Zhang Zaiji, the governor of Pingzhou, was the first non-yingzhou official to taste the benefits of the victor. With Yingzhou's great demand for various materials, Zhang Zaiji's Pingzhou finally received huge benefits. Pingzhou's top and bottom officials, from officials to
The people, from merchants to craftsmen, are all working hard to meet Yingzhou's huge purchases. Food, cloth, farm tools, porcelain, whatever they can produce themselves, Pingzhou uses self-produced items to export to Yingzhou.
Workshops for manufacturing daily utensils are constantly being set up. The most common craftsmen in Pingzhou City are paid a consistently high monthly salary. Even the apprentices have a monthly allowance of a hundred cents. For those materials that cannot be produced by themselves, ordinary craftsmen can
The state started purchasing on behalf of others and carried out large-scale resale trade.
From Youzhou to Pingzhou, and then from Pingzhou out of Yuguan to Liucheng, the line in Yanjun has been rolled over by carts to create a natural flat road. Zhang Zaiji organized some manpower to repair it, and the commercial road in Pingzhou was
The road became an official official road. As for the route from Yuguan to Liucheng, and then from Liucheng to Yanjun, Zhang Zaiji was also preparing to organize manpower to level the road. To this end, Li Chengzhong promised to pay Pingzhou's road construction costs up to the total price.
Thirty thousand guan.
The reason for this is that there is no other reason than the lack of manpower. Although Eryingzhou has a large territory, nearly three times that of Pingzhou, its population is only half of Pingzhou. Especially the newly controlled Yan County and Huaiyuan Military City, the population is far less than that of Pingzhou.
As expected, there are only a few thousand Dingkou in Yan County, and Huaiyuan is a typical military city. There are no civilians living in the city. There are only a few thousand people near the city walls. So far, it has connected to Liucheng, Yan County, and Huaiyuan Military City.
And the newly established Jin County located in the Xiaoling and Wugu river basins has a population of just over 170,000. And nearly half of them are Hu people of various ethnic groups. The Hu people are good at warfare, animal husbandry, and can also do work.
Some heavy physical work, such as mining in Dongshan, Liucheng, but letting them work in the workshop is really a thankless job.
According to Li Chengzhong's army-building ideas, the ratio of the standing army of the Yingzhou Army is thirty to one. In other words, the upper limit of the number of troops who do nothing but train and be on standby all day long should be 5,400. Currently, the Yingzhou Army is on the front line
The total number of troops is 2,700, and the three reserve battalions in training are 750. In addition to the 1,000 Waiyo coalition troops that have been prepared and started training, the total reaches 4,450. So many
The daily needs of the able-bodied men were borne by Yingzhou, which made the already small number of Dingkou in Yingzhou even more stretched. Fortunately, according to the provisions of the Huaiyuan Secret Treaty, the military expenses of the Huaiyuan coalition were borne by the Khitan Diela and Wukai tribes.
, which can be regarded as alleviating Yingzhou’s urgent needs.
By the end of September, with the relocation and adjustment of the workshops in Liucheng and Yanjun completed, the output of winter uniforms, armor and weapons of the Yingzhou Army had reached a new level. By early October, 5,000 sets of winter uniforms had been produced.
And immediately distributed the entire army, including the main force and reserve battalions of the Yingzhou Army, and even the Waiyo Allied Forces, to wear new military uniforms. In addition to keeping warm and making it easier to fight, the entire army's lineup took on a new look, and there were a few more soldiers in formation.
Share the chilling atmosphere.
According to Li Chengzhong's instructions, in addition to gloves, leather boots, belts, and felt hats, each officer and soldier was issued two epaulettes. One was sewn on the military uniform, and the other was sewn on the leather armor. The epaulettes were sewn with brocade thread.
Horizontal bars and three-pointed stars were made to indicate the ranks of officers and soldiers. When the epaulettes were issued, it also meant that the Yingzhou Army's military rank system had begun to be implemented, and it also meant that the Yingzhou Army was one step closer to the regularization process.
