Chapter 335 Breaking the city, there is no blood (5)
Most of the musketeers who retreated to the last row came from Niu Lanyi, and it had been a year and a half since they first used firearms.
After the battle in Niu Lanyi, more than 300 households moved from Niu Lanyi to Peiyi. They were counted as "gifts" and were not bound to the land. They were presented to Mozhe who helped him to protect the "ancestor sacrifices" place.
The Tuo family walked a road that he had never walked before. After coming to Pei County, he arranged for them to enter the army first and distributed long muskets that were completely different from those in Niu Lanyi's guarding city.
In addition to being simpler, the order of loading is still the same, and the sound of firing is smaller, which is easy for these farmers who have really fought wars.
When I came to Pei County to be a soldier, because there was no land, these people received a little more military salary, just like those brought by the Mozhe from other cities.
However, these military pay is not much. Like the local soldiers in Pei County, they will receive some money. The remaining ones will be recorded and can be exchanged for iron tools in the future.
The women at home were arranged to work in the Mohist cotton workshop and learned from scratch, each of whom was only responsible for one process.
There are spinning, weaving, and picking cotton seeds from cotton... The commissions received are different in different processes. Although they are tired, the more they work, the more they earn, the more they earn, and the money they spend every month is enough to support the family.
The money I sent was not gold, copper, pearls and jade, but grass, silk or cotton coins. But you can buy anything in Peixian. As long as you have money, you can buy even a short musket, but long muskets are not sold.
Even the elderly at home can find a job that can be exchanged for commissions, such as picking cotton seeds, peanuts, rub corn and other jobs. They don’t make much money every day, but they can also change some oil and water, buy a piece of cotton cloth, etc.
The children gathered together and studied in school since they were six years old. Most of the teachers in the school were young people who had been studying in the rural school for three years. They taught these younger children in the morning and continued to go to school in the afternoon.
These children will take care of a meal at noon every day, and these will be collected from the people. This is approved by Pei County Public Opinion, and there are not many.
Learn to learn characters in the morning and conduct military training in the afternoon. From the age of six, you have to carry out the most basic teams, queues, etc.
Every child will buy a bluestone slab, which is a new stonemason industry in Pei County. He will send some pens such as talc to write on the stone slab. Rich people will buy a few pieces of paper for their children, but it is very expensive.
Most of these musketeers live in Pei County. It originally seemed to be a residence for a nobleman. However, during the Battle of Shangqiu, these nobles thought that the Mo family would be extinct in the world. The work in Pei County was recognized by the Yi tribe and was shocked by the terrifying Song Gong, so these residences became schools or temporarily resided in these people.
They had no land for the time being, but they had promised that they could establish a joint farm in three years to reclaim wasteland in the waters. After the land was reclaimed, the land would belong to these musketeers. The Mohist family would provide help with iron tools and oxen.
This is not a distant future. After coming to Pei County from Niu Lanyi, they can feel that life is getting better.
The daily meals have also changed from the original corn sunflower to potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkin, carrots. They will be served wheat cakes when marching. This is much better than the original life, and everyone is satisfied.
When fighting, they knew very well that most of the most prestigious people in the army were Mozhe, and would tell them that this was for everyone in the world to live such a life.
Because you don't beat others, those warlike princes and nobles will return to their original appearance, just like they did in Niu Lanyi: they must be busy with their public land before they dare to manage private land. After paying taxes every year, they have to borrow money to raise the whole day. They can't pay back the interest every year, and they will run away from time to time. Sometimes they are caught and become slaves who owe debts.
Here we don’t talk about blood, only ability, and the most important thing is hope. Children learn the best, and they will enter a better school in three years, and there will be people who know more knowledge to teach them, and the rest will only go home to farm or do something else.
But as long as you can enter a better school, you will be able to live a better life in the future. You may be an official, or you may be a military officer or specialize in learning the art of military formations to become a military officer like Sima Chang.
These musketeers were very satisfied with this migration and felt that this was a paradise. Whenever they looked at the thriving crops in the fields, they would think that they would have such a piece of land in three years.
Of course, these lands will not be near the city walls, but will be in a wasteland far away from the city walls. The land that was originally difficult to reclaim can be turned into high-quality fat fields after iron tools and cattle and horses.
These hopeful lives need to be defended, and sometimes, you need to take the initiative to fight when you know that the other party is a "non-righteous country".
So, these musketeers understood why they were fighting, and felt that they were working hard to build a happy land and to live a better life.
Even if he died, his son would inherit the land he should have in the joint farming society. The Mo family would provide food and drink until the children grew up without any worries.
For them, the heavy musket is not only a profession, but also a weapon that can protect their lives.
