It is a tradition to celebrate the Spring Festival wherever there are Han Chinese, both in the Manchu occupation areas and among the overseas immigrants in later generations, and in the Ming occupation areas of Zhejiang, not only in the city, but also in the countryside. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In a village south of Tangya Town, the Shi family, who moved from Dalan Mountain with the Ming army, was celebrating a lively festival. For the Shi family, this year is a big year that will be remembered for the rest of their lives, because just this year, their family has regained a large amount of land in Jinhua Mansion to feed their family, more than they have in their hometown in Yuyao, and it is also tax-exempt land, which means that this land not only belongs to them, but also the production on it does not have to pay the tax that is said to be small, but it is enough to crush people when it is implemented.

This is a good thing to celebrate, but there are forty acres of land in this field, but the Shi family's old World War II compensation land.

After the timid and fearful child was removed from the army, because he was the first batch of veterans, he made up for the lack of the deputy captain of the arsenal guard, and he could be regarded as taking care of the old people in the army. However, with the outbreak of Cao Conglong's rebellion, as an important place for the rebels, the arsenal was crucial, and Shi Erniu, who was on duty, died there.

After the rebellion was quelled, the Ming army specially divided the land for the pension, and the quartermaster who took office not only gave the buried silver, but also gave a bonus to reward him for his bravery and dedication in the arsenal defense battle. But for the Shi family, if all this can be exchanged for Shi Erniu's life, they would rather not have anything.

The people are gone, but the lives of the living go on. In July, when they got these fields, the Shi family left a few acres of vegetable fields for Father Shi to serve, and the rest were rented to the tenants who were originally the employees, and they were all the people of this village. Not long ago, when the battle of Shentangyuan and the recovery of Quzhou were rewarded, the Shi family got another 30 acres of land, if it was added together with the land allocated before, it would be a full 100 acres of fertile land.

A hundred acres of land, all but those few acres of vegetable fields were leased to local tenants. For a time, the Shi family, who had been desperately poor due to the Manchu Dynasty's tyrannical expropriation and the unscrupulous landlords, and was forced to move to Dalanshan, was already a rich peasant in his hometown, and this trend did not seem to have stagnated.

All this stems from Chen Wen's set of reward system for awarding fields for military merits, the original rewards for military merits were paid for in silver, and a small part of the army also used food when there was a shortage of silver, and these things were either consumed in daily life, or they had to bear the difference in the price of transactions, which was far less affordable than this land -- the price of buying land was secondary, and the key was that this land could be the basis for inheriting the family business, but those silver could not do it, at least for them now.

It's just that since this is the land of military merit, it is naturally more or less, and the land is far more valued than silver, and the more and less is naturally more important.

"Da Niu, what do you say, sixty or seventy acres, and there is one who divided eighty acres of land in the First World War. Did they give money to the officials of those guards, why did they share so much, my son only divided thirty acres of land, my son was the first old man to follow the Hou Ye, and he was still a military commander! ”

It was Shi Da Niu's wife who was shouting in the house this big night, and while Shi Da Niu's old lady was venting her dissatisfaction, his two younger sisters also echoed the grievances, but the three men in the family - Shi Da Niu, Shi Da Niu and his little brother were either squatting on the ground smoking a dry tobacco pouch, or simply sitting there without saying a word.

"Da Niu, you are here to tell me what's going on, if it doesn't work, your mother and I will personally go to Hou Ye to comment on this reason!"

Shi Da Niu's old lady didn't ask her stuffy man, and directly sent the question into Shi Da Niu's ears. knew that he couldn't escape, and he also knew that his wife was a character who could say and do, but one day when he was on duty in the army, he was suddenly recruited by the Hou Mansion because of this, and Shi Daniu had to explain the reason clearly.

"That's not supposed to be, isn't that Governor's soldier also the green hat you said last time, no, it's the green flag, it's so much worse if you change formation?"

Hearing Shi Daniu's explanation, his wife's voice couldn't help but drop a few degrees, and even his two younger sisters became speechless, sitting there in a daze listening to his explanation. But the question was not over yet, Shi Daniu didn't know how to explain it, and it took him a long time to hold back the sentence "The opponent we are facing is too weak, and there are few casualties in the army, but the troops who resisted the Governor Battalion have suffered a lot of damage, especially the two outermost infantry bureaus, almost everyone is injured" and his wife was stunned on the spot.

After saying these many words in one breath, Shi Daniu, who had always been clumsy and honest, suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment, but after he immediately added a sentence to support his explanation, he immediately regretted it.

