The open ground in the Bugui Pud is full of stones, bricks, mud, wood, sand and other building materials.

While directing a group of plasterers to dig foundations and build new houses in Buguidun, Wu Liang talked about the main matters of building the house to Li Xiao.

"Li Baihu, now in Liaodong, ordinary residents usually build houses around 20 taels. Now we are building new houses in Buguidun. Because they are all single rooms and have uniform specifications, they can be much easier. A house can be calculated by digging foundations, laying stones, building walls, erecting columns, adding doors and windows, erecting beams, building roofs, and painting. It can be as high as 12 taels of silver. In this way, it only takes 300 taels of silver to build these 25 houses."

Wu Liang's meticulous planning made Li Xiao very satisfied.

"Mr. I have calculated it carefully, very good! From now on, I will not be responsible for all the expenses in the pier. The teacher will be responsible for the recruitment of the troops and their families in the guesthouse, and then make a detailed plan."

"Students should follow the orders of the 100-hundred-household adults."

Only four days later, Li Xiao, who was practicing riding and shooting with a group of whistle riding and cascade, saw Wang Yishou, Tian Wei and others, and a group of refugees in ragged clothes, coming to Buguidun.

"Reported to a hundred households, the militia have recruited all of them, and a total of 25 qualified soldiers have been recruited, which is 3 more than your plan. These people, I and Yishou, have carefully selected and obtained from all over Jinzhou. They are all strong and capable of riding horses. They tried them on the spot, and there are 5 of them who know how to shoot arrows. There are 68 people from the family, and they are all brought together." Tian Wei wiped the dust and sweat from his face, and said happily.

"Report to the deputy team, these families include 16 old men, 13 old women, 22 strong women, 9 young men, and 8 young girls. You don't know that they ate the bread we gave us, and heard us say that we don't go back to the dock here, and we have food and accommodation. The soldiers have monthly salary every month. Okay, the people who came to take the exam were so enthusiastic! Even if they couldn't push it, hehe." Wang Yishou added quickly.

Wang Yishou smiled afterwards, and then he turned around and shouted to the numb refugees: "You can't meet the Lord Baihu quickly. If it weren't for Lord Baihu's use of this kind hand, I'm afraid you're still wandering around now."

"................................ thank you for your life."

A group of refugees knelt down one after another, and the sound of thanks rang out in a mixed manner.

Li Xiao asked everyone to stand up, looked around with a concerned look, and then said loudly: "I, Li Xiao, welcome everyone to I Buguidun. Here, you will have a new beginning. You are no longer refugees who are wandering around without food and clothing, but will become soldiers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's official army! I hope you can all follow me to work hard, have a good way out and have a good future!"

After Li Xiao finished speaking, there were chaotic thank-you sounds coming from below.

Li Xiao looked at the refugees below eagerly. From the expressions of these refugees, he could clearly see that the flames of hope began to be beating in the numb eyes that almost everyone had the same numb eyes.

Next, Li Xiao asked Wang Yishou to take refugees to a nearby mountain stream to take a bath.

According to Li Xiao's request, Wang Yishou divided the refugees into men and women, and took a bath at the end of the stream, separated from each other from invisible distances.

Keeping your personal clean and hygienic may be the least expensive way to prevent diseases and plagues.

In the late Ming Dynasty, when there was a shortage of medical treatment and medicine, once a plague broke out due to health problems, all the great achievements planned by Li Xiao will become a passing cloud.

He even thought that soon, he would set up a public bathhouse so that everyone under him would develop the good habit of being clean and tidy.

While the refugees were going to take a shower, Li Xiao asked Tian Wei to continue leading the team to train, while he and Wu Liang discussed plans after the refugees arrived.

Food is the most important thing for the people and food is the main focus of the army. The focus of the discussion is the issue of food.

"Sir, I don't know if our department has expanded the recruitment of these soldiers, and the superiors will provide food and salary?"

Wu Liang's gentle question made Li Xiao fall silent.

He was almost certain that Wang Daoqi was determined to punish Gao Pu, the captain of the whistle-making cavalry, and himself, and he and the other 7 whistle-making cavalrymen, it is hard to say whether he could come again to receive food and grass from him. Those soldiers who had expanded their enrollment without authorization would not have to want to receive even a grain of rice and grain from this person.

"Sir, if all the food and grass are self-sufficient, how much does it take?" Li Xiao asked in an inadvertent tone.

"Sir Hundred Houses, if this is the case, I will tell you in detail." Wu Liang paused, and then said with a thoughtful look: "When the student was in Dongjiang Town that day, he calculated that if a soldier wanted to ensure that he had to go out for exercises every day, he would have to eat at least one and a half pounds of grain, and at the same time he had to eat a few taels of meat. If the soldier had no meat supplement, he would be very likely to urinate, be weak, and even faint, and this person would be useless."

"But I don't know what the price of grain is now? Is meat expensive?"

"Reporting to hundreds of households, the Tartars are now invading the border, and the prices of goods are rising. In Jinzhou City, the price of rice and grain is about 3 taels, and the price of meat is pork: 3 cents per kilogram of 5 cents of silver. Lamb: 4 cents per kilogram of 2 cents of silver. Beef: 5 cents per kilogram of 4 cents of silver. These are still the price of lean meat. If it is fat, add 2 cents of silver per kilogram..."

