"Actually......" Li Guoding whispered: "With Yuan Qi's current financial resources and prestige, not only our Yunti Pass, but also the banner army of several nearby thousands of households are also looking forward to coming over to be soldiers and eat for money. ”

Wang Sanyi didn't speak, just glanced at his son.

Prior to this, the father and son had guessed the number of soldiers and horses that Min Yuanqi would recruit.

Wang Mingyuan doesn't say bad things about Min Yuanqi now, but he thinks that Min Yuanqi is quite ambitious, and it is estimated that this time he will take advantage of the situation and raise 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses.

There are 20,000 soldiers, which can be regarded as the general army of a town, and in this troubled time, whether it is to protect themselves, or to participate in the competition of heroes, or to take advantage of the situation, to seek a better way out in the future, this is a good opportunity.

Liu Qingze's foothold was unstable, the news from Beijing was unknown, and Nanjing was in chaos...... Shi Kefa was about to take the oath in Pukou on April 7, but as a result, Ming officials ran out of the capital, including a former university scholar Jiang Dejing...... Not only is the news of the fall of Beijing confirmed, but the news of the emperor's martyrdom is also confirmed!

Nanjing is a city with filial piety, of course the Northern Expedition has stopped, Shi Kefa's Qinwang's move is a joke to outsiders, and those who understand it are called insiders.

This Donglin boss, who was promoted and reused by the emperor, is afraid that he is not a star or a half worse than generals like Liu Zeqing, Tang Tong, and Wu Sangui in things like dodging slippery heads.

The talents among the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are actually really consumed, and the bachelor who invited the superintendent and escaped from the battle, when something happened, he asked the first assistant who refused to take responsibility for the court meeting, and the bachelor who knelt at the gate of the city with his handbook and asked to surrender led the high-ranking officials of the ministry, Shi Kefa was just hesitant and did not go north in time, which was already regarded as wanting to be a courtier with discipline.

At this point, Emperor Chongzhen has completely withdrawn from the stage of history, and the Ming Dynasty has been tossed by him for seventeen years, and finally reached a turning point in history, but at this time, many people, including Shi Kefa, are quite at a loss, how the overall situation will change, when the thieves will attack, and how the situation in the north will change, these things are also quite at a loss for the officials in Nanjing, or even ignorant.

The only thing that continues is the singing and dancing on the Qinhuai River, those talented and beautiful people will lament the misfortune of the emperor and the bad luck of the Ming Dynasty, but how the big things will evolve, they are neither concerned nor worried.

Anyway, it's great that the Ming Dynasty is ruined, what's the big deal?

The hearts and wealth of the southeast were not owned by the Ming Dynasty as early as the Jiajing period.

There may be a small number of loyal ministers and filial sons wailing and crying, but after all, they are a minority. Most people don't say it's a joke mentality, but it's also relatively indifferent. Whether the Ming Emperor was martyred, whether the Ming Dynasty was ruined or saved, and whether the new dynasty was Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, most people neither understood nor cared.

It is precisely because of the actual situation in the south that before the promulgation of the shaving order, the Qing army's military operation in Jiangnan was more like an armed parade, and the words "look at the wind and surrender" were quite appropriate at that time.

In other words, it is not unreasonable to lose people's hearts.

Under the order to shave their hair, Jiangsu and Zhejiang began to resist first, and then the heads of the people who were killed were rolling, and then there were big cases such as the crying temple case that killed the Jiangnan gentry and the students, those who didn't look at the Ming Emperor at all, and insulted and ridiculed the Jiangnan officials and students in every way, were killed and subdued, and since then they have become the old and obedient people, how can a cheap word?

In the eyes of many people at this moment, Min Yuanqi does have the capital and possibility to take advantage of the trend, although it is very small, but if Min Yuanqi has the intention, at this time, with the financial resources to pull out the plate of 20,000 people, with Min Yuanqi's ability to lead troops and train troops, really train 20,000 strong soldiers, that is the pattern of a strong town.

