However, Chu He is a person who can afford to let go, but he will not regret it.

Although he suffered a small loss in the first confrontation with Zhang Ning, on the whole, this transaction was a big advantage.

Selling steel soldiers to the Yellow Turban Army, borrowing knives to kill people to resist the southward trend of the Shu army, and at the same time, the drawings of the Seven Rank Dragon Python Neidan and Wanliu Sea Ships and Water Fire Dragon Cannons can also make the strength of the Changding Army further improved, making it easier to open up the sea frontier and spread the sphere of influence to the sea.

After sending Zhang Ning away, Jiang Wei, the second person in the Changding Army, arrived at the City Lord's Mansion.

Jiang Wei is not as good as the gods of war such as Long Ji in terms of strength, not even Chu Qianzhong and Qin Shengnan, and slightly inferior to Chu Wu in terms of intimacy, but in the Changding Army, Jiang Wei is a well-deserved number two person.

First, Jiang Wei is Chu He's brother-in-law, and second, Jiang Wei is extremely old in the Changding Army, and secondly, Jiang Wei's leadership ability and training ability are recognized by everyone.

The promotion of the rank and status of the Standing Army mainly depends on three things, military merits, ability and qualifications, in the entire Standing Army, no one can compare with Jiang Wei, including Chu Wu.

Before Chu He made his fortune, Jiang Wei made a lot of contributions to Chu He and Qinghe Village, the two teams of the hunting team and the township protection team were established by Jiang Wei and Chu He.

200,000 Yellow Turban Army attacked, Jiang Wei led the Changding Army to drag the Yellow Turban Army outside Fenglai County, and kept the land of the two counties.

Many people think that this time in terms of meritorious deeds, Jiang Wei's position and rank will definitely be promoted again, and a general of five grades and four towns will definitely not be able to run away, and it may even be a four-rank general of six grades!

In the past, Jiang Wei's military rank was only from the fifth rank, and the general of the four towns with the title was the general of the fifth grade, and his status was above the general of the same rank without a title, let alone the general from the fifth rank.

Jiang Wei came this time to inform Chu He about various matters after the war, including the bereavement rewards of the generals, the arrangements for the surrender of troops, and the most important thing is the surrender of Lu Kai.

There have long been rules for rewarding military merits and compensating for the wounded and wounded soldiers, but in fact, there is nothing to discuss.

Count the numbers and implement them according to the rules, anyway, Chu He knocked a lot of money from Wang Yan's hands, and the finances were much looser, and the casualties of the sergeants in this battle were not serious.

The real tricky thing is Wang and his surrendered generals.

Lu Kai is the great master of the six-rank Xuandan, a figure who has left a name in history, and his ability is of course extremely strong, but when he encounters a perverted army like the Changding Army, he is finally defeated tragically.

Today's Changding Army does not have a single six-rank realm, even a commander like Chu He, who has the strength of a seven-rank god of war, is only the peak of the fifth grade.

After Chu He captured Lü Kai, he consulted with the generals and tried his best to persuade Lü Kai to serve the Changding Army.

It's just that Lu Kai is extremely stubborn, no matter how the generals of the Changding Army persuade him, he is silent, and in the end, Chu He can only let Long He take action to seal his qi veins and imprison him.

Such a six-grade general, it is impossible to put it, it is a pity to kill, and many generals under his command are loyal to Lu Kai, Lu Kai does not let go, and most of the generals are also unwilling to surrender to Tianshui County.

It is impossible for Chu He to kill Lu Kai in a fit of rage, the execution of the surrender general is by no means a good reputation, this is not enough to accommodate people, in the future battle, who will lay down their arms and surrender?

Therefore, Chu He pondered for a while, and then instructed Jiang Wei to let Guo Pu and the bus go to persuade Lu Kai, if Lu Kai still refused to surrender to Tianshui County, it would be locked up all the time.

The anti-normal army is not really short of generals, and it can even be said that there are many talented generals.

Phoenix Yu, Qin Shengnan, Xiang Xiong, etc. are all in the five-grade realm, and it is very likely to be promoted to the six-rank realm over time, while Jiang Wei, Chu Qianzhong, Gan Tian, and Dong Ju. Ding Meng also has great potential, but it just takes time to accumulate and improve.

In addition, there are also many outstanding talents in the Qianyuan Wei, under the detection of the Tianyan of the Chu River, teaching students according to their aptitude, and the four-grade grandmasters have appeared one after another, Deng Zitao and Fang Zihao are among the representatives.

These are the backbone generals that Chu He can really trust, and it is of little significance for those generals of the Yongzhou Army to surrender or not, but more importantly, to bring a good reputation to Chu River.

Most of the generals such as Lu Kai were unwilling to surrender, and ordinary soldiers were different.

When a soldier is paid, it is not a life to be paid to anyone.

