Min Gande didn't continue, but said to Min Yuanqi: "The situation is getting worse and worse, in the future, people with knives and guns in their hands will be more popular than those with pen and ink, the world will change when it is chaotic, we have to follow the changing world, and we can't keep the rules unchanged." In the first two years, I also forced your younger brothers to study, and they may not be able to take the test in Weixue, and even the ancestors of the Min family are blessed, and they may be able to take the exam. Although our family is not a wealthy family, we can afford to send our children to study, and we can also invite a capable gentleman to teach, but I will no longer do this in the past two years. At the time of the old and new Ding Revolution, it will take more than ten or twenty years to be stable, and if it is slow, it will take decades, which is the time when the martial artist uses his life to be beautiful. Since you have the current situation, I will naturally do my best to come first, there are a few family members on my side, as well as the useful family members in the clan, and the young and strong men who have been related to the faith, no matter how they are, they will send you over, and there are one or two hundred people in total. I can't get much silver, the harvest of the acres has been limited over the years, and the income from frying salt can only cover the boss's personal contacts and daily expenses, but I have some long spears, short guns, and wolf stalks, knives and sticks, maces, muskets, bird guns, Kaiyuan bows, small bows, arrows, and the arsenal I can use in the city of a thousand households, whether it is my own hiding or in the library, I can send you as much as I want. It's just that there is no way to armor and iron helmets, don't talk about us here, even in the treasury of the Health Department of Huai'an Mansion, I am afraid that there are not a few pieces of armor, the twenty collar armor that you gave you last time, there is only one iron armor, and the rest is tattered and lost, not afraid of your jokes, this is also the accumulation of our Min family for more than 200 years, and if you change someone else's house, these twenty collar armor may not have ...... I don't dare to have it, hiding five armors privately is abandoning the market, and our armor is also hanging under the name of the guard before we dare to hide it! ”

Min Qiande said a long time, and only then did he completely explain his intentions today.

According to Min Qiande's thoughts, since Min Yuanqi has been on the road, the food and money have been rushed, and it is indeed much stronger to grasp the knife and gun in such a troubled era than to dance and make ink, with this nephew who is both shrewd and courageous, and his personal martial arts and ability to lead soldiers are quite brilliant and outstanding, there is no need to put hope on his son who has not yet grown up, anyway, he can't write two Min characters with one stroke, as the patriarch, Min Qiande was able to take over the gap left by Min Qianli's sudden death, and support the crumbling Min family. So at this time, he will not be in love with the power in his hands, for Min Yuanqi, the nephew, how much support the Min family can give, of course, is how much support he wants to give......

This meaning is quite obvious, the arsenal in the treasury, sufficient manpower, in addition to the fact that there is really no money, Min Qiande can be regarded as taking out the accumulation of more than 200 years of the Min family.

and the real generals' families, such as the Ma family in Datong, the Zhang family, the Zhou family in Yulin, the He family, and the ancestral family of Ningyuan, the Li family in Guangning back then, those who often raised thousands of cavalry masters, owned more than 100,000 acres of land, and more than 10,000 military households were tenant farmers for these generals. Take Zu Dashou as an example, he led his troops to escape first under Guangning City, and after Yuan Chonghuan was arrested in Jingshi City, Zu Dashou immediately led his troops away, and replaced ordinary generals in the second year of Chongzhen, I am afraid that I will lose my head, but Emperor Chongzhen not only did not issue an order to arrest this Liaozhen general, but asked Sun Chengzong, the old boss, to write a letter to Zu Dashou, and repeatedly promised that Zu Dashou and the ancestral family would not be held responsible...... In the battle of Daling River, Zu Dashou was forced to surrender, and even if he ran back, ordinary people would definitely cut off his official authority, Zu Dashou still had nothing to do, and continued to guard Jinzhou for the imperial court...... What are these things for, is it not because the ancestral family has a large number of private soldiers, and the generals of Liaozhen are inextricably linked, for example, the rising star Wu Sangui is Zu Dashou's nephew, and he disposed of Zu Dashou, and Liaozhen is separated from morality, how will it end then?

It is too common for the Min family to have commanded such a general, and the things that Min Qiande has taken out in front of him are almost all that the Min family can support, prestige, connections, qualifications, and practical help......

