Zhaoyuan County Commander Deng Yungong guessed correctly, at this time, Li Xiao was sitting in the meeting hall of Jitouya, listening to Guan Yi, deputy director of the Supervision and Pacification Department, with a happy face, and reported the results of this anti-bandit operation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lord Li, in this operation, our army killed 6 people, wounded 10 people, killed a total of 196 bandits, including the bandit leader Scarhead, captured 526 people, captured more than 530 taels of gold, a total of more than 36,000 taels of silver, more than 53,000 stones of grain, more than 700 horses of silk and silk, and captured weapons such as swords, guns, swords, and shields."

Li Xiao smiled slightly, and said to Guan Yi: "Very good, it seems that our army has gained a lot in this battle, just like the precedent, give rewards and pensions to all meritorious soldiers." ”

Guan Yi nodded in agreement, and then lowered his voice and said to Li Xiao with a smile: "My lord, just when I was leading people to cut off the ears of those prisoners, there was a bandit who seemed to be a small leader, and hurriedly kowtowed loudly to our army and begged for mercy, saying that there was a major confidential incident to be reported to our army, so as to beg our army to let him go and not cut off his ears. ”

"Oh, what did this man say?"

"He said that in this Golden Wing Ridge, there is a natural gold mine that has just been discovered and has not yet been mined!" Guan Yi's face was full of excitement.

"Yes, bring it quickly, and wait for the official to interrogate it himself."

Soon, a bandit with a bloody face, torn clothes, and a rope behind his back and hands tied tightly was escorted to Li Xiao.

"Get on your knees!" One of the sergeants shouted angrily, then kicked him in the crook of his knee, and the bandit let out a wail and threw himself to his knees.

Li Xiao waved his hand and motioned for others to retreat, leaving only Li Xiao and Guan Yi in the room.

"What's your name?" Li Xiao asked with a pleasant face.

"Lord Yu, in the lower name Ma Tang, Dengzhou people's clan, once served as the head of the Beiqushan Gold Mine in Qixia County, and later due to the rebellion of the Dengzhou rebels, the Beiqushan Gold Mine was burned down by the rebels, and was killed by the rebels in the next family. The villain fled east in a hurry, and when he passed through the Golden Wing Ridge,

Because he was desperate, he had no choice but to go into the mountains to become bandits, relying on his life. Ma Tang hurriedly gave himself a briefing.

"Oh, in this way, it seems that Ma Tang is also a hard-working person. This official can not blame you for everything in the past, but you said that there are gold mines hidden in this Golden Wing Ridge, but is it true? Li Xiao asked calmly.

Li Xiao is not interested in Ma Tang's self-introduction, after all, these things that can be made up at will over time, it is almost impossible to verify the authenticity. What Li Xiao wants to know most now is the matter of the Golden Winged Ridge Gold Mine.

"Adult, the villain said, there is no lie, the villain came to Jinyingling last year, usually free, he looked around the topography of Jinyingling, and found that in the back of Jinyinling, there is a very rich sand gold mine, if it can be mined, the villain dares to guarantee that the annual output of gold is 10,000 taels, when it is not a problem."

"Is that true?"

"There is no lie, if the adults don't believe it, they won't be able to produce gold at that time, and the worthless head of the villain will be taken by the adults!" After Ma Tang finished speaking, he kowtowed to the ground again and again.

"That's weird, why didn't you explain this earlier to the bandit leader Scarhead?" Guan Yi on the side interjected.

"My lord, Scarhead is very ruthless, and if his subordinates make mistakes, they will be severely punished. The reason why the little one didn't report it immediately was because he was afraid that the situation would be unclear, and if he made a mistake and there was no gold mine, Scarhead would not spare the villain. It was not until the previous month, after repeated inspections and investigations, that the villain confirmed that there was indeed a gold mine in the local area, and took samples, that he was informed of the matter. The scarhead knew that there was a gold mine in the local area, and he was also very happy, and then promoted him to a small leader, so that he could plan the gold mining work, and decided to grab some villagers from Zhaoyuan County to be miners。。。。。。 Ma Tang snorted, and when he said this, his voice became very low, while carefully looking at Li Xiao's face.

Li Xiao laughed secretly in his heart, this scar head is really an unlucky ghost, the gold mine that was finally discovered, half a cent of gold was not obtained, and all of it fell into the hands of Lao Tzu, which can be regarded as providence.

"Ma Tang, let's do it, this official has appointed you as the person in charge of the exploration and excavation of this Golden Winged Ridge gold mine, responsible for the local gold mining work, and I will send personnel from the Chifengwei Industrial Department to assist you, in addition, now these more than 500 bandits who have had their ears cut off are all used as miners under you." Li Xiao ordered clearly.

