51. Dock walls are everywhere
A day later, the number of people who signed up for the Yulin Army increased sharply. People who were still watching before also gritted their teeth and accepted the letter of revenge, and sent grain and cloth to the inner warehouse of the little emperor. The children of various battalions from other places even came to Zheng County to join the army. These people sent money and other convenient things to carry. General Langya, who was fighting fiercely with the Gengshi Army in Xinfeng, was the most exaggerated. He sent almost all the children of all the soldiers in the camp back to Zheng County, with a total of more than 1,000 people.
Although this team brought some gold, silver and jewelry, there was no grain. General Langya told me that he could only transport grain from the front line from the back, and there was no reason to transport grain from the front line. The six stone grain and six meter cloth required by His Majesty the Emperor had been discounted to gold and silver. Please accept it with a smile. These children are the blood of the soldiers in the camp. They are fighting on the battlefield and cannot serve His Majesty in close proximity. Let their children serve His Majesty.
This team of people who serve His Majesty the Emperor is swelling, half of which are snot-snotted, and the youngest is only six years old. Is he going to join the Yulin Army? Who the hell is serving whom?
Niu Tou and Horse Face were very happy and strongly recommended that the emperor keep the dolls as a talent reserve in the palace. The two of them dreamed of upgrading from the only two eunuchs to the Central Secretariat, but were kicked away by the little emperor. Liu Penzi is a modern man who pays attention to human rights. Can he do such evil things as having no children or grandchildren?
What's even more outrageous is that there are many girls in the team of Langya Camp. This service is OK... The little emperor couldn't help but feel excited. Is General Langya meant that he wanted me to open up the harem?
Zhai Xing counted the so-called gold, silver and jewelry. According to the standards of His Majesty, the money was only enough for a hundred people to enter the Yulin Camp.
The little emperor sighed and said, "The soldiers on the front line fought bloody battles. Their children want to join the Yulin Army... they should be discounted!"
He had already cursed General Langya in his heart. Is this the fucking thing to ask me to raise children for you? Is it not an orphanage that I opened!
In order not to be cold, the emperor still pinched his nose and accepted these people. More than 200 girls were sent to Shangyiku and handed them over to Qiaomei and Qian Po. As the Yulin Army expanded, dozens of tailors in Jinzhen Lane were too busy and just sent them some apprentices. As for boys under the age of twelve, the emperor planned to give them all to General Niuma Liu Xiaqing.
General Liu quickly refused. The cow stable had already been full, so where could there be a place to accommodate so many children? If they had to stuff people in this way, there were more people than livestock. You can't raise a chicken for two children and take care of a duck for three children? Besides, Gongzhong wouldn't give so much rations!
Of course, there is another most important reason he didn't say, "You stuffed the cow stables all at once, so how could General Liu sell his place to the outside world?"
The little emperor wanted to force him, but suddenly his heart moved and said, "You can't just want people, I can also place these children, but they can't do nothing. Let's do this. Either you accept these people, or take half of the livestock in the cattle and horse stable, and I set up an animal husbandry camp and use these people to specialize in herding livestock."
Half of the livestock? That's too many! Liu Xiaqing repeatedly asked for pleading, but in the end he couldn't help but bleeding and sent out hundreds of livestock. The young emperor formed an animal husbandry camp to train animal husbandry talents by taking the cattle, horse, pig, sheep, chicken, duck and geese as the team, and carried out animal breeding and maintenance work.
After some trouble, more than 400 children from Langya Camp who were of the right age joined the Yulin Army and prepared to participate in the second military training.
The number of new recruits to be trained has exceeded 3,000. With this momentum, it is only a matter of time before the Yulin Army breaks through 10,000 people. The stalls are also consumed a lot. Now the food problem is becoming increasingly prominent.
Military farming is a medium- and long-term plan, and the short-term food problem needs to be solved quickly. Although Sun Bada should have transported 20,000 stones of grain, the young emperor could not put all the treasures on him. Fortunately, the powerful people in Guanzhong were enlightened. So, Luo You sent a few envoys to do ideological work for the powerful people around him a few days ago. Today I came back. This is a Confucian scholar from Shenjing Lane. He headed northeast and just passed the Wei River. He heard that he was fighting in front of him and did not dare to move forward. He turned around and came back.
