Chapter 363: The Concubine Gentleman's Golden Drum Crossing (4)
King Shu Qing saw Shi and Gong Zaoye in front of him and looked at each other, then said, "This question is good. I also want to talk about this. Everything needs to be learned."
"Next month, the soldiers will be replenished, and you representatives of the most powerful companies will be busier than the soldiers. In addition to training, you also have to study once every five days."
"How to be a good representative of the Mozhe in a company? What does the Mozhe do? How to judge whether this is beneficial to the world? You need to learn all these."
"Don't be afraid, it's not something you can say innately."
King Shu Qing finally felt relieved when he heard that he had to study every five days.
I thought that as long as someone teaches me, I can always learn it well. This is something that I, a man of the Imperial Academy, must do.
Afterwards, Shi and Gong Zaoye and the others talked about other things, and by the evening everyone left.
Before leaving, King Shuqing came to Shi's side and asked, "Shi, how are my brother okay?"
It can be seen that Shi remembers him, and naturally his younger brother. King Shu Qing heard Shi say, "You said Qinghou? It's very good, I've learned very well. I've been learning well in the past few years. You don't have to worry about it, he works very hard."
"Is your family okay? A few years ago, when I was building a canal? I've been to your house, and your father is in good health?"
It was a very life conversation, and King Shu Qing felt relaxed and nodded, "It's okay."
Shi said again: "In recent years, you have taken the village community to make paper and have done a good job. However, your village community has drawn more than 60 people away at once, and many things need to be arranged. You have made good suggestions on tax cuts. You can't say that our Mohist family feels that you owe something after doing something. After all, it's just for the benefit of the people."
"How was the arrangement at home?"
When asked about the family, Shu Qingwang became more relaxed, as if he was chatting about homework on weekdays: "I will let my family plant less and less next year, dig some rivers and flood them, and release water to cultivate them after returning. I will not plant cotton and other things next year."
"But the village community still organized some cotton to plant. One was to pay the fixed physical cotton duty, and the other was that the remaining people in the village community could pick them up. They could also finish picking paper or something."
The two chatted for a few more times, talked about some things about the village community, and asked about the thoughts about the villagers. It was too late, so they separated.
Shi told Shu Qingwang that he would have a last vacation in the next tenth year, so he could go home to check it out, and he would also handle some of the matters of the village community next year, and organize the people who need to serve in the village community to send them to Peiguo.
He also said that he would go to another trip, and that these people in the trip would have a meeting tomorrow, mainly to get to know each other.
When they returned to the camp, King Shu Qing and the company commander of the company also got to know each other.
The company commander was the same as before, with no surname. When he was born, his family named "Yu Tu", which means tiger in Chu language.
The dialects between Song and Chu are very different, but the grammar is roughly the same. The dialects in Pei are mixed with many Chu languages. Yu Tu came to Pei County after the Battle of Niu Lanyi. It has been more than two years now, and there is no problem with the two people communicating.
Yu Tu was just a candidate for ink at this time and had not officially joined. Shu Qinghou heard about it and knew that this person was coming to Pei County alone.
My parents at home are dead. Before coming, I owed Luyang Gong a sum of money, and I couldn't even pay the interest. The money is actually not much, it's just three or four stones of grain every year.
In the eyes of Peiyi people at this time, it was just the output of acre of land, but in Niu Lan it was a nightmare that was pressing on his head, and I was afraid I would never pay it back in my life.
Because of the battle in Niu Lanyi, the Mo family asked for his life for the people, forcing the Duke of Luyang to forgive his debts. After coming to Pei County, he has been a musketeer in the army.
I used such a heavy hand cannon in Niu Lan, and used a 16-pound heavy musket in Pei County. I made great contributions to his outstanding performance in Tengdi.
In the previous battle of Fujidi, Yu Tu was the brigade who followed Meng Sheng to intercept the Yue people. At that time, he was the gunman in the front platoon. Later, he captured several Yue people in the chaos of abandoning the gun, so this time he was asked to be the company commander of this company.
After getting familiar with each other, King Shu Qing asked, "What are your plans? I heard that you Niu Lan came. After you retire in the future, the Mohist family will provide cattle, horse and iron tools to cultivate and cultivate in Peize?"
Yu Tu grinned and said, "I am only alone, but I don't plan to farm. I think about it and continue to work in the army in the future. Being a company commander will make the annual money and spending enough to support the family."
King Shu Qing jokingly said, "I don't want women anymore? Without women, there will be no children. In the future, I will become a ghost, but no one will offer food to eat."
The Mohist family burials and uses them for money, but they do not oppose the existence of ghosts. Although they are becoming increasingly indifferent, they do not require materialism for the time being. This is the habit of the world at this time.
Yu Tu laughed and said, "I thought about it, find a woman who works in Peiguo. There are more and more women in textile workshops, paper money, teachers, doctors, and I don't want to farm anymore."
Shu Qingwang nodded, thinking that this is indeed good. Many women in Peiguo work, and some female workers in cotton workshops can support themselves and even have extra money, let alone those who are teachers and doctors.
There are also female Mo people in the Mo family. Although there are not many, they are enough to shock the chins of people in the world. This is also a major reason why the Mo family is accused of "disaster disaster to the world."
For example, if a teacher or a doctor does well, it may not be worse than being a farmer, and there are many things in cities that are not available in rural areas.
