It is true that the visitor is standing in front of the house at the head of the village, facing the adjacent road, dusty, and the smell of mule and horse dung, so it is unusual to stand and wait in such a place, and to be in peace.

Min Yuanqi glanced at it, the other party was wearing a cyan hat, a royal blue round-necked robe, and official boots, which was the dress of a merchant or a gentry who was used to going long distances, and he also had a knife hanging on his waist, indicating that he was not the kind of scholar who was completely powerless.

In terms of appearance, he has a round face, a short beard, and a moderate height, and when he saw Min Yuanqi looking over, a smile already appeared on his face.

This is a shrewd gentleman who is good at dealing with people, and the first impression is that he is quite shrewd and capable.

Min Yuanqi walked forward, smiled and bowed first, and then said, "I've seen Lord Zanhua." ”

The person who came is Zhou Liangmin, who is not only Zhou Lianggong's brother, but also has a meritorious reputation, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, after repeatedly trying not to be discouraged, he can be picked up as an official, and he can also be promoted to the county magistrate if he has good luck, but his career is basically about six or seven grades will reach the top.

Ordinary people will only hold official positions, but if they are appreciated, they may also rise to the top.

For example, Sun Yuanhua, because he was a disciple of Xu Guangqi, was promoted to serve in the Ministry of War, and then with the rise of the teacher's career, Sun Yuanhua has always been the governor of Denglai.

Zhou Liangmin only has one thigh of his brother, but fortunately, he was also promoted for military merit when he was in Weixian, and now he is a guerrilla painter in Zhou Liangmin's curtain, which is also a middle- and high-level military attache treatment......

"General Min is really heroic." Zhou Liangmin didn't mind Min Yuanqi's slight rudeness, before coming here, he had seen Min Yuanqi lead his troops to fight fiercely, and he had inquired about Min Yuanqi's behavior in many ways in the past few days, and knew that this posterior in front of him was a capable person, since he had the ability, he would definitely be arrogant......

"Your Excellency has won the prize."

"Otherwise," Zhou Liangmin said with a smile: "The battle against thieves on the seaside, the students have seen it with their own eyes, and the officers and soldiers of this dynasty, especially the guards and soldiers, I am afraid that it will be difficult to fight such a beautiful battle." ”

"I see." Min Yuanqi was really taken aback, he never thought that the official gentleman in front of him had actually seen a battle on the beach with his own eyes, since this was the case, the other party must have come prepared.

"General Min is not only capable of fighting, but also a kind and kind person." Zhou Liangmin said with a smile: "The banner army under the command is all well paid, the Yanchi workers, the people in the workshop, and the rest of the hundred households who work for General Min, all of them have good salaries. In just a few months, the people around the neighborhood can eat enough, and the spring famine has passed unconsciously, not only to develop themselves, to defend the countryside, but also to be kind to the people around, General Min is really worthy of the family reputation of the ancestors of the Min family, which is admirable. ”

"The general is ashamed to be a ......" Min Yuanqi let the other party into the hall of hospitality, and said as he walked: "But they are all native people, and I have some ways, so naturally I also want everyone to be better, and there is nothing to talk about morality, but I made Lord Zanhua laugh." ”

"In the past, students have also passed through Dahewei and Huai'anwei, including Taizhou Wei and other guards, the military household is the saddest time during the spring famine, and it is only in a bad year that the children and daughters have to pass, and the rest of the guards this year are still the same, only the cloud ladder pass is the fastest release / , although there are still many people who have not served here, but at least thousands of people here are soldiers here to eat food or work to survive, and it is directly to revitalize the place...... The students came all the way, there were many small vendors carrying snacks to this side in and out of the ten fields, as well as those who sent grain, sold vegetables, sent live pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, and everyone had a faint joy on their faces...... Even if it's a brother, it's far inferior. ”

These words, whether they are false or sincere, are at least based on the actual situation here in the 300th household, and they are not meaningless.

It is also true that a large number of new troops have entered the camp, and the supply of grain, non-staple food and meat is quite tight, which makes a large number of villagers in the nearby market towns and villages supply the barracks with their own vegetables, accumulated grain and meat.

In addition, the food supply of the workshop and the salt pond is also purchased centrally, and this purchasing power is far less than that of the original city of 100 or 1,000 households, even in the nearby counties.

The residents of the county are tens of thousands of people at most, and many people have their own land and vegetable gardens, and they do not eat meat every day when they are idle.

That is, big cities such as Huai'an and Yangzhou Fucheng can still far throw off the 300 households in terms of purchases.

In addition, the monthly salary paid to the flag soldiers and workers also promoted the local consumption level and purchasing power, and seeing that more and more merchants had appeared near the 300th household, it was not difficult for many prosperous market towns to appear within a radius of 20 miles.

Zhou Liangmin's appreciation of this matter is no less than the eyes opened during the First World War on the beach.