Along the way, he passed more than a dozen dock walls, three of which were relatively large, namely Yangshuwu, Pingdingwu and Shiliwu.
Old Master Yang from Yangshuwu was very polite. He bathed and changed his clothes and burned incense. He knelt down and received the emperor's orders very formally, and said that he had wanted to come to worship the emperor for a long time, but the war was in chaos everywhere and the road was blocked. He was afraid that he would be robbed by pseudo-Han chaos soldiers on the road. At that time, not only would he not be able to respect Your Majesty, but he would instead support the enemy, so he did not dare to act rashly. Please forgive Your Majesty. When the situation stabilizes and the road could be passed, he would definitely bring cattle wine to Zheng County to pay homage to His Majesty the Han Emperor.
The owner of Pingdingwu is named Wu Chun. He is a middle-aged man in his forties. He looks a bit rough and generous. He treats messengers casually and does not speak very politely. He probably means that last time I went to give gifts to all the leaders, but as soon as he entered Zheng County, he was stolen. Several of the Wu family were injured. I finally escaped and came back. How dare I go again? You should take care of your own people first and then ask me to surrender.
"Your Majesty, Wu Chun refused to surrender, but he fabricated some lies that he had driven sheep and wine to come to Zheng County to deceive Your Majesty. It's really a rebellious thing." Seeing the envoy's angry look, he must have suffered a lot of cowards in Pingdingwu.
Shiliwu is by the Wei River and is the largest dock wall that the envoy passes through. It is said that there are tens of thousands of people in the dock and the garrison is extremely strict, but the envoy cannot get a glimpse of the appearance inside.
Shiliwu refused the envoy's entry, and the only reason was that those who were not from the earth were allowed to enter, no matter which emperor's will heed.
The emperor was very curious about Shiliwu, "The fortress is really so closed, no one can enter or exit?"
"Report to Your Majesty, there are cavalry appearing ten miles away from Shiliwu. Seeing that Chen and three others, they went up to interrogate, and then followed them all the way to Wu. There were heavy troops guarding the Wumen Gate and repeatedly investigated. Someone went in and reported that they had just returned within an hour and were not allowed to enter. But people in the Wumen could enter and exit the fortress, go to the fields to work, and go up the mountain to collect firewood."
"This is a small military town!"
Luo You said: "Your Majesty, I know a little about Yangshuwu. The head of the family Yang Yu is the most powerful country in Shenyang County. His ancestors moved from Shandong. After several generations, their descendants have reproduced and their family is becoming increasingly prosperous. There are people in the family for generations. Since the pseudo-New Dynasty, the world has been in chaos. In order to protect themselves, the Yang family built a dock to consolidate themselves. They stored grain and military weapons in the dock and ruled themselves. They were like an independent marquis, and the government had no choice but to deal with him."
Liu Penzi is familiar with Wubi. These are the fortresses spontaneously built by the people. Since the Tianfeng period of Wang Mang, powerful people from all over the country have carried out infrastructure with their clans, fellow villagers and some dependents. The scale is comparable to real estate construction two thousand years later. Fortresses of all sizes have stood for hundreds of years, forming a unique Wubi economy, self-sufficiency and self-protection, and even the emperor is not afraid of. During the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, Shi Le did not receive the support of the powerful in Jizhou. In furious, he led his troops to more than a hundred Wubi forts. The dock owners were afraid and sent their sons to express their support.
Nowadays, when the forts first emerged, it was not as common as in later generations, but it was already very common in the Sanfu area where wars were chaotic for years. The dock walls replaced the grassroots administrative unit "Xienliting" below the county. In addition to government management, the degree of autonomy is very high, which greatly strengthened the patriarchal family system. As a modern person, Liu Penzi knew that the patriarchal system had lasted for more than two thousand years since then, and it still has influence until now.
Now the rich people are indented into the turtle shell. Where does the emperor come from? How to do military farming?
Liu Penzi thought secretly, it seemed that he was going to open a copy and open a new map, but he didn't know if he could open a treasure chest.
Chapter completed!