As for the one hundred and fifty sect leaders sent by the second prince, Li Yao did not plan to bring them to his army in Yiguo, Li Yao's purpose in asking these people at the beginning was to train new soldiers, and those soldiers in Yiguo had at least half a year of running-in, so these sect leaders had no effect on the soldiers in Yiguo, as for these sect leaders, Li Yao would give them Luan Yuanqing and let them take care of these sect heads!

And the ten literati sent by the eldest prince, Li Yao is going to take them to Yiguo, and there are a few talents recruited by himself, Li Yao will also take them for his own use, there are too few talents who can manage the fiefdom by himself, Li Yao, a local official in Yiguo, will have to replace a batch sooner or later, many of them are huge greed, if Li Yao didn't have a spare hand to solve these people now, these people would have been replaced long ago!

The three of them were not bored along the way, fighting the landlord together in the carriage, when it came to fighting the landlord Li Yao's head hurt, three days ago when he returned to his parents' house with Yu Linlin, Yu Linlin also brought the playing cards over, Yu Linlin taught them to play and couldn't stop, especially when drinking, Yu Zhong and his father had to pull Li Yao to fight the landlord, but their skills were Li Yao's opponents, and they didn't even win a lot of games, but their amount of alcohol was not ordinary, after they were proficient in playing, Li Yao was suppressed, and it was not too much to drinkIn the end, Li Yao was directly knocked to the ground, and was carried into a carriage by the servants and sent back to the house!

Although it is winter now, Li Yao is riding a horse outside, not that Li Yao doesn't want to take the carriage, but the carriage has been occupied by Yu Linlin and the three of them, and the reason Li Yao gave Yu Linlin is that he wants to march with the soldiers outside, so as to reflect his love for the army!

Although Yu Linlin didn't know what was going on with the army, she knew that a general who could share weal and woe with the soldiers must be a good general, so she agreed to Li Yao riding outside!

Because they are now marching, the soldiers are moving, so it is not cold, but it is not easy to stand at night, although they can go to the nearby county post station at night to live, but this is not a long-term solution, in case of some unexpected circumstances, can not live in the post station of the county seat, the life of the soldier is sad, Li Yao now can't wait to return to Yi County, let Gu Yina contact his brother, get some cotton, and make some cotton clothes and quilts for the soldiers to keep out the cold!

All the soldiers watched Li Yao walk with them in this cold weather, they were all moved, and their morale soared for a while, no soldiers said it was cold, the army elders were walking with everyone, who else dared to say that it was cold!

Li Yao rode the horse for a while, but he couldn't stand the cold, so he got off the horse and walked with the soldiers, asking some soldiers about their living conditions while walking, as if he had become a good general who loved the army like a son!

Now the monthly salary of these soldiers is one or two silver a month, which is definitely a relatively high salary, in Li Yao's troops, the monthly salary of the squad leader-level non-commissioned officers is only one or two, because these are Li Yao's guard regiments, so the monthly salary is relatively high!

In Qi country, the monthly salary of ordinary city guards is 500 wen a month, Li Yao's army welfare is slightly higher, three months of recruits, 500 wen per month, and after three months, it is 700 wen a month, and Li Yao's food conditions are much higher than other armies, first of all, three meals a day is not something that others can imitate, and one more meal means more than half of the food expenses, and this number adds up to quite a lot over time!

Therefore, Li Yao extorted five million taels of silver from Yangyun, but it can only last for a year, as for the taxes of the county seats, Li Yao doesn't count on it, it is already very good to let them feed the college, so Li Yao really can't afford it now, if a year later, Li Yao's fief is still like this, then Li Yao will be bankrupt, and when the time comes, he will not need to be beaten by others, and he will be scattered!

Li Yao didn't think about dragging the soldiers, being a soldier is just to eat food, if you don't even give money to others, how can you let others work for you, now this dynasty is no longer like hundreds of years ago when you are a soldier just to live, now the soldier is also thinking that if you quit the army, you will have to save some money to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law!

So Li Yao has been thinking about ways to make money, although the fat man has earned a lot of money for Li Yao, but it is still a drop in the bucket to support hundreds of thousands of troops, so Li Yao still wants to ask some rich people to 'borrow' some money, anyway, they have so much money, and the matter of 'borrowing' money is still handed over to the fat man to do, and the goods like to deal with money!

It feels good to walk in winter, although there is no mask now, and it is impossible to avoid inhaling cold air directly, but the air here is very good, and the more you walk, the hotter it gets, and the sun's rays shine on your body is still quite warm!

A month after the New Year, it is spring, so the weather is slowly starting to get hot, spring and autumn is the high incidence of disease, Li Yao and so on to go back to announce that they should pay attention to hygiene, can not drink cold water!

Li Yao's requirements for the army are very strict, personal hygiene is definitely needless to say, and the quilt must also be folded into squares, but this thing of drinking boiled water is not popular, because they don't have anything to fill with water now, and boiled water can't be stored at all, so many soldiers are unwilling to wait for boiling water to boil before letting it cool down, and generally drink cold water directly to quench their thirst!

Li Yao also knows this situation, but it is not realistic for everyone to be equipped with a water bag, there are simply not so many animals to make water bags!

So Li Yao planned to let the five thousand blacksmiths make the iron kettle, so that the soldiers could drink cold boiling water at any time!

The method of making a kettle is very simple, Li Yao believes that these people who can even make cannons must have no problem making a kettle?

Because it is its own craftsman, the cost of making a kettle is not high, but it is slow, and it is good for a craftsman to make one a day, and at this rate, it will not be possible until summer to popularize kettles in the whole army!

It's just that summer is the time to drink the most water, so it doesn't hurt to wait until summer! But the matter of drinking boiling water in spring must be arranged in time, otherwise it will be difficult for soldiers to drink cold water and make their stomachs!

Soon it was noon, in such a cold weather, you had to drink something hot to warm your body, and the paste made of green onion cakes was a good food, the steamed buns were not hot, because there was no way to get hot, so the soldiers tore the cold buns into pieces and put them in the paste to soak them hot, and then ate them!

Hundreds of people who followed Li Yao from the national capital saw Li Yao's food and were surprised: "This paste not only has oil and salt, but also this steamed bun is still soft when it is so cold, what a strange thing!" ”

The leaders of those armies had never eaten such delicious food on the march, and everyone stopped until they were eating, and said while eating: "The food of the Hou Ye's army is really the best in the country!" ”

(To be continued.) )