"With General Min's exploits, it is extremely easy to get the command of a guard." Zhou Liangmin said in a deep voice: "However, it is still a little difficult to get a real position in the battalion. ”

"I have relatives and friends who are active in Nanjing." Min Yuanqi was also calm, and answered: "There are letters that have come over one after another, and it is not difficult to command the guards, but it is difficult to get the actual job of the battalion, which is generally the same way." ”

"Yes." Zhou Liangmin smiled and said: "The imperial court has been suppressing the Kou since the second year of Chongzhen, and there are thousands of tens of thousands of beheadings in the First World War, and now in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, although the more and more Liukou are suppressed, the emperor has been martyred, and the war against thieves is getting bigger and bigger, and the war of more than 1,000 bandits is indeed not worth mentioning in the eyes of the big guys. The highlight of General Min's military exploits is that this place is the northern barrier of Nanjing, defending the river defense, so it is still worth mentioning, and the reason for the operation of a guard commander lies in this. ”

"Presumably, Praise Painting has some advice on the future of the lower officials?"

"Without him," Zhou Liangmin said in a deep voice: "Since my brother was appointed as the Huaiyang Coastal Defense Army, he has a few stinky fish and rotten shrimps, and it is difficult to even set up a team to set up the honor guards. If my brother asks in the name of Huaiyang Province to set up a barracks in the area from Taizhou to Yancheng, so as to eliminate local bandits and enrich coastal defense along the way...... The question of setting up a guerrilla attack in the name of Haiphong Province should not be a big ......"

Zhou Liangmin's face was full of smiles, and he stopped talking, saying this, Min Yuanqi is obviously not a stupid person, and there is no need to say the words at all.

"If this guerrilla is to be established, is there a fixed station?"

"I hope to be stationed in Taizhou, otherwise Yancheng can also be stationed."

"If the lower officials can serve as guerrillas in this battalion, they still hope to be stationed in Yancheng," Min Yuanqi hugged his fists and said: "Taizhou is very close to Yangzhou, and it is extremely convenient to have something to do. ”

This is said very clearly, and Zhou Liangmin also understood it at once.

As soon as Beijing was lost, Nanjing became the actual Beijing division, and Yangzhou Huai'an, an important place on the banks of the canal, was not only important in the previous Cao Yun status, but also became a fortress place for river defense.

Yangzhou was originally a wealthy place, but also a traffic jam, plus it has become an important place for soldiers, and Taizhou is close to Yangzhou, how can the imperial court rest assured that a battalion of soldiers in Taizhou will be controlled by Zhou Lianggong, who is crowded out and full of resentment?

Even if the Min family is also a general, but in Yangzhou are all weak troops, the general officers involved in each other, have served for the Ming Dynasty for many years, and are trusted by Shi Kefa The generals are qualified to station, and the time of stationing is relatively long, and the local officials and gentlemen in Yangzhou have also accepted it.

If a battalion is put on top of the heads of the people of Yangzhou, if there is such a thing, I am afraid that someone will immediately make trouble.

"It's just that we haven't thought it through...... Zhou Liangmin wiped his sweat, and said in his heart that the martial artist in front of him is more thoughtful than them, is Daming really still the Daming he knows?

"Then the guerrilla camp will be placed in the area of Yancheng, under the command of Huaiyang Dao, and will be responsible for guarding the coastal defense and river defense from Yancheng to Guannan." Before Zhou Liangmin came here, he had the power to make decisions on the spot, and Min Yuanqi was more thoughtful and reasonable.

"The ladder is adjacent to the sea." Min Yuanqi said in a deep voice: "Last time, there were still hundreds of Qinshan Island bandits among the bandits, and it is reported that after being annihilated, the group of bandits on the island was raging, and they wanted to recruit accomplices from the south to retaliate. Although the estuary of Yuntiguan was prosperous in the Yuan Dynasty, and gradually decayed after the Ming Dynasty changed the sea to Hecao, it was important that the place could not be garrisoned without battalions......"

Zhou Liangmin heard the song and knew the meaning of the strings, and said: "That is to add a battalion of garrisons here at Yunti Pass?" ”

"That's what Xia Guan means."

"This garrison?"

