When everyone heard this, they all laughed, and several officers who looked young also looked at Gould and shouted: "Lord Gould, you are back, we haven't seen you for months! You don't know, these days when you are not in Sadland, my brothers are very worried about you!"

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"That's not going to work, if you take Lord Gould home for a drink, it's not going to be mine..."

For a moment, several officers shouted at Gould with a smile. Seeing this scene, Joseph did not blame them for interrupting his words, but looked at several officers and Gould with great interest, and even Aloke's son Martin couldn't help but smile and respond a few times.

"Okay, don't make a fuss, Master Joseph has to continue to lecture! You guys, if you have more opportunities after drinking, now give Lao Tzu a good obedience!" the fat man hurriedly shouted at the officers, although his tone was quite polite, but his eyes couldn't help but have a little eagerness and smile.

Only then did everyone regain their minds, but they still had a little smile on their faces. José saw it in his eyes, but deliberately shook his head and smiled: "Gould is right, if you want to drink, everyone will be in the city of Saddland in the future, there is a chance, as long as everyone can unite something, what is there to fear?"

José squinted his eyes and glanced at everyone, and said lightly: "I, José, think that I have served as your chief at a young age, and I am afraid that many of you will be dissatisfied." You don't need to be so nervous, even if it were me, I had been doing my duty in Sadland for many years, but I was suddenly controlled by a stinky kid, and I naturally didn't want to be convinced!"

As soon as he said this, everyone under the round table couldn't help but be silent for a while, but when José saw this, he smiled faintly and said: "Although I, José, am still young, but I am not the aristocratic lord in the imperial capital, since Lao Tzu manages the county town of Sadland, he will definitely govern Sadland as prosperous as you expect!"

After Jose said this, coupled with the support of an old man in the Sadland army like Gould, the rest of the officers and soldiers naturally expressed their willingness to obey his arrangement. After all, in a place like Sadrand, seniority in the army is an extremely important thing, and Gould has been in command of the army in Sadrand for many years, and this seniority and connections are far from being comparable to those of the Northwest Army.

The next thing happened was that Joseph took advantage of the situation to learn about the number of sergeants commanded by the officers under Alok and Gould.

According to the military establishment of the Bright Empire, the full number of troops in a county should be, and the mixed flag regiment of a local garrison, Joseph, as the commander of the armament of Sadland, can naturally directly control this force. The full strength of the flag regiment of the local garrison army should be 3,000 people, that is, the number of a flag regiment. The so-called mixed organization is a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry, unlike the strict division of arms like the Central Standing Corps.

The strength of each regiment was distributed in such a way that there were six battalions of soldiers, each with 400 men. A flag regiment has a total of 2,400 combat strength, and in addition, there are many auxiliary arms for transportation and logistics in the flag regiment, a total of 600 people. Of the 600 men, there was a transport battalion and an auxiliary battalion. The transport battalion is responsible for logistics transportation, such as the escort of grain and grass, and is a relatively important branch of the army. As for the auxiliary soldiers, the things they are responsible for are relatively broad, and they are equivalent to miscellaneous soldiers. For example, the construction of fortifications, the construction of camps, the maintenance of city walls, etc., are all considered to be the category of sappers or other miscellaneous labor.

Of course, this is only the data on the surface, and there are not so many of them when Sade is really calculated. Whether it was the 6,000 soldiers of Gray's two banner regiments or the garrison of one banner regiment under Aloke, there were different discrepancies.

First of all, because of the war in the county town of Sadrand and many areas outside the Guan, the economy basically collapsed, and more than half of the land in Moxi was divided by the forces of the Northwest Army. Not to mention the various counties outside the Kansai, even Valen City, where the governor's residence is located, is financially strained. The financial situation is tight, and military spending is naturally scarce, and the local garrisons below are rarely fully staffed because of the lack of military spending.

Therefore, although the county town of Sadrand is located in the key area of the frontier, the flag regiment of the local garrison here is maintained at about seventy percent all year round. In other words, of the 3,000 garrisons under Aloke, only seventy or eighty percent of them are actually complete, which is still on the surface.

In fact, the regiment that Alok took over is currently only about 2,000 men, with four battalions of soldiers, one of which is stationed in the security post in Sadrand. And this battalion stationed in the county security office is actually out of the control of Aloke.

After all, in such a huge county town of Sadland, it is impossible to have only a garrison and no security army, but this is also a common practice in officialdom. As soon as Alok came to Sadrand as deputy commander, he would have cut out a banner regiment from the county to you, but a quarter of the strength of this banner regiment must be used for the security forces. Traditionally, the battalions stationed in the security department are also under the direct jurisdiction of the county prefect, and they are not the same as the garrison, which can be regarded as two different systems.

So in the face of such a convention, although Yarok was dissatisfied with the strength of Gray's two banner regiments, he did not transfer troops to serve as a security force, but he could only pinch his nose and admit it. But the problem is that the remaining battalions, the transport battalion and the auxiliary battalion do not matter first, and the number of the remaining three main battle battalions is far from enough.

It stands to reason that there should be 1,000 or 200 people in the three battalions, but the real actual number of people is 8 or 900. This is the most common empty salary in the Northwest Army. It's just that the annual military salaries and these empty military salaries naturally flow into the pockets of those middle- and low-level officers in the local Northwest Army.

However, the empty pay in the Sadland army is still better, after all, the army under Gray is the main army of the regular Northwest Army. Although there are such empty salaries, they are not very serious. However, in some places, some battalion officers have a small amount of power in the local area, and even relatives and friends at home, up to relatives such as seven aunts and eight aunts, as well as family servants, miscellaneous servants, cooks, and gardeners, are all registered in the army's roster, and such things are not uncommon!