"Thank you, Second Uncle." Min Yuanqi bowed deeply, and said for the original owner of his body: "The little nephew still had some misunderstandings about his uncle before, and he really shouldn't have been. ”

"It's okay not to mention the past." Min Qiande waved his hand and said: "I was not without mistakes back then!" ”

The uncle and nephew both smiled slightly, and some of the knots in the past were completely and completely untied.

Not far away, Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding have been discussing the manpower sent to Yanchi, now each hundred households not only have a flag army in the formation, the number of Yu Ding is also very large, this is a special situation here in Dahewei, from Yunnan and Guizhou to Jingshi to Liaodong, the situation of military households in the formation or fleeing is different, the most powerful escape should be in Nanzhi and other places in Zhejiang, the local wealth, the living standard of ordinary households must be the first in the Ming Dynasty, the fugitive military households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the first, and the military households in the rest of the border towns are the most stable source of the border army. There are also many border fortresses that need to be guarded by guards, and the establishment is relatively intact.

Dahewei and Huai'anwei and other guards are the transport army, in the early years, the transport army can lead more troops to pay more money, so the military households do not flee much, until now the two guards are full in the formation of the flag army, this situation is not common in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The flag army is full, and each family will normally have two or three more than Ding, or even more, for example, Wang Sanyi's 100 households are as high as more than 400 people, plus the army and women, children and the elderly, the population of the entire 100 households is more than 1,000, Li Guoding's side is similar to Min Yuanqi's here, his flag army has neither training nor salt pond, and now it is still in the farm, up and down are idle and panicked, everyone has heard that there is a shortage of people here in Yanchi, and the training flag army also has four liters of grain every day to receive, and the top and bottom have long been looking forward to it.

The two hundred households are eager for more people to come, but in the end, there are more people in Wang Sanyi, and it is estimated that they can compete for dozens of more places, if they are divided equally with Li Guoding, I am afraid that Wang Sanyi, the official of the hundred households, will not be easy to explain after he goes back.

The more people who come out, the more food they earn, and of course the less pressure on life, compared with other military households, there is no war pressure here, and the authority of the military attaches is insufficient, and because the army has to work together, so the power is greater than that of the military attachés in Jiangnan...... But if there is a ready-made way to live in front of him, the hundred household officials have become the ones who pull back, I am afraid that a limited amount of power will not be able to suppress the dissatisfaction of the people at all, in this kind of matter, Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi can not fight too much......

"Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi will not pull your hind legs, and they can be your good helpers in the future." Min Qiande looked at it and said: "The hundredth household is Min Zhenyuan, according to the generation, it is still your nephew, and he is as martial as you, and the second hundredth household Zhao Shilu, this person is greedy and short-sighted, and he is unreliable." The 900th household Zhao Zhongyuan, who loves to take care of the crops, his 100 households plant the best, and he is the farthest away from you, so you don't have to guard against him if you can't rely on it for a while, the rest of the 100 households are mediocre and incompetent, if you can take over the thousands of households in the future, you will slowly replace them. In addition to the matter of your salt pond, the matter of making weapons and ordnance, the matter of storing grain, and the matter of selling, none of these things matter, do you know what it is? ”

"Do you want to ask your uncle for advice?"

"You're still a hundred!" Min Qiande looked at Min Yuanqi with blazing eyes, and said in a deep voice: "The official position is low, the strength rises and the official position can't be suppressed, the momentum and power must complement each other, you have hundreds of people under your command, you can't go up to thousands of households for a while, at least remove this test word first!" The Ming system, try to do a level, half a penny, do not give a sentence. You just took the job last autumn, and you can transfer to 100 households in the autumn this year, but you can't wait that long, let's try the words first, and see if you can add another 1,000 households...... This thing has to be credited, and it has to have actual credit, so I can go to Weili to give you activities, and report to the Nanjing Chinese Military Governor's Mansion and the Military Department. After two years, I will retire early, you will naturally take my signing of thousands of households, and then squeeze Li Kecheng away, you can say everything in our Yunti Pass, there is money, food, soldiers and horses, and our Min family can at least protect themselves in this troubled world......"

