Chapter 44: Uncle
After meeting with Fang Jueyuan and other literati, Li Zhe still focused his energy on going to the army to train soldiers.
Although he accidentally became a great writer himself, he was flattered by these literati of this era, which made him feel good. But he hasn't fainted after all, his body is filled with the soul of a modern person, growing up under the red flag, born in New China, and the instincts given to him by social education are still constantly reminding him that these are all virtual and useless.
In this era, all the distribution of social resources still revolves around strength and power.
Therefore, the temptation to have the opportunity to control an army here is deeply rooted in his mind, like an obsession, as if only holding the barrel of a gun can bring him some sense of security in this other world.
Ma Zhong has become a loyal supporter of a series of military concepts put forward by Li Zhe since he saw Li Zhe's self-generated firearms, and Li Zhe's theory of firepower victory, in the ideal unit time, on the ideal battlefield, which side can provide the largest firepower output, which side can win the final victory, so that Ma Zhong extremely agreed.
In the era of flintlock pistols, the performance of firepower victory was the line infantry tactics caused by strict training.
Ma Zhong devoted a lot of energy to helping Li Zhe work out the tactical details of the flintlock pistol and dictate every tactical move of the infantry. And use all of this for the soldiers in the capital.
This guy does have a set of training for the low-level soldiers, and in just a few days, he sorted out a set of line infantry tactics that the two of them simply summarized and put on the Wudu soldiers.
The soldiers trained all day long the original arquebus phalanx, the same, and they were already tired of it, this time they changed the guys, got the new guns, they were very fresh, and even the spearmen were transferred to the musket soldiers, and the training was also quite energetic, and they all followed Ma Zhong to train this new formation of Laoshzi.
Although Li Zhe recruited two new craftsmen and found more than a dozen young men in Zhuangzi to expand the scale and increase productivity, after all, it was still manual and the production efficiency was very low.
Li Zhe gave 20 of the 25 strokes to Wudu for training, and the remaining 5 strokes were allocated to the family members in his manor.
Uncle Nine found out and nagged Li Zhe,
"This master's newly made fire gun is so good, not to mention that he used it for his own people first, how did he give it to the group of Qiu Ba in the Japanese army first."
There seemed to be some complaints in the words about Li Zhe's elbow turning outside, and the old man's nagging made Li Zhe cry and laugh.
"Hey! Uncle Nine, you don't care so much about this, it's only right to do the things I handed over to you first, and I have a purpose for them to use this gun first, if you don't give them it, will the fire guns produced in the workshop be rusted in your own home, and they will always have to be sold. ”
Li Zhe's mind has never told others that this guy has the ambition to participate in military procurement in this flintlock pistol produced by himself? Will it work?
Uncle Nine put out his nagging thoughts when he heard Li Zhe's words, this lord of his own family, he grew up watching from a young age, but who knew what he did when he grew up made him more and more incomprehensible.
used to publish books to make money, so that everyone in the family was honored, because the head of his family was a Wenqu star, and he thought that this young head of his family would no longer be involved in the military from now on, and concentrate on taking the route of a great writer. As a result, in the blink of an eye, he made his own guns and joined the Japanese army as an officer, which is to inherit the rhythm of family style?
Li Zhe didn't know what Uncle Nine was thinking, but even if he knew, it was impossible to explain to Uncle Nine, as a traverser, his soul was destined to be lonely, and what he did was destined to change this era, many things would not be understood even if they were said, so why bother talking in vain.
On this day, Li Zhe came back from the barracks as usual, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Li He running in front of him, with a very excited look on his face, Li Zheqi said:
"What's wrong?"
Li He replied loudly:
"It's my uncle, my uncle is back!"
It turned out to be him!
The uncle in Li He's mouth is the object of worship of the two brothers when they were young, a martial arts master, a dart master, wandering on the sea all day long, helping the maritime merchants deal with all kinds of troubles, and is the kind of strongman with strong personal combat effectiveness, following the caravan of the maritime merchants to many places, and has seen many strange customs in various places, when the two Li Zhe brothers were young, they often pestered this uncle to tell them all kinds of overseas anecdotes.
In that corner of the fiefdom in Dingyuan Prefecture, every time my uncle came to visit the Li Zhe brothers and their mother, it could bring them a lot of joy and satisfaction.
It was only when he was older that Li Zhe could tell from his uncle's eyes that it was not his relatives, and the kind eyes of that childhood had already become strange and vigilant, and then only when his eyes turned to Li He, did he reveal that familiar cordiality and warmth.
Li He's uncle is called Qi Feng, who was originally a citizen in the territory of Baron Zhongyong in Dingyuan Prefecture, and was originally supposed to be the fate of being an islander in the territory for the rest of his life, but because his sister married Li Zhe's father as a continuation, he was able to come out and break into the world.
The dart masters in this era of the Great Song Dynasty were the same as the dart games on land in the original Central Plains, but they just moved the event venue to the sea. The sea was a long way, and piracy was rife, and it was impossible for the maritime merchants to ask the imperial navy to help escort them every time. Therefore, the flourishing maritime trade gave rise to this kind of industry dedicated to the protection of maritime merchants, as well as credit and insurance, which can only be found in a prosperous commercial society.
Originally, Qi Feng could not have had this kind of opportunity, but it was only with the support of the Li family that he started this dart shop, which was regarded as having a livelihood, but it was by no means as beautiful as Li Zhe and Li He thought when they were children.
When he was a child, Li Zhe always felt that the beard and complexion on Qi Feng's face looked very majestic when he was a child, but he didn't know until he grew up that it was just a face that was transformed by the sea breeze and scorching sun all day long. The so-called dart line is still a chore for Li Zhe's current class after all, and it is an inferior class, and it is no longer worthy of looking up to them like when they were children.
Entering the main room, Li Zhe saw Qi Feng, still with the same face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a big beard, and a fishy smell all over his body, but he looked much older than when he was a child, and his eyes also looked a lot more gloomy, and there was a kind of ruthlessness in his eyes that Li Zhe had never seen. When Qi Feng saw Li Zhe, he seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then he reacted.
"It turned out to be the eldest young master!"
Uncle Nine immediately expressed his dissatisfaction next to him,
"No, it's already a master!"
That's not it, now in this baron's mansion, after Li Zhe's father passed away, Li Zhe is a well-deserved master, even if Qi Feng is a relative in the family, but he is also an outsider, and he can't be called like his elders before.
Qi Feng was stunned again, looked at Li Zhe with complicated eyes, and finally shouted,
"Yes, it's my lord! Qi Feng has seen the lord! ”
Uncle Nine is satisfied!
The name of the family, this is a big deal! It is related to the dignity and humility of the people in the house, and Qi Feng, as Li He's uncle, cannot be mistaken in this title, otherwise, the Qi family's status in the Li family will be even more embarrassing.