"Since you want to expand the number of cavalry, but you plan to select soldiers from my infantry battalion to serve as new cavalry?" Secretly amused Li Yanzhao's stunned expression, Zhao Chengzhi, the infantry captain of the Guangwu Army who was sitting on the other side, hit the nail on the head.

"Yes, the day before yesterday, the prince of the mansion went to the camp, and he was discussing this with Du." Du Jie, the governor of thousands of people, said with his left hand, while knocking on the cases in front of him with his left hand, while stroking his beard with his right hand: "The best foot soldiers are used as cavalry pawns, since the first Han Dynasty, it is not uncommon in the army." What's more, when my Guangwu County Soldiers were established, they intended to form a battalion of cavalry. It's just that there has always been a shortage of horses, so it has only maintained the scale of 100 people. ”

Li Yanzhao also wondered that in other battalions, one lieutenant led a battalion of four or five hundred soldiers, and only one lieutenant led more than a hundred cavalry. Now after Du Jie's statement and explanation, he can be regarded as solving this mystery in his heart.

Although Li Yanzhao is in favor of the military in his heart, he agrees with taking the line of elite soldiers. But that doesn't mean quantity isn't important. With the current training and technical and tactical level of the Guangwu cavalry, it is enough to be called an elite soldier. However, if he were to take this cavalry to fight hundreds of enemy troops, he would not be sure of victory on foot. Therefore, this consensus reached between the Thousand Governors and the Taishou can be called a most important decision.

And Zhao Chengzhi was obviously slightly dissatisfied with the decision made by the county government and the governor of Qianren. As a fierce general in the Guangwu Army, although his subordinates are not sure that they are a fierce soldier, but after following this captain for a long time, the training of his subordinates is very strict, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a strong force.

Listening to the soldiers he had worked so hard to train and train, just the two superiors touched each other, and they were about to be transferred out of their command, so as to become a person in the cavalry camp, although Zhao Chengzhi did not oppose fiercely, the frowning brows on his face already showed the extreme dissatisfaction in his heart.

Li Yanzhao looked at Zhao Chengzhi and knew what he was thinking, this is how good it is to deal with these martial artists, the joys, angers, sorrows and joys are basically all on their faces, and they don't have to think hard about what they think. And Li Yanzhao is helpless about this. The selection of infantry soldiers as cavalry ranks has almost become a common practice in the army, so when he saw Captain Zhao's posture, he didn't know how to persuade him.

Du Jie, the thousand-person governor sitting at the top, also understood. However, the last time the rebellion was put down, the county government understood that with the current military strength of the county, it would be unable to cope with the slightest turmoil or change of this kind. Don't say that if you calm these changes, even if you protect yourself, you will still have more than enough heart and insufficient strength. Therefore, the proposal of expanding the army can be said to have long been put at the forefront of the affairs that the county government urgently needs to solve.

Li Yanzhao pondered for a while, then clasped his fists in salute, and asked the thousand-person governor at the head of the head: "I don't know what scale the two commanders want to expand the county soldiers?" ”

"Two hundred cavalry, one hundred infantry and one hundred archery battalions." Du Jie replied in a deep voice.

When Li Yanzhao heard Du Jie's answer, he already knew in his heart that the proposal to expand the army was to expand the Guangwu army from the previous army of about 1,500 people to about 2,000 people. In this way, although the number of people has not increased much, it is enough to deal with threats around the county government.

Besides, Li Yanzhao feels that this is not so simple. It is very likely that the Taishou will want to organize most of these thousands of displaced people into military households, and even try to experiment with the auxiliary military system. And most of those auxiliary soldiers were selected from these homeless people.

Li Yanzhao imagined that if Taishou implemented this proposal, it would be necessary to create another place for these displaced people to live. Because at this time, whether it is Guangwu County or the three subordinate counties, it is enough to be full. Even if they are separated and dispersed, these places will definitely not be able to easily accommodate such a large number of displaced people to live in the city. Moreover, the existing farmland, with the successive entry of displaced people in recent years, is also fully arranged.

Therefore, if these new displaced people are to be resettled, it is likely that another tunpu will be set up to give these displaced people material support to reclaim the wasteland. On the one hand, it solves their livelihood, and on the other hand, it also gives the county government a new source of tax revenue, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, the only drawback of this method is that it requires a lot of upfront investment before the harvest is produced. In all fairness, what Li Yanzhao is most worried about is that the county government will not be able to come up with this huge upfront investment, and the resettlement will be improper, so that the livelihood of these homeless people will change, from homeless people with no food and clothing to mobs who do all kinds of evil.

If it comes to that time, not to mention that it will take a huge amount of manpower and material resources to suppress it. Just these people, who could have been used for construction, turned into saboteurs, and such unnecessary manpower losses were the things that Li Yanzhao sighed the most.

Gathering the handicraftsmen among these displaced people to work in the county towns and counties, and organizing most of the rest into auxiliary troops, can also solve some practical problems. First of all, a large number of infrastructure projects can be completed by conscription and auxiliary troops, so as to solve the problem of feeding some of the displaced people. As for the Dingkou, who were not part of the auxiliaries, they worked with the rest of the old and weak women and children to reclaim the wasteland, so that in less than two years they would be completely self-sufficient, and they would be a new source of taxation.

"The new cavalry can be selected from among the homeless young people, and it does not have to be filled by the infantry under Zhao Duwei." Li Yanzhao looked at Zhao Chengzhi's frowning brows, and finally reconciled the two of them.

