Lian Zining can already foresee that with the influx of these luxury goods that were originally not seen in the Jiangbei tribes, it is equivalent to creating a large amount of demand out of nothing. The so-called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to simplicity, they haven't used these things before and don't feel anything, once they use it but it's gone, it can't stand it. So in the future, after these tribes have exhausted their inventory, they must have quite high requirements for them, and there is only one way for them to buy them - Wu Yijun buys them.

On the same day, Lian Zining ordered the establishment of the Jiangbei Tea and Horse Prison, which was the Zhengliupin Yamen, and the station was an abandoned ferry port directly opposite Jiangbei in Zhenyuan Prefecture.

The Jiangbei Tea and Horse Supervisor was specially responsible for trade with various ministries in Jiangbei, and could extract materials from the treasury of Zhenyuan Prefecture and sell them in Jiangbei by virtue of the approval slip. Under this yamen, there is also an anti-smuggling squad of more than 100 people, which is specially responsible for investigating and dealing with those Han people who do business in Beidu without permission. Lian Zining would not allow the Han merchants to cross the river to trade with the tribes in the north, and he wanted to monopolize the right to trade in his own hands - of course, there is no doubt that the price would be increased by several percent. Buy low and sell high, he wants to use this way to squeeze the last trace of oil and water out of the bones of these tribes.

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Early in the morning, Liu Quan led his subordinates to practice.

After several major wars, with the continuous expansion of Wu Yijun, Liu Quan, who was still a small banner more than a year ago, has been promoted to one of the 100 households of the newly established 124th Wei 1,000th Household.

is a six-rank military attaché, which is not small.

The boundary of the 24th guard is in the southwest corner of the school field. A short distance south is the Mining Supervision Bureau. This place is not very good, and the south wind blows. Thick smoke from the Mining Supervision Bureau blew in, turning the camp in a foggy state. But it can't be helped. Who called the twenty-fourth guard just formed? With little qualifications, I don't dare to compete with those big brothers, and I will be arranged here and here, who dares to say anything?

As a terrible whistle sounded through the camp, and it was still dark, the soldiers instinctively turned over, hurriedly put on their clothes, and assembled at the door.

Liu Quan took the one hundred and twelve people under his command to run in a neat queue towards the distance. The place where each guard practiced was not far from his barracks. The twenty-fourth guard is no exception, and the small southwest corner of the large school field is their guard's training ground. But each guard is scattered and trained, and Liu Quan's location of the hundred households is exactly in the northeast corner of his own guard's position, okay, this time it will be far away. The large school field is extremely huge, although it is only a small corner, and by the time Liu Quan and the others arrived at the location, the time for a cup of tea had passed.

Liu Quan didn't dare to slack off and went to the ground. Hurry up and let your soldiers disperse with small flags as training units.

At this time, it was just April, the early morning of April in the northeast, but it was already a little cold, and I got up early in the morning to take a breath. You can even see the faint mist. But these soldiers are only wearing a pair of nose calf shorts, and their bodies are naked. Revealing a sturdy tendon that can make the little widow in the village drool. They were all armed with spears in their hands and lined up in a neat line. Under the leadership of the officers, they stabbed forward over and over again.

The action is monotonous. It's just a repetition over and over again, at least a thousand times from the beginning of training to the end, and in the past two years or so, such movements have been repeated hundreds or thousands of times a day! Millions of trainings, millions of repetitions, make this simple and monotonous action extremely lethal. The soldiers moved in unison, holding the middle of the spear slightly back with their left hand, and the tail of the spear slightly forward with their right hand, thrusting forward fiercely, while making a fierce cry from their mouths.

The momentum is forceful.

The spear pierced the air, and there was a loud roar, and the shaft of the spear was still trembling slightly. It is conceivable that if these fierce soldiers who have been training hard for almost a year stab the enemy in the body with this ruthless shot, they will definitely be able to stab the heart in one fell swoop.

Wu Yi's army does not distinguish between arms, whether it is pikemen, halberd soldiers, or musketeers, artillerymen, they must practice this spear stabbing technique, after all, even if it is a long-range class, it is impossible to say that one day it will be close to the enemy, at that time, wouldn't it be powerless to resist? The archers of the Song Dynasty were still wearing fifty pounds of foot armor!

And this spear stabbing technique is not only on paper, after long-term exercise, it can greatly improve endurance, enhance muscle strength, explosive power, and is extremely beneficial to combat.

They had been practicing for a while, and under the large number of movements, their bodies were already hot and sweaty, steaming in the cold wind, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down their bodies and fell to the ground.

Liu Quan was shy, walking slowly in the team, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, sweeping over everyone, once he saw that there was a distraction or irregular movements or out of the rhythm of the crowd, he immediately went up and reprimanded him with a calm face.

