Chapter 102

Cheng Shijie is still accustomed to the way of thinking of future generations, and the New Year is about to begin, how can he give some benefits to his subordinates, even if he doesn't pay money, at least a few catties of meat, and a bag of noodles, no matter how difficult it is, he must have a good New Year.

But the problem is that now Ning Haijun is not the original Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households, at that time, there were less than 20,000 people in total, even if each person was given a tael of silver, or a stone of grain, Cheng Shijie's pressure would not be too great.

The population of southern Liaoning is increasing every day.

There is no way, there is too little arable land on the coastal islands, the sea breeze is strong, and the living environment is very poor.

Therefore, the people under the jurisdiction of the Dongjiang Army arrived in southern Liaoning one after another, and these refugees from eastern Liaodong were sent to factories with technology, and those who did not have technology could only be incorporated into the Tuntian Hundred Households to farm. Cheng Shijie actually doesn't know how many people there are in southern Liaoning, just 100 households in Tuntian, it has been compiled to 492, which is still the data three days ago.

This means that there are 49,120 Tuntian soldiers alone, plus more than 20,000 officers and men of the Ning Navy, as well as their families, and more than 26,000 Dongjiang troops, including more than 24,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers.

It also means that when the welfare is only paid during the New Year, even if a person receives twenty catties of grain, it will take three or four hundred thousand catties, and the landlord has no surplus grain, and Cheng Shijie is still worried.

Meng Xianhan proposed by Li Fang was simply a pillow brought to him when he was sleepy.

However, for naval warfare, Cheng Shijie is a complete layman, and professional things are left to professional people to do, Cheng Shijie gave Li Zhixiang a combat order, codenamed "Clean and Clean!" ”

At present, the naval division of the Ning Navy has more than 300 large and small warships, mainly concentrated in the two seaports of Jinzhou Port and Gaizhou Port, and of course includes Port Arthur, but even if the Dongjiang Navy Naval Division is added, these nearly 500 large and small warships have always served as a transport team and have never had a battle.

No battle, which means no reward, these officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy Navy have some faint emotions, after all, the military regulations of the Ning Navy are there, and they can only have the opportunity to reward the land if they make meritorious contributions in battle.

Li Fang carried the order written by Cheng Shijie himself, and when he arrived at the camp of the Jinzhou Port Naval Division, more than 8,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division began to glow with green light: "Business has come to the door!" ”

At this time, Ning Haijun was cultivated into a monster army by Cheng Shijie, and he was happy when he heard the war, and he was decadent without a war. Because of the battle, they can have everything they want, fields, houses, and silver.

This is better than any mobilization slogan.

For the combat operation of attacking the South Island, Cheng Shijie became the shopkeeper, because he didn't understand naval warfare, if a layman commanded an insider, it would be a taboo for soldiers, and more importantly, Cheng Shijie is very busy now, and there are endless things to do every day.

It's like going to a thatched house, this problem is very acute now, in just one month, the Jinzhou Acropolis has grown from scratch, increasing the population of more than 100,000, Ning Navy soldiers are good to say, they have already developed a habit, the problem of the Dongjiang Army is not big, under the supervision of the instructor, they soon knew to find a thatched house to go to the toilet.

If they don't know, the whip in the instructor's hand will let them know, and if they don't know yet, they will naturally know after a few hungry meals.

But the problem is that Jinzhouwei is not only the Ning Navy and the Dongjiang Army, but also a large number of Liaodong refugees, especially most of these refugees have gastrointestinal problems.

If left untreated, a soak of per person per person will be enough to turn the area around the Golden State Acropolis into a large thatched hut full of yellow and white things in a short period of time, and this trend has already begun in the refugee quarantine camps where there is no military coercive system.

Reform of the toilet regime is imperative.

Cheng Shijie felt a little tired, even a five or six-year-old child in the future knew that he had to find a bathroom to go to the toilet, but the problem was that these Liaodong refugees were used to defecating in the open, especially the inner and outer city walls of Jinzhou City.