"Thank you for your reward, and I promise you that I will build this gold mine as soon as possible." Seeing that he had escaped the punishment of having his ears cut off and was appointed as the person in charge of the gold mine, Ma Tang had a look of joy on his face, and kowtowed to Li Xiao again and again.

Li Xiao nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, you do it well, and the official will use you more in the future." However, the fact that there is a gold mine in this Golden Wing Ridge is a secret of our army, and it is not allowed to be told to anyone before it is officially put into production, understand? ”

"The villain understands that the villain will never say such confidential matters to anyone, and the miners under his command will also strictly guard and restrain them." Ma Tang said hurriedly.

Li Xiao smiled, he knew that this gold mine was really mined, and it was impossible to keep it absolutely secret. It's just that before mining, there is absolutely no need to make a big splash, which will bring unnecessary trouble to yourself.

After issuing rewards and pensions, Li Xiao led the army back to Chifengwei.

He left only a group of 100 spearmen to guard the prisoners who were about to become miners, and left 20,000 stone of grain for the soldiers and miners stationed there to eat, and returned triumphantly with a large amount of captured gold and silver.

Ma Tang was also brought back by Li Xiao, and when he was ready, he was going to ask him to explain in detail the gold mining situation in Jinyingling with the personnel of the Industrial Division, so that together with the supervisors sent by the Industrial Division, he would receive the gold mining fees from the Qian Liang Division, and prepare which excavation equipment to buy.

When Li Xiao's whole army passed through Zhaoyuan County, Zhaoyuan County ordered Deng Yungong and the people of the city to go out of the city to greet him.

A bulging sack of blood was thrown at Deng Yungong's feet.

Deng Yungong was about to ask a question, but the little school armor on the side immediately said loudly: "My lord, don't you see, these are the heads of the bandit leader Scarhead, and the ears of those bandits!" ”

Deng Yungong suddenly had a bright smile on his face, and he praised him: "Lord Li is really a person of wisdom and bravery, in addition to such a great harm in Zhaoyuan County for me, this county has ordered the people of the whole city to thank you!" ”

Deng Yungong immediately asked people to take out the hideous head of the scar head from the sack and hang it directly above the city gate, and the sack of ears was also hung on the side of the head of the scar head.

At this time, the whole city was in a stir, and the people crowded to stand on tiptoe and look at the city gate, as if the head of the scarred head and the sack of ears were treasures that had never been seen before. There were also many people who had been plagued by the bandits, pointing to the head of the scar, crying and scolding.

"Fellow villagers, fathers and elders, Li Xiao has now completely wiped out the Jinyinling bandits, and in the future, this Zhaoyuan County will be a peaceful world." Li Xiao shouted loudly to the people with a smile on his face.

As soon as his words fell, there was another round of cheering among the people.

What Li Xiao didn't expect was that an old man with a white beard and hair led a group of people to kneel down in front of Li Xiao's horse. The old man said tremblingly: "If the adults leave, we are only afraid that the bandits will return to Jinyin Ridge to make trouble, and ask the adults to stay in my Zhaoyuan County, thinking that my people rely on and protect them." ”

"Ask the adults to stay in Zhaoyuan County." The people on their knees shouted in unison.

More people knelt down in the back, and the shouts begging Li Xiao to stay in Zhaoyuan County resounded even more in the sky.

Deng Yungong looked embarrassed, although he had assigned the Golden Wing Ridge to Li Xiao's management, he never thought that Li Xiao's army would be so popular with the people. He secretly thought in his heart, seeing that he had promised to allocate the Golden Wing Ridge to Li Xiao that day, which was really a wise move.

Li Xiao hurriedly dismounted and helped the old man up, and he said with a sincere face: "Don't worry, old man, I, Li Xiao, will save people to the end and send the Buddha to the west." From now on, there will be a long-term garrison of our army in the place of Golden Wing, and there will be no bandits to occupy it, and everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no need to worry about it. ”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, the people of the city suddenly thundered with joy.

In an atmosphere of military and civilian fun, Deng Yungong, the commander of Zhaoyuan County, immediately arranged a feast of cattle wine to celebrate Li Xiao's entire army.

On that day, Li Xiao accepted Deng Yungong and other officials of Zhaoyuan County, representatives of the people in the city, and subordinate soldiers to toast in turn, and returned to the camp drunk.

Li Xiao rested overnight in Zhaoyuan County, and the next day Fang led his troops back to Chifengwei.

