At this time, all departments are definitely extremely busy, especially the training department, this year's turf has soared, but the management personnel are far from enough.

The work of measuring land and registering household registration was carried out one by one.

When the people of Laizhou and Qingzhou heard that Zhao Yan wanted to rent land, those yeoman farmers were a little resistant, and even those black households hurriedly came to register their household registration.

It is not possible to register it, the work of measuring acres has already begun, and those people who are not within the scope of government taxation are also within the scope of measurement.

The autumn harvest also came as scheduled, and the Denglai Tundi suddenly became busy, and the people in Denglai Tuntian had a very high labor intensity.

They have to do far more than the people in any area of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, they have to participate in the drills, although they get a lot, but Zhao Yan will still show some guilt from time to time whenever he sees the people who are busy all the time, so every summer harvest and autumn harvest, the soldiers of each battalion will definitely go to the fields to help with the harvest.

Today's autumn harvest is still like this, and the two main forces of the Denglai Army and the Liaodong Army have also put down their training and participated in the autumn harvest.

What is a military-civilian family?

When Denglai saw the harvest scene, he could understand that this was a relationship without any artificiality.

Zhao Yan called Song Wenyuan and Zhang Buyun and explained to Zhang Buyun: "Starting tomorrow, the Propaganda Department will begin to focus on publicizing the wealth of the Americas, so that the people of Tundi must yearn for it, and in addition, strengthen ideological propaganda and strengthen national consciousness. ”

"If all the people are immigrated to the Americas, I am afraid that the development of the cantonment will stagnate." Zhang Buyun was puzzled and reminded Zhao Yan.

"Dengzhou is not very suitable for development, I understand this. We don't have to move people out in one breath, we take it slowly. Zhao Yan said, and then instructed Song Wenyuan to the bricks: "The Ministry of Education will speed up the training of teachers, and both male and female teachers should be trained. Another group of teachers will be assigned to carry out literacy eradication in the young and strong people in the cantonments, so that some military training can be reduced in the cantonments. Are there any problems with the teachers? ”

"There shouldn't be any problem, after the victory of the lord Changping, it is much easier to recruit literati, this month the recruitment bureau has recruited more than 1,000 literati, and the Ministry of Education has divided half of it." Song Wenyuan replied, "The recruitment bureau will continue to recruit more personnel, and next year we will have more teachers." ”

"That's good, as long as we complete our literacy education in Denglai, we can migrate overseas on a large scale." Zhao Yan was extremely relieved when he thought of this.

used to recruit talents, and when people heard that he was a small military attaché, they ignored him.

Since Changping's victory over the Qing army, Zhao Yan has been famous in Daming, and now there are almost no elites in Daming who don't know him.

Although the reputation is big and easy to be calculated, this is also a big benefit, and it is obviously much easier to recruit talent.

The recruitment method of the recruitment bureau is very simple, all those who can write and calculate will be recruited, whether they are useful or not, and then rebuilt.

First train for a period of time, and also indoctrination. Then they are assigned to grassroots positions, and then promoted according to ability and loyalty.

The proportion of loyalty will be greater than ability, and some intellectuals, no matter how high their ability, if they do not have enough recognition of the various systems of Denglai, they will only be eliminated.

It is not required that everyone has a sense of identity when they arrive, and they will be reasoned with during the training, and they will be explained to them what the benefits of various systems are.

If it is still stubborn, it is really rotten wood, and it can only be discarded.

After Song Wenyuan and Zhang Buyun left, Zhao Quan hurriedly ran in and whispered in Zhao Yan's ear: "My lord, Mao Yuanyi is here to vote." ”

"Mao Yuanyi?" Zhao Yan stood up in surprise, "Why is he here?" ”

"Sneaked from Zhangpu." Zhao Quan whispered: "Now I live in the guild hall." ”

"We'll go now." Zhao Yan attached great importance to it and walked directly towards the hall.

(Mao Yuanyi (1594-1640), the name Zhisheng, the name Shimin, alias Donghaichen, the master of Mengge, the half-stone site of Shangong, Gui'an (now Huzhou) people.) Well-read, good at talking about soldiers, knowing the strategy of using troops in ancient and modern times and the situation of the nine-sided Ersai, oral hand-drawing, well understood. In the first year of Ming Qi (1621), he wrote "Wubei Zhi", a total of 240 volumes, and after it came out, his reputation rose, and he was recommended as a deputy general by Bian Cai. Serving as a staff member of the superintendent Sun Luzong, resisting Houjin's southward movement, he got the essentials of making suggestions. Chongzhen ascended the throne, presented the "Wubei Zhi", and was promoted to Hanlin to be edicted. For the power of the king in Jin and Zhang Ruitu slander, for the crime of "arrogant" exile Dingxing (now Hebei) Jiangcun, silently thought. In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the Houjin cavalry forced Beijing, raised the dynasty and was terrified, followed Sun Chengzong out of the division, and supervised the water division of Juehua Island with the general seal of the deputy general military department, and was jealous of the minister Liang Tingdong and was dismissed. Later, he was imprisoned due to the military uproar, and was sent to Zhangpu, Fujian Province on the charge of "greed and radical change", and died of grief.

