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Alcohol is not allowed in the army, this is a strict order set by Lian Zining, and he himself takes the lead in implementing it, and these officers naturally dare not offend. At present, there is a rare good opportunity, and the officers open their minds one by one, and their faces are red and their ears are hot.

Lian Zining was also very excited, just now there were constantly subordinates who came to toast, and he had already made a few glasses in a row.

This is already a very rare thing for him.

There's no reason he shouldn't be excited.

The ground of Kemu Mountain is the richest area in the entire territory under the jurisdiction of General Songhuajiang, and there is no one, if you talk about agricultural prosperity and economic prosperity, it is far more than the ground of Xishenwei. The three cities, except for the slightly smaller size of Suli Hewei, can be called a large port by Muwei and Tongjiang City, that is, the city with a population of more than 100,000 citizens and a population of more than 100,000 in the city.

The three cities were almost completely taken over, especially Tongjiang City, in order to hide from the people in the city, Santo even suppressed the idea of grabbing a handful before leaving, and Wu Yijun almost entered with a liberated posture under the welcome of the people of the city. The fact that it has not been destroyed by the rebels means that the economic structure of the people is still stable, and a large amount of wealth is still hidden in the people.

Three prosperous cities, a large amount of private wealth, more than a million farmers, and millions of acres of fertile land are the benefits that the ground of Kemu Mountain has brought to Lian Zining.

More land means more autumn grain taxes, more private wealth means sufficient commercial taxes, and more population is the guarantee of sufficient soldiers.

I have the ground of Komu Mountain. Wu Yijun's war potential was more than doubled all of a sudden. The problem of understaffing can be easily solved, and these are long-term benefits.

The most immediate benefit is seizure.

That's right, it's captured.

Now Lian Zining feels like he was during the Liberation War, constantly fighting with the Kuomintang. In a single battle, a lot of equipment and goods were seized, and the result was that the more soldiers fought, the more sophisticated the weapons and equipment became. It's not really like that, but it's similar.

In the battle of Haoshuichuan, all the assets of Santo and other mature Jurchen magnates were seized, including Xiong Tingbi's entry into Tutongjiang City, and the first thing he ordered to do was to seal up the mansions of all mature Jurchen magnates. And they took out the goods of their houses, and made a book of them, and counted them.

It took several days for dozens of senior account masters under Hong Chaojiao to count these goods.

All the cash was 376,800 taels, 25,900 taels of sand gold, more than 10,000 ginseng, more than 5,000 animal skins, and 15,000 silk horses. There were 560 slaves and maidservants, more than 5,000 war horses, and countless goods of all kinds for the remainder.

As for the Jurchen nobles in Kemuwei and the property flowing from the mansions in Tongjiang City. It won't add up to less than 100,000 taels!

This statistic, even Lian Zining was taken aback.

Lian Zining couldn't help but sigh at the madness of these mature women's real plunder, these poor and frightened people were only afraid that they had been expropriating and tyrannical since they took power, so that they could accumulate such a huge amount of wealth in just a few months. But now it's all their own.

Sure enough, it's war money, war money, how can you get rich without war?

According to the usual practice, this money is still in Lian Zining's private treasury, especially the huge amount of materials that need to be exchanged for money. You'll have to wait until Lian Kee's caravan arrives.

With money in hand, there are some things, and Lian Zining has also started to do them.

Thinking of the excitement, Lian Zining stood up, and when he stood up, all the officers also stood up. Lian Zining raised his glass high and said in a loud voice: "Everyone, do you remember what happened today two years ago? ”

"Why don't you remember?" The old brother of the original Chenzi Institute grinned and said: "At that time, you were still a general banner, and we were all big-headed soldiers who didn't know anything, and a group of people hid in the Chenzi Institute to practice stabbing guns!" ”…,

"Not bad! You kid has a good memory. Lian Zining glanced at it, saw that it was Wang Dachun, scolded with a smile, and said with some emotion: "Two years ago, this official was still a general banner, and now, he is already an earl and a general. Two years ago, you were all big soldiers, you, you, and even farming in your hometown in Shandong, but now, at the very least, you are also a thousand-household officer! In the past two years, our Wu Yijun has grown from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong, from a little-known small armed force to now everyone in the world knows about it. To get to this point, I, Lian Zining, have to thank you so much! Come, this glass of wine, I salute all the old brothers! ”

Everyone was enthusiastic by what he said, and they raised their glasses one after another.

Wang Ji couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, Lian Zining poured another glass of wine, raised it, swept his eyes over them one by one, and said to them: "The second glass of wine, this official respects you, it is with the continuous addition of these new forces of you, the Wu Yi Army can grow step by step, from two thousand people to the current scale of seven guards!" Come on, do it! ”

Wang Ji and the others also hurried to do it.

