Li Qifeng knew that the rifle in Luo Jian's hand was powerful, his face changed a few times, he waved his hand to let the soldiers put down their weapons, and he stepped forward to Shi Kefa and said: "I am the chief soldier of the imperial court, and the superintendent has no right to dispose of me, I will go with you today, and I will argue with the superintendent in front of the emperor in the future." ”

Shi Kefa said with a calm face: "Take it!" But he ignored him anymore, and two personal soldiers came up and tied up Li Qifeng and put him down.

Ren Minyu walked up to Shi Kefa and whispered: "Supervisor, this Gansu soldier group has no leader, if it is not pacified as soon as possible, I am afraid that things will change." ”

Shi Kefa listened to what Ren Minyu said, pondered for a long time, and said: "How to settle this Gansu soldier, Shi Zeke has an idea?" ”

"It's... In my opinion, how about handing it over to Xinghua for training? Ren Minyu also thought for a long time before saying.

"That's fine, I don't know if Xinghua agrees, and I'll ask him before I talk about it." Shi Kefa nodded and said.

The two walked in front of Luo Jian, and Shi Kefa said: "Xinghua, now this Gansu soldier must be pacified as soon as possible, what do you think of Xinghua?" ”

When Luo Jian heard this, Shi Kefa wanted to take over this Gansu soldier again, but the four or five thousand who surrendered to Cheng had not been dealt with, and there were more than four thousand... I was a little drumming in my heart, looking at Shi Kefa's expectant eyes, I hesitated for a long time, but I still said, "Please ask Brother Xian to arrange it." ”

"I mean... I want to ask Xinghua, how about you simply take over the whole training with the surrendered troops of Toucheng? Shi Kefa was a little embarrassed to speak, and said a little reluctantly.

"If you want me to say, Xinghua, you are driving a sheep, and a group of sheep is also driving, so don't shirk!" Ren Minyu said while beating a side drum next to him.

Before the words fell, Liu Zhaoji had already walked over, and when he heard a few people talking, his loud voice was released again, "Xinghua, if this is not the case, I will also hand over the Zhongguan Battalion to you for training together, and I will do my best to assist you, what do you think?" ”

When Shi Kefa and Ren Minyu heard this, they were overjoyed, and both of them said in succession: "This is very good! Much, very much! ”

Luo Jian thought seriously for a long time, and said: "Brother Xian, Brother Shi Ze, let's solve the problem of the Gansu soldiers first, and wait for me to go back and make a plan and plan for the reorganization and training. ”

Shi Kefa was very satisfied when he saw that Luo Jian was thoughtful, and turned his head to ask the two, "What do you think of Xinghua's opinion?" ”

"That's good, Xinghua is thoughtful." Ren Minyu said.

"My old Liu listens to you." Liu Zhaoji also made assurances.

Seeing that the opinions were unified, Liu Zhaoji asked his subordinates to rush to various places with Li Qifeng's personal soldiers to inform the two deputy commanders of the Gansu Army and several deputy generals to go to Li Qifeng's mansion to discuss matters, and several people walked towards Li Qifeng's residence in the courtyard.

Walking on the road, Liu Zhaoji suddenly said: "Xinghua, the place where you live now is too small, and when there are more disciples in the future, I'm afraid it will be a little crowded, so it's better for you to move to this courtyard, and when the superintendent returns to his mansion in the future, it will be much closer, and there is no one in this family anymore, and there will be less trouble." Inspector, Ren Futai, what do you think? ”

When Luo Jian heard this, he was moving again? I saw this courtyard just now, and I really liked it in my heart, and I looked up at Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa thought for a while, and said: "Xinghua, you can move here, this is closer to the east gate, and the training will definitely be outside the city in the future, and it is more convenient to go out of the city, and it is much closer to my governor's mansion." ”

"Okay, I'll listen to a few of them, and I'll move when the arrangements are made here." Luo Jian responded, and he was very happy in his heart.

"Xinghua, so that our two families are also close, and we will have to bother a lot in the future!" Ren Minyu said with a smile.

A few people talked as they walked, and soon arrived in the courtyard. Luo Jian entered the courtyard and saw that there were many houses in the courtyard, and there were even two-story buildings, which looked very luxurious and luxurious at a glance, but he thought about how rich the salt merchant who lived here was at the beginning.

Li Qifeng didn't have any family here, I don't know why he was looking for such a big place to live, some of the maids had been cleaned up by Liu Zhaoji's personal soldiers, and a group of people walked into the hall to find chairs and sit down, and no one came up to serve tea and water.

After a while, the two deputy commanders of the Gansu Army and several deputy generals and staff generals all rushed over, and when they entered the room, they saw Shi Kefa and others sitting in the hall, and they were all taken aback when they saw Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng.