Min Yuanqi pursed his lips and said to Min Qiande: "How can you raise your official position in the short term, and ask your uncle to plan one or two for your nephew?" ”

"I'll go to Nanjing for you." Min Qiande said with a smile: "I still have some acquaintances in the Nanjing Military Department and the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, and I have some money to do, so it is enough to arch your 100 households to a deputy 1,000 households at most." To put it mildly, now the military attache of our guard is not worth anything at all, and now the world is in chaos, Liu Zeqing, the ancestral system of the general army according to the size of the system, not only can not guarantee the guerrilla of the deputy general and the general, but also can not reach out to the camp of the generals at ordinary times, but now which of the generals under his command is not obedient to him, even if Liu Zeqing wants to privately appoint the deputy general and the general guerrilla, these were originally the duties of the military department, but now that Liu Zeqing is procured, which official dares to block his way without opening his eyes, and is not the green light all the way to the past? Liu Zeqing is not bad, Zuo Liangyu has become a standard feudal town in Jiujiang, he is a general soldier, and there are more than ten or twenty general soldiers under his command to listen to his moderation, all of which are single-handedly promoted by Zuo Liangyu, who dares to find Zuo Liangyu to say this? This general, who has been dismissed and reinstated many times, almost lost his head several times and has nothing to do, has no one able to control it, and Yang Sichang, the superintendent and auxiliary minister, went out of Beijing in a majestic manner, wasn't it that Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong joined forces to put together, and finally died in Shashi?

"The world has changed." Min Qiande made a helpless gesture, but soon his expression became happy again, since the way of the world has changed, there are more opportunities for military ministers, at least it is a good thing for the current Min family and Min Yuanqi. He continued: "If there is no silver, it is not said that there is silver, but if there is silver, let it be used where it is needed." It is not difficult to arch you to the deputy thousand households with two pieces of silver, but there must be a reason, I have thought about it for you, there are not many bandits here in our Dahewei, and Yang Shida's matter has alarmed both sides of the river, but this matter is too little. But if you change the boundary of Xuzhou Weidi, the rogues, bandits and bandits, go north, Yanzhou is full of ringing horses, more than tens of thousands of people, as few as thousands of people, and there is no such thing as killing people and goods? I've seen a few military attachés over there, and they all shook their heads when they mentioned it, and no one could do anything about it. At the most critical time, the Xiangma bandits even dared to threaten Cao Yun, didn't the imperial court send Caozhou Liu as the chief soldier of Caozhou? Isn't it because the rogue and the ringing horse are making too much trouble? Our place is quite stable, but not Yancheng County, there are too many uninhabited boundaries for thousands of miles, there are many bandits, there are more than a dozen famous bandits, there is no way in the place, and the famous ones are not as famous as Haizhou...... Although Qinshan Island is not big, the radius is less than two miles, but Zhang Zuyi and his gang have been entrenched in the top for several years, and many villages and towns along the coast have been robbed by them, and I heard that there are thousands of mouthfuls of people for a long time, if it is Jiajing, during the Wanli period, the officers and soldiers and sailors have already suppressed them, and now as long as they do not kill officials and rebel to attack the state and plunder the county, the imperial court will pretend not to know...... I mean, Haikou, let's not touch him, I want to find a way to ask the guard over there in Yancheng to report a few bandits to make trouble, and then you send troops to suppress a few bandits who are close to our cloud ladder pass, Deng Qi, Yu Leper is in the township, suppress them, everyone will clap their hands and applaud, there are meritorious achievements, and then make some silver, Vice Qian can easily get it. In fact, the silver can be obtained alone, but I am afraid that the time will be delayed, and I may not be assigned to the cloud ladder gate. ”

Min Yuanqi thought about Min Qiande's meaning, that is, to make the silver buy and the official must be successful, but there is no meritorious performance in the local area, and it is difficult to grab other people's positions, and most of the military departments and the Chinese military governor's office will assign Min Yuanqi to other thousand households as deputy thousand households. is not from a local background and has no actual territory and manpower, this kind of deputy thousand households is completely hollowed out, it is better to stay as this test hundred households.

The merits and achievements are also simple, there are many bandits entrenched in the north less than 100 miles, Yancheng County was changed to Yandu District after a few hundred years, and most of the territory is now Yancheng County after the establishment of the city, and now Yancheng County has at least five or six thousand square kilometers of territory, or even larger, a county is the size of five or six counties in the town, and a large area of wasteland and tidal flats along the coast is simply a paradise for pirates and bandits. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the discipline was abolished, and even the prince was taken out to cook and eat, and there were many horses in Shandong, and the bandits in Yancheng County robbed the rural market towns at most, and there was no threat to the county, of course, no one cared, as long as these bandits were suppressed on a few shares, it was a ready-made merit, and the face was there.