There is no better solution, as the Ning Navy's panacea of the Tuntian Baihu, to undertake this task, Jinzhouwei's junction with Lushun, outside the north of the mighty city, the first organic fertilizer distribution center of the Ning Navy, in the era of no chemical fertilizer, Cheng Shijie will not waste these excrements.

When the crops start to be cultivated in the spring of next year, the 100 households in Tuntian can come here at any time to pick fertilizer, and the conditions are difficult, and no resources can be wasted.

Starting from the mighty city, and then successively built more than 800 public toilets that can accommodate 200 men and women at the same time, and then however, this problem was not completely solved, because many people were illiterate, and finally in desperation, as long as they found a painter, at the door of the toilet, they painted a portrait of a man and a woman, and finally solved this problem.

This also made Cheng Shijie realize that it is urgent for the whole people to get rid of illiteracy.

In addition to the issue of convenience, there is also the issue of hygiene. Even if the weather is cold, the problem of bathing the soldiers of the Ning Navy and the Dongjiang Army is also urgently needed, because the problem of infectious diseases cannot be completely eliminated, Cheng Shijie did not build a large pool in later generations, but let the craftsmen make showers.

Even if there is no plastic pipe, no steel pipe, the craftsmen used bamboo pipes to solve this problem, this problem is solved simply and crudely, the public bathhouse is built two floors, the first floor is used for bathing, the second layer is used to add water, one by one bamboo straight to the lower layer, a gourd on the small hole, the problem is simply solved.

Of course, when heating water, it still needs to be added manually, and hundreds of large barrels are rotated back and forth, which can not only exercise the physical strength of the soldiers of the Ning Navy and the Dongjiang Army, but also allow them to solve the problem of bathing by themselves.

There are too many people, and you can't do anything in a swarm, and the basic life matters such as eating,, and bathing need to be done one by one. Everything is not isolated, and the overall arrangement of time involves all aspects of daily training, mobilization, theoretical study, and cultural study, and only an extremely detailed schedule can coordinate all of this, which not only ensures that no time is wasted, but also ensures that each soldier does not miss a single study and training project.

Cheng Shijie handed over this job to Chen Guodong, which is called decentralization, but in fact he is lazy.

Cheng Shijie suffers from too few talents, he is very envious of the bosses of later generations, as long as he has the capital and offers a high enough salary, he will recruit excellent talents, which is really convenient.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is rich now and can't find enough talents, Ma Shilin under him is busy, Song Xiance is almost divided into three people who are busy, Zhou Yandong is busy, and Chen Guodong is also busy.

In desperation, he just needs to make a job announcement...... Cheng Shijie also knew that southern Liaoning at this time was different from Shandong, Shandong was a large cultural and educational province, but southern Liaoning was a cultural desert.

In the spirit of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, I never thought about it......

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Zhang Huaize is two years Chinese New Year's Eve old today, his father Zhang Siyou was once the head of the second house of the Zhang family in Laiyang, and in the 37th year of Wanli (1609), he served as the household Cao of Nanjing, and later became the commander of Changsha County. It is said that Zhang Huaize has his back to the Zhang family in Laiyang, and he has a father who is a county magistrate, so it should not be difficult to find a background.

However, the problem is that the big family is actually equivalent to the small court, and Zhang Siyou and Zhang Sicheng once competed for the position of the head of the Zhang family in Laiyang, which is equivalent to intervening in the battle for the throne of the imperial court. And Zhang Siyou was defeated and died violently. At that time, Zhang Huaize was still young, orphans and widows were helpless, and Zhang Sicheng was forced by the pressure of the clan to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. Zhang Huaize was also able to grow up under the care of his widowed mother.

Because of the misfortune he suffered in his childhood, Zhang Huaize was relatively precocious, and he had no contact with other Zhang brothers in the clan, and his life was quite hard. It wasn't until Chen Guodong took Ning Haijun to arrest more than 600 members of the Zhang clan in Laiyang, and Zhang Huaize was arrested because of his surname Zhang, and then sent to Jinzhou.

