Chapter 252

Behind every outrageous regulation, there will be even more outrageous accidents. Just like the Bolivian law, which states that married women are allowed to drink only one drink, this law is to prevent married women from getting drunk and flirting with other men.

This makes you think that the legislators in Bolivia must have had someone who was green to introduce such a law, otherwise how could they have enacted such an absurd law?

There is also a British law that prohibits dying in Parliament, and anyone who dies in Parliament will be granted a state funeral qualification, so the UK has deliberately made this provision to avoid "deliberately" dying in Parliament by unrelated people.

This point, now Cheng Shijie is a personal experience, the essence of his formulation of the marriage protection law is to prevent the loopholes of the Liaodong law, in the name of concubines, not to pay wages to workers.

The infinite pursuit of profit is the nature of capitalists. There are actually many people like Chen Laosan, Chen Dayong's father, and Fang Yongchun, just like in Liaodong, there are as many as eighty-nine people who only take more than 30 concubines, and they all buy free labor in the name of concubines.

The problem now is that Cheng Shijie has tasted the evil fruits he planted, but fortunately, Zhu Weiyuan doesn't know about this matter now, of course, this matter can't be hidden for long, Zhu Weiyuan will definitely know.

When the time comes, what can Cheng Shijie do?

Pumping your own mouth and amending the Marriage Protection Act?

No matter which one is taken, it is unacceptable for Cheng Shijie, as the industry in Liaodong is becoming more and more developed, the production efficiency is getting higher and higher, and women can do more and more jobs, but on the contrary, the status of women in Daming is too low, just like goods can be bought and sold at will.

If a one-size-fits-all approach is adopted, then for ordinary people, it will only add insult to injury, and it will only push ordinary people into a bottomless abyss.

In fact, if there is any way, what parent would want to sell their daughter? If you sell it, you can still live, but if you don't sell it, you can only die, and the whole family will die together.

For this point, Cheng Shijie is deeply aware of the fact that motorcycles were not banned in Hanhai City, and ordinary people could ride motorcycles to and from work, but after the ban on motorcycles, the harm to the people was the greatest, because the city was too big and it was not safe to charge, especially the rainy season in Hanhai City lasted for more than three months, and there was no way to charge it in rainy weather.

With the transportation fee of Hanhai City, the distance from Cheng Shijie to the unit is five or six hundred yuan per month, so he takes a detachable battery, and after buying a car, he will not buy a tram, because it is too unsafe and inconvenient to charge in the open air.

The current marriage protection law can only be maintained, at least at this stage, it needs to be maintained, unless there are no more poor people in the Ming Dynasty, and human trafficking can be directly eliminated and concubines are prohibited.

Now, this law is very difficult to implement, otherwise it will become Wang Mang, the prince of steps, and it is easy to pull eggs.

"Dashuai, the imperial court has issued another holy decree, I hope you will return to the capital as soon as possible!"

Cheng Shijie didn't want to go back, once he returned to Beijing, he would have to face Zhu Weiyuan, and twelve concubines, eight of his twelve concubines had only met once, and they couldn't even call their names, only knowing that two were surnamed Li, one surnamed Chen, and one surnamed Lin, one surnamed Fang, one surnamed Wu, and one surnamed Zhang.

"This marshal is busy with military affairs, and it is inconvenient to go back for the time being!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Liu Qingsong, who had just arrived in Luzon, and said, "How is the military discipline training of the new army?" ”

"Full of complaints, full of resentment!"

Cheng Shijie laughed: "Military discipline, you must pay attention to it!" ”

"Dashuai, we are now in Luzon, not in China, isn't it too harsh!"

"No, the military discipline of the Ning Navy is only for all the officers and men of the Ning Navy, whether it is in Liaodong or Luzon, in the future, we will go to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, can it be said that the Central Plains is not the territory controlled by our Ning Navy, so we can act recklessly?"

"Dashuai, isn't it a big fuss?"

Liu Qingsong said: "Are the natives also considered human? ”

"Eating, buying and selling things, these are all trivial things, because small things, but the impact is bad, resolutely put an end to it!"

After finally staying up all night to change the law in all directions, three major steps, and demanding in a military posture, these new soldiers of the Zheng Group found that the torture they were facing had just begun.