Che phosphorus, Ma Xiaoxiao, Li Xiaojun all the way to the military song loud, at the front of the team, the tiger roaring Japanese flag and the bright sun and moon flag hunting and hunting, reflecting the rising sun.

On the way back to Chi Fengwei, Li Xiao had a bright smile on his face.

Jinyingling was successfully won, and a gold mine with extremely rich reserves was discovered, which made Li Xiao's heart infinitely happy.

At present, in addition to the traditional grain production, Li Xiaojun's middle industry owns all industrial projects such as iron and steel, wool textiles, salt industry, sericulture, gold mines, etc., which can bring abundant profits, is the cornerstone of Li Xiaojun's future development.

Li Xiao made a rough calculation, after these industries are normalized, the profit of at least one million taels of silver a year is completely achievable. At that time, Li Xiaojun will no longer worry about money and food.

Li Xiao, who was happy in his heart, soon thought again, these goals are still long-term prospects, and now the more than 20,000 displaced people in Xuanfu Town have been ordered to be brought to Chifengwei, so how to arrange them?

Among the methods that Li Xiao thought of, the first step was to expand the army.

In troubled times, soldiers and horses come first.

Now the rogues and Tartars are growing stronger day by day, but the Ming Empire is going to the abyss day by day, in such a crisis-ridden environment, if there are not enough troops to protect it, Li Xiao believes that everything he has earned may turn into water at any time.

Therefore, after Li Xiao returned to Chifengwei, he summoned his main generals to discuss the expansion of the army.

Hearing Li Xiao's idea of expanding the army, Tian Wei, Monk An and others were all overjoyed, and they all expressed their full support for Li Xiao's approach.

The idea of these rough men is very simple, with more soldiers and horses, they can fight bigger battles, and they can also gain greater fame and benefits.

Li Xiao does not plan to expand the existing A, B, and C, all of which require too much capital and equipment investment. In the case that Li Xiaojun has not yet obtained sufficient funds and profits, this is simply unrealistic.

Li Xiao's plan is to first expand the soldiers and horses of General A to General Chifeng.

This battalion of soldiers and horses, and then set up three sentry horses of A, B and C, in this way, with each sentry 5 teams of shield soldiers, 10 teams of spearmen, that battalion of men and horses has a total of 15 teams of shield soldiers, 30 teams of spearmen, and then expanded to 300 people under the jurisdiction of three teams of horizontal sentinels, and expanded to 200 people of Xuanhu heavy cavalry and 200 people of flying harrier light cavalry, in addition to 500 people of auxiliary troops.

Since the firearms unit is still in short supply of resources, Li Xiao asked Zhao Jie, the chief of firearms, to organize it separately to flexibly distribute it to various armies.

In this way, according to the establishment of 102 people per team of spearmen and shield soldiers, the total number of troops in the Chifeng Battalion now has a total of 5,790 people, which is nearly three times more than the original number of troops!

In this way, a total of nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses, if pulled out, can also be worthy of a battle with a medium-sized enemy army.

This expansion has digested nearly a quarter of the more than 20,000 displaced people at once, and then, other industrial projects will absorb the remaining displaced manpower, and the pressure will be reduced a lot.

Li Xiao then appointed personnel arrangements.

The general commander of Chifeng is Tian Wei, the former chief of the first division, and the deputy chief is An Monk, the former captain of the rampant team.

Monk An jumped from the original captain of the rampant team to the deputy chief, and stepped several steps. Seeing Li Xiao believing in himself like this, Monk An stroked the shiny bald head and laughed, with a smug expression in the envious eyes of everyone.

Monk An was very proud in his heart: Hmph, what do you have to envy, every time Lao Tzu fights, which time is not brave in the front, can be a model for the whole army, besides, Lao Tzu and Commander Li have the oldest friendship, as early as when Lord Li was still a hunter in the countryside of Jinzhou, he was familiar with him, he did not promote Lao Tzu such an old qualification, can he still promote a latecomer like you.

And Wu Zhuang, the original deputy captain of the rampant team, was promoted to the captain of the rampant sentry.

After Wu Zhuang was appointed, he was very excited, he stood up, and said a word of gratitude and loyalty to Li Xiao loudly, and then sat down.

Pressed, the personnel of the three posts of A, B, and C were all appointed as the commander and deputy chief.

Among them, the captain of the first sentry is Luo Zheng, the captain of the former spearman team. This replaced the deserter named Gu Yuan, Luo Zheng, finally from an auxiliary soldier to a spearman, he cherished this result very much, and he was very brave in every battle, and now he finally became the commander of a single outpost, and successfully staged a hanging. A typical repertoire of silk counterattack.

