Yang Feng is going to train his troops, and what is the most important thing in training? It is estimated that there will not be much controversy about this issue, and it is estimated that 90 out of 100 people will say it in unison...... Silver.

Yes, the most important thing in military training is actually money, and talking about military training when there is no money or food is just a pipe dream.

In the case of the Jiangdong Gate Senhu Office, due to long-term nutritional deficiencies, the sergeants were generally weak. Because you can't even fill your stomach on weekdays, and you don't even have the strength to walk, it's only a joke for you to talk about rigorous training with these people who are seriously lacking in physical fitness.

Yang Feng, who came from modern society, knows very well that a strong army is built on strict and even harsh training, which requires adequate nutrition, and how does nutrition come from? To put it bluntly, it is heaped with silver and grain.

In feudal society, raising soldiers is a very disagreeable thing, the cost of spending is very large, according to the standard set by Yang Feng, ordinary sergeants have one tael of silver and three liters of grain per month, plus the officer's salary, so Yang Feng will spend about 1,200 taels of silver every month, and 336 stone of grain (equivalent to about 40,000 catties), and this is just the salary issued to the sergeants, not including the officers' share. In addition, Yang Feng also needs to pay for the food of the sergeants out of his own pocket, and he also has to prepare armor, weapons, clothes, shoes and socks for each soldier, and the expenses required to feed more than 1,000 sergeants in thousands of households are enough to empty the family of a wealthy family.

However, such difficulties did not intimidate Yang Feng, because the biggest food problem compared to others was only a small problem for Yang Feng. Because compared to feudal society, modern society is a highly materially developed society, don't look at the skinny pictures of children in Africa or war-torn areas that people often see on TV, but after all, they are only a very few.

In the 21st century in China, with the continuous improvement of living conditions, there are more and more obese patients in the whole society, and people have long changed from the pursuit of food and clothing to pay attention to the balanced and reasonable combination of nutrition. To strengthen the nutrition of the soldiers, Yang Feng purchased hundreds of tons of high-calorie and high-fat foods such as lard, fatty meat, and animal offal from the market. These "junk foods" that people in modern society don't even look at have become the best thing to nourish their bodies for the sergeants of the Senhu Office of the Koto Gate.

More than a month ago, Yang Feng screened out more than 800 healthy sergeants aged between 18 and 35 from the military households, and selected more than 300 healthy young men from among the displaced people to be incorporated into the army of the Thousand Households.

On 10 April, the military training presided over by Yang Feng personally began in earnest. Since the Thousand Households are subordinate to the Guards, they naturally cannot be organized into battalions, but are honestly divided into small flags, general flags, and 100 households according to the military system of the Guards. There are ten hundred households under the Thousand Households, and one hundred households has two general flags under the jurisdiction of the One Hundred Households, with 112 soldiers. One person from one hundred households is set up in one hundred households with six products, and one person from one hundred households with six products. The headquarters has jurisdiction over five small flags, with 56 soldiers, and 10 soldiers under the jurisdiction of the small flag.

Before the training, Yang Feng had already emphasized to the officers under his command that the training would be very hard and very strict, if anyone who thinks that he can't withstand this kind of harsh training can say it in advance, he will never be reluctant, but if he participates in the training, then he must persevere to the end, otherwise he will not be so easy to talk about when he implements military law.

However, to Yang Feng's surprise, none of these officers quit, which was unexpected but also reasonable, after all, as long as they participated in the army of the guard, there would be corresponding officer allowances and food distributions every month, which was a big subsidy for the officers who were not wealthy.

It is worth mentioning that on the eve of training, Yang Laishun and his wife, who were helping Yang Feng guard the house in Nanjing City, came to the Jiangdong Gate Qianhu Office, and there was a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old with a grim expression and a resolute expression.

After seeing Yang Feng, Yang Laishun and his wife kowtowed to Yang Feng, and then pulled the young man behind him and said anxiously: "Young master, this is the dog of the villain couple, named Yang Da Niu, the villain sent a letter to call Er Niu back, and specially obeyed the orders under the young master, hoping that the young master can take him in." ”

"Oh......"

Yang Feng looked Yang Da Niu up and down, and found that although this young man was not very old, his behavior was very different from that of ordinary people, the whole person just stood there and made people feel that the taste of fierceness came to his face, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, Yang Feng always felt that Yang Erniu had a sharp temperament, at first Yang Feng didn't understand what kind of temperament it was, until later he knew that this was the unique temperament of an iron-blooded soldier who had more than one life under his hand and more than one person.

Seeing Yang Feng's gaze sweeping, Yang Daniu took two steps forward and knelt down on one knee to him and said loudly: "The third team of the original left camp in Liaodong Town will not accept Yang Daniu to meet the young master at night, may the young master be blessed and healthy!" ”

Looking at Yang Da Niu who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, Yang Feng was slightly stunned, and then looked at Yang Laishun and his wife, with a meaningful smile on his face, this Yang Da Niu does not call himself an adult, but calls himself a young master, which in itself speaks of their attitude towards themselves.

Yang Laishun saw Yang Feng looking at him and hurriedly said: "Young master, if it weren't for you, the young couple would have starved to death on the street, and the reason why the villain called the big cow back was to let him repay the young master, I hope the young master will not dislike it." ”

"No...... Steward Yang, you are polite, how can you be an idle person who can serve as a person who does not collect money at night in the Liaodong Army, and it is a shame that Da Niu can come to me. ”

Yang Feng looked at Yang Da Niu, and his eyes showed joy. To say that the most effective troops in the Ming Dynasty today are the army guarding Liaodong, although they suffered a lot of defeats in the war with the Houjin, but it is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of this army is still good, otherwise it is impossible to resist the attack of the Houjin army in Liaodong, and the night is the essence of an army, as the elite who specializes in exploring the military situation and the Jurchen elite life and death struggle, how can it be mediocre.

After thinking about it, Yang Feng said to Yang Da Niu: "Da Niu, since you call me a young master, I naturally can't treat you badly, I will give you two choices now." One is to be my personal guard, and the other is to be the captain of my newly formed cavalry team, which are you going to choose? ”

Yang Daniu said without thinking: "Back to the young master, the villain is willing to serve you in the cavalry!" ”

"Okay, then the task of forming a cavalry team will be left to you!"