Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Everyone cupped their hands at Zhao Wengong, and then walked out in a hurry.

When the news of conscription spread, the entire Longmen Fort fell into joy.

Those who wanted to be soldiers but didn't become soldiers were all holding back their energy at this time, as if they could become benevolent if they couldn't become soldiers.

The most exciting ones are those refugees from Liaodong. In the current Longmen Fort, there are not a few people from Liaodong, and they are still increasing every day.

Since Zhao Wen arrived at Phi Island, the transport of refugees from Phi Island has not stopped.

On the sea from Phi Island to Deng Lai, most of the boats are transporting refugees.

These boats have long been bought by Zhao Wen, who is rich and powerful, and they are specially used to transport refugees.

These refugees from Liaodong came late, and the factories are not unlimited, so the jobs they can provide are really limited.In addition, Zhao Wen did not intend to fully conscription at that time.

Therefore, these refugees from Liaodong can only reclaim the land and plant crops under the arrangement of Liu Wenzhong.

Of course, the land they cultivated did not belong to them.These lands belonged to Longmen Castle, but they were leased to them by Liu Wenzhong at the polar rent.

But the money from farming is really too slow. How can it be as fast as being a soldier or working in a factory?

Especially when they saw the houses where the refugees who came to Longmen Fort early lived, they were all envious.

From ancient times to the present, who doesn't want to have a house of their own?But it is too difficult to build a house. If we only rely on farming, I am afraid there will be no way to do it in 20 years.

In Longmen Fort, there are also levels.The one with the highest level and the most money is the soldier, the next is the labor, and the last is the farming.

If you serve as a soldier, you will not only have more than [-] taels of housing allowance for the month, or dozens of acres of land, but also a monthly military salary of five taels of silver.This does not include meritorious service, if it is meritorious service, there will be military meritorious service or silver rewards.

Not to mention rewarding silver, these military merit fields can be regarded as land for family heirlooms.Even if they can no longer fight wars in the future, they can still rely on farming to make a living.

Instead of renting the land of Longmen Fort like it is now.

Although the rent of Longmenbao's land was very low, the land was not his own after all. If it was taken away that day, wouldn't it be the end of it?

Chinese people have a special feeling for the land from ancient times to the present, not to mention the refugees from Liaodong at this time.

In the past, these refugees from Liaodong had no upward channels, and they could only bury their heads in farming every day.Now that the opportunity came, how could they not be excited?

Today, such a ballad is being sung throughout Longmen Castle.

If you want to be rich, join the army.If you want to build a house and marry a wife, you have to serve as a soldier.If you want the land to be passed down from generation to generation, you have to be a soldier.

For a while, the conscription points that Zhao Wen set up in Longmen Fort were crowded by these people.

There were even people who fought for the spot because of this.

Although Zhao Wen recruited a large number of soldiers this time, it was impossible to recruit all of them.

After all, factories need people to work, and the land needs people to work.If all these people are soldiers, what about production?Although Zhao Wen's family is well-off now, he can't just sit and eat.

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Chapter 160 War is approaching

On the Guanzhong Road in the Sanqin land, there is a county called Pinyang County.

This county is located in the center of Xi'an and Weinan prefectures.Located in the place of the Four Wars, this is also the hometown of Wang Jian, the god of war in the Qin Dynasty.

Since the sixth year of Tianqi, Pinyang County has been dry.Throughout the year, it hardly rains a few times.

Because of the drought, the land cultivated by farmers is basically useless.

At the beginning, many gentry gave porridge to refugees.But as time goes by, these kind gentry can't afford it.

In the general environment of the late Ming Dynasty, there were still too few good gentry.Most of them are vicious people who, in the name of helping refugees, force those self-cultivating farmers to sell their fields to them at extremely low prices.

Then, they sell the food needed by the refugees to these refugees at a high price.

From time to time, like a white wolf with an empty glove, the land was taken out of the hands of the refugees.

Those refugees who were hungry and cold and had no way to survive flocked to the county town at once.

But the county magistrate turned a blind eye and closed the city gate tightly in fear of being a bandit.

The gentry in the county went up to the tower, looked at the wailing refugees outside the city, even drank and had fun, and wrote poems and poems with the tragic events in the world.

"Bastards, these bastards don't want us in at all. They want to starve us to death." A skinny man in his thirties looked at the gentry and county magistrates who were drinking and having fun on the top of the city, and gritted his teeth. creak.

"Hey, hasn't it been like this from ancient times to the present? Who has seen us mud legs? That is to say, the master of the temple can live a little more comfortably at that time. At that time, the weather was good and the harvest was good. All year round Save a lot of money, in addition to paying taxes, you can also cut off a few catties of meat and a few catties of wine."

An old man over half a century old with gray hair and wrinkled face showed happy memories.

