Chapter 37 How to raise Ding

All the young people who believed that they had some ability, or who were physically strong and good at dancing guns and gangs, flocked from all directions and came towards the yamen of the Lingshan Inspection Division. The enthusiasm of these people suddenly broke out, but it made Yu Feng surprised, originally, according to his financial resources, he was just planning to recruit three or five hundred people, looking at these black and oppressive heads outside, I am afraid that it will be more than two thousand.

He still underestimated the attraction of his salary to these ordinary people, and his reputation for Yu Feng was indeed too loud in the hearts of ordinary people, everyone knew that whether it was long hair, or later officers and soldiers, these people listened to Mr. Yu and did not harass the people, in the hearts of the people, this is enough. You can make money without worrying about being poked in the back when you go out, of course, such a thing is rushed.

"Raise the bar! Lower pay! Yu Feng immediately decided. Originally, he just wanted to recruit some children from good families, and he didn't put much higher physical condition at all, people in this era are generally a little malnourished, and he didn't do much of a thing. However, the current situation tells him that if he does not raise the threshold for entry, he is afraid that most of these thousands of people today are only qualified, and he will not have so much money to support so many people.

As a result, the young people who flocked here were a little dumbfounded when they heard a military academy that came out of the inspection yamen read out the regulations for recruiting salt ding.

The treatment is not as imagined as one or two or five cents of silver a month, anyone who can do salt ding, temporarily become a new ding, the treatment is only one or two silver, but this is not a problem, even if it is only one or two silver, it is far better than other livelihoods, the problem is that this recruitment of salt ding, to go through the assessment of the inspection department, the requirements of this assessment are too strange.

It doesn't matter what your background is, as long as you are healthy, have no defects, and meet the standards for your age, you are basically qualified. However, no matter who it is, it must first do a strange set of movements in front of those soldiers who are being assessed: press your arms on the ground, support your body, and then rely on the strength of your arms to lift your whole body. This set of actions must be done a hundred times before it can barely pass the level. Then, start to make people run crazy, if you can start from this inspection department yamen within an hour, run around Lingshan City for a full circle, and then come back here, basically, you are qualified.

With such a selection standard, Yu Feng felt that according to the physical fitness of the people of the entire era, he was afraid that there would not be many people who could achieve it, but what he didn't expect was that after being selected in a few days, there were as many as seven or eight hundred people who were qualified for the salt Ding examination, not counting the number of salt merchants and salt sellers who sent their children through the Wu family firm, counting it, there were almost nearly a thousand people.

Then take it! Things have come to this point, Yu Feng has also figured out that the more people this person has, the more territory he occupies, the more profits he will bring to himself, and these young men, all of them are fierce and fierce, with a little training, they are a strong team, and it is a pity to let them go.

The salt Ding recruited by this is no better than the soldiers who have already entered the military under his command, and theoretically this is all his private help, so what name is used to organize and manage it? Yu Feng was a little distressed. There are many of them, and the extensive way of managing one or two hundred people is obviously not suitable; However, it is too taboo to arrange a bunch of small flags and general flags in the name of the army. It is too unworthy to be labeled as a private soldier and a horse plotting against him.

Thinking about it, Yu Feng definitely still uses some of the organizational structures of later generations, I don't need the official position of your court, then it's always okay! Of course, I won't start another name by myself, which will have a bad impact on the young people I have recruited who are looking forward to following me for a future, so let's be vague and use the most common name!

The team of thousands of people is actually very well divided, ten people in a team, a team of thirty people, three squads and a squadron, these manpower can almost become a dozen squadrons, and then in three squadrons into a brigade, the soldiers of these three small flags under their own hands can all be enriched to the following to be captains, squads, and squadron leaders at all levels; If there is no arrangement, you can stay by your side and maneuver and become your own direct force, so that the team of thousands of people will be really in the hands of Yu Feng.

As for Zhao Gui, Zhao Deng and Liu Xiaoliu, they deservedly became the three captains of this new Yanding, and they only needed to be directly responsible for Yu Feng.

Yanding is no better than soldiers, and there is no place for them to practice in this Lingshan City. To practice these newcomers, you still have to put them in Zhaojia Village. Although everyone knew that this salt Ding was his Yu Feng's private soldier, although the number of this private soldier was a little larger, but no one went to pierce this layer of window paper, after all, how many officials in this Lingshan City did not eat the benefits of the Inspection Division? At present, Yu Feng only left dozens of soldiers in the Yamen of the Inspection Division, and all the salt Ding was pulled out of the city, these officials were greatly relieved, and Du Yun knew the general situation of the rest of the inspection, and did not make it difficult for his colleagues.

Of course, among these officials, it is inevitable that they have not seen the mystery behind the recruitment of salt in such a big way as this salt transportation inspection, but in this troubled world, Yu Inspector, who was born as a military attaché, has a little money in his hand and raises some private soldiers, which seems to be a big deal, and everyone has not forgotten that this Yu Feng still has an official position of a hundred households, and it seems that it is not impossible to use some silver money to turn these salt ladies from the name of the officers and soldiers of the imperial guard. It's just that Yu Feng really has no reason to do this. It's already rare to be an officer without paying empty salaries, and he pays out of his own pocket to raise soldiers for the imperial court, but he is just confused as a soldier!

Of course, if this was brought up by someone else, he said: "What is the intention of this Yu Patrol to store so much salt, is it possible that the salt policy of this Lingshan has been corrupted to such a point?" "The amount is very different, it is to force Yu Feng to cut down the salt or spend money to set up a name. The brains of these officials have not been broken, and for the official affairs of the imperial court, they have formed a personal grudge with a colleague who is close at hand and has tough means.

So, in October of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Yu Feng recruited more than 1,000 salt dings, but there was no repercussion in Shandong. Even the political envoys and salt transportation yamen who were far away in Jinan did not receive any news, and with the cooperation of local officials, the matter of Yu Feng was quietly suppressed. No one knew that in this Ludong, there was such a small salt transportation inspection, and there were more than 1,000 paramilitary weapons in his hands, and the entire salt road in Ludong was under his control. In words that are not an exaggeration, if Yu Feng is unhappy, all the people in Ludong will eat a few points more expensive salt, if you offend Yu Feng, I am afraid that if you take the money, you will not be able to buy a grain of salt in Ludong.

At the same time, this Lingshan Salt Transportation Inspection Division, I am afraid that it is the most efficient inspection yamen in this big tomorrow, all the private salt, there is no market here, the salt goods you can buy, are the inspection department Yamen opened the salt, with the certificate of official salt, of course, this official salt is much cheaper than other places in the Ming Dynasty. All smugglers who dare to ignore the existence of the inspection department, whether in the private sector or in the government, have no place for them. The only exception is that some salt merchants with rich wealth or great backgrounds are afraid of it, but under the strong expansion of Yu Feng, their profits have also shrunk greatly, and Yu Feng's name has entered the eyes of the masters behind these salt merchants, and has gradually become a name that makes them look very unpleasant.