"I don't know about this, and I don't want to ask, anyway, if he has three longs and two shorts, I'll just follow. Besides, I won't tell him even if I ask, if you really want to know, just ask him yourself, and he may reveal a little bit to you. Xiao Nier said.

Zuo Ling said angrily: "If he doesn't say anything to you, he won't say it to me." Everyone knows that the most intimate person with him is you, or why did he only let you come with him at the beginning, and he didn't agree to what I said to Pomegranate. If I hadn't made my own decisions this time, I don't think I would have been able to come. ”

Xiao Nier was silent, she was not as confident as Zuo Ling said, whether it was compared with Zuo Ling or Pomegranate, she had a strong sense of inferiority, whether it was her life experience, appearance, or talent, she couldn't compare anything with it at all, but besides, she was really good to her, she could feel it.

To put it bluntly, they are called bad husbands and wives, and they share weal and woe.

"These are all men's affairs, we can't manage them if we want to, so don't worry about it. By the way, you didn't eat well at night, I'll let someone keep it for you, let them bring it later, and I'll accompany you to have a few drinks. Xiao Nier said.

After listening to Xiao Nier's words, Zuo Ling's anger in his heart really disappeared for the most part, and he felt a little hungry, so he nodded.

Xiao Nier asked her own maid ring, who was waiting outside, to go to the kitchen to serve wine and food, and Zuo Ling's maid ring didn't eat well, so they went over to serve dishes and bowls together, and opened another table in the side room.

"He didn't eat well today, and he meditated like a monk outside, why don't you let him eat with him and then spend the night with you?" Xiao Nier laughed.

"No, don't, I don't want him today, I want you to accompany me, let's go to bed and chat together after drinking, when you are sleepy and when you go to sleep, it's still like in Nanjing before." Zuo Ling hurriedly blushed and said.

"Okay, I think you can stand up for a few days, don't compare with him, he is the most supportive, you will definitely not be able to stand him." Xiao Nier teased by pointing to her forehead.

Moreover, she was not meditating, as Xiao Nier said, but kept looking at the file.

He has already read it twice, but he is still reading, he is not looking at those simple resumes, but analyzing everyone's personality, characteristics, and growth process, which are briefly described in the file.

He believes that neither the Zhongshan Mansion nor the Wucheng Marquis Mansion will falsify in these files, there is no need for this, this is not a report for meritorious service after all, and the authenticity of the government soldiers' files is the first.

The noise of more than 500 guards outside drinking gradually subsided, these guys still know moderation, they don't shout and drink and punch, and they don't get drunk or make trouble after drinking, it seems that the quality of this level is passed.

The family members brought by Zuo Ling didn't look at it in the past, and those family members were already considered a family, and they were closer than his family here, so they didn't need to be polite. As for Zuo Ling, he didn't think much about it anymore, anyway, after a few days, the relationship would naturally recover, and cold treatment was what he was best at.

"You're still working hard, you're really like an official. However, there are few officials who work as hard as you, and people don't delay eating, drinking, and having fun. Zhou Dingcheng accompanied the guards to drink wine and walked in leisurely.

"There's no way, you have to seek politics in your position, and you can't be chic." Besides.

"To be serious, do you think we can use the four hundred new arrivals? Anyway, you don't need so many guards at home. Zhou Dingcheng is colorful.

"It depends on whether you go to the coast in the future, if you want to go, not only can you use it, but you can also play a decisive role."

"Deciding? How to use it? Zhou Dingcheng didn't understand.

"If the war is in a stalemate, they can play a sharp role to break the deadlock, and if there is a critical situation in some places, they can put out the fire at any time, so I am ready to use them as mobile troops to go up at the most critical time. The people we trained, let alone one year, even three years are not as strong as the combat effectiveness of these 400 people. ”

Besides, if the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers could have this kind of individual combat ability, as long as there were 500,000 people, there would be nothing to do with the Outer Mongolians, and overseas pirates and pirates would not be able to become a climate.

It is a pity that there are too few such high-quality elite soldiers, and he estimates that there are not 100,000 people in the whole country. Guanning Iron Cavalry is known as 40,000, and half of the real elite can be good, but the amount of national money spent is sky-high.

In other words, with the annual treasury income, it is simply not enough to support hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers.

The Ming Dynasty probably still implemented the military household system, these families who were turned into military households for generations, as long as the imperial court needs, you can gather people according to the head of the household registration, the imperial court is only responsible for some of the most basic expenses, and the low combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers is also caused by this reason.

The military household system of the Ming Dynasty was actually learned from the nomads, and has been criticized by later generations. The nomads do not have a regular army at all, they are herdsmen in peacetime, raising horses and sheep for hunting, once necessary, several tribes are called together to fight, and even horses and food have to be prepared by themselves.

