After the capture of Hangzhou, Xu Ping ordered the Shun army to rest temporarily, and his subordinates had hardly had a day of leisure since the Battle of Yangzhou, and the newly surrendered Ming army was also quite tired. Taking the Guards Battalion as an example, the full strength of the battalion was more than 6,600 officers and men, and when it left Beijing, the whole battalion had already reached full strength, and the first battle between Hangzhou and the Funing Army brought 200 casualties to this battalion, but at present there are only more than 4,500 soldiers in the battalion, and more than a quarter of the personnel have fallen behind due to illness.

While stopping in Hangzhou to report the victory to Beijing, Xu Ping carefully interrogated the prisoners and learned in advance about the geography of Fujian and the military situation of the province.

According to the captives, Fujian's coastal areas are now densely populated towns, and many young and strong people in the northern mountainous areas who used to farm at home have left their hometowns to work in the coastal areas.

"At first, the Shunjun staff group couldn't believe this kind of thing, but almost every captive of the Funing army said so, and the captives of the Zhaoqing army said that they also had similar problems in Guangdong, and a large number of laborers were still tied to the land, and the fishing, logging and quarrying in Fujian and Guangdong also needed more labor because of their prosperity, and the older generation said that the size of coastal towns had more than tripled compared with 20 years ago, but there was still a shortage of manpower. Therefore, some bosses began to recruit female workers, and their remuneration was about half that of male workers, and some people who settled in towns and cities did not have land anyway, so they let their wives go to work for a month on average for three or four months to subsidize their families: "It is also said that the recruitment money of the Funing Army is not much more than that of work, and many of them cannot find suitable jobs in the towns to become soldiers." ”

"Didn't they say that there was a shortage of workers in the cities and towns of Fujian and Guangdong?" Zhou Dongtian immediately asked the staff officer, "How can you not find a job to do?" ”

"Most of the soldiers of the Funing Army are mountain people, and the Zhaoqing soldiers almost have no coastal people, and they say that there are many people in the towns who want to grab good jobs with more money, that is, the workers of shipyards, tool factories, and lumber factories, and there are not enough people who originally dig gutters and sweep the streets, and many mountain people just do the work that these city people do not do." The prisoners confessed that a lot of work is just a shortage of people, and no one wants it, but some of the truths they said Shunjun didn't quite understand: "In the past two years, Funing Town has recruited soldiers, and many people feel that they get more money for recruiting soldiers, so they come to join the army." ”

"Craftsmen are talents, and how can craftsmen be as good at fighting as mountain people," Xu Ping was not surprised that Funing Town recruited mountain people as the main force, and many people said that they joined the army to mix the military households in Funing Town, although some of the military households who had been mixed up also volunteered to join the army, but the motive to support them was to defend Fujian, and those volunteers had no fighting spirit when they went to Huguang last time. When the troops were dispatched this time, many of the troops sent by Funing Town were mountain people, and they promised that if they won the war, they would immediately give these soldiers the status of military households in Funing Town.

There are also a large number of Fujian soldiers and Cantonese soldiers who can't even speak Hokkien and Cantonese, and these captives, mainly from Huguang, have been interrogated for so long that they can't even tell how they became the Funing Army and the Zhaoqing Army, but they also mentioned the preferential treatment policies of military households in Funing Town and Zhaoqing Town, and they yearn for them.

"Fujian is really an interesting place, it turns out that so many people want a military household status." Although the captives talked about the status of the military household, the Shun army thought that this was mostly a means for Funing Town to deceive people into soldiers, and Zhou Dongtian did not believe in any of those preferential conditions: "In terms of the ability to deceive people, Huanghou is much stronger than the imperial court." ”

"There's a lot of good news."

In his opinion, the source of soldiers in the Funing Army is drying up, and peasant soldiers have always been needed to be soldiers, who are timid and honest, hard-working, and obedient to orders, while the merchants in the city have the habit of not suffering much, and they are better at stealing and playing tricks. However, the resources of peasant soldiers are very limited, and nine out of ten people with land will still stay at home and farm, and Fujian's politics sound far clearer than that of the Central Plains, and the absence of displaced people means that most people still have land and will not come out to serve as soldiers. Xu Ping admits that there are a small number of people who are more adventurous, and even if they have land, they can't help but feel like they are breaking through a position with their own skills, but the development of Fujian's coastal towns has also absorbed a large number of these people. According to the experience of the north, if the people of a place live and work in peace and contentment, the source of troops is quite limited, the Funing army lost tens of thousands of people in two major defeats in Huguang and Zhejiang, and the industry and commerce are unimaginably developed by Xu Ping, and he feels that no matter how deep Huangshi's pockets are, they have been almost emptied.

