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"Young master, what's the use of this queue training, do you also need to train when walking?"

"Of course you need to, you have to stick to it every day, one hour a day for the first half a year, and half an hour a day after that."

"Young master, what is an emergency gathering?"

"It's an order, you must assemble in the shortest possible time, and after training, you can directly devote yourself to the battle in sixty breaths, so that even if you encounter a surprise attack or an emergency, you can calmly deal with it."

"Cross-country training, subordinates don't understand what it means."

"It is to carry all the weapons and equipment, run long distances, such training is carried out every five days, basically at the time of the child, no matter the wind or rain, even if the world is stabbed, you must insist." ……

For ten consecutive days, as long as Zheng Xunrui returned home, he would give a detailed explanation to Yang He and Zheng Jinhong, and his explanation slowly made the two understand that discipline is the soul of the army, queue training, emergency assembly and cross-country training, etc., seem to have many names, but the ultimate goal is to improve the personal quality and discipline of the sergeant, that is, to really achieve military discipline like iron, military orders like mountains.

Zheng Xunrui's list of training subjects made Yang He and Zheng Jinhong smack their tongues, and even Yang He, who had been in the army, felt that he couldn't do it, but if the young master asked for it, he had to do it.

Get up at three o'clock every day, rain or shine, wash within one hundred and twenty breaths, and then run ten miles with twenty pounds of clods of soil, eat breakfast at three o'clock, rest for half an hour, and then be a queue training for one hour, queue training is over, rest again for a quarter of an hour, and then raise the spear for half an hour, and hang a five-pound clod of soil in front of the spear.

At noon, I prepare for lunch, and rest for half an hour after eating.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, I began to practice the posture of slashing, chopping, blocking, picking, stabbing and so on, repeating the practice, lasting for an hour, and practicing archery for half an hour.

Eat dinner on time.

From the next day to the next day, an emergency assembly training will be conducted.

Cross-country training is carried out every five days, and each person carries 30 pounds of soil and runs 30 miles.

This is a day's training subjects, rain or shine, every day can not be interrupted, so after half a year of training, then adjust, appropriate change the time of some training subjects.

Training requires a lot of expenses, for example, the problem of eating, since it is necessary to eat at a unified time, it is impossible to let 800 people disperse back to eat at home, it is necessary to cook in a unified manner, in addition to equestrian training, because there are no war horses at present, this training can only be temporarily replaced by training to maintain body balance, and finally it is the time to get up and gather every day, and the training of emergency assembly, etc.

Zheng Xunrui's statement was very simple, on the issue of eating, the Zheng family took out the food, found a family to cook in a unified manner, gave a certain remuneration, and did not need to think too much about the emergency gathering, since the eight hundred people lived together, then go back to each family to sleep, there is no strength to build a military camp at present, and I dare not build a military camp.

The training of 800 heroes officially began on the 16th day of the first lunar month.

Housing construction, spring ploughing, production, and training were all gathered together, and these 800 people could be said to have fallen into devilish training.

It's training to push the limits.

From the sixteenth day of the first month to the twenty-fourth day of the first month, Zheng Xunrui also followed the training and did not fall behind for a day.

Zheng Kaihua also wanted to follow the training, but was rejected, he was still young, and Zheng Xunrui didn't want everyone in the Zheng family to enter the army, Zheng Kaihua's task was to study hard and be able to take the imperial examination in the future, so that the Zheng family's strength would be stronger and more resources would be able to master more resources.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Yang He provided a list of ten people, all of whom were school captains, some of them were small flags, some were general flags, and the highest was a hundred household heads.

All of them were junior officers, and most of them were in their thirties.

This is exactly the talent Zheng Xunrui needs.

Of course, thinking that these people are in place, they can only wait until Yang Tingshu comes back from Suzhou.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty is actually divided into two systems, namely the military household system and the standing army system, and the model of leading the entire army with the military household system in the early Ming Dynasty has been impossible to fully meet the needs.

Military attachés are also divided into two systems, one is the local guard army representing the military household system, and the officers are the degree commander, the commander, the thousand households, the hundred households, the general flag and the small flag, and the other is the recruitment army representing the standing army system, and the officers are the general soldier, the deputy general soldier, the staff general, the deputy general, the guerrilla general, the garrison, the general general, and so on.

The two have gradually merged with each other, and it is impossible to separate them completely.

If you have to compare, in terms of the number of sergeants under the command, the guerrilla generals and the sergeants under the command of a thousand households are about the same, both more than 1,000 people, but the meaning of the two is completely different.

