As soon as Yi Yun's first condition was said, Chen Dacheng was suddenly shocked: "Give me the military salary in advance? Aren't you worried that I will swallow the military salary privately and not give it to the soldiers?"

"According to my observation of you, you are a good official who cares about the people of Yiwu, and I can trust you. Yi Yun took out a silver ticket of 50,000 taels, put it in Chen Dacheng's hand, and said with a smile: "Look, I can put 50,000 taels in your place in advance as a deposit to show my sincerity, and after I recruit soldiers, I will increase it according to the number of soldiers." ”

The military salary of the soldiers of the Great Meng Kingdom is very low, about ten to twenty taels of silver a year. Where the war is not tight, ten taels of silver can pay the soldier's salary a year, and in the border areas where the war is tight, it is twenty taels of silver.

Yi Yun took out a deposit of 50,000 taels of silver at a time, which was enough to recruit 2,500 soldiers in the frontier area for a year's salary, which was quite sincere.

Chen Dacheng took the silver, and his heart suddenly became hot...... Yiwu is really too poor, if you can find other means of livelihood for Yiwu people, it is not a good thing. As long as they can really get their salaries, it is better than the pitiful silver dug up in the silver mountain here.

Seeing that he was a little shaken, Yi Yun said with a smile: "The salary of my royal palace soldiers is higher than that of the frontier soldiers, and each person is paid thirty taels of silver per year, and there is another reward for his military exploits." ”

Chen Dacheng was moved, thirty taels, Yiwu people rely on Yinshan for five or six years to get so much money. And there are rewards for meritorious service...... That's a really good treatment. Not only did Chen Dacheng feel good, but the few wounded people around Yi Yun who were being treated also showed a look of yearning when they heard this, but they respected Chen Dacheng very much, so they didn't take a stand in front of Chen Dacheng.

Chen Dacheng thought about it, swallowed his saliva, and said with difficulty: "Okay, we can accept the first one, but what about the second one?"

Yi Yun smiled, stretched out two fingers and said: "Second, their enemies will be the Japanese Kou, not the people of the Great Meng Kingdom, if I let them attack the people, they can disobey the order, I will not hold them accountable for their disobedience." ”

"Fight the Wokos!" Chen Dacheng jumped up suddenly, and said excitedly: "You mean to fight the Wokos?"

"That's right!" Yi Yun smiled: "You know where Jiashan is, right? It is on the coast of Hangzhou Bay, which is one of the areas where the lawlessness of the Japanese is most serious, and I came to recruit Yiwu soldiers in the hope of borrowing the strength of the Yiwu people to defend the country." ”

"How can I trust you?" Chen Dacheng stared at Yi Yun's eyes and said, "I really can't believe what the prince of the Great Meng Kingdom is saying. Although I know that it is rude to the royal family to say this, and I can only admit that the emperor wants to kill my head, but no matter who asks me, I have to say that the prince of the Great Meng Kingdom is really unreliable. ”

Yi Yun spread his hands, and took out a holy decree from his arms, and it was the holy decree that appointed him as the "commander of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Front", and sighed: "Look, the purpose of my coming to Jiangnan is actually to fight against the Japanese, but the soldiers in Jiangnan are unbearable, I think there are no soldiers available to resist the Japanese, if you are really patriotic, if the Yiwu people are really patriotic, they should help me." ”

Chen Dacheng snatched the holy decree and looked at it carefully, and after a few minutes, Chen Dacheng's whole body trembled, bowed to the north, and cried: "My emperor Shengming, my emperor has finally decided to deal with the Japanese invaders...... There are a bunch of confused princes in our Dameng country, but there is a holy emperor!"

Nima, is it a cheat, right? The most unreliable thing in the big Meng country is the emperor, Yi Yun crooked his mouth, but he didn't say it.

Chen Dacheng got up from the ground and said with tears on his face: "Okay, we think we must accept the second condition, but what about the third?"

Yi Yun smiled, stretched out three fingers and said: "Third, they are just mercenaries, not military households, they don't need to be soldiers for generations, they can be when they want to earn my money, and they can resign in the second year if they don't want to earn money." That is, I will not restrict their freedom. ”...,

Chen Dacheng was overjoyed when he heard this, in fact, what he was most worried about was that these people became "military households" after being recruited, and their children and grandchildren will become soldiers in the future, you must know that there has been a saying among the people: "A good man is not a soldier, and a good iron does not hit a nail", all those who are soldiers are forced to be soldiers when they have no way out, as long as ordinary people can survive, who will want to be a soldier?

But Yiyun's third condition directly makes Yiwu people have greater freedom, as long as they earn enough money, they can retire back to Yiwu to retire, which is how cost-effective.

Chen Dacheng no longer had any worries, raised his palm, and said to Yi Yun: "Okay, just these three articles, I admit it! Let's high-five as an oath, and in the third chapter of the law, I will issue an announcement to let the obligors who are willing to be soldiers go to you to be soldiers." ”

The two raised their hands and struck each other three times.