In the past, Xu Ping had to consider the consequences of clearing the wilderness if the other side was strong, but if there were so many towns along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, the problem he faced would be much smaller.

……

Xiapu, Funing Town Daying.

After Jin Qiude arrived in Fujian, Huangshi, who was already very busy, immediately handed over the work of recruiting and training to him, and Jin Qiude did not have time to rest for a day and immediately began to work.

"Zhedong is fighting well," Zhejiang's war report made Jin Qiude feel a lot more comfortable, the Funing army resisted day by day, from Hangzhou to Xiaoshan all the way, every city made the Shun army pay a heavy price, and now the Shun army with heavy casualties has to stop continuing to attack Zhedong: "On the report to the adults, I can finally write something happy." ”

"If you say that, you will be very happy." Jin Qiude began to polish the war report with his pen, and painted the stubborn resistance of eastern Zhejiang into a more splendid picture. Because of Song Jianjun's problem, he doesn't know what Huangshi's reaction will be, at this critical juncture, Jin Qiude thinks that one of his responsibilities is to let adults keep a normal heart and not lose big because of small things, Jin Qiude is very strange why Zhao Slowxiong still has to write a special letter to tell himself to speak more for the soldiers in front of the front on the issue of Song Jianjun: "Is he worried that I will slander at this time and let the soldiers in front centrifuge?" Who cares about a dead or a living person at this time? ”

In the past, Fujian was a large province producing soldiers, and at that time the people were very poor, the officials were very greedy, and there were many peasants who could not survive.

Jin Qiude has not been to Fujian for more than 20 years, and now Fujian is richer than when he left, and the political clarity has spread from Funing Zhen to the government, and most of the officials have been bribed by Funing Town not to oppress the people, and there is no government on their heads, and the Fujian people who turn over and sing are not poor at all.

The happiness of the people of Fujian was built on the pain of Jin Qiude, which had been implemented before - without poor ghosts, there would be a shortage of soldiers.

Shi Ce has searched the mountains and seas several times before, and the traditional places such as Fuqing or something, now no one still wants to fight with their lives. Jin Qiude personally went to the mountains and went around, and found that the situation was even worse than he imagined, and many places began to lack manpower for farming, and a large number of young and middle-aged people went to the coastal towns to earn money, and they also went home once during the Chinese New Year - no matter how much Jin Qiude posted more recruitment notices here, it would be in vain.

The pirates that used to spread throughout the waters of Fujian and Guangdong have now largely disappeared, and the daily consumption of fish in coastal areas is said to be ten times faster than that of 20 years ago, and the fishing tax is much more reasonable than before when it was under the control of Funing Town. Most of the pirates left the deserted islands a long time ago to fish and sell them to the townspeople, and after the good years, these pirates also replaced the battered canoe-like raid boats with large fishing boats with beautiful spirits - so that Kim had no raw materials to recruit pirates as soldiers.

Most of the military households in Funing always hung a sign, and they went directly to work in the town's factories without touching a day's weapons, and most of the remaining people had no interest in defending the outside of Fujian. As soon as he heard that he was going to fight out of the province, he complained a lot, and the number was seriously insufficient. When Zhao Slowxiong was unwilling to take them with him when he sent troops to eastern Zhejiang this time, Shi Ce used the tight Funing Town Hukou as a bait, and collected a group of mountain people who wanted to enter the town but could not get them - many of them were actually not even Fujian people, they came to Huguang from Zuo Liangyu, and when these people entered Jiangxi, they were stopped by the cards set up by Shi Ce, and each person was given a batch of rations and military salaries, and then advocated the preferential treatment of military households in Funing Town and Zhaoqing Town, and then put these "Fujian soldiers" and "Guangdong soldiers" sent to follow Huang Naiming and Zhao Slowxiong to fight in Zhejiang - to say that the brain of a guy from a pirate family like Shi Ce is flexible.

Jin Qiude thinks this method is good, but he feels that this is a great waste of Fujian's military resources, and Shi Ce did a thorough job last time, last month Jin Qiude wanted to repeat the old trick to change the household registration for soldiers, but was disappointed to find that this kind of person has almost been wiped out by Shi Ce last time. At the same time, Liu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Zhaoqing, who was still performing military duties in Jiangxi, also reported that although Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang had just arrived, production had resumed rapidly under their administration, Zuo Liangyu had been wiped out by the Shun army, and the Huguang refugees on the border of Jiangxi were helping the old and the young to return home.

