"Although Tiande has no talent, and there were many things he didn't like in the past, but the military lord has something to do, it's not a pity to tear these bones apart and burn them for firewood."
Since Tang Tiande stumbled all night to come to Huaiyuan, of course he could no longer back down and immediately expressed his stance in front of Xu Huai.
"Okay, conscription is the top priority right now. For the time being, I have to give up to Fifth Master and give me Uncle Seventh, and Master Fan as my assistant," Xu Huai said.
He knew that Tang Tiande was not a particularly determined person, but then again, how many people in the world were determined?
Tang Tiande came to Huaiyuan to make a choice when most of the clans and state and county officials regarded them as fearful. How could Xu Huai pick and choose and reject others thousands of miles away?
Of course, Xu Huai could not directly ask Tang Tiande to stand alone and assist Xu Wukun and Fan Yong in the barracks first. However, in order to show his attention, he personally explained to Tang Tiande the critical situation in Bianliang and what they were going to do in Huaiyuan.
How to carry out work and recruit soldiers.
"...pay? How much salary money should be put in?" Tang Tiande was not very clear about the intertwined changes and the advantages and disadvantages of the two military systems of conscription and recruitment in history, but one thing is very clear: pay for soldiers, especially for rural residents.
The money and food used to pay the troops will be staggering.
What has been implemented since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty, especially the forbidden army soldiers and horses, is strictly speaking a recruitment system. However, in order to maintain the law and order in the hinterland, and at the same time, the social status of the soldiers is low, large-scale refugees and bandits are often recruited into the army.
Once you are enrolled in the army, you need to be a soldier for life - there is a selection system among the Forbidden Army. Every year, those who are physically strong are included in the Forbidden Army and receive a higher salary. However, if they are old and infirm in the Forbidden Army, they will be eliminated.
In the Xiang army, the salary is meager and it is difficult to make ends meet.
The establishment of the Dai Viet dynasty was not without conscription.
Rural soldiers were mainly recruited from among farmers in the countryside. They trained during leisure time in autumn and winter. They were not paid and even had to prepare their own armor.
In the past, Huaiyuan's local military preparations were also combined with recruiting troops.
The military soldiers of the inspection department are considered to be recruited soldiers, with a small number, but they have a fixed salary; the village soldiers and rural soldiers directly controlled by the big surname clan are also recruited soldiers - and only in this way can the cost be well controlled. In addition to the money allocated by the county every year,
In addition to giving thousands of guan of money and food, each family can collect two to three thousand guan of money and food, which is enough.
Not counting the 2,500 regular soldiers, but also considering the recruitment of another 2,500 rural soldiers, 89,000 guan will be allocated every year for the salary and silver alone, including the ordnance, uniforms, hats, food, fodder, and military barracks.
In total, if we don't invest hundreds of thousands of guan of money and food in the construction, we can't stop it at all.
In addition, many military strongholds need to be expanded or built, and the roads between the military strongholds and Huaiyuan City need to be opened up and repaired. How much food will be spent on this?
"The village soldiers prepare for the invaders and practice in their spare time, not missing the farming season. At the same time, they are based on villages, so they are easy to organize. Now it is easy for each family to hand over the village warriors to the village soldiers, but they have to train all year round and guard the military village passes.
They fight without paying them and send their wives, children, and children to drink from the northwest wind?" Xu Huai said.
At present, except for the Western Army, the combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army in all directions has been depleted. In the future, it will be the general trend to organize a defense line between the Jianghuai River, recruit strong soldiers from the countryside, and rebuild a new combat system.
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Although most of the generals and ministers in the dynasty were ignorant, there was no shortage of wise men like Wang Kai and Hu Kai. Among the middle and lower-level officials, there were no far-sighted people. They had not been able to get ahead in these years, but as the situation collapsed,
The previous imprisonment will inevitably be shattered to a certain extent, and those who remain incompetent will make compromises or changes in the face of the bloody reality.
They are just taking the first step.
Once a large-scale recruitment of troops is carried out between the Jianghuai and Huaihe Rivers for defense, it will inevitably need the support of the wealth from the southeast to be able to maintain it; at that time, the Huaiyuan rural soldiers will also be included in this system, thereby gaining support in terms of food and salary.
For them, it is more about overcoming the current difficulties.
"...The current situation is very difficult!" Tang Tiande smacked his lips after hearing Xu Huai's detailed explanation, "Without three to four hundred thousand dollars of money and food, how could they have accomplished so much? Mr. Jin and the others might have to hand over the village soldiers.
If you come out, Biyang County may also return last year's land tax to Huaiyuan, but compared with what you have to do, the gap is too big!"
"But we can barely survive for a year!" Xu Huai said.
"Why do you have so much money and food?" Tang Tiande asked in surprise.
"In addition to saving people, we rushed to the rescue of Lanzhou City and gained benefits after all." Xu Huai said with a smile.
Before Xu Huai attacked Kelan City, Cao Shixiong had just launched an army to plunder the whole city - and ordinary generals could not put all the looted money into their own pockets, not to mention that Cao Shixiong wanted to please Chi Hubai, who was in Lanzhou to supervise the army at that time.