Although Zhang Huaize encountered loneliness and hardship, he worked hard since he was a child, and studied the scriptures and history hard, although in order to avoid being suspicious of the children of the clan in the limelight, he never participated in the scientific examination, let alone the fame of the exam, but he was steady and steadfast in his life, and he was willing to work hard in everything.

The benefits of the Zhang family in Laiyang Zhang Huize did not take a point, but became a prisoner of the Ning Navy, and accepted the labor reform of the Ning Navy, and the other Zhang children hated Cheng Shijie so much, only Zhang Huaize not only hated, but admired and appreciated.

Zhang Huaize has been secretly observing Cheng Shijie's every move, and after learning that Cheng Shijie recruited a large number of displaced people to serve as tenants of the Ning Navy, these displaced people or prisoners of war became tenants of the Ning Navy's public land, which was naturally a rare act of kindness.

But as more and more refugees and refugees were recruited by the Ning Navy, Zhang Huaize felt Cheng Shijie's ambition and pattern, and the generals of the other guards were all bent on making money.

Cheng Shijie is not only a good hand in fighting, but also a good hand in managing places, hundreds of thousands of displaced people flocked to southern Liaoning, and there was no chaos, which is much stronger than the ability of the Laiyang County Order.

How much food do tens of thousands of displaced people need to consume in a day? Recruit so many displaced people that even a mountain of grain will be eaten up......

At this time, Zhang Huaize saw Cheng Shijie's recruitment notice, which was his opportunity. He immediately returned to the nest where he lived and discussed with the widow's mother, not for anything else, but for Cheng Shijie's monthly salary of five silver. Zhang Huaize can now get five buckets of food with one stone through manual labor, and the mother and son can barely make ends meet, and five taels of silver is a very considerable income for Zhang Huaize.

Zhang Huaize's mother Zhang Li is very supportive of her son's refuge in Cheng Shijie, especially Zhang Huaize can't blend into Laiyang Zhang's family, it is not easy to live until now, a thirty-two-year-old man is not big in the later life, but the problem is that Zhang Huaize is at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at the age when everyone of the same age is a grandfather, he is still unmarried, and the incense of the Zhang family is about to be broken.

If you can earn five taels of silver, then why worry about not marrying a daughter-in-law?

Inspired by his mother, Zhang Li, Zhang Huaize decided to take a risk.

After learning that Zhang Huaize was going to apply for Cheng Shijie's recruitment, the soldiers in charge of guarding Ning were very polite to him, not only taking Zhang Huaize from Fenglin Town to the Jinzhou Acropolis, but also providing meals along the way and escorting him all the way.

Don't look at the south of Liaoning now there are more than 100,000 people, but the jackals and tigers and leopards in the mountains and forests are really not a few, a few days ago there was an accident of wild boars attacking the refugee settlement, about 50 wild boars rushed to the refugee settlement, happened to be discovered by the Ning Navy patrol, a crossbow bolt and firearms, these more than 50 wild boars, became the Ning Navy soldiers' meal.

When I arrived at the south of the Acropolis of Jinzhou, there was a huge camp that could accommodate tens of thousands of displaced people in the open space in the south of the city, and rows of neat but very simple adobe houses appeared on the flat ground, and peasants in ragged clothes were busy working in front of and behind the houses.

"How did this house be built outside the city?"

"Hehe, what's wrong outside the city? Isn't there a wall outside? ”

"This chest-high low wall can only protect against wild beasts, right?"

"It's enough to be able to keep the beast at bay!"

This Ning Navy soldier said with some pride: "It's better for Jiannu to come and ......."

"Better come?"

"Yes, Jiannu is here, I will have the opportunity to cut off their heads, a Jiannu's head, you can reward fifty acres of land, which is much more valuable than bandits!"

Even if he is from Shandong, Zhang Huaize has also heard of the murderous name of Jiannu, in Shandong, Jiannu can make children stop crying, but in the hearts of Ning's naval soldiers, Jiannu is actually a reward in their eyes.

