Chapter 490: Contradictions in the Army

So, I'm going to balance the strength of these teams.

The next thing is relatively simple, the people who came to join the army were divided into batches under the account of General Quma and the account of Jin Erfat.

Of course, I also discussed this matter with Li Qing, he had absolutely no other opinions, and repeatedly assured me that this matter was arranged by me, and there were indeed enough people under him, no matter how much, he would not have the ability to govern and lead.

So, in a sense, he Li Qing didn't give me much anymore and I didn't send people to his barracks.

And in fact, we can't just try to have more people, because our army is mainly self-sufficient, and there is not so much food and salary in the army, and it is not a big war, not a big disaster, I just provide them with some subsidies.

As for the military salary, grain and grass, etc., they will solve it themselves, whether you work for the landlord or grow your own grain, that is their own problem, I don't care, as long as you train when it is time to train, it will be done.

So this kind of thing is even more training for the main generals in the army, Li Qing doesn't want more people, that can be understood.

After all, one more person, then one more burden and pressure on a job!

But there is also a ** annoyance in this matter, there were fewer people at the beginning, and it was relatively easy for the generals to solve this matter, even if it was farming, they could find a way to feed those thousands of people.

But now that there are nearly 100,000 people in the army, and the army under each of them is more than 30,000, it is indeed difficult for them to feed such an army by themselves, and the difficulty is really not ordinary.

There are still more than 200,000 ordinary people in this county, and they also live by farming, even if all the people in my army go to that kind of land, then there is not so much land for them to plant, right?

Therefore, the burden of feeding the army of 100,000 people fell on the heads of the common people in the end.

Yes, I do have a lot of silver taels, and there are countless stocks of grain in the grain depot in the county, but I don't want to take out these grains like this and use them all, and the future will be hard, and we need to live a careful life, otherwise, if there is a drought or flood, then it will be the people who will suffer.

"General, are you really going to let so many people go farming?"

Today, General Ma, Li Qing and others are sitting together to discuss, and the matter of discussion is how to solve the problem of eating and drinking for these 100,000 people.

General Ma said bluntly, his words were also expected by me, we people really can't go on like this, if we all go to farming, then it will definitely affect morale and affect the morale of the army.

"You all tell me what you have to say in the army, I want to hear the truth, I want to hear the truth."

Looking at Li Qing and them, I feel that this matter is definitely much more serious than it seems.

Li Qing was the first to stand up, and said with a bitter face: "The movement in my army is not very big, but there are also a lot of gossips circulating in the army, all of which are saying that they came to join the army to fight and kill the Qing soldiers, not to farm and work, and even worry about eating and drinking." Anyway, the morale in the entire barracks is relatively low. ”

Jin Erpang stood up, smacked his mouth, and said: "I'm much more serious there, the soldiers have been together for three days and two ends to discuss this matter, all talking about whether there is no food in the army, whether it is almost impossible to feed everyone, and some people are even discussing the matter of scattering birds and beasts!" ”

General Ma shook his head and said, "I'm relatively better there, but gossip is indispensable, but in this army, the people who say these things are the newly recruited soldiers, and the former brothers all know our situation, and they understand our rules, after all, we have always done this, so they don't have anything to say." But the new soldiers talked a lot. ”

"That's it, my thousands of brothers never got together to talk this nonsense, what should they do, they train as usual every day, and their lives are even more enjoyable, but these recruits talk nonsense together all day long, which makes people in the army panic, and I want to clean them up."

Jin Erpang stood up, and the grinning appearance of his teeth was really itching with hatred.

It seems that the main troublemakers are the newly recruited brothers, who don't understand the rules of the army, and maybe it's normal.

"Don't get excited, you must know that they are your soldiers, you should think of how to solve this matter, not by force, they are not outsiders, but your brothers in life and death, in the future, on the battlefield, your back is them!"

Looking at everyone, I really can't do it, how to bring these brothers, it's really all up to them, not everything, I have to do it myself, otherwise, their three generals will really become decorations.