Lian Zining poured another glass of wine and said loudly: "This glass of wine is for our brothers who have died in the previous wars of the Wuyi Army!" Brethren, go all the way! ”

"Go all the way, brethren!" All the generals said in unison.

Lian Zining's voice was a little low, but he turned into a high-spirited voice: "The past is over, and he can look forward to it!" Come, dry this glass of wine, but also for my Wu Yijun! ”

"Congratulations to Wu Yijun!"

Everyone drank it.

Shi Dazhu made a look, and everyone stood up one after another, raised a glass to Lian Zining and said: "My lord, mark the next class, and also salute my lord, I wish my lord, martial arts and prosperity!" ”

Lian Zining laughed and was full of spirit.

After another drink, Lian Zining Chong forgot to say to Dong Hanchen: "Two, this official has an idea, let's listen to it with you." ”

The two hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, uncle, just say it." ”

"30,000 Han troops, how to deal with ~~-update~~, is a big problem." Lian Zining smiled slightly, and said: "This official intends to select two guards from them to form the eighth guard and the ninth guard of the Wuyi Army." With the two of you as the commander of the guard, I don't know what to do? ”

The two were overjoyed.

Originally, they were just low-ranking officers of Kemuwei, but later under the Jurchens, although their status was high enough. But they are also like minions, treated as dogs, and now they have the opportunity to enter the extremely powerful group of Wu Yijun, and they are also high-ranking officials at the level of Wei Commander, how can they not be ecstatic?

The two of them were so blessed that they knelt down together and said loudly: "I have seen adults under the mark!" ”

Seeing that the two rebel generals became commanders at once. Still on their heads, many veteran Wu Yijun officers looked at them with a little envy and jealousy. But this is also a helpless thing, who calls people's lives good? With tens of thousands of soldiers surrendering, it is impossible to say that he does not give a guard commander.

Xia Zikai is also in the series that he was invited, but he can come in, mostly because of Jin's face. He had so few men under him that he couldn't say that he would be disbanded after the war, and he didn't even have a formal title now. Who will take him in the eye? Even the location is in the most inconspicuous corner of the big tent. It's the first one to be able to eat hot food......

Except for Jin and Nurhachi, who each came to drink with him, the others, including Wu Yibo, didn't even look at him.

Xia Zikai drank sullen wine alone, the sultry liquid ran down the throat, burning the stomach a lot, and the heart also jumped up with the bang, as if the whole heart was soaked in flames, and the blood seemed to be boiling.

He gritted his teeth. Finally made a difficult decision. …,

He stood up suddenly, walked to the banquet, knelt down and said loudly, "Uncle, the villain has something to say." ”

The atmosphere in the big tent was stagnant, and it immediately fell silent, and everyone's various eyes were enough to cast it.

"What is this?" Lian Zining looked at Xia Zikai who was kneeling in the middle. I feel like this person is very raw.

Nurhachi had just finished toasting Lian Zining, and before he could go back and sit down, when he saw this scene, his face immediately darkened, and he originally came in with someone to see that he was steady, but he didn't expect to be so reckless, if the adults are displeased, won't Jin and I also be affected?

He said sharply: "Xia Zikai, step aside, is this the place where you put your words?" ”

"Wait!" Lian Zining waved his hand to stop Nurhachi, looked at Xia Zikai with interest, and said with a smile: "You are Xia Zikai?" I've heard of you, you're doing well in Suri Kwei. ”

This sentence gave Xia Zikai great courage, he looked directly at Lian Zining, and said loudly: "Uncle lift, the villain has something to say." ”

At this moment, Lian Zining saw the blazing flames in his eyes.

It made his heart tremble.

How like!

How similar to myself! Didn't you always have this mixture of firmness and pain in your eyes at the beginning?

He knocked on the table and said lightly: "Get up first, if there is anything, I will report it separately later." Don't disturb the interest of the brothers. ”

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The banquet continued, but Lian Zining took Xia Zi back to the back account.

"Let's talk about it!" Lian Zining leaned back in his chair and looked at him with a pair of eyes without intoxication.

Xia Zikai gritted his teeth and said loudly: "The villain is here to ask for an official?" ”

"Asking for an official?" Lian Zining couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't expect Xia Zikai to be this purpose, and raised his eyebrows: "Be careful!" ”

Now that he has said it, Xia Zikai is also out of the way, looked at Lian Zining directly, and said: "The villain wants to ask the adult, and he also appoints the villain as the commander and gives the villain a guard." ”

"Let me make you the commander and give you a guard's troops?" Lian Zining touched his nose, a little crying and laughing, he said in his heart that he had seen a lot of various people, but he really hadn't seen this person, and he said that he wanted a guard's troops, and he also wanted to be a commander.

