Although he was unwilling, after carefully discussing with Li Peilin and others, Li Shouhan still acquiesced to Zheng Zhilong, Jiang Yihong and other officials to jointly play to the court in their official capacity, asking to reserve a vitality plan for the Ming court, and bring all the southeastern provinces under the jurisdiction of Liang Guogong, "thinking that the southeast is mutually protected." ”

At the same time, this initiative was published in newspapers controlled by the Nanyue Army in various parts of the Yangtze River, and the writers did their best to promote the situation according to the intention of the main writers of their respective newspapers. The benefits of participating in the Southeast Mutual Insurance are listed one by one. What Liang Guogong's army is stationed here, there is no need to worry about rogues and bandits, and his old man's department has always been a strict military discipline to buy and sell, plus the military salary is sufficient, the grandfather of the country loves soldiers like children, and the soldiers must have a meat entrance every day, and the vegetables, fish, shrimps, chickens, ducks and other things from the fields and fish ponds in your home are afraid to be sold at a good price.

To live a good life, to live a good life of peace and quiet, and to live a good life of peace and well-fed food and clothing are the goals pursued by every ordinary person. Under the bombardment of public opinion in newspapers, teahouses, restaurants, storytellers, and gentlemen, the people of Jiangnan are looking forward to joining the Southeast Mutual Insurance as soon as possible, which is no less than the mentality of the people in the south of the Yangtze River who looked forward to joining the GATT after all kinds of foreign good things were extremely cheap. But I completely forgot that when that day came, would the influx of delicate and compact dyed cotton, satin, sugar, porcelain and other Nanzhong goods squeeze me out of my livelihood?

Regarding this matter, the officials and nobles in Nanjing City also applauded. Not long ago, Zhang Xianzhong crossed the river to the south and harassed in Nanzhili, Biyuan, southern Jiangxi, northern Jiangxi and other places, which really frightened these adults and gentlemen. Although they each bought houses in Songjiang Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion early, they opened a business. But if you really lose the capital to stay, it will be the end of your official fortune!

Now, there are tall people who are willing to come and support us all. Why not?

As a result, under the joint initiative of the Yamen Shangshu and the lords of Liudu, the inscription of the request for the imperial court to allow the Liudu, Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places to carry out mutual protection in the southeast was sent to Beijing by sea ship overnight. Although the title book only has more than 1,000 words, the names of the officials, titles, and titles of the officials and nobles who are listed and signed at the end are densely packed with more than 3,000 words!

I didn't wait for this inscription to land in Tianjin. The inscription of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, was also folded and released. He moves faster and walks with a bigger step. Not only did he propose in the inscription that in order to ensure the safety of the ancestral tombs and the central capital, he must join the southeast mutual insurance, but also announced that in the area under the jurisdiction of the Fengyang Governor, with reference to the law implemented by Liang Guogong in Guangdong, the officials and gentry should be integrated to pay grain, and various tax systems of the Southern Guangdong Army should be implemented, "to help the people in need, and to fill the treasury." ”

Time. The south of the Yellow River was still controlled by the Ming army, and there was a wave of calls to join the southeast mutual protection.

Looking at the letters of allegiance flying like snowflakes, Li Shouhan just laughed lightly twice, and instructed the official office to archive these letters in case they could be used in the future.

However, he just waved the wolf's hair on a letterhead printed with Liang Guogong's special use, and gave the order to the official room. The official office was ordered to increase its investment in the government hall, especially the cultivation of officials from the mainland.

"At least in one year, Gu will train a thousand state and county officials from the north of Wuling. 5,000 township heads, 10,000 village heads! ”

"My lord. It's a bit harder! ”

Wang Long, who was sitting in front of Li Shouhan, was holding this cinnabar-drenched zazi in his hand, and he couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. He and hundreds of his cadres also traveled to Liangguang and Nanzhong for a few days, and it was precisely after the limelight of mutual protection and persuasion in the southeast that Li Shouhan specially ordered someone to find him back from the Chai stick area.

