In the evening, Zhao Lie and his companions returned to the mansion, the mansion was very wide, after all, it was the official residence of the commander, but Zhao Lie didn't like this kind of northern courtyard very much, the gray blue bricks and red doors and windows made people feel unhappy.

This is a five-in-three courtyard, Zhao Lie lives in the last one, the house has three main rooms, as well as the left and right wings, there is a small martial arts arena in the courtyard, there is no need to think about the galloping horses, but the drill of the infantry team including the bow and crossbow can be carried out here.

Zhang Gusheng, Du Li, Wang Quan and other more than ten companions are practicing sparring in the martial arts field, coming to the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, anticipating the difficulties and dangers that may be encountered, Zhao Lie not only practiced hard at home, but also a group of companions around him were also forced to Liangshan, after more than half a year of hard training, a group of people and other personal strength rose sharply, Huang Han, Zhang Gusheng's archery skills are outstanding, and the moving target of fifty steps can be ten in the **, among which Yu Dabao's personal strength is the most vigorous, with a height of one meter nine, a big waist and a round waist, waving an iron rod of more than 30 catties, and dozens of people are not close to him.

As soon as Zhao Lie and his party entered the courtyard, Zhang Gusheng and others hurriedly saluted, and their movements were clean and uniform.

"Excuse me," Zhao Lie took off the crown of the veil, "how are you practicing today?" "As long as these companions are not on duty, they have to practice here.

"Lord Bing, I waited for the hour when I still had a stick of incense to finish the exercise, but just now Du Li's thigh twitched once." Zhang Drum replied, and his words were concise and to the point.

Du Li's face flushed and he lowered his head.

Zhao Lie didn't care, Du Li was indeed due to his own body, lack of endurance and lack of strength, so he was not the material that could go into battle, but Du Li was cautious and tenacious, and Zhao Lie had another appointment for Du Li.

"Okay, Du is not strong enough, which can be regarded as a special case." Zhao Lie waved his hand, not caring at all, Du Li raised his head gratefully, "Everyone, only half of the individual bravery in the battle array, the last drill has been confirmed, Yu Dabao can say that you and more than ten people can't fight, but you can kill and injure him in a military formation, and you can know the power of the battle array." I hope you will practice diligently and make good use of it. ”

The companions should bow down and respond.

Zhao Lie picked up his own big gun on the weapon rack, as soon as the gun was in his hands, Zhao Lie immediately waved it, Zhao Lie's spearmanship and knife learning were learned from Li Hu and Zhao Da, there was no showcase, it was the art of fighting in the army, concise and fast, but Zhao Lie was powerful, and the wind and rain of wielding the iron gun weighing more than 30 pounds were impervious, the cold light flickered, and the momentum was compelling. After practicing the iron spear, Zhao Lie waved the big knife again, and fired the bow thirty times before ending the exercise. The two-and-a-half-stone hard bow was pulled thirty times, Zhao Lie sweated slightly, and the maids Wang Yue and Juan'er on the side served wet wipes and herbal tea.

After dinner, Steward Li came over to Tongbing, and Zhao Haiming summoned him. Zhao Lie had already decided that his father was going to summon his family, after all, he was waiting in front of a crowd during the day, and some things were not easy to say, so he would definitely talk about them at night. Zhao Lie hurriedly picked it up, followed Steward Li to Zhongjin, and after greeting Li Hu and Zhao Da at the door, he entered the room. I saw Zhao Haiming holding a tea bowl in his hand and pondering.

"Father Wan An." Zhao Lie said.

"Lie'er is here, sit." Zhao Haiming smiled and twisted his beard, he was deeply satisfied with what his son had done in the past half a year, the reckless boy in the past was gone, and now he can be regarded as brave and strategic. "Lie'er, this expedition is a little urgent, because my father didn't want you to go to the battlefield at a young age, but my father's legs were stinging, I don't know how long I can last, I can't wait," Zhao Haiming patted his legs wistfully, "The generals can't go to the battlefield, and the day of returning home has come." ”

"But I'm unwilling," Zhao Haiming put down the tea bowl heavily, got up and paced back and forth, "Worry-free and unwilling, one is that your uncle was lost in Liaodong, and your grandmother's white-haired man sent the black-haired man to die of pain, I am a son of man, and I will not avenge this as a brother, and I will not be a man." Both, once I retire, you are not yet on top, there is no fame in the family, and within a few years, 10,000 acres of land will be scattered. Zhao Haiming settled down and looked at Zhao Lie, "Lie'er, you understand." ”

Avenge? Is this possible, more than ten years later, the Jiannu army will go south, and the family may be wiped out, Zhao Lie groaned, "Father, I'm afraid my father's expectations will be disappointed." ”

Zhao Haiming was stunned, he didn't get angry, his eyes narrowed, "Speak." ”

"Father, how many years have the two Han Dynasty survived, and how many years have the Tang and Song dynasties survived." Zhao Lie thought to himself that if he directly said that the Jin soldiers went south and settled in the Central Plains, I was afraid that Zhao Haiming would think that he was talking nonsense, so he had to be tactful.

