Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 186 Ten Thousand Green Battalion Recruits

"Don't you all have Zhuangzi, servants, and silver outside the city? At worst, it would be worth offering these things to the emperor in exchange for our lives." Du Ruhui actually thought of volunteering to donate wealth to Zhu Cihong. It can be said that the desire to survive is very strong.

"Why do we still have to give it? If we give it all out, wouldn't it cost us our lives?" Several wealthy households complained when they heard Du Ruhui's method.

It can't be blamed on them being too stingy, but their property is mainly the fields outside the city. People in the feudal era, no matter what method they used to obtain wealth, would exchange it for fields. They rented out the fields and made money, so they continued to buy fields. .

Just like modern people buying a house, after such a cycle, gradually these people will become the big landlords of the fields.

It can be said that most of their assets are the fields on the Zhuangzi outside the city and the tenants and servants who cultivate the fields for themselves. Without these, their wealth will shrink by more than half immediately.

As for social status, it has shrunk even more.

These people have no fame, no official position and nobility, and they can have social status, so that the masters in the government can consider them first when formulating policies. population?

Without these things, they will become weak lambs, and the government can deal with them as they want in the future.

"Everyone, it's just some fields. We still have a lot of money saved. When the war is over, there will be wasteland everywhere, and there will be good fields without owners."

"At that time, we will occupy those lands and develop them again, and we will have thousands of acres of fertile land again. Why worry about no land." Du Ruhui persuaded everyone.

In fact, not only them, even those poor and refugees, when the war is over and return to their hometown, they can get their own land to cultivate.

Because the population decreased greatly during the war, countless fertile fields lost their owners. In order to restore production and maintain social order, the imperial court will definitely give them a large amount of cultivated land.

"That's true."

"That's all there is to it."

A few gentlemen stroked their gray beards and said to themselves, they understood Du Ruhui's meaning, and also recognized the current situation, they had no choice but Du Ruhui's proposal, because Zhu Cihong and Haoge would not give them too much Chance.

After discussing this point, these rich households and gentry in Huaiqing City have created a broad road that belongs to them.

Please both sides, give money to both, and don't offend them. In this way, no matter who wins, they will be fine, at most, there will be a little more blood, and it is nothing compared to the lives of their own family members.

After these people left Du Ruhui's house, countless amounts of silver floated into Hauge's mansion like snowflakes. In just one day, Hauge got as much as 10 taels of silver.

However, although there was a lot of money, it just passed through Hauge's hands.

Soon, Hauge ordered people to use the silver to hire craftsmen, sew uniforms and flags, make helmets, swords, guns, and shields, and recruit strong men.

Hauge is very generous, he doesn’t feel bad when he spends money, he puts up the banner of recruiting troops, as long as those who come to join the army, they will immediately pay three taels of silver for their settlement, and promise to enter the military camp, and they will be paid one or two taels of silver every month .

Although the price of goods in Huaiqing City has skyrocketed due to the siege, this settlement fee is enough to buy a stone of rice and food for the whole family for a month, and the monthly salary is enough for a family of four to barely fill their stomachs.

Therefore, although everyone knows that it is not a good thing to work for the people of Mizhou, but due to the pressure of survival, they still join the army one after another.

The number of people was so large that even Hauge couldn't imagine it. Originally, Hauge thought that if there were too few strong men who came to serve as soldiers, the prefect of Huaiqing would send out the strong men from door to door.

Now it seems that there is no need, just lie on the recliner in the government office and listen to the music or watch the show.

He didn't know that the reason why so many people joined the army was not only because of the large number of poor people in the city who were forced to make a living, but also because of Du Ruhui's help from wealthy Huaiqing businessmen and gentry.

People like Du Ruhui are very wealthy, and each household has a large number of servants. Although they are not comparable to princes and nobles, it is still easy for each household to gather [-] or [-] young and strong.

There are hundreds of young and strong servants sent by these gentry and rich households alone.

After a few days of conscripting, ten thousand recruits stood in the green camp.

Although most of them were peasants, craftsmen, coachmen, and hard laborers who were farming before, it looked quite the same thing when they put on the livery issued by Hauge, picked up knives and guns, and stood in the barracks.

One day, the recruits were standing on the school field practicing, and Hauge brought a group of guards over to inspect.

"My lord." Seeing Hauge approaching, a general who was in charge of training the green battalion recruits hurried over and knelt down to salute Qian.

"Feng Hai, you trained well." Hauge praised.

Feng Hai was appointed by Hauge to be in charge of training these green battalion recruits. These days, he has been diligently training these recruits.

On the surface, he looks very honest and honest, like a loyal person, but Haoge doesn't know that this Feng Hai has been bribed by Du Ruhui and the others long ago.

As soon as Zhu Cihong attacked the city, Feng Hai would lead the recruits to let the Ming army in. At that time, Feng Hai and Du Ruhui would all be able to get promoted and make a fortune.

Therefore, Feng Hai is very willing to accept Du Ruhui's money. Anyway, no matter whether the matter succeeds or not, he will gain something and become the best. Maybe he will be able to soar into the sky from now on, but even if it doesn't work, the money from Du Ruhui and others is enough. He's lived a lifetime.

"It's because of the kindness and power of the prince that the brothers train so hard." Feng Hai said with a flattering smile.

His flattering smile made Hauge very satisfied. Hauge felt that this kind of expression was what a hound should have, and it was the expression of obedience of a hound to its master.

"Very good, Feng Hai, continue to behave well, one day I will lift you to the Zhenglan Banner and let you be my coat aha."

Letting a lowly Han raise the flag and become a bannerman, Hauge felt that this was a great kindness to Feng Hai.

Although Coated Aha is a slave, he is regarded as a bannerman when he carries the banner. In the eyes of Hao Ge and other nobles of the Eight Banners, Coated Aha is often half of his family and a trustworthy person.

Hao Ge's words to let Feng Hai be his own coated aha, it shows that he attaches great importance to Feng Hai.

But this is just Hauge’s wishful thinking. Feng Hai is Han, how could he be willing to be someone else’s slave? In Han, being a slave, to put it nicely, being a servant, is only done by poor people who can’t live. choose.

(End of this chapter)