Li Chuang broke through the Jingshi, the Ming Dynasty fell, and then the Eight Banners entered the pass to defeat Li Zicheng, and then fought many times in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi.

After all, in the eyes of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, Li Chuang is the biggest threat, they have fought with the Ming Dynasty for decades, and they know that the Ming army is not worth mentioning, even if the most dangerous battle of Songjin, in the face of the 140,000 elites raised by the power of the Ming Dynasty, the pressure on the Qing army is not too great, and the Ming army has no real chance of winning from beginning to end.

At the beginning of the Qing army's entry into the pass, Li Chuang was the main enemy, but in the battles of Henan and Tongguan, the Qing army found that the combat effectiveness of the Chuang army plummeted, and it was completely vulnerable. In fact, this is a common disease of rogues, and the combat effectiveness is mainly in the old battalion soldiers, and Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers were completely lost in the previous war, although they gathered hundreds of thousands of troops when they fled to Guanzhong, but the new soldiers and the strong men were the mainstay, and such an army was not much combat effectiveness.

At that time, Duoduo went south to attack the Southern Ming halfway, first went down to Xuzhou, then went down to Huai'an, Yangzhou, Jiangbei, and then crossed the river without fighting Nanjing, King Lu surrendered in Hangzhou, Hangjiahu and Changzhou Songjiang, Jiangsu, Nanjing, all of them were bloodless, and the Qing army easily got Jiangnan to lay the foundation for its mixed Yuan Yiyu, and then fought with the Nanming forces for decades without losing two Huai Jiangnan.

Min Yuanqi didn't know the specific timetable and the Qing army's marching route, but he knew that he still had about a year to go.

Sufficient food and salary, training hundreds of soldiers, rapidly expanding the salt pond to accumulate wealth, and going south before the Qing army crossed the river in chaos, or seeing if he could take the sea route, first going down to Fujian or Taiwan, this was all in Min Yuanqi's consideration.

He also hopes that the soldiers under his command can not only fight the scoundrel Qingpi, but also exterminate the pirates and bandits, and even have the power to fight with the officers and soldiers or the Eight Banners, Min Yuanqi's extraordinary efforts, in fact, come from the inner uneasiness and the sense of the end of the world, he is beside the Weisho Banner Army, people are worried about Li Chuang, and there is no loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor, but everyone hopes that life can go on without shock, only Min Yuanqi understands that life will not only not be peaceful, but will also undergo earth-shaking changes, slaughter as the vanguard, Clothing and hairstyles change in times, and then it is the clamp on people's thoughts and ways of thinking, the Manchu Qing Dynasty started from clothing and hair, and then broke the backbone of the gentry class in the south of the Huai River from the three major cases such as the Wailing Temple case, and then used the text prison to clamp it, until Kangxi Qianlong was known as the prosperous years, people's living standards did not catch up with seventy percent of the Wanli years, although it is now a troubled era, but the dark color of the future will be thicker, more desperate.

This state of mind is something that no one can describe, not to mention the two hundred household officials in front of them, even to the clan uncles and brothers, they can't confide half a word.

"Yuan Qi, I really can't see it...... Li Guoding sighed: "If your father knew that you are so motivated now, I don't know how happy he would be." ”

"I'm forced to do it step by step." Min Yuanqi smiled and said: "And the current training is also from the military book to learn from Qi Shuai and Yu Shuai, how it is, whether it is on paper or not, it is not easy to say now." ”

Wang Sanyi said with emotion: "Qi Shuai and Yu Shuai are both famous generals in this dynasty, and you will not be wrong to learn from them." When I was young, I heard about the reputation of the two marshals, Yu Shuai passed away and didn't talk about it, Qi Shuai was first transferred to the Guangdong General Army, and was squeezed out by the villain and almost lost his official position, and then died of depression, our elders were very angry when they talked about these things, saying that the civil officials were inclined to suppress our warriors, and Qi Shuai was so meritorious to the country that he could not be knighted, and we were in the guard as a transport army, working hard for ten months a year, and sometimes being left in Beijing as craftsmen, from the emperor to the civil officials did not treat us as people, and our guards and soldiers would forget it, Qi Shuai is also so unfair, who can be convinced? ”

