King Alcohol thought that he would "be gracious" to his subordinates, and only when he saw a battle could he gain his lethal power. In addition, as mentioned above, he intends to use the Shenji Battalion as a "territory" for the development and expansion of personal power, therefore, His Majesty only rewards and does not punish, and the military discipline and gods have almost become an ornament.

Among the 14,000 soldiers originally selected by Wen Xiang, some of them were originally interested in serving the battlefield and making meritorious contributions, but in this environment, they also quickly "lost to everyone".

After King Alcohol took over, Wen Xiang saw all kinds of changes in the Shenji Battalion in his eyes, was anxious in his heart, and had the heart to remind the "superiors" to pay attention, but his identity was embarrassing and sensitive - as a person who used to "manage the affairs of the Shenji Battalion", some words were really not suitable to come out of his mouth, otherwise, some people would think that he Wen Bochuan was not convinced and was robbed of his seat, and he intended to say small words to retaliate.

Later, the people of the time ridiculed the twelve-character "mantra" of the Shenji Camp -- "When you see a thief, you must run away, hire a replacement early, and enter the camp less", I don't know how it reached the ears of King Gong, he still didn't understand the meaning of these words, and asked Wen Xiang, Wen Xiang was silent for a moment, and said: "'When you see a thief to run', it means to run away from the battle; 'Hire a substitute to run early' is to say that you can hire a stand-in in advance; 'Enter the camp to be less', which means that you rarely go to the camp on weekdays. ”

King Gong was shocked, he had vaguely heard about the situation of the Shenji Battalion, but why not? Like what is "hiring a replacement early" - how can anyone in the world hire someone to do it for him?

"Sixth Master," Wen Xiang said, "these few mean words. You don't have to take it too seriously, either. But. The messenger of the Shenji Battalion is empty, you better ...... Give the seventh master a point, a point. ”

"Bochuan, what is the situation of the Shenji Battalion? Please be specific! ”

Wen Xiang shook his head slightly and said, "Sixth Master, my identity is embarrassing, in the affairs of the Shenji Battalion. There is nothing to be done, and you will understand this. However, if you want to understand the real situation, it is also very easy, those who are on errands in the Shenji Battalion, up and down, are all flag people, and under your door, around the bush, there must be someone in the arrange. Find one and ask it, and everything will be clear. ”

This is the case. Reminded King Gong. An uncle and brother in the long history of his house, named Qingfeng, worked as a copywriter in the Shenji Camp, so King Gong called Qingfeng to come over and ask carefully.

"Lord Wang," Qingfeng said, "What 'see the thief to run, hire a replacement early, enter the camp less', that's good, the real situation of the Shenji Camp is much more unbearable than this!" ”

"What?!"

"Back to the prince," Qingfeng said, "There is a joke in the Shenji Battalion, saying that whether it is the Yong Battalion, the Green Battalion, or other Beijing Battalions, they all have to be short and have to eat empty salaries, but only our Shenji Battalion is not only not lacking, but also overflowing, and it must be doubled!" Our Shenji battalion received money and food for 500 people, but when we left the team, there were 1,000 people; The imperial court only issued 500 guns, and when we left the team, we will bring 500 guns of our own! Hehe, there is no more 'loyal country' than our Shenji Battalion! ”

King Gong was stunned: "What's going on?" ”

Qingfeng smiled slightly bitterly and said: "Lord Wang, you know, many of the errands in the Shenji Camp are yellow and red belts, and each person uses a family member, and everyone goes out with their families, isn't this five hundred to thousand?" ”

"Huh? What about guns? ”

"Every family member," Qingfeng said, "the 'master' who took his place carried an opium smoking gun, and when he closed the five hundred foreign guns, wouldn't it become a thousand?" ”

"Opium Bong?!"

"Yes!"

Qingfeng said: "It's not only - the foreign guns are actually held by the family members, and in the hands of these 'masters', they are either carrying birds, or they are holding eagles, where can they free up their hands to hold foreign guns?" When they go out to exercise, they have to set up the guys in their hands first, walk the birds, and hang the bird cages; and the eagle shall be put into the tree or the wall with an iron bar, and the eagle shall stand on it, and then he shall return to the party. ”

After a pause, Qingfeng continued: "When he was practicing, he was still looking at his eagle all the way. If the iron bar is not firmly inserted and falls, even when it is most important, he will first put down the foreign spear, and go and pick up the eagle first--brush it up, reinsert the iron bar, and then ask it to stand up, and then return to the team. Look, is this kind of operation novel? ”

King Gong was dumbfounded, and after a long while, he said, 'What, the chief doesn't care?' ”

"What's the matter?" Qingfeng said with a wry smile, "The chief himself, the ordinary bird walking arm eagle, when he goes out for exercise, the first one to take care of his own birds and eagles may be the commander who leads the team!" ”

King Gong gritted his teeth and said, "Is this still enough?!" When the ancestors entered the customs that day, the soldiers of the Eight Banners could stand on the saddle and release arrows! What's going on? It must be overhauled! ”“

Qingfeng said: "Lord Wang, in my humble opinion, if I had started to rectify two years earlier, there would still be hope for the Shenji Battalion, and now-"

He shook his head and said, "This can't be rectified anymore." ”

"How so? It's man-made! ”

"Lord Wang," Qingfeng said, "Many of the errands in the Shenji Camp are yellow and red belts, just take this copywriter I did, for example, the members of the Copywriting Office, more than one hundred and sixty members, and the members of the Camp Affairs Office, more than one hundred and eighty members, among them, not including 'scholars'!" There are more than 500 officers in this category, more than twice as many as the military headquarters -- the military headquarters is only more than 200 people! ”

After a pause, "If you really want to rectify it, how many people's jobs will have to be broken?" Lord Wang, this group of people, but they are all clans and Jueluo, don't look at many people who are actually poor and swishing, but any one of them can 'reach the sky'! ”

King Gong really couldn't make a sound.

