Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

After Yu Tonghai listened, many questions arose in his mind, "Sir, who is this Tenglongwei sea trade fleet?"

"It is a sea trade fleet belonging to the Tenglong Guard. From now on, the main responsibility of the Tenglong Guard's navy is to protect merchant ships going to sea for trade!" Yang Zhengshan said calmly.

"Ah!" Yu Tonghai's face was filled with astonishment.

Navy escort merchant ships going to trade!

Is this possible?

Yang Zhengshan looked at him and said seriously: "Yes, the navy of Tenglong Guard was originally established to protect merchant ships!"

His original purpose was just to carry out sea trade, but the emperor asked him to set up the Tenglong Vanguard alone and build a navy.

There is no problem with building water divisions, but maritime trade is still fundamental.

Xue Ping, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "His Majesty approved Tenglongwei's overseas trade!"

Yang Zhengshan raised his eyebrows and looked at Xue Ping in surprise.

He didn't expect Xue Ping to know about this.

The emperor did agree to Tenglongwei's sea trade, but it was Yang Zhengshan who played a trick and put the establishment of a navy and sea trade together.

The emperor probably only paid attention to the naval affairs, and probably didn't care about sea trade at all.

But no matter what, this is indeed what the emperor agreed to, and the memorial has the word "accurate" written by the emperor himself.

Yu Tonghai felt a chill in his heart. He felt that the situation of the Tenglong Guard seemed a bit complicated.

Not to mention that the Tenglong Guard's establishment is seriously overstaffed. One guard should have 5,600 military households, but the Tenglong Guard has more than 10,000 military households.

Not only that, the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion will also add 10,000 military households to the Tenglong Guard.

Even if the Tenglong avant-garde is separated, the Tenglong guard is still the size of three guards.

This is obviously unreasonable.

There is also the establishment of a separate navy and sea trade.

This is even more unreasonable.

It’s not like there are no naval guards in the Liaodong region, so why are Tenglong Guards suddenly asked to form a navy?

If you think about it carefully, Tenglongwei is full of weirdness.

Yu Tonghai's idea is right. There are indeed many irregularities in Tenglong Wei, and the root of these irregularities is because of King Qing.

He didn't know Prince Qing, so naturally he couldn't figure it out.

And Xue Ping knew some of the inside story, so he knew that Tenglongwei's unusualness could not be investigated in detail.

Fortunately, Yu Tonghai is a smart man and knows that there are some things that he cannot explore, so after noticing the weirdness, he stopped asking in detail and just said: "Then what do I need to do next?"

Yang Zhengshan had already made plans in his mind and said: "Next, you will each be responsible for a part of Tenglong Vanguard's affairs!"

"Master Wu Zhongzhe was the commander of Tenglong Vanguard before. He was responsible for the farming of Tenglong Vanguard before. He will still be responsible for the farming affairs in the future!"

"Master Yu has rich experience in naval warfare and is the best at naval warfare among us, so I hope that Master Yu can take on the heavy responsibility of training the soldiers."

"Master Xue has a family background, but his experience is slightly lacking. However, we are in great need of formal knowledge of navigation and naval warfare. I need Master Xue to compile a set of military training records on navigation and naval warfare!"

"Uh, Master Xue, have you seen the military training records?"

Xue Ping's eyes lit up and he said: "I've seen it before, and I've also seen the Thirty-Six Strategies!"

"Well, there may be a set of training records for naval training, but unfortunately I don't know much about the navy, so I hope you and Mr. Yu can compile a training record for naval training!" Yang Zhengshan said.

"Xiaoguan understands that Xiaguan will do his best and will not let down the general's expectations!" Xue Ping said excitedly.

He has naturally read "Military Training Records". Now "Military Training Records" has been recognized by most military attachés in the court. Although this book is not a peerless classic, it has very good guidance for generals in training soldiers. effect.

As long as the soldiers can be trained strictly according to the above methods, the new soldiers they train will not be too bad.

Therefore, "Military Training Records" is now very widely circulated, much wider than "Thirty-Six Strategies".

However, there is no naval chapter in "Military Training Records". Xue Ping felt sorry for this when he was studying "Military Training Records" before. Unexpectedly, Yang Zhengshan actually asked him to write the naval chapter now.

This made him excited.

That is "Military Training Records". If he can participate in writing the naval chapter, it will definitely be a good thing for him to gain both fame and fortune.

"Well, let's arrange it this way. Does Mr. Yu have any objections?" Yang Zhengshan looked at Yu Tonghai again.

"No, I would like to comply with the arrangements of the commander!" Yu Tonghai said knowingly.

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The arrival of Yu Tonghai and Xue Ping means that the formation of Tenglong Vanguard Navy has also entered the formal stage.

It was early September of the 30th year of Taiping.

The Chinese Army Governor's Mansion sent the first batch of military households, a total of 3,000 military households.

These military households were all relocated from some areas in central Darong. In recent years, more than ten prefectures in central Darong have suffered from successive droughts, which has made the people unable to make a living, so the court has been relocating these people.

Many people had previously moved to Fuzhou in Chongshan Town, which was also the former Fushan City.

Now the people are being moved to Tenglongwei to enrich the military households. In fact, it is done easily and is not a troublesome matter. Therefore, the action of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion is quite fast.

Three thousand military households came to Tenglong Guard and were immediately dispersed and arranged to each thousand households and various forts.

Weisi Yamen has made preparations long ago, built houses for them, and even planned farmland for them, but they will not be able to farm this year.

