Chapter 120: Scouting Cavalry Company
Early the next morning, as soon as the day dawned, Lei Genghu impatiently came to Xinzhuangzi to ask to see Chen Xian.
When Chen Xian heard that Lei Genghu asked to see him, he handed over the command of the morning exercise to someone else for the first time, and immediately met with Lei Genghu.
As soon as Lei Genghu saw Chen Xian, he couldn't wait to say: "Chen Yuanwai, I have thought about what you said, and I promise you." ”
Chen Xian smiled slightly, first asked Lei Genghu to sit down, and then instructed the guards to give them two breakfasts, and then turned back to Lei Genghu with an eager face and said, "Since you agreed, then I will tell you my thoughts first." ”
"As I said yesterday, I paid for it, I went out of the land, repaired the barracks, the school field, the warehouse, as the base camp of the mercenary group, you came forward to recruit, organize, and train the mercenaries."
"I own eighty percent of this mercenary, and you own twenty percent of the shares."
Hearing that he only accounted for two percent of the shares, Lei Genghu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, Chen Xianyi interrupted him with a wave of his hand and continued: "Since you are a mercenary, you naturally want to make money, the way for this mercenary to make money is to escort the caravan, you are the captain, and the matter of escorting the caravan is naturally up to you, I will send a deputy head of the regiment to help you, a cashier to manage the money, an account room to keep accounts, you can also recruit an account office, we can supervise each other......"
"If the mercenary group makes money, I will divide the account in two, and if it loses, it will all be mine, how about it?"
After listening to the last sentence, Lei Genghu has no opinion, how can this business not make money and not lose money? Immediately nodded repeatedly.
Chen Xian said with a smile again: "This mercenary group is responsible for the caravan escort of the Yang and Bai families, and will even escort my caravan in the future, you will definitely not be able to do it alone, the Yang family, the Bai family will have some capable foreign surnames, you might as well recruit more people, as long as you are really capable, I will give you shares...... Of course, your Lei Sect Leader's stake is the most ......"
"In the future, if the business of the mercenary group is good, and Lei Jiaotou wants to monopolize it, it is not impossible, as long as I return the capital I invested in the early stage, I will sell all the shares to you......"
Sending away Lei Genghu, who was full of excitement, Chen Xian was busy digesting the team of Yang Bai's family again.
The generals of the giant and wealthy families are either the children of the clan or the slaves of the family, and they are all damaged by the master's family, and the few externally hired leaders are often old rivers and lakes, Chen Xian is not interested, and he plans to leave these old rivers and lakes to Lei Genghu.
Compared with the general, the relationship between Zhuang Ding and the main family is much farther.
For the recruitment and digestion of the two Zhuang Ding, Chen Xian has two most basic conditions, first, under the age of twenty-five, and the second is unmarried.
The reason why the conditions are relaxed so much is not to covet the bravery of these Zhuang Ding, to be honest, in Chen Xian's eyes, what soldiers need is discipline, not bravery.
He hoped to absorb as many of the unstable factors of Dong Zhuangzi as possible.
These Zhuang Ding have been trained and practiced martial arts, they are young and vigorous, brave and ruthless, and they have no production skills, and if they are left alone, they are a factor of instability.
The reason why the two levers of 25 years old and unmarried are demarcated is because Chen Xian found through his interactions with Wu Liang and them that most of the family members over the age of 25 have become veteran oilers, which is difficult to train, not to mention, and has stereotyped concepts, and it is also difficult to brainwash, and married people have too many fetters and are not suitable for becoming soldiers.
In this era, people in their twenties who are not married, if their limbs are sound, it often means that their family conditions are extremely poor, and such people are easier for Chen Xian to buy and brainwash.
After the twenty-five years old and the unmarried, Chen Xian absorbed half of the Zhuang Ding of the Yang and Bai families, and the remaining half, under Chen Xian's hint, the business names of the Yang and Bai families absorbed a small part, and the mercenary group established by Lei Genghu absorbed most of the rest.
Lei Genghu named this mercenary group "Flying Tiger Mercenary Group".
He regarded this mercenary group as his own family, and spared no effort to bring in more than a dozen masters from the external coaches of the Yang and Bai families, all of whom got more or less shares of the mercenary group from Chen Xian, and acted as the leaders of the mercenary group at all levels.
And Chen Xian stuffed a deputy head and financial director, an accountant, and a cashier into this mercenary group.
In this mercenary group, from the regiment commander Lei Genghu to the other deputy regiment commanders, and the subordinate detachment commanders, they all have a different number of financial signature rights, and with their signatures, they can receive cash from the cashier after being reviewed and signed by the deputy head of the regiment and the chief financial officer sent by Chen Xian. Even the monthly salaries of the mercenaries need to be signed by the deputy head sent by Chen Xian before they can be issued.
Such a financial system, in the eyes of Lei Genghu, seems to be a matter of course, because the money itself was given by Chen Xian, but they don't know that through this system, every member of the mercenary group clearly knows whose money they earn......
In addition to controlling the finances, the deputy head of the regiment sent by Chen Xian was also responsible for liaising business with the mercenary group and negotiating prices with the caravans in need of protection, while Lei Genghu, as the commander of the regiment, was only responsible for training and darts......
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Soon after sending Lei Genghu away, Xiao Jinyan took his family, hired a few ox carts, and pulled his belongings to Xinzhuangzi.
Xiao Jinyan's home is in Dongzhuangzi, he has a wife, two concubines, and three sons and two daughters, of which the eldest son and the second daughter are born to the wife, and the remaining two sons and one daughter are born to two concubines.
Mrs. Xiao is the daughter of an old boss of Xiao Jinyan, one of the two concubines was born in the dust, the other was born in the market, plus a few subordinates and maids, there are more than a dozen members in this family.
As soon as Chen Xian saw this scale, he immediately vacated two more adjacent small buildings, and divided the three small buildings that were connected together to the Xiao family.
For Chen Xian's arrangement, Xiao Jinyan is quite satisfied, this small brick and stone building, ventilation, lighting, and vision, are much stronger than the adobe yard, there are three small buildings, and the Xiao family is enough for more than ten people to live.
After settling the Xiao family, early the next morning, Chen Xian took Xiao Jinyan to the station of the reconnaissance cavalry company.
Chen Xian transferred the children of the mountain people who were good at shooting under his command, and selected some apprentices with better physical coordination and good martial arts, and gathered a total of 100 people to form this reconnaissance and cavalry company.
Although Chen Xian is currently mainly used as a scout, in his thoughts, this hundred scout cavalry will be his cavalry seed.
Although Chen Xian made muskets and artillery, he did not dare to underestimate the cavalry at all, because he knew that even in the Napoleonic era, cavalry was one of the most important components of the army, not to mention that his current arquebus, a small cannon of two or three catties, could not be compared with the flintlock pistol and twelve-pounder cannon in the Napoleonic era.
Even if he had an arquebus and formed an army similar to the Spanish phalanx, it could not change the fact that the cavalry was the king of the battlefield in this era.
In this era, only cavalry can truly defeat cavalry, so Chen Xian must establish cavalry in the future, otherwise his army will have a fatal flaw.