"Hong Kong Bazheng is a thief, and Bai Yanzi is similar, why don't you just explain it to them?"

The news of the extermination of the eleven villages came back to Guangzhou, and he didn't care about the results of the battle, Yan Sanniang looked at the casualty figures in the battle report, his hands were trembling, and Si Wei was killed in twelve ...... Those are all disciples taught by her own hands.

She didn't understand Li Shi's behavior in Hong Kong, so she asked Li Xi in a particularly stern tone.

"Sanniang, do you remember when we first met?"

Casualties are inevitable, and Li Shi has been mentally prepared for a long time. suppressed the gloom in his heart, Li Xian seemed to be talking to Yan Sanniang about Fengyue.

"I said early on that I was a thief, but when did you believe it?"

Yan Sanniang was about to change the topic with disgust, when she heard this, she opened a door in her heart, and everything poured out, and the corners of her eyes suddenly reddened slightly, and when Li Shi took her into her arms, she did not resist at all.

"Trust must be forged with blood, not to mention that we still need forbearance now, how can we be clear with them."

When Li Xian talked about trust, Yan Sanniang hummed in a low voice, thinking about how when she escaped from the Quanzhou Mansion Prison and saw him in Li Zhuang, didn't she trust him wholeheartedly at that time? But...... Forbearance, why forbearance?

"We opened a steel mill in Foshan, and now we have a ship in our hands, a whole set of training methods, which have never been seen since ancient times, and a few businesses have earned silver to pile up into a mountain of silver. As long as you gather 10,000 people, nay, even just 5,000 elite soldiers, you can defeat the army of the Tartars. At that time, the heroes of the world will respond, and the general trend is in your hands, what else do you have to endure? ”

She muttered unwillingly, Li Xianhe chuckled, feeling the vibration of her chest, and Yan Sanniang suddenly appeared in a trance in front of her eyes: There was an army of tens of millions in front of her, the cannon was rumbling, the horns were in the sky, the Tartar court was wiped out in the artillery fire, and the evil that covered this land disappeared, and she was quietly held by him, quietly waiting for a real peaceful and prosperous world, which was presented little by little in the palm of his fingers.

This stupid girl, Li Shi suppressed a large number of words that were about to be spoken, and just sighed softly.

Yan Sanniang's words, the first half is not too outrageous, if he squeezes frantically and does not consider the hearts of the people in his group, then within half a year, he will indeed be able to spell out 5,000 musketeers, dozens of cannons, and a few flying boats. With this kind of strength, it is indeed possible to win the first few battles.

And then what?

The question is, then, how is he going to maintain this army? Salary, equipment, ammunition, food and clothing, relying on robbery? Rely on the hegemony of the territory to support? His army is a modern army, and it must be supported by an industrial system that is at least in its primitive form. Now the base of Jiguan Mountain can make guns, but there is no scale there, let's talk about muskets, three or five hundred can be made in a month, and it is still under the condition that the raw materials are sufficient.

In order to maintain 5,000 musketeers all the time, it is necessary to have hundreds of thousands of people who mine charcoal, smelt steel, make guns, make gunpowder, and produce all kinds of munitions parts, and hundreds of thousands of people produce food and circulation materials, so as to obey his control with peace of mind and provide a stable supply of soldiers, otherwise his 5,000 musketeers will not only fight less and less, but will also have to become bayonet soldiers after one or two battles.

This is just a material supply, he also needs enough talents to manage the system, and he needs a steady stream of capital to promote the operation of the system, which is the biggest problem facing his rebellion.

The world is calm, and there is already a set of rules. People's hearts are not chaotic, not because of how hard this set of rules is squeezed, but because of whether this set of rules is stable. As long as the rules are strong, people will always find a way to live. Whether it is people or silver, there is a familiar circulation model, and you can see a clear profit direction. If he wants to rise up by force alone, he can only let the silver and the people flee far away. In troubled times like Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't fight a world by force alone, let alone the current Kangxi year.

