The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 420 You Snatched All the Artisans

After Ding Yi left Pig Island, he went to Changsheng Island.

There are now nearly 2 people on Changsheng Island, most of them are former Liao people, and a few are new refugees.

The new shipyard here has not been fully completed since it was built in December last year. Li Zhi, director of the Shipbuilding Department of the Craftsman Bureau, said that including the supporting docks and sail yards, it will probably not be completed until the end of the year, and ships can be built early next year.

On the other side of Lushun, the construction of thousand-material merchant ships has already begun.

Ding Yi encouraged everyone, and then had a heart-to-heart talk with several craftsmen, brushed up their sense of existence, and then returned to Lushun.

Every time he comes back, he has a lot of things to do, running around Pidao and Lushun non-stop.

In the next few days, officers at all levels who had been trained to be promoted were summoned, and they were given swords and interviewed.

Watch troop training and see the effects of training.

In particular, the cavalry had finally seen blood after fighting North Korea and Japan twice, and they were obviously a little more elite than before.

But compared with Hou Jin, there is still a little distance, mainly in riding and archery.

And they began to organize cavalry in the second year of Chongzhen, and after so many years of training, they are much stronger than ordinary Ming troops.

Considering that Ding Yi's cavalry will basically use bows less in the future and will be equipped with short guns, so his requirements are not high, so he can only let Zhang Jing and Yuan Youcai practice slowly.

Busy until the beginning of August, Ding Yi took a new 8-material Haicang warship to Dengzhou.

As soon as I arrived in Dengzhou, I saw a sea of ​​people here, and the pier was full of people.

At this time, Houjin was looting everywhere in Shanxi, and a large number of people in Shanxi also fled here. The number of people in Shanxi has increased in recent days.

There are auxiliary soldiers from Lushun on the pier helping to maintain order.

These auxiliary soldiers are the [-] surrendered soldiers who used to hoard fields here.

In order to divide the fields, they half hoarded and half practiced here. Under Wang Weizhong's training, they already looked like half Lushun auxiliary soldiers.

Wang Weizhong originally had three thousand soldiers and horses, but the court thought he had two thousand, so he took two thousand to Shanxi.

This time Ding Yi came here to recruit [-] soldiers from among the refugees.

He wants to organize a Jeju camp, select [-] refugees from among the refugees, it doesn't matter if they have family members or not, preferably just arrived, and send them all to Jeju.

Du Ruhai used Ding Yi's propaganda slogan to divide the fields and cattle, and volunteers signed up, but let's not talk about going there, only overseas.

On the same day, Ding Yi and Du Ruhai came to a porridge place. There were more than [-] big pots here. Recently, due to the large number of refugees, they kept cooking porridge day and night. Ding Yi's men and horses were divided into three shifts.

There were 2000 people gathered at the scene, and there were crowds everywhere. Fortunately, there were government officials and soldiers to maintain order, and everyone did not dare to mess around, and they were very orderly.

This stronghold is in Zhaoyuan, and [-]% of them have been screened, and those with skills have been taken away, and the rest are ordinary people, waiting to be taken away and divided into places to store land.

Du Ruhai stood on a high place at this time, and said loudly: "Be quiet, be quiet."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the staff around him also shouted. After a while, the audience slowly fell silent, and all the refugees looked at him.

"Every household is counted according to the population, regardless of the size of the wheel. Each person can be divided into five acres of land, and the tax is [-]%. Has anyone signed up?"

The crowd was in an uproar, and soon someone said: "Isn't that what you said just now?"

Tuntian here in Dengzhou is different from Jeju, so the saying is different.

The refugees here, those who came early were all sub-fields, and some of the later ones were sub-fields, and some were tenants. It mainly depends on whether they have family members.

And the tax is not [-]%, and the fields are not so much.

Du Ruhai said: "It's not Dengzhou, it's in another place, so there are more fields, but the output is high there, and the tax is also high."

"Where?" Someone asked strangely: "Can you still guarantee high output?"

"That's for sure, don't blame somewhere, did you go there?"

"Is there any cow and seed utensils?" someone asked again.

"I will provide it." Du Ruhai said.

There is no shortage of cattle on Jeju Island, and Ding Yi plans to transport some cattle to Dengzhou and Phi Island.

"Are there any Tartars?" Ding Yi shouted from behind the crowd, and quickly changed his position after speaking.

No one paid attention to him at the scene, and everyone really pricked up their ears.

"Of course not, I promise not. If there are tartars, there will be production?" Du Ruhai laughed.

"I'm afraid they are overseas." Someone sighed.

"It's the same overseas, as long as there is a field." Ding Yi's people shouted from behind.

"The acres are limited, first come, first served, those who don't go, stay in Dengzhou." Du Ruhai said at this time.

"I would like to go." Ding Yi's people shouted from behind.

