I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 81 It's New Year's Eve

The next day, Huang Yi sent Huang Dayong and Huang Daquan to lead dozens of horses and [-] people to follow Bi Zitong to dig up five thousand and several hundred catties of coal and transport them back.

Masons have already built a carbon stove in the big teaching room according to the drawings drawn by Huang Yi. This kind of coal-fired stove has a chimney, and the coal is fed into the coal and the cinders are discharged outside the house, which can better prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.

This carbon stove has nine fire holes, and it only needs to be covered with an iron plate when heating, and a large iron pot can be used to boil water most of the time.

Huang Yi has always emphasized hygiene, and has long issued an order not to drink unboiled water.

However, due to limited conditions, there is no way to guarantee that everyone can drink boiled water at any time.

There will be no problem in the future. The carbon stove in the large classroom has six women on duty in two shifts. They can boil water day and night, and the supply can be guaranteed.

Huang Yi still took Zhang Dong and Hu Xiaochuan to explore the surrounding area at dawn, and when he came back at night, he could tell stories to everyone in the warm spring-like classroom.

The big classroom is full of people every day, because it is not only lively and warm, but also has hot water to drink, and you can listen to stories at night.

Everyone has experienced the joy of collective life, and with Huang Yi's earnest guidance, they have begun to like the collectivist atmosphere of the base area.

Huang Yi, a semi-military collective, cannot be without discipline.

To implement discipline and execute orders must be issued from above.

It was therefore necessary to divide the large collective of base areas into smaller units.

Of course, it is impossible for Huang Yi to use later generations to divide squads, platoons, companies, battalions, and regiments.

Daming has its own set of standards.

Therefore, Huang Yi divided them according to the Daming Guard Army, the Frontier Army's Wu, Xiaoqi, Zongqi, Baizong (hundred households), Bazong, and Qianzong (thousand households).

Of course, the current number of people is too small, and there is no need for Bai Zong, Ba Zong, and Qian Zong.

Huang Yi appointed many corporal chiefs and small flags equivalent to super chiefs, but the general flag has not been appointed for the time being.

Because Huang Yi himself obtained the status of Ming Dynasty as the chief banner officer of the Zhangjiakou Reinforcement Battalion of Xuanda Garrison.

Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Brother Hu Xiaochuan, Yue Mufei, Zuo Guanghu, etc. all became corporal leaders or special leaders, leading four or ten subordinates respectively.

They listened to Huang Yi's lectures every day, practiced literature and martial arts, and then developed from leading a few soldiers to leading dozens, dozens, hundreds, hundreds...

Huang Yi believes that stories from slaves to generals will continue to emerge among them.

Huang Yi is confident, because he not only teaches by precepts and deeds, but also often takes them to actual combat. Officers who grow up in battle are the most able to stand the test.

Of course, in order to minimize the loss of these seed troops who can become generals in the future, we must avoid wars of attrition and fight ambushes and annihilation wars as much as possible.

We have to work and study every day, and everyone is busy.

Soon it was New Year's Eve, Zuo Lianfang, Mrs. Zhang, and two maids cut out a lot of window grilles with red paper to decorate the Mongolian package where Huang Yi stayed.

But Huang Yi can't always be happy, without him, New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion, and he appeared at the end of Ming Dynasty for no reason. On New Year's Eve in [-], how should his wife and children live?
Zuo Lianfang was the best at observing words and demeanor, seeing that the master was unhappy, she was more careful in serving her.

During the time spent with Huang Yi, she felt that Huang Yi was a true hero, and she was very grateful for the choice at the critical moment.

After coming to the base area and understanding the situation here, I feel that Huang Yi has lofty aspirations.

So she is not only well-behaved, but also earnestly doing everything, which has been unanimously approved by Wang Baishan, Huang Dazhi and others.

Mrs. Zhang is a temperament who knows how to advance and retreat.

From the moment she saw Zuo Lianfang, she realized that no woman here could compare to her.

Her refusal to marry is not because she has any thoughts about Huang Yi, but because she feels that her son has hope when he grows up, and he doesn't need to rely on other men to live.

