I am one year older than Chongzhen

Young people are not afraid of heaven or earth. They have been arrested by the military supervisors and eunuchs. Who else dares not to arrest them?

Huang Daquan patted his chest and promised that the Xinghe Army's food and salary must be sufficient. The Xinghe Army does not bully others, and will never be bullied by anyone. No civilian or military general dares to cause trouble, and he will not hesitate to splash blood.

Well, the boy is teachable!

Soldiers, especially officers, have to be unruly. Huang Yi did not order Huang Daquan to take it easy and not kill anyone, but encouraged him with a smile:

"No matter what you do, I and all the soldiers and civilians in the base area are your strong backing!"

Huang Daquan stood at attention and saluted and said loudly: "For you and for the base area, I am willing to use my life to defend the honor of the Xinghe Army!"

"As a new naval force, you should read more, listen more, and learn more, and strive to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

The tasks Huang Yi gave to Huang Daquan were to train the navy, practice naval warfare, and conduct maritime trade. For this purpose, he also left him with twenty-five military advisers.

Not all of these twenty-five people are Han Chinese. Eight of them were foreign mercenaries from Sun Yuanhua. Since they worked in Haojing'ao for several years and came to Dengzhou for nearly three years, they all know a little bit of Chinese.

According to the original Ming history, more than fifty Portuguese mercenaries, led by Lieutenant Sirao of Gongsha, trained Ming army gunners in Denglai.

These mercenaries participated in the Dengzhou offensive and defensive battle and fought bravely. They had a more determined fighting will than most of the Ming army.

Gongsha's Sirao, Luweiluo, Fulangyalanda, Fangsigu, Ehonglue, Gongsahe, Anni, Ami'er, Sacong, Anduo, Wu Ruowang, Boduohe and other ten Two people were killed in the battle, fifteen were seriously injured, and the battle loss ratio exceeded half.

Fair's Lando, Nao Ke Tujing, Mario and other eight prisoners were rescued by Huang Yi after he captured Dengzhou.

The rebels were ferocious, but did not massacre the Portuguese mercenary artillerymen who caused them heavy casualties.

Because these people were once firearms instructors for the rebels.

The Han people have a deep-rooted belief in respecting their teachers, and the rebels are no exception. They always keep the masters who teach firearms with them.

The total number of mercenaries should have been more than fifty, but in the end only eight were left. The rest either died in the melee or died of injuries.

In order to give people hope, Huang Yi negotiated terms with eight red-haired devils including Feier's Lando, Nao Ketujing, and Mario.

As long as they are serious and responsible while serving as consultants, they will be released back to Haojing'ao after three years and each of them will be given three hundred taels of silver.

These people have experienced fierce battles for more than a year and witnessed the massacre of tens of thousands of people. They finally know that the chaos in this ancient eastern country is more terrifying than that in Europe.

Those Akito who seem gentle and polite will also become bloodthirsty and murderous!

After knowing that Huang Yi was the main general who defeated the rebels, Fer's Nando, Roko Tujing, and Mario did not dare to put forward conditions in front of Huang Yi who kept smiling, and immediately expressed their obedience to the order.

They were familiar with firearms and had experienced battles firsthand, but the siege launched by the Xinghe Army still impressed these Western barbarians!

The murderous general was smiling in front of them. Who would be naive enough to think that they could negotiate terms as equals?

Fair's Nando, Roko Tujing, and Mario are all well past the age of innocence and have all made the right choices.

Huang Yi was not afraid of these eight red-haired devils escaping, because they could not blend in with the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they could not escape across the state to Haojing'ao.

Seventeen others were sailors and helmsmen of the Tianjin Navy of the Ming Army. They were first captured by Li Jiuzheng and then surrendered to become rebels. They were later captured by the Xinghe Army.

In fact, many of the prisoners were former Ming Army sailors, some from Dongjiang Town, and some from the Tianjin Navy.

Otherwise, how could it be possible in history that Kong Youde escaped from the sea by boat with more than 10,000 people, hundreds of cannons, and gold and silver treasures worth millions of taels of silver.

These people are temporarily unfit for use and must be brought back to the base area for reform through labor. After they have boiled manure, pounded rocks, dug coal, and dug iron ore for a period of time, they will be slowly selected from among the reform-through-labor prisoners who have good discipline and performance.

The seventeen people who were retained all told where their homes were and how many people there were in their homes. They swore that they were willing to serve the Xinghe Army and would always be loyal to General Huang. When the Xinghe army returns to the army, they will send special personnel to Tianjin Wei to pick up their wives, children, and children and settle down in Xinghe City.

The Denglai turmoil lasted for more than a year. Millions of people were displaced and hundreds of thousands died in the chaos.

The population dropped sharply, many landowners disappeared, and the originally acute land conflicts temporarily disappeared.

What is most lacking now is order. As long as order is restored and the survivors can carry out spring sowing, next fall they should be able to make more than one plow or even one plow.

Because the fields here are all mature land, even if they are abandoned, they only last for one year.

Leaving cultivated land uncultivated for a year is conducive to the recovery of soil fertility, and the harvest after re-cultivation can generally be 10 to 20% more.

The Xinghe Army during the repair period did not fight major battles, but it has been taking turns to eliminate bandits and bandits with the general as a unit.

We have been taking in war refugees and providing each person with two bowls of multi-grain porridge that can stand up to chopsticks every day.

Wang Kun, Liu Yulie, Zhu Dadian, Xie Lian, etc. sold and divided their land, which of course required a large number of tenant farmers to cultivate it.

Therefore, the Xinghe Army's action to rescue refugees received strong support from civil servants.

Huang Yi did not plan to enclose land in Denglai. It was too vast outside the pass and there were too many basins that could be cultivated. The total number exceeded 200 million acres. Why should he be annoying here?

Taking in the refugees while they were stationed in Denglai allowed them to survive the severe winter. It was purely a good deed and established a glorious image of the Xinghe Army as loving the people and not disturbing the people but relieving them from hanging upside down.

Why not get all the refugees back to the base?

Everything has a limit, how can we remove all the population of Denglai?

Besides, there are many people who cannot leave their homeland. It is perfectly possible to force a minority to do so, but to force the majority is to be an enemy of the people!

How could Huang Yi do such a stupid thing to bring a bad reputation?

There is another big problem. The population in the base area has expanded too fast and can no longer bear it. It needs time to digest.

The most prominent issue is still food.

Time will solve this problem.

High-yielding, drought-resistant and cold-resistant corn seeds can be planted in large areas, and potato seeds can ensure that the planting area can be expanded ten times or even more.

If we give the base area another harvest season and more than one million people and hundreds of thousands of livestock work together, there will be no problem in cultivating more than one person.

This means that if the population does not increase in a year, no less than two million stones of grain can be accumulated during the autumn harvest.

Of course it won't work without increasing the population. Huang Yi's goal is to compete for the world and dominate the world.

The more people the better.

However, there is not enough food this year, and at least 500,000 shi need to be purchased from outside. No more people can be transported to the base area.

There is not enough food to eat and we need to buy food. How to alleviate the food crisis?

Of course, it is to pass on the crisis!

So Huang Yi planned to send troops to fight in the spring, leading at least 15,000 regular soldiers to conquer the east and west. (End of chapter)