Facing the snowflakes rolled up by the cold wind, Li Huamei, accompanied by Wu Sangui and Shi Lang, inspected the camps of the Ming army stationed near Hongluo Mountain, and completed the day's work.

Outside the gate of her Chinese army camp, Li Huamei said goodbye to Wu Sangui, a very filial godson, with a smile, and went back to the camp to rest.

(Huh?) It seems that this lineup is a bit unexpected, two big traitors accompany the daughter of the pig's foot on the battlefield against the Liaodong anti-thieves? ）

After returning to his big tent, he was hit by the hot air baked by the fire dragon strung on the ground and the charcoal brazier lit, and the cold and freezing outside were suddenly two worlds. Li Huamei took off her mink cloak, threw it to the soldiers standing on the side, threw herself on the recliner and stretched her waist, and then smashed the horsewhip on several cases, and said angrily: "Waste! Eater! Why don't you give me all the deaths! The Ning Yuan Army is a waste, and the Mountain Navy is even more a waste. The lord of this county gave them so many weapons and silver dollars that they couldn't even take a small mountain bag. Our people are even more angry, and they actually told me that there are too many frostbitten people who are sick! A bunch of big men, how embarrassed to fall ill and frostbite at such a juncture! ”

At this time, there were only two personal soldiers in the tent, one was a fathead fish, and the other was a small hemp stick, and the two leaders of Li Huamei's personal soldiers glanced at each other, and they both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes. I secretly slandered in my heart, and said that the county lord, your old man should be content! This is our Nanyue Army, which spared no expense in distributing thick cotton clothes and gloves to everyone, and there were braziers and stoves in the tents for heating. In addition to the normal meat, hot soup is guaranteed to be served in each tent every day. If I had changed to other armies, I would have been frozen for a long time and could not walk. You go and look at the big battalions next door, and the number of frozen soldiers is counted in the thousands.

Xiao Ma Zhu'er is a straightforward and fast-talking Dongfan girl, and she was also carefully selected by Li Huamei's eldest brother Li Huayu and sent to her sister's personal army. Li Huayu is regarded as a god in the hearts of the Dongfan soldiers, not to mention anything else, in Taiwan, he cultivates wasteland, builds roads and bridges, and buys native products. So that the children can eat as much as they want. Such a day is like heaven for these mountain peoples. And Li Huabao was even more respectful in front of his sister, so that the little hemp pole served the county lord like a god on weekdays. Facing the gods, he naturally had to say something.

"The county lord. You go to the camp of Wu Zongbing and others to have a look. Every day, hundreds of people talk nonsense because of the cold and high fever, and some of them are even worse after frostbite. If this is not the case, how can our daily supply ships always have injuries and illnesses going to Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan? ”

"And. Our soldiers, every morning when they get up and go to pour the leftover soup in the copper pot, there are soldiers from the Mountain Navy and Ning Yuanjun waiting in the garbage pit, just to beg for a mouthful of hot soup to drink. ”

"What can I say if I lack something! What's the matter with so many of them reporting sick numbers and going home!? ”

As if to make some sarcasm for Li Huamei's words, she was talking, as her nose seemed to be stimulated by a hint of cold wind, so she sneezed very facelessly. Seeing this, the fat-headed fish hurriedly took clothes and put them on for Li Huamei, and then persuaded Li Huamei: "County Lord, don't be like these people, the weather is cold, be careful of freezing your body." If you can't win the battle today, you can fight it again tomorrow. Let's not believe how many shells the thieves can withstand! ”

Li Huamei sighed when she heard this and said, "Don't comfort me, if the Liaodong rebels collapsed so easily, they would have collapsed a long time ago." I don't need money to smash cannonballs every day. You don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, and the mortar cannon is not only difficult to operate, but also costs money to the shells, and when it flies out, it is a big stack of silver dollars. I've already thrown money and smashed money again, but the Liaodong anti-thieves are rushing up one by one, and I'm not sure if they naturally like to let the mortar smash it. ”

The fat girl hurriedly smiled and said: "County Lord, what are you kidding, the big iron bump of the mortar cannon, if you smash King Kong, it will be wiped out, who likes to let that thing be smashed." People are all fleshy, and if they are human, they are afraid of death, and Liaodong anti-thieves are no exception. ”

