There are no gongs and shouts, no majestic flags, umbrellas, fans and other ceremonial guards, in a series of "Lord Gong! "My lord!" In the midst of the salute, several guards surrounded Li Shouhan, who was slowly walking with bamboo canes in his hands, and walked into the venue.

Officers of all levels and many veterans of various units at the meeting venue were almost all old people at the battalion officer level who came out of Nanzhong, especially the soldiers and horses of the Guards Brigade and the Second Town and the Naval Division and Army Battalion, all of whom had their families and property in Nanzhong. Some time ago, there were many rumors, all saying that Li Shouhan could not see things due to illness, but he was afraid that Nanzhong was about to cause chaos, and the imperial court would send people to Nanzhong to preside over the overall situation. Is this worth it?! The imperial court sent people, why should they?! They are coming, won't the foundation of the country that we have won in so many years of bloody battles be handed over to others? For a time, there was a lot of emotion in the army.

But today, I saw Li Shouhan walking up to him with a smile on his face, greeting those familiar officers and veterans, and calling out the nicknames of some of them. This move immediately filled the eyes of everyone present.

For more than a year, they crossed the ocean from the southern country where the mountains and waters were soft and the waters were soft, and went north to King Qin. In the ice and snow, fight to the death with the Liao thieves. This in itself is an extremely challenging move, one of those battles that is protracted and has no prospect of victory.

"I have to talk to my lord, since we have come back today. Then we will guard the territory and live our days, and we will not mention the matter of King Qin! "This is what more than one officer thinks in private.

This kind of review meeting has been held more than once by the officers. According to the tradition of the Nanyue Army, the so-called "war exploits cannot be talked about, and problems cannot be discussed." "In such a meeting, everyone can speak freely, regardless of their official rank. As the saying goes, those who speak are not guilty, and those who hear are full of precepts. So, the officers and veterans who were present. Almost one thought had to persuade Li Shouhan not to go north to King Qin for the time being. This cold and freezing north is really too murderous!

The units sat in circles according to the formation, and the meeting hall formed a circle according to tradition. Between the aisles are several huge buckets. It was filled with warm tea to quench the thirst of the congregation.

Li Shouhan was also like everyone else, sitting on a bamboo chair with a backrest, smiling and listening to everyone's opinions.

"This time Tashan is attacking, the eldest lady is good! If there were more horsetail grenades, we would definitely be able to blow up a road and follow the strategy of the eldest lady to separate the two white flags of the Liao thief! ”

"That's it! It's a pity that there are not only few grenades, but also don't seem to be enough! A ponytail grenade was rounded and thrown out. You can also throw dozens of steps away! It's just that it exploded in two halves, four or five petals at most. If we can explode a few more pieces, those iron shells will be the same as our shotguns, flying everywhere to kill and injure, and no matter how many fortifications and trenches there are for the Liao thieves, they will not be enough for us to fight! ”

Officers of several Guards brigades, officers of the Marine Division's land battalion. To think that your identity is different is to say the wrong thing. The lord didn't care about it, so he grabbed the head first, picked up the unimportant topic and took the lead first. Their opening suddenly made Mo Yu, Shi Lang and others secretly breathe a sigh of relief. When it comes to weapons, it's best to talk about them.

Several people's questions were found accurately, and their eyes were very keen. The horsetail grenade that blew up the Dolgon brothers on the battlefield of Tower Hill and nearly collapsed. It is indeed a problem of insufficient power, the main problem is the use of black # fire # medicine, if the charge is less, the shell made of cast iron will be exploded in two, and the charge is too much. Again, it affects the throwing distance. Moreover, the shells do not have prefabricated fragments, they can only be randomly exploded by the power of the gunpowder explosion, and the few pieces that can be exploded are just a few.

"That's it! Not only is the horsetail grenade not powerful enough, but even the double-barreled short fire gun is also not powerful enough! The range is too close! And the armor-piercing strength is not enough, when I rushed up with people, I once knocked over a slave thief white-armored soldier with a short firebolt, who would have thought that this thief bird would actually staggered and stood up again! If it weren't for the quick eyes of my brother next to me, a few people went up to reward him with a bayonet, I am afraid that I would have become his war exploits! ”

A sentry officer of the Guards Brigade also began to complain about the shortcomings found in the actual combat of the double-barreled short firearms, a sharp weapon in close combat.

