Young men, you think too much!

Amidst the sounds of gathering sentries, these Ning Haijun soldiers and Dongjiang Army soldiers were mixed together in a mixed manner, that is, three Dongjiang Army divisions and one Ning Haijun division. The four divisions were temporarily mixed together and began to go up.

Listen to the lecture.

The courses for soldiers are absolutely different from those for generals, but they are roughly divided into two parts: morning and afternoon. They teach military rules and regulations and various rules and regulations that are different from other battalions. Literacy begins in the afternoon, and every soldier must learn literacy every day.

The soldiers of Ning Haijun were okay. They had undergone similar training and could barely tolerate it. However, the soldiers of Dongjiang Army had heads as big as buckets. Each of them held a knife and a gun in his hand, and when he held a pen, it felt like it weighed more than a thousand pounds.

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Many soldiers asked their instructors: "Instructor, we are not good at standing in military posture. How about we humble ourselves and stand outside in the snow for an hour?"

"One hour is not enough, at least two hours are needed!"

The instructor smiled with a smile on his face: "Commander Cheng has an order. Soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers. You should just learn to read here honestly!"

"I want to cry!"

"I want to fucking die!"

"How about we go back to Shuangdao?"

"I want you back!"

"I won't go back!"

Although Ning Haijun's training is rigorous and can be called the 19th level of hell, the problem is that almost all the Dongjiang Army soldiers have suffered from hunger. For the Dongjiang Army soldiers who have suffered from hunger, the taste of starvation is more terrifying than death...

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Fortunately, the heavy snow only lasted one day and one night. Early the next morning, more than 26,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, plus more than 10,000 soldiers of the Ning Navy, quickly got up, put on their clothes, shoes, socks, and leggings and rushed out.

Go out to gather and start morning exercises. The gate of the military camp opens, and groups of soldiers carrying about thirty kilograms of equipment pour out. They line up in a neat queue and start running along the avenue. Countless feet are raised and lowered at the same time.

It's very rhythmic, as if every step steps on people's hearts. It's really spectacular.

When Zu Dabi and Zhou An came to Gaizhou Guard, they discovered that there was no Cheng Shijie in Gaizhou Guard, so they had to go south from Gaizhou Guard and all the way to Jinzhou Guard.

When he was guarding Gaizhou, Zu Dabi didn't feel anything strange. After all, Gaizhou was just the frontier of the Ning Navy. It was impossible for Gaizhou to develop vigorously until the threat of slave-building was eliminated.

Arriving in the territory of Jinzhou Wei, Zu Dabi was the first to see countless smoke pillars, which were all chimneys of factories burning coal. Even in the ice and snow environment, Jinzhou's infrastructure and factory construction did not stop. The managers of these factories were all

It is very clear that the time left for them by the Jiannu slaves is running out.

Once spring begins, even if Jiannu does not come to attack Liaonan, Cheng Shijie will vigorously develop farming. Now there are as many as 217 100-household farming stations in Ninghai Navy, which is equivalent to 21,170 households.

Military households in the fields. When everyone goes to the fields, who will work for them?

Taking advantage of the fact that the field work had not started, they could only rush to work overtime to build a large amount of sand and gravel, and the military households began to work. This scene fell in Zu Dabi's eyes. These were all Ning Haijun's troops, and there were too many of them.

Zu Dabi was a little worried, Ning Haijun was coming with bad intentions.

Especially when he saw Ning Haijun training, he was secretly surprised.

I was extremely surprised. How could such a neat formation and such a tacit understanding be achieved? Guan Ningjun definitely couldn't do it anyway.

"Your Marshal Cheng's soldiers are well trained, very good!"

Zu Dabi was a little excited, "Thousands of people are one, advancing and retreating together. This momentum alone is very scary! They must have advanced like a wall on the battlefield, with swords coming and going, and spears stabbing them."

Come, attack with spears, no one will advance or retreat without permission, such an army is terrifying!"

Zhou An waved his hand and said: "General Zu doesn't know something. They are not the main force of our Ning Navy!"

"Isn't this an elite?"

Through a simple comparison, Zu Dabi found that the gap between Guan Ningjun and Ning Haijun was quite large.

"Then your elite troops are..."

"this……"

Zhou An hurriedly shut up: "This is a military secret. If General Zu wants to know, he can apply to Commander Cheng. If Commander Cheng agrees, General Zu can have close contact with Ning Haijun's elite troops."

Zu Dabi frowned slightly.

The problem is that he doesn't dare to mention this kind of military secret. Even if he brings it up, Marshal Cheng Shijie probably won't agree.

When Cheng Shijie learned that Zhou An was back, especially when Zhou An told Cheng Shijie word for word how to negotiate with Zu Dashou, Cheng Shijie felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.

This is like selling a rabbit to a camel for two kicks in later generations. Cheng Shijie himself thought that offering each prisoner one tael of silver a day to Zu Dashu was already evil. But Zhou An took the initiative and mentioned that each prisoner would receive five taels of silver a day.

, to be fair, even the chief minister of the current cabinet cannot have such a high food expense.

In the Ming Dynasty, the monthly salary of the Minister of the Ministry of War was as high as sixty shi, which is equivalent to 720 shi of rice a year. Indeed, the Minister of the Ministry of War was high. In terms of the system, the salary of each Ming army soldier was one stone of grain. The Minister of the Ministry of War was

Sixty times that of a soldier, but the problem is that even sixty times, it is only more than fifty taels of silver per month, but Zhou An's asking price is one hundred and fifty taels. According to the current eight taels of silver per stone of grain, it is one

One hundred and eighty-seven dan is almost equivalent to the monthly salary of three ministers of the Ministry of War and the monthly salary of one hundred and eighty-seven soldiers.