Then it comes down to the hearts of the people, and his whole set of theories, suitable for the common people and intellectuals, are still mixed together. Duan Hongshi and Yiming Lao Dao are still in the process of sorting out and "retouching", and they only appear in their original forms, not only will they not be able to attract people's hearts, but they will become the enemies of Confucian scholars all over the world. At present, if there is really an incident immediately, it is estimated that there will be a figure like Zeng Guofan in Guangdong.

All these problems are based on not taking into account the internal people's hearts, but the most important thing in the matter of rebellion is the internal people's hearts. And looking at the people around him, what he can trust wholeheartedly, except for Si Wei, the largest circle can only be drawn to the previous Fengtian Village Liu Village, and it must be carefully sifted.

Duan Hongshi has long said that people, finance, and the army must grasp the current situation, and they can't do anything without any link.

The second half of Yan Sanniang's words is basically a silly girl's dream words, and the heroes of the world respond? Han Confucian and Tartar are in love with each other, and there are many means that have not been laid out one by one, and there is really chaos all over the place, which is to force Kangxi to do Yongzheng's affairs in advance. At present, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has only reached the peak of its stability, but its control over society has not yet reached its peak. A small fight will only make the Manchu see the loopholes clearly and patch them one by one. The reason why the White Lotus Sect uprising was able to sweep the general trend was that even the people in the government at the grassroots level participated in it, and Li Xian couldn't count on the kind of "heroes" of the rural grass people.

Yan Sanniang also knew some of these truths, so she only sighed, and she no longer had the tone of questioning Li Shi before.

"There are still too many preparations to be made, let's just say that the water warrior that has just been built in Hong Kong, I still have to see how effective this set of training procedures will be. After all, they are not like Si Wei, and they have long been gracious to me. You can use them as experiments to see if the final effect can be used as a reference for recruiting others in the future. ”

Li Xi talked about the real expectation of Shui Yong, led by Hong Kong Bazheng.

"It doesn't matter what they're thinking, whether they're rebels or obedient people, whether they're hateful or grateful to us. This set of military training methods is to build a machine, and these soldiers are the gears and screws on the machine. How to stand, how to walk, how to eat, how to sleep, how to call, how to fight, how to kill, all according to the mold, poured out one by one, polished and smooth. By that time, even if they had any ideas, they had already melted into this war machine, and they could no longer extricate themselves. ”

Li Xian rarely said to Yan Sanniang that he regarded people as things, and the girl also felt a chill in her heart.

This is the essence of the modern army, which is different from the flattening of the old army, they have to be a part first, and then an individual. These parts are assembled into a machine, which in turn is the front-end component of a much larger war machine. Li Xi's current war machine has not yet been constructed, so he can only knock out the front end of this war machine, that is, the army, by hand in the form of a laboratory.

"So, even if they are anti-thieves, they have to erase their original minds?"

Yan Sanniang asked cautiously, for fear of being laughed at by Li Xian again.

"If you want to grow, you have to prune, and if the bones are good, of course they will grow taller."

Li Xianxin said that the soldiers under his command, not to mention the anti-Manchu Qing Dynasty, at least in terms of grouping, are n light years more advanced than a scattered old-style army.

His mind was scattered, and he was gathered by the girl's soft body and the fragrance of the people. At this moment, they are in a house behind the Yingci Courtyard in Xiguan, Guangzhou, the spring is warm and the sun is lazy, Yan Sanniang squinted her slender Danfeng eyes, and was chewing Li Shi's words. The white and tender cheeks were pink in the sun, and Li Xian's heart was itchy when he saw it. Just as he was about to sneak up on the delicate cherry lips with his surname, his eyes slipped to the girl's full breasts, where the commanding heights, he attacked again and again, but he was always repelled by the shy girl, is it ...... As soon as the thought turned, I saw an obvious flush surging up Yan Sanniang's cheeks, stretching her thick eyelashes open, and the willow eyebrows were also flushed to the point of being about to stand up.

