Seeing that the other party was soft, Yang Lin was overjoyed in his heart, and returned the salute, and after everyone sat back down, he said: "Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, this, of course I know, but in addition to fighting for the general's strategy, the skillfulness of the formation, and the bravery of the soldiers, I think it is more difficult to fight for money and food."

This time, the governor of the four provinces, Lord Wang, sent Lord Qian Bangqi Qian as the supervisor of the army, and ensured through Lord Qian that the volunteers were loyal to the court and to our Ming Dynasty.

Through Master Fan, I will ensure that the military needs of our volunteers are safe, and that my soldiers have no worries.

Two adults, is this the intention of Lord Wang? ”

The two glanced at each other, quickly stood up, and didn't dare to say anything.

Yang Lin motioned for everyone to sit down, and said with a smile: "Don't be too humble, two adults, I said in advance that we should be honest with each other, help each other in the same boat, and share weal and woe.

As the saying goes, soldiers and horses go first before grain and grass are moved, I think the governor of the four provinces, Lord Wang, is currently lacking grain and grass, and my volunteer army is also lacking grain and grass.

Although the officials resettled the displaced people through the Guantun, Juntun, and Mintun, and the place was settled, the people were not completely stable, and the people could not live and work in peace and contentment.

Guang'an Prefecture and Nanchong County have just been recovered, the localities are not stable, there are still some remnants of the rogue soldiers in the locality, some bandits need to exterminate some treacherous people are waiting to see and see, waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback, the government is establishing grassroots organizations in the past few months, is rehousing the homeless, is carrying out farming, and is implementing a new policy.

In addition, it is now spring ploughing, it is really not suitable to use soldiers and horses on a large scale, if so, Shunqing and Dazhou will inevitably be unstable.

If the rogue launches a large-scale counterattack in the future, I may not be able to protect Shunqing. ”

Qian Bangqi suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, and arched his hand: "My lord, what you said is the right way, and what you said is good." However, the matter was urgent, the war situation was critical, and the governors of the four provinces strictly ordered the governors to lead their subordinates down the river to flank the people of Chongqing. ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Lord Qian, don't get excited, I said that it is not appropriate to use troops on a large scale, not that it is impossible to use soldiers."

Speaking of Governor Ma Qianma, Adjutant General Zeng Ying claimed to have 100,000 troops, although 100,000 is exaggerated, but in any case, there are still 30,000.

Governor Ma Gan, General Zeng Ying has just occupied Chongqing, and the morale of his troops is booming, while our volunteer army is only more than 5,000 people, and we still have to hold such a large territory.

Sending troops to attack Zhang Wenxiu is beyond my power, but if I send a partial division to harass and harass, it is not impossible. ”

Qian Bangqi thought for a while, nodded and said: "What the lord said is good, now that the situation has changed, the old man expects that the governor of the four provinces, Wang Yingxiong, and General Zeng Ying also mean this." ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "In this case, I just need to make a little bigger and send a surprise army to make Liukou feel the threat of northern Sichuan, so that the goal of containment will be achieved." ”

Qian Bangqi nodded, and arched his hand: "You, you didn't say it earlier, if you said it earlier, how could the old man argue with you?" ”

Yang Lin smiled, confessed his guilt, and immediately said his plan, that is, to send the water army battalion, the 3rd battalion of the infantry army of the dragon frame, and the horse tide cavalry battalion down the river, advance by land and water, bluff, and contain Zhang Wenxiu's army in the name of attacking Hezhou.

After more than a month of hard work, more than hundreds of young and strong men who live on the banks of the Jialing River all year round have been recruited from various battalions and wharves in various places, and the water battalion was officially formed ten days ago.

The navy can be said to be where Yang Lin's hard work is, in order to form a navy can be said to spare no effort, Yang Lin will capture the precious Furlong machine guns, tiger squat guns are installed on the battleship, in order to ensure the power of the battleship.

