"First of all, the Mu family. The Mu family army was originally 50,000, and it was reduced to 20,000. As for whom to go and stay, I will not interfere, and it is up to you to decide. But this time, the original 50,000 army was supported by your Mu family, but due to the implementation of the new policy, it is estimated that you will not be able to continue."

Mu Yuanhua smiled bitterly: "What the adults are concerned about is that for these 50,000 people, our family's original savings have been emptied. So far, it has not been paid for military pay for two months."

"I have decided now to make up for the military pay you owed, or at the quota of 50,000. But starting next month, your military pay will be under the responsibility of the national court, with only a fixed quota of 20,000 per month, and a civil servant will be sent to your army to ensure that the army will not be short of quotas and will not be a substitute for the numbers."

Mu Yuanhua had no complaints about such an arrangement, and now he had no capital to complain. Mrs. Song had decided to resolutely implement all the arrangements of the court in order to bridge the rift between the Mu family and the court, and not make any arguments.

I originally thought that the court would use the last incident to completely deprive the Mu family of military power. However, I didn't expect that the court would be generous and retain his army of 20,000, and the military expenses would be paid by the court.

As long as the army is reduced to 20,000 and all young and strong will be chosen, his combat effectiveness will be far more than 50,000. This is a good thing. Why should we still object? So Mu Yuanhua took the lead in standing up and expressing his opinion: "Sir, I will start to handle it when I go back."

Zhao Xing was satisfied with the attitude of the Mu family, and then asked him to sit down and turned to the other officials and said, "According to my information, the army that suppressed bandits is said to be 150,000. But after so many years of war, the vacancies for death are as high as 50,000. And those who are old should go home. Therefore, the official decided that the vacancies will no longer be supplemented. Those who are old will be given a year of military pay and ask him to go home to support them. This is also the court's repayment to him."

The military pay of the Ming army was indeed pitifully low, but it was the same thing as before, one tael or two cents a month, but here, including food expenses and the clothes of the soldiers, finally, the money for life was not as much as the money earned by slaughtering pigs. Therefore, most of the soldiers nowadays are gangsters or homeless people. Once they are released, they immediately become refugees and die of starvation. What should I do if I don’t want to die of starvation? Go up the mountain to be a bandit.

But Zhao Xing's decision immediately paid them one year of military pay as resettlement, which was a full 14 taels of silver. In principle, three acres of good land could be purchased.

In this way, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled who only occupy the name of the army will return home happily.

"In the future, all the soldiers in the organization must be between 18 and 30, and retire after expiration, and no longer the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.

Of course, their military pay will be officially implemented for wartime military pay, which is only two or four cents, and their food and clothing will also be supplied by the government.

Therefore, this time, there are two tasks for civil officials to supervise the military in each army; one is to supervise the military and the other is to manage logistics. I am now officially announcing that civil officials will never interfere in military command. Once the chief officers of each army find that their food does not meet the standards I set, or are pointing fingers at the army, you report it to me the Jinyiwei as soon as possible, and I will investigate and punish it severely and will never be tolerated."

For such a military supervisor, all the generals not only did not object, but instead welcomed them with their hands. This reduced the burden on the generals to grab their eyebrows and beards, and secondly, they could also let their bosses know at any time that this was actually a good thing.

Since it is a good thing, who still objected?

As for the vacancy, there was originally an vacancy, but there was no military pay. Moreover, with the nominal 10,000 troops, it may be only three or two thousand, and when they go to war, they often suffer defeat.

It would be better if you really bring real soldiers, real strong soldiers, and double salary.

Now the salary of Ming officials is three times that of the original one. If you turn it over, it will be 6 times. It will be paid on time and you don’t need to support your own soldiers. In this way, it will be more than the original one. Get one and be content.

Zhao Xing's account was that the original 100,000 soldiers was reduced by 80,000 yuan. According to his current method, he used the original 50,000 yuan to raise 20,000 yuan to support 20,000 yuan. On the surface, it was spent on every soldier, but in total it saved half of it. This was the ending that both sides were happy to see, and it was also the purpose of his previous proposal to reorganize the troops. Why not do it?

Seeing that everyone did not object to each other, Zhao Xing continued, "This matter is settled. I need everyone to complete the reorganization within three months to form combat effectiveness. After three months, any troops did not reorganize according to my words. I want to use a knife to cut people. Even if they kill him, they will be willing to do so."

"After the reorganization of the troops, your official titles remain unchanged, your income remains unchanged, and your treatment remains unchanged. But each general only has a thousand powerful soldiers who can fight well. In this way, it will be convenient for me to control the strength in your hands and arrange practical tasks, so that you will not cause difficulties for your strong men. Therefore, I will arrange you in three provinces and define your respective defense zones. Your usual task is to eliminate bandits in the defense zone, or stick to the key points. The main bandits will be carried out by my headquarters and the 30,000 troops of the Mu family."

When everyone heard this arrangement, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. There were fewer soldiers, but there were almost no combat missions. As soon as everyone became a garrison force, life naturally became easier and more nourishing.

Zhao Xing faced Mu Yuanhua: "My new way to suppress bandits is that we are not flying all over the sky, and we do not catch our eyebrows and beards at once. Instead, we encircle and suppress them in sections.

We first draw a region and then surrounded by you. Once the enemy is discovered, my men will be annihilated immediately. If the bandits still follow the original method, they can't beat them and they will bury the mountains and forests. It doesn't matter. I will divide the shares of them, and it's twice as much as his. They will chase them day and night, leaving no chance to gain a foothold and breathe. Even if I can't kill you, I will exhaust you to death.

This is the reappearance of the way to pursue Li Zicheng in Shaanxi back then.

"Then we thoroughly cleared this area, then drew another area and continued to adopt the same method. We gradually cleaned up one area and solved one area so that there would be no more bandits in the local area. In this way, we would clean up one by one, and finally sorted out the three provinces and the whole thing."

Mu Yuanhua and all the old generals who suppressed bandits, facing this new method, everyone couldn't help but lit up and applauded.

At this time, the little dissatisfaction that remained in their hearts was also wiped out with Zhao Xing's actual ability.

Soldiers are the most important thing to be strong. Whoever has strong strength will be respected and worshipped.

As soon as this method was released, Zhao Xing said that it would not be a boast of the Southwest problem in a year, but a real and feasible one.
Chapter completed!