"Thief...... What are you doing! ”

Yan Sanniang broke away from Li Shi's arms, snorting ashamedly and annoyedly, and only then did he notice the abnormality of his body.

He can endure not to rebel, but the beauty is in his arms, but Xiao Li Xi has already raised the anti-flag.

"You're so ...... Dirty, just go find the fox who always wants to get into your bed! ”

Yan Sanniang stomped her feet and fled, leaving behind Li Shi, who was smiling helplessly.

Seriously calculate that I should be twenty years old this year, is it time to solve this major life event?

Looking at the spring above his head, Li Xi had to admit that he was in spring.

"Fourth brother, didn't you bully Sister Yan?"

Guan Xuan patted Li Shi on the back and comforted him habitually.

Recently, Li Xi has been busy with the affairs of the Qingpu Cargo Station, and the merchants of Hunan, Jiangxi and even Guangxi have gradually regarded the Qingpu Cargo Station, which is extremely convenient for circulation and warehousing, as a transit place, and a large wholesale market has gradually taken shape. This laid the foundation for Li's next goal. And that step was the key point for Li Shi to build a capital stirring stick, so he had to treat Guan Xuan as a child labor and bring him here to squeeze. After all, she has been in contact with the whole set of accounts from the beginning, and the specific details are beyond his control, and without a reliable person to control it, it is difficult for him to rest assured about this step.

Listening to the little girl's soft voice, Li Xi secretly thought that his little daughter-in-law is really getting more and more intimate, wait...... Little daughter-in-law...... Looking at Guan Xuan in a blink of an eye, the little girl's figure had already been pulled up, and when she reached the height of Li Xian's shoulders, the original double claw bun was also combed into an oblique fallen horse bun, she was fourteen years old this year, no longer a young girl, but a real girl. On the water-colored floral pleated skirt is a light yellow light silk jacket, pinching the little girl's slender waist, which already shows a bit of stunning style. On the snow-white delicate face with deep contours, under the crescent moon eyebrows are a pair of large and round jasper deep pupils, and the indescribable wisdom and beauty make Li Xian, who is seriously looking at his little daughter-in-law, feel a little more in his heart.

The gaze fell from the little girl's round little chin, Li Xian's heart was beating again, and in a trance he returned to the situation when he first came to this world and saw Guan Xuan for the first time, no, he was still called Guan Second Sister at that time. He let out a long sigh, and his little daughter-in-law, Xiao He, had already shown sharp corners.

"Fourth brother...... Are you trying to bully me? ”

Following Li Shi's gaze, Guan Xuan looked at his chest and said very unconfidently, making Li Xi almost choke on saliva.

"My mother said that it was time for me to serve the fourth brother."

The little girl was still talking about the words that destroyed Li Xi's heart.

"But Sister Yan said again, you are not allowed to bully me."

Guan Xuan pinched his chin and thought about it very seriously.

"So the best solution is for the fourth brother to bully Sister Yan quickly, and then he can bully me."

In the little girl's heart, the word "bullying" naturally has a special meaning, but she still doesn't fully understand what it includes, and she can only know it when her fourth brother has made a full set. Judging from the situation she has so far, the fourth brother is particularly concerned about one of them, and his size is really not enough for the fourth brother to "bully", which is a headache.

Li Xi pulled the hem of his clothes calmly, covered the anti-flag of Xiao Li Shi, and coughed and said, "Girl, this matter, I have to wait for you to grow up a little more." ”

Guan pouted, and said in his heart that if this was the case, the fourth brother would think of himself...... Small.

Li Shi said in his heart that Guan Xuan was still a junior high school student at his age, and he really wanted to "bully", that is, a beast. But then again, it's been two years, and he's been guarding himself like a jade for two years, and he's really not as good as a beast...... "I'll bear it!" I can't bear it, I have to endure it again! ”

Li Xi shouted in his heart.

(To be continued)