There are more than a hundred military disciplines in the Ning Navy, which is too strict! They are not allowed to gather crowds to fight, they are not allowed to drink alcohol or smoke in the barracks, they are not allowed to engage in any form of commercial activities in the barracks, they are not allowed to gather crowds to gamble, they are not allowed to gather crowds to commit sexual immorality, they are not allowed to leave the barracks without permission, they are not allowed to bring their families into the barracks without authorization, they are not allowed to accept any gifts from outsiders at will, and they must buy and sell fairly and must not be on credit...... To put it simply, when they entered this barracks, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, smoking, cheating, cheating, cheating, and robbing were all insulated from them.

Many people think that the soldiers of the Ning Navy did not come to be soldiers, but to practice. What makes the recruits more satisfied is that these military disciplines are treated equally, not only for the recruits, but also for their instructors and the elite veterans of the Ning Navy.

In case of violation, the officer will be punished more severely, and in serious cases, his future will be ruined. Another point is that although military discipline is strict, it has not yet reached the point where you lose your head at every turn.

In fact, corporal punishments such as cutting off ears, cutting off noses, gouging out eyes, stabbing characters, and inserting arrows into the camp are not seen, and there are only five kinds of punishment methods for the Ning Navy, such as standing in a military posture if the circumstances are light, push-ups, or long-distance running, confinement with more serious circumstances, and beating with military sticks if the circumstances are serious.

In other armies, beating a stick is the lightest punishment, but here, it is a great shame. Of course, what is more serious than beating with a military stick and being discharged is the death penalty. The bribe taker is beheaded! Beheading of those who sell military funds without permission! Retreat and decapitate those who escape! Those who betray military secrets are beheaded! Those who rape women are beheaded! Behead those who kill good and take credit!

Which one is subject to corporal punishment, which one is to be confined, which one is to be beaten with a military stick, which one is to be rolled up and rolled, and which one is a capital crime, are all clearly written, and finally there is one more: death to those who use their power in the law enforcement team! Yes, even the law enforcement team is in danger of being enforced.

Although the Zheng recruits complained, when they were training, how they should train or how they trained, because in the Ning Navy, in addition to the rich material treatment, they were also respected that they had never enjoyed before.

"The world's elite soldiers are no better than the mountains, industrious and simple, and they dare to fight, this southern soldier ......"

Zheng Zhilong looked at his soldiers and once again realized what it means to compare goods and throw them, and people to die than people.

is also standing in a military posture, Zheng's recruits are all like constipation, which can only be said to be reluctantly persistent, and once the order to disband is issued, they will hide in a piece.

However, the soldiers of the Ning Navy stood like a pine, sat like a clock, and did not move like a mountain, especially when they were bitten by mosquitoes, these veterans of the Ning Navy were simply like wooden people, unconscious.

Zheng Zhilong saw that his old unit had been eliminated one after another under the training system of the Ning Navy, and his face was a little unbearable.

He actually didn't know that this was the result of Cheng Shijie's intention to release the water, otherwise, it would be good if there were more than 170,000 Zheng army soldiers, excluding the old and weak.

In fact, the army soldiers of the Zheng group are now reorganized into 101 regiments to 121 regiments, a total of 21 regiments, with a total of more than 113,400 men. As for retaining such Zheng recruits, the main purpose is to carry out a plan, that is, to change the cage for birds in Luzon.

In Cheng Shijie's strategic plan, the natives of Luzon Island are not left behind, all of them are wiped out, otherwise, it is a scourge to keep them, and if such a plan is implemented, there will definitely be large-scale killing, this kind of work, ordinary people are afraid that they will go crazy, but the soldiers of the Zheng group are different, they themselves are pirates, and killing is commonplace for them.

Cheng Shijie put the total number of army soldiers of the Zheng group totaling more than 200,000, including their families, almost a million, and they would be placed in Dayuan or Luzon, and these veterans of the Zheng group were in the same way as the Ning Navy, with a team of 12 and four teams as a sentry. The three outposts are a company, and each company adds 12 people from the company headquarters and communication team, and 12 people from the cooking team, and the full strength of each company is 189 people.

