Bolo Buhua finally looked towards Zhang Yangquan. At this time, he ignored his old hatred for Zhang Yangquan and asked, "What do Zhang Qianhu think?"
Zhang Yangquan said calmly: "The general also thinks that safety is the best. According to Huang Qianhu's method, our army can at least be invincible!"
Bo Luo Buhua nodded: "Well, the four of you will each issue a list to recruit volunteers. Each of you can recruit up to 5,000 people. The general manager's office will provide them with food. General Miao will send people to Taizhou City to find out information." p>
Miao Daheng closed his eyes and sighed: "The last general will take orders."
Sun Hong suddenly said: "Your Highness, if you dare to recruit 20,000 troops, I'm afraid that the food, grass and ordnance of the General Manager's Office will not be supplied!"
Polo Buhua said angrily: "How can there be not enough food?"
Sun Hong whispered: "In the past two years, we have been constantly fighting, and the grain in the granary, Changping granary, and charity granary of the general manager's office have been almost consumed."
Huang Boyan suddenly said: "General, I have heard that our four warehouses in Jiangdu are filled with more than 100,000 stones of grain. Why not get them for urgent use?"
Sun Hong said anxiously: "The grain in Caocang is to be transported to the Water Transport Department of Gyeonggi Capital. How can we use it randomly?"
Kang Lian had been paying attention to the expression of King Zhennan, and when he saw his impatient expression, he immediately shouted: "Sun Tongzhi, it is already a time of war, so we should adapt to the situation! If we cannot defeat the enemy, these grains will fall into the hands of the bandits sooner or later.
Do you have any explanation to the court?"
Bo Luo Buhua nodded repeatedly: "Kang Zhangshu's words are reasonable, let's do it this way, as for the ordnance..."
Zhang Mingjian said hurriedly: "Your Highness, I heard that Gaoyou Mansion has a large amount of ordnance in reserve. Why not ask them to send some over?"
Bo Luo Buhua's eyes lit up and he said: "If you didn't tell me, I almost forgot. That bastard Li Qi told him not to mobilize his troops. What kind of weapons will I leave for him? Kang Lian, go and find out in person."
Let’s go and transport most of Gaoyou’s ordnance back to the General Manager’s Mansion!”
Sun Hong said anxiously: "Your Highness, do you want to send someone to the province first to get acquainted with it?"
Yangzhou Road belongs to the "Henan Jiangbei Province", which governs Bianliang, and is nominally subject to the orders of the province.
However, Polo Buhua ruled the Yangzhou Road General Manager's Office with the dignity of Zhennan King, and he never liked to be controlled by them.
In addition, since Liu Futong's uprising, Bianliang has been busy wiping out Liu Futong's Red Scarf Army and has no time to take care of Jiangbei's affairs. Polo Buhua acted more arbitrarily.
"No need, just follow my king's orders regarding Yangzhou Road and let them concentrate on wiping out the Red Turban Army!"
Early the next morning, recruitment notices were posted on the walls of the four main gates of Jiangdu.
Compared with the other three gates where there were very few applicants, the recruitment office at the north gate was lined up with civilian volunteers.
Even many people from other urban areas came to the north gate to join the army.
Within one day, more than 280 soldiers were added to the North Gate Qianhu Station.
Zhang Yangquan has been waiting for this recruitment order for too long. If he can recruit at this speed in the future, he will be able to recruit 5,000 people in less than a month.
Now that the cultivation of copycat potatoes is on track, Qin Lingsi and Guo Niansheng are responsible for building villages and building waterwheels.
He and Qin Lingjun can focus on building a new army.
With a thousand veterans as the backbone, it will be much easier to train five thousand new recruits.
As long as veterans who are skilled in training serve as officers and manage new recruits from top to bottom, the new army can quickly form combat effectiveness.
That night, he and Qin Lingjun discussed military training in the lobby of Qianhusuo.
The two discussed for a while, and basically still followed the original training method. Zhang Yangquan only added two new training methods, one was standing at attention training, and the other was goose-stepping training.
Qin Lingjun stirred the fire with a wooden stick, and his face was illuminated red by the firelight.
"Military advisor, are you the descendant of Yue Wumu?"
