Seeing that Yang He was not pretentious, Cao Wenzhao also picked up the bowl, and when he was about to pick up the vegetables, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but be stunned.

Seeing that Cao Wenzhao was stunned and didn't move his chopsticks, Yang He smiled and said, "Why do you think the dish is wrong?" ”

Cao Wenzhao shook his head again and again, pointed to the dishes and said, "My lord, what you eat is the food that the soldiers eat?" ”

Yang He smiled and nodded.

"How much does it cost you a day?" Cao Wenzhao exclaimed.

Yang He smiled and said: "You have also seen, the soldiers I recruited are all sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys, this age is the time to grow their bodies, they train hard every day, if they don't eat something good, how can they grow strong?" ”

"My lord really loves soldiers like children." Cao Wenzhao sighed.

Yang He smiled and shook his head: "Hehe, during training, I was the one who beat them to cry and call their mother." ”

"Hahaha." Cao Wenzhao laughed when he heard this.

After eating, Yang He ordered Li Wei to take five hundred taels of silver and hand it over to Cao Wenzhao.

Seeing that Yang He did what he said, Cao Wenzhao was inexplicable for a while.

Sending Cao Wenzhao out of the camp, Yang He ordered someone to bring Cao Wenzhao's horses, and then took the reins from the soldiers and handed them to Cao Wenzhao: "Brother Cao, I know that your brothers are anxious to listen to your letter, so I won't keep you." Later, I'll invite you to drink again. ”

Cao Wenzhao hugged his fists heavily: "Thank you, sir." ”

Yang He smiled and waved his hand.

Cao Wenzhao didn't say much, turned over on the horse, hugged Yang He again, and urged the horse to gallop away.

After Cao Wenzhao left, Li Wei suddenly said: "My lord, you seem to value this person very much." ”

Yang He smiled, and he would not tell Li Wei that Cao Wenzhao was a famous general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he wanted to recruit this person under his command.

I thought about it. Yang He said: "Li Wei, do you remember the time when I hurriedly returned to the Shihe military camp? ”

"It was the time when the imperial court sent someone to investigate our empty quota and embezzle Guangning's military salary." Li Weidao.

Yang He nodded: "That time there were Cao Wenzhao and his brothers stationed outside our barracks, and there were so many officers and soldiers at that time, only Cao Wenzhao's troops did not hold a knife against them, which can be seen." This person is very sensible, and now that Cao Wenzhao is in trouble and asks me for help, I will not stand idly by. ”

Li Wei nodded silently when he heard this.

Yang He gently patted Li Wei's shoulder: "Let's go eat." ”

Li Wei saluted and turned to leave.

Back at the camp, Yang He thought silently.

When he met Cao Wenzhao, Yang He had the idea of recruiting Cao Wenzhao.

But Yang He knew very well that people like Cao Wenzhao were different from other officers and soldiers, as long as they gave him food and used it. If you spend it, you can buy him. It is difficult to buy a person like Cao Wenzhao, let alone use money, even if he is kind to him, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to take refuge in someone.

To recruit people like Cao Wenzhao, you have to have the same ambitions as him, you have to have affection with him, and you even need to convince him. And the hardest thing is to convince him.

It is not enough to convince Cao Wenzhao by force, since ancient times. I don't know of a famous general who was subdued by force. No matter how strong an individual's force is, it is only the courage of a husband, and only a reckless man can be subdued by force.

Cao Wenzhao is known as a peerless general, and he is naturally not a reckless man who only relies on force.

To convince a person like Cao Wenzhao, you have to defeat the enemy on the battlefield and let him see his ability.

Yang He sighed lightly. Now Jianyu's energy has been transferred to the Mongols, and before the Mongols around Liaodong are subdued, Jianguo will not continue to use troops against the Ming Dynasty.

And with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, there is no ability to launch an offensive against Jianyu, which means that there will be no war in Liaodong for the time being.

Shake your head. Yang He smiled bitterly, even if there was a war, what could he do with these newly recruited recruits in his hands? The most important thing now is to train the troops, and only when they are strong and strong can they make a difference on the battlefield. At that time, it will not be too late to recruit Cao Wenzhao.

Throwing away unrealistic ideas, Yang He picked up the book and read it carefully.

Yang He has already read the records of the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty such as "Taizu Record" and "Chengzu Record", and now Yang He has read "Shizong Record".

After reading the records of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Yang He already had a new view of the Ming Dynasty.

Comparing the various historical dynasties that Yang He knew, Yang He found that the Ming Dynasty was one of the most backbone dynasties in China.

Based on Yang He's historical knowledge, all Chinese dynasties have made peace and pay tribute, and the Han Dynasty has made peace and relatives many times, the most famous is Zhaojun's exit from the fortress.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was Princess Wencheng and Songtsan Gampo, who was pro-Tibetan.

The Song Dynasty paid tribute to the Liao State and declared it a vassal to the Jin State.

Later, the Qing Dynasty even ceded land and paid compensation, how to be humiliated.

Only in the Ming Dynasty, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, the reason was that the Son of Heaven guarded the country.

The Son of Heaven guards the country, what a courage this is!

And the emperors of all dynasties did not want to be as far away from the enemy as possible, and as far away from the battlefield as possible.

Ming Yingzong was captured, and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty did not negotiate peace with the enemy, let alone cede land and pay compensation, but immediately set up another emperor and regrouped.

When the Wara army approached the city of Beijing and the Ming army was at an absolute disadvantage, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty did not choose to move the capital, but chose to fight to the death with the Mongols in Beijing.