And the strong men in this province have also been almost pulled by Shi Ce, and now there are not enough people in the countryside to farm, Jin Qiude has to think about what to do in case of famine even if he wants to pull.

Shi Ce reported that he had entered the account, followed by a general, Jin Qiude knew this person - Jiang Min, a guy who joined the army more than 20 years ago, and now he is also a guerrilla in coastal defense.

"Is the marshal still struggling with recruitment?" Shi Ce asked as soon as he entered the door, with a sinister smile on his face.

"Of course, does Brother Shi have a way?"

Shi Ce hurriedly pointed behind him: "Dashuai will know as soon as he asks." ”

……

"Ninth Master."

Zhu Jiu, who was busy settling accounts, raised his head, and looked up after seeing this greeting, a visitor looked at him with a smile, and Zhu Jiu knew two people behind him, one was Shi Dashuai, and the other was a coastal defense guerrilla who was smuggling and collecting taxes at sea all day long, nicknamed Jiang Peel. It's the person in front of you......

Suddenly, a flash of spiritual light passed through Zhu Jiu's mind, he jumped up and shouted out in a toneless voice: "Jin, Lord Jin, oops, oops, it's Lord Jin." ”

"The ninth master is really forgetful, when I was in the teahouse, you saw me, and when I came to Changsheng Island to transport goods, we met again." Jin Qiude had a harmless smile on his face.

"What the adults blame, what the adults blame," trotted to Jin Qiude's side, Zhu Jiuye said with a smile: "Lord Jin has also arrived in Fujian?" When did it come? ”

"As soon as I arrived, I heard that the ninth master was in Xiapu, and I couldn't help but think of the friendship I had decades ago, so I came to visit the ninth master."

Zhu Jiu invited Jin Qiude to take a seat and serve tea, and every time he met, Jiang Peel, who had never done a good thing, sat tightly beside Jin Shentong, but Zhu Jiu was not afraid of him at all today, because Jiu Ye remembered that Jin Shentong was a kind and good person, and he drank a lot of wine with himself when he was in the teahouse, and he was an old friend.

The two exchanged a few words, Jin Qiude talked a few words about the stubborn resistance of the Funing Army in Zhejiang, and asked casually: "I remember that the ninth master also knows some military techniques, and there are some means of military training?" When I was in Liaodong before, I was also well-informed. ”

"My lord has won the award, where does the old man know the art of war?" Zhu Jiu laughed and waved his hand again and again: "The old man doesn't understand it at all." ”

After speaking, Zhu Jiu also glanced at Jiang Min and said to Jin Qiude: "If the old man understands, why ask the people in the town to help train the coastal defense team?" ”

Last month, Jiang Papi came to inform everyone, saying that according to the intelligence of Marshal Shi of Funing Town, tens of thousands of Shun troops may attack by giant ships, so all those who set up factories along the coast need to train their own coastal defense team.

The money had already been added to the military by Jin Qiude, but he had no intention of sending people to help the factory owners train the guards, because Jin Qiude had never looked down on the town soldiers, and felt that they were just a group of street gangsters who were selling along the streets, without discipline, obedience, and cooperation. According to the experience of the north, Jin Qiude did not want to recruit a single soldier from the town, and felt that it was easier to train a cow to obey orders than to train the townspeople.

After a bargain, Zhu Jiu cut the price in half, but Jiang Papi took the money away and didn't send an instructor for more than a month, and the rest was forgotten but Zhu Jiu refused. Although Zhu Jiu didn't believe in any nonsense that "the Shun army would attack from the sea on a giant ship that had never been seen before", he felt that training some guards could at least prevent thieves, and he couldn't withstand Zhu Jiu's stalking, so Jiang Papi had to send a few officers to let them go to Zhu Jiu's factory for some simple military training.

"Oh," Jin Qiude replied casually, and after chatting a few more words, Jin Qiude suddenly let out a voice of sudden understanding: "I said how could I have this thought," he turned back and asked Jiang Min behind him: "It seems that you said it, Jiu Ye's factory guards are very well trained." ”

"Really?" Jiang Min looked sideways at the sky and frowned and thought about it, and suddenly patted his head: "Yes, there is such a thing, my subordinates came back and said: It is worthy of being a person who has been to Liaodong, and even the workers in the factory look like soldiers." When I had dinner the day before yesterday, the last general seemed to casually mention to you, Jin Shuai, you really have a good memory. ”

"It's over, it's Lord Jiang's subordinates who raised the little old man." Zhu Jiu himself didn't believe it at all, and said with a smile: "Little Lao'er knows a little bit about the means of military training." ”

"Really?"