He also went out of his way to follow the rules of the red Hu people.
The Red Husbands plundered women, and hundreds of households (centurions) led their troops to plunder a certain area. The most beautiful women they obtained had to be sacrificed to thousands of households. The most beautiful women were selected from the women offered by thousands of households to be sacrificed to ten thousand households; sacrifices were made layer by layer.
, where the final battle was fought and slaughtered, most of the beautiful women were gathered in the Khan's royal tent; the plundered goods were also sacrificed layer by layer in the same way.
Therefore, Xu Huai entered Kelan City. Although most of the rebel generals and their families fled into the military camp, they did not have time to take away the plundered goods; while the two brothers Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili lived in the state.
In the house behind the Yamen, there are not only the treasures accumulated by the Cao family over the years, but also gold and silver treasures that have been prepared but have not yet been dedicated to the southern king of Chihu Town, Ulul Lie.
How could Xu Huai be polite to Cao Shixiong before he evacuated Lanzhou?
Lan Prefecture is sparsely populated, with abandoned pastoral farming, but Kelan City is the seat of the state government, and the people have a lot of wealth. What's more, Cao Shixiong led his troops to fight back to Kelan City, and most of the officials and gentry in the city did not have time to escape.
After Xu Huai withdrew from Lanzhou, he returned part of his property to Wang Gaoxing, Qian Zerui and other Lanzhou officials. However, he still intercepted a large amount of gold and silver property, totaling more than 400,000 guan, and had already transported it back to Tongbai Mountain with the people who retreated south in the early stage.
Already.
This is what is called "war money."
If he hadn't collected the looted goods by a large number of soldiers during the first northern expedition against Yan, how could Xu Huai have taken over thousands of Hu women and children in Shuozhou and at the same time maintain an actual combat auxiliary force of up to 4,000 people?
Had it not been for the heavy damage to the Xishan tribes in Hou'erwu and the complete annihilation of the Wuchi tribe in the later period, how could Xu Huai have calmly planned the evacuation of tens of thousands of troops to the south in batches?
The Xishan Fan soldiers were severely damaged in Hou'erwu. It seemed that the entire Xishan battlefield was not cleaned up by the Tongbai soldiers in the end. The remnants of the Xishan Fan troops surrendered to Xiao Linshi, but Xiao Linshi still used material exchange to remove them from Yingzhou.
The gold and silver treasures brought out were exchanged with the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain.
By releasing the prisoners of war, Xu Huai obtained more than 4,000 extremely valuable horses.
In addition to the huge consumption in the early stage, Huaiyuan also accumulated more than 500,000 gold and silver treasures at this time.
Tang Tiande was not regarded as an outsider at this time, so of course Xu Huai revealed all these details to him.
"Ah!?" Tang Tiande opened his mouth slightly, and then looked at Xu Huai and the others. Their clothes were covered with patches, like beggars, and there was a stench coming from them. "You are so rich, why don't you clean up?"
Clean yourself up?"
"There was no time to pack up. During the nine days we traveled south from Fuzhou, we basically took the time to squint for a while, or tied ourselves directly to the back of the horse and slept on the road. As long as the horse could bear it, we never stopped -
And in Shuozhou and Fuzhou, we haven’t had a normal full meal for almost two months, let alone boiling a bucket of hot water to wash ourselves.”
Xu Huai said,
"You said that I only have errands, and it wouldn't be a pity to tear your bones apart and burn them for firewood. I never thought of using you like this, but you have to be mentally prepared for this hard work - the Red Hu people are really too strong.
War is always a gold-swallowing cave. The early captures may seem huge, but the actual number of troops and time they can support are very limited. Then, when Tongbai Mountain Soldiers face the main force of the Red Hussars, it will be difficult to achieve such annihilation in a short time.
The battle can be won. Without the opportunity to finally clean up the battlefield, it will be difficult to make war fortune, but the consumption is real. And I decided to build the headquarters of the Metropolitan Inspection Department at the northern foot of Dafu Mountain. In addition to convenience,
To support the operations along Ru River, in addition to blocking the gap from Queshan to Nanyang, they also looked at the tens of thousands of acres of barren valleys between Dafu Mountain and Jinding Mountain that could be used for horse herding - otherwise the entire army would exceed 6,000
All the animals are fed with fine feed, and Su Laochang and the others can even cry to me. After recruiting the troops, your mission is to help Su Laochang and the others to make every effort to raise money and food. Although I hope that in the future, there will be wealth in the south.
It can support us, but I also know very well that my behavior is very unpleasant, so we need to strengthen our confidence. Tongbai Mountain has many mountains and little land, but the north and south ridges of Tongbai Mountain increase the scope of the mountains.
But it is several times larger than the average county. In addition to the military, how to deal with the economy and people's livelihood may be more important than leading troops to fight. If the rear is unstable and food and pay are insufficient, it is impossible to stabilize the morale of the military...
