When he was out of the army, Li Zhongyi has always been strict with self-discipline, except for the relatively relaxed living conditions, the food is exactly the same as that of ordinary soldiers.

Only by sharing weal and woe with the soldiers and exchanging hearts for hearts can we win the sincere support of the robes.

Zhu Chongba, the founding king of the Ming Dynasty, after the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, treated the generals and nobles quite harshly and was known as the lord of brutality.

However, from beginning to end, Zhu Chongba has always been very tolerant of the people, and has truly achieved light and meager endowments.

This is also one of the fundamental factors for Zhu Chongba's unscrupulous killing of heroes, but the Ming Dynasty has always been as stable as Mount Tai.

Li Zhongyi eats the same as ordinary soldiers, which makes the officers of the Logistics Department dare not arbitrarily deduct the soldiers' rations.

If there is a good policy, there must be a trick to reach out and make money, which is determined by human nature, not by human will!

Li Zhongyi inspected the food of ordinary soldiers, and his experience can be described as unusually rich, and he often wandered around without saying hello at all when he was cooking, and ate wherever he went.

Don't look at Li Zhongyi's usual feelings for his old subordinates, once it is found out that the food is wrong, someone in the logistics department will definitely lose his head, and he will also offend his family.

The cost is so great that no one in the Logistics Department dares to be careless in the supply of food.

To put it bluntly, in the affairs of the Celestial Empire, what I am most afraid of is the word serious. The people below are conscientious, and they are inextricably linked to whether the leaders really attach importance to them.

Li Zhongyi often said on the side of his mouth, the emperor is not hungry soldiers, the soldiers can't even eat well, or even can't eat enough, do they still have the strength to win the battle?

However, in the whole army, the food standard of the artillery army has always been the highest. Secondly, there is the General Staff Division.

There is no way, these guys from the General Staff Department are Li Zhongyi's heart, the treasure in their hands, and they don't let them eat well, and if there is a slight mistake, the whole army is very dangerous.

Under the service of peony, after Li Zhongyi soaked his feet, he leaned on the couch, lit the candle flame, and carefully read the military reports sent from various places.

Peony shrank into the quilt and didn't dare to move, for fear of annoying Li Zhongyi.

In fact, Li Zhongyi has never moved a little finger to peony, but because she has a ghost in her heart, she is afraid that men are afraid to death.

This time, in addition to Zhu Niang's life and death, Li Zhongyi named Peony to serve with the army.

It is also strange to say, no matter how many seeds Li Zhongyi sprinkles, the peony's stomach is like a dry barren field, and it will never be able to blossom and bear fruit.

It just so happened that Du Qinniang was pregnant, and in order to hide people's eyes, Li Zhongyi simply took the peony with him. At that time, no matter whether Du Qinniang gave birth to a boy or a girl, she would raise her in the name of peony.

Peony has no children, and raising Du Qinniang's children is just to relieve the unbearable loneliness, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!

If Li Zhongyi rarely touches her, although Peony doesn't dare to say it, she must have a grudge in her heart.

However, Li Zhongyi goes to bed at least five times a month, and Peony's stomach is still empty, so it's no wonder that men are not willing to plant.

After going from hope to disappointment many times, Peony's thoughts about getting pregnant have also faded a lot, perhaps because she is desperate.

Unlike Li Zhongyi's other women, Peony has always borne the original sin of being a traitor, if she has never had children, her life in the old Li family's back house may be more than ten times more difficult than now.

In these years, if the woman in the back house has no children to accompany her, not to mention the white eyes of others, she will be weak in her heart, and her waist will never be able to stand up.

Raising other people's children, although it is a little awkward, peony is also a beneficiary, which can be regarded as a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

Preparing to let Peony adopt the child in Du Qinniang's womb, Li Zhongyi didn't tell Du Qinniang for the time being, this was just his personal idea.

All in all, Li Zhongyi is not happy with his blood and bones, but he can only scatter them outside the house, which will be a great pity for him.

After a five-day march, the entire Northern Expedition army traveled more than 100 miles a day, and the speed was amazingly fast.

However, the heavenly prince was not beautiful, and the sudden heavy rain made the entire official road muddy, and the soldiers could pass slowly with their horses, but the bronze 6-pounder cannon was blocked on the side of the road.

At this time, Zhang Fuji's idea of repairing rutted roads can be put into practice. Li Zhongyi resolutely issued a mobilization order, ordering the township troops in all counties, pavilions, and villages along the official road to repair the rutted road as soon as possible in accordance with the principle of doing the work in sections, so that the artillery battalions could pass through in time.

The so-called father-son soldiers who go into battle and fight tigers and brothers are indeed quite reasonable.

In other words, Li Zhongyi's military orders had to be issued to the state city first, and then from the state city to the county, and then to the pavilion, and finally to the village.

This efficiency is surprisingly low, and it takes at least half a month to go through the entire process of official documents.

Today, the inspection envoys of various states and counties are all Li Jiajun's own people, and the township troops of each pavilion and village are also their own transferred robes.

