86_86695 Actually, after Wang Shuhui himself finished asking that sentence, he felt that his feelings were abnormal. He knew that his kind of appearance was completely a kind of anger.

Think about the situation of black slaves in the 400-year slave trade, which began in the 15th century and ended at the end of the 19th century. During the transportation on the Yangtze River, which lasted only a few days, these miners, who were about the same as slaves, could not have enjoyed any worse treatment than the black slaves in the black slave trade.

However, even though Wang Shuhui had already self-reflected, Sima Feng could not ignore Wang Shuhui's questioning.

He cautiously replied to Wang Shuhui, "Adults, the small ones are really not very good for them to eat." It's just a gruel with little water and a little rice and shredded sweet potatoes. But this is not that the villain is reluctant to give them rice and grain. In fact, most of these people have never been on a boat, and the villain is afraid that they will not adapt to the life on the ship, and they are afraid that they will eat too much, excrete on the ship, and cause a plague. ”

Wang Shuhui did not explain his inner world to Sima Feng. He just nodded and said to Sima Feng, "Sima, you did a good job this time. For the next three salt trades, you only have to pay half of the silver. ”

Wang Shuhui actually knew that he shipped to Sima Feng at the price of private salt at the end of the Ming Dynasty. This way of trading is actually at your own expense. The salt of the Ming Dynasty was not the snow-white and transparent of modern society, and it was also added with iodine, a trace element of salt. The salt at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if it was a high-end product, was only gray-white, mixed with a large number of impurities.

Even the local salt is not directly sold. Most salt dealers have to mix the salt they sell with more sand and other impurities before selling it to the common people.

What Wang Shuhui provided to Sima Feng was a high-end product from later generations, which was snow-white salt without any impurities. He didn't raise his price, but just charged Sima Feng at the market price at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Shuhui knew that he was losing money in the salt trade. But the reality is that even if he seems to be at a loss, because he is operating through the gate of time and space, he doesn't care about this kind of loss. At this stage, the profits from cotton dumping have completely overshadowed the salt trade. The reason why he continued to trade with Sima Feng at the original price was to use Sima Feng's ability to solve the population problem.

Originally, because Sima Feng had been not very good at this aspect, Wang Shuhui was ready to do it himself. However, this time Sima Feng gave Wang Shuhui a new impression.

The instructors and their families were seen leading the well-fed miners into the makeshift camp. Wang Shuhui began to continue talking to Sima Feng.

Wang Shuhui said to Sima Feng, "Sima, in fact, I am not a person who does not know the world. The salt trade between the two of us, in fact, I gave you the big profit. You know this, and I know it. ”

When Sima Feng heard this, and then saw the smile on the corner of Wang Shuhui's mouth, he couldn't help but look dark, his legs were weak, and he knelt in front of Wang Shuhui all of a sudden, and shouted with a terrible howl while kowtowing, "The noble man spares his life, the noble man spares his life!" ”

Capitalists are all profit-seeking. Isn't it true that if there is a 50 percent profit, it will take risks, if it has a 100 percent profit, it will dare to trample on the laws of the world, and if it has a 300 percent profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged. ”

Sima Feng was a budding capitalist at the end of the Ming Dynasty. However, as long as he is a capitalist, he cannot go against the nature of a capitalist.

When Sima Feng first started working with Wang Shuhui, he thought that Wang Shuhui was a rabbit whose tail could not grow. Therefore, he ignored Wang Shuhui's identity as a guest of honor of the royal family, and even though he knew that he had taken a great advantage in the salt trade, he did not say it.

After he understood what kind of person Wang Shuhui was, Sima Feng's capitalist nature was still fully reflected. Even in his eyes, Wang Shuhui had become a demonic image of slaughtering people of the same class without mercy, but the temptation of high profits made him still hold on and did not make any changes to the salt trade between himself and Wang Shuhui.

Wang Shuhui himself didn't know that now in Sima Feng's eyes, he had become a big demon king. He also thought that Sima Feng's miserable posture of begging for mercy was because of his exposure to him. Speaking of which, he was still very puzzled by Sima Feng's pig-killing, clumsy performance like an actor in the Spring Festival Gala in modern society.

