At the end of April, the blacksmiths built their own furnaces one by one and began mass production of bayonets. After the first batch of one thousand bayonets was produced, Li Zhi gave the bayonet equipment to the selection group.
On this day, catkins were flying in the Fanjiazhuang training ground, and the April sunshine warmed people's bodies, making people feel very comfortable. Li Zhi stood on the training ground wearing thin clothes in early summer, watching the soldiers of the Qianxuan Regiment practicing bayonets.
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"prick!"
"prick!"
Under the orders of each platoon leader, a thousand soldiers raised their rifles and stabbed one after another. Only a flash of sword light was seen, and a thousand bayonets thrust forward in unison, bringing out a terrifying murderous intent.
"cut!"
"cut!"
The soldiers slashed with their spears from top to bottom, and the blades were thick again.
Even if the enemy breaks through the musket formation and shoots towards them, Li Zhi's musketeers can still fight.
The soldiers grabbed their rifles and practiced these simple chops and thrusts again and again until they became proficient in the drill.
Li Zhi now has 4,000 servants, 3,700 of whom are musketeers, who form the vanguard selection regiment and the prisoner-breaking regiment respectively. The other 300 are artillerymen, called the Thunder Battalion by Li Zhi, and are responsible for operating fifty six-gun
Pound gun - During the Battle of Ruzhou, Li Zhi found that five people were still short of manpower to operate a six-pound gun, so he changed it to six people to operate one gun.
The two regiments and an artillery battalion together formed a division, called the Huben Division, with Li Zhi as the division commander. Of course, Li Zhi also served as the commander of the forward selection regiment.
However, after calculating this, there will be no one to operate the city defense heavy artillery. Li Zhi plans to let the veterans of the artillery battalion be the backbone of the city defense heavy artillery. Then he will recruit another 130 recruits to supplement the Thunder Battalion and the city defense artillery team.
In early May, Li Zhi set up a physical examination tent in Fanjiazhuang and recruited 130 more artillerymen.
In addition to the servant team, Li Zhi, the conduct officer of Fanjiazhuang, also has 400 regular soldiers. His subordinates' defense and management teams have a total of 450 regular soldiers. These 850 regular soldiers
The military pay for the troops should have been 1,700 taels per month, but due to insufficient allocations from the court and layers of deductions, only 600 taels were paid to Li Zhi every month in the past few months.
However, compared to the military pay of six cents per soldier when he was a defensive officer, the military pay received during the conduct duty was still one cent higher. In total, each regular soldier was given a monthly salary of seven cents.
If Li Zhi paid out the full monthly salary of seven cents per soldier, then he should give three hundred and fifteen taels of silver to his subordinates. However, Li Zhi knew that if he did not withhold the money, the additional salary would also go to the lower-level military attachés.
It was his own pocket, so he simply withheld the soldier's pay of one denarius per soldier and only distributed two hundred and seventy taels of silver. The lower-level defense officers received the same six denarii of silver per soldier as before.
Of the six hundred taels of silver distributed, there were only three hundred and thirty taels left.
Fanjiazhuang originally had thirty-six guardsmen, who were used by Li Zhi as armed police and city guards. Li Zhi now had three hundred and thirty taels of silver, so he recruited more soldiers according to the standard of two taels of silver per person.
One hundred and twenty-nine strong regular soldiers were recruited, forming a total of one hundred and sixty-five regular soldiers to serve as auxiliary soldiers for defending the city wall, standing guard and patrolling the city.
Of course, in line with the principle of making the best use of people, Li Zhi also formulated high-intensity training tasks for this team, so he also provided three meals with meat. Such meals cost one to two to five yuan per person per month.
This means that Li Zhi still loses two hundred and fifty taels of silver every month.
Fortunately, Li Zhi had many properties and could afford this little money.
In mid-May, Zheng Kaicheng, commander of the 4th Battalion of the Selection Regiment, got married.
Zheng Kaicheng bought a luxurious villa with a loan in Fanjiazhuang, and the wedding was held in his luxurious villa. The bride is the daughter of the tailor family of the Dou family in the east of Acropolis City, and she is very beautiful. Zheng Kaicheng is already twenty-one years old this year. According to the standards of the Ming Dynasty,
She got married late. The woman is only fifteen years old this year, which is a full six years younger than Zheng Kaicheng.
That is to say, Zheng Kaicheng is now a senior military officer and can marry such a young and beautiful girl.