The soldiers below were all afraid of him, because his face was black, and he gave him the nickname 'Iron Pot Liu'.

Liu Quan walked around, trained three people, and spit stars flying, but there was no sense of happiness in his heart, and he couldn't help but miss Yang Feilai very much.

After he was transferred to the twenty-fourth guard, Yang Fei did not follow, but was promoted to Xiaoqi, and finally broke away from his clutches.

"Hey, without Yang Fei's little rabbit cub, Lao Tzu won't be happy to teach people a lesson."

Liu Quan looked up to the sky and sighed, and suddenly felt lonely as a hero.

At this time, Lian Zining was accompanying King Liang, and the two of them were standing behind the battlements of the city wall facing the north gate, followed by a group of guards.

King Liang's eyes were like seeing a fly with a fishy smell, and he was attached to the big school field, and he couldn't leave it for a moment.

Standing on the high city wall, you can see the situation below. The Daxiao Field, which is twenty miles in radius, is like a vast plain, and those military camps are like small cities dotted on the edge of the plain. According to the army of Wu Yijun. Daily morning exercises must not be lacking, except for the tenth guard. At this time, all the soldiers stationed in the town of Zhenyuan Mansion on the colonel's field are here.

The 200,000-strong army drilled here, and it was spectacular.

Cavalry drills in the north. The infantry army drilled in the south.

The horses' hooves trampled, causing dust to fill the sky, and the sound of shouting and killing came, which was the cavalry of the Wuyi Army conducting a drill.

The cavalry of the Wu Yi Army each occupied a huge training ground, and even if they galloped on it, there was no hindrance. Some guards trained their horses: they set up many wooden figures in the open space, the same height as people, and they were all carved out of hard wood. The cavalry raised its saber and slowly accelerated, and the horses galloped up. Skimming over the wooden man, slashing through with a knife. The neck of the wooden man must be cut off with a knife, and the position must be the neck, which is considered qualified.

This is not an easy task, the wooden man's neck is the thickness of a wrist, and it is so demanding from people in the high-speed rush, wanting to cut it off, and the strength of the hand, eyesight, wrist, and even the posture of holding the knife. The action of the knife is extremely demanding and indispensable. Even among the Ming border army and the Beijing army, there may not be half of the cavalry who can reach this level. And this is an entry-level requirement for all the knights under Wu Yijun's command, and the punishment for failing to meet the requirements is also very simple - no food, hungry.

As you can imagine. For Wu Yijun, this kind of training is extremely heavy and intense. What a terrible thing it is for troops with a strong need for nutrition and food to go hungry. Especially when I watch others eat and drink there, I go hungry.

Some are conducting actual combat exercises. They were led by their respective officers. Dressed in different colors of armor, divided into different troops, armed with wooden swords and swords, each formed a formation to charge and fight. Some are also not confined to the form, or flank attacks, or are sneak raids, or ambushes halfway, or lure the enemy deep, ambushes everywhere. Tricks are frequent, and they are so varied, although it is only a battle of more than 1,000 people, and it is not a real sword or a real gun, but it is also thrilling and dizzying.

Some of the guards were conducting shooting training, and most of the Wu Yijun were equipped with flintlock pistols, and how to shoot accurately on horseback became a necessary training course for them. Although Wu Yijun shoots with a platoon of guns, and does not need to shoot accurately to the individual, at least it can't be too outrageous, and if you want to be accurate in the high-speed and violently bumpy environment like horseback, you have to train a lot of training.

In a sentence that Zhao Nanjin, a general of the Third Cavalry Army, often shouts: "Lao Tzu's soldiers are all fed with guns!" ”

They also train in different ways, with a row of humanoid targets erected about a few steps away. The cavalry formed a formation, charged slowly, and then drew the flintlock pistol, which had already been reloaded, from the pouch, charged quickly, and when there were still about eighty paces away from the enemy, the whole team turned, so as to face the enemy on the flank, and opened fire en masse. After the shooting, the whole army circled in a large circle, completed the reloading action on the horse, continued to charge, turned, and fired.

This is completely imitating actual combat, when Wu Yijun's soldiers shoot in the first round, the guns must have been loaded, and the next second and third rounds need to be loaded in the movement.

With the crackling gunshots, the humanoid targets on the opposite side shook, and some of them were already pierced.

There are also those who are not equipped with flintlock pistols, that is, the newly formed cavalry guards with the warriors of various tribes in Jiangbei as the main combat force.

It's not that it's out of stock, the flintlock pistols in the Ordnance Bureau's warehouse are full of houses, and there are! After all, it is a new returnee, Lian Zining can't believe it, and in such a short period of time, he may not be able to practice any effect if he gives them it. For them, it is still easy to use a strong bow and arrows, although the range is indeed much worse.

