Chapter 117

At this time, the total number of Ning Haijun had expanded to nearly 48,000 troops.

The Ninghai Navy General Military Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Military Road Department and the Military Affairs Department.

Among them, the Military Supervision and Road Administration is responsible for Cheng Shijie's safety and protection work and has a larger staffing, totaling more than 1,500 people. The Arms Department has only more than 700 people, divided into six bureaus, with a total of more than 2,200 non-combatants.

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Ninghai Naval Field Hospital, and the hospital system.

It is directly under the dual jurisdiction of the General Military Mansion and the Military Affairs Administration. Due to the establishment of grassroots medical staff in the field troops, the headquarters field hospital now has a total of 126 doctors, divided into three branches: injury, illness, and obstetrics and gynecology, with 600 medical staff.

Seventy people. They are also non-combatants.

The total number of non-combat personnel in the army is 3,000.

Combat troops are divided into infantry units.

There are more than 6,800 people in Zuo Dusi, and Shen Mingyu serves as Zuo Dusi.

There are more than 6,800 people in the Youdu Division, and Chang Yu serves as the Youdu Division.

The Garrison Department is divided into seventeen bureaus with a total of 12,750 people. Cheng Shijie also serves as direct command.

The cavalry troops, totaling 2,500 people, were all under the command of Zhao Wencai.

The naval force is divided into three divisions, with Li Zhixiang, Shen Shikui, and Li Fang serving as division chiefs respectively. The navy has 402 warships and 8,022 men.

The artillery force is a directly affiliated force. It is dispersed during wartime. The artillery commander-in-chief Yuan Shiliang is divided into four divisions with a total of 96 artillery pieces. The entire artillery and artillery school teachers total 972 people.

The baggage force consisted of 6,000 troops, with Zhou Yandong concurrently serving as the general commander. The highest unit was the general, with a total of six generals.

In addition, the directly under the Reconnaissance Bureau has 800 people and does not have a commander. It is divided into 12 divisions with a total of 12 commanders. It is under the jurisdiction of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Military Affairs Administration.

The total number of troops is 47,644.

Even though Cheng Shijie had more than 40,000 troops, when it came time to fight, he could only pull out more than 13,600 troops from the left and right divisions at any time, plus 2,500 cavalry and more than 900 artillery.

Including the reconnaissance force, the total number is less than 18,000, which is almost equivalent to half of the total strength of Ning Haijun.

And this is the limit.

Considering that Ning Haijun might be transferred to the pass to quell the rebellion in the future, Cheng Shijie planned to equip the baggage troops with two types of four-wheeled carriages, light and heavy. The light four-wheeled carriage uses a horse-drawn horse and can carry fifteen stones of grain, while the heavy carriage can

It can hold thirty or even forty stones of grain.

Cheng Shijie said that if he wanted to build a carriage, the carriage factory would have to work overtime to produce it.

While Ning Haijun was training and preparing for war, the long winter was finally over. On the land of southern Liaoning, the ice in the rivers had melted, and the bare branches were spitting out wisps of new green, and the land was rejuvenated.

The whole winter last year, the factory was working hard to produce tools, such as shovels, and hundreds of thousands of them were made at one time. Cheng Shijie considered that there might be drought during the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty. Before starting spring plowing, he first plowed the ditches.

Clear it out.

As the ice and permafrost melted, one by one, under the leadership of their respective households, they began to enter the ditches that were almost blocked by silt. A large amount of silt was dug out, which was all good fertilizer.

Because rainwater will bring fertilizers from the land into the ditch.

Ditches were dug again...

At this time, Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua and his staff Xu Dacheng arrived in southern Liaoning with great fanfare and carrying the governor's guard of honor.

The real purpose of doing this was that Sun Yuanhua was not worried about Cheng Shijie. He thought to himself, I came with such a big fanfare. If you want to kill me, you have to consider the consequences, right?

Of course, unlike Huang Long, he docked at the brigade and headed north, inspecting and observing the development of southern Liaoning.

Sun Yuanhua's first impression of Liaonan was that it was chaotic, his second impression was still chaotic, and his third impression was even more chaotic.

What shocked Sun Yuanhua was that those who dug ditches and those who built houses built houses. His work enthusiasm was so high.

Because the people all know that the ditches they dug can irrigate the fields they plant in the future, and the grain harvest will be bumper. Whether they are military households in the field or the Ning navy officers who own their own fields, they know that these ditches are related to their harvests.

It also concerns their own interests.

Nowadays, people in southern Liaoning work almost day and night. They do collective work during the day, dredging ditches, or building roads, and they do their own work at night.

Especially the problem of housing. They have lived in diwozi for several months. When their homesteads were allocated, some people couldn't wait to start building houses. Neighbors from several neighboring households helped each other and took their turn.

Whoever builds the house just takes care of the food.

Those who have money buy bricks and tiles and build brick houses. Although many people are poor, not everyone is poor. For example, the military dependents of Ning Haijun, as long as their families serve as soldiers in Ning Haijun, they can get military pay.

As for the rewards, they all have money.

After issuing a passbook, you can withdraw money, buy bricks and tiles, buy building materials, and start building brick houses. From south to north, 80% of the brick houses are the family members of Ning Haijun officers, and the other 20% are some merchants.

Some are wealthy people who migrated here.

Although most of the refugees have no money, there are some who are dressed in rags and have silver and gold hidden in their rags...

Of course, there are more poor people who have no money. But only when I came to Liaonan earlier, I actually saved a lot of money at home. A dou of grain a day, food is also money. If you really don’t have money, then build adobe houses, and don’t use adobe houses.

Spending a lot of money to build two or three rooms can also provide shelter from wind and rain.

Even at night, Liaonan is brightly lit with construction scenes everywhere.

Due to the planning of southern Liaoning, towns are built along roads to facilitate travel, and food harvests will be easy to transport in the future. Along the way in Sun Yuanhua, what I saw was a busy scene.

Especially there are too many factories and kilns along the way, some firing bricks, some firing tiles, some firing lime, and still others firing porcelain. There are various woodware factories, textile factories,

Fur processing factories, footwear factories, and other value-added factories.

Some of the roads along the way have been smoothed out. Based on the actual situation, Zhang Huaize originally wanted to build roads paved with stones. However, the problem was that due to the heavy pressure of transportation, he had to settle for a road with three solid soils.

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This kind of three-component soil, lime, clay and sand is configured according to the proportion. After tamping, the road surface is hard and will not be soaked by water.

This road was being built while allowing people to pass through it. What made Sun Yuanhua very curious was that not far from the construction site, there was a big wooden barrel. A donkey was pulling the big barrel in circles like a mill.

After watching it for a long time, Sun Yuanhua, a technocrat, understood the purpose of this big wooden barrel. It was actually a mixer, a rotating shaft, a gear set, and the big wooden barrel, and it was done.

Although this animal-powered mixer is very primitive, it is very efficient. One donkey can replace ten laborers. When building roads, a large amount of soil needs to be mixed. With this animal-powered mixer, the construction efficiency has been greatly improved.

As the weather gets warmer, more and more people are coming to Liaonan to seek a living. Many refugees come here with their families, trying to find opportunities to work part-time and earn a living. Their wishes will not be disappointed.

Ning Haijun is working hard to open up military fields, raise a large number of livestock, and repair buildings in various towns and forts. Manpower is needed everywhere. As long as he is willing to work hard, he will not worry about food.

The first stop Sun Yuanhua arrived at was Fenghuo Station, but it was habitually called Paradise Station because the refugees would be properly resettled and it was also the first time they were diverted.

A group of refugees who had just taken a shower and changed into clothes were lining up to have a hot meal, and they were gathered in the open space outside the inn.

A group of stewards with big tin speakers shouted at the top of their lungs: "Are there any carpenters? The carpentry factory is looking for workers. The master has three buckets of grain per day, the master has two buckets of grain, and the apprentice has one bucket and five liters!"

"Is there anyone who makes baskets? Come over here!"

"Is anyone literate?"

"Are there any masons?"

"Is there a blacksmith?"

Seeing the newly arrived refugees being separated here, Sun Yuanhua lamented that Cheng Shijie was not only a good hand in fighting, but also a good hand in governing the local area.

pity……

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At Tianjin Port, as the Ninghai Navy's large ship docked, hundreds of officials from the Ministry of War and hundreds more mobilized from various places immediately surrounded it.

In the Ming Dynasty, the way to test military merit, especially to test the heads, was to use very experienced men. Whether they were killing good people and taking credit for their merits, and whether they were using ordinary people as the heads of slaves, there was a lot of trouble in this.

Even if Guan Ningjun has a strong backing and strong power, he can't play tricks in this regard, because the agents responsible for inspecting the heads are all temporarily transferred, which avoids being bribed.

Just like this time, some of the prosecutors responsible for testing the authenticity of the heads came from Shuntian Prefecture, some from Guangping Prefecture, some from Daming Prefecture, some from Hejian Prefecture, and some from Guide Prefecture...

This time, the officer leading the team from the Ministry of War was named Fu Zonglong. He was originally a Taipu Shaoqing. He was promoted to Taipu Temple Shaoqing due to his contribution in quelling the rebellion of Guizhou Chieftain An Bangyan. However, this guy was unlucky. His father died just after he was promoted.

In desperation, Ding You was ordered to go home.

It was not until the third year of Chongzhen that Sun Chengzong recommended Fu Zonglong as the censor of Youqiandu, succeeding Liu Zongzhou and governor of Shuntian. Soon, he was transferred to the right minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of Qiandu, governor of Jimen, Liaodong, and Baoding Military Affairs, replacing the original

Liu Ce's position.

Fu Zonglong watched the large trucks being transported from the dock, filled with human heads pickled in lime, and waved his hand: "Go and take a look!"

"yes!"

These experienced operators and inspection officials from the Ministry of War just gathered around and noticed something was wrong at a glance.

"This...this is actually a real slave!"

The appearance of the Jiannu people is obviously different from that of the Ming Dynasty people. Of course, the later generations are different. There is no difference in the later generations of mixed blood. Some people actually have no Jurchen blood at all, but they have Han nationality, and some falsely claim their ancestors.

Because the household registration system was not strictly managed at the beginning and was written by hand, and because Shaomin had the privilege of having more children and receiving reduced points in the college entrance examination, it was changed to Shaomin, abandoning the Han identity.

There are many such examples, so it is almost impossible to tell them apart by their appearance in later generations.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the difference was very big.

The first is the face shape. Regardless of men or women, the head shape and face shape are mostly "round" and "long plate". The second is the eyes. Regardless of men and women, the eyes have brown pupil color or blue pupil color. The author specially went to see that

In Ying's photo, she does not have these characteristics, but her nose is partially similar. It can be judged that Ying must be a mixed race, not a pure Manchu, and her blood is at most one-eighth, or less.
To be continued...