The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 81 Not enough money

The next step is the big training. All the officers from the battalions who have not been trained before the headquarters will be sent to the training department to be trained by Gao Weimin and then assigned back to the battalions.

The rest of the soldiers and horses are trained by each division.

Ding Yi had trained a lot of monitor-level masters for more than a month before, so the whole camp was 121 every day, with various slogans and desperate training.

Ding Yi doesn't care about the training now. Anyway, someone is going to practice. At most, he will go to see the effect of the training.

He has a headache about the money now.

There are more soldiers and horses, but also more money.

Now he has nearly 2000 soldiers and horses, and the monthly salary is more than 2000, and the rice stone is at least [-]. Although the sergeant's rice is distributed by the court, it is money for so many people to eat and drink every day.

There is also a large-scale construction of the camp. The family members of the military households have to pay, and the non-military households have to provide three meals. The monthly expenditure alone is close to 6000 taels.

He originally had 2000 taels in hand, but later he asked for some from Yuan, 4 taels from Qin Nan, and [-] military pay, which was close to [-] taels.

In the middle, I gave away some, and paid twice (fortunately, there were not many soldiers and horses at that time.)
At present, there are [-] remaining, which can last for half a year. The key is that he will start a big construction next time, which will cost a lot of money.

Ruan Siqing has more than 5000 taels in his hand, but it is for business, so he can't move it for the time being.

So now Ding Yi is going to start big construction and start making money at the same time.

After the big troop meeting that day, Ding Yi left behind the four heads of the Logistics Department, the Construction Department, the Craftsmanship Bureau, and the Shipping Department.

In addition to soldiers and horses, there are about 14 people over the age of 900 who can work in the camp.

The logistics department mobilized and requisitioned 300 people. The first goal was to build grain storage warehouses, then military camps, and then civilian houses.

Zhong Zhennu was the first to raise his hand. I am afraid that 300 people are not enough, but the people who must work are mainly middle-aged and women, and there are relatively few young and strong.

"You do it first, and I will find a way. It is also possible to requisition outside the camp, but it will cost money." Ding Yi was heartbroken. It would definitely cost money to requisition other civilians in Lushun outside the camp.

"It's enough to give me two meals now, and my lord will return three meals. There must be many people willing to come." Du Ruhai yelled.

"Of course it's best if you don't spend money. Then you can figure it out. Try to recruit as many people as possible to speed up the progress. Before winter comes, the soldiers must have houses to live in."

"No." Zhong Zhennu immediately promised.

Du Ruhai's construction department has heavy tasks, and Ding Yi's Shuangdao base has bad terrain and is close to the sea. There is only a large area for farming in the north direction, but there are many shrubs there, which need to be cut down first, and then deep plowed.

Ding Yi rode a horse and went around with Du Ruhai a few times, and within a radius of ten miles from where they were stationed, there were only about 1 mu of arable land.

The key is still a bit scattered, one piece here and there.

The task Ding Yi gave him was to build a new fort in each block. The people lived in the fort at night and farmed and plowed the land during the day. They planted more than 1 mu of new land for the soldiers and horses of the southern camp.

Wells must be drilled near each fort for irrigation, and toilets are built to collect fertilizers to ensure hygiene.

Therefore, the south is close to the sea, and the well water dug cannot be used, so we can only go to the north.

But the problem with this is that after their fields are produced, they may be closer to Chen Shi's camp.

When everyone raised this question, Ding Yi reassured everyone, would Chen sometimes dare to rob our fields?

My wheat and rice are ripe, even if it is cold, he dare not go there.

Basically, all the people who are not family members of soldiers have to move there to avoid affecting the training of soldiers and horses.

But farming is not something that can be done in a short period of time. First build a fort, dig a well, and then plow the land before farming. Everything goes well. It is estimated that the first batch of seeds will not be planted until next summer.

This is still based on the situation of sufficient manpower.

Du Ruhai was allowed to recruit [-] civilian husbands in the main camp, so he naturally felt that it was not enough, so he had to go outside the camp to recruit people.

