Chapter 363: The Golden Drum of the Pawn and the Gentleman (4)

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King Shuqing glanced at each other when he saw Shihe Gongzaoye in front of him, and then said, "That's a good question." That's what I want to say, too. Everything is to be learned. ”

"After the soldiers are replenished next month, you who are the most company representatives will be busier than the soldiers. In addition to training, I also need to study every five days. ”

"How to be a good representative of the ink of a company? What does the Moji Representative do? How can you tell if this matter is good for the world? You have to learn all of this. ”

"Don't be afraid, you don't come naturally."

When King Shuqing heard that he had to study once every five days, he finally put his mind at ease.

The heart said that as long as someone teaches, then you can always learn well, which is what you must do as a writer.

After that, Shihe Gongzao Ye and the rest of the people told some other things, and in the evening the people dispersed first.

Before leaving, King Shuqing came to Shi's side and asked, "Shi, is my brother okay?" ”

It can be seen that Shi remembers him, and naturally remembers his younger brother, King Shu Qing heard Shi say: "You said Qinghou? Very good, very good learner, has been learning very well in the past few years. You don't have to worry about it, he works hard. ”

"But your family is okay? A few years ago, it was the time to build aqueducts, right? I've been to your house, and your father is well? ”

It was a conversation of life, and King Shuqing felt relaxed for a while, and nodded: "It's okay." ”

Shi Youdao: "In the past few years, you have taken the village community to fish for paper, and you have done a good job." However, your village community has taken out more than 60 people at once, and many things have to be arranged. The matter of tax reduction, you mentioned it well, you can't say that our Mo family feels that you owe something after doing something, after all, it is for the benefit of the people. ”

"How's the arrangement at home?"

When asked about the family, King Shuqing was even more relaxed, as if he was chatting about family life on weekdays: "I will let the family plant less low next year, dig the river and flood part of it, and release the water to reclaim it after I go back." Cotton or something won't be planted next year. ”

However, the village community still organized to plant some cotton, one is to pay the fixed amount of cotton in kind, and the rest of the people in the village community are busy together, and they can also finish picking. Scooping paper or something, you can also do it. ”

The two of them chatted a few more words, talked about some things about the village community, and asked some thoughts about the people in the village community, and it was too late, so they separated.

Shi told King Shuqing that he would have a last vacation in the next ten years, and he could go home to have a look, and he would also have to deal with some affairs in the village community next year, and organize the people who needed to serve in the village community and send them to Peiguo.

He also said that he would go to other brigades, and that tomorrow these people in the brigade would have a meeting, mainly to get acquainted with each other.

Back at the camp, King Shuqing and the company commander also got acquainted with each other.

This company commander is also the same as him before, he has no surname, and when he was born, his family gave him a name called "Yu Su", which means tiger in Chu language.

The dialects between Song and Chu are very different, but the grammar is generally the same, and the dialect of Peidi is now mixed with a lot of Chu language.

Yu Su was just a candidate at this time, and he had not officially joined, so Shu Qinghou sniffed it and knew that this person was Pei County who came alone.

The parents in the family are dead, and before he came, he also owed Lu Yanggong a sum of money, and he couldn't even pay the interest. In fact, this money is not much, it is nothing more than the interest of three or four stones of grain per year.

In the eyes of the people of Peiyi at this time, it is just the output of one acre of land, but it is a nightmare on the head of Niu Lang, and I am afraid that it will not be able to pay it in this life.

Because of the first battle of Niu Yi, the Mo family asked for the people's lives, which was regarded as forcing Luyang Gong to forgive his debts, and he has been a musketeer in the army since he came to Peixian.

He used the kind of bulky hand cannon in Niu Lang, and used a 16-pound heavy musket in Pei County, and made meritorious contributions to his outstanding performance in Tengdi.

In the previous battle of Fujidi, Yu Su followed Meng Sheng's brigade to intercept the Yue, and he was the gunner in the first row at that time, and then captured several Yueren in the chaotic battle of abandoning the gun, so this time he made him the company commander of this company.

After getting acquainted, King Shuqing asked, "What are your plans?" I heard that you cattle are here, and in the future, after you retreat, the Mo family will provide cattle, horses, and iron tools to cultivate in Peize? ”

Yu Yu grinned and said, "I'm just alone, but I don't plan to farm." I thought about it, and I will continue to do it in the army in the future. As a company commander, the annual money is enough to support the family. ”

King Shuqing half-jokingly said, "Don't want a woman?" If you don't have a woman, you won't have children, and you will become a ghost in the future, but there will be no one to eat. ”

The Mo family is a festival of burial and use, but it does not object to the existence of ghosts, although it is becoming more and more weak, but for the time being, materialism is not mandatory, which is the habit of the world at this time.

Yu Su smiled: "I thought about it, find a woman who works in Peiguo." Textile workshops, paper money, teachers, doctors, and more and more women. I don't want to farm anymore. ”

King Shuqing nodded, and said in his heart that this is indeed good. Many women in Peiguo are working, and some of the female workers in the cotton workshops can support themselves and even have money to spare, not to mention those who work as teachers and doctors.

There are also female Moists within the Mo family now, although the number is not many, but it is enough to shock the jaws of the rest of the world, and it is also a major reason why the Mo family is accused of "causing trouble in the world".

For example, if a teacher or a doctor does a good job, it is not necessarily worse than farming, and there are many things in the cities that are not found in the villages.

For example, King Shuqing was very envious of the people in the city who could see the "acting" every once in a while, not a dance like the Dance of the Mulberry Forest, but a drama with a storyline.

