Chapter 111 Funeral, silver reward, dividend

January 10, 1592.

After more than ten days of hard work by Wuzhai Fort Zhongtun Ding and the soldiers, the Wuzhai Fort Heroes Park located at the foot of Kelan Mountain was completed. The bodies of Wuzhai Fort soldiers who died in battle were buried here. In the future, the routine will be formed, and all the soldiers who died in battle will be buried here. Every year, Wuzhai Fort will hold a grand memorial ceremony.

The cold wind was deeply shaped and snowflakes were floating in the sky. Everyone was wearing thick cotton robes and scarves to wrap their heads and faces thickly.

At this time, in the Heroes Garden, the coffins of the soldiers had entered the tomb. On the side, in addition to the families of soldiers who came to see off for their sons and husbands, tens of thousands of military households and villages inside and outside the fort and in various farms, all rushed over to watch, standing all over the park and outside the park.

There were also those reinforcements from the Octagon Fort and Shenchi Fort that had not left Wuzhai Fort, and they were also crowded and watched.

In addition, all the three thousand soldiers of the Five Village Fortress were neatly arranged aside.

"salute."

Amid the shouts of the celebrating, in front of the park, led by Huang Laifu and Ma Jiuying's father-in-law, all the officers and soldiers of the Five Village Forts, as well as the farm leaders, and a group of merchant representatives in the fort bent down to salute the tomb group. The eldest brother-in-law Xu Xueshi and the third brother-in-law Tian Dafu also bowed their fists to salute. Slowly, sobs came from the crowd, slowly gathering together.

"farewell!"

The desolate music sounded. Not to mention that the widows with filial piety next to them could not control their emotions, they all knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. Even the onlookers couldn't help but shed tears. The third sister Huang Birou stood beside Gu Yunniang, her eyes were red, and shedding her eyes with her hands from time to time. The little baby Han Niuer from Shenchi Castle was just quietly leaning in her arms, looking obedient.

"put!"

Several teams of Wuzhai Fort soldiers holding muskets stood side by side by side. At this time, they pointed the bird guns in their hands into the sky. After listening to the officer's order, they fired the muskets.

"Boom boom boom boom boom." The sound of the musket spread throughout the four fields, triggering echoes in the valley.

"Let it go again!"

With the sound of guns, Huang Laifu was the leader, and the soldiers of the three thousand five villages and fortresses slowly sang the military song of the Five Villages and Fortresses: "Thousands of people are united, Mount Tai can be shaken! Only loyalty and righteousness are rushing to fight bulls. The Lord is kissing me, and he is better than his parents. He violates military orders, but he is not free. He is clear in his orders, rewards and punishments, and goes to the water and fire, dares he stay late?"

The majestic singing slowly gathered into a group, spreading far away to the sky. This was the "Song of Triumph" written by Qi Jiguang. At this time, it was a military song by the troops of various places in the Ming Dynasty, and the same was true for Wuzhai Fort.

After a series of funeral ceremonies, not to mention that the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort were sublimated and had higher cohesion, many of the people watching below were deeply jealous and envious. Especially the soldiers of Octagon Fort and Shenchi Fort were all extremely jealous. What if such treatment was even killed in battle?

The status of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty was low. Even if they were killed in battle, they would not have any pensions, but they would often have no bones left, or they would just find a burial burial. How could the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort be as glorious as those?

For a moment, people inside and outside the fort were even more yearning for entering the Wuzhai Fort army. Even Yang Dawei, the thousand-household Jinyiwei and several lieutenants next to him were envious of him after seeing it.

After the Yingli Garden became a sacred place in Wuzhai Fort, with incense burning every day.

Next, the rewards for the soldiers. This time, the Wuzhai Fort army beheaded 3150 levels. Not to mention the court, according to the regulations set by the Wuzhai Fort army, each level is rewarded 40 taels of silver. The rewards that Huang Laifu has to give are above 120,000 taels of silver, which is a very large amount.

Even though Huang Laifu has a good income this year, it is still a bit difficult to take out such a large amount of money. The eldest brother-in-law didn't say anything, but the third brother-in-law advised Huang Laifu, why did he give his subordinates so much silver reward amount? You are stupid? Grandpa Qi ordered a first-level silver reward of 30 taels because he was supported by the chief minister Zhang Juzheng at that time, and the amount of silver reward was paid by the court. And you had to pay for the money you had to pay for it yourself.

Many soldiers of Wuzhaibao felt embarrassed about the fact that their adults had to pay so much money. Many people said that the amount of silver rewards this time would be forgotten. Even Huang Laifu's father and mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law, wife and concubine, numerous uncles and aunts were very distressed about how much money they wanted to move out of the Huang family.

However, Huang Laifu finally insisted on paying the money. People cannot stand without trust, especially in the army. He said that as much reward as he gave, he would be as much reward as he gave.

In the end, Huang Laifu rewarded the money as he said. In this way, almost every soldier had a first-level 40 taels of silver reward. Inside and outside the fort, there was a cheer. The eldest brother-in-law and the third brother-in-law could only sigh that his brother-in-law was rich and arrogant.

The post-war experience summary is a necessary course for the Wuzhaibao army. The experiences and experiences of each officer and sergeant must be compiled into a book for future study.

This time, the firearms of Wuzhai Fort show their skills and have large guns. The effect is also good in this battle and are very good for fighting horses. Therefore, Huang Laifu and his soldiers felt that it was necessary to increase the firearms in the army. At present, the staff of the musketeers of Wuzhai Fort are less than one-third of the total number of soldiers, and they will increase to at least half in the future. In addition, there is also a large inventory of musketeers.