Each of the four companies is a battalion, plus medical posts, marissal posts, communications posts, baggage posts and battalion headquarters, and each battalion has 976 men.

Every four battalions are a regiment, plus the regimental headquarters, the medical company directly under the regiment, the baggage company, the reconnaissance guard company, and the military justice company, each regiment has about 5,400 people.

Although Cheng Shijie has reformed the military of the Zheng Group, the role of habit is still huge, especially the battalion commander, the soldiers are very accustomed to calling the other party the Lord of Qianhu, after all, the soldiers and horses managed by a battalion commander are similar to those of Qianhu. As for the regiment commander, in the eyes of the recruits, he is the commander.

As for the company commander, that is the general in their eyes, but the rank of 100 general has been abolished.

The army of Zheng's army soldiers is about 113,400 people, which is no longer important to Zheng Zhilong, in order to avoid suspicion, unless Cheng Shijie intends to invite him, he will not show up, and he will not show his face.

No matter how hardcore the soldiers he was, including Zheng Zhilong's family soldiers, they were quickly bought off by the welfare benefits of the Ning Navy.

Although the training of the Ning Navy was very hard, no one was willing to back down, what were they holding their heads for? Not to survive?

What else can they do besides participate in the Ning Navy?

Cheng Shijie's initial reorganization of the Ning Navy was to see if the regiment could undertake tactical-level tasks and fully establish a regiment of more than 5,400 people, but the problem was that once they suffered casualties, the regiment's replenishment would be suspended, and the actual combat effect would be fundamental, and the personnel of the regiment-level tactical units would be evaluated.

With the first training of the new army units has been full for a month.

Cheng Shijie said to Liu Qingsong, who was in charge of commanding this new army unit: "It's time to carry out the weeding plan!" ”

"Marshal, these soldiers are actually far behind!"

Liu Qingsong was transferred to Luzon to serve as the commander of the new army, of course, only temporarily, these 21 regiments will be disorganized and reorganized into ordinary regiments in the future, and the rest of the Ning Navy will be reorganized into brigades. In Cheng Shijie's plan, every three infantry regiments would be reorganized into a brigade of 15,800 men, and a brigade-level unit would be stationed in Luzon, Dayuan, and Medan, which would be enough to meet the demand.

In addition to the three garrison brigades, the other units belong to the field army units, and the field brigades are not the same as the garrison brigades, with an artillery battalion, a rocket artillery battalion, and a cavalry battalion added, and the total strength of each brigade exceeds 20,000 people.

"You have been in the army of our Ning Navy for a long time, and all you see are super-first-class elite troops, and you are used to first-class soldiers and first-class officers, and then you look at other troops, no matter how you look at it, it is not right."

"Dashuai, when will they do it?"

"It's coming, it could be just a few days."

Liu Qingsong looked at his subordinates who were training with some confusion, and sighed: "I just don't know how many of them can survive this bloody storm?" ”

Cheng Shijie patted Liu Qingsong on the shoulder: "Don't think like this. Even without us, they would have died, either swallowed up by the sea at sea and died silently, or they were killed by resistance when robbing merchant ships, or they were beheaded by officers and soldiers, in short, they would not have escaped death. They may die faster with us, and they may be able to fight! ”

Liu Qingsong took a deep breath: "Dashuai, you have to be right, you are the last general's child." ”

Cheng Shijie said: "We are different from the Dutch and the Spaniards, their biggest weakness is that there are too few people, and we are the Ming, the most important thing is the population, you must first figure out, what is our position in Luzon?" ”

Liu Qingsong asked a little puzzled: "What is it?" ”

"Leave the land but not the people!"

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "When we were in Annan, we suffered losses in this regard!" ”

The Ming Dynasty had occupied Vietnam, where civil strife broke out and the king was ousted. The king's grandson came to the Ming Dynasty and begged Zhu Di to help quell the rebellion. Zhu Di agreed, sent 5,000 elite soldiers to escort Wang Sun back to Vietnam, and put down the rebellion by the way. But Zhu Di still underestimated the Vietnamese. The rebels had stabilized the political situation in Vietnam and ascended the throne as the new king of Vietnam. When the 5,000 elite soldiers escorted them halfway, they were killed by the new king's army halfway and were caught off guard. All the 5,000 elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were annihilated, and the king of Vietnam was also killed.

