"A total of 3,000 scholars were recruited. Accompanied by three hundred literate officers. Isn't that too much? ”

After Huang Yuan saw Yang Chao's order and asked him to select a hundred literate officers, he immediately found Yang Chao.

There are few scholars in the army, after Yang Chao's imperial examination has transferred more than 1,000 people, it has been seriously insufficient, these people train and fight during the day, and at night they are generally Huang Yuan and others, either to help the ordinary soldiers to read, or to help sort out the money and grain account books, fill in the file records, in the 500,000 army, less than 20,000 people are literate, and Yang Chao's army has always had far more copywriting work than other armies, which is not enough, and 300 people have to be transferred, which is much more than the literate officers of other armies, is the number wrong? It's thirty instead of three hundred.

"Ordinary people are shallow, and only these readers can cultivate a sense of mission."

Yang Chao sighed.

He worked hard to cultivate the Chinese of the army, but in the end he found that on the contrary, the culture of military ruffians prevailed, and it was not the readers who assimilated the ordinary soldiers, but the ordinary soldiers who assimilated the readers.

This is not the regular army in Yang Chao's mind, regular soldiers should have a full sense of justice, rather than the vulgar views of being a soldier to eat food, being promoted and getting rich.

However, it is difficult to form a sense of mission without a certain cultural level.

Later generations of students are the first to rise this kind of thinking, sacrifice for the country, dedication to the country, only scholars can awaken, children from poor families, the first thing to think about is how to eat enough.

"Raise an army of scholars and cultivate a military culture."

The fundamental purpose of Yang Chao.

Scholars do not join the army, those who have not been in battle, are not qualified to participate in the imperial examination, and those who will be officials in the future are all those who have seen blood in battle, just like the literati of the Tang Dynasty's eldest grandson Wuji, who can ride a horse and charge into battle with Li Shimin.

As for whether the Ming Dynasty would produce a militaristic culture because of this, Yang Chao couldn't think about it. Anyway, in such a big country, if there is really a militaristic culture, then it will not be yourself who is unlucky, and others are unlucky or not. Dead friends don't die in the poor way, and Yang Chao can't care about it.

"Okay!"

Huang Yuan heard Yang Chao say a bunch of crooked reasoning again, and knew that Yang Chao knew about it, and it wasn't that the numbers were wrong.

After three months of military training, Xia Wanchun completed basic training. It's very hard, and his attitude is actually not correct, because his purpose is not to kill the enemy, but just to use being a soldier as a way to be promoted.

His friend Sun Kexian is much more relaxed, Sun Kexian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, both civil and military, he came to kill people, he wants to charge into battle, as for training, it is just a step for him, and the most difficult assassination training is easy. He can shoot money in the eye.

Three months later, Xia Wanchun, together with Sun Kexian, entered the cavalry army and went to Shandong to serve under Zhao Kang.

However, their army is more special, it is called the Scholar Army, and the army is full of scholars, even the officers are literate.

When I arrived in Shandong, I did not immediately see the battle formation, but continued to train, and the training in the army was different from the training in the recruit camp. In the new barracks, they train the basics, the infantry, and only here can they really ride horses, and they are trained how to maintain the same formation as the infantry on the horses. After riding a horse and keeping the formation in a small stride, he began to ride a horse to contact the slash, and finally the charge training.

Half a year later, Xia Wanchun began his first battle, responsible for infiltrating Beizhili and attacking the manor of an eight-banner nobleman.

Weirdly. They stole the Four Banners Defense Area of Vietnam and sneaked into Shuncheonfu.

This is an earthen fort, which the northerners call a fort, enclosed by a circle of adobe walls, and built houses to live in.

Because the Yang family army often sneaked up, the slaves in Beizhili were very fond of building this kind of earthen fort.

But it was too easy to defeat her, because someone opened the gate of the fort at night, let them in, killed Zhuang Tou and the others, and then a group of Baoyi retreated with them.

Xia Wanchun felt that he was in a hurry, but there were also many confusions, and when he came back, he learned that the entire Beizhili was full of dark lines for the development of the Yang family's army, and these people mixed into the manor of the Eight Banners magnates to make coats, and then instigated those dissatisfied coats, and then contacted the Yang family's army.

What the cavalry of the Yang family army had to do was actually to send troops to meet and prevent the horse team of the master of the Eight Banners from pursuing.

The biggest in the castle is these powerful old Baoyi Zhuang heads, who usually oppress Baoyi and accept filial piety, but whenever they provoke them, they are not happy, and they start a fire to be more ruthless than their masters.

As for the owners of the fort, the Eight Banners magnates, they will not live in this kind of unsafe earthen fort, they all live in the city one by one, and those with a little identity will live in Beijing City, so it is generally difficult to catch the banner people.

There were three such small-scale infiltration operations in succession, and only the last one encountered the Eight Banners army from the city, and then this infiltration operation ended, and Xia Wanchun also changed from a private to a third-class soldier, and he could get one or two halves of his monthly salary.

Then it was the assembly, and I heard that the Qing army had a large-scale operation and a war to be fought.

At the beginning of October, the summer and autumn grain in Jiangnan and other places had been collected, and the common people had paid 10 million quintals of grain and 4 million taels of silver (silver tickets).