The system, which was perfect among the nomads, was completely out of shape in the Central Plains Empire, but there were many unsatisfactory things in its implementation, and for no other reason, farming and grazing and hunting were not the same thing.

Nomads live on horses almost every day, equestrianism does not need to be trained at all, all of them are superior riders, which is incomparable with the farmers, in addition the nomads often hunt, the tribes hold hunting in the autumn, almost a real military battle, but a war between man and beasts, Genghis Khan captured most of the world, all the tactics are basically the grassland will hunt that set, and there are no outstanding military tactics.

In a word, the combat quality of the Mongolian cavalry is incomparable with that of ordinary nations, it is not an ordinary cattle, it is a super cattle.

Moreover, it is not that the low combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers is the inevitable result of the military household system, but there are many reasons, as for the fact that the military household system is a product of the Middle Ages, this is another issue, and it is also very debatable.

Zhou Dingcheng thought for a while and admitted: "Those muddy boys are indeed much stronger than the people we are training now, you can see it at a glance." But what I'm most afraid of is that these soldiers are not easy to bring. ”

"Don't worry, these people don't dare to mess around, otherwise I'll let them go where they came from. I'm not soft on them. Besides, he said coldly.

"Well, I can see that, they seem to be really afraid of you. Why is that? Zhou Dingcheng asked.

"That's when they know, I'm going to be more mixed up than they are." Besides.

Zhou Dingcheng laughed, he really didn't know that there was this side, at least he didn't see it. Although there was a sensational weapon fight in the capital, it was also out of ploy, not pure chaos.

But if those people were afraid, he believed it, and even he was a little afraid, even though he still called him the stinky boy as often as he used to.

"Then whether these people are arranged in the mansion or elsewhere, it seems that there is no need for so many people in the mansion." Zhou Dingcheng pondered this question again.

"For the time being, let's put it in the house, under my nose, they don't dare to make trouble, if they are released, it will inevitably cause some trouble."

"Well, it's just that there is not enough space in the house all of a sudden."

Thinking of how to settle these people, Zhou Dingcheng had a headache, he couldn't build all the outer mansions into military camps, in that case, the layout of this mansion would be half ruined, which was really a pity. However, if they were to be placed according to the original layout, there would always be some nondescript, and there would not be enough rooms.

"I'll think about it again." Besides.

He is really thinking about whether to use the Wucheng Hou Mansion in Beijing now, but he has to see how the situation changes.

The Wucheng Hou Mansion not only has real estate in Beijing, but also has a lot of industries, and the layout of the mansion is similar to that of the Wucheng Hou Mansion in Nanjing. It's just that in this way, there will be a problem of space space.

He is not like the Marquis Mansion of Wucheng here, there are hundreds of maid servants, and now he has a total of more than 20 family members, and he is not ready to increase.

There are also some housekeepers and maid servants who stay in that mansion, guarding and maintaining the mansion, but they can accept it, in fact, Marquis Wucheng has been urging him to move to his own mansion to live, and he always uses the excuse that it is close to Zhang Juzheng's mansion, so he hides from it.

However, there is another advantage of using that mansion, that is, there are many separate courtyards, so that Xiao Nier, Zuo Ling and even Li Xiangjun can have their own independent mansions and do not have to live together, but he does not want to live in Beijing for a long time, but wants to escape from the cage as soon as possible. Since there is such a plan, is it still worth making a big move to open the mansion of the Marquis of Wucheng?

Think again, and I can't make up my mind all of a sudden.

"Hey, I said what's the matter with you, you still live alone outside, you shouldn't be today." Zhou Dingcheng stilted Erlang's legs, still slowly drinking the wine in one sip.

"Oh, I'm so tired on the road of Zuo Ling, I've rested early." And understand what he meant.

"Really? It can't be awkward, right? Zhou Dingcheng said with a smile.

"What's your business?" Besides, he was a little anxious.

"Of course it's none of my business, I don't care about you." Zhou Ding became enlightened.

"Concerned? You're an eight woman. And he snorted.

"I'm not a bad woman, but I really admire you, to be honest, people outside think that you are glamorous and blessed, and you are included in the room with the three beauties in the south of the Yangtze River, and I think you don't know how to have a spring supper every night, who knows that you often sleep alone like an old monk? It's a pity that your Yuanyang is broken, otherwise you are more suitable for cultivating Tongzigong than me. Zhou Dingcheng grinned.

"What do you mean, I'm moved, do you want to help you marry a wife? It just so happens that the beauty I sent a few days ago hasn't landed yet, so I think it's quite suitable for you. Besides, he squinted his eyes and smiled.