Chapter 54 Comparison is also a kind of motivation
In addition to taxes and corvee, military service was also another important matter in the original era.
Because they are all young and strong, there is no shortage of soldiers.
Each village has 100 households, and each household has to provide one person to train during the slack time. A village is a small team, ten small teams merge into one brigade, and ten brigade merge into one army.
Li Dachui’s direct subordinates usually live scattered in these villages, and they are also the leaders of the villages. It is their usual job to practice military formations and teach martial arts. When fighting is needed, these people They would gather together and follow Li Dachui out.
Now Li Dachui does not need these young men in Helanyuan to fight.
They are more for future backup.
After several years of no war, these young men also regarded this kind of drill as a kind of fun. What made Li Dachui even more happy was that when the horse bandits taught these young men some basic martial arts At that time, a wave of talents actually emerged from it.
Although they have missed the best period for practicing martial arts, as a member of the army, these people, even if they can barely reach the solid stage, can become the backbone of the army.
As for being brave and tenacious, charging into the formation to open a gap when necessary is naturally done by Li Dachui's direct descendants.
In fact, Li Dachui values more those little babies who are still crawling around on the ground. They are the real future!
Every time he competes in the world, he is measured in ten to several decades. He is not in a hurry at all.
The demonstration effect has always been the most effective. There is no need for Li Dachui and others to make more publicity. As long as there is a role model around them, what this role model does will inspire other people to do the same. To imitate him. Even if some people are not very motivated, the wives and children at home will force them to strive for improvement.
My wife can wear brand new clothes and wear new jewelry, but you can't afford it.
Other people’s children have the best toys and eat the best meals, but your son can only live a simple life,
Are you feeling comfortable?
We were all the same people before.
Why can’t I do what others can do?
Comparison stimulates people's desires. Only when there is desire can there be pursuit. Only when there is pursuit can one work hard. Only with hard work can there be rewards.
On the Helan Plain, this is what Li Dachui did.
During the military training process, the best batches that emerged were taken down to Helanyuan by Li Dachui in batches. Each of them would be assigned a veteran as their master to teach them through words and deeds.
Li Dachui was reluctant to let these people die before they left the army. He was training officers for the future.
After practicing this several times, these people will basically become qualified soldiers.
After returning to the village, you can at least be a commander and lead ten people in battle.
Every time after they go out, these people always bring a lot of extra gains to their families when they come back.
This is something that cannot be obtained by farming on Helanyuan.
In just one year, the tens of thousands of former people were divided into different levels.
And this makes those who are lagging behind not only envious and jealous, but also want to catch up.
In Helanyuan, being a soldier is not the only way to get ahead.
Those who cultivate the land well and have a higher harvest than others can be rewarded, and those with special skills are even more popular. Blacksmiths, stonemasons, craftsmen, and cobblers... As long as you are a craftsman, you will be on the Helan Plain. Everyone can find a position where they can use their strengths.
In Li Dachui's view, Helanyuan has entered an environment of healthy competition. Everyone influences and competes with each other, and what he brings to him is an increasingly prosperous and powerful Helanyuan.
It will take another ten years for the next generation of Helanyuan to fully grow up, and by that time, there will be at least 200,000 people here.
In winter, ordinary people outside the customs generally enter the state of cat winter. If nothing happens, they try not to go out and move as little as possible, so that they can eat less and save some food.
But it won’t work on Helanyuan.
This off-farm season is perfect for military training.
After the first group of people grew up to become members of the army and brought wealth to their families, almost all families were willing to make some investment in this.
What's more, they don't have the problem of not having enough to eat, they are just consuming more of their savings. But once their man is selected, what he brings back to the family will be ten times a hundred times the surplus.
The men outside the customs are not short of wildness and adventurous spirit.
As long as there is a tiger to lead them, they can at least regard themselves as wolves.
Everyone knows that Li Dachui has three personal military camps of Tiandiren.
Tianzi Battalion is better known to everyone, because under normal circumstances, they are the ones who charge into battle with Li Dachui, and they are also the most powerful unit.
In a team of three hundred people, there are more than sixty people who have reached the first level of air control. This is an extremely terrifying thing, because in an ordinary army, an army of ten thousand people , there are at most more than a hundred such characters.
When they debuted three years ago, they immediately attracted the attention of the world, and their abruptness caused them a big loss.
