Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 97 The Recruitment Plan
In fact, Li Jing had long considered the issue of conscription, but Li Jing's conscription was different from officers and soldiers. The soldiers he conscripted were actually bandits.

But the area of ​​Hongshanling is so big, how can there be so many places to house so many people?

Even if they can be resettled, the cost of feeding this group of people will be gone.

Because Li Jing's military salary is too high, higher than that of the frontier army, and he has to take care of food, clothing, housing, and the most important thing is to support the families of these people.

It even costs more money to feed a family than to feed a soldier, because those who can become bandits must be those who are too poor to survive. A law-abiding bandit?

According to Li Jing's minimum requirements, there should be at least [-] formal soldiers in Hongshanling, but Li Jing can't afford that much money to support their parents, wives and children.

In addition, Hongshanling's biggest expense now is not military expenses, but Ma Wu's intelligence department.

Every time Ma Wu establishes a stronghold, he spends at least nearly ten thousand taels of silver, and it costs even more in the capital. When Ma Wu went to Beijing a year ago, Li Jing brought Ma Wu 5 taels of silver. Finished.

Of course, those businesses in Ma Wulong will definitely make money, but in addition to maintaining personnel expenses, the money earned by the business also has to adopt some homeless people, so there is basically not much left, and you have to bribe officials Li Jing took money from the cottage to subsidize it.

Only after the relationship between Ma Wu and those people stabilized will the fee be reduced.

But it will take at least a few months to reach that level, and a lot of investment is still required in the early stage.

Hongshanling now has less than 7 taels of silver deposits on the mountain, including the money obtained from robbing those powerful bullies during this period.

This time Li Jing was going to give Ma Wu another 5 taels of silver to operate in the capital, and the remaining money was less than 2 taels. How dare he recruit troops at this time?

In fact, the money on the mountain was almost running out, Shen Zheng and Gao Qi knew very well that Shen Zheng planned to get back all the silver deposited in Kaifeng and Luoyang in his spare time.But in the past six months, the affairs on the mountain have been one after another, and Shen Zheng is so busy that his feet do not touch the ground. How can he have time to withdraw money in Kaifeng and Luoyang?

Although Gao Qi didn't care about the logistical matters, Li Jing and Shen Zheng didn't hide how much money they had on the mountain. Gao Qi knew that Li Jing was worried about not having enough money, so he refused to conscript.

After pondering for a while, Gao Qi said: "Brother, I have thought of a way, do you think it will work?"

Li Jing nodded.

"Brother, I think so. The brothers we are training on the mountain have at least three taels of silver every month. Can we give them a tael and use this tael for conscription? Our original brothers are all regular Bing, these newly recruited people are not treated like regular soldiers, they are only paid one tael a month, and their family members don’t care about it. Do you think this will work?” Gao Qi continued.

Li Jing thought about Gao Qi's words carefully, then slowly shook his head and said, "Brother, I understand what you mean, but the salary of these brothers on the mountain must not be lowered, it will chill the hearts of the brothers, but you The method of conscription is still interesting, but I don’t know if we can recruit people without giving regular soldiers treatment.”

"I don't think there is a problem. Big brother, think about it. People who live around Hongshanling don't know about us? Let's recruit them up the mountain, and they are all eager for it! Let's give them another thought, as long as they train well in the future It is possible to turn into a regular soldier, and then you can bring your family members up the mountain, do you think you can't recruit them like this?" Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Well, you arrange people to recruit people, and tell them that these people are temporarily auxiliary soldiers, and they will only be paid one or two taels of silver a month. After three months, they will be assessed. There is such a temptation to make them a full-time employee, so I don’t think it’s a problem to recruit people.”

Gao Qi thought for a while and said, "Three months is a bit too short. I think it's better to have an assessment every six months. First, it can save a lot of military pay, and second, it makes our soldiers valuable."

Li Jingjing nodded: "Okay! From now on, we will conduct an assessment once every six months. Well, we must also tell them that if they make meritorious service, they can immediately become regulars, and casualties will be treated the same as regular soldiers."

"Hehe, in this way, these people don't have to squeeze their heads to join us? Don't they work hard in training? Even if they fight with officers and soldiers, they can go hard." Gao Qi laughed.

After a pause, Gao Qi continued: "But we must have a quota for recruiting this time, right? How many people do you think is more appropriate to recruit?"

Li Jing pondered for a while and said: "Tentatively set 500 people, the age should be between fifteen and 30 years old. By the way, if there is a skill, there is no age limit."

"In this case, it's better to recruit more. If this group of people all have special skills, then we still have no soldiers to fight." Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jing looked at Gao Qi and smiled and said, "What? Do you think you have fewer soldiers? That's fine, you can recruit 1000 people. I'll let you lead a team of [-] people. Those with special skills are not counted."

Gao Qi was overjoyed and cupped his fists at Li Jing: "Thank you, brother."