Most of the dramas are simply promoting Mohist morality and benefiting the world, but compared to nothing, they are still fascinating.

Moreover, King Shuqing also knew that being in the army all the time was actually a "profession" that could make a living.

Both he and Yu are now obligatory.

He came to serve here because of the "public will" of the people of Pei County, who passed a decree of "special conscription".

Yu Su belonged to the original obligation to serve in the army in Niu Lang, and it has not expired for the time being.

After expiration, if Yu Su continues to be a company commander and starts a gang in the army, in addition to two sets of military uniforms every year, he can also receive a salary of 180 yuan from the Mo family every month. Any non-commissioned officer who has overserved his service will have an extra twenty dollars a year.

No grain and rice will be distributed, because judging from the current situation, the grain price of 20 yuan and one stone of wheat and the grain harvested in Pei County every year make this grain price extremely stable.

You can exchange nine small stone wheat every month, which is about 245 catties, which is enough to feed your family.

The development of the handicraft industry of the Mo family in Pei County started from scratch, so it started from the most basic daily necessities such as ironware, textiles, porcelain, etc., which are all daily consumer goods, not high-end industrial products that the village community cannot afford for the time being.

As a result, a large amount of food is sold for money every year, which then flows into the handicraft workshops of the Mo family.

King Shuqing understood that just like his own family, he produced more grain, and he had to repay the loan for cattle, horses, and iron tools before, but now the expenses are gradually increasing.

Sometimes the family drinks wine, sometimes buys a porcelain jar, and now it is said that they want to sell iron pots, all of which are saved up to buy it.

These things have to be bought with grain in exchange for money, and these grains are concentrated in the cities, which ensures the stability of prices.

King Shuqing and Yu Su chatted for a while, and then talked about their future lives, and the two of them calculated.

Assuming that Yu Yu continues to be a company commander, after three years of overdue service, he can pay 20 yuan a year and have his own residence in the city.

In peacetime, they are in the army for food and use, and they can't spend a few dollars, and they pay a certain amount of "Righteous Teachers and Elders to Support and Raise Funds" every month, and after the age of 50, they can still receive a small amount of money every month that can support themselves.

In the case of a child, a part of the "education fee" is paid every year, which is mandatory by the "public will", and all families must pay it, and the child must complete the minimum three years of study in the school.

Those who don't go will not only be fined, but those who can't know 200 words after three years will also be fined, and the best students will be selected after three years to enter a better school.

In fact, most of the people who teach children today are young people who have been studying for three or five years, and most of them are women.

But after three or five years of study, you can teach, which is better than not learning anything.

When it comes to children, it is necessary to have a woman as a wife.

Yu Su wanted to find someone to work in the city, to work in the workshop of the Mo family, and did not pay taxes, and to do private handicrafts to pay some commercial taxes but not much, the Mo family has always been a supportive attitude towards the handicraft industry.

There is a subsidy for the disabled, and a pension for the war dead, and with a little calculation, it is indeed possible to live a similar or even better life than in the village community.

When it comes to a better life in the future, the relationship between the two people has become much closer.

A few days later, King Shuqing returned to the village community, arranged some things in the village community, and brought back the young people in the village who needed to serve back to Peiyi, and then began to get busy.

After the personnel in the brigade were replenished, his company had 150 people, only a dozen had touched muskets, more than 40 newcomers had not served, and there were a total of seven ink writers and alternate ink artists.

Before the musket was issued, he went to study first, and as a result, what he learned in the first lesson was that he, the company representative, wanted to talk more about family life with the soldiers, and the king of Shuqing couldn't help but think of chatting with Yu Su, and said in his heart that this was indeed the case.

When I returned to the battalion, I began to practice, and there were special ink artists in the company to help with training, and at first they were all queues, military orders, and the like.

In mid-October, the muskets were finally fired, and a company of 150 men sent down 30 muskets.

Now there is a serious shortage of armaments, and the workshop is busy at full capacity, and it will not be fully equipped with muskets until at least next March.

The company also issued a pile of bamboo, which was temporarily used for training, and everyone needed to learn how to use these forty muskets.

I heard that this is the case, and I am afraid that it will still not be available by April next year. For example, the brigades of Liuyi and Tengguo did not have musketeers at all, but the whole brigade was spearmen.

The 1st and 2nd Brigades still used the same heavy muskets, and there were only seven brigades with four companies of musketeers in each brigade, and the rest were either reduced to musketeers or entirely spearmen.

King Shuqing took a newly issued musket, weighed it, and found that it was indeed much lighter than the previous big musket, but the length was still about the same, and the structure was basically the same, and it was still a copper snake hooking a fire rope.

The back of the barrel is still engraved with a line of small characters, just like the rest of the Mo family's workshop.

"Cao Sui Supervisor of the Ordnance Department, Craftsman Zi System", there is also a line of date engraved on the back.

King Shuqing knew that this Cao Sui and Zi were both personal names, of course he didn't know who they were, but he knew that if there were some extremely serious problems with the musket, these two people would be responsible.

Yu Yu didn't look at the words on the musket, and after getting the new musket, he immediately went to the camp to reload and fight a few times, looking quite satisfied.

King Shuqing thought to himself, I heard that the battle will start in July next year at most, and in less than ten months, he will shoot this meeting of 150 people, and he doesn't know if it can be completed.

I don't know it now, but I have to hurry up and practice more, and I can't be ridiculed that he can't even use a musket......

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