In the barracks, Zhao Kang and Lu Mo selected twenty people according to the list and formed Yang Chao's personal team.

These twenty people have all seen blood, but their command ability and learning ability are weak, and they have all gone through several months of training, but they can't read a single word, and they belong to the kind of strong men with simple minds and well-developed limbs.

These people are not suitable as officers, so Yang Chao pulled them into his own personal army and used them as elite soldiers.

These strong men, their original officers also like them, these people are more honest and obedient, and they can fight, who doesn't like it.

But under Yang Chao's order, no one dared to object, so he could only mumble a few words, complain to Lu Mo and Zhao Kang, Zhao Kang even knew how to appease his colleagues, and he didn't get cheap and behaved, so obvious progress Yang Chao also saw it.

After forming a pro-soldier team, we have to continue to recruit people.

Yang Chao didn't want to waste any of Huang Chong's troops, and there were at least three hundred people to recruit.

Yang Chao cleaned up the two soldiers of Chen Kuan and Li Fu, and there was some surplus, so he directly applied for 400, and the military department actually approved it.

The same team, Hu Quan, Lu Mo and Zhao Kang, is responsible for recruiting troops.

But after recruiting for a day, only 100 people were recruited, which was completely different from the last time.

Yang Chao used to recruit troops easily.

After inquiry, I found out that it was because my military salary had lost its attractiveness, and the small soldier had two dollars of silver a month, the captain had three dollars, the team was one tael, the flag was two taels, and the hundred were three taels, and the officers were naturally not bad.

But for the soldiers, it is much worse, the rice has risen to three taels and eight dollars of silver, and the soldiers' annual military salary cannot buy a load of rice, that is to say, they cannot support their families.

The veteran is because he feels that the salary is profitable, and the food in the army is good, and there is hope for promotion. As long as they are lucky, they can be promoted by killing a few Jiang bandits, and they have tasted the sweetness. Therefore he was willing to continue to come to the camp, but two pieces of silver for the recruits. It's really unattractive, so those who know or don't know Yang Chao are not very happy to be soldiers.

Only 100 people were recruited in one day, which made Yang Chao have to consider raising military salaries.

Yang Chao did not consider the increase in military salaries as a burden, if a soldier could not support his family, how could he expect them to have a sense of honor.

A soldier like a beggar, except for a walking corpse that eats and waits for death. What else could there be.

But Yang Chao has never had any concept of prices, because he hasn't worried much about his livelihood.

Li Fu in the barracks is no exception, although he is a vegetable grower, in fact, he is also a small rich man, dozens of acres of vegetable fields, at least 200 taels of income per year, and his life is more nourishing than that of ordinary rural landlords, so prices actually have little impact on him.

Yang Chao finally discussed with Zhang Dawei.

Zhang Dawei is old and heavy, and he has no other livelihood, and the military salary that Yang Chao gave him is only one or two pieces of silver. Because he also got the identity of a team.

Lao Zhang said that his family was indeed poor, but his salary of one or two silver was still able to support his family. But it's not enough for the whole family to eat, if it can rise to two taels of silver, his family of three will be able to live a good life.

That is, doubled.

But Lao Zhang is an officer, he needs two taels of silver to support his family, if he is a soldier, Lao Zhang said that they are all idle laborers at home, and staying at home is a burden, and staying in the army to manage food will solve a big trouble for everyone, in fact, there is no need to increase the monthly salary. Two pennies a month is not too little.

But after thinking about it again, Yang Chao still decided to increase his salary. The salary of the northern soldiers of the Ming Dynasty was generally one tael to one tael or two, but the actual amount of silver in the hand would not exceed five coins of silver. Yang Chao simply gave his soldiers five yuan.

The officers were raised accordingly, the captain of the army rose to one tael, and the team was rising to two taels, of which five taels, and a total of ten taels per hundred.

The new salaries were soon issued, and Yang Chao insisted on posting them in plain text for all the soldiers to see, even though they were illiterate.

Gather all the soldiers and tell them about the new system, even after rigorous training, this salary still makes people mumble.

The hundred newly recruited soldiers, not to mention, were noisy and loud.

With this new salary system, Yang Chao believes it should be attractive.

This time, he didn't go to the door to recruit soldiers, but directly wrote more than a dozen notices and posted them in various guard posts, so that the young men who wanted to be soldiers and eat food came to the barracks to report.

Sure enough, the next day, young men began to come to the camp, and after inquiring about whether the soldiers could really have five dollars of silver, they were all willing to become soldiers.

Hu Quan set up tables and chairs at the gate of the camp, Lu Mo helped record on the side, and Zhao Kang took his own soldiers to maintain order.

On the first day, a hundred people were recruited, two hundred were recruited on the second day, and after the remaining one hundred were recruited on the third day, there were more than 300 people queuing up at the gate, telling them that they had recruited enough, and some people were indignant, saying that they had come a long way to come here, but they did not become soldiers.

For these noisy young people, they directly dispatched their own troops, lined up in a position to deter, and then dispersed.

