Although he had already decided to refuse, in order to gain time for war preparations, Zhang Peijue still sent Yang Shukan, Wu Yuzhang and others to talk to Pu Dianjun, and he discussed war preparations with Wang Tianjie, Zhang Dasan and others in the conference room of the Governor's Mansion.

"There is not much time left, but there are a lot of problems to be solved..."In the conference room, looking at the various problems on the table, Zhang Peijue felt that his head was going to be a few laps bigger.

"There is not much time, but there are many problems that need to be solved..."Looking at the questions that had been laid out on the table, Zhang Peijue pressed his temples and felt that his head had grown several times.

The participants of the meeting, whether they were the main battle faction or the main peace faction, were silent when they looked at the issues that were put on the table.

Today's Shu Army political axe is the product of the merger of the original Yucheng Alliance and the Baolu Army, and naturally there are many original problems of the Baolu Army, such as equipment, morale, individual soldier quality, etc...

Needless to say, there are only 50,000 or 60,000 left after nearly 200,000 people ran away from 100,000. Although those who ran away kept their weapons, but even so, no more than half of the people in the Baolu Army had guns, and more than 95% of them were ordinary home-made muskets, and the new rifles, even those like Lin Dengming, were simply scarce, and most of them were in the hands of the officers...

As for morale, it is quite low, because those former Baolu army, the current Shu army political axe soldiers have learned that it is likely to clash with the Sichuan military political axe, and there is another thing that also demoralizes them...

As for the individual qualities of the soldiers? Isn't it interesting to talk to these former members of the Brotherhood or to ordinary peasants about the quality of individual soldiers? You must know that many of the soldiers of the Baolu Army have not even learned how to line up...

And...

"Governor, I wonder if you can pay some military salaries in advance? The brothers below are already screaming with hunger..."Zhang Dasan knocked on the table and smiled bitterly at Zhang Peijue.

Military salary is the key issue of the low morale of the Shu army at present...

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, it wasn't until you sat in the position of governor that Zhang Peijue found that there were too many places to spend money. Not to mention the general and relatively ordinary civil affairs, the 50,000 or 60,000 Baolu troops brought by Guangwang Tianjie and them, plus the original patrol battalion and water division in Yucheng, a total of 60,000 or 70,000 troops are a bottomless pit.

Yucheng at this time in Sichuan is only an important town, although it is second only to Chengdu, but in any case it cannot be compared with Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, the most important thing is that taxes and things usually flow to the provincial capital, not an important town...

The Shu army is no longer the road protection army, and when the road army is protected, they don't need military salaries to protect the road. Now the people who are protecting the road have left, and the rest are for the future, some for the righteousness of the brothers, and more for the military salaries of those oceans...

An army of 10,000 people, even if the monthly salary is only 5 oceans, it will cost 50,000 silver dollars a month, and the 60,000 or 70,000 people of the Shu army need at least 300,000 silver dollars per month, plus the food and accommodation problems of these soldiers...

And yet hundreds of thousands of silver dollars? The Shu military and political axe can't come up with such a large sum of money at all.

Originally, with the connections and face that Zhang Peijue and Yang Shukan had accumulated in Sichuan for many years, it was still possible to scrape together hundreds of thousands of silver dollars from the local gentry to solve the current difficulties, but because the Sichuan military and political axe in Chengdu was established earlier than the Shu military and political axe, coupled with the tax exemption policy issued by the Sichuan military and political axe to win the hearts of the people, now the orthodox status in Sichuan has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Zhang Peijue's Shu military and political axe is not justified.

In this case, the gentry who might have donated money retreated, and in the end, with their old relationship and old face, Zhang Peijue, they only got tens of thousands of oceans, just enough for the food expenses of tens of thousands of soldiers...

"Third Brother Da, let the brothers below support it, and tell them that as long as they survive this hurdle, the military salary will be paid." Zhang Peijue said with a wry smile.

As long as it can survive this time, the position of the Shu military political axe will be much more stable, and it will naturally be much easier to ask for donations from those familiar gentry...

In fact, Zhang Dasan and Wang Tianjie are very familiar with this kind of thing, you must know that when the Baolu Army was just emerging, because of the lack of funds, when every county was captured, they would go to the homes of local big families to ask for some, and at this time, if the big families were willing to give alms, they would naturally be good comrades-in-arms of the revolution. But if you are as stingy as an iron rooster, then you are a counter-revolutionary with the Manchu political axe, and you will directly copy your home without explaining (historical facts)!

Hearing Zhang Peijue say this, Zhang Dasan could only say after opening his mouth. "I'll do my best..."The people who are still in the Baolu Army today are basically for the sake of eight words, brotherhood, righteousness, and financial future.

Many of the members of the Baolu Army are from the Elders' Association, and Zhang Dasan and they are all the leaders of the Elders' Association, and they can control some people by relying on brotherly righteousness, but not all of the Baolu Army are Elders' Associations or Alliances, and not every Elders' Association can be mastered with the four words brotherly righteousness, and they also need a financial future...

After Zhang Dasan stepped back, Wang Tianjie also stood up and said. "In addition to military salaries, we also have the problem of troop establishment and equipment. I don't have anything to say about the establishment, the establishment of the Baolu Army was very chaotic when it was disbanded, and after it was disbanded by three-quarters of the way, it is not even clear how many people there are now. Originally, after the establishment of the military and political axe, it was planned to reorganize the troops, but now it seems unlikely...

There is also the problem of equipment, many soldiers are still using homemade muskets, and some don't even have muskets, and I don't have a good way to do this, but as for artillery, can we dismantle some cannons from the ships of the Yucheng Naval Division? ”

"Yucheng Water Master?" Zhang Peijue was stunned for a moment.

"That's right, Yucheng Naval Division, I have already learned from the Naval Division, the Yucheng Naval Division has a few ironclad gunboats, as well as a lot of wooden gunboats, and the next battle with the Sichuan military and political axe will mainly be carried out on land, can we first remove the guns on the gunboats for fire support?"

"This is a solution..."Zhang Peijue touched his chin. But can the guns on the gunboat be used after they are removed? ”

"This..."Wang Tianjie was also stunned for a moment.

Fortunately, at this time, an officer of the naval division stepped forward. "It's impossible to maneuver like an ordinary mountain artillery field artillery, but if it's just fixed in one place for fire support, it's still no problem!"

"That's it..."Zhang Peijue thought for a while, and finally nodded. In that case, you should go and remove all the guns from the gunboat...", he glanced apologetically at the officer of the sailor. "When the war is over, we'll put the cannon back on..."

"Yes!"

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