063 - Spending money like running water
"Again, you don't have to worry about money, I'll figure it out, in short, what I want is an elite team."
Hearing Yao Yu's words, Chen Zhong took a deep breath and bowed deeply to Yao Yu: "It's an adult, and you are determined to live up to your mission."
Yao Yu waved his hand: "You go first, call me if you have something, remember, you must be loyal and capable."
"Yes, sir."
In this way, Chen Zhong turned around and went.
Three days later, he led dozens of refugees with him.
Today, all refugees regard Yao Yu as their reborn parents, and they are the main source of Yao Yu's recruitment.
The people of Bixian only worship Yao Yu, far less grateful than these refugees, who were saved by Yao Yu's dawn in the dark.
When Chen Zhong led the selected meticulous personnel to Yao Yu, a strange look appeared on Yao Yu's face.
Where Chen Zhong went, he seemed to be a little interested in Yao Yu's invitation: "My lord, how about you look at these meticulous works? They're all smart and clever."
Yao Yu's face couldn't tell what emotion was, he walked off the field with his hands behind his back, walked around in front of all the people who were used for fine work, stretched out his hand and pointed: "You, you, you, and a few of you, out of the ranks."
The eight people who were ordered by Yao Yu stood up and looked at them with doubts on their faces, not understanding what Yao Yu meant.
As for the rest, they all looked up with puzzled expressions.
"Except for these few, let's go back to the rest."
When Yao Yu's words fell, everyone including Chen Zhong was shocked.
In a hurry, Chen Zhongwang hurried a few steps forward, and lowered his voice in Yao Yu's ear, "My lord, what do you mean by this?"
"Can't you see, the rest are not qualified."
"It's not an adult, you haven't been assessed yet, how do you know that they are not qualified."
Yao Yu sighed: "Chen Zhong, let me ask you, what is the most important thing in a fine work?"
Chen Zhong's face was confused, and he came for a long time: "Absolute loyalty, accuracy of information."
Yao Yu shook his head: "Wrong, the most important thing is not these, but their own deception."
Seeing that Chen Zhong was puzzled, Yao Yu explained, "In other words, if you are the leader of the enemy, do you have a deeper memory of an ordinary person who is ordinary and can't be found when thrown into the crowd, or do you have a deeper memory of a handsome-looking, or terrifying-looking person with strong physical characteristics?"
Yao Yu's words, Chen Zhong seemed to understand whether he understood or not.
Seeing this, Yao Yu patted Chen Zhong on the shoulder.
"My lord, do you mean that you should try to find ordinary people who don't make people suspicious to serve as a small worker?"
Yao Yu snorted: "That's right, only in this way can you give full play to the greatest specialty of fine work. Got it?"
Chen Zhong clenched his fists hard: "I understand, my lord, I'll rearrange it."
After speaking, Chen Zhong turned around and left.
As for Yao Yu, he was holding his hands behind his back, looking at Chen Zhong's back, with a look of relief on his face.
In Yao Yu's view, the importance of meticulous work in ancient times is the same as that of modern agents.
Moreover, what Yao Yu wants to pursue is not such a simple job as spying on military intelligence and finding out news.
In his understanding, the skills mastered by modern agents must also be mastered.
If necessary, these subtleties can even be turned into killers and directly decapitate enemy leaders.
This is the elite work.
In addition to these, not to mention camouflage, listening, infiltration and other technical work.
Fortunately, Yao Yu came through the soul and had a vague understanding of these, and he believed that as long as he proposed it, he would always be able to train him out of the teacher one day.
As for how much money is used in training, it doesn't matter how much money you have, it's useless to spend it differently.
In this way, another three days passed, and this time, according to what Yao Yu said, Chen Zhong selected another group of refugees.
This group of refugees perfectly echoed Yao Yu's request, and they were all thrown in
You can't find it in the crowd.
Seeing this, Yao Yu handed over the training items he needed for the past few days to Chen Zhong.
Including after being accidentally arrested, how to endure torture must not reveal the slightest secret, and he also focused on Chen Zhong.
It's just that this stumped Chen Zhong, after all, people are greedy for life and afraid of death, no matter how much they train, they can't defy their instincts.
But Chen Zhong has such an advantage, when he encounters a problem, he does not reflect with Yao Yu first, but groped by himself, and he really can't solve it, so he will find Yao Yu again.
In this way, the armor, the recruits, and the battalion began to train in operation.
Yao Yu ran in several places for three days, which made Ban Rou curious, and complained that Yao Yu had lost dozens of pounds these days.
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On this day, Yao Yu was settling accounts.
These days, the training of recruits and meticulous workmen, coupled with the start of the forge of the forge, costs money like running water.
The one million silver coins in Yao Yu's hand, in the blink of an eye, there were about 700,000 left.
It's only been a month.
For a while, Yao Yu felt a headache.
This is only 4,000 soldiers and horses, and the monthly expenses alone need 300,000 silver.
This is not equipped with high-tech troops such as cavalry archers, otherwise, Yao Yu definitely has reason to suspect that his own men and horses will go to 10,000.
And that's not even counting the money paid to the soldiers.
Now Yao Yu understands what it means to spend money like running water.
Just relying on the county's taxes, I'm afraid that I can't feed these soldiers at all.
A year's tax is not enough for a month.
Sorrow, is really sorrowful.
Yao Yu also took it for granted, after all, according to his specifications for the soldiers, how much money was not enough.
Even the elite of the imperial court can't supply two eggs and two meals of meat a day.
Those who can supply meat for three days are the elite of the elite.
It is normal for ordinary troops not to see meat for half a year and a year.
Often when you see meat, it is when these ordinary soldiers are desperately sent to death.
"Well, I'm going to get money from there. Those families are as obedient as their grandsons this month, and I just want to find fault with them, and there is no good reason. Tsk, do you really want me to sell grain to other counties?"
Yao Yu muttered to himself, now, there is still a lot of food under his hands, nearly one million stone of food, enough for the people and refugees in the city to eat for about two years.
Although the other neighboring counties of Runan County are not as rich as themselves, it is still not a problem to control food and clothing.
That is, other places outside Runan County, affected by the military disaster, the people have no harvest, and everyone is hungry.
If you sell food to them at a high price, you can exchange it for money and continue to supply the troops.
It's just a catastrophe, this is not a long-term solution after all, no matter how much food there is, there will be a day when it will be sold out.
Thinking of this, Yao Yu couldn't help but sigh.