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Zhu Youhua quietly watched as the ulcer doctor stitched up the wound of the sergeant who was wounded by the knife. The sergeant's name is Cheng Qian, he was originally a horse breeder in the countryside of Jiangyin, most of the year ago the Son of Heaven sent an envoy to Jiangyin to recruit and train the pro-army, heard that the treatment was good, he followed other villagers to enlist in the army, after layers of selection and elimination, he became a senior commander of the cavalry team of the first battalion of Zhongwu Town, the most basic military school.

When following the cavalry generals Ma Xiong and Huang Degong to pursue the remnants of the enemy, because the charge was too fierce, he was besieged and cut by the left cavalry who was trapped in the beast, and fell off the horse.

The ulcer doctor was already sweating profusely at this time, just washing Cheng Qian's body just now made him tired enough, and the blood that had coagulated on the wound was tightly stuck to his clothes, and it took him a lot of effort to wipe his body clean.

Through the gap, Zhu Youhua happened to see the knife wound on Cheng Qian's back, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, the wound was more than half a foot long, and the flesh on the side was also turned out, no one knew how deep it was, and the slightly open wound was like a sneering mouth.

"Fetch an oil lamp, and remember to light a fire." The old ulcer doctor took out a row of long needles from the medical equipment he was carrying, and commanded in his mouth.

His apprentice had to order the lit oil lamp to be placed next to the old doctor.

The old ulcer doctor roasted the row of long needles on the fire, then wiped his sweat and began to stitch up the wound for Cheng Qian, who bit the sheet in his mouth, whining in his throat, and his face was covered with pain.

Zhu Youhua watched from the side, secretly admiring in his heart, pricking needles without anesthetic, this young man was able to cry without screaming, and ordinary people would have cried for their father and mother.

"Good boy, you have to hold on! Survived, I will raise you as the general flag! Zhu Youhua on the side said warmly and encouraged.

After Cheng Qian heard the emperor's words of encouragement, he nodded with difficulty.

After about a cup of tea, the stitches were completed, and the old ulcer doctor sprinkled some medicinal powder on the wound in front of Cheng, and wrapped the wound tightly with a boiled bandage.

On the way back to the governor's yamen, he thought about how to improve the sanitary environment of the wounded barracks and expand the number and quality of military doctors. Professional military medical training was carried out.

Although the current conditions are limited, Zhu Youhua still tries his best to improve the survival rate of wounded sergeants, those sergeants who have recovered from injuries are valuable assets, they have broken away from the title of recruit eggs, and have become a glorious veteran, even if they are disabled and can no longer fight, they can also be a qualified recruit to teach, and the gap between sergeants with war experience and those without war experience is still very large.

After returning to the governor's yamen as a temporary line, Chen Bangyan, the pacification envoy of Zhongwu Town, has been waiting in the flower hall for a long time, as the de facto logistics minister of the pro-conquest army, although he does not have to go to the front line, he has done a lot of work behind the scenes, transporting grain, grass and ordnance for the army, distributing military salaries, counting and seizing, etc., these days can be said to be very busy, the pro-conscription army can successfully quell the thieves, and the pacification of Chen Bangyan is indispensable, which Zhu Youhua knows very well, after learning that Chen Bangyan asked for a face-to-face performance, Zhu Youhua ordered someone to introduce him into the main hall to talk.

The main hall of the governor's yamen has now been used as a temporary council hall, and after the audience, Chen Bangyan reported to the emperor the capture of the army, which was specially instructed by Zhu Youhua in advance, Zuo Liangyu has definitely been a warlord over the years to loot the people's wealth, but he is not very clear how much gold and silver wealth there is, so he ordered Chen Bangyan to report to him after counting, so that he can know in his heart.

"In this battle, our army seized a total of about 4.8 million taels of gold, silver, and copper coins from the left thief, more than 63,000 stones of coarse grain, and more than 8,000 stones of forage. In addition, a total of more than 700 pairs of iron armor, about 5,000 pairs of leather armor and cotton armor, 18 large and small Hongyi cannons and Franc machines, more than 70 tiger squat cannons, more than 2,000 bird guns, and other three-eyed guns, waist knives, spears, rattan cards, bows and crossbows, gunpowder, etc., were not counted, in addition to more than 2,300 war horses, more than 6,400 mules and horses. ”

Chen Bangyan listed the captured booty one by one, and the order was clear. Zuo Liangyu, a powerful southern domain, basically has all the belongings here.

Zhu Youhua nodded, indicating that he understood.

Zhu Youhua attached great importance to the ordnance and weapons that he had obtained, and instructed Chen Bangyan to concentrate them in storage, and after the rest of the Left Army was reorganized, they would be distributed to various barracks as needed.

Of course, iron armor, leather armor, cotton armor, war horses, artillery, these militaristic weapons must be given priority to the imperial camp, and the more than 2,000 bird guns will also screen out some well-made ones with a small explosion rate and evenly distribute them to the 20,000 new troops of the imperial camp who have not yet formed an army to guard Nanjing, so as to increase the proportion of new weapons.