This immediately made Zhu Di thunderous and angry, and the king of Yue didn't look at my Celestial Empire too much, right, and my soldiers dared to kill him? This is clearly a provocation! Zhu Di immediately sent 300,000 troops straight to Vietnam. These soldiers were basically elite soldiers who had participated in the "Battle of Jingjing" and maintained a high combat effectiveness, so they quickly conquered the entire territory of Vietnam.

However, the occupation of Vietnam was abandoned after just over 30 years, and the real reason for giving up Vietnam was because, at that time, Vietnam was a foreign country, with an extremely harsh environment and an extremely backward economy. The Ming Dynasty government only collected taxes from Vietnam for seven days a year, but as a result, millions of taels of silver were pasted upside down, plus the huge expenses of the local garrison and administrative agencies, a total of more than 3 million taels of silver had to be thrown into Vietnam in a year! This amount of money was a lot for the Ming government, and it can be described as a heavy ambition.

Cheng Shijie said: "Luzon was once very closed, has formed a de facto independent kingdom, they have their own language, culture and national beliefs, no matter how good we are to them, they will rebel from time to time, it is better to solve this problem once and for all!" ”

Liu Qingsong said with a smile: "So the last general understands, in fact, he is also training, these soldiers are still very poor, how to train on the training ground, they can't train elite soldiers!" ”

"That's right, the elite soldiers are all beaten!"

"Those who surrendered the indigenous ......"

When the words came to his mouth, Liu Qingsong shut up directly, did he use Cheng Shijie's orders?

It is impossible for Cheng Shijie to leave any stains, there are stains and mistakes, and that is also Liu Qingsong's mistake.

Cheng Shijie's reorganization of the soldiers of the Zheng Group and the establishment of a regiment-level combat unit are mainly due to the fact that this is a cold weapon operation, and the rifled rifles of the Ning Navy have not yet reached Cheng Shijie's real goal, and the Ning Navy is now very large and cannot be easily reloaded.

You must know that the current Ning Navy has been expanded several times, especially after the annexation of the Zheng Group, the number of troops has exceeded more than 200,000 horses, and a lot of money is needed to redress more than 200,000 horses.

Just like the Rabbit Army of later generations, for a long time, it has been using backward and modern 59 tanks, until now, it has not been completely decommissioned, and the army still retains more than 2,000 59 tanks.

Why didn't the ninety-nine main battle tank be replaced?

The answer is actually very simple, first of all, the first point, it is almost impossible for my rabbit's tank torrent to gallop on the battlefield, no need to brag that no country in the world is willing to fight a land and land duel with my rabbit, if it is a modern war, even if it is 99A, in the face of missiles or aerial bombardment, the result is the same.

Even if it's five or nine, it's just as enough.

The army of the Ming Dynasty, including the current enemies of the Ming Dynasty, are almost all cold weapons, the number of muskets is small, and the quality is even worse.

With the transportation of the equipment of the Ning Navy from Liaodong to Luzon, the new 101st Regiment and the 102nd and 103rd regiments began to change their equipment one step ahead, first of all, the spears produced by the Ning Navy, the spears of the Ning Navy were bundled into a large bundle and a large bundle, like sugar cane, the length of the spear shaft was more than three and a half meters, and the combined length of the gun head and gun bottle also reached half a meter, adding up to four meters long.

Such a spear is a hand, especially the horizontal knife of Tang Zhizhi, which can also be said to be a two-handed knife, one per person, this two-handed knife, with a scabbard sewn from calfskin, is black and shiny, but there is no decoration, it looks mediocre. The horizontal knife is three feet long, the blade is half a finger wide, the spine is very thick, and the blade does not look very sharp, but veterans who have been on the battlefield know that this is a real weapon that can be used to fight in battle.

The next thing is the armor, which includes helmets, shoulder armor, cuirass, and shin armor, all of which are made of stainless steel, and the weight is not very heavy, including the helmet, which is only twenty pounds. With such a pair of armor, it is basically immune to bows and arrows, and it only bounces off when it is shot.

