Seeing the situation of Xiang Yong's archery skills, Zhao Yan couldn't help but sigh slightly and said, "It seems that the training of the longbow soldiers needs to be strengthened!"

Wang Wenyue said: "Young Master, although this longbow is powerful, it is not easy to draw a bow. If you want to train a longbow soldier, you can only achieve it by one thing."

"The number of longbow soldiers we need is not too many. It should be enough for a battalion to be equipped with five or six hundred people. Direct shooting is used, and longbows are used for shooting, so it doesn't matter if those longbow soldiers are not able to shoot directly. As long as the shooting can meet the standards, the requirements are not very high." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, "It's better to recruit the two hundred people in the first archery. You and Zhao Yong each bring 100 people as an experimental group first."

"Experimental troops?" Zhao Yong asked in confusion.

"It is to first try whether the longbow soldiers' tactics are feasible. If not, it will be eliminated. If possible, recruit more longbow soldiers to join the army." Zhao Yan explained, Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue nodded in a clear way.

Second, the achievements of the villages and villages were ranked according to statistics from Zhang Buyun and more than a dozen documents, including one thousand guns and one thousand archery.

Zhang Buyun had some objections to the reward of the first thousand archers. He believed that less than two thousand could be used to shoot, and less than one thousand could be used to shoot. This reward was completely unnecessary. According to his intention, the number of rewards should be reduced to three hundred.

However, Zhao Yan felt that since he said it, he must do it and rejected Zhang Buyun's proposal.

Now he has no shortage of silver. After he communicated with the big merchants of Shandong merchants, he reported these days according to the shopkeepers in Jinan that he had sold more than 400,000 taels of silver glass mirrors.

If those big merchants directly buy glass mirrors with silver, they will trade directly in Jinan City. If they want to exchange materials for glass mirrors, they will have to be transported to Zhaojiabao.

The money of money was paid, and the local heroes who got the ranking were very happy, especially those who ranked high, not only got more money, but were also recruited into the Zhao family's servants.

Becoming a servant of the Zhao family is the ideal that most rural heroes dream of. The salary of the Zhao family is shockingly high.

But they didn't know that Zhao Yan was planning to reduce the monthly salary of servants, but the servants who have been recruited into the army are not among the reductions.

He divided the soldiers into first-class privates, second-class privates, and third-class privates. It is easy to become second-class privates now. When the source of troops expands in the future, this requirement will naturally be increased. At that time, most soldiers will maintain the treatment of third-class privates, with two taels of silver per month.

However, for the East Three Prefectures, the income of two taels of silver per month is already very high.

The reason is that the transportation in the three east prefectures (Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou) is inconvenient, so there are not many merchants, which leads to low prices of agricultural products.

The low price of agricultural products has also hindered land development. Rich people generally do not seek land and houses in the East Three Prefectures because the land profit is very low.

This has resulted in a large amount of abandoned land and many undeveloped land in the East Three Prefectures, but no one has paid attention to it.

The profits brought by land determine the active surname of the rich people who have more land. For example, the Jiangnan area has heavy taxes, and the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan do not buy land. However, Fujian's land tax is relatively low, and the land has good profits, so Fujian's businessmen and officials must ask for land and ask for houses, and as long as they have money, they will purchase land.

Because the three Shandong and East China Prefectures (Dongchang, Jinan, Yanzhou) are close to the canal and have convenient transportation, most of the wealthy families in Shandong purchase land in the Xisan Prefectures, and have initially formed three cotton-producing areas on the western Shandong Plain.

Regarding the suggestions for improving the three eastern prefectures, officials in the Ming Dynasty also mentioned a lot. The two most important ones were opening up the maritime ban and unblocking the Jiaolai Canal.

The Jiaolai Canal has been dug since the Yuan Dynasty, but it was not really implemented. There were many debates in the Ming Dynasty. You approved the digging proposal once, but the official was transferred as soon as he started construction, and the work of digging the canal was suspended and the work was stranded.

After liberation, there was also a plan to unblock the Jiaolai Canal, but it was not realized with the Great Leap Forward. However, it is still unknown whether the Jiaolai Canal canal can be dug out, after all, it is very difficult.

With two taels of silver in the East Three Mansions, you will definitely be able to live a good life.

Zhao Yan's current power is small, so he is not that cheap to spend money, but if the scale of his soldiers expands, he will naturally have to make careful calculations.

The recruitment ended two days later. This time, five hundred strong and in good health were selected from the group of untrained refugees, and five hundred outstanding gun skills and two hundred "superb" archery skills were selected from the group of untrained refugees. Five hundred inferior physical fitness was selected from the group of refugees as musketeers.

Lin Yi selected 300 young and strong people from the villages and refugees who could ride horses and had a decent physical fitness.

