Wu Shigong did not count the military households of the Qianhu Office that was nominally under his command in Runing Mansion in his own troops, and put aside the reasons for the low combat effectiveness of the Qianhu Army, the main reason is that according to the principle of the Ming Dynasty's size system, it is best that in peacetime, Wu Shigong's garrison and the Qianhu of the Qianhu should not have any contact. Only in wartime, the thousand households of the thousand households were temporarily under the command of Wu Shigong.

In addition, it is the construction of military buildings. In addition to the construction of the Runing camp and the reinforcement of Li Harrier's cottage, Wu Shigong was also preparing to buy some land in key places and build some Zhuangzi.

Because Wu Shigong was the garrison of Runing Province after all, and he wanted to control the entire Guide Province area, at least the western part of Guide Province, so the combat scope of Wu Shigong's army was not limited to the fortress triangle. Therefore, Wu Shigong's purpose in building these Zhuangzi was to store grain and grass in these Zhuangzi as a foothold for Wu Shigong's army when they marched.

In the future, when Wu Shigong's army marched in Runing and Guide Mansion, he could rely on the grain and grass stored in these Zhuangzi to supply the army, and he could also rely on these existing Zhuangzi as the main camp of his army. In this way, when Wu Shigong fought in Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion, he could greatly speed up the army's march and reduce the time for the army to build camps.

However, the specific construction location of these Zhuangzi will not be determined until Wu Shigong returns. To tell the truth, the current Wu Shigong, even the location of the large camp of the Runing camp has not yet been determined.

However, although Deng Qifan helped Wu Shigong, he formulated the development of the army. But when he arrived in Zuihou, he still advised Wu Shigong and said: "My lord, it is very wasteful for you to expand your army and build a large number of buildings. You have to think twice! ”

After that, Deng Qifan calculated an account for Wu Shigong. According to Wu Shigong's expansion of the army, the annual military salary will cost about 80,000 taels of silver. But now Wu Shigong's industry in Henan, plus the income from "bodyguards" and salt sales, will receive a maximum of about 30,000 taels of silver every year. Coupled with the military salaries of 1,200 soldiers this time, with the worst-case scenario, the imperial court issued 30% of the military salaries, and the annual military salaries were only about 8,500 taels. In this way, Wu Shigong has a gap of more than 40,000 taels of silver every year.

According to Wu Shigong's jihua, the cost of building the Runing camp and reinforcing Li Harrier's cottage is 20,000 taels of silver, and 50,000 taels of silver must be prepared to buy land and build Zhuangzi, and Wu Shigong has to leave 50,000 taels of silver around him for emergency relief.

But now Wu Shigong's side, plus the silver in the fortress of Qianhu, is only a little more than 230,000 taels of silver. In this way, Wu Shigong can subsidize his army's military salary for about three years. You know, this doesn't include the horses, weapons, guns, and clothing needed to expand the army. With these things, the time that Wu Shigong can subsidize will be shorter.

Wu Shigong really had no reason to refute Deng Qifan's question, and he couldn't say: "My soul comes from the later generations, I know that Li Zicheng will overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and the Tartars will live in the Central Plains." If Wu Shigong said this, he would definitely be regarded by Deng Qifan as having a brain disease.

So Wu Shigong had no choice but to pretend to be a god stick and said: "Mr. doesn't know, the world will be in chaos within three years." I'm doing this to protect myself! ”

Wu Shigong's words made Deng Qifan even more strange: "Where did you learn about the chaos in the world for three years?" ”

Wu Shigong was speechless. But Wu Shigong's silence made Deng Qifan mistakenly believe that Wu Shigong may have obtained inside information from the upper echelons of the court from his father-in-law and father. Although Deng Qifan still felt that Wu Shigong's approach was a little incredible, Deng Qifan finally helped Wu Shigong find a reason.

In fact, Wu Shigong can't be sure whether the world will be in chaos within three years. He just calculated that since Emperor Chongzhen was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he would be an emperor for more than ten years at most, and now it has been three years since Chongzhen, and three years later will be the sixth year of Chongzhen.

What is somewhat funny is that Wu Shigong's current mentality is that he will be uncomfortable if the world is in chaos within three years; But in three years, the world was not in chaos, and he was still uncomfortable. There is no possibility of being comfortable anyway.

