Chapter 275 The first-line position of the infantry
The grandfather and grandson said right. Dong Hu was not only willing to adopt Liangzhou baby, Hanmin, Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuwan... As long as it was a baby, he was willing to adopt it, so he was not afraid of raising too many.
As the internal stability gradually stabilizes, the education of the children and the people's livelihood and economy have become the top priority, and Dong Hu is also further expanding the scope of cultivating the children.
Pingcheng is the home port of 100,000 military farm soldiers. The generals and soldiers took their wives and concubines to fight and guard them. The children were basically left in Pingcheng. Some teachers taught to read and read. If they were older, they would be sent to the "Dongjia School" in the militarized management of "Dongjia School".
Among the 200,000 to 300,000 Han people who followed Dong Hu to Bingzhou, there were all kinds of people, and there were hundreds of poor scholars alone. Most of these people became the chief envoys, chief officials, and internal affairs personnel of nature in various military fronts, military camps, and military forts. However, no matter how busy they are, they must make a day every five days to go to the school to be a teacher. This school is not necessarily the Dongjia School in Pingcheng, or it may be just a school in the military fort with hundreds of people. The school may also be just a bullpen. However, as long as it is an official in charge of internal affairs, no matter the size of the official position, one day every five days, and they must honestly teach the children to read and read. Just like the generals in the army, once they find that they have not taught the children to study, they will be immediately assigned to the demotion sequence.
Although Dong Hu is busy and it is difficult for him to spare more time to teach the children himself, he attaches great importance to the education of the children. Whenever he has time, he will enter the Dong Family School like an ordinary teacher.
Dongjia School is a comprehensive school. Agriculture, industry, business, military and political are the main subjects, which are similar to later universities. There are many primary schools in the five major subjects of agriculture, industry, business, military and political affairs. The main reason is to look at the children's interest. Of course, influenced by their parents, there are also the most children in the two subjects of military and political affairs.
Dong Hu really wanted to change the "Dong Family School" to "university, university" or something. He was mainly worried about Luoyang's fear, and his little thoughts, who wanted to use the teacher-student relationship to unite people's hearts and enhance everyone's centripetal force.
The fifteen blast furnaces were ignited, and in just half an hour, a cheer came and there was a constant stream of cheers...
"Lord, except for one of the fifteen blast furnaces, which stopped after a crack, the rest were normal, and they also burned out iron juice... but a little more, and some were a little less."
Lao Nian couldn't hide the excitement on his face and delivered the report on the fifteen blast furnaces to Dong Hu. After looking around for a few seconds, he took a deep breath.
"The stove is not allowed to cease fire until all the ore is burned. Detailed reports on iron output from all furnaces must be sent, and some inappropriate furnaces must be eliminated."
Dong Hu patted Lao Nian's shoulder heavily and said solemnly: "There is a difference between a craftsman and a master. A master will strive for excellence in the original things, get closer to the next level, and even break through the original restrictions to create new things."
"We are not afraid of you wasting manpower and material resources, we are not afraid of you failing, or making flashy things for us, but we are afraid of you not thinking about it and doing it!"
Lao Nian nodded quickly and said, "What the lord scolds is that the villain... the villain will definitely work hard!"
Dong Hu patted Lao Nian on the shoulder several times and watched countless people pour ore into the blast furnace with all their might. Even so, it was difficult to suppress the fire that was coming out. It felt that the proportion of coke might be a little larger, but this was just a matter of slowly adjusting it later...
"Oh by the way, keep the iron slag for us, mix the slag with limestone and clay together to calcinate it. If cement can be made and building a house, it will be much easier for the giant city."
"This matter is very important. You old craftsmen should pay attention to it. Try to burn it. As much as possible, the fired soil will turn into stones after adding water. If this matter is done, we will erect a monument to you! We will ask you for merit and give you a title of marquis!"
The old men were shocked, and Lao Nian was even more excited and his hands and feet trembled.
"Lord...Don't worry, the villain... the villain must... must work hard!"
Dong Hu remakes the old man again.
"Our tiger baby keeps his word. As long as you make cement for us, we will ask for merit and title for you!"
"Never break your promise!"
After hearing what he said, all the generals were a little confused. Could it be that they could be named a marquis by mixing slag, stone and soil together?
Sun Niu, wearing armor, ignored these things and pushed others aside and came to Dong Hu's side...
"Master, can we... can we let Hu Sanna stay in Lian County and let our Hei Niu follow our lord? He has fought with the Xianbei several times with our Hei Niu, but we didn't even touch a thief. The brothers are almost crazy!"
Sun Niu and Hu San are both mercenaries from Lintao. Mercenaries like wealth the most. After learning that there are Zhaobishan copper mines and Maidushan iron mines in Lian County, the two of them were like chicken blood when they entered the three Hetao counties. Now...
Looking at Sun Niu who had gained weight, Dong Hu tapped his chest with a horse whip.
"What's wrong? You are not happy if you let me sleep in the mountains of gold and silver all day?"
"Master... Our Hei Niu really doesn't want to dig stones anymore..."
Sun Niu said with his fingers: "Xing Yong followed Old Man Cai to Fuping County. Although he had not been able to fight with others, we Hei Niu heard that Old Man Cai was very favored by him and asked him to take care of a group of Huns who love to make trouble. His life was much better than our Hei Niu!"