Zheng Kaicheng is a quick-witted person who is good at dealing with people. On the day of the wedding, Zheng Kaicheng went to pick up the bride early, then left the bride in the new house and stood at the door of his yard to greet the guests who came to the banquet. Those who came to Zheng Kaicheng's wedding
Most of them were senior managers of the Li family, officers from the Selection Corps and Polu Corps, and senior officials from the Commanding General Office. These people were all prominent figures in Fanjiazhuang, and Zheng Kaicheng welcomed them one by one with great enthusiasm.
At Zhengyou time, Li Zhi came to Zheng Kaicheng's house, lightly dressed and with two guards. Zheng Kaicheng was very happy to see Li Zhi coming. He walked up and said, "Sir! You are here in person!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "How could I not come when you get married!"
Zheng Kaicheng arranged the wedding banquet in the main hall and the courtyard. There were three tables in the main hall and four tables outside. They were arranged in an orderly manner. Of course, Li Zhi sat at the main table in the center of the hall. Li Xing, Li Laosi, Zhong Feng and other officers, Zheng Yuan,
Li Dao and other senior executives, as well as Zheng Hui and other senior officials, also sat with Li Zhi at the main table.
As soon as Li Zhi arrived, Zheng Kaicheng started the wedding banquet. Everyone was a little hungry at this time, and it was very lively eating vegetables and meat.
After eating for a while, Zheng Kaicheng stood up and presented a glass of wine to Li Zhi.
"Sir! It's all thanks to you that I, Zheng Kaicheng, am able to get married today. It's the Zheng family's luck to have such a good relative like the teacher! Zheng Kaicheng will always be grateful to you, sir! I'd like to give you a drink from my subordinates!"
Seeing that Zheng Kaicheng still spoke so nicely, Li Zhi smiled, raised his wine glass, and drank all the Jinhua wine in the glass in one gulp.
The officers and executives present were very moved when they saw Li Zhi toasting his subordinates so neatly. It is not easy to find a Shangguan with a warm spring breeze these days, not to mention that this Shangguan is so capable that the subordinates who follow him
Everyone has a bright future!
When Zheng Kaicheng finished drinking, Li Xing stood up and said, "Brother! I'd like to toast you too. The success of our Li family depends entirely on eldest brother! We both had to be servants!"
Li Xing's admiration for Li Zhi was beyond words, and he was obviously very proud of the Li family's achievements today.
But when they heard Li Xing's last words, everyone burst into laughter, as if they had heard something impossible.
After speaking, Li Xing drank the wine in the glass. Seeing his brother's boldness, Li Zhi could only drink the soju in the glass.
After Li Xing finished his toast, Li Laosi stood up and said very excitedly: "My boss, I'd like to toast you a drink. If it weren't for my boss, I, Li Laosi, wouldn't even be able to eat. I would be hungry and full. I don't know if I could survive the year before last."
Winter! Boss, you are my reborn parents! Li Laosi can only repay you by spending his whole life fighting in battle!"
After saying this, Li Laosi excitedly raised his head and finished the drink.
Seeing that Li Laosi was still so grateful, Li Zhi smiled and drank another glass.
Zhong Feng, the commander of the second battalion of the Selection Regiment, stood up at this time. He was always careless and not good at words. At this time, he just said loudly: "Sir! I, Zhong Feng, also thank you for giving me such a good job! I respect you.
One cup!”
After drinking three glasses of wine in a row, Li Zhi's face was already a little red, and he said: "Today is Zheng Kaicheng's wedding, why are you here to respect me?"
When Zhong Feng heard this, he didn't dare to persuade him to drink any more. He felt a little embarrassed standing there with his glass in his hand, so he could only sit down angrily.
Li Zhi waited for him to sit down, then raised his head and drank all the wine in the glass. Seeing this, Zhong Feng quickly stood up again, raised his head and drank all the soju in his hand.
After Li Zhi finished drinking the glass, Zheng Yuan, Li Dao and others also wanted to come up to toast, but Li Zhi didn't give them a chance. He stood up and said loudly: "Don't toast me anymore, if you drink any more I will get drunk."
Come, let’s toast the groom together!”
Everyone at the main table stood up, raised their glasses to Zheng Kaicheng and said, "Let's toast the bridegroom!"
Zheng Kaicheng quickly stood up and said to Li Zhi: "I don't dare to be a subordinate!"
After saying this, Zheng Kaicheng raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.
