At the beginning of April, the order of the Shandong Command Division came down, and the Lingshan garrison Tongshan was diligent and useful, and was transferred to the Ninghai Prefecture garrison.

This order of the Shandong Metropolitan Command Department went around the military headquarters, and no one noticed that a five-rank military attaché, the appointment of a local garrison, compared with the Shaanxi thieves who wandered around Henan and Nanzhili, and the Dongyu Jurchens who were eyeing the Guan, the various natural and man-made disasters in various places, no matter which one was more eye-catching than this matter.

Garrison is the official position of the fifth grade, if it is a five-grade civil official, it is amazing, if it is a five-grade military attaché, then no one can afford it, the sons of the noble families of the north and the south, and the military attache titles of the fourth and fifth grades are hung everywhere, which is not a big deal.

The reason is very simple, the military attache commands the army, and the soldiers cannot be paid and silver, but the finances of the Ming Dynasty are tight everywhere, and even the so-called elite of the Beijing division and the nine-sided warriors are like beggars and homeless people, half hungry and half full. led a group of leaders called Hanako.,That's just a capable Hanako.。

How can it compare with those herdsmen officials in prefectures and counties, in a few years, if they make thousands of taels of silver, it is all praised everywhere in the name of Qing officials, and the income difference is so huge, this military attache has five or six grades, and there is really nothing worth mentioning.

However, for Yu Feng, this is a real promotion, from the idle thousands of households in the sixth grade, to the five-grade garrison with a function, it can be regarded as having a small status in the military system of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the bureaucrats of Lingshan City, big and small, could regard Yu Feng's vacant position as nothing, and the inspection of salt transportation was nothing, but now they can no longer be so lazy.

One side of the garrison can be regarded as the head of the local army, but it has the right to recruit soldiers and establish its own name. Moreover, this force has little to do with the Lingshan Guard, one is the local guard, and the other is the subordinate soldiers of the Metropolitan Command Division. In other words, it is equivalent to changing from a local militia to a local garrison all of a sudden.

There is no doubt about whether the local government should have a good relationship with the garrison. What should I do if the bandits can't be pacified? Find a garrison; What should I do if the pirates come? Find a garrison. This is the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, if the local people are not good to serve, in case something happens, who do you expect to go? Moreover, this garrison is still the children of the local people, and they are naturally much more friendly than those rebels from other places.

Since it is a Lingshan garrison, this military camp is naturally to be placed in Lingshan City. Yu Feng set up his own camp outside Lingshan City, played his own name, and recruited troops.

When the previous garrison Tong Shan was there, there were more than 1,000 soldiers, but since they were transferred, these soldiers naturally had to move with the Tong garrison, and they would not leave anything for Yu Feng. What really benefits Yu Feng is that with this garrison official position, he can recruit troops justifiably, instead of wanting to recruit some salt like before, and having to worry about other people's opinions.

The quota of soldiers assigned by the Shandong Command Division to the Lingshan garrison is 2,800 people, that is to say, when the imperial court distributes food and salary, it is distributed according to these 2,800 people, like the former Tong Garrison, more than 1,000 soldiers under his command, and the distribution of food and salary is also distributed according to 2,800 people, and the excess is naturally eaten by him and goes into his own pocket. This practice, among the military generals of the Ming Dynasty, is extremely ordinary, and being a military attache without eating empty salaries is as unimaginable as civil officials not accepting filial piety.

Yu Feng didn't plan to do this, two thousand eight hundred people, which sounds like a lot, in fact, according to his Spanish military adviser Vicras, that is, the number of two infantry phalanxes, is really not enough. If it weren't for the bottleneck in money and food, he would have wanted to recruit the soldiers of the three or five infantry phalanxes to train.

When he put forward the idea of building an army, Wu Yanran and his bookkeepers made a calculation of Yu Feng's economic ability, even if he recruited 2,000 soldiers, the food and salary were calculated according to one tael of silver per month, and the food of the soldiers alone would cost about 3,000 taels of silver. This is not counting the expenses of weapons and armor, if they are armed according to the standard of Yanding, then Yu Feng's monthly expenses on raising troops will reach more than 8,000 taels.

Yu Feng was not surprised to get this figure, raising soldiers was originally a matter of spending money like flowing water, and he was not afraid of spending money, at least, at present, where he came to pay money, he could still support these expenses, and even have some surplus, but since he spent money, he had to do things well, and really train a soldier and horse who could fight and be obedient, so as not to waste these silver.

"The Fengzi battalion outside Lingshan City has recruited soldiers to eat, I heard that the salary of one or two silver a month, do you still have enough to eat for each meal?"

"Isn't it, isn't there a mountain word camp outside the city, and a tael of silver for the salary, I'm sorry, the three dogs in our village are soldiers there, and I sent a letter to his wife a few days ago, but I haven't got any of them until now, and I have to buy clothes at home!"

