Chapter 340: The Hope of the Marquis

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Li He, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, is Li Banghua's idol, and Li He's poem has always been Li Banghua's favorite.

"If you are a scholar and a marquis?" How well to say! From ancient times to the present, which scholar can lead the army to supervise the war and become a marquis by achieving military merits? !

Of course, there are a few such people in the Ming Dynasty, such as Liu Ji and Song Lian when the Ming Dynasty was founded, but compared with the generals who made a living from battlefield battles, this proportion is pitiful!

Now, Li Banghua, who is over half a hundred years old and has a high position, when he has almost reached the peak of the Ming Dynasty's civil servant career, the reason why he is still willing to invite himself to join the Jin Governor is because in the heart of he, a literati who was born as a Jinshi, he has always been burning with the ambition to establish a career on the battlefield.

In the hearts of Li Banghua, the old cousin of Jiangxi, those Wenchen who often say "I don't want to be a marquis, but I hope Hai Boping is peaceful", is actually just a kind of hypocrisy that makes people sick to their stomachs.

If he is a martial artist who can be knighted by virtue of his outstanding military exploits, then why can't a civil servant who is regarded as superior to himself lead an army to fight for a prince Wandai?!

Now that Emperor Chongzhen's mind is now, Li Banghua is now very clear.

This emperor valued military merit far more than his grandfather and brother.

As the Minister of Military Aircraft, Li Banghua participated in the formulation of the regulations on awarding military merits throughout the whole process, and participated in the reward meeting of the meritorious generals in Dongjiang Town.

And the result of this is very clear is that Li Banghua, who is over half a hundred years old, feels that he has encountered the best time in his life.

Among the four ministers of today's cabinet, he and Sun Chengzong are the only ones who have served as governors or supervisors, and only he and Sun Chengzong have experience in governing the army and leading troops, and Sun Chengzong is already 67 years old.

The other two are both pure civil servants, and with the temperament of the current emperor, it is impossible for a minister who has no experience in commanding troops to lead the army to fight.

So in the end, it can only be him, and this is what he has always wanted.

For him, those who always say that the marquis is not my wish is just that they have never had a chance before.

Since the Ming Dynasty, there is only one literati who has seized this opportunity, and that is Wang Yangming!

Now, such an opportunity has appeared again, how can I do nothing?!

During the Apocalypse, Li Banghua served as the governor of Tianjin for many years, and he has been training soldiers and horses, transporting grain and grass for the Jiliao frontline battlefield, and doing all the things of making wedding dresses for others.

Now, with the increasing age, the 55-year-old Li Banghua also feels more and more the sense of urgency that the years are fleeting and the time is no longer there.

Of course, there are other reasons, such as the fact that he has full confidence in the mine camp he has built.

If his subordinates do not have an army that is always trustworthy and reliable, of course, he must also weigh the risk of becoming a superintendent.

However, in the eyes of him, the former secretary of the Ministry of Industry, if he said that the mine battalion under his command was the second in equipment, then no battalion leader in the entire Ming army dared to say that he was the first in equipment.

Even the First Town of the Guards, which the Emperor relied on the most, was only equipped with pure firearms that could match his mine camp.

The mine battalion that Li Banghua trained in Baiye City is the only pure firearms unit in the Ming Army today except for the Shenji Battalion.

Moreover, the firearms equipped with this mine camp are all the latest firearms produced by Baiyecheng, the muskets are all Chongzhen type front-loading flintlock smoothbore guns, and the artillery is all Chongzhen type rear-loading sub-mother guns.

In addition to this latest model of muskets and artillery, before setting off this time, according to the will of Emperor Chongzhen, he also carefully brought a batch of newly made "Sun's grenades" and "Sun's incendiary bombs" from the gun factory in Baliqiao, a suburb of Tongzhou.

For the whimsical ideas that seem to emerge endlessly for today's emperors, Li Banghua, who has always been proud of his talent, also secretly admires it.

For example, once this small "grenade" and "incendiary bomb" were finalized and manufactured, they were named Sun's grenade and Sun's incendiary bomb by the emperor himself, and the new black powder used in it was also named "Dias gunpowder" by the emperor himself.

There is no shadow official, no reward, it is such a small name, which made Sun Yuanhua, Sun Heding, and Sun Hedou father and son burst into tears, and at the same time moved Dias, an old Portuguese sailor.

Such an emperor is not like a young man who is not deeply involved in the world, but like an old fox in the officialdom with foresight!

