Most of the Cao family's property has been squandered by him, and he pays for an army by himself, which is almost like throwing money into the bottomless pit, and no matter how rich the family property is, it will be ruined one day, unless this is an investment to get income from it.

But after Cao Yue went to Datong as the chief soldier, he was immediately attacked by the rogues and Jiannu, and he had no chance to make more plans.

However, when he came to Nanjing, he could use his brains in this area.

The Cao family's current industries include silk, grain, steel, porcelain, Qinglou (color * love) and other industries, but the scale is not very large, and the industrial scale can only be regarded as the middle and lower level in Jiangnan.

To train the new army, military uniforms, bedding, food, and weapons are needed, and the quantity is very large, Cao Yue can let his family participate, so that the Cao family can get a share of the training of the new army and get benefits. And Cao Yue can use the money earned by the family to use it for the expansion of the army. If this can really be done, then the money will also be transferred around in the hands of the army and the Cao family, and it will be transferred more and more, and everyone will be happy.

Of course, these things must be done above board, without leaving people with a handle to attack.

Having successfully obtained some money from Gao Hongtu and receiving donations from many officials and magnates, Cao Yue had a lot of money in his hands that could be used to recruit soldiers, and he could start operating.

Five days after arriving in Nanjing, Cao Yue, as the governor of Nanjing, issued an order to recruit new soldiers, and any young man between the ages of 18 and 40 could enlist in the army. Those who enlist in the army are given a salary of one or two taels of silver every month, which is settled in the same month, and they are never in arrears, and their families also have tax exemptions, and they have a large pension for injuries or deaths caused by war.

The initial recruitment of soldiers and horses is expected to be between 50,000 and 70,000 people, and the recruited recruits will replace the original Nanjing town guards after the training is completed. The soldiers and horses of the original Nanjing will also be reorganized, leaving the strong and the weak behind.

As soon as Cao Yue's recruitment order issued in his capacity as the admiral of Nanjing was posted, it caused a huge uproar.

The generous salary, the promise of never being indebted, and the appearance of the soldiers of the musket battalion brought from Datong made many people who had no means or poor families excited. Cao Yue's heroic deeds also made many young people who were interested in serving the country have the idea of enlisting in the army, and for a time, the conscription registration points set up in Nanjing and the prefectures and counties near Nanjing were crowded, and the applicants were in an endless stream, which was very lively.

This scene was expected by Cao Yue, and the blood of today's Han people has not completely disappeared, at least most people still know the idea of defending their families and defending the country against foreign captives.

However, Cao Yue's actions caused dissatisfaction among the former generals of the Nanjing Town Army.

Cao Yue's move was almost to prepare to disband the original Nanjing Zhen Army and replace it with newly recruited men. Nanjing's original town army only had 50,000 soldiers, and the actual number was at most 30,000, and the other 20,000 were used for airspace pay, but these 30,000 soldiers were not a small number. Now that Cao Yue is doing this, he is almost cutting off their roots, and of course they are very dissatisfied.

It was also after Cao Yue issued a recruitment order, the original leading generals in the Nanjing Town Army expressed strong dissatisfaction, and many generals united to protest with Cao Yue, and some even wanted to resist by force. But Cao Yue, who had thought of this for a long time and had a plan, immediately responded. The musket battalion brought from Datong, as well as the special training team renamed the special guard battalion that was not open to the public, were the biggest capital for Cao Yue to dare to act like this, and when these generals were ready to make trouble and wanted to deal with Cao Yue by force, Cao Yue struck first.

The officers and men of the 1st Musket Battalion, the special training team and the mercenaries of Constantin were all dispatched, and almost no effort was taken over all the barracks in Nanjing. Cao Yue had already found out the situation of the Nanjing Zhen Army, these horses and horses, worse than the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp, can be said to be the rabble of the rabble, they can do it by bullying the people, but to go to the battlefield to fight, it is tantamount to a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, in the face of the powerful threat of the well-trained musket battalion and the special guard battalion, these horses can only lay down their arms and surrender.

The special guard battalion took down most of the leading generals in the first time, how could the Nanjing Zhen Army, which had little combat effectiveness, be able to block the suppression of the musket battalion brought over by Cao Yue? Soon, without making any major disturbances, Cao Yue subdued all the Nanjing town army, detained the main generals, and controlled all the horses in the barracks.

Subsequently, Cao Yue rectified the Nanjing Zhen Army, and the sergeants with good physique and no bad deeds could stay in the new army if they wanted to, but they were not forced. Those sergeants with poor physique and good conduct were only dismissed, and after being given a settling-in allowance of five taels of silver, they were dismissed from the Nanjing Town Army.

With a good settling-in fee, the purged sergeants did not complain too much, and the officers or sergeants who complained learned a lesson and did not dare to cause any trouble.

After the completion of the clearance work, the original 30,000 Nanjing town troops were finally left with only 8,000 people. Cao Yue mixed these 8,000 men with the soldiers of the musket battalion to form the first, second, and third battalions of the Nanjing New Army.

In response to Cao Yue's big move, Nanjing's officialdom surprisingly did not have a voice of fierce opposition, and the officials either acquiesced or supported it overtly or implicitly. This is all because Cao Yue has mastered too many unsightly things of the officials, and this is used as a threat, and those officials who have mastered the shortcomings of Cao Yue are unwilling to stand up against Cao Yue on the premise that their interests have not suffered major losses.

After all, Cao Yue took care of their sore spots, and he was trained by the emperor's orders, so he could act cheaply. What's more, Cao Yue still has the Shang Fang sword given by the emperor in his hand, which can be cut first and then played. The deputy chief soldier surnamed Wu in Datong was beheaded by Cao Yue, and in the end Cao Yue did nothing. Although they are not the same as the general soldier surnamed Wu, who knows if the pampered and arrogant Cao Yue will do unimaginable things?

Shi Kefa never dreamed of this situation.

He didn't expect Cao Yue to start performing his duties in such a way, and he couldn't have imagined that Gao Hongtu, the head of the household department, would generously give the little money and food he had saved for Cao Yue to use, and the magnates and officials in Nanjing voluntarily donated money and food for Cao Yue's military training. He also couldn't imagine that Cao Yue would use such toughness, and even threaten with force, disbanded the original Nanjing Town Army, and replaced all the Nanjing Town Army with his own men.

Shi Kefa's opinion of Cao Yue is changing almost every day, and he has to marvel that this is a person who can't be imagined with common sense, a guy who is not afraid of heaven and earth, and dares to offend anyone. There are many officials who have the same idea as Shi Kefa, and almost all Nanjing officials are impressed by Cao Yue, the new governor of Nanjing!