The 20,000 new troops in Nanjing are still almost all cold weapons and equipment, and all the sophisticated firearms have been given priority to Zhongwu Town and Gongsheng Camp, and now the firearms and equipment of the two battalions in Zhongwu Town have far exceeded the total firearms of Zuo Liangyu's 30,000 army. Whether it is the quantity and quality of the victory is too much, the soldiers are expensive, not too expensive, with these weapons, war horse bonuses, the overall combat power of the imperial camp can be increased by several layers.

After a battle, the strength of the imperial camp increased instead of decreasing, not only annexing the rebels' men and horses, but also seizing a large amount of money, food, materials and weapons and horses, making up for the loss of war while still having a large surplus, so Zhu Youhua was not excited. But he was only excited for a moment, and his eyes dimmed again.

It was already the middle of the seventeenth century, and many countries in Western Europe were already equipped with better flint guns, and the original arquebus was eliminated by Western European countries as early as the sixteenth century. But until now, the domestic army is still dominated by cold weapons, and even the arquebus such as the turtledove gun (Spanish heavy musket) can be regarded as one of the top weapons in the domestic firearms, what a sad thing!

What is even more tragic is that in the original historical script, from 1644 after the Manchurian Tatars entered the customs until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period at the end of the Qing Dynasty, for more than 200 years, the Qing army, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, has always used arquebuses, and has never considered switching to more advanced flint guns, while Western European countries have already changed their firearms for several generations in more than 200 years.

Could this be because the Manchu emperors did not know about flint guns, which appeared in the mid-16th century? Or is it really not aware of the importance of firearms?

Definitely!

Several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty did not regard firearms as weapons for the weak, on the contrary, they always regarded firearms as heavy weapons of the military.

Seriously speaking, although the Jianzhou Tartars started with riding and shooting, but in the end they made a fortune by firearms, when the old slave Nurhachi was killed by the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Tartars began to attach importance to firearms, after the Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he paid more attention to the musket and artillery, and tried every possible way to imitate the Hongyi cannon. Later, after Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi surrendered to Huang Taiji, the Jianzhou Tartars only had the first elite firearms unit.

In addition to a small part of the cavalry, the troops of the three mines in Liaodong are completely good at relying on firearms, they have hundreds of large and small artillery, among which the foreign teachers hired by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, trained the troops of Kong and Geng into the most elite firearms troops in China at that time, the artillery and muskets are proficient, and they have mastered the relatively high-end technology of unified and ranging measurement, in the original history, Chongzhen at the end of the seventeenth year Duoduo was able to successfully conquer Tongguan in a short period of time, defeat Li Chuang's Shun army, relying on these artillery, more than 100 Hongyi cannons bombed day after day, The natural danger Tongguan was directly collapsed. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the south basically relied on the firearms of the three miners and the green camp to sweep the Central Plains.

During the Kangxi period, when the Qing army fought against Tsarist Russia in Yaksa and against Geldan in the northwest, they often used ten times or even dozens of times the strength to fight against them with flint guns, but they often suffered heavy defeats and suffered enough from flint guns. Therefore, Kangxi's understanding of the power of this firearm is the same as that of the Hongyi cannon back then, and his understanding penetrates into the bone marrow. Later, Qianlong's southern expedition to Burma also planted a big heel on the more advanced flint guns, but even so, he still did not improve the muskets.

Dai Zi, a firearms expert at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, imitated the "sub-mother cannon" that was claimed to be only made by the Belgians at that time, and it was also clear that the world's earliest machine gun "Lianzhu Firegun" was also called the Twenty-eight Lianzhu Firecracker, which was shaped like a pipa and could shoot 28 bullets in a row, and the firepower was very powerful. When he paid tribute to Kangxi, Kangxi praised him on the surface, secretly put the fire gun in the cabinet, and strictly ordered him not to rebuild. Kangxi was still not at ease, and then found a reason to exile him to one of the most desolate places at that time - Liaodong, and enslaved the armored people.

Several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty once collected all kinds of firearms in their palaces, among which there was the most advanced rifled gun at that time - the rifle! But it has never been popularized in the army.

It was because the Tartar Emperor understood the power of firearms too well that he resolutely curbed its exhibition. If you indulge in the firearms exhibition, you will face a very terrifying reality, that is, with a gun in hand, a woman, children, old and weak can kill a warrior of the Eight Banners!

As for why they didn't ban the bird gun, maybe it was because the bird gun was popularized as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was very unrealistic to want to ban it after the founding of the Manchurian Tartars, but fortunately, the bird gun had too many defects, and the power was not much stronger than the bow and arrow, and it was not a big threat to them, so it was not banned.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the pure Manchurian Eight Banners were only sixty or seventy thousand, even if the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were added, the Eight Banners of Mongolia were still only one million, and the Han people could drown them with a mouthful of spit, and the more advanced the weapons in the hands of the Han people, the more dangerous they were Manchu, which the Tartar Emperor knew very well.