"The lower official recommends the clan uncle Min Qiande, and the secretary of the Yuntiguan Thousand Households."

"Hehe, student understood."

Zhou Liangmin didn't have to enter the 100 households, of course, he couldn't see that a large number of new army soldiers had poured into the school field, and there were a large number of craftsmen and craftsmen building barracks, and the new army soldiers had no place to live in the tent first, a big cowhide tent was more than enough for ten people, plus the dug ditch, enough to divert water and sewage, everything in the barracks area was in order, and it did not look chaotic because of the large number of soldiers.

More than 3,500 people were organized into two thousand headquarters according to Min Yuanqi's idea, and the company battalion headquarters was also organized.

was thinking about how to give these soldiers a name for the past, Zhou Liangmin was really dozing off and giving a pillow this time, it was too timely and appropriate.

Zhou Lianggong, as a coastal defense soldier, asked for a more barracks and a garrison, and the imperial court had no reason to slap him in the face for this matter.

Besides, it is obvious that the current situation of the imperial court will not allocate money and food for soldiers and horses, anyway, the policy can be given, don't think about things like money, food, soldiers, generals, and colonels.

If Zhou Lianggong hadn't persuaded Min Yuanqi's plan and grasp, he wouldn't have brought humiliation on himself at all.

There is no money and no food, no one comes to eat this bowl of rice when the recruitment flag is erected, and there is no general under his command, so there is a bird for just recruiting a group of rabble? Now there are no Eight Banners soldiers to invade the territory, so that the whole Taizhou is angry with the enemy to help the Zhou brothers recruit troops and raise food.

Min Yuanqi's soldiers and food here are ready-made, and there will be them, as long as they are given a name.

Zhou Lianggong has power and righteousness, but he can't erect the banner of the camp.

The two sides can be said to hit it off.

"If so, the last general is willing to serve Lord Zhou, and if he is sent, dare not do his best?"

"Hahaha......" Zhou Liangmin was overjoyed, helped Min Yuanqi who had fallen down, and said happily: "With Yuanqi's service, if my brother and others get 10,000 elite soldiers, when it is urgent in the future, I hope that Yuanqi will not forget today's events." ”

"The last general will not dare to forget." Min Yuanqi got up and said: "One, there is no Zhou Daren and the last general will also protect the cloud ladder to the Yantai area, this is the last general has grown since childhood, and it is also a place given by the ancestors, and it is easy not to abandon it." Second, the kindness of the ancients is repaid, and Lord Zhou's kindness to the last general, the last general is also a loyal and filial heirloom, how can it be easily forgotten? ”

"If there is really an emergency, and watch Min act."

"I've been scared lately." Zhou Liangmin instead comforted Min Yuanqi and said: "When I first arrived in Beijing, I calmed the people in the realm, sorted out the cabinet, the six departments, and got Beizhi, Henan, and Shandong, and I am afraid it will take at least one or two years to get to our Nanzhi......"

"Everything is foreseen, and if it is not prepared, it will be wasted, and the last general will also take precautions and prepare early."

"Yuan Qi really has the style of a general."

Zhou Liangmin was truly amazed, but Min Yuanqi could only smile bitterly.

Of course, he hoped that the later the Liukou came, the better, and now the officials and gentry in Nanjing and Jiangbei are all eyeing Li Zicheng.

Although most of the officials in Beijing chose to surrender, before the war with Li Chuang, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Nanjing, Jiujiang, Wuchang, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, some of the officials in this large area were sincere and devoted to the Ming Dynasty, and some were thinking of fighting at least a dozen times.

Anyway, it is the cannon fodder soldiers and ordinary people who die, as long as they see that they really can't fight anymore, they can't be defeated, and when the time comes, they will either surrender and join them, or take off their robes and go home to become gentry, and their reputation will be much better than surrendering on their own initiative.

Of course, in this way, the career in the new dynasty is quite limited, but the most basic shame of the scholars in this year is still there, forced to surrender and voluntary surrender, the former does not matter, still be an old man, write books and speak, enjoy at home, and do not delay at all. Take the initiative to surrender, even if you can be an official in the new dynasty, but now that the new dynasty is established, most of the ministers from Long Xunchen are military ministers, and this is the case in all dynasties, why should civil officials go to the pole to join in the fun and find that lining?