Lu Kai and others did not know the importance of ideological education work, and it was naturally impossible for such a general from a wealthy family to attach great importance to the soldiers at the bottom, even if he deliberately wooed them, he would also win over the leaders of the middle and low-level generals.

After seeing the power of the Changding Army, the vast majority of the Yongzhou Army had no resistance to joining the Changding Army and serving the Chu River, and even eagerly hoped to join the Changding Army, after all, with such a steel shell to protect, their survival when fighting may be greater.

The Changding Army also gave them another choice, if they didn't join the Changding Army, they would have to become hard labor, and they would have to work for at least ten years to recover their white bodies.

Naturally, Chu Wen and other civil officials were responsible for the pacification and disaster relief of the people in Ji County, organizing the people to build residences, repair farmland, and distribute rice and grain.

For a thriving force, with sufficient financial resources, there are no corrupt officials, treacherous officials, etc., and the disaster relief work is going very smoothly.

Chu Wen made it clear many times that during the disaster relief, it was necessary to highlight the benevolence and great righteousness of the lord of the Chu River, it was the Chu River that helped them rebuild their homes, it was the Chu River that gave them the rice grain they fed their stomachs, and the cattle and horses and farm tools that were rented to them for farming, etc., and the prestige of the Chu River grew rapidly in the process of disaster relief.

The rulers of Tianshui County finally clearly realized that only Chu He, the new owner of Tianshui County, could protect them now.

The benefits of fame are most directly reflected in Chu He's luck, which has quickly increased from more than minus five thousand to minus three thousand, and the reduction of blood qi has become threefold.

During this time, Changding Township was unprecedentedly lively, and the military merit commendation and casualty compensation conference was held in the martial arts field outside the barracks, attracting tens of thousands of people, many officials and gentry onlookers, and there were also many Yongzhou Army soldiers and generals, Shuangyue clansmen and so on.

Boxes of silver were piled up on the martial arts arena like a mountain, and there were also all kinds of sharp high-end armor weapons, pills, etc., including ten sets of arsenals using the rare ore materials of the abyss world to create three-grade divine weapons!

The high-ranking officials and generals of Chu He and Tianshui County sat on the high platform of the martial arts with solemn expressions.

Chu He first announced the construction of the Loyal Martyrs' Tower in Changding Township, and all the fallen soldiers and generals could enter the Loyal Martyrs' Tower and accept the incense offerings of the people, and then announced the pension subsidy policy for the dead and disabled soldiers.

Fifty times the salary of the fallen soldiers and half of the disabled will be calculated, and the minimum salary of the lowest soldier of the Standing Army will be calculated as two taels of silver, and those who die in battle can get at least one hundred taels of silver, which is enough for a family of ten people for five years, and the pension for veterans or generals is even more.

In addition, there are also many preferential treatments in the areas of land taxation, children's education, and pension for the elderly, and the children of the families of the dead and disabled soldiers who join the army will be given priority in admission, and the sergeants who serve the Standing Army must not be allowed to shed blood and tears.

It is the duty of a soldier to eat and die, and in other places, soldiers are the lowest level of existence, and their status is even inferior to that of ordinary people.

When he was alive, he was better, but when he died in battle or was disabled and lost his combat effectiveness, he had no use value, and the chief officer often gave a little money casually.

Chu He did this, so that everyone was grateful, not to mention the families of the fallen generals, and the same was true for other generals.

Even the dead Chu He is so kind, so it goes without saying that these generals who can still serve Chu He in the battle, even if they really die on the battlefield one day, they will not have any worries.

All pensions are collected by the captain of the army detachment to which the soldier belongs, and then distributed to the soldier or his family.

In addition, the militia who participated in the defense of Ji County also had pensions and rewards.

In the first half of the conference, there was some sadness, and the following military merit awards, the atmosphere was completely different.

Millions of rewards and silver were scattered, recruits became veterans, veterans became elites, elites were promoted to captains and even chiefs, etc., together with the pensions issued before, this time Chu He took out two million taels of silver.

It is no wonder that in the eyes of businessmen, the military dependents of Tianshui County are very rich, you must know that there are only 40,000 people in the Changding army, and each person can get an average of fifty taels of silver, needless to say, the officers and generals in the army, such as Xiang Xiong, the chief officer, will get five thousand taels of silver, and the reward of the bigger armor pill is not counted among them.

In addition to money and silver, meritorious generals can get meritorious buildings, super alloy armor weapons, pill exercises, and so on.

The ten sets of three-grade divine weapons created are the most attractive to the ears and eyes.

The three-grade divine weapon, in terms of attributes, can be compared with the five-grade ordinary weapon, the quality is slightly better than the superalloy, and there are also special attributes and skills, and the value is much more than the ordinary five-grade armor.

