After they had taken all the silver, Qian Ruoyu spoke to all of them.

"Listen, everyone. You must forge as many iron tools as possible within half a month. There are dozens of you in total. If you can forge 2,000 swords and spears within 15 days, each of you will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver."

"In addition, if you can also forge the iron plates on the armor, you will get an additional 10 taels of silver as a reward, for a total of 20 taels of silver."

Qian Ruoyu did some calculations in his mind and concluded that if he asked dozens of them to build these things together within fifteen days, it would be a rather harsh condition!

But if they are willing to work day and night, they can obviously complete it within fifteen days, and Qian Ruoyu will reward them with a full twenty taels of silver.

Blacksmithing was one of the three most arduous jobs in ancient times, and their monthly income was less than one or two taels of silver, and they even had to put in a lot of physical effort.

Now Qian Ruoyu allows them to earn nearly two years' income in just half a month's work, so they are naturally very excited.

Qian Ruoyu thought to himself that if he had more than two thousand swords and guns, he would be able to barely expand his current bandit-suppression army.

After all, only with weapons in hand can one be considered combat effective, and before that, everyone is now building a camp.

At this time, Jin Lianhua was directing everyone to work together in a large open space.

The thousands of recruited people were divided into several teams. One team went to the mountain to cut down trees, and the other team trimmed the felled trees.

The last team used these repaired materials to build fences for the camp and parts inside the camp.

After all, the money given by Qian Ruoyu was enough, so everyone worked very hard at this time, and it had nothing to do with their military pay.

It was precisely because of this that almost everyone worked very hard for Qian Ruoyu, and no one was willing to stop.

After seeing Qian Ruoyu coming, Jin Lianhua just lowered her head towards Qian Ruoyu, and then began to give orders to the people around her.

"Hurry up and cut them into sharp pieces. We still need 600 pieces!"

"Hurry up and build the tents over here. Don't waste time!"

Seeing that Jin Lianhua could help her so much made Qian Ruoyu extremely happy. Although she did not show it, she regarded Jin Lianhua as her good sister in her heart.

And just after that, Qian Ruoyu just inspected this direction and found that this place was indeed quite good, because there was a section of earth slope between the Jiulong Mountain in the east and north of the city.

It was precisely because of this cover that Qian Ruoyu felt relieved. Otherwise, if the bandits from Jiulong Mountain took the opportunity to come here to cause trouble, the morale of the thousands of people under his command would probably be completely broken.

Among them were more than 600 defeated bandit-suppression troops. If they were hit again this time, they would probably never come back.

After all, these people have received training from the Ministry of War before, so they have some basic skills. Together with the dozens of palace guards in his own palace, they are obviously enough to serve as their coaches.

It was precisely because of this that Qian Ruoyu felt that training an anti-bandit army should not be a problem. What's more, the most important thing was that everything he had was very sufficient.

Whether it is food or place, Qian Ruoyu makes all materials as good as possible. After all, this is the early stage, so the money spent is actually not much.

Once a war really breaks out, the most expensive things will be the treatment of the wounded and compensation for the families of the injured.

Those were truly huge sums of money for Qian Ruoyu. After all, it took tremendous courage to send someone from his family over here.

It is precisely because of this that Qian Ruoyu hopes that the people under his command will be strong and powerful.

At the same time, Qian Ruoyu thought to himself that if it was just ordinary infantry, it might not be enough at all. At least his own bandit-suppression army would need to set up a cavalry.

The number of this cavalry does not need to be too large, but it must at least be very elite. Even if they cannot be used in Jiulong Mountain, Qian Ruoyu has seen that there are bandit cavalry on Jiulong Mountain.

After thinking about this, Qian Ruoyu pulled the Golden Lotus, which he had already commanded, in front of him and said to me.

"Lotus, do you have any method for training cavalry?"

After hearing this, Jin Lianhua shook her head helplessly.

"Well... I know how to ride a horse, but it would be a problem for me to actually teach others how to ride a horse, let alone fight on horseback..."

"By the way, isn't Si Yin the cavalry instructor? Madam, you can invite him over. With his help, it will be no problem for you to train the cavalry!"

After hearing these words, Qian Ruoyu came up with an idea. After all, Si Yin was indeed a very good coach.

If he could really invite Si Yin over, then training this strong cavalry would probably not be a problem at all.

Therefore, Qian Ruoyu found a way to call Si Yin to her side and told him what was in her mind.

After hearing what Qian Ruoyu said, Si Yin just thought about it for a moment and immediately said to Qian Ruoyu.

"It's not a big problem. After all, it's not a problem for Potash Fertilizer to set up a cavalry. But the question is, how many people should this cavalry have?"

Qian Ruoyu stretched out a finger without hesitation.

"A thousand people!"

This was even more so when he heard this number. Si Yin was a little surprised that he said it immediately.

"Well... isn't a thousand people too many? After all, the training cost of each cavalryman is at least thirty taels of silver. In this case, that would be a full thirty thousand taels of silver..."

"Now even the number of cavalry under the prince's command is only close to 200..."

When Qian Ruoyu heard about the two hundred cavalrymen, she was even more shocked. She had never thought that Chu Mobai only had two hundred cavalrymen. Was the cavalrymen really so important now? Moreover, each cavalryman had to spend thirty taels of silver to train.

But Qian Ruoyu had already made up his mind that this was indeed the number of cavalry that was needed. It was for this reason that I nodded to Si Yin.