The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies, this kind of backbone is really ashamed of the previous dynasty and the future generations.

And the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was by no means as unbearable as later generations said, Zhu Yuanzhang needless to say, single-handedly overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang The most remarkable thing is that he established a complete set of government structure.

The government structure of the Ming Dynasty was even more reasonable in some places than in later generations, for example, Zhu Yuanzhang's speech and official system, the imperial history and the six departments were of very low grade, and low-level officials were used to supervise senior officials and even the emperor, which was also regarded as Zhu Yuanzhang's initiative, but it was very effective.

The government structure of the Ming Dynasty was still very simple, with all government departments under six ministries, and the responsibilities of each department were clear, and there was very little overlap of powers.

However, in the government structure of later generations, many departments had overlapping powers, and everyone competed to manage the benefits, and when there was a problem, they all shirked their responsibilities, and they were prone to how the relevant departments were.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was absolutely no such thing as the relevant departments, it was your business that was your business, and your responsibility was your responsibility. Blame-shifting? Sample. The officials found out that you can't kill you.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang's Daming law is also very scientific, Zhu Yuanzhang personally edited four "Great Edicts", namely "Great Edict One", "Great Edict Continuation", "Great Edict Three", "Great Edict Wuchen", the content is mainly cases, Jun Ling and Zhu Yuanzhang's reprimand and so on.

The law of the actual Ming Dynasty was case law (and the United States was also case law). That is, what crime the prisoner has committed, look up the case, how the previous case was judged, and how it will be sentenced in the future, for example, robbery, if the previous sentence was exile, then all of them will be exiled from now on, and they will never be sentenced to a few years in prison.

The laws of the Ming Dynasty also did not have such broad provisions as a few years to a few years, and such regulations were obviously problematic. Rich people can be sentenced a little less if they take money and bribe, and they can be sentenced a little less if they have a relationship to trust personal favors.

The Ming Dynasty also did not have any frank leniency and resistance to strictness. If you break the law, you will be lenient if you confess? What do you think of the Great Ming Law? Zhu Yuanzhang won't talk nonsense with others.

Zhu Yuanzhang's strict law enforcement can be said to be the best in ancient and modern times, embezzling to a certain amount, all of them are killed, and the embezzlers are punished. Zhu Yuanzhang is not polite, he caught one. Die one.

However, Yang He does not agree with Zhu Yuanzhang's official salary, according to Yang He's grasp of the price of the Ming Dynasty, and then compare the official's income, Yang He believes that the official income of the Ming Dynasty is too low, especially the low-level official's income, which is ridiculously low. Such a low salary. How could those officials not be corrupt?

If Zhu Yuanzhang can raise the officials' salaries to a similar level, then with Zhu Yuanzhang's treatment of corrupt officials, there will never be so many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty.

Although there are many problems with Zhu Yuanzhang's actions, Yang He admires Zhu Yuanzhang very much.

In Yang He's view, Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely a hero. And an amazing hero.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a politician, a great politician, looking at those heroes in history, there are very few who can compare with Zhu Yuanzhang.

And Zhu Yuanzhang was a cowherd baby when he was a child, and later he had to eat and become a monk. Born in such a poor background, but able to formulate a perfect system, this person can even be called a genius.

Youdao is a hero of Lao Tzu, and Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Di is also a great hero and a great politician.

The emperor, who was later known as Ming Chengzu, once did one thing, and this one thing alone was enough to make him shine in the annals of history, that is, he once appointed Zheng He to go to the West seven times.

When future generations talk about going to the West, they will think of Zheng He, Zheng He led the fleet to the West seven times is indeed remarkable, but without Zhu Di's support, Zheng He Mo said that he would go to the West, and whether he could go to sea by boat was two. Without Zhu Di's support, I'm afraid Zheng He would be just an unknown eunuch.

Since Zhu Di, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have not been very brilliant, but Yang He found that these emperors are actually very smart, including the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, who only knows how to fool around.

Zhu Houzhao has not done a few serious things in his life, and during his time as emperor, there was also a famous eunuch Liu Jin in later generations, but this does not mean that Zhu Houzhao is useless, Zhu Houzhao may be the emperor who is the best at fighting since Zhu Di.

In the twelfth year of Zhengde, the Mongolian prince Boyan invaded the Ming border pass, Zhu Houzhao drove his own expedition, and fought fiercely with the Mongolian army of 50,000 in Yingzhou for a day, and finally defeated the Mongolian army.

According to Wuzong's records, a total of 16 enemies were killed in this battle, and 52 Ming soldiers were killed, and according to Zhu Houzhao, he also killed an enemy soldier with his own hands.

To be honest, when Yang He saw this data, he really couldn't believe his eyes, the Mongols came with 50,000 troops, and the Ming army was also more than 50,000 people, and less than 100 people died in one day of fierce fighting with 100,000 troops? The Mongols died sixteen people, and one of them was killed by the emperor?

Seeing such a data, how does Yang He think this data is too nonsense.

You must know that this is a big battle of 100,000 people, even if the two sides do not fight each other with weapons, I am afraid that there are more than this number of people trampled to death in the chaos, not to mention that the two sides are fighting hard with real swords and guns?

According to the records of Wu Zong, before the war, the ministers of the DPRK and China tried their best to obstruct Zhu Houzhao's personal expedition, and Zhu Houzhao did not bring a civilian official with him during the war, and the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not play any role in this battle.

However, it can be seen from the temple number that the civil officials later gave Zhu Houzhao that the civil officials also recognized Zhu Houzhao's martial arts, and Zhu Houzhao's temple name was Wuzong. (To be continued.) )