Regimental training refers to the ancient Chinese local militia system, and the militia in the countryside is also known as the village soldiers. Now it means that officers and soldiers train together!

Sun Dingchen according to "Zhou Li": "Today's regiment trains the township soldiers, and its will is also", "The incomparable Lu clan party is a rabble of soldiers; If there is no armor, the village soldiers are a rabble".

Originated from the armor protection system in the Zhou Dynasty, so that the people "protect each other". To the fifth generation of the Later Jin Dynasty, the development of various types of township soldiers such as Minzhuang, archers, and regimental training!

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a position of regimental training envoy, similar to the captain of the civilian self-defense force, to manage the affairs of regimental training.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was changed to various affairs such as patrolling envoys, military preparations, and sub-regiments, such as garrison training, as if in the late Ming Dynasty, the management was mostly autonomous by the local government, and the emperor himself was anxious, and there would be a lot of management there.

As long as the general people below are still listening to themselves, the taxes can also be collected, and they will not rebel and be half obedient, and most of them will not care much.

During the Opium War, Lin Zexu organized village warriors and militia groups in various towns and villages in Sanjiang, Guangdong Province to resist the British Navy, and this kind of soldier was used!

At the beginning of 1854, the famous Zeng Guofan in history was based on regimental training, plus soldiers, husbands and craftsmen. It was organized into 13 battalions of 6,500 people and 10 battalions of the navy division of 5,000 people, a total of 17,000 people, known as Xiang Yong or Xiang army.

(Look, during the special period, Lao Zeng developed an army of tens of thousands on this basis, and only recognized him and did not recognize the emperor.) Cattle ratio, right? ）

The reminder of Ma Xiaosan and others made Zhu Zilong suddenly think of Zeng Guofan, and now he also wants to be Zeng Guofan during the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, don't treat the militia as soldiers, and don't treat the village chief as a cadre.

Well, that's it!

Soon, Zhu Zilong, who had a good relationship with several high-ranking officials in the vicinity, as well as the eunuchs guarding the town, spread this idea to them. A piece of paper is done from the bottom, and the group training target of 500 to 1,000 people will be in hand.

(The so-called, eat people with soft mouths, take people with soft hands, things are as simple as that.) ）

Besides, Zhu Zilong is also a nine-rank official, which is good for him to be a group of people, so he is naturally protected by officials and officials. Besides, this group training costs a lot, and it doesn't cost you your own money. Zhu Zilong can do it if he wants, as long as he can raise it!

In recent years, there have been pirates on the seaside from time to time, and there are still bandits in the mountains, so they all rely on the empty salaries of thousands of households in various places, so can they hold it?

In the eyes of outsiders, this is the great cause of Zhu Zilong's family, and Zhuangzi is not far from the sea, so his heart is not steady. So I want to get more people to protect it. It's reasonable, nothing strange!

Does it cost a lot of money to do group training?

Well, maybe for someone else. But it wasn't a matter for Zhu Zilong, and besides, he turned his head.

He asked Ma Xiaosan and them: "How many military households in your Lingshan Guard Station have you met?" Can there be remnants? ”

Ma Xiaosan and the others smiled bitterly: "There is a lot of wasteland along the seaside, unless the military and civilians are recruited to reclaim it and build a new fort." If you want to control it, you can use the land in your private name, so that not only the newly reclaimed land of the military households will belong to you, but you can also collect rent! ”

When Zhu Zilong heard this, he was overjoyed, so that it would be much more convenient for him to act on his own in the future.

Anyway, there are still more than 1,000 acres of land available near this Zhuangzi, and there has been no time to take care of it.

Soon, the next day.

Zhu Zilong asked Ma Xiaosan and others to call the surplus population in the military household office, as well as some of the few displaced people in the surrounding villages, but if they were willing, they could come to the Zhu family's fields to find food.

The first three years are rent-free, and from the fourth year onwards, only 30% of the rent will be charged, and the next four floors will be up to 4 floors, and the rent will never be increased.