Of course, Yunti Pass is a narrow place, if such an analysis is made, if Min Yuanqi is interested, there will inevitably be only one person left between him and Liu Zeqing.

Hearing that Min Yuanqi only had the intention of recruiting a full number of 3,500 people, Wang Mingyuan raised his eyebrows and whispered to Wang Sanyi: "Looking at it this way, Deputy Min Qianhu is still afraid of Caozhou Liu." ”

"Say a few words," Wang Sanyi scolded softly: "No one treats you as a dumb person!" ”

Wang Mingyuan was quite unconvinced, and this was the feeling in his heart.

In fact, Wang Sanyi, Li Guoding and others thought the same as Wang Mingyuan.

After the Yang brothers were unlucky, according to the rumors in Yancheng, Yang Shili immediately sent someone to Liu Zeqing to lose his sincerity, and the messengers of the two sides continued to return, and the plate in Yang Shili's hands could earn 108,000 yuan for Liu Zeqing a year.

After that, the change of Hefang Shuiguan, coupled with the battle on the seaside, knocked out most of Yang Shili's foundation, and now if he is beaten into a cripple, Liu Zeqing will certainly not be able to spend a lot of money, and it is estimated that it will be almost the same to give Yang Shili a garrison at most.

has no strength and wealth, if Yang Shili is not interested, it is estimated that Liu Zeqing's next option is to kill him.

Once the two sides negotiate, Liu Zeqing estimates that it is possible to make a move on the Yunti Pass.

The reason for this recruitment is that Yunti Pass looks smooth sailing here, but the actual situation is still quite critical.

At least in the eyes of Wang Sanyi and others, it is quite critical.

The guest army is large, tens of thousands of Shandong soldiers will be anti-guest as soon as they arrive in Huai'an, the original guard soldiers and a small number of city guards are useless, Huai'an and the counties changed hands in an instant, Liu Zeqing is already like a feudal town, who can control him, who dares to control him?

If Liu Zeqing does something about Yuntiguan, everyone feels that they can pack up and run away.

If you want to talk about the will to resist, in fact, it depends on whether there is a backbone to support it.

If there is no backbone, a thousand guest soldiers can come and finish the ladder here.

If there is a backbone in the ...... Wang Sanyi, Li Guoding, and others privately calculated that if they recruited three or four thousand people, it was still possible to carry 10,000 guest soldiers with Min Yuanqi's military training ability and the psychology of each person to protect their relatives from being poisoned.

It is impossible for Liu Zeqing to use all his strength in the remote place of Yunti Pass, which does not have a lot of wealth, nor is it a famous city and rich city, nor has strategic significance, if there are thousands of people enough to protect the place, if Min Yuanqi has the intention of going up, with his wealth, at least 10,000 people will start.

"Soldiers are expensive but not expensive, but they are much more ......" Min Yuanqi's reply was different from what Wang Sanyi's father and son and others thought, quite concise and clear.

Indeed, with the current standard of guest soldiers, 400,000 silver a year is enough to support 30,000 soldiers, and the disadvantage is that there is a shortage of food, but it can also be solved by means such as tuntian and grain requisition.

If there are 30,000 actual soldiers and horses, and there is no empty quota, with the standard of Nanming's feudal towns, Min Yuanqi's qualifications are enough.

The disadvantage is that he almost has military qualifications, for example, Liu Zeqing, who has the worst qualifications, is also a general who was born in Shandong Town, and has been in the army for more than ten years.

Min Yuanqi is suffering from too shallow qualifications, otherwise, if he trains 10,000 soldiers, the position of chief soldier will definitely be in hand, and with Nan Ming's indiscriminate sealing of the Hou Uncle, maybe the title of Hou Earl can be obtained.

This road, Min Yuanqi is not interested.

