Chapter 626: Li Laogen's New Life (1)
After the completion of the Scout Training Center, the Military Commission began large-scale selection of soldiers in various units. In the hearts of the officers and men of the various units in the Far East, the special combat unit is definitely the most awesome of the people.
So as soon as the news of the selection came, the various units blew up. Everyone began to gear up and prepare for the selection assessment. The criteria for the assessment are also announced, and each unit is assessed separately, and then the personnel are sent to the scout training center.
Li Ming, Song Tao, and all the special combat team members also participated in the selection and assessment of various units throughout the whole process, and they were busy for more than a month before they could be regarded as busy. The main purpose is to supervise the assessment of various units and, by the way, to inspect the training situation of the garrisons in various places.
Although the enthusiasm of the officers and men is very high, after all, only a small number of people have finally completed the assessment standards, and in many cases, the innate physical qualities are not at all compensated by hard training, especially the people of this era, and the physical qualities cannot be compared with modern society at all.
In the end, only nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers met the assessment standards, entered the scout training center, and became a reserve special forces. Song Tao also ended his idle days and began to get busy.
After finishing the assessment work of the scout training center, Li Ming returned to Shenyang. At present, the company's work in all aspects is very heavy, this year alone there are nearly one million immigrants and Mongolian herdsmen attached to the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of work are complicated, and the material security is also very tight.
Fortunately, there was still a relatively sufficient amount of grain, and after several months of large-scale procurement by the Far East Company, the war-ready granaries in various parts of the Far East were once again filled with grain. As for the rest of the supplies, it doesn't matter if it's delayed.
Especially for the Mongolian herdsmen who are struggling, they are more satisfied than anything else. They are now busy getting up early and working late every day. After the first stage of the Far Northeast plan, countless cattle, sheep and horses were captured, and pastures and horse farms were all over the banks of the Liao River, and there were cattle, sheep and horses everywhere that could not be seen at a glance.
In the past two years, the Far East has planted fine pasture grass on a large scale. It was also a great success. The planting method is mainly sowing, and the banks of the main rivers in all parts of Liaodong, as well as the marginal areas of the northern grasslands, are planted with a variety of fine pastures.
With the large-scale planting of forage, a forage processing base has also come into being. At this time, it is early autumn, which is the season of large-scale mowing of pasture. Every day, a large number of Mongolian herders work the banks of various rivers. There are many more figures busy in the forage processing centers, and a large number of processed overwintering hay and green storage fodder are piled up in warehouses along the river.
Last winter, the white plague on the grasslands caused countless cattle and sheep to freeze to death, and many old and weak women and children starved to death. Therefore, before the winter of this year, the Far East has also made active preparations, stored a large amount of hay and green fodder, and made every effort to ensure the supply of forage for many cattle, sheep and horses.
Within a few months of coming to the Far East, all the Mongolian herders gradually settled down in the Far East. Although I get up early and get busy every day, it is dark. And there are also learning Chinese and training queues during the day, which is really hard at the end of the day.
But here three meals a day, each meal can be divided into two large corn tortillas, as well as pickles and vegetable soup full of oil, to catch up with the chiefs of what festival, you can also eat a hand-made mutton, drink a tea jar of bud rice straw wine.
They have been here for a few months, every day, and they have never stopped eating for a day. If you are recruited into the cavalry unit by the chiefs. Then the beauty is dead, they don't have to get up early and work in the dark every day, not to mention. It is said that you can eat meat every day. Even if you are a militiaman, it is not bad, in time for mobilization and war, the militia eats no worse than the cavalry.
On such a day, there is nothing to be satisfied with the hardships of these grasslands. Moreover, there are herdsmen with families, and their wives and children are not hungry every day. It's just that you have to work every day, but compared to having a full meal, even if you are tired, it is nothing.
But they have also been worried that winter is coming, so there will be no work to do. I don't know if the Far East will give them three full meals a day. If the Far East tribe provides them with a full meal every day. Then their family will carry it after a while.
Although the Mongolian herders who belong to the Far East have been worried about eating in winter, their situation is generally stable. They saw the strength of the Far Eastern Tribe, and also saw the wealth of the Far Eastern Tribe, so they were all relieved and regarded themselves as part of this tribe.
After all, the grassland environment is harsh, and individuals alone cannot survive at all, and the nomads on the grassland have been huddled together for thousands of years, and the stronger the dependent tribes, the greater their chances of survival. The herdsmen on the grassland don't care about anything else, survival always comes first.
Compared with the Mongolian herdsmen's resignation, the immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were much happier. In recent years, the vast majority of Ming immigrants who have come to the Far East are refugees from the Shanxi region, and they are all snatched back from the Far East from the death line.
They don't have high requirements, as long as they can have a bowl of porridge every day. But what they didn't expect was that when they came to the bitter cold land of Liaodong, they could not only eat enough every day, but also survived a hard winter, and the owner also gave each of them a house and land.
Although they had to pay a loan, the owner was benevolent and righteous, and handed over the farm tools, seeds, cattle, carts, and a large number of daily necessities they needed to them first, and everyone could pay off slowly in ten years. Moreover, the loan of the proprietor has almost no interest compared to those usury of this era.
Li Laogen stood in his own field and worked hard, looking at the crops growing well in the field, not to mention how much he was motivated every day. He straightened up and looked at the already dark sky unwillingly, helplessly picked up the hoe, and slowly walked home.
Since he got these acres of land, Li Laogen has been busy in the fields early in the morning, like waiting for his own children, not to mention how meticulous he is. After working hard until the autumn harvest, he never dreamed that the potatoes and buds planted in the field would be enough to produce thousands of catties of grain. Even if he pays the rent of the owner, and then pays the repayment of the owner this year, he still has two or three thousand catties of grain left in his house.
Li Laogen looked at the granary full of grain, and the man in his thirties cried like a child. The people of the peasant family are simple and have received favors from others, and if they do not do something, they will not even be able to sleep soundly.
There is nothing to ask for at home, except for two or three thousand catties of coarse grain, there is only one pig that has been fattened. Li Laogen killed the pig on the day of his childhood, then chopped off the pig's head, and specially found a special bag to put it in.
Li Laogen got up early in the morning in the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and then carried a pig's head of more than 20 pounds and walked dozens of miles to Shenyang. gave this pig's head to the owner, and he also kowtowed three times to the owner's big yamen. (To be continued......)
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