Summoning Wang Lung, for Li Shouhan. It is also a desperate move to make amends!

These days, Li Shouhan himself hid in a small building and became a unity, no matter how turbulent the waves outside, he always looked like he was sitting on a fishing boat regardless of the wind and waves. However, what happened outside also made him frightened.

At present, the factions within the Southern Yue Army have shown their respective faces and demonstrated their strength. Although it is not as good as the Qichu Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party in the court, they are pinched with each other like black-eyed chickens. However, they also have their own interests.

Not to mention anything else, Li Huayu, who was in Jinan Mansion in Shandong at this time, had different ideas from Li Shouhan. In his opinion, the Central Plains is best just a piece of land that can serve as a source of raw materials and a market for the products of the Nanyue Army, as long as it can provide a steady stream of labor, raw materials and markets for the Nanyue Army, who is the master of this land is really not in his heart Young Master Li.

If he, Li Huayu, only has such thoughts as Li Shouhan's son, then our Liang Guogong can completely use Lao Tzu's prestige to teach him a hard lesson and correct his wrong thinking. However, within the Nanyue Army, especially among the second-generation Nanyue Army, most people have a very weak sense of feelings for the Central Plains, and in their opinion, they are Nanzhong people, at most the family ancestral tombs and old homes are in Fujian and Guangdong. It is now also under the jurisdiction of the grandfather of the country, and as for the more distant Yangtze River and the Yellow River, they are the hometowns of those Central Plains refugees who have only crawled out of the cabin in recent years, what does it have to do with us? Why bother, spend your food, pay and troops to fight for that land that has been in drought for many years?

Over the years, the efficiency of farmland in southern and central China has been greatly improved after the popularization of metal farming tools, and various technologies such as the use of buffalo farming, the implementation of rice and fish farming and crab farming, the rice-wheat rotation in paddy fields with conditions, and the localization and promotion of sweet potatoes and corn in mountainous dry fields, so that grain harvests have been harvested year after year. In addition, the government collects grain at a protective price every year, making this huge land, which was already known as a rice paradise, more and more abundant, rich and prosperous. Compared with their own good life, although the displaced people from the Central Plains who are constantly pouring into Nanzhong are constantly supplementing the various labor shortages in Nanzhong, and they are also carrying out the work of reclaiming wasteland in various places, the negative information they bring about the Central Plains is also more and more that the soldiers and civilians in Nanzhong are not very willing to go through the Central Plains from the bottom of their hearts, and only want to maintain the current situation. If we want land, whether it is the ten states or the land of Fusang, a large area of land is waiting for us there. In the eyes of the seniors who have been operating in various parts of Nanzhong for several years, the displaced people in the Central Plains are a group of distant poor relatives. Now that the family has nothing to eat, they come to join relatives and friends. This sense of psychological superiority has strengthened the inner beliefs of these people from another angle. This sense of superiority, you can go and find various film and television works before Hong Kong's return to the motherland for reference. There are a lot of descriptions of "cousin", "cousin", "Ah Can" and the like.

Therefore, in order to change this situation, the first thing is to correct the consciousness among the officials of the Nanyue Army as soon as possible, and at the same time, it is necessary to cultivate a Central Plains faction that can compete with the native faction in Nanzhong as quickly as possible, and at least have the strength to fight.

It is not easy to correct the consciousness, and the current order for Li Shouhan in the Nanyue military system is good. Instructions have a kind of worship that is close to an oracle, and can be carried out to the letter. But it's not that simple to raise a new faction to come out. After thinking about it, in addition to ordering the officials to sort out those officials and officers who belong to the Central Plains region as soon as possible, or who have been fighting and operating in the Central Plains region for a long time, and speed up the promotion and use, they can only make some fuss about the Wang Long in front of them!

