Quan Dashan is in the queue, and all the actions are done meticulously. Because there are guards watching them train. Quan Dashan felt that every time the garrison appeared, the command of the general banner would be louder by three points, and even after the recruits made a wrong move, the small wooden stick that the general flag lord fell on the recruits also weighed three points of strength.

Since those recruits arrived at the Runing Battalion and began training, Wu Shigong has never spent less than an hour on the training ground every day. There was no way, Wu Shigong felt that the time was too tight, so he wanted to train those recruits as soon as possible.

However, Wu Shigong basically watched his military attachés training recruits on the training ground, and he would not speak casually. Only when the recruits are resting, Wu Shigong will arrange a room and cook a pot of ginger soup for those recruits to warm up or something, so as to show that he, the garrison adult, cares about those recruits.

In fact, after more than two years of training, those military attachés already have a set of mature methods on how to train new soldiers. Wu Shigong is now arranging some high-ranking military attaches and a few literati, sorting out the training syllabus and drill code for the soldiers.

Today on the training ground, Wu Shigong watched those recruits train all morning. After lunch, Wu Shigong took a nap in the room built for the officers on the edge of the barracks.

After taking a nap, Qiong Niang walked in with a basin and served Wu Shigong to wipe her face. Qiongniang's current identity is Wu Shigong's personal maid, Wu Shigong can't take her as a concubine now, because if you want to accept a concubine, then at least a ceremony to marry a concubine must be held, but if you do that, maybe someone will know Qiongniang. Therefore, for the sake of safety, Wu Shigong had to wait for a period of time before arranging to take Qiongniang as a concubine.

In the living room outside, Zheng Zhen had been waiting for Wu Shigong for a long time, and he was going to discuss with Wu Shigong about buying land and establishing Zhuangzi. During this time, Zheng Zhen had already traveled to many places in Runing Mansion, waiting for Wu Shigong to decide how to buy land.

Zheng Zhen saw Wu Shigong come out, bowed his hand and said: "My lord, there are many ordinary people who want to sell land in Guide Mansion now, but the land price is not worth anything at all. Those ordinary people who fled were willing to sell their land as long as they were given three taels of silver per mu. And now the price of grain has exceeded two taels of silver per stone. If you want to buy land, now is a good time. ”

Zheng Zhen continued: "However, those fields have basically been abandoned for a year, and if the next year is still not good, there will still be no crops in these fields." And the gentry who are now buying land from the common people are not looking forward to next year, they are now hoarding land. ”

"Oh?" After listening carefully, Wu Shigong asked, "Then are there people selling land in those places we need?" ”

"Now there is a lot of land selling in various parts of Runing Province. Even some small landlords can't bear the disasters for many years and want to sell their land. And in the places where Zhuangzi is set up in the circle of adults, there are many places for us to choose from. ”

"But there is a big drought in Henan, and there is no harvest, these officials all understand. But the land in the fortress of Weishenme Qianhu did not affect the harvest? ”

"This is also the credit of our major water conservancy overhaul a few years ago. In fact, despite the great drought, the water in the river was still abundant. As long as the water conservancy is effectively built, there will be some harvest. This was also the wisdom of the adults at that time! ”

Wu Shigong smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Mr. Zheng has won the award, if you want to count the credit, it is also your credit." This official has been fighting outside, and the affairs in this field have always been in charge of Mr. Zheng. ”

Zheng Zhen also stroked his beard and laughed. He then said to Wu Shigong: "My lord, if you settle down, the villain will immediately arrange the purchase of land." ”

Wu Shigong thought for a moment, and suddenly, he frowned and thought about it. After a while, Wu Shigong said to Zheng Zhen: "Since we have a lot of grain, let's use the grain to buy land." Let's set it at three stones and one acre. ”

"Your Excellency!" Zheng Zhen immediately exclaimed, "This price is too high." ”

Wu Shigong waved his hand again and said with a smile: "If you don't mention a high price, it will be a land grabber with the local gentry, which will cause some trouble." However, in the past few years, the price of grain was only about five cents per stone, and according to this calculation, in fact, we still took advantage of it. ”

"Also, give the people who sell their land two choices, one is three stone of grain per mu, and the land will be bought out. The other is that there are two stones of grain per mu, but these people have to work on these lands, and they must also accept our arrangements for labor and military training. However, as long as they return us four stones of grain per acre within ten years, that land will also be returned to them. ”

"Your Excellency!" Zheng Zhen exclaimed again: "Don't those people all choose the second one?" You're at a loss, my lord. ”

Zheng Zhen knew in his heart that in the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty at that time, land was simply their lifeblood. It's not to the point where they can't survive, they absolutely refuse to sell their land.

