Zhu Dashan was so moved when he said on the phone, he thought that these generals and ministers who had resisted the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years would be the same as him. As a result, when they all stared at themselves innocently, Zhu Dashan said curtly: "Isn't what I said a little too noble?" "Everyone present was contemptuous.

Liu Tichun said: "Don't talk about these useless things, just tell me what you want to do, didn't you just say that you want to discuss with us?" Wen Anzhi also said: "Yes, be simple." Zhu Dashan said: "Before discussing, I have some questions I want to ask your seniors. Dang Shousu straightened his clothes, sat down and said, "Let's hear it." ”

Zhu Dashan said: "I don't want to offend the generals, I have heard that the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty are all alive and well, why is it that a pair of Manchurian Eight Banners is like mud that can't support the wall, but when they surrender to the Qing army, they are like divine help, and they are not afraid of death?" Liu Tichun and the others present were all the remnants of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and they all looked at Zhu Dashan angrily after listening to Zhu Dashan's words.

Liu Tichun said hatefully: "Who knows, you go and ask them." Zhu Dashan said: "I'm not going to ask anyone, if we don't know, how can we win the Qing army?" Wen Anzhi also said: "Although what Ping Yuhou said is inappropriate, only by knowing oneself and knowing oneself can one not be defeated." I think there are many reasons, but there are two main ones, one is that at that time, the marquis rose up by means of dividing large households, so the Ming army as a guardian of the place is basically a local to have high combat effectiveness, but later against the Qing soldiers Most of the Ming army are mainly guest soldiers, and they can't run if they can't beat them, so it's like a plate of scattered sand. The second is that after they surrendered to the Qing army, the Qing army was restrained by the cool law and used the slaughter and plundering as a reward to encourage the surrender of troops to attack the city, so they could have high morale and not be afraid of death. ”

Dang Shousu also said: "Yes, the Qing soldiers can slaughter and plunder the city, but we can't, so our sergeants' morale is much shorter than that of the Qing soldiers." This war is about morale, and if you don't have morale, you can't fight well" Zhu Dashan said: "What Inspector Wen said is reasonable, although I don't agree with some of them, but this is indeed the reason." But I don't quite agree with the Qing army's massacre of the city. The King of Jin can fight such a good situation with two famous kings, he has no other army, he did not slaughter the city, and there are not many generals brought by the King of Shu when he entered Sichuan, but Li Guoying, who can fight the same, Wu Sangui only has dozens of people left to flee to Baoning. Liu Tichun and the others saw Zhu Dashan say that both of them were Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, obviously a little unconvinced.

Zhu Dashan continued: "Last year, you also gathered 100,000 troops to fight Chongqing, what was the result? Ta Tianbao said angrily: "You kid dare to laugh at us." Let me tell you, if it weren't for Tan Wen and Tan Yi, we would have conquered Chongqing. Zhu Dashan said: "General Ta don't be angry first, I said that we just want to find out the reason for our failure, and besides, I think even if Er Tan does not rebel, you may not be able to take Chongqing." "This time, Hao Yongzhong, Liu Tichun, and Dang Shousu are all a little unhappy. He Zhen saw it and hurriedly said: "Ping Yuhou's words are biased, why can't he beat it." ”

Zhu Dashan looked at the crowd: "I guess the King of Shu also had your determination when he fought Baoning. But he also failed. Moreover, when the King of Jin attacked Zhaoqing and the Second Eastern Crusade against Xinhui, although there were mistakes in decision-making, I think there was only one biggest reason. Wen Anzhi also became interested at this time: "What is the reason?" ”

Zhu Dashan said: "The order is not even. The crowd was puzzled and asked, "The order is not in order?" Why is it that the orders are not in order. Zhu Dashan said: "You see the king of Shu attacking Baoning, because Zhang Xianbi's generals ignored the siege of the army and exposed the gap to let Wu Sangui's sneak attack succeed." Coupled with the uneven orders between the various departments, you fought for each other so that the army collapsed in an instant. Wen Anzhi also nodded and said: "What you said is reasonable" Zhu Dashan said again: "Looking at the Jin King's attack on Zhaoqing and Xinhui, the Jin King's two eastern expeditions were supported by a large number of righteous troops in Guangdong and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, but it was their support that made the Jin King's army chaotic, and the orders of the various departments were difficult to pass, giving the Qing army a chance to breathe." If the armies of all the armies could have worked together as they did when the Jin Dynasty had not entered Guangdong, Zhaoqing and Xinhui would have been broken long ago, and the two Eastern Crusades would have failed. ”

