said a thousand ways and ten thousand, in fact, killing people is for Liwei!

As for the sake of the glory and wealth of others, it is just a consolation for others, and it does not matter whether you believe it or not.

The important thing is that killing people can indeed deter the morale of the military.

That's enough.

This side killed people under the pretext of military discipline, and the other side naturally summoned the generals in the army and let them gather together to discuss matters. Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng, Ma Shixiu, Lu Ding and other generals were all under Zuo Liangyu, while Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Wang Fuchen and others were born in the Liukou Western Army.

But none of them have any cold thoughts today, and anyone can guess what today's meeting is going to discuss.

Just as they were discussing various reasons with great concern, they only heard someone shouting from there:

"The general has arrived!"

When everyone heard this, they all got up and stood up, and when General Zhu Guo came over, they all saluted him solemnly.

"The last general will see the general!"

Standing at the top of the main hall, Zhu Guoqiang raised his hand and said:

"Excuse me!"

After sitting on the chair, Zhu Guoqiang turned over his hand and pressed it.

"Sit,"

At this time, everyone sat down one after another, and after everyone sat down, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"I invite you to come over today, firstly, because everyone is now under my command, and they should naturally be familiar with working together, and secondly, because we want to make adjustments to the establishment of the battalions, I don't know what the generals want?"

As soon as Zhu Guoqiang's words fell, Yan Yingyuan beside him held a large stack of documents and handed them out to the generals.

"This is the charter of the town guard land battalion drawn up by this general, and there are explanations on the establishment, configuration and number of people of the town guard land battalion, let's take a look at it first! Do you have any comments? ”

The so-called town guard land battalion is actually an independent brigade composed of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineer and other soldiers by borrowing from the late Qing Dynasty's "mixed association". The strength of the army is about 6,000 people, which is more than a battalion of the Pinglu Army, but far less than a town.

According to Zhu Guoqiang's assumption, in addition to more than a dozen division-like "towns" as the backbone of the future army, the "mixed battalion" of about 6,000 people will be the real main force; after all, in this era, the strength of the army is limited, but the well-trained mixed battalion is enough to form an overwhelming advantage. Any more would be a waste of troops. Of course, it is also necessary to take precautions against the surrender of troops and generals, and of course it is necessary to control the strength of troops at their disposal.

"General Hui, I have no opinion!"

Without even looking at it, Ma Jinzhong immediately replied.

Zhu Guoqiang just nodded, and then said.

Originally, Wuchang had 100,000 soldiers from the original Zuo battalions and 100,000 people, and 130,000 battalions from the original Western Army these days. It seems like a vast army of hundreds of thousands, but in my opinion, it is only a vain momentum. Therefore, it must be abolished, and the weak must be eliminated and the strong must be retained. ”

Naturally, everyone has been prepared for this for a long time, after all, hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed around Wuchang, which is not a long-term solution in itself, only Ma Shixiu asked tentatively.

"I don't know what standard the general uses to dismiss?"

"Those who are over eighteen years old, under forty years old, four feet eight inches tall, have no bad habits, and those who do not have dark diseases are retained, and others are dismissed at a rate, of course, for those who are dismissed, it is not a chance to ignore them, and those who are dismissed will be given 30 acres of land and 10 taels of silver."

The price of the rotten places is that millions of people have been killed, but this also gives Zhu Guoqiang a large amount of ownerless land to settle the demobilized soldiers, but these soldiers are not "new military households", but they are similar to the treatment of the government to recruit displaced people, and they are exempt from tax for three years. If there is any preferential treatment, it is that an additional ten taels of silver are given for settling-in expenses.

But even so, everyone was stunned when they heard this, whether they agreed or not, they all understood in their hearts that thirty acres of land and ten taels of security fees meant a good life for wives and children, all of which could meet all the imagination of the vast majority of people for the future.

And this also means that as long as the general spreads this news to the battalions, the officers and men in the battalions will be willing to be dismissed, and many of them are unwilling to be forcibly conscripted or taken captive to serve as soldiers. Now that they have the opportunity to live a peaceful life, how could they refuse?