Zhang Huaize was a little confused.

That's self-confidence.

Strong self-confidence.

Think about the future generations, why did the three lone PLAs dare to fight towards yinjun's battalion? If the online author dares to write such a bridge, he will definitely be scolded to death.

This is a war of hot weapons, not of cold weapons.

However, it is true.

At that time, he was holding the weapon of the Wanguo brand, and he actually launched an attack on the strongest army on the planet, and beat this powerful army with a powerful air force, army, and navy to the ground.

What does this rely on?

In fact, it is because of having strong self-confidence.

Because of his self-confidence, Jiannu blew out that "the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and it is invincible." ”

Jiannu casually rushed towards an army of 10,000 people of the Ming army without any scruples, and there was an absolute chance of defeating this Ming army.

This is Jiannu's self-confidence.

Of course, the Tang army also has self-confidence, Li Jing led three thousand iron cavalry to attack Yinshan at night, if there is no self-confidence, what kind of courage will let them fight against hundreds of thousands with three thousand? And still win?

But the problem is that with the battles of Sarhu, Hunhe, Liuhe, and Dalinghe, the Ming army was defeated a lot, and its morale was gone, and its self-confidence was also gone.

However, the problem is that Ning Haijun is the biggest outlier in the world, and they are not afraid of Jiannu, because they believe that they can defeat Jiannu and make Jiannu's head become the silver in their hands and the field of reward.

"Humble Zhang Huaize to meet Cheng Dashuai!"

When Zhang Huaize saw Cheng Shijie, he was in a workshop, instructing craftsmen to process some parts that could not be named, but these parts made Zhang Huaize speculate that it should be some kind of machinery.

"You're here to apply?"

"Yes!"

"Ben Shuai wants to build a road!"

Zhang Huaize bowed down and said: "As long as someone has money, it doesn't take much effort to build this road...... Is it repaired in this Golden State City? ”

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said, "No, this road is very long!" ”

"How long?"

"Almost five hundred miles!"

Cheng Shijie pointed in the direction of the south and said: "From Lushun to Gaizhou, the whole journey is five hundred miles!" ”

At present, the Ning Navy is already a mule-horse army, a four-wheeled carriage can carry a team of 12 fully armed soldiers, run 30 or 40 miles to change horses, and can send Jinzhou's troops to a distance of 200 miles within 12 hours a day.

There is a prerequisite for this, that is, to have a post station for raising horses, and now that the post station has been established, a relatively complete official road is also needed.

People have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries.

Cheng Shijie is now starting to think about building a highway, of course, this highway and the highway of later generations are two completely different concepts. Although Cheng Shijie did not have enough ambition to build a perfect transportation network in this backward environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it does not prevent Cheng Shijie from better dredging his own transportation lines, next year, that is, the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ning Haijun will definitely start a tragic bloody battle with Jiannu, because Huang Taiji can't watch Cheng Shijie get Tuntian up.

If Huang Taiji did not send troops in the spring, then he would lose the entire southern Liaoning forever, and at that time, the Ning Navy had gained a firm foothold in southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie's army has swelled to 20,000 horses, and the Dongjiang army has more than 40,000 people, so the troops can no longer be expanded, and any further expansion will be beyond the limit of Cheng Shijie's financial resources.

In the case of a relatively small number of people, how to solve the security problem in southern Liaoning? That can only learn from the German army in World War II and conduct mobile defense.

This is a serious problem, and southern Liaoning must have roads that can smoothly pass through four-wheeled carriages.

However, the problem is that in the eyes of Zhang Huaize, who is proficient in general affairs, Cheng Shijie is too whimsical.

More than 500 miles of hard pavement requires a lot of money, and if there is money, it is not impossible.

Zhang Huaize asked: "I don't know how much money Cheng Shuai can give Zhang, how many people?" How many stones? ”

"This?"