After the generals came up to pay their respects, Shi Kefa beckoned them to sit down, and then said: "Gao Qifeng, the Gansu military supervisor, fornicated with the Tartars, and Duoduo allowed him to assassinate several angels, that is, he was named the king and Yongzhen Yangzhou, fortunately, the angels were blessed by the true gods, and the assassins were captured before they succeeded, and Gao Qifeng was killed on the spot for fleeing in fear of crime. Li Qifeng, the chief military officer of Er, had discussed with Gao Qifeng a few days ago, and wanted to hold the governor hostage to offer Yangzhou City and the Qing captives, and the two of them had already confessed, and the commander had taken Li Qifeng down, and he would be disposed of after reporting to the imperial court. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Kefa stopped and looked at the generals of the Gansu soldiers under the court.

I saw the generals of the Gansu Army talking to each other for a while, and the two deputy commanders took the lead in standing up, and a group of deputy generals and staff generals also followed behind, and walked to the hall to Shi Kefa knelt down on one knee and saluted with fists, and a deputy chief soldier surnamed Liu said:

"I don't know about Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng, now that the two of them have gone, we are willing to listen to the dispatch of the superintendent, and there is no second heart, please supervise the superintendent!"

"We have decided that the Gansu Army and the 5,000 men and horses who surrendered to Cheng yesterday will be handed over to Luo Angel for training, and now they are temporarily under the control of Ma Yingkui, Deputy Chief of Ma, and wait for Luo Tian to make the specific implementation after the air, can you have any objections?"

As soon as the generals heard that Luo Jian was training, they looked at each other a few times, and then turned to Shi Kefa and said, "We will strictly follow the orders of the superintendent, and there is no objection!" ”

"That's good, Xinghua, can you tell them a few words?" Shi Kefa turned to Luo Jian and said.

"The supervisor trusts Luo, and Luo has to do it. I hope that after you go down, you will strictly restrain your subordinates, do not have all kinds of accidents, without military orders, soldiers are strictly forbidden to go on the street, if there is a violation, severe punishment will not be granted! After Luo Jian finished speaking to the generals, he turned to Liu Zhaoji and said, "Please General Liu quickly arrange for Deputy General Ma to bring people to the Gansu Army for temporary management." Liu Zhaoji hurriedly agreed.

Everyone waited until Ma Yingkui brought a group of junior officers and personal soldiers to take over the Gansu army, and then rushed back to the west gate.

Walking on the road, Wang Qiang said to Luo Jian: "Chief, it's still early, and there are a lot of us, so it's better to move home this afternoon, this side is closer to the Gansu army, and it's easy to take care of something." ”

When Luo Jian heard this, he smiled and said, "Yes, you know how to think about the problem, you kid also like this yard?" ”

"It's much stronger than our yard, Sister Liu Lan must like it too." Wang Qiang rubbed his head and was a little embarrassed, so he had to move Liu Lan out.

When Shi Kefa heard it in front, he also smiled and said: "Xinghua, it's better for us to move together, and I will also move back to the Governor's Mansion, and it will be more convenient to handle official affairs." ”

As soon as Wang Zecheng heard this, he pulled Wang Qiang and ran back, saying that he wanted to go back early to get everyone ready, and Shi Kefa and Luo Jian laughed.

When Luo Jian returned to the courtyard, the courtyard had already been tossed, and Steward Luo found a few big cars from nowhere and had already stopped outside the courtyard. A few servants and maids were packing up their things on the bed, and Xiao Liu had already packed up Luo Jian's things and loaded them into the warrior car.

As soon as she saw Luo Jian coming back, Liu Lan came over, her clothes had already changed back, and she probably felt that she was really uncomfortable wearing that clothes. came over and pulled Luo Jian and asked, "Brother Luo, why do you want to move when you live well?" ”

"Sister Liulan, you'll know when you go over and see it! It's so much better than here. Wang Qiang said with a smile.

"Really? Then let's hurry over! Liu Lan saw that the wind was rain, which made Luo Jian very funny.

As they tossed, Luo Jian found a chair and sat under a tree in the courtyard and thought quietly. He had to think about how to get this whole training plan, not only to use the good experience and practices of later generations, but also to consider the current situation of the Ming army, and to adapt to the needs of the era of cold weapons.

Some problems give Luo Jian a headache, for example, the current Ming army generally has a drill every five days, and the so-called strong army with good treatment is at most a drill every three days, and some local armies even have a drill every ten days or no drills.

The exercise here is not a morning exercise or something like that in the future, but the meaning of drill. It's not that the Ming army doesn't know how to train or is lazy, the root cause of this situation is the supply problem. At this time, the soldiers of the army generally have two meals a day, and there is little meat in the food, and there is no oil and water, how to let the soldiers have the physical strength to train every day? I only practice once every day, and in the final analysis, it is to save food and silver.

