The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 206 Qualifications of a Good Citizen
On the 15th, Ding Yi went to Phi Island first.

Leave Xu Fuzuo's silver and Shen Shikui's Japanese sword in Pidao.

Xu Fuzuo was overjoyed. He didn't expect that Ding Yi could not only fight wars, but also make money.

Ding Yi also made an appointment with the generals on today's 26th for a big wedding. Please come and see the generals. The generals were very happy and expressed their congratulations.

On the 16th, Ding Yi returned to Lushun, and some ships went directly to Pig Island.

Lushun is empty for thousands of people, and countless Liao people come to unload their goods.

More than a dozen ships were on the shore, and it took five days and five nights to unload almost all of them.

Ruan Siqing will take some Japanese knives and Japanese goods to Dengzhou and Songjiang to sell to local merchants at wholesale prices and reduce profits. He will sell [-] of them as soon as possible, and sell the remaining [-] in Dengzhou and other places slowly. .

This time Ding Yi brought back a large amount of goods, enough to support the entire Lushun for two to three years.

But Ding Yi felt that it was not enough.

Because he has few soldiers now, it can be used for two to three years. If there are more soldiers, this amount of supplies is still not enough.

So the next step is to make money, a lot of money.

Fortunately, he now has a complete route and a way to make money, and finally he has no worries. The next step is to try his best and develop with all his strength.

That's right, right now he is ready to fight.

The Ming Dynasty is not exhausted right now, there are still many soldiers and horses in the country, and Li Zicheng and others have just left the mountain not long ago.

Hou Jin is getting stronger and stronger, of course he will not be the first bird at this time, if he really wants to rush to the front and wipe out Hou Jin's soldiers, Chongzhen will deal with him when he turns back.

After returning to Lushun, Ding Yi first took people to run all over the departments, battalions, and divisions.

First look at the bastion at the South Pass. The two bastions have already been built. Currently, only a thousand surrendered troops are left to dig a hole behind the first long wall to further consolidate and build a deep defense line.

Headed by Yao Xinhan, the newly established Propaganda Department selected ten people from the surrendered army at the beginning of the month to restore their freedom.

Then they publicized in the army that these ten people work hard, have good character, and are loyal to Master Ding. They can be registered as Lushun residents. As long as they work hard in the future, Master Ding will provide food and lodging.

After working for two years, if you perform well, you can be transferred to auxiliary soldiers (auxiliary soldiers, with three coins and five buckets of rice every month).

As soon as this was publicized in the surrender, many surrendered soldiers became excited.

Most of these soldiers who surrendered were also from the Ming army. They were used to surrendering and surrendering, thinking that as long as they were soldiers, someone would always want them.

Some people may have surrendered to Houjin, surrendered to the Ming army, and then voted to Houjin.

In their view, they will fight, and they will continue to use them regardless of whether they are Ming people or the rear army.

But I didn't expect that since I came to Ding Yi's side, I have endless work every day.

Ding Yi's side is even stricter than that of Houjin, and there are sergeants with weapons to monitor when he is working.

If you don't do a good job, you will be served immediately with a whip and a stick.

In the first month, 28 surrendered soldiers were beheaded in public, including sick soldiers, wounded soldiers, and soldiers who could not work. The person in charge, Yao Xinhan, was not relentless.

The surrendered soldiers who were killed trembled with fear and trembling.

Because Ding Yi didn't do the trick of treating prisoners preferentially.

In his eyes, these post-Golden Han soldiers basically all had Han blood on their hands, and most of them were capricious and could not be trusted.

Historically, Zhang Pan, who was originally stationed in Lushun, was friendly and not easy to kill, so he took over the soldiers from the Han army who came over from the later Jin Dynasty, thinking that they were all from the same hometown of the Liao people, and they could defend Daming and Lushun together.

In the end, he was betrayed by these Han troops, Lushun was breached, and he himself was killed. More than [-] soldiers and civilians in Lushun were involved, and they were all beheaded by Houjin.

Therefore, Ding Yi did not give preferential treatment to these prisoners, nor did he learn from others to recruit troops from the surrendered soldiers. Each surrendered soldier would not do heavy work for a year or two, and he would not release them.

