Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 64 Assassination
"I know, I drove those two people away, you can't figure it out, right?"

All eight people stood in front of Yang Chao's table with their heads down.

Even Zhao Kang lost his energy. Yang Chao asked him to lead the team for training. As a result, he messed up. Not only did he fail to lead a good soldier, but he also got rid of two people. let them go.

These soldiers belonged to a hundred households, they looked down and saw each other, and they were all about the same age, basically they could be said to have grown up together, so the two of them were driven away because of Zhao Kang, which made Zhao Kang feel very uncomfortable.

"You all know Marshal Qi Jiguang, right?"

Several people raised their heads slightly.

"do you know!"

Yang Chao shouted loudly.

"Know!"

in unison.

Yang Chao nodded: "I asked Zhao Kang to lead the troops. His words are my words, and disobedience is disobedience. Do you know what Marshal Qi will do?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Yang Chao continued: "Marshal Qi will make the soldiers kneel on the ground, and then cut off their noses and ears."

Everyone showed horror.

Only then did Yang Chao say: "Now you all know that the official's punishment is not heavy."

At this time, they nodded slightly suspiciously.

Yang Chao said: "From now on, I will appoint Zhao Kang as your captain."

Zhao Kang raised his head, and finally became an official, but he couldn't bear it in his heart. Could it be that an official just wants to step on others.

He had just been taught a lesson and drove away two people. At this time, Yang Chao promoted his cousin to be the team leader, and no one dared to object.

In fact, there was no reason to object, and they all acted as they should. The reason? Of course, it was because Zhao Kang was Yang Chao's cousin. It was only natural to take care of his relatives these days, and no one thought it was wrong.

As for appointing people on their merits, that was the clamor of literati in the prosperous age.The reason is that when the world was in troubled times, these literati hid far away, only their relatives gathered together and put their heads on their belts to fight. Of course it was these literati.

The sad thing is that Chinese literati have held the right to speak for thousands of years, and the rulers have to accept this statement, and they also hope to use meritocracy to flaunt their own enlightenment.

It's a pity that meritocracy is too extravagant for Yang Chao now.Now Yang Chao can only use his relatives as much as possible, because he is more at ease. It is not because relatives are more moral and loyal than others, but because the price of betrayal by relatives is greater. They will also be accused, but if a relative betrays a relative, it will not only be blamed, but will be stabbed in the back and will be stigmatized forever.

Yang Chao now urgently needs to improve his officer rank system, and give priority to promoting those who make him feel more at ease, so he had to promote Zhao Kang first. Although Zhao Kang is not better than others, he is not worse than others , if he had to choose an officer, Yang Chao would prefer Zhao Kang.

But Yang Chao couldn't ignore other people's psychology. He had already prepared a whole set of arguments, but now it seems that he can't use them anymore, because no one thinks that he promoted Zhao Kang, so he doesn't need to explain his nepotism. Instead, we should continue to agitate so that everyone has the ambition of "wanting to be a general".

Yang Chao smiled and said: "You must be thinking, Zhao Kang is my cousin, so I promoted him, right? That's right, you think well, Zhao Kang is my cousin, but none of you are my cousin Uncles, nephews, cousins, if Zhao Kang can be an officer today, you can be an officer tomorrow too."

As Yang Chao said, seeing that everyone's spirits were not as high as he imagined, he thought for a while and continued: "But you don't think that I only have eight soldiers like you. I am the general manager, and I can have 400 soldiers under my command. Multiple soldiers."

At this time, someone's expression was really shaken, and Yang Chao hit the iron while it was hot: "As long as you obey the order, when you recruit a hundred soldiers, you will all be the leader of the team, and even the leader of the banner."

At this time, those few people showed eagerness, and they believed that they really had a great opportunity.

Yang Chao continued: "Tomorrow, you and I will go get weapons, and then we will practice martial arts."

When they heard about martial arts training, several people had different expectations. They were all teenagers. Who doesn't like to dance with knives and guns?

Early the next morning, I went to the Military Bureau. Accompanied by my father, I met with the eunuchs and civil servants of the Supervision Bureau, and proposed that I wanted to receive equipment.

The procedure for receiving military funds is very complicated. First, you have to go to the Ministry of War to apply, and then the Ministry of War will come to verify, determine the number of troops, check the gap, and then issue a document to receive it with the Ministry of War certificate.

But there is a shortcut that can be taken, and that is to use money to open the way.

Yang Chao has a big seal as evidence, and if he signs and draws a deposit, he can receive military funds.

In the warehouse of the Bingzhan Bureau, there are many weapons, armors, and cotton armors.

But the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all in tatters, and few officers were willing to apply for a change of clothes.

Because the military battle bureau has its own rules, if you want to get something from the official treasury, you must pay money, regardless of whether you are an army of the Ming Dynasty or not.