Min Yuanqi also nodded yes, before the Ming Kingdom first arrived in Yingzong, the treatment of military ministers was not only inferior to that of civilian officials, but even above them. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, only Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen were knighted, Li Shanchang was the head of the entire civil official group, and it was his merit to strategize and pay the soldiers, and his title was an affirmation of the entire civil rule, and Liu Bowen made countless suggestions, which were mythologized among the people, but he was only crowned an uncle. Wu Chen was born and died, and he had no authority after removing his armor, and the knighthood was an affirmation of his merits. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the status of military generals was like lackeys, there was no hope of knighthood, and the power was raised as slaves under the civil officials.

Of course, it is also related to the inappropriateness of Chongzhen's measures and the short-sightedness of the entire civilian official group, the more ruthless the suppression, the stronger the rebound, coupled with Chongzhen's connivance, after the middle of Chongzhen, the status of the military general is actually above the civilian official.

"The important thing is to do your own thing." Min Yuanqi said to Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding: "Now if we want to have enough soldiers and salaries, we can't count on the imperial court, we can only rely on ourselves." After ten days of salt pond salt, if everything goes well, out of a few batches of salt after I plan to dig a large pond, with more than 100 ponds, need to use about 1,000 people, during the day to collect salt stacks and package for sale, at night someone from the middle of the night to the pond crystal push salt, each mu of Xu Kanchi to use at least five people, more than ten people, plus the use of daytime, almost a thousand people are enough. If two hundred households are interested, they can send people from two hundred households, and receive four liters of grain every day from me, and then give two stones of grain to each person after the salt is produced. ”

For Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding, this is an unexpected joy, if the salt pond can really produce salt, now these kanchi can earn a hundred taels a year, and the expansion of five times is more than 500 taels a day, which in the past a hundred households fried salt did not have this income a year, although the hundred households in the fried salt are more, but the number is too small, and it is not enough to talk about the lack of income from replanting land.

If the salt pond is successful, it will be more than five hundred taels a day, even if the two of them receive one percent, it will be more than twenty taels a day, and it will be seven or eight hundred taels of silver a year, this number has not dared to think of before, even Min Qiande and Li Kecheng of the city can not earn so much silver in a year, only the military attache of the commander of the Acropolis can earn five or six hundred taels a year, which is still the premise that they each have thousands of acres of land, if this matter can really be done, calculate that they have more than a thousand households and the commanders.

The two of them are happy and don't know what to say, the two of them just let the strong men of the banner army under their command come over to help, and it is Min Yuanqi who gives money and food, the two of them don't have to pay the slightest capital, as long as they don't come out to make trouble, they will have a few hundred taels of silver a year to take, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

"When I came over, there were still people at home who stopped me, saying that I should not deal with murderers like Yuan Qi." Wang Sanyi was so happy that there was no one to open the door, and he was only happy at the moment: "I didn't expect such a big harvest, I really want to tear his mouth when I go back." ”

Min Yuanqi smiled, knowing that it must be Wang Mingyuan who stopped him, and Wang Sanyi couldn't have no doubts in his heart, but he saved him by himself, ten stones of grain is only a few taels of silver, and it doesn't hurt to come over and make friends, but he didn't expect to have such a big harvest, and after he went back, he would be able to block Wang Mingyuan's mouth.