After Li Banghua was appointed to the Jin Governor, he first went through the relevant handover procedures with Bi Maokang, who took over as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and then accompanied by Bi Maokang, the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, went to Baiye City, and after discussing with Bi Maokang, he arranged for Song Yingsheng and Song Yingxing brothers to continue to sit in Baiye City with Qiu Yue and Liu Mu, the generals of the front and rear battalions of the mining camp, and stayed in the major industrial and mining factories all over Baiye City, and he set off to Shunde Mansion with 3,000 people from the three battalions of the left, middle and right of the most elite mining camp.

Bai Yecheng is the place where Li Banghua has worked hard for more than a year as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and the minister of military aircraft, and naturally there is no room for failure.

This time I went to Shanxi to supervise and suppress the thieves, on the one hand, I had to bring the main force of the mining camp that I had worked so hard to compile, but on the other hand, I couldn't let anyone go to the tea cool, which would cause any chaos in Baiye City.

Although the successor of the Ministry of Industry, Bi Maokang, is also a person he trusts and values very much, but in any case, he is not as relieved as the person he is used to staying.

Song Yingsheng and Song Yingxing brothers are both from Jiangxi, and Li Banghua, the old watch of Jiangxi, is a fellow villager.

Song Yingxing was personally selected by the emperor to be a scholar in the cabinet, and Li Banghua naturally had no way to be included in his command, but Song Yingxing's elder brother Song Yingsheng, who was calm and introverted, was left in the Ministry of Industry by Li Banghua, who was then the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and served as the head of the Tuntian Qing Officials Division, and then brought to Baiye City, and became a civil official in the camp in the mine camp, and Li Bei, the general personally selected by Li Banghua, helped to train the mine camp together.

But for Song Yingxing, who is proficient in miscellaneous science, Li Banghua knows its value, so he never gave up, and finally asked the emperor for this person a year ago, so that he could become a foreigner in the newly established Ministry of Industry and stationed in Baiye City.

These two people are naturally candidates that Li Banghua can completely rest assured of.

In addition, Li Banghua, as the Minister of Military Aircraft, did not let go of the Jiangxi villagers in the first year of Chongzhen's martial arts, one of whom was named Liu Mu and the other was called Lu Yuanding.

Now Liu Mu, a guerrilla from Wujin Shijia Wutang, stayed in Baiye City, cooperating with the two Song brothers to guard the industrial and mining areas around Baiye City after the main force of the mine camp left.

And Lu Yuanding, a Jiangxi martial artist, as a guerrilla of the Chinese army, followed Li Banghua into the Jin Governor to fight with Li Bei, the general of the mine battalion, and Li Xianzhong, the capital division.

And Li Xianzhong, the capital secretary, is the eldest nephew of the general Li Bei.

Of course, Li Banghua's actions have also aroused the criticism of many imperial historians, and many officials have written to impeach him for abusing his personal interests by virtue of his connections, and even impeached him for forming a party in Baiyecheng for personal gain.

However, for any impeachment note against Li Banghua, Emperor Chongzhen had to refute it with his own pen.

In his opinion, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, how much selfishness can a person who can die for the martyrdom of this dynasty?

Even if there is, it is perfectly acceptable.

Especially the problem of reusing fellow villagers, reusing the old department, or reusing relatives, etc., is not a problem at all in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen today, especially when he reuses someone who the emperor himself values very much, which is not only faultless, but also meritorious.

As the saying goes, things gather by like, and people are grouped. As long as this person is a talent and trustworthy, then the people he recruits are basically talents.

Moreover, under such a situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is understandable that officials with achievements give priority to reusing their fellow villagers and reusing them in the same year.

For example, a character like Lu Xiangsheng, who trains as a civilian official and has no connections in the army, which general do you ask him to reuse?

Except for his own brothers and relatives, he couldn't find anyone else to use it safely!

This problem also exists here in Li Banghua.

Therefore, when Li Banghua was still in Beijing and was steadily serving as the Minister of Military Aircraft, every time he saw Lu Xiangsheng, who impeached the daimyo prefect and the military garrison of the Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde, he was promoted to a private person, he felt the same and felt a sense of kinship.

Therefore, although he has never met, Li Banghua, the Minister of Military Aircraft, has always looked down on Lu Xiangsheng, a young talent who is more than two rounds younger than himself, and has never been short of ordnance materials.