Among the more than 1,000 households in the Lingshan Guard, more than 100 households still have military training, and the rest are military households, rather than farmers. But after all, he is a person who grew up under a military system like the guard, and maybe he still has the factor of liking sword and gun combat in his bones!

As a result, many young people, especially the second and third sons who could not inherit the status of Hutian and military officers, lived in poverty, but they had endless energy. Now in the name of Zhu Zilong, the income he can earn can increase N times all of a sudden, which is quite majestic.

It used to be a dream to be able to eat dry rice every day, and now Zhu Zilong also guarantees that these military descendants who are willing to be with him and obedient. There is dry rice to eat every meal, and there is only one meal with meat to eat, and I don't look down on everyone.

With such a courtesy, virtuous and righteous, who wouldn't yearn for it?

With the passage of time, Zhu Zilong's dozens of nearly 100 military households quickly stabilized the salt industry within 100 miles.

By the way, because they cleaned up a lot of thorns and scoundrels in the village, the local security was much better.

For a time, more and more military juniors were honestly boiling sea and salt at home, or working hard, hoping to have the opportunity to work with Zhu Zilong's men.

Then, become a glorious new type of salt ding, (of course, in Zhu Zilong's heart, he thinks that he is the chief captain of the chengguan brigade, and these people are the chengguan.) ）

It's just that what makes these young people depressed is that they want to follow Zhu Zilong's name. Even if it is boiling sea salt at the beach and helping to receive goods, there are several conditions that must be met first.

One is that there must be someone who has already followed Zhu Zilong to introduce and vouch.

The second is to take the physical fitness test uniformly, and this kind of physical fitness practice should be maintained for a long time in the future. For example, every day you have to run a few large laps along the coast, only about 3000-5000 meters less.

I also have to carry dozens of nearly 100 pounds of burdens, squat up and down for half an hour, and train my muscles and grow my strength every day. In addition to this, I heard that there are some strange requests.

Therefore, if the human body is not strong enough, it really can't hold on.

Because of the harsh conditions, so far Zhu Zilong's available people have only increased by a few dozen. Until now, the number of salters has not exceeded more than 200! Most of them did it together, just to help collect salt and greet them!

For more than half a month, while waiting for his Zhujiazhuang to be slowly repaired, Zhu Zilong stayed by the side of these nearly 200 people every day.

Train them to the death, and the standard of practice Zhu Zilong is according to the standard of the militia in the modern 21st century.

All kinds of physical training were used by him, and if there was any difference, it was more rough stick education. To see who doesn't move standardly, they just beat the past, and even the five Yanding cronies squad leader Ma Xiaosan, Li Zilong, Wang Binghe, Niu Dashun, and Liu Yishen are all treated equally!

Of course, these children of military families are just sturdy peasants, and they are used to it. At first glance was so rigorously trained, disciplined, physical. And obedience, it's all miserable!

Therefore, in terms of food and treatment, Zhu Zilong is not stingy at all, and even very angry.

Since the official start of putting them through the exercises, the wages have been doubled and doubled. And the daily meal has changed from only one meal with meat for three meals to meat for meals, and the rice can be eaten casually. After eating, you can take some home for your wife and children!

People are afraid of comparison!

No, when you finish practicing and eat a big piece of meat. Look at the envious gazes of the other onlookers on the sidelines.

Looking at the money that came to his hands after selling salt every time, when he thought of these two things, these descendants of Zhu Zilong's salt Ding military households immediately felt that they had endured all the hardships!

I heard that in other provinces and localities, there is a famine and some people are eating people, no matter how hard and tired they are, those people are miserable?

Another half a month has passed.

On the beach by the sea, the boys were shirtless, some stood in line there, some ran there. Some of them are holding bamboo poles and stabbing them forward!

Zhu Zilong watched from a distance, nodded with satisfaction, and thought: There are more than 200 people with good spirits, and this is a company commander level, right?

If more than half of them, oh no, only a third of them are equipped with this modern 20-shot strong horse in their hands. Hehe, coupled with a three- or four-meter-long hard bamboo pole gun, this combat effectiveness is no worse than that of five hundred regular soldiers defending the city, and even slightly better!

He can be regarded as the legal head snake of this radius of more than 100 miles!

Now about fifty percent of the sales of salt from the Lingshan Salt Farm have been caught by Zhu Zilong, Shandong official salt has no profit, and the geographical location of the Lingshan Salt Farm is poor, all relying on the support of private salt.

As long as the current situation can be consolidated over time, Zhu Zilong can be regarded as a de facto monopoly, most of the Lingshan salt works and the surrounding private salt business.

Zhu Zilong used to go to this nearby area, and the reason for his respect was that he knew Zhang Jingzheng, and he heard that he was a miracle doctor.

However, there is clearly another potential in it!

The status of the thousands of households, hundreds of households, and county commanders in the nearby guard center was higher than him, but when they saw Zhu Zilong recently, the big guy's respectful and polite expression was far greater than that of those above.

There is no other reason, it's as simple as that.

First, Zhu Zilong is rich and knows how to be a man. I heard that the friendship with Shangguan is also good!

Second, Zhu Zilong recently held several free clinics in some places, and heard that dozens of taels of silver per tree of American medicine can be used by his subordinates and the people under his rule. Even the tuberculosis that scares people to death can be rejuvenated, and the fame is rising!

Third, there are more than 200 salt people under Zhu Zilong's official face. Eat well, practice hard, can be regarded as a strong man, go out casually and fight alone with the people in the eight villages of the township, and there are few masters who suffer.

This is more than 200 men who can fight, and some of the thousands of officials in the vicinity, the ability of the pro-soldiers and family members is not much better.

(The Ming Dynasty guard system also set up a thousand households, and a thousand households were the prefects of a house.) Stationed in important prefectures or counties, the army is about 1,120 people, and it is divided into ten hundred households. However, due to the prevailing trend of empty salaries in the late Ming Dynasty, in fact, the number of soldiers who can fight under the name of a hundred households is only twenty or thirty at most. ）

In this way, the real soldiers that can be used by a thousand households are actually comparable to the two or three hundred or so salts that Zhu Zilong now has under his command.

It is not too much to say that Zhu Zilong's body, near Yantai, Shandong, is now the head of a cottage of thousands of households.

Some readers may suspect that the dignified military attache of a thousand households is a positive five grade, and it is almost equivalent to a brigade commander level in the modern 21st century New China. Why is there such a small number of troops in hand?

How so?

If it was a thousand households during the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was naturally strong and strong.

However, with Zhu Yuanzhang's change to the "military household" system of "integration of soldiers and peasants", the family that was classified as a "military household" could get a piece of land, go out on expeditions during wartime, and engage in agriculture in peacetime, and did not receive food and salary from the imperial court, so the possibility of "eating empty salary" was also eliminated for a time.

However, this kind of military household system, which does not distinguish between good and bad and forcibly restricts military status, will inevitably embark on the road of ossification and decline over time.

Due to the weakness of the military households, the late Ming Dynasty had no choice but to re-implement the recruitment system. Therefore, the old historical problem of "empty salary" has also appeared like a shadow, to the present at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It has been compared with Tang and Song!

It is said that the proportion of "registered and unemployed" in the armed forces of the whole country has reached more than half, which shows the seriousness of the problem of "empty salaries."

Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, the available soldiers in the hands of thousands of households in most areas. It's really unbearable to look at directly, and the combat effectiveness is weak, which is the norm!