The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 651 Thank you, Zongbing Ding, for the silver
Standing on a high place, Yan Xiong shouted loudly: "The military discipline of the Ming Dynasty is lax, the armor is worn out, the superiors withhold food and pay, the low-level soldiers are miserable, life is difficult, and it is difficult to support your family. Ding Zongbing knows your suffering."

When the first paragraph was spoken, all the soldiers around were moved.

Every time Yan Xiong said something, his subordinates would repeat it to the 2000 people around him, ensuring that it would be spread throughout the audience and everyone would hear it.

At the beginning the scene was a bit noisy, but after Yan Xiong finished his first sentence, the surrounding area was quiet, surprisingly quiet.

Yan Xiong went on to say: "The sergeants of this battalion will be paid according to the requirements of Ding Yiding, the commander-in-chief of Denglai. Each person will be paid one or two silvers and two catties of salt per month."

"Twenty taels of silver per person per month and four catties of salt."

"Total per person per month——"

He said something, and his subordinates repeated it to the 2000 people's congress around him.

The expressions of all the soldiers were moved, and many of them could not believe it.

Here Ding Yi actually saves money, because according to the actual salary of the Ming court, each Denglai navy is paid two shimi and two catties of salt per month, but they always get one shimi and two catties of salt all the year round, so everyone also got used to.

Now the price of rice is far more than one tael of silver, so if Ding Yi takes the grain from the court and distributes the silver, he will definitely make some money.

There are also smart people in the field. They know that the imperial court gave you two stones of rice, but they were deducted. Now that you, Ding Yi, are here, you only pay one tael of silver. Isn’t that also deducted?He also confiscated everyone's fields.

Immediately, someone boldly asked: "No more rice? A tael of silver is not enough to eat?"

Everyone nodded.

"Everything is paid in real money." Yan Xiong continued: "Eat three meals a day, often with fish and meat, all provided by Ding Zongbing, so you don't need to have fields or rice."

"All the original family members are disbanded, and all the original salaries are cancelled."

A small number of servants looked unwilling, but they did not dare to speak out.

Everyone heard that Zongbing Ding provided food, so they looked a little better, but at this time they didn't think the food would be so good. After all, the original food of the Ming Dynasty was very poor, and it was good to be full. Still want fish and meat?

Another person asked: "What if we have family members? Mr. Ding took over our fields and didn't distribute rice. What will the family members eat?"

"All children go to school, learn to read, and eat at school."

"The family members can help Ding Zongbing, and there will be assignments, and they will also be provided with food, important work, and wages."

Dengzhou is also employing workers everywhere, hoarding land and drainage is not counted. Now that Ding Yi has arrived, he will also start building armor sewing factories, gun factories, artillery factories, and the former mining factories, etc., will use a lot of workers.

Just deal with the families of these soldiers and tie them all to Ding Yi's chariot.

Ding Yi feeds their whole family, provides them with food, but does not give them any food. Naturally, they can only follow Ding Yi. If Ding Yi falls, they will have nothing to eat. This is something no one wants to happen.

The people at the scene heard that Zongbing Ding provided food for the whole family, and he still had money to pay, and he didn't need to farm. These days are incomparable to before.

Everyone whispered to each other, they couldn't believe it, but they were looking forward to it.

"In the future, all wages will be paid in real terms. The superiors will not be allowed to deduct or accept gifts. If they are deducted, they will be cut off.

"Shangguan accepts the gift and beheads Shangguan."

Yan Xiong slashed every sentence, and the playground was solemn and murderous.

After finishing speaking, everyone was stunned.

"Everyone participates in training, start now, come, line up, and run two laps along the practice field first."

Yan Xiong began to train them that day.

First take more than 2000 Ming troops to run for two laps.

As a result, all the Ming soldiers were exhausted to death. Many people couldn't keep running after running for a little while, and some of them were vomiting and diarrhea.

One lap here is only about 500 meters, and the two laps are less than 1000 meters.

This is Yan Xiong's first training, the result of a relatively small amount of training.

Yan Xiong saw that many people couldn't keep running, so he immediately ordered that the ten people who arrived last will deduct one coin this month and reward the ten people who arrived first.

Let me tell you, the Ming soldiers were as if they had been beaten to death. Many people immediately got up from the ground and ran forward desperately.

But they really lacked training. At the end of the run, some people lay directly on the ground, and they couldn't run anymore.

Because there were too many people lying on the ground, some people were afraid of becoming the last ten people, so they crawled forward desperately.

So I saw a very funny scene on the playground, hundreds of Ming soldiers rolling around on the ground, it was simply unsightly.

Some of the Ming soldiers who arrived first were still laughing, Yan Xiong said sharply: "You still have the face to smile, with soldiers like you, how can you still go out to fight?"

Everyone blushed and did not dare to refute.

This wave of Ming soldiers ran and stopped, lay down and ran again, and it took almost half an hour to finally arrive.

At this time, Yan Xiong waved his hand, and someone behind him was waving a flag.

Not long after, carts were pushed onto the playground by Ding Yi's troops.

Yan Xiong tossed away the red cloth on top, splashing, pouring silver all over the floor.

A large amount of silver was piled up, shining dazzlingly, and the eyes of all naval officers and soldiers on the scene turned green.

"Under Mr. Ding, the payment is made on the [-]nd of every month. Although it is the end of May today, Mr. Ding still decides to pay back the salary for May."

"I will report my name and go forward to collect the silver."

