Chapter 269: Young and strong at the beach, the whole family goes on a trip

After returning to Fengmeng Town, a small separation is better than a newlywed. Li Meng and Yan Ruoran's couple are naturally inseparable from intimacy, but they are not just here to enjoy family life. There are still many things to be busy with.

Before going to the war, Li Meng ordered the butler Rosie Dengzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture to recruit sailors and seafarers. At present, all the restless young people in Shandong are proud to be able to serve Li Meng's subordinates in Jiaozhou Camp, but from the beginning to now, they have been those people on the road, and they are more focused on the children of military households.

The Ming Dynasty reopened several times, and the effect originally wanted to achieve was of little use, but it greatly promoted the development of the pirate industry.

Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng family are the products of this policy. Because the imperial court has always been stationed in the territory of Shandong, and its geographical location is not very good, there has never been a large number of pirates. There are small-scale errands on the beach. When Jiaozhouying rectified the public security of these three prefectures, many people were swept to the end of the typhoon and did not dare to continue to do these inexpensive transactions.

There are many young people like this on the seaside of Shandong. They claim to be good people. In fact, they used to be small pirates who had no capital business and were just idle at home at this time.

The soldiers in Jiaozhou Camp are only children of the big clans in Shandong, and the children of the military household garrison are enough. Now there is a farm farmer who has farmland, and there is no shortage of young and strong. In order to recruit soldiers in Jiaozhou Camp, the most basic investigation should be made on where the soldiers come from and how they are at home.

These young people on the beach who have no background and are not good people are naturally excluded. These people are all crazy characters. They are really uneasy to fish and farm on the beach. Moreover, the scenery this year is really bad, but Jiaozhouying is strictly guarded on land, and there are giants like the Zheng family on the sea, which really makes these people feel bad.

This time, Li Meng commissioned Rossi to recruit young and strong people with sailing experience on the beach. He was originally planning to recruit more than 600 people, but who would have thought that thousands of people would come to apply for the recruitment. It was a disaster year and it was not easy to live. Seeing that there was a way out, it was still a long-awaited way out. Wouldn't everyone flocked to it?

There are five merchant ships and three warships. These thousands of people cannot be used on these ships. The condition offered by the butler Luo Xi is that those who can move their family to Jiaozhou will be given priority admission, with guarantees in Laizhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture, and those who have relatives will be given priority admission.

Even so, more than 1,100 people stayed. Luo Xi and Jiaozhou Camp had a good understanding of Li Meng's style. Since the number of people exceeded the limit, they would just stay. Young and strong people were always useful. Those who were not admitted simply registered and issued a small amount of compensation for them to go back.

Sure enough, Li Meng did not mind that there were too many people. Although the Zheng family's five merchant ships and two warships were given to Li Meng, most of the sailors on each ship were from the Zheng family. Each of these more than 1,100 people were only about 200 people able to board the ship, and Li Meng could only send dozens of people on the warship.

This is also a way of defense for the Zheng family. Li Meng's buying warships no matter what, it makes people feel that they are trying to make an idea at sea, so they need to be wary of it.

Li Meng also simply made a new request to the Zheng family, saying that he would continue to buy ships. As long as he could learn from such warships, it would not matter even if the warships came to Jiaozhou every two years. As long as everyone was arranged, Li Meng only wanted to use this group of people in case of use, and the rest of the time, the right to use them is in the hands of the Zheng family.

At present, the person in charge of the Bamin Commercial Bank in Jiaozhou City is already a cousin of Zheng Zhilong's recent branch, and he speaks a little. Li Meng's conditions are too favorable. He has also seen those selected Shandong youth and strong men. They are all very good sailors and soldiers. Li Meng pays for the ships, and does not require the right to use these warships and young men on weekdays. He can even see them once every two years. This is simply a pie that fell from the sky. He built warships for the Zheng family out of thin air and equipped them with soldiers. How could such a good thing not be accepted? He immediately agreed.

Although the Zheng family gave three ships to Jiaozhou camp, they would be deeply wary of it if they added another warship. However, Li Meng recently became the general of Shandong and the general town of Shandong soldiers and horses, and was also a large number of generals. The Zheng family relaxed the restrictions and accepted and made friends with all their hearts.

In late May, Shandong general Li Meng began to recruit troops and expand the Jiaozhou army. Although the children of landlords and wealthy families, the young and strong pirates on the beach, and even some soldiers under foreign military generals came to apply for the recruitment, they were eliminated one after another under very high standards.

The above three types of people only recruited only 500 people, and there were no pirates in total, which made people on the beach complain.