This is the iron principle of Li Xiaojun's promotion, and the most critical evaluation of promotion is to take combat merit and performance. Li Xiao believes that only such a fair and realistic promotion principle can better motivate the soldiers and let them see the hope of getting ahead.

The Xuanhu heavy cavalry and the flying harrier light cavalry are also raised by the team, among which the Xuanhu heavy cavalry sentry chief is the original captain Bao Zhao, and the flying harrier light cavalry sentry chief is the former deputy captain Long Yu.

Li Xiao decided that under the current situation of insufficient funds, the original Tielongcheng B and the original Jintangcheng C will still maintain their original establishment.

The second general of the iron dragon city king Yishou, was renamed the iron dragon general by Li Xiao, and it is still the same as now, for 5 teams of shield soldiers, 10 teams of spearmen, 60 people of Xuanhu heavy cavalry, and 60 people of flying harrier light cavalry.

Mr. C, Li Xiao thought for a long time, and named it a more fierce name, Mr. Golden Wolf, Li Xiao hoped that the general army could be like a fierce wolf in the northwest, and firmly control the land of Xuanfu North Road for himself. Of course, the Golden Wolf also maintains the same original establishment as the Iron Dragon.

Speaking of which, the total number of troops and horses of Li Xiao's three generals after the current expansion of the army is nearly 10,000, which is far more than the number of troops that a commander can have. You must know that in Shandong and other places, a commander plus the strength of the following thousand households and hundreds of households is generally only two or three thousand.

Chen Zilong, a staff member, didn't speak, and he looked at Li Xiao, who had a calm face, announcing the army expansion plan to his subordinates with complicated eyes, and he was very emotional.

This Commander Li is really an ambitious person.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Shangguan and colleagues, this Li Xiao is more appropriate to describe as ambitious.

Li Xiao caught a glimpse of Chen Zilong staring at him, and returned a faint smile to him.

Mr. Chen, I know what you're thinking.

My Li Xiaoxian's behavior looks so flamboyant and domineering, maybe in your eyes, I am very similar to Zuo Liangyu, the chief military officer who does not take the imperial court in his eyes and wantonly expands his troops and horses.

However, there is one thing that is different from him, that is, Zuo Liangyu still has the imperial court salary to take, and the official has tried his best to raise his own military salary from all over the country, and he has not taken a penny from the imperial court.

Moreover, Zuo Liangyu disobeyed the yang and yin of the imperial court, and raised his own respect, while I, Li Xiao, from Liaodong, to Shandong, to Xuanfu, the northern expedition to the Tartars, and the southern war thieves, were loyal to the Ming court and the emperor, and served with all my heart.

What am I asking for?

Who can know my heart?

This is a question that I can't answer clearly. It's just that the difficult road of rejuvenating my Shenzhou Huaxia, no matter how difficult it is, I, Li Xiao, will work hard to go on.

Li Xiao came back to his senses from his thoughts, and then worked out the salary standards for all levels of the army with everyone, and compared with the original, everyone's salary has increased.

Among them, the total chief is 20 taels per month, and the deputy chief is 17 taels per month.

The chief of the sentry, the chief of firearms, the chief of the naval division is 15 taels per month, the deputy chief of the sentinel, the deputy chief of firearms, and the deputy chief of the naval division is 12 taels per month.

The captain is 10 taels per month, and the vice captain is 8 taels per month.

The first chief is 6 taels per month, and the deputy chief is 4 taels per month.

The treatment of soldiers is 2.5 taels per person per month for cavalry and marching sergeants, 1.5 taels for infantry, sailors, and firearms troops, and 0.8 taels for auxiliaries.

This plan was unanimously approved by all the generals.

It is actually a necessary method to strengthen the army by making the officers and men under his command serve loyally, increase their salaries and benefits, and ensure the status and social respect of the soldiers.

Compared with the guards who have no dignity and look like beggars in other guards, Li Xiao's Chifengwei can be said to be the army with the best treatment and the most social status among the guards in the country.

With the support of good material treatment, hard and sincere daily training, coupled with high-intensity brainwashing and allegiance methods, and a strict military regulation system of rewards and punishments, it is difficult for Li Xiao's army not to become the elite of the Ming army.

"Tian Wei, Monk An, there are so many new soldiers joining now, you must train well, and strive to make this large number of new recruits become qualified soldiers of our army as soon as possible." After the arrangement, Li Xiao stood up and said to the two of them with deep eyes: "Next year, the general army of Chifeng will take on a greater combat mission. ”

Tian Wei and Monk An clasped their fists together and replied loudly: "Please rest assured that Commander Li, we will do our best to build an elite army that is qualified and capable of fighting for adults!" ”

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