The army was in an uproar, extremely excited, even those who had just died from exhaustion suddenly felt that it was worth it.

After all, many soldiers have been in the navy for many years, but they have never received silver, only rice.

"Yuan Huijie"

Yuan Huijie was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and said with a smile: "Here we come, we come."

"Report your name and say it out loud."

"Yuan Huijie."

"..."

"Here." Yuan Huijie was very smart and immediately realized it.

"The voice is too low, Yuan Huijie."

"Here." Yuan Huijie shouted loudly, blushing.

Yan Xiong issued the silver and handed it to him.

He touched the silver, feeling like he was dreaming.

"Who issued the money?" Yan Xiong asked.

Yuan Huijie was stunned again, and immediately realized: "Mr. Ding."

"Thank you, Zongbing Ding, for sending the silver." Yan Xiong said loudly.

Yuan Huijie immediately followed suit and shouted: "Thank you, Zongbing Ding, for sending the silver."

"Do you have any family members?" Yan Xiong asked again.

"I have a wife and two children."

"Both children have to go to school, and your mother-in-law will also have Ding Zongbing arrange help. I don't want to thank Ding Zongbing."

"Thank you Zongbing Ding for supporting my family, thank you Zongbing Ding for supporting my family." Yuan Huijie cried loudly, plopped, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed several times in the direction of Denglai Zongbing Mansion.

This Yuan Huijie was naturally arranged by Yan Xiong.

Everyone behind him understands his operation like this.

When receiving the silver, you must thank Ding Zongbing. Those who have family members should remember that Ding Zongbing is supporting their whole family.

After receiving silver in the whole army, their temperament is completely different, and many people no longer resist being trained.

It's just that the ten people who ran behind just now were deducted a coin, which was quite sad.

At this time, Yan Xiong disrupted them, and every ten people assigned two Yan Xiong veterans to train.

Start with the queue first.

The amount of training in the first seven days was not high, so they gradually adapted to it.

After seven days of training, a day off is given to let them go home to spend time with their families.

For lunch that day, Yan Xiong arranged for lunch as expected.

A table for 12 people, three dishes, one soup, rice and white noodle steamed buns, because many people here like to eat steamed buns.

The dishes don't look like much, but the quantity is enough, with both meat and vegetables. Among them, the roasted pork with potatoes is a large piece of braised pork. Each person can eat at least two pieces. After the meal, there is also egg and vegetable soup.

They were more satisfied with this meal than ever before, and some even cried.

After taking a break after lunch, the veterans chatted with these people, got to know each other, talked about their hometowns, and their relationship.

Then train again in the afternoon, the intensity is not high.

For dinner, there are still three dishes and one soup, but there is no large piece of meat for dinner, only shredded pork stir-fry, but there is fish soup.

The Ming soldiers still felt much better than what they had eaten before.

Get up at six o'clock the next day for training, first run two laps along the playground, same as yesterday, run the last ten people, deduct one coin
For the first ten people to arrive.

Now all the Ming troops ran like crazy, desperately running forward.

Someone was the same as yesterday, and at the end of the second run, he couldn't help crying. After running like this for ten days, my money will be deducted.

Everyone laughed, work harder, run faster and you'll be fine.

The breakfast that day was sweet potato porridge or white porridge with steamed buns, as well as pickles and dried salted fish. Every few days, I could eat boiled corn.

Because places such as Denglai and Jeju Lushun are by the sea, Ding Yi's logistics department produced a large amount of dried salted fish to supplement nutrition for the soldiers.

But this thing can't be eaten often, basically once every three days.

After eating like this for a few days, all the officers and soldiers felt that the food was many times better than before.

Although the training gradually increased and became more and more bitter, most people could bear it.

What everyone is most afraid of is that at the end of the run, they will be robbed of money.

But come back after seven days of rest. After running for seven days, all officers and soldiers have improved a lot. At this time, Yan Xiong said that as long as they run within the specified time, they will not be deducted.

He gave a quarter of an hour equivalent to now, and all of them have been passed.

After a month, it was no problem to compress it to 10 minutes.

In the end, according to Ding Yi's requirements, the whole army will be compressed within 5 minutes to be considered qualified.

Beginning in May, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were recruiting the original Ming army everywhere.

All above the garrison were moved to live in Dengzhou, and Ding Yi's people were sent from all over the country to train soldiers, a group was killed, and a group was eliminated. Finally, more than 1 people were obtained from more than 8000 land and water soldiers, and another [-] soldiers were recruited. Hoard troops and divide them into three battalions.

杨端领35营3000人守莱州，陈洪国领36营三千守昌邑，朱胜领38营3000人守文登。

In addition, Zhou Yougen's 34th battalion guarded Laiyang, Yan Xiong's 32nd battalion guarded Dengzhou, and Fang Duotai's 33rd battalion guarded Pingdu.

The entire Denglai already has 1000 soldiers and horses with [-] infantry division, [-] battalions, and [-] Chen Yang cavalry battalions, a total of [-] people.

In addition, there are 8000 military households in Wang Xuqianzhai, Haiyang, Jinshanzuo, Qishan, Fushan, etc. These thousand households are basically by the sea, and they are responsible for hoarding land and guarding the seaside. Jiaozhou, Huangxian, Zhaoyuan, Fushan, Jimo and other places.

The whole of Denglai, at this time, only Lingshanwei, which is close to the present Qingdao City, is still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

(End of this chapter)