Wen Anzhi: "There is indeed a big reason for this, so it seems that we may not be able to defeat the joint attack on Chongqing last year." Hearing Wen'an Zhidu say this, several people present were a little embarrassed and secretly felt ashamed. He Zhen also said: "This is probably the reason why we have been trapped in Kuidong. Zhu Dashan said: "But the king of Shu can conquer Sichuan, the king of Jin can conquer the east twice, and the king can be two famous kings, and the generals can fight back to Kuidong again after the Qing army occupies Kuidong, and occupy Xunyang, which shows that our current army combat strength is not worse than that of the Qing army." What we lack is a lack of orders. ”

Liu Tichun said: "I'm afraid you, Brother Zhu, are going to discuss this order with us." Zhu Dashan was a little embarrassed by Liu Tichun and said: "Yes, this is one thing." Since the beginning of the Jiashen national disaster, fifteen years have passed now, and the people of the Ming Dynasty want a peace and need a peace. The Han people have shed too much blood in the past fifteen years. So in the coming days, no matter what happens in the future, I will arrange for officials to govern the places I can control. One is for the people, and the other is for the food and grass of our army in the future, which must be done. ”

Wen Anzhi sighed: "It's really a blessing for the people to think like this." Zhu Dashan said again: "And this is also related to the matter of the reorganization of the army in the future, and it involves the worries of the army." Everyone was puzzled, and Ta Tianbao said: "I said Brother Zhu, you are far away, what does your army have to do with local governance?" It's the first time I've heard of the old tower. Zhu Dashan said: "Yes, this is also what I came up with." (In fact, Zhu Dashan mainly relied on some ideas of later generations of great people, but if he wanted to say it from the mouth of the people at that time, he could only say that he thought about it, and it could not be said that it was the experience of later generations.) So I won't explain this later)

Wen Anzhi and Liu Tichun have also been worrying about these problems, and now when they heard Zhu Dashan's thoughts again, they said: "Say it, let's refer to it in detail." Zhu Dashan looked at everyone, and saw that everyone was looking at him eagerly, so he said: "These ,,, were originally to be talked about after the army was reorganized, but the whole army involved the issue of orders. Dang Shousu said: "I know what you think, don't you just want everyone to listen to you, first talk about your thoughts, if everyone agrees, what if you listen to your orders?" If it weren't for the thousands of brothers under my command and the tens of thousands of women, children, and children behind me who had to eat, I wouldn't have wanted to be these masters a long time ago. Several others chimed in, saying that they didn't want to bring any soldiers for a long time.

Zhu Dashan didn't know how true what Dang Shousu and the others said, but now it seemed that it was impossible not to say it, so he said: "Then I'll talk about it." Wen Anzhi also said: "Say it, see if it's reasonable." Zhu Dashan thought for a moment and said: "Earlier, we said that the way to boost the morale of the Qing soldiers was to indulge the soldiers to slaughter the city and loot money. But we can't do that, because we're all Han Chinese. Especially the performance of the soldiers after the surrender of Chengdu Prefecture this time, I am also very confused, I have been thinking about what our soldiers want, if I can give them all to me, as long as it can boost morale. ”

Ta Tianbao immediately agreed: "Yes, every time I see the morale of our own army fall, I can't wait to cut off the meat for them, but it's not useful." Hao Yongzhong pulled Ta Tianbao and asked him to listen to Zhu Dashan. Zhu Dashan said again: "But I thought about it a lot, but I couldn't help it." Later, I thought about my own purpose in Sichuan, I thought it was just to plant a few acres of land, and I didn't want anything else. It occurred to me that, yes, why can't I give the soldiers land? Which of us Han people doesn't regard the land as their own life and their roots? , don't the soldiers have roots when they have land? ”

He Zhen said: "What kind of method are you, you just give them land, they can't plant, if they all go to farm, who will go to war." You're not good at that. Liu Tichun also said: "Look at what you said about bluffing, it turned out to be such a bad idea." Not good, not good. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "Listen to me first, of course it's not for the soldiers to farm, if they have a family, they can let their family plant, and if they don't have a family, we can find a family for them." Ta Tianbao said: "Find his family, in this era of war and chaos, where do you go to find his family." Zhu Dashan said with a smile: "Who said that he was going to his hometown to find his family." Wen Anzhi said: "Do you want to find them a daughter-in-law?" Zhu Dashan said: "Why not" Several other people looked at Zhu Dashan in surprise.

