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Chapter 8 Benefiting the People

On the ninth day of the seventh month, it has been nearly a month since the war ended, and Zhejiang Wushu Academy has also recreated its former popularity early.

The expansion of the army, the expansion of the occupied areas, and the supplementary vacancy all require a large number of officers to supplement. According to the provisions of the Ming Army of Zhejiang, the authority is acceptable, but if an officer wants to obtain the corresponding level, he must complete the corresponding academic in the martial arts school. However, for those officers, what is really terrible in the martial arts school is not the courses of various military groups, nor the courses of other military groups, but the most basic literacy courses.

"Left, gold, right, Xiang. Jin is one of the five elements. The swords that you use on weekdays are gold, and the folded color issued by the Marquis is also considered in the category of gold; Xiang is the meaning of wrapping. The left and right together are inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, inlaids, in

As he said that, Mr. Shen, who was in charge of teaching literacy, picked up a charcoal pen and wrote the inlay words slowly on the whiteboard so that the officers below could remember it clearly.

The officers below were originally wary of literacy classes, but for some reason, when they returned this time, the gentleman named Shen seemed not so difficult to speak, and the professor was much more vivid than before.

Just like this inlay character, the old students who had not completed this period of study still remembered that before the four provincial capitals, Mr. Shen wrote the characters directly without explaining them, and he didn't tell them like now that the characters should be used for at least four flags in the Eight Tatar Banners. They just let them remember them so dryly, and if they can't remember them the next day, they will be punished if they can't remember them. Now, not only is it written in detail than before, but also filled in an explanation, but the gritting teeth with pleasure still makes people feel a little puzzled.

"Mr. Shen is from Ningbo. He was born in the family. His parents died early and he depended on his wife. Later, the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou entered Ningbo. An officer stole his wife as a concubine. The local government did not dare to take care of him. He ran to Siming Mountain to join the army. However, this man was a sour scholar. No matter how much he had come to join the army, he was no longer a month earlier than him. The Marquis found him a teaching career."

The person who spoke was Liu Cheng. The last time he guarded the city in Jinhua, he and a group of new recruits guarded the intersection north of Tongyuan Gate. After fighting that battle, there were many wounds on his body, but they were all mild wounds. He could still walk around in the past month.

After hearing Liu Cheng's introduction, Ni Liangxu couldn't help but nod. Nowadays, not to mention the officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, even lawless things such as officers of the Green Camp were not uncommon. When he was on Luochengyan, a man who went up the mountain not only had his wife and daughter snatched away by Ma Jinbao's subordinates, but even his father was beaten to death. The hatred of killing his father and the hatred of taking his wife was no wonder that Mr. Shen snatched out a head of the eight Banners of the Han Army for a long time and then he would laugh like a night owl.

Liu Cheng was met by Ni Liangxu in the injury center. In fact, the two knew each other early, but they had never met before. This time, Jinhua defended the city, and Liu Cheng fought with the fierce soldiers who entered the city in front of the Han army. Ni Liangxu came up as the supervisor, and later rushed up to kill the Qing army. The friendship of the corpse and blood made these two men who were isolated on weekdays quickly become friends.

In fact, in addition to Liu Cheng, Ni Liangxu recently had some contact with Zhang Gongyan, the staff scientist who came to join the army in Yunnan. After all, it was the friendship between them as the supervisor team when they were guarding the city. However, Zhang Gongyan didn't like this Liu Cheng very much, so this time Liu Cheng came out of the injury center. After the two made an appointment, Ni Liangxu did not dare to call Zhang Gongyan.

Liu Cheng was the first group of officers in Nantang Camp, the sixth battle barracks of the Ming Army in Dalan Mountain, the predecessor of the Ming Army in Dalan Mountain, and the first captain of the fourth Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team of the Armored Sentence. His qualifications made him know a lot about the army. Ni Liangxu and Liu Cheng laughed and left the martial arts school and soon arrived at the shop selling Ningbo snacks that Ni Liangxu had previously mentioned in the injury center.

The shopkeeper was still the chubby chef, but the shop had doubled, and the empty shop next to it was as if the diners had said last time. However, the shop was too big and I could not get busy with my wife and daughter, so I hired another waiter to help in the shop.

"Shopkeeper, listen to mine. The sesame seeds have increased a little, but the price of glutinous rice has dropped, and you will not lose money once you get it."