At this time, the Manchu Eight Banners Army was born as a nomad, eating mostly beef and mutton, drinking cow, sheep and mare's milk, although rough, but not lacking in nutrition, physical strength, endurance far more than the Ming army. In field battles, often five or six Ming troops were not the opponents of a Manchu soldier, so there was a saying that "the Manchu people are not more than 10,000, and the more than 10,000 are invincible".

In order to improve the physical fitness of soldiers, the first thing to solve is the problem of the source of money and food, and if we only rely on the salary and silver drawn by the imperial court, it is far from enough.

Thinking of this, Luo Jian's head hurt, put down the pen and small notebook in his hand, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples with both hands.

As soon as he rubbed it twice, a pair of small hands pressed against his hand from behind his back and pressed it gently, and he was about to look up, when he heard Liu Lan's soft voice say: "Brother Luo, don't move, I'll help you press it, I know that you want to do things and it's annoying." ”

Liu Lan's little hand pressed Luo Jian very comfortably, and she almost fell asleep with her eyes closed. Qiang lifted his spirit, picked up a small notebook and wrote a few outlines, turned back to Liu Lan and said, "Thank you, I'm much better." ”

After walking a few steps, I took out my laptop in the car, sat on a chair and opened it, carefully searched for some information, and finally made up my mind.

Seeing that Liu Lan was still standing beside him, he said to her, "You call Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang over." When the three of them arrived in front of him, Luo Jian asked, "Which of you has a mirror?" The three of them all said, let me take a look, Xiao Liu's is the biggest, bigger than the reversing mirror on the car, the young man is in love, usually loves beauty, so the mirror is bigger than others. Liu Lan is the smallest, and her small bag can't fit a big one.

Let Liu Lan receive all the mirrors of the three people, and said, "I will use these mirrors first, and then return them to you when I am finished." ”

Several people didn't know what Luo Jian was doing with the mirror, and they all looked at Luo Jian suspiciously.

"I'm going to use it to attract investment, I can't do it without getting the glass and mirrors out, it's hard to move an inch without money in the army!" Luo Jian said with a wry smile.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, glass mirrors actually appeared, all of which were brought by some European missionaries, because of the long distance, the sea transportation was not easy, and the glass was fragile, so the number of glass mirrors that appeared at this time was not only very small, but also the largest area was only the size of a palm.

Luo Jian thought to himself, if he didn't hurry up, in a few decades, glass and glass mirrors would flow into China in large quantities, and at that time, this business would not be good.

In fact, what Luo Jian wants to get out the most is fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer does not need more technology, as long as you find phosphate rock, it can be solved, but the production of nitrogen fertilizer is much more complicated. Without the great development of chemistry, it would have been impossible to produce nitrogen fertilizer and even more powerful gunpowder. The development of chemistry is inseparable from various utensils and utensils made of glass, which is also the reason why Luo Jian was forced to make glass in the first place, and as for making money, it is also one of the main uses.

For the production and sales of glass, Luo Jian is ready to take the form of shares, first, he can raise some silver in the short term to solve the urgent need; Second, there are quite a few old, weak, sick and disabled people in the army who need to be eliminated, and there is a need for resettlement of demobilized soldiers, and the production of these products requires a large amount of labor, which can just solve the problem.

After thinking about things clearly, Luo Jian's mind was also put down, and he cleaned up with everyone. As he was packing, Liu Zhaoji sent dozens of people to come, and also brought a few big cars, which was faster, leaving two small servants to guard the courtyard, and everyone walked towards the new residence.

After a busy afternoon, when I arrived at the new yard, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon. How to arrange the accommodation, Luo Jian didn't care about him, everything was left to Steward Luo to deal with, and he went to the study to find a table and began to write the training outline.

was busy, Xiao Liu Jun ran in, walked up to Luo Jian and said, "Uncle Luo, my father said that you haven't cleaned up here yet, please come to my house for dinner tonight." "It turned out that this kid just came over and ran home directly, his house is very close, and he will arrive at the front corner, and when he comes home, he heard that his father is going to invite Luo Jian and them to dinner, so he ran over to report the news first.

Rubbing Liu Jun's head, Luo Jian said, "Then please go back and tell your father first, and we will come over." ”

called Butler Luo over and told everyone in his family to cook fast food in cans for dinner, and seven or eight boys plus servants and maids also had to eat.

Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang were still cleaning up, but Liu Lan ran away, so they hurriedly asked people to find her, and it took a long time to find people.

"Brother Luo, this yard is so beautiful, and there are several small yards, I don't know which one to live in." Liu Lan ran over and was excited.

"I'll deal with it today, and tomorrow I have time for you to choose slowly, and you can live whichever you want, okay?" Luo Jian said with a smile.

"I don't choose it, I want to live next to Brother Luo." Liu Lan said.

"I don't even know where I live." Luo Jian said with a smile.

PS: Liu Lan learned from the ancients and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, please vote for your precious recommendation, the little woman is here to thank you for Brother Luo!" ”