Guan Zhuofan paused and said, "I don't have any objections to this statement." Well, pruning and pruning leaves, cutting sores and scraping bones, and consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan will take time -- in short, in ten or eight years, the situation outside will not change much. ”

"I have an analogy: outside the barracks, there's a big dye vat -- all kinds of dirty colors! If we don't do this 'fully enclosed management' and let the sergeants come and go freely, well, the black, purple, blue and red outside also come in if you want to come in, then, you ask yourself, whether you are good or your officers and soldiers, can you not be contaminated with these pigments and not change the color? ”

"Who can guarantee that after a long period of immersion, the Xuan Army will not become the original infantry commander Yamen? Send out a hundred and twenty taels of silver a day, and receive two hundred taels of silver? If Xuan Jun really becomes like that-fuck, and have a bullshit?! ”

To tell the truth, the marshal's painstaking deliberations, almost none of the Chinese generals present - including Wall -- really thought about it. At most, I occasionally have similar vague thoughts, but they disappear in a flash, and I never think deeply about them. The marshal's instructions were really like Huang Zhong Da Lu, deafening, and everyone's minds were making waves, and the end was full of aftersounds, echoing endlessly.

"A large group of soldiers, practicing behind closed doors, seems to be a little boring, but have you really wronged them?"

"What is the duty of a soldier? It's a war! Win the battle! What does it take to win a battle? Practice! The fist does not leave the hand, the song does not leave the mouth, and the practice is repeated! It's like -- it is the duty of a minister to discuss politics in the court, and it is the duty of a businessman to take account of the counter, when there is no war. Drill -- that's the duty of a soldier! ”

"I said it. We're soldiers. There are only two things to do, the first is to fight! The second thing, prepare for war! There is no third piece! ”

"What we're doing now is to prepare for war!"

The generals listened enthusiastically, but the marshal didn't ask, and no one dared to speak out. It's just that some people's breathing involuntarily becomes heavy.

"'Don't practice three days a day', if you pull it out tomorrow, you will only 'sharpen the gun in battle' today, hum, it may be 'not fast and light', but, only the light is not fast, it is useless?!"

Guan Zhuofan paused, and suddenly shouted: "Do you understand? ”

"Ming-white!" The generals shouted in unison. The roof tiles trembled.

Guan Zhuofan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Besides, I said it." Think about the salaries of the soldiers of the Xuan Army! Ten taels of silver a month, twice as much as the Banner Camp and the Yong Battalion, and three times as much as the Green Camp - or the adapted Green Battalion! This salary is almost as good as the 'stall hand' of a small bank! ”

"With such a generous salary, I don't practice well and do my duty with all my heart, but I think about herding sheep all day long - what, you and I are raising white rice?!"

"Everyone, do the math, how much silver will the imperial court spend a year to raise our Xuan army?"

"Zuo Ji Gao's expedition to the west, the annual military expenditure is 3.5 million taels, let's not count the Jiangnan garrison, only the Tianjin headquarters, and the military salary alone - not counting other expenses, it is 6 million taels! Almost twice as much! Ladies and gentlemen, people are at war, let's just practice in the barracks! ”

"These six million taels of silver are all people's fat and people's anointing! It's all saved by tightening the belt of the imperial court! If we can't drill to make a show, are we worthy of the people's hard-earned money?! And, hum, can you stand the rumors of others?! ”

Guan Zhuofan's words seemed to be impassioned, but in the most sensitive part, he only brought a sentence very euphemistically - "wind and rumors", and did not say it directly. Although this is an internal meeting of Xuan Jun, it is a "conference" after all, not a private confrontation with his cronies.

What is the most sensitive part? What is "rumor"?

In the era of feudal farming, productivity was low, and maintaining a high-quality standing army for a long time was an almost impossible task. The flag camp and the green camp were regarded as the standing armies of the Qing Dynasty, and what they became later is obvious to all. This is not simply "corruption and degeneration", in fact, whether it is the flag camp or the green camp, it is getting poorer and poorer, not getting richer. In the end, the central government cannot afford to pay the high cost of a high-quality standing army in the long term.

The combat effectiveness of the Xuan army far surpasses that of its peers, and there are many reasons for this, but when it comes to a thousand ways and ten thousand, the first thing is still a high salary. If the soldiers of the Xuan Army could only get the military salary of one or two or five dollars a month in the green battalion before the reorganization, no matter how Guan Zhuofan opened the golden finger, the combat effectiveness of the Xuan Army would not be able to reach the current point.

High salaries are synonymous with high costs.

Originally, as soon as the war ended, it should be appropriately disarmed, and it is not necessary to continue to maintain an army of the size of the war, which is neither necessary nor financially burdenable, as has been the case in all countries of the world throughout the ages. However, the Xuan army did the opposite, and after the twisting and fighting, instead of being dismantled, there was a small increase.

This is naturally because the imperial court regards Xuanjun as a subordinate soldier and deliberately supports it.

However, the entire financial plate is so large, and the operating costs of the Xuan army are particularly high, so in order to maintain the Xuan army, it is necessary to drastically reduce expenditures in other areas -- mainly the abolition of the Hunan army and the Huai army.

Therefore, the abolition of Hunan and Huai is not only a political demand, but also an economic demand.

The adaptation of the green camp also has such a layer of consideration. After the reorganization, the total number of people in the green camp is less than one-third of the original one-third, and although the unit cost has doubled, the total cost is less than two-thirds of the original.

The saved resources were used on Xuan Jun.

The reason why Guan Zhuofan arranged the military parade of the Queen Mother in Tianjin also has such a meaning: the money is spent, investors must see the benefits, and people have to say: "This money is worth it!" ”

In this way, even if there is any "rumor" of "favoring one over the other", it doesn't matter, because no one can say that you are "a corpse meal" and "vain food".

So, give me a good drill!

In addition, uninterrupted training, in addition to improving and maintaining a high level of "competitive condition", also plays a similar role as football and rugby - consuming the soldiers' excess energy and hormones, so that they have no time or energy to toss other moths.

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After the adjournment of the meeting was announced, the generals stood up and saluted, and went out one after another.

"Zishan, you stay."

Ixan was stunned, replied "yes", stopped, and his heart couldn't help but jump.

The rest of the generals secretly looked at each other, and Bai Qiwen quietly stuck out his tongue.

In the case of Feng beating Li, Ixan advocated that Feng be dealt with lightly; In the case of Ma Jinzhong stealing out of the barracks, Ixan tried his best to defend Ma Jinzhong. Unexpectedly, it was all against the will of the marshal!

This is troublesome.

Everyone was gone, and Guan Zhuofan spoke: "Zishan, did you tell you about your family affairs in your family?" ”

Yes?!

*(To be continued......)

PS: Small preview: From tomorrow to the day after tomorrow, that is, from April 18th to April 20th, there will be two shifts a day, the first shift will be around 11 o'clock in the morning, and the second one will be around 8 o'clock in the evening.

In addition, it's been a long time since I've asked for tickets from my book friends.,Alas.,One change a day.,I'm embarrassed to open this mouth.。 In the future, the Lions Club will strive to increase the number of days of the two watches, if you still have extra monthly passes and recommended tickets in your hands, can you reward a lion? It can be regarded as a spur and encouragement to the lion, thank you!

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