"County Lord, didn't Commander Shi already order people to use rockets to kill and injure a large number of these thieves when the Liao thieves entered the position after the artillery team was finished fighting? I could smell it from the front, a round of rockets passed, and the thieves were crying on their positions, and my nose was full of the smell of roasted human flesh. ”

Listening to the fat-headed fish talk about this lack of morality countermeasures that Shi Lang researched according to the tactical habits of the Liaodong anti-thieves, Li Huamei frowned and said: "I'm afraid that our friendly army is more afraid of death than the Liaodong anti-thieves." ”

"County Lord, but we are also a carload of thieves every day, seeing the Liaodong thieves transporting wounded soldiers and corpses to the rear, they are about to be unable to hold on!" In the high-pitched and loud voice characteristic of the mountain people, Xiao Ma Pole spoke about what he had observed these days.

Yes, fighting a war is to kill people, and the kind of thing where only oneself kills others, and no one else kills oneself can only be a story in the play. In reality, it is impossible, but it depends on who can hold out until the dawn of victory.

"Then tell me, at this time, how can we let our soldiers raise their spirits again to kill the enemy?"

The fat girl smiled when she heard this and said, "County Lord, don't worry about this matter, the little hemp pole already has a way." O county lord! It's not that I'm talking about you, you're a smart one, a fool for a while. Li Huamei pretended to be angry when she heard this: "You dead girl, but you are getting bolder and bolder, but you can tell me how confused I am, if I don't say it well, I will punish you for not eating meat for three days." ”

When the fat girl heard this, she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Don't don't, county lord, I was wrong." I'll make it clear right away. That's right, Xiao Ma said that you have recently patronized the generals of the Guanning Army, and now they have a guarantee that they are not afraid of death. Anyway, the dead don't have their turn to die, they all die below, but the soldiers below are different. At first, there was a silver dollar stimulus, and everyone's eyes were red, but now that they saw a batch of deaths, the ghost was not afraid. You haven't seen the recent move out of the silver dollar, many people are too lazy to look at it. If you have more silver in your hands, silver is not silver!! ”

When Li Huamei heard this, she immediately felt dizzy in front of her, she didn't expect that there would be inflation on the battlefield! It seems that this fathead fish and small hemp rod are also a good reader of "Pipe"!

"That does sound reasonable." Li Huamei pondered for a moment and said slowly: "This is right. But what else can I give now but silver dollars? It's not going to send you all out to work, right? If you want to say that you are sent out, everyone is happy, but the little hemp pole people don't worry about not being able to get married! Brother Lang of other people's lovers is still fighting hard in the Eastern Army, ready to get the fame of a battalion officer to marry Xiao Ma Gonger! ”

The little hemp pole said in a joke was full of pride and happiness, but the fat girl didn't care: "The labor army is the labor army, who is afraid of whom, I will see which one dare." But the county lord, the idea of the little hemp pole is really the labor army. You forget, we still have an art troupe. At the beginning, the subordinates who won the leadership of Zheng Da were the sisters of our propaganda team who made a miraculous contribution to the song of coral. We can completely use the tricks we used to deal with Zheng Da to catch the medicine again. Let's change the coral song. Put on the plot of Liaodong, and then let the sisters of the propaganda team sing a big drama to Guan Ningjun, so that it can boost morale? ”

"In addition to this method, we can also let these soldiers of the Guanning Army know the joy of life. These soldiers are oily. Most of them are pulled by the family. They all came out to mix the salaries of the army. Now I have money in my waist and in my hands. If you can't spend it, you naturally don't have the spirit to work hard. It's better to discuss it with Mr. Wu. Bringing in a group of family members of officers and soldiers in Ningyuan City and Shanhaiguan City can alleviate the hostility in the camp for a while, and second, let the families of these officers and soldiers go back to buy rice grain, cloth, and clothes with white silver dollars. Doesn't the money of our Nanyue Army have to be returned to our treasury? The money in these people's pockets has become food and clothing for their wives and children, and they are naturally more energetic to cut off the heads of the thieves in exchange for more silver dollars! ”

Although the words of the fathead fish and the little hemp stick are slangy, they are to the point. Hearing this, Li Huamei suddenly felt cheerful, and couldn't help but light up and jumped up from the recliner.