When Wang Lung went to Shandong, he brought a large number of students from the Qin Law School. Although it is a copycat, it is also durable, and the most important thing is that it is durable. They are suitable for the situation in various parts of the Central Plains. As long as they take turns to go to the political hall for a recuperation, they will still be good at the administrative system of the Nanyue Army. And. They can also act as teachers in the political affairs hall, and implement Li Shouhan's plagiarism of the Angang Constitution from another aspect, so that students can teach and learn from each other, and change the vague understanding of those political affairs hall students about the Central Plains. In this way, not only did they improve the level of these Qin Law Academy students, but they also played the role of yeast. It is bound to drive a group of students from the political hall to have ideas to go north.

One in and one out, the relationship is very big!

As for Wang Lung himself, Li Shouhan also has his own ideas. He planned to let Wang Lung strengthen the government hall for some time, and after supplementing the basic knowledge, he would serve as a Taoist platform in the area of the Chai Stick, the Kowloon River, or the Chao Phraya River for a period of time. After being familiar with and mastering the operation mode and procedures of the Southern Yue Army, it is another reuse.

Li Shouhan had already arranged a position for Wang Long in his heart, that is, the governor of Denglai!

The governor of Denglai, in the Ming official system, was subordinate to the governor of Shandong, Denglai soldiers, horses, money and grain affairs, originally in order to prevent the thieves from Liaodong from the south of the sea to attack and disturb Shandong, and the second deliberately separated Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou Mansion and Dengzhou Town from the governor of Shandong. In its heyday, the four acropolises of Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Haizhou, and Gaizhou on the Liaodong Peninsula, as well as the famous Dongzhen soldiers and coastal islands, were all under the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai. From the establishment of this position, under the unremitting efforts of Yuan Keli and others, the Jiaodong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula were closely linked by sea, until the famous general Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, and after the great removal of maggots attached to the bones, many cities on the Liaodong Peninsula began to be gradually captured by the Liaodong thieves one by one. After Huanzhu Gege's father Kong Youde launched a mutiny and bloodbathed Shandong, Denglai was completely decayed.

In recent years, with the continuous investment of the Li family and his son in the ground of Shandong, and the construction of the capital at any cost, the position of the governor of Denglai has gradually become quite rich from the previous ten thousand people. Many people dig holes in the mountains to find a way to serve as the governor of Dengzhou, for different purposes. However, everyone knows that this is a stable and oily errand. Not to mention anything else, just Dengzhou, Qingzhou, Jiaozhou and other ports, how many silver dollars do you earn every year?

However, all kinds of requests were blocked by Li Shouhan for various reasons. He didn't want those people to put their hands in their purses to make money. The reason why this position is assigned to Wang Lung today is also very simple.

Li Shouhan wants to increase investment in the Central Plains! At the same time, it is necessary to mix sand with Li Huayu's subordinates!

Because of his experience in the Dragon and Tiger Camp, Wang Lung and Li Huayu established a relationship foundation and were able to trust each other. However, his background experience, the inextricable connections with various peasant armies, and the communication ability of the generals of the Beijing camp to become sworn brothers determined that he would definitely not be a member of Li Huayu's core team.

So these conditions, coupled with Wang Lung himself, is a general who is extremely capable of fighting and is good at leading cavalry. Judging from his resume, he also took charge of some civil affairs in Cao Ying, and he is not a novice. To sum up, Li Shouhan decided to reuse Wang Long!

In the depths of Li Shouhan's heart, he has another intention for the position of governor of Denglai. That is, once the Beijing division changes, Li Zicheng's Dashun army will also be good. Regardless of which army broke through the Beijing division first, according to his arrangement, Chongzhen should escape from the capital and go south through the Tianjin sea route, and after landing in the Denglai area for a short stay, he should go south into the Yangtze River waterway to stay in Nanjing.

This is one of the reasons why he was able to pinch his nose and agree to the southeast mutual insurance proposed by Zheng Zhilong and others.

