Chapter 280: Penghu Recruiting Troops (Repair)
Many Penghu gentry were suspicious. Today, Penghu is like a child holding gold, without force to protect it, and it is in danger.
Until the Nan'an regiment trained the two battalions, this doubt was abolished.
On April 17, Ge Cunzhong and Ge Cunyi led the two battalions of Nan'an regiment to Penghu.
The soldiers suffered from seasickness. At the beginning of the ship, many people still lie on the shore and vomit.
Many Penghu people were smiling on their faces, looking at the people coming from across the sea.
Fujianese may not have all taken boats. Even if they take boats, they are mostly small boats crossing rivers. There are many people going into the sea, but the population along the way is tens of millions, and the majority of people who have not taken boats.
In the drizzle, the soldiers of the military gradually cheered up against the sound of drums and whistles, then lined up, reported numbers, and began to rectify the queue.
In the eyes of many Penghu people, including the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Navy, this is a strange scene.
The martial masters don’t have too many armors, and they still need a leather armor or mail if they are above the team. Only the deputy chiefs have an iron armor.
After all, there are more and more people, and the gap in armor is getting bigger and bigger.
The weapons are pretty good.
When fighting against Qizhou, Lin Douyao, at the request of Xu Zixian, allocated a large number of swords, shields and bows from the arsenal of the Pacification Envoy, including a small number of divine arm bows.
In the battle at the port of Qizhou, Li Xingwu and Dong Ruixiang's subordinates held the imperial guards' bows and divine arm bows issued from the arsenal, effectively suppressing the pirates' shooters. Otherwise, the losses in the Nan'an regiment training would have been greater in that battle.
The Nan'an regiment trainees quickly arranged the array, each with five people, one battalion lined up with more than a hundred rows, and the two battalions formed two quite neat square columns.
As the drum beats sounded, the flags of the central army of the two battalions tilted forward, and all the soldiers either pressed the obstacle knife, raised their shields, or held their long scepters high, and the neatly arranged teams began to move forward steadily.
Neat and solemn, an invisible aura spreads.
No one was joking, no one spoke, and no one looked around. The Ge brothers and other military officers also walked in the queue with their swords, with their gaits extremely calm and neat.
This is a silent army. Although it is a nominal regiment training, for Penghu people who are used to being casual, relaxed, and have no military manners, the regiment training of more than a thousand people in front of them gives them the feeling of an elite strong army composed of a group of tigers. This is a real army, full of murderous aura and strict commands.
"It's no longer like this strong army today."
An old gentry's eyes were scattered and his expression was extremely shocked. He murmured: "Wenzong, no, the imperial guards during the Wuzong period still had the shadow of the group training in front of him. Marquis of Nan'an, it's really amazing."
"We are aware of the ability to train troops, far from the ancients, and today's people are even far from reaching." Wei Yi was also observing the garrison at the top of the city that was about to enter Penghu County. With the garrisons of these two battalions coming in, the Penghu people felt at peace.
Although there are only more than a thousand people, the usefulness of elite soldiers is beyond the reach of ordinary people. With more than a thousand troops entering and mobilizing the strong people, even if more than ten thousand pirates are coming to attack, Wei Yi is confident that Penghu County will be safe and will not fall.
As a county magistrate, safeguarding the country is the first priority. Although he trusts his friends, has seen the Nan'an League Training, and knows that the League Training has made great achievements, Wei Yi will only feel relieved when such a strong army appears in front of him.
More Penghu people looked at the Nan'an group training with strange and complicated eyes, especially the women.
The army in front of me has an average height higher than that of ordinary people, most of whom are middle-aged men aged 18 to thirties. They are tall and well-proportioned, without extra fat, and their every move is uniform, which makes people feel pleasing to the eye and has an overall beauty that makes people feel heart-wrenching.
When thousands of similar men gather together, the impact will be quite strong.
More than a thousand new clothes, excellent design, capable, neat, and brave, the Wu Zuo appeared in Penghu County, and had a strong sense of impact on the Penghu people.
Chen Zuocai and others posted a notice to recruit Penghu Xiangjun in a timely manner.
When recruiting soldiers in Penghu, of course, we can no longer use the name of the Nan'an regiment training, but directly use the name of the Nan'an Marquis's Mansion.
The notice was very obvious. Since it was a soldier from the Marquis's family, he could still enjoy everything in the Nan'an regiment training in the treatment of the wing army given by the court.
The food, additional rewards and rewards, and the monthly salary were also paid in full. On the surface, it did not increase much, but the complete set of welfare subsidies and benefits that the Nan'an League trained was much higher than the treatment of the wing army of the imperial court.
Xu Zixian's water camp soldiers, including the sailors on the battleships and the ships, had a relatively high income. In contrast, ordinary Buying martial arts soldiers still received two stakes of monthly money. In fact, this income is not low. After all, compared to farming, earning two stakes of money per month is net income. If you plant ten acres of land, the net income of a year is at most six stakes of money per year. The annual income of each martial arts soldiers can be regarded as the net income of planting dozens of acres of land.
The monthly money of the Xiang army is also two stalemates. Of course, this is nominal, and there will always be deducted, delayed, or bribes to the boss. Moreover, the Xiang army has extremely poor food and many affairs. Any major project, developing the army, suppressing bandits, deploying defenses, catching thieves, preventing fires, and extinguishing fires, are all done by the Xiang army, so all the Xiang army that Xu Zixian saw were powerless and deadly.
Even with such a slim income, the wing soldiers could barely support their families... This was also the wish of the Great Wei court. The minimum effort won the stability of the local area and avoid trouble.
Wherever the list article goes, there is a sensation everywhere.