Wu Liang was still talking to himself, but Li Xiao fell into deep thought.

Li Xiao read some Ming history in his previous life. The Songjiang Prefecture Chronicle recorded that during the Wanli period, he could buy two stones of rice and flour for one tael of silver. Now, in western Liaoning, it takes three taels of silver to buy one stone of rice and grain. In just a few decades, the price has increased six times! The soaring speed is really shocking.

Compared with the current era of soaring wars and chaotic prices in this year, the Wanli era, which has always been dirty by historians, has made these ordinary people who are struggling in troubled times yearn for it so much.

Of course, the price of staple foods such as rice and grain has increased six times compared with the Wanli period. The meat food, which is a side food, has increased slightly, and compared with the mid-term Wanli period, it has only increased by more than three times.

Some readers may not understand why the price increase of meat is smaller than that of staple foods, because in ancient society, ordinary people rarely eat meat, and generally only wealthy households often consume this kind of consumption. Therefore, in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, the increase of staple foods was far greater than that of meat. But even so, the price of this meat was terrible higher than that of the Wanli period.

Li Xiao pondered for a while and said to Wu Liang: "The training of the warriors is hard, and they really can't bear it without eating meat. Let's do this. Each warrior is set to three taels of pork and two kilograms of rice and grain per day."

Wu Liang was stunned for a moment. The 100-household master was very pleased and willing to invest in the food of the soldiers.

But he knew that Li Xiao's investment was absolutely considerable.

To calculate the details, a soldier has two kilograms of rice and three taels of pork every day. Then, a bucket of rice can be eaten for about 4 days. If one stone of rice is calculated as ten dou, then a soldier will have to eat 7 and a half dou of rice in a month. If one month is 30 days, then the total 35 soldiers in Buguidun will have to eat nearly 27 kilograms of rice and grain per month, which means that the price of staple food consumed by more than 80 taels of silver per month.

In addition, with the cost of meat, the civil war soldiers in Buguidun have to spend more than 120 taels of silver every month to eat meat.

In this way, the food expenses of the warriors alone reached 200 taels per month.

In fact, this fee is still an ideal state of pure numbers. If you want to fight against enemy soldiers, you must also make the soldiers eat better, so that they will only spend more money at that time.

"In order to save money, the families of soldiers in the war can temporarily give them only porridge or wild vegetables to survive, but this is much better than being left on the streets. The students have calculated that if this is the case, they do not have to provide meat, and each person consumes only one-third of the food that the soldiers in the war. In this case, it will cost less than 80 taels of silver per month." Wu Liang continued.

"Very good, just do what you said."

"Sir, if you buy horses in the future, the monthly cost of fine beans will be quite large. Judging from the students' experience in Dongjiang Town that day, a horse will calculate four kilograms of material and eight kilograms of grass every day. Each horse will consume about eight cents of silver in the money of beans and grass every day. In this way, if we calculate 40 horses, the monthly cost of silver will cost nearly one hundred taels."

Li Xiao fell into silence again.

Many things sound simple, but if you really need to do it, you will realize the difficulties.

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting once said in the memorial: "One thousand three hundred and twenty-eight horses, each day's branch grass is eight cents silver, and each day's branch grass is fifty-four, and each day's branch grass is five cents silver." The cost of raising horses is so large that the expense of a cavalry is about equal to the expense of five elite infantry. In the future, the cavalry team must also be equipped with professional personnel such as blacksmiths, carpenters and veterinarians, and the expenses of these are also quite considerable.

Now counting the total number, without fighting, Li Xiao wants to maintain the normal operation of this group of people, and the monthly meal cost is more than 380 taels.

Li Xiao didn't know the specific price of horses wearing armor. He guessed in his mind that if according to what Tian Wei said, the formation of each whistle cavalry cost about 150 taels, it is likely that the establishment price of heavy cavalry with both men and horses wearing iron armor would double. Even if he was frugal in all aspects, he would have to purchase 270 taels of each heavy cavalry to complete the required items.

Now Li Xiao plans to plan according to the current number of people, the number of 20 heavy cavalry remains unchanged, and the light cavalry will be changed to 15. Then the total price of re-establishment is about 7,650 taels!

To be more specific, Li Xiao and other nine whistle cavalry have horses and weapons, and five of them already have armor. Then the cost of forming these people can be deducted. If each person has a balance fee of 130 taels, it can save 1,170 taels.

In this way, it can be calculated that the total cost of completing the formation of the entire cavalry team is about 6480 taels.

In addition, Li Xiao also plans to maintain the monthly salary of each soldier every month, that is, each person has 2.5 cents per month, and in this case, he will have to spend nearly 90 taels of silver every month.

Li Xiao had given the four pieces of silk that were rewarded by Li Xiao at the price of 15 taels per piece to the satin shop, and he received 60 taels of silver. In addition, the imperial court only had more than 200 taels of silver, plus the 4,000 taels of silver and more than 300 taels of gold. The total amount of silver Li Xiao's silver was about 8,000 taels.

Now we can see that the money Li Xiao had on hand was only enough to form a team and spend more than three months on food and monthly salary, and all the money was spent.

Wu Liang's worried eyes cast towards Li Xiao, and Li Xiao could understand the true meaning of his eyes.
Chapter completed!