Therefore, Huang Laifu ordered that the Wuzhaibao Military Equipment Floor, from then on, would be the main task of making iron armor and bird guns. As for knives, guns, bows and arrows, they could go out to buy them, and the military uniforms were made by the Wuzhaibao Wool Spinning Factory. However, the main contradiction in the military equipment Floor is the contradiction between technological development and urgent needs.

According to the Ming Dynasty technology, it takes at least one to two months to manufacture a bird gun, a drilling tube, and a forging, engaging, trigger set and other processing processes.

In fact, other parts in the bird gun part can be grouped and cooperated, similar to the assembly line production in the 17th century. However, the two parts of forging barrels and drilling barrels are rough and stupid, and there is no way to replace them with assembly lines, so the process cannot be saved.

"Ji Xiao New Book" records: "The original hole of the bird gun is very small. You can drill it with a steel drill, and it will be about an inch a day. It will be the best for a month to drill the barrel of the barrel." The words of drilling the barrel of the barrel can only be done by one person, and it will take at least one month. If you do other work, it will basically take another half a month.

Finally, Huang Laifu thought of a solution, using group cooperation, a group specially forging the barrel and drilling the barrel, a group specially forging the trigger and other parts, and a group finally assembled, and everyone was concentrating on their own work. In this way, the efficiency was improved a little, and a qualified musket could be made in less than a month.

At present, there are more than 500 military craftsmen in Wuzhai Fort, of which 300 are specially used to build bird guns and carry guns, and more than 200 are used to build iron armor. It is estimated that 200 muskets can be made in one month and fifty pairs of iron armor can be made. This achievement, which is considered to be very brilliant in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, but Huang Laifu was not very satisfied. He decided to expand the recruitment of military craftsmen to reach one thousand people.

The above is the manufacturing of muskets. As for cannons, there is no need to think about it. Not to mention that the Ming Dynasty's strict control is strictly, even if it is accurate, Huang Laifu did not have the talent to build cannons. Compared with muskets, the tiger squat cannons and Folang machine cannons made by the Ming Dynasty are of good quality. Anyway, the enemy is only the Mongols in leather robes. These two cannons, plus bird guns, are enough to deal with. What is the red cannon, if you put it on Huang Laifu, you just use a knives to kill chickens. As for the heavy armored cavalry and heavy armored infantry that may have to be attacked in the future, it will be more than twenty years later.

There is also iron armor. According to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to cavalry, infantry and musket soldiers in each army did not have iron armor, and the same was true for the Wuzhai Fort army. However, Huang Laifu decided to put iron armor on his infantry and musket soldiers because his soldiers are too expensive now and are worth much more than weapons and equipment. Moreover, he now has iron ore, so he doesn't have any iron materials.

The Western plate armor is not as protective as the Chinese scale armor. Otherwise, in the Western army, in addition to wearing a set of plate armor, officers also have to cover them with another layer of mail. Western plate armor can face Western crossbows with a smile because their soft steel crossbows have poor shooting power. If they replace them with China's composite hard bows and armor-breaking arrows, Huang Laifu can imagine the consequences. However, compared with scale armor, plate armor is relatively simple to manufacture and can be mass-produced. With a layer of iron armor on their body, it is better than leather armor. Huang Laifu decided that in the future, his cavalry and officers would wear scale armor, while ordinary soldiers would wear plate armor.

Finally, there is the issue of war horses. This time, more than 3,000 war horses were seized. If the food and grass were eaten in a day in war, the amount of food and grass consumed by 20,000 human warriors was consumed. Even if the Wuzhai Fort has a bumper harvest and alfalfa and other green feed, it still made Huang Laifu very difficult to raise so many horses. However, if there is a horse, it is not Huang Laifu's style, so he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

At present, everyone has horses. Except for Huang Laifu's 500 cavalry cavalry, the rest have become horse infantry, and their mobility has been greatly improved.

January 20, 1592.

The New Year is about to be held in one month, and the rewards from the court finally came down.

"I have inherited the decree of heaven, inherited the great rule of ancestors, and ruled the world. All the ways to govern and protect the country are far and wide. I have always adhered to the classics of ancestors. I am cautious in my heart and dared not to violate Yue... Now, the commander of the Five Village Guards, Huang Laifu, is of great use, defeated the enemy, beheaded more than 3,000, and specially ordered commendations, and added the title of deputy general, and each of the soldiers under my command has its own reward..."

In front of thousands of soldiers in Wuzhai Fort, the court angel read the imperial edict in a slight manner. Huang Laifu bowed happily: "I thank you, long live my emperor!"

Everyone next to him rushed up and said to Huang Laifu repeatedly: "Congratulations, congratulations."

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Happy together, happy together."

The news that Huang Laifu was promoted to deputy general was spread. Not to mention that everyone was celebrating Wuzhai Fort, his elders were promoted again. Even after hearing this, everyone in the military fort and counties next to him was envious and jealous. During a year, he was promoted from garrison to deputy general and enjoyed the treatment of deputy general. This kid was so lucky. However, even though he was envious, there were still a steady stream of people coming to congratulate him. At the same time, his eldest brother-in-law Xu Xueshi and his third brother-in-law Tian Dafu were also promoted to guerrilla and gang general, which also made the two very excited.

For several days, his father Huang Sihao led his family to worship his ancestors, report on the blessings of his family and the glory of his descendants.

This time, the angel came, in addition to commending the imperial edict, he also had the task of urging Huang Laifu to share the money. The New Year was about to be celebrated, and the treasury of Emperor Wanli was empty, waiting for the money to be used.

The final result was that Emperor Wanli received a bonus of 170,000 taels of silver from Wuzhai Fort. When Emperor Wanli saw this batch of silver five days before the Chinese New Year, he and Concubine Zheng were so excited that they didn't sleep well all night.
Chapter completed!