This Zheng recruits got these equipment, and they were even more glad that it was the most correct thing for them to take refuge in the Ning Navy, you must know that the equipment of Zheng's army, it is good to have a long knife, most of them are pikemen, and they are spears with a gun length of less than two meters and a blade of less than three inches.

Located in the fourth company of the 101st Regiment, the commander level of the new regiment is naturally a veteran of the Ning Navy, and the company commander of the fourth company is Yue Chaoqun, a veteran of the Ning Navy who participated in the Battle of Baliwan in Haizhou.

Yue Chaoqun looked at the soldiers of the fourth company who were showing off their equipment everywhere and said, "Everyone be quiet, listen to me!" ”

"That, the equipment has been issued to you, everyone must hurry up to train, adapt to the new equipment, and prepare for the next decisive battle!"

Yue Chaoqun continued: "Our next step is to carry out the weeding operation, this operation is very simple, it is to destroy the enemy in front of us, the task is not arduous, even quite easy, but I still ask you to pay 100% attention, don't be negligent because the difficulty is not high!" ”

Yue Chaoqun looked at the more than 100 recruits under his command and said: "We will set off tomorrow, according to the usual practice, we have to leave a suicide note, the suicide note is a letter to our family, take it easy, leaving a suicide note does not mean that we are going to die, but in order to let you have no regrets, if we unfortunately die in battle, rest assured, the pension will make our family happy to bury us." ”

Yue Chaoqun's words did not ease the atmosphere, but made the recruits feel extremely depressed.

"Company Commander Yue, if we die in battle, how much pension can our family get?"

A recruit dared to ask.

Yue Chaoqun asked, "What is your current monthly routine?" ”

"A tael of silver!"

"How many years have you been in the army?"

"Eight years!"

"The pension is your salary for two years, plus the number of years in the army, then it is about thirty-two taels of silver, plus a minimum of one hundred acres of land!"

"Thirty-two taels of silver?"

"Are there really that many?"

"You won't give it, will you?"

The recruits finally broke the silence and expressed their surprise at this number.

There is nothing surprising to be surprised, human life in this year is worth this price, not to mention thirty-two taels of silver, for a few copper coins of food, there are people who take risks to kill people and overtake goods.

"There is no doubt that if one of you dies in battle, his family will definitely get the money."

Cheng Shijie has emphasized many times that the pension has a great effect, which is not only a comfort for the families of soldiers who died in the war, but also an encouragement to other soldiers, so it is impossible not to give it.

Yue Chaoqun smiled faintly: "Although you say that you are recruits of the Ning Navy, most of them have been on the battlefield, and you also know that the battlefield is like that, if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, then bravely kill the enemy, in our Ning Navy, there are a lot of landlords with thousands of acres, including the company commander, who is also a small landlord who has 17 beheadings and 750 acres." ”

Luzon City, which is 90 kilometers south of Manila, is Batangasan, and Bada Wild Goose Port is also a small fishing village at this time, and there is no trace of the big cities of later generations, but the most prosperous area is in Taal Lake.

Lake Taal is 25 kilometers long, 18 kilometers wide, 100 meters deep on average, 172 meters at its deepest point, and has a surface area of 234.2 square kilometers.

In the middle of the lake is the famous volcanic island of Taal, and in the middle of the volcano there is a volcanic lake, also known as the "crater", with an area of about 1 square kilometer, resulting in a beautiful landscape of mountains in the lake and lakes in the mountains.

In another time and place, it is the third largest lake in the Philippines, a rainforest lake that is unique in that it has islands and the world's smallest volcano, Thal Volcano. This volcano is the lowest active volcano in the Philippines. White smoke rises from the mountainside, and visitors from the lake shore marvel at the sight.

However, it is a pity that Taal Lake has become a slaughterhouse by this time.

"Dashuai, do you want to interfere!"

Wu Shangzhi received the latest news and said to Cheng Shijie: "Marshal, the soldiers of those three regiments have gone crazy, they kill people when they see them, they rob villages when they see them, hundreds of nearby villages have been burned down by those guys, Taer Lake originally had more than 50 plantations and a population of more than 200,000, but now it has been killed two-thirds, and the lake is dyed red!" ”

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