Chapter 066

The role of role models is huge, and as Cheng Shijie rewarded the craftsman Huang Lidong, the news soon spread throughout all the factories of the Ning Navy.

In particular, some skilled craftsmen are ready to do a big job. Speaking of which, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty really had a few brushes, although Cheng Shijie gave the Gun Bureau, the Armor Crossbow Bureau, the Gunpowder Bureau, and the Ordnance Bureau tasks that exceeded half of their normal productivity, but these craftsmen simply rushed to work overtime and completed the task.

The purpose is to show his face in front of Cheng Shijie, in just half a month, Cheng Shijie has accepted a total of seventy-eight magic modified Thunderbolts, and even the most difficult big discs in Huang Lidong's mouth are as many as six hundred and fifty, with an average of eight discs per Thunderbolt, which can also be called more than enough magazines.

The A Crossbow Bureau produced a total of 2,800 mountain mulberry crossbows, with an average daily output of nearly 200, but for more than 2,500 officers and men of the Ning Navy, one mountain mulberry crossbow per person was enough.

Zhuge crossbow production of 860 units, but the crossbow arrows are slightly less, a total of more than 150,000 pieces, an average of 60 arrows per crossbow machine, and more than 30,000 Zhuge crossbow arrows.

These crossbow arrows can be produced so quickly, thanks to the shrewd craftsmen, according to the various lathes sent by Sun Yuanhua, especially the craftsman Zheng Chuanwen of the furniture factory, invented the animal-powered planer, one equipment can produce more than 5,000 crossbow arrows a day, which is dozens of times more efficient than the original manual.

For this reason, Zheng Chuanwen was rewarded by Cheng Shijie with 800 taels of silver, plus 150 acres of land.

In this way, the craftsmen of each factory are full of energy.

On October 26, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie issued an order to all the officers and men of the Ning Navy to stop suppressing bandits, and the production of weapons and equipment must not be left in the warehouse to lay cubs, which must be equipped for the soldiers.

Due to the production of equipment, Cheng Shijie found that he had to expand the army again.

At the Purple Mountain Ning Naval Battalion, as the horn sounded in the early morning, more than 2,500 soldiers who remained in the camp got up, put on their clothes, shoes and socks, and rushed out to assemble and start their morning exercises.

The gate of the barracks opened, and a group of soldiers carrying more than 30 pounds of equipment poured out, lined up in a uniform queue and began to run along the avenue, countless feet raised and fell at the same time, very rhythmic, as if every step was stepping on the heart of people, very spectacular.

"Meet the Garrison!"

"Keep training!"

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie observed the training of Ning's naval soldiers, and after more than three months of training, this army finally had the appearance of an army.

In the past month or so, the Ning Navy has eliminated more than 20 bandits, seized more than 80,000 taels of silver, and provided more than 7,800 free laborers for iron mines, kilns, and coal mines.

At the same time, Ning Haijun also won more than 3,400 first ranks, and Cheng Shijie rewarded a total of more than 158,000 acres of land for this. Of course, these lands are only the right to reclaim wasteland,

Of course, the soldiers of the Ning Navy are not without casualties, and casualties cannot be avoided in war, and the soldiers killed in the Ning Navy, including their families, do not care about death at all.

Because Cheng Shijie gave too much.

The guards of the Ming army, like the government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, were not paid. The only way for the Tang army to get rich was to go to the battlefield, and they themselves took their own equipment to fight from Liaodong to Korea and west to the Caspian Sea, because war was the most profitable way.

The Ning Navy fought almost every day, and of course, in this case, the income was also very considerable.

After the five-kilometer armed cross-country run of the Ning Navy, they returned to the barracks and began to have breakfast, and after breakfast, they rested for half an hour.

Just when he was resting, Cheng Shijie suddenly noticed that a dense crowd appeared outside the camp of Ning Haijun. This is Li Fang's trip to the coastal islands of the Dongjiang Army and brought back more than 1,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Army.

With Mao Wenlong being killed, Yuan Chonghuan being Ling Chi, Chen Jisheng being killed by the rebels, and Huanglong still can't control the army, which makes the impression of the court bosses on the Dongjiang Army even worse.

At the beginning of the year, Sun Yuanhua directly stopped the salaries and supplies of the Dongjiang Army, and although these soldiers of the Dongjiang Army had rich combat experience, they had been starved into beggars.

Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, and Geng Zhongming fled from the Dongjiang Army, and later even Shen Shikui, the general deputy of the Dongjiang Army, also fled and defected to Sun Yuanhua. However, after the Dongjiang Army's more than 100,000 troops were streamlined, only the four associations were retained, and more than eighty percent of the soldiers could only fend for themselves.

