Chapter 23: The Conquest Before the Autumn Harvest (3)
When these guys knelt down and surrendered to Shen Fei, just as Shen Fei thought, there was an extra grove of groves on the image above their heads, and then Shen Fei could understand that this extra gadget could make him an extra 10,000 catties of wood every year.
Shen Fei didn't think much of this number, and he didn't deal with it immediately, but instead talked to Mugen Saburo, who had just become a samurai, well, that is, the head of Shucun, as for why he called this name, he didn't need to care.
After a while with the newcomer, he went to the best houses in the tree village and settled down temporarily, and the captured young men were also liberated. As for whether they are afraid of betrayal or not, and will they take the opportunity to besiege them?
Well, the people of this era are very simple, since they surrendered in front of everyone's eyes before, and the people have recognized Shen Fei, the new lord's survival, then even if Mugen Saburo and they want to rebel, the young people in the village will not follow suit. Maybe they will be arrested and sent to Shen Fei in exchange for a reward.
The reason for this, in addition to a problem of people's desire for stability, is that Mugen Saburo and they are actually an alliance of gang members, there is no loyal retainer group, and the villagers are not their leaders, but the identities of the two sides are almost the same, and they will not follow the action brainlessly. On the contrary, Shen Fei, who confirmed the identity of the lord, if he raised the flag to rebel against the Yamada family, the fishing village and the current tree village would follow Shen Fei to rebel against the Yamada family.
What's more important is that several leaders have become samurai, and the five-stone warriors who have not yet reached the gap, they are not very united, and they have already begun to fight openly and secretly, all thinking about Shen Fei, where would they think of rebellion.
Shen Fei's Ashigaru obviously knew about these things, and they were all arrogant, unsuspecting, and automatically took over the protection of the tree village.
Shen Fei saw the envy and jealousy of these ashigaru towards Saburo Kigen and the others, and knew that they aspired to become samurai, but this time the conquest of Shucun did not fight at all, and it was completely dependent on deterrence. No one had the merit of becoming a samurai, and no one was embarrassed to talk about it as a matter of capture a few lumberjacks, so they could only watch with some resentment as those original enemies became samurai, while they themselves were restored.
Shen Fei naturally knew that it would not work to go on like this, so he immediately summoned all the ashigaru: "This battle is very good! Your team's performance is better, and similarly, although this battle is not fierce, it is also meritorious, in order to reward you for your hard work in practicing and obeying orders, you will be specially rewarded for the 14 squads who are five-stone warriors." As for the other ashigaru, they will be rewarded as one-stone samurai. If you want to become a ten-stone warrior and a five-stone warrior, then it's up to you to conquer the mining village next!"
The twelve squads immediately knelt on the ground and shouted, "Thank you for the lord's reward!" The ministers swear allegiance to the Toyogen family!" And those ashigaru, although they are a little unhappy with the name of the one-stone samurai, but even if the reward is small, they are still samurai, right? And they didn't listen to what the lord said, look at the next battle? As long as they conquer the mining village, the squad will definitely become the ten-stone samurai, and their own people will definitely become the five-stone samurai!
Therefore, they naturally followed the team to bow down to Shen Fei and shouted to the lord to show their loyalty. Only the two copper coins were a little stunned. When they heard that Shen Fei was canonizing a warrior, they subconsciously calculated how many samurai uniforms they needed to spend and how to allocate land to be the most beneficial to the Fengyuan family. can be calculated, only to be shocked to discover. The adults are talking about 14 squad leaders, but now there are only 12 squad leaders kneeling, and there are two more?
When they reacted, they immediately rushed to the team like a vicious dog. Excitedly, he knelt down and saluted Shen Fei.
In order to win people's hearts, Shen Fei did not go to the mining village immediately, but ordered people to go to the fishing village. A batch of copper coins and rice were transported, and at the same time, all the young people in the fishing village were gathered.
After spending most of the day, when the materials and manpower arrived, Shen Fei rewarded Shucun again, that is, two copper plates and one liter of rice for each person, regardless of men, women and children. The villagers who received these rewards naturally shouted to the Fengyuan family Marquis Wandai, and Shen Fei also nodded with satisfaction.
This reward for all people is not just to buy people's hearts, after all, this thing is only a little bit, only enough for everyone to save a few meals, and a liter of rice can be eaten for a few days when exchanged for corn. But this kind of action, especially after those people accept the reward and cheer, will give these people a subconscious psychological impression that Shen Fei is their lord and the Fengyuan family is the master of this land.
With this psychological impression, no matter what Shen Fei does in this land in the future, he will be justified, and the people will subconsciously obey and recognize. It's hard to get stuck up and down like this, and it's hard to get it smooth.
Shen Fei was also very generous, and boiled dozens of large pots of corn that was transported, accompanied by pickled radishes and salted fish, and a large number of people ate and drank, and then Shen Fei began to count the young people in the tree village.
