"The Head of State, it is the Head of State!"

"Sajia Wen'anbang, I have met the head of state!"

"A certain doctor, Wulu Mountain, Fengming Mountain, see the head of state!"

"Su Zhihuan, a certain family, has met the head of state!"

Although he was traveling in a condom, Wu Haogu was still recognized by a group of mercenary leaders at the door of Zhao Zhongge's house and went forward to salute. Wu Haogu is their God of Wealth! Several mercenary businesses that opened in Jiehe Shopping City have all received secret funding from Wu Da God of Wealth... Mercenary Tour is also an industry that Wu Haogu focuses on supporting in Jiehe Shopping City!

"Zhiping, I'll introduce you to you. This is Wen'anbang from the Hedong Guards' House. He is both civil and military. He is known to be able to safeguard the country by literature and martial arts. He is still the same clan as Wen Lugong!

This is Fengmingshan, the Feng family of Yiwulu Mountain. He can contact us with the heroes of the Great Liao Kingdom, but his hands and eyes are clear and thousands of people can bring you.

This is Su Zhihuan, a hero from Hebei. He has great skills on horseback. He is one of the best horse masters in Jiehe Business City, and is also a member of Jiehe Po Master Guild..."

Wu Haogu also asked his followers to find three most reliable ones from a bunch of mercenary leaders and introduce them to Zhang Yuan. One of them was Hedong, the mercenary leader from Shanxi. He claimed that his surname was Wen, Wen Anbang, and his relatives from Wen Yanbo did not sound real! But he could really attract strong men, and they were all mountain people brought from Taihang Mountain, which were simple and reliable.

Another one is Ma Zhi’s disciple, Fengming Mountain from Yiwulu Mountain. He is also a reliable mercenary leader, and all the Han people from Liao Kingdom were brought to him.

The last one was a wealthy man in the local rivers and lakes in Hebei, named Su Zhihuan. Before the opening of Jiehe Commercial City, he made a business in private business between Song and Liao, and developed a good skill on horseback. After the opening of the Commercial City, it was difficult to do smuggling business. So, under the introduction of Ximen Anguo, he became a utility knight and went to the northwest battlefield. After he came back, he became a horse master at Jiehe Racecourse. At the same time, he also had a mercenary business, specializing in the transaction of advanced horse riding mercenaries.

With these three mercenary heads alone, a team of two or three thousand people can be pulled out for Zhang Yuan!

Of course, Zhang Yuan must be able to afford the money.

"Shuai Si, why are you here? This person is..."

When Wu Haogu was about to introduce other mercenary leaders to Zhang Yuan, the main gate of Zhao Mansion was already open. Brother Zhao Zhong, who had not changed his clothes, had already brought a few trusted retainers to greet him.

"We haven't seen each other for many days. I heard that you are back today, so I can't wait to come to the door. Didn't you delay your rest?"

Wu Haogu took Brother Zhao Zhong's hand, and he looked a little missed. Then he pulled Zhang Yuan to his side and said to Brother Zhao Zhong with a smile, "This is Silang of Xianggong Zhang's family and Zhang Zhiping, the great teacher of the Anxi University Education and Reform Group."

"It turned out to be the Master Zhang, who has been admired for a long time," Zhao Zhongge laughed and clasped his fists everywhere. At this time, a group of mercenary leaders outside the door saluted him and said, "Military Zhao".

Brother Zhao Zhong also hugged them, "Okay, okay, you all go to the mansion to sit down, and come to drink with Zhao later!"

Next, Zhong Ge'er's disciples dealt with the mercenary leaders for him, and he himself accompanied Wu Haogu and Zhang to his own mansion and entered the central hall together.

"Military Zhao," after sitting down and chatting for a few words, Zhang Yuan directed the topic to the mercenaries. He also called Brother Zhao Zhong "Military Zhao" like the mercenary outside the door. He smiled and asked, "Are those utility soldiers who use money to fight wars really reliable?"

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Utility Scholar actually means mercenaries. When they are hired by the imperial court or military generals of the court, the commander is the Utility Scholar, and when they work for merchants, they are thugs and guards, and when they are hired by Jiehe Shangshi, they are mercenaries.

Brother Zhao Zhong smiled and asked, "Why, didn't the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty work hard for money?"

"That's different," Zhang Yuan shook his head, "The imperial guards serve the court, while the mercenaries are doing business, and they will give the money to the person who will be given."

Wu Haogu smiled and added: "There is another difference. The imperial guards were raised by the imperial court. These mercenaries do not have such blessings. They pay for what they pay for, but they are not as delicious as idle food. If you really have to make careful calculations, hiring a utility man is much more cost-effective than raising an imperial guard."

"How could it be? The utility man can get more money than the imperial guards."

Wu Haogu shook his head and smiled, "That's because Brother Ping can't settle the score!"

"How to calculate?"

