The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 19
Zhu Linmi quickly gave up the plan to convert this hundred-household camp into a military camp. Although there are some ready-made facilities that can be used, the area is too small, and secondly, it is surrounded by cultivated land, so it is easy to have conflicts with farmers during military training.

He rode around with several guards for most of the day, and finally chose an open wasteland in the southeast of Longnan.

There is a hill in the north, and a wide river passes by on the south side. There is a large flat open space between the mountains and rivers, and there are many trees nearby.

The most wonderful thing is that there is a square building seven or eight miles west of this wasteland.The square building is said to be a "lou", but it is actually a small bastion built by the Hakka people.The four walls are tall and smooth, and there are towers with more than three floors on the four corners, which are more than enough to defend against bandits.In the future, you can discuss with the residents in this turret and let the new army come here to train for siege.If this kind of fortification can be taken down, ordinary city walls will be a piece of cake.

There are all kinds of terrain and landforms here, and there are even bastions for training. As long as a little tidying up, it will be a very good comprehensive training camp.

Wang Keqian was originally worried that Zhu Linmi would be stationed near the county seat, but he was delighted to learn that the military camp was built on a piece of wasteland.

If this large and uninhabited land is set up as a military camp, there will be small traders nearby to make a living, and perhaps people will gradually settle and reclaim wasteland in the future.If this wasteland can be turned into a village in the future, it will definitely be a good thing for Longnan County.

Wangzhi County had already been instructed by the teacher to help Zhu Linmi as much as possible, but now he paid more attention. He immediately organized more than 400 nearby villagers to burn wasteland, level the ground, and build facilities, and ordered the county magistrate Luo Peng to supervise it himself.

The beginning of August was the slack time for farming, and the labor force was abundant. In addition, Zhu Linmi paid for extra meals for the people, so the construction site was in full swing.

Under the dispatch of Luo Xiancheng, hundreds of people quickly enclosed the seven or eight hectares of wasteland, and they were going to fill in the mud between the two ponds that day.

Seeing this, Zhu Linmei hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and saved the swamp training ground he planned.

He also carefully instructed Luo Xiancheng that, except for the [-]-foot-square open space used as the school ground, which needs to be leveled and compacted, all other places should be kept as they are and must not be repaired.

In order to prevent further mistakes, Zhu Linmi simply changed into a military uniform and turned around every point on the construction site.Sure enough, this turn found some problems.

For example, for the construction of the barracks, Luo Xiancheng only recruited more than ten masons and less than ten carpenters.It may take more than half a year for these people to bring some strong people to complete the barracks that can accommodate thousands of people.

Zhu Linmi had to take out another 200 taels of silver and asked Qiao Qian to take people to a town farther away to recruit craftsmen.

When he was about to leave the construction site of the barracks, he saw a carpenter making objects with a saw and an axe. When he went up to inquire, he found out that it was to make a Datong shop for soldiers.

Zhu Linmi asked someone to fetch a pen and paper, drew a pattern of double-layer bunk beds, and ordered the carpenters to make all the beds in this style.

These carpenters are also veterans. Although they have never seen such a strange bed, they immediately recognized the trick. This bed is not only more comfortable to sleep on than the Datong bunk, but it is also not conducive to the spread of fleas, lice and other parasites, and it can save money. Lots of space.

Therefore, all the carpenters praised it, and some people were glad that they were assigned to make beds, and they could learn a new style of beds, and maybe they could earn some money later on.

When Zhu Linmi finished inspecting the entire construction site and came to the entrance of the barracks, she happened to see a rock as tall as a person ten feet away, and immediately thought of something in her mind.He sent for stonemasons and gave them another order.

At night, Zhu Linmi didn't go to the post house arranged for her by Wangzhi County, but pulled up a tent beside the woods on the east side of the military camp, also wanting to get used to military life as soon as possible.

Early the next morning, Wangzhi County received a report saying that His Royal Highness Chen Zhou did not go back to the post all night, and rushed to the construction site in a hurry. He was relieved when he saw Zhu Linmi wearing military uniform and directing the construction.

Seeing him coming, Zhu Linmei hurriedly greeted him: "Lord Wang, I just need your help with something."

Wang Keqian stepped forward to pay respects, and then listened to Zhu Linmi's repeated narration. It took him a long time to understand, "The 'tendering' mentioned by His Highness is somewhat similar to 'singing'. It's just that the buyer raises the price. The seller decides who to sell to. The bidding is just the opposite, the seller lowers the price, and His Highness decides who to buy."

"Basically, that's what it means. However, the bidding prices are kept confidential and will not be announced publicly. All bids and product grades are written on paper and packed in boxes. When the bids are opened, the bidder with the lower price and higher quality will naturally win the bid."

Wang Zhixian was amazed by this wonderful method, "In this way, the seller will try his best to keep the asking price as low as possible so that he can beat other competitors." He hesitated, "It's just that if these merchants communicate with each other..."

Zhu Linmei smiled and said: "It's okay. Businessmen are after profit, and whoever communicates with others is waiting to be betrayed. People who have worked hard in these business circles can naturally think of this." He continued, "This time the main It is to buy military uniforms, leather boots, officers' sabers, and wooden guns for training. Everything must be customized. Except for [-] sabers, [-] pieces of other items will be delivered in three batches."

Wang Zhixian nodded his head and was about to leave, but was stopped by Zhu Linming again.

"One more thing," Zhu Linmei took out the recruiting notice that Hong Si helped him draw up last night and handed it to Wang Keqian, "My new Dragon Guard Army needs to recruit a battalion of soldiers, and Lord Wang needs to worry about it."

Wang Keqian was a little confused: "Your Highness, those who are willing to serve as soldiers have long been recruited by Yang Butang. I'm afraid..." This Yang Butang is Yang Tinglin, Minister of the Ministry of War who presides over all military affairs in southern Jiangxi.

"Do your best to fulfill your destiny." Zhu Linmei smiled and said, "As many soldiers as you can recruit, Mr. Wang just do it."

Wang Keqian didn't say any more, and immediately posted bidding information in various places in Longnan according to Zhu Linmi's order, and even the nearby Jinnan and Dingnan counties issued some notices.As for recruiting soldiers, the formal process was still followed, and the documents were distributed all the way to the village chiefs of the villages.

Before Yu Xin's brigade arrived in Longnan, Zhu Linmi had to complete all the preliminary preparations as much as possible. Zhu Linmi thought about it one by one.

That night, Zhu Linmei wrote a long memorial, asking Long Wu for instructions on how to train and strengthen the army that was planned recently.Seal it with wax after writing.He definitely couldn't believe the post station. He estimated that the memorial would fall into Zheng Zhilong's hands when he entered Fujing.

He asked Shi Lin to choose an absolutely reliable bodyguard and send the memorial to Tianxing Mansion on two horses.

Another day later, Qiao Qian returned to the barracks construction site with more than 40 craftsmen.Seeing so many craftsmen came, Luo Xiancheng immediately assured Zhu Linmi that as long as the building materials were sufficient, all the barracks could be built in at most forty days.

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