Yang Jing was thinking about the next development plan in the residence when Li Yun returned with the peasant soldiers who had gone to raid the house.
According to the statistics of the peasant soldiers, they had seized a total of 500,000 taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold. The remaining treasures, paintings, and calligraphy were worth about 200,000 taels of silver. At the same time, they had also seized a lot of land, farms, and shops in the city.
Yang Jing didn't expect a small county to have such a huge profit.
No wonder the gentry in Wuyuan County were all fat and strong.
Thanks to these people, Yang Jing finally changed from a poor man to a rich man with a million taels of silver.
Since he had so much money in his hands, he did not have to be restrained when doing things.
Yang Jing did not hesitate to use 10,000 taels of silver to exchange for 10,000 peasant soldiers. After thinking for a moment, he opened the system warehouse to study the prices of other soldiers.
[Infantry: 5 taels of silver]
[Cavalry: 10 taels of silver]
[Archer: 1 tael of gold]
[Musketeer: 5 taels of gold]
[Artillery: 10 taels of gold]
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Looking at the expensive price, Yang Jing could not help but glance at the box filled with gold and silver in his room.
This was too expensive. His one million taels of property was not even enough to exchange for a few regular soldiers.
Now Yang Jing understood why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to develop a self-sufficient Wei Suo system. It was because raising troops was too expensive!
Even if they didn't need to spend money to exchange for soldiers, just the salary of a million soldiers was a terrifying figure. No matter how much money the national treasury had, it wouldn't be enough.
Although Yang Jing had enough money to exchange for a well-trained army, he couldn't squander like this.
It was because money was needed to raise soldiers, to make weapons, and to build a base camp in this county city!
With the new regime, there were too many places that needed money. Every sum of money in Yang Jing's hands had to be spent on the blade!
After much consideration, he used ten thousand gold taels to exchange for ten thousand archers.
Although his peasant soldiers had the attributes of archers, they were not skilled.
Today, Yang Jing realized that the accuracy rate of peasant archers in urban warfare was not very high. They could hit once every three arrows.
This would be very disadvantageous for future large-scale battles.
Other infantry, cavalry, and spearmen could be trained, but archers could not be trained in a short time. After all, history did not leave much time for Ming.
At the same time, Yang Jing did not have much time left.
He had to establish a new regime that no faction in the world dared to underestimate before Li Zicheng attacked the capital!
He did not have much time to waste!
After that, he used 12,000 taels of gold to exchange for 100 ordinary generals and 20 high-ranking generals, making them the commanders of the army to guide the peasant soldiers in training.
Although Yang Jing was well-versed in military affairs, he was not proficient in this field.
Besides, there were still many things waiting for him to deploy in order to establish a new regime. He really did not have the three heads and six arms to manage the training of troops.
He had already made up his mind. Since he could not exchange for a large number of regular troops at the moment, he would train these farmers with extraordinary strength as quickly as possible.
Anyway, in this era of Ming Dynasty, all the people were soldiers!
As for the regular army, it would not be too late for Yang Jing to exchange for them after he had taken down the surrounding counties and accumulated enough silver.
He believed that after these farmers under his command had undergone systematic training, as long as they did not face Wu Sangui's Liaoxi Iron Cavalry and the Manchu Eight Banners Army, they could sweep through any armed force of the Ming Dynasty if their numbers were large enough.
The Ming army, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers were just a motley crew. There was nothing to be afraid of!
After closing the system shop, Yang Jing did a rough calculation. He now had 101,000 peasant soldiers, 10,000 archers, and 100 generals, totaling 111,120 people.
This was not a small number.
A county guard post had about 5,600 soldiers. It was called a guard post, but it was actually a thousand households post.
However, for a prefecture-level guard station, such as Xin 'an Guard, they had a reserve army of around 100,000.
In other words, Yang Jing now had the strength to occupy a mansion.
Since the number of soldiers had reached a certain level, they could no longer be as chaotic as they were now. He had to establish a military system.
After thinking about it, Yang Jing finally decided to use the existing Wei system of the Ming Dynasty.
When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Wei Suo system, he once made a bold claim that he could feed the millions of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty without using a penny of grain from the common people.
Although the Wei Suo system had decayed in the late Ming Dynasty, the system itself still had its merits.
The soldiers under Yang Jing were mainly farmers, and these farmers were best at farming.
At the moment, all parts of the Ming Dynasty were seriously affected, and the people were still starving. Naturally, they could not distribute food to help Yang Jing raise his soldiers, but if the soldiers themselves could farm and produce food, then it was another matter.
Moreover, the root cause of the Ming Guards 'corruption was that the soldiers in the local guards were not trained properly during peaceful times, causing the strength of the Ming army to decline.
In addition, in the middle and later stages of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs held military power, which led to the decline of military power. The emperor could not interfere.
These two points were not a problem for Yang Jing at all.
This was because the generals and farmers under him were all from the system. These people were absolutely obedient to Yang Jing's orders and did not dare to slack off at all.
Using the Ming Dynasty's current Wei Suo system, each Wei Suo would have five to six thousand people.
He divided the 100,000 peasant soldiers into 20 guard stations.
Each guard station was equipped with 500 archers, 3,000 peasants as spearmen, 1,000 peasants as shieldmen, and 1,000 peasants as cavalry.
As for the musketeers and artillery, Yang Jing would focus on training these two most important arms after he mass-produced firearms.
Every 1,000 peasant soldiers in the guard station would be assigned a normal general. He would lead them in training as a thousand-man, and there would also be a high-ranking general as the commander of the guard station.
The hundred households would be taken up by well-trained peasant soldiers.
It did not mean that peasant soldiers were inferior to others. Yang Jing had also set up another rule of exchanging military merits for military positions.
As long as the peasant soldiers made contributions, they would be promoted step by step.
As long as one had enough ability, anyone could become a commander!
In addition, Yang Jing still had to be the wartime grand marshal, mainly because the name 'Master' was too unpleasant to hear. It was as if he was a big landlord who engaged in exploitation and oppression.
After issuing the order to establish a military system, Yang Jing had no choice but to set his sights on the construction of the city.
There was still a problem that could not be delayed and needed to be solved urgently!
Food problem!
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