For Wang Mingyuan, Guan Lei, Ding Ruqi and others, Min Yuanqi has no plans to use them for the time being, one is that his current identity as a hundred households does not need these people at all, only when he is a battalion guerrilla or a general, there will be some down-and-out scholars to serve, and when Shuqi or the master of money and grain, he will receive a generous salary. At the level of the general soldier, such as Wu Sangui, who likes to be a vassal and elegant general soldier, he will also raise some Qing guests who are famous or show talents, help write recitals or be good at poetry and songs, so that when there are civil officials passing by, they can help idle and have fun.

Min Yuanqi is just a trial hundred, even if he is a thousand households, that is, the battalion sentry officer is at most general, it is still far from the qualification to raise staff, and the talents will not look at him in their eyes, and Min Yuanqi has no intention of being bored.

"We'll have to wait until the salt comes out." Min Yuanqi looked at the soldiers in the exercise, most of the flag army was still wearing tattered fat jackets, or some black and gray jackets, the feet were generally shabby cotton shoes, some of them were anxious to change their hemp shoes, most of the people didn't even have decent weapons, the weapons hidden in the official hall were not enough to arm the entire flag army of hundreds of households, most of the people were thin and weak, although the strength was not small, but the body was badly lost, and now the four liters of food a day were just to make them barely fed, and everyone had to feed their own families, and the daily drills were really hard, In the long run, it will lose more of the body, and everything needs to be solved.

"yes." Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi also watched the flag army practice the formation, and the two said in unison: "It depends on when the salt will come out!" ”

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"This robbery and murder case too." In Taizhou's Huaiyang Naval Defense Dao Yamen, who was nearly fifty years old and was not as mentally and physically as good as before, Zhou Lianggong put the Chinese book in his hand on the book case and frowned: "Why did you present it to this official?" ”

"More than 100 people were killed," a master beside Zhou Lianggong analyzed: "Maybe the local state and county feel that the case is very important, and it may be that a large number of bandits and robbers are doing it to repay the adults." ”

"I'm afraid there's still an inside story, right?"

Zhou Lianggong did not wear his four-grade civil official clothes, but a blue round-necked robe and a net scarf, which was much more comfortable to dress like this in the inner house.

Recently, Zhou Lianggong has a lot of troubles, he used to be an official in Shandong, when the Qing army went south, Zhucheng fell, and he led his troops to block Abatai's army, so he was awarded the Huaiyang Coastal Defense Soldier Preparation Road for his merits, and the official to the military garrison in this dynasty has already entered the sequence of local middle and high-level officials, and then up is the position of governor, which is the official of the feudal territory.

But Zhou Lianggong has not had a chance for a while, there are two governors in Nanzhili, Yingtian Governor and Fengyang Governor, the current Yingtian Governor has a good reputation as a veteran official, and it is quite important to be in charge of the local financial resources in Jiangnan, and Zhou Lianggong's qualifications are still far behind. In addition to Anqing and other places, the governor of Fengyang is responsible for the defense of the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangbei, and his duties are mainly in the military, and the current Fengyang governor Ma Shiying led Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo and other general troops to fight several victories, curbing the rebellion along the south of the river, and the great contribution is great, and Zhou Lianggong has no chance at all.

"I heard that this matter is related to a trial hundred households in Dahewei." Another master said in a deep voice: "This person is a military attache of the guard, but he dares to lead troops to suppress Yang Shida and his gang, and he is also bold!" ”

"It's not just bold, Yang Shida's group of more than 100 people are extremely vicious murderers, no one dares to provoke in the locality, this person heard that there is the courage of ten thousand invincibles, otherwise with the gang of people in the guard, can eat Yang Shida's gang?"

"This is reasonable, I heard that there was a fight before, the guard tried a hundred households to fight a hundred, and injured Yang Shida's group of more than ten people, and later persuaded Yang Shida to trouble him again, but the result was that he led the troops in the middle of the night to suppress him, and none of them ran away."

"There is no witness for this matter now, and everyone is rumored to have done it by the hundred households, but this person is so brave, how dare the state and county really investigate this matter, and they prevaricate at all levels, and they are reported to our Dong Weng."