One by one, messengers with conscription orders on their backs frantically whipped their horses under their crotches, raising a fleeting cloud of smoke and dust on the main road connecting all the provinces, prefectures and counties. Their mission was to deliver the official documents in the cowhide tube on their backs to their destination within one day, and to obtain the palindrome. Otherwise, this eight-hundred-mile urgent paperwork task will not be completed, and will be subject to the most severe military sanctions!

Therefore, when the soldiers and civilians along the way saw the small flag in this small group of messengers from a distance, they would very consciously dodge the road, because they knew that no matter if you were the emperor or Laozi, if you were bumped into by these people, you could only admit that you were unlucky!

After receiving the mobilization order, the prefecture and county yamen associations immediately organized their own watch teams and strong men teams, and went to the villages and towns to give orders, and notified the people on the first mobilization roster one by one. And the people on the roster, unless you have a wedding, funeral, birth, old age, sickness and death, otherwise, after receiving the mobilization order, the family's field is about to be harvested, the cow is about to give birth to a calf, or the house is about to be put on the beam, and you must immediately put down all the affairs in your hands!

After two days at most, one by one, the mobilized soldiers, carrying their own change of clothes, carrying dry food prepared by their wives or mothers, swords at their waists, and weapons such as armor, spears, and firearms on their backs, will follow the field roads and country roads, like a trickle, to the main road leading to the county seat, and under the leadership of the officials of their villages and towns, they will report to the yamen.

In Jiang Yihong's pen, he described such a scene quite passionately: "In this way, the people of a county can be organized into a battalion of soldiers and horses, a county and a battalion, a state and a regiment, and a government and a brigade. Even if there are 100,000 people, there are only a few places to mobilize! ”

This is Jiang Yihong witnessing the mobilization of Nanzhong in the Chai stick area. Three reserve brigades were formed and then marched to the Salian area to suppress the Burmese princes who were in rebellion there. Among the officials at all levels of the Ming Dynasty who served in the Nanyue Army, although Jiang Yihong could be regarded as a sensible person who knew the difficulties of the world, he did not know behind his joyful description of such an exciting scene. It takes many years of accumulation of such a scene, how much obscurity, and even invisible efforts can be done to cultivate such a picture.

After those peasants put down their hoes, picked up their knives, guns and armor that were properly kept in the cages, and walked out of the house without hesitation or delay, his fields not only did not affect the harvest because of the loss of a laborer, but on the contrary, other farmers who were in the same establishment as him did not affect the harvest. Under the leadership of the first chief, he volunteered to work for his family's fields. If his family's land yield is less than that of the rest of the family, then I'm sorry, you can take out the missing part and make up for him!

If you want to do this, without a strong political organization, deep into the execution of the village, to achieve such an extent, it is tantamount to a fool's dream!

"Under the rule of the lord, it is purely Qin Fa Ministry. Ploughing and warfare management. All of them are linked to family status, not to be measured by written fame. Jiang Yihong also honestly introduced this crucial situation to his junior Huang Xigon.

He saw it very clearly. There are also reasons why the mobilized soldiers who were ordered to accept the mobilization and go to Salian to quell the rebellion of the Burmese aristocracy are eager to try one by one!

"If you beat the little king of Burma, the lord will take back their land to the palace for management, so we can have more land for farming!"

The yearning of the Chinese people for the land. It's never obscure. Li Shouhan also saw this, so after the previous counterinsurgency, he generously took out at least half of the land that originally belonged to the local rebel nobles. Assigned to meritorious soldiers.

As long as you participate in the counterinsurgency, you can also choose a piece of land for reclamation in this land that completely belongs to the Guogong Mansion and belongs to the Nanyue Army! Moreover, it is not limited by thirty acres of land per capita!

This may be the reason why the people under the rule of the Nanyue Army are happy when they hear the war!?

If you have made military achievements and participated in battles, you will have real benefits!