Ding Yi had already found a group of people who could farm the fields among the civilian husbands. Based on his own experience in the army, he unanimously decided to cultivate the land first.

At this time, the island is sweltering and hot, so there is no need to build a house to live in, just a tent.

Everyone plowed the land first, and took out all the stones and tree roots in the field to build a fort. While plowing the land, they dug wells at suitable places on the edge of the land, and the dug out could also be used to build a fort.

Then, using the experience of the troops in the previous life, the burned plant ash was buried in the new fields and used to fertilize the fields. The first batch of fields had no time to cultivate, so they could only grow vegetables.

If rice and wheat are grown, the straw must be returned to the field and plant ash cannot be used.

In his previous life, he was in the army and had to farm at the grassroots level, and the most used fertilizer was plant ash.

Fertilizers such as urea are rarely used. The toilets of each company are right next to the fields, and the fertilizers used for watering the vegetable fields are the golden treasures of the toilets.

Ding Yi copied it completely and demanded that toilets be built in every field.

There are even more regulations in the South Camp. All sergeants have to go to the toilet near the field during the day, and go to the nearest toilet at night. They are not allowed to defecate casually.

At the beginning, some people were afraid of running away, so they quietly went to the nearest toilet or urinated everywhere. After being caught and beating two people, everyone became honest.

In addition to the firearms craftsmen, most of the craftsmen in the Craftsmanship Bureau have to cooperate with the construction and logistics department first, building houses, building forts, building toilets, digging wells, etc. At the beginning, there were not enough craftsmen, because the whole battalion was under construction, everywhere working.

Fortunately, craftsmen in Nanying are well paid, and people outside know that Ding Yi also let people spread the word in Lushun. Before long, there were other craftsmen who can do various crafts. People came to vote, and most of them were family matters. Ding Yi accepted all the orders.

What happened was that Chen Shi and Mao Yongyi ran to Xu Fuzuo to complain, and a few craftsmen in my battalion ran away. There was almost no one to repair the armor and equipment.

Xu Fuzuo had no choice but to comfort him, Ding Yi was building a new building, and was in urgent need of craftsmen and people. He paid a lot of money, and of course he ran over. When his barracks were completed, so many craftsmen and people were not needed, and those craftsmen and soldiers would naturally come back. , Why does he keep raising so many craftsmen and people at such a high price?
Chen and Mao seemed reasonable, and they had nothing to do with Ding Yi, unless he was willing to improve the treatment of the craftsmen in the camp, but of course they looked down on those craftsmen.

But after a long time, not only those craftsmen did not come back, even people on other islands, even Phi Island, got the news and ran here secretly.

At the same time, Ding Yi also has strict requirements for camp planning, housing construction, and sanitary conditions.

The military camp is inside alone, and the civilian houses are outside. According to Xu Dabao's experience in street fighting, when building houses, they are connected one by one to form five lines.

There are simple walls connecting the houses to each other, so that five alleys are naturally formed after they are built.

There are two vacant spaces at the entrance of Shuangdao Lane. In the future, when there are more people and the infrastructure is completed, two bastions will be built.

Since Ding Yi's meeting was held in mid-June, the entire Shuangdao South Camp has become a huge construction site. Except for the soldiers training in the queue, work and construction are everywhere, and the construction is in full swing.

At this time, Ding Yi realized that money was really being spent like water. Originally, 5000 taels were expected to last for half a year. Now when he started working, he found that he might not be able to support it for three months, and was spending money everywhere.

In particular, there were not enough people on the construction side, so that at night, the sergeants stopped training and began to help with the construction, which also allowed the sergeants to get used to night activities and prevent night blindness.

At dinner that day, Ding Yi, who had been busy all day, came back to the house in disgrace. He felt that there were still many things in his mind that he hadn't said, but he said too much today, and everyone had to digest it.

The meal needs to be eaten in one bite, not in a hurry, he also secretly reminded himself.

(End of this chapter)