To say that the big clan in Chao Na did not cooperate, many of the young and strong villagers from the clan sent a lot of food, iron materials, and even spears.
But when it comes to cooperation, each family only sent five of Li Chengzhi’s favorite Jia Ding?
Even the number of people sent out is exactly the same, which is obviously a way to ventilate the air in advance...
Li Chengzhi can't complain yet.
Only after he asked Guo Cunxin did he understand the reason.
First, the Hu family and the governor Hu colluded with Zhaoxuan Temple to force the monks to rebel, causing chaos.
Second, in order to force the wealthy people in the city to stay behind, Suo Siwen secretly communicated with the thieves...
These two incidents made Chao Naqiang extremely disappointed with the government and the Hu family, and they could no longer believe it, so they probably wanted to leave the strongest combat force behind and prepare to defend the fortress.
As for whether you can hold on, it depends on God's will...
But these people were shocked that Li Chengzhi was able to defeat nearly a thousand thieves with three hundred recruits, so they had some confidence and expectations in him: What if the counterinsurgency was successful?
This has resulted in the current situation of neither embarrassment nor embarrassment, neither up nor down: there are young people and there is food, but it is not for Hu Baozong, let alone the government, but for Li Chengzhi...
Li Chengzhi was angry and laughing at the same time: If he had known that he had such a big reputation, he would have taken action on his own. Why did he send Hu Baozong, but it was self-defeating?
But now that the matter has come to this, we can only think of ways to remedy the situation, and we have to consider how long it will take for these new recruits to be trained before they can be used on the battlefield.
The thieves will not give you time to train slowly, and they might attack you one day...
Therefore, how to improve combat effectiveness and morale as quickly as possible has become Li Chengzhi's biggest concern right now.
When I ask myself how in my previous life I was a knight-errant who had access to the Internet and was an invincible speaker, I can't say he was very insightful, but he was still at a semi-tonal level.
Li Chengzhi summarized it, and there are only two points: one is to make money, and the other is to have faith.
Especially the latter.
It is faith to defend one's home and country, it is faith to resist foreign humiliation, it is also faith to eliminate violence and bring peace and quiet...
The defenders and citizens in the city have naturally seen how brutal the rebels are. Even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they have at least heard about it.
Therefore, the first day of the new soldier's enlistment was an ideological and political class: the military instructors, those scholars called by Guo Cunxin, gave lectures to make Ding soldiers realize that if they did not fight bravely, once the county town or Wubao was breached by the rebels,
, what will happen to the parents, children, brothers and sisters at home...
The effect was pretty good. A group of new recruits were so excited that they screamed and wanted to grab a knife and rush to the battlefield to kill the thieves...
But faith alone is not enough. First, the missionary time is too short and has not yet reached the level where these newcomers have a sense of responsibility and honor.
Secondly, the ancients were also very realistic, okay...
To this end, Li Chengzhi decided to take a two-pronged approach and achieve the goal in one step: give money!
After further refinement, it is: If there are children in the family who join the army, even if they are auxiliary soldiers, they will have one dou of rice every month.
If you are a soldier, your rice will be tripled, and you will also be allocated twenty acres of official land outside the city. You can rent it for free for one year, and lend you mules and horses for free. Monks and people can help with farming...
The method is simple and crude, but extremely effective: the children of poor people who voluntarily come to enlist in the army have broken through the threshold.
The reason for this phenomenon is nothing more than thieves harassing and looting. Most farmers are unable to farm because their fields are too far away from Wubao, so they can only sit and eat. At the same time, they are worried about where the food for this winter will come from. p>
At this time, when I heard that there was money to be made and the family still had land to farm, they naturally rushed to the first place...
Li Chengzhi also went through some troubles because Hu Baozong and Guo Cunxin were firmly opposed.
They have never heard that conscription by prefectures and counties not only does not require soldiers to prepare their own armor, food, clothing, and weapons, but also money and food are available, and good fields can be cultivated?
Even Hu Baozong felt that why did Li Chengzhi work as a nanny for Chao Na and ask the Li family to provide money, food, weapons and armor?
These tens of thousands of acres of government land were cultivated for free for the Li family for a year, and whether the grain output could even be compensated was still a question.
But Li Chengzhi thinks the account cannot be settled this way.
You know, as long as you win, you will be captured...
Hu Baozong and Guo Cunxin said hehehe: How can you make a profit from a group of homeless thieves?
They were even surprised that even if Li Song and others obeyed Li Chengzhi, why had he shaken the foundation of the Li clan and why these Li clan members didn't even dare to say a word, let alone persuasion?
Why?
Did Li Chengzhi change the foundation of the Li family?
Not only did it not move, but it kept fishing back in large quantities...
Besides, who says refugees can’t be captured?
The rebels robbed so many farms, and even Wubao, no matter what else, how many kilograms of iron is there, right?
In Lang Jun's hands, thirty kilograms of pig iron can be used to forge a pair of fine steel armor, and when taken out, it can be exchanged for at least three hundred stones of grain...
Even if there is no military merit to be gained, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Li family. Li Song and other servants would have their brains kicked by a donkey before trying to persuade Li Chengzhi...
For a while, he couldn't think of a good excuse, so Li Chengzhi could only fool him by saying that he was worried about the country and the people and couldn't bear to see the people suffer.
Hu Baozong was doubtful and moved at the same time...
Guo Cunxin is not that easy to deceive.
Just look at Li Shixian and you will know.
Treacherous, deceitful, ruthless, ruthless... they are all almost finished.
Although there is no lack of benevolence and righteousness, it is for the same clan and relatives. If you say you care about the people, you may have a little bit of it, but you will never waste your family wealth just to suppress thieves.
Let’s talk about worrying about the country...hehehe!
Including Li Song, these servants and generals are definitely the same as Li Shixian.
What's more, Li Shixian would exchange most of Lijiabao's annual output into copper and bury it in the cellar of the mansion... Doesn't his brother-in-law know this?
So where did Li Chengzhi get so much money to buy weapons and armor for these soldiers, and also feed them?
It is absolutely possible to balance expenses and expenses, and there are even advantages to be taken advantage of. Li Song and other talents will not say anything...
But Guo Cunxin wanted to explode, and he never thought where Li Chengzhi could get money?
He didn't even ask where Li Chengzhi got the money for Hu Baozong to buy iron and horses.
When Li Song and others saw him, they acted as if they were on guard against thieves...
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The armor-forging farm and the military camp were close together, and they were all located nearby, less than three miles away from the county seat, so Li Chengzhi arrived at the city gate without thinking.
The person leading the troops to defend the city today was Li Liang. Even though his face had already been engraved in his mind, Li Chengzhi still asked Li Xian to display his flag early. When he got to the city, he even took the initiative to hang the token up for verification. What is done from above will be effective below!
Therefore, Li Chengzhi pays great attention to his words and deeds whenever he is in a public place or somewhere where he needs to keep his distance...
After entering the city, we rode the horse for a while and arrived at the county government office.
Li Chengzhi had already moved to the military camp, and now the county's internal affairs and people's livelihood are all in the hands of Guo Cunxin.
It doesn’t matter whether you have experience or not. As long as powerful and powerful families cooperate and put a pig as the county magistrate, everything can be managed in an orderly manner...
As for Hu Baozong?
Since he knew that letting this guy come forward would definitely have the opposite effect, Li Chengzhi could only let him manage the money, grain and grass...