"Go! Sue sù small kitchen, prepare a few side dishes, light the copper pot, prepare some fish, shrimp and shellfish they brought during the day, and invite Uncle Mo Yu, uncle, Wu Sangui and Wu Zongbing, well, and that guy to have supper together! ”

The fathead fish and the little hemp stick are bright in their hearts, the guy in the mouth of the county lord is Shi Lang, the commander of the fleet, these days, our Shi Da Lang is busy on all fours. In addition to organizing the fleet's artillery fire to bombard Tashan and Baitai Mountain, it also dispatched ships to transport grain, grass and ammunition, and transferred batches of wounded and sick soldiers from the Tashan battlefield to Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan.

Alas! Obviously, I like this guy who can help our county lord solve so many troubles, and the county lord is a duck's meat that is not rotten. The fathead fish muttered in his heart, turned around and went out to arrange supper, and sent his own soldiers to invite Li Peiting, Mo Yu, Wu Sangui and others who were on the front line of Tashan at the moment, as for "that guy", the fathead fish personally went to the sailor camp to invite.

When Shi Lang was dizzy and was dragged by the fat-headed fish who rushed in with no head and no brain, and a few female soldiers of the Miao family dragged him to Li Huamei's big tent, he was shocked to find that the tent was already steaming and Gao Peng was seated.

A huge copper pot is boiling with charcoal, and the pot is boiling with red soup, and occasionally crabs, prawns, and shellfish are rolling up and down.

"Your Excellency is here?" Mo Yu showed a smile that had rarely been seen in recent days, "Sit down, it's cold, Miss, please have a glass of wine to block the cold!" ”

After three or five glasses of wine, Wu Sangui began to ask about the call late at night, and he didn't know what to order?

"Uncle, how many goods does our business have in the area of Tashan, Ningyuan, and Shanhaiguan?"

Hearing Li Huamei's inquiry, she had been in the army for a few days, and Li Peiting, who was quite puzzled by Li Huamei's lifeless fighting style of a loser, couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "Miss, this area is a battlefield, and even if there is a good thing, it is not much, if you want to reward the soldiers, I am afraid that you have to go to Tianjin, Dengzhou and other places to transfer." ”

"Then favor Uncle Lao's subordinates and allocate the goods, the more the better!" Li Huamei was chewing a prawn with her mouth and arms, and she didn't have the demeanor that the county lord of the earl's family should have.

"Uncle Chang, are most of Ning Yuanjun's family members in Ning Yuan City?"

"Lord Hui Yimu, most of them are in Ningyuan City, and some of them live in the nearby Tunpu Guard."

"If I start tomorrow and order people to invite these family members to visit relatives in the Tashan camp in batches, the eldest uncle will calculate how many ships will be used to transport them back and forth?"

Hearing this, Shi Lang and Li Peiting couldn't help but explode in their minds like a thunder!

"That's the idea!"

Both of them are very quick thinkers. From asking about the number of varieties of goods and urging them to speed up the allocation, to preparing to pick up the families of Ning Yuanjun and Shanjun to visit relatives in batches at the Tashan camp, the two immediately smelled the smell of this.

"It turns out that Erya is planning to take advantage of this reason to promote and sell the goods of my Nanyue Army in the Guanning Army! That's right, too! At this time, the Guan Ning Army was in the time when the pockets were bulging, and everyone from soldiers to generals was rich! ”

"The eldest lady's mind is really powerful, let the family come here to relieve the anger and killing atmosphere in the barracks, and let the soldiers and officers use the money to buy things for use at home. It's a great way to boost morale! ”

"Stepmother. According to the captive's confession, Dorgon, the prince of Nu Chieftain, gathered all his family members in the Tower Hill Fort, so that all the soldiers had the heart to die generously. None of them think about survival. Therefore, every battle must be fought to the death. Our army is the opposite. The county lord is generously paid and generous to raise soldiers, and the soldiers all have sorghum fat and belly, and they always do not want to forge ahead. Everyone has the idea of greedy for life. When the family arrives here, the son wants to see which one dares to be greedy for life and afraid of death! ”

The three of them each had different opinions, but they unanimously agreed with Li Huamei's approach.

