A large number of soldiers and horses scattered out, and began to clear the remnants of large and small cottages in the whole territory of Shandong with the old and the new.

Wang Xiao's dispatch was to suppress the Koukou in the eastern part of the country, and it was a matter of course to crack down on the cottages in various places.

And this time, in addition to military training, the most important task is to collect supplies.

Wang Xiao, who originally thought that he was quite wealthy, suddenly felt the pressure after having more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians under his command.

"Raising soldiers is really the most expensive thing in the world. It's no wonder that three-quarters of Da Song's income is spent on this. ”

The recruitment of soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty was a recruitment system, and after recruitment, the first thing to do was to give a settling-in fee, which was called a recruitment example in this era.

The average standard is 10 times a person's money.

Wang Xiao recruited 20,000 people, and even if the people only gave half of it, it would be almost 100,000 yuan to spend.

It's just a settling-in fee.,It's a birthday gang out.。 Wang Xiao himself wants to rob the birthday gangs of the ministers in the court.

According to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, after becoming a sergeant, you can let the family members of the army move into the barracks together.

On the one hand, this is welfare, and on the other hand, it is a restriction on flight.

Because once a soldier escapes, his family will be punished as slaves.

Fortunately, all the recruits this time are bachelors, and there is no trouble in this regard for the time being.

Then it's time for the moon.

According to the different establishments of the Song Army, the distribution of the Yu Lu is also different.

The lowest-ranking box army only has 500 yuan, and most of them are sent with Jiaozi salt cloth or something.

But the soldiers and horses under Wang Xiao's command belong to the highest-level forbidden army in terms of establishment. Their monthly salary is 1,000 yuan, that is, consistently.

Second only to the highest-paid Imperial Front Banzhi.

This is also the main reason why when Wang Xiao erected the banner of recruitment, so many Shandong Hans were willing to join the army.

The recruitment of high-level forbidden troops with a serious shortage of personnel is a good thing that is rare for many years.

The 6,000 regular soldiers under Wang Xiao's command, some of the imperial court gave money to Wang Xiao, as long as Wang Xiao did not eat empty salaries, he did not have to pay for these 6,000 people.

But the more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians who accompanied the army were not good. Even if the income is halved, a person will have to pay 500 yuan a month. These seven or eight thousand yuan have to be paid by Wang Xiao himself.

Of course, the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army often used Jiaozi cloth, silk and salt and other materials to deduct military salaries, and the standard of deduction was also determined above. Therefore, the forbidden army often has troubles.

In order to win the hearts of the army, Wang Xiao has always insisted on distributing copper coins.

The military heart is taken over, but it means great financial pressure for him.

In addition to the monthly salary, the army also had to distribute food and clothing.

The standard was that each soldier could receive two to two and a half stone of food per month. Of course, this food is included for the families of the soldiers.

The sergeants in Wang Xiao's army almost had no family members, which meant that they were taken in vain. That's a lot of money.

The family members of the military here refer to their wives and children, excluding their parents, brothers, and so on.

Clothes are distributed in spring and winter, and the standard is six pieces of cloth and silk, and twelve taels of cotton. In addition, there is 3,000 wen with clothes.

In practice, because the generals at all levels stretched out their hands layer by layer, less than half of them could really fall into the hands of the sergeants.

is like the lowest-status van army, and even all year round is in rags, and the whole family can't eat.

The Forbidden Army is a little better, but not much better.

Under this kind of treatment, I want these people to throw their heads and spill their blood for those old men who oppress, scold, insult and enslave them on weekdays when they are in a national crisis. That's really thinking too much.

This is also the reason why when the Jin soldiers went south, the forbidden army known as 800,000 disappeared.

They would rather drag Zhao Song to hell together than die for Zhao Song.

is still the same as before, Wang Xiao can not eat empty salaries by himself, and he can also suppress the generals under his command to stretch out their hands. So as to ensure the treatment of 6,000 regular soldiers.

But the money, food, clothes and so on that accompanied the soldiers and civilians had to be supported by him out of his own pocket.

Finding a way to make money and food has become Wang Xiao's top priority.

It is also because Wang Xiao's reputation for treating sergeants favorably has spread that so many people want to vote for him.

"Where do you go to get some money?"

This was Wang Xiao's first thought after waking up every day during this time.

Those cottages in Shandong, large and small, that did not take refuge in Liangshan, fell into blood mold.

Wang Xiao, who was full of morale, robbed the cottages everywhere, attacking one by one, and breaking one by one.

Everything in the cottage is all scraped away, even the needles and threads.

These things can be handed over to the old lady Hu to take out and sell. It's more or less some income.

In just two months, there were no large-scale bandits in Shandong, where bandits were once rampant.

Most of the famous ones were exterminated, and the rest of the small ones fled elsewhere. There are only a few solo households left who do cutting and trading.

Wang Xiao calculated his income, counting the previous seizures, it can roughly last for about half a year.

"Where do you go to get some money?"

Wang Xiao had a headache again.

Zhu Biao came back, and he also brought a large amount of military salaries, military rations and other materials.

"General." Zhu Biao came to Wang Xiao to restore his life: "The last general is back." ”

Wang Xiao nodded and said, "Everything is done?" ”

"Yes." Zhu Biao responded, "He sent 20,000 yuan to Captain Sun, who was in charge of the library, and he was very happy." Opened various forbidden army warehouses and selected them at will. ”

The military industry of the Great Song Dynasty is very high, and it can even be said that it is the best in the world.

