The husband was guarding the Pengmao because of the soldiers, and Ma Ling's clothes became scorched.
Sangzhe still pays taxes after abandoning, and still requisitioning seedlings after the pastoral drought.
Pick wild vegetables and roots and boil, spin the raw firewood and burn them with leaves.
No matter what is deeper in the mountains, there should be no way to avoid conquest.
"Shi Shi Xing" Tang Dynasty: Du Xunhe
—I am the dividing line —
The dirty and greasy case, the scattered salted edamame, boiled peanut shells, and the infinite amount of tea soup that is too light to know the taste, have become these young scholars who like to talk about the best. Something to add to the fun.
And Wei Zhuang, the new missionary trainee who was among them, also secretly smiled bitterly and listened to them in a complicated mood. He never thought that he would have such a day in such a role.
Only after personally learning, did he know that the Taiping Army nowadays does not lack people, and has never been given official positions lightly, even the lowest level officials and officials; therefore, he wants to rely on a three-inch tongue. Discussing talents and style, or some old literary names and reputation, it is an extravagant hope to re-use Wenda.
Anyone who wants to be motivated must either sink down to accumulate qualifications from the lowest level of practice; or take the graded exams of grades three, six and nine on their own, and then pass the follow-up training and internships before they have a chance to get them. A formal position.
Therefore, there are already some scholars who have not been able to hear about it overnight, or under the various disappointments of getting ahead, are neither willing to sink down to deal with those dull and stupid mud legs, nor do they want to re-examine again and again. Continue to build and build, just leave without saying goodbye one after another.
Wei Zhuang himself is a relatively rare exception, because some of his works in Beijing in his early years were actually mentioned by the governor, and then he was guaranteed by his old friend Han Hao, who already had a small identity and status. This trainee position.
Since he is a trainee position, it means that he does not have a formal salary, but he can get a certain amount of subsidized in-kind benefits and a small amount of copper. The task is to hang around among these scholars all day long, listen to their voices and public opinion, and regularly report some popular topics and daily status.
However, compared to Wei Zhuang, who was in the same place here, his other old friend Du Xunhe obviously went further and more radically. He actually signed up to participate in that frightening anti-revolutionary meeting, one of the new "three teams" group of accompanying clerks.
This is not a good ministry with a reputation. In the rumors, the hands are covered with blood, and there is even the danger of losing your life if you are not careful. Therefore, Wei Zhuang did not fail to persuade this old friend to be a little cautious and considerate.
However, Du Xunhe, who has always been quite free and easy and happy with suffering, responded very decisively this time; "It is because there are so many unheards in the world that I want to see with my own eyes whether this Taiping military rule is a matter of words. Say it consistently! If you can stand for the lives of the people, even if you kill people like Qin Wuan, will it be blessed?"
In the zipper camp outside of Xixiang City, Jinzhou, many young soldiers were sweating and accepting new tactics. Most of the standard jackets sewn with cotton and velvet were quickly taken off to one side. , And in the thin, muddy snowfield, the upper body of the tendon, which was only made of fine linen, was exposed.
And the team deputy talisman responsible for leading the exercise is also holding a standard group card in his hand, making a smooth movement of flying up and down, jumping left and right, and blocking the front and back, just like this ordinary and extraordinary. Things come to play.
It's hard to imagine that he was still a small school in the army who wanted to ask thieves to make meritorious service more than a year ago. Now he is a decent sergeant of Taiping. He also changed his name to Fu Cun-shen for this reason, with the meaning of judging the body by taking good custody, which is considered to be completely separated from the past and get rid of it.
Over the past few days, although the overall military volume has not increased much on the basis of the eighth army and six defense zones of the Taiping Metropolitan Government, the corresponding investment in addition to military expenditures has doubled several times over the years.
For example, as the southeast of Jiangxi and the mountain (south) east (road) and the Xiajiang prefectures are gradually settled, and most of the local reconstruction and clean-up work has entered the final stage, as the main force of the Taiping Army, the order from the first to the sixth army has again followed Landing continued to return to the organization and became fully loaded.
Among them, there are a large number of subordinate armed forces that have undergone preliminary battlefield training and inspections. After being incorporated and transformed, they have been replenished in the form of supplementary soldiers, (old and weak), filled into Xintunzhuang everywhere, or (young Dingzhuang) Dispatched into the second and third line defense regiments and field guard teams from different places.
But the biggest investment is the Taiping Eighth Army, the main force’s refurbishment and tactical enhancement; for example, in addition to the special circumstances of the navy and cavalry, the other six military orders must ensure an armor rate of 60 to 80% or more. At least half of the iron armor (scale armor, chain armor, ring armor and even forged steel chest armor).
In addition, because of the accumulation of breeding and animal husbandry over the years, together with the income from the Taiping Army’s conquests, it is possible to produce more than 10,000 large livestock for riding purposes every year, plus the purchase of private free-range livestock. To ensure that at least 30% of the six military orders are mules and horses, and 30% of pawns are riding.
Then there is the equipment on the firearms. Each army must maintain at least one independent firearm unit (grenadier/grenadier), which accounts for about one-tenth of the total army. As a result, all kinds of local expenditures and inputs have gone up.
Of course, because most of these troops are scattered in various places, the corresponding change-over and training work can only be done in accordance with the needs of distance and priority, to prepare a schedule for batch rotation.
Among them, the sequence that receives the most priority for training and refitting is neither the reserve/mobile unit stationed at the rear, nor the deployment sequence that is on the front line to prepare for the enemy; it is the second-line unit that is regularly rotated from the front for repair.
Therefore, as a new soldier of the Taiping Army, as soon as he enters the supplementary battalion, the first stage is the basic training of using spear arrays and marching and responding to the enemy. If there is any unqualified performance at this stage, they will be eliminated. Go to villages, villages, and workshops.
Then, based on the specific performance and specialties of the new pawns, a preliminary selection of knife players who can fight in arrays and can also adapt to small groups of grappling fights, or those who have a variety of arrays of rapid shooting, diffusion, and shooting Crossbowmen.
Only at this time, they can be called a qualified new pawn of peace. Then on this basis, there are more new advancements and development directions.
For example, those who are good at riding can be organized into horse teams to participate in basic training in riding combat; to decide whether they should ride on horses to become cavalry on the rush, or ride on mule horses to regroup and fight.
Those who are good at floating water swimmers are generally accepted the priority conditions of the navy to select those who can adapt to ship handling and surface activities for a long time, and then carry out the basic training of water battle jumping, landing assault or armed crossing.
There are also low-bodied soldiers who are good at mountain climbing. They are not afraid of ruggedness. They will be enrolled in a handful of mountain barracks to receive training and advance training for strengthening obstacles, and mountain shuttle training with the help of equipment. , And even a confrontational exercise with corresponding mountain environment and special equipment.
Elderly people who are strong in body, waist and arm can apply to join the training of the fire throwing team, learn simple lookout methods, and eventually become an admirable grenadier, or even a formal grenadier. , Old Grenadier, Grenadier.
Now they have a new choice. Those who are flexible and determined will be allotted new firearms ranging from three-eyed blunderbuss to pyrophoric blunderbuss, in order to obtain a flat-fire killing ability that is far different from that of a crossbow.
As for what you want to be a member of the team (long-range projection equipment), you are more demanding. In addition to having enough strength and courage, you must also have a basic knowledge of simple numbers and literacy before you can learn to observe and map the battlefield. means.
And as advanced ballistas, team leaders, and craftsmen, they must even be able to master simple repair and maintenance methods, and be able to draw materials on the spot for emergencies on the battlefield. Therefore, these distinctions and divisions in the army are also called "the new third-order, the old third-order, and the third-order firearms", and they have become the direction for the new soldiers to work hard.
—I am the dividing line —
And at the Hejiang Estuary at the junction of northwest Yuzhou and Luzhou, along the newly constructed civil-timbered military village between the river bank and the mountain wall, the Taiping Army's Kunpeng green flag is dangling.
And along the limited open gates of Junzhai, the crowds snaking on the road pushing carts, carrying baskets, or on the river supporting boats, seem to be a unique scenery nowadays. Although the products they brought were varied, the things they carried back were uniform gray-white particles.
The reason is also very simple, because the people in the area of Jiannan Road, whether it is the mission of Dongchuan or Xichuan, have been suffering from the day of light food caused by lack of salt for a long time. The turmoil on the Xiajiang Road in the early days caused the salt supply from Yu and Wange Prefectures to be cut off for a long time.
We must know that in this era, compared with Gongjing County in Rongzhou (now Zigong City), which has not yet been developed on a large scale, the Badong area of Yuzhou Suokonge is the land between Bashu and Yunnan, and even the center of Guizhou is located in Yunnan and Guizhou. The most important inland salt production area is now, and its history can even be traced back to the era of Pakistan thousands of years ago.
It was the Dachang Jian (in today’s Wuxi County), Yong’an Jian (in today’s Fengjie County), Tu Jian (in today’s Zhong County), Yuyang Jian (in Changtanjing in today’s Wanzhou District) directly established by the imperial court since Zhenyuan, Yun'an County Supervisor (now Yunyang County); there were hundreds of salt wells and springs. The private wells, private pits, and mountain caves that are self-drilled and cooked by the people are not included.
So it didn't take long for the Taiping Army and the official army to maintain a confrontational situation after a truce. Someone already took the initiative to venture across the border into the territory to buy salt. The next thing becomes logical.
As a means to restore local production and bring about self-reliance and self-reliance, Jiangling soon passed the newly constructed siding signal tower along the five states of the Xiajiang River, and approved the newly established local village to give priority to the reconstruction of the salt well workshop. The request to open up sales to generate revenue, and dispatched a working group of the corresponding business bureau along with the ship.
The carbon coal produced in Yiling County, Xiazhou (Yichang, Hubei), was also transported by the same ship as a cheap alternative for subsequent mining and boiling of salt; after all, the local chiseling and boiling salt has a long history, and the firewood used is all sourced The nearby mountains and forests will cause great damage to vegetation, water and soil in the long run.
In the later Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Badong salt industry was defeated by Zigong, which had fire wells (natural gas) to cook salt. The decline was also due to the serious destruction of forest belts and mountains. reason.
In Yiling County, which is near the water tower, not only the coal mines that can be mined in shallow open-pits were discovered, but also the graphite pits and silica sand pits that were found to be very large in the process of coal exploration, and even the hardened rock layers of phosphate-rich ore.
This has brought another huge benefit. The Taiping Army no longer has to transport struvite from the open sea, but can spread the fertilizer field powder to more inland farms and editing areas along the river. It is even further processed into chemical products such as matches and primers.
And on a large flat ship that went to Luzhou in the distance, Lin Shenhe, which had been missed by people, was also blackened by the wind and sun, and his hands and feet exposed outside the dusty old clothes and robes were rough and cracked, just like He is a traveling merchant who travels between the Xiajiang River.
His first task was to investigate the salt production situation in Gongjing County, Rongzhou, and to assess the corresponding production capacity and damage costs. And behind all this, there is the potential need of the Taiping Army to infiltrate and plunder the land of Jiannan.
And the ones who set off before him were those who had received simple training, the submissive ministries; under the cover of these salt sellers, they had brought silk cloth and salt as hard currency to solicit those scattered in the mountains and forests for a long time. Suffering from the manpower of the court and government. (End of this chapter)