Diziying rarely attacks, and it only appeared in the battle against Wutu three years ago. Their mission at the time was more to assist and arrange for the young men to escape from the control of the Beiyuan army. But even so, during the war that lasted for more than a month, they still caused the Beiyuan army to suffer a lot. Xia Zhi, the leader of the Dizi Camp, also became a famous figure outside the pass together with Fang MaoMao, the leader of the Tianzi Camp.
The most mysterious thing is the Herringbone Camp.
The world does not know whether they participated in the battle three years ago.
Because at the end of the battle, many horse bandit teams outside the customs saw the opportunity to take advantage, so they basically swarmed up and attacked the unruly people. So much property was stolen!
People died for money, and birds died for food. Many horse bandits also completely disappeared in this battle. Some of them overestimated their capabilities to challenge the still established armies of Beiyuan and were beaten violently.
These arrogant horse bandits thought that if others could do it, then I could do it too. They charged at these regular troops of the Northern Yuan Dynasty with great courage, and then they disappeared. Facts also fully prove that sometimes others may not be able to do it, but you may be able to do it.
Others disappeared because they were annexed by horse bandits outside the customs.
This is the law of survival outside the customs.
The Herringbone Battalion must have appeared during this war, but no one knows what they did.
Now Xiao Changche guesses that Wild Wolf should be the leader of the Renzi Camp.
There is no city wall on Helanyuan, only a gatehouse made of stone and huge wood. On the lintel, the three characters of Helanyuan are written by dragons and phoenixes, which is still the handiwork of Old Master Yu.
However, Old Master Yu Entai didn't know the existence of Helanyuan. It was just that Li Dachui tricked him into writing these three words, and then extended these three words here.
Through this gatehouse, you have truly entered Helanyuan.
Li Dachui is coming back, which is naturally a big event in Helanyuan.
The principals gathered here to welcome the return of the leader.
Standing at the front is an old man about fifty years old wearing a scholar's turban on his head and three long beards under his chin. The old man wrapped in a big cloak does not look very cold-resistant, and his face He was flushed, and from time to time he would wipe the snot bubbles from his nose with a handkerchief.
This old man is Mao Daxian, the governor of Helanyuan.
Of course, this governor was appointed by Li Dachui and his group.
The reason for this name is naturally to facilitate management. There are tens of thousands of people in Helan Plain, and the number is still growing year by year. To manage them in an orderly manner, an effective management organization is naturally needed.
We cannot rule the people by military law.
The reason why people like Mao Daxian and others are here is because they were tricked and abducted by Li Dachui.
Tai'an City is a good place, attracting outstanding people from outside the customs to gather there.
After all, there are still quite a few people in this world who always think that their talents are not appreciated.
And Tai'an City is willing to provide these people with opportunities to shine, so all kinds of weird talents who have failed elsewhere go to Tai'an City to find their own opportunities.
Taian City is where Li Dachui accumulates and selects talents.
Of course, talents like managing He Lanyuan are harder to find than talents in martial arts and medicine.
It's not because there are few scholars, there are many scholars in Tai'an City, but there are fewer scholars who can agree with Li Dachui's ideas and accept Li Dachui's numerous novel ideas.
More scholars, in the process of reading, have been tightly bound by those rules and regulations. There are not many people who can break out of this cage. Those who dare to jump out are considered deviants in the eyes of the world, while those who are willing to accept Li Dachui's new ideas are regarded as shocking.
Although there are few, it is not none.
Mao Daxian is one of them.
So he became the top leader in Helanyuan.
When Li Dachui is away, he will be in charge.
Others, such as the Diziying commander Xia Zhi who is stationed here, are only responsible for military affairs and are not allowed to interfere in civil affairs.
Li Dachui gave him great power, and Mao Daxian did live up to Li Dachui's trust. He truly implemented every idea and order of Li Dachui, and was even able to check for omissions and fill in the gaps. Introduce the old and bring out the new, combine it with local reality, and then change it so that the people below can happily accept and practice it.
Even Li Dachui admired his ability.
Li Dachui knew very well that some of his ideas were really incompatible with this era. However, after a period of manipulation and transformation in Mao Daxian's hands, the core of his ideas remained unchanged, but he was able to use current principles to explain them. Make it clear.
Just from this point of view, Li Dachui felt that the salary he paid to Mao Daxian was really low.
Of course, this old man didn’t come here just for the salary.
The old man has great ambitions!
One day, when he achieves his ambition, he must knock those who looked down on him to the ground, and only then can he step on his feet to relieve his anger.
Of course, now he is still the self-proclaimed governor of Helanyuan, which is unknown to outsiders.
(End of this chapter)