The Heavens: Starting from Traveling through Song Qingshu

Chapter 56 Sapphire, the Marshal wants to see you!

"Okay, I've registered for you. Go to the bathhouse at the back to take a bath first, and you will be changed into new clothes. Then someone will lead you to dinner!
After eating, there will be government servants to arrange a place for you to live.

As for the division of land you mentioned, there are too many refugees here. Although the Elder Master is still alive, how can there be so many lands to divide?

Therefore, if you want to stay, you can open up wasteland according to the requirements of the government, open up wasteland and take care of food, three meals a day, don't worry about starving to death. "

"Okay!" Lan Fengjiao quickly thanked, "Just take care of the food, and we can do whatever we are asked to do!"

As if she was afraid that the scribe would go back on his word, she took a few copper coins and wanted to stuff them into the other's sleeve.

On the contrary, the clerk stepped back nervously, covered his eyes with his sleeve, and said angrily: "Take it back, take it back, I don't want to see these stinky things!"

Seeing this, Song Xuan could not help but smile.

This Li Shanchang really has two brushes!

It was indeed beyond his expectation that Lan Yu and his brother defected to him.

Lan Yu, who has been trained for a few years, will be a handsome talent who can be used in the future.

Now that the Lanyu siblings are here, it will be easier to recruit his brother-in-law Chang Yuchun in the future.

That is a rare fierce general, Song Xuan has no shortage of martial arts masters, what is lacking is a general who can lead troops in battle!
After turning around and feeling that everything was on the right track, Song Xuan returned to the commander's mansion and began to review the memorial.

The autumn harvest was coming to an end, and conscription was about to be put on the agenda, and raising and training soldiers had always been the biggest expense in terms of money and food.

Fortunately, although Suzhou and Hangzhou are a bit dry this year, the government has suppressed the banditry and escorted the autumn harvest. On the contrary, the harvest is the best in the past. If you save some money, it will be enough to support the new grain next year.

In addition, in the grain depot, there is also the grain confiscated by the Tsing Yiwei from the major families in the name of suppressing bandits. I dare not say that it is piled up like a mountain, but Song Xuan is not short of grain now.

With grain in hand, don't panic in my heart.

Half a month later, the autumn harvest was over, and the conscription in Suzhou and Hangzhou began in full swing.

Regarding conscription, Song Xuan didn't intervene too much, and let his subordinates handle it. He only gave one request: that is a son of a good family!

People who have not committed crimes in the three generations of their ancestors are given priority in admission.

The children of good families who got the land from the local tyrants before were the main recruits for this conscription!

They are the vested interests of Song Xuan's policies, and as Song Yuanqiao said before, in order to protect the newly acquired fields, they can work hard for Song Xuan, the master of the blue sky!
Whoever eats food will work for whomever. This has been the simple cognition of the Chinese people since ancient times.

Whether the emperor is not the emperor, how can they control those!

In fact, Song Xuan is not the only one who is busy recruiting troops here.

In the provincial capitals of the south of the Yangtze River, many big families have also begun to spend money and food to recruit soldiers and horses to prepare for the troubled times that have already begun.

In addition, many bandits also began to unite to form groups of rebels, constantly attacking cities and seizing territories.

The provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have already begun to become chaotic, but the imperial court has no time to worry about this side at all, because in the north, a very powerful rebel army has risen.

After the end of the first battle of Guangmingding, Zhang Wuji was elected as the leader by the high-level Mingjiao, and began to prepare for the uprising.

The people of the Ming Cult can count on their words. One month after the war, the rebel armies from all branches of the Ming Cult rebelled against the Yuan at the same time, sweeping across the provinces in a very short period of time.

The people in the north beat gongs and drums to welcome the rebel army, and joined the Mingjiao army with kitchen knives. In just one or two months, the army under Mingjiao increased rapidly, claiming to be 50 troops.

The Ming Cult also unfurled the banner of the Ming Army. The sect advocated Wuji as the son of King Ming, and was honored as King Xiao Ming.

"My Junior Brother Zhang is quite tough!"

Song Xuan smiled slightly, but considering Zhang Wuji's temperament, he couldn't be so rigid, and the decision was probably made after discussion by the top Mingjiao officials.

For Song Xuan, the large-scale uprising of Mingjiao was a good thing. With them standing up in the north and attracting the main force of the Yuan court, he could grow steadily in the Jiangnan border.

Time passed by little by little, Song Xuan was recruiting and training in an orderly manner, and the roar of artillery could be heard outside the city from time to time, which was the training of the firearms battalion.

From time to time, groups of soldiers in black iron armor, hats and helmets, long knives pinned to their waists, and firecrackers hanging behind their backs can be seen hurrying on their way.

The people in Hangzhou City have gradually become accustomed to the situation of the army passing through the border, and even greeted the passing Hangzhou army with warm cheers.

In the past, soldiers were no different from bandits in their eyes, and soldiers were even more troubled than bandits, but now it is different.

These soldiers are soldiers from peasant families like them, and they serve as soldiers to protect their own one-acre three-point land from being taken away by Tartars and tyrants.

Moreover, the military discipline of the soldiers in Hangzhou is extremely strict, and the Marshal's Mansion has already issued a military order. Those who dare to harm the common people will be executed on the spot. The law will not be merciful!
In a relatively simple thatched hut, Sapphire sat at the dining table eating steamed buns and drinking fragrant rice porridge.

While eating, he looked at his sister sitting opposite.

"Sister, the three-day vacation is over. I'm going back to the barracks after breakfast. I'm not here these days. No one bullies you, right?"

Lan Fengjiao looked dotingly at Lan Yu, whose body had grown stronger, and said with a smile: "The commander's Tsing Yi Wei gallops around from time to time, and even a hooligan can't be seen on the street, who dares to bully us?

But you, are you still used to life in the military? "

"Why aren't you used to it?" Speaking of the barracks, Lan Yu suddenly got excited, "Three meals a day, and there is meat at noon, I'm tired from training, but I'm full, tired is better than hungry, right?
By the way, sister, some time ago in the military assessment, my grades were excellent in all aspects. If there is no accident, I should be able to nominate a centurion or something next month, and the army will be divided by then.

Sister, if it really doesn't work, you should stop being guarded by your brother-in-law and marry the right person.We have no shortage of food and drink now, and when the time comes, we will divide the land, and we must live a good life after all! "

Speaking of this, Lan Fengjiao's face drooped immediately, and she said, "Unless you see your brother-in-law's dead body, don't say these things in the future!

Have you finished eating?Get out early after eating!

Go to the barracks and work hard, the commander let us live a good life, you boy, don't smear his old man's face! "

Lan Yu was kicked out of the house with a helpless face, and when she arrived at the gate of the barracks, she saw two Qingyi guards galloping towards them in the distance.

"You are Sapphire?"

"The commander-in-chief wants to see you, come with us!"

(End of this chapter)