But the problem is that Zu Dashou is very wealthy. Not only did he not make a counter-offer, he also gave away a thousand war horses as an extra gift.

He really didn't know what he was doing. He was startled by the comparison, and only then did Cheng Shijie feel how poor he was.

However, the exchange has been agreed to now, and Zu Dashou's free will not only allowed Zu Dabi to bring a thousand war horses, but also 1.3 million taels of silver, which were divided into 100 taels per ingot and 50 taels.

One ingot, two specifications, including eight thousand silver ingots worth one hundred taels, five thousand silver ingots worth fifty taels, and cloth worth two hundred and fifty thousand taels.

Guang Yinzi pulled more than a hundred carts, and as the accounting room of the Ning Haijun Military Affairs Bureau began to be delivered, Cheng Shijie sent an order to the Luomashan Coal Mine.

Now the Luomashan Coal Mine has a daily production capacity of 3.6 million kilograms of coal, and more than 8,000 free laborers work here without complaint and very diligently. There is no need for supervisors and managers at all, they have developed muscle memory

.

In fact, on the first day these ancestral army soldiers came here, they secretly colluded and prepared to launch a mutiny when the supervisors were not paying attention. You must know that it is not very good to rebel against Ning Haijun, Guan Ningjun is

The most professional.

However, on the first day when these Ancestral Army prisoners were sent to the Luomashan Coal Mine, the first thing they did was to feed them. The weather was so cold and there was not enough coal in Liaonan that many people would freeze to death, especially those responsible for managing the coal mines.

The person in question is Zhang Ruyi, the former secretary of Weizuo Qianhu Office in Dengzhou.

Zhang Ruyi came from a poor family. When he was a child, three people in his family starved to death, especially his father Zhang Shengbing. Because he had tuberculosis and had no money for treatment, he kept coughing up blood and died of it. He had endured hardship and knew how miserable the common people were.

He originally wanted to study and be admitted as a Jinshi, and be a pragmatic official. He did not seek to be remembered in history, but he would be satisfied if he could provide the common people with a full bowl of food, and he would be less scolded as a "dog official".

Zhang Ruyi's idol is Pan Jixun, but it's a pity that he took the exam for eighteen consecutive years, from a childish boy to a gray-haired boy, but he didn't even pass the exam and remained a child.

Later, he went to Zuo Qianhu as a secretary. After meeting Cheng Shijie, especially after Cheng Shijie became a guard of Ning Haijun, he and Zhou Yandong were responsible for managing various factories of Ning Haijun.

Zhang Ruyi knew that prisoners of war and bandits all only wanted to have a good meal, so when he used free labor, he also learned the management style of Ning Haijun's soldiers, not seeking good food, but seeking to be well fed.

In this way, more than 8,000 ancestral army soldiers under Zu Zerun arrived at Luoma Mountain and ate hot porridge made from old grains. These prisoners of war began to cry.

Although they arrived in Gaizhou, Liaonan, with more than 13,000 people, in fact, these prisoners of war, including those under Zhang Chun's command, totaled more than 23,000 people. They were able to survive because they had eaten human flesh.

Some people will be eaten by others when they die. Anyway, Jiannu did not give them a grain of food. A few senior generals such as Zu Zerun and Zu Zehong can only get a little sorghum rice. Even ordinary soldiers have to force

If you endure stomach acid and eat human flesh, you will either freeze to death or starve to death.

This hot meal made them feel like they were alive again.

Because they can eat well, these prisoners of war did not cause trouble. Compared with the Daling River, the work in the Luomashan Coal Mine is not difficult. The people here are very reasonable. As long as they complete the set target number, they will not miss the chance.

Even if you beat people for no reason, their food rations will not be deducted.

Many Ancestral Army soldiers even believed that being able to dig coal in Luoma Mountain would be a good result.

Of course, this is just what ordinary people think. Zu Zerun, the eldest son of Zu, cursed Zhang Ruyi almost every day. As long as there was someone around him, he would be reported. Then he was given the treatment of cleaning his stomach and intestines and the treatment of moving his muscles and bones.

It wasn't until Zu Zerun saw Zu Dabi that he realized that Zu Dashou actually paid 1.3 million taels of silver in order to redeem them.

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Second General Zu, if we count today, it will no longer be thirty-two days, but thirty-four days. According to the previous agreement, this should be 1.38 million taels of silver. Consider it

When Commander Zu gave Cheng a thousand war horses, Cheng didn’t want the 80,000 taels of silver anymore!”

"Thank you Cheng Shuai for your generosity!"

Zu Zerun lowered his voice and said: "I can do it again..."

"Snapped……"

Zu Dabi slapped Zu Zerun on the face: "Shut up!"

"You are a fool and you are reckless, my nephew is going to accuse Cheng Shuai!"

"Little things, little things!"

Cheng Shijie has always been generous and tolerant towards his customers, his God of Wealth. Although this is the first time, it will definitely not be the second time.

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "If there are soldiers in the Guan Ning Army who are captured by slaves in the future, Cheng will also be responsible for snatching them back. Next time we will give you a 20% discount!"

"Farewell!"

"It's easy to leave, but I won't send you away!"

Zu Dabi also had the urge to beat Cheng Shijie violently. Looking at the generals around Cheng Shijie and countless Ning navy soldiers, Zu Dabi decided to endure it.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

The key is that among the more than 10,000 Ning navy officers who could easily push Jian slaves to the ground and rub them, none of them from Zu Dabi down would dare to bare their teeth at the Ning navy officers.

Even Cheng Shijie didn't know that he and Ning Haijun became famous all over the world in this battle. Emperor Chongzhen's record in the Liaonan battle made the world famous.
To be continued...