It is worthy of being a tree village, all of which are lumberjacks' materials, and nearly 200 young people who can carry bamboo guns as peasant soldiers have been counted, plus the young people who come from the fishing village, nearly 300 people. In the end, with the addition of Shen Fei's sixty low-level warriors, it became a small army of more than 350 people.
Shen Fei continued to organize the group, and let those one-stone warriors each lead four peasant soldiers, these one-stone warriors had been culturally educated by Shen Fei before, and had undergone strict military training, so where could they not deal with four peasant soldiers? So after a while, twelve neat phalanxes of 20 people appeared in front of everyone. As for the twelve 5-stone warriors, they were simpler, just continue to lead the previous four men.
As for the extra peasant soldiers, that is, the weaker ones, they were divided among the samurai of several fishing villages and tree villages who had joined the army, and of course, two bronze coin samurai also led the troops, but they were logistics soldiers, and continued to lead the strong women whose numbers had been greatly expanded.
Seeing that the formation was complete, Shen Fei waved his hand: "Target Mining Village!" The first to lead people out of the tree village, and the others naturally followed behind Shen Fei in neat steps under the reprimand of the samurai.
As for whether there will be a problem in mobilizing peasant soldiers at the time of the upcoming autumn harvest? Don't forget who the peasant soldiers recruited by Shen Fei are, either from the fishing village or from the tree village, all of them are guys who can work around the clock, and they will not be restricted by the autumn harvest season.
Therefore, the autumn harvest or not the autumn harvest has no effect on these young men at all, on the contrary, they are all ready to show a good show when attacking the mining village, and if they don't see the ashilight of the previous lord, can they easily get the reward of one stone Zhixing? Even after fighting the mining village, these one-stone warriors will become five-stone warriors and become real warriors!
These lords' ashigaru doesn't look very good.,It's said that before I was still those gangsters under Yamada Town.,Just two months of training for the lord to have such a mental state.,How can I be better than the previous bastards, right? I don't want to become a samurai in one step.,It's good to become a ashigaru who leads a bucket of supporting rice first, right? I can't say that if I show myself well on the battlefield, I will be appreciated by the lord, and I will be promoted from a peasant soldier to a samurai at once!
Shen Fei's large number of promotions under his hands made these peasant soldiers who had never done much farm work extremely excited, which was a very good incentive for morale. As long as they are managed, those who have been educated by Shen Fei as an officer are completely able to manage the four peasants and soldiers who are accustomed to assisting in the work.
That's right, Shen Fei actually values these peasant soldiers very much, because whether it is a fishing village, a tree village, or an upcoming mining village, they are all working that needs to be completed with joint assistance, which means that as long as these people are trained a little, they will be a disciplined elite soldier, and they will definitely be more than the gangsters and idlers recruited from the castle town.
It's just that although these are the sources of elite soldiers, Shen Fei is not ready to transfer them out to become standing soldiers for the time being, relying on them, without them working, his three villages can be abolished, how much less income is this!
Therefore, if you want to recruit these future elites, you have to wait for the whole collar to be scavenged and those wild people divided into three villages, and then they can be slowly drawn out.
Shen Fei, who was thinking about this, didn't notice that the fishing village samurai like the boatman Taro had already gotten together with the tree village samurai like Saburo Mugen. In fact, it's easy to think about it, Shen Fei directly promoted sixty-two warriors here, all of whom are Shen Fei's descendants. There are only six warriors in the fishing village and the tree village combined, and they are not Shen Fei's descendants, so they naturally have to huddle together to keep warm.
It's just that I don't know what the boatman Taro and Shugen Saburo said, which made the faces of Kigen Saburo and other Shucun samurai change greatly, and then Mugen Saburo ran to Shen Fei with a panicked face and whispered: "Lord, according to the current population, Shucun can cut more than 10,000 square meters of wood a year, which can be exchanged for more than 500 square meters." If we increase the number of people, this number can be doubled! Because we have also been to Yamada Town to inquire about the price, the lowest quality wood on our side can be worth tens of yuan, and if the lord sends someone to transport it to the castle town, it will be easy to earn more than 1,000 yuan a year. ”
Shen Fei raised his eyebrows, he really underestimated the tree village, and also underestimated the benefits in it, in the castle town, the price is calculated according to the quality of the wood, but it is obviously impossible for this tree village to cut down the firewood for the fire, it is wood for many purposes. In other words, this barely 200 young and strong tree villages can make more than 500 stone Zhixing for themselves in a year, if you follow what this Mugen Saburo said, this number will directly turn to more than 1,000 stone Zhixing!
Thinking of this, Shen Fei couldn't help but be a little stunned, relying on it, this fishing village has more than 100 young people and 1,000 catties of raw fish, but it is actually an annual output of more than 25,000 catties of raw fish, a gap of 25 times. And the more than 200 young and strong people in Shucun paid 10,000 catties of timber, and now it is 10,000 square meters of timber! This is almost a hundredfold difference! So what about the mining village that only pays 100 catties of pig iron every year? It won't be a thousand-fold gap, right? According to this calculation, the more than 500 young and strong mining villages really have this possibility! (To be continued......