These ten sets of divine soldiers consumed a lot of precious metals, including dozens of catties of pure gold, which were extracted from tens of thousands of catties of yellow scarves by the master craftsmen of the arsenal for more than half a year, and were extremely precious, and the value of pure gold alone exceeded 500,000 taels of silver.

In the end, these three-grade divine soldiers fell into the hands of those main generals who did not have divine armor, Jiang Wei, Xiang Xiong, Gan Tian, Chen Tong, Fang Zihao, Deng Zitao, Wu Shizhu, etc., which can be regarded as the expectation of the public, greatly improving the combat effectiveness and defense of the generals.

The logistics department, arsenal, etc., also have their own rewards.

After the military merit was rewarded, what attracted the most attention of the chief general and the gentry of Tianshui County was the expansion of the army.

For this reason, Tianshui County was a gentry, and he took out a million taels of silver and 100,000 stone of rice and grain materials, and silk cloth and iron materials were also a huge number.

In order to increase the number of the standing army and better protect their net worth and property, these gentry can be regarded as fighting.

There is no way, Chu He strictly restricts the number of wealthy families raising wealthy slaves, even if it is the largest gentry family, it must not exceed a hundred people, and there is no problem in protecting the family and the courtyard in normal times, if you encounter a large number of mountain bandits, or even a wandering army, this point of the wealthy slave family is a little insufficient.

The Changding army has five guards: Qianyuan, Aoki, Panshi, Dragon's Blood, and Jiangwu, plus the two guards of Jueyun and Pinghai, which Chu He decided to establish before, and it is already seven guards.

Chu He expanded the army this time, and planned to set up ten guards, in addition to the Qianyuan guard, the scale of the remaining nine guards was finally set at 15,000, of course, before the army, the priority to be full can only be the old four guards, and the militia can be supplemented from the Yongzhou surrender and the guard's militia.

The three newly established guards are Tieshi Guard, Xuantie Guard and Nanshan Guard.

The number of Tieshi Guards is 8,000, and the backbone is the 1,000 elites of Aoki Guard, and the sources of soldiers are from the guards and the soldiers of the Yongzhou Surrender and a part of the Shuangyue tribe, the main will be Chu Wu, and the deputy generals Dong Ju and Fang Zihao.

Chu He announced this decision, and countless envious eyes looked at Chu Wu.

At this time, Chu Wu's authority is great, and he leads the two guards of Aoki and Iron and Stone, and if the army source is replenished, it will be an army of 30,000.

Xuan Tiewei also has a quota of 8,000 and is under the control of Jiang Wei, and the deputy generals are Ding Meng and Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan was originally a general of Chu Wu Qingmuwei, and Ding Meng was Xiang Xiong's subordinate, but now he was under Jiang Wei to listen to orders.

Nanshanwei is mainly composed of Shuangyue warriors, and another 3,000 elites drawn from various armies, Wu Shizhu is the main general, and Phoenix Yu is the deputy general.

Xiang Xiong's qualifications are insufficient, but Jiang Wuwei's strength has been increased to 15,000 people, which can be regarded as a great improvement in Jiang Wuwei's strength, and the reward for a set of third-grade divine soldiers is definitely not light, which may not be bought for 300,000 taels of silver.

The ranks of the commanders of the guards were also clarified.

Panshi Wei, Xuantie Wei Jiang Wei, from the six products to the west of the general.

Aoki Wei, Tie Shi Wei Chu Wu, Zheng Wupin Zhenbei General.

Jiang Wuwei Xiang Xiong, General Zhengwupin Zhendong.

Dragon's Blood Wei Ganning, is the general of Wupin Zhennan.

Jueyun Weilong and: General of Zhengwupin Zhenbei.

Pinghaiwei Qin Shengnan, is the general of Wupin Zhennan.

Nanshan Weiwu Stone Pillar, General of Zhengwupin Zhendong.

The deputy generals of each guard are the fourth-rank military ranks.

Chu Qianzhong and Zhuang Zhongneng and other logistics officers also improved by half a grade, Chu Qianzhong was promoted from the fifth grade to the fifth grade, and Zhuang Zhongneng was promoted from the fourth grade to the fifth grade.

The only exception is Qianyuanwei, the main general is the lord of Chu He, and the deputy generals of the eight teams, such as Deng Zitao and Chu Shi, are respectively from the official positions of Wupin.

Of course, the most secret Scorpion Tail Wing Tiger Air Cavalry was not announced, but those who knew the inside story knew that this air cavalry was directly under the control of Chu He.

Even if the cavalry captain and others under his command do not have any official ranks, as Chu He's most trusted henchmen, his authority can definitely be compared with the deputy generals of other guards.

The big winners of this expansion are naturally Chu Wu and Jiang Wei, especially Jiang Wei, a general who conquered the west from Liupin, who showed Chu He's attitude and determined Jiang Wei's status as the second person.

In addition, Wu Shizhu and Qin Shengnan can also be regarded as coming out, each leading a guard.