Chapter Forty-Seven: Li Xin's Relief of Worries

Just when Li Xin and Li Zicheng were talking secretly, Zhang Xuan was also discussing with Luo Rucai.

"Dad, now that the situation is in place, I think we should persuade Li Zicheng to send people to take over the county seats." Zhang Xuan was talking to Luo Rucai at the moment.

The problem faced by Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai also faced, the army skyrocketed on a large scale, Luo Rucai had 30,000 soldiers at the moment, including 20,000 cavalry, 10,000 foot soldiers, and Zhang Xuan's department of about 3,000 people, which can be regarded as one of the foot soldiers. There are more than 100,000 old and weak who are dependent on Luo Rucai.

At this time, Luo Rucai's good reputation came into play. Counting it, although Luo Rucai's name is not as loud as Li Zicheng. But among the heroes of the green forest, it is not weak, and there are many people who defect to Luo Rucai, and most of them are heroes of the green forest, although the military discipline is a little worse, but it is a good thing that you can go into battle and kill the enemy if you rectify it.

"By virtue of it." Luo Rucai said: "I have tried all these things, when Shaanxi had just started its army, all the cities were wiped out. As long as you wander here, you can survive. ”

"Dad, this time and that time." Zhang Xuan said. "At the beginning, it was the official army chasing us to fight, and now we are chasing the official army to fight, and during this period of time, we should also act in Henan, and near Xuzhou, located in the middle of Henan, no matter where it is, as long as there is a police, it can be rushed back within a few days, plus a strong city, guard for more than ten days, isn't it okay? Moreover, if you get rid of the old and weak, the army will march faster, and it will be more advantageous to fight with the official army. ”

Luo Rucai said: "Didn't you say before that you should take Jiangnan as the foundation? How do you want to take root in Henan? ”

"It's not that I want to put down roots in Henan." Zhang Xuan said: "It's that we need talent. We need people who can govern the world. Otherwise, even if we go to Henan, who will we use to govern the world, and who will we use to be state and county officials? If we can't train some people to come out, those Jiangnan families can play us to death. And such talents cannot be found without experience. Therefore, we have stationed troops in one or two places first, and have trained some talents, so that no matter where we will be conquered in the future, we will be able to quickly govern them. At that time, the foundation will be secure. ”

Although what Zhang Xuan said was not a lie, he did not finish it. The drought in Henan made Zhang Xuan unbearable to look at it at all, and all the way over, the white bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, in order to ask for a full meal. Murder and looting, do everything. Even cannibalism is commonplace.

Li Zicheng millions of people passed by, which objectively increased the burden on the ground, because he robbed the gentry of food, so that more people could survive. But Zhang Xuan also knew that if he didn't produce like this, he could only give up Henan. More people will die in Henan. As a native of Henan, he can't bear it.

Production must be resumed, then only one grain of rice will be produced.

"Okay." Luo Rucai remembered that he had carried too many old and weak, and said: "I'll go and talk to General Chuang about this matter, but where do we choose?" ”

"It doesn't matter where." Zhang Xuan said: "There are all flat rivers nearby, as long as the city is intact." ”

The tea was cold, and neither Li Zicheng nor Li Xin took a sip.

"The marshal is not afraid of the officers and soldiers, and other things are just how to manage the millions of people, and this matter is not to worry about." Li Xin smiled lightly and said indifferently.

"Oh." Li Zicheng listened to Li Xin's tone and said, "But I don't know what you think." ”

"I don't dare to take it seriously, it's just a humble opinion." Li Xin said: "The millions of people, large and inappropriate, difficult to march, and difficult to eat, it is better to divide the army. ”

Li Zicheng sneered in his heart and said secretly: "If you want to divide the troops, where do you need to talk." ”

"The marshal can divide the army into two parts, the elite soldiers of the headquarters, and the guards of the town with him." As soon as Li Xin opened his mouth, he would attract Li Zicheng's attention.

"The elite soldiers of the headquarters are naturally the main force under the command of the marshal, and they are the armies that can fight in the field with the officers and the army, and the defenders of other towns and towns, but they can send other rebels who defect to the marshal and let a certain town guard a certain place. Eat locally. In this way, the food pressure on the headquarters can be greatly reduced. Li Xin said.