Li Qicheng is an ordinary military household who moved here this time. He was originally an ordinary farmer in Hengshan Prefecture in the central part of Dayong. Hengshan Prefecture has suffered from severe drought for three consecutive years, and last year there was no harvest.

Although the court has provided relief many times, many people still starved to death, and many people have embarked on the road of escape.

The Li family was originally quite wealthy. Although not a rich family, they were also small landlords with more than 200 acres of fertile land, but they still could not withstand the severe drought for years, so they finally had to accept the arrangement of the government to relocate.

Li Qicheng was very reluctant to change from a farmer to a military household, but in order to feed his family and to have a stable life, Li Qicheng had to accept the reality no matter how reluctant he was.

Originally, they were going to Fuzhou, a bitter and cold place. On the way, they heard how cold and desolate Fuzhou was, which made many people secretly leave the team and run back.

Li Qicheng also had the idea of ​​going back, but looking at his three sons and four daughters, he finally gave up the idea of ​​going back.

The reason was simple. If they went back, someone would starve to death. If they went to Fuzhou, they might have a full meal.

In order to prevent his children from starving to death, he could only keep moving forward with the team.

But they received news halfway that they would not go to Fuzhou, but to Tenglongwei instead.

They didn't know where Tenglongwei was, and they were numb. Anyway, they would do whatever the officials commanded.

In this way, they dragged their almost exhausted bodies to Tenglongwei.

As soon as they entered the territory of Tenglongwei, there was a commotion in the long team.

The officials who were in charge of them left quickly, and replaced them with neat and solemn soldiers on their left and right.

At the same time, there were waves of rice porridge fragrance coming from the front.

"Dad, there is porridge!"

Li Qicheng's youngest son, Li Sanlang, smelled the fragrance of rice porridge, and his originally listless appearance suddenly became excited, and he looked forward with shining eyes.

There were almost 15,000 people in 3,000 households. Even if the government distributed food to them, most of them were still hungry. Many of them were dying of hunger.

Li Qicheng also smelled the fragrance of porridge and looked ahead, but they were almost in the middle of the team and could not see what was going on ahead!

"Be honest and line up. Anyone who dares to move will be killed without mercy!"

There was a commotion in the crowd, and the soldiers on the left and right immediately shouted.

Migrating the people is not an easy job. They travel long distances, lack food and clothing, and sometimes even drinking water is a problem. It is easy to cause riots.

They were not peaceful at all along the way. I don't know how much trouble they caused.

However, the swords and guns in the hands of the Tenglong Guards were still very deterrent. Amidst the waves of shouting, the people settled down and just kept looking ahead.

On the front official road, dozens of large pots were lined up in a row, cooking rice porridge. Many people had received the rice porridge and were squatting on the ground slurping it.

"Drink it quickly, and then go register!"

Soldiers were maintaining order and driving the people forward.

The whole team moved forward at a slow speed. After waiting for more than an hour, it was finally the turn of Li Qicheng's family.

Li Qicheng looked at the pots of rice porridge and swallowed his saliva countless times.

"One bowl per person, you can't grab it, understand?"

"Understand!" Li Qicheng nodded repeatedly, "Sir, this is my son, my daughter, and my wife!"

"Don't worry, one bowl per person, everyone has it!" The soldier in charge of distributing the porridge looked up at him and said casually.

"Thank you, sir, thank you!" Li Qicheng was holding a full bowl of porridge, very surprised, and thanked him repeatedly.

"Hurry up and move forward, there are still many people waiting behind!"

The soldiers next to him urged, and Li Qicheng hurriedly led his family forward, slurping the rice porridge in the bowl while walking.

"Dad, this porridge is so thick!" Li Dalang was already a 16-year-old boy, and he poured a bowl of rice porridge into his stomach with a few sips.

Li Qicheng glanced at him and handed him the small half bowl of porridge in his hand, "Dad is full, you eat it!"

Li Dalang looked at the half bowl of porridge and swallowed his throat.

The little boy starved me to death.

Although this bowl of porridge was thick, it was far from filling Li Dalang's stomach.

"Let's give it to mother!" Li Dalang looked at the haggard woman behind him.

"No need, the fourth girl can't finish it, and I can't eat so much!" Li said weakly: "Boss, let's put it away first, I don't know how to live in the future!"

As she said, she took out a small earthenware jar from the package behind her!

Li Qicheng thought about it and it was right. They had just arrived and didn't know how the government would arrange it. If they only had one full meal, wouldn't they be hungry in the future?

Thinking of this, they put the remaining rice porridge in a small clay pot, and there were many people around who did the same as them.

Just then, they followed the flow of people to a desk.

"Head of household!"

Behind the desk sat a soldier, writing at the desk, and two soldiers on both sides helped him grind ink and organize the book.

"Li Qicheng!"

"Place of origin!"

"Heshang Village, Mian County, Hengshan Prefecture!"

"How many people are there in the family!" The soldier in charge of registration raised his head.

"Nine people!" Li Qicheng replied nervously.

The soldiers looked at the men and women behind Li Qicheng and nodded slightly, "Not bad!"

A family like the Li family can indeed be praised as good.

The reason is very simple. The Li family has no elderly people and many children, especially a young man who has just become an adult and a young man who is about to become an adult. This is a family that can directly select soldiers from them.

The soldiers briefly recorded the situation of the Li family, then took out a wooden sign, wrote the population situation of the Li family on it, handed it to Li Qicheng, and said: "From now on, you will be the military households of Nanlingtun. Keep going forward. There are people from Nanlingtun waiting for you over there!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Li Qicheng took the wooden sign and continued to move forward with the children beside him.