"But I remember you once said that if a country recruits more than one-fiftieth of its troops in peacetime, it means that the country is about to fall into the quagmire of war, right?" Nalan Song hesitated, "One million
Even if the population is recruited at a ratio of one-fiftieth, it will only be 20,000 people. Compared with the Dingnan Field Army's strength of nearly 300,000 people, we are still far behind."
Su Yin shook his head, "I don't want them to become regular troops, but... all young and middle-aged men must become the reserve team of Dingnan Province. There are about 20 young and middle-aged men registered in Dingnan Province.
Around 80,000, these people need regular military training, formation, physical fitness, swordsmanship, equestrianism, fighting, firearms operation, and even hot air balloon driving skills. I have tried to let a person who has not received any military training do it
This will take about two to three months, that is to say, I need you to turn all the young men in Dingnan Province into plainclothes soldiers within three months."
He Pingjie is the administrator of Dingnan Province, and he is most worried about this. "My Lord, you must know that we do need manpower to consolidate our armaments, but we also need manpower to carry out production, whether it is agricultural planting or styrax.
Fish farming is all needed, and it is these things that attract a large number of laborers from surrounding areas to enter our Dingnan Province. If we let them leave the farmland and farms, in this case... I am worried that we will lose the foundation of our foothold.
.After all, the army also needs to eat."
Su Yin smiled, "You are right, but these are unnecessary worries. We need these, but I did not let them all invest in them. We established training camps in various places, and they took turns to enter the training camps for training. Ten
The day is rotated, so that production and training can be balanced. Moreover, we will naturally have ways and measures to encourage the young adults who participate in the training. Song Zhaozu from the capital wrote a letter saying that the business of Bamin Tea House and Suhe Xiangyu is now very good.
Go smoothly, money is not an issue.”
"Also." Su Yin continued, "The Taoist Qiu Wuzi I brought back from the capital this time will be a member of the Arms Department from now on. He and Ouyang Jing are the core of the Arms Department. In any case, for these two
Personal requirements must be met unconditionally. The biggest request they have made now is... We need a place to conduct military experiments and production. During the past two days, I have not been idle. You think, Songxi
How about the city becoming the first industrial base in our Dingnan Province, and even in the entire Daqin."
Everyone's eyes lit up, and Nalan Song was the first to raise his hands in agreement, "Great, if batches of muskets and artillery can be manufactured, even if the Dingnan Field Army comes back next time, we can easily beat them out.
.”
This discussion lasted until dawn the next day. When the sun rose, Su Yin waved his hand and told everyone to go back and rest. However, when the generals and officials were rubbing their dry eyes and preparing to leave, they stumbled out of the door.
A soldier comes in.
The soldier's face was stained with a lot of mud and blood, and it looked like he had just escaped from death.
Guan Zhen recognized the soldier and said, "You are from my ninth legion. What's going on? What happened?"