The conflict between Shouhan and Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, at the imperial banquet made Emperor Chongzhen feel very good.

As the emperor, he very much hoped that the current relationship between this extremely capable courtier and all parties would not be so friendly, harmonious, and even conflicting. In this way, Li Shouhan, who has elite soldiers in his hands and does not need a penny or a grain of rice from the imperial court, is the most powerful card in his emperor's hand. It can be used to deter the Quartet.

In Kunning Palace, Empress Zhou, Tian Guifei, Yuan Guifei and others, who were talking, saw that the emperor was coming, and hurriedly got up and saluted. Seeing the emperor's smiling face, the three women were naturally very happy.

"Your Majesty, the imperial banquet is over?"

The queen ordered someone to make tea and asked gently.

"Hmm. Scattered. ”

The emperor is in a good mood, and naturally the harem is also sunny, and there is constantly good news coming these days, and the concubines led by Zhou Hou, in addition to going to the emperor's sister-in-law, Empress Zhang, the emperor of the Apocalypse, to say hello, is to go to the Fengxian Hall to incense the ancestors.

Chongzhen's rare leisure and leisure, seeing that the two concubines were in the Zhou Hou Palace, he laughed, "The two concubines, why did they gather in the queen's palace today, could it be that they want to fight horses?" How about I get together in time? ”

Concubine Tian is more favored on weekdays, so she smiled and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, today is not a horse hanging, don't you think there is anything more in this Kunning Palace?" ”

Tian Guifei's words, Chongzhen paid attention to the changes in Kunning Palace.

There was nothing else, a few little eunuchs were trying to adjust the position and angle of an artifact, and several palace maids were gently wiping the dust on the surface of the artifact.

"What is this?"

"This was escorted by the royal eunuch and several fathers-in-law of the internal official supervisor, saying that Lord Li of Nanzhong paid tribute to the palace. My sister asked what it was. The father-in-law said that these were two nine-foot glass treasure mirrors from Lord Li's tribute, which were extremely precious and rare, and they were afraid of losing them, so they personally escorted them. ”

A nine-foot-tall glass mirror is set in a delicately crafted nanmu frame, with gold and silver bars at the corners, and a number of precious stones on and on the frame. Shine under the lights.

"I said why Kunning Palace is so dazzling today, it turns out that there are more treasures like this!"

"Emperor, it's not just Kunning Palace, Your Majesty's Qianqing Palace. Concubine Tian, Concubine Yuan, and two princesses. The princess's palace has this thing, but it's just a difference in size. ”

The two great eunuchs of the imperial eunuch took the opportunity to show their merits to Chongzhen.

"The palace of the concubines is a five-foot glass mirror, and the princess's palace and the princess's princess are all four-foot, but. The princess because she wants to read. Therefore, there are four gold wire inlaid eight-treasure glass lamps. ”

Look at the wives and wives in the mirror. Chongzhen suddenly had a feeling of being in a peaceful and prosperous world, so warm, so happy.

"This Li Shouhan. Think carefully! ”

"Emperor, General Li ordered people to send the details of the tribute to the palace, and the slaves and maids reported to you?"

The two eunuchs of the inner eunuch took out a long slip from their sleeves.

"This guy! That's a lot of tricks! In addition to the tribute to me, there is also a tribute to the palace! Read! ”

"Cloves, sandalwood, fast incense, woody incense, agarwood, true incense, yellow ripe incense, benzoin are fifty catties each. Ambergris, Qinan incense, lavender, black thread incense, body incense, gold and silver incense are 50 catties each, soil incense, cypress, burnt incense, flower vine incense, hemp vine incense, agarwood incense, clove incense 100 catties each, borneol, rice brain, yellow wax, brain oil, Suhe oil, rose water, etc. 100 catties each. ”

"Ten pairs of parrots, peacocks, turkeys, and warblers, five pairs of white deer and black bears, and ten pairs of upside-down birds, red monkeys, black apes, and five-colored parrots."

"Five pairs of three-foot coral, twenty hawksbill turtles, two pearls of the South Sea, one bucket of Ceylon gemstones, one bucket of crystals, and one bucket of agate. Emerald hair, turtle tube, ivory, rhino horn, peacock feather, etc."

"Two hundred bows, five hundred spears, a hundred swords, five hundred helmets and armor, five hundred swords, and two hundred saddles."

"Two hundred horses of high-quality red cloth, white cloth, black cloth, and Western fine cloth, and five hundred horses of bamboo cloth and summer cloth."

