Chapter 102: Becoming an Army
Three hundred Shenzhou elites, one hundred Henghai armor soldiers, silently disappeared into the Great Green Mountain.
Not a single captive remained. Although some people proposed to use the captured Heng naval sergeants as bargaining chips to extort a sum of money from Zhu Jun in Shiyi, Li Ze flatly refused.
Let's not say that Shiyi is really poor now, and the Zhu army who is stationed there has no money left at all, just out of secrecy about his strength, Li Ze will never agree to let Zhu Hui, who has seen his true strength head-on, go back.
Those people were all killed at the foot of the Baizhang Rock. A large pit buried all these people, filled with earth, and the soldiers rode on their horses and galloped back and forth on it, and then they were trampled tightly, and it was the middle of spring, and in a few days, the grass would cover this area again, and perhaps it would grow more luxuriant than the rest because of the countless fertilizers underneath.
In this battle, Li Ze gained not only an army loyal to him, but also a lot of wealth. It seems that raising an army and fighting a war are extremely expensive things, but as long as you win, the gains are also extremely huge.
There are four hundred sets of armor, and this income alone can make Li Ze smile and crook his mouth. You must know that he has worked hard for all these years, and in the end, he only knocked out twenty sets from Yang Kai, and after this battle, his gain is twenty times that of this number. Now, his secret camp can finally be armoured, which can directly make their combat effectiveness go to the next level.
More than three hundred war horses. It made Li Zexi smile. Compared with armor, war horse resources are even more rare. After all, as long as you have money, there are still many ways to get it, but it's really hard to find a qualified war horse. Earlier, Li Ze got some from Lu Long through Wang Mingyi's line, but they were all scattered and sneaky, and they were done twice, less than twenty horses. Although the quality is good, the quantity is too small to play a big role.
But 300 horses is already from quantitative change to qualitative change.
Aside from these, the weapons of those armorers were enough for Li Ze to arm hundreds of people. His young men no longer had to carry a simple version of their spear. The armor soldiers are armed from short to long, with long spears, horizontal knives, and short blades, all of which are standard in the army.
Now in addition to the three hundred warriors in the secret camp, the two thousand young warriors who have been assembled, Li Ze is no longer ready to disband them and go home according to the convention. He is ready to turn them into a regular army.
He is not optimistic about this time Chengde, Zhenwu, Henghai three families against Lu Long, once it fails, these areas are only afraid that there will be changes immediately, and it is inevitable that the beacon fire is everywhere, for people like Zhang Zhongwu, it is strange not to beat the water dog. He can't pin his own safety on others, and he has a force for self-preservation, which is the most basic. The worst thing is that when the time comes, taking these people to Daqingshan to be bandits can support them for a while, right?
Back in Zhuangzi, Li Ze's small circle was once again summoned. Compared to the last time, the slaughter of the tiger is back, and an additional Yang Kai has been added.
After Mrs. Wang entered Wuyi City, Yang Kai has been serving the left and right carefully, and his intentions are even more attentive than serving his own mother. The level of worry about this battle is even greater than that of Mrs. Wang. When the news of the victory came, Madam Wang just breathed a long sigh of relief and recited Amitabha, but Yang Kai danced with his hands.
In the next period of time, he worked hard for Li Ze with higher energy than before. His current job is mainly to raise enough money and food for Li Ze, and to strive to maintain stability and normal production in the county.
This time, he did not hesitate to open the county's Changping position and transported a large amount of grain for Li Ze. Now, he has no scruples. Yizhou's warm attitude made him realize a lot, and now Wuyi is the little boy's own land, and his own family, I'm afraid that he can't be regarded as an official of Yizhou, but a servant of the little son.
Although it was a bit aggrieved to change from an official to a servant, Yang Kai felt very happy when he imagined the bright prospects that might be possible in the future.
In view of Yang Kai's excellent performance all the time and the fact that this poor county magistrate had no way out for a long time, Li Ze included him in his small circle. Although this talent has a limit, but now in Li Ze's camp, he is the one who reads the most, and his mind is still smart, and his methods are also very active.
Of course, the most important thing is loyalty. Even if it's loyalty in desperation.
He can't be disloyal, if Li Ze loses, his end will definitely be miserable.
"I have decided that the two thousand young men who participated in the battle this time will be retained as a standing army." Li Ze looked at everyone and said slowly in an unquestionable tone, ignoring Yang Kai's instantly collapsed face and Xia He, whose small face was crumpled behind him. With the scale of a county or a medium-sized county, it is not very difficult to raise a standing army of 2,000 people. If it's a secret camp again, then the situation is even more worrying.
