Chapter 1: A Soldier through the Late Ming Dynasty
He Xuan sat on the ground in a daze, looking at everything in front of him.
The scenery in front of you is very different from the beautiful land in Jiangnan.
The mountains are vaguely rolling and the vast land is sparsely planted on the ground, but there are also large areas of loess that are exposed directly, extremely rough and fierce. This is the scenery of Xuanfu Town and the border of Daming. From time to time, there is an extremely fierce wind, which directly hits the face with sand and grove, causing a faint pain.
"It has been three days since I came to this world." He Xuan sighed.
He still didn't understand it now. In his previous life, he was still in an Internet cafe and was playing LOL all night long. He was too tired to play, so he lay on the computer desk for a while, intending to continue playing games after a while, so as not to waste the money for the night. As a result, when he woke up, he had already traveled to the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, it became a small pawn in Qingshan Dune below Xuanzhen Prefecture on the border of the Ming Dynasty.
During the Ming Dynasty, in order to defend against the invasion of the Northern Territories, a large number of military forts and troughs were built in the north.
"One mile, one small pier, five mile, one large pier, and ten miles a village", but the distance between the forts is related to the distance between the capital. The closer the military town is to the capital, the denser the distribution of the forts, the more passes there are. For example, Yansui Town, an average of 40 miles a fort, Datong Town and Xuanfu Town, an average of 30 miles a fort, and Liaodong Town is only 20 to 30 miles a fort.
Whether it is these military forts or piers, soldiers guard the city during wartime and farm during busy farming.
If necessary, the above can also be mobilized by the military fort to fight.
Generally, there will be one hundred soldiers in the military fortress, guarded by hundreds of households.
Generally, a small pier, which is guarded by a small flag, has a total of ten soldiers.
Qingshan Dun is such an ordinary small dungeon.
And I am an ordinary pawn in the small pier.
He Xuan also had a headache. According to historical textbooks, it was already the Chongzhen year, and it was not many years before the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. As a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, I was afraid that I would die at that time. I lived well in the 21st century, drinking wine and blowing air conditioners, but I went through a wild century like the late Ming Dynasty. It was really miserable.
I don't know what the future will be.
Forget it, since you come, you will be at peace.
...
He Xuan stood up, patted his butt, and then went to drive the cow.
The army of the Ming Dynasty was very different from the army of other dynasties.
The armies of other dynasties are only responsible for fighting.
In the Ming Dynasty, the army used the military to implement military farming and exploited the soldiers. According to the "Ming History: Food and Message Records", the Ming government stipulated that the army in the border areas "defends three parts to the city and seven parts to the planting; the mainland two parts to defend the city and eight parts to planting". The army must pay taxes to the government, which is called "mixing grains". During the Hongwu period, it was stipulated that the military camp "a dou of tax per mu". The tax grain of the military camp was one of the main incomes of the Ming government.
Therefore, soldiers also have to farm and pay food.
The army of the Ming Dynasty was usually a peasant.
Only when you have to fight will you temporarily become a soldier.
This system is actually the reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army.
As an ordinary soldier in Qingshandun, He Xuan is usually responsible for two things. One is responsible for cutting and killing pig grass, and the other is responsible for herding cattle. Qingshandun still has a hundred acres of land. It is impossible to plow so much land, so he must raise cattle. Therefore, Qingshandun also raises two cows in total.
Whether it is cutting and killing pig grass or herding cattle, it is a very time-consuming task.
Looking at the two things He Xuan did, it is actually no different from the long-term workers of the landlord's family. It is normal soldiers who need to do exercises, practice, etc., and they are all exempted from here.
He Xuan pulled the two cow ropes with a little depressed look and continued walking forward.
Behind, there were two cows, one yellow and the other black. They looked quite big, following He Xuan.
If you weren't wearing a cow's nose, these two cows wouldn't be able to pull them easily.
Suddenly, one of the yellow cows saw that the rice was ripe in the field next to them, so they had to run directly into the rice. As long as they had raised cattle in the countryside and had shelved cattle, they knew that cattle liked to eat rice. What's more important is that the cows are so big that if they really enter the rice field, no matter how much they can eat, they can trample the rice by rolling around in the field.
Therefore, as long as the cattle are released, they have been reminded that no matter what, the cattle cannot be allowed to enter the rice fields, otherwise the harvest will be greatly reduced.
And now is the late Ming Dynasty, and the food price is much higher than that in later generations.
Of course, scalpers should not be allowed to enter the rice fields.
He Xuan tried hard to pull the scalper.
Although the power of the scalper was much greater than that of He Xuan, the bull finally held He Xuan's nose and was pulled back helplessly before he reached the rice field. This made the scalper look at He Xuan with a resentful look.
However, you lose sight of one thing.
The black cow there had already taken advantage of He Xuan's time to pull the yellow cow and rushed into the rice fields. Not only did it bit a lot of freshly mature rice, but it also took the opportunity to step on and trample on a lot of rice.
He Xuan was depressed at the moment and tied the yellow cow rope to a tree some distance from the rice. Then he rushed into the rice. He pulled the black cow rope and pulled the black cow up directly. After finally pulling it up, he couldn't help but feel pain when he saw that the rice that had been trampled a lot, so much food wasted.
In the original owner's memory, food is very expensive.
Moreover, I will definitely be scolded by Xiaoqiliang.
He Xuan was so angry that he kicked directly and kicked Hei Niu. Anyway, a big man like Hei Niu could not beat this guy even if he kicked him.
"I received a negative emotional value from the Black Bull, +6." A message suddenly passed through my mind.
He Xuan couldn't help but be stunned. What's going on? He seemed to have heard something just now.
I calmed down, but I didn't hear any sound.
Could it be that after traveling through time, I had too much mental pressure and had hallucinations and got mentally ill?
No, it’s unlikely, I’ve always been an optimistic person and I’m unlikely to get mentally ill.
It seems that there was a black bull in the information just now, and I just kicked the black bull, which means... it may be related to this black bull.
He Xuan kicked Hei Niu again.
"Received negative emotions from Black Bull, +6."
It's really related to this black bull.
Chapter completed!