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The improved military rank system of the Yingzhou Army is different from the official ranks of this era. The military ranks of this era are too complicated, ranging from the lowest ninth-grade deputy lieutenant to the highest-ranking first-grade Tiance general.
There are forty levels, which are so complicated and trivial that they give people a headache. Of course, different ranks are accompanied by different levels of treatment. Just dividing forty different levels of military pay is enough for all those in charge of logistics and equipment.
The officers were dizzy. Not to mention that many of them had the same rank but different positions, and some had only ranks but no positions. This mismatch also caused a certain degree of confusion.
Therefore, in this era, there is no natural connection between official rank and job. The best example is Zhao Heng, one of the masterminds of the Liucheng Incident. When he was in Youzhou, his official rank was Zhaowu Xiaowei, which was many ranks higher than Li Chengzhong.
But he didn't have a single soldier under his command, which was infinitely worse than Li Chengzhong, the Xuangjie Colonel at that time.
The military rank system set up by Li Chengzhong is to try to match the official ranks and positions, which not only facilitates logistics and payment, but also truly enables these official ranks to play their due role and become a real honor recognized by the officers and soldiers, rather than just a random one.
A disposable potato. To achieve this goal, reforms need to be made in two aspects. One is to reduce the ranks, and the other is to match the ranks with military positions.
For this reason, the ranks of the Yingzhou Army were reduced by half, that is, the distinction between "upper" and "lower" was removed, and only the names of the officers of this rank were retained. For example, the rank of the ninth-rank military officer was divided into the rank of Yong Xiaowei, the rank of Yong Xiaowei, and the rank of Yong Xiaowei, the rank of the ninth rank.
Ren Yong, deputy lieutenant, will accompany Rong captain from the ninth rank, and Rong deputy lieutenant from the ninth rank. The new Yingzhou Army military rank will only retain Renyong captain, who is the ninth rank, and Rong captain from the ninth rank.
At the same time, the military rank also links the positions together. For example, the ninth-grade Peirong Colonel is the corps leader, and the ninth-grade Renyong Colonel is the gang leader. Of course, it is not a complete match in the strict sense. After all, they have the same military position.
It does not mean that they have the same qualifications. For example, if they are both team leaders, Team Leader A has served for three years, and Team Leader B has just been promoted from the corps commander, then Team Leader A should be a ninth-grade Renyong Colonel, and Team Leader B should be a subordinate.
When a ninth-grade accompaniment to Rong captain is in battle, Captain B should obey the orders of Captain A. If Captain A has served for six consecutive years and still fails to meet the conditions for promotion to captain, in order to encourage his hard work, Captain A can also
He was promoted to the rank of Eighth Rank Yuqing Xiaowei, but his position was still that of gang leader.
With the wearable rank epaulettes, in addition to the daily logistics, training and other aspects being streamlined, the biggest benefit is that when the troops are dispersed, the soldiers can automatically gather to form a new group based on the ranks marked on the epaulettes.
The battle sequence minimizes the possibility of the entire army collapsing if the commander dies, and provides great assistance to the army's continued operations.
In addition to military uniforms, the armor of the Yingzhou Army has also been issued to the main force. Among the main forces of the Yingzhou Army, the third infantry battalion (archers) and the cavalry battalion are all issued with light armor, and the second infantry battalion (swords and shields)
All members of the infantry battalion (pikemen) and the first battalion of infantry (pikemen) are also issued heavy armor. The guard headquarters, garrison headquarters, logistics headquarters and scouts of the central military camp are all issued different armors according to the nature of their arms.
It is worth mentioning that the Weaponry and Equipment Section of the Logistics Department of Yuhousi finally finalized the iron armor. The iron armor is designed to meet the needs of front-line spearmen facing the battlefield. The armor pieces are composed of large pieces and are inlaid on the leather armor. They are formed on the front of the soldier.