He used these people as animals.

Let them do all the gravitational work in Lushun, such as building forts, resisting pits, and building walls. At the same time, they are provided with food to ensure that they will not starve to death, but they will not be fed too much.

Every three days, the 100 best performers are selected from the surrendered troops for a day off.

Every year, the top ten performers are selected from the surrendered soldiers and promoted to residents.

The residents of Lushun have relative freedom, and now they do relatively easy work. They have rest days every week, and they can also manage their meals.

If you perform well, you will receive food and even cash rewards.

Therefore, under the propaganda of the Propaganda Department, the surrendered soldiers are working very hard now, and everyone wants to strive for the qualification of ten good citizens every year.

Ding Yi was quite satisfied after watching the scene. Currently, the [-]th Battalion of Xu Wei is guarding the bastion at the South Pass.

Each bastion is garrisoned by a division force, and the training is also in the newly built open space beside the fort.

Xu Wei has three divisions with 1000 people in his hands, and another division is stationed between the two forts, so that he can maneuver to support the two forts at any time.

Every month, two divisions are selected from the auxiliary soldiers to train and guard the prisoners on the spot in turn.

In this way, there are [-] troops here, and defense is no big problem.

Right now, there are not many cannons in the fort, since he went to the Craftsman Bureau last time and decided to focus on copper cannons, supplemented by iron cannons.

The Craftsmanship Bureau first made three thousand-jin iron cannons, plus an original Hongyi cannon, and several Franco machine cannons, which were placed on the edge cannons.

After reading it, Ding Yi asked Li Zhongyi, who was accompanying him, to go here first to prepare sixty [-]-pound iron guns.

Everyone was slightly startled, two small forts, so many cannons?

"It's not enough. If the Jin Dynasty comes to attack, it will be a thunderbolt, and the momentum of Mount Tai will be overwhelmed. First, make the cannons of the two bastions, and then match them between the long walls. Let the soldiers be the turrets, and our frontier troops The piers are almost the same.”

"Every 100 meters, build a pier, don't dig a hole for now."

Li Zhongyi, the construction department and others took notes one after another.

Ding Yi requested that between the walls of the two bastions, a fort be built every 100 meters. The fort does not need to be too high, ten meters is enough, and only one cannon and five to six archers can be fired on it.

The fort needs to be airtight, which is equivalent to the bunker of later generations. Only the shooting port is left, which can effectively prevent the opponent from shooting arrows. The first floor is about seven meters, and can accommodate five or six archers.

The second floor is about ten meters high, and a cannon was fired, exposing the muzzle.

This has a certain protective ability, even if it is hit by the opponent's cannon, it will not hurt much.

If the opponent uses a bow and arrow, it will definitely be useless.

In this way, everything was done according to Ding Yi's requirements. From the south pass to the east and west banks, within a distance of less than ten miles, there were at least fifty forts, and with the edge guns, there would be more than 100 guns in this line of defense.

Definitely another line of defense like steel.

Especially at this time in the Ming Dynasty, everyone's piers were not closed, and police smoke was often burned on them.

Ding Yi created a closed bunker, leaving only the muzzle and the bow and arrow perforation.

That is to protect the soldiers, but also strengthen the defense.

Of course, the amount of work is relatively large, but if there are surrendered troops, you can squeeze them with confidence.

After watching the bastion, Ding Yi took the generals to watch the training of the auxiliary soldiers.

Right now there are [-] auxiliary soldiers in Lushun, and [-] are drawn every month for three rounds of training, and the rest are hoarded.

4000 people take turns, and almost each of them trains for three months a year.

There are two divisions here, and they still need to guard the soldiers.

Ding Yi watched the training of the auxiliary soldiers. Most of them have gone through more than two months of intensive training. They are quite good and have some foundation.

Ding Yi said something and encouraged everyone, and all the soldiers looked at Ding Yi with admiration.

Ding Yi looked at the faces of the generals, and suddenly thought of his embarrassment in Tian Chuansong's room.

I can't help but think in my mind, many dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in the previous life, chatting and laughing in front of the stage, probably no one would have thought that many of them also have hidden filth and shamelessness behind the scenes.

(End of this chapter)