Chapter 142 Poor! !
In the end, Liu Yi didn't say anything, and after the three of them talked, Shang Ji and Deng Yan left Liu's mansion. Liu Yi personally sent the two of them away from Wangquan County.
Afterwards, the three left, and Shang Ji and Deng Yan returned to Heishuisai!
Although Wang Tong and Tianyue took the most outstanding achievements in the previous fire, Shang Ji and Liu Yi were also rewarded in order to keep their mouth shut!
First of all, they were formally recommended to serve as captains, and successfully removed the false characters of fake captains on their bodies.
Secondly, in order to prevent the reoccurrence of Xianbei, Liu Yi was appointed as the defense envoy of the northwest counties of Liaodong County, responsible for the military defense of several border counties.
To put it bluntly, the county lieutenants who were ordered to send reinforcements to several counties before were taken concurrently by Liu Yi. A single round of troops is indeed enough for a school of 50,000 people, but only God knows the actual combat power! Looking at the reinforcements sent before, the combat effectiveness must not be optimistic.
These counties are all lower counties like Wangquan County, and they are purely used to send Liu Yi away. According to the normal point of view, Liu Yi should be transferred to Wangping County as the school captain even if he is guarding against Xianbei!
There is only one word difference between Wangquan County and Wangping County, but the specific gap is huge!
Wangping is a county town that really existed in history, and it is one of the few county towns at the level of a big city in Liaodong County. !
But the only good thing is that Liu Yi is still stationed in Wangquan County, and Tian Teng, the head of Zhongyuan County in Wangquan County, "accidentally" fell off his horse and broke his spleen after the news of Xianbei's invading invaders came out, and went back to Xiangping to recuperate. up!
Anyone can see that Tian Teng found an excuse to run away after getting the news! But in the end, the ending was very dramatic. The Xianbei invasion problem was resolved, but Tian Teng really couldn't return to Wangquan County to continue working.
Officials at all levels showed contempt on their faces, and no matter how thick-skinned Tian Teng was, he couldn't return. Of course, there is no need to delve into why officials at all levels got all kinds of inside stories about Tian Teng's "injury", and why they were so united to resist Tian Teng.
Anyway, a defense envoy of the Northwest counties who did not want to be named said that he did nothing! It was because Tian Teng was too unpopular!
The final result is that Liu Yi, as the defense envoy of the northwest counties, is temporarily acting with full powers in the military and political affairs of Wangquan County!
If Liu Yi still has a seemingly powerful name to fool people, then Shang Ji is even worse, he doesn't even have a name!
Shang Ji was also promoted to captain, but he neither demarcated his jurisdiction nor replenished his army!
It's just an empty name, soldiers are recruited by themselves, equipment is manufactured by themselves, and military expenses are raised by themselves!
Of course, Shang Ji was mentally prepared for all this. Players have always been raised by stepmothers, Shang Ji is used to it!
It was still the righteous brother Liu Yi who took care of the younger brother. On the grounds that the prefect had ordered the counties in the northwest to increase the number of troops in the Blackwater Fortress, he forcibly removed another 10,000 soldiers to join the Blackwater Fortress!
Therefore, as of now, there are a total of 30,000 troops in the Blackwater Fortress! But except for the 10,000 troops in the Shangji headquarters, the other 20,000 troops need to undergo strict secondary training before they can enter the battlefield!
Then Liu Yi turned back and reported to the county that there was a serious shortage of soldiers in each county, and the military equipment was lax.
Who said that a bold man can't play tricks? Liu Yi played tricks to make even Shang Ji bow down!
Of course it was impossible for Wang Tong to satisfy Liu Yi's military preparation plan, but Liu Yi's request was upright, and he had just experienced a drama of Xianbei invasion, so he had to save face no matter what.
So Wang Tong was also forced to allocate a sum of money and food to Liu Yi to prepare the army. Although the number is small, it is better than nothing.
Of course, Liu Yi would not expect Wang Tong to help him rectify his armaments sincerely, he had his own source of money.
Before that, he had made many raids in the Jiegu Department and captured a large number of war horses, cattle, sheep and herders, except for keeping 50,000 high-quality war horses for his own use.
All kinds of spoils were also sold for a sky-high price of nearly two million gold! Among them, Liu Yi divided 30%,
600,000 gold, which is enough to re-recruit 50,000 regular soldiers, not to mention that he just reorganized and replenished.
Of course, Shang Ji took more, not only nearly 70% of the 1.4 million fell into Shang Ji's hands, but also possessed four town hearts. It is conservatively estimated that they can sell another two million gold!
Including the remaining 2 million gold from the previous transaction with Yanhuang, after deducting the recent expenses of repairing the black water plug, casting equipment, paying military salaries, buying food and grass, recruiting soldiers, etc., Shang Ji currently has 1.9 million gold in his hand gold! (Town Hearts are not counted)
In addition, Shang Ji also has millions of meritorious deeds (100,000 will be deducted for promotion to the school lieutenant, and 100,000 will be rewarded for handing in the golden rod, which is evened out)! You must know that merit value is far more valuable than gold coins at present, at least merit can be exchanged for many things that gold coins cannot buy.
With an unprecedented amount of funds, Shang Ji also plans to do a big job.
First of all, it is necessary to fill up the 20,000 lack of personnel to form a complete school lieutenant department.
It is estimated that the current number of special arms will be doubled, and then 30,000 elite ordinary soldiers will be trained! It's not that Shang Ji doesn't want to train more special arms, but that the training requirements of special arms are too high and cost too much, even if he has a huge sum of money, he can't afford to train.
Taking the Black Armored Xuanqi as an example, each promoted Black Armored Xuanqi needs a hundred gold to train each one! This is because Shangji can manufacture its own equipment and provide war horses independently. If they buy them at the market price, the price will at least double!
One hundred gold each, and it is estimated that another two thousand horses will be trained, and the black-armored Xuanqi will cost a full two hundred thousand gold!
The army is not finished after training, and it needs to pay the military salary every month. Still taking the black armor Xuanqi as an example, each soldier needs a military salary of hardware every month. Four thousand black-armored Xuanqi would cost 20,000 in a month, and more than 200,000 in a year!
In addition to the daily food consumption, fodder for war horses, loss of training, pensions and rewards after the war, etc., it would cost at least 300,000 gold a year to maintain 4,000 black-armored Xuanqi merchants!
Although the unit price of other arms is much lower than that of black armored black knights, the huge quantity base determines that the consumption is also a lot.
After a rough calculation, the 50,000 troops in my mind have all been compiled and trained, and the consumption of various items in a year will definitely not be less than one million gold!
In other words, if there is no income, relying on the 1.9 million gold in Shang Ji's hands alone can only guarantee that Shang Ji will complete the army training and maintain it for one year at most, and he will go bankrupt after one year!
After all, the black water fortress he occupies is just a simple military fortress, which cannot provide complete logistical support for Shang Ji, let alone tax support for Shang Ji's military expansion.
For Shang Ji, stagnation is a dead end, and Shang Ji must take the initiative to find a way out!