Cheng Shijie said: "There is no stone for Ben Shuai at present, Ben Shuai can transfer 25 Tuntian 100 households to you, 2,500 people, and give you a batch of 2,600 refugees, if there are more displaced people in the future, you can make up 6,000 heads!" ”

Zhang Huaize felt that his head was as big as a bucket, a road of 500 miles, but only for 6,000 people, he really wanted to ask Cheng Shijie if he knew how big a project it was?

Cheng Shijie continued: "If you don't have the silver, you can give you 30,000 stones!" ”

Zhang Huaize silently calculated in his heart that if the road was narrower, it could also be completed: "How wide does this road need to be?" ”

"You can run two cars in parallel, four lanes in both directions, and it can't be narrower!"

Cheng Shijie thought about it, the two-way four-lane carriage in later generations was twenty-six meters, but the width of the four-wheeled carriage at the end of the Ming Dynasty was quite about one meter eighty-six, which could be suitable for narrowing.

"It needs to be at least eight zhang wide!"

"How long will it take for the marshal to finish?"

"How long will it take you to build?"

"At least three years!"

"Three years, too long!"

"Dashuai, you only give 6,000 people to the lowly position, and there is no ready-made stone, this is the shortest time, there is nowhere to buy the stone in southern Liaoning, you can only collect and mine it from everywhere, fortunately, there are a lot of available stones in Jinzhou, which can be mined, but these stones must be smashed and crushed to the extent of usability with a hammer, and the stone used in a mile of road is more than a million catties?"

Zhang Huaize said with a wry smile: "Six thousand people are smashing stones day and night, and each person can only smash seven or eight hundred catties of stones every day, and they have to be milled before they can be used...... In this way, it will take at least five to ten days to use the stone for one mile of pavement, and three years for five hundred miles of pavement is already very fast......"

Song Xiance also persuaded: "Lord, if you want to work for relief, it's better than letting these people idle here, but it's going to be spring ploughing in three months at most, don't you need people in the field?" Building roads and bridges, although it is also good governance, always hurts the farmers, and if the time is missed, it will involve a year's harvest......"

Cheng Shijie finally understood what Zhang Huaize was worried about, he smiled, patted Zhang Huaize on the shoulder gently, and said in a low voice: "Please rest assured, when the harvest is damaged and the farmer is hurt, Ben Shuai will not do it." You only take into account the progress of manpower, and do not take into account that what is more powerful than man is machinery! ”

"Mechanical!"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie then smiled: "Look at this machine, this is a hydraulic crusher, as long as it is after the spring in the future, the water flow is urgent, and the stone can be broken to the extent that it can pave the road!" ”

The working principle of the crusher is very simple, this machine is prepared by Cheng Shijie to burn cement, in addition to the crusher, there is also a ball mill for making cement, but at the moment this thing has not been manufactured, and there is still a long way to go.

Just when Cheng Shijie and Zhang Huaize were discussing how to build a highway in southern Liaoning, on the sea of the South Island, dense warships appeared, and these warships were sailing with full sails against the wind and waves. There were still dozens of nautical miles away from the South Island, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy Naval Division on the battleship couldn't wait to uncover their gun coats and prepare the shells.

On the flagship of the Ning Navy Division, Li Fang stood on the deck, looking very excited, he was ready to move, gearing up.

"You're just for a......"

Li Zhixiang glared at Li Fangdao angrily: "You dare to trick the marshal into sending troops? ”

"What do you mean by demagogy?"

Li Fangqiang said reasonably: "The big marshal also needs Meng Xianhan, a big fat pig, Meng Xianhan, a bastard, has a lot of money, the big marshal took Meng Xianhan's money, I got it"

Li Zhixiang asked puzzledly: "Isn't it difficult for you to marry a good family with your current identity?" Just staring at an abandoned woman? ”

"What do you mean by an abandoned woman? That's my dear! ”

"Well, your dear, what's so good"

Li Fang shook his head and said, "That's because you don't understand the wonder of!" ”

(End of chapter)