After several of the biggest local tyrants and bullies in Laizhou Mansion were beaten down by Li Meng, the rest of the people were honest, and they didn't give Li Meng the opportunity to train at all, which made it hard for the Jiaozhou battalion stationed in Jiaozhou, Fengmeng Town, these soldiers can not be beaten at a discount on weekdays, although the military salary is full, but the training project assessment is not good, and it is immediately a deduction of salary and silver training, if the five assessment items are all bad evaluations, they will immediately go to the field to be an auxiliary soldier or an auxiliary battalion, and transfer excellent people from these two places to supplement.

The food is full, the salary is sufficient, and the spirit is also energetic, but the training is a little harder, these veterans of the Jiaozhou battalion are looking forward to fighting, because at least this does not need to be trained.

Li Meng calculated his own financial resources, the current scale of more than 6,000 people is almost his limit, although among these more than 6,000 people, veterans are fully paid, salt Ding is half paid, and auxiliary soldiers are paid 30% of the salary, but the cost of equipping weapons and armor and so on is also a large number.

And Li Meng wants to leave the turnover and reserve of gold and silver, can not be spent all, after all, there must be emergency money, it is a little ridiculous to say, according to Li Meng's understanding, even if the auxiliary soldiers are paid 30%, compared with most of the soldiers in Shandong, the salary and silver earned are enough, not to mention that most of these powerful children are supplied by the family.

Since there was not enough spare energy to expand the army, Li Meng had to train the army as well as possible, and practiced in the army every day, leading the exercises, and returning late at night.

At present, Zhou Juren keeps his distance from him as much as possible, there are no knowledgeable characters around him, and Li Meng is also unclear about the future and is very confused.

Zhu Yunyao officially became a member of the Li family after the palace guards came for the second time, there is a beautiful girl with a national surname, and at first glance she is a girl from a large family, and she is seen in her own home, which is really suspicious. So to change her name, Li Meng's original intention was to let the girl change her surname to Li. Let's just say it's my sister.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yunyao resolutely opposed this suggestion, and Li Meng didn't care. Let the girl choose by herself, and as a result, her final name was Mu Yunyao, and she was called Li Meng's cousin. My cousin is my cousin, so I just settled down.

It is said that the tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver in the Zhou Wangfu are enough for Mu Yunyao to live for a lifetime. Li Mengdi means. The girl can choose her own lifestyle, and his side only provides protection and does not interfere. Lin Lei

Who would have thought that after Mu Yunyao was sure that he had indeed become a member of Li Meng's system and Li Meng's family, he would not want to have fun and eat rice every day, so he had to do something.

She is a pampered girl who has been in the palace since she was a child, what else can she do. For Li Meng, everything will be fine if he just wants not to cause chaos, but Mu Yunyao is very persistent. In the end, Li Meng's errand for the girl was to read the newspaper.

Jiaozhou Battalion, the title of the director, Li Meng's side can also be regarded as the level of internal reference, to the Zhizhou Yamen and the Laizhou Prefecture Governor's Yamen proclamations and documents, he has the right to watch and know.

Ordinary military attachés just know a general thing. However, Li Meng's side arranged for special people to speed up the horses in several places where he could get the newspaper documents. As long as there is news coming in, someone immediately transcribes it. It is then delivered in as fast a time as possible.

The news on the Di newspaper and the proclamation is actually quite rich, the dynamic will of the imperial court and the like, as well as the news sharing of the war in various places, but for Li Meng, there are too many official articles in this Di newspaper, and there are many things that only people of this era can deeply understand or say to see clearly, and it is difficult for him, a modern person, to understand.

Mu Yunyao is in Henan, in the Lu family, and he is very good at those opinions on the Di report, at least for Li Meng, this insight and insight are already very good, since this is the case, then make the best use of it, Mu Yunyao's official task every day is to read the Di newspaper and record the important things, and report to Li Meng.

Li Meng also thought very narrowly, this can be regarded as a beautiful secretary for himself!

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, in addition to the disasters and famines in various places in the Central Plains, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were still fighting with officers and soldiers in Shaanxi, and then the imperial court continued to increase taxes, with many names, including border salaries, flat thieves, etc., these things seem to be like this every year during the Chongzhen period, and even Li Meng feels so normal.

It's a time so peaceful that it's not at all like the heavens are going to fall apart in ten years, into darkness and destruction.

By the beginning of July, everything was almost on track, and the southern part of Laizhou Mansion had become a place for Li Meng's Jiaozhou battalion to train and exercise, and the people and horses were noisy, and the money was also spent like flowing water, but after the tension became up, there was gradually a rule, and the officers and soldiers adapted to these, and Li Meng also felt that he had time to think about some things.

