If you say a thousand words, you will actually kill people to establish your authority!

As for the sake of the glory and wealth of others, it is just a saying to comfort others. Believe it or not.

What’s important is that killing people can indeed intimidate the morale of the army.

This is enough.

Here, he killed people under the pretext of military discipline, so he naturally summoned the generals of the army to gather together to discuss matters. Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng, Ma Shixiu, Lu Ding and other generals were all under Zuo Liangyu, while Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Wang Fuchen and others were from the Western Army. Once upon a time, they were enemies, but now they serve the general under the same tent.

But everyone can guess what they have to do today, what is going to discuss today?

Just as they were discussing various reasons in a scruple, they heard someone shouting there:

"The General is here!"

When everyone heard this, they stood up and stood up, and when Zhu Guoyang came, they saluted him solemnly.

"The last general will meet with the general!"

Standing at the head of the hall, Zhu Guoqiang raised his hand and said:

"No gift!"

After sitting on the chair, Zhu Guoqiang turned his hand and pressed him down.

"sit,"

At this time, everyone sat down one after another. After everyone sat down, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"I'm here today. Firstly, because everyone is my generals now, so we should naturally be familiar with it when working together. Secondly, it is because we need to make adjustments to the organization of the camps. I wonder what the generals mean?"

As soon as Zhu Guoqiang finished speaking, Yan Yingyuan beside him held a pile of documents and sent them to the generals.

"This is the general's regulations on the garrison of the Lu camp. There are explanations on the garrison of the Lu camp, configuration and number of people. Let's take a look first! Do you have any opinions?"

The so-called guarding of the Lu camp is actually a reference to the "Mixed Association" of the late Qing Dynasty, an independent brigade composed of various soldiers such as infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers. The troops are about 6,000, and the troops are more than the first battalion of the Pinglu Army, but far less than that of one town.

According to Zhu Guoqiang's vision, in addition to more than a dozen "towns" similar to divisions as backbones, the "mixed battalion" of about 6,000 people is the real main force. After all, in this era, the military strength is limited, but a well-trained mixed battalion is enough to form an overwhelming advantage. No matter how many, it will be a waste of troops. Of course, surrendered troops and generals must also be prevented, and the troops they have to be controlled.

"Go back to the general, we have no objection!"

Without even watching, Ma Jinzhong answered immediately.

Zhu Guoqiang just nodded and said.

"Soldiers are more important than elites. Originally, there were 100,000 soldiers from the former Zuo family camps in Wuchang and 100,000 strong people. In the past few days, the original Western army camps were 130,000. It seems that hundreds of thousands of troops are vast, but in my opinion, it is only just a strong momentum. Therefore, it must be eliminated and the weak are eliminated and the strong are retained."

Of course, everyone had already prepared for this. After all, hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed around Wuchang, which was not a long-term solution. Only Ma Shixiu asked tentatively.

"I wonder what standard the general is to lay off the abolition?"

"As young as 18 years old, under 40 years old, four feet and eight inches tall, no bad habits, no secret disease, others will be allowed to be sacked at one rate, and of course, the person who was sacked will not be asked at one rate. Those who were sacked will be given 30 acres of land and ten taels of silver."

The price of the corruption of the enemy is that nine out of ten families are empty, and millions of people are killed. However, this also gave Zhu Guoqiang a large amount of unowned land to resettle the dismissed soldiers. However, these soldiers are not "new military households", but they are just about the same treatment as the government recruits refugees, and are exempt from taxes for three years. If you want to say that there is any preferential treatment, it is to give an additional ten taels of silver to settle the settlement fee.

But even so, everyone was stunned when they heard this. Whether they agreed or not, they knew in their hearts that thirty acres of land and ten taels of security would mean a good life for their wives and children to be warm on the kang. All of this can satisfy all the imaginations of the vast majority of people in the future.

This also means that as long as the general spreads this matter across all the battalions, the officers and soldiers in the battalion will be willing to be cut off. Moreover, many of them are unwilling to be forced to be conquered or captured to serve in the army. Now that they have the opportunity to live a peaceful life, how could they refuse?

"General, does this include the original Xiying surrendered troops..."

Li Dingguo asked tentatively, although the general had said that in his surrender that day, everyone else would have to be sacked except for the retained scholars who made meritorious service, but when he heard that the layoffs were treated so well, he was naturally a little moved.

"Um……"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"You led your troops to "rebellion in front of the formation" that day, which was a great loss. How could this general not remember the achievements of everyone's uprising at that time? But..."

Staring at Li Dingguo and others, he said again.

"In Yueyang, except for the uprising under Wang Fuchen's army and abandoning the secret and turning to the open, the other soldiers were prisoners of war. Except for a few newly captured people, they were released on the spot, and others were exiled to the overseas market in the future. Of course, if they made contributions during the farming, they would not be impossible to stay in the mainland."

As soon as Zhu Guoqiang finished speaking, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and other generals of the Western Camp all stood up and saluted.

"Thank you for your kindness, General!"

Looking at their gratitude and tears, Zhu Guoqiang felt quite proud, but he successfully dismantled hundreds of thousands of "Daxi Army" with a carrot. In fact, for him, the most worried thing was the "Daxi Army". The current Daxi Army is a time when the troops are strong. Unlike other bandits, the elderly, weak, women and children are filled with the elderly, weak, women and children. Zhang Xianzhong abducted people and only captured strong men over fifteen or twenty years old. This led to the fact that most of his army was young and strong laborers.

Because of this, how to place them has become the most troublesome problem. Exile overseas may be a good choice, but when will hundreds of thousands of people be transported to, these people cannot be kept in the military camp forever.

Let’s treat the officers separately first. The ones under Li Dingguo and others were considered “uprising” and were considered to be a punishment for their contributions. As for the ones under Yueyang City, they were prisoners, so of course they had to be exiled.

In this way, the Western Army, which seemed to be strong and powerful, was "divided into two", reduced the unstable signs to the bottom, and the rest were directly organized into civilians. While continuing to serve the army, they were waiting for the arrival of ships and then transported overseas with the ships.

After solving the problem of disarmament, the more important question is how to keep the soldiers. The easiest way is to treat the Pinglu Army's military household treatment, and everyone was stunned. If they had resisted reorganization in their hearts, then after learning about the treatment of "one tael of military pay per month, one or a hundred acres of military land will be exempted from military land after retirement", they would have to die.

For soldiers in the army, they only have this treatment in their eyes, and there is no so-called general. If they dare to have a different intention, someone will immediately take their heads and exchange them for military merit.

Under such a series of operations, only 200,000 Zuo Family Army left only 80,000 people, and the remaining 120,000 were placed in various places in Huguang. After reorganization, less than 50,000 elite troops were left. Others and Zuoying officers and soldiers were placed in various places in Huguang.

As for the remaining tens of thousands of prisoners of war, they were scattered in Wuchang, Chengtian and other places to farm. The unowned fields they reclaimed were used as official fields and would be rewarded to military households in the future. Zhu Guoqiang even specially informed the officers and soldiers of various battalions who were undergoing training.

Once these people make trouble, the first person to go up and fight them to the death is these "new recruits" who are training. After all, it depends on whether they have "hundred acres of military fields" in their own interests, it depends on whether they are honest or not.

Of course, in addition to this, Zhu Guoqiang deliberately deployed cavalry in the areas of military farming on both sides of the Yangtze River. Once they had any abnormal movements, the cavalry would try their best to kill the rebellious situation.
Chapter completed!