Chapter 230: The Protective Team

In April, in all the fields, where farmers recruit enough farming farmers were recruited, the so-called "protective teams" were organized, and strong farmers were selected from the farm. During the slack farming period, they regularly practice military skills and various basic measures for repairing the fields.

The male households who can be selected into this "Guardian Guard Team" can be reduced by 10% or 50% of the grain harvest they pay every year. This is a lot of food. At least most people in the family can eat half full and have a few more days to eat a full meal. This is also a good thing, and they are very enthusiastic about joining.

Of course, you can't go in casually. There are always standards for selecting soldiers, because Li Meng's military farming places were connected into pieces when purchasing fields. So in case of trouble, the guards everywhere could quickly gather together to protect or attack.

Li Meng, the mansions where the military farms are located, did not dare to come and provoke them on that day. Even the giant green forest bandits did not dare to come and provoke them. With the force of the guards, it was a stable situation.

Since the Jiaozhou Camp was formed, there have been no large formations, but there are always many small-scale and unknown battles. There are always wounded people in battles. Moreover, the chance of injury during the training of Jiaozhou Camp is very high. With the medical level of this era, even if you have to treat them with all your heart, some people will suffer from disabilities.

Moreover, a small number of the men gathered at Lingshan Guard that day were old and started a family and did not want to go to the front line to fight to death.

The Jiaozhou Camp will definitely not ignore these wounded people. The Jiaozhou Camp is actually in his prime and can go to shops to work and follow the busy business of salt goods. However, the wounded people can only spend silver every day to support the dead soldiers, their families, and Jiaozhou Camp also pay for the support. Together, it is also a huge expense. Ning Qiangui also talked about this with Li Meng in private, and felt that it would be better to give away a sum of money to dismiss the matter. The whole world's army would not be able to support it for a lifetime.

Li Meng naturally rejected this proposal. There is no Jiaozhou Camp like this in the world. That is what makes the people in the world watch the Jiaozhou Camp have a beginning and an end, and treat their comrades-in-arms. As long as they are for the Jiaozhou Camp and for Li Meng to fight for their lives, they don’t have to worry about the way out, just move forward bravely.

The soldiers trained by the Jiaozhou Camp's training system, especially those early backbone and veterans, are a valuable asset even if they are injured. This time, the military farming policy is to use all these people and disperse them in various fields, and train the knowledge they have obtained in the Jiaozhou Camp and train those vagrants who are in panic after a major disaster. After such training, some of the vagrants with strong and high understanding will at least become basic militias, and the speed of transforming them into regular troops will be much faster than ordinary people, and are the best source of soldiers.

Although we are still investing now, when the harvest season comes, the corresponding share can be allocated to these disabled soldiers, retired soldiers, and the families of the sacrificed soldiers. On the one hand, there are people who are absolutely loyal to themselves to manage the military farm, and the expenses of the previous part of the support can also be saved.

In modern times, when he was studying military history in the People's Liberation Army, Li Meng once received such education, saying that the Japanese invaded China. As the occupied territory increased, the limited troops were constantly distributed to guard everywhere, and the force that could be maneuvered became less and less, and strategically they would gradually fall into embarrassment.

What made Li Meng a little embarrassed was that Jiaozhou Camp was in such a situation at this time, and its territory had expanded to nearly five prefectures, but the nine thousand soldiers and armed salt cubes in its hands were completely inadequate. The salt road of private salt is an important source of income that must be guarded, and the same is true for salt fields and salt fields in various salt fields. In Jiaozhou City, silver warehouses, arsenals, private houses, salt fields, salt fields, camps, and private ports, these all require heavy troops to be guarded.

But at present, only 1,500 people can be stationed in Qingzhou Prefecture and 1,000 people stationed in Dengzhou Prefecture. Most of the forces are still concentrated in Laizhou Prefecture and dare not go out lightly.

From April to May, after Huzhuang, which was a military farm in the field, Li Meng adjusted the proportion of his troops again. At the beginning of the year, he recruited about 3,000 soldiers, and could have 2,500 soldiers. Ma Gang was the garrison of Yidu, and his subordinates were stationed in Yidu, Qingzhou Prefecture, Zhao Neng was the Laiyang Dusi, and his subordinates were stationed around Laiyang County. The two men were half of the new soldiers and veterans, and they led the new soldiers. In addition to the troops in their headquarters, Ma Gang and Zhao Neng could cooperate with the armed salt detention center, with about 800 each.

Chen Liu, the garrison guard of Jiaozhou who had always been stationed in the old camp of Jiaozhou, received a new acceptance and was changed to a guard of Ningyang County. He led two thousand veterans into the Yanzhou Prefecture to guard the main traffic roads and central locations at present, and controlled the territory with the point leading the surface.