A covering type of bright iron armor from the neck down to the ankles. The waist and neck are wrapped with thick iron rings, especially the waist and back of the neck. It not only protects the vital points of the body, but also plays a role in balancing the center of gravity. The helmet is the whole
Made of iron, it protects the ears downwards and is lined with fur to make it suitable for wearing. There is a movable mask on the face, which can be turned to the back of the head in normal times and lowered to protect the cheeks in war.
After putting on the iron armor, the soldier is equivalent to wearing three layers of armor. The inner layer is the soldier's regular uniform with certain protective capabilities, the middle layer is full-body leather armor, and outside the leather armor is iron armor, especially the front, which is almost equivalent to a human-shaped iron shield.
, looks very scary. The protective power of such armor is very impressive. Even a strong bow shot from a hundred paces cannot penetrate the outer layer of iron armor. At fifty paces, it can only penetrate the middle leather armor.
At ten steps, the arrow only reached the inner layer of military uniform and lost all its strength. Li Chengzhong tried it on once and weighed the weight of the entire suit of armor, which was about thirty kilograms in later generations. It was indeed difficult to move after wearing it, but once it was put on, it was difficult to move.
Thinking of the power of a large group of armored spearmen arrayed forward, these problems are no longer a problem on the battlefield.
However, this would require more logistics soldiers and carts to move with the army, which was a big problem. For this reason, Lieutenant General Li Cheng separated the logistics from the central camp and established a special logistics battalion with personnel.
The original two hundred was also reduced to five hundred. In addition to the fifty-carriage equipped, he also designed a wheelbarrow with Zhang Laojiang, which was the shape of the chicken cart in later generations, and proposed to equip the logistics camp with one hundred
driving requirements.
According to Zhang Laojiang's estimation, by the end of October, all the spearmen in the two capitals could be equipped with iron armor, and by the end of November, all the five capitals of the spear battalion could be equipped. Therefore, Li Chengzhong began to select a hundred strong men from the entire battalion.
Soldier, he formed the Mo Dao Team and the Heavy Ax Team directly under the Central Battalion, and he was one step closer to "advancing like a wall".
With Li Chengzhong's large-scale military production movement, in addition to Zhang Zaiji, the governor of Pingzhou, who benefited greatly from it, the Gao family, Li family and Wang family also benefited respectively.
The Gao family's participation was mainly on sea-going ships, and the income from the first trade came from the refugees transported from the Jianghuai area. Since April, in six months, the Gao family's fleet made three trips to the Jianghuai area.
A total of more than 6,000 refugees were brought back, and these refugees were resettled in the Xiaoling River Basin to reclaim local uncultivated land. The Li family mainly gained income from salt, and they owned the best salt pond in Hebei.
Cheng Yue himself was the governor of Yancheng, and the salt used in Yingzhou mainly came from the supply of the Li family. The Wang family mainly provided silk, linen and satin to Yingzhou, and a large amount of cloth used in Li Chengzhong's winter clothes came from their transportation.
But after all, Yingzhou only has one state and a population of only about 170,000. When the initial frantic purchasing gradually subsided, three wealthy families came to Li Chengzhong in the hope of opening up new trade channels. Li Chengzhong was in Youzhou
At that time, he had promised these wealthy families that in the future they would open four trade routes in Yingzhou, namely, southeast, northwest and northwest. Now the trade routes to the west via Pingzhou, Jizhou and Youzhou have matured, and the sea route to the south has been exclusively owned by the Gao family.
Now is the time to open trade routes to the north and east.
The northern trade route is no longer a problem now. The signing of the Huaiyuan Treaty allowed Li Chengzhong to extend his tentacles deep into the grasslands controlled by the Khitans in the north. However, these wealthy families whose appetites have been increased by the early large-scale purchases in Yingzhou obviously have more than this. They want to go eastward.
He had greater expectations for the trade route - of course, this was also in line with Li Chengzhong's own expectations. Judging from the capture of Huaiyuan Military City, Dongfang was like a naked beauty, opening her arms to him.
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