At the front of the team, there were three knights lined up and talking.
Among these three knights, the one in the middle is Cao Gan, who has a big head. On the left is Gao Mo, who is usually inseparable from Gao Pingshi. On the right is Gao Jue, who has been under Qi Jiguang's command for half a year and has just been temporarily sent.
Judging from the positions of the three people walking together, there is no doubt that Cao Gan is the leader of the trip, followed by Gao Mo, and then Gao Jue.
"Gao Tuanzuo, there is something that I have been holding in my mind for several days, and I have always wanted to ask you." Seeing that he was about to reach his destination, Cao Gan, who couldn't hold his words in his heart, couldn't help but ask.
The "group" he refers to refers to Gao Mo. Due to the rapid expansion of the soap industry and the sales of the products, Gao pragmatically upgraded the specifications of the servant escort team by two levels in advance. The previous "team" actually corresponded to the company level. Now Beyond the battalion level, he went directly to the regiment level, and Gao Mo was the first head of the servant guard group.
Cao Gan has actually been deprived of his "military power" by Gao Pangshi, and was renamed "President of Foreign Trade", and is known to the outside world as "Jinghua Chamber of Commerce Treasurer". The title "president" is a common word in the Ming Dynasty. For example, "so-and-so is the president of official history", which usually refers to the person in charge of compiling a certain history book. The meaning is basically the same as that of later generations. The word "cai" here for "president" means "adjudication".
In fact, when Gao Pangshi decided to combine the infantry and cavalry into a servant guard regiment, even Gao Mo, who already knew that he had been appointed as the regiment leader, was very worried, fearing that something would get out of hand.
Because at that time, although the infantry establishment of the Jia Ding Guards had been expanded to about 600 people, and the team captains who served as the backbone were all personally trained by Qi Jiguang, the entire team also incorporated the military regulations established by Gao Pragmatic and the training rules of the Qi Family Army. I have been training for more than two months, and I am a force I can rely on.
But the problem is that the cavalry force, with the Bailixia Bandit Horse as its main strength, has also expanded a lot at that time, with a scale of more than a thousand. Except that it is not equipped with firearms and armor, it can be said to be well-equipped in terms of cold weapons, and even more Not to mention that because financial resources are more urgent and abundant than before, the cavalry troops have sufficient horses. On average, two cavalrymen can have about three horses.
This is already a powerful cavalry that makes Ma Fang secretly jealous. After all, Ming's current cavalry family... is really not enough.
Cao Gan has always been in charge of the armed cavalry. The people leading the troops are all his old people, and many of them are even relatives of his wife's family. At that time, Gao Pragmatic suddenly wanted to "take back military power". Mo was very worried that Cao Gan would betray him without doing anything, and that would be a big trouble... These were more than a thousand well-equipped elite cavalry. They were the core combat force of the servant level in the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. If it was really If you rebel, even if you can't take important towns like Xuanfu and Datong, you can conquer some counties and even prefectures with limited troops!
If something like this happens, let alone Gao Pragmatic himself, I'm afraid even Gao Gong will be implicated - this is your servant, and your servants have rebelled. Do you dare to say that you are not guilty?
But Gao Jingshi had prepared enough backup for this, he had the courage to do it, and he knew that he had to do it quickly while the number of armed cavalry was still under a controllable number, otherwise he would be in even greater trouble if he took over power in the future.
The most important back-ups made by Gao pragmatism are the following:
First, all the infantry and cavalry guards were sent to Datong, and they were gathered together in the name of asking Ma Fang for training. Then they ordered the infantry to guard the camp, and the cavalry horse farm was also guarded by the infantry.
Next, in the name of "communicating with Zhao Ke", Cao Gan was transferred to Xuan Mansion for business, and Gao Yui was transferred to Datong to manage the two major escort teams of infantry and cavalry. Gao Mo was also sent to Xuan Mansion to announce the reassignment order to Cao Gan and take charge of it. Convince or appease Cao Gan.
Then, ask Ma Fang to mobilize elite troops to secretly monitor the Jia Ding escort camp in the name of patrolling and reinforcing defenses on the grounds that he was attacked by Anda in April. Once any abnormality is discovered, he will immediately take control of the situation.
Finally, Gao Jue, with a highly pragmatic job adjustment order and the "half-year reward for the Cavalry Guard" - a full eighty thousand taels of cash - issued Cao Gan's adjustment order to the chief cavalry guard who stayed at the Datong camp.
