Chapter 318 The First Batch of Military Households

After listening to this, Yu Tonghai had many questions in his mind, "Sir, what is this Tenglongwei maritime trade fleet?"

"It is a maritime trade fleet belonging to Tenglong Guard. In the future, the main responsibility of the Tenglong Vanguard navy will be to escort merchant ships going out to sea for trade!" Yang Zhengshan said lightly.

"Ah!" Yu Tonghai was stunned.

The navy escorts merchant ships to trade!
Can this be done?
Yang Zhengshan looked at him and said seriously: "That's right, the Tenglongwei navy was originally established to protect merchant ships!"

His original purpose was just to engage in maritime trade, but the old emperor asked him to set up the Tenglong Vanguard and build a navy.

There is no problem in building a navy, but maritime trade is still the fundamental issue.

Xue Ping, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Your Majesty has agreed to Tenglongwei's sea trade!"

Yang Zhengshan raised his eyebrows and looked at Xue Ping in surprise.

He didn't expect Xue Ping to know about this.

The old emperor did agree to Tenglongwei's maritime trade, but that was because Yang Zhengshan was scheming and put the establishment of a navy and maritime trade together.

The old emperor probably only paid attention to the navy and didn't care about maritime trade at all.

But no matter what, the emperor did agree to it, and on the memorial there was the word "approved" written by the emperor himself.

Yu Tonghai's heart sank. He felt that the situation of Tenglongwei seemed a little complicated.

Not to mention that the Tenglong Guard was seriously overstaffed. A guard should have 5,600 military households, but the Tenglong Guard had more than 10,000 military households.

Not only that, the Central Army Governor's Office will also add 10,000 military households to the Tenglong Guard.

Even if the Tenglong Vanguard is separated, the Tenglong Guard will still be the size of three guards.

This is obviously unreasonable.

They also need to establish a separate navy and engage in maritime trade.

This is even more unreasonable.

There are naval garrisons in Liaodong region, so why do they suddenly want Tenglong Guard to form a navy?

If you think about it carefully, there is something weird about Tenglongwei.

Yu Tonghai's idea was correct. There were indeed many unconventional aspects of the Tenglong Guard, and the root cause of these unconventional aspects was Prince Qing.

He didn't know Prince Qing, so naturally he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Xue Ping knew some inside information, so he knew that the unusualness of Tenglongwei should not be investigated further.

Fortunately, Yu Tonghai was a smart man and knew that there were some things that he could not explore, so after noticing something strange, he stopped asking and just said, "What do you need me to do next?"

Yang Zhengshan had already made up his mind, and said: "From now on, each of you will be responsible for a part of Tenglong Vanguard's affairs!"

"Lord Wu Chongzhe was previously the deputy commander of the Tenglong Vanguard. He was in charge of the Tenglong Vanguard's farming operations before, and he will still be in charge of the farming operations from now on!"

"Lord Yu has extensive experience in naval warfare and is the best among us at it, so I hope that Lord Yu can take on the responsibility of training the soldiers."

"Master Xue has a family background in learning, but his experience is slightly insufficient. However, we are in great need of formal knowledge of navigation and naval warfare. I need Master Xue to compile a set of training records on navigation and naval warfare!"

"Uh, Master Xue, have you read the military training records?"

Xue Ping's eyes lit up and he said, "I have read it, and I have also read the Thirty-Six Stratagems!"

"Well, there may be a set of training records for navy training, but unfortunately, this general doesn't know much about the navy, so I hope you can and Lord Yu write a set of training records for navy training!" Yang Zhengshan said.

"I understand. I will do my best and will not let the general down!" Xue Ping said excitedly.

Of course he had read "Records of Military Training". Now, "Records of Military Training" has been recognized by the vast majority of military officers in the court. Although this book is not a peerless classic, it plays a very good guiding role for generals in training soldiers.

As long as the soldiers can be trained strictly according to the above methods, the new recruits they train will not be too bad.

Therefore, "Records of Military Training" is now widely circulated, much more widely than "Thirty-Six Strategies".

However, there is no chapter on the navy in the Military Training Records. Xue Ping felt sorry about this when he was studying the Military Training Records before. He did not expect that Yang Zhengshan would ask him to write the chapter on the navy now.

This made him very excited.

That is the "Military Training Record". If he can participate in the writing of the navy chapter, it will definitely be a good thing for him to gain both fame and fortune.

"Well, let's arrange it this way. Does Lord Yu have any objections?" Yang Zhengshan looked at Yu Tonghai again.

"No, I will follow the commander's arrangements!" Yu Tonghai said tactfully.

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The arrival of Yu Tonghai and Xue Ping means that the formation of the Tenglong Vanguard Navy has also entered a regular stage.

Early September of the 30th year of Chengping.

The Central Military Governor's Office sent the first batch of military households, a total of 3,000 military households.

These military households were all relocated from some areas in central Darong. In recent years, more than ten prefectures in central Darong have suffered from successive years of drought, causing the people to live in dire straits, so the court has been relocating these people.

Previously, many people moved to Fuzhou in Chongshan Town, which was formerly Fushan City.

Now, relocating civilians to Tenglongwei to supplement the military households is actually a convenient thing to do and not a big deal, so the Central Army Governor's Office acted relatively quickly.

When the three thousand military households arrived at Tenglongwei, they were immediately dispersed and assigned to various thousand-household offices and garrisons.

The Weisi Yamen had already made preparations and had built houses for them and even planned some farmland for them, but they were unable to farm this year.

Li Qicheng is an ordinary military household who relocated here. He was originally an ordinary farmer in Hengshan Prefecture in the central part of Dayong. Hengshan Prefecture has suffered from severe drought for three consecutive years, and there was no harvest last year.

Although the court provided relief many times, many people still starved to death, and many people fled.

The Li family was originally quite wealthy. Although not a wealthy family, they were also small landlords with more than 200 acres of fertile land. However, they still could not withstand the successive years of drought, so they finally had to accept the government's arrangement and relocate.

Li Qicheng was very reluctant to change from a farmer to a soldier, but in order to feed his family and to have a stable life, Li Qicheng had to accept the reality. They were originally going to Fuzhou, a bitterly cold place, but on the way they heard how cold and desolate Fuzhou was, which made many people secretly leave the team and run back.

Li Qicheng also thought about going back, but after looking at his three sons and four daughters, he finally gave up the idea of ​​going back.

The reason is simple. If they go back, some people will definitely starve to death, but if they go to Fuzhou, they may be able to have a full meal.

In order to prevent his children from starving to death, he had no choice but to keep moving forward with the team.

However, they received news halfway that they would not be going to Fuzhou, but to Tenglongwei instead.

They didn't know where Tenglongwei was, and their hearts were numb. They just did whatever the officials told them to do.

In this way, they arrived at Tenglongwei with their almost exhausted bodies.

As soon as they entered the territory of Tenglongwei, there was a commotion in the long team.

The officers who were previously in charge of managing them soon left, and were replaced by teams of neatly-dressed and solemnly dressed soldiers who appeared on their left and right.

At the same time, the aroma of rice porridge came from the front.

"Daddy, there's porridge!"

Li Qicheng's youngest son, Li Sanlang, smelled the fragrance of the rice porridge, and his originally listless look suddenly became excited, looking forward with shining eyes.

There were three thousand households, almost fifteen thousand people. With so many people on the road, most of them could not get enough to eat even if the government distributed food to them. Many of them were even dying of hunger.

Li Qicheng also smelled the fragrance of the porridge and looked forward, but they were almost in the middle of the team and could not see what was going on in front of them at all!
"Be quiet and line up properly. Anyone who dares to move will be killed without mercy!"

There was a commotion among the crowd, and the soldiers on both sides immediately shouted and rebuked.

Relocating people is not an easy task. They have to travel long distances, lack food and clothing, and sometimes even have trouble getting water. It is easy for riots to occur.

The journey here was not peaceful at all, and they caused a lot of trouble.

However, the swords and guns in the hands of the Tenglong Guards were still very intimidating. Amid waves of scolding, the people calmed down and just kept looking forward.

On the official road in the front, dozens of large pots were lined up in a row, cooking rice porridge. Many people had already received the rice porridge and were squatting on the ground slurping it.

"Drink quickly, and then go register!"

Soldiers were maintaining order and driving the people forward.

The whole team moved forward at a slow pace. After waiting for more than an hour, it was finally the turn of Li Qicheng's family.

Li Qicheng looked at the pots of rice porridge and didn't know how many times he swallowed his saliva.

"One bowl per person, no grabbing, understand?"

"I understand!" Li Qicheng nodded repeatedly, "Sir, this is my son, my daughter, and my wife!"

"Don't worry, one bowl for each person, everyone will have one!" The soldier in charge of distributing the porridge looked up at him and said casually.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" Li Qicheng was holding a full bowl of porridge, very surprised and kept thanking.

"Hurry up and move forward, there are many people waiting behind!"

The soldiers next to him urged him on, and Li Qicheng hurriedly took his family forward, slurping the rice porridge in the bowl as he walked.

"Dad, this porridge is so thick!" Li Dalang was already a sixteen-year-old boy. He finished a bowl of rice porridge in just a few gulps.

Li Qicheng glanced at him and handed him the small bowl of porridge in his hand, "Dad is full, you eat!"

Li Dalang looked at the half bowl of porridge and swallowed.

The little brat is starving me to death.

Although this bowl of porridge is thick, it is far from enough to fill Li Dalang's stomach.

"Give it to mother!" Li Dalang looked at the haggard-faced woman behind him.

"No need, the fourth girl can't finish it, and I can't eat so much!" Li said weakly, "Master, you should put it away first. I don't know how we are going to live in the future!"

As she spoke, she took out a small earthenware jar from the package behind her!

Li Qicheng thought about it and it made sense. They had just arrived and didn't know how the government would arrange things for them. What if they only had one full meal? Wouldn't they be hungry for the rest of their lives?

Thinking of this, they put the remaining rice porridge into small clay pots, and there were many people around who did the same as them.

Just at this time, they followed the crowd to a desk.

"Householder!"

There was a soldier sitting behind the desk, writing, and two soldiers on both sides were helping him grind ink and organize the books.

"Li Qicheng!"

“Place of origin!”

"Heshang Village, Mian County, Hengshan Prefecture!"

"How many people are there in your family?" The soldier in charge of registration looked up.

"Nine!" Li Qicheng replied nervously.

The soldiers looked at the men and women behind Li Qicheng and nodded slightly, "Not bad!"

A family like the Li family is indeed worthy of praise.

The reason is very simple. The Li family has no elderly people and many children, especially a boy who has just become an adult and another boy who is about to become an adult. This is a family from which soldiers can be directly selected.

The soldier made a brief record of the Li family's situation, then took out a wooden plaque, wrote down the family's population situation on it, handed it to Li Qicheng, and said, "From now on, you will be the military households of Nanling Village. Keep going forward. There are people from Nanling Village waiting for you!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Li Qicheng took the wooden sign and continued forward with the child beside him.

(End of this chapter)