There are not many fields that can be cultivated by the sea, and Zhu Zilong is very popular in the local area, coupled with the propaganda of Ma Xiaosan and others, there are many family members of military families and displaced people who are tempted.

Zhu Zilong took people around his field again, and found that not far from the field in his Zhuangzi, there were thousands of acres of wasteland available for reclamation.

The soil quality of these lands is good, but unfortunately the water conservancy is in disrepair, irrigation is inconvenient, and these originally excellent fields are barren.

This is the case in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, where there is drought and little rainfall, agriculture depends on irrigation, where there is water for fertile soil, and where there is no water, it is desert, and the dependence on the irrigation system is great.

It can be seen that some traces of the original canals and ponds in these wastelands are still faintly visible. However, these canals have not been dredged for many years, and the water does not flow, and most of them have been shallow and abandoned.

In the modern 21st century, people in rural China have to pay a few hundred yuan a meter to dig a groundwater well that is only enough for their family to drink. In some places, the geography is not very good, and it may be more than 20 meters. That's not a small amount of money!

In ancient times, if the technology is not up to par, the cost of drilling wells will be higher, not to mention the large wells that can irrigate the fields, which are definitely not the bottom people of the Ming Dynasty who can afford to pay a sum of money!

Therefore, in ancient times, the fields were considered fertile because they were close to the river, the second was that there was no fertilizer, and the third was that the seeds were not good, so the yield was naturally not high.

Zhu Zilong touched his chin and thought to himself, if these canals can be dredged and repaired again, this area can be completely turned into fertile land.

And because he ordered people to open up the wasteland, and the large wells and ditches that irrigate the fields were also built at his expense, and with his network, it was easy to assign these thousands of acres of new land to his private property.

If you do the math, it's definitely a calculated deal!

In the late Ming Dynasty, the water conservancy in various places was in serious disrepair, which was an ordinary situation in the entire Ming Dynasty. The imperial court was poor, and without the financial resources to take care of the maintenance of water conservancy, some of the limited funds were embezzled by officials for private gain, so they could only rely on local governments to take care of themselves.

"Thousands of miles of Sanggan, only rich Zhuolu, what a good land this is, as long as the water conservancy is in place." Zhu Zilong felt more and more that this thing had been done. Some plots can even be planted with rice!

In fact, if strictly according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has preferential treatment for the military and civilians in various places to reclaim wasteland. Regardless of the fact that all the reclaimed land belongs to the locality, after three years of maturity, a small amount of tax and silver will be levied on each hectare of land. It also coincides with Zhu Zilong's previous proposal of three years of rent exemption.

It's just that in other places, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and the treasury is empty, and a large amount of taxes and grain needs to be collected. The gentry and gentry transferred their taxable grain to the commoners!

As a result, the three-year wasteland time tax exemption time has not yet arrived.

The magistrates and landlords were eager to hand over people to urge the dispatch, resulting in the reclamation of peasants not being able to make ends meet.

If we continue to pursue money and grain without stopping, we will have to force the farmers to flee, and the fields will be barren, and this vicious circle will make the famine more and more serious in various places, and the people will not be willing to reclaim the wasteland.

Alas!

Of course, there is always no shortage of land at the end of any dynasty.

After the famine and war, in some places, entire villages and cities were deserted, and even thousands of miles of people were uninhabited. At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, there was actually a lot of barren land in various places, but there was no stable environment for the people to live and cultivate!

War and chaos are more terrible than poverty!

However, it is only to cope with the input of thousands, or even tens of thousands of acres of land.

For Comrade Zhu Zilong, who is now poor and only has money, this is not a problem.

At this moment, Zhu Zilong was standing on the top of the hill, and there were two pit tigers standing on the side. The heart is full of pride in the chest and abdomen, and the new world controlled by the Ming Dynasty starts from the thousands of nearly 10,000 acres of wasteland in front of you!