The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 360 Forty Thousand Elite Soldiers
In addition, on the side of Lushun: the first battalion Ma Yue recruited 1 recruits, and the whole battalion had 3000 recruits. The recruits were mainly musketeers and artillery.Such a battalion has 8 rounds, each round has 6 guns, and the whole battalion has 48 guns.There are about 400 artillerymen, more than 900 pikemen and 1700 musketeers.Still guarding the South Pass.

The 3rd Battalion of Maoxin remained unchanged at [-] troops, guarding Fort Hai, Guifu Fort, Fort Hongzui, Fort Fuhai, Fort Nanxinkou, and Jiajinzhou.

Because there are still 2500 strong people in all the forts, who are responsible for hoarding the land, and with the 5000 Liao people in Jinzhou, he actually has 12500 people in his hands, and most of them are strong.

The 12th Battalion recruited 3000 soldiers from Huailai, and the whole battalion was [-] people. The configuration was the same as that of Ma Yue, guarding Beixinkou and Changsheng Island.

The 16th battalion Xu Bicheng recruited 5000 soldiers, and the whole battalion was 10000 people. The configuration was the same as above, and they guarded Fuzhou.There are also [-] Liao people in Fuzhou, and he also has [-] people in his hands.

Zhang Jing was also the head of the 1st Battalion of the Cavalry, and led [-] cavalry to garrison Fuzhou. Together with Xu Bicheng, he was also the highest person in charge of the Fuzhou defense line.

Lushun internal garrison 2000 remains unchanged.

In this way, the entire Lushun soldiers reached 19000. (garrison does not count)
Phi Island here.

Xiao Yongqiu's 7th Battalion, 3000 conscripts, [-] people in the whole battalion, with the same configuration as above, guarding the front line of Tieshan.

He Liangwu's 19th Battalion recruited 3000 soldiers, and the whole battalion consisted of 7 people. It was south of Xiao Yongqiu's [-]th Battalion, at the bottom left of Tieshan.

The 8th Battalion of Xu Wei and the 21st Battalion of Chen Shishi were the same, with [-] soldiers each, one stationed on the west side of Phi Island and one on the east side of Phi Island.

The west can support Lushun, and the east can support Tieshan.

Shen Shikui's 23rd Battalion has 3000 people, with 4000 more troops, a total of [-] people. They are still divided into different islands, but Shen Taiye spends most of his time on Phi Island. After all, he is Ding Yi's father-in-law, and Phi Island's conditions are better.

There are another [-] guards on Phi Island, stationed at alleys, warehouses, mansions and other important places where the generals live.

There are 16000 soldiers on Phi Island. (garrison does not count)
In this case, after Ding Yi returned, it would mean a large increase in troops, and a total of nearly 1 troops were recruited by land and water.

The garrison is not counted, the Dengzhou soldiers are not counted, the soldiers from the two places plus 5000 from Japan, and [-] from the Navy.

His Dongjiang Town now has a total of 43000 soldiers.

This is also because the financial and food situation is relatively good this year, and Ding Yi dared to recruit troops on a large scale.

Although the monthly salary may be [-] to [-] more, but in the establishment of various facilities such as the Phi Island Service Center, more salary can be recovered in the future.

At the meeting, all the generals were ecstatic when they heard that they had more than 4 soldiers and horses.

It's only been four years since Xu Dabao ran away, Master Ding has already developed to this point, and will definitely become stronger and stronger.

Moreover, Ding Yi's conscription is relatively easy. He developed in an orderly manner in the early stage, forming a progression process from ordinary people to well-trained elites, from elites to garrison soldiers, and from garrison soldiers to combat soldiers. In a word, there are various departments below. Reasonable operation, and then conscription and training, after a few months, waves of elite soldiers (at least better than other Ming troops) will come out, and then they will be pulled out to fight a few battles, and after a year, they will be all elite.

His problem now is that the money is temporarily enough to pay wages and run the business, but barely enough food and rice.

At present, the grain and rice in Dongjiang Town have three parts.

Originally, Dongjiang Town relied on North Korea and the imperial court to support Phi Island.