"Lord Wang," Qingfeng said, "I'll tell you a little bit more about the Western scenery, it was a few days ago—"

After a pause, "A few days ago, the Shenji Battalion practiced at the entrance of the school outside the Shunzhi Gate, and before the exercise, the nearby alleys were covered with curtains. After a round of practice, the soldiers stepped into the tents. Hey, the onlookers wondered, behind the curtain, what was there? ”

Shunzhi Gate, that is, Xuanwu Gate, formerly known as Shuncheng Gate, is falsely called "Shunzhi Gate" by the people.

"If there is such a good thing, take a detour to the other entrance of the alley, go in and take a look, ouch, I only see opium smoking guns all over the ground, and many people are lying there, swallowing clouds and spitting fog!"

King Gong opened his mouth slightly, and it was really "difficult to get off his tongue".

Qingfeng lowered his voice slightly and said, "If you change your ...... Xuan Jun, this gang of 'masters' Qiu Ba, had to be beaten up by one person, beaten half to death first, and then smashed his rice bowl, and rushed home; Lord, you say, let's ...... Can you do that? ”

King Gong was silent—he really couldn't do that.

He suddenly understood, why did Guan Zhuofan pick and choose among the camps of the Janissaries before he went to Shanghai, but only 627 people escaped? And most of them are still Han soldiers and Han people?

Later, King Gong and Wenxiang regretted more and more that the two principles of founding the Shenji Battalion - "all foreign guns and foreign cannons" were right; However, "all the flag people" is really wrong!

As long as the leader is the flag man, isn't this Praetorian Guard in the hands of the flag man? Why should even those who are soldiers be banner men?

If the Han and the flag are mixed, there is still room for rectification, now, if you want to rectify, where to start?

Not to mention the rest, how to find a fair and honest reason to transfer the alcohol king from the position of "in charge of the seal key of the Divine Machine Camp", it is enough of a headache!

However, if you don't rectify it, you can't do it!

Not to mention anything else, just talking about money and food, if a standing army of more than 30,000 people is never useful, what kind of financial black hole is it?

Just thinking about it makes it painful!

After Guan Zhuofan took power, King Gong once pinned his hopes on Guan Zhuofan - he could bring out the Xuan army, and he could probably rectify the Shenji Battalion?

In this matter, King Gong actually has his own little abacus: as long as Guan Zhuofan starts to rectify, no matter whether the Shenji Camp can be rectified or not, he will offend a large number of people, this, hehe, hehe.

Who knew that Guan Zhuofan didn't accept this trick at all, but instead said good things for King Alcohol, which roughly means: Do you lead the troops, each has its own way of leading, some people advocate the law, some people are lenient and strict, and there is nothing bad. Besides, apart from the suppression of horse thieves, the Shenji Battalion has not fought a second battle - I mean that the Shenji Battalion led by the King of Alcohol County has not seen a battle with real swords and guns, and if it is not good, it will be said that people are useless - maybe it can really fight!

Except for the horse thieves, the Shenji Battalion really did not fight a second battle - not that there was no battle, but they did not dare to send them out to fight. When the twist was chaotic, the monk king was killed, the bandit soldiers pointed north, and Gyeonggi shook, at that time, the alcohol king automatically asked for help, and took the Shenji battalion to the south but the enemy, but the two palaces and King Gong thought about it, forget it, you still stay in Beijing, in case of a war under the breakup, then the excitement will be big.

Now, the alcohol king took the initiative to jump out, asking for all the "improvements", no matter how far they can be changed, it is always a good thing - this seventh brother is the biggest obstacle to the rectification of the Shenji camp.

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"Change?" The alcohol king was stunned, "What's the benefit?" ”

King Gong was also stunned: Didn't you say this yourself?

When I think about it, it seems to ...... It's a little bit wrong.

The original words of the alcohol king were "the affairs of the Shenji Battalion, there must be some special measures" - well, there is indeed no word "change".

Yes? Could it be that I was wishful thinking and misunderstood what he meant?

So what does he mean by "special measures"?

King Gong frowned: "I mean...... Forget it, I don't mean anything special, just tell me what you think. ”

"Your Majesty... Seriously ill," the alcohol king said in a snort, "people's hearts are floating, inside and out, uh, it's very chaotic, I think, I think, the Shenji Camp is...... The Son of Heaven forbids the army, isn't it...... There should be some ...... Uh, special redeployment and arrangement in case ...... Accidents? ”

What the?!

*(To be continued.) )