Li Meng thought in his spare time while practicing soldiers, although he said that he did not belong to this time and space, but it was like a small pebble, this big era was like a vast ocean, such a small pebble would not cause waves on the sea at all, let alone change something, what should come must come, the key to the problem is how to avoid this catastrophe.

In the past, when he and Zhou Juren talked about where they could be used as a base, half of the words between the two sides were discussed, but Li Meng remembered every sentence clearly, and remembered that Zhou Yang and Zhou Juren finally said: "In this way, the places you can go to are nothing more than Jiangnan and Huguang......"

In the area of Laizhou Mansion, I have almost walked through the training exercises during this time, this place is indeed not suitable for a long-term place, there is no natural danger, at most it is low mountains and hills, there is no obstacle at all if the soldiers press the border, and the land is barren, so far it is still necessary to allocate food in Dongchang Mansion, Jinan Prefecture, it seems that if you want to have a big exhibition, you have to go to other places.

Jiangnan is currently the richest place in the world, said to be the richest and most prosperous place in the world, I am afraid it is not an exaggeration, here to produce a variety of products, and then sold to the Ming Dynasty and all over the world, Japan's gold and silver, Spain's precious metals in South America are a steady stream of flow here.

But Li Meng denied Jiangnan, such a prosperous place, the soldiers went, I am afraid that they will soon be corrupted by this prosperity, Jiangnan is rich in the world, he can give the soldiers full salary, those businessmen can use ten times the number to win over, although Li Meng's idea is too unbelievable, but Li Meng is not willing to take this risk, when he was a soldier in modern times, Li Meng heard his comrades-in-arms and friends around him say many times, the soldiers stationed in the city, as well as those machine soldiers, life is extremely leisurely and comfortable, The lights outside are indeed too attractive, and in modern times, there are still political commissars and instructors who specialize in ideological work, and this is still the case, let alone their own situation.

And the problem of Jiangnan is not only the rich, the clan power is also intertwined, huge and abnormal, these clans are hundreds of years of inheritance, and secondly, because of the prosperity of Jiangnan, they have accumulated a large amount of wealth, and they have great influence in the officialdom and among the people.

Jiangnan can't work, so go to Huguang? Li Meng pondered for a long time, but he didn't find out the exact location of this lake in his mind, including which areas. He felt quite embarrassed, and thought to himself that he had come to this era, in the same place of China, he was still so confused, and it was still a huge province.

I was thinking about going there to find a relevant book and map to see, in this era, there were no books on geography, especially those similar to modern geography, and they were strictly controlled, after all, they were important information about military affairs.

"Brother Li, there's something big!!"

The courtyard door was opened, followed by a rush of footsteps, no need to go out, I also knew that it was Mu Yunyao, this girl had a fiery attitude, but Mu Yunyao's knowledge of these information was very high, and since April, it was just a slight supplement to common sense, and he could express his own judgment.

Some judgments were written down, and Li Meng passed them on to Wu Tongzhi and Zhou Juren, and after the two "intellectuals" saw it, they also felt that their views were profound, which was very good, which made Li Meng trust the girl even more.

The mansion where Li Meng is now is his own inner house, and ordinary people must pass through the communication of the soldiers if they come in, but Mu Yunyao is the "cousin" of Lord Dusi, so naturally there are not so many rules.

Hearing that it was a big deal, Li Meng was also a little nervous, but he saw Mu Yunyao rushing in, holding a proclamation in his hand, his little face was red because of nervousness and excitement, but there was a look of worry and fear in his eyes, and he gasped and said:

"Brother Li, the Dongyu Jurchen entered the north from the Xifeng Pass, and the imperial court issued an edict ordering all nearby military towns to be on strict alert......"

At present, the Ming court's name for the Manchurian Tatars is still Dongyu Jurchen, instead of calling them the beginning of the country name Houjin, or the current country name Manchu, not recognizing them as a country at all, only thinking that they are rogue bandits, but the combat effectiveness of these rogue bandits is really too strong, and they can even let them run rampant in Gyeonggi Dazhen.

After Li Meng heard the news, he immediately stood up, two years ago, Huang Taiji led the army to ravage Xuanfu, Datong area Li Meng's historical knowledge did not know at all, this time from Xifengkou into Gyeonggi, there is also no memory, Beizhili and Shandong are connected, the other party can get Beizhili, and they will arrive in Shandong