For example, Shu Qingwang envied people in the city for seeing "acting" every once in a while, not dances like the Sanglin Dance, but dramas with storylines.
Most dramas simply promote the morality of the Mohist school and benefit the world, but compared to nothing, they are still fascinating.
Furthermore, King Shu Qing also knew that always joining the army is actually a "profession" that can make a living.
He and Yu Tu are now obliged.
He came here to serve because of the "public will" of the people of Pei County who passed the "special recruitment" law.
Yu Tu belonged to his military service obligation in Niu Lan, and has not yet expired.
After the expiration, if Yu Tu continues to be a company commander and starts a military team. In addition to two sets of military uniforms every year, he can also receive a salary of 180 yuan from the Mo family every month. Any soldier who serves over the term will pay twenty yuan more every year.
Grain is not distributed, because judging from the current situation alone, the price of grain at 20 qian per stone of wheat and the grain harvested in Pei County every year make the price of grain extremely stable.
You can exchange nine small stone wheat every month, which is about 240 or 50 kilograms, which is enough to support your family.
The Mohist artisan development in Pei County started from scratch, so it started from the most basic iron, textile, porcelain and other daily necessities. These are daily consumer goods, not high-end industrial products that villages and communities cannot afford for the time being.
This leads to a steady stream of large amounts of food being sold into money every year, and then this money flows into the handicraft workshops of the Mohist family.
Shu Qingwang understood that just like his own family, he had more grain production and had to repay the loan for cattle, horse and ironware before, but now the expenses are gradually increasing.
Sometimes my family drinks a little wine, sometimes I buy a porcelain jar, and now it is said that I want to sell iron pots, which are all saved to buy with money.
These things need to be bought with grain for money, and the concentration of these grains in cities ensures the stability of prices.
King Shu Qing and Yu Tu chatted for a while, and then they talked about their future life, and the two of them calculated it.
Suppose Yu Tu continues to be a company commander and after three years of service, he can pay twenty dollars a year to have his own residence in the city.
Usually, I eat and use it in the army, and I can’t spend a lot of money. I pay a certain amount of money every month. After I was fifty, I can still receive a small amount of money that could support myself every month.
If you have children, you will pay a portion of the "education fee" every year, which is mandatory by the "public will". All children's families must pay, and children must conduct the most basic three years of study in the school.
Those who don’t go will not only be fined, but those who cannot recognize 200 words in three years will also be fined. After three years, select the best ones to study and then enter a better school.
In fact, most of the people who teach children now are young people who have studied for three or five years, most of them are women.
But after studying for three or five years, it is better to be able to teach than to learn nothing.
Since you talk about children, you must first have a woman as your wife.
Yu Tu wanted to find someone who worked in a city and worked in a Mohist workshop, but did not pay taxes. He had to pay some commercial taxes for private handicrafts, but not much. The Mohist always had a supportive attitude towards handicrafts.
If you are disabled, you will be given a subsidy, and if you die in a battle, you will be given a pension. After a little calculation, you will be able to live a similar or even better life as in a village or community.
Speaking of a better life in the future, the relationship between the two people has brought a lot closer.
A few days later, King Shuqing returned to the village community, arranged some of the village affairs, and brought the young people in the village who needed to serve back to Peiyi, and then he became busy.
After the personnel in the brigade were replenished, he had only 150 people in a company, only a dozen people had touched the muskets, and more than 40 newcomers had not served. The total number of the Mo and the candidates was seven.
Before the musket was released, he went to study first. As a result, he, the representative of the company, wanted to talk more about family matters with the soldiers. King Shu Qing couldn't help but think about chatting with Yu Tu, thinking that this is indeed the case.
When he returned to the battalion, he started training. There were specialists in the company to help train. At the beginning, they were all queues, military orders and other things.
In mid-October, the muskets were finally fired, and a company of 150 people fired thirty muskets.
Now the armament is seriously insufficient, and the workshop is busy at all. It will not be equipped with complete muskets until at least March next year.
The company also sent a bunch of bamboo for training for the time being. With these forty muskets, everyone needs to learn how to use it.
I heard that this is the case, and it may not be fully equipped by April next year. For example, the brigades in Liuyi and Teng Kingdom have no musketeers at all, but the entire brigade is full of spearmen.
The first and second brigades still used heavy muskets, and there were only seven brigades that equipped four companies of musketeers in each brigade. The rest were either shrinking musketeers or were completely spearmen.
King Shu Qing took a newly fired musket and weighed it. He found that it was indeed much lighter than the previous large musket, but the length was still the same, the structure was basically the same, and it was still a copper snake hook fuse rope.
Behind the barrel, there was still a line of small characters engraved with the rest of the Mohist workshop.
"Cao Suijian, the Ordnance Department, made by craftsmen", and a line of dates are engraved behind it.
King Shu Qing knew that Cao Sui and Zi were both personal names. Of course he didn't know who it was, but he knew that if there were some extremely serious problems with the musket, these two people would be responsible.
Yu Tu didn't read the words on the musket. After getting the new musket, he immediately went to the camp to load and hit it a few times, and he looked quite satisfied.
Shu Qing Wang thought to himself that he heard that the battle will start in July next year at most. In less than ten months, he would have to train a hundred and fifty people in a row to shoot, and he didn't know if it could be completed.
Chapter completed!