Chapter 148: Expansion of the Army
This can be regarded as a normal move, after all, a vote of old lords will always be troublesome for the new ruler, now empty the population, directly relocate a group of their own lords, not to mention anything else, the law and order must be safe.
And in the same way, after this act of taking off his pants and farting, after Zhao Hu reoccupied Ling Wucheng, he actually got the recognition of the planting space! You must know that Zhao Hu killed the head of the Ling family before, held a meeting in the review room of Ling Wu City, and moved everyone away, and the golden finger did not recognize Zhao Hu's right to rule Ling Wu City. And after this reoccupation and abandonment of the Ling family's concubines, and Zhao Hu's reoccupation, the golden finger instead recognized Zhao Hu's right to rule Ling Wucheng.
After seeing the images of small castles, small castle towns, and small ports appearing in the planting space, Zhao Hu's eyes couldn't help but light up, damn! The most annoying thing for me is that I can't get the approval of the golden finger after occupying the land, and now I actually get the approval of the golden finger by mistake, so can I use this method to capture the land in the future?
Zhao Hu stayed alone in the castle of Ling Wu City and laughed proudly, he couldn't help but laugh, not only easily obtained the territory of Ling Wu City, but also got the occupation and approval of the golden finger.
Captured Lingwu City before and plundered all the materials, although because of the time, the logistics documents have not been counted, but look at the more than 100 boxes of silver coins, more than 200 boxes of gold coins, and dozens of carts of copper coins transported away, it is estimated that there should be tens of thousands of yuan! And the grain in the warehouse was pushed by three or four hundred carts, at least 50,000 stones.
This is only the official inventory of Ling Wu City, not counting the inventory of those Ling family retainers, not to mention the inventory of the town and the port under the city. Zhao Hu actually didn't care about these wealth, what he cared about was the nearly 10,000 people who were taken back from captivity.
Of course, two or three thousand of them were merchants, servants, sailors, and other people who had free status and could not be forcibly detained, but they were all taken captive back to Tianlan Township because of the war situation.
Not only did they have to be released afterwards, but the property had to be returned, and they had to be compensated. Otherwise, businessmen would not dare to deal with the Zhao family in the future.
What made Zhao Hu very happy was that the income given by Goldfinger after determining that Zhao Hu became the owner of Lingwu City, Chengxia Town, and Port. I don't know how the golden finger is calculated, Ling Wucheng gave a special income of 10,000 guan and 10,000 koku of rice per year, Joshita Town gave an annual income of 30,000 kan, and the port gave an annual income of 10,000 guan and 40,000 koku of rice.
Counting the income given by Tianlan Township, that is to say, as long as the harvest is over this autumn, the money and grain that Zhao Hu actually controls is equal to the money and grain that a million stone daimyo can master.
Depend on! A daimyo of Wanshi Township, in fact, has the financial resources that only a million-stone daimyo can have, and such a huge strength can completely crush the entire Dongsheng Kingdom!
Thinking that he didn't have to care about money and food in the future, Zhao Hu was naturally excited, and directly ordered to recruit 3,000 strong men to become Shenlong soldiers again, and then from the two thousand Shenlong soldiers who had undergone a winter training. Select a group of people who have achieved the rank of Five Stone Zhixing to become samurai, and send them to learn the power that matches their temperament.
Although Zhao Hu wants two thousand soldiers to learn power, but the cheapest power of one hundred guan one move, two thousand people will need 200,000 guan, this money is directly given to Tianlan Taoist Temple, without the slightest handover, Zhao Hu is not short of money, he can't be so rich, right?
And such an integration, everyone's desire for promotion is also a suppression, as long as you join the dragon soldiers, you can get power, what is the difference between this and the samurai? How else could the privileged status of the samurai be represented?
And as it is now, it is only to promote those who have achieved meritorious service. There is no problem at all, and if you become a samurai, you can pay for the master family to learn power, and it will become a samurai treatment unique to the Zhao family.
The samurai of the Zhao family will not have the slightest opinion on this issue, because this is the treatment only available to samurai, and if the soldiers also have this treatment, then the samurai will have an opinion.
Zhao Hu's order was issued, and the already busy logistics and government affairs had to be even busier, of course, Zhao Hu did not only increase his troops. There has also been a significant increase in the number of administrative staff.
The Zhao family, who swept away the town and port of Lingwu City, recruited administrative staff more easily than before, I don't know how many times. Moreover, many of the captured low-level warriors of the Ling family had already switched to the Zhao family when the Zhao family reoccupied Ling Wu City.
No wonder these low-level samurai are so loyal. What do low-level samurai want? There may be people who are die-hard and refuse to change, but the vast majority of low-level samurai just ask for a family name and land, and they don't care who they are loyal to, so to speak, who can give them these things. Whom they will be loyal to!
