Li Bin was very strict in choosing ordinary soldiers of the Xiaoqi Camp. The soldiers must be able to hold a stone pier of 200 kilograms with both hands, and must also wear 50 kilograms of infantry heavy armor, holding spears and shields, carrying bows and arrows and three days of military rations, and run five miles in a quarter of an hour.

In this way, except for the warriors who can be selected by the Knight Camp, there are only strong men with strong strength and endurance.

Even if the emperor Zhao Zhe promised Li Bin that the Knight Camp could select soldiers from the elite soldiers from all over the country recruited to the capital and the good sons they recruited, it took Li Bin ten days to select less than 100 Knight Camp soldiers.

Sha Lei, the deputy battalion leader of the Xiaoqi Battalion, found Li Bin for this and said helplessly: "General, we have formed ten internal guards and imperial guards. Although we will send a group of soldiers to our Xiaoqi Battalion every day for us to select, those soldiers in good health and good martial arts have been left by ten new internal guards. If this continues, when the ten internal guards and imperial guards become soldiers, our Xiaoqi Battalion may not be able to select many soldiers."

Li Bin touched his chin after hearing this, "It seems that we have to take the initiative and can't just wait to select people from the remaining soldiers."

Next, the officers of the Cavalry Camp, led by Li Bin, began to intercept the soldiers recruited from various places to the capital on each road to Beijing, and screened them first from the ten inner guards.

Li Bin also sent people to recruit soldiers in and outside the capital, and ran to the left and right guards, left and right guards, left and right guards, left and right guards, left and right guards to seize outstanding soldiers.

Of course, the five princes and Thirteen Generals were unwilling to do this in the Knight Camp, but it may be because of the relationship with Li Bin and some real martial arts masters, they had already defected to the five princes and Thirteen Generals, so they pinched their noses and made a pity.

Shen Kui, the battalion leader of the Golden Armor Camp, saw that the Knight Camp selected soldiers like this, and then began to imitate the Knight Camp's approach.

However, Shen Kui was very arrogant and not only was he indifferent to the show of affection from the Thirteen Generals, but he also never said anything to the five princes. Therefore, the selection of soldiers in the Golden Armor Camp was not as smooth as that of the Xiaoqi Camp.

By mid-December of the 15th year of Jianping, the ten teams of the Cavalry Camp had basically reached full rank. Li Bin even formed a personal guard for himself, and appointed Xu Chu as the team leader, and Dian Wei and Mengke as the deputy team leader.

In addition to Xu Chu, Dian Wei and Mengke, there were eighty guard soldiers in the entire guard team, including ten dark martial artists, twenty-two Mingjin warriors and forty-eight strong men who had never practiced the Yuanqi Technique.

These eighty guard soldiers were all over 1.8 meters tall and were about twenty years old. They were all children of the sidelines of some young generals or the children of ordinary people. So Li Bin won the consent of these eighty guard soldiers one by one and took them all as his own family soldiers.

From now on, the monthly salary of these eighty guard soldiers will be Li Bin. The guard soldiers in the dark realm will be thirty taels of silver per month, and the guard soldiers in the Ming realm will be twenty taels of silver per month. Those guard soldiers who have not practiced the Yuanqi technique will be temporarily set at fifteen taels of silver per month.

The monthly salary level of such a family soldier is not low. Li Zhao and Li Lie, who are in the Huajin realm, are both leaders of family soldiers. The monthly salary in the Ma family is only fifty taels of silver. The monthly salary of a family soldier in the hidden realm is also thirty taels of silver.

The other forty-eight guard soldiers who had never practiced the Yuanqi technique all began to follow Dian Wei to practice his breathing technique. Li Bin also prepared a large number of elixirs that he assisted in the Yuanqi cultivation of his family. Eighty guard soldiers could receive twenty every month.

Although Sha Lei and Wei Hong, the deputy battalion leader of the Xiaoqi Battalion, had complained about Li Bin's acquisition of the eighty best soldiers in the Xiaoqi Battalion as family soldiers, they only complained to Li Bin while drinking with Li Bin.

After the two arrived at the Xiaoqi Camp, Li Bin had a small banquet for almost three days and a big banquet for five days, and also gave Sha Lei and Wei Hong a thousand taels of silver each, saying that it was the settlement fee for the officers of the Xiaoqi Camp. This made Sha Lei and Wei Hong have a good impression of Li Bin, and the two sides got along quite well these days.

What's more, Li Bin's behavior of digging out the corners of the Da Yan army is also very common in the Da Yan army. Many generals will recruit some soldiers with good martial arts as their own family soldiers.

The two deputy battalions sent by the Emperor Zhao Zhe to the Cavalry Camp, eight teams and sixteen deputy battalions. Although they were all guards around the Emperor, Li Bin still tried his best to win over these officers.

In addition to the deputy battalion rankings Sha Lei and Wei Hong, the eight teams and the sixteen deputy teams also received a settlement fee of 500 taels of silver for each.

In addition, Li Bin also formulated a set of officer living subsidies for the Snap Caval Battalion. The deputy battalion rate can receive thirty taels of silver per month. The team rate and deputy corps rate can receive 20 taels of silver per month. The team leader and the deputy corps commander can receive 10 taels of silver per month. The standards for this set of officer living subsidies have exceeded the military pay of these officers.

Even the leader of the Cavalry Battalion and ordinary soldiers, Li Bin, set a soldier training allowance of two taels of silver per month for him.

After this silver attack, Li Bin immediately gained great prestige in the cavalry camp, almost reaching the level of a single word.

After consolidating his position in the Xiaoqi Camp, Li Bin suddenly opened three gambling halls in the capital. After all, the monthly salary of family soldiers, the living allowances of officers and the training allowances for soldiers every month, Li Bin had to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver. Li Bin was also a little troubled by relying solely on the income of one gambling hall.

Now that he has military power, Li Bin is no longer so concerned about some things, so he opened a new gambling hall in the south, west and north of the city outside the capital.

Of course, Li Bin dared not be too scrupulous. The locations of the three new gambling halls have deliberately avoided some old gambling halls with deep backgrounds.

In addition to the gambling hall, Li Bin also opened a new source of wealth, opening six hot pot restaurants in the outer and inner cities of the capital.

Before Li Bin was imprisoned in his last life, he opened a Sichuan hot pot restaurant and learned several ways to make hot pot bottoms. When he was in Leishan County, Li Bin considered moving Sichuan hot pot to this world, but before the plan was implemented, Li Bin took people to Jingyuan City to find his father, and later moved directly to the capital.

Now that I have a foundation in the capital, Li Bin finally let Sichuan hot pot appear in this world.
Chapter completed!