A mighty and seemingly inexhaustible army, a mountain of grain, grass, baggage, armor, money, and grain piled up in the treasury, all kinds of products produced day and night in the various workshops, the taxes paid by the ships shuttling back and forth at dozens of port gates, the sound of reading aloud in the villages and towns, and the peasants who returned home with their plough sticks in the setting sun. These are the scenes that Huang Xigon saw in the chapters of a promising monarch described by countless saints.

He was determined to turn Guangxi, which was nominally under his rule, into such a territory, at least, a little bit like it! In that way, when he is old, whether it is writing a reminiscence article of the line narrative, or someone else sorting out the yearbook for him, or even the epitaph Shinto monument, it is a strong stroke!

When Huang Xigon expressed his wish to Li Shouhan, Li Shouhan looked at this young man who was almost the same age as Li Huayu with great interest, and he didn't know what Emperor Chongzhen thought, and actually let a young man in his twenties serve as an important position as the governor of Guangxi!? Maybe it's because Liangguang is barren and barbaric in the eyes of the imperial court officials, and the other has long been the delicacy of the Nanyue Army, so it is also appropriate to send such a young man to Guangxi!

"Lord Huang, are you no longer annoyed by the fact that this lord ordered you to concurrently sign the Youjiang Soldier Preparation Dao?"

Huang Xigon couldn't help but smile when he heard Li Shouhan's words with some ridicule. When he first arrived in Guangzhou, he originally thought that he had been appointed governor of Guangxi with the imperial order, and that he should go to Guangxi to be the lord of that province. Although Guangxi is barren, he is full of confidence and wants to show his strength there and turn this wild land into a paradise scene.

However, Li Shouhan, who controlled the military affairs of the two Guangxi provinces, ordered him to go to Youjiang first to serve as a soldier, because in Guangxi, Miao Yao lived together, and the affairs were complicated. So, you should go to the Youjiang area first to familiarize yourself with the situation and exercise!

To say that Huang Xigon is a scholar again, paying attention to the way of cultivating qi, it is impossible not to react to such a thing. But it can only be helpless to pack up and put on the road.

But after staying in the Youjiang area for a few days, he suddenly realized that not only did the lord have a prejudice against him, but he also violated the emperor's will. It's really loving him.

Not to mention anything else, in the Youjiang area alone, there are many local officials, local prefects, and the like, and the like are like cows' hair, and the dogs are intertwined. If there is no protection of Li Huabao's soldiers and horses, I am afraid that whether his orders can get out of the city is a matter worth considering! Not to mention realizing your ideals and ambitions.

Even if you can realize your ideals, you can build Guangxi according to the prosperous scene in your mind. Just ask, can you do better than Li Huabao? Huang Xigon asked himself, is it really possible!

Since you can't do it yourself, then follow the example of the 28 generals of Yuntai and the dragon people when Taizu founded the country, be a person who climbs the dragon and attaches the phoenix, and display his talents and abilities under the banner of the Nanyue Army!

"Your edict on the appointment of the governor of Guangxi, this lord will order the official office to issue it in the near future, and then you will have to give Huabao a good advice. It is necessary to do a good job in Guangxi's land reform and return to the stream, the integration of officials, the return of fire consumption to the public, the integration of errand and grain collection, the collection of taxes, the construction of roads and bridges, the planting of tea, and the promotion and education! ”

"The lord is so loving. Looking at each other as a son and nephew, Xigon dares not to do his best! Huang Xigon was also a little unexpected, not only did Li Shouhan want to announce his appointment as governor of Guangxi, but also asked him to work with Li Huabao. Although he wanted him to guide Li Huabao, in fact, he knew better that he wanted him to be Li Huabao's good assistant!