Nima, what are you when you are?

"Listen to me, my lord!" Xia Zikai hurriedly said: "My lord, one of the guards you gave me doesn't need any sophisticated weapons, as long as one person gives a knife, and he doesn't need to give armor, he can have a set of clothes to protect him from the cold." Our military pay is also small, or even non-existent, as long as you can manage a bite to eat. ”

Lian Zining didn't call someone to drive Xia Zikai out, but listened to him continue, generally speaking, those who can do this kind of thing are either crazy or stupid, but obviously Xia Zikai does not belong to these two types, and it doesn't hurt to listen to him.

Xia Zikai continued: "My lord, you must have a war with the Jurchens, I have been to the Jurchens once, and they have built a lot of fortified cities in the territory. The castle is high and the pond is deep, and it is difficult to fight down. If your elite go to do the things that climb the city and use human lives to fill it, it is not worth it. But leave the job to me. Anyway, my subordinates are not worth much, and if they die, they will die, and you will not lose much, my lord! ”

"Wait!" Lian Zining's eyes shrank, and he interrupted him with words: "How do you know that I am going to war with the Jurchens?" ”

Xia Zikai said: "This is the villain's own analysis, the Jurchen has been in the prison for decades, and its habits are difficult to change, and last year I suffered such a big loss under your hands." There will definitely be a comeback this time. And with your character, how can you sit still and wait to die, and you will definitely counterattack the Jurchens, so the villain dares to speculate. ”…,

Lian Zining looked at him with a smile: "It seems that a lot of work has been put in." ”

Xia Zikai was shocked, knowing that he had already committed a big taboo by rashly analyzing Lian Zining's character, and his back was already soaked with sweat.

But fortunately, Lian Zining didn't mean to blame, he pondered for a moment. Said: "What you said is not feasible. One, my soldiers. I will give them the best equipment, so that my soldiers can give full play to their combat effectiveness, and my subordinates don't need cannon fodder. Second, my soldiers, I will never let them die in vain, under my hands, human life is not so cheap! ”

"No, sir. Some people's lives are so cheap! Xia Zi opened his eyes to reveal a fierce light, and said viciously: "My lord, you have forgotten, the mature female real people on the ground of Kemu Mountain are not dead, and there are many teenagers, old men and women, and the Jurchen people are in good health. These people are also enough to be soldiers. The villain said that they were them! ”

"What do you mean?" Lian Zining's voice became solemn.

"All mature women, except for children and those who are dying, are all incorporated into the army, and they are not paid, but only fed. When the war with the Jurchens began, they were driven to attack the city, as the adults said, they were cannon fodder! Wu Yijun's lives are valuable, they are not worth anything! Xia Zikai's voice seemed to be mixed with ice, revealing an indescribable evil coldness.

Lian Zining had to admit that Xia Zikai's suggestion moved him.

During the Santo riots, the Jurchens on the ground of Kemu Mountain killed countless Han Chinese, and during the counteroffensive of the Wuyi Army, they killed almost all the mature female town soldiers, and there were even a few premeditated massacres of prisoners of war who seemed to be despicable. To paraphrase a later generation, the ethnic contradictions in Woodfield have now intensified to the point of irreconcilability.

And the mature women are not dead, they still have more than 20,000 old and weak women and children.

How to deal with these people is a big problem, kill them all, it seems a little too ruthless. If they don't kill, they will be fine now, and they won't dare to resist because of the soldiers, but what about a few years later? Decades later, when their children grow up, what about the babies who grow up?

When the seeds of hatred are buried, sooner or later they will sprout.

This is a great hidden danger, Lian Zining did not ignore this point, the Soviet Union's handling of Chechnya is a clear proof of this, and it has made people miserable enough, but it has not killed them. The tiny Chechen Republic of Ingushetia, a small race of hundreds of thousands, has become a nightmare for the whole of Russia.

If Xia Zikai this method is feasible.

Thinking about the tragedy of the Jurchen attack on Xishenwei last year, Lian Zining was also a little chilled, if it was time to attack the city in the future, it would be really reluctant to let his soldiers die like this.

"Tell me about your purpose." Lian Zining let out a long breath.

Xia Zi was happy, which showed that Lian Zining had loosened up a little. He said in a deep voice: "The villain has only one purpose, and that is to kill the Jurchens!" ”

"The villain's family all died at the hands of the Jurchens, and the villain's wife was even insulted to death." Xia Zikai's eyes shot a light of hatred: "The villain swore to kill all the Jurchens." Not a single one to stay! Now these Jurchens on the Scale, the villain is still reluctant to let them die! The villain has to see what kind of situation it is like when they are forced to kill each other and kill their own people! ”

Lian Zining couldn't help but tremble in his heart, because he saw an incomparably firm light in Xia Zikai's eyes, which showed that this sentence was by no means just talking.

