Chapter 379: The Old Subordinates of the Secret Meeting (Page 1/1)

At the beginning, Ling Xia left 500,000 regular war guards in various territories, after Ling Xia left, the situation in the northern theater was changeable, first the war guards were defeated by the Japanese Kou, and then Gangning Ichiro led his troops to attack, and several independent territories around him were also eyeing up, facing pressure from all sides, Chen Fuchen and the four of them consulted Xia Ning'er at the same time, and at the same time expanded their military preparations, each of the six territories recruited 1 million troops, and the strength of each territory increased from the previous 500,000 to 1.5 million.

It is precisely because of the replenishment of new recruits that this can deter the restless factors around, but there are advantages and disadvantages to things, although the strength of the six major territories has been tripled, but the consumption of grain, grass and military salaries in the territory has also increased exponentially, and the taxes of the provinces within the territory have been stretched, in desperation, Chen Fuchen came up with an idea of recruiting militiamen, recruiting middle-aged people from among the people to participate in temporary military service.

To put it bluntly, the militia formed by Chen Fuchen is a kind of semi-military service, they usually focus on farming, and only when they encounter war, because they are not regular soldiers, so the yamen does not need to pay military salaries, although they do not need to spend military salaries, but in order to support those militiamen, Chen Fuchen uses the grain grown by the militia as military food, and when the crop harvest season, each militia can receive three times the quota of food, in addition, the militia family can be exempted from paying taxes.

In this way, a large number of militia were recruited in various territories, although most of the militia were peasants, and they could not go to the battlefield at all, but it was okay to scare the enemy with them, when Ling Xia first came to the city wall, he was also frightened by the soldiers above, after listening to the militia construction system, Ling Xia sincerely praised Chen Fuchen and a few people, he suggested that Chen Fuchen revise and improve the rules of militia recruitment, and use the conditions of preferential treatment of military families to continue to recruit regular soldiers with combat effectiveness.

"Still conscripting?" Hearing Ling Xia's words, everyone except for Lu Zhu Weng, the rest all showed a trace of doubt: "Raising soldiers is too expensive, the militia is better, at most they have divided all the food, but the regular army is different, food, military salaries, equipment, medicinal materials, training, these are all silver, with the strength of our territories, it is easy to hoard 500,000 troops in each territory, hoarding 1 million troops consumes all the family funds, hoarding 1.5 million troops is overstretched, and hoarding 2 million overdraft limits." ”

"It's because of burning money, so I asked you to revise the militia recruitment rules, and find a way to recruit the regular army with the conditions for recruiting militia, I know that raising soldiers burns money, but you have to hoard soldiers if you burn money, although we don't need it now, but sooner or later we can use it in the future, raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while, and then recruit temporarily when it's really time to use soldiers, and then the daylilies will be cold." After saying this, Ling Xia paused, and then continued: "Each territory has at least five million troops. ”

"Five...... Million? A regrouped corps? If you use war to raise war, you can still give it a try, but if you simply hoard and raise soldiers, we can't afford to raise it at all. Hearing Ling Xia's request, Chen Fuchen and the others all gasped.

"If you can't afford it, you have to raise it, and only when you have soldiers can you have the right to speak." Ignoring everyone's surprised expressions, Ling Xia drank the herbal tea in the bowl, and after throwing down a copper coin, he got up and left. With that, he jumped on his horse and left the place......

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