"Uncle Mo Yu, your guards brigade has to work harder, during the family visit, the military discipline in the camp still has to bother you and the eldest uncle to send capable people to inspect back and forth, in case Jiannu and Xiaoxiao take the opportunity to plot against them. In addition, the people in the Guards Brigade who usually like to play and sing are gathered, and I plan to have the sisters of the propaganda team sing for the soldiers of the battalion for a few days, and the people from your area can also participate. ”

"Singing? Mother, if you want to listen to the play, my son also has an opera troupe in the army, so you can let them come together! Seeing that Li Huamei intended to sing in the army, Wu Sangui immediately volunteered to move his family's opera troupe and honor his mother once on the front line in Tashan.

The atmosphere in Li Huamei's big tent instantly became extremely warm with the exchange of everyone's words and words.

After a detailed discussion with Wu Sangui, the former enemy commander-in-chief of Tashan appointed by Li Huamei instead of President Li Shouhan, Li Peiting secretly gave a thumbs up to Li Huamei's move.

There were no less than 50,000 or 60,000 military horses in Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan in Tashan, and they consumed a lot of money every day. However, these grains, grass, and military salaries were all paid in advance by the Nanyue Army, and even the rewards and silver obtained by the soldiers who went into battle to kill the enemy were also paid in advance by the Nanyue Army in accordance with the standards promulgated by the imperial court. But there is no place to spend it.

"Uncle, here and now, a certain family is your elder, also pat a chest, in the past Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan two places, there is a lot of silver and the price of rice is high, the price is high, and now the soldiers are desperate for the country in the former enemy, and a certain family only hates to go into battle and kill thieves for the country with you. In this way, all the family members arrived at Tashan, and the soldiers used the money and rewards to buy all kinds of goods, all according to the price of the previous year's eight! ”

Li Peiting's abacus is very good, the purchasing power of fifty or sixty thousand people, in exchange for commodities is also a huge number, Tashan here because of the terrain, it is difficult for business travelers to come here, and there are sailors patrolling the sentry ships nearby, this business is an exclusive business. No matter how good he is a merchant or a merchant in Zhejiang, he can't compete with him. What's more, this huge killer feature that is sold at a 20% discount?

During the Chongzhen period, for daily necessities such as grain, cloth, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, no business group could sell them at an open price of 20%.

"The eldest lady's move not only brought the heart of the Guan Ning army back, but also quietly collected back the silver that had been scattered these days. I'm afraid that after this battle, not only did I not lose money, but I made a lot of money! ”

Regarding Li Huamei's method of stabilizing the morale of the army and improving morale, Li Peiting fully affirmed it from the perspective of a businessman. "It's a pity that the eldest lady is a girl's family, if it is like Hua Bao, Hua Yu, Hua Xuan, Hua Ning and others, he is a man with seven feet of eyebrows, and a certain family will be poured into this cavity of blood, and he will also be supported to make meritorious contributions and be supported by the lord to ascend to the throne of the world!"

Wu Sangui, who was sitting under Li Huamei's drooping hands, kept drinking for Li Huamei, Mo Yu, and Li Peiting's uncle, as well as Li Huamei, but everyone could see the ** affection between the two, Shi Lang poured wine and cloth dishes, and picked up all kinds of food cooked and scalded in the hot pot by the spicy soup into the food plates of the four elders.

Hearing the price promised by Li Peiting, Wu Sangui almost threw the chopsticks in his hand into the pot. With such heavy good news, he is the supreme commander of the Mountain Navy and the Ningyuan Army on the Tashan front, how can he not take advantage of such an opportunity to stretch his hand from the Ningyuan Army to the Mountain Navy?

When he was still thinking about how to use this specific opportunity to expand the influence and power of the Wu family, Li Huamei said something amazing: "Uncle Chang, tomorrow you will arrange the matter of visiting relatives, labor army, and condolences, don't compete with each other, don't fight for coming early and leaving late, our goods are some!" As long as the battle is fought well, the lord of this county will hang a reward here today, conquer Tashan, gather and annihilate the two white flags of Dolgon, and rest the whole army for five days and buy the market for five days! The siege of Jinzhou and Guangning was relieved, and the whole army bought the market for ten days! ”

Beginning the next day, the boats near Dayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain came in and out more and more frequently, and the atmosphere of the entire Ming army camp became more and more enthusiastic! (To be continued......)