In the past, due to the lack of artillery in the army, some warships only installed one, and the most only installed two tiger squat guns, this time a total of 20 Furlong machine guns were captured, and Yang Lin pressed all of them on the Flying Tiger battleship.

Due to the small size of the Flying Tiger and the single-deck size, it was impossible to install guns on both sides of the battleship like a sea ship, but only one Furlong cannon at the bow and stern and three Tiger squat guns on each side of the battleship.

The Franc cannon can be rotated 90 degrees through the gun mount to shell enemies from a distance.

Considering that the Tiger Squat Gun is a front-loading gun and the firing speed is very slow, Yang Lin plans to convert the Furlong cannon in the bow and stern of the ship into a large Furlong cannon in the future, and the Tiger Squat Cannon on both sides into the No. 3 Furlong cannon.

The Franc cannon is a typical rear-loading gun, first put the ammunition into the sub-gun, when firing, the sub-gun is loaded into the mother gun, and the fire rope can be ignited, so simple to change the equipment, the firing speed is more than doubled.

In addition, the battleship is also equipped with 10 bird guns, several rockets, and several barrels of sky-shaking thunder to shoot targets at close range.

At present, the Volunteers had two gunboat brigades, each with five Flying Tiger warships, so that there were ten Flying Tiger warships.

The Volunteer Navy also has 2 sampan boat brigades, each with about 10 sampan boats.

The sampan is about seven meters long and two and a half meters wide, with five oars on each side, a total of four tiger squat guns, and a captain and a helmsman and 10 sailors. (The sampan ship of the Hunan army pressed four small guns)

Taking into account the rate of fire, the Tiger Squat Cannon on the future sampan ship will also be replaced with the No. 3 Furlong Cannon.

In addition to the two gunboat brigades and the two sampan boat brigades, the navy also has a transport brigade, with a total of more than 20 large and small clippers, each ship has 1 captain and 4 sailors, and can load 50 loads of grain and grass to ensure the military needs of the army.

Hearing that this time only a battalion of infantry troops, a battalion of naval troops, and a battalion of cavalry were dispatched, which made Qian Bangqi really unbearable, thinking that the troops were too small to contain the other party.

After several explanations, after Yang Lin promised to capture Hezhou, although Qian Bangxin was quite unconvinced, he did not say anything.

That night, Yang Lin set up a banquet to entertain Qian Bangxin, Fan Wenguang and others, eight people on the table, eight dishes and one soup, looking at the things served, Qian Bangxin couldn't help frowning secretly.

The first was a bowl of tiger meat, which Yang Lin introduced was captured by the soldiers of a battalion when they went out hunting a month ago, and they were all dried as military food.

Ten days ago, Fan brought 20 catties, and today Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang came, and they specially ordered the kitchen to cook 5 catties.

Tiger meat is a treasure in ancient times, this time to northern Sichuan Qian Bangxiong, Fan Wenguang also encountered tigers on the road, but now I see that the first dish is actually tiger meat, and I am surprised again and again, especially Fan Wenguang, who praised this battalion is always a tiger general.

Yang Lin smiled, shook his head and said: "Brother Fan has won the award, if the tiger killed is a tiger general, I think the brothers in each battalion will be very arrogant."

In recent years, natural disasters have continued, the climate is abnormal, there are many tigers in northern Sichuan, and there are more than 30 tigers killed by the volunteers every year. ”

Fan Wenguang didn't believe it at first, but when Yang Lin promised to get a tiger skin for each of them at that time, make a coat to wear in winter.

Fan Wenguang expressed his gratitude repeatedly, while Qian Bangxin thought with a straight face that the gift was too expensive and that he would have to spend money to buy it anyway.

Yang Lin acted as an intermediary, and the two of them each spent ten taels of silver to buy two tiger skins from the guard camp.