If the vacancies of young and strong people in the village reach 700, 700 people need to be selected from the refugees to replace them. After becoming servants, there is no need to pay land rent. Sixty percent of the food belongs to the servants, and fourty percent belongs to the refugees above.

In the village production, the method of 460% of the accounts can only prevent those garrisons from starving to death. If they want to rely on production to be rich, they will produce a lot of food.

Zhao Yan asked Tang Zhengze to issue a policy to encourage production, and that grain output can reduce or exempt some land rent.

But more people cannot meet that requirement, so they can only train hard.

A bright path is right in front of you. As long as you train hard, you can become a servant of the Zhao family and be treated well!

After the competition between the township heroes, the township heroes returned to the fields to prepare for spring sowing, and the refugees also started to work again.

Zhao Yan held a high-level meeting, with all the literati, military, and craftsmen and senior officials present and were seated in turn according to their positions.

Zhang Buyun and Tang Zhengze gave in to each other for a while. Tang Zhengze sat in the second position, Zhang Buyun sat in the third position, and Zhao Quan was the first position.

Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, and Wang Wenyue were more casual and sat down after they came.

Zhou Tieming, who is in charge of the Military Weapons, is a little awkward. The craftsman has always been a low-key, but now he is on par with the literati. It is indeed a bit awkward.

Zhao Yan looked around and said, "Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty is full of internal and external troubles, and natural disasters [***] are constantly there. At the same time, land annexation is serious, the rich are continuous, and the poor are not in a place to stand. The most serious thing is the abandonment of military affairs, the ineffective encirclement and suppression of bandits, and the Liaodong war is helpless. The abandonment of military affairs is due to the decay of the world, sprinkling and ingenuity, and countless false ones, natural disasters, military disasters are endless, officials are greedy and incompetent, which leads to the inability of the imperial court's finances, and most of the money allocated to the sub-government were greedy, and no one trains the military courage. If our Han people continue to decay, the world will either be stolen by the thieves or be captured by foreign races."

Everyone listened carefully, Zhao Yan paused and continued, "Now the thieves are just bandits who can't survive to attack the towns for the sake of robbery. In essence, they are bandits. If the thieves take over the world, they will inevitably have chaos. But this is still good. After all, the thieves are also Han people, and there will be great rule after the chaos. The world is still the Han people, and Han people still have dignity and backbone."

"Do you remember the history of the massacre of Han people in the Yuan Dynasty?" Zhao Yan asked suddenly.

"I remember that when Mongolia conquered the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the places they passed were slaughtered, and there were no less than 15 million people slaughtered. The Han people became inferior people, which was simply inferior to pigs and dogs." Zhang Buyun replied loudly.

"The Jiannu of Liaodong is now a more brutal nation than the Mongols. In Liaodong, they first killed the poor, called killing the poor, and then killed the rich, called killing the rich. The Han people in Liaodong were almost dead. Without Han people in Liaodong, they are now starting to arrest Han people everywhere, and they are caught in Liaodong to be serfs. They can't even eat enough to wear food and wear warm clothes, and live a life that is worse than being able to beat and kill pigs and dogs."

"If the Jiannu of Liaodong took over the world, the Han people with the blood surname would be slaughtered. What was left behind was a group of backboneless Han people would become serfs of alien races, and their wives and daughters would be allowed to be serfs of alien races. Do you think that it is impossible for Jiannu of Liaodong to take over the world? The court could not stop Jiannu of Liaodong. If the trenches with narrow vision took over the world, could they block the iron cavalry of Jiannu? In addition, the trenches would enslave the poor people, which would inevitably lead to the resistance of the landlords and wealthy families in the world. At that time, these people turned to Jiannu, and the Han Dynasty would inevitably fall under the butcher knife of the alien race, and our descendants would become slaves of alien races for generations, pigs and dogs." Zhao Yan delivered his speech angrily.

"Zhao is not talented, although he is not from a prominent family, he is willing to work with everyone to create a peaceful world. I don't know whether everyone understands the national justice, but I hope you can understand and work with Zhao." Zhao Yan said in a low voice, and at the same time he was helpless. Most of the people in this era were insensitive, and what they thought in their hearts was the authority and wealth of individuals and families.

As soon as Zhao Yan finished speaking, Zhao Quan stood up and said, "What the young master said is wrong. The Zhao family in Zhangpu was the descendant of the royal family of the Song Dynasty. The Enjoyed Bi Pavilion was built in the Wanli period of Zhaojia Fort in Zhangpu. Since it means "returning the jade to Zhao", the old slave will definitely die if he has such a great wish."

"What!" Zhao Yan shouted in disbelief on the spot. He couldn't help but feel distressed. There were so many people in the world who had such a troublesome identity? What's even more troublesome is that Zhao Quan actually told him in public, which seemed to have become an ambitious man and his aura could not help but exudate.

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Chapter completed!