Chapter 199 Sixth Army
In the end, Yang Chong and Confucianism finalized a deal of five thousand gold coins. In addition, Confucianism also promised to send disciples to Jibei County so that the official team that was severely short of officials due to Yang Chong's killing would be replenished.

As for whether these Confucian disciples were competent, it was not within Yang Chong's consideration. At least in the first few years, this issue was not important to Yang Chong.

After sending Wuming away, Yang Chong also separated from Zinu. Zinu will go to the seaside to build their salt base there, while Yang Chong will return to Raoan City to start his own plan to form an army.

Raoan City County Magistrate's Mansion.

Xiao He looked at Yang Chong who was quickly sorting out the household registration and was a little dazed for a moment. Until now, he didn't understand how Yang Chong knew his name when he was staying well in Pei County, just waiting to take over his father's position after his father retired. He didn't even know why Yang Chong went to so much trouble to kidnap him from Pei County to Jibei County.

Yes, Xiao He was kidnapped by Mo Ya.

Imagine that one day, you got off work and were just sitting at the dinner table when you were suddenly robbed. The robbers didn't want anything and just tied you up and took you away from your hometown that you hadn't left for more than 20 years to a completely unfamiliar place. How would you describe your feelings? Anyway, Xiao He felt that he couldn't find the right words to describe it.

Just when he had accepted his fate, Yang Chong appeared in front of him. Only then did Xiao He know why Mo Ya wanted to kidnap him.

But when one doubt is answered, another bigger doubt arises.

Yang Chong kidnapped him from Pei County all the way just to make him serve as his aide.

Yes, it was the staff. In Xiao He's understanding, the heads of the six departments within the county governor's office were Yang Chong's staff, and as the head of the Ministry of Revenue, he was naturally Yang Chong's staff. It's just that the power of this staff seemed a little too great.

Before, his biggest goal was to become the magistrate of Pei County during his lifetime. It was not that he did not have ambitions, but in the State of Chu, for someone with his background, the position of county magistrate was almost the pinnacle they could achieve.

But now, he suddenly became the aide of a county governor. In terms of authority, he was even above the county magistrate. Such a thing was like a dream to Xiao He.

Xiao He's initial uneasiness and confusion had turned into indifference after spending a few months with Yang Chong. He also adapted to his current life and performed his duties as the head of the Ministry of Revenue well. At the same time, he buried the doubts about why Yang Chong knew about him deep in his heart. For him now, this issue was no longer important.

"There are 5,072 young men between the ages of 14 and 17 in the entire Jibei County. After preliminary screening, 3,003 people meet the requirements." Seeing that Yang Chong had almost finished checking the household registration, Xiao He spoke up.

"Three thousand people are enough." Yang Chong pondered.

"The first batch of military equipment shipped from South Korea has arrived, a total of one thousand sets of armor, two thousand sets of leather armor, and matching swords, spears, halberds, bows, crossbows and arrows." Xiao He reported various data to Yang Chong in an orderly manner. In this regard, he was very talented. Although he was not yet the future Lord Xiao He, in just a few months, he had completely adapted to his current life and work, and was doing a good job.

"Now is a good time, we can gather everyone together." Yang Chong said.

He confiscated so much land from the major families in Jibei County in order to prepare for the current army. In this era, although money is tempting, for ordinary people, land is the real hard currency.

No matter what kind of reason is used or what kind of temptation is offered, for the people, nothing is as practical and direct as land.

"Yes." Xiao He responded. He was still unsure about Yang Chong's character and temper, so he was inevitably more cautious when dealing with Yang Chong.

The order from the county governor's office was quickly passed down to the counties in Jibei County, and then passed down to the villages through the counties.

The lower class people did not have any resistance to the order from the County Magistrate's Office. After all, the County Magistrate's Office only recruited teenagers, which would not affect the farming of each family. Moreover, half-grown boys were at the age when they could eat the most. At this time, the County Magistrate's Office recruited them to join the army and receive training, and they would be provided with food and accommodation. This alone made everyone want to send their half-grown boys to Rao'an City immediately.

There, at least you can have a full meal.

Under the operation of the new administrative system of Jibei County, young people from various counties gathered in Raoan one after another within a month.

Here, Yang Chong has already prepared a camp and instructors for them. Next, a military academy that is not a military academy appeared in this world.

Yang Chong used the old soldiers recruited from the State of Zhao as military instructors, and recruited humanities instructors from Confucianism. He took a two-pronged approach at the same time. It can be said that he wanted to grasp both the civil and military aspects and make them both strong. Yang Chong understood this principle.

