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Yu Xiaotian was very strict and required his officers and soldiers not to disturb the people without authorization wherever they went. In addition to asking wealthy households to use money to help pay for the labor force, it could be said that they basically had no offense against ordinary people. On the contrary,

After arriving in a place, some money and grain will often be used to provide certain relief to the local people who have suffered from famine or banditry, and to severely crack down on some local ruffians who are causing harm to the people.

After several years of this, as long as the common people heard that the officers and soldiers were arriving, the common people in eight villages would immediately disperse and flee into the mountains to hide. But now, as long as they hear that the officers and soldiers under Yu Xiaotian's command are coming, the common people have already

Not only did they not run away, but they would often help the old and young to the roadside to welcome them, and they would even take out their extremely limited storage of food, even if it was an egg, to express their gratitude.

their thoughts.

This made officials in many places in Fujian look askance at such a scene. They couldn't understand how Yu Xiaotian, a bandit leader who was recruited, could be so good at controlling the army and train his troops to be so obedient.

How could he manage the officers and soldiers under his command to be so obedient?

In fact, it’s no wonder. In the past, some officers and soldiers were simply the serfs of some generals. These soldiers worked in agriculture in their free time and had to farm land and pay grain to the generals. They could not get any military pay to support their families all year round. It was inevitable that they would be jealous of the generals.

With resentments, often when the time comes to use troops, the general will use these soldiers to contribute or work for him, but he is worried that the dissatisfied soldiers will not work hard for them, so he will indulge these officers and soldiers under him to rob, steal, and go to war.

To coerce the people, in a disguised form, let the soldiers reap some benefits.

Moreover, for the money stolen, robbed, and forced, they can use it to line their own pockets, and they can also boost their morale to a certain extent, so that these soldiers will not go into battle against the enemy because of their resentment, and even break up in the hall.

If the Ming army had good military discipline and defected in battle, it would be really bad.

However, Yu Xiaotian's control of the troops does not have their shortcomings. As long as the officers and soldiers belong to Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian will often remove all the veteran generals as soon as possible, and then screen the officers and soldiers, leaving only honest and honest officers and soldiers.

As well as able-bodied soldiers, the old and weak soldiers will be eliminated, and new recruits will be recruited to replenish the troops.

For these soldiers, Yu Xiaotian ordered them all to quit their jobs and specialize in military training. They changed their status from serfs to professional soldiers. Although the government owed pay from time to time, Yu Xiaotian never defaulted on the food and salary of these soldiers.

They are paid in full and on time every month, so that they can have money to support their families, so that they will not have to find ways to do side jobs while serving as soldiers because they have no money to support their families.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian paid out of his own pocket. Whenever his officers and soldiers were injured or killed during the war, the injured would be treated, the disabled would be properly accommodated, and the families of those killed in the war would be given high pensions.

In this way, officers and soldiers are also human beings. Of course they know who is good to them. Naturally, they are loyal to Xiaotian and are willing to give orders and prohibitions. They follow Yu Xiaotian and work hard because they can get sufficient pay every month and receive rewards for their meritorious service.

After ensuring that they have enough food and clothing, they will be severely punished for violating disciplines. In this case, who would be willing to break the rules easily!

After Yu Xiaotian's rectification, it was difficult for his subordinates to lose their military discipline. These soldiers regarded him as a god and were loyal to him. Everyone knew that they could live such a good life now.

It was a gift from Yu Xiaotian, otherwise they would still be living in darkness as before, being oppressed by military generals every day.

Therefore, as long as an army is placed under Xiaotian's control, it will soon be renovated by Yu Xiaotian and become more disciplined.

As long as an army has strict military discipline and the soldiers dare to use their lives, even if they are not adequately trained, they can still produce quite strong combat effectiveness. What's more, after they become professional soldiers, they can eat well every day, and then every day

To carry out adequate training, even if most of the officers and soldiers have not been equipped with brand new weapons like Yu Xiaotian's direct descendants and still use the old weapons, their combat effectiveness will still be improved hundreds of times compared to before.

At the beginning of the third year of Tianqi, there was such an incident. A miscellaneous army that had just been recruited by Yu Xiaotian was defeated by a group of bandits due to their failure in suppressing bandits. However, when they were just recruited by Yu Xiaotian, they were defeated by a group of bandits.

Xiaotian was recruited. In less than three months, it was still the same army, but it was led by officers directly under Yu Xiaotian. The strength was even less than one-third of the previous one. They encountered the same army in one place.

Gang of thugs.

This group of gangsters learned that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were the same officers and soldiers who had been beaten to a pulp by them before. They were so happy that they rushed forward and surrounded the officers and soldiers. They thought

It will definitely be like last time, able to defeat them in one fell swoop and beat them again and again.