"Huaxiong, Dong Yao, Dong Xin... and that Hu San! They followed their lords to fight against the Xianbei people for several battles! This year, the lord asked Xiao Yi, Dong Gu, Liu Qi, Dong Chong and others to lead tens of thousands of people out of the frontier... In the past two years, we, Hei Niu and our brothers, have not even caught a single hair, and our brothers' bones are almost rusted. We, Hei Niu, really don't want to dig stones anymore. No matter how many copper mountains there are, the brothers don't want to dig..."
"Ha ha……"
Looking at Sun Niu's bitter face, Dong Hu and the generals all burst into laughter.
Dong Hu hugged Sun Niu with a sigh on his face. Others were fighting for meat. Even the worst Xing Yong led five thousand soldiers to Fuping County and helped Cai Yong to farm. Sun Niu, who had always been the number one infantryman, was extremely injured.
There were four brigades of the two thousand mercenaries initially recruited in Lintao. In addition to Dong Hu, he led the headquarters brigade directly, Sun Niu was the second brigade, veteran Yao Shan was the third brigade, and Hua Xiong was the fourth brigade.
According to the agreement between Dong Hu and his eldest son Dong Mao that day, the first and second brigades were two brigades under Dong Hu's name. The third brigade was a military supervisor brigade led by Dong Mao, and the fourth brigade was the general under Dong Zhuo. In fact, the third and fourth brigades were all considered to be the troops given to Dong Hu by Dong Mao. When Didao was in danger, it was also the third and the fourth brigades went to Didao to rescue him, but later they were hungry and only one brigade was left. When Dong Hu returned from Baima Qiang, Sun Niu's second brigade expanded two thousand soldiers.
Since the beginning, Sun Niu was an infantry general under Dong Hu. The two thousand mercenaries who were expanded in half a year were trained very well. When Huangfu Song surrendered Han Sui and others, the war had ended and the mission of the mercenaries was completed. The mercenaries who stayed in Yuzhong City were actually disbanded. For this reason, Hua Xiong, Yao Shan, Yao Yong and his veterans returned to Dong Zhuo's name and became a member of the Hedong Army under the name of Dong Zhuo, the prefect of Hedong.
However, Sun Niu and Hu San, who was under Hua Xiong's name, did not become generals under Dong Zhuo's name. Instead, under the leadership of Sanya, he led 30,000 Dong Buyichi to the Hehuang Valley and completely became the nine deputy generals under Dong Hu's name.
Sun Niu and Hu San are fellow villagers. They always fight each other, report to each other, and complain to the wrongdoer. Sun Niu dares not compete with Dong Hu brothers such as Xiao Yi, Dong Chong, Dong Yao, and Dong Xin, but he has always regarded himself as the boss of the old mercenary camp. But now he has been idle for two years and has become the head of a mining miner. How can he bear this?
In previous infantry attacks, Dong Hu used Sun Niu as the vanguard general. The biggest battle was that Sun Niu personally led 5,000 infantrymen to encircle and annihilate nearly 100,000 troops. He was originally the leader of the infantry, but now he has become an idle elderly care worker, which also makes the man who looks like a black iron tower a little anxious. He no longer has the excitement of just learning that there is a copper mine in Lian County.
Dong Hu hugged Sun Niu's neck and walked to the gate of the iron smelting workshop with him. The generals behind him looked at the two of them with some amusement...
"I won't talk about the ten deputy generals under our command, but among the generals, even if Yao and Xin are our brothers, they are not as hard as you, Hei Niu, and you might as well learn more about the ability to arrange troops."
"You Hei Niu is the number one infantry general under our name. This is also the main reason why we let you and Xiao Yi defend the Western Front independently. With you and Xiao Yi guarding the Western Front, we can be worry-free!"
Dong Hu patted Sun Niu on the shoulder. Listening to these words, Sun Niu's originally a little impetuous heart instantly calmed down and patted his chest hard.
"Don't worry, lord! No one can break our military formation if we have our black bull here!"
Dong Hu smiled and nodded and said, "When we went to Baima Qiang, you, Hei Niu, not only turned the second brigade of 500 people into a battalion of 2,000 people, but more importantly, you did not take any laziness and trained 2,000 people into two thousand elites. We knew that you were a general who could lead the side alone, Hu San... and even Uncle Yao Shan and others were not as good as you in this regard, so we all needed to watch some."
Dong Hu said again: "According to our situation, Taiyuan County to the south, or the imperial court does not need to pay too much attention. They have no ability to threaten us. Our external enemies are the Xianbei in the east, and the Qiang people who are rebelling in Liangzhou in the west. As for the Hu people in Mobei and Longxi Grassland in the north, we let Xiao Yi and Dong Gu lead tens of thousands of cavalry out of the frontier just to knock on the entire Mobei grassland. After hitting them, they lose the ability to threaten us."
"So our threats are only Xianbei in the east and Qiang people in Liangzhou in the west."
Dong Hu smiled and said, "The three counties of Hetao are grasslands, and the grasslands are the world of cavalry. The status of infantry is a little lower. Even if Dong Yao, Dong Xin and Hu live on the eastern front, they can only live on the second line. But you have to know one thing. Compared with the whole world, the importance of the three counties of Hetao is also the second line. Where is the real first line?"
"It's the Central Plains!"
"The infantry's front-line position is in the Central Plains!"
Dong Hu patted Sun Niu's slightly raised belly again, and the smile on his face became heavier.
"We came to Lian County this time mainly for iron smelting and salt drying. What is the purpose of iron smelting? We want to build you an elite 5,000 fully-armored heavy infantry..."
Chapter completed!