It's just that if you want to get good ordnance, you first have to fix it, and then you have to fix the storehouse. That's how you can get good stuff.

If you don't pay for it properly or don't pay at all, you can only receive rusty armor, moldy clothes, old swords and guns, and shields barely wrapped in rattan.

This kind of lawsuit is useless even if it goes to the front of the emperor, because it is impossible for Zhao Ji to go to the treasury to check.

"Light armor, chain mail totaling 8,000 sets. Step man A thousand five. Three thousand iron shields, six thousand iron shields wrapped in cowhides. There are a total of 4,300 crossbows and crossbows, including 800 crossbows. There were 40,000 sets of military uniforms and 3,500 tents. Six hundred and twenty carts. Four hundred mules and horses. ”

After a pause, Zhu Biao continued: "The last general also brought back the military salary, food and clothing issued by the imperial court this time. However, before leaving Bianliang City, most of the three yas were directly deducted. ”

"I already know about this, and it's for the expenses of those who eat empty salaries in Bianliang City."

Wang Xiao snorted, "It doesn't matter, how much do you take now." In the future, you will give me ten times more and a hundred times more vomit. ”

"Is there any interesting news in Bianliang City?"

Zhu Biao thought for a while and said, "Some time ago, the Emperor of the Heavenly Family disappeared, and the people of Bianliang City were rumored that it was Cai Xianggong's lack of virtue that caused this disaster. It is said that he is ready to resign. ”

Wang Xiao grinned, but he didn't expect that the person who was unlucky because of Zhao Fujin was Cai Jing.

"What's more, when the Liangshan thieves were executed, Li Kui, who was known as the black whirlwind, actually resisted for five days and five nights before dying, and was regarded as the reincarnation of a demon by the people of Bianliang City."

Speaking of this, Zhu Biao was very excited.

He finally got his revenge.

"The vitality is quite tenacious." Wang Xiao picked up the water cup and drank water, "There is no useful news?" ”

"Fang La, the leader of the Manichaean bandits, made a lot of noise. swept through 52 counties in six states, with hundreds of thousands of troops. claimed to be a holy father, and also built a pseudo-era name Yongle. The imperial court mobilized the Western Army to quell the rebellion, but I heard that the vanguard of the Western Army suffered a big defeat. ”

Manichaeism has another well-known name, and that is Mingjiao.

And Fang La Jianyuan Yongle, Zhu Di is not the first to use this era name. Maybe the Ming Dynasty really has some inexplicable relationship with the Ming Sect.

As for those who have hundreds of thousands of troops or something, don't believe it. Even if there are so many people, most of them are the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and children and women.

"The Western Army is defeated?" Wang Xiao was a little surprised.

This shouldn't be, in history, it only took more than a year for the Western Army to exterminate Fang La, so it wouldn't be a big defeat.

It is not surprising that Fang La can sweep Jiangnan.

The decay of the Great Song army is shocking.

The forbidden army near Bianliang City has rotted like that, but it is actually quite good in the entire army of the Great Song Dynasty.

The forbidden army in Bianliang City generally only ate half of the empty salary. And the forbidden army and the box army in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, only one or two of the ten registered people are even alive.

As for combat effectiveness, that is, don't mention it.

Of course, such soldiers and horses cannot be Fang La's opponents, and it is only natural that they will be swept away.

But the Western Army is the most capable elite field army in the Great Song Dynasty, and the rabble in the face of Fang La should be devastated. How could the battle be defeated.

In the face of Wang Xiao's question, Zhu Biao explained, "This last general is not very clear, but when I was drinking with the people of Sanyazhong, I heard that it was the advance of the Western Army that attacked lightly, and thousands of people were led into the ravine. After that, the ambushes were everywhere, rocks fell on the mountains, and fires everywhere were defeated. ”

"Oh." Wang Xiao nodded in understanding.

If it is a light enemy, it is indeed possible to besiege by taking advantage of the geographical advantage.

"When the last general was drinking, he heard a message." Zhu Biao continued: "The defeat of the Western Army had a great impact on the imperial court, and it is said that the Prime Minister proposed to send me to the south of the Yangtze River with the right wing of the Japanese army. ”

Wang Xiao waved his hand to let Zhu Biao go down to rest, thinking about the reliability of this news.

This time to attack Fangla, it is said that 150,000 western troops were mobilized. After deducting the empty salary, there are at least 80,000 or 90,000 elites.

The defeat of the striker and the loss of several thousand people are not a big deal.

Mobilizing himself to the south, it should be that some people do not want to see the Western Army, or that Tong Guan is gaining power, this is to share the military merits of the Western Army. even wants to push a force that can compete with the Western Army out.

Although Huizong said that the traitors were in charge, the traitors were also divided into factions.

For example, Tong Guan has commanded the Western Army for many years and has a huge influence. It is very difficult to deal with the Taiwei Gao Yu in the court.

This time to clear Fang La, it is obviously another great feat. Gao Yu and others didn't want to see him continue to grow bigger, and it was a matter of course to push Wang Xiao out to share military merits.

They didn't do this in the past, because they really couldn't find a real soldier in their hands.

Now that Wang Xiao came out, Gao Yu and the others immediately pushed him out without hesitation to fight with the Western Army.

After Zhu Biao came out, he saw Hu Cheng waiting for him outside.

"Don't say anything, you come with me."

Hu Chenghu blushed and took Zhu Biao directly to the main house in Hujiazhuang.

When I walked into the hall, I saw Mrs. Hu sitting in the middle. And Hu Sanniang, who was still sitting with her eyelids down, was still sitting on the side.

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