Penghu is too small to accommodate the current population at all. It is not the industrialization period now. It is easy for a large factory to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. Penghu is not even as good as Jiangnan now. Jiangnan weaving factories have at most thousands of people working at the same time, but Penghu does not have this condition.
The oil mill that Xu Zixian planned to build was also in the Dongfan, and the Dongfan needed it even more.
Xu Zixian, a middle-aged man in Penghu, planned to absorb part of the government army and support them and his family. He recruited four battalions and two thousand people to support ten thousand people to live a good life.
A large amount of funds enter the military camp and then flow out into the people. There will be a large number of shops to meet the needs of soldiers. If the place is rich, Xu Zixian can also make huge profits, which is a virtuous cycle.
There are already many middle-aged men standing under the notice to watch. The literacy rate of the Great Wei Dynasty is quite good. Many people can recognize words, and even if they cannot recognize them completely, they can almost understand the meaning.
"As the army under the command of Marquis of Nan'an?"
"Our government army is the same as the Nan'an regiment training? That's interesting."
"The food trained by the Nan'an group is really good. I have relatives in Nan'an, so I've said it a long time ago."
"There is also a health care center to support the elderly and widowed. If I want to join the army, I will have a place to live."
"It's true or false, aren't these noble people bragging and lying?"
"Marquis Nan'an has never deceived anyone. You just watched his team training. If it weren't for the good treatment, could these men be so fierce? They have three more energy than the imperial guards."
When it comes to comparison with the Imperial Army, people in Penghu nodded and said that it is true. The Imperial Army is treated well and the benefits are also good. It is far above the Imperial Army, and the treatment of the two is very different.
There are dozens of wing troops in Fujian that are equal to the imperial guards, but there are only five wing troops. Even so, the wing troops consume more than ten times more money and food than their wing troops.
The arrogant attitude of the imperial guards is very obvious, and most of them are outsiders, mainly northerners. Only a few locals in Fujian were recruited into the imperial guards, so it is naturally difficult to get close to them.
The army in front of us is not only strong but also faintly above the imperial guards. After all, even the current imperial guards cannot achieve such a strict queue. The high-standard golden drum flag command is just that the imperial guards are slightly better in equipment. Many Penghu people have now used a very affirmative tone, believing that the imperial guards are not the opponents of the Nan'an League training.
Now Nan'an Hou recruited the government troops in Penghu again, and the amount of four battalions was the subject, which has already attracted many men.
But there is another clear statement under the literature list that half of the fourth battalion soldiers recruited will be transferred to the East after passing three months of recruit training.
This also makes many people hesitate. Penghu is not very good, but Dongfan heard that it is even worse?
Chen Zuocai and others began to vigorously promote the development plan of the East Vanguard, and began to post articles on immigration to the East Vanguard.
There are still 4,000 official households in the Hou Mansion. This time, Xu Zi first planned to be the main one of Penghu and Fuzhou and other towns as auxiliary ones.
After all, many people have been taken away in the Nan'an area, and there are not many surplus laborers in the local area. If you take away the civilian households, military servants and related families on a large scale, it will seriously affect the development of the Nan'an area.
As for recruiting in other places, Xu Zixian doesn't want to make too much noise for the time being.
After all, in the eyes of the court, the Dongfan was still a barren land, Penghu was also very poor and lonely overseas. This is why the court was relieved to have been adding official households to Xu Zixian in the Dongfan.
If he knew that Xu Zixian had such a big development plan, he would probably feel uneasy in both the governments and the emperor.
Dongfan has not been successfully developed for more than 200 years, but what is Xu Zixian like? So far, how many things did this Nan'an Hou do that are impossible to accomplish?
Once the court has doubts, what contributions will Xu Zi make in the next step? What do you know what other tricks the court does.
If the next official household is added to Tingzhou, or the Shaowu Army, or the Xinghua Army, Xu Zixian's losses will be too great.
It doesn’t matter to ordinary marquis. As long as the official households increase, it means that the income will increase, which is enough.
For Xu Zixian, the 10,000 official households in the Dongfan were unexpected and a legal and practical feudal, which was enough.
It is precisely because of this that he was able to show his strength on the Dongfan Island, including a series of Dongfan Observer, and promoted the official positions of Fujian Ma Zheng and other officials.
This is called unintentional planting willows, and willows become shades.
Under the commotion of the Penghu people, the Ge brothers led their subordinates to the temporary military camp prepared by Wei Yi for them.
After these two Wuzhang camps, two naval battalions were transported to operate and familiarize themselves with the thirteen warships of the Nanyang Navy.
In addition to the original seven Fujian and watercraft ships, Long Ling ships, and eleven Qishan robbers, plus the thirteen naval warships, and the Nan'an regiment water training camp had a total of 31 lucky ships and warships, which is already quite good.
If all thirty-one ships are fully engraved, the 3,100 naval camp military soldiers will definitely not be enough. Large warships, warships with drainage of 400 tons, require at least 200 people per ship, including all members of the sailors, crossbows, and warship groups.
For medium-sized tonnage, a warship of about 250 tons, it requires 150 people per ship.
Small warships and dragon spirit ships, each of which also requires twenty sailors, twenty crossbow gun members and thirty warriors, to fully play a role.
As for the large and small ships, there are more than 200 ships, only used for messaging, near-shore guards and patrols. Xu Zixian planned to set up near-shore patrol camps. Most of these small ships were used to patrol offshore in the Minjiang River, Dongfan and Penghu, and were not included in the organization of the Dongfan and Penghu Navy.
The expansion of the Navy camp can only be postponed until next year, after the development of the East Fan and feedback, the financial pressure will be alleviated.
Chapter completed!