Jin Qiude didn't seem to have the temperament to talk about this topic, and drank tea with his head down, but Jiang Papi said unrelentingly: "Jiuye is modest, when I will train the recruits, it will take them at least ten days or even a month to distinguish between the left and right, but the subordinates of the ninth master don't need to be taught at all, that is, they can do a good job of turning left and right in one morning." ”

"What?"

After Zhu Jiu asked, he laughed and said: "Although these are not the old man's skilled workers, but the old man's field is a shipbuilder, how can the workers not distinguish between the left and right?" ”

With Jiang Min's encouragement, Zhu Jiu bragged for a while about how he trained the workers, and while he was spitting, Jiang Min secretly glanced at Jin Qiude, and saw that although the other party was still bowing his head to blow the tea, he seemed to be uninterested, but nodded slightly quietly.

"I see, that's ......" Jiang Min, who got the hint, immediately stopped the topic and asked about other things.

"Queue? What's so difficult about this, the old man's workers have to queue up every day when they go to work, and they have to queue up after work, even if they eat at noon, they have to go to the canteen to line up to eat...... Obey the order, of course, this is to obey the order, the old man starts a boat, hundreds of people need to work together, disobey the order will cause an accident and die...... Grouping? Cooperate? Oh, that's what it means, of course, there will be many groups to build a boat, and there will be team leaders among the old man's workers, and there will be division of labor and cooperation...... The old man's factory also needs to be ordered...... If you endure hardship, won't the workers suffer? When the farm is still slack, the old man's workers can't rest all year round in order to earn more silver......"

Seeing that Jin Qiude gradually raised his head and listened attentively, Zhu Jiu was even more proud, boasting about how well he managed the factory.

"The skilled workers of the Ninth Master are more well-trained than those that Jiang Guerrilla's subordinates have seen, how many are there?" Jin Qiude suddenly interjected and asked, "Three hundred, five hundred?" ”

"My lord, Xiao Lao'er has been building ships in Fujian for twenty-seven years, and there are several branches in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, so my lord can't help but look down on me too much, right?" Zhu Jiuzhi proudly stretched out three fingers, although this number is generally kept secret, but Zhu Jiu felt that the other party was not a competitor and had a relationship, so he didn't pay attention: "There are three thousand skilled workers!" ”

"The ninth master is really amazing, the number of skilled workers in this province is the first person, right?" Jin Qiude complimented.

mentioned this Zhu Jiu's expression suddenly darkened, although this is the secret of each family, but who is stronger than whom, everyone still knows in their hearts: "Don't dare to be this, Xiao Lao'er is nothing, hundreds of factory owners in Fujian Province, how can they have to work tens of thousands of skilled workers, so they dare to say that they can enter the top ten or five, right?" ”

"But workers need to be trained the most."

"I don't dare to take this seriously, the most well-trained one has to be the mine, right? Or a tool factory, these two are still more dangerous than the shipyard, you can't get distracted for a moment, and the workers have a very tacit understanding and ...... with each other" Zhu Jiu said before he spoke, and quickly corrected: "No, no, it should be a fire factory?" ”

"What kind of factory is this?" Jin Qiude's spirit is getting more and more excited, and Jiang Papi no longer needs to ask him at all.

"It's to prevent water from going away, the fire factory in Xiapu was opened by Boss Lu Zhiqiang, who of us who has not encountered a water fire. Pay Boss Lu a little monthly money, if the factory fire in these people who pay the money, Boss Lu will send his workers to fight the fire, and then collect some horse fees, which is cheaper than our own water dragon team, and Boss Lu's worker! Gee! Zhu Jiu danced to Jin Qiude: "Everyone can fly the eaves and walk the wall, carry the water dragon on the roof like flying, and the rope circle in his hand can be thrown on a small wooden fork ten zhang away, and the wall is so high, and it will go up with a whizz...... When Xiao Lao'er watched Boss Lu's workers exert their might, he even thought about the so-called stubbornness and siege of the city, which is what happened, right? ”

"Hmm." Kim nodded as he listened.

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