Chapter 198: The Troops
It was a cool day and September was already in progress.
In the morning, Qin Guan got up and practiced sword skills. After breakfast, he was about to go to the military camp to check out. The newly recruited Xiangjun had already been settled and had been trained for a month. Xiong Da said that he was already looking a little, so he asked Qin Guan to check it out.
Qin Guan looked a little confused after a month. Even in modern times, the new recruits had not even trained the queue for a month.
But the Luo Yi people stopped him.
"Master, I want to report to the master about the situation of accepting the property of the county prince's mansion." Luo Yi said.
"Hey, why didn't you say it last night?"
"Last night, the master did not have the chance to let me speak last night. I wanted to talk about it later, but in the end I was so tired that I fell asleep." Luo Yiren said angrily.
Qin Guan smiled.
The two of them came to the study room. Luo Yiren took out an account book and put it in front of Qin Guan, explaining it while showing it to him.
"Master, so far, I have mastered 60% of the contracted industries." Luo Yi said.
Qin Guan was surprised by Luo Yiren's achievements. He looked at him with admiration and said in surprise: "Oh, my Yiren is so powerful. He can master 60% in less than a month. Tell me how you did it."
After Luo Yiren received the contract, he thought hard and finally formulated a strategy, which was to try to control these big shopkeepers. If these people who are familiar with the industry did not control them, these businesses would probably plummet, which was not what she wanted.
As for how to do it, it is to use power to suppress people and divide them.
Luo Yiren found someone to collect the personalities and families of the eight shopkeepers, as well as their loyalty to the prince's mansion, and first attack those who are prone to breakthroughs.
The Luoyi people first found Xia Bonian, one of the eight shopkeepers. Xia Bonian was 54 years old this year. He was in charge of the fields, forests and grain transactions of the county prince's mansion. He was smart and cautious in doing business. Last time, the prefecture's order to reduce the grain price, Xia Bonian lowered the grain price in Xiongzhou as quickly as possible after asking Commander Tao.
Luo Yiren took out the contract and placed it in front of Xia Bonian. Xia Bonian was extremely surprised at first. At this time, Xiong Er appeared as the commander of the throne, telling him that the Prince's Mansion had given these industries to the prefect Qin, and asked him if he was willing to continue to manage these industries.
Xia Bonian knew that he would either transfer to the prefect Qin or choose to go home to hold his grandson, so he immediately expressed his willingness to transfer to the prefect to help the prefect manage these industries.
Then Luo Yiren called the shopkeepers one by one, Zhao Rugui, who was in charge of the iron stone mines and weapons workshops, the boy Huaniang, who was in charge of the restaurants and brothels, Gu Zhixin, who was in charge of the wine and drink business, Xiao Zifu, who was in charge of the medicinal materials business, and Ji Zongqi, who was in charge of the fur business. The six shopkeepers, Luo Yiren, who was in charge of the soft or hard, defeated them one by one.
However, Hu Li, the shopkeeper who was in charge of ranches and horses and livestock trading, and Sun Cheng, the shopkeeper who was in charge of border trade with the Western Xia of Liao Kingdom, suffered setbacks.
Sun Cheng refused sternly and said very hard that his business would not be handed over to anyone without the prince's personal order.
As for Hu Li, he was even more arrogant. He even said to Luo Yiren: "I am an old man from the royal palace and serve the prince's mansion all my life. I don't know how the prince was bewitched and handed over all his property to the prefect Qin. However, you can't take a penny of the property I have in my hands."
After saying that, Xiong Er didn't even look at it and left with his sleeves.
"When did it happen?" Qin Guan asked.
"It was yesterday. I found out that the two of them were the most difficult to deal with, so I put it in the end. Although I had already made preparations, I still failed in the end." Luo Yiren was a little frustrated that they were unable to complete the entire control of the industry.
Qin Guan touched her face and said, "You have done well enough, which is much as I expected. Let the two of them be left to the master to deal with."
Qin Guan thought about it. Song Ke and the border trade between the Western Xia of Liao Kingdom may involve many gray businesses, smuggling, and even deeper reasons, so Sun Cheng refused to hand over.
As for Hu Li, he probably relied on his old mansion and was used to being arrogant and domineering, so he reacted like this.
Qin Guan brought several guards to the military camp.
Xiong Daxiong Er, with the commander, welcomed Qin Guan at the door.
This was the first time that Qin Guan came to the military camp to inspect after recruiting the Xinxiang Army.
Riding on the horse, Qin Guan saw that the size of the military camp had expanded several times, and countless soldiers were training, but these soldiers were just wearing cloth clothes, wrapped their heads with green scarves, and holding wooden spears in their hands, which was very simple.
Qin Guan felt that these wing troops looked like miscellaneous troops, or even peasant uprising troops, but they did not look like government troops.
Qin Guan stood on the high platform, and ten thousand soldiers stood in the audience, received inspection, and then trained the queue, and finally got a fight performance of 500 people.
Qin Guan nodded. In just one month, he could turn these original farmers into soldiers who could understand orders. Xiong Daxiong Er did a good job.
After the review, Qin Guan walked on the playground with his hands behind his back, watching the soldiers who were still training, with Xiong Daxiong Er accompanying him.
Qin Guan asked: "Is there any problem with the military camp?"
Xiong Daxiong Er looked at each other and replied: "There are indeed some problems."
"Tell me, look."
"The first is the issue of officers. Now these officers are selected by the two of us from those wing troops. They are both commanders, but they are not named." Xiong Dadao.
"What are they all?"
"They were all old men who had worked as soldiers before, and even experienced military battles. However, they were later returned to the countryside for various reasons. This time, they were promoted because of the shortage of personnel."
Qin Guan nodded, it smelled like a grass-roots team.
Qin Guan also has no solution to this problem.
If the court sends people, then he will not be sure to obey his orders completely. If these people are used, they will be nameless.
Finally, Qin Guan said: "Tell them to do their best. When I have the chance in the future, I will definitely report to the court and give them a background."
"What else?" Qin Guan asked again.
"There is also food. If you want to quickly form combat power, you need to increase the amount of training, but this requires strengthening the food, otherwise the soldiers will not be able to withstand it."
Qin Guan nodded.
"This can be solved directly. In the future, two meals will be changed to three meals, and one meat will be eaten every three days." Qin Guan said directly.
Don’t look at the meat eating every three days, this standard was already very high in ancient times.
"Young master, and there are also armor. You have also seen it. Now many soldiers are still holding a stick, not even a spear, let alone armor."
"A real army must have the most basic units such as archers, swords, shields, and snitches to cooperate in combat."
Chapter completed!