"My lord, I once chatted with several soldiers in the Beijing camp, and they said that the artillery of the Beijing Shenji Battalion and the earth-shaking thunder are all equipped with some condiments. What croton, wolf venom, arsenic and the like, as soon as they explode, the poison will fly everywhere with shrapnel, and all of them will fall. Someone with a light in his eyes began to provide ideas for Li Shouhan.

Li Shouhan didn't speak, but just motioned to the military and political secretary next to him to record everyone's speeches one by one.

When the man saw that Li Shouhan was listening very carefully, he was immediately very excited. If the military system of the Southern Guangdong Army is adopted after it is proposed and has an effect in practical application, the proposer will be rewarded.

"My lord, the eldest lady's battle of Tower Hill has also been participated in by his subordinates. Later, Bucai followed General Shi to Liaodong. Liaodong was freezing cold, and his subordinates ordered their subordinates to use a file to slightly knock a few points on the shell before using the horsetail grenade, leaving a shallow trace. In this way, when attacking the city or when it is harassed by the Liao thief cavalry, it will be thrown out, and the power of the explosion will be much greater. ”

Regarding the power of gunpowder, Li Shouhan is also well aware. There is no way, before the advent of nitrate # glycan# oil, it can only be so. If the current pitiful production of three acids and two alkalis in Nanzhong is used to make gunpowder, I am afraid that the entire industrial system will be destroyed. As for adding all kinds of toxic and harmful substances to gunpowder, this point can be left to each unit to study on its own. After all, this lack of morality tactics made those Oriental dwarves complain back then.

However, the matter of prefabricated fragmentation processing technology on the body of the bullet proposed by the sentry officer of this guards brigade is worth carefully studying by the military industry department of Ha Jing, if every grenade thrown can have seven or eight or even a dozen fragments, then there will be another means to deal with the cavalry impact of the Liao thieves.

It seems that the cavalry song that Lin Dashuai summed up against the Ma family cavalry only said that the volley of guns and grenade bombardment were only said.

"The enemy's cavalry does not need to be afraid, calm and brave to fight it, the target is large and easy to fight, and the platoon guns are easy to shoot. We aim for it! We defeat it! We destroy it! The invincible Red Army was us, crushing the enemy with a million soldiers. Work hard to learn to fight cavalry again, and we will win a hundred battles. ”

In my mind, I faintly heard the song that my grandfather had whispered in a hoarse and old voice, and the Red Army went north from the grassland into the Shaanxi and Gansu regions. The "Song of Fighting Cavalry", which was summed up by dealing with various local armed forces and ethnic minority cavalry along the way, couldn't help but make Li Shouhan have mixed feelings.

It seems that no matter what time it is, the most important key point for infantry to win for cavalry is strict discipline! No matter which cavalry rushed in, they did not panic. If you don't shoot indiscriminately, that's half the battle. In the famous dwarf movie shot, the British infantry is lined up in a phalanx to meet the onslaught of Napoleon's cavalry.

It seems that if an army like the Nanyue Army, which was limited by its geographical environment and lacked war horses to form a large-scale cavalry unit to fight cavalry against the Liao thieves on the plains, if it wanted to win, it could only rely on strong and powerful discipline to train strict and cruel infantry troops, form a strong military formation, and be equipped with a large number of artillery. Add countless horsetail grenades to fight against the Liao thieves who are good at cavalry and also have a large number of firearms.

Here, when Li Shouhan's mind was still overturning the river and the sea for how to fight against the Liao thief cavalry on the plain in the future, someone over there really mentioned the matter of fighting the Liao thief.

However, it was not Xiang Gongjian how to deal with the Liao thieves, but raised objections to the Qinwang action of marching into the Central Plains and going north to Liaodong. It can be seen that this year is more than a year. The ice and snow in Liaodong and the wind and sand in the land of Qilu have really left an imprint on the hearts of the officers and men of the Southern Guangdong Army.

"My lord. Isn't it okay for our Nanyue army to guard our own territory? The affairs of the Central Plains will be left to the emperor and the ministers of the court! ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a chorus of echoes. It can be seen that he is reluctant to get too involved in the affairs of the Central Plains, and this kind of situation should already have a large market in the hearts of officials in the South and Central China in the hearts of the officials in the South and Central China. This kind of sentiment is the strategic layout of Li Shouhan. There are all kinds of harms and no benefits.