"Well," Zhao Haiming said that he was a military general, but he still knew a lot of literature and ink, and he groaned for a while, "Lie'er, what does this have to do with my family." ”

"Father, it's very important." Zhao Lie also got up and paced, "The longest Tang Dynasty, more than two hundred and eighty years, each dynasty was first established, chased the north, pacified the sea, and died in the later period or died in civil strife or destroyed in foreign tribes, why not?" ”

"Why?" Zhao Haiming unconsciously asked with Zhao Lie's rhythm.

"At the beginning of the previous dynasties, most of them experienced long-term wars, the land was barren, the people did not survive one out of ten, and a hundred wastes were waiting to be revived. In the middle and later periods, the royal family, relatives, nobles, officials, and gentry continued to annex land, and the country's acres of land occupied seven or eight tenths, but the land taxes they paid were almost nothing, and the commoners who accounted for ninety percent of the country's Dingkou supported the people of the country with their two-percent acres of land taxes, and gradually became poor and weak. Zhao Lie continued, "Father, I have been a country for more than 250 years......

Zhao Haiming stretched out his hand to stop Zhao Lie, looked at his second son fixedly, and said for a while, "Zhao Da." ”

"I've seen the big handsome." Zhao Da entered the indoor archway.

"Hurry up and recruit Mr. Li, and say that there will be something to inquire about." Zhao Haiming commanded.

"Yes." Zhao Da turned around and left.

Zhao Haiming paced back and forth, sometimes tight and sometimes slow, his eyebrows locked, talking to himself from time to time, his eyes passing by from time to time, Zhao Lie looked straight at him, his expression was firm.

Unhurried footsteps came, and after more than forty years, the elegant Li Mingyu walked in, closed the folding fan, and said, "I've seen the adult, but I don't know what the adult is recruiting his subordinates to do." ”

"Don't blame Mr., Lie'er has a statement today, and I will refer to it in detail when Mr. is the book." Zhao Haiming politely returned the salute.

"Oh, what does the second son think." Li Mingyu slowly waved the folding fan and smiled.

Uh, this word is really painful, Zhao Lie smiled bitterly and elaborated on what Fang Cai said.

"Where did you hear what Childe said?" Li Mingyu hesitated a little, although Zhao Lie was brave, but this time it should not be what he said, could it be that he heard it.

"Mr. Li, what I said comes from myself, from the history of the study, from Mr. Li and Mr. Wang. Out of my careful research. Zhao Lie replied respectfully, Li Mingyu can be described as one of his mentors.

Li Mingyu shook his fan, unfolded it again, looked at Zhao Lie, and smiled at the corner of his mouth, "The son is wise, and the adult is happy to congratulate, however, I look at my dynasty, and there is no appearance of the end of the world, I don't know if the son is not." ”

Zhao Lie also smiled, but the burly body, slightly immature face, and calm smile gathered together in one indescribable weirdness.

Zhao Lie smiled and didn't answer, but looked at Zhao Haiming.

The commander waved his hand domineeringly, "Little rabbit, Mr. Li is not an outsider, you can speak out." ”

"Yes, Father," Zhao Lie said without hesitation, "I think that there are two reasons for the decline of all dynasties, one is that taxes are constantly decreasing, and even beyond their means, and they are unable to pacify the Quartet, and the other is that there are hungry people in the country who take risks or there are strong enemies peeping outside, but the court does not know it, such as the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, such as the Jingkang of the Song Dynasty, the alliance of the Southern Song Dynasty to attack Jin, and the Liaodong Jiannu ...... today" Zhao Lie arrived one by one, Zhao Haiming and Li Mingyu certainly knew what Zhao Lie said.

There was only the voice of Li Mingyu's fan in the room for a while, and for a while, "According to the same year of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Beijing, since Zhang Juzhenggong, the annual income has not fallen, and the arrears are worse, it can also be said that the annual income is declining, but this year, my dynasty is still Kangtai." Li Mingyu said unhurriedly, he looked at Zhao Lie with his beard, and the meaning of the test was very strong.

This is just the last light before the darkness comes, only Zhao Lie knows that the human tragedy of internal and external troubles is coming, and only by identifying this can he get the support of the family, so that he can fight hard, otherwise, the future is worrying.