On the contrary, because of Wu Shigong's sick collection of food, Wu Shigong's food is not very short. If Tang Liu sent all the grain to Henan. Wu Shigong and Deng Qifan calculated that even if the grain in the field was not harvested, Wu Shigong's grain could ensure that his army and domestic slaves could eat for three years.

In the final analysis, it was the army, a gold-swallowing beast, that ate too much silver. Not to mention ordinary people, even noble families like Wu Mansion and Xue Mansion are not many people who can earn more than 30,000 taels of silver in a year. And Wu Shigong now has to carry a big hole on his back.

Later, in discussions with officers such as Zhou Xun, He Fei, and Yu Ji, Wu Shigong determined several principles of the army. One of the biggest changes is the principle of the distribution of loot.

Wu Shigong stipulated that in the future battles, all captured soldiers of the army should be handed over to the public. Yes, loot will no longer be distributed. It is only a soldier of the combat unit, who receives a double salary for the time of the battle.

In this way, Wu Shigong can effectively control the expenditure of military salaries. Among the seized items, Wu Shigong will take out a part of it as a pension and sick fund for the soldiers, so that the soldiers can use it when they are old and sick.

The purpose of Wu Shigong's practice was not to establish any welfare society, but his main purpose was to tie the soldiers around him and increase their loyalty through these long-term benefits.

However, Wu Shigong came from these two modern welfare systems, and after it was announced to the soldiers, they were greatly welcomed by the soldiers. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the two things of old-age care and illness were like swords hanging over the heads of every common people, which would fall at any time, often turning those families into abject poverty. Therefore, with the guarantee of these two benefits, those soldiers will not have to worry about anything in the days to come.

Another principle of Wu Shigong is to establish a hierarchy in the army. This hierarchical system is not like the hierarchy of the modern army, but through a series of assessments, as well as the difference in the salaries of auxiliary soldiers, second-line soldiers and elite soldiers, so that soldiers have a motivation to train hard and make more meritorious achievements.

In fact, in the past, Wu Shigong had already had a rudimentary form of this kind of hierarchy for the army, and now it is nothing more than to improve this system a little more.

What Wu Shigong didn't know was that the current Houjin, they also formed a hierarchy among the Houjin soldiers through the "future". And this system is nothing more than a source of the military merit system formulated by the Shang Ying of the Qin State during the Warring States Period. Needless to say, a system that can last for thousands of years is a good system.

Wu Shigong also determined the military rotation training system. Wu Shigong stipulated: Every two months, the army of the fortress of Qianhusuo, the army of the cottage, the militia and Yu Ji's army must draw a team of 100 people to the Runing camp for rotation training.

Wu Shigong's purpose in doing this is threefold:

First of all, through Wu Shigong's supervision, the training quality of those troops who are not by Wu Shigong's side will not decline;

The second is that through the promotion and transfer of the soldiers who are good at the assessment in the rotation training, the troops who are not by Wu Shigong's side will not form small hills, and Wu Shigong's control over the army will be strengthened;

Zuihou means that those hundred-man detachments will be trained in marching, camping, and defending against enemy attacks in the process of training marches, so as to improve the level of the army in this regard.

What Wu Shigong Zuihou determined was the system of officers. Wu Shigong's definition of an officer is that he is at least the deputy captain of the 100-person team. And the squad leader and squad deputy of the ten-person team, their role in Wu Shigong's army is like that of modern non-commissioned officers. Of course, the salaries of the squad leader and deputy of the squad of ten people are also much higher than those of ordinary soldiers.

Wu Shigong stipulated: In the future, officers must pass the training of the pro-soldier team and have the qualifications to be the captain of the ten-person team. Wu Shigong wanted to pass this strict condition and truly establish his own officer corps.

Of course, these officers are well paid. In addition to the high military salaries, Wu Shigong also promised those officers that if conditions were available in the future, Wu Shigong would issue certain duty fields to these officers.

After formulating all the jihua, Wu Shigong was ready to return to Henan and discuss with Yuan Xingshan and Zheng Zhen, who managed business, how to develop more financial resources.