He picked up Sima Feng, who was still howling miserably and was still holding the corner of his clothes, and said to him with a pleasant face, "Sima, you don't have to blame yourself so much, and I don't mean to blame you." ”

After a while, after Sima Feng put away his annoying screams, Wang Shuhui continued, "Sima, you don't need to be like this. Originally, when I worked with you, this was the rule. The reason why I gave you a profit on the salt trade was originally so that you could help me buy people. However, since we started to cooperate, you have only fulfilled our cooperation conditions once. ”

Sima Feng's love has endured a roller coaster-like ups and downs. He originally thought that Wang Shuhui, the big demon king, was going to raise the butcher knife against himself. Unexpectedly, Wang Shuhui was just dissatisfied with his implementation of the cooperation conditions too late. After Sima Feng understood what Wang Shuhui meant, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly said to Wang Shuhui, "Your Excellency can rest assured. The villain promised that someone would deliver it every month in the future. ”

Wang Shuhui nodded and said to Sima Feng, "You don't have to be a thousand miners every time. I know your difficulties, too. Whether within the province or outside the province, the miners are distributed in various regions. These areas are far from Zhijiang County. Here's what I think. After that, it will be 1,000 people per month, and this total will not change. Among them, about 300 miners can be recruited, and about 700 farmers can be recruited. ”

"I know that in recent years, both in and outside the province, there have been many displaced people due to the drought. I think it's easier to find a farmer. As for the requirements for those people, as I said, it is better to be under the age of thirty, and the oldest is preferably not more than forty years old. Whether it's a miner or a farmer, those with families are preferred. ”

Sima Feng knew that this would not be an easy task. Every month, he had to collect three or four hundred miners and six or seven hundred farmers for Wang Shuhui, and these people were easy to find, and how to transport these people back was a big problem. Fortunately, Sima Feng has a fleet of riverboats. Recently, his fleet has expanded to include more than a dozen large ships. If we only collect along the banks of the Yangtze River, at this stage, the number of 1,000 people per month should still be satisfied.

Thinking of this, Sima Feng nodded vigorously in agreement.

On August 18, 1620, among all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who could rank among the top three in martial arts and was also the longest-reigning emperor of all the Ming Dynasty emperors, swallowed his last breath in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The Son of Heaven, who was praised and criticized by later historians, was buried in the Dingling Tomb on the outskirts of Beijing. His son, the crown prince Zhu Changluo, who has never been treated by him, is the emperor.

Although a new emperor appeared, the incompetent emperor and the bottomless chaotic party struggle between the civilian bureaucracy that had begun in the Wanli era of the old emperor became the mainstream of political life in the last twenty years of the Ming Dynasty. From then on, the Ming Dynasty, like a runaway train rushing to a cliff, began to enter an era of increasing despair.

The alternation of the old and new emperors did not affect Zhijiang County, which was more than 2,000 miles south of Beijing.

After the military council organized instructors and family members to conduct basic training for 970 new miners, nearly 800 young miners under the age of 30 were selected. The remaining 100 or so miners, either because they were too old or in poor health, were assigned to the Industrial Committee and the Agricultural Committee.

Eight hundred miners selected by the pass guò were scrambled and rescored. Every ten people are divided into groups. Among them, there is a team leader, a team deputy and an instructor.

For every five squads, a platoon (fifty people) is formed. It is equipped with a platoon commander, a deputy platoon commander, a teaching chief, a staff officer, and a medical chief. The chief medical officer of each company leads five hygienists and is responsible for the medical and health work of the soldiers in the platoon.

Every five platoons formed a company (two hundred and fifty men). It is equipped with a company commander, a deputy company commander, a teaching director, a chief of staff, and a chief physician. Each company is equipped with a cooking platoon. Although it was not yet equipped, Wang Shuhui reserved a platoon of rocketeers (Hale rockets) for each company.

Every two companies formed a battalion (five hundred people). It is equipped with a battalion commander, a deputy battalion commander, a chief instructor, a chief of staff, and a chief physician. In addition to the Hale rocket platoon of each battalion, Wang Shuhui also reserved a place for an artillery company for each battalion.

The battalion is currently the largest unit of the armed forces in Wang Shuhui's hands, and he now only has two battalions of 1,000 armed forces.

According to the examples of the instructors and family members, Wang Shuhui assigned the original instructors and family members in the camp to fill the leadership posts in the troops at all levels according to their respective abilities and levels. The deputy positions of military units at all levels remain vacant at the present stage, and after the completion of the first training period, they will be selected from among all trainees on the basis of the results of military training and cultural courses.

As for the specific distribution of powers, the chief and deputy directors of the armed forces at all levels are the commanders of specific military operations. The other leaders are vertically managed. Instructors are led by the Dean, who is led by the Dean of Instruction, who is led by the Chief Teacher. The staff system, the medical system and the teaching system are managed in the same form.

Among them, instructors at all levels are not involved in military command. The instructor system is responsible for the cultural, educational, and administrative management of the military at all levels.

Wang Shuhui officially announced at the military meeting that the reorganized armed forces would be named the "Fuxing Security Corps."

After the conclusion of the military meeting, a large-scale military training for all armed personnel began in earnest