The slightly bitter smoke of gunpowder was a habit of smelling it, and the loading movement became more and more proficient in this year and a half. The previous battle on the city wall made them accustomed to the dense enemies, and they believed that they could win by just following the command of the Mozhe around them.
What to do after victory?
They knew that since they entered the Yishi Master, they had learned a lot of naughty characters, and they had to learn words in the army every day after training, and many people could already write their own names.
Then they heard about their future life. A person who is nothing more than a young and a noble person is equal to the ministers of the Emperor of Heaven. He is virtuous and chooses virtuous as his responsibilities. The village and community are connected to life where they can eat a chicken every year.
At that time, only those barbarians who are thousands of miles away will remain, and the world will be stable and the nine provinces will be stopped. Relying on these firearms to repel those thieves who covet the world's taxes, there will be no need for many soldiers. At that time, joining the army will be glorious.
At that time, each family will have a cow, a piece of their own and cannot be bought and sold to maintain their lives. It is not prohibited to reclaim wasteland to make their lives rich. Each family will have its own iron tools, and even the clay pots for cooking will become iron in the future.
At that time, every child in the family will learn to recognize words, and then select talents based on their learning ability to enter a better school. Finally, use the grass and silk to write the title to select talents who can be regarded as officials, and everyone has hope.
All of this sounds not difficult to achieve, it is a conceivable beauty, and for these people, it is enough for them to give everything they want to pursue, including life.
They are not Mohist, they do not need to benefit the world, they only need to benefit themselves, so they are not afraid of the battle in front of them.
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As the lead bullets were flying, the brave Yue people who charged forward were closest to the Musketeer of the Yishishi's musketeer.
But from the period from 70 to 30 steps, five consecutive explosions caused dozens of extremely brave Yue people to die here.
A heavy lead bullet hit the arm, which will directly tear the arm and leave terrifying wounds.
That's not an arrow, it will leave behind a swaying tail feather.
That's a lead pill that you can't see, which will directly smash the bones.
The last trace of bravery of the Yue people who were charging forward was scared away by the death of their partners. Some people did not even dare to see the tragic deaths around them. They rushed forward with their eyes closed, and if they were not careful, they were tripped and lying there and did not dare to get up.
In Yue, the king only needed to beat drums in the city, and these farmers needed to assemble in front of the city gate and go out with the army.
They are not gentlemen, they are just farmers.
The reason they went to war was just because of their habits, a habit that was taken for granted by nature: as long as they were summoned by nobles and kings, they would go there themselves, and this was the farmer.
Not only do you have to go to war, you also need to cultivate public fields and repair palaces. Some people who belong to the throne also have to work for the throne. Every ten days, you have to work for the throne for five days before you can be busy with your own affairs.
Hunting, hunting, chiseling ice for the Fengjun, digging ice cellars, harvesting the Fengjun lord's land, repairing Fengjun's houses, harvesting reeds, and harvesting bird fields...
All of this has been like this for hundreds or even thousands of years. If you die in a war, you will die and you will get nothing. You will only leave your sad family and your son will have to repeat your life.
This is all like this, they don’t know what a better future is, because no one tells them, so they can’t imagine the future life imagined by those people opposite them.
All they thought was a wiser king, a kinder prince, and a life without war for a few years.
The Yue Kingdom has not yet launched the most basic military merit system, and there is no such statement that the Zhao family's 100,000 farmers, industry and commerce have succeeded.
The most primitive feudal obligations have penetrated into everyone's minds. They were born like this, used to it, and believed that this is what the world should be.
The Yue people would capture slaves, and the royal family members had a large number of slaves. The Qi State plundered three thousand households as slaves in a battle as the price of a truce.
When Goujian was recuperating in the era of rest, the so-called rewards would be given to have three sons. Where did those rewards come from? It would not be transformed by Goujian himself, but taxes are slaves but those feudal obligations.
These things have been wandering around and slipping out and are rarely returned to the Yue people. This is not a matter of course, but requires a reward of gratitude. This is enough to make people die and die. Even if there are no brothers in the family who do not need to join the army, it can be considered benevolent politics.
Because the more people will capture slaves, the more people believe in the words of the behemoth, the people on the other side may capture themselves as slaves.
Behind it was Tengcheng, which was broken through the city gate by thunder. Everyone was scared and dared not go back.
There are only a thousand people ahead, and you can escape and return to your family as long as you rush over.
This is the source of courage they can fight and the only last force that supports them to charge to the death.
But the seemingly few thousand people opposite also brought such horror in the city.
When a heavy lead bullet hits the partner's face and directly shatters the cheeks, when the heavy lead bullet hits the partner's chest and bleeds, when the heavy lead bullet smashes the sword-raising arms and is covered in blood...
Chapter completed!