Military generals who are good at leading and training troops, there is actually no shortage of people in this dynasty.

There are not only civil servants who are good at economics.

But there are very few people who have both civil and military skills.

I have made a lot of money, dare to spend money, be willing to pay, and make myself rich at the same time so that the people around me will be stained with it, driving the local economy, promoting people's livelihood, and increasing prestige.

can fight, can manage the people, be benevolent and kind, and can care for the people, that is not comparable to ordinary generals.

Before Zhou Liangmin came here, he felt that his brother's price was a little too high, but now he has understood, I am afraid that what his two brothers can take out, people may not really look at it.

"The students were a little confused." Zhou Liangmin said with a smile: "Healthy mules and donkeys can pull carts and grind, healthy cattle plough fields, and war horses are naturally used in the army." However, the students saw that General Min had bought a large number of miscellaneous horses here in the past two days, and it was a waste of silver taels to use this thing to pull the cart. ”

In Zhou Liangmin's opinion, Min Yuanqi will most likely not have any plans to leave his hometown, even if he invites this military general to Taizhou, he is not sure, so why prepare a large number of horses for military use?

Of course, this is a trivial matter, but it has also confused Zhou Liangmin for a long time.

"Pulling a horse can also plow the land." Min Yuanqi explained: "In addition, Xia Guan wants to not just protect one place in Yunti Pass, Dahewei has been connected by thousands of households for more than 200 years, and they have intermarried with each other, to put it bluntly, they are all a family. If there are bandits in Shanyang County and bandits in Shuyang, will the lower officials ignore it here? According to the example of the Tang Army, there are 100 people and 60 mules and horses, and now we have only completed a total of more than a dozen miscellaneous horses and mules, and we are still far away......"

"I see." Zhou Liangmin was quite surprised, and praised first: "General Min is really knowledgeable, and the students seem to have swept the matter of the establishment of the Tang Army, but they can't remember it clearly." ”

"In addition to mules and horses, bedding, military blankets, pots and drinking utensils, plus flint knives, as well as various pickaxes, shovels, shovels, forks, are all available." Min Yuanqi said in a deep voice: "Don't say that I am here, it is our Ming Dynasty's forbidden army, and it is far worse than the Tang army in terms of equipment." ”

"No wonder, no wonder." Zhou Liangmin said in a loud voice: "My Ming Wang's division is mobilized, the fast is twenty miles a day, and the slow one is only ten miles a day, if the Tang army goes to Beiting Anxi to fight at this speed, I am afraid that the daylily will be cold." ”

"What Lord Zan said is very true." Min Yuanqi said: "That's why I want to follow the example of the Tang Army, also because of the words of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the so-called secret decision of winning a hundred battles is just a strong soldier...... In addition, my Ming Wangshi walks slowly, lacks training, and morale is not a major principle, the supply of military supplies is in the hands of civilian officials, and there is no food when the camp is opened, and there is no food when the camp is settled, and there is only food on the second day of the camp. It's good not to mutiny! Now the rebellious army, the core is the old battalion soldiers, check its roots, most of them are in the second year of Chongzhen's Qinwang division, hard work to get to the city of Beijing, but the dog officials of the household department do not provide food, and force a large number of Qinwang border troops, these border soldiers have to rebel after escaping, this is the fundamental ...... of the great difficulty of the rogue to control"

Zhou Liangmin sweated on his forehead, but he didn't expect that the words in front of him were so sharp, and he was so clear about these bullshit things done by civil officials in this dynasty.

However, the greetings between the two sides are almost the same.

Min Yuanqi's hole cards and prospects for himself are full of food and soldiers, and he said that in the future, he will count all the eight thousand households of Dahewei as his own defense area, since it is his own defense area, then risk and profit are of course complementary to each other, and these eight places are, of course, owned by Min Gongzi.

There is no need to talk deeply about this topic between Min Yuanqi and Zhou Liangmin, and the Zhou brothers have no way to give this promise now, unless Zhou Lianggong incarnates Shi Kefa.

In fact, even if Shi Kefa doesn't have this power and prestige for a while, the current Shi Kefa has this ability.

Liu Zeqing is attached, Zuo Liangyu is a party, and Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong will not and dare not fight against the center.

There is no king above, and the feudal towns below, all of them are the same party that supports him, and Shi Kefa is now the uncrowned king in Nanjing, and he can speak out as a constitution.

It's a pity that this period of window period passed quickly, and after Ma Shiying gathered the four towns to support King Lifu, Shi Kefa became a political frustrated, not only the actual authority was cut away, but even the prestige fell to the bottom, and the little aura left on his body couldn't even stop the four towns from fighting each other, even if Shi Kefa rushed all the way to Yangzhou, Gao Jie and Huang Degong still fought each other, and the corpses were all over the field......