Xia He flipped through the account book in a hurry, quickly calculating how much money and food she needed to support two thousand people for a year, and she was extremely fast in mental arithmetic, so she easily came up with a number, and then looked up at Li Ze sadly.
Yang Kai didn't have a specific concept, but he knew that it would take a lot of money and a lot of food, and in the end, I was afraid that most of it would fall on him.
"I know it's extremely difficult for us to be financially on top of that, but given the current situation, we have to. Money, we can find a way, food, we can look everywhere, but we must have such a force, which can have a little ability to protect ourselves in times of danger." Li Ze said slowly. At the very least, we have to stick to this year, and after this year passes, it may be clear what the situation will be, and at that time, either we no longer need to maintain such a force, or we no longer need to worry about money and food."
Everyone understood the meaning of Li Ze's words.
If Lu Long wins this big battle, then Chengde will inevitably be in chaos, and they will not have too many scruples, a strong force is enough for them to find their place in the chaos. Once the situation is reversed, Chengde wins, the eldest prince who returns from victory will inevitably suppress Li Ze with all his might, under the strong oppression of the other party, this amount of strength is also a drop in the bucket, and it will not help.
"Two thousand young and strong, divided into two songs. A song is led by Shi Zhuang, and there are three tuns, Shi Zhuang personally leads a tun, Li Hao leads a tun, and Chen Bing leads a tun. The other song is led by Shen Congxing, Shen Congxing personally leads a tun, Li Han leads a tun, and Chu Sheng leads a tun. There are three troops under each tun. The chief is personally selected by the tun chief. The secret camp was expanded to 500 people, led by Tu Lichun, with Li Mi and Chen Changping as deputies. As my pro-guard righteous servant. Do you have any comments on this arrangement?"
Everyone glanced at each other, and they all shook their heads, Li Ze's arrangement was not revealed, and he quietly grasped the entire military power firmly in the palm of his hand.
Shi Zhuang looked clear, but Shen Congxing was sweating in his palms with excitement. From now on, he will become the right-hand man of the little boy, and he will become an important person like Shi Zhuang and Tu Lichun.
"In terms of civil affairs, it is naturally headed by Yang Kai." Li Ze turned his head to look at Yang Kai, and a bright smile appeared on his face: "It's not an easy thing to feed an army of two thousand five hundred people, is Yang County Ling determined?"
Yang Kai showed a smile that was even uglier than crying, and nodded, "Yes."
Li Ze smiled, looked at Tu Hu and said, "Tu Hu, you have the name of a county in the county government, and the future income of Yixingtang will be settled together with the financial income of Wuyi County."
"Got it, Childe." Tu Hu nodded. This is the meaning of entering the public privately, of course, from another aspect, Li Ze now regards Wuyi County as his own private property. Merge together and allocate all resources together.
"Childe, in view of the current economic difficulties, I suggest that we implement economic control in Wuyi. Unified purchase and sales, price control, collection of all resources by the county government unified distribution." Tuhu Dao.
Li Ze looked at Tu Hu and was surprised in his heart, this guy is right, but it's a planned economy! As a person who has come before, he certainly understands the advantages and disadvantages of the planned economy and the market economy. After turning around in my mind for a while, I realized that it seemed more advantageous for me to engage in a planned economy now.
"This matter, you, Yang Kai, and Xia He will discuss it." Li Zedao: "I'll write a general strategy for you when I go back, and then you can consider it in combination with the actual situation of Wuyi."
In the previous life, as a successful person, he did extremely in-depth research on the economic economy and market economy, in fact, in the previous life as a businessman to his extent, has inevitably been closely integrated with politics, if you do not conform to the political trend, no matter how much assets, will be wiped out in an instant under the thunder power of the government. If that big businessman told Li Ze that he didn't pay attention to politics at all and only focused on business, Li Ze would definitely spit on him.
Tu Hu no longer doubted Li Ze's ability in this regard, when he took over Yixingtang, he was at a loss, it was Li Ze's whimsical ideas one after another, which brought Yixingtang back to life, and developed to the current scale, since the little boy said that he would come up with a strategy, then he only needs to act according to the rules, at most, it is to pick up the missing pieces and solve some small things that the little boy has not noticed.
Of course, Yang Kai was also happy, and in this way, the power of his county order was greatly enhanced.