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Chapter 537 Minister of Human Resources and Military Affairs of Kunshan

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    Although the two doctors had a lively chat, it was obviously not suitable for large-scale construction and schooling before the flood fight was successful.

    Zhao Hao asked Li Zhi to report to Wuxian first, then work in Suzhou City during the day, and return to Kunshan to teach students the next night.

    ¡°After all, squeezing the value of assets to the maximum extent is an instinct engraved in the bones of capitalists.

    Although the two cities are seventy miles apart, the Loujiang River starts from Changmen in Suzhou and goes directly to Chaoyangmen in Kunshan City. It can be reached in less than an hour by following the river.

    Of course, the return trip will take nearly two hours, but Dr. Zhao will arrange the most comfortable speedboat for Dr. Li, and with the two best boatmen, the sailing time can be controlled to one and a half hours.

    ¡° In this way, as long as Dr. Li goes out at five o¡¯clock, he will not delay the morning class at all, and he can also take a nap in the cradle-like cabin on the way.

    Perfect!

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    After sending away Li Zhi, who was about to live in two cities four hundred years ahead of schedule, Zhao Hao asked Gao Wu to invite Jin Ke in.

    Jin Ke is here to report the results of a thorough investigation of the county¡¯s armed forces.

    "Sir, we have figured it out. There is a gunner team in Kunshan County with a capacity of 500 people. The camp is located north of Zhihetang. But I took a look and found that there are only 180 people in the camp. It seems that there has been no one for a long time.  After being paid, most of them have gone home to make a living.¡±

    In the past few years, the Japanese invasion was serious, and the government and army were too weak to protect the people.  Each prefecture and county invested in team training to guard the county seat and resist Japanese pirates.

    Kunshan County has naturally set up a gunner team. It has also built its own swords, guns and firecrackers, and hired retired officers for training, which really costs a lot.

    It¡¯s just that the Japanese pirates have gradually subsided in the past two years, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There have been no large groups of Japanese pirates for several years, so the counties have slacked off.

    Especially in a poor place like Kunshan, it is natural to cut expenses year after year, leaving only a shelf just in case

    "How are the weapons?" Zhao Hao asked again.

    "There are fifty bird blunderbuss. The workmanship is not bad, but the maintenance is poor. There are quite a few fire blunderbuss, but those things are useless." Jinke smiled bitterly: "And the problem is that all the gunpowder is damp, and the weather is so bad.  There¡¯s no way to dry it, so I can¡¯t hit a single shot for the time being.¡±

    "In addition, there are quite a few spears, broadswords, and spears, but they all need to be repaired before they can be used."

    "Well, it's not surprising." Zhao Hao nodded. Looking at the laziness and decadence permeating the county, he could imagine that Xiang Yong's situation was not much better.

    ¡°First try your best to do it yourself and fix it as much as you can. I¡¯ll have people from the Ordnance Bureau come over after a while and I¡¯ll replace them all with new ones.¡±

    "It's really no rush. It's useless to give them the best blunderbuss now. They have to practice hard!" Jin Ke cracked his knuckles and then sighed:

    "But they told me the conditions, saying that I must be paid before I can train. And the amount of training must be linked to the salary. If you are paid half the salary, you can only train for half a day"

    "What about double pay?" Mr. Zhao's eyes lit up.

    "According to their thinking, they should be able to train twice as much" Jin Ke smiled bitterly and said, "Hey, I've heard that Suzhou people are smart, but I never thought that Kunshan people are the same."

    "There is nothing wrong with being smart." Zhao Hao waved his hand and said: "As long as you get paid to work. Tomorrow you will pay last month's salary and tell them that as long as they train well, they can make up for the unpaid salary at the end of the month. In the future, as long as  Those who train seriously can also receive double salary Of course, you decide how to pay it."

    "Yes!" Jin Ke immediately saluted and responded.

    Along the way south, General Jin has completely positioned himself.