However, Hou Jin became stronger and stronger. Since North Korea's Guanghai Jun sent Jiang Hongli to lead [-] troops to help the Ming army defeat Hou Jin and failed, and after the entire army was wiped out, support for the Ming Dynasty became weaker and weaker.

The current king of Joseon is Li Ji, who will be the future Injo of Joseon.

Because of the coup d'état, Li Zhen increased his support for Mao Wenlong. During the peak period, one-third of North Korea's annual expenditure was supported by Phi Island. Later, Jin was very annoyed and launched the first Korean war in 1627.

North Korea was defeated, Li Ji fled to Jianghua Island, sent people to ask for peace, and was forced to agree to cut off contact with the Ming Dynasty in the future.

From then on, the support for Phi Dao could only be surreptitious, and then the Ming Dynasty and Hou Jin fought and failed repeatedly, and North Korea’s mentality gradually changed.

Because the support time of the imperial court and North Korea is uncertain, sometimes there is no batch of grain for a month, and sometimes a large batch of grain will come suddenly.

On average, the imperial court and North Korea provide about 3 to 4 shi of grain to Dongjiang Town every year. (This is Ding Yi’s support now. After the death of Mao Wenlong in the original history, there may be less. Before Yuan beheaded Mao, the court had no food to come.)
Ding Yi himself owns 14 mu in Lushun (already producing grain), and the annual grain production is between 28 and 32 shi.

Phi Island is planting 5 mu, which can produce summer grain next year, and can harvest about 6 to [-] shi.

Dengzhou is planting 14 mu, which can produce summer grain next year, and can harvest about 20-25 shi.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, in places such as Jiangnan and Fujian, well-planted two-crop wheat and rice could produce more than 3 stones.

Ding Yi's side is probably 2-2.5 stone, or even less.

In this way, if there is no natural disaster to collect all, he can have 60 stones throughout the year.

His current population is nearly 30, and he still needs to increase the population. The 60 shi is just enough to eat and use.

In order to prevent bad harvest due to natural disasters, Ding Yi's warehouse has to store grain every year according to population changes.

For example, right now, even if he goes outside to buy grain, he must ensure that Lushun and Phi Island maintain a minimum storage of more than 15 shi all year round.

So now Ding Yi feels that the money is temporarily enough, but the food is not enough.

Because some food will not be received until autumn, and he has 30 people eating every day.

After Ding Yi fought Japan, he solved the financial problem, and the next moment he began to think about solving the food problem.

After all, if you only grow by yourself, once natural disasters or extreme cold weather occur, you will lose your harvest, which is a terrible thing.

As long as the financial and food problems are all resolved, he can focus on violent training and expand his territory.
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On November 11, Ding Yi came to Dengzhou. Du Ruhai, Wang Weizhong, Yan Xiong, Liu Yuan, Zhou Yougen, Fang Duotai, and Yang Duan from Dengzhou were all called.

This is Ding Yi's second stronghold besides Lushun, and he also regards it as a second piece of land, which he values ​​very much.

After Kong Youde's mutiny ended, the imperial court selected Wang Weizhong to serve as a guerrilla in Dengzhou, and took [-] soldiers under his command to garrison Dengzhou.

Not long after, the imperial court ordered another [-] battalion soldiers to be drawn from Wang Weizhong's subordinates and transferred to the guards on the spot.

At that time, Ding Yi gave way to Lu Chao as the thousand households in Jinshan Zuo, Zhou Yougen as the Qianhu of Wang Xuqianzhai, Fang Duotai as the thousand households in Qishan, Yang Duan as the hundred households in Haiyang, etc. Later, Lu Chao did something wrong, He was transferred back by Ding Yi, and Yan Xiong from Pidao was transferred over, and he was appointed as Jinshan Zuo Qianhu.

So on the Dengzhou side, Wang Weizhong had only one thousand soldiers at that time, and then there were three thousand households and one hundred households, each with a few hundred people. In short, the imperial court distributed Wang Weizhong's three thousand soldiers and horses to various places.

But there are policies and there are countermeasures. Ding Yi had been prepared for a long time. At that time, he asked Wang Weizhong to organize more than 1 troops to surrender and train, and at the same time hoard land and build forts.

Nearly a year has passed now, Ding Yi came over today, and decided to divide the fields in advance, and has important matters to deal with.

(End of this chapter)