A war horse came slowly from the north of the county seat, and a tall man sat on the horse.

Behind him followed a dozen tall and strong young men.

"Uncle, look outside this county town, there are all refugees." Li Guo pointed to the refugees lying on the ground outside the city wall and moat, and said slowly to Li Zicheng who was directly in front of him.

Li Zicheng nodded, "These refugees are not refugees, they will be our soldiers in the future."

Li Zicheng waved the whip in his hand and hurried towards the county seat.

The followers behind him also followed closely behind Li Zicheng.

Since Li Zicheng participated in the mutiny, he changed his name to Li Zicheng.

And these entourages behind him were exactly the soldiers under him when he was in Ganzhou at that time.

Not long after the Ganzhou mutiny took place, it was surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court.And Li Zicheng and others were chased by officers and soldiers and ran around in Gansu.In desperation, Li Zicheng led his troops towards Shaanxi.

Li Zicheng had already come to Shaanxi years ago. He originally planned to join a certain gangster, but before he could seek refuge, the gangster was recruited by the court.

Li Zicheng, who heard the news, had no choice but to give up the idea and hid in Shaanxi for a while.

Although the thief was recruited, Li Zicheng never thought about joining the army from the beginning to the end.

From the point of view of joining the army in Ganzhou, soldiers not only cannot eat a full meal, but also have to endure the enslavement of the superior every day.

In Li Zicheng's view, being a soldier is not as good as rebelling.Anyway, they are trying to survive with their heads pinned to their waistbands, so it would be better to live comfortably as a thief.At least the thieves don't have so many constraints, they can do whatever they want, and go wherever they want.

During those days in hiding, Li Zicheng was always waiting for an opportunity.He didn't think that these rogues would surrender to the imperial court peacefully, and he firmly believed that there would be a day when these rogues would reappear.

Hard work pays off, Li Zicheng waited not long, and the thieves recruited by the court rebelled again.

As a result, his mind became active, and he wanted to find a relatively hard mountain to take refuge in.

But now he has nothing but a dozen or so hands.And which of those well-known leaders has thousands or tens of thousands of subordinates?

If Li Zicheng went to defect like this, he would definitely not be valued by them.Li Zicheng, who has a strong desire to be strong and competitive, is not reconciled to being a small soldier, so he thinks about where to do it again, first to improve his strength, and second to make his name famous.

"Uncle, why did you choose this place? It's too close to Xi'an Mansion, and Xi'an Mansion is Hong Chengchou's lair. If we make trouble here, wouldn't the soldiers and horses of Xi'an Mansion arrive in no time?" Li Guo Guo rode on the horse and looked at Li Zicheng suspiciously.

Pinyang County is only a hundred or twenty miles away from Xi'an Mansion, so Li Guo's worries are not unreasonable.

Li Zicheng said: "We came from Gansu, we haven't made our own name yet, and no one in Jianghu knows who we are. Our incident in Pinyang County is to make our name famous.

Remember, it doesn't matter whether you can conquer the city or not, the most important thing is to make our name known.Let the entire Guanzhong area know our name.Now the whole of northern Shaanxi has become a mess, and we can't squeeze in.We might as well give him Hong Chengchou a big fight in the hinterland of this pass. "

With that said, Li Zicheng whipped his horse's whip directly on the horse's ass, and hurried towards the county seat.

The county magistrate was sitting at the top of the city drinking wine with the gentry when he suddenly saw a cloud of smoke coming from the north.

"What's that?" The county magistrate pointed to the cloud of smoke and called a soldier guarding the city over.

The soldiers stood on the watchtower, looking in the direction of the smoke and dust.

"My lord, I can't see clearly. These people seem to be wearing the clothes of the Ming army." The soldier shouted at the county magistrate.

The reason why Li Zicheng and others wore official uniforms was precisely because it was convenient for them to do business.

Along the way, Li Zicheng did not know how many checkpoints he encountered.If it weren't for the clothes on his body, Li Zicheng might have been taken down long ago.

Li Zicheng stopped in front of the refugees and shouted to them: "Are you hungry?"

Many refugees lying half dead on the ground looked at Li Zicheng with puzzled faces. What do these people do?Why do you ask us if we are hungry?Isn't this nonsense?If you're not hungry, can you lie here?

Li Zicheng looked at the silent crowd, and said again: "I am not an official army of the imperial court, but a rebel army. Let me ask you a question now, are you hungry? Do you want to eat?"

Standing on the top of the city and watching all this, the county magistrate yelled in his heart that it was not good. Although this group of people were wearing Ming army clothes, they definitely were not Ming army.If they were the Ming army, why did they go directly to the refugees and encourage them.

This is a bunch of thieves!

The county magistrate was in a cold sweat, and he hurriedly shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Hurry up and send the soldiers to the city wall, these people are probably thieves!"

