From the last mutiny, Wynn could see that the garrison inside and outside Nanjing was seriously lacking in training. Due to the incompetence of the former garrison Shang Ming and the inaction of the former Minister of War Guan Chao, the soldiers regarded the army as a bastard.
It's a good place to live. You only train once a day and most people are just perfunctory, only working but not putting in effort. Wynn also checked all the arsenals and found that some of the fire systems were rusty due to long-term lack of maintenance! He looked at
These rusty firearms were very distressing, and it was heartbreaking to see these damn soldiers. He was so angry that he broke a rusty firearm with his palm: "Starting from tomorrow, all garrison drills will be doubled! Those who don't drill with all their heart will be punished by the army."
Wait with a stick!"
Red Crow and other generals also complained: "To be honest, these soldiers are really oily. They are one thing when you are here, and they are another thing when you are not there! When you look at him, he holds his chest high and his back is sweating.
If you turn around they'll fall apart."
"Isn't it? It's just that you can't move and you are retreating! I punished several people yesterday but it still doesn't work!" Liu Yin was also very angry at the city defense troops under his command.
Wynn looked at Xiang Fei who was standing at the back: "Xiang Fei! You have been here the longest and know the situation here best. Please tell me about the situation here."
Xiang Fei stood up from behind respectfully, saluted to Wynn and the senior generals in the front row, and then said: "First of all, I got up from the soldiers step by step, and I will tell you what I know. Everyone.
In fact, those who started training worked very hard. After all, they are soldiers who protect their families and the country. Who doesn’t want to practice their skills in the army? Who doesn’t want to work hard to become an officer. But in the current army, the culture of buying and selling officials is very serious.
It would be difficult for ordinary people's children to get into an official position even if they work till death. I worked conscientiously for nearly five years at first, and I was still a soldier. Fortunately, my family had some wealth, and I gave it to that *** general.
After paying a few hundred taels of silver, I was finally offered a position as a flag officer. If you don’t smoothen the relationship, you will still be a pawn even if you work until your hair turns gray. This leaves no one with any hope. Who will train hard?
?Furthermore, the supply of rations is getting less and less, and the food for the brothers is getting worse day by day! In the past few years, I could still eat well, and I could still see meat and fish every now and then. In recent years, Guan Chao has been plundering
We can only eat 80% full, and we haven’t eaten meat for three years. Sir, think about it, will a soldier who can’t even have enough food train hard? This is the second one. What makes the brothers the most chilling is the issue of military pay arrears.
, Guan Chao died, and the half-year salary he owed to his brothers was gone. You know, many people’s wives, children, and children depended on this to make a living. If you were a soldier without pay, your wife, children, and parents were starving at home. Who can feel at ease?
So? Wasn’t that what caused the riot that day?”
Wynn's face darkened: "Mafang! What's going on? Is that old guy Mitty up to something again?"
"That's not true." Mafang seemed to be a different person after putting on the official attire. He looked more official than Huaien and others: "Your Excellency, I have asked many times, and Lord Mi Ti has repeatedly assured me that Beijing Camp
The money for the city defense army will be paid out on time this month. As for the guard army, it will be transferred to the Yanjing Household Department to the Yanjing Ministry of War for distribution, which will take several days. As for the food for the army, I have carefully checked it. Originally, the capital
Both the camps and the guard posts had farmland, but most of them were taken over by Guan Chao and sold off! The rest had long been abandoned due to neglect of management. The army would of course go hungry if it only relied on a small amount of guaranteed food provided by the court.
Already."
"This wild boar!" Wynn slammed the table angrily, and the teapot on the table shattered! "He doesn't have much ability! He's really good at scraping money! Fortunately, he eradicated it early! Otherwise, I don't know what he would have done here.
Sample!"
He stood up and paced back and forth, as if he was making an important decision.
At this moment, a Jin Yiwei guard came in: "Report to your lord, Miss Liu and the others are back!"
"Oh?" Wynn felt much better when he heard this, "Hurry up and ask her to come in!"
Miss Liu Feng and Wu Cheng Jiaochen came in, followed by a tall man with his arms hanging. When everyone took a closer look, they found that it was Fei Man, the second largest disciple of the Tang Sect.
Fei Man's trip to Hangzhou can be said to have cost him both his wife and his troops. He failed to frame his senior brother, and almost died in the conspiracy against Hualang. Finally, when he returned to Tangmen, he was exposed for stealing the master's token, and was expelled from his master's school and begged.
To avenge his disciples, if Miss Liu hadn't arrived just in time to pull him out of the siege with a carriage, he would have been buried in the sea of Beggar Clan disciples.