There is also an important time difference here: Gao Mo announces to Cao Gan that adjustments are coming first, and he needs to convince Cao Gan to order a summons to Datong, saying that he has "happily accepted the order" - how to convince Gao Pragmatic to ignore it, but try to ensure Those who come to write, not those who come to martial arts.
This is the entire action plan, and before the plan, Gao Jingshi's "eat the eldest son's food and obey the eldest son's orders" had been implemented for several months, and the so-called "half-year bonus" was not proposed temporarily, but long ago. Let’s inform all the armed servants first.
In this way, with both carrot and stick, it is basically difficult for the low-level cavalry to oppose the adjustment out of the so-called "loyalty" to the "old master" - because the "old master" is not there at all, and there is news that he actively accepts the adjustment. .
Although the small bosses in the middle and upper classes may have doubts, first of all, they can get enough reward money; secondly, the location of the announcement of the adjustment is in the main camp guarded by infantry servants. They are completely isolated from their subordinates and can only agree to it. After adjusting their appointments, they will be arranged to be transferred out of Datong in batches - this does not allow them to form a joint force. How could they dare to rebel when there were only a hundred or so people left in each force, and logistical supplies relied entirely on highly pragmatic arrangements?
Even so, Gao's pragmatic methods are still not over. As early as when he asked Ma Fang to help him train the cavalry, he began to expand the cavalry guard. Part of it was the same as the wandering Mongolians among Ma Fang's servants. Mongolian knights, these people were fooled by Gao Pragmatic's brainwashing method, and they longed to ask Gao Pragmatic to be their godfather - well, in fact, there is no need to deliberately fool them, they were originally frustrated knights in the battle between the grassland tribes, and suddenly they embraced Only a fool would let go of a wealthy Ming Dynasty man like Gao Shidu with thick legs.
This group of people recognizes the important guiding ideology of "eat the eldest son's food and obey the eldest son's orders" even more than Han Ding. The best among them are either appointed as deputy captains of the Cavalry Guards, or are given the title of Riding Skills The title of coach completely separates some military power.
Some of the young riders who were originally from Bailixia were appointed as "Ji Gang" (military judges) after training and enjoyed some unique status and power. They had already regarded the eldest young master as their benefactor and divided them up. Partial military power.
Under this situation, the reorganization of this team was put on the agenda by Gao Pragmatic and started.
The only problem at that time was Cao Gan's own attitude.
However, Gao Jingshi gave him a condition that Cao Gan couldn't refuse after much thought, and his wife even urged him to accept it: Gao Jingshi promised him a dividend of 1% of the annual profits of his extraoral smuggling business.
Wealth and silk moved people's hearts. Although Cao Gan privately felt that it was a pity that he only received dividends instead of "shares", he thought that after clearing his identity as a thief, he was just a servant leader of the Gao family. He could get such a With a large amount of money, my son can continue to study with Gao Shi, so what is there to complain about?
You know, he was responsible for the smuggling business before. Although this year's business was somewhat affected by the war, after the eldest son successfully obtained the goods from Yangzhou, the trade volume still more than doubled compared with previous years. It is expected that this year The net profit must exceed one hundred thousand taels, and one percent is more than one thousand taels of silver. This is not a small number!
When he was the head of the family, it seemed that all the income was distributed to him. However, the family's business was huge and the expenses were huge. He also had to bear the responsibility for the life and death of the entire Bailixia. How could he now clear his identity and secure such a big job? Easy and comfortable money?
After all, Cao Gan's hard work in his early years has made him exhausted. As a man in his forties, his thoughts have long been turned to "hoping for his son to succeed". Now that he can let go, isn't it a good thing? Originally, he had been worried about the eldest son's suspicion, but now that the military power has been handed over, the eldest son will not insist on killing everyone, right?
So, he directly asked his wife to go and pass the message on his behalf.
The major reorganization matters have been decided.
But within three months, Gao Pragmatic sent him to visit Fengzhou in person, but did not explain the mission.
What's even more surprising is that the new regiment leader and deputy regiment leader Gao Mo Gao Jue were dispatched at the same time and came together.
When they arrived outside Fengzhou City, Cao Gan "President Cao" who had endured the whole journey finally couldn't help but ask questions.