As soon as the two of them sat down, they heard a man dressed in a peddler at the table next to them talking to the shopkeeper with a smile on his face. The shopkeeper was also smiling all over his face. It seemed that he was not flattering, but was also sincerely happy that the business began to get better and better.

It is not uncommon to eat three meals a day in the wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially in the army, who are used to eating three meals a day, and it is difficult to change them. It is still early in the morning, and the peddler also came to Dongshi Street to purchase goods to the countryside. However, the shopkeeper was still as quick as usual. Before the peddler finished eating, the ones from Ni Liangxu and Liu Cheng were already ready.

Tangtuanzi, black numb and crispy. Although it is covered with black sesame seeds, it feels different when you match different processing techniques and raw materials.

After breakfast, the two continued to wander around the city. This was Ni Liangxu's habit. Liu Cheng heard from him that although it was far better to find a restaurant to have some wine, he was unwilling to lose his interest.

The Ming army began to rebuild the damaged city wall not long ago when the defense war broke out in Jinhua City. However, it was the west of the city, but it was the east of the city. After breakfast, they walked along the East Street. They only smelled some disgusting smells from afar before turning around toward the city.

The smell is the newly built public thatched houses in Dongshi Street, which are used for convenience for the people. It is said that all counties and towns are being built, but it is only the earliest in the city.

The people in the countryside have manure to use to make the fields, and even go to the road to pick up the feces of the livestock. However, in the city, housewives usually get up early in the morning to the night-scented ones, and then they transport them out of the city and sell them to farmers in need. After a day, the work was not clean, but they made a lot of money. There were also people who made a fortune by making money. In the novel "Digging a New Pit and Snacking the Ghost to Become a Rich Man" written by the owner of Zhuoyuanting in the early Qing Dynasty, it also vividly described the story of a murder case caused by robbing the cessation pit business in Jiangnan.

However, these public cottages are rented to those who do feces business by the sanitary office. In addition to managing the work of public cottages, they also have to pay a fixed amount of nucleus soil every once in a while according to regulations. You can obtain them from public cottages or from each company. These nucleus soil is the rental fee for them to rent public cottages. If they are extra, they can also receive relative subsidies. However, if the quality of the nucleus soil is not qualified, the fine of the silver will be light, and if it is not done well, the qualification to do this transaction will be revoked.

The name of the nitrile soil must have something to do with gunpowder. And as far as officers like them know, it seems that the gunpowder manufacturing workshop of the Military Industry Department has been expanded recently, and it may be for these reasons. However, they don’t know how to turn the nitrile soil into gunpowder material.

The two of them had already passed by before leaving, so they didn't have to be there at this moment. While walking and chatting, they quickly walked a few streets, not far from the small shop that they had agreed to have lunch. According to Liu Cheng, he went to the small shop last year. The dishes were average, but the taste of the private brew was quite good.

However, not far from the shop, they were the first to notice the corner in the distance. A group of Ming troops were supervising a group of men wearing green camp clothes to repair a dilapidated house in a long time.

“What’s there for?”

"I remember it seemed to be the yard of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau before. I heard from my fellow villagers when I entered the city."

"It won't be a reconstruction of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau."

"It is very likely that the county government posted a notice during the last break. However, it is said that there are prefectures in Jinhua and Quzhou for the time being, and other prefectures will have to wait for a while."

Listening to Ni Liang and Xu's words of relief and seemingly regretful, Liu Cheng couldn't believe his ears at all.

Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau was a social welfare institution of the Ming Dynasty. Similar to Yangjiyuan and Luzeyuan were mostly established since the Hongwu period. However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of funds and poor management, and many of them were already ruined. Jiangnan was better, after all, it was a place of prosperity and finance could support it. However, after the Qing army advanced south, the funds and personnel of these institutions were also used for other purposes.

Especially in today's chaotic times, although the Qing court continued some of the welfare institutions of the Ming court, in fact, the funds of social welfare institutions in various places were also embezzled to an unsustainable level. They were either embezzled, or changed from left hand to right hand, and turned into taxes so that those officials could pay the Qing court.

During the Qing Dynasty, although the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were nominally concerned about social welfare and established a large number of welfare institutions run by the government and privately run by the government, in fact, they were far from being able to compare with the official institutions in the Ming Dynasty, and even developed to the point where local officials extorted local gentry and wealthy households in the name of welfare institutions.