They are practicing the kung fu of shooting and hunting on horses, in fact, this is not entirely true, after all, people have grown up on horseback, and shooting and hunting is the ability to watch the family, can it still be left behind? However, they are a little petty, and the biggest scene they have ever seen in their lives is only the battle of 1,800 children, which is not comparable to the battle of the large army of the Wu Yi Army. It is not so much about practicing archery, but about practicing the arrangement of formations, various tactics and interspersed coordination in the battle of large armies.

This is training on the cavalry side, while the infantry side is simpler.

According to the progress of each guard, the training methods are also different, and some are scattered with small flags and general flags as training units, and the soldiers are carrying out their own drills. Training in spear stabbing, training in flintlock shooting, etc. Some guards were assembled in a large combat unit, the Thousand Households, with flintlock gunners and artillerymen in front. The spearmen are behind, and the halberders are last. The formation is clear. Generals are in command, imitating different types of enemies, such as cavalry, foot soldiers, or different combat environments: different ways of fighting in field battles and street battles.

On the entire school field, horses' hooves were clanging, gunshots were ringing everywhere, shouting and killing the sky, the murderous aura was pervasive, and the sky and the earth were dark. It seems that even the sunlight has been diluted a lot by this murderous aura, and it has become miserable.

This is not an illusion, but the smoke of guns and cannons on the school field blocks out the sunlight.

King Liang took a deep breath, his heart full of shock: "This, is this Wu Yijun?" ”

So strong, so strong, so strong!

He glanced at the jade boy standing beside him, and an indescribable sense of frustration suddenly surged in his heart: "I am a dragon among people who are conceited." But compared to him, it's really not as good! ”

Lian Zining noticed King Liang's expression and asked with a smile, "Your Highness, what do you think of me, Wu Yijun?" ”

"Strong. It's really strong, and this king can be regarded as having seen the Twenty-six Guards and the Jingying Army, and his conceit is also a little insightful. When I left the customs, I also saw the elite soldiers of Jizhen, who was known as the strong army of the nine sides, at Shanhaiguan. It's just that compared with Wu Yijun, they are far behind. ”

King Liang praised from the bottom of his heart: "This king thinks very highly of himself. This time, it's a shame! Wu Yibo was just a cloth in the capital three years ago, and he created such a big scene in just a few years. is really Yunwen Yunwu, a hero among people. ”

His praise made Lian Zining look at him with admiration, not to mention King Liang's rest, at least he was very honest.

He didn't want King Liang to feel jealous and hateful about himself, so he smiled slightly, and said very cleverly: "No matter how strong Wu Yijun is, isn't it for you?" ”

When King Liang heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he patted the battlements and laughed: "Wu Yibo, what a wonderful person!" ”

After looking at it for a while, King Liang suddenly pointed to one place and asked, "Are those soldiers holding fire guns in their hands?" ”

"Your Highness is indeed knowledgeable." Lian Zining said this not to flattery, because the Gayin Dynasty abolished firearms for decades, and there are not many high-level people who know firearms.

"The secondary artifact is called a flintlock pistol, which is different from ordinary firecrackers, and it is made by skilled craftsmen under the command of the lower officials. The firing range is longer, the rate of fire is fast, and the danger of exploding the bore is also avoided......" Lian Zining told the origin and benefits of the flintlock pistol one by one, and King Liang, who listened, nodded again and again.

"Now in the lower official army, thirty percent of the infantry are issued with flintlock pistols, and the cavalry is even more distributed to all members, with a total of more than 70,000 flintlock pistols. Regardless of the cavalry, every three days must be one day to practice firearms, and the day before the firearms training day, they will go to the logistics department to receive lead bullets, 15 pieces per person, according to the number of people. The same is true of artillery, this large school yard is built so large, more for these artillery drills, a cannon shot, every few miles to ten miles away, if it is small, it is really not enough. ”

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Cui Wanrong's eyes were about to pop out when she saw it on the side, no matter how she said it in Goguryeo, she could be regarded as a famous family, and she could be regarded as having seen a lot of Goguryeo's soldiers, and she only felt that she was really like a chicken and a dog with these Wu Yijun in front of her.

She looked at Lian Zining and asked, "Lord Lian, how much silver taels do you spend a day on training like this?" ”

Lian Zining didn't keep it, and said: "Counting the cost of soldiers' salaries and meals, training expenses, and miscellaneous expenses every month, it takes 500,000 taels of silver!" ”

500,000 taels! 500,000 taels a month, that's more than 6 million taels a year!

The military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided million-sided army is only seven million taels a year!

This is just the cost of ordinary training, if it is a march to fight, how much more will it cost? How much money does this Wu Yibo have, can afford such a golden mountain and a sea of money?