Li Jing patted Gao Qi's shoulder lightly and said solemnly: "Gao Qi, check these 1000 people for me, don't let me bring in a bunch of ruffians and scoundrels, and tell them that I have violated my military law. Murderer."

Gao Qi nodded: "Brother, don't worry, brother knows how to do it."

Li Jing smiled and pulled Gao Qi's arm and said, "I'm done talking about recruiting soldiers, I have something else to tell you, come, follow me to the training ground."

Gao Qi scratched his head, wondering: "What else is there?"

Li Jing looked at Gao Qi with a half-smile and said, "You'll know when you get to the training ground."

Seeing Li Jing's strange expression, Gao Qi suddenly understood what Li Jing meant.

Gao Qi turned around and was about to run away, but he didn't want Li Jing to hold his arm firmly, how could he run away?

Li Jing pulled Gao Qi Shi Shiran to the training ground, then pointed to the training ground and said, "Gao Qi, help me find where Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng are training. I don't have good eyesight. Why can't you see it?"

Hearing Li Jing say that his eyesight is not good, Gao Qi couldn't help slandering him, thinking: "Your eyesight is better than an eagle's. If your eyesight is not good, we won't be blind!"

But at this time, I dare not flatter, lest I get burned.

"Brother, I'll call those bastards here immediately, and I'll double the amount of training for them." Gao Qi said immediately.

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Come on, you took them away just now, and I'll let you find them again. If you run away, I'll find someone to reason with, and I won't look for them anymore. It's all on you. Are you not love?" Are you running? Have you seen this training ground, just run fifty laps along this training ground, and you are not allowed to eat until you finish running, do you hear me?"

"Yes!" Gao Qi looked at the training ground and said with a bitter face.

The perimeter of this training ground is about 500 steps. When Gao Qi usually trains bandits, he usually runs [-] laps, which is equivalent to running [-] miles. Unexpectedly, Li Jing more than doubled it for him. It seems The punishment of Chen Dahu and others was really added to him.

But Gao Qi knew that if he didn't run this time, he wouldn't know what method Li Jing would use to torment him next time.

Gao Qi didn't hesitate, took off his coat, and started running around the training ground.

Li Jing didn't care how Gao Qi tormented Chen Dahu and the others after the run. When Gao Qi started running, Li Jing turned around and went to Shen Zheng's place for a meal.

By the time Gao Qi finished fifty laps, it was already late.

After eating something hastily, he began to think about how to recruit troops.

It's easy to tell Li Jing, but it's not so easy to actually do it.

Gao Qi knew very well that Li Jing was testing his ability through this recruiting, and of course he wanted him to prove his ability.

Gao Qi is the deputy chief instructor in Hongshanling, and he is ranked second in name, but in fact Gao Qi himself knows that Shen Zheng is actually the second in command. If he calculates carefully, he may not even be ranked fifth.

If Ma Wu returns to the mountain, then the third position must belong to Ma Wu.There is no way for this, Ma Wu is old, he gave his life to save the Jinniuling old village, the Shen family, and Li Jing's foundation, and all the brothers on the mountain obeyed him.

Next is Sun Meng. Sun Meng was Gao Qi's former boss, and now Li Jing entrusts him with a heavy responsibility. If Sun Meng comes back, Gao Qi will definitely not be able to compete with Sun Meng for ranking, and must take a step back.

If old man Chen is included, then Gao Qi has to take another step back.

Old man Chen went up the mountain with Li Jing. He was seriously injured in the battle of Jinniuling and lost an arm.After the battle in the valley of Wanbai Mountain, old man Chen summoned a group of retired bandits to join the battle at an emergency. Thanks to old man Chen's command, he dragged Li Jing back to the mountain for rescue.

In a sense, no one would have any objection to old man Chen even if he was ranked second.

However, old man Chen was disabled and knew that he could do nothing for Li Jing, so he took the initiative to give up his seat.

Gao Qi came up to the mountain late, and his qualifications are not as good as those of the previous ones. He was promoted to his current position only by Li Jing. There are many brothers below who are not convinced by him, such as Liu Erleng, Chen Dahu, and Zhou Huhu. How to convince him.

Fortunately, these people did not dare to disobey Li Jing's order, and they had to bear with it, so no one dared to speak ill of him.

To Li Jing, Gao Qi was grateful and admired from the bottom of his heart.

Not to mention that this group of mobs on the mountain forced Li Jing to train them to look like elite soldiers, but many of Li Jing's ideas made him feel unbelievable, but Li Jing did it very successfully.

Gao Qi didn't want to disappoint Li Jing, and didn't want Li Jing to cover him like this.

He wants to seize this opportunity and do a good job in recruiting troops.

Of course, Gao Qi knew very well in his heart that if he recruited 1000 people this time, even if Li Jing handed over all of them to him, he would not be able to take them.

The second child has more soldiers than the boss, and the people below who disobey him don't show him face all day long?Is he ready to continue hanging around on the mountain?
(End of this chapter)