"Father, Mr. Li," Zhao Lie said solemnly, "I am only six or seven acres of land per capita in the Ming Dynasty, excluding the gentry encroaching on the acres, the small people per capita six acres of land is not bad, according to the average household of five families, thirty acres of land, the north of the Ming Dynasty is a year, the average yield is less than one stone, thirty acres of output is more than twenty stones, after the winter wheat, plant some miscellaneous grains, there are less than ten stones, a total of less than thirty stones, five rations of ten stones, the remaining less than twenty stones of grain, less than ten taels of silver, field endowment, Ding tax, Liao salary, training salary, and local apportionment, Left. Zhao Lie arched his hand, "Father, Mr. Li, this is a good year, if there is a disaster year, the people can only borrow money to survive the famine after paying taxes, and there is no balance in the next year. And I have famine almost every year in the north of the Ming Dynasty, but it is just a size, in the past, the government also had relief, resettlement victims, now the Liao affairs are urgent, the cost is huge, the cabinet and the court can only increase, can not be reduced, resettlement and relief of the victims is impossible to talk about, in the long run, the people do not survive three, where does the wealth come from, every year, small assertion, within a few years, there are hungry people to make trouble, there are strong enemies outside knocking, the Ming Dynasty is in danger. ”

When, Zhao Haiming put down the tea bowl and walked a few steps, "The child is vain, how can the annexation be so good, and the construction of slaves is not a disaster." ”

Li Mingyu still sat upright and shook the fan silently.

"Dare to ask my father, the geometry of the acres of land in the family before the year, the geometry of the acres in the family of the year before, the acres of acres in the family of the year old, the acres of the fields ...... this year" Zhao Lie's efforts for more than half a year are not in vain, ask the staff and housekeepers for advice, there is a lot of information, the year before last, the acres of land in the family are more than 8,000 acres, and the years before last are 10,000 acres, and this year is ......

"This," Zhao Haiming hesitated, he knew his own affairs, and the Zhao family's acres of land could be regarded as increasing day by day under the care of his wife, and the acres of land were increasing, but admitting it was a strong Zhao Lie.

"If a child is in charge of the family, I also hope that the acres of land will be more and more, and the family will become more and more prosperous, so this matter will never be reversed, but will only be intense. Besides, Jiannu, from between the white mountains and black waters, half ploughing and half pasture, enemies on all sides, fighting every year, everyone dares to fight, good at fighting, willing to fight, victory is plundering and rich, defeat is to retreat from dormancy, this whole people are soldiers, riding horses and swimming good war divisions, I only have everywhere to defend the Ming Dynasty, thus, Jiannu 10,000 people can contain tens of thousands of troops in the Ming Dynasty, spending countless times, and Jiannu to take the Ming Dynasty Liaodong for three or four years, millions of acres of fertile land, Han people millions of all owned, dozens of cities, millions of gold and silver, ten years of life and gathering, from now on, its momentum has become, will become a great disaster of the Ming Dynasty, In a few more years, its strength has increased greatly, and the soldiers are directed at the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has directly deployed heavy troops in western Liaoning in order to prevent it from entering the Kou, so that the salary of Liao can only be added and not reduced, and the people's taxes are getting worse. Zhao Lie spread out the situation between the two sides, and it was clear that it was in danger.

"I heard that the old slave was cruel and killed the Han people everywhere, so the Han people all fled south, so if they don't repair their internal affairs, how can they settle the Central Plains." Li Mingyu said with a smile, Li Mingyu was born as a jinshi, and he also served as a county magistrate, so he certainly didn't agree with some experience in governing politics. Zhao Haiming also agreed, acting like this is perverse, how to achieve things.

"What Mr. Li said is very much, this is the best time for me to be in a big Ming Dynasty, the old slave is deaf, and he is good at killing the Han people, so the Han people are all fleeing, this is a move to destroy the foundation, however, on this good opportunity, I am the eunuch party, Donglin attacks constantly, cannibalism, bloodshed, the Son of Heaven does not ask about political affairs, sit and watch the opportunity pass, the old slave is old, and his life is not long, the successors are all experienced in a hundred battles, not the women of the inner palace are raised, for the elite army and the country will rebuild the internal affairs and treat the Han people well, so many years, the country is strong and prosperous," Zhao Lie prophesied.

"Lie'er, how do you know that the person who ascended the throne is not Emperor Yang of Sui and the like." Zhao Haiming did not dwell on the matter of the old slave, ** Ha Chi is nearly seventy years old, and it is no secret that the injuries of many years of war have made him unwell.

"With the old slave to the south and the north for more than ten years, and from a group of brothers with military power in the battle to win the upper position, is it like Emperor Yang of Sui to talk about the country and the people," Zhao Lie shook his head, and said in his heart, Huang Taiji is a stronger male lord than ** Hachi, if ** Hachi defeated the Ming army to establish the Jin State, is the limit of his ability, but Huang Taiji is the ** Hachi left to him the internal Han rebellion, each brother has different intentions, and there are Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, and North Korea besieged around the mess to gather up and rectify internal affairs, Organized the army, defeated the Mongols and Korea, and constantly invaded the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty was bleeding and weakened, and finally the strength of the two sides was transposed, thus laying the cornerstone for Jiannu to enter the Central Plains, his exploits were enough to make the old slave wake up from the coffin with a smile, and the rest of Dolgon and the like were just standing on their shoulders and meeting him.

Zhao Haiming looked at Zhao Lie with wide eyes, and then looked at Li Mingyu, who was speechless for the first time.