Chapter 26

Liu Bu surprised and surprised everyone. As the childe brother of the largest family in the local area, his first impression was to live a comfortable life.

Even without these negative comments, he should be one of those people who can't bear hardships and don't want to mix with his soldiers.

After all, he is the only successor of the Liu family, and he is the future master cultivated by the Liu family for three generations in 60 years, that is, the aristocrat cultivated by the legendary three generations.

Moreover, his starting point was extremely high, and he entered the military world. He was the Wupin general immediately.

This official title is not high in Daming as a whole, but it is not low in local areas. He is already an officer in charge of thousands of troops in a place. He is really short of a local leader and is very popular.

But Liu Bu was surprised by everyone. He moved into the barracks, ate, lived and trained with the soldiers.

Of course, there is no doubt that his training performance is the worst, but no one dares to worry about whether he ran 10 kilometers and did so many military movements every day.

Liu Bu was close to the people and fought with the soldiers, but he was miserable for Liu Yu and Liu Ning.

Both of them are defined as Liu Bu's right and left hands and personal bodyguards. He must follow Liu Bu wherever he goes, even in the military camp.

Since Liu Fuqi knew that something dirty had happened to Liu Bu in the Liu family's mansion, he gave the order to die. In addition to going to the thatched cottage, someone must follow.

So Liu Bu took part in the training, and Liu Ning and Liu Yu followed. After all, Liu Ning was the most elite border army. With his real skills, he entered the Liu family as today's servant and became the guard around Liu bu.

But his cousin Liu Yu was badly hurt. Liu Yu was originally a rich childe and donated an official of 100 families. However, just look at the nickname Liu Bu gave him, which is called childe emptiness, and you will know what kind of goods he is.

Every day I train with Liu bu. I am so tired that I almost lie down. He has been complaining about Liu bu. Who would be an officer of a thousand families?

Of course, it is necessary for Liu Bu to do so. He knows how to manage here by participating in the training in person. Although he has a group of capable men, he has to rely on himself in the end. No one is born with many things and can only learn slowly.

To tell you the truth, it is not because senior officers are not at the grass-roots level and do not understand the lives of the people below that the Ming army can rot to this extent. This is called that officials do not know generals and generals do not know soldiers. How can they be invincible.

The officers are high above, the soldiers are cold and hungry, they don't care what psychological burden they have, and they don't want to know anything. They only know to let the soldiers work hard in war, regardless of their life and death. Therefore, it's strange that such an army is invincible.

Liu Bu decided to change this point, because his troops are fighting for him, to protect him and protect the interests of his family, their fists and their relatives. He can't know or care about them.

Liu Yuanqiao is an able man. In fact, he formulated this military policy, which is very clever. He really recruited many soldiers who can fight and use for their Liu family.

This has many similarities with the military household system of Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, the system established by Zhu Yuanzhang had many advantages. Armed with these systems, the army defeated the powerful Mongols and established the Han Dynasty.

The advantage of this system is that the imperial court sends land to military households, so that they can cultivate and serve as soldiers here from generation to generation. In this way, the imperial court can raise a large number of soldiers without spending money. Hide soldiers for the people and use them.

However, after more than 200 years of development in the Ming Dynasty, the military households basically became the private property and money-making tool of the general of Weisuo, and then their combat effectiveness disappeared.

When the founding of the people's Republic of China, they took out any guard and dared to fight directly with the Mongols. Moreover, they did not fall behind. Their combat effectiveness was still quite strong. But now, military households have become slaves. Without food and land, their combat effectiveness has been completely lost.

Liu Yuanqiao has many similarities with these policies, but he has strongly implemented one point, that is, the rich welfare system, which is a bit like the system of professional soldiers in western countries.

Good welfare treatment can naturally attract many soldiers who are willing to work hard.

Now the world is in chaos. Generals everywhere are recruiting troops, even privately. But it is estimated that he is the Liu Yuanqiao Liu family who is willing to support the troops. Even if other generals have servants, the number is very small, because their money is far from enough to support a large number of people.

Even the most popular generals in Liaodong and the generals in Liaoxi, every general under them will have no more than 2000 servants. It should be said that there are no more than 2000.

Because raising soldiers is an activity that consumes a lot of food and money.

At present, the salary of the Ming court is about one or two silver a month. Plus the expenditure of various equipment, it will not exceed half two. That is to say, they can support a soldier with 18 silver.

However, to raise a servant, it absolutely needs nearly three times the cost. The so-called servant is that the generals deprive ordinary soldiers of their pay by embezzling their pay, and use it in these servants to make them responsible for fighting, realizing the elite policy in a sense.

The cost of Liu's army is higher and will only be higher than others.

However, it is not as exaggerated as five or six times. Many people say that if the Liu family raises a servant, they have to raise their family of soldiers, but they have an account. Even if they work on the Liu family's farm, they also need to work. Who does the Liu family invite? It's just a kind of welfare, And these people will also produce value.

The smartest thing about Liu Yuanqiao is that he knows that soldiers have to eat. If he wants a horse to run fast, let him eat more grass. The policy of the Ming court is that you have to run to my death if you don't eat grass. Who calls you my horse.

Liu Bu stayed directly in the army, participated in training, contacted the soldiers, understood the soldiers' ideas, and was able to understand problems in time, find problems and solve them.

If an army embezzles pay and benefits, it is the beginning of its collapse. Therefore, Liu Bu has been extremely strict and serious in terms of welfare system and supply.

The imperial court generally pays military salaries from one level to the next, but the Liu family is different. They directly set up a department that does not belong to the army. This department is responsible for the distribution. This department is under the management of Liu Fuqi, which is equivalent to the organization of the logistics department. Their money and food will not go through the hands of officers. After the double review of officers and soldiers, A receipt will be issued. As long as the soldier picks up the receipt, he can get the money.

In a sense, this has put an end to the practice of embezzlement of military salaries by officers, because money and food are not under his control. Officers are only responsible for war and no longer responsible for managing logistics problems.

Moreover, the Liu family directly bribed corrupt officials and got a large number of equipment from them. These trained soldiers wear better than the regular army. Their weapons are also the official long guns, park knives and eight pointed helmets of the imperial court. In addition to the absence of such things as bird guns and cannons, they all have them in the Imperial Army, which is better and brand-new than the imperial army.

They are still in the state of recruiting. They are responsible for training these people to see if anyone can meet the standards and pass. If they pass, they can become a member of the Liu family.

However, the Liu family is different from other armies and departments. When they start hiring, they are equivalent to temporary workers. Temporary workers are also paid. Therefore, these people work very hard. Even if they can't get along in the end, they can still get some travel expenses and a bite.

The eldest son of an aristocratic family in Liu Butang also mixed with the big soldiers, participated in training together and boasted together. This is mainly to understand problems in time, find problems, and then deal with problems. He calls this learning and work.

Once they recruit people, they will transfer to the Tibetan Valley for training.

The army is a group organization. Only when people are organized can it fight. Otherwise, it will not give full play to the strength of the team. If there are too many people, it will not be able to fight people without forming fists. Instead, it will form a plate of scattered sand. Training is very important.

Liu Zhongyong is already working out a plan to train his servants.

Liu bu used to think, is our Liu family a bit like the Li family in Taiyuan at the end of the Sui Dynasty?

Except that it is not as powerful as the Li family in Taiyuan (except for the history of thousands of years), others seem to be almost the same. We should have soldiers, have generals, and take advantage of the opportunity.

Liu Zongyong is responsible for recruiting people, and he is also responsible for training. He has always been very strict and strict. Everyone is assessed openly without any secret operation. Finally, among the 1000 people, 800 people passed his assessment standard.

This makes it very difficult for Liu Zhongyong to make a choice. After all, it is his own standard, which is difficult to pass. Those who pass will not let others pass, which will make many people unconvinced. If anyone is laid off, it will make others very dissatisfied.

The Liu family is convincing now, that is, fair rules. Their Liu family has their Liu family rules, that is, openness and fairness. If this is gone, who will convince you in the future, and these are good soldiers. They are all at the rank of family soldiers in other military forces. He is a little difficult to choose, so he had to ask Liu Bu what he should do.