The classroom of the Beiguan Military Fort Military Academy, after the officer training, it became Yate's mansion and the regiment command camp. ”

Odo, the adjutant in charge of the Legion's heavy duties, sat on a low bench opposite Yat and frowned, "My lord, the uneven distribution of weapons and armor will take some time, but more than half of the soldiers of the Fourth Banner Team of the First Company and the Fourth Banner Team of the Second Company have not been able to distribute the autumn and winter blankets and burqas and cloaks, and the two flag captains come to me every day to ask for supplies, and the valley tailors sent by the civil government to assist are not manpower enough to make them. Seeing that the weather is getting colder day by day, it is impossible to let the soldiers wear single clothes for the winter. ”

Some time ago, the focus of the two military procurement was weapons and armor, and the weather was still very hot at that time, and Yate did not pay attention to the problem of keeping warm clothes in the autumn and winter of the army, and as time went on, the weather gradually turned colder, and it was urgent to solve the problem of winter clothing.

Art kept tapping his fingers on the wooden table, thinking for a long time, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "Order the baggage team, let them hand over all the fabric of the army to the civil administration, and let the civil affairs mobilize the peasant women in the territory to help the soldiers make autumn and winter thick coats and burqas and cloaks, and by the way, they also make a batch of shoes and socks for backup, and the wages for the peasant women to sew clothes and shoes are paid by the army." ”

"I must tell the civil affairs that the quilt should be sewn strongly, and the cloak must be coated with dyes mixed with grease, and it is cold and damp in autumn and winter, and it often rains, and the soldiers have a waterproof cloak to protect themselves from the wind and rain to preserve some morale."

Odo thought about it for a moment and patted his head, "Yes, just let the peasant women in the territory help make the soldiers' uniforms, anyway, the farm work is idle at this time, and the women have the time and interest to do these sewing and mending things." ”

An old and difficult problem was solved, and Otto finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But then Odo's face was full of sadness, "My lord, there is barely a solution to the problem of winter clothing, but what about weapons and armor Yesterday, the border garrison and the border patrol team sent people to ask me for weapons and armor, but at present, the reserves in the legion arsenal are still insufficient, and there is no surplus equipment allocated to them." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the border garrisons and patrol teams might also face a crisis at any time, I would like to return the weapons and armor in their hands to the legion first and distribute the legionnaires."

Otto really can't help it, after several years of accumulation and several large-scale purchases more than a month ago, the legion's arsenal also has a lot of armaments, if it is a little more rudimentary, each person will be issued a short spear or a single sword short sword to replenish the number, these weapons and armor can barely equip more than five hundred people.

But Art didn't want to be simple, and each soldier had a basic full set of weapons, armor, and military items.

The consequence of not wanting to discount the weapons and armor of the soldiers is that there are still nearly 100 legionnaires who have not been issued weapons and armor for more than half a month, and they can only participate in training with long sticks and short sticks every day

Otto continued, "There is also the question of the horses of the Guards and the Cavalry, the Guards are your personal guards, and they are not very numerous, and the requirements for horses are not too high, but I have barely equipped them with one man and one horse. ”

"However, the cavalry team is different, although it is mainly light cavalry, but the horses used to participate in the cavalry battle must not be ordinary riding horses, in addition to a combat war horse, a cavalry also needs at least one daily riding or carrying weapons, armor, forage, and materials pack horses, and at the very least, a mule. And not only the cavalry and guards, but also the baggage brigade also needed more pack horses and mules and donkeys, and the border garrisons and patrol troops were also applying for leading horses. ”

"My lord, we only had a small reserve of military horses before, although Lusignnan and they bought seven or eight military horses from the Northland Ranch last time, the gap is still very large."

Listening to Odo's words, Art began to have trouble again, he scratched his scalp that had not been washed for more than ten days, and his eyebrows were wrinkled.

The root cause of all these difficulties is the lack of money in hand.

According to the soldiers' salaries, food and clothing and other consumption, the average monthly salary of each soldier is 60 pfennig, and the rest includes food, clothing, camp tents, etc., at least 40 pfennigs per month, in other words, each soldier has a fixed consumption of at least 100 pfennigs per month. 35xs and the soldiers under Art's command have exceeded 600, and the monthly fixed military expenditure alone exceeds 60,000 pfennig. And that's not even counting the expensive anomalous weapon armor consumption.

After leaving all the soldiers under his command for three months' salaries and military expenses, Art no longer had half a copper coin left in his hand.

"My father-in-law has replied to my letter asking for help, saying that after Felix returned to Sapbburg, he immediately began to build an elite army in Sapbburg, and that Sapbor is also shy of money at the moment, and will not be able to support us in the short term."

"My lord, there is no other way to replenish the military expenses, and the bow of the legion has already been loaded with arrows, and the string cannot be broken at this time." Otto said.

"Somehow," Yate let out a long sigh.

"I have ordered the civil administration to collect this year's Consular Shield Tax, and I have already collected 18,000 pfennigs of coins and equivalent food supplies, but this amount of money is enough for the legion to consume food for a month."