Yang Chao directly gave 100 taels of silver to Eunuch Li, and Eunuch Li sent someone to take Yang Chao to fetch weapons and military uniforms.

Yang Chao led his men into the warehouse together with the young eunuch, and received a hundred cotton armors, ten waist knives, ten bows, a thousand arrows, and a hundred spears.

In fact, there are still a large number of bird guns stored in the warehouse, which made Yang Chao greedy for a while, but in the end he didn't take it, because Yang Chao learned from the records of Marshal Qi Jiguang that the bird guns of the Ming Dynasty were extremely unreliable and often exploded. The chamber, this is not because the craftsmanship of the shotgun is not good enough, but because the craftsmen of the Military Bureau cut corners and materials, and the money saved is all the officers’ greed, so the officers will not check it at all.

As a craftsman, Yang Chao knew these ways clearly, so he had no hope for the quality of Bingzhanju's weapons. He only dared to use simple long spears, and did not dare to touch those complicated bird guns.

The last little official brought the roster, and after checking the registration roster, he brought it over for Yang Chao to mark.

Yang Chao saw on the roster that he had received three hundred cotton armor, one hundred waist knives, one hundred bows, three thousand arrows, and three hundred long spears.

This is far beyond the amount he received. Obviously there is something tricky and watery, but this is an unspoken rule. Yang Chao can't resist now, so he can only sign and pledge obediently.

After making a deposit by myself, the account of the Bingzhan Bureau can be used to offset this year's tasks. Obviously, the Bingzhan Bureau will not do those things that are overreported, but they use the account book to get materials from the court, or receive paid for the materials.

The money was naturally divided among officials at all levels, and the materials were used to make other things and then sold.

Although Yang Chao sighed in his heart, he knew that it would be beneficial for him to share the spoils with these corrupt officials in the military war bureau, and what he was digging was the foot of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Chao is the general of the navy, and has the right to receive military funds from the military bureau, but there is a general upper limit for receiving these, and he will not have the right to receive them in the next few years.

It means that Yang Chao exchanged his quota for several years and bribes for these supplies.

But it's not bad for Yang Chao. Anyway, if he chooses to spend money to order from a blacksmith on the street, 100 taels of silver is far from buying these military supplies.

Yang Chao saves money, officials benefit, and no one suffers, except the Ming court!

After the weapons were brought back and distributed, everyone was very happy. After all, they were all men, and they were not very old.

If those scholars hadn't been educated since childhood, they developed a kind of courage to despise ordinary people, and they were busy with imperial examinations, I am afraid that scholars might not dislike weapons.

However, among these weapons, the shining waist knife is the most popular, followed by the bow and arrow, and the spear with the largest number is not popular.

There were only ten waist knives, Yang Chao used one himself, gave one to Zhao Kang, and sealed the others.

Yang Chao wanted to use this kind of differential treatment to make the soldiers realize that there are differences between officers and soldiers, and only when there is comparison can they be motivated.

The spears, bows and arrows have not been issued for the time being, and they are all sealed up first.

Then he led the soldiers to clear out a vegetable garden with about one-third of the land near the south wall, and planted standing trees on it.

The standing tree is as tall as a person, and it is covered with thatch, and the outside is tied tightly with straw mats. The positions of the chest, abdomen, and head are marked with black paint to make targets.

It took three days to set up nine targets under the wall.

Yang Chaocai each fired a spear, including himself.

Yang Chao trains his soldiers and trains himself.

Because the purpose of military training is to equip soldiers with combat effectiveness, not only to win battles, but also to hope that soldiers can survive.

Winning and surviving are the two most important things for an army. There is often no conflict between the two things. An army that wins will always survive. When annihilated.

Yang Chao trains the soldiers so that they can survive. He doesn't want to die himself, so he also trains himself.

"Get ready, stab!"

As soon as Yang Chao gave the order, he followed to assassinate. He aimed at the target's chest, but he hit the head.

But Yang Chao himself doesn't have kung fu and doesn't understand martial arts, but the clips he saw from the movies and TV dramas are too fake.

He could only grope step by step, so one person fired a gun, Yang Chao thought to himself, stabbing accurately and ruthlessly, it will be useful after all.

"Get ready, stab head!"

"kill!"

A week later, the order was also changed, from the disorderly and random assassination at the beginning, to orders such as stabbing the head, stabbing the chest, and stabbing the abdomen.

At the same time, after Yang Chao gave the order, he assassinated at the same time, and shouted "kill" in his mouth, which seemed very imposing.

Of the thirty soldiers, there are only eight left, almost one of four.

Those who stayed were indeed stronger than those who left, both in terms of obedience and understanding.

The assassination training is also very good, there are even a few, much better than Yang Chao himself, the assassination is more accurate and ruthless.

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