Seeing the state of Xiang Yong's archery, Zhao Yan couldn't help but sigh slightly, and said, "It seems that the training of longbowmen needs to be strengthened!" ”

Wang Wenyue said: "Childe, although this longbow is powerful, it is not easy to open the bow. If you want to train a longbowman, you can't do it overnight. ”

"The number of longbowmen we need is not too much, a battalion with five or six hundred people should be enough, muskets for direct fire, and longbows for projectiles, so it doesn't matter if those longbowmen can't shoot directly, as long as the projectile can meet the standard, the requirements are not very high." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, "It's better to recruit the top two hundred archery artists, and you and Zhao Yong each bring one hundred people, and use them as an experimental branch first." ”

"Experimental class?" Zhao Yong didn't know what it was, and asked confusedly.

"It's to try whether the tactics of the longbowmen are feasible first, if not, they will be eliminated, and if they are feasible, they will recruit more longbowmen into the army." Zhao Yan explained, and Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue nodded knowingly.

Second, the achievements of each Tunxiang Yong were ranked under the statistics of Zhang Buyun with more than a dozen documents, the top 1,000 in spearmanship and the top 1,000 in archery.

Zhang Buyun has some objections to the reward of the top 1,000 in archery, he thinks that there are less than 2,000 who can open the bow, and less than 1,000 who can shoot a look, so the reward is completely unnecessary, according to his meaning, the number of rewards should be reduced to 300.

However, Zhao Yan felt that since he said it, he had to do it, and vetoed Zhang Buyun's proposal.

Now there is no shortage of silver in his hand, and after communicating with the big merchants of the Shandong merchant gang, according to the report from the shopkeeper of Jinan these days, he has sold more than 400,000 taels of silver glass mirrors.

If those big merchants directly buy glass mirrors with silver, they will trade directly in Jinan City, and if they want to exchange materials for glass mirrors, they will have to be transported to Zhaojiabao.

The silver of Baihuahua was distributed, and those who got the ranking were happy, especially those who were at the top of the ranking, not only got more silver, but also were recruited into the Zhao family.

Becoming a family member of the Zhao family is an ideal that most villagers dream of, and the salary of the Zhao family's family is staggeringly high.

It's just that they don't know that Zhao Yan is planning to cut the monthly salary of his family, but the family members who have been conscripted into the army are not among the cuts.

He divided the soldiers into first-class, second-class, and third-class soldiers, and now it is easy to become a second-class soldier, but when the source of soldiers expands in the future, this requirement will naturally be increased. At that time, most of the soldiers will maintain the treatment of a third-class soldier, two taels of silver per month.

However, in the Eastern Three Mansions, the income of two taels of silver a month is already very high.

The reason is that the transportation of the three eastern provinces (Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou) is inconvenient, so there are not many merchants coming and going, which also causes the price of agricultural products to be low.

The low prices of agricultural products also hindered land development, and the wealthy generally did not 'ask for land' in the three eastern prefectures, because the profits on land were very low.

As a result, there is a large amount of abandoned land in the eastern three prefectures, as well as a lot of undeveloped land, but no one pays attention to it.

The amount of profit brought by the land determines the positive surname of the rich who have more land. Like the Jiangnan area, many wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan do not buy land. However, Fujian's land endowment is low, and there are good profits on land, so Fujian's businessmen and officials must ask for land, and as long as they have money, most of them will buy land.

Shandong's three prefectures (Dongchang, Jinan, Yanzhou) are close to the canal and have convenient transportation, so most of the wealthy households in Shandong buy land in the western three prefectures, and the three major cotton-producing areas have been initially formed on the Luxi Plain.

Ming Dynasty officials also put forward a lot of suggestions for improving the Dongsanfu, the two most important being the opening of the sea ban and the dredging of the Jiaolai Canal.

The Jiaolai Canal has been excavated since the Yuan Dynasty, but it has not really been implemented. In the Ming Dynasty, there were many debates, and you once approved the excavation proposal, but the official was transferred as soon as the construction began, and the construction of the canal was stopped.

After the liberation, there were also plans to dredge the Jiaolai Canal, but with the Great Leap forward, it was not realized. However, it is still unknown whether the Jiaolai Canal can be excavated, after all, it is very difficult.

There are two taels of silver in the East Three Mansions, and you can definitely live a good life.

Zhao Yan's current power is small, so he is not so economical in spending money, but if the scale of his soldiers expands, he will naturally have to be careful in his calculations.

Two days later, the recruitment was over, and this time 500 strong and healthy people were selected from the group of untrained homeless people, and 500 people with outstanding marksmanship and 200 'superb' archery skills were selected from the Tundi Township Yong. In addition, 500 men of inferior physical fitness were selected from among the displaced people to serve as musketeers.

And Lin Yi selected 300 young people who could ride horses and had acceptable physical fitness from the tundi and the homeless people.