The 1,120 people under the jurisdiction of Qianhu include the army, who are responsible for patrolling the city and coastal defense, etc., and are engaged in military cantonment farming, transporting troops, transporting troops, transporting and communicating with the army, squad troops, and being responsible for external transfer and duty, etc., such sergeants, who are for the army in wartime and for the people in peacetime, and when they really fight, they can draw out 300 to 400 people to reach the sky.

The more than 1,000 people under the guerrilla general's command were divided into combat units and logistics units, and although some of them may also be military households, they basically did not engage in tuntian affairs, and when a major war broke out, all of them could be pulled out, and even if they were logistics troops, they could go into battle to kill the enemy.

If you compare it upwards, the difference is even greater, there are only 5,600 people under the command of the commander, this is the rule set by the imperial court, it is impossible to have more, and when you encounter a battle and killing, you can pull out a team of about 1,000 to 2,000 people, it is not bad, and the identity of the army and the people makes the combat effectiveness of the guard extremely low, but the sergeants under the command of the general army, it is difficult to say, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, depending on the importance of the place where you are stationed, for example, the general army in the Liaodong area, the number of sergeants under its jurisdiction is generally more than 10,000 people, There are even tens of thousands of people, and most of these people are mercenaries, and they are rarely engaged in tuntian.

The comparison between the two cannot be absolute, and there are also places where the commander is also the commander-in-chief.

Zheng Xunrui's purpose is by no means to establish an army in the form of a guard, what he needs to establish is a regular army, that is, a standing army, these soldiers will never engage in agricultural production, and their daily task is to train and improve their combat ability.

Only by creating such an army can it have real combat effectiveness.

The army and the local government can not be completely integrated, the regular army and the militia are also qualitatively different, hundreds of years later, the army, if you still have to farm to feed themselves, it is impossible to imagine, strictly speaking, military spending must be absolutely guaranteed, and it must be increased year by year, so that the soldiers do not have the slightest worries, so that they will fight desperately when they fight.

It would have been a simple truth.

It's a pity that this principle doesn't work in Daming.

First, because the status of the Ming military attache is low, it is completely impossible to compare with the civil officials, and almost all of the people who control the government and the army are civilian officials, and after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the Ming civil officials can directly kill the military attache without asking the court for various reasons, you must know that Yuan Chonghuan is a civil official of the second grade, and Mao Wenlong is a military attache of the first grade.

Think about how it is possible for the civilian officials who control the government to really attach importance to the status of military attachés and the needs of the army.

Second, because the imperial court is too poor to take out the silver, to maintain the officials' salaries, barely to maintain the army's expenses, even if it is very good, the total annual tax of the Ming court is about 22 million taels of silver, and the silver that can be escorted to the capital into the treasury is less than 3 million taels, and the rest is either to maintain local expenses, or it is impossible to collect taxes.

With less than three million taels of silver, it is not only necessary to maintain the expenses of the imperial court, but also to provide relief to the victims, and even more to maintain an army of one million, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

The outcome of this is twofold, one is that the army cannot be maintained, there is a mutiny, or surrender to the gold, or join the peasant rebel army, and the other is that the army discipline is corrupt, in order to make a living do everything possible, plundering the people, killing good people and taking meritorious deeds, such an army cannot have too strong combat effectiveness.

To create a really strong army, that requires silver, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty are by no means stupid, without silver, they have no way at all.

This is also the problem that Zheng Xunrui is most worried about, he has calculated the cost of maintaining a thousand elite cavalry, the average is calculated according to the military salary of five taels of silver per person, and the military salary alone needs 60,000 taels of silver a year, which is to the head, and then there is the war horse, according to the Arabian horse equipment, a thousand war horses, 80,000 taels of silver, the daily expenses of each war horse are at least 150 taels of silver per year, and it is 150,000 taels of silver a year, and the armament is calculated according to the average of five taels of silver for each sergeant, That's five thousand taels of silver.

The total cost is close to 300,000 taels of silver.

This is an astronomical, unsustainable number.

It is impossible for any army to keep the cost so high.

Of course, the expenses in the later period are less, but the cost of military salaries and feeding and nursing war horses is absolutely impossible to be reduced.

Of course, Zheng Xunrui's calculation is calculated according to the highest standard, if it can be saved, the annual expenses of a thousand elite cavalry will need at least more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Foot soldiers are cheaper, but firearms are just as expensive, and without the support of firearms, foot soldiers can hardly play any role.

Silver, the most important thing is silver.

This is a question that Zheng Xunrui can't avoid, even if he enters the imperial court in the future, I'm afraid he shouldn't think about how much silver the imperial court can come up with, and the cost of maintaining the army, he still has to rely on himself. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow the ~ point / Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread can be), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! ）