Li Fang originally wanted to pull a naval division from the Dongjiang Army, but the problem was that although the naval division troops were also poor, they guarded the sea, could seize smuggling, and had a bit of oil and water, so they were not willing to come over at all.

In desperation, Li Fang had no choice but to take these more than 1,000 soldiers who had crossed the sea to the Purple Mountain camp.

"Didn't you ask you to recruit a water master? What do you recruit infantry for? ”

"If you return to the garrison, your subordinates will keep in mind your commands, and only recruit soldiers who are physically strong, upright, and innocent, but they have all met or even exceeded this standard, and your subordinates really don't know how to refuse them!"

Cheng Shijie snorted coldly and said, "Li Fang, I see that you didn't think of rejecting them at all, don't think I can't see through your thoughts!" ”

Li Fang's voice lowered and said: "Lord Garrison, these soldiers are all good soldiers with infinite strength, upright personalities, and innocent family backgrounds, and they are all forced to live, so they all came to join the Lord Garrison, and please behave well with the Lord Garrison, give them a bowl of rice to eat!" ”

If Cheng Shijie didn't want to kill Kong Youde, he wouldn't want these soldiers at all, originally he was worried about the lack of equipment, but now it's okay, with these people, the total strength of the Ning Navy has directly exceeded more than 4,300 people, which is more than 1,800 more than the original 2,500 people.

"These soldiers are on guard!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the recruits and said: "If you can't practice, don't blame this garrison for not being emotional, Ning Navy only needs to be elite, and don't collect waste!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Garrison!"

Li Fang was overjoyed.

He really didn't want to rely on recruiting the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to pull a mountain, as an innocent man, he just hoped that Cheng Shijie could send troops to exterminate Meng Xianhan and rescue his lover Peng.

Cheng Shijie looked at Li Fangdao and said: "Don't be busy thanking you first, don't be too happy first, whether you can stay or not, it depends on yourself, you had better pray now, these old comrades can fight." The Ning Navy adopts the last elimination system, and after three months, the garrison will be strictly assessed, and if they cannot pass the assessment, where will they come from and where will they go. ”

At this moment, Shen Mingyu took a turn from these recruits, and he lowered his voice and said: "Lord Garrison, my subordinates have seen it, most of them are good hands, and nine times out of ten they have been touched by human lives, good soldiers!" ”

"It's expensive to feed these soldiers!"

"We can suppress bandits......"

"Are there still bandits in Ninghai Prefecture?"

"Yes, there is a bandit named Mao 100,000, this guy smeared oil on the soles of his feet, ran away, and didn't catch him!"

"The matter of suppressing bandits, we have to put it aside for the time being, and now that the equipment is here, everyone must be familiar with our new equipment!"

Cheng Shijie looked at these nervous recruits and said, "Congratulations to all of you for joining the Ning Navy." ”

The recruits rejoiced.

Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said: "You may have heard before you came, the ordinary officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy are one or two taels of silver per month, and the beheading of the first level is rewarded with five taels of silver, or ten acres of land." You may have all heard that some people in the Ning Navy are now landlords, who of you has the most land, come out and talk about it! ”

At this moment, more than a dozen of the veterans of the Ning Navy raised their hands.

"Liu Qingsong, you say!"

"He participated in the war nine times, beheaded seventeen ranks, captured fifty-nine people, and rewarded a total of one thousand and fifty-five acres of land."

"One hundred and fifty-five acres?"

Hearing this number, these Dongjiang Army soldiers immediately became excited.

"Zhou Ning, you say!"

"Participated in eleven decapitations, beheaded twenty-five ranks, captured thirty-eight people, and rewarded a total of eight hundred and twenty acres."

"Behead eleven levels, capture three people, and reward a total of one hundred and fifty-five acres!"

At present, the per capita land of the Ningbo Navy is more than 100 acres, and the minimum is 75 acres.

The eyes of these Dongjiang soldiers burst out with green light, as if they were like wolves.

Cheng Shijie continued: "You join the Ning Navy, your military uniforms, civilian clothes, shoes and socks, and bed quilts are all provided by the army, two sets of training uniforms, two sets of regular uniforms, and a new set of training uniforms will be issued every three months, don't fight the idea of taking the endless training uniforms home for your family to wear, doing so will make you and your family be severely punished, and also, a set of training uniforms that are not rotten after wearing them for three months, this general will dispose of your instructors!" ”

Many recruits really have the idea of taking home their unworn military uniforms to wear for their families.