Wynn walked up to Fei Man. He originally wanted to say something like "Follow me and work hard, you will be rich and prosperous" but he thought it was too tacky and unconvincing. So he patted Fei Man's other uninjured shoulder.
: "Brother, those things in the world will be closed to you from now on. No one here will care whether you were good or evil in the past. You just need to remember two points: obey my orders and use your own abilities, and you will be able to
You will find that you will live more comfortably!"
"Thanks to you for not giving up, and for saving my life, Fei Man is willing to follow you!"
Everything Wynn said was to his liking, which made Fei Man, who originally just wanted to take refuge temporarily to avoid the limelight, really have the idea of joining an official career.
"Okay, you go and rest first. After you recover from your injuries, I will arrange a suitable position for you! Miss Liu, you are also tired from traveling, so you should also rest." After Wynn sent the two away, he remembered something that made him scratch his head.
Several times I wanted to speak but stopped.
"Sir, if you have any ideas, just say it's okay!" Red Crow saw Wynn's hesitation and felt that he was a little abnormal as he was always decisive.
"Haha," Wynn smiled sheepishly, "It's nothing, it's just that I'm a bit of a money addict and don't want to give up money. I have a plan, but I need to invest some money in it. I felt a little distressed just now, so I haven't made a decision yet."
He paused and continued: "The current situation is that the half-year military salary of more than 1,000 people at the guard station needs to be paid, which is nearly 10,000 taels. The farmland has been sold by Guan Chao, and it would be a huge sum to redeem them.
.Most of these have to be put on by oneself, which is really a bit~~~"
"By the way, sir, where's the silver found in Guan Chao's house?" Liu Yin suddenly asked.
"Ha, Wynn's face became ugly again: "It's a good thing you didn't mention it! As soon as I mentioned it, I was so angry that I wanted to chop that bastard dozens of times! He squandered all the money he scraped and went to copy it.
I didn't see anything valuable when I arrived at his house, but I saw a group of creditors blocking the door! Fortunately, I acted quickly, otherwise all the tables, chairs, benches, and antique calligraphy and paintings handed down from his ancestors that he had not sold out would be gone.
They took it away."
Xiang Fei said angrily: "His father was a pretty good man. He was good at running the house and running the house for many years. The money he left to him was originally considerable, but I didn't expect that guy was addicted to gambling and squandered his money on weekdays. He lost his huge family."
His career has been completely ruined. He also withheld food and wages and embezzled farmland. This is something that his old man would never do! A scum like him has even sold some tokens handed down from his ancestors. How can there be any extra money left?
Down?"
"I have decided," Wynn took a deep breath: "I will use my own money to pay back the food and wages that Guan Chao owes his brothers! In addition, I will pay to buy back the farmland that Guan Chao sold! Restore the farmland.
, so that the problem of military rations is fundamentally solved. Then I plan to open up a large area of land in the south of the city to raise cattle, sheep, pigs and other large livestock, and allocate a small number of sergeants to specialize in production and breeding, while most of the rest of the army is training
They take turns helping out during their free time. But in the end, 10,000 elite soldiers must be selected for full-time training completely off-duty!"
"This plan is good!" Xiang Fei was so excited that he couldn't help shouting: "This way our army won't have to worry about food, and there will probably be a little surplus. But how should we choose it?"
Wynn explained his long-planned plan: "First of all, we need to conduct a week of high-intensity training. Before the training, we need to let them know that there will be a big competition in a week. The content of the competition is formation, single person.
Battles, and group battles. Soldiers are divided into four levels, Tian, Di, Xuan, and Huang, based on the results of the competition. Soldiers at the Tian level do not have to do farm work at all and only focus on honing their combat skills. Soldiers at the Earth level do not need to do farm work at all. Soldiers at the Earth level
Soldiers spend most of their time training, and then take turns to do farm work during busy periods. Xuanzi-level soldiers do not need to participate in training at all except voluntarily, and only focus on production. Yellow-character level soldiers~~it is not mandatory to raise pigs, clean toilets, and other dirty things.
Their participation in training is entirely voluntary. The higher the level of soldiers, the better the food conditions! Those with the Tianzi level can guarantee that they have meat to eat every day! Announce this news to all the soldiers in the army!"
Red Crow, Liu Yin and other generals were shocked after hearing this. They did not expect that Wynn had made such a thorough plan to stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers!
"Hey, don't be stunned. If your soldiers lose, you have to do the same thing! Don't blame me for not telling you!"