"Your Majesty, Master Li said that there are two other pairs of white elephants and rhinoceros, because the weather is cold at the moment, and the sea transportation is inconvenient, so they can only be sent to the palace after the beginning of spring next year. In addition, the concubine sent a pair of colorful parrots and two pairs of parrots to Changping, so that this little girl could have a little fun while studying. ”

Empress Zhou's words were like a spring breeze in Chongzhen's heart.

The richness and quantity of the list of tributes to the Han Dynasty made Chongzhen feel in a trance that he had seen the scene when all the nations came to the dynasty in the peaceful and prosperous era, and the Ming Dynasty was hopeful!

"The slaves and maids calculated that among the various tributes sent by Lord Li to Beijing to pay tribute, those gems, crystals, agate, spices, etc., if calculated according to the market price, can be worth millions. The slaves and maids ask for the emperor's will, how to deal with these treasures? ”

If it was in the days when there was a shortage of money and food in the past, Chongzhen might have ordered the eunuchs to quietly exchange these gold and jewelry shells for money. However, today is different from the past, looking at the slightly expectant eyes of the concubines, he changed his mind.

"You send the list to the imperial sister-in-law, and ask the imperial sister-in-law to choose one or two first, and then hand it over to the queen for disposal."

It's a good feeling to have money and food in your hands!

However, happy times are always short-lived.

"Emperor Qiqi, Lord Luo Sigong and Gonggong Cao are asking to see you outside!"

"What?"

Anyone who spoils a good mood by someone will not give the perpetrator a good face, let alone the emperor?

"Emperor Qiqi, the slaves and maids have received a secret report, and the adults of the military department have also received the official document. I'm afraid something big will happen! ”

Cao Huachun's words made Chongzhen's slightly drunk wine immediately fly out of the clouds.

"What's going on?! Does anyone dare to rebel?! ”

"I don't dare to rebel, I'm afraid that the army will beat me and mutiny!"

"Emperor, here's how it ......"

After the completion of the daytime sacrifice of prisoners, Guanglu Temple acted according to Chongzhen's will, and rewarded the three captive armies with wine and food, and the soldiers and horses of Jizhen, Yutian Town and other military towns stationed outside the city were also given wine and meat.

With Shouhan's temperament, he naturally disdains this bit of wine and meat. Not only did they distribute all of them, but they also ordered the baggage camp to take out the salted fish, salted meat, wind chicken, salt duck and other things they carried and add vegetables. This time it was bad, and the bastards in the barracks near the left smelled the aroma of wine and meat, and then looked at the clear soup in their bowls, of course, they were not angry.

On weekdays, I have long seen that the clothes and armor of the Nanzhong Army are distinct, the military salary is abundant, and the supplies are sufficient, which is not pleasing to the eye, and you still want to show off your wealth at this time? For a time, hundreds of bastards from various battalions gathered outside the camp of the South Central Army.

It happened that a few auxiliaries came out to dump swill in the garbage pit outside the camp, and were snatched away by a few battalion bastards, not to mention the leftovers, and stripped off their clothes and cotton clothes along the way.

This is where it all began.

While the auxiliaries were fighting with them, someone returned to the camp to report the news. Gradually, he was beaten by this group of ruffians from one to one. It became a two-on-two barely supported, and the five-on-five did not fall into the wind, and the first-class people knocked more than ten soldiers to the ground.

After the two teams of soldiers on duty joined the battle group, the group beating competition between the South Central Army and the joint teams of various military towns came to an end.

200 Nanzhong troops won a complete victory over more than 400 veterans from various towns!

"The generals of the towns heard that the soldiers in their battalion were detained by the Nanzhong army. Then he went to General Li to ask for someone. The general asked them to write an argument. The townsmen refused to write. I don't know what I said in the middle, but I finally said that I would perform martial arts in Nanyuan three days later, and all armies and towns would be present. Please be a Chinese person, Lord Hong, and Lord Lu. ”

"This Li Shouhan!"

I heard that there was also a conflict between the Nanzhong Army and the Jiliao Army. Although Chongzhen was a little unhappy on his lips, he was happy in his heart.

"You clashed with the Donglin party leader at the banquet, and the first Buddha who folded Qian Qianyi ascended to heaven and the second Buddha was born, and your subordinates fought with the subordinates of several general soldiers, and they also had to perform martial arts, which was obviously to show off their strength! It's okay now, you can't be my lonely minister if you don't want to! ”

"Since these battle-hardened divisions are going to conduct a drill, you should inform the military department, and you are ready. Also, when the day comes, the Jingshi garrison will go to watch it together! ”

As the largest wetland in Beijing, Nanhaizi is the royal hunting ground of the Liao, Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties and the royal garden of the Ming Dynasty.