Zhang Yangquan was stunned: "Why did you say this?"
"My father once told me that when Yue Fei was training his troops, he passed on a kind of Xinyi Quan to his soldiers. The core of Xinyi Quan is Zhanzhuang!"
Zhang Yangquan touched his nose and said with a smile: "This is called different roads leading to the same goal. Standing upright training looks easy, but it is actually very hard. It can not only improve physical ability, but also improve willpower."
Qin Lingjun nodded and said: "I understand this, but what is goose training?"
Zhang Yangquan stood up and demonstrated a few steps and said: "Simply speaking, it is a kind of pace training. This kind of training can greatly improve the discipline of soldiers and strengthen their physical fitness!"
Qin Lingjun stood up and imitated Zhang Yangquan's actions just now and kicked a few steps: "Is that so?"
Although her movements are not standard, due to her martial arts practice, she stands up straight and kicks with great momentum.
Zhang Yangquan gave a thumbs up: "You are so heroic!"
Qin Lingjun's cheeks were slightly red, she sat back by the fire and said softly: "In the past two days, you have told me the essentials of standing and walking. I will learn them first and then teach them!"
Zhang Yangquan smiled and said: "I believe we will be able to train a steel-like team!"
Qin Lingjun smiled lightly, and after a while, he suddenly said: "Military advisor, after recruiting these 5,000 people, we will have 6,000 stronghold soldiers. How will we develop next?"
Zhang Yangquan stared at the red charcoal fire and said: "Although soldiers are more expensive than fines, I feel that six thousand is not enough. We need at least 10,000 well-trained soldiers before we can confidently raise troops to seize Jiangdu!" p>
Qin Lingjun said: "How are you going to recruit the remaining four thousand people?"
Zhang Yangquan touched his chin and said: "Actually, it would be best to take advantage of this recruitment opportunity to recruit four thousand more people. However, in this way, we have to be responsible for the military food of these four thousand people, which is a bit stressful." p>
"Boluo will only allow us to recruit up to five thousand soldiers without spending money. If we exceed the limit, he will probably know that we have different intentions!"
Zhang Yangquan said with a smile: "This is easy. Let's recruit two soldiers, only register one of them, and send the remaining one to the village!"
Qin Lingjun couldn't help but smile: "No wonder my little sister always says you have many evil ideas. Although this method is good, the soldiers are not refugees. Will they resist if you send them to a stronghold?"
"I looked at the list of people recruited today. Many of them are refugees from Huai'an. You can focus on sending these people to the village and give them enough to eat. If you really don't want to stay in the village, you can transfer them back.
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Qin Lingjun said happily: "This is the best."
Zhang Yangquan frowned and said: "Now there is another problem. The village's current balance of payments is suddenly increased by four thousand men, and the food is not enough. The potatoes will only mature in two months, and the current surplus food cannot last that long!"
Qin Lingjun secretly calculated that four thousand people need more than 1,300 stones of grain per month. The current price of food is four taels, which means more than 5,000 taels of silver per month. The village's silver and grain reserves are indeed insufficient.
She lowered her head and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Military advisor, there are currently 6,000 people in our village. Do you think there are any talents who are good at making money?"
Zhang Yangquan was reminded by her, and something suddenly flashed in his mind.
"I don't know if there are people who can make money, but there must be talents from all walks of life. Do you still remember that when we registered the masons, there was a female craftsman who said she could make porcelain?"
"Well, remember! It seems that my surname is Shu. At that time, I thought that porcelain was of no use, so I didn't agree to her request to build a kiln."
Zhang Yangquan’s thinking immediately broadened.
"Don't we still have a restaurant? We can select some culinary experts in the village and let them open a restaurant too!"
Qin Lingjun said happily: "We can also open a cloth shop. There are many women in the village, so there must be many skillful hands who are good at weaving!"
Zhang Yangquan laughed: "Then let's open these three stores first. The income from the three stores should be enough to support the food of the four thousand sergeants!"
Qin Lingjun said expectantly: "Then use your method to recruit these four thousand additional people now?"
"Okay, leave this matter to me, and you will continue to be responsible for the training of the soldiers!"
Qin Lingjun stood up and said, "You have to hurry up and teach me how to stand and kick forward now!"