Every time they fell into pieces, they were like medicine, but they fought to the death. Under the leadership of the officers, they shouted for a fierce battle, and the large group of ruthless bandits could not attack for a long time. Instead, they were defeated in the end and fled, and they were like tarsal bones.

They chased them like maggots for three days until they wiped out all the gangsters.

The leader of this gang of bandits could not figure out until his death what happened to make this group of officers and soldiers become so capable in just a few months.

Only people from Sea Wolf know why. For the same person, after receiving the treatment he deserves, there will be no injustice in his heart and no worries about his future. Naturally, he will have less worries on the battlefield. Of course, he is willing to sacrifice his life.

Compared with a person who dares to sacrifice his life and a person who hates being an official and is full of injustice in his heart, the combat effectiveness he can exert is only one or two levels different.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers under Yu Xiaotian's control were able to move around Fujian and be invincible. However, the same officers and soldiers who were not under Yu Xiaotian's control often had weak combat effectiveness and low morale. Although I dare not say that they would be defeated in every battle, they

But it is difficult to compare with the soldiers and horses under Yu Xiaotian's command.

Some generals were puzzled by this. Why would these bad soldiers immediately become more vigorous and vigorous as soon as they were handed over to Yu Xiaotian, and become a group of tough soldiers? However, in their hands, they were all like mangy dogs.

A virtue that cannot be used to hold up the wall.

Someone later discovered that as long as some officers and soldiers were handed over to Yu Xiaotian, they would always get their pay in full and on time. Soldiers would never go hungry or owe pay, so they felt resentful and felt that they were on the top.

It's unfair, why are they all officers and soldiers? Yu Xiaotian's men don't owe pay, but they still owe them pay.

This group of generals came to Feng to make a fuss one after another. After such a quarrel, they realized that in fact, Yu Xiaotian did not receive sufficient food and salary as they thought, but Yu Xiaotian himself

He was digging into his pockets to pay his subordinates, so all of these gangsters suddenly shrank their necks and became speechless.

This group of people think about it. Even if the government allocates food and salary to them in time and in full, except for the part of the money and food that was embezzled and lost by the officials who passed by them during the period, most of it will be withheld by them themselves.

In private pockets, at this rate, only ten percent of the food and salary that can actually be distributed to the soldiers has long been reduced. It is no wonder that the soldiers became more lively and energetic as soon as they came under Xiaotian's hands.

As a result, these Fujian generals naturally had nothing to do. They could only bear the unhappiness in their stomachs, and they could only knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs. How could Yu Xiaotian be so wealthy and willing to do such a thing?

What a fool, they are actually willing to use their own money to pay the officers and soldiers, and these people,

Not only would they not do this, but on the contrary, they would exploit the soldiers under them and drink the blood of the soldiers in order to line their own pockets. If their subordinates were willing to sacrifice their lives for them in front of the battle, they would really be in trouble. Since this is no wonder,

It's unfair to go up to the peak, so naturally they don't dare to make any more trouble.

On the other hand, those officers and soldiers who could not be assigned to Yu Xiaotian's subordinates became even more unhappy after hearing these things. They were even more unwilling to serve under their generals. They all hoped that one day they would be able to serve under Yu Xiaotian.

Can be assigned to work under Xiaotian.

As a result, the officers and soldiers in Fujian can be said to have become more polarized. However, almost all the officers and soldiers under Yu Xiaotian's command had high morale, strict military discipline, and the courage to take their orders.

As for the officers and soldiers who were not under Xiaotian's jurisdiction, they were all full of complaints and their morale was declining. They would flee every battle and lose every battle. There were even large-scale desertions. Many soldiers would rather risk being caught back.

At the risk of beheading, they gave up their status as soldiers and secretly fled to Yu Xiaotian's side. Even if they were not soldiers and were sent to Taiwan Island to farm, they were not willing to work for the former generals.

Alive.

By the fourth year of Tianqi, in the entire military system of Fujian, it can almost be said that only the officers and soldiers controlled by Yu Xiaotian are still capable of fighting. The remaining officers and soldiers controlled by the generals are short of personnel.

It has reached an outrageous level. Often, a thousand generals can only have two or three hundred officers and soldiers at most, which is considered good. Although they can eat more free pay, they have completely lost their ability to fight and have become

An army on paper.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it is almost July in the fourth year of Chongzhen. Yu Xiaotian is wearing a very simply cut linen cardigan, sitting in the study, shaking a big cattail leaf fan to cool down.

, with a bowl of sour plum soup with ice cubes in front of him, while dealing with the official business at hand, he suddenly asked Lin Yiyang, who was sitting opposite:

"By the way, Mr. Lin, do you have any feedback on what I arranged for you to do at the beginning of the year?" A reward from a brother!