"Lord, we are living well in the south, why do we have to go to the Central Plains to starve and freeze?"

Li Shouhan could hear the voice of the lieutenant general of the army for a long time, and tapped the ground a few times with the bamboo cane in his hand, and suddenly the venue, which was still noisy and abnormal, suddenly quieted down.

Li Shouhan hugged his fist to the north and saluted: "Da Ming is as kind to my family as a mountain. If there is no Ming expedition to Annam, how can my ancestors have the foundation? And His Majesty also treats me very well, plus the official Xu Jue, my own frontier official, His Majesty will not give up, and he will be promoted, and now he has the respect of the country, how can he abandon the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty. ”

After first firmly occupying the position on the moral high ground, seeing that everyone was suddenly speechless, Li Shouhan continued to give a lecture to these officers, who were mostly the people of the Ming Dynasty.

"And the Ming Dynasty is the state of our parents, where the ancestral home is, for many years, buy my dyed cloth, steel and sugar, and lose my silk cotton, and the farmers and hundreds of workers are coming in a steady stream to work in the fields in my south, and provide taxes. Even if the Ming Dynasty is not good in a thousand ways, the benefits of this business travel and immigration are enough to offset it. ”

"And Jiannu is ambitious, vainly trying to take the state of my parents and destroy the Ming Dynasty with a hundred benefits for me, if he gets his wish, we have no face to see our ancestors in the ground, how can we have food and clothing for all wives and children?"

These words, from an economic point of view, analyzed the benefits of maintaining a close relationship with the Ming court, and immediately hit the key point of the people present. These officers, veterans, have little land at home, but they also have at least hundreds of acres of good water and dry land. Recruit natives or new immigrants from the interior to farm, and after the harvest, sell the goods to grain merchants in exchange for all kinds of necessary things. There are also those who have bright brains and invest the land harvest into various projects organized by the General's Mansion to build with concentrated funds, ranging from small ships to large roads. There are those who dare to take risks, and even invest money for Ruoshui to go to Fusang to recover the hometown of Yin Shang.

Seeing that Li Shouhan said a little red, Shi Lang and Zheng Sen hurriedly stood up and stepped forward, one went to the water tank to get hot tea, and the other helped his father-in-law to sit down. It is the so-called disciple who has something to do. Shi Lang was about to say a few words for his father-in-law, he himself thought that what I said, at least the guys in the Navy Division Lu Battalion and the brothers of the Guards Brigade would still be able to listen, they were all masters who had fought under me.

However, someone got ahead of him.

Zheng Sen's father, Admiral of the Southern Guangdong Army, and Li Shouhan's in-law Zheng Zhilong, was the first to walk to the middle of the venue and began to analyze for everyone why the lord wanted to enter the Central Plains.

"You still remember that when we went north this time, the lord ordered a large number of people to build roads between Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, between Fujian and southern Jiangxi, and between Guangdong and Huguang. These three roads cost our Nanyue Army at least three or four million yuan in silver! From labor to rations. As for the tools, in addition to the 10 million yuan invested by the owner, most of them are silver obtained by merchants everywhere. When you have no place to spend your money, will you pave a road with silver between the mountains and mountains? ”

There was a burst of laughter in the crowd, and everyone burst into good-natured laughter at Zheng Zhilong's words.

"I don't know, the road from Fujian to Zhejiang has been repaired. To the north is rice, to the south is raw silk tea, and there are those master craftsmen. ”

"That's it! Where our roads are built, the prestige of the lord will spread! The goods of our Nanzhong were sold there! ”

"A few days ago, I received a letter from home saying that now the immigrants from the mainland to Nanzhong are not only from Liangguang and Fujian, but also Yunnan in the west, Gannan, Huguang, and even Zhejiang in the north!"

"Wow!" Confirming the great benefits of opening up the north-south road from the mouths of the officers, Zheng Zhilong shook his big red cloak back very handsomely, "Such a heavy profit." How can I give up! ”

"If we can't communicate and trade with the mainland, who will sell the grain, rice, and oil produced in our fields? Where are all kinds of iron tools from the mine's smelting site sold? ”

The crowd was speechless.