"Wang Long, how do you feel after walking in the nest of our Nanyue Army these days?"

ordered someone to bring Wang Lung refreshments and fruits, and Li Shouhan slowly started talking to him.

An abundant supply of food to the point of perversion. There are large quantities of oil and soy products, a wide variety of sugars, and because of the proximity to the sea, there are countless seagoing vessels working on the sea, not to mention the supply of various kinds of fish. In addition to these, the full supply of freshwater fish, pigs, cows, chickens and ducks allowed Wang Lung and others to see a world that had never been seen before.

These people are the backbone of the old camp in the original Cao camp, not those ordinary homeless people who have never eaten meat or oil. These ordinary meat-based snacks weren't enough to surprise them. However, it is better to be popular.

In every town or village they walked, they could see heavy rice jars under the eaves of every house. In the shaded and ventilated places, you can see salted fish, chicken, bacon and other things hanging on the beams of the house, and from time to time you can see all kinds of animal bones and eggshells in the garbage ponds in the streets and alleys. These signs were enough to surprise Wang Lung and his men.

This is a scene that they have never seen in all the places they have traveled to the Central Plains. When someone raised this sigh, everyone immediately scoffed. If there is such a scene in the Ming Dynasty, why should we be thieves?

Could it have been pre-arranged? This statement was dismissed by everyone again. Those meat or something can be prepared in advance, but the traces of the years under the heavy rice jar cannot be faked. The looks and postures of the people we saw along the way. It is clearly a person with a red face and sufficient oil and water all year round. What's more, to put it mildly, what kind of identity are we now, and Grandpa Guo is guilty of using illusions to deceive us? You're taking yourself seriously, aren't you?

But. When the accompanying officials told Wang Long and others that this was just the life of the people in Thang Long and other places under the jurisdiction of the original Li Dynasty, if they went to Ha Jing, Chai Stick, Jiulong River, Chao Phraya River and other places, it would really be a rich place, where rice was full of barns of chickens and ducks.

"Grandpa Guo has so many grain and grass reserves, and there is a large population, why don't you go north to the Central Plains and change a yellow robe for yourself to wear?" Wang Lung also thought of something, so he asked the accompanying official something.

This question really stumped the officials accompanying the Reiji. He thought about it for a long time before he gave an answer that Wang Lung sounded very reluctant: "Although there is a lot of grain and grass, the consumption is also more." Walking further on, when we reached Ha Jing, the general knew. ”

Sure enough, after arriving at Ha Jing, the real nest of the Nanyue Army, Wang Long really understood the reason why the Nanyue Army was able to achieve the four words of armor and military advantage, and also understood the reason why the armed forces of the Central Plains, no matter what banner they fought, regarded the armor and weapons made in Nanzhong as a temporary boutique.

As a core backbone member of the former Cao Battalion, Wang Lung can be said to have traveled all over the vast area between the Jianghuai River and the Han Dynasty, and had dealt with all kinds of armed forces in the Central Plains at this time, even the Liaodong rebels, and he was also quite familiar with the experience in the Dragon and Tiger Battalion.

In his impression, the sources of swords, guns, armor, and equipment of the various units of the peasant army were very simple, and they were either snatched from the hands of the officers and soldiers or bought with money. There are very few craftsmen in their own battalion who can make armor equipment, and even if they do, they can only do some maintenance and finishing work. Because tactics require that they can't stay in a place for too long. It was only after partnering with Chuang Ying that Cao Ying began to set up a craftsman camp like Chuang Ying, collecting various craftsmen and starting to manufacture armor equipment on a large scale.

As for the Liao thieves, he also interrogated several captives when he was in Shandong, and according to the description of these captives' smug confessions, outside the city of Shengjing, it stretched for more than ten miles, and the fireworks were endless day and night, and the sound of Ding Dang was constant. When he heard this, Wang Lung was quite surprised, how many people should work in the blacksmith shop and smelting workshop that stretched for dozens of miles, and how many instruments, knives, guns, and armor could be made every year? No wonder the Tartars are so strong!