"Lao Tzu is too lazy to tell you, Shanzi Camp, what the hell is that, this is the Fengzi Camp, Mr. Yu's Fengzi Camp, does Mr. Yu know? Didn't you want to be a salter some time ago? Even Mr. Yu doesn't know, sigh, bad luck, Lao Tzu won't tell you! ”

This kind of dialogue slowly spread in the county towns and towns around Lingshan, and in a few days, almost dozens of miles away, I knew that Mr. Yu was now a senior official of the imperial court, and he was now recruiting troops.

People in distant places are still waiting, after all, although they know Yu Feng's deeds, but they are mostly legends, they themselves, have not received much favor from Yu Feng, but the local people in Lingshan, especially those who have young and strong people at home, are a little unable to sit still.

Some time ago, the Inspection Department recruited Yan Ding, although Yu Feng mainly faced the children of military households, but for people from other parts of Lingshan, the quota was also opened, although the recruitment standard was higher, but it also really recruited hundreds of people. These hundreds of people have been doing it in the past few months, and their families have benefited. A salt ding a month of one or two five cents of silver, just with this salary, someone in the family as a salter, can live a well-off life, and in the inspection department as a salt, eat well and dress warmly, three days can also eat a meal of meat, although the practice is a little harder, but it is also worth it.

A few days ago, I cut off the heads of hundreds of Japanese criminals on the beach, although there was not much movement in the official face, but there was a great response among the people, these are all done by the salt dings, and they are really guarding the township, and everyone can imagine what kind of ruined place this place will be if those hundreds of Japanese invaders come ashore. Regardless of whether he participated in this battle or not, because of this incident, when he returned home, he could gain a lot of envy and gratitude, and for a while, being Yanding became the most envious place for young people.

can not only protect the township, but also not disturb the people, and have a good salary, how can such a thing not make people rush to it. As soon as Yu Feng's Fengzi camp opened, I heard that it was Mr. Yu who patrolled and recruited soldiers, and I didn't catch up with it last time, and this time I was tempted, and they all came, and some people also said, this is not recruiting salt, it is recruiting soldiers and eating salaries, these people's answers are very simple: I don't care what he recruits, anyway, it's right to follow Mr. Yu, I didn't see everyone come to sign up, you understand, you are a fool when everyone is a fool!

From the young people of Yanding and Xuejiadao, some people were drawn out to set up the shelves of their own army, and then, recruiting soldiers to enrich the army, Yu Feng planned it this way, and it was also thanks to the hard training of the Yanding people some time ago, and they were transferred out at this moment, and in this newly built army, at least the level of a small flag could not run. Of course, the salt dings who were originally on the Lingshanwei roster and followed Yu Feng first made a glorious return this time, and they were all added to the army as backbones.

In fact, whether it is Yan Ding, or the soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion, in Yu Feng's heart, there is not much difference, anyway, it is the power in his own hands, in fact, Yanding is more like the grassroots officers trained by the modern military academy, through training and actual combat, they have been able to fully competently take on the positions of most of the small banners and even hundreds of households in this army, which is also the reason why the Fengzi Battalion will be able to become an army immediately after recruitment.

The army is pulled up, and all that remains is drills, so you don't have to worry too much about this. The army's drill code is the original set, and after Vikras's supplementation and strengthening, it seems more reasonable, as long as it is strictly practiced in accordance with this drill code, it will not take a few months of effort, and a soldier and horse that can only fight can take shape.

There are also people who can't bear the hardships of this exercise, and they are tired like dead dogs every day, and they are all practicing some unreliable walking, queues and the like, walking in unison, turning? Look at it, this is like a military horse of the imperial court, but like a child playing at home. But if the action is slightly wrong, next to it is the official's stick and leather whip, if there is a complaint and a contradiction, it will immediately be a military stick to serve.

Those who can come here to serve as soldiers are not very good, although looking at the generous salary, some of the pampered masters in some families on weekdays can't bear it, and they would rather not do this business, but they even connected more than ten people and deserted.

Yu Feng's method of dealing with such a deserter is very simple, catch it, beat fifty military sticks, and put it in flail for three days! If you can't catch someone, if you guarantee to be a middle-aged person, you will still be caught and dealt with in the same way. At the same time, tell the whole army, read the first offense, give a small punishment, if there is a next time, directly beheaded, with military discipline!

As a result, the voices in the army complaining about the hard work of the drill suddenly disappeared. Only then did everyone remember that this is a military camp, and the Ming Dynasty punished soldiers in a variety of ways, such as military sticks, whips, arrows piercing the cheeks, and even the heads of the owls. Military law is like a mountain, this is not a joke, let alone kill a few deserters, it is really possible to kill a few slack soldiers.