite good.

However, not far from the small shop, they were the first to notice the corner in the distance, where a group of Ming soldiers were supervising a group of men in green camp costumes sweating and repairing a dilapidated mansion.

"What's going on there?"

"I remember that it used to be the courtyard of Huimin Pharmacy, and I heard it from my fellow villagers when I went to the city."

"It's not going to be the rebuilding of Huimin Pharmacy."

"It's likely that the county government posted a notice last time I was on vacation. However, it is said that for the time being, there are capitals in Jinhua and Quzhou, and other prefectures will have to wait for a while. ”

Listening to Ni Liangxu's words full of relief and seemingly regretful, Liu Cheng couldn't believe his ears at all.

Huimin Pharmacy is a social welfare institution in the Ming Dynasty, similar to the Nursing Home, Drain Zeyuan and the like, most of which have been set up since the Hongwu period, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of funds and poor management, and many of them were dilapidated. Jiangnan is better, after all, it is where the wealth is, and the finances can also support it, but after the Qing army went south, the funds and personnel of these institutions were also diverted for other purposes.

Especially in today's troubled times, although the Manchu court continued some of the welfare institutions of the Ming court, in fact, the funds of the social welfare institutions in various places were also embezzled to the point of being unsustainable, and they were either embezzled, or changed from the left hand to the right hand, and turned into taxes so that those officials could pay to the Manchu court.

In the Qing Dynasty, although the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was nominally very concerned about social welfare and established a large number of welfare institutions under the supervision of officials and private offices, in fact, the implementation was far more incomparable with the official institutions in the Ming Dynasty, and even developed to the point that local officials used the name of welfare institutions to extort local gentry and wealthy households.

After arriving in Jiaqing, the Qing court's finances were tight and the power of the grassroots gentry was further expanded, and social welfare institutions began to be replaced by private offices, which led to the rise of a large number of private benevolent halls, Yizhuang, and guild halls, but the people who could enjoy these were only a minority, and more people either died of starvation or sold themselves into slavery without food and clothing.

What Liu Cheng doesn't care about is these social welfare institutions, especially in today's situation, where more soldiers and generals are the right way, and the people's hearts are all added to the king and hegemony, and they are used as an excuse to leave a benevolent reputation. Even if this Huimin Pharmacy actually doesn't cost much money for a year, and it also accepts funding from the private sector, but there is no need, so indiscriminate, I really don't know if it was Chen Wenzhuo's idea, or Sun Yu's own opinion.

However, Liu Cheng also knew that Ni Liangxu respected Sun Yu very much, so he naturally wouldn't say that Chen Wen was not. And then, when he heard Ni Liangxu talk about the need to build a new institution called a nursery hall in each prefecture to raise children who are uncared for, and for this reason, he made a law strictly prohibiting the drowning of babies by the people, and suddenly came to his senses.

"So that's the case, eighty percent of this idea came from those military doctors and officers of the health center, it's a shame that they came up with it."

The two officers stupidly watched the coolies of the green battalion working under the sun for a long time, but their thoughts were very different, until they saw that the Ming army in charge of supervision was a little disgusted with them, and then turned back to the small shop.

The dishes in the small shop are really average, and they are all home-cooked dishes, but the taste of the private brew is really good, but the brew is too little, and the sales are naturally not much, so they have to let Xiao Er go out to other places to make do with it.

In the process of pushing the cup and changing the lamp, what the two talked about was nothing more than some things in the army, except for what they had seen and heard.

Jiangxi's Pingjiang Bo Zhang Zisheng and his subordinates have been completely integrated into the Zhejiang Ming Army, Zhang Zisheng and those officers entered the martial arts school, among which Zhang Zisheng's dormitory is not far from Ni Liangxu's. The selected soldiers with qualified physical fitness were assigned to the boot camp for training, and some of them were trained under Liu Cheng's hands.

The rest of the people, the scholars, were basically enrolled in the civil training courses, the craftsmen were assigned to the workshops, and the old and weak women and children were temporarily raised, waiting for the soldiers to complete their training and distribute the land according to the regulations of land division. However, some of them may still have to work, because this is what they do in Jiangxi during the normal season.

The order of the Marquis of Anyuan to order the purchase of sturdy mules has been issued, and a part of the officers and infantry teams have been specially transferred. The officers first have to go to the martial arts academy to learn, and the soldiers need to go to the recruit training camp to start learning from riding mules, Ni Liangxu doesn't quite understand why he still lets the soldiers ride mules after capturing so many war horses this time, Liu Cheng knows more about it, but he only heard that these soldiers who ride mules don't need to be trained in riding and fighting, as long as they can ride.

Kill Chen Jin first, and then punish Shi Tingzhu, the Han Eight Banner Army is still invincible, and even the world-famous Hong Chengchou Hong Hengjiu did not get a bargain. At this moment, the Zhejiang Ming Army has already been famous all over the world, although it is far less famous than Li Dingguo, the marshal of the Southwest Ming Army, who is a famous king in terms of fame, but the damage to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this battle is even greater, after all, Nikan is only one person, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army were annihilated by the Ming Army this time It was more than 6,000 troops, and it has the prestige of defeating the Eight Banners of the Eight Thousand Han Army.

This army is getting stronger and stronger, and even the leaders of the veteran anti-Qing rebel army such as Zhang Zisheng, the Pingjiang Bo of Jiangxi, have chosen to merge with the Ming army in Zhejiang, and their future prospects are naturally limitless.

Ni Liangxu didn't have too many ideas, but he just planned to listen to Chen Wen's arrangement after completing the homework in the Martial Arts Academy, so as to complete Zhou Qingui's deathbed entrustment. However, seeing with my own eyes that the areas occupied by the Ming army are becoming more and more vibrant day by day, everything that has been done before and everything that has been paid seems to have paid off.

"It's a pity that Brother Zhou and they couldn't see the current Jinhua Mansion, hey."

In contrast, Liu Cheng has a lot more thoughts. This time, he performed well in defending the city, and Wu Dengke, who is still in Chuzhou, has promised to help him say good things in front of Chen Wen when he returns to Jinhua. In addition, he was also ready to try to join the Huaxia Revival Association, but because he was demoted to the training department and sat on the cold bench, many old relationships were no longer useful.

"Perhaps, ask An Youfu, he should pull me." (To be continued.) )