open sea

Chapter 441
Kuwu Island has a harsh and long winter. Since the year after the year, the graduates of the North and South Lecture Halls have placed three local guards to become flag officers for more than a hundred households. They conduct short-term voyage training for the flag troops under their command. People begin to know where they are going. what.

"Everyone can see from the map that if you cross the East Strait, you can reach the north of America. However, whether the north of America is shown in the map, even Chen Shuai doesn't know."

Xi'er Hawei, who graduated from the Xuanfu Army Lecture Hall, was summoned by the emperor and the chief assistant. Ma Jin, who served as the commander of Xi'er Hawei and the deputy commander of Kuwu, stood on the commander's platform, pointed at the map behind him, and spoke to the generals in front , Then the Banner Army said: "We will report this military affairs to His Majesty, comfort the people, find out about America, thousands of miles away, and set up a defense station there."

In fact, Ma Jin didn't know if the distance was thousands of miles away. The Xuanfu Lecture Hall didn't tell him the answer, but it was always right to say that it was far away.

"The place where you are located, Kuwu Island, was called the extreme north in ancient times. Anyone who has traveled east this time will be recorded in the annals of history, and future generations will also be honored!"

Ma Jin opened the imperial edict on the commander's platform and read it aloud: "Edict of the Son of Heaven, whoever enters the North Asian Merica first, regardless of Hua Yi or Hu Yue, who can speak Chinese as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, All credited to level one!"

After Ma Jin said something, he paused for a while, and the Jurchen riders under Nikan Wailan outside the army shouted and repeated it in Jurchen language.

"Those who climbed to North America, with more than a thousand households, can find out where to set up guards, set up one guard, and record one level of merit."

"On Kuwu Island, those who recruit people to join the army are allowed to have a hundred people, and the merits will be recorded as one grade; those who can go to North America, with less than a thousand households, can prospect for gold, and open a kiln, and the merits will be recorded as one grade; those who can draw maps, draw ten miles, One level of merit will be recorded; those who can defeat the enemy will be awarded one level of merit in every battle; those who present rare animals will be awarded one level of merit; those who present gorgeous treasures will be awarded one level of merit..."

After a large list of imperial court credits for going to North America was recorded in the brocade newspaper, the imperial edict was stuffed into his arms and stepped back. Ma Gui stepped out with his sword on his waist, and the two guards of honor on the stage shouted loudly: "quiet!"

When the flag officers and flag troops below were quiet, Ma Gui then said in a loud voice: "For those who have meritorious service, if the flag army raises the small flag, one merit; if the small flag raises the general flag, two merits; if the general flag raises a hundred households, three merits; A household is promoted to a deputy thousand household, four merits; a deputy thousand household is promoted to a thousand households, five merits; a thousand households is promoted to a deputy commander, commander and acquaintance, seven merits; promoted to a guard commander, ten merits."

"Those who want to be promoted to the actual teaching will be promoted to the actual teaching; those who do not want to be promoted will be rewarded with ten taels for one achievement, 50 taels for collecting three achievements, and one hundred and fifty taels of silver for collecting five achievements!"

"Those who want to get silver will be given silver when the boat arrives within half a year; those who don't want silver, they can earn fifty acres of land in North America, and they can register at the household. They can move and live, and they will be rewarded immediately!"

Ma Gui's voice fell, and there was no big movement, only the generals in front of each banner army nodded slowly, looked at each other and clenched their fists. Although the Han banner army behind them whispered, they still restrained themselves.

When Nikan Wailan's men were proficient in Chinese, Jurchen, and Mongolian, the riders rode their horses and shouted as they walked from the central army formation, but the army formation of hundreds of people really boiled.

Those Jurchens who were summoned here could not resist such a temptation. Only a small number of them could still maintain calm and extremely restrained, because they all came from places further north, and even the three major groups called them savages. I have never seen silver, and I don't know what silver can do, and I don't think that cultivated land is valuable.

Anything planted on their arable land will be damaged by freezing, not as good as fishing and hunting.

But I don't know which Jurchen warrior beside them shouted to them loudly: "The land is the hunting ground, and the prey you catch on your land is yours!"

It was really lively now, the noise seemed to knock off the tiles on the wooden houses in the Acropolis, Ma Gui smiled.

It is too difficult for them to recruit soldiers. Even though the Banner Army transferred from the Wanquandu Division by the imperial court to join the Kuwu Sanwei has no choice, they are unwilling to go east overseas, let alone Nikanwailan. The Jurchens recruited from the Jurchen Tripartite,

No one wants to leave their homeland.

But with an imperial edict brought back by Ma Jin and others, everything is different.

Xi'erhawei's Banner Army and Jurchens were allowed to have a holiday. They were allowed to return to their hometown and recruit more Banner Army and Jurchens. Clothes, anyone who has a skill can be allowed.

Because during this period of time, the most important thing for Magui, the commander-in-chief of Kuwu Island, is time. He is waiting for the medical craftsman sent by the capital.

The medical craftsman came early, but he didn't have enough acne powder, and his banner army just didn't have enough. The medical craftsman and the banner army returned to Beijing together, and specially asked the imperial court to go directly to the Tai Hospital, so that they could prepare acne powder and choose vaccinations The most skilled physicians remove the powder and prepare for vaccination.

In this world, as long as the emperor and the cabinet want to do one thing, even if they want to achieve the effect of the sun disappearing, they can make everyone close their eyes.

However, in the past few months, the top-down edict has had a great effect. The most powerful thing is naturally the accident caused by the Tai Hospital's obsession with vaccination, which made Chinese doctors arouse great enthusiasm for vaccination. All the doctors in the bureau began to ponder this skill, and wrote books, hoping to obtain the qualifications for promotion.

Even more troublesome doctors boarded the conscription ship bound for Kuwu Island directly from Tianjin Wei.

When it comes to conscription, Ma Gui made a lot of noise. The eastbound meritorious rewards spread in the Wanquandu Division really attracted some people, but the commanders from all over the place did not dare to release them all, and only gave a small number of places.

Those bannermen couldn't rely on recruiting people to join the army in exchange for military exploits, and they were anxious to get angry. Finally, some people set their sights on the north, north of the Great Wall.

In the Tumo River of King Guiyi, Alta, there is a rumor that the Ming Dynasty discovered a vast land and set out to recruit people. But the sum is not too small, and finally alarmed me.

After figuring this out, he wrote a letter to the emperor. He asked the emperor if he would organize people to go to Tianjin, would there be any rewards, and would these people's rewards be provided in full.

Zhang Juzheng immediately replied, "Give, all, not only, but also three uncastrated war horses!"
I Da Khan is good at counting, so he did the math. If you sell an uncastrated war horse in the Kou market, at least ten taels, you will only be rewarded ten taels of silver for one meritorious service.Thirty war horses are needed to collect the highest reward for five meritorious deeds, and the horses that can be sold for 300 taels can be exchanged for 200 taels, which is a loss!

So he simply ignored Zhang Juzheng's proposal of war horses, and sent troops to recruit people at the root of the Great Wall, and drove out the bastards who didn't listen to orders, gathered thousands of people, and sent them to Kuwu.

Kuwu Island is really lively. Thousands of people flocked to Kuwu Island in a few months, waiting to be resettled with their families, ready to receive the potentially dangerous vaccination, and some people started to learn Chinese on the spot. .

In April of the first year of Wanli, Ma Jin, the deputy general of Kuwu, led a vanguard fleet of more than [-] people, sailed across the sea to America!
(End of this chapter)