Chapter 25: The Best Prospect

In fact, for some of his cronies, even the hundreds of teenagers around him who have not yet matured and have not started a family, Xiao Xuan is not 100% sure that there is no problem. The battle near the noon gate made Xiao Xuan feel more deeply what kind of team and organization the two sides in the palace were leading at this time. If it weren't for his careful deduction in preparation, full preparation, and huge advantages in weapons and equipment, perhaps this team that had just been in the army for only ten days, and most of the elite of the Imperial Horse Supervisor would not have performed so well.

When a total of twenty carts and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were first in the secret passages of several private houses in the capital, and they were personally escorted by the team to the Imperial Horse Supervision Schoolyard, Xiao Xuan also decided to say something to the children who had experienced this war for the first time as the emperor.

"In this battle, the performance of some officers and non-commissioned officers was not ideal. I told you that you are only temporary officers and non-commissioned officers, and if you don't behave well, you will become soldiers again. Of course, there are many people who have exceeded my expectations, and they will not only have to adjust their positions, but also reward them heavily! The children who participated in the most dangerous demolition group, the disabled and the dead, received a bereavement pension of 5,000 taels of silver. For the rest of those who have been meritorious or beheaded in battle, I do not intend to reward too much in addition to the adjustment of their duties. It is still strictly in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, with a maximum of slight adjustments: beheading one level or capturing one enemy will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver. The captured and beheaded officers were rewarded with 100 taels of silver and 50 acres of land deeds. Thus the total expenditure of forty-five chiefs, two hundred seventy-three captives, and five sacrificed or maimed children is only a few tens of thousands of taels of silver. First, it is to prevent you from decaying before you have really become a team that can build greater deeds and gain more wealth. Second, we should have long-term ambitions rather than coveting small profits in the near future. The remaining hundreds of thousands of taels of silver kept with us are the capital for us to do real 'business', and we will use it to build a real war camp with more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 5,000 men in two years. At that time, you may be the lowest ranking of the officers at all levels of the squad, the capital, and the squadron. With the real strength of war, this world is not the world of those waste emperors, relatives and even civil officials, it will be our world. ”

Unlike many previous speeches, this time, Xiao Xuan only had a lot more experience and didn't have much preparation. Therefore, he inadvertently used "we" to refer to the whole as a whole, including himself, the emperor, and more than 500 young officers and soldiers of the new battalion from lower classes. This is a very normal habit, and it is indeed unexpected in this day and age.

Xiao Xuan himself didn't expect that just this very ordinary "we" suddenly made the emotions of hundreds of teenagers who had just experienced the big war immediately become different. Although he grew up at the feet of the Son of Heaven, his senses for the Son of Heaven were not as sacred as those among ordinary people in some other places, but at this moment, he still felt a great touch.

At this time, Xiao Xuan really felt that although young people were deeply influenced and shaped by the social environment less than adults, he often had an illusion in the past ten days of military training, and regarded the teenagers of this era as students who still had some sense of identification with authority in the future, at least before the information age in the eighties and nineties of the 20th century. However, after all, they could not get rid of the limitations and influences of this era.

Of course, these are huge interests and benefits for Xiao Xuan at this time, and he who holds the monarchy is not qualified to express his feelings about feudal monarchy like Huang Zongxi. Therefore, after thinking for a while, Xiao Xuan continued to strike while the iron was hot and said: "In ancient and modern times, in China and abroad, every hero like Genghis Khan has an ideal in his mind, that is, to conquer all places under the world in the true sense, including Taixi, Tianzhu, the Western Regions and other places. Conquer the entire human world. I don't know when, many people in my Chinese have lost this ideal and ambition, thinking that the world is only the world of the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Guannai, and at most some of the surrounding wild places, it is really a big mistake... ”

In addition to the intense discipline and technical and tactical training for more than ten days, Xiao Xuan did not come to carry out any "political education" for these teenagers, and finally felt that there was time to carry out some basic education, because at this moment, there should not be much war test for the time being. The political reliability of the team in the face of huge gold and silver is clearly the most important thing.

"The population of the world, I account for 30% of the population. However, time can easily reclaim the land, which is not. The land of Nataixi, from east to west, is twice the territory of the thirteen provinces of two capitals, three mountains and rivers, three woodlands, four pastures and farmlands. The plains are dominant, with at least 40 million hectares of fertile soil and tens of millions of hectares of grassland. The Western Regions Heavenly Land doesn't count. Although the surrounding area of China looks barbaric, thousands of miles of wasteland away, there are still tens of millions of hectares of people who have been reclaimed or are to be reclaimed for two days. The potential of people's livelihood economy"

"Forty million hectares... Although people in this era do not have much concept of numbers, and hearing that a relatively large number is just a number, this number still has a lot of shock.

"Let me make an analogy: a large county in the north with a radius of 100 miles and a household registration of 30,000 hectares, the land is only one million mu or 10,000 hectares, and 40 million hectares of land is equivalent to... It is equivalent to waiting for each of you to become the head of the army, and at least eight soldiers, each of whom owns all the land equivalent to a large county. Each of you is at least the equivalent of an ungoverned prefect who cannot be held for five days, in charge of all 80,000 acres of land. The taxes and benefits that a person can collect every year are far more than the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that we have today can bring in a place where prices are relatively cheap... ”

Although most of the teenagers who lack culture and education are not very familiar with numbers, the size of a radius of 100 miles and even a large county is still within the scope of imagination. With such an explanation, every teenager had a trace of ignorant excitement in his heart.

In order to make the teenagers at this time more sober, and at the same time make their promises have a better effect, Xiao Xuan at this time continued: "The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and there has never been a huge benefit in the world that falls from the sky. If there is, it is also a poison bait or trap. If you want to do something that has never been done before, you must unite as one, be disciplined, train and study according to My instructions and requirements from tomorrow onwards... ”