Chen Dacheng didn't say a word, and said to a servant next to him: "Pass my order, the prince of Jiashan wants to recruit soldiers in this county, I have changed my mind, anyone who is willing to go, you can go to the yamen to sign up, the annual salary is thirty taels, and there will be a reward for meritorious service, don't worry about the prince arrears of military salary, because I will take the military salary in hand first, and I will explain other details to them face to face." ”

"Yes!"

The officials hurriedly scattered, the city was full of orders, and several wounded people standing next to Yi Yun also heard these words, and after Yi Yun healed his injuries, they also volunteered to run around the city, and the order went, and for a while, the entire Yiwu oasis was full of people, and I don't know how many people were running to tell each other.

Yi Yun was not in a hurry, he slowly helped the wounded to heal their wounds, and when that night, all the wounded had been healed by him, he made himself sleepy and tired again, and when he returned to the room, he fell asleep.

This time, Chen Yuanyuan was obedient and didn't dare to come to bed again, for fear that he would eat tofu indiscriminately, so he flattened the table and fell asleep on the table. Unexpectedly, she slept until midnight, and the keen sense brought by her "Grim Reaper" suddenly found that someone was approaching her, and when she was about to jump up and make trouble, she realized that it was Yiyun who came over.

He gently picked up Chen Yuanyuan and laid him flat on the bed, and then he shrank back and fell asleep far away from Chen Yuanyuan. Chen Yuanyuan was surprised in his heart: This guy, although his mouth is more annoying, is actually gentle in his heart. He also knew that he was rude to me last night, so he retreated far away tonight...... Alas, he is also a good person.

This night, Chen Yuanyuan had a rare sleep, and it wasn't until dawn that she woke up, only to see that her surroundings were empty, and Yi Yun had already gotten up and gone out.

In the morning in Yiwu, the sun is dazzling...... There is nothing to block the sun at all on the bare stone mountain, so the sun shines on every stone here, and yesterday's heavy snow has stopped, and today is another beautiful day.

Yi Yun stood on the Yamen Square, in front of him were nine hundred neat soldiers, Chen Dacheng reported to him: "Lord Jiashan, here are nine hundred nominal Wu warriors, including three hundred second-order 'soldiers', three hundred second-order 'guards', and three hundred second-order 'archers', all of which are carefully selected by us, and earn you thirty taels of silver a year's military salary, and we will never treat you badly." ”

Yi Yun was overjoyed and nodded with a smile.

Chen Dacheng waved his hand and asked the nine hundred soldiers to go out and wait for Yi Yun to take them away at the gate of the city. Then he beckoned the five hundred nominal Wu people behind him to walk in, and sighed: "These five hundred nominal Wu warriors are also second-order, but their profession is ...... Ahem...... It's kind of embarrassing, uh, or rather a little weird...... I don't know if the prince of Jiashan can use it, if he can't use it, we Yiwu people don't blame you, so it's okay not to take them away. ”

Yi Yun was a little curious: "What kind of profession are these people?"

Chen Dacheng said a little embarrassedly: "Their profession is a gunner, this profession is very embarrassing, without firearms, there is no combat effectiveness at all, but how can we have such an advanced thing as firecrackers in Yiwu? Firecrackers are extremely expensive, and the officers and soldiers of the Dameng Kingdom rarely have them, so their professions are useless, alas...... Speaking of our Yiwu is really strange, there are very few people in the country of Dameng who are 'gunsoldiers', and it is not easy to meet them in other regions, but our Yiwu is rich in gunsoldiers, and if you go out with a handful of gravel on the street, you can hit two or three...... A few days ago, when I fought with Shi Wenliu, these soldiers were completely useless, and they could only do it in a hurry in the back.........,

He was still babbling useless nonsense, but Yi Yun was overjoyed: "Nima, guns, isn't this a musketeer? What a handsome profession! I didn't expect Yiwu to be rich in guns, God really help me, I want them all, I want them all!"

Chen Dacheng wiped his sweat: "Does the prince have a lot of firearms?"

Yi Yun shook his head and said, "Not much, there is one! ”

Chen Dacheng Khan said: "Then it's enough for you to have a gun, what do you have to do?

Yi Yun didn't care so much, as a later generation, he had an almost blind worship of hot weapons, and he said loudly: "If there is no gun, I will buy them guns! If one person buys one, won't all of them be useful?"

"This ......" Chen Dacheng sweated wildly and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, you still don't know the cost of the fire gun, do you? A fine bird gun costs a hundred taels of silver...... If you get 500 guns, you have to build at least 500 guns, can you afford such a high military budget?"

When Yi Yun heard this, he sweated violently, and did a mental arithmetic in his mind, multiplying five hundred soldiers by one hundred taels...... equal, fifty thousand taels...... The cost of a firecrackle can cover a soldier's salary for several years, which is really a huge amount of money.

Yi Yun only has 300,000 taels on him, he doesn't dare to use them all, and he has to leave some money to develop Jiashan, at most he can only spend 200,000 taels on conscription, so if you calculate it, it will cost 50,000 taels to buy firearms, and the military expenses of 500 soldiers will cost 15,000 taels a year, and the 900 soldiers just now will have 27,000 taels of military salaries, so that if you calculate it, it is close to 100,000 taels, and you have to prepare armor and weapons for them, and it is tens of thousands of taels, and then prepare food for them for a year...... Is 200,000 taels enough?

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