"The old brother you saw last time, he is in charge of commanding those two bureaus. After the battle, one leg was lame, and his walking was affected in the future. ”

He and An Youfu were both in the Fourth Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team of Jiashao when they were in Dalan Mountain, and they had also been guests at home as colleagues, and even his wife had the idea of recruiting a son-in-law, after all, there were two younger sisters in the family who had not yet married. But An Youfu didn't dare to step into his house half a step after coming once, not because his two younger sisters were unattractive, but because he saw Shi Daniu's old lady with his two sisters arguing with people for the first time, and scolded the six or seven old ladies on the opposite side so much that they couldn't even open their mouths, and they were so angry that they were so angry that they were spilling their hair there.

It is said that the boy of the Shi family follows his father, and the girl follows his mother, which is not false at all, at least when he was in Yuyao's hometown, even with his two sisters who have been married successively, the five tigers are proud of their own village, and even the mothers-in-law in the neighboring villages know that they can't afford to mess with them.

However, as Shi Da Niu expected, as soon as he heard about An Youfu, his wife immediately thought about the matter of recruiting a son-in-law, and immediately asked Shi Da Niu to answer whether he had asked An Youfu what he meant. However, several times before, An Youfu shirked everything, and once he drank together, he said that he liked the kind of woman who was soft on the outside and strong on the inside, Shi Daniu was stupid, but he could still hear this, a woman like his two sisters who was just inside and outside was really not suitable for An Youfu.

It's just that if he said it directly, Shi Daniu was afraid of upsetting his third sister, so he had to say that An Youfu had been promoted to battalion officer by Chen Wen, and he didn't open his mouth to ask if he felt that the door was not right.

"Battalion officer, you seem to have said last time, don't you have to be a general soldier or a deputy general to be able to be a battalion officer?"

Such an astonishing promotion speed really startled Shi Daniu's wife, and her tone immediately dropped a few notches. During this period, his father always squatted on the side and smoked a dry tobacco pouch, as if he had lived for this all his life.

Seeing that it was the old lady's anger that was vented, Shi Daniu did not have the slightest sense of accomplishment, after all, this was his mother, and it was also for his good, so he said one thing that he had forgotten to mention in the past two days.

"Mother, the report of the year before the year, Hou Ye will open a boy scout academy in Fucheng after the year, only recruiting active officers, non-commissioned soldiers, martyrs, disabled officers and soldiers, and immediate family members of military households, I want to call my younger brother to go to school."

"What do you say, Boy Scouts, boys can also be formed into an army to go into battle?!"

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"Uncle An, you said that this Boy Scout Academy wouldn't let unsuccessful boys go to fight as soldiers, right?"

Like the screams of the Shi family, the lady of the Ding family, who was far away in Yongkang, also expressed her disbelief at the "future son-in-law" that the Shi family originally liked. At least in her opinion, how to go into battle to fight must have strength, otherwise if the weapon is not stable, it is not a matter of whether you can beat the Tartar or not, and nine times out of ten you have to get tired and lie down first.

"Sister-in-law, it's not for the boy to go into battle, the Hou Ye said, it's just that our martial artists are easy to be tabooed by the literati when they open a school, so call a boy scout to gag them."

Chen Wen's thoughts were not all told to the people below, even a quasi-senior officer like An Youfu who had been determined to be sent by the battalion officer was no exception, because there were some things that they might not dare to believe even if they were honest, after all, what if they were as scared as Cao Conglong would hang themselves if they said too much.

The so-called Boy Scouting, also known as the Scouting movement, was a social activity developed in an attempt to save the crisis in view of the moral degradation and physical weakness of the young people in England at that time, and the fear of the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire.

The purpose of the Scouts is to produce truly healthy citizens physically, mentally and spiritually, so that they can contribute to society rather than become a burden to it. In Chen Wen's view, the six arts emphasized by Confucianism during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were actually cultivating ordinary people into scholars who could really be used in the country and society.

Retro, this is a theory that Chen Wen saw on the Internet a long time ago, whether it is effective or not, but in Chen Wen's opinion, it must at least be much stronger than these rotten Confucians in the late Ming Dynasty who "talked about their hearts and minds on weekdays, and reported the king when they died". But he is only a military general, so it is inconvenient to meddle in these righteous things, so for now, he still uses the so-called Boy Scout Academy to do retro reality to see if it really works. As for whether he is worthy of the name or not, he will also conduct military training and other related training anyway, so naturally he will not worry about this.

"Oh, it turned out to be the Military Household Academy. The concubine listens to Uncle An's family, those old masters don't like us military households, so we have to let Xiaojie go to school. ”

Military Household Academy, An Youfu felt that there was nothing wrong with knowing so well, so he set up this matter. However, the Boy Scout Academy will not start recruiting and teaching until the end of the year, and there is no hurry to go to Fucheng at the moment. (To be continued.) )