Zhu Dashan said: "In this era of war and chaos, there are many widows who have died of men, and those who are soldiers have no scruples. Let's give them a daughter-in-law and let him have a home, so that there will be no one to farm, and the displaced people can also be resettled, so that they can quickly settle down. Liu Tichun said: "This can indeed quickly bring your army's military spirit together, but morale may not have much impact." Zhu Dashan said: "Of course, this alone is not enough, for those who escape on the battlefield and retreat without authorization, in addition to the military law, they must also confiscate the allocated land, and the rear family members will serve hard labor for one year, and this year they will work in the homes of meritorious soldiers, and the main family will only give them food." And his own land tax is increased by 20%. ”

Dang Shousu said: "In this way, whoever dares to go to the battlefield will not have to die." Liu Tichun also said: "In this way, the combat power of the army will be at least doubled." Zhu Dashan continued: "There is a punishment and a reward, all those who have been commended for bravely killing the enemy on the battlefield, the soldier-level family can get five stone of grain rewarded by the government every year, the official-level family tax can be reduced or exempted, and the hometown of more than 1,000 households can build a heroic archway, and the family can be exempted from forced labor for two years." Each higher level contains a low-level reward, that is, the general's reward includes a soldier's reward. Rewards for military merit on other battlefields are not counted, and military merit is calculated separately by the army. Hao Yongzhong said: "If this is the case, the soldiers are not crazy." Ta Tianbao said: "Brother Zhu, when will you reorganize the army, I will bring people over." It's good if you put something on me."

He Zhen also said: "As soon as you say the conditions now, if we don't reorganize with you, I estimate that all our soldiers will run out in a few days." Forget it, I'll bring people over. Although Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu did not express their position, they also laughed.

Now the opposite is that Wen Anzhi has been groaning and not speaking, and everyone is also paying attention to Wen Anzhi's situation. Liu Tichun said: "Does Inspector Wen have anything to say?" Wen Anzhi: "If you want to say that I have no opinions." It's just that after Ping Yuhou integrates everyone, he is going to do this? ”

Zhu Dashan said: "I plan to integrate the army in a month first, and then attack Chengdu, Qiongzhou, and Meizhou to the west, and then capture Jiading, Xuzhou, and Luzhou to the south." Attack Chongqing again and drive Li Guoying out of Sichuan. There are still a lot of Ming troops in western Sichuan, and then attack Guizhou together, and the people in western Sichuan will go to Qixingguan, and we will take Chongqing and go south to Zunyi. Cut off the roads and grain routes for the Qing army to return. ”

Wen Anzhi: "That's not what I'm talking about. Zhu Dashan was stunned, but saw Liu Tichun and others also staring at him. suddenly thought that after he reorganized the army like this, the whole Sichuan would be the most powerful, and Wen Anzhi was worried that he would not listen to the orders of the imperial court.

After Zhu Dashan figured it out, he suddenly had an idea, Wen Anzhi did not integrate the army in Kuidong, is it also because of this reason? After all, the imperial court is already located in Yunnan, and the emperor is far away, if everyone is divided into many groups, they need Wen Anzhi, the superintendent sent by the imperial court, to mediate the disputes of the families, and they cannot do without the imperial court. But once the family is combined and everyone has no contradictions, Wen Anzhi, the superintendent sent by the imperial court, loses its role. When he wanted to attack the Qing army, did everyone still listen to him?

After Zhu Dashan thought of this, he looked at Liu Tichun and the others, obviously they all knew about this situation. The room was silent for a while, and Zhu Dashan thought for a moment and said: "If it is possible, I will try my best to save the imperial court, and my previous arrangement can also show that I am working hard to save the imperial court." But I don't know exactly what will happen. ”

Wen Anzhi still didn't speak, and Zhu Dashan said again: "Regarding the rectification of the army, I will definitely do it, as for what you think, I can't control it." At least I'm still in the army of the Ming Dynasty, and if you don't want to, or if you don't accept it, I won't force it. ”

Wen'an's way: "What about Da Ming?" Zhu Dashan said: "I said that I will try my best to save the imperial court, you have also seen it, we don't know what the imperial court is doing now, the Qing army has been attacking Guizhou for more than half a year." If we are still here calculating how to check and balance, calculating who is loyal or not. What is the significance of the imperial court? ”

Wen An said angrily: "Don't we want to be loyal? Zhu Dashan said: "Master Wen, I admire your loyalty, but can we defeat the Qing army with loyalty?" Besides, is it important to save the Ming Dynasty or the Han people in the world? Wen Anzhi roared: "What if you save the world without loyalty? Zhu Dashan also roared loudly: "Just because of loyalty, you don't want the world?" Don't care about the life or death of the Han people in the world? I said that as long as the court is still there, I will save the court, and when the court rescues me, the court thinks that I am not loyal enough, and gives me a few acres of thin land and I will hide by myself. ”

Liu Tichun persuaded: "Inspector Wen, you extinguish the fire, Ping Yuhou's loyalty can be seen, and it is enough to prove that such a place is played under the service of the Qing soldiers, and Ping Yuhou will not say a word, you see that Inspector Wen is angry, and this year's health of Inspector Wen is often not good." ”