I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 26 It's Not Difficult to Win the Army's Heart
Chapter 025

Following Cheng Shijie's order to gather, the soldiers who were chatting in twos and threes on the school grounds immediately gathered towards the general platform of the school grounds like a spring.

Cheng Shijie looked at the stopwatch on his phone. In just 180 seconds, more than [-] people had already lined up.The team is neat and tidy, but it is horrible.

What is miserable is not the formation, but the appearance of everyone.The family soldiers recruited by Cheng Shijie were family soldiers in name, but in fact he did not distribute military uniforms, because neither did he, and he left in a hurry and forgot to make arrangements.

The result is that the current team doesn't look like an army at all. Two-thirds of them are wearing tattered beggars' clothes, and another third are wearing the faded mandarin duck jackets of the Ming army. Of course, these mandarin duck battle jackets are also rotten.

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly: "After nearly a month of training, is it still like this?"

Shen Mingyu was a little aggrieved: "They only trained for less than a month, and their performance was of course not satisfactory. If they want to do what is forbidden by law, it is absolutely impossible without a year or two of training."

"It will take a year or two!?"

Cheng Shijie thought of military training too simply. In later generations, students performed half a month of military training, at least during military training performances, and they performed well.But the problem is that the knowledge of students of later generations is stored there, at least they can distinguish between left and right.

And [-]% of his servants are illiterate, and almost all of them are indiscriminate.

Shen Mingyu explained: "This is not bad. The vast majority of people are illiterate. It is not an easy task just to let them distinguish between east, west, north, south, front, back, left, and right. It is also necessary to let them understand the flags. Remember It is even more difficult to charge with drums and retreat with gold. As for building camps, setting traps to resist horses, forming an army formation, and cooperating with multiple arms... It may take a few years to slowly explore and get used to it."

Cheng Shijie was calm on the surface, but panicked in his heart.

It is now the end of August, which means that in Liaodong, the battle of Daling River should start. When Zu Dashou couldn't withstand Huang Taiji's attack, he asked the Guan Ning Army to support Daling River with refueling tactics three times. , and then Zhang Chun led the [-]-step cavalry to fight back and die.

It's time for the imperial court to recruit the Dongjiang Army in Shandong to support the Daling River. It's time for Kong Youde to rebel.
Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie said: "Soldiers, disband!"

Shen Mingyu felt inexplicable and Zhang Yu was also puzzled.

Cheng Shijie left the barracks with his hands behind his back, but went straight back to Qianhu House.

If you want to train an army, you need good equipment and good morale. These family soldiers are willing to follow Cheng Shijie because Cheng Shijie gives them food, so that they can eat enough, and they still have money every month.

But in order for these young men to be trained to be elites and dare to fight desperately in the following troubled times, it is necessary to infuse souls into this army.

The matter of the soul is not urgent for the time being, he still has time, but uniform clothing, this is a good way to improve morale.

"Zhang Qianshu!"

"Humble!"

"I'll give you a mission!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "Go and buy a batch of cloth, and make [-] sets of military uniforms in advance!"

"But it's not easy to make [-] sets of military uniforms!"

At this moment, Zhou Yandong, deputy Qianhu, came in. He bowed and said, "Master Qianhu, our salt factory is producing salt!"

"The first batch of salt was [-] shi, and I sent someone to bring it over!"

"Zhang Qianshu, let people distribute it to each household. Each household will be given ten catties first, and the rest will be saved!"

"Yes!"

"Brother Zhou, come and sit down!"

Cheng Shijie put a glass teapot in front of Zhou Yandong.

Zhou Yandong stared straight at the glass teapot: "This is..."

"Give you a new set!"

Cheng Shijie went to the back room and took out a set of crystal tea sets from the last time he brought over, of course it was the one without the production label.

Zhou Yandong said he was embarrassed, but he quickly got it into his sleeve.

"Master Qianhu wants to buy cloth for military uniforms?"

"Yes!"

"But why buy cloth?"

"How can you make a military uniform if you don't buy cloth?"

"We are Qianhusuo."

"Our Thousand Households Center still has some food, but we are short of everything else!"

"We are short, but the commander's warehouse is not short. There are a lot of good things in there, but we don't usually take them out for use."

Zhou Yandong said: "Commander Jin is still holding these things in exchange for money. It is definitely not possible to get them out in bundles. If you are found out, you will lose your head. But with a small amount of money, it is still possible to get out a dozen or so pieces. After all, weapons can also be sold. Rusted and worn out, those guys who look at the warehouse are very good. As for military uniforms, except for our guards, civilians are not allowed to wear them, or they will lose their heads and give them some money. They can change it up and down again, and they have a way!"

Maybe he took advantage of Cheng Shijie, and then Zhou Yandong gave Cheng Shijie some unspoken rules.

"Master Qianhu, look at the whole world, but there is no Qianhu who spends money to buy food and raise soldiers!"

Zhou Yandong said: "There are hundreds of warehouses, large and small, in Dengzhou City. The people in charge of the warehouses are all rats. There are many tricks. When they distribute food, they weigh it crookedly, and the bucket is tilted. Let's give them some. Money, then the food will come. Although it is said that it is all old and miscellaneous grains, it can’t be cheap? The best grain is five silver coins, and in their hands, a stone of old grain will be given to them. At most, they will be given two silver coins. Too much money!"

Cheng Shijie got up again, walked into the house, and picked up a small box. The small box was full of crystal jewelry left over from before, including bracelets, necklaces, and ingots made of crystal.

"Brother Zhou, I will leave these things to you. I want military uniforms and weapons. Can it be done!",

"These……"

"That's right!"

"Master Qianhu, just wait!"

Zhou Yandong picked up the box, afraid that Cheng Shijie would regret it.

From Zhou Yandong's point of view, Cheng Shijie is rich and doesn't take money seriously.

……

"Look forward, stand at attention, take a break..."

"Count the numbers!"

"one two three four……"

"Seventeen, he called Seventeen, you are eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, remember!"

"Grass!"

"Turn left, turn left, turn right!"

"turn back!"

"Go ahead!"

"How many times have I been taught, I still can't tell the left from the left!"

With the scattering of a small box of crystals, Cheng Shijie's soldiers took on a completely new look. Everyone had two sets of brand new military uniforms, and they finally had the appearance an army should have.

These soldiers who put on the new military uniforms hadn't had time to be happy, but Cheng Shijie came to train them. He downloaded many videos of military training and student military training on his mobile phone.

Follow the gourd to draw a ladle, who can't.

Cheng Shijie is training the army seriously, but the servants below have been trained miserably.

Before dawn in the morning, I started a five-kilometer long-distance run, and then I was so exhausted that I was out of breath. After breakfast, I continued to practice for two hours in a queue.

Standing in the scorching sun is not a good feeling.

Song Kangnian stood under the shade of a tree, watching Cheng Shijie training with great interest.

"Master Qianhu is really messing around!"

Shen Mingyu was deprived of the right to train troops, which made him somewhat conflicted.

"Naughty?"

Song Kangnian stared at Shen Mingyu and said, "If this is nonsense, then the best way to train soldiers in the world is nonsense..."

"Mr. Song, you don't know how to train soldiers!"

"Song doesn't know how to train soldiers, but he understands people's hearts. Now Lord Qianhu has won the hearts of the soldiers. You see, he trained the soldiers so hard. Has anyone ever said anything back?"

Shen Mingyu thought about it, and it was true.

Cheng Shijie beat many soldiers with his own hands, and kicked a lot of buttocks, but why didn't they resist?Even if he didn't dare to contradict Cheng Shijie, he should be able to quit, right?

The problem is, not really.

Cheng Shijie really didn't do too much. He gave Ding Bing as much food as possible every day, even if he could eat ten catties of food for a meal, he still gave it.

Secondly, rewards and punishments are clearly defined.

Sufficient food and salary, clear rewards and punishments, on these two points, as long as you have a little knowledge of military affairs, you can tell a lot, but the problem is that it is really done, too little.

And it happened that Cheng Shijie did it.

Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, almost all the thousand household officials were thinking about collecting money, only Cheng Shijie was preparing for war.

(End of this chapter)