"However, these days will be wronged and you will be delayed for a few days. With the official office, the military department, the military administration, the military order, etc., together to deal with the expansion of the army! It's good to come up with a clause! ”

"Obey! I don't know how much the lord plans to expand the army? ”

"There are currently eight towns in the field mobile troops of our Nanyue Army. The land battalion of the Second Town Water Division, one Guards Brigade, one mixed brigade. The meaning of this lord is at least doubled! The Guards Brigade became a town, and the rest of the departments did not move, but only expanded. As for Wu Liuqi's bastard mixed brigade. Whether he wants it or not, this time it will be upgraded to a town! Write him a letter and ask him which of the nine and tenth towns he would like to choose! ”

Li Shouhan's tone was completely like scolding a child who was not very obedient, and Huang Xigon was naturally able to taste the taste. "Double the number of troops. Nature is not a problem. It's just that my lord, my subordinates have also seen the equipment of soldiers and horses in several towns, artillery, vehicles, and horses, but they are not suitable for a while! ”

Nanzhong's demand for horses has always been as insatiable as manpower, not to mention that the army needs horses, and the needs of all kinds of transportation and transportation are also needed. Although there are two horse farms in Fulang Mountain and Tamna Island, and now they have begun to raise horses in Shandong, Denglai, Shizhou and other places, but they are far away and do not quench their thirst.

In addition to such matters as soldiers, rations, armor, salaries, and weapons, artillery and horses towing artillery and towing vehicles carrying heavy loads are all a major problem.

"This." Li Shouhan thought for a moment, "You go and tell the official office, count the number of active guns in stock, and prepare to transfer them!" Several workshops in Ha Jing were heralded, and Long was prevalent. From now on, I will work overtime to produce artillery and build vehicles within three months. At the same time, tell those buyers who bought our guns that they will delay delivery for at least three months! ”

Huang Xigong became a member of this army expansion team, and he was busy in various official documents and books every day in Yuexiu Building with the personnel of various offices.

The more he learned about the Nanyue Army, the more Huang Xigon discovered the horror of this behemoth, and the closer he got to it, the more he found that it was so different from the Ming Dynasty!

However, the news from the north made the atmosphere of the entire Yuexiu Building tense suddenly!

"Bastard thing! Who wants them to do that?! ”

Listening to the roaring sound coming from Li Shouhan's signing room, Huang Xigon, Chen Tianhua and others were all silent. Several people looked at each other, unclear.

After a while, news came out from the signing room.

However, it turned out that the eldest young marshal Li Huayu was in Shandong because of the geographical convenience, and contacted the Liaodong anti-thieves without authorization, not only agreed to carry out peace discussions with the Liaodong anti-thieves, but also sent a delegation to Shengjing! At present, Li Huayu's letter was sent to his father, and it was clearly the taste of some raw rice after it was cooked and cooked. Moreover, the mansions in the capital also sent someone to deliver a secret report, and the matter of peace has spread in the capital!

This is Li Shouhan, the soldiers, horses, money, and grain are all their own! If it were someone else, I am afraid that I would have been taken into Beijing by the Jinyi Banner School Lock, or sprayed to death by the imperial historians!

Although Huang Xigon has only been in the line for a few days. But the clouds in the Li family's house have also heard of it. When the lord was in Jinan, Shandong, he was confused for a while, and sent a famous flower to the Shanxi businessman to curry favor with him. However, everyone else is a young phoenix and a young phoenix. Our lord didn't care about the old phoenix and the young phoenix into the room.

not only accommodated the mother and daughter flowers, but also in one arrow, the mother and daughter both have the blood of the lord.

Time. In the inner house, Mrs. Li, who has always relied on the eldest prince to be from herself, is quite a bit arrogant, and she is a little jealous!

One cry, two troubles, three hangings, these actions have not even been done by the lady of the main room, Yan Mei'er, but she has done them one by one. Li Shouhan made a big fuss, so it was better to have more than one thing, so he left the mother and daughter and their children in Jinan and never brought them to Guangzhou.

However, it was not so long ago. There was a letter from the direction of Jinan, which was written by the ninth lady Qimuge, saying that her mother, that is, the eighth lady, had died because of postpartum depression. Leaving only a baby son, she also felt that Jinan was a sad place. So on the day of sending the letter, he was ready to take a pair of babies from Jinan to Laizhou. Board the ship in Laizhou Bay and go south to surrender to the public.

