Chapter 12: The Prefectural Order Is Crazy (2)

After listening to You Wanxiong's words, Zhao Kang felt that the clothes behind his back seemed to be wet with cold sweat. Sure enough, I was still too young to know that there was such a sinister thing in the world.

After listening to You Wanxiong's words, Zhao Kang strengthened his determination to first build an army that could protect himself.

So Zhao Kang asked Chen Erdian, the garrison of Fugu County: "How many soldiers are there in our county?" How many of them can fight? After finishing speaking, in order to prevent Chen Erdian from panicking to report the data, Zhao Kang warned again: "I want to know the real number, and I will check it after the meeting." If you lie, although I can't control the affairs of your guard, I have a way to make this Fugu County change its garrison. ”

Chen Erdian was frightened when he heard Zhao Kang's warning, in this noble and lowly Ming Dynasty, offending a county order who was born as a righteous and noble Jinshi was a very terrifying thing.

Wiping the sweat that came out of his forehead with his sleeve, Chen Erdian replied honestly: "There are 228 soldiers in the barracks, and ...... are really going out to fight."

Chen Erdian paused, looked up at Zhao Kang's face, and then gritted his teeth as if he had made up his mind: "There are less than 100 people who can really fight!" The rest are all old, weak, sick and disabled. ”

Although Zhao Kang was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by this number. Fugu garrison Chen Erdian is a thousand households, logically speaking, he should command more than a thousand scholars, but he didn't expect that there were less than a hundred people who could fight.

You must know that there are more than 10,000 refugees inside and outside the county town of Fugu County at this time, if they are really provoked by people with intentions, what can these less than a hundred sergeants do? Expect them to transform into Super Saiyans?

After listening to Chen Erdian's words, Zhao Kang did not blame him. Zhao Kang also knew in his heart that not only this Fugu County was like this, but it was estimated that the army of the entire Ming Dynasty was similar to here, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would not have perished in a few years. This has been corrupted to a critical point, and all that is needed is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Zhao Kang said: "In order to prevent the refugees from being used by the rebels in desperation, and to prevent the kind of tragedy in Mizhi County from happening in our Fugu County, I decided to set up a civilian regiment training force, the number of which is about 1,000 people." Do you have any opinion on this? ”

You Wanxiong objected: "Lord Zhao, if you raise an army privately, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, you will be robbed of your family and killed!" ”

Zhao Kang said: "What I am going to build is not an army, do the militia know?" It is not formally established, but it is just a militia formed by me, the county commander, to maintain law and order in our Fugu County. ”

You Wanxiong said: "Even if it's a militia group, where will the silver, grain, grass, and weapons needed to establish a militia come from?" If our Fugu County had money and food, it would not have fallen into the situation it is in today. ”

Zhao Kang said: "You don't have to worry about this, I am responsible for all the expenses of the militia group." Wait for Chen Erdian, you will go to the county town to recruit troops for me, the number, you will come according to a full number of thousands of households. I am responsible for all the official militia members who have been selected, and I am responsible for all the food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, and the monthly military salary is temporarily set at one load of food. and if he has no family, he shall convert the grain into the equivalent amount of silver. ”

Chen Erdian asked, "Lord Zhao, if you give such a generous treatment to the militia group, I'm afraid that all the sergeants in my garrison camp will run out." ”

Zhao Kang said: "If you run out, you will run out, and Fugu County will rely on the militia to guard it in the future." I now appoint you as the garrison of the Fugu County militia group, with a monthly salary of twenty taels of silver, and you will be responsible for the training of the militia in the future. As for the soldiers under your command who can fight, all the soldiers who can fight will be assigned to the militia group, and the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot fight will form a construction team, and in the future, the construction of the militia barracks, the repair of roads, water conservancy projects, and city walls will be handed over to the construction team. Tomorrow morning, you will go to the county office to get your weapons and equipment. ”

When Chen Erdian heard the words of twenty taels of silver per month, the muscles on his face twitched a few times, but he quickly regained his composure. Hurriedly replied, "Okay, Lord Zhao! ”

Zhao Kang thought for a while and asked: "I will meet all the requirements of the militia group, the rice, grain, silver and money are enough, and the families of the militia soldiers are all settled, but I ask you to let the army have initial combat effectiveness within three months, and be able to go into battle to kill the enemy within half a year, is there a problem?" ”

Chen Erdian: "No problem! I promise not to disappoint Lord Zhao. ”

After getting Chen Erdian's affirmative reply, Zhao Kang nodded: "Then Chen Erdian, you will go down and prepare first, and sort out a detailed plan for building the militia to show me, the militia will start recruiting soldiers tomorrow, I have several requirements for soldiers, first, the height shall not be less than five feet three inches (about 165 cm, one foot in the Ming Dynasty is about 31.2 cm), second, healthy, strong, and disease-free, and third, literacy priority." As for the distribution of money, food, weapons and other materials, I will ask Zhao Fugui to assist you. ”

"Yes! Lord Zhao! Then he will retire first. ”

After Chen Erdian left, Zhao Kang asked Li Sheng again: "How many guards are there under you who are responsible for patrolling and prison?" ”

Li Sheng said: "If you go back to the adult, there are a total of sixty-five people under the villain's fast hands, archers, jailers, etc. ”

Zhao Kang asked suspiciously: "I know the jailer, but what are fast hands and archers?" What for? ”

Seeing the county magistrate's question, Li Sheng did not dare to slack off, and explained in detail: "Kuaishou is mainly responsible for collapsing criminals, summoning defendants and witnesses, and investigating criminal evidence. The archers were responsible for preventing rape and thieves, arresting fugitives, and collecting customs duties. ”

Zhao Kang understood, and said: "From now on, the Kuaishou and archers will be reorganized, and some excellent and strong ones will be selected from the existing officials to join, and the scale will be expanded to a hundred households. The police department will be independent of the other civil service systems and will be directly accountable to me, and everyone in the police department will be trained. On weekdays, he was responsible for the management of public security in Fugu County, and in wartime, he had to undertake the task of defending the city. Because I plan to move the militia barracks outside the county in the future, the security of the county will have to rely on the police station to protect it in the future. As for the salary, all the officials who were officially selected by the police were paid a salary of two taels of silver or the equivalent of food every month. ”

Li Sheng said: "Okay! The villain got it! ”

Zhao Shuigen said: "Then you should go down first, after you go down, you will go to the county government to select the officials, and after you have selected, register the list and send it to me." ”

Li Sheng said: "Yes! My lord! The subordinate retired first. ”