Then, what came up was wild bear meat, when Yang Lin sandwiched a bear paw in the bowl of Qian Bangqi and Fan Wenguang, although Qian Bangqi's eyes were shining, he still shook his head again and again: "Ruzhen, your enthusiasm is very good, but, but now there are natural disasters for many years, coupled with the rebellion of the rogue and the local thugs, and the people are not clothed, you invite us to eat bear paws, this, this is really not good." ”

Zhao Sixuan, the same governor of Shunqing Mansion next to him, said with a smile: "Don't be surprised by the supervision of the army, natural disasters continue in other places, and the soldiers live a difficult life, but the general leads the troops in a good way, and sees that there are many birds and beasts in the deep mountains and old forests, and the soldiers of each battalion go into the mountains to encircle and suppress."

This wild bear or something, it should have been fought by soldiers in the mountains, and it wasn't bought outside with money. ”

Shi Jinchen next to him pursed his lips and said: "I haven't seen with my own eyes how General Yang led the troops to fight, but the life of the volunteers is indeed different from other departments.

The soldiers of the volunteer army went into the mountains to hunt every three or five times, and the soldiers had to eat several meals every month for tiger meat, bear meat, venison or something.

From time to time, the brigades of the Volunteer Army went down to the river to fish, not only crucian carp and carp, but also crabs and mussels in the river.

In the past, the old man saw that the soldiers in each barracks were all rugged, but the soldiers of the Volunteer Army were not like this, and they were all very strong. ”

Qian Bangqi complained that there were too many delicacies and wild game in the mountains, and it was too wasteful to eat these things.

And Fan Wenguang praised again and again, and praised Yang Lin for leading the troops well.

Shi Jinchen smiled, secretly thinking about how to sue the complaint.

And Yang Lin seemed very calm, what is waste, the kind of food that can't be eaten and poured out is waste, he only has four meats, four vegetables and one soup per table, and the rest on the table is limited, how can this be called waste?

Everyone left the table with their own thoughts, and after eating enough, Shi Jinchen pondered how to stop Qian Bangxin and complained.

After Shi Jinchen volunteered to send Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang into the official residence, he looked at no one on the left and right, Shi Jinchen sighed: "Two adults, you also saw during the banquet, this Yang Lin is flying and domineering, and he doesn't take us officials who are listed by the Ming Ke in his eyes at all.

Now Zhao Sixuan has been treated obediently, but the old man can't get used to Yang Lin's behavior, he is simply a few people and gets carried away. ”

Qian Bangqi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Alas, it is inevitable that people will be young heroes."

Leading a lone army to conquer more than ten states and counties in less than a year is still a credit to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Shi Jinchen shook his head and said: "My lord, it is undeniable that this Yang Lin still has merit in leading his troops to fight, but he is a domineering person and spends money like running water, so you have to take care of it as a prison army." ”

Qian Bangqi smiled, shook his head and said, "Master Shi, this, how is this possible?" Maybe Shunqing Mansion has a little more money and food than other places, but now that natural disasters are continuous, how can you spend money like water? ”

Shi Jinchen found a chair and sat down, took the teacup handed over by the servant, took a sip and said, "My lord, if you don't believe it, you can ask that day to see if this is the case."

The Volunteers have now expanded to 5,000 troops, and most of the rest are recruited, except for prisoners or other soldiers who have excluded dissidents.

Each person pays 10 taels of silver, and an ordinary soldier is initially paid 1 tael of silver per month, and after passing the regular assessment in three months, it is 1 tael and 5 taels of silver, which is nothing.

But Yang Lin added the rank of corporal, sergeant, and sergeant on this basis.

The corporal has 2 taels per month, the sergeant has 2 taels and 5 cents, the sergeant has 3 taels of silver, and the border soldiers have the highest 3 taels of silver.

In addition, the military officials are also generally very engaged.

The squad leader, that is, the small flag in the army, is 2 taels to 3 taels of silver per month

The squadron leader, that is, the general flag, has a monthly salary of 4 to 5 taels;

The captain is also the general manager of the army, with a monthly salary of 6 to 7 taels;

The battalion commander, that is, the total monthly salary of the army is 8 to 12 taels;

Every soldier must be guaranteed by someone, and the family can reduce the family by one person every year and subsidize 5 buckets of food.

