Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 251 Sun Erlang Suggests Training the Army
Although they are all a group of powerful characters, but in terms of personality, they are no different from those middle-aged people who love to brag and fart in later generations.

Finding that his opinion was not accepted, Hu Cheng couldn't help being a little anxious, he shook his head quickly and said:
"We are not welcomed by the government now. It is because we are not strong enough. If our hemp mill really earns so much money and has strength, can't we engage in collusion between government and business? I don't trust those officials. I don’t like money, let’s buy officials with money, and in the future we will all go to the court to be high officials, and Liang Shan will not dare to beat us.”

Hearing this, Hu Taigong couldn't help sneering: "Using money to buy an official is like a fat sheep slaughtered by others! The officials bought like that are useless! The real connections in the world are still a little more powerful. If we want to fight Liangshan, we should send less money to the government and make more friends with the surrounding forces, all the money sent to the government is in vain."

Shi Wengong frowned and said: "It's just that Liangshan is very noisy in Shandong today. A while ago, we could make friends with some heroes from the three mountains and five mountains. Now, except for Liangshan, there is no second family in Shandong. We want to Who will you make friends with?"

Hu Cheng said: "So, if we want to resist bandits, we can only rely on officials."

Hu Taigong sneered: "What you say is not accurate!"

Hu Cheng's face turned ugly when his father scolded him like this, and he turned his head to see Sun Xin who was standing there listening to them.

He quickly waved his hands and said, "Sun Xin, you are here, come and argue. If we make money in the textile factory, should we make friends with the government or make friends with the heroes of the rivers and lakes here in Shandong and Hebei?"

Only then did Sun Xin walk up with a smile, thought for a while and said:

"I'm also thinking about talking to you about this matter. If the textile factory makes money, we in Shandong can't hide it if we want to. How to deal with the money, everyone needs to be united."

Sun Li quickly expressed his opinion: "Brother, when we have money, we will contact the government. Now in Shandong, we see that Liangshan is powerful, and it is really impossible for one person to develop into a local tyrant to fight against them. Everyone is innocent and pregnant The crime is that if we have money and no soldiers, we will definitely become the targets of Liangshan, and even if the three of you join hands together, we will not be able to protect Zhuangzi."

Sun Xin nodded: "That's right, if it's just the current strength, we can't keep Zhuangzi at all. Even if the three villages join forces, they will be robbed by Liangshan. But I think we can neither rely on the government nor rely on heroes. I suggest that we Let's train together."

Shi Wengong was quite surprised: "Train soldiers by yourself?"

Sun Xin nodded: "It is better to ask for others than to ask for oneself. As you said just now, in today's Shandong, we cannot rely on the government. Even if Zhuangzi is breached, they will not send troops to rescue them. In the past, the hero who connected with the three mountains and the five mountains, now Liangshan has grown to tens of thousands of horses, if he wants to deal with us, how can a hero dare to be an opponent of Liangshan?"

"Since no one can protect us, we can only protect ourselves."

Li Ying, who had been silent just now, heard Sun Xin's suggestion, and couldn't help frowning and thinking, and then said: "The soldiers and horses we trained before were all conservative copycats, nothing more than thousands of people. In that case, we can still train well Come on, if you want to fight against Liangshan, it will take tens of thousands of horses, can we just rely on us to practice?"

Sun Xin looked at Li Ying and said: "Liangshan's troops are all a group of thieves who are willing to work for them as long as they stutter. The cost of our military training must be much higher, but the current situation is that we have to do it if we don't want to. Our textile industry Once the factory earns money, it will earn tens of thousands of guan in that year. Liangshan is now short of money and food. How can it be possible to leave a fat sheep like us? We want to keep our business results, You must have your own armed forces."

"The money can be taken from the income of the textile factory. It can be calculated in this way. If you want to bribe court officials to give us a promise to protect the textile factory, it is not too much to spend [-]% of the income? I am afraid that [-]% is not enough. Even this may not necessarily protect our factory."

"However, if our textile factory can earn 5000 guan a year, and spend [-] to [-] guan to train soldiers, is it enough for us to train an elite soldier of [-] people? If there are [-] soldiers like my Baobao Army With peasants and soldiers in hand, even if Liangshan sends tens of thousands of horses, it may not be able to move us three Zhuangzi."

Zhu Chaofeng asked at this moment: "How do the soldiers get out?"

If the five thousand ice that Sun Xin mentioned were like his farmers and soldiers, they would basically be professional soldiers, and they could no longer be used for training in spare time like the Zhuang Ding they smoked in the Zhuangzi.

Now each of the three forces has a population of less than 5000, and the fact that the bankers are willing to serve does not mean that they are willing to become professional soldiers. It is very difficult to draw more than [-] soldiers.

Sun Xin said with a smile: "From the supervisory committees of each village."

Everyone was stunned.

They still think that the Supervisory Committee is an organization that Sun Xin deliberately inserted into his property for the purpose of robbing shifts and seizing power in the future. Everyone has a lot of opinions on this.
Now that they heard that Sun Xin actually wanted to use this organization to recruit soldiers, everyone was wondering why Sun Xin would attack his own forces first?
Sun Xin explained: "We don't have enough people under our command. If we recruit the refugees, those mobs can't beat the bandits in Liangshan. The only ones we can take advantage of are the bankers of the Supervisory Committee who are willing to protect their own property."

"Furthermore, once this team is established, the situation it will face will be very dangerous. We must require this team to be absolutely loyal and dare to fight."

Sun Xin looked at the crowd with a serious face and said: "More than 5000 professional soldiers are no longer the number of conservative mansions. With so many soldiers, even if they say they don't rebel, it is tantamount to rebellion!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone's heart skipped a beat. They had never thought of this before, but after thinking about it carefully, they found that Sun Xin was right.

Although they are now able to recruit tens of thousands of Zhuangzi when they are in a hurry, those Zhuangzi are all temporarily taking up weapons to fight the bandits in order to protect the countryside. To put it bluntly, they are militias.

If it was such a militia, the imperial court would naturally agree, and would also praise them, the landlords, for their responsibility to guard the land and fight against bandits.But if there are more than 5000 people who do not work on weekdays, but only practice combat skills and become professional soldiers, this is really hard to explain with Shoutu.

But if their textile factory is really profitable, they have no choice in order to protect such a large profit.

Looking at the expressions of everyone present, Sun Xin nodded secretly, and these people finally understood.

They wanted to set up an army not because they wanted to rebel, but just to protect their own interests. If the imperial court could protect their textile factories, then they naturally didn't need to form a self-defense force. The key point was that the imperial court could not protect them at all.

The Great Song Dynasty was a feudal dynasty. The armed forces of the Great Song Dynasty only protected the safety of the landlords. In addition to guarding the city, the protection of industry and commerce also required troops to accompany them to clear trade routes and protect the safety of goods. Ability is absolutely impossible.

As factory owners want to protect their property, the only way is to build their own armed force.

(End of this chapter)