"If there is no steady stream of people from the mainland entering, how can I cultivate thousands of miles of fertile land in Nanzhong? You must know that if no one cultivates it, those thorny and wild lands will not become good paddy fields by themselves! Aren't these all the credit of the inland reclamation people? Don't forget, it is the rich land of the south of the Yangtze River. Most of the rice, oil, and salt eaten also depend on the import of Nanzhong, and even in the rich land of Nanzhili, there are many businessmen and even scholars and gentry who immigrate to Nanzhong. If you don't care about the Central Plains. Where can I make up for the people and all kinds of goods in Nanzhong? Where to sell? ”

"Master Zheng is very right!" Li Shouhan took a sip of tea, rested a little, and then spoke again.

"How much silver is the purchase price of good japonica rice in my Nanzhong and Fuzhong? Do you know? ”

These people are all large and small landowners, how can they not know the purchase price of grain in the General's Mansion?

However, they have long since stopped taking the purchase price of grain for those pennies of silver. Instead, they focus on the industrial vouchers that are used to protect the price. These industrial coupons are pooled and sold to merchants from the mainland, and they can make huge profits by sitting on the land. On the one hand, the industrial products of Nanzhong were circulated to the mainland at extremely low prices, squeezing the market share of those blacksmiths and weavers in the mainland, so that more people became bankrupts. They had to join the army of displaced people, who, on the other hand, also received an income far above the market price of food. It's a lot of work.

Regarding this little black market business of his subordinates, Li Shouhan just pretended not to know. After all, those industrial coupons are issued to people to offset the price of grain, and how to circulate them is completely allocated by the invisible hand of the market, so how can they force orders?

"Now our Nanyue army supplies millions of food to the imperial court every year to resist the attack of Liao thieves and fight against the rogue in the interior. Why? ”

Li Shouhan held a bamboo cane in his hand and slowly inspected the people present.

"Subordinates are stupid, please show it publicly!" Hundreds of people, led by Zheng Zhilong, who has the highest official position, chanted in unison.

"Since the day the army was raised, the government has had a wish, so that all the four seas are the land of our Ming Dynasty, and the people under the whole world can live and work in peace and contentment, and share peace. However, you and the others are all people who lead troops to fight, and your knowledge is naturally far greater than that of those silverfish in books who only know how to find chapters and excerpt sentences. Think that by relying on the way of forgiveness and the way of sages, you can reach the realm of the four seas and the world to return to the heart? Bullshit! The world is in the heart, and the four seas are one family, which depends on strength! ”

When everyone heard Li Shouhan's scolding, they were immediately happy. "The lord scolds, this is a great thing, being able to open his mouth to scold people proves that the lord is in good health!" Many people have already begun to plan to find a place to have a drink with their friends and celebrate when they go back today.

"There is no one, and my father does not have the ability to scatter beans into soldiers, and there are no soldiers and horses, how can I solve problems for the emperor? How to give the world a peaceful world? Without money and food, how to raise soldiers, how to build giant ship cannons? How do you build a strong soldier? ”

"If it weren't for the tens of millions or even tens of thousands of Ming people in the mainland, wouldn't it be better for my father to be an overseas emperor in Ha Tinh and Hue behind closed doors, and dominate one side? Why should once something happen to the court, the prince will prepare his own food and salary, and he will not be afraid of the turmoil and gallop north to help the court? Many of you have followed your county lord to fight Tashan, and together with Shi Lang, the father's son-in-law of Chenglong, in the hinterland of the Liao thieves, they braved the wind and snow to fight to the death, for what? Isn't this prince so rich that he has nowhere to go, sending tens of millions of silver and grain to the imperial court, so that those moths are greedy for ink? Take out money and grain to continue to build a few major roads to facilitate the transportation between the mainland and Lingnan and Fujian? For what? ”

"The lord is for the Ming Dynasty and the world!"

Under the chorus of the two sons-in-law Shi Lang and Zheng Sen, Li Shouhan's prestige once again climbed to a new height.

However, Li Huamei, who was on the side, was very dissatisfied with her father's actions, "What are you doing so much, just tell the people below, what we want is a righteous name given to us by his old Zhu family, and we just want to get continuous benefits from the broken pot of the Central Plains?" ”

However, what he thinks in his heart is one thing, but he raised his arms and shouted with his husband Shi Lang on his face, thinking that he was a model for everyone. (To be continued......)