You see, these are much higher than other recruits, not to mention that, after all, most of this money goes into the hands of soldiers.

In addition to these, each battalion also has an office fee of 50 taels of silver per month, which is freely disposed of by the battalion commander and the assistant, and the assistant organizes and reports to the internal office every month, and Yang Lin audits the accounts once a quarter.

My lord, now that there is chaos and war, and there is a shortage of military salaries in various departments, look at Yang Lin, what is he doing with the people's fat and people's ointment? ”

Qian Bangqi thought for a while, shook his head and said: "The way to lead the army, the old man is a layman, but as the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, Yang Lin does this, it is difficult for us to blame him." ”

Shi Jinchen nodded and said, "My lord, having said that, Yang Lin is young after all, and we should still remind him."

According to the old man's observation, after all, this Yang Lin is from a deputy list, and he is still loyal, but he is stubborn and conceited, if we don't persuade well, it will definitely be a disaster in the future.

Now it's a battle, and it stands to reason that it's nothing to reward the soldiers, but in addition to rewarding the army, Yang Lin is quite generous to the yamen.

The official is 6 taels and 6 dollars of silver a year, and the court has long stipulated that Yang Lin is called the law in his name, standardizing the fees charged by the yamen, and rewarding all the income from these fees to the officials.

This is still on the surface, the highest-paid catcher can get more than 40 taels of silver every year, and the lowest-paid prison servant can harvest more than 20 taels per year.

Also, the secretary office of each room and the head of each township have forty or fifty taels of silver every year, which obviously violates the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.

Also, the county magistrate's court regulations are 108 quintals of grain per year, Yang Lin in addition to giving so much grain, each person also has 100 taels of silver office expenses per year, as well as 100 taels of silver examination fees, a simple change, the county's annual expenses have increased more than three times, and he can get two hundred and fifty taels of silver every year.

The county is like this, the county is the same, the county is the same as the main book, the county is the county and the master is 50 taels of silver every year, and the examination fee is more than 50 taels, so it has increased more than twice as much.

My lord, Yang Lin is young and vigorous, and the old man admonishes him but he doesn't listen, and he has no right to speak if he doesn't investigate.

My lord, you must know that this is against the ancestral system. ”

A sentence against the ancestral system, Qian Bangqi's face was very ugly, and he sighed, saying that he would talk to Yang Lin about this matter in the future.

Seeing that there was finally a result, Shi Jinchen got up to say goodbye, looking at the back in the distance, Qian Bangxin sighed: "The old man Guan Yang Lin is not a bad person, but he is young and vigorous, young and frivolous, and he doesn't know what is going on."

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there have long been regulations for officials, and Yang Lin has the audacity to change the ancestral system, which is really incredible. ”

Fan Wenguang stood up, took a few steps back and forth, stopped and said: "Qian Yushi, this volunteer army, this Shunqing Mansion is different from other places, and it is completely isolated from the other ruling areas of my Ming Dynasty.

This volunteer army was established by Yang Lin, and there is no doubt that Yang Lin only obeyed the orders.

This Shunqing Mansion was recovered by the Volunteers, and the big and small officials were all appointed by Yang Lin alone.

This time, we came to the Volunteer Army at the behest of Lord Xiong, the governor of the four provinces, to let Yang Lin lead his troops down the river to attack Chongqing Mansion, and to urge Yang Lin to lead the Volunteer Army to attack the Great Western Army.

Yang Lin spent money lavishly, and told him these things slowly, so as not to stiffen the relationship between the two parties. ”

Qian Bangqi nodded and sighed: "Alas, for the sake of today, this is the only way." ”

At this time, Yang Lin was lying on the recliner, pondering the performance of Qian Bangqi and Fan Wenguang, and pondering possible changes in the future.