There is both rice and silver, because Yang Chao has always adopted the protective grain tax system, as soon as the grain inspectors of each county arrive at the time of collecting grain, they immediately open official warehouses in each county, purchase grain in unlimited quantities, and purchase at a guaranteed price of one tael of silver and one quintal, and the tax of one mu of land is only one tael, that is, one load of grain or one tael of silver is paid, and the tax is paid.

For the good fields in the Jiangnan area that can produce five or six quintals of grain, this tax is not heavy.

However, not every farmer can grow grain, and even in the Huzhou area, there is almost no land completely used for growing grain, but wherever there are conditions to grow mulberry and silkworms, all are mulberry forests.

Therefore, some people pay grain, and some people pay silver, but as for who pays grain and who pays silver, this is really not good, some farmers sell grain to grain merchants, and then pay silver, and some mulberry farmers buy grain and pay grain, the situation is very complicated, sometimes there are grain price fluctuations, sometimes because of transportation, mulberry farmers may have small boats are more willing to buy grain, and farmers are willing to sell to grain merchants at a price slightly less than one tael.

There is also a situation that Yang Chao does not want to see, that is, it is too difficult to deal with the government, and the common people are not willing to hand over the grain to the picky government, and would rather sell it to the grain merchants for tax at the price of nine dollars a load, rather than carry the grain all the way to the official warehouse to sell it.

This is the case with the independent small people, who have no bargaining power over the grain merchants, and are completely at a disadvantage to the government, which has been the case in China for thousands of years, and the last thing that changed their fate was to completely abandon the collection of taxes on agriculture, but at that time, the agricultural output was no longer worth mentioning, and the income of the peasants from growing grain was not as good as that of going out to work, and it was still the bottom.

Yang Chao is also very helpless in this regard, and has excluded the grain inspectors, who are also conscientious, but the strict tax collection system will also make the peasants uncomfortable, and they feel that the government is picky, but if they are liberalized and accept any grain, the peasants will show the cunning of the small people and dare to use the old grain to pay the grain.

Unless all public officials can cultivate the consciousness of serving the public, this situation is to send a grain overseer, and it still cannot be changed, and Yang Chao cannot be changed.

However, in comparison, Yang Chao's grain collection system is much better than in the past, when he was oppressed by the three mountains of grain merchants, wealthy clans, and the government, at least the small farmers have one more choice, so even if they can't get a grain price of one or two silver, they can get a close price under the government's protective price.

In this way alone, he is already grateful to Yang Chao, in the words of the civil official, "The foolish people in the countryside do not know the righteousness, they only know that there is Yang Dudu, not only the Son of Heaven." ”

"It's time, this year's autumn grain harvest is a great harvest! 10 million quintals of grain were collected from taxes, and 4 million taels of silver were collected from taxes. ”

After Yang Chao got the tax situation, he felt that the time had come, and he held it for a year, and also gave the Qing court a year, and now it was time to fight a dozen, to see how the Qing court's military training was this year, and to test the combat effectiveness of his army.

"The main direction of attack, Li Wuliu marched into Henan, Zhao Kang defended Shandong, and Wang Pu supported in the center."

Let Li Wuliu attack Henan, in fact, the main thing is to train troops, Li Wuliu's newly trained musket formation, he boasts that he is invincible in the world, Yang Chao wants to test it. Zhao Kang is a cavalry army, and there will be no disadvantage in maneuver against the Qing army of Beizhili, which is dominated by the Eight Banners, so that Wang Pu is in the middle silhouette, which can ensure that both sides will not fall into trouble.

And Yang Chao also plans to go to Henan in person.

The military order was conveyed at the same time, and when Yang Chao arrived in the north, all armies were absolutely ready, otherwise the officers would be slack and the military discipline was not strict, and Yang Chao should carry a big stick to clean up this group of people.

"As for the South? Fengfu, the negotiations with the Manchus should also be broken. In this way, sending Sony to Guangdong will say that I have no power to negotiate, and everything will be decided by the emperor in the end. But put Sukh Saha back and do a little gesture, you believe you understand. ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty went back and forth for more than half a year, and finally sent heavyweight representatives, the important minister of the Yellow Banner Sonny and the White Flag of Suke Saha, one of these two people is a loyal minister of the Huang Taiji line, and the other is Dolgon's henchman, it should be said that the Eight Banners are still sincere.

It's just that Yang Chao has never planned to negotiate with them, even if he has the intention of negotiating, the conditions proposed by these two people are too outrageous, even if they are replaced by the little emperor, they will definitely not accept it.

As for why Sony was sent to Guangdong, but Sukh Saha was put back, it was because these two people represented two different forces, maybe they could participate in the negotiations at the same time, and they also represented the opinions of both sides, maybe it was just that Dolgon was not available, so he sent Sony, an old and cunning figure, and at the same time was not at ease, and sent Suk Saha to monitor.

Anyway, as long as they represent two different forces, let one go back, send the other to Guangdong and hand it over to the emperor, let the two separate, and then create a little discordant rumor to go out, and make a stir within the Eight Banners. (To be continued.) )