Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 302 Super Intensive Training

The conditions brought by Jia Shilu were precisely Liu Kongzhao's goal, to take away Yang Chao's shipping business.

After Yang Chao left Nanjing, the shipping business was subject to malicious competition from other water companies, which was affected a lot for a while.

But after Yang Chao came back, he quickly resumed shipping. The daily escort fee for crossing the river reached about 400 taels, and the average daily income for long-distance voyages to Guazhou (Yangzhou) and Zhenjiang was more than 600 taels, and 1000 taels a day. The running water is about 3 taels a month, which is a huge income no matter how you look at it.

At the same time, because Yang Chao monopolized shipping, he offended many other colleagues in the water camp. For example, Jia Shilu had some estrangement from Yang Chao. Chao's fleet came to grab Yang Chao's business by force.

The reason why such a large battle was staged was to give Yang Chao a disarm and use the huge power gap to make Yang Chao submit. After all, Yang Chao's record in Haizhou was too bluffing, otherwise Liu Kongzhao would not have to go through so much trouble and directly With the identity of the admiral of Caojiang to suppress, under normal circumstances, the small deputy general of the water camp can only submit obediently.

It is precisely because the person who is going to grab is Yang Chao, that's why Liu Kongzhao played so big that he even made a gun boat.

Then there was Shi Kefa to coordinate, and Liu Kongzhao sent someone to negotiate terms with Yang Chao, but he didn't expect Yang Chao to agree directly, so simply.

Jia Shilu was quite surprised. He came with conditions, which can actually be eased. If Yang Chao is willing to hand over the canal line from Nanjing to Guazhou and Zhenjiang, Liu Kongzhao can accept it. The business of 600 taels of silver per day, It was enough for several water camps, but Yang Chao didn't expect Yang Chao to agree, even giving up the Nanjing cross-river line from Xinjiangkou to Puzikou.

But no one thought there was too little meat in the mouth, so Jia Shilu didn't say much, and rushed back immediately after talking with Yang Chao.

In fact, for Yang Chao, what can he do if he disagrees? He really can't beat you Liu Kongzhao now. On the surface of the river, bravery alone won't work. It doesn't matter if the opponent is a mob. A regular fleet with gunboats can only take a back seat to being brave in front of cannons.

This is why several Han dynasties in history blocked the nomadic forces to the north of the Yangtze River. It was because of water warfare. Liu Kongzhao, who had the advantage of warships, was helpless. Yang Chao could break 50 from [-] million, but it was absolutely impossible to fight against more than [-] ships with three ships.

So just give up directly.

For the next few days, Yang Chao didn't talk about the loss of shipping at all, as if it never happened. Even if Liu Kongzhao's fleet arrived at Xinjiangkou, they set off from Longjiangguan Wharf to Puzikou every day, earning a lot of money. Even though all of Yang Chao's subordinates were aggrieved by the large amount of money that belonged to Yang Chao, Yang Chao did not say anything, instead he suppressed his subordinates and strictly ordered them not to leave the camp.

Yang Chao was only focused on training soldiers. He recruited 5000 soldiers from Haizhou. Adding Yang Chao's [-] elite soldiers, it was only [-], which was far from the [-] soldiers promised by Shi Kefa. Although Shi Kefa never helped Yang Chao Get rid of the few officers from the Zuoqian headquarters to free up official posts and troops, but Yang Chao still plans to recruit [-] people at once.

He also reported directly to Shi Kefa in a very polite manner, and did not recruit soldiers in private. He acted recklessly like Zuo Liangyu. Regardless of the regulations of the Ministry of War, Yang Chao still couldn't do it. attitude, and Yang Chao is a responsible person. His family members are all in Nanjing, and his reckless behavior will implicate his family members. A hero like Zuo Liangyu doesn't care, but Yang Chao has to care.

In addition to Haizhou Minzhuang and his elite soldiers, Yang Chao still needs to recruit 500 soldiers. In the past, he must have gone to the guards along the river to recruit, but now, if he offends Liu Kongzhao, he may cause trouble, and Yang Chao has a better choice, that is, there are nearly 5 refugees on the pier.

These refugees are found in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River from Wuchang to Jiujiang. They are far from their hometowns. These people are low-spirited and low-key in foreign lands. Most of them rarely cause trouble. So, I can only rely on Yang Chao, who has no background in Nanjing, and will definitely be very obedient.

The so-called erection of the recruiting flag is not afraid of the lack of people to eat food. These refugees who are doing coolies and can only eat and wear are eager to serve as soldiers for Yang Chao.

Three thousand and five hundred people are enough to recruit in one day, and they are all young and strong young men among them.

"Now that we have recruited enough recruits, it's time for everyone to be busy. Starting today, we will train three times a day! One in the morning, one in the middle of the night, and one in the evening. Within ten days, I want all the three batches of soldiers in front to leave the new barracks after training and enter each team. Formation. Within a month, I want these 500 people to finish the training, and tell the soldiers that there is enough food every day, and no one has two or two meat at noon. Use all your energy and train hard for me!"