If the shortage of young and strong people in the tundi reaches 700, 700 people need to be selected from the displaced people to replace them, and they do not need to pay land rent after becoming a family member, and 60% of the grain belongs to the family members, and 40% of the food belongs to the top homeless people.

In the production of tundi, the method of dividing the account in four or six can only make those tun people starve to death, and if they want to be rich by production, unless they produce a lot of grain.

Zhao Yan asked Tang Zhengze to issue a policy to encourage production, and when the grain output reached a certain level, some land rent could be reduced.

But many more people can't meet that requirement, so they have to train hard.

A bright path is in front of you, as long as you train hard, you can become a member of the Zhao family, and the salary is good!

After the township Yong competition, the townships returned to the fields to prepare for spring sowing, and the displaced people also began to work again.

Zhao Yan held a high-level meeting, and the high-level literati, martial artists, and craftsmen were all present, and they were seated in order according to the high and low positions.

Zhang Buyun and Tang Zhengze humbled each other for a while, Tang Zhengze sat in the second position, Zhang Buyun sat in the third position, and the first position was Zhao Quan.

Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, and Wang Wenyue were more casual, and sat down first-come, first-served.

Zhou Tieming, who is in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, is a little awkward, the status of a craftsman has always been low, and it is indeed a little awkward to be on an equal footing with literati at this moment.

Zhao Yan looked around and said: "Everyone also knows that the Ming Dynasty is now suffering from internal and external troubles, natural disasters [***] are continuous, and at the same time, land annexation is serious, the rich are in a row, and the poor have no place to stand. The most serious thing is that the military is abandoned, the encirclement and suppression of thieves are not effective, and the war in Liaodong is at a loss. The military affairs are wasted because of the erosion of the world, there are countless people who fly, swindle, and impostor, natural disasters and military disasters are endless, and the officials are greedy for ink and incompetent, resulting in the imperial court's finances not being able to make ends meet, and most of the money allocated is greedy for ink, and there is no silver in the army, and no one trains the soldiers. ”

Everyone listened carefully, Zhao Yan paused, and continued: "Today's lewd thieves are just bandits who rob and coerce hungry people who can't survive to attack the town, in essence, they are bandits, if the thieves take the world, it will inevitably cause a big chaos." But this is not bad, after all, the thieves are also Han people, and there will be great rule after the chaos, this world is still the world of Han people, and Han people still have dignity and backbone. ”

"Have you ever remembered the history of the Mongol massacre of the Han people in the Yuan Dynasty?" Zhao Yan asked suddenly.

"I remember that when the Mongols conquered the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the places they passed were slaughtered, and no less than 15 million people were slaughtered, and the Han people were even reduced to inferior people, which is simply inferior to pigs and dogs." Zhang Buyun replied loudly.

"Today's Liaodong Jiannu can be described as a more brutal nation than the Mongols, in Liaodong first kill the poor, called killing the poor ghosts, and then kill the rich, called killing the rich, the Liaodong Han people are almost dead. There are no Han people in Liaodong, and now they have begun to arrest Han people everywhere, and they are caught in Liaodong to be serfs for them. ”

"If Liaodong Jiannu takes the world, the Han people with blood surnames will be slaughtered. What is left behind is a group of spineless people, and when the time comes, the Han people will be reduced to alien serfs, and their wives and daughters will be left to the alien **. Do you think that it is impossible for Liaodong to build slaves and take the world? The imperial court can't stop the Liaodong Jiannu, if that group of narrow-minded thieves take the world, can they stop the iron horses of the Jiannu? In addition, the thieves and thieves will coerce the poor people, which will inevitably lead to the resistance of the landlords and rich families in the world, and when these people fall to the slaves, then the Han Dynasty will inevitably fall under the butcher's knife of the alien race, and our children and grandchildren will become slaves of the alien race, pigs and dogs from generation to generation. Zhao Yan angrily delivered his speech.

"Zhao is not talented, although he is not from a famous family, he is willing to work with everyone to create a peaceful world. I don't know if you understand the national righteousness, but I hope you can understand and work together with Zhao. Zhao Yan said in a low voice, and at the same time a little helpless, most people in this era are insensitive, and all they think about in their hearts is the authority and wealth of individuals and families.

As soon as Zhao Yan's voice fell, Zhao Quan got up and said: "What the son said is wrong, the Zhangpu Zhao family is the royal family of the Song Dynasty, and the Zhangpu Zhaojiabao has built the Bi Pavilion in Wanli time, which has the meaning of 'returning to Zhao', and the son has this grand wish, and the old slave will die." ”

"What!" Zhao Yan shouted in disbelief on the spot. I can't help but feel bitter in my heart, there are so many people surnamed Zhao in the world, how can I have such a troublesome identity! What's even more troublesome is that Zhao Quan actually said it in public, but it seems that he has become a careerist, and his momentum can't help but leak.

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