    As long as he has enough money and food, he will train Zhao Hao's troops wholeheartedly.  As for the rest, it was not his turn to worry about, and he didn't care at all.

    There is no other way, who told Mr. Zhao to give too much?

    ¡°This has only been a month¡¯s salary, which is enough for him to pay off his debts. Next month he will be able to buy land and build a big house in his hometown.

    This is really a kiss between heaven and earth, and a kiss between the emperor and the emperor, not as close as Mr. Zhao¡¯s silver

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    "My father has announced that the entire county has entered a state of flood control, and several bans will be announced tomorrow. Without sufficient armed force to guarantee, the county will definitely be in chaos."

    Zhao Hao then ordered Jin Ke: "So the strength and combat effectiveness of the Gunners must be restored as soon as possible in order to maintain order in the county."

    "Yes." Jin Ke responded in a deep voice and reminded Zhao Hao:

    "There are three squads of 60 government officials and 100 white servants in the county. There are 42 archers in the inspection department, 18 post soldiers in the post house, 30 delivery soldiers, and 6 guards in the delivery office.  Ten they have to be used to fill up the manpower before the Gunners can use them."

     "Yes." Zhao Hao nodded and said with a sly smile: "Tonight, their officers will go to the embankment to stay. These shrimp soldiers and crabs will gather together with Brother Lao Jin and rebuild."

    Xu Wei came up with the idea to ask Zhao Shouzheng to move all the sesame and mung bean officials in the county to live on the embankment. Of course, it was for the purpose of fighting floods, but was it not to divert the tiger away from the mountain?

    In this way, they can gather their soldiers in a unified manner, train them in a unified manner, and deploy them in a unified manner.

    As for what the county will look like in the future, fighting floods is the most important thing now. Who has the time to think so far ahead?

    "Yes." Jin Ke agreed without hesitation.

    "Can Brother Jin do this all by himself?" Mr. Zhao asked with great expectation, "When will our help arrive?"

    "It will take a few days." Jin Ke also said with a smile on his face: "They must have arrived in Huzhou by now."

    "So fast?" Zhao Hao's expression perked up.

    "It's nothing." Jin Ke said matter-of-factly: "If there weren't disabled comrades, they would have arrived earlier than us."

    "It's okay to be two days late. Otherwise, when we go to Suzhou City, we won't think we are cheating?" Mr. Zhao said with a smile.

    After Zhao Hao and Qi Jiguang reached an agreement to help resettle the disabled and retired soldiers of Qi Jiajun, the three Jin Ke wrote to their former colleagues in Zhejiang.  Tell them that if they don't have a stable life, they can go to Suzhou and seek refuge with Zhao Zhixian.

    Suzhou is the most prosperous city in the world, and there are former generals here. It is naturally very attractive to those veterans of the Qi Jiajun who generally have a unhappy life after retiring from the army.

    As a result, I received a reply saying that hundreds of people wanted to sign up.

    Jin Ke asked Zhao Hao for instructions, and Mr. Zhao expressed his warm welcome.

    However, the hundreds of people crossing the border were too eye-catching, so they came over in batches.

    When I left Nanjing, I received a letter saying that the first batch of 80 people had already set off.

    I didn¡¯t expect that people would be arriving in just a few days.

    This way Zhao Hao was completely relieved.

    Eighty former Qi family troops, even if there are only twenty of them with all beards and tails, it is enough to bring about a qualitative change in Kunshan's armed forces.

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    Zhao Hao also told Jin Ke that he must strictly observe military discipline and never allow situations that disturb the people by maintaining order.

    This may be difficult for other generals of the Ming Dynasty to accept.

    "However, the Qi family's army has strict military discipline and no offense is committed in the autumn. Wherever they go, the people eat tea pots with pulp to welcome the king's army.  Therefore, Jin Ke fully understands and fully supports Mr. Zhao's decision.

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