However, when the workshop area outside Ha Jing City appeared in everyone's sight, Wang Lung immediately understood why the officials of the Ministry of Rites said that the consumption was also huge. In everyone's field of vision, countless chimneys were as dense as firewood forests, spewing black smoke into the air. Countless officials and slaves mixed with soot kept pushing truckloads of coke along the railroad tracks to their destination. Countless workshops are lined up like fish scales, until the end of everyone's field of vision, as if they have never stopped in the sky.

After visiting the blast furnace for smelting steel, the workshop for making weapons, and the artillery yard for casting artillery, Wang Lung and his subordinates have quietly changed their thinking again. is no longer glad that he defected to the Nanyue Army in time and followed Li Shouhan. Now in their hearts, they are a little proud that they are already a member of the Nanyue Army. In private, Wang Lung felt that if Dolgon's family competed with the lord for the world, he would definitely lose!

"Attack the city with this, why won't the city be broken? With this defeat, why is the enemy undefeated? ”

In the military industry of Ha Jing, watching those craftsmen wipe and oil the rows of guns and cannons, do the last few processes, and stroke the cannon body that seemed to have residual warmth, Wang Lung couldn't help muttering to himself.

As the firearms unit of Cao Ying, his headquarters was familiar with the power of these guns. In several major battles, he and Luo Hu relied on the excellent performance of these weapons, and the soldiers did not retreat and achieved brilliant results.

As a leader in the second generation of the peasant army, he, like Luo Hu, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Kewang and others, knew the power of these firearms. But along the way, the strong men in the villages along the way practiced from time to time, and the children in the school also had to form a formation when they played, and he was even more determined to follow Li Shouhan to fight the world.

With a steady supply of weapons, a team of soldiers who have received basic military training and know how to discipline the army, plus abundant grain and grass, even if Li Shouhan is sleeping in the city of Guangzhou, the generals on the front line will use soldiers, horses, money, food, and firearms to consume the enemy, and they will also consume the opponent to death!

When Li Shouhan asked Wang Lung how he felt about walking down thousands of miles from Shenglong and Hejing to Chai Stick this time, and what he had seen and heard, Wang Lung told the truth about the above experiences.

"When my subordinates were in Ha Jing, I heard that the craftsmen were researching new artillery shells, and on a whim, I thought that we had also been mixed on the battlefield for so many years, and had fought with the officers and soldiers, as well as with the pole militias in various places, and even the Liaodong Tartars, so I took the axe and talked with everyone about the different reactions of the armies in various places in the face of artillery fire. So that the craftsmen and gentlemen can have some experience. ”

Seeing that Wang Lung had the heart to be in these places, Li Shouhan was a little surprised, but he was quite relieved.

"What shells?" Li Shouhan asked casually.

"I don't quite understand it, it seems that a large number of shotguns are to be loaded into empty shells, loaded with ******, and used to deal with the impact of the enemy's large cavalry and infantry. When the subordinates left, they were studying how to forge that hollow ball, and it was said that it was annoying. The walls of the ball should be as thin as possible, but not yet shattered when fired. However, several masters in the university went to calculate how to size, what strength, what kind of charge and many other factors at Ha Tinh Military Industry. Listening to the subordinates dizzy. However, the shells of such shells seem to have been made clear, and they were cast in white iron. ”

Li Shouhan understands that this is the rhythm of designing and manufacturing shrapnels! With this thing, to a large extent, you can make up for the shortcomings of your own cavalry. However, it seems that it will be difficult to manufacture in batches for a while. He snorted and got to the point. (To be continued.) )

PS: I'm sorry, I've been sick with a fever for a few days. A lot of things have been delayed. If you are emotional, let's use monthly passes and red envelopes to stoning the unkind author!