"If not, the enemy's blood has nothing to do with us, and the savage enemy will burn and loot us. Some people also think that they trample on the land of the Ming Dynasty and let the king turn into a bubble has nothing to do with them, we are wise to protect our lives, greedy for life and afraid of death, so we blindly retreat, but one step back will only be broken.

There may be people who want to say, take a step back, you, the emperor, will definitely die, we may not die, we can still surrender, just like those adults who have bowed to the Tartar captivity, and when everyone surrenders, everyone will eventually return to a peaceful life.

Will there really be peace after surrender? The Chinese have surrendered, and is there still China? ”

The crowd was in an uproar, and it was a very simple question, and it seemed that few people had really thought about it before.

"If we all lay down our swords and guns, we will watch as those who have conquered us take our wives and daughters captive at will, and squander all that we have.

What happens when our hard-earned savings, our cherished loved ones, are taken away by the enemy?

What is the difference between being a slave to a dead country and being treated like brutes by our enemies? ”

The excited slogans were higher and higher, and Tianlang's words were not high-minded, his words only spoke the hearts of the soldiers themselves, and there were no soldiers who liked to defeat the battle, especially in the battle of Huguang, where 500,000 horses were defeated by 40,000 or 50,000 people, which was simply too much.

"I believe that the reason why so many people have surrendered and you have not laid down your arms is because you still want to protect your land and your family, and you do not want to be slaves to the country.

So what do we do next?

From now on, we must trust the robes around us, and we must also make the robes trust us, which is the most important thing. ”

The soldiers' eyes were a little strange, and they didn't understand why this was the most important thing.

"Have you ever wondered how tens of thousands of enemies can crush my army of half a million? We are running away when they are charging, and when we fight, we are not thinking about fighting the enemy, but always worrying that the robes around us will sneak away. ”

"So if one person escapes, the rest will all flee, and how can we win such a battle, no matter how many of us are?"

So the first thing we have to do in the next few years is to learn to trust each other, and then ......

Then the war will be simple, win or die, just like the martyrs we are commemorating.

Admittedly, it is very difficult for us to reverse the decline and regain the territory and protect our families, but so what? Victory is a demanding thing.

Victory requires not only the courage and faith of the soldiers, but if we lose even courage and confidence, we will only die.

Soldiers, sons, the difficulties of the country are not the occasion for men to make contributions.

Next, I will always trust you, and I will defend the whole state with all the kings, if I am here, this city will be there, if anyone does not dare to fight, they can leave immediately, I will not force me to stay, after all, only the hearts of the people can retreat from the strong enemy.

In the Battle of Huguang, why was our army's 500,000 horses defeated by tens of thousands of Qing troops? It is because there are many cowards among us who flee before fighting, such soldiers should not become soldiers, such generals are not worthy of being generals, such emperors, even more damned, I am not ready to go, so while the enemy has not yet arrived, the cowardly should go.

And no one who remains, including me, can escape ......"

After the small school sacrificed the wine and swore to the master, and rewarded the meritorious soldiers, the generals returned to the camp to carry out the training subjects assigned to them by the heavenly waves.

There is not much time left for the Ming army, and it is difficult for these small teams to cooperate and temper the soldiers' will to fight before the war to achieve immediate results.

There was no resistance to the implementation of the training subjects, and Tianlang's analysis of the significance of the battle of Jeonju and the reasons for the defeat of Huguang reached unanimous agreement, which is the most important thing.

You can't do all the training, but it's better to be aware of the importance of teamwork and mutual trust than to be a little clever and clever in dealing with the enemy.

Considering that the will to fight could not be unified for a while, Tianlang also asked all departments to transfer personnel to establish a supervision team, and Deng Kai's Jinyi Wei would also supervise the operation as a supervision team.

Last night, Pang Tianshou reminded Tianlang that the price of grain in Tianlang City was soaring, and in the morning, Tianlang ordered Deng Kai to send people to various rice shops to inquire, and confirmed that the brown rice that was three taels of silver and one stone before the war had now risen to thirty-six taels.

It rose by six taels in one day, and in the peaceful years, a stone of about 75 kilograms of brown rice only needed two taels of silver at most, and during the Wanli period, a bucket of rice only cost 20 yuan, and ten buckets were one stone.

In order to solve the problem of rice prices in the city, so that the people would not be hollowed out by unscrupulous merchants, let alone starve to death, Tianlang asked Pang Tianshou to convene all the grain merchants in the afternoon and held a meeting.

The theme of the meeting was not to discuss and persuade grain merchants to reduce prices, in order to successfully deceive the behind-the-scenes bosses of the major grain merchants, Tianlang set the name of convening them to invite guests, and apologized for Ma Jixiang's forced donation.

The grain merchants heard that the emperor was going to apologize for a criminal minister to the people of the whole state, how could there be any reason not to come, and to see the emperor may be something that these ordinary businessmen can boast about for a lifetime.

In order to make the excuse of hospitality more realistic, it is necessary to hold a banquet, and it is not only the grain merchants, but also some gentry and wealthy merchants in other industries in the state.

At the banquet, Tianlang did come to the scene and toasted everyone with a few glasses of wine, and then left under the pretext.

Then, Pang Tianshou had a small notebook in his hand, sitting at a table of eight immortals, resting his abacus and looking at it one by one.

It records that when Tianma Jixiang was forced to donate money in the city, the major gentry and merchants privately bribed Ma Jixiang in order not to hand over grain to the imperial court.

The paper turned over and rustled, the abacus began to crackle, and the atmosphere gradually became weird, many people couldn't figure it out, what was the big eunuch going to do after eating well, could it be that he had to send money to everyone after the banquet?

The merchants who went to the banquet felt a hint of danger, Pang Tianshou finally tore off his mask, picked up a cup of tea, and said straightforwardly:

"Maybe you don't know one thing yet, our family and Ma Jixiang originally had some friendship."

His gloomy voice spread, and after taking a sip of tea, he gently put down the teacup, and said to the sky with a smile:

"It's the grace of today, I can't bear to be implicated too much because of Ma Jixiang's sins, so our family is lucky to leave the head on the shoulder, but the head is left, so we have to do an errand for the emperor."