And Wu Shigong gave them a choice to recover the land. How can this not make the hearts of the people who sell their land move? Besides, within ten years set by Wu Shigong, the interest rate of repaying two stones of grain to four stones of grain is very low, and compared with the profit of the printing money at that time, Wu Shigong's interest is simply an interest-free loan.

"I want them to choose the second option. Only by organizing their hands can they build water conservancy; Only by letting them train in the military can the officer's army have a source of reserves. Relatively speaking, how much grain to harvest from these fields is to be considered in the face of zuihou. After all, this official really needs food, so won't he let Tang Liu go to Huguang to buy it? ”

Zheng Zhen nodded, he understood what Wu Shigong meant, so he said to Wu Shigong: "The villain will leave immediately." If we gather manpower as soon as possible, we can also build some water conservancy and irrigate more fields before the beginning of spring. ”

In fact, from beginning to end, Wu Shigong never thought about what to do with these lands in ten years. According to Wu Shigong's estimate, ten years later, the world will definitely be in chaos.

At that time, the army is fighting for life and death, the people are in danger, and the land that can't be brought is useless at all, so it's better to drag food in your hands to make people feel at ease.

In addition, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli also discovered that recruits went to fight after not training for more than half a year, which was simply a joke about the lives of recruits. Wu Shigong adopted the policy of elite soldiers. The safety of every soldier is of great importance to Wu Shigong. If you want to solve this problem, you must give recruits some basic military training before they are recruited.

So on this issue, Wu Shigong also discussed with Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli a few times, zuihou, or Deng Qifan turned out the method of Tuntian from the pile of papers of the old man. That is, those reserve soldiers come from farming in peacetime and fighting in wartime.

Therefore, Wu Shigong purchased the land this time for the purpose of tuntian. And now the reason why Wu Shigong has adopted this method is also a wonderful point. Those who have cultivated their land in the land, they still hope to take it back to their homes. If there is a war, they will not fight for their land?

Of course, Wu Shigong would also give the land forcibly seized in the mountainous area of Runing Province to his domestic slaves to cultivate. Now among Wu Shigong's domestic slaves, Wu Shigong has also demarcated three levels for them.

The lowliest domestic slaves did heavy work, and their daily rations were nothing more than starvation, and they basically had no personal freedom. These domestic slaves are basically bandits and their families captured by Wu Shigong in the suppression of bandits. And every year, among those low-level domestic slaves, there are always some disobedient domestic slaves who will be selected and executed by Wu Shigong.

However, the lowliest domestic slaves are not without hope, and as long as they have served for two years, they will be promoted to ordinary domestic slaves. Of course, a good performance will shorten the time.

As for ordinary house slaves, Wu Shigong not only allows them to be fed, but also allows them to have some family wealth. The personal freedom of ordinary domestic slaves is greater. But in the same way, ordinary house slaves who do not behave well will also be reduced to the lowest house slaves.

However, if ordinary domestic slaves have worked for Wu Shigong for five years, they will be converted into domestic servants. Wu Shigong will distribute land to those families, of course, the ownership of these lands belongs to Wu Shigong, and Wu Shigong will only collect about 20% of the rent on those lands. However, all the males of the common domestic slaves were required to undergo military training.

In addition, there is a shortcut for ordinary house slaves to be promoted to domestic servants. That is, someone in the family was recruited as Wu Shigong's soldiers. Now Wu Shigong's ordinary house slaves are mainly the rebellious people of the Holy Spirit Society that he captured. Also, Tao Xin's military household of the Thousand Households, as long as the family did not participate in Wu Shigong's army, they also enjoyed this treatment.

Of course, at the top, there are also levels such as stewards and housekeepers, but this is not something that ordinary house slaves can climb.

Craftsmen and men in workshops such as Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop, men in the trading house, as well as those gentlemen who teach and doctors trained in Zhizhi here, if they are originally Wu Shigong's family slaves, they will all enjoy the treatment of family members.

Therefore, Wu Shigong formed a hierarchy among domestic slaves, just like the army. And like Xue Yongli's officers and Deng Qifan's staff, they have actually vaguely formed a noble class. However, this class is not completely closed, and theoretically speaking, it is possible to rise from the lowest domestic slave to this aristocratic class as long as you work hard.