Wu Hao Ancient Wu Hao said: "The imperial guards serve for a long time. They often join the army for 20 years and retire at fifty or sixty years. They work for 30 or 40 years. But how many years can ordinary soldiers have for their strength? Zhiping has also practiced martial arts and should know the way of martial arts. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Moreover, after you get old and weak, your martial arts will also decline. If you don't work hard, you will go downhill after you are thirty years old. And if you have to work hard, you will go downhill. If you have to work hard, you will not be able to bear the expenses that ordinary soldiers can afford.

Therefore, the imperial court spent thirty to fifty to raise a soldier, and for thirty years, the real one available is fifteen years. Moreover, because the imperial guards had to serve for a long time, they all took their families with their families. Therefore, it is impossible to stay in the camp at all times and keep training. Often, only one day in the camp is in the camp. During the tenure of years, there will be another discount.

In addition, the amount of the imperial guards is severe, which is well known. There are 550,000 imperial guards on the court's books, but how many are there? It would be good to have more than 300,000. And these more than 300,000 are often occupied by the superiors and used all kinds of private work... After a 70% discount, the imperial guards spent so much money to support 550,000 imperial guards. I wonder if there are 50,000 people who can be used? In order to obtain an available imperial guard, the court has to spend hundreds of money a year, right? It is far more expensive than hiring a utility man."

"Shi Shi only counts the labor," Zhao Zhongge interrupted, "There is no calculating the expenses of equipment and horses... The imperial court actually only has 50,000 imperial guards available, but it has to prepare equipment and horses according to the standard of 550,000 imperial guards. The officials responsible for preparing equipment and horses must be repaid. Most of the equipment and horses of the utility warriors are self-produced, and although they have to pay a fee for a purchase, it is still cost-effective. Otherwise, the Song Dynasty court would not frequently recruit utility warriors to collect."

Wu Haogu smiled, "I raised 550,000 imperial guards, but when I was fighting, they were both utility soldiers and archers... The court raised soldiers was really a business that cost me the old capital! Brother Ping, our large education regiment cannot do this, and there is not so much money to pay."

Zhang Yuan asked: "The great education group has all the utility?"

Wu Haogu smiled and asked back: "In addition to its effectiveness, there are other soldiers who can use the Great Education Corps?"

Zhang Yuan thought about it seriously and shook his head, "It's true, it's just, just..."

"It's just that it's not easy to use the utility well." Brother Zhao Zhong interrupted.

"That's right," said Zhang Yuan, "the utility hired from the mercenary leaders outside is afraid that it cannot be used in accordance with the methods in "Cathing Science", "Infantry Science" and "Tactic Theory"?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "This has nothing to do with whom you hire the utility, but with whom you hire the utility."

Zhang Yuan didn't understand.

Wu Haogu explained: "Whoever hires, whoever equips, whoever trains. Brother Ping, you must first have a military commander, which must not be careless. Secondly, there must be a group of generals who can lead troops according to the methods in "Cattle Science", "Infantry Science" and "Tactic Theory", and prepare to be the general and the team commander. Then directly send the money from the components, battalions, and teams to them, and let them talk to the mercenary train and the equipment trainer themselves, and train themselves. Then let the military trainer supervise them.

Of course, someone has to help you manage your accounting, grain, and territory... These talents are not short of Brother Ping, right?

Finally, there must be a suitable method of reward, punishment and pension, so that we can urge the fight."

Wu Haogu's method is actually to commercialize the military management to a commercial military opportunity. It is an efficient management team. Generals who can lead troops according to the methods in "Cattle Science", "Infantry Science" and "Tactic Theory", prepare generals and teams are branches and branch managers under the contract system, and mercenary shops and equipment shops are suppliers.

Of course, this kind of commercialized army cannot compare to revolutionary army, and may be worse than those well-managed feudal armies, but the management of feudal army is usually very poor. However, it has obvious advantages over the bureaucratic armies of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song army also spent a lot of money, but bureaucratic management made the power and responsibilities at all levels unclear, the mechanism of incentives and punishments was out of control, and even the effectiveness of reverse incentives was achieved. The Song army implemented an incentive system with high salary, low merit rewards and low pensions. In other words, the military pay was the most cost-effective, and it was unlikely that it would be possible to be promoted from a small soldier to a general, because there were too many levels on the road to promotion. The pensions were too small after death in battle and injury. If anyone was killed and disabled, he would lose a lot.

Therefore, the Song army not only had low management efficiency, but the proportion of the troops that could really fight was very low, and the incentive mechanism also failed, resulting in the troops fighting to the death on the battlefield and lack of motivation to fight hard.

Therefore, after returning from the Northwest battlefield, Wu Haogu instructed his military command and the Knights Academy to start compiling a new military textbook "Theory of Military Governance". After completion, it will become a compulsory course for the Knights Academy.

"Brother Chongdao is such a talented person! Brother Chongdao uses business to military affairs. I really didn't expect this to be possible..."

After listening to Wu Haogu's introduction, Zhang Yuan had an epiphany and felt that he was over 130 and his comprehension ability was beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Chapter completed!