In the midst of this autumn wind, a team of soldiers and horses drove into the royal hunting ground within a radius of dozens of miles.

"Uncle Erhu, so many officers and soldiers!"

"Luo Hu, don't talk! There's a crazy man in this! Don't be recognized! ”

Liu Tichun took Luo Hu to hide in the crowd watching the excitement, nervously and with a little excitement looking at the banners of the team of officers and soldiers.

"Trilateral Governor Hong!"

"Shaanxi Governor Sun!"

"Xuanda Governor Lu!"

"Shaanxi Chief Soldier Congratulations!"

"Jizhen Chief Soldier Zhang!"

Dozens of handsome flags and recognition flags of generals and generals of the general army shook Liu Tichun and Luo Hu a little dazzled. Among the handsome flags of several governors, Liu Tichun still recognized the handsome banner of the commander of the Nanzhong Army at a glance. There is no way, the banner of Shouhan is too out of the ordinary among these flags.

"Uncle Erhu, you said that if I rushed to Maniac Hong and slashed him with a knife, would I be able to avenge King Gao Chuang?"

"Don't come nonsense! Honest looking! I've already told you that our envoy to Beijing is not murderous! ”

Seeing that the team entered Nanhaizi, the lively people had to disperse one after another, Liu Tichun and Luo Hu took a look at the empty space and dived along a trail where the nearby people went to Nanhaizi to poach fish, shrimp and animals.

"Elder Hong, Elder Lu Jiu, Brother Bai Gu, ranking generals, today's meeting is to follow the emperor's will to learn skills between various armies and towns. My Nanzhong Army came from afar, and I didn't dare to trespass, so I still asked Hong Jiu Lao to arrange the order of the military exercises, and I was behind the Nanzhong Army. ”

Shouhan said politely, but he didn't take these guys seriously in his heart at all.

However, the posture of the table is still to be expressed xiàn.

"Tell the soldiers of all the armies, today's food and drink is from my Nanzhong army. What our army eats, the generals will eat! ”

By the time Liu Tichun and Luo Hu bypassed the woods, walked through the reeds, and came to the water's edge where dozens of cooking trucks were lined up, the military exercises of the Shenji Battalion, the 3,000 Battalion, and the 5th Army Battalion in the distance had already ended. The soldiers of the various towns watching from the sidelines scoffed at these old men who were brightly dressed and armored, but neither individual skills nor group discipline were worth mentioning.

"Which boss are you two under?! Don't be lazy, come and help fetch water! ”

A guy obviously regarded Liu Tichun and Luo Hu as volunteers in the camp. He threw them two iron buckets and a pair of flat poles and told them to go to the water to fetch water.

This time, the two of them have a legal identity, and they can walk back and forth on the edge of the venue of the Ming army's martial arts exercises. While carrying water, Liu Tichun couldn't help but let out a sneer in his mouth.

However, as the drill progressed step by step, Liu Tichun, who was nicknamed Liu Erhu, had fewer and fewer smiles on his face.

At this time, it was the Shaanxi Binghe Maniac Department that carried out the drill.

He Renlong's department is very familiar with the camp, they are all the backbone of the Mizhi people in northern Shaanxi, and the two sides are not only the people of the township party, but also relatives.

Watching the impact of the exercise, the He Maniac Ding Ma team came and went like the wind slashing and stabbing among the hundreds of straw men. The armor on his body shone brightly in the autumn sun. Liu Tichun couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "Donkey ball!" It's really a good outfit! ”

He Renlong's family has changed shotguns this time. He Renlong threw out a large sum of silver and bought a large number of armor, knives and guns from Shouhan. Not only is everyone wearing armor, but the officers above the general flag are wearing double armor, and they are very ostentatious to wear the armor of the Nanzhong Army on the outside. The rest were dressed in captured tartar armor, though. But the production zuò is also quite sophisticated. Compared to the previous equipment, it is undoubtedly heaven and earth.

"These thieves. I'm afraid it won't be easy to deal with when I meet again in the future! ”

After a few buckets of water, He Renlong's department had already finished the drill, and it was the turn of the Tianxiong Army to play.

"This guy is not easy to deal with!"

From the mouths of Gao Yingxiang's old ministry and Zhang Xianzhong's several adopted sons. Liu Tichun has also heard of the combat style of the Tianxiong Army, once this group of guys targets you, they will be like hungry wolves in Beishan, and you will not withdraw your troops if you don't bite your flesh and blood.