Seeing the shock of the two, Lian Zining smiled: "Otherwise, His Highness thinks that why should the lower officials go around making money?" It's really too much to eat at home, and I can't afford to feed it! ”

King Liang shook his head, and said with a strange expression: "Jizhen has 90,000 main soldiers and 59,000 guest troops, and the annual military expenditure is only 1,700,000 taels. ”

Lian Zining laughed: "Your Highness is right, then, do you want Your Highness to take a look at the gold and silver sea of my Wu Yijun now?" ”

King Liang said: "That's nature. ”

For people like him. It is absolutely impossible to judge whether it exists without seeing or hearing.

Next. Lian Zining personally took them to the seventy-two mansions not far from the north gate of Zhenyuan Mansion.

The so-called seventy-two treasury is just a general term. It doesn't mean that there are a total of seventy-two warehouses - that is too small, and there are more than sixty warehouses of gold copied from the family of Wang Zhen, the great eunuch of the Orthodox Dynasty. In fact, these 72 treasury is a special warehouse area, with 549 large warehouses in it. This was not enough, seeing that these treasury would not be enough after the autumn grain collection in a few months, Lian Zining ordered Shi Kai to expand and repair one hundred and seventy-one new warehouses.

These warehouses are collectively known as the Seventy-two Treasury Treasury, and each Treasury occupies one character. It has ten warehouses, such as No. 1 warehouse and No. 3 warehouse. Each treasury has one ambassador from Jiupincang, and three are under the jurisdiction of the deputy envoy of Jiupincang, which can be regarded as the largest yamen in the entire Senate. These ambassadors and deputy envoys of Cang ate the money issued by the Senate, but they were directly under the command of the envoy and the yamen, and they didn't recognize anything except Lian Zining's hand, which was stamped with a big seal. And Lian Zining can't trust the civil officials, their backgrounds are all veterans who had to retire from the army after Wu Yijun was injured. Loyalty doesn't get any higher than theirs.

Grain, silver ingots, cloth, silk, sand gold, dog's head gold, pearls, old ginseng, and even freshly baked weapons and armor...... And so on, all of Wu Yijun's belongings are stored in it.

This is Lian Zining's private property.

These single warehouses are like warehouses in rural villages that have been magnified countless times, tall tunzi. The pointed tops are each five or six zhang high and more than thirty zhang in diameter. It was huge enough to hold 200,000 stone of grain. The warehouses are all made of large bluestone. It is extremely sturdy and fireproof. The inside is covered with moisture-proof reeds, the four walls are also hung with reed mats, and the waterproof and drainage measures on the roof of the warehouse are also very perfect. In such an environment, the time for which food can be stored is greatly improved.

When entering the first storehouse and facing the mountain of grain, King Liang and his party were shocked.

The second, jaw-dropping.

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The tenth, accustomed to it.

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Twenty-one, insensitive.

King Liang patted Lian Zining on the shoulder: "Uncle Wu Yi, this king has served." ”

After seeing this hoard of grain, armor, and silver, King Liang was completely convinced of Lian Zining. This master is not only good at training and able to fight, but also his kung fu to collect money is also first-class! How could the realm of Songhua River allow him to give so many benefits?

Therefore, he is full of absolute confidence in his ally.

When everyone came out of the seventy-two mansions, Zhenyuan Mansion also came alive at this time, of course, whether they lived or not, this military city was as deserted as ever.

There were only soldiers, veterans, new soldiers, wounded soldiers, and veterans -- the soldiers lived in the barracks, the officers each built a large house, and the wounded soldier Lian Zining built a house for them. Occasionally, a few horsemen galloped out of the city gates, heading for distant villages, where smoke was already rising. These are basically disabled veterans who live in the city, but they have land in the villages outside and hire people to take care of them. Although these veterans who were discharged from the army due to injuries no longer fought, they were still members of the Wu Yi Army, and they deeply rooted themselves in this place, using their military salaries and pensions over the years to buy a lot of land and live a leisurely life as small landlords.

If you occasionally see one or several carriages being surrounded by some guards and leaving the city, it goes without saying that the female dependents of high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the army have gone out of the city.

To the north of the city, a group of knights galloped from the direction of Lingyidu, their horses' hooves trampling on the hard cement road, and the hooves rubbed into bursts of sparks.

They were in the dust, and it was clear that they had been on the road for a long time.

Outside the north gate, the leading knight took off his big felt hat, revealing an old face, and he slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity: "Hurry all the way, it's finally here, and I don't know why the adults are in such a hurry to summon me." ”

He turned around and asked, "How long did it take to get here from Lingyidu?" ”

The knight replied, "Less than half an hour." (To be continued.) )