Throughout the thousands of years of history in China, there have been many heroes in various dynasties, and it can be said that they have led the way for hundreds of years, but if Pang Gang said that there is only one person he admires the most, that is Qin Shi Huang, who is known as the first emperor of the ages.

This figure, who is known as a great statesman, strategist, and reformer in Chinese history, is not ordinary. He ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, became emperor at the age of thirty-nine, and reigned for thirty-seven years. Qin Shi Huang founded the emperor system, implemented the system of three princes and nine kings in the central government, abolished the feudal system in the locality, implemented the county system, unified writing, currency and weights and measures, etc., attacked the Xiongnu in the north, subdued Baiyue in the south, and built the Great Wall, which laid the basic pattern of the territory of China for thousands of years in later generations, pushed China to the era of great unification, and created a new situation for the establishment of the centralized system of [***]ism, which had a profound impact on the history of China and the world, and laid the basic pattern of the political system of China for more than 2,000 years. An Emperor of the Ages".

In Pang Gang's view, later generations cursed Qin Shi Huang, saying that he burned books and pit Confucianism, and that the cruel and unscrupulous people were all idlers who hurt the eggs, and Qin Shi Huang's contribution to the Chinese nation was indelible. Compared with the egg pain emperor in the later TV series who made the Chinese people eat sweet potatoes for a few days by planting sweet potatoes, he cheekily sang that he would "live for another 500 years", I don't know how many times stronger.

Even later Western scholars marveled at the exploits of Qin Shi Huang: "Although the Qin Dynasty lasted only fifteen years, the mode of rule established by Qin Shi Huang has continued." Qin Shi Huang was the main architect of China's centralized feudal imperial system for more than 2,000 years, and his influence was so profound and widespread that it was difficult for any other emperor to follow. In the history of the world, there have been many emperors who have created a vast empire, but their actual influence cannot be compared with that of Qin Shi Huang. ”

It is precisely because of the admiration and worship of Qin Shi Huang that when Wen Renjun and Wang Zhi, Da Zhuang and others came to ask Pang Gang, since the new has established himself as the king of Zhou, the original Ming flag symbol and other things can no longer be used, and when Pang Gang was asked to designate a color as the standard color of the army, Pang Gang did not hesitate to say the word black.

"Black?" Wen Renjun and the others glanced at each other, Wen Renjun hesitated for a moment and asked: "Lord Wang, black belongs to water, and water virtue is the color of the pre-Qin, and I am afraid that we will use it unknown." ”

"Ominous!" Pang Gang has always scoffed at such an assertion, and he did not hesitate to burst into foul language for this reason: "What's wrong with Shuide, don't you just want to say that Daqin has only existed for a few decades and is unlucky?" Did Qin Shi Huang leave a thousand years of infamy? ”

Seeing that Pang Gang was unhappy in his heart, everyone was silent, only Li Yuan muttered in a low voice on the side, "I know you still use black." ”

"Nonsense!" Pang Gang was angry, pointed at Li Yuan and scolded: "You know a fart, what's wrong with black, isn't black good?" Then what color do you want to use, use red like Daming, or use eight colors like Tartar, and make it look like a piece of flower cloth? ”

The boss was very angry, the consequences were very serious, Li Yuan was so frightened that he lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything, and the rest of the people were also standing aside and were silent and even gasping for breath.

After a while, Pang Gang's anger slowly subsided, he looked at the people with their heads down, sighed and said: "You guys, the reason why I'm angry is because you don't know how to adapt, Li Yuan, I'll talk about you first, you said that you are a big man, and you haven't read a few books, how do you know that Qin Shihuang is a bad person?" Who do you listen to?

And you, Wen Renjun, you are also a person who reads poetry and books, how can you believe in the fact that people are also in the clouds, Qin Shi Huang, what happened to you, he burned your house or robbed your daughter-in-law, why don't you treat him like this? Didn't he just burn books and kill more than 460 scholars? As for letting you scold for more than a thousand years? Not to mention anything else, when Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty killed Fang Xiaoru's family of ten clans, there were more than 460 people, why don't you see you scolding people like this? ”

Pang Gang scolded Wen Renjun speechlessly after a series of questions, Qin Shi Huang just killed more than 400 scholars and let the world scold for more than a thousand years, but the emperors of all dynasties and dynasties killed fewer scholars than him, and I haven't seen anyone who has been scolded for so long. The great poet Li Bai also wrote a poem to praise Qin Shi Huang, what "Qin Wang swept [***], looking at He Xiongzai." Swing your sword to break the clouds, and the princes will come to the west" Isn't this the best proof.

After scolding everyone, no one was dissatisfied with the newly established Great Zhou military black as the standard color, and finally Pang Gang also decided to use the White Tiger Flag as the banner of his own army, the White Tiger is located in the west and belongs to gold. The gold lord kills, and it is best to use it as a military flag.

After the results of the discussion came out, so far, the Great Zhou Army under the command of Pang Gang officially changed the color to black, and at the same time used the white tiger flag as the symbol of the army.

