The missionary's name was Charles Kingsley, and he had the same name as the English children's writer two hundred years later, and he was also an Englishman, or rather an English pirate, at least until his ship sank in a storm and he was rescued by a ship bound for Macau. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"England? Didn't England have its own state church, which had long since split from the Holy See? ”

Hearing this, Charles was really shocked, at least among the Chinese he knew, there were really few people who could distinguish Catholicism and Protestantism in Europe so clearly, even the learned and well-educated Mr. Li Yu he made friends in Hangzhou could not do it, how did this Ming army marshal, a noble earl, know so clearly.

"May God forgive those sinners."

On the issue of religion, Chen Wen was not interested in having anything to do with him, at least in his opinion, the idea of the separation of governance and Taoism in ancient China was already very good in theory, and there was no need to learn any experience from the Holy See. As for the Anglican Church, it seems that the understanding that this Englishman has accumulated in the first half of his life is not as much as the Catholic doctrine in the two years he spent in Macao, and there is no need to waste his tongue in this regard.

"Charles, do you have any family in England?"

"Yes, my, um,, and our little angel Alice." As he spoke, this "missionary" seemed to recall the sweetness of the long absence.

Alice Kingsley, sounds like a very cute little girl, probably like a doll.

Chen Wen smiled slightly, and then said: "Charles, do a good job, after recovering the two capitals, in addition to the salary and bonus you deserve every month, I will also give you another big gift so that you can return home." Of course, it's okay to let your wife and daughter accompany you, China is rich and beautiful, far from your hometown, that small island country can compare. ”

"Thank you for your generosity, Monsieur Earl, and I will work hard."

This Englishman was met by Li Yu in Hangzhou, and he also brought it to Jinhua from Hangzhou, and he was the guy Chen Wen thought was more interesting before.

Li Yu is a person from all over the world, and the people he interacts with can be said to be from the prime minister to the minister, down to the peddler and pawn, and the rich knowledge and experience brought to him by the exchange have sublimated his works, but now, when Chen Wen met Li Yu again as a Linhai Bo, after a moment of silence, Li Yu expressed to Chen Wen that he did not want to be a man of letters, so Chen Wen sent him to the department of training civil officials, only hoping to exchange for an official with outstanding ability, at least to make up for "******" a little, It is a pity that works such as the Ten Kinds of Songs of Kasa Weng can no longer appear in the world.

Some of Li Yu's friends went to the Zhejiang Martial Arts School to train staff officers, while Li Yu and the other two went to the training course for civilian officials, and only this Englishman was thrown into the Military Industry Department by Chen Wen, because in addition to knowing Latin and being able to help build hydraulic machinery by hand, this guy also had experience in making telescopes when he was in England.

Although it is not particularly rich, it is better than those craftsmen in the Military Industry Department who have no experience at all......

The problem of hydraulic machinery, Chen Wen intended to continue to solve by acquiring books on European industrial and military subjects translated by Ming scholars.

As for letting this Englishman return to Macao to solicit technical assistance, Chen Wen has no such plan for the time being, because he always feels that this Englishman is not a devout believer at all, and the reason for going to Hangzhou and coming to Jinhua is definitely not as simple as what he said: "being ordered to investigate the situation and proselytizing." Therefore, for now, it is better to leave this technology of making telescopes for now, after all, one bird in hand is better than ten birds in the forest.

On the ninth day of the sixth lunar month of Yongli, the first batch of recruits who entered the new barracks will start a two-month intensive training, and then they will be assigned to each combat barracks in batches. It's just that before the oath-taking ceremony this time, Chen Wen came up with new tricks to improve the morale of veterans and recruits.

On the colonel's field, two infantry bureaus and a cavalry team of more than 100 people, these veterans stood in front of the closest point platform, and the first batch of 3,000 recruits who were about to be trained were divided into several phalanxes and stood on the left and right of the veteran queue, so that they could see what was happening on the school field.

"Zhang Yida, the archer of the seventh infantry team of the first bureau of the provisional infantry, is out of the ranks!"

The first game of the provisional infantry is the temporary number of one of the two bureaus that reinforced the left flank in the battle of Shentangyuan, and this number will continue to be used for two months, and when the first batch of recruits complete their training, they will be broken up and mixed into a new battalion with these two bureaus.

Hearing the call of the station, Zhang Yida hurriedly walked out of the queue, and then ran all the way to the bottom of the platform, and boarded the platform full of senior officers of the Zhejiang Ming Army.

"I've seen the handsome! I've seen the generals! ”

"In the battle of Shentangyuan, when the infantry of this team was damaged enough to complete the formation, he resolutely used a spear to replenish the queue as an archer. Fight bravely until the end of the battle. ”

"Today, in accordance with the regulations on the military merit reward of my Zhejiang Wang Division, the supervision standard battalion faced by the department copied the mandarin duck formation of my Zhejiang Ming Army, and the beheading was calculated by the average number of Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banners, and the whole team was beheaded at forty-five levels, Zhang Yida served as an archer and a pikeman in the battle, and rewarded 65 acres of military merit land and 20 years of tax exemption!"