Li Meng had five thousand soldiers in his hands, and Tang Er led two thousand horse teams stationed between Gaomi and Tingkou Towns. Li Meng led three thousand soldiers to stay in Jiaozhou. Now, Li Meng usually lives in Fengmeng Town, and all the things that Lingshan Guards do are directly under his control.

Dongchang Prefecture is a relatively wealthy prefecture, but because it is very close to Northern Zhili and Henan, it is often affected by military disasters and is very uneasy in the local area. Li Meng is currently only maintaining control of the private salt business there, and gradually infiltrating towards Daming Prefecture, Guangping Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture, competing for the market with Huai Yan Changlu Salt.

But Li Meng's policy made one person get a bargain, that is, Zhang Chengye, the thousand general of Gaotang Prefecture, Gaotang Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture. Yes, the Nanshan bandit Zhang Chengye who ran faster than the cavalry. When Li Meng and Liu Zeqing were tug of war, they all retreated the soldiers stationed in Dongchang Prefecture.

Originally, Zhang Chengye committed suicide by joining Liu Zeqing. After Liu Zeqing was defeated by the thief for no reason, Zhang Chengye quickly returned to Li Meng's power. However, after the Shandong general seized Li Meng's food and salary, Zhang Chengye calculated that the Shandong general would be much larger than the Laizhou general, and he saw the opportunity and quickly surrendered to Shandong general Qiu Lei again.

But after February and March, Zhang Chengye was stunned again. It turned out that the situation was completely under Li Meng's control. He made a quick decision and sent Feng another letter of tears and remorse to Li Meng, saying that it was lard that day that day was shocked.

For Li Meng, Dongchang Prefecture belongs to the periphery and is a buffer area with Qiu Lei's troops, so he doesn't care too much about it. Moreover, Zhang Chengye is naturally slick. Every time he surrenders to a certain party, he always doesn't kill the matter. For example, after several repetitions, the armed salt Ding of the Jiaozhou Camp still operates smoothly in Dongchang Prefecture. Zhang Chengye did not sell off and frame him because he surrendered to the Jiaozhou Camp. So everyone still left him some room for him. Li Meng was too lazy to care seriously. Moreover, Zhang Chengye is only five or six hundred soldiers now, and they are all the hometowns when the civil unrest was in chaos that day.

Therefore, Dongchang Prefecture is the most neutral place in Shandong. Dongchang Prefecture City Liaocheng, Puzhou, and Guantao also have military and horses stationed from the court.

Zhang Chengye even had several sets of prosecutor seals in his hands. Now he defected to Li Meng, and immediately he was assigned to the Thousand General of Li Meng, a general in Laizhou Prefecture, to Gaotang Prefecture, Zhang, and the general... etc.

When Chen Liu left Laizhou Prefecture this time to go to Yanzhou Prefecture, he once asked Li Meng for his appointment and asked in a very angrily manner:

"Sir, this time, I will be stationed in Ningyang County. Why not go to Dongchang Prefecture once to suppress the capricious Zhang Chengye so as not to jump over the clown and make the adults upset."

Li Meng waved his hand and said with a smile:

"There is my father-in-law on the side of the prefect of Dongchang. There is no need to make him look ugly. Besides, the troops are not enough. With such a fence-skinned man there, it may be used at a critical moment. And you must know that Jiaozhou camp is a military force of the court, and you cannot cross the border without authorization, otherwise it would be a ruthless act."

This is also a sequelae of the actions some time ago. The generals under Jiaozhou Camp no longer take the imperial court's laws very seriously. Li Meng wanted them to understand that some things were completely different from those who did it quietly.

Houshan now has a team of two or three hundred people. Houshan is the big shopkeeper of Jining Xiangyan Salt Shop, and to the outside world, the big shopkeeper of Lingshan Trading Company. He often travels around the canal, along the two sides of the canal, north and south, and across provinces in Jiangnan. Of course, the most are the prefectures, counties, towns and towns in Shandong. The goods sold by Lingshan Trading Company are all southern goods and foreign goods transported by the Zheng family by sea. They are extremely popular in Shandong. Not only are the wealthy, they can also openly inquire about the news and trends in various places and the situation among the people.

Huang Ping's actions were much more secret. He had several of his deputy, all of whom were old salt owls who were engaged in private salt trading in Shandong that day. This private salt activity violated the law of the court and was a beheading act. The salt owls had a close relationship with the green forest figures in various places. With these old salt owls, Huang Ping relied on the deterrence and huge wealth of Jiaozhou Camp to gather a group of people from the rivers and lakes and powerful people from all over the country, and gradually built a framework for spy networks. That day, he contacted Mr. Zhao in Rushanzhai, and threatened and tempted him. Huang Ping and his subordinates went to handle the situation, and the results were significant.
Chapter completed!