After changing the color and flag of the army, what Pang Gang has to do next is to discuss the issue of expanding the territory, Pang Gang now has more than eight million taels of silver that Lin Feng brought back from Obaro, and his pocket is bulging, so the issue of expanding the army again is mentioned in the future.

Paying attention to the people sitting neatly at the bottom, Pang Gang said: "Okay, let's discuss it, we have the silver now, and we now have the territory of three provinces, and the current 100,000 army is okay, but if you want to compete with Liukou, Daming and Manchu Qing for the world, I'm afraid it's not enough, everyone said how many more soldiers should we recruit?" ”

Wen Renjun thought about it for a while, and then said cautiously: "Lord Wang, the lower officials think that if we want to fight for the world, it is absolutely impossible to have an army of more than 500,000, and according to our current strength, we will have to recruit again, but our current source of troops is not so much." ”

"Five hundred thousand!" Pang Gang smiled and said: "My Wen Governor's Mansion, you think that the 500,000 army fell from the sky, you really dare to think about it, not to mention whether you can recruit 500,000 troops, even if we can really recruit 500,000 troops, we can't afford to raise them now, with our current financial resources, raising 200,000 to 250,000 is already our limit, unless we can quickly occupy the provinces of Jiangnan and quickly transform the financial resources of the provinces in Jiangnan, so that we can afford to raise an army of five or six hundred thousand, otherwise don't even think about it." ”

Li Yuan couldn't help but speak again, "200,000 is 200,000, I think that if we have an army of 200,000 or 250,000, it will be enough to recover Jiangnan!" ”

"No!"

As soon as he heard Li Yuan's words shouting to recover Jiangnan, Wen Renjun hurriedly stopped, "General Li, you must not be confused, do you know that since we have occupied the three provinces of Henan, Hubei and Shandong, why don't we cut off the Caoyun channel?" In order to be afraid that the court dog will jump over the wall in a hurry and dispatch all the soldiers and horses from the nine sides to deal with us, which will inevitably lead to misery, and several provinces in Henan will inevitably fall into ruins. ”

"Fight and fight, are we afraid that he won't succeed?" Li Yuan was afraid of Pang Gang, but he was not afraid of Wen Renjun, a white-faced scholar, he narrowed his eyes: "Don't say that we can continue to recruit soldiers, even if it is based on our existing 100,000 troops, even if the imperial court comes with 200,000 soldiers and horses, we don't have to be afraid of him at all."

"Not afraid?" Wen Renjun sneered: "If we have a bloody battle with the Ming Imperial Court, and the Tartars take the opportunity to pour into the pass, how can we resist?" ”

"Tartar entry?" Li Yuan was dumb now, thought about it and said with some doubts: "No, could it be that the imperial court just let the Tartars enter the customs in order to fight with us?" ”

Seeing Li Yuan's appearance, Pang Gang on the side couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment, this Li Yuan, even if he became the commander of the legion commanding the 20,000 army, his strategic vision still did not grow like this, it seems that he is at the end of this position, if he is given a heavier burden, it will hurt him.

Pang Gang sighed and waved his hand: "Okay, don't fight about this matter, now Daming is a huge target, Tartars, Liukou and everyone are staring at them, although we have set up another mountain, but in their eyes it is still not as good as Daming's signboard, and there is also the imperial court in front of us, so we can sit here so peacefully and calculate others, otherwise you think about it, if Liukou and Tartar are coming at us in a honeycomb, then what is going on in our three provinces?" ”

Hearing this, Li Yuan couldn't help but shudder, "Yes, if our territory borders the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Liukou continue to make trouble with us, can we still develop with peace of mind, I'm afraid that there is gunsmoke everywhere, even if we can drive out the Tartars and Liukou, I'm afraid that the pots and jars at home will be smashed, right?" ”

Li Yuan suddenly realized: "So you don't let us cut off the luck of the imperial court, right?" ”

Pang Gang looked at Li Yuan with a smile, the meaning is obvious, you kid is finally not hopeless.

"Lord Wang, if we still have to recruit troops this time, can we afford it?"

Wen Renjun is a civilian official, and he is most concerned about the people's livelihood, and now Shandong Province has raised 100,000 troops, plus tens of thousands of water divisions, it is already operating at full capacity, if he expands the army, he is very afraid that the food will not be able to help.

"Don't worry." Pang Gang seemed very confident, "Don't forget, Hubei is now in our hands, the two lakes have been a large grain producer since ancient times, although Hubei has been looted by the rogues, many things have been destroyed, but the benefits are also obvious, that is, the original gentry and rich households have also been looted by them, in the future, when we do something, there will be a lot less resistance, after the beginning of spring, we will immediately mobilize people to start re-measuring the land and divide the land to the households, as long as it is hard for a year, there will be food!" ”

Pang Gang looked at the snow outside the window that had melted a lot, and a confident smile appeared on his face.

(To be continued)