Chapter 447 Pulling People
If Grand Duke Constantine only knew how to cry when he was in trouble, then he would definitely not have the status he has today. Although this little fat man has many bad points, there are still some good points. For example, he thought about it very much, and felt that since Sevastopol has become a huge pit, instead of crying and acting like a little girl here, it is better to hurry up and run away, and wait to talk to the real Menshikov PK it?
But he didn't just walk away, and soon he remembered the suggestions of Viscount Prozolov. Since Viscount Prozolov believes that the Volunteer Army will be their focus next, then his boss should pay attention to it and make a fuss about this focus.
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Naturally, it is necessary to find a way to build up the Volunteer Army as soon as possible, so what is the most lacking in establishing the Volunteer Army?
Grand Duke Constantine thought it was a talent, stragglers and cannon fodder or gray animals were all over the street, and a lot of them could be brought in for a few dollars. But no matter how many of these people gather together, they cannot be called an army.
You can't be called a soldier if you wear a military uniform and have a broken gun! Soldiers have unique souls. Grand Duke Constantine felt that what he lacked the most when he wanted to go to the Moldavian army was officers!
Although Moldavia does not lack nobles, nor does it lack nobles who have attended military academies, but most of these people are local local snakes.
It is impossible for the local local snakes to be of the same mind with him. If the volunteer army is established, these grandchildren must be appointed on a large scale. Grand Duke Constantine thinks it is better not to build it, because there are too many local snakes. It is absolutely impossible for the volunteer army to only listen to him of.
Grand Duke Constantine also expected to use the Volunteer Army to deter those dishonest local snakes, so how could he use those local snakes to be the leaders of the Volunteer Army?
According to Viscount Prozolov's estimate, based on their current financial resources, the size of the Volunteer Army cannot be too large, at most no more than 20,000 people. How many officers do 20,000 people need?
Not to mention too much, hundreds of officers are needed!
The question is where do these officers come from?
As mentioned earlier, the local snakes cannot be used, at least not too much, which determines that most of the officers have to find them from Russia. The problem is that it is not the graduation season of the military academy at this point in time. Where did Grand Duke Constantine find hundreds of officers to enrich his team?
What's more, the students of the Russian military academy can't meet the needs of Grand Duke Constantine. What's the use of a group of recruits who have never fought a war and just studied for a few years?
Therefore, Grand Duke Constantine is more inclined to poach the wall,
He even hopes to dig some capable officers from the Russian army to enrich his team. These people need experience and methods, and they need methods to deter new recruits. Moreover, Russian military officers will definitely not sell Moldavian local smugglers, which also guarantees the loyalty of the Volunteer Army.
But the problem is that it is not easy for so many officers to poach the wall. Although the treatment of the Russian army is very bad, it is difficult to retain grassroots officers. As long as there is enough money, some officers want to go to Moldavia to make extra money.
However, it is also a matter of level. Now that the conflict with Turkey is intensifying, any military officer with a little bit of political sensitivity knows that the next big war may be imminent.
At this time, the generals in the Russian army must be actively preparing for the battle, and it is simply unrealistic to try to get wool from them. Let them give you all the officers to the Grand Duke Constantine, so who will help them command the troops to fight!
Grand Duke Constantine contacted several veterans with old connections in Kiev, and contacted some military officers through their connections. When this group of people heard that they were going to Moldavia now, they shook their heads like a rattle.
Anyway, Grand Duke Constantine took a lot of effort and raised the salary by nearly 50%, only to barely find dozens of officers. More than half of them are retired military officers in their fifties, and only they are interested and have the freedom to go to Moldavia to make money.
This number of heads is definitely not enough, and Grand Duke Constantine can't break the rules and spend money to rob people everywhere, that will definitely annoy the generals of the military. And now that the Black Sea Fleet just happened to make him lose face, he naturally wasn't afraid of offending Kornilov and Nasimov. Since these two guys didn't give him face, he couldn't blame him for pulling wool.
The angry Grand Duke Constantine immediately issued a "recruitment advertisement" within the Black Sea Fleet in the name of the acting commander, luring those experienced middle-aged officers who were basically hopeless for promotion to go to Moldavia to work for him.
I have to say that this move is ruthless enough, because even Russian officers who are short of money among gold medal troops like the Black Sea Fleet are still the mainstream. Especially those Laojunguan who are close to fifty years old and have not been able to get a school-level military rank are very interested in this.
After all, they have no room for improvement, and they are getting older, so they can't compete with those young people. They are old and young and have no future. The pressure of money is not so great.
Now that Grand Duke Constantine has issued a conscription order, the salary is three times that of the Black Sea Fleet. Who can be tempted by such a good thing!
Anyway, on the day they saw the conscription order, nearly 2,000 grassroots officers came to Grand Duke Constantine to inquire about the situation. These people were obviously tempted.
This naturally made Grand Duke Constantine overjoyed. At first he thought that only a few hundred people could come! Who would have thought that two thousand people would come all of a sudden, these people are all treasures!
Why does Grand Duke Constantine think these officers are treasures? Not only because these people can solve his urgent needs, more than 2,000 people are interested, so it shouldn't be a big problem to pick a few hundred people, right?
And note that these two thousand are officers of the Black Sea Fleet, in a sense the humerus of Kornilov and Nasimov. Grand Duke Constantine just managed to make nearly 2,000 Black Sea Fleet officers have a good impression of him through a small trick. Isn't this a good thing?
He felt that as long as he could really implement the relevant treatment, the two thousand people must be full of expectations for him with those officers who demonstrated. Although these low-level officers could not play a decisive role, it also opened a hole in the Black Sea Fleet, allowing all officers to know that he is the acting commander and the benefits of following him.
If he can become a regular in the future, he may soon have the ability to wrestle with Kornilov and Nasimov. On that day, Grand Duke Constantine vowed to settle the old and new grudges together!
So, he became more and more enthusiastic about this matter, and personally met those interested officers in the auditorium of the Black Sea Fleet, and talked about the relevant treatment and benefits tirelessly...