But the veteran looked disdainful. Sao Nian, you are so naïve! First of all, it is a felony to take a military uniform out of the barracks, and it is a serious demerit; Secondly, it is also a major crime for civilians to wear military uniforms, with heavy penalties; In the end, with Ning Haiwei's training intensity, a set of military uniforms turned into fishing nets after three months of wearing, and it is also a felony to give a good military uniform to your family.

"Your food is unlimited, as long as you can eat, eat as you like, if you are not full, General Ben will dispose of the men and quartermasters, if you waste food, General Ben will dispose of you!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Your family members can take it over, be incorporated into the Tuntian military household, carry out Tuntian, your children, you can enter the Ning Navy students to study for free, you are killed, the families of ordinary soldiers can get a pension of twenty taels of silver and a hundred acres of land, this hundred acres of land, your family can get five years of tax exemption, ten and a half years of tax, and eternal heirlooms, these are the due treatment of the families of the fallen soldiers, if you do not get the full amount, you have the right to help the relatives of your comrades-in-arms to petition the general, of course, I hope this kind of thing never happens, and if it does, General Ben will pick the skin of the person in charge! ”

The soldiers of the Ning Navy, both veterans and recruits, cheered.

The lives of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were really cheap, and fighting a war was a natural obligation for them, they had no right to ask for anything, the honor was not with them, and even if they won the war, the rewards were extremely meager.

For example, in the battle to resist Japanese aggression and aid Korea, more than 100,000 soldiers fought bloodily for seven or eight years, with tens of thousands of casualties, and finally won, and the reward was less than one or two silver per person, which is simply a joke.

In case they die in battle, don't talk about money for their families, thank God for being compensated for a few buckets of old rice! How much combat effectiveness can an army that has no honor, no due remuneration, and no compensation for the families who have died in battle?

They became Cheng Shijie's subordinates, and their lives were forty taels of silver and one hundred acres of land. You must know that the land price of the Ming Dynasty has been very stable, even if it is in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the whole world is smoking, but the land price is still strong, even if it is a dry field, it costs eight taels of silver, and a good paddy field, an acre of land can be sold for twelve taels of silver.

A pension of 100 acres, which is equivalent to hundreds of taels of silver, the Ning Navy fights, the spoils of war are uniformly distributed, and the injured are treated with silver, and the military doctor is responsible for healing, so they don't have to worry. Even if he dies, his family will have no food and clothing from now on, no matter how he counts, he will earn it!

Ning Haijun cheered excitedly: "We are willing to die for the garrison!" ”

Cheng Shijie asked the recruits to create military registrations, and then distributed personal cotton clothes, military uniforms, bedding, lunch boxes, and equipment.

Cheng Shijie was just about to convene the officers to discuss the current establishment and reorganization of the Ning Navy, which now has infantry, cavalry, artillery, and naval divisions, and also has a powerful thunderbolt.

In Cheng Shijie's plan, he planned to increase the fire support post for each division, that is, eight 30-round thunderbolts, in front of the thunderbolts that had 240 lead bullets fired at one time, this firepower density could completely crush 200 firebolts.

The original plan of the single gun has no meaning of existence, in terms of range is not as good as the crossbow machine, in terms of power is not as good as the thunderbolt, as for the artillery, it should be used as a direct support firepower directly under the management of Cheng Shijie.

However, the problem is that just after Cheng Shijie gave the order, the sound of horses' hooves outside the camp sounded.

"Garrison Lord, Garrison Lord......"

Cheng Shijie turned his head and saw that it was an old acquaintance Peng Jianhong.

"Brother Peng!"

"Oh, Master Cheng, you can torture Peng!"

"You're ......"

Peng Jianhong lowered his voice and said: "Something happened, three days ago, the governor went to sea to prepare to support Liaodong, and encountered wind and waves at sea, and the governor accidentally fell into the water, and now he ......."

"Did Lord Futai ask Cheng to go to Dengzhou City?"

"It's not!"

Peng Jianhong smiled bitterly: "I am not enough at the lower level, I didn't see Lord Futai, this matter was ordered by Pan Renxian, the deputy envoy of the Inspectorate Department!" ”

Cheng Shijie was slightly stunned, he felt that something was faintly wrong, and he smelled a smell of conspiracy.

PS: What, let's say, the chapter at twelve o'clock today is gone, and this is also the last public chapter, which is also a two-in-one. Tomorrow on the shelf, I will write a shelf testimonial. Tomorrow on the shelves, but the heart is the most calm. Because there's nothing to look forward to.