During this period, Yang Chong also simplified the martial arts he practiced into a simple but popular basic martial arts, and then taught it in the army.

During this period, due to Confucianism, the reputation of paper gradually spread in Qi, and countless orders came from Qi, and orders from Wei and Zhao also gradually appeared in the papermaking workshops in Rao'an City. With it came a huge amount of money, but this money, along with the fine wine flowing out of the winery, gradually flowed to the surrounding Yan, Zhao, Qi, Wei, Han and other countries.

The fine horses from Liaodong from Yan State, the leather and animal tendons from the northern border of Zhao State, the military equipment from Han State, and the grain from Qi State and Wei State were continuously transported back to Raoan City.

At one time, everyone knew that the governor of Jibei County was a man who was rich enough to rival a country.

It was also during this process that time gradually entered the end of June. The May harvest had ended and the entire Jibei County fell into great noise.

A military training exercise involving the entire nation has begun.

Of course, some people were dissatisfied with the conscription from the county magistrate's office. They had just finished the harvest and were exhausted. They had a rare chance to rest for a few days, but now they were called up for training again. Who would be willing to do that?
However, when the county magistrate's office promised that everyone would get three kilograms of salt after the training camp, which lasted more than a month, all the complaints disappeared. During the training, the government would provide meals, and at the end of the training, there would be salt to take. Is there such a good thing in the world?
For a time, the entire Jibei County became bustling with activity, and even those who had already exceeded the conscription standards wanted to join in.

In the end, Jibei County, with a population of more than 100,000, actually assembled an army of 20,000 people, although some of them were a little older, over 40 years old.

The 20,000-strong army was divided into six battalions according to the different regions, imitating the system of the six armies of the emperor. During the training, people's names kept appearing in the military records of the county governor's office.

The purpose of Yang Chong organizing this military training was not only to assemble an army of 20,000 people, but also to select elite troops during the training process and to select a standing army similar to the Wei Wuzu on the basis of the existing military system.

During the one-month training, Yang Chong used almost strict standards to finally select a team of only 2,300 elite soldiers, and armed them thoroughly with weapons from South Korea to form an elite infantry.

However, the cavalry was slightly insufficient. Even though Yang Chong had purchased enough war horses, most of Jibei County had previously belonged to Qi State. After all, only a few ordinary people knew how to ride horses, and even fewer could ride and fight. Therefore, Yang Chong only got a cavalry of 500 people in the end.

Although the number of people is small, Yang Chong is already very satisfied with the results achieved in less than a year. As for future things, he can only take one step at a time.

With this training and reorganization, Yang Chong will be able to maximize his own interests in the war coming next year, improve his status in Zhao State, and then strengthen his own strength, and truly begin his strategy against Qi State.

Now that King Zheng of Qin has come to power, there is not much time left for Yang Chong. Before the complete demise of the State of Zhao, Yang Chong must completely control the State of Qi and turn Qi's resources into war potential. Only in this way can he compete with the State of Qin in the future.

When it came to September, the year was coming to an end, and Yancheng from the coast had also shipped out a large amount of salt a month ago. In addition to rewarding the soldiers in training, a large amount of salt was also transported to Handan.

During this process, Yang Chong also left Raoan City and headed towards Handan.

Salt is a more profitable industry than paper. If Yang Chong wants to make the salt produced in Jibei County truly popular in Zhao State, there are still many things to do, the most important of which is to find a strong and reliable partner.

That is Queen Zhao.

A person who will rule the State of Zhao in the future but eventually lead it to its destruction.

For the State of Zhao, the Queen of Zhao was indeed a disaster, but for Yang Chong, this disaster was the best cooperation partner.

If Queen Zhao was really a strong woman like the Queen Dowager Xuan of Qin, Yang Chong would have kept his distance from her. Unfortunately, Queen Zhao did not have the breadth of mind and courage of the Queen Dowager Xuan of Qin. All she had was selfishness and cleverness, and this was what Yang Chong could take advantage of.

As for how much Queen Zhao would get from him in the process, Yang Chong didn't care at all, because his ultimate goal was the entire State of Zhao.

When the entire State of Zhao belonged to him, would Yang Chong still care about how much a woman got from him?

Anyway, the meat will eventually rot in the pot, so Yang Chong just treated Queen Zhao as a piggy bank. With this mentality, Yang Chong was very generous to Queen Zhao.

So, when Queen Zhao saw the gift sent by Yang Chong, she was shocked.

(End of this chapter)