Another ruthless man, another madman!

Lian Zining can understand this emotion, it is not uncommon to slash people on the street because of unsatisfactory feelings in the future, and it is normal for Xia Zikai to have this kind of emotion. …,

He is looking forward to it now, how will such a madman who hates the Jurchens to death behave on the battlefield of attacking the Jurchens?

He smiled slightly: "Okay, Xia Zikai." The official will grant you. ”

Xia Zikai couldn't help but be ecstatic, and kowtowed again and again: "The villain Xie Uncle is gracious, the villain only wants to kill the Jurchens, and after the war, the uncle will have nothing to say even if he is exempted from the villain position." ”

It's wonderful!

Lian Zining stood up. He said solemnly: "This official has ordered you to form the tenth guard of the Wuyi Army from now on, and select all the Jurchens on the ground of Kemu Mountain, the scale is not limited, the more the better." Order, this official will select 5,600 troops from the Han army of Kemuwei and hand them over to you for command. ”

He smiled: "Those Jurchens. There's no knife in the back, it's not honest! ”

Xia Zikai's eyes turned red, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, and sobbed: "Mark, thank you for lifting up!" Death will be avenged! ”

Immediately, Lian Zining returned to the banquet and announced the decision to establish the tenth guard of the Wuyi Army.

In the next few days, things came into place.

The recruit department calmed Xie Deqing, and took Wang Ji, Dong Hanchen, and 30,000 Han troops who surrendered to Chengcheng to return to Xishenwei first. They will receive a month-long training and reorganization there, when the time will be to select about 14,000 elites to form the eighth and ninth two guards, and the rest of them. Another 6,000 will be picked out and allocated to Xia Zikai as the cornerstone of the tenth guard.

If they want to go home, they will be given a month's salary and a month's salary to go home, and if the family has been killed, they can also live in Xishenwei on the spot, and distribute seventy acres of land, and manage it well, and they will also have food and clothing.

All in all, under the current rule of Wu Yijun. There are few people in the land, as long as you manage it well, don't be lazy, work hard, and serve your crops well, it is a good situation.

Xia Zikai also took Lian Zining's warrant and more than 2,000 Han troops under his command and began to wreak havoc on the ground of Kemu Mountain. Of course, this ravages were only directed at the Jurchens, and had no effect on Hermes-Epitek. They rushed into the Jurchen settlements and drove them out mercilessly, and the slightly beautiful women were selected into the military prostitute camps, and the rest, regardless of the old and weak, women and children, except for children under the age of ten and the elderly over seventy, were all incorporated into the army according to the establishment.

As for those who can't join the army, they are sold directly on the spot, and no one wants the old people, but children are different. Coupled with the sense of humiliation in their hearts after being so humiliated by the Jurchens, they didn't mind spending a sum of money to buy back a little Jurchen bitch and go back to play with it.

Those old people who no one wants, Xia Zikai naturally can't let them become a drag, and they are buried alive on the spot.

This kind of behavior lasted for more than ten days, and it was not until the remaining 20,000 Jurchens on the entire Kemu Mountain ground were incorporated into the army. At that time, there were more than thousands of Jurchens killed and sold alive, and Xia Zikai had also accumulated a lot of funds in his hands.

Although this is not a heinous act, it can definitely be called a vicious act, and there is no doubt that it has been tacitly approved by Lian Zining.

Wu Yi's army is already large enough, and there are too many places to spend money, Lian Zining has no need, and there is no extra money to feed the tenth guard of the cannon fodder army, which is not in the establishment, although these Jurchens are like slaves, and they don't need to be paid, as long as they can eat enough. However, the 10th Guard also had several thousand Han soldiers, and it also cost money, military salaries, and equipment. The money handed over by Xia Zikai was transferred to him by Lian Zining, and it became the military expenses of the tenth guard.

When Xia Zikai was tossing the Jurchens with such vigor, Lian Zining was also trying his best to win over the Han people, or to put it more popularly, to win over the hearts of the people.

He inspected Kemuwei, Tongjiangcheng, and Suli Hewei successively, and everywhere he went, he received the local gentry and landlords, participated in the banquets they held, and did not take a stand in the process, and was very friendly to these gentry.

Lian Zining's move won the favor of all the gentry, they are also very knowledgeable, Lian Zining faintly showed a little tone, saying that it was possible to build roads for the ground of Kemu Mountain, and to form a new army, all kinds of money are not the same, so that the hand is a little tight now.

When the gentry heard the song and knew the meaning of elegance, even if they said that it is useless for us to fight the small people in the country and at home, they often sighed and were ashamed of the court, received the kindness of the adults, gave a helping hand, and rescued the villains from the tyranny of the Jurchens