Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 528 The Wind of Eastern Europe

Zhao Guangman's daughter-in-law can only speak a few words of Chinese, and Zhao Guangman has only learned a few words of Russian. In fact, it is quite difficult for the two of them to communicate on a daily basis, but they have been together for such a long time. , already have some communication mechanism.

Zhao Guangman took Chenglin to see his son, a fat, mixed-race boy.

"How about it, Lin Shuai, look at his thick hands and feet, he must be a good hand in the future, and he is also expected to join the army!"

Cheng Lin looked at the lovely child and said, "It must be."

He actually understood very well in his heart that when Fei Yanggu connived at the new army and people from the Eight Banners to rob women everywhere, and even settled them down and bought properties, he did not hesitate to let a lot of his combat power go back to the farm temporarily to become a landlord. The main purpose was actually It is population reproduction.

There are really too few bannermen.

The area currently controlled by the Western Qing Empire has a population of more than 2000 million. However, the real Eight Banners, even including those who have carried the banners from the Mongols, Kazakhs, and Tatars over the years, are all considered to be full. There are more than 50 people, which is about [-]% of the total population.

Naturally, when the Manchu Qing ruled the Central Plains, the population ratio was even more touching than this.

Fei Yanggu was indeed a man of vision, and even Bai Mingxiu admitted that he did not expect him to be so able to accept new things and grasp the essence of the problem.Fei Yanggu reformed the Eight Banners system, abolished the original hard-core crops, ordered all Eight Banners men to have their own occupations, and all Eight Banners men must receive regular, standardized and high-intensity military training.All males in the Eight Banners are required to serve in the military after the age of 15, and even after the military service is over, they must continue to serve in the reserve service.

Bai Mingxiu felt that such a sense of crisis was actually correct.

Fei Yanggu didn't care too much about the fact that Qiding's next generation might not be a purebred, because Qiding now has no blood to speak of, and the original soldiers of the new army he eventually belonged to were basically Han Chinese, but now It is the bannerman.

Fei Yanggu just hoped that these most important bannermen of the Qing Dynasty, especially the former new officers and soldiers, would have more children. More than ten or twenty years later, he would get a group of extremely loyal troops.Therefore, the Eight Banners strongly encourages having more children.

Among Chenglin's original soldiers, some had already snatched four or five wives and gave birth to four or five children. Such things were allowed by the Western Qing court.

This group of old men sat at a table, and a few servants came in to set the cups, bowls and chopsticks for these old men.Chenglin looked at these people, including Ukrainians and Tatars, but without exception, they all had a money rat tail, and their clothes were also changed into mandarin jackets.

Now in the territory of Xiqing, this routine is basically the same.Feyangu took the trick of shaving his hair and changing clothes to Russia and Ukraine to perform it again.Because the killing was very fierce, and the people here did not have the integrity of the people in the Central Plains and the scholar-bureaucrats, they basically accepted this kind of thing.

"When I came here, I always felt that those high tables and chairs were not good, so I made a set of low tables and small seats. Today, my brothers are here, so I just use them." Zhao Guangman said with a smile.

When they were marching, they all sat on the ground to eat. There were no tables or chairs, so these soldiers had long been accustomed to that. Instead, they felt it was inappropriate to sit on the big table of the nobles.Today, when Chenglin arrived, they sat at a low table and a low bench.

Although he couldn't get on the stage, Cheng Lin still smiled and sat down with them.

The food and wine are also served one after another. The dishes are mixed and matched, including Chinese dishes, European-style things like bread, roasted whole lamb, and some Mediterranean recipes.

"My lord, the dishes are all served, and the wine is also served for all my lords." The speaker was an elderly Russian. Although he had an accent, he already spoke Chinese quite well.

Zhao Guangman said: "Okay, Andre, you just need to wait on me, my brothers are happy today, I will give you ten taels!"

"Thank you, master, for the reward!"

Several Russian servants were standing nearby, a little hunched over, looking very servile.Obviously they are very accustomed to this new social form. Several of them used to serve the local nobles. After the Russian and Cossack nobles died, they became servants serving these banner masters.There is no essential difference in the nature of work.

These fellows who used to be soldiers and are now landlords, when they drank, they became old soldiers again, but the topics they talked about were no longer the wars of the past, but also about their new lives.Cheng Lin could see a sense of satisfaction with their new life from their faces.

"This year's harvest is good. If you want to say that these old men here are really not good at clearing the land. Our people came here and brought the farming techniques of the Central Plains. When it's harvest time this year, there is so much grain. Those people The farmers were excitedly thanking God in the fields.”

Han Siming smiled and said, "Thank you too. They have shared a lot of the grain. In the past, these guys were wary of us, but now some farmers have asked me if there is no shortage of maids in my house, and they want to send their daughters in." Be an aunt."

A group of people burst into laughter.

"But I really miss the days in the army. We were all by Lin Shuai's side, going through life and death." When Zhao Guangman mentioned this topic, everyone fell silent.

Someone asked: "Shuai Lin, do we still have a chance to return to the army?"

"Yes, now that the Emperor favors the Two Yellow Flags Royal Forest Army, we old brothers have all dispersed."

Cheng Lin asked: "Now that you all have families and children, do you still want to go back to the army and live a life of licking blood with knives?"

"If it's under Lin Shuai's command, why not?"

"I have children, and I am not afraid of having no offspring. I am a real man if I fight to the death."

Chenglin was actually a little moved in his heart. From a certain perspective, these people were both his closest comrades-in-arms and his enemies, but in fact they were also ordinary people.The king sitting in the Taiping Palace in the capital used just a few strategies to control the lives of thousands of people in the world.

He hoped that these people could spend their lives safely, but he knew that Xiqing's mission was not like this.

Even Fei Yanggu actually has greater ambitions.

Cheng Lin said: "The emperor hopes to gather together for a few years, and then develop a grand plan. Now the situation in the Qing Dynasty is very good, and in a few years, the food warehouse will be full and the soldiers will be ready. Then it is time for us to go out again."

These veterans were extremely excited: "Who are you going to fight?"

"The emperor hopes to obtain a key strategic node, and Turkey is an unavoidable hurdle. And because the Crimean Khanate was destroyed by our Qing Dynasty, the two countries have already turned against each other. Therefore, within a few years, we will have to deal with the Ottoman Empire. Do it."

(End of this chapter)