"Yes, general, you are reasonable, we really need to solve this matter by ourselves, the brothers followed us, they have something in their hearts, this must be our generals did not do a good job, I think, we do need to reflect on ourselves, brothers have grievances in their hearts, we are not doing well, this kind of thing of leading troops, it is indeed our own exploration, everyone has their own different way of leading troops, so general, you don't have to worry about this matter, I will deal with it when I go back."

General Ma used to be a general in commanding the army, and what he said was reasonable, and he was very popular.

After hearing this, everyone also nodded yes. I looked at everyone, and they were indeed holding a breath in their hearts, and they were also here to complain to me, and I could understand their feelings.

But I thought about it, and I felt that this matter still couldn't be solved by themselves, and with more than 100,000 troops, it was impossible for them to find a way to find food and drink by themselves, right?

If that's really the case, I'm afraid that these people will really go to rob it at that time.

"You don't have to worry, this matter is up to me to solve, I have decided, from today onwards, everyone will lead the troops, train the soldiers, as for the salary and other issues in the army, I will allocate it to everyone on time, and in the future, the generals will no longer have to worry about this problem, let alone worry about the soldiers in the army complaining, worrying that the soldiers will be unhappy."

I think that if it is really to let the soldiers be self-sufficient, this is not appropriate, after all, this era is not the anti-Japanese period, if it continues like this, it will definitely make a big mess.

Therefore, in this case, I might as well settle this matter first, and from now on, I will no longer let my brothers be self-sufficient, since there is so much grain and grass in the county, and our gold and silver treasures are innumerable, then why bother to take that detour?

Although this idea can train the soldiers and give them more ways to walk, even if they really have no way to retreat in the future, they can still sneak back to farming in the end.

Therefore, it was not a mess for me to make such a decision in the first place, but now that I have made such a big move, I have to withdraw this plan first.

"General, you're not kidding, are you?"

"Yes, General, we have been using this system all along, and although we have encountered some difficulties now, this system cannot be easily abolished?"

"That's it, General, this matter is not trivial, it can't be abolished easily, we can find a way to solve the problem of the soldiers, but once this system is abolished, then if you want to come back in the future, it will be more difficult than ascending to the sky!"

How can I not know the truth of how many people you persuade me every word?

But isn't there no way to do it now? It was really not a problem for those soldiers to train every day and have to worry about food and drink, so I decided to abolish that system.

"I have made up my mind, now that this kind of thing has happened in the Chinese army, this system must be abolished, I don't want to make trouble in the army, you can also train soldiers and horses, you can't let you generals have to worry about the food and drink of the soldiers every day, right?"

When I said this, several people bowed their heads and stopped talking, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence to my words.

In the end, General Ma stood up, he nodded, and said: "General, since this is the case, I also agree, the officers and men in the army are worried about eating and drinking every day, which is indeed hurting the morale of the army, and now the general has abolished this decree, we can train the army well, but the general, in this way, these more than 100,000 people will have to spend a lot of money and food to be able to feed!" ”

General Ma's words hit my heart, 100,000 people, 100,000 mouths, this is not a joke, if we don't have enough money and food, this is 10,000 people will be scattered sooner or later.

Even in this army, there are many people who come to join the army with the idea of eating mixed rice, and our previous troops can say that they have experienced several major battles, and all of them are warriors, so there will be no such problems.

But these soldiers who have just been recruited now are not sure, who knows how many of these people came to join the army with the idea of eating mixed food?

In the end, the matter of the barracks was settled, and several generals went back to the camp to prepare for the matter.

But just as he was about to leave, Jin Erpang stood up.

"General, now that the strength of our army has increased greatly, I think that if you want to train the soldiers, it is better to train the soldiers on both sides than to practice the real soldiers."

The meaning of Jin Erpang's words couldn't be more obvious, thinking that at the beginning, Li Qing and General Ma were conducting a drill, and this guy was itching his hands at that time, and he thought about it for a while, thinking that he would have such a drill one day.