"I'm going too, I'm going too." Several soldiers imitated him and called.

Now the people in front were anxious: "I'll go."

"I'm going."

Then seeing someone signing up, more people became anxious, and everyone rushed to go.

Because there are a lot of fields, each person can be divided into five acres, and some families with three or four people can be divided into ten or twenty acres, and the tax is [-]%. The key is to provide things such as cattle and seeds.

Du Ruhai spent several days fooling [-] households, each household had a strong man who could serve as a soldier, and in order to maintain labor force, basically each household had more than two laborers.

At that time, there was no talk about serving as a soldier, and we will talk about all of them being loaded on a ship and heading to Jeju Island.

Huang Bin, Ding Yi's personal soldier, was sent away to Jeju Island to serve as the commander of the Jeju camp, replacing Xiang Huai and Lushun.

Ding Yi told him that the 3000 soldiers from Xiang Huailai would stay there first to help train the [-] men, which would also have a stabilizing effect. The soldiers and horses who came withdrew.

Estimated to practice for about a year.

Huang Bin took the order to go to Jeju Island with the navy and the three thousand households.

After arriving in Jeju Island, the refugees looked at the environment here, and they were really happy. The climate is pleasant and the land is fertile. Many people feel that they are in the right place.

But Huang Bin immediately said that one person from every three households will be recruited as a soldier, and the tax will be [-]% and the tax will be reduced by [-]%.

He also said that this side is surrounded by the sea, and there will be basically no battles.

Some people agreed, and some people didn't want to, but at this time, it's okay if they don't want to. Xiang Huailai left, and his soldiers and horses are here.

Huang Bin draws one from every three households, and those who are drawn pay [-]% less tax, and give priority to cattle and seed equipment.

Then, those who have soldiers in the family will be given fish every three days, and pork and mutton once every five days, and the soldiers can basically eat meat every three days. Although the training is hard, everyone has family members, so you dare not run away. After three months, I will get used to all the hardships.

At this time, those who had been soldiers had a slightly different temperament and image.

Now the other households are jealous.

Three months later, someone offered to join the army.

Huang Bin pushed forward step by step, and it took a year to finally accomplish Ding Yi's goal of recruiting a member of each of the [-] households to serve as soldiers.

At this time, there were [-] more Han households on Jeju Island, another [-] Han troops, and [-] soldiers and horses from the original households, making a total of [-] soldiers and horses.

Xiang Huailai's two thousand soldiers and horses, after helping them train for a year, withdrew to Phi Island twice.
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In early August, Huairen County, Shanxi.

As early as mid-July, after Wang Weizhong's [-] soldiers arrived, they had been stationed here. Not long after, Cao Wenzhao also arrived here with [-] Guanning cavalry, and everyone guarded Huairen County together.

At this time, the Jin army was shuttling back and forth between the prefectures and castles of the Ming Dynasty, like no one in the land, robbing people, food and silver everywhere.

The Ming army defended Datong to the death, not sending out a single soldier.

In Huairen County, which is near Datong, there are also Wang Weizhong's [-] soldiers and Cao Wenzhao's [-] cavalry, and Huairen County's [-] guards, totaling [-] soldiers and horses.

This day Wang Weizhong was in the camp, and Zhou Yougen came in cheerfully outside, this time he also came with Wang Weizhong's soldiers and horses, and had another mission.

"Have you gained anything today?" Wang Weizhong asked when he saw him.

"Fart harvest, there are more than 30 craftsmen and three doctors in the county, all of them are in our camp." Zhou Yougen scolded with a smile: "Master Ding gave me two hundred goals, I'm afraid I won't be able to complete them, and I will be scolded when I go back."

It turned out that they came all the way, collecting craftsmen and doctors everywhere, and now there are more than 30 craftsmen and more than [-] doctors in the camp.

"Then the county magistrate didn't look for you?" Wang Weizhong stared. You've snatched up all the craftsmen. Why don't you look for you?
"I said that most of us are firearms and need repairs by craftsmen. How dare he not give them? When we leave, just take them away. It's no use for him to find me."

"I don't know when we can leave?" Zhou Yougen looked around, and cursed in a low voice: "It's really useless to hang the court, whether to fight or not? If you don't fight, don't come to us. We are here, and we will stay in this city every day. inside."

"Shh." Wang Weizhong signaled him not to talk nonsense: "Don't worry, listen to the court, it's good to guard, it doesn't take much effort."

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are good at defending, but they must be in their own territory and make decisions by themselves, so they can defend well.

Right now in Huairen, Wang Weizhong wants to dig a hole and build a fortification, but the county magistrate of Huairen does not support the migrant workers.

Wang Weizhong simply stopped digging and probably went out to fight.

The two were chatting when someone came to report outside: "Guan Ning Army Cao Wenzhao sent someone here."

The two looked at each other, feeling that they might have to send troops.

(End of this chapter)