And now many forces around him, that is, the Zhao family, are newly rising and powerful. Especially the samurai who is very generous to the head of the family! Look at those who were just idle ronins in the town of the castle before, and followed Zhao Hu to Tianlan Township as a wall-blocking character, but how long did it take, less than a year, and the guy who followed Zhao Hu at the earliest had at least ten stones! The best thing is more than 100 stones!
And what about these low-level warriors who followed the Ling family? was at the same level as Zhao Hu before, but many people didn't have Zhao Hu's Baishi Zhixing, and even many low-level warriors only had ten guan Yulu and rice, but no Zhixing!
In this case, even if the Ling family is still strong, there are low-level warriors who secretly pass on information under the condition of the Zhao family's generosity, not to mention that the Zhao family actually looted Ling Wucheng in turn, killing the head and son-in-law of the contemporary Ling family and a large number of important ministers, deliberately leaving a few ambitious concubines and mediocre retainers, which directly left the Ling family in a state of division.
That's right, Zhao Hu's plan is almost clear at a glance, killing the elite and leaving the waste, the purpose is to split the Ling family. It's just that anyone can see this kind of thing, but no one can escape.
You ask those concubines, are they willing to surrender to other brothers, hold each other to the stage as the head of the Ling family, and are they willing to be a retainer to serve the Ling family? They only think, why aren't other people praising themselves? Why do you want to praise other people? No one is worse than anyone, is it?
Everyone was still watching before, and when they found out that the outer city lords of the Ling family had rushed to the empty Ling Wu City, they scattered after a while, and those concubines did not nominate a family master, and each led their followers away, and it was immediately clear that the Ling family was divided. That's why they didn't hesitate to switch to the Zhao family.
Almost all of the low-level warriors of the Ling family joined Zhao Hu, not to mention the talents in Lingwu Chengxia, because with Zhao Hu's first batch of subordinates as an example, these idlers and ronins recruited from Lingwu Chengxia Town have some reputation in Lingwu Chengxia Town, so they don't need to sell anything, they only need to stand in the crowd of Chengxia Town, shouting that the Zhao family is recruiting subordinates, and immediately a large number of talents will rush over to recommend themselves.
And Zhao Hu ordered his subordinates to recruit 3,000 soldiers, which can also be completed very easily, as soon as the banner is erected, a few shouts, the strong men with big votes flock to it, and even the idlers and ronins from other places are eager to sign up.
It's very simple, Zhao Hu's Shenlong soldiers have been famous after two major battles, and the treatment is so bad, and the samurai who are promoted by the one hundred and one hundred units have made all the guys who pursue to get ahead rush over like moths to a fire, and they are afraid that they will lose this opportunity.
So after a period of busyness, with the increase in manpower, all the affairs are executed in an orderly manner. The first to finish was of course the Five Thousand Divine Dragon Army, and all the new samurai went to the Tianlan Taoist Temple to learn power, and the rest began to train under the leadership of the samurai.
Weapons and equipment or something, the captured inventory is enough to arm 10,000 people, these 5,000 people are not trivial? Moreover, in order to restore the prosperity of the port and the castle town, Zhao Hu not only released the merchants and their servants, but also sent a condolence money, and also placed a batch of ordnance orders with the merchants.
Therefore, when the Zhao family gathered 5,000 people to start training, countless merchant ships began to pour into Lingjia Port from the sea.
Zhao Hu is naturally too lazy to take all the rights in his hands, he has a golden finger, even if all the rights are taken away by his subordinates, it doesn't matter, he can pull a group of subordinates again at any time, he is invincible, naturally he will not let himself work hard, and directly give all the rights below.
Zhao Hu's way of delegating power naturally won the favor of the retainers, and because Zhao Hu was not allowed to control the power, the power was divided very carefully, and each clerical retainer held a share of power, and no one could threaten Zhao Hu, the lord.
What is Zhao Hu, who threw things away, going to do? Of course, he began to inspect the situation in Lingwu City. Originally, Zhao Hu thought that he had directly recruited a full five thousand young people, and there would be a shortage of young people in his territory.
But after riding a horse and walking around the territory, I was a little stunned to find that there was no shortage of young people, and there were still a large number of young people in the farmland who were busy with spring ploughing.
In this regard, Zhao Hu naturally nodded with satisfaction, it seems that the feudal lord system of this world can hide a lot of population, give yourself such a pot, it is estimated that the number of young and strong people will increase several times compared to the number on Ling Wucheng's roster.
I realized that the people would not be short of labor because of their own large-scale military expansion. Zhao Hu naturally went to check the killer's situation with a relaxed attitude. He also has to start improving his strength, and now he has to raise his power to the Yellow Rank!