In addition to discussing purely military affairs, it also includes science and technology, sports, transportation, and so on. The book has 240 volumes, 738 drawings, and more than 500 place names recorded on the map, which is a geographical map of Asia and Africa in China before the 15th century. The two parts of the book, "Military Qualifications and Multiplication" and "Occupancy", are the most fascinating. The ordnance, warships, gunpowder, firearms, water conservancy, transportation, medicine, horses, etc. in the "Military Vehicles" are all directly related to science and technology; The contents of the book include geography, cartography, shipping technology, and the use of firearms. The "Zheng He's Navigation Chart" contained in "Zhanduzai" is the most systematic and complete ancient sea chart in China, which depicts the voyage of Zheng He's huge fleet when he went to Western countries in the 15th century, the name, direction, and topography of the places he passed, as well as the route from Nanjing as a starting point, passing through the coastal countries of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa. Mao Yuanyi is from Sun Chengzong's faction, and this faction has been crushed to the end.

When the Denglai Army was established, he studied Mao Yuanyi's "Wubei Zhi" and absorbed a lot of content.

After all, Zhao Yan is a modern person, and he doesn't know much about the details of ancient marches and battles, and the "Wubei Zhi" and Qi Jiguang's military book also made the Denglai army take a lot of detours.

When Zhao Yan arrived at the hall, he saw a middle-aged man in his thirties, who looked a little dusty.

"Master Mao, this is my general." Zhao Quan introduced Mao Yuanyi.

"Mao Yuanyi has seen the general." Mao Yuanyi hurriedly saluted Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan hurriedly held it up, and said: "Mr. Mao is a senior, how dare you take this big gift in the next." ”

"Otherwise, the general Changping will destroy the prestige of Jianyu in the battle and ensure the peace in the Ming Pass, and this gift can be borne by himself. I am ashamed that I have no ambitions, but there is no place to display them, and in early August, I heard in Zhangpu that the general intends to return to Liao in three years, and I came to help the general. Mao Yuanyi said solemnly.

"With Mr.'s help, three years of recovery is enough." Zhao Yan laughed happily and instructed Zhao Quan: "Let people prepare wine and food and give Mr. Mao the wind." ”

"In the body of a sinner, the general can call me to go in the future." Mao Yuanyi said that he was sent to Zhangpu, and this time he came to vote secretly, if he let the court know, it would be a big trouble.

"Okay!" Zhao Yan nodded.

…… On the same day, Zhao Yan invited the people from the general headquarters and the staff department to come over and wash the dust for Mao Yuanyi, and after everyone knew that he was Mao Yuanyi, they couldn't help but toast him.

Mao Yuanyi was warmly received, and he has experienced too much warmth and coldness over the years, and he was very moved in his heart. After the banquet was over, Zhao Yan settled him in a chic courtyard in the fort.

This area is where high-level people live, and everyone lives in this kind of small compound.

The next day, Zhao Yan took Mao Yuanyi around to visit.

On the question of how to arrange Mao Yuanyi, Zhao Yan didn't know how to arrange it, so he could only let him choose by himself.

Mao Yuanyi is an expert in firearms research, and he is also proficient in military affairs, and he can go to the General Staff, to the Ordnance Bureau, and even to lead troops. It's just that leading soldiers requires training in the boot camp for a period of time.

The first thing to visit is the Ordnance Bureau.

As soon as he entered the Ordnance Bureau, Mao Yuanyi saw an extremely busy scene, with assembly lines running, constantly manufacturing various weapons and munitions.

"This ordnance bureau supplies equipment for nearly 140,000 soldiers, from knives and guns to guns, all of which are produced here." Zhao Yan explained.

"One hundred and forty thousand! Isn't it only forty-five thousand? Mao Yuanyi asked in shock.

"Denglai is indeed only 45,000, but Yingzhou and Handan each have 50,000 second-line troops, which were originally used to suppress thieves, but recently the thieves have stopped a lot, and there is no large-scale eastward attack." Zhao Yan said.

"Hong Chengchou is tired of dealing with it in Qindi, and it is only a matter of time before the East commits a crime!" Mao Yuanyi sighed, "However, the general has 140,000 soldiers and horses, as long as he commands properly, he will have a great grasp of the restoration of Liao in three years." ”

Zhao Yan just smiled and continued to take Mao Yuanyi to visit the Ordnance Bureau.