Therefore, she enthusiastically recruited other poor women to find a loving man to marry, and she still stayed to serve Huang Yi and assist Wang Baishan in managing the money, food and materials in the base area.

Now there are several more people involved in management.

Of course, there is Zuo Lianfang who can write and count.

Huang Yi felt that life was much easier, because since Zuo Lianfang took care of the food and daily life himself, there were no lice or fleas on his body.

The yurt is always fragrant and warm.

On New Year's Eve, all the Han Chinese, including 26 Mongolian households, ate hot dumplings filled with mutton on New Year's Eve.

No firecrackers crackling, not lively!
So Zhao Yong and Li Wanquan led 99 musketeers to fire their muskets respectively, and they fired a total of [-] rounds.

This was the first time the musketeers fired with live ammunition. The twenty male musketeers were relatively calm, while the ten female musketeers were extremely excited.

They were not the only ones, more than 1000 people onlookers were overjoyed, and more than half of them were so happy that they wept and burst into tears.

Huang Yi took a deep breath and smelled the pervasive smell of gunpowder smoke. He only felt that it had been a long time, and this was the taste of the year.

Huang Yi's hometown may be the place with the best security management in China. The social atmosphere is good. There are no "big tigers" and at most a few "flies", and there are no underworld gangs. Fireworks and firecrackers have been banned for several years, resulting in a New Year's atmosphere. It faded too much.

The 30th day of the New Year in my childhood memory began just after the sound of black firecrackers, and then continued to crackle until the first day of the first lunar month and then to the fifth day of the first lunar month.

During the Chinese New Year, you should walk on the smoky streets with firecracker shavings all over the floor and smell the gunpowder smoke...

Bi Zitong's family was also invited to watch the new year and listen to stories. Maybe they haven't tasted this kind of taste of the New Year for many, many years. Both Bi Zitong and his wife cried with excitement.

16-year-old Bi Daxi and [-]-year-old Bi Shuangxi did not cry, they were fascinated by the story of "The Legend of Yue Fei".

It was a special case on the [-]th of the year, and Huang Yi taught everyone "The Legend of Yue Fei" for two hours, instead of only half an hour before.

The New Year in the base area was peaceful, and amidst the long-lost congratulations of "Congratulations, congratulations", the Han people who were no longer slaves finally had the consciousness to stand up again.

No one is lazy, everyone is training hard and working hard.

The coal transported back and the limestone mined piled up higher and higher, more and more irrigation wells were completed, and more and more complete agricultural tools were manufactured.

The refined iron bought by Huang Yi and the scrap iron collected during this period are about to run out.

Mrs. Zhang has also been reminding Huang Yi that the food reserves are definitely not enough to last until the autumn harvest. He suggested that everyone should save food and eat half full at most.

But Huang Yi didn't listen at all.

Because Huang Yi wanted to make all the Han people healthy, and worked hard to train their fighting skills, they would not be [-]% full, and they would definitely not be able to eat meat.

What should I do if I run out of food?
Easy!There are knives and guns in hand!

Huang Yi thought about it. Before spring plowing, he would lead the teenagers and young adults who had been trained for several months to rob horse thieves, or wipe out one or two small tribes who took refuge in slavery.

It doesn't matter if you can't catch up with the fleeing knights. If you rob cattle, sheep, grain, tea, cloth, etc., you will win.

The strengthened Hedan Bateer's tribe is grazing outside the mountain, and they can basically be sure that they will be safe and secure within the next two years.

In fact, the biggest danger should come from the second conquest of Hal by Huang Taiji in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

At that time, Jiannu beat Lin Danhan and fled for three thousand miles, all the way to Qinghai, and even lost the city of Guihua.

Huang Yi's base was in the mountains, and there were many slaves and horses. When marching, there were plains to go, and he would not choose to go to the mountains.

But if it is revealed that there is a small anti-gold army here, Jiannu will definitely wipe it out.

Therefore, we must master the premise of developing quietly, and go as far as possible to the east when robbing small tribes.

(End of this chapter)