Seeing this, the gentry who were drinking and having fun on the top of the city ran down from the top of the city in a hurry, heading for their homes.

Half an hour later, under the extreme instigation of Li Zicheng and others, the breathing of the refugees lying on the ground gradually became rougher.

I don't know who shouted first, "We are almost starving to death, those gentry are still drinking on the top of the city, let's fight them!"

As soon as this remark came out, countless people responded.

"Fight with them, fight with them, we want to eat, we want to eat!"

Li Zicheng looked at these excited refugees, nodded, then drew out the long knife at his waist, pointed at the city wall, and shouted: "Go into the city!"

All of a sudden, countless hungry refugees rushed towards the city wall of the county with blind eyes.

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After several days of conscription, all the soldiers Zhao Wen needed had been recruited.

And the school field in Longmen Fort couldn't accommodate so many personnel training for a while, so Zhao Wen built another school field in the outer city.

Today, there is a tense atmosphere in the air in the entire Longmen Fort.

Especially in ironworks, almost all the steel produced every day is used to make weapons and armor.

Except for Li Xiaoying and Hai Lanzhu, everyone in Longmen Castle was extremely busy.

The cement factory in Xuanzhen has been working overtime these days to produce cement. Most of the cement produced is bought by Hong Chengchou to strengthen the walls of Xi'an Mansion, Yulin Town and several other important cities.

"My lord, we have made more than 4000 sets of armor now, should we continue to make it now?" Liu Wenzhong followed Zhao Wen, looked at the extremely busy steel factory, and asked slowly.

Zhao Wen let out a long breath and said, "Fight, why not make them. At least [-] sets of these armors need to be made, so where are they now?"

"[-] sets? Why are there so many?" Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen suspiciously.

Zhao Wen walked on the path in the iron and steel plant, watching furnace after furnace of molten iron flow out of the blast furnace.

"My goal is an army of one hundred thousand, do you think these armors are enough?"

"A [-] army? My lord, we have to eat every bite. With our current financial and material resources, we simply can't support so many soldiers." Liu Wenzhong sighed.

Raising soldiers is different from managing the people. If you manage the people, you only need to give them a piece of land and food seeds, and they can support themselves.

The soldiers are different. If you want the soldiers to maintain sufficient combat effectiveness, they must be trained continuously.

It is impossible for soldiers to farm the land, and it will consume a lot of money during training. It takes a lot of money and food to feed an army of [-].

In Daming, the silver and grain consumed by an ordinary soldier throughout the year can at least support a family of four, not to mention that Zhao Wen's [-] army is a serious [-] elite soldiers.Even for today's imperial court, it would be difficult to support a hundred thousand elite soldiers, let alone a small Longmen Fort?

Zhao Wen turned around and looked at Liu Wenzhong, "Jiannu broke through the Xifeng Pass and entered the land of Gyeonggi. By then, how many unowned lands do you think will be there?"

"What does your lord mean to say, let Jiannu wreak havoc in the capital for a while, and then we come out to clean up the mess? By the way, get these lands into our hands and let the people cultivate them?"

"That's right, that's what I mean. Of course, the people in the capital can't be massacred by the slaves. These people are our best soldiers and the main force in growing food. At that time, we also have to Send troops to rob people with Jiannu. You know, what Jiannu likes to do most is to rob people."

Liu Wenzhong couldn't help nodding after listening to Zhao Wen's words.

"Although we have to do the same thing as building slaves, it's just that we don't rob people to enslave them, but we rob people to make them our fresh blood."

Zhao Wen looked at Liu Wenzhong and said slowly.

As time passed day by day, the atmosphere in the entire Longmen Fort became more and more tense.

The quilt factory in Longmen Castle has also stopped producing other things at this time, and is fully used to produce medical supplies such as bandages.

The raw materials needed by this quilt factory were bought by Zhao Wen from Shanxi merchants. After all, there is no cotton planted near Longmen Fort.

In the outer city of Longmen Fort, there are still several brewing workshops opened by businessmen, but they are now requisitioned by Zhao Wen to produce alcohol.

It is not difficult to produce alcohol, it is nothing more than processing alcohol with insufficient alcohol content through distillation.

Zhao Wen is also quite familiar with this. After Zhao Wen's simple transformation, several simple production lines for alcohol production were built.

At the same time, Zhao Wen also gathered the military doctors in the general and explained to them in detail how to suture the wound and simply treat the injury.

Although these things are very common in later generations, they are shocked as heavenly beings in this era.

"My lord, my lord, there is an urgent military situation!" Zhao Wen had just finished class for those military doctors, and before he even walked out of the classroom, he heard Zhao Daniu's muffled shout.

Zhao Wen came out of the classroom, looked at the anxious Zhao Daniu, and quickly asked, "What's the military emergency?"