Odo shook his head and said softly, "My lord, I'm not talking about plucking hair from myself, I'm talking about plucking from the county."

"I can't imagine that a week ago I had ordered the border patrol team to take the patrol soldiers to all parts of the county to impose the security tax again, if I was lucky, I could forcibly levy twenty or thirty thousand fennigs, and if I was unlucky, maybe not as much as the hair we plucked ourselves."

Art had already sent a patrol team to the county to collect security taxes, but it was not so much a collection of taxes as a direct extortion of soldiers and bandits crossing the border.

In order to keep the legion running normally and improve its strength, Art even ordered the bandits who were secretly manipulating to go to several wealthy villages in the county to rob them, but this kind of thing also depends on the sky, and no one can guarantee the outcome.

"My lord, why don't we go out with the army to suppress the bandits, as long as we can annihilate a few large-scale bandits, we can survive the current predicament by capturing them." Otto thought of another way to make a quick buck.

"Suppress bandits, how can there be bandits in the county that are worth our hands, and the bandits of a little scale have been killed by us, and now the most powerful in the county is Lei Duoan, you let me go to exterminate Lei Duoan, not to mention that the legion has just been established, most soldiers can't even hold swords, I am afraid it will be a little difficult to suppress bandits by them, at least I will have to train for a few more months." Art dismissed Otto's suggestion.

"Then what should we do, or we will ask Earl Balwyn for help, his fief is very large, and it should be no problem to support five or six hundred people."

Art picked up a secret letter from the table and threw it to Otto, "This is the news that Hawkeye just came back, Earl Balwyn has built two new legions of more than 1,000 people in the eastern province of Jonah, plus the original border legion, Jonah has supplied nearly 3,000 people, and the civilians of Jonah Province are afraid that they have already shed several layers of skin." ”

If open source fails, it can only go back to throttling.

"My lord, if the treatment of the legionnaires is reduced from now on, and the military salary does not have to be paid in full, so that some money can be saved."

"It is impossible to reduce the salary and delay the payment of military salaries, and it is easy to bring turmoil to do such things when the regiment is first established. But you reminded me that we could persuade the legionnaires to voluntarily put one-third of their salaries into the Continental Comptoir, from which we would lend it to us. In the past, many military officers and civil affairs officials had already invested in the firms, which was also a contingency measure. ”

Otto nodded, "Well, tomorrow morning we can hold a military meeting and send this matter to the officers at all levels, and they will mobilize the soldiers." ”

Art moved his butt from the chair, sat up straight, and said to Otto with a serious face, "But these are expedient measures, and I have consulted with several officials of the civil administration for the past few days to find a method," Art recounted his thoughts.

"How much do you want to borrow from the knights of the Order, why do they lend it to us" In Odo's understanding, it had always been the church that organized donations and taxes from believers, and he never thought that he could take silver coins out of the church's purse.

"The Knights of the Order have money in their coffers that they cannot spend for hundreds of years, and I have already inquired about the Knights' vaults in recent years, which have been borrowing money from nobles and merchants to collect the fruits. As long as we have the ability to repay the money and interest, and we have a guarantee, we will definitely be able to borrow a lot of money from their coffers. ”

"So how much are you going to borrow?"

"Half a million pfennigh, with the entire Barony of the Valley as collateral for borrowing"

Valley Wooden Castle, in Emma's tavern.

Bangeda, the captain of the fourth banner of the first company of the legion, was holding a glass of beer, and said to Klaus, the captain of the heavy infantry beside him, in a depressed tone: "Brother, I really envy you, now you have become the commander of the heavy infantry team, and you follow the adults every day to accept the direct command of the adults. And your heavy infantry team enjoys the best treatment, and we light infantry really can't compare with you."

"There are more than 200 people in the first company, and the rest of the flag team is full, and my fourth flag team is less than forty people; If the soldiers were short, I endured the distribution of the main flag team in front of me, but when it came to the distribution of weapons and armor, I was only assigned seventeen sets of weapons and armor, and even the quilt was only divided into less than twenty sets, you say I," Bangada said helplessly, with a sour taste in his tone.

Klaus poured a full glass of wine into Bangada and comforted: "Man, you and I should be content, directly promoted from squad leader to flag captain, this is already the greatest preferential treatment and reward given to us by the legion, you and Paster are the least senior among the light infantry flag team officers, of course you have to be the last when distributing soldiers and supplies, this is nothing to complain about."

"I'm not complaining, but watching my soldiers train with sticks in single clothes, I feel a little uncomfortable."

Klaus was relieved to Bangada again

While Bangada and Klaus were drinking in the tavern to relieve their boredom, the two new legionnaires and other soldiers took advantage of the rest day to buy wintering skins and groceries.

But unlike the others, the money bags in the arms of these two men were too bulging, and their falcon-like eyes glanced at the Wooden Castle Lord's mansion from time to time

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Chapter 240: Money and Food are Tight