In the whole south, regardless of the southeast, southeast, and southwest, everyone's thoughts are actually similar now...... Why are the Zhou brothers in a hurry to catch soldiers? One is to have the power of self-protection in the most chaotic time, and the other is to want to have more chips in your hands, and when it really comes to the day when Li Zicheng's main army goes south, it depends on how many people Li Zicheng comes.

With an army of hundreds of thousands and millions, the Zhou brothers immediately called Li Zi Emperor Taizu Gao.

100,000 troops, you may have to look at it, Li Chuang will not call anymore, most likely it is the king of the north.

If tens of thousands of remnants of the army, these Nanming officials and gentry will naturally rush forward with a roar, and fight first.

The two countries fight each other, and no matter how hard they fight, it is okay, as long as it does not involve personal enmity.

Like Gao Jie, if he kidnapped Li Zicheng's wife, he could only die to the end.

This kind of mentality Min Yuanqi quite understands that since Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty's control and control of the people is in continuous decline, and it has gone to the other extreme during the Chongzhen period, and it is clear that the control is weak and it is difficult to return, so it is necessary to slowly adjust the governance, find a new balance point that can be accepted by all parties of the bureaucracy, nobles, eunuchs and imperial power, and the worst thing Chongzhen has done is to act indiscriminately, disrupting the balance of all classes.

By the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, it was not that the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan and other places made everyone feel dire, but everyone felt that this dynasty was finished and there was no help......

Everyone feels that Li Zicheng should be the lord of the new dynasty, only Min Yuanqi knows that Li Zicheng's political shortcomings are too deadly. Before the mobilization of the Manchu nobles, the preparation of the Ming Dynasty was completed.

The descending army and the Shun army guarded the pass respectively, and the lack of military pay could torture the great eunuchs and nobles in the palace, and it was enough to collect money.

With peace of mind in the hearts of the military and the people in the Beijing division and all localities, the old bureaucrats should be hired except for the most serious evils, and the hearts of these landlord strata should be appeased.

Under such measures, it is impossible for Wu Sangui to defect to the Qing Dynasty, and his surrender to the Qing Dynasty is also after the rumors of the Jingshi (o m the fastest hair) to ignore Lao Tzu's determination to live and die, otherwise under the premise that the old father fell into the hands of the Shun army and fought with the Qing army for many years, he would have to shave his hair and ask to surrender, although Wu Sangui has no moral character, he should not be so cheap.

When Shanhaiguan arrived, the main force of the Shun army and the Ming army were stationed in Shanhaiguan, including the defense line of Xuanda Jizhen and Shanhaiguan, and Liu Fangliang's troops moved closer to the Beijing division and formed a number of defense lines with the main force.

In this way, the threat of the Qing army entering the customs is almost non-existent, and at most the grass valley will be attacked, and under the premise that Li Zicheng already has a basic base, it is unlikely that the Han bureaucrats, gentry and military generals will surrender to this small barbarian.

At most, in about a year, the main force of hundreds of thousands of Shun troops will go south along the canal, and the southeast and southwest of Jiangnan and Zhejiang will be transmitted, and the Shun Dynasty will be successfully established.

These thoughts could only be in Min Yuanqi's mind, and it was impossible for him to run to Jingshi at this time to point fingers at Li Zicheng.

And judging from Li Zicheng's performance after gaining power, political and strategic vision is the biggest shortcoming of this person after all.

In the customs and laying down the Jingshi along the nine sides, this is the worst choice, but Li Zicheng is such a choice, this shortcoming can not be made up for by manpower, at least Min Yuanqi feels that there is no possibility of making up for it.

The current calm didn't last long, although the situation around him was very good, but Min Yuanqi understood that this was just the calm before the storm.

"I'll go back to Taizhou to see the eldest brother...... Zhou Liangmin's mood was very good, but he didn't have much excitement when he saw the young military attache in front of him, so he praised him immediately: "General Min is worthy of being a disciple of the general, he is not shocked by honor and disgrace, and he is so calm and kung fu, the students are ashamed." ”

"Zhou Zan has won an award." Min Yuanqi shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The taste of a prophet is not pleasant.