It's as bad as the warlords of the Southern Ming Dynasty, even if he gets the position of Uncle Hou?

Is it to prepare to surrender to the Qing as soon as possible, or to flee all the way south to Zhejiang, where several general soldiers in Zhejiang have crossed and then run to Fujian? Zheng Zhilong has descended, and then run to Guangxi? And then run to Guangdong, Yungui?

Forget it.

Just here at the Cloud Ladder Pass, it is more reassuring to continue your next plan......

"There are 3,500 people, that is, two complete thousand headquarters, command system, cavalry, all are enough." Min Yuanqi said in a deep voice: "Soldiers must be good and effective, in other places, 200,000 true colors plus 200,000 folded colors can raise 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers, and I have here, these money and grain are only enough to raise 3,000 or 4,000 soldiers." ”

Wang Sanyi nodded and said: "Yuan Qi has raised all the soldiers under his command as family members. ”

Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "Uncle Wang's vision is not bad, that's the truth. ”

Min Yuanqi feels that the difference between the people of this era and himself is the historical experience and summary, as well as the foresight brought by this sharp weapon. In fact, the leading figures of this era, the top elites, after analyzing and summarizing intelligence, may not have summed up the results much worse than what they knew.

For example, Hong Chengchou, who was far away in Liaodong at this time, the only remaining elite among the civil officials in the Chongzhen era, had foresight and wisdom beyond the vast majority of his contemporaries, and his wrist ability and insight were superb, but unfortunately his bones were too soft, too life-sparing, and he had been used by the enemy.

is these ordinary people in front of him, Min Yuanqi's plan doesn't need to be too thorough, as long as they see it and hear it, most of them can deduce similar conclusions.

Of course, if it is too far from their cognition, there is nothing there is to be done about these people in front of them.

Min Yuanqi called these people to come, not to discuss military affairs, the composition of the two thousand headquarters, including the battalion command structure, Min Yuanqi had already had a detailed plan, he called these people to come, and ordered them to be assigned.

"Now there is a division of industry and commerce, and the salt pond and the workshop are all under the control of Zhuwen. In the affairs of foreign affairs, my second uncle helped to manage the foreign affairs department. Then the Military Intelligence Department was managed by Liang Shifa, the Recruit Training Department was managed by Gao Cuncheng, the Quartermaster Department was managed by Yuan Jin, and the Military Administration Department was responsible for the placement of the dead and disabled soldiers, and the pension was managed by Yang Zhijin. The Central Military Division is managed by Yuan Zhong, and there is also the Security Division, which is responsible for guarding the estuary and Tangxun and each hundred households, patrolling and guarding public security between villages, etc., I want to hand over this matter to Wang Baihu to manage, what does Wang Baihu want? ”

In fact, it is quite easy to find someone from Min Yuanqi's pocket who can manage the security department, after all, it is a daily guard, catch thieves, and rectify the scoundrels who make trouble, this kind of thing is relatively simple, originally Min Yuanqi wanted to hand it over to Min Qiande and give the Min family another wave of prestige.

However, Min Qiande has been difficult to get out recently, and he has been in office for a long time in thousands of households, and he is familiar with people outside, and he has more face than hundreds of households, so Min Yuanqi had to hand over the foreign affairs to the clan uncle, take out the security department, and hand it over to Wang Sanyi.

Now among the many hundreds of households, a few of them who are not on the same page as Min Yuanqi have either resigned, or they are already pretending to be dead and sick, anyway, they themselves know that it is a matter of time before they leave their jobs.

Waiting for Min Yuanqi to add the commander to the affairs, Tongzhi, or directly serve as the commander, and take control of a few small hundreds of households in this poor and remote area, is it not a matter of being caught?

Even if Min Yuanqi sent troops to slaughter those goods, who would stand up for them at such a time?

Nanjing City has already raised the city with filial piety, panicked, how can those big men have air control over these dead fish and rotten shrimp on the place?