After the recruitment of new recruits was completed, Yang Chao immediately held a meeting with the military instructors of the new barracks. He wanted to push the machine of the newly established company barracks with all his strength to complete the journey of three months in one month.

Yang Chao ran out of time, one and a half months had passed, he could only last for three months, after one month he had to get an elite soldier, and then get back everything that belonged to him.

This is no longer related to the immediate interests, and the cooperation with the Zheng Group has already boasted about Haikou, saying that I will start to monopolize the Yangtze River freight in three months, and I have charged such a high price to the Zheng family. Suppressed by Liu Kongzhao, the shame is secondary, the key is to lose the opportunity to cooperate with Zheng, how to support the [-] refugees, I should go bankrupt.

So one month is the minimum. After one month, use this army to declare war on Liu Kongzhao. If Liu Kongzhao is not defeated, the Zheng family will not take Yang Chao seriously at all. The established foundation will be destroyed once.

So all of a sudden, the entire Xinjiangkou camp was thrown into chaos by Yang Chao. Everyone held back their energy and tossed about. The recruits complained endlessly, but no one was willing to quit.

These are all refugees, one by one came to Nanjing from other places, and they are not familiar with the place of life, and most of them are with their families. They lost all their savings on the way, and there was no meal. They gave up, and promised to give them five renminbi a month later, which even provided for their family's food and clothing. Even if it was a large family with a large population, the family members would not die of starvation even if they worked part-time jobs on the dock.

So no one dared to give up this opportunity, and they all looked forward to becoming an official private soldier in a month and getting five coins to settle down with their families.

So every day I was trained to be ecstasy. I practiced in the morning, at noon, and in the evening. Every day except for eating, I was training. At night, my whole body was sore, and the next day I recovered and continued to suffer.

Ten days later, the first batch of scholar soldiers, Haizhou Minzhuang, left the camp. The scholars returned to the logistics department under the jurisdiction of Huangfeng Mansion after the torture. , They began to train new skills in the warrior team. The bird gunners practiced loading, and the spearmen continued to practice assassination, but they were no longer the false stabs in the new barracks, but stabbed wooden stakes. Train hard under the leadership of your own team.

After 20 days, under frantic training, the refugee recruits completed the military posture and step training, and began the martial arts assassination training.

At this time, Yang Chao called a meeting of senior military officers and told them that Liu Kongzhao's business had been robbed of Shuying.

This news directly blew up the officers. What's the situation? Everyone killed the Jiang bandits and fought in Haizhou. After finally becoming an officer, they suddenly had to leave the barracks and go back to do a bitter haha. Said that he would go to the admiral's mansion of Caojiang and kill that Uncle Liu.

Yang Chao stopped the officers from making noise, but asked them to pass on the message, telling them the subordinate officers and all the soldiers, telling them that if they couldn't get back the business, everyone would part ways and go their own way.

The elite soldiers who had been with Yang Chao for a long time were naturally very angry, but the ones who were even more excited were the refugee soldiers who were being assassinated in the recruit camp. business, and they also heard that if Lord Yang can't survive this test, even the refugees on the pier can't support them, now they have family members who are counting on the pier to survive.

The mood in the barracks was extremely irritable. Yang Chao had no choice but to close the gate of the barracks and give instructions again, asking the officers to tell the soldiers that only by training hard can they get back the business. This time, everyone is training desperately.

But Yang Chao made too much noise. He declared that he wanted to get back the business, and trained troops like crazy. For a while, many people were nervous. Even Shi Kefa heard the movement, and asked Yang Chao to ask about it. Yang Chao said mysteriously, There will never be any trouble, but Shi Kefa is still worried.

Liu Kongzhao was also a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect Yang Chao to be so stunned. He asked the middleman Jia Shilu to find Yang Chao and told Yang Chao that everyone was asking for money, so don't hurt the peace. The route is released, and everyone who has money will share it together.

Yang Chao refused again, but expressed his willingness to reconcile with Uncle Liu, but asked Liu Kongzhao to return all the boats that looted the merchants.

After Liu Kongzhao snatched Yang Chao's business last time, Shi Kefa came forward to negotiate but it didn't work. The fifty merchant ships and their cargo were all hacked by Liu Kongzhao, but Yang Chao had already sent out a message, telling all customers to help them get back the ship , and will guarantee compensation for their losses in the future.

Liu Kongzhao agreed this time, but the goods have already been sold.

Yang Chao said that it is okay to come back to the ship, so the two sides seem to have reconciled, and Yang Chao's soldiers have also trained.

Afterwards, Yang Chao hosted a banquet at the Jinchai Building for all the customers who had lost money, and told them the news about helping them get back to the ship.

(End of this chapter)