The more Mao Yuanyi looked at the Ordnance Bureau, the more surprised he became, the professionalism of each workshop here was so high that it was beyond what he had seen, and all the knives and guns produced were top-notch, and the armor was even more professional to the extreme, and he actually used water power to build plate armor.

This kind of plate armor is worn on the body, which is equivalent to a layer of steel plate wrapped on the body, and its defensive power can be imagined.

"The army is full of plate armor?" Mao Yuanyi asked.

"We have an iron-producing base in Handan, and we can make as much plate armor as we want, but only pikemen and cavalry are equipped with plate armor, and musketeers and artillery use leather armor, but the ploughing cattle need to be kept for farming, and the second-line troops have no leather armor." Zhao Yan explained that today's financial revenue has soared, and it is natural to build as many plate armor as you want.

However, what really shocked Mao Yuanyi was the firearms laboratory, and the artillery in the artillery laboratory had a special team to build.

A variety of new manufacturing technologies dazzled Mao Yuanyi.

"I'm good at firearms, but I'm not as skilled as the craftsmen here, so it's not much use to stay here." After Mao Yuanyi visited the artillery laboratory, he said to Zhao Yan.

"Then let's go to the boot camp and have a look!" Zhao Yan said to him.

When the two arrived at the new barracks, they saw an even busier scene, nearly 40,000 recruits were being trained, and the recruitment of the new barracks never stopped.

The most trained cavalry in the artillery battalion was cavalry, which numbered 20,000 cavalry, and these cavalry were trained on inferior horses.

Mao Yuanyi was stunned and looked at the 20,000 cavalry who were advancing collectively, he had participated in many wars with the Houjin army, what kind of big scene had never been seen, but the 20,000 cavalry was different.

These cavalrymen were dressed in plate armor painted black, and all the horses were advancing in unison, and the neat formation was something Mao Yuanyi had never seen.

It turns out that cavalry can be trained like this!

Next, Mao Yuanyi visited the training of pikemen, musketeers and artillerymen, the gun array of Nasenhan, as well as the salvo of muskets and the bombardment of artillery and rockets, which shocked Mao Yuanyi to the point of numbness.

Mao Yuanyi knew from the details of the visit that the Denglai Army had already formed its own system, and people like him who were created by the old system were not qualified for the task of leading troops at all, unless they were trained in this new barracks for a period of time, but there was no shortage of talents like him in the Denglai Army.

In the end, Mao Yuanyi proposed to go to the staff headquarters to have a look.

There are more than 50 personnel in the General Staff, of which 12 are the main staff officers, and the rest are all in charge.

The staff department is also very busy, and at this moment the maps of Liaodong and Korea are being compiled and compiled, Mao Yuanyi looked at the maps and found that these maps were very carefully mapped.

"General, let's do things here!" Mao Yuanyi decided that he was also good at map mapping and giving advice.

"Okay, then let's take up the post of deputy chief of staff in the General Staff!" Zhao Yan said. The other personnel of the staff couldn't help but be stunned, looked at Mao Yuanyi carefully, and didn't understand who this person was, but he was promoted to deputy chief of staff as soon as he entered the staff.

Knowing Mao Yuanyi's identity, that is, Liu Heng and the other two deputy chiefs of staff, they didn't feel anything wrong with Zhao Yan's appointment.

Mao Yuanyi wrote the book "Wubei Zhi", and later served as Sun Chengzong's staff, and his military literacy was far from being comparable to those literati from these wild roads.

Liu Heng reported at this time: "My lord, the Liaodong Special Operations Brigade has sent information that after losing 50,000 soldiers and horses, Jiannu is stepping up the formation and training of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and has also sent soldiers and horses to the north to capture savages on a large scale, and eight savage tribes have been broken. ”

"At the same time, they strengthened the defense of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the garrison in Lushun reached 3,000, and the garrison in Jinzhou also reached 3,000." Liu Heng marked many punctuation points on the map where the Qing soldiers were stationed.

"So will they invade North Korea next year?" Zhao Yan asked.

"This is not a good prediction, it can only be said that it is between five and five, and it is possible that because of the big defeat, the time for them to attack the DPRK will be delayed." Liu Heng said.

"Huang Taiji will definitely attack the dynasty, and many of the Qing army have followed Nurhachi to fight continuously, and the battle achievements are outstanding. If Huang Taiji is obviously still difficult to convince the public, coupled with the defeat of Changping, although Huang Taiji can shirk responsibility, but it will inevitably exacerbate this phenomenon. Mao Yuanyi on the side predicted that although he didn't know the siege plan, he knew the Qing army very well, "Not to mention that at the beginning of the defeat, a battle was needed to revive their morale." ”

(To be continued)