In order to ban this threat from the root, on the one hand, they strictly prohibited the spread of firearms, and on the other hand, they did not even equip the Eight Banners with more advanced firearms, paralyzing the Han people, thinking that the Manchus and Hans were one. Not only that, but in the selection of military academies, almost all of them were cold weapons, and no matter how good they were in the use of firearms, they could not do military academies, thus systematically inhibiting the further development of firearms and firearms tactics.

Under the constraints of layers, the Tartar Emperor was still not at ease, and he still hyped up the uselessness of firearms and the invincibility of cavalry and archery in the army, and wanted to ignore the Han military academy from the military ideology.

After Chen Bangyan reported to Zhu Youhua the captured booty, he listed a silver medal for meritorious service in accordance with the emperor's order, and won a great victory in quelling the rebellion, so he naturally wanted to reward the soldiers and boost morale.

Zhu Youhua specially ordered Chen Bangyan to take out 800,000 taels of silver from the seized gold and silver to be used to reward the soldiers who put down the rebellion, and every sergeant and officer who participated in the war was rewarded with gold and silver according to the size of his merits, but the money and goods of these rewards did not go through the hands of the battalion commanders, but were personally delivered to each sergeant by the envoys and the auxiliary soldiers directly under the sub-pacification envoys at all levels, and at the same time publicized the kindness of the Son of Heaven, so that these sergeants knew who gave them the reward.

For Li Sanshi, Zhu Chenggong, Huang Degong, Zhu Dadian and other civil and military generals who have made great contributions in the counterinsurgency, Zhu Youhua's reward is relatively cautious, and he does not give knights, but only promotes the ranks of several people by one or two levels according to the size of their merits, plus a wife and son, and a blessing for his wife and children.

The reward of the Lord is relatively strict, but the reward of gold and silver is more lenient and generous, and Huang Degong, who has made the first contribution, directly gave 10,000 taels of silver, plus a bullfighting suit; Zhu Dadian gave 8,000 taels of silver, and gave Shang Fang a sword, a gold box rhino belt, and a golden chest and a unicorn round collar, because his official position has been respected, Zhu Youhua and the royal pen gave a special 'loyal fortune' to praise it, and the rest of Zhu Chenggong, Ma Xiong, Yan Yingyuan and others were given silver ranging from 500 to 3,000 taels according to their merits, as well as a certain amount of cloth, acres and other rewards.

Meritorious service is not rewarded, and being stingy with MG will not be able to gather people's hearts to collect the world, but if the reward is too bad, it will lead to the worthlessness of MG, which is also not conducive to gathering people's hearts.

At this time, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have not yet flooded, especially the title, which is still very valuable, looking at dozens of provinces in the south, there are only dozens of lords and nobles with titles, and most of them are hereditary when the country was founded, and the new lords are only five or six people such as the four towns of Jiangbei and Zuozhen, and the One Piece Zheng.

The military generals and feudal towns everywhere are proud of the highest glory of the military generals.

In the original history, after the establishment of the Hongguang regime, the strategy of feudal towns was implemented in Jiangbei, and in the face of the sudden increase in military spending, the Ma Ruan group in order to solve the financial crisis in the center, wantonly sold the official beard, resulting in the increasing number of official titles in the Ming Dynasty.

After the collapse of the Hongguang regime and the establishment of the Longwu regime, in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region and the Huguang region, the flood of famous lords almost reached an incredible level, and He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, in order to raise food and salaries and gather all kinds of armed forces, used his power to wantonly seal officials and sell official beards, and thousands of officials from the two lakes were gathered together to really form an "official army". Because the official position was sold too much, the value of the MG was rapidly depreciated, and a chief military officer may not be willing to buy a few hundred taels of silver.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are not much better, at the beginning of Fujian Longwu Emperor and Zhejiang East Lu King in order to compete for orthodoxy, desperately win over the other party's subordinate military generals, wantonly sealed officials and made wishes, officials and did not want money to throw out, Longwu Dynasty, the court hung the title of cabinet scholar of the prime minister Wenchen there are forty or fifty, Hou, Bo and other military generals have more honorary titles, Zheng Zhilong alone is no less than twenty.

Because the official position was too cheap, three hundred taels of silver could buy a ministry or department, and later it was even reduced to one hundred taels, let alone below the ministry level. Although they are all empty titles, and there is neither a fortune nor a yamen, almost all people with a little extra money pay to get an official rank like buying fashionable objects, so that when the yamen tries a case, the soap subordinates standing on both sides are competent officials, which is really a big joke in the world.

Scarcity is precious, the emperor is relying on money and celebrities to control the courtiers, once the celebrities are overflowing, they will inevitably depreciate, and even impact the system, further undermining the Ming Dynasty.

Although selling officials can alleviate the financial crisis, it is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst, and it is really hell that such a regime can prosper the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youhua wants to reorganize the rivers and mountains, and then establish discipline, naturally he can't let the celebrities overflow, not only can he not let the celebrities overflow, but he also has to spare energy and time to rectify the Ming Dynasty's official governance, eliminate a large number of redundant officials and redundant personnel, streamline the organization, improve administrative efficiency, and even the Ming Dynasty civil and military attache rank system that exists in name only must be rebuilt.