"General, this, this, does it include the original Xiying surrender ......?"

Li Dingguo asked tentatively, although when he surrendered that day, the general had said that except for those who were retained for meritorious service, everyone else would be dismissed, but when he heard that the soldiers who were dismissed actually had such good treatment, he was naturally a little moved.

"Hmmm......"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"On that day, you and others led the troops to "revolt before the battle", which can be regarded as a retribution, and how can this general not remember the merits of everyone's uprising at that time, but ......"

Staring at Li Dingguo and the others, he said again.

"In Yueyang, except for the soldiers and horses under the command of Wang Fuchen who rebelled in front of the formation, abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, the other soldiers were prisoners of war, except for a few new captives, who were released on the spot, and the others waited for the local tuntian, and then exiled overseas, of course, if they made contributions in the tuntian, it is not impossible to stay in the mainland."

As soon as Zhu Guoqiang's words fell, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and other Xiying generals all got up and saluted.

"Thank you, General, for your kindness!"

Looking at their grateful looks, Zhu Guoqiang felt a little proud in his heart, but with a carrot, he successfully disintegrated hundreds of thousands of "Great Western Army". In fact, for him, what he is really most worried about is the "Great Western Army", the current Great Western Army is when the soldiers are strong and strong, unlike other rogue armies full of old and weak women and children, Zhang Xianzhong's captives only captivate strong men over the age of 15 and under the age of 20. As a result, most of its troops are young and able-bodied.

Because of this, how to place them has become the most headache. Exile overseas may be a good option, but when hundreds of thousands of people are going to be transported, these people can't always be kept in military camps.

Or treat the members separately first, Li Dingguo and others under the command of them are considered "uprisings", and they can be regarded as criminals, as for the prisoners under Yueyang City, they are prisoners, of course, they must be exiled.

In this way, the seemingly strong Western Army was "divided into two", the signs of instability were reduced to the bottom, and the rest were directly organized into Minzhuang, while continuing to serve the army, while waiting for the arrival of the ship, and then shipped overseas with the ship.

After solving the problem of disarmament, the more important question is how to keep the soldiers, and the easiest way is to treat them -- as soon as the treatment of the military households of the Pingyu Army came out, everyone was dumbfounded for a while, if they still resisted the reorganization in their hearts before, then after learning that "one or two military salaries in one month, and 100 acres of military land will be exempted from military land after retirement", they can only die of that thought.

For the soldiers in the army, they only have this treatment in their eyes, and there is no so-called general, if they dare to have different intentions, it is estimated that someone will immediately take their heads for military merits.

Under such a series of operations, only 80,000 of the 200,000 Zuojia troops remained, and the remaining 120,000 were placed in various parts of Huguang. After the reorganization of the 130,000 Liukou of the Great Western Army, there were less than 50,000 elites left, and the rest were placed in various parts of Huguang together with the officers and soldiers of the left battalion.

As for the remaining 100,000 prisoners of war, they were scattered in Wuchang, Chengtian and other places. The ownerless fields they cultivated were to be used as official land for future rewards to military households. Even Zhu Guoqiang specially informed the officers and men of the battalions who were undergoing retraining about the news.

Once these people make trouble, the first people to go up and fight with them are these "recruits" who are undergoing training, after all, this is a matter of their own interests -- whether there is "100 acres of military land" or not depends on whether they are honest or not.

Of course, in addition, Zhu Guoqiang deliberately deployed the cavalry in the Tuntian area on both sides of the Yangtze River, and as soon as they made the slightest move, the cavalry would try their best to kill the rebellion.

Trust does not mean indulgence, and oversight does not mean distrust. Only by strictly supervising them can we avoid some unpleasant things from happening in the future, in fact, Zhu Guoqiang also thinks too much, after all, as long as Li Dingguo and them do not betray, even if there are a few chaotic soldiers, it will not become a climate.