Chapter 463: Silver to Buy Military Horses
Cavalry?
Yu Zhengrong nodded firmly.
"Lord Jiang, you may not know that my equestrian skills are comparable to Jiang Yang beside you, and I also understand the ordinary tactics of cavalry, but I have no experience in actual combat."
The person who can become a state guard is definitely not an embroidered pillow.
It's just that, as Yu Zhengrong said, in this rich land south of the Yangtze River, the cavalry wants the opportunity to fight, unless there is a big battle, a rush battle, it is possible to participate in the actual battle.
Under normal circumstances, cavalry only occasionally has a commander to come to inspect, go through the motions, as a branch of the army to participate in the drill looks better.
The Jinling garrison has 500 people, and even the cavalry team of 50 people can't be trained, and there are only two groups of 32 people.
In peacetime, it is no different from infantry and sailors.
Jiang Yan also knew about this situation, and couldn't help frowning.
In fact, just daily cavalry tactical training can meet the needs of Jinling, even if it is three hundred miles nearby, there is no problem.
But since he began to purge other countries, he found that Jinling had many other countries' fine works infiltrated, coupled with the increasing number of wounded soldiers, he always had a sense of crisis that a major war was imminent.
Coupled with Master Hua's rhetoric, daily training is not enough.
Yu Zhengrong frowned when he saw Jiang Yan, and he was so anxious that he couldn't do it.
Don't look at his poor training of cavalry, but it is his dream to increase the cavalry position in the Jinling garrison and improve the mobility of the Jinling garrison.
"If Lord Jiang thinks that I can't train cavalry, you can ask Captain Ning to come over and help supervise the training."
"Captain Ning? Do you mean Ning Huxing, the eldest master of the Ning family? ”
Jiang Yan's eyes couldn't help but light up when he thought of this person, and then gently patted his head.
Look at his memory.
He often came into contact with Ning Weiguo and Ning Wuji, one was already a Zhaomo official, who managed the officials in an orderly manner, and was able to write and martial arts.
The other has gone to the capital to win glory for Daxing.
Ke Ning's big house, he hasn't been in contact with it yet, so naturally he didn't think about it for a while, and this person.
And Yu Zhengrong was worried that he didn't know Ning Huxing's resume, and laughed in a low voice: "Lord Jiang, you may not know, this Ning Lieutenant Thirteen followed his father in the barracks, at that time, General Ning was not like now, he still had real power in his hands, when Captain Ning was in the wing, he also led two hundred cavalry to fight with the ringing horse for three days and three nights, and all of them were annihilated for many years. Only then did he have a serious military position. ”
Jiang Yan knew that the Ning family had no bad seeds, but he didn't think that in the other Xia County defenders, Ning Huxing, who only served miscellaneous duties, was so powerful.
Thinking that Ning Huxing has stayed in Jinling Xia County for more than ten years, he is still hard-working, and there is no psychological imbalance, in addition to his excellent military literacy, he must also be very tenacious, although he has not seen him, but he is already extremely admired.
"Since this is the case, I wrote a letter of recommendation to Su Tingshi and transferred Captain Ning to Jinling Mansion to train troops."
Under Yu Zhengrong's recommendation, this matter was decided.
It wasn't until Jiang Yan left that Yu Zhengrong realized that he had forgotten to ask an important question.
"Fifty to one hundred, or war horses, let alone thirty or fifty thousand taels of silver, or as the expenses of the governor's officers and soldiers, the government needs to make their own pockets, where did Lord Jiang get rich?"
The local government has other expenditures and relies on additional revenues.
It has been a long time since the seizure of the Ye family and others, and the proceeds of the raid have long been escorted back to Beijing.
Although the Ning family's monthly tax is a stable income, because it is too stable, the imperial court will naturally draw a stable amount of money.
If there is no additional income from this expensive silver tael, it will also be blocked when it is submitted to the imperial court for approval.
"Guard, I'm afraid you forgot the silver taels we helped recover last time."
Facing the adjutant general's reminder, Yu Zhengrong blinked in confusion.
Haven't all the manpower used in the recovery of the silver taels already been distributed by those wealthy merchants?
Therefore, the soldiers under his command all received an extra month's salary.
Could it be ......
"I heard that Lord Jiang specially told the rich businessmen who were concerned about this matter about the list of people who were later seized and the places where they lived, and the rich businessmen were worried about being retaliated against by the Japanese people, or if they encountered something like this time, if I were those rich businessmen, as long as Lord Jiang opened his mouth, I would definitely support Lord Jiang's plan to increase troops."
Got it!
Yu Zhengrong was secretly speechless: Master Jiang has really changed.
Fortunately, such a change is a good thing for both Jiang and the entire Jinling officials.
"In a few months, Su Tingshi should be appointed and transferred, and I don't know if Lord Jiang, the prefect of Jinling, will be transferred elsewhere."
In fact, Yu Zhengrong wanted to say that it would be good if Jiang Yan could sit on the top of the Jiangnan Provincial Assassin History.
It's a pity that Jiang Yan even took Dong Duzao into Beijing to offer wine, and he had a good way to govern Jinling, and if he wanted to jump from the prefect to a big official all of a sudden, he still lacked a great credit.
The restructuring of the Tun Bing Tuntian is a great achievement, but it is a pity that it will take a certain amount of time to verify the results.
At this time, Mr. Ning, who often gives credit to Lord Jiang, is not in Jinling, in case there is an appointment transfer, or the newly appointed assassin Shi is under the Jin King who does not like to use force in the peace negotiation faction, then the expenditure of new cavalry and even new garrisons, the new assassin will definitely not agree.
"Alas!"
Yu Zhengrong sighed, feeling the weakness of the person's soft words.
The adjutant general explained him: "General, don't think so much, train the soldiers first, if you encounter a difficult thing that even Lord Jiang can't solve, if it really doesn't work, you can let Captain Ning go to Mr. Ning, he is clever and has his own solution." ”
Also.
When it came to Ning Wuxian, Yu Zhengrong was not anxious all of a sudden.
Especially when he thought of Ning Huxing to train cavalry under him, he could still have a deep friendship with him.
Don't say anything else.
The Ning family's steamed wine will definitely be able to manage enough.
"Quick, go and tell everyone to train hard, don't wait for Captain Ning to come, I found that the soldiers of our Jinling Garrison are not as good as those soldiers in Xia County who can't eat enough every day, how embarrassing it is, when Captain Ning turns around and leaves, the plan to kill a pig at the end of every month can be canceled without opening our mother."
"Don't you dare to cancel it, I'm still counting on eating this full meal for a year."
The deputy general teased and hurriedly passed on the word to everyone.
The entire garrison was instantly in high spirits.
Jiang Yan, who had just ridden out of the garrison and had not gone far, heard a sudden high-pitched roar behind him, and even the horses under his seat were frightened and galloped a few steps.
Fortunately, he had stirrups under his feet, and although he was frightened, he tightened the reins and stopped the commotion.
Jiang Yan gently patted the horse's neck to appease him, and looked at the caravans on the official road who had come to Jinling from all over the world to do business.
"The money for raising cavalry should have to be trickled down for a long time."
He also knew that the current situation was grim, and the future appointment schedule was not something he could control.
There is no shortage of eunuchs in the court who want to pick peaches, and with the power of the Jiang family, they can't be stopped.
So.
He could only do his best to make Jinling City an impregnable city before anything happened!