The source of troops to expand the army was Zhuangding in the military farmlands, and Zhuangding, a semi-military-trained village guard team, who was directly organized into the Jiaozhou Army according to their usual performance. These soldiers were different from the more than 10,000 troops in Li Meng's hands now, and they did not receive remuneration according to the court's food and salary.

These soldiers were only provided with food and military uniforms by the Jiaozhou camp. The reward for these soldiers was that the harvest of cultivated land in the military farms could be left with 10% of the land in addition to the part that they left to support their families. After serving in the Jiaozhou army for a long time, the land could be used by them indefinitely, and only 20% to 30% of the land rent was collected.

As soon as the policy was released, after the notice of the villages of various village farms, most of the village farmers began to hesitate, but later enthusiastically signed up for the army. This was a once-in-a-lifetime good thing. They were originally refugees who were on the verge of starvation. After being taken in by the village farm, although the whole family could barely have enough food and clothing, they had no freedom.

This opportunity in front of you not only can you earn back your freedom by joining the army to join the army, but you can even get back a family business. Even if you work hard, it is worth it.

Although countless military farmers participated enthusiastically, only those village heads who had participated in the village protection team had the opportunity. Those refugees who joined the military farm in the 12th year of Chongzhen were not included. These new members also had to cultivate land for those military farmers who left the army, which was just to fill the gap in labor.

After Li Meng made this decision, he roughly estimated that the army would be expanded by 20,000. The generals stationed in various prefectures were notified that Ma Gang, Chen Liu and Zhao Neng would all be divided into 40 or 50%, and grassroots officers and backbone of soldiers were drawn to teach and train the new army. Li Meng's headquarters transferred 200 horses to enrich the new army.

Guo Dong was already busy at the Weapon Manufacturing Bureau near Fengmeng Town. With this expansion of the army, the weapons in stock were almost empty, and a large number of weapons were needed to be replenished.

Hou Shan of Lingshan Trading Company personally led the caravan to the Nanjing Arsenal with a large amount of silver, bargaining with the arsenal manager Xu Xiaochu, and buying weapons, clothing and armor.

Although the size of the army suddenly tripled, the financial pressure was not too great, because most of the demand was allocated in the existing resources of the military farm, and the reserves of clothing and armor and weapons were large enough, which was relatively easier.

Not all these work can be achieved overnight. The incident is slowly underway, and Li Meng's life will continue. By early June, although there is no rain in the drought, the Jiaozhou area is still a supportive past.

On the seventh day of the sixth month, it was a beautiful and beautiful weather. Li Meng brought his whole family, his confidant officers and his family to the beach. Yan Ruoran and other women stayed at home for more than half a year, and they were also bored. The women of wealthy families were also very rules in this era. Li Meng was not at home, so they could not go out. Li Meng brought them out to be considered as breathing and relaxing.

The three brothers Sun Hedou, Sun Hejing, and Sun Heding also brought their families here. Although there were people to take care of them, the women and children of the Sun family were still extremely happy. This was also Sun Hedou's request, saying that his brother had been staying in the fort for a long time and wanted to go out and walk around, so he happened to take this opportunity to come out together.

Deng Grass, Father Federer and Su Anqi also came out. In the end, the group was extremely lively and the atmosphere was cheerful.

This weather is coming out to visit, and the nearby scenery is just to see the sea. Although Yan Ruoran has been in Jiaozhou for several years, he has never seen the sea once. The same is true for Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi, who just came out to open their eyes.

As for the place to visit, it was the place where Li Meng commanded the battle when he was first built in Jiaozhou Camp. He was slightly higher than that, and the beach and the distance could be seen. Here is actually the beginning of the Lingshan Salt Field.

This place has been transformed into a port because it is suitable for the local area, and the military households of the Thousand Households of Xuejia Island, who were originally working here, went to Lingshan Salt Field to do it.

A group of people were at this high place. There were already servants who had a canvas bracket to separate several places from the surrounding area, laying felt, putting on furniture, wine and food from Lingshan Site. They were very pleasant to look at the sailboats and busy people on the pier below, and the blue sea in the distance.

Zhao Neng's mother, Ma Gang's parents, Wang Hai's parents, and old military households like Zhang Lin were also invited to open a separate area. Zhao Neng's mother came forward as a male elder at Li Meng's wedding banquet. Yan Ruoran also wanted to do her daughter-in-law's duty well and lead the other girls over to accompany the old lady to laugh, and everyone laughed constantly.

Everyone was leisurely, but Li Meng couldn't rest. The guards made him a marching tent under him alone. Those who needed to ask for a meeting and subordinates who handled various official duties came in one after another.
Chapter completed!