The military order is like a mountain! Under Li Zhongyi's strict order, the pavilion chiefs and village leaders from all over the road quickly organized and mobilized their respective teams, and 100,000 rushed to the official road and started the construction in full swing.

The most important difference between the feudal army and the modern army, in addition to the large gap between organization and discipline, is actually the ability to mobilize national defense quickly.

The Manchu court had an army of seven or eight hundred thousand, but in the First Opium War, it was beaten all over the ground by the British. The core of this is that the British army has a super-mobile fleet, which can hit wherever it wants, and the Manchu Qing's national defense mobilization capability is calculated on a half-year basis.

The British army had won the first Opium War, and the inland army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not yet been completely mobilized and assembled, so how could this battle be fought?

As early as the time of Pinglu, Li Zhongyi emphasized the ability of national defense mobilization, and the township armies in various localities were also organized and trained in a short period of time.

The mobilization of troops is only one aspect, and more importantly, Li Zhongyi attaches great importance to the construction of the naval division. In any case, the water transport of the army, this is both economical, the lowest cost, the fastest way to transport.

Under the planning of the General Staff Department, the township troops in various localities relied on the waterway to assemble to the designated place as much as possible. Where there is really no water, they are also equipped with a sufficient number of carriages according to their needs.

Horse-drawn carriages were used to load rations, weapons and other heavy supplies, and the soldiers of the township army who assembled by land needed to rush to the designated place to assemble on two feet.

In the Li family's army, the training outline clearly stipulates that the regular imperial forbidden army must complete a 20-mile cross-country march every day, and it will never slack off.

To put it bluntly, the army can't be assembled, and it can't be pulled out to fight in time, so what can you do with so many soldiers and horses?

Now, during the heavy rainstorm, Li Zhongyi scattered all the people from the Military Justice Department and asked them to supervise the progress of the construction of rutted roads by the township troops in various places.

It has been more than a year since Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng, and the township troops in various places have been training for at least half a year.

On the hillside, Li Zhongyi was holding a telescope in his hand, and the frame was full of pouring rain, and the official road, which was already difficult to walk, was even more muddy and unbearable to march.

"Alas, the ghost weather doesn't help." Li Zhongyi put down the monocular in his hand, and intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Li Anguo, who had been standing on the right side with a saber in his hand.

In the grand review of the township army, the team led by Li Anguo came out on top and won the first place in the whole army with its indisputable strength.

Li Zhongyi was happy in his heart, and simply transferred Li Anguo to the tooth camp and served as a waiter with a knife and a tooth.

The attendants brought knives and kissed their teeth, this is the closest group of people to Li Zhongyi, their number is very small, but they are all qualified to carry bows and knives in order to protect Li Zhongyi nearby.

The commander of the Qinya battalion is Chu Xiong, who is the leader of the attendants with knives and teeth, and Li Anguo happens to be his direct subordinate.

Now, as long as Li Zhongyi is out of the house, Chu Xiong and Li Zhengqing will definitely accompany him.

"Zhengqing, tell me, is there any good way to keep the artillery battalion from the slippery interference of the heavy rainstorm?" Li Zhongyi asked questions as always, waiting for Li Anguo to give a satisfactory answer.

Since ancient times, it is necessary to employ people first, and only after the foundation takes off can it be possible to accept all rivers and rivers, and there is tolerance.

There are three main ways for Li Zhongyi to train his subordinates: one is a grassroots officer who was born in a martial arts hall, the other is a middle- and lower-level officer who is transferred from the grassroots level to the General Staff Department, and the most important one is a confidant officer who once served as an attendant officer.

After all, people's energy is limited, and as the territory of the foundation is getting bigger and bigger, even if Li Zhongyi wants to fully understand the officers below the head of the capital, he will definitely be unable to do it.

In view of this, Li Zhongyi often transferred good seedlings to the Qinya camp after discovering them, so that they could be observed and cultivated nearby.

As the saying goes, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, Li Zhongyi has always had a good habit of taking notes.

Li Zhongyi's notebook, that is, the little black book in Chu Xiong's eyes, is the most mysterious existence in the minds of the soldiers up and down the entire Li family's army.

So far, Li Zhongyi's little black book, except for Yang Xiaoyi and Chu Xiong, who can inadvertently glance at half an eye, has not even seen Li Qiniang, who sleeps on his pillow side all day.

Yang Xiaoyi is a stuffy gourd, although Chu Xiong talks a lot, he is a smart person, what to say and what not to say, he knows everything in his heart.

Li Anguo froze violently, he never dreamed that Li Zhongyi would ask him this question.

"Returning to the Lord, His Majesty thought that the rutted road of the gun carriage must be padded with hard stones, otherwise the wheels would still be very easy to get stuck in the mud." Li Anguo touched his head and pondered carefully, and then slowly put forward his opinion.

Chu Xiong on the side thought about it for a while, and then realized that Li Anguo, a gentleman, really had a bit of spirituality, and his suggestion happened to be the best supplementary advice to the rutted road.

Li Zhongyi was very satisfied in his heart, but his face did not show it at all, he just said lightly: "If you don't move your brain often, it will rust sooner or later." ”()

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