The army organization is already very formal, and there is experience in expanding the army by 300 last time, and it is not a problem to add 400 people this time.

However, many veterans have basically dispersed, especially those who have seen blood, at least one team.

Even Chen Baodi's soldiers last time, who just stayed at the stern of the boat, watched others rush and kill from beginning to end, and they were at least mixed with a captain.

In this way, the only veterans who have become an establishment are the twenty personal soldiers around Yang Chao.

After completing the establishment and promoting a group of new team leaders, Yang Chao convened a meeting of the old nine teams.

Now three of them, Lu Mo, Wang Pu and Zhao Kang, are already Qi Zong.

Only many men, Chen Baodi, Song Kun, Li Wuliu, Sun Changfu, and Zheng Yongwang are still in the team and are still leading recruits.

However, these veteran teams undoubtedly have more command experience and more experience in leading troops than those newly promoted, and even Sun Changfu, Li Wuliu, and Zheng Yongwang, who have never seen a fight, have more of an officer's bearing than those newly promoted teams.

Yang Chao told these nine people that although their respective official positions are high and low, everyone is still on the same level, and he is now promoted to a thousand generals, and there is a total vacancy under his subordinates, which will be elected from these nine people, as for who can be elected, it still depends on performance.

Yang Chao announced that he will also continue to hold literacy classes this year, and the system of raising literacy to the next level has not changed, and Lu Mo has already passed the literacy, so there is no need to take the exam, but if others pass the exam, they will still be promoted to the next level.

In addition, the meritorious service of killing the enemy will still be according to last year's system, and the head credit will be distributed according to the system.

Therefore, if you want to be promoted, there are only two ways, the first is to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and the second is to use merit to be literate.

The promotion path is open and transparent, and Yang Chao believes that there will be many more literate people this year than last year.

Because at least many of the men are still in the same position as their own soldiers in the past, the veteran team is very uncomfortable, and the enterprising spirit is very strong.

After the meeting, Zhao Kang was left behind, and he still encouraged him, telling him that now only his subordinates in the army are elite soldiers who have seen blood, and whether he can make meritorious service depends on his performance.

Zhao Kang said that he would not let Yang Chao lose face, Yang Chao told him that this year he would replace last year's Wang Pu escort, that is, let him escort every day, and have a better chance to meet Jiang bandits, Zhao Kang immediately rejoiced, this is the best opportunity.

chatted with Lu Mo and Hu Quan separately, and told the two that although they were appointed by Yang Chao as the general manager of the flag and the general manager of Bai, Yang Chao asked them if they were willing to give up.

In the past, Yang Chao didn't think about it at all, but now Yang Chao has the ability to help these two people get fame.

First of all, Hu Quan, I couldn't even pass the county test and the government test before, the county test is too simple, that is, the county order directly reads the papers, where is Yang Wencong in Jiangning County, Yang Chao's one-sentence thing, the government test is also easy, Ying Tianfu Yin is now also Yang Chao's 'friend', so passing the county test and the government test is a matter of one sentence.

As for Xiucai, it is not difficult, Xu Zhihuan was not punished this time because of his merit in appeasing the scholars, and he was not punished in the end, and he was retained in his original position, not demoted or promoted, and he was very likely to be implicated in questioning because of the scholar's trouble, so Xu Zhihuan owed Yang Chao a favor.

Mentioning the imperial history just happens to be able to manage the level of the academy examination, although he said it alone, it is not difficult to let him help ensure that the two shows pass the test.

owes Yang Chao a favor, let Xu Zhihuan repay it with two worthless talents, he probably won't feel embarrassed.

Hu Quan said that everything was up to Yang Chao to help him make the decision, he was an unassertive person, he didn't know what he was going to do, and Yang Chao dragged him to the barracks, otherwise he would still be killing pigs.

Lu Mo said very simply that his current skills are too far from Xiucai, and he wants to continue to study for a few years, but he is self-aware, and his level is just enlightened, so it is too unreasonable to go to Xiucai.

Yang Chao didn't agree to help Hu Quan get an idea, let him think about it and plan for himself, Yang Chao didn't want his friends to fall to the point where he didn't even have an idea about his own life.

Yang Chao agreed to Lu Mo and let him continue to study for a few years, and when he felt that it was almost enough, he was helping him run the entrance examination.

The recruitment of soldiers was full, and the formation was completed, but Yang Chao was still busy for a while after that.

Because there are more than 800 soldiers in total, all of them have to establish a file system, and there are only three people who can read and write, and Lu Mo is only just literate, so the main burden is actually done by Yang Chao and Hu Quan.

made Yang Chao feel that there was a serious shortage of documents in his army, and running a literacy class was one thing, if it was fast, it was better to recruit a few readers directly.

Other than that, everything was normal, the craftsmen came to the camp and began to build a bathhouse, Li Fu's greenhouse began to produce vegetables, and the warship set sail again to make money.

Therefore, as soon as the file work was completed, Yang Chao had free time, and at this time, the Jinchai Building was reopened, and Yang Chao just went to take a look. (To be continued)