Chapter Eighty-Six: The Hungry
"Dou Shen groaned for a long time, and decided to train a team of light cavalry with Huai Shijing. However, the decision is still in Wang Dou's hands.
Lin Daofu and Han Chao both hugged their fists and received their lives. Another team of soldiers was under his own jurisdiction, and Han Chao couldn't help but be overjoyed, and Han Zhong also glanced at his brother enviously. However, the ROK and the DPRK have to manage the infantry army and the cavalry army, and the burden on their shoulders is heavier.
Wang Dou smiled at Wen Fangliang and Sun Sanjie and said, "Lord Wen, Sun Baihu, Captain Han wants to practice light cavalry, and may choose some sergeants on your team, so don't be reluctant to do so." ”
Seeing that the few soldiers on his team were about to be selected again, Sun Sanjie was a little reluctant, but he still solemnly agreed with his fists.
Wen Fangliang said nonchalantly: "My lord's words are serious, the soldiers on the subordinate team are not the same as the sergeants of Shunxiang Fort?" Xia Guan will definitely try his best to cooperate with the selection of Han Sentinel! ”
At the end, he said with a hippie smile: "It's just my lord, I and Sun Baihu are the same sentry commanders, but the soldiers brought by our two sentry commanders are too few, right?" I wonder when the adults will make up our troops? ”
This question is also something that Wang Dou has been considering, the young and strong people in the castle have been used to the extreme, and it is impossible to select men from the castle anymore.
He said: "At present, there are fewer people in Shunbao, maybe in some time, we will recruit homeless people in Shunbao and can make up for your troops." ”
Wen Fangliang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." ”
He sat down with a grin.
After the meeting was dispersed, Han Chao immediately went to the horse shop to select fifty horses, and then selected candidates from the whole army of Shunxiang Fort to sentry and not collect at night.
Not compared to the infantry army to fight in a dignified formation, this sentry detective is not destined to have personal skills at night, and usually scrape and practice, mostly how to improve their physical combat skills, how to camouflage. Learn how to lurk at night, how to go behind enemy lines, scout enemy targets, capture prisoners, assassinate and sabotage. There are many things to be mastered, such as how to understand geography and astronomy, how to discern the spoken and written language of the enemy's army, and how to recognize the enemy's flag and golden drum. When they have developed their skills, the Korean and North Koreans will also teach them how to throw axes and javelins on horses.
Wang Dou did not give any professional advice when Han Chao trained these cavalry at night, but he asked Han Chao to use a professional cipher writing system when he went out to survey, sentinel reconnaissance, or outreach intelligence personnel in the future.
This kind of cipher system uses a kind of codebook, using a dictionary conversion method, each word represents a different meaning, and the codebook is in the hands of Han and North Korea. It is also changed regularly, and even if the information on the front is obtained by the enemy, it is impossible to turn it over because it does not know the conversion method, which greatly ensures the safety of the information.
This kind of cipher system came from later generations, and after the Han Dynasty heard Wang Dou say it, he was shocked and immediately adopted it.
With this kind of intelligence system, the leakage of intelligence in the military will be greatly reduced in the future.
However, the adoption of such an intelligence system greatly deepens the knowledge requirements for those who do not collect at night. Later, they were even more literate than the officers in the infantry army, and after a few months, they would each have at least a few hundred vocabulary words.
When the Han Dynasty practiced at night, Wang Dou still recruited officers at the captain and above every night to read and write. Explain the state talks, military books, battle formations, etc. Wang Dou now has four captains in one sentry, two sentries are eight captains, plus two sentinels, as well as several officers such as Wen Fangliang and Sun Sanjie, and every day more than a dozen large and small officers gather in front of Wang Dou to read and write.
Although Wang Dou is a martial artist who is proficient in writing and ink, everyone is a little strange, and now in the Ming army, there are a lot of guerrillas, generals, and general soldiers who don't know a single person. However, these Shunxiangbao officers are all illiterate and adults, and they have already passed the golden age of literacy, even Han Chao and Han Zhong are no exception, and it is really difficult for them to read and write.
These officers told them to practice martial arts, and they could practice non-stop, but when it came to literacy, they were all kinds of strange and bitter. All day long, it's not tired here, tired there, it's painful here, it's painful there. However, Wang Dou asked the officers to know at least three words every day, and every day they asked a few scribes to check the spot, and if there were mistakes in writing mistakes, they would be beaten with military sticks. Especially Han Zhong, in the past few months, he can't recognize a hundred words, "Every day he has to be beaten with a military stick, but after beating too much, his skin has also become thicker, as hard as leather armor."
Since the hungry people entered the boundary of Shunxiang Fort in March, Wang Dou ordered to set up a porridge factory outside the fort to help the victims, and ordered a team of Shunxiang troops to patrol everywhere to bury addiction and abandon corpses. However, as the number of hungry people increased, Wang Dou ordered Shunxiang Fort to be on strict guard, and at the same time, the scale of the porridge factory set up outside the fort became larger and larger.
On March 20, a group of thousands of hungry people outside the fort arrived, and Wang Dou also gathered the officers and officers in the fort to discuss how to help the victims.