"Don't look around! What is there to see in the drills of these teams?! Pour water into a pot and bring to a boil! Don't let our brothers drink raw water! The man shouted at Liu Tichun and Luo Hu.

While pouring water into the cauldron and boiling, Liu Tichun and Luo Hu couldn't stop peeking at the drill of the Tianxiong Army. The armor of the Tianxiong Army is much stronger than that of He Renlong's department, and the iron armor of hundreds of people is the same color, unlike the iron cotton armor that there are still a lot of inlaid iron cotton armor in He Maniac's family.

"Kill!"

Hundreds of people shouted in unison with the order, the knives and guns in their hands waved in unison, stabbing and slashing, the pace under their feet was steady, and the entire formation slowly moved left and right, like a forest of guns.

"Hundreds of people are like one person, Lu Xiangsheng is really powerful! No wonder even King Gao Chuang and the Eight Great Kings suffered a big loss under him! ”

Liu Tichun watched the drill of the Tianxiong Army and couldn't stop admiring it in his heart.

"General Li, all of our departments have already sacrificed their ugliness, and now it's up to the brothers of the Southern Chinese Army!"

He said what the leaders and generals of the various armies were thinking.

Shouhan held the order flag in his hand, and pointed to the location of the various military and horse formations, and drew a circle, "General He, how big is the radius here?" ”

"There are so many military horses here, I'm afraid there are not a few miles?"

"Herald! Our military horses will run around the field for a lap and then perform the drill! ”

With the banner of the Shouhan in his hand, the sound of the brass trumpet rose one after another in the Nanzhong military array. A small team with a whistle as a unit began to slowly run out of the formation under the guidance of their respective flags.

To the surprise of everyone present, the speed and pace of these more than 1,000 people, whether they were running at the front or at the back of the team, were exactly the same! There was no shouting or shouting from the commanders, only the faint whistle in the ranks, the shields in the hands of the sword and shield men, and the sonorous sound of the scabbard colliding with the armor. The spear on the pikeman's shoulder continued to rise and fall with his pace, and the little light on the tip of the spear sparkled like a golden light beating on the sea.

"No matter what the skills are, but in terms of this military discipline of thousands of people, Li Weiru is already stronger than me and others!" Hong Chengchou secretly admired in his heart.

"Brother Li! Sure enough, it's a good soldier! How did such a good soldier get into his account? Tell us about Lao He?! ”

"These soldiers are not recruited from all over the world, they are recruited by the guards in accordance with the system of guards, with slight changes, one armor and one soldier, and then trained!"

"How should I practice?"

All the generals pricked up their ears and worked hard to collect every conversation between Li Shouhan and He Madman.

Nowadays, the guard post system has collapsed for a long time, and the recruitment of soldiers in various departments completely depends on the generals who lead the troops to find their own methods. There are those who recruit stragglers, there are those who indiscriminately collect and surrender the masses, and there are those who grasp the strong men in a big way.

In the midst of this dialogue, the South Central Army had already completed the task of running around the military horses of these various units, and completed it in a formation at the place where the various units lined up for drills.

"Ladies and gentlemen, fathers-in-law, generals, at this moment, it is like our army suddenly encountering enemy troops on the march, and the scouts have come to report that there are more than twice the number of our army, and the enemy's infantry and half of them, complete with armor, swords, and guns, are rushing towards our army two miles away!"

In an unhurried tone, Shouhan explained the war to the governors, eunuchs, and general soldiers who were watching the battle.

"If that's the case, the hero won't suffer the immediate loss! We must turn around and run immediately! ”

In a burst of laughter, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others couldn't help but smile.

"General He, that is, Governor Hong and Lord Sun are benevolent, if you are in my Nanzhong Army and flee without permission, your own official and the sentry officer and above will be severely punished, from military sticks, demotion, to beheading." Shouhan listened to the words of this He madman who was as famous as running away and fighting madness, and couldn't help but beat him with a straight face, and reminded Hong and Sun by the way.

In the midst of the laughter of the bigwigs, hundreds of straw men have been planted in the open space.

The gunners in the ranks of the South Chinese Army also completed the formation of the Big Buddha Lang machine, with the Big Buddha Lang machine as the center, and the pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, and fire soldiers stood in their respective positions.

"Our Nanzhong Army fights against the enemy, and there is no secret that it has not been passed on, but it is just following the tactics handed down by Chengzu, artillery bombardment, cavalry charge!" (To be continued......)