The officer in charge of shouting used an iron loudspeaker to read out the military merit awards, and when the words "60 acres of land for military merit are rewarded and tax exemption is granted for 20 years" came out, the audience immediately exclaimed again.

In the battle of Shentangyuan, the opponent in front of them was defeated, and the Ming army achieved a great victory was the Nantang battalion of the Chinese army and the Dongyang battalion on the right flank, as well as the two infantry bureaus that were temporarily transferred. However, it is precisely for these reasons that most of their military exploits are less than those of the hard-biting left, even if the leftists have far fewer decapitations than they do.

The public distribution of military merit rewards this time did not involve officers, but only recruited soldiers to distribute them one by one, and without the comparison of officers, the soldiers' military merit rewards appeared to be more. In fact, even if you put the officers' together, it is definitely not a few, but the effect will be more obvious in this way.

Zhang Yida is not the first, nor is it the last; Not the one who gives the most, nor the one who has the least. However, an ordinary soldier can get such a rich reward for fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and it is conceivable how exciting it will be for an ordinary soldier.

"Thank you for your humble position!"

Although he already knew this reward, and although Wei had the final say on what these dozens of acres of land were used to plant, his name Zhang Yida would be clearly written on the deed of these fields, which meant that everything really made him excited, and he couldn't sleep all night.

"It's time to marry a daughter-in-law, and there must be heirs to inherit the land."

As the complacent Zhang Yida strode off the platform and returned to the queue of his team, another soldier was also summoned to prepare to go to the stage.

The recruits on the colonel's field went up with each soldier who came to the stage, and then went down with them, and then went up and down again, and so on and so on for an unknown number of times. But even so, the sound of swallowing saliva still sounded one after another, and there was no sign of abating at all.

"Goodo......"

In the queue of recruits, Gan Cang swallowed deeply. It's just that at this time, he has already been immersed in the beauty of the land reward. At least in his opinion, he was born in Orion, and naturally he was not inferior in archery to the veteran who had just passed by the return queue not far away, and at first glance he was an amateur archer who had become a monk halfway through to learn archery.

Gan Cang is a person from the state capital, and after getting the news of the recruitment of the Ming army, he hurriedly went to the newly established Qianhu Institute to join the army, after all, the allure of the Ming army's military merit system is really amazing.

With the precise archery skills he cultivated by hunting in the mountains and forests, Gan Cang easily passed the screening. I thought that after entering the camp and recognizing the general, I would be able to put on the tiger skin of the Ming army, and I would soon be able to earn the reward of military merit. But who knows, the selection of recruits is only the first step, and if you want to become an official Zhejiang Ming soldier, you must first be sent to this new barracks in Jinhua Mansion for training. And the appetizer of the training will be to let them see the veterans of the last war rewarded.

"Grandma, if Lao Tzu had joined the army earlier, these dozens of acres of land would have been Lao Tzu!"

Because of his excellent archery skills, Gan Cang naturally went to participate in infantry training and became a soldier of the firearms team; As Zhang Yida returned to the queue, the next soldier came from the cavalry team.

Since Zhejiang is not a horse-producing land, most of Chen Wen's war horses came from seizures, and some were purchased from the people, but the number was never much. In this battle and the recovery of Quzhou, nearly 300 war horses were captured before and after, which were used for this expansion, and most of the soldiers who were about to receive cavalry training had experience in riding horses, even donkeys and mules. Among them, Li Huixiang is already a personal leader, because he not only rode a war horse, but also participated in the cavalry battle against the Qing army in the army.

His ancestral home was Liaodong, and he fled after the Liaodong rebellion, and later his father stayed in Jiangnan with the east family. Under the teaching of his father, he was very skilled in equestrianism, and later the Qing army went south, and his father died of hatred and illness, and Li returned to his hometown and joined the Ming army. Later, the army was wiped out, and several old brothers in the army gathered in the mountains to oppose the Qing Dynasty, until the news of Chen Jin's death came, and he came to join the army with those old brothers.

The experience is very similar to Li Ruixin, but it is very different. It's just that although they have experience in cavalry warfare, the skills that the cavalry of the Ming army in Zhejiang need to train are very different from those of other Ming and Qing armies, so they still have to go to the new barracks for training before they can officially enter the camp.

Stunned, he watched as the cavalryman walked off the stage in a swagger, and then looked around again, and everywhere he looked, the recruits all showed envy and jealousy, just like him.

"Such a good method, no wonder Lin Haibo was able to fight a world in this heavily armed Zhejiang in just two years, it was really not a fluke, this time it was really the right one."

The public announcement of the rewards continued, and although the soldiers in the audience could not see clearly from a distance, the veterans in sight were full of pride, and the recruits showed envy.

Nodding with satisfaction, it was not until the end of the entire camp ceremony that Chen Wen returned to Linhai Bo Mansion, which had been moved to the Fucheng, and before he had time to eat lunch after returning, a dusty figure appeared in front of him.

"It's time to come, it's still here after all." (To be continued.) )