The atmosphere in the hall was dull, Han Chao, Han Zhong, Lin Daofu, Chi Dacheng, Wen Fangliang, Sun Sanjie, Feng Dachang and others present were silent, half loud, Lin Daofu sighed, and said: "My lord, there is not much money and food in our fort, the hundreds of victims were okay before, and now there are thousands of hungry people, and I am afraid that the lower officials are afraid."
He shook his head, he knew the financial situation in the fort best, even if there were no these victims, I am afraid that it would only be able to support less than three months, and there were so many hungry people again."
Wang Dou pondered for a long time and sighed: "The same people of the Ming Dynasty, how can they see that they are not saved from death?" There is also a shortage of Dingkou in our fort, after these victims are contained, they will reclaim wasteland in the future, organize troops and train troops, they are the best population, food money is tight, I will find a way, no matter how many victims come, we must try not to die one"
Wen Fangliang said: "Your Excellency is benevolent, how can your subordinates be left behind, so the lower officials will donate fifty stone of rice grain to help the hungry."
Everyone looked at him in surprise, although Wen Fangliang was rich and had hundreds of acres of fertile land, he donated fifty stone rice grain in one go, which was also a big deal.
Sun Sanjie said: "Xiaguan also donated ten stone of rice grain
Sun Sanjie also has more than 100 acres of fertile land in Shunxiangbao, donated ten stones of rice grain, and more than half of the inventory in his family was scattered.
Wang Dou glanced at the two of them with satisfaction, but he didn't expect that among the Ming officers, there were also such benevolent people.
Wang Dou pondered for a long time and said, "It's okay, but Xiuniang, you have to be careful." ”
On March 21, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Shunxiangbao opened a larger porridge factory outside the east gate, which can live thousands of people in one drum.
When the news came out, all parts of Baoan Prefecture were surprised, and they were all asking who the officers stationed in Nashun Township Fort were. Hearing this news, nearly a thousand hungry people rushed to the city of Baozhou, and almost all the hungry people who entered Baoan Prefecture gathered under the Shunxiang Fort.
In Wang Dou's request, the pot is set up to give porridge, and the porridge boiled must achieve "plugging in chopsticks without falling, and unwrapping the cloth bag without dispersing." standards. This kind of porridge, even if the hungry people fall to the ground with rice soup, and then use thin porridge to continue to eat, ten people can save five or six, and the hungry people who are about to starve can be saved.
At the same time, the scale of the porridge factory is quite large, can accommodate 3,000 people to eat porridge at the same time, the hungry people who went to Shunxiang Fort before, have been gradually vibrant, and the hungry people who saw it later, can also live, for a time, these hungry people are grateful to Shunxiang Fort, and also avoid these hungry people from becoming rogues.
In Wang Douji, after waiting for these hungry people to recuperate for a while, he will organize these hungry people to work for relief, he will reclaim wasteland on a large scale, expand the operation of the iron factory, and build the city wall of Jingbian Fort.
No matter who they are, these hungry people, as long as they can carry a brick and pick up a load of soil, they can take care of a day's food. In this way, the hungry people can accept help with dignity and eat with self-esteem every meal they have earned in exchange for their labor.
In the end, Wang Dou will also organize all these hungry people into military households, and organize the young and strong among them into sergeants. Let these hungry people all become the household registration people of Shunxiangbao.
"Come one by one, all of them, everyone line up."
"Today, the wife and the old lady personally give porridge, you drink the porridge, remember the kindness, who let you live,"
More than a dozen cauldrons come out of the heat and aroma, and the boiling on them are all hot rice porridge (). Around the cauldron, there were just dense hungry people, who lined up, holding their own bowls, and one by one stepped forward to receive the porridge.
Xie Xiuniang stood next to a large pot, holding a spoon in her hand, just giving porridge to the hungry people one by one, her small appearance was not outstanding, but her gentle smile, especially with a stomach, in the eyes of the hungry people, was no less than the compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Especially after hearing that this thin and pregnant woman was the wife of Wang Dou, the defender of Shunxiang Fort, all the hungry people were even more grateful, and after receiving the porridge one by one, they just couldn't stop thanking them.
Behind Xie Xiuniang, there were some women from the military households of Shunxiangbao who helped, and some servant women and girls who took care of Xie Xiuniang in the house, who were also helping to maintain order on the side, and some hungry people who did not have dishes and chopsticks were also responsible for distributing the dishes and chopsticks.
Next to some other cauldrons, Wang Dou's mother Zhong also gave porridge, she was busy non-stop, and she had been idle in the house for a long time. I think it's better to do the work, especially in the case of charity.
She was full of energy, and she still didn't feel tired after an hour, and the hungry people who received the porridge from her hands were also very grateful. Especially when I heard that this old lady was still the mother of a defensive adult, she was even more terrified, respectful, and at the same time very grateful.
Only in this Shunxiang Fort is there such a benevolent official wife, who would dare to crowd the big guy and fight regardless of his face?
Zhong and Xie Xiuniang both came out to give porridge in person, and the wives of the officers in the fort were not to be left behind, so they all came out to give porridge by themselves, or to help maintain order.
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Old White Cow:
Yesterday there was a power outage, what a tragedy.
There's something to do tonight, let's see if we can do more tomorrow.