Chapter 23 Luo Rucai defeated Gao Yingxiang
The first victory, Wu Wei was very excited, Li County Ling was also very happy, the squires of the whole city came to congratulate him, Qi praised the county order for being wise and martial, praised Wu for being young and promising, officialdom articles, and so on.
In these years, everything you want to do must pay attention to a bond, there are local ties, kinship ties, and master-servant ties, people who have ties with each other often hold together with each other, Wu Wei has no roots in this place in the end, is an outsider, although fate will come to this position, but after all, the time is too short, there are not many people available in the hands, and there are fewer henchmen. The squires in the city saw that they were helping the victims out of their own pockets, although they expressed their admiration on the surface, they may not have the meaning of reading jokes secretly. The county order is to support himself, but he himself is also a foreigner, and his help to himself is already good, this victory came at the right time, it really established its position for the first time, Wu Wei obviously felt that there was something more in the eyes of the squires called fear. This is the effect he wants, he is like a nouveau riche in this era, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will look at it in his eyes, he has no strength, and no matter how much wealth he has, he is just fat in the eyes of others.
In this battle, let's call it a battle, Wu Wei had a pleasant discovery, that is, the more than 1,000 young men he recruited were not bad. In the original history, it is estimated that most of these people voted for Gao Yingxiang's army. And this time, since they have fallen into their own hands, they can be used as Zhang Ben to train a strong army. What's more, these young men have already seen blood on the battlefield and already have the potential of veterans, as long as they have a little training, their combat effectiveness will be better than most of the officers and soldiers. Wu Wei paid tribute to the families of the young men who died in battle, rewarded the wounded, and rewarded the young men according to the merits of killing the enemy, and everyone was happy for a while.
When Wu Wei inquired about the battle situation, he learned that the reason why the young and strong people were able to achieve such great results this time was mainly because a person named Luo San was in command, and it was said that he had been a soldier in Jizhen before, and he also knew Qi Dashuai's (Qi Jiguang)'s method of military training. This is the talent of a general, Wu Wei couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised, it was like drowsiness and a pillow for himself.
Wu Wei couldn't wait for someone to find Luo San immediately, he had already decided that such a talent must be of great use!
After a while, Luo San arrived, and saw that he was about thirty years old, his face was dark, his appearance was not good, but his eyes were blazing, and he was full of fierce colors. Seeing Wu Wei, he clenched his fists and said, "My lord is looking for me?" "Ordinary employees should call the employer the owner, but Wu Wei's identity is different, so Luo San is called so.
Wu Wei was originally sitting, but when he saw Luo San, he hurriedly got up to greet him, and said with a smile: "Brother is Luo San?" Is this your name? ”
Luo San's face remained unchanged, and he said loudly: "The villain's surname is Luo Rucai, because he ranks third among his uncles and brothers, so everyone calls me Luo San." ”
"Luo Rucai!" Wu Wei was taken aback, in front of him was a giant who was as famous as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in history, Luo Rucai, nicknamed Cao Cao!
"Do you know me?" Luo Rucai was a little puzzled.
"Oh, nothing, I just think the name is very bold."
"Your Excellency praised it."
Under the strong self-suppression, Wu Wei seemed unfazed on the surface. Luo Rucai, it turned out to be Luo Rucai! In the original history, he was supposed to raise troops this year, but now he has become his subordinate, standing in front of him! In history, he and Gao Yingxiang were close comrades-in-arms, Luo Gao joined forces, and each city was divided into four or six accounts, but today, he actually beat Gao Yingxiang to the point and fled!
Under careful questioning, it turned out that Luo Ru was a native of Yanchang County, not far from Ansai, who had served as a soldier in Jizhen and made a small banner, and was fired and returned to his hometown for offending his boss. Since last year, there has been a great drought, Yanchang County has been particularly badly affected, and the people have no livelihood. When he didn't come long, he happened to meet Wu Wei to recruit young people to cultivate, and the salary was quite high, so he led more than 100 young people from the same village to apply for the job together. Because there are many disputes with neighboring villages over water sources on weekdays, weapon fights are commonplