In winter, Liucheng is covered with snow. The cold north wind keeps blowing, but the heat in the city cannot be dispersed. Smoke comes out of chimneys of the houses in the city. The heat of the smoke makes the snowflakes in the sky seem to have become much less.

There are many naughty children playing in the streets, rolling snowballs and building snowmen, playing snowballs, laughter and joy echoing on the mottled streets, adding a lot of popularity.

As the New Year approaches, the residents of Liucheng are busy preparing for the New Year. In the settlements of various tribes in the city, the tribes in the Marine tribe are also busy preparing for the New Year. Children are chasing and fighting in the snow, and are also rolling snowballs to build snowmen and playing snowballs.

Children's families are busy in their own yard, putting the newly wrapped dumplings one by one and letting them freeze. In this way, this pasta with noodles as the skin and meat as the filling can be stored for a long time.

Nearly two years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the eight Marine tribes who went south have officially settled in Liucheng, Yingzhou. Here they have received the care of the Zhou government and have a safe settlement, so that people and livestock can safely survive the cold winter.

When spring was in full bloom, the young and strong men from the Eight Tribes rode their horses and went to the areas designated by the governments outside Yingzhou to hunt, obtain various prey and furs. The elderly and weak with mobility were left in the settlement areas outside Liucheng to raise pigs and chickens to avoid the pain of running around.

The people of the Marines lived among the Baishan and Black Water in northern Liao for generations, and made a living by fishing and hunting. During the two years when the Marines Babu settled in Liucheng, they gradually became familiar with some lifestyles in the Central Plains. Many common foods for residents of Liucheng have gradually become one of the staple foods of the Marines.

Dumplings are one of them.

Noodles are needed to make dumplings, and flour comes from ground wheat. There are wheat fields, hydraulic mills, and even flour from foreign merchants and vendors. Therefore, the militars in Liucheng can exchange fur for a large amount of flour to make various pasta.

Use a rolling pin to roll out the dumpling skin, then use a kitchen knife to chop the meat filling, and the family gathers around the table to make dumplings, and then freeze a large amount of wrapped dumplings. When you want to eat, take it out and cook it in an iron pot, which is very convenient.

At the same time, the customs of the Chinese New Year among the people also added some tricks, one of which is to paste window flowers.

I bought red paper from the merchant, and then cut the red paper into various beautiful patterns with scissors and pasted it on the window paper. It looks very beautiful.

Paper cutting is a craft. The craftsman can only cut out simple patterns, while the craftsmen in the city can cut out many beautiful and complex patterns, which will make the craftsman amazing.

They can't cut such complex patterns, but they can buy them from craftsmen at a very cheap price and paste them on the windows of their homes, which increasingly highlights the difference between the new and the old ones.

The people of Marx do not have the skills to make paper, so paper is a luxury in their ancestors' lives. However, in Liucheng, the price of paper is not very expensive, so paper cutting is affordable, let alone window paper.

The room must have windows for lighting and ventilation, but sometimes, to ensure sunlight while protecting against wind, you have to paste window paper on the window.

The method of pasting window paper is very particular, and it cannot be pasted inside the window lattice (the indoor side of the window). The principle is very simple, but the settlers of the steep are unable to remember it clearly, so in the winter of the first year, various situations came.

The windows are covered in autumn, and there is no problem at the beginning, but when the north wind blows, you can burn a brazier indoors and a kang, so it is not very cold. However, it is cold outside, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is large, and the window paper becomes condensation and then becomes wet.

The window paper will not be strong once wet, and when the wind blows, it will be broken. So in a cold weather, the windows will leak air and the indoors will become colder.

Even if the condensation is not serious, the paper paste on the inside of the window will cause snow to fall on the exposed window lattices. The snow will freeze and freeze again when it melts. It won’t take long to turn a window into an ice waterfall.

Therefore, the window paper should not only be pasted on the outside of the window, but also on a double layer with hemp in the middle to form a mesh, so that it can be firm and durable.

The various details of life were unknown to the new arrival of the Marxist people, but with the help of the Zhou government, they quickly adapted to their new life and became more and more imaginative of the future.

In the twelfth month of winter, even if the wind is cold outside, the family is sitting on the warm kang and eating hot dumplings in a solid house. For them, such an ordinary but warm life is something they dare not imagine before going south.

The eight tribes of Marine tribes left their habitats where they lived for generations. They had no choice but to go south to join the Zhou Kingdom, thinking about having a place to live, but they didn't expect that there would be a new world in Yingzhou.

Of course, this comes at a price.

In a corner of the settlement area, Yang Ji, the general manager of Yingzhou, met with the leaders of the eight ministries of the Minghe tribes to discuss a major event.

As the host, the Yingzhou government provided various conveniences to the Marine tribes that came from afar. Now the Marine tribes have officially become people under the rule of the Zhou State, so as the people, it is time to fulfill their obligations.

The people of Marine have been fishing and hunting for generations and cannot farm, so even if they have become the "city" of Yingzhou, they cannot be organized into farmers. They pay rent to the government every year, transfer, and then work hard to repair bridges and roads.

But labor still has to be subscribed, it’s just a different way: that is, “cash” in the form of military service.

When the official army goes to war, the city must send troops to assist in the war. This is the obligation of each tribe and must be fulfilled.

This is a matter of course. The leaders of various tribes of the Marine tribes had no objection to this, but the Zhou State had further requirements for the Marine tribes of the Marine tribes, that is, reform and better serve the court.

Jueji, headed by the leader of the Mohe, suddenly came, and the Kutushishi, Yuejimeng, Yueyu, Bupu Lai, and Poxi, and then included the eight tribes of Lifan, setting up the "Eight Banners of the Mohe".

Each tribe is a banner, and the smallest unit in the banner (tribe) is "record". Each "record" three hundred people, every five "record" is one "A", every five "A" is one "Gu", and every five "Gu" is one flag.

The leader of the flag is the banner leader, that is, the patriarch of the tribe. "Gu", "Jia" and "Lu" all have leaders and obey the banner leader.

Each flag has a fixed flag, a fixed hunting ground, a ranch, and settlement. When there is no trouble, each flag fishes and hunts and grazes himself. When there is any trouble, he will collect flag soldiers and go out with the official army.

The weapons of each flag, including armor, weapons, and rations, are allocated by the government according to the rated number of people of each flag, and the horses are prepared by each flag. On weekdays, the training of flag soldiers is presided over by the flag owner.

The internal affairs of each banner are also presided over by the banner owner himself. The government does not interfere with the specific banner affairs. The annual tribute and tax of each banner is also responsible for the banner owner.

With such a reform, the Eight Tribes of the Marines became the Eight Tribes of the Marines, with no less than 7,500 posts per banner, and the total number of the Eight Tribes of the Marines was not so large. The solution was to "snowball".

To annex the tribes in the border areas and recruit despairers, as long as the government does not violate the regulations, the banner owners of each banner can expand their subordinates to the rated number of people no matter what means they use.

Of course, it is not that each flag has to send troops to send troops, but based on this, it is set to 7,500 households per flag (excluding slaves), and recruit soldiers according to the proportion of five households to send one army. In other words, when each flag sends troops to assist in the war, the maximum force is 1,500.

This is the total number of war soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. Based on one war soldiers and two auxiliary soldiers, the elite war soldiers needed to be sent by each flag are 500.

The government will arm the Eight Banners soldiers, but whoever dares to be honest, scattered or have any bad intentions, the government army's artillery is already hungry and thirsty.

The strength of the Liucheng garrison was seen by the leaders of the Marines, so no one dared to have any bad ideas. How to "snowball" better and faster is the main content of today's talks.

The Eight Banners system was someone's idea. Yang Ji was very familiar with the word "Eight Banners". This system is now applied to the Eight Tribes of the Marines, which made him feel uncomfortable.

But in order to make good use of the city and the other cities and tribes, it is not bad to learn from the Eight Banners system.

For him, whether it was the Khitan's "Touxia Junzhou", the Jin Dynasty's "Mengan Mouke", or the Jianlu's "Eight Banners", except for the different names, the actual content and purpose were similar, which was to effectively organize nomadic or fishing and hunting tribes and exert their maximum military capabilities.

The eight tribes of Marine lived in the deep mountains and forests of northern Liao for a long time. They were outsiders to the tribes in western Liaoning. So the court domesticated these eight wild wolves into hunting dogs and "herded" them on weekdays and hunted when necessary.

But the hunting dogs made of wolfs may become wild one day and backfire on their owners. This is something that must be guarded against. How to prevent them specifically? Yuwen Wen, who proposed the idea of ​​"Eight Banners of the Marine", turned the blame on Yang Ji.

Now, Yang Ji looked at the Eight Tribes in front of him... the Eight Banners Lord, and suddenly felt a very ridiculous feeling in his heart.

It seemed as if he had become Huang Taiji, the leader of the Jianlu, and was summoning the Eight Banners generals to discuss matters, intending to be ill-telled to the Central Plains.

"Everyone knows the will of the emperor. Now that the Eight Banners are established, the posts are very vacant..." Yang Ji looked at everyone present and said slowly: "But it is difficult to find a toad with three legs in this world, and there are so many green and strong legs."

"The court will equip each banner with armor and ration according to the posts of each banner. As for horses, each banner now has no shortage of horses. Therefore, the lack of staff will be solved by the banner owners themselves. In the spring of the following year..."
Chapter completed!