Zhao Chengzhi heard Li Yanzhao's words. Although the implication was that he still needed to draw a part from his infantry soldiers, Li Yanzhao had already made such a huge concession, and he couldn't say anything more. And as Du Jie said, it is already a common practice in the army for foot soldiers to serve as cavalry pawns. So Zhao Chengzhi's originally frowning brows gradually relaxed.

Du Jie saw that Zhao Chengzhi's face had changed, and it seemed that he no longer objected to the expansion of the army, so he hurriedly hit the railway while it was hot: "Since this is the case, according to what Commander Li said, half of the newly selected cavalry soldiers are from the infantry battalion, and half are selected from the homeless people. After the county government settles the displaced people, it will start to implement this matter. ”

As Du Jie announced the dismissal of the meeting, Li Yanzhao walked out of the big tent quickly as if he had been amnestied, and went straight to his camp.

A few days later, the county government selected the handicraftsmen from among the displaced people and sent them to the county town to serve in various workshops. The rest of the displaced people, except for the 500 or so households elected as military households, all became the shade households in the dock fort set up by the Yin clan in Yongdeng County.

In this era, most of the major families had dock forts on the territory of the family. The households to which the families belonged only paid grain to these families, and did not pay taxes to the government. This makes these family territories seem to exist like independent kingdoms.

However, due to the limited grain stock of the government, the Taishou of Guangwu could not afford the food and clothing of all the displaced people before the harvest, and the patriarch of the Yin clan who lived in Yongdeng County went to Guangwu County to govern and asked the Taishou to distribute the displaced people to his family as a shade household. So the two sides reached a tacit understanding.

Taishou selected about 500 young and strong people from the displaced people to serve as county soldiers, and temporarily settled their families in the county seat and Yongdeng and Zhiyang counties, and temporarily used them as military households, and the young and strong entered the army for training, and the rest were distributed to wasteland to prepare for spring plowing and reclamation, and food and clothing were temporarily provided by the county government. Tentatively, the tax is paid at the time of the autumn harvest of the current year, two percent in the second year, three percent in the third year, and three percent in the future.

The displaced people are already satisfied with the results of this resettlement. With the arrival of spring, under the arrangement and governance of the county, spring ploughing has begun.

And the young men who were selected as world soldiers also formed into the camp one after another. The infantry battalion and the shooting battalion were divided into 200 men each, and the cavalry battalion was 100 men. In addition, the infantry battalion also selected more than 100 elite soldiers, together with a 100-person commander and two team leaders to be transferred to the cavalry battalion.

Li Yanzhao's identity is also rising, from a 100-person commander who originally commanded less than 100 people, to a cavalry commander of more than 300 people. When Taishou patrolled the camp, he personally matched him with a new seal, which made Li Yanzhao, who was suddenly promoted, feel flattered.

Taishou informed Li Yanzhao that the Martyrs' Shrine had been completed recently, and the address was at the foot of the mountain ten miles south of the city of Guangwu County. The tablets of the more than 20 horsemen who died before have been invited into the ancestral hall. Their coffins were also moved to the left side of the ancestral hall.

In addition to this major event, the development of pencils has finally made substantial progress. Taishou took out a few samples to Li Yanzhao, Li Yanzhao took it in his hand and tried it, the clay mixed with ink is moderately soft and hard, and when the drawing operation is carried out on the straw paper, it will not be broken casually, although the ink is still slightly thin when writing and drawing, and the pen barrel is also a little thicker, but for this era, he is satisfied that there can be such a thing.

I thanked Taishou, and asked about the resettlement of displaced people and spring ploughing, and Taishou patiently answered them one by one. In short, the overall situation is relatively optimistic. In Taimori's own experimental field, the winter wheat sown after last autumn's harvest has already sprouted, and it will be ready for harvest in late spring and early summer.

Hearing this news, Li Yanzhao couldn't help but feel deeply excited. If this move can be accomplished, Guangwu County's grain production will inevitably surge in the future, which is simply different from the past.

After saying goodbye to Taishou, Li Yanzhao went to the school, and with the change of Li Yanzhao's identity, the subordinates who followed him in the past also rose with the tide.

Liu Jiwu and Cao Jian, and Li Yanzhao were all reported to Du Jie, the governor of thousands of people, and Liu was promoted to the captain of 100 people, and Cao was the team leader. The eldest of the hundred people who was transferred from the infantry battalion was named Song Qing, who was a disciple of the Song family, and he was still Song Xiaohu's cousin. And one of the two team leaders is named Liang Siqin, and the other is named Han Liancheng.

The composition of the cavalry battalion has become much more complicated with this expansion. Newly enlisted homeless, transferred foot soldiers, and the former cavalry battalion headquarters. On the first day of the gathering of these people, Li Yanzhao dismantled and reorganized the three departments one after another. According to the old battalion cavalry, the old battalion foot soldiers, and the new homeless people are mixed in proportion, and the grassroots units such as Shiwu are formed, with the old leading the new, with the intention of quickly forming a cavalry unit with great combat effectiveness.

In the past, a chief led only 10 people, but after the reorganization, a chief will lead about 20 people. The first level of the chief is basically still held by the chief of the original ministry.

After the reorganization was completed, Li Yanzhao ordered Liu Jiwu to go to the big tent to ask for the transfer of weapons and materials. With the expansion of various ministries, the existing weapons and armor are obviously insufficient. Du Jie can only allocate a portion of it proportionally. The rest can only wait for the county government to rush to allocate before it can be put in place.

This expansion of the army has been tossed for many days, although Li Yanzhao's spirit is high, he is also exhausted by this series of things, but fortunately, the basic work of the expansion has finally been completed, and the rest can only be slowly figured out.