Is this still worth it? How can a baby who is still nursing survive the long journey, the rough sea? Perhaps, the ship has not yet arrived in Shanghai. Two children have already died!

Annoyed, Li Shouhan vented his anger on Li Muhua. If it weren't for her, the mother and daughter would have been taken south by his side a long time ago, how could there be a human tragedy where the baby was born and lost his mother? Do you want to let Qi Muge take a pair of children to float thousands of miles to the south? This is clearly that your mother and son can't tolerate that mother and daughter!

Such a fact is in front of him, that is, Li Muhua has 10,000 mouths and cannot be defended by himself, and Li Shouhan is angry. Instructed someone to "invite" Li Muhua into a deep and secluded courtyard, and come here for closed-door thinking and other forms of confinement, so that she could reflect on her mistakes!

It has always been the mother who is more important than the son, and the reason why Li Muhua was able to make waves in Li Shouhan's inner house was half because of her identity. It can be used as a call among the people of Annan, and she consciously or unintentionally thinks that half of the foundation of the Nanyue Army is her dowry. The other half is her belly competition, Li Huayu, as Li Shouhan's eldest son, has excellent performance in all aspects, which can be regarded as a model.

But this is no longer the case. This time, the Nanyue army quelled the rebellion in various parts of Nanzhong, and many people acted under the banner of expelling the northern thieves, that is, there were many old Annan people in Ha Tinh, Thang Long and other places to make rebellion. Although it did not cause a big chaos, it made Li Shouhan quite vigilant, and ordered all the inspection departments, statistical offices and other institutions to start gradually cleaning up the old and young relics of the previous dynasty, but everything that could be used as a call for it was quietly cleaned up! He didn't want a King of Chu Huai to appear on his territory in a few years!

In this way, Li Muhua's position is a little awkward! But she didn't know how to converge, so in the eyes of some people in the palace, the status of the eldest prince was also precarious. However, if you don't die, the eldest prince has poked such a big hole at this time, isn't it because his position is not dangerous enough?!

This kind of palace secrets, competition for favor and succession, has always been a key chapter in the annals of our nation, which has a history of 5,000 years of civilization, and it is dotted everywhere in the history books. As an excellent reader, how can he make Huang Xigon free from vulgarity?

"In this way, the status of the eldest young marshal's mother and son is becoming more and more dangerous!" While quietly cleaning up the manuscripts on the table, he greeted the people around him with a smile, and at the same time he was eagerly calculating.

"Speaking of which, the second son was born to Mrs. Yan Meier, and although he is not the eldest son, he can be regarded as a sister-in-law. Although his military achievements are not as prominent as those of the eldest prince, he is also in the hands of Guangxi Province. Compared with the eldest son, it is also between the best, not to mention, the county lord's mother and the second son are born to the same mother, and the county lord and his wife are unrivaled in terms of prestige, status, and connections among the sailors. ”

"What's more, over the years, Mrs. Yanmeier has always been known for her virtue. In addition to raising the children of the wives and concubines of the lord's father-in-law, it is to widely apply medicinal bait and raise orphans. In addition to treating many of the lord's children as his own and raising them well, he also raised thousands of orphans in Nanzhong with his private wealth, provided them with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and took care of their reading and literacy. When the military and civilians mention their wives, they all regard them as mothers. If the lord wants to establish a prince, I am afraid that the pass on the eldest lady's side will not be good! ”

Counting up, Yan Mei'er, who has always been kind to people, seems to have a big chance of winning. In addition to the comparison of military merits and political achievements, the two sons also have to fight for connections and support rate!

And at this point, Li Muhua, who has been eye-to-head for many years and is accustomed to showing people with his nostrils, is much worse than Yan Mei'er, who is generous and virtuous. (To be continued......)