"How can these rogues who have fled here be credible or not?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Why should the marshal worry about whether he can be trusted or not?" Li Xin said: "The way of employing people, driving them with potential, luring them with profits, if you have to trust to use them, how can the handsome man use a hundred horsemen to millions of people?" He is also a rogue, the sworn enemy of the officials and the army, and the officers and troops must be destroyed, and the commander is appointed as the lord of a land, and he is a blessing. How could he not be willing, if the officers and soldiers came to suppress him. He also had to fight fiercely with the officers and soldiers for himself, and the commander also had more soldiers to fight, and bringing these people with him was not only bloated and useless, but also worried that he would be repeated in his heart. ”

"Moreover, the commander can also appoint local civil officials and order them to settle the fields on the spot to solve the food problem for the army. The ministers came from the north, and the counties near Xuzhou were already crumbling, and they only needed to send a brigade to the division, and they could break through the counties, and place millions of people in several counties. Li Xin said.

He was bent on transforming Li Zicheng's subordinates from rogues to power, so that he could also become the founding father of the country.

Li Zicheng was a little excited, he got up and paced back and forth, he felt that this thing was feasible, but he was worried, and said for a while: "I'm still worried, how can they not be loyal to me?" ”

Li Xin said: "Dashuai's worries are not unreasonable. But that's not the root of the problem. To do great things, first of all, you must be right, if you don't have a good name, if you don't say well, if you don't go well, you can't do anything, the marshal wants to appoint a foreign official, I don't know in what name? Command many righteous troops, please quickly set the name of the commander, and then use this name to order the army, there is a name and righteousness, and all the generals are from the heart of the dragon. Willing to potency. Even if there are some repetitions, the handsome army is in hand, and the backhand is overcome, what are the worries? ”

"Righteousness." As soon as these four words came out, Li Zicheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "I haven't achieved an inch, can I be able to ascend to the throne?" ”

"In today's situation. The Ninety-Five Supreme is too early, and outsiders can't hear it like a monkey. Li Xin didn't hear the desire in Li Zicheng's words at all, so he continued and said directly: "However, it is appropriate to call the general, or the governor, or the governor. The commander should gather the rebel armies and let the commanders of the rebel army elect the marshal as the general. Determine the status of the monarch and the minister. ”

All Li Xin's purpose was to transform Li Zicheng's unit into a regular army.

This is not only about the so-called righteousness, but also about the powers and arrangements of generals at all levels, not to mention the setting of magistrates. The testimony in the army. Li Xin's words twisted up, and it was easy to build a rough official system for breaking into the camp.

Of course, Li Zicheng's righteous army is not without strengths, just in terms of military law, it actually inherited many places of the Ming army, and then added Li Zicheng's personal will. And it's not that Li Xin doesn't want to build a strict official system for the camp, but he can't use it.

Li Zicheng is very interested, although Niu Jinxing is just a lifter, but he has not mixed with officialdom, and he is just watching the fire from the other side of the strait for the government's operation, and he can't find out where the key point is. It's okay to talk big and empty words, but it's not really how to put it into practice.

In fact, everything is not so difficult from the conceptual level, and the real difficulty is in the details.

And Li Xin's set is simply adapted to local conditions, which is perfect for breaking into the camp.

Li Zicheng talked to Li Xin, forgot to eat, knew that Li Xin was not allowed to leave until late at night, Li Zicheng thought about Li Xin's words, almost didn't close his eyes all night, and the next morning, he immediately beat the drum and gathered all the generals and summoned all the big and small leaders and generals, but the first person he saw was Li Xin.

After first introducing the specific distribution of forces in the camp to Li Xin, he said, "Sir, how do you think you should start at this time?" ”

This has evolved from the conceptual level to the practical level.

Li Xin thought for a while, after all, he hadn't gone deep into the rebel army before, and he didn't understand that there were such and such problems in the rebel army, and he hadn't thought about the specific problems in the rebel army, but it was natural to think about it. He said: "Now is the time for the marshal to employ people, when he shows leniency, after the day is decided, the marshal can do whatever he wants." ”