After the arrival of Jiaqing, the Qing court's finances were tight and the grassroots gentry forces further expanded. Social welfare institutions began to be replaced by private organizations, resulting in the rise of a large number of folk good halls, charity houses, and guild halls. However, the few people who can enjoy these were ultimately a minority. More people either died of cold and hunger or sold themselves as slaves without food and clothing, which was simply incomparable.

What Liu Cheng didn't care about was these social welfare institutions, especially the current situation. There were many soldiers and a wide range of generals, and the right way was to be strong and the soldiers were strong. The people's hearts were all the more important things after becoming kings and dominance, and they were used to leave a reputation for kindness. Even if the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau did not spend much money in a year, and it also accepted private funding, there was no need. It was not important to do so. I really don't know if it was Chen Wen's thought about it or Sun Yu's own initiative.

However, Liu Cheng also knew that Ni Liangxu respected Sun Yu very much, so he naturally would not say that Chen Wen was not wrong. Next, when he heard Ni Liangxu talk about the fact that each mansion would build a new institution called a nursery to raise children who were unattended, and to enact laws and regulations for this, he suddenly realized.

"So that's the case. This idea is probably made by those military doctors and military officers in the military. It's really a pity that they can think of it."

The two officers watched the green camp coolies working in the sun for a long time, but their thoughts were very different. Until they saw the Ming army in charge of supervising, they thought they were annoyed and turned back to the small shop.

The dishes in the shop are indeed average, and they are all home-cooked dishes, but the taste of private brew is really good. The brewed ones are too small and naturally they don’t sell much, so they have to let the waiter go out to get some other places to make do.

While we were talking about, what the two of them talked about was nothing more than some things in the army.

Zhang Zisheng, the Pingjiang Bo of Jiangxi, and his subordinates had been completely incorporated into the Ming army in Zhejiang. Zhang Zisheng and the officers entered the martial arts lecture hall. Among them, the dormitory where Zhang Zisheng lived was not far from Ni Liangxu's. The selected soldiers with qualified physical fitness were organized into the recruit training camp for training, and some of them were trained under Liu Cheng's hands.

The others and scholars basically entered civil servant training classes, craftsmen were assigned to workshops, and the elderly, weak, women and children were temporarily raised, waiting for the soldiers to complete training and allocate land according to the regulations on land division. However, some of them may still need to be crafted, because they do this in Jiangxi during the peaceful season.

The Anyuan Marquis' Mansion has issued an order to acquire the strong mules, and a number of officers and infantry teams have been specially drawn. The officers must first go to the martial arts school to learn, while the soldiers need to go to the recruit training camp to learn from riding mules. Ni Liangxu didn't quite understand why so many war horses were seized this time but the soldiers still asked the soldiers to ride mules. Liu Cheng knew more, but he only heard that these soldiers riding mules did not need to train to ride and fight, as long as they could ride.

He killed Chen Jin first and then killed Shi Tingzhu. The Han Eight Banners Army was defeated, and even Hong Chengchou and Hong Hengjiu, who were famous all over the world, did not get any advantage. At this moment, the Zhejiang Ming army was already famous all over the world. Although it was far less famous than Li Dingguo, the commander of the Southwest Ming Army who was two famous kings, the damage caused to the Qing Dynasty was even greater. After all, Nikan was only one person, and the eight banners of the Han army were annihilated by the Ming army this time, and the great reputation of defeating the eight banners of the Han army was even greater than 6,000.

This army is becoming more and more powerful, and even old-fashioned leaders of the anti-Qing rebel army like Zhang Zisheng from Pingjiang, Jiangxi, chose to join forces with the Ming army in Zhejiang, and their future prospects are naturally limitless.

Ni Liangxu didn't have many ideas yet, but planned to follow Chen Wen's arrangements after completing the martial arts lecture school, and also try to complete Zhou Qingui's dying instructions. However, he saw the Ming army occupied the area with his own eyes getting more and more vibrant day by day, and everything he had done before seemed to be rewarded.

"It's a pity that Brother Zhou and the others were unable to see the current Jinhua Mansion, alright."

In contrast, Liu Cheng had a lot more thoughts. This time he performed well in defending the city. Wu Dengke, who is still in Chuzhou, has agreed to help him speak good things in front of Chen Wen when he returns to Jinhua. In addition, he is also preparing to join the Huaxia Revival Association, but because he was demoted to the training department to sit on the bench, many old relationships are no longer easy to use.
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