Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

Su Xia now has two armies in her hands.

This first army was Su Xia's private army, mainly stationed on Shamen Island. They were personally selected by Su Xia and Xiong Hui from the troops in the prison camp, and were led by Zhao Wenhui.

The elite forces in this army participated in the mission of robbing the birthday card. In addition, some of the troops came from Xiong Hui's soldiers on Shamen Island.

Of course, these soldiers are all carefully selected, and some are selected from the newly added refugees on Salmon Island. The total force is about 300 people, responsible for the security and defense of Salmon Island.

Su Xia has a good idea of ​​the combat effectiveness of this unit. This unit can be said to be Su Xia's dead soldiers!

Even if he faces five times or even ten times the enemy force, he is not afraid!

Just yesterday, Xiong Hui wrote to tell him that after successive expansions, the number of residents on Salmon Island has exceeded 2000, including 4000 women and 15 male residents aged 45 to 6000!

If a war breaks out, these six thousand men of the right age will definitely be a powerful reserve army!

As long as they are given land that can be cultivated and houses that they can live in, these people will naturally fight for themselves desperately!

Except for this private army that no one else knows about for the time being.

Right now, the biggest strength in Su Xia's hands is this Pinghai Navy!

As a senior military attaché of the imperial court appointed by the Privy Council!

He can now legitimately recruit new troops!

(For military attaches below the sixth rank, the personnel power belongs to the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, and is filed with the Privy Council; for military attachés (forbidden army) above the sixth rank and below the third rank, the appointment is recommended by the Privy Council)

Su Xia just meets this condition, which can be regarded as the first step to become a senior military attache!

The number of Pinghai Navy soldiers set by the imperial court is 2000. Now, the Pinghai Navy has less than 700 soldiers. He can naturally expand the army openly!

After all, the court and the prefect still count on their Pinghai navy to suppress bandits!

Naturally, he does not dare to neglect his request. As long as the water bandits and pirates are not eliminated, others will not dare to easily change his position!

As for money, Su Xia is now very wealthy. One glass bead refined on Salmon Island can be exchanged for eight taels of silver. This money has quickly become the basic fund for Su Xia to develop various businesses.

Salmon Island is now in the hands of Xiong Hui, who does not understand why so many women have been introduced to the island.

Su Xia warned him: Firstly, it was for gender balance, and secondly, Su Xia had already thought about what they would do.

Before she went to Bianliang, Tokyo last time, Su Xia designed a large textile machine. (See Chapter 22 for details)

This time, he thought of one person - Huang Daopo. The three-spindle spinning wheel designed by this old woman was very familiar to Su Xia in history books.

(Huang Daopo: Cotton textile expert in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. The original textile tools required a small bamboo bow and fingers to play cotton, which was very laborious. She switched to the big bow pushing method; and changed the spinning from a single-spindle spinning wheel to The three-spindle spinning wheel greatly improves production efficiency.)

As a graduate of mechanical engineering and familiar with history, it is not difficult for him to build this kind of spinning wheel. After thinking about it for a few days, the prototype of the sample is almost ready.

On this basis, coupled with the use of the driving force of seawater rivers, labor can be greatly saved.

The Suxiatuo people handed over the prepared prototypes and sketches to Li Gaosheng and others for further research.

As long as the details are improved, Su Xia is confident that the labor force of one woman is worth the labor force of ten women.

After all, this is an invention that was ahead of its time.

In this way, the cost of textile products from Salmon Island will be greatly reduced, and they can be sold in Dengzhou, Qingzhou, and even Bazhou, Dingzhou and other places at prices far lower than the market price. If necessary, they can also be sold to Ximen Qing. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places.

In this way, we can earn inexhaustible wealth for Salmon Island!

Inside the Pinghai Navy camp: Soldiers are practicing naval tactics. Over the years, their abandoned skills have been re-trained.

Since the military ration was changed from moldy rice to normal rice, the training of these soldiers has been much more active.

Navy deputy general Li Dong saw this and was happy in his heart.

Su Xia said to him: "Vice General Li, look, these brothers are full of food, and they are all full of energy during training!"

"Yes, General, to be honest, it has been three years since I was transferred here as deputy general. This is the first time I have seen such a training scene!"

Su Xia nodded: "Vice General Li, are the soldiers' salaries paid on a monthly basis?"

"Back to the general, the Pinghai Navy originally had six generals and assistants. Except for the last general and the former commander-in-chief, the other four have all returned to their hometowns due to illness in the past two years. Officers with the rank of squad leader and below are paid on time every month. Distribute one hundred coins per month to the remaining ordinary soldiers."

Su Xia was stunned: "One hundred Wen, this is too little. According to the imperial court's system, the monthly salary for those who are forbidden to be soldiers is more than [-] Wen. Although we are not as good as Gongsheng, Tianwu, Shenyong, Longmeng, etc. It is an army, but it is also the Central Forbidden Army directly under the imperial court. Why is it only one hundred coins per month? This is too little!"

"General, in fact, the imperial court's regulations do have three hundred coins, but this money, this money was commanded by the predecessor..."

"Drinking soldiers' blood again!"

Listening to these numbers, Su Xia became angry.

Vice Admiral Li Dong also frowned: "Military pay is indeed too low. In the past, Ping Haijun not only had poor food, but even the military pay of only one hundred cents per month was unpaid and insufficient. Under this kind of treatment, who would How can you fight against pirates if you sacrifice your life?"

"No wonder the navy's combat effectiveness is poor. Not only can it not defeat Japanese pirates, it is also difficult to win against ordinary navy bandits. With such a arrears of military pay, morale must be low!"

After Su Xia said all this, she ordered a soldier: "Go to Zhu Gui at the Pier Restaurant immediately and pass on my order to allocate one thousand guan of money first!"

The soldiers were immediately ordered to set off.

Su Xia said: "Vice General Li, go tell the brothers that the military pay for the previous three months will be repaid today!"

"General, what you just wanted to get was not the royal court's salary, but your own money!"

"Needless to say, if these frontline soldiers are to sacrifice their lives in the future, I can't afford not to be able to pay them military pay!"

Regarding the basic issue of military pay, Su Xia understood that it had to be solved by the court's military pay.

On this point, the prefect Zhou Bin promised himself that as long as the Pinghai Navy could annihilate and defeat the pirates, he would never deduct the Pinghai Navy's food and salary.

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"Brothers, pay has been paid, pay has been paid!"

"Really? I'm getting paid!"

"Yes, three months of additional military pay, three hundred cents per month?"

"so much!"

The sergeants were talking a lot on the school ground, receiving their pay one by one, with excitement written on their faces!

They have been in the army for many years, and no officer has ever been so generous.

Vice General Li Dong inspected the scene where the money was distributed and said: "Brothers, we have given you money, so don't go to the brothels. Now that you are suddenly rich, you have to save some money!"

"My lord, this new general is really good. This move is just to give out money. If the court gives us three hundred coins every month from now on, we will do whatever we are asked to do!"

"Brothers, this money is not from the imperial court. It is money that the new commander of the capital, General Su Xiasu, took from his own home. In the past, we followed the commander in front and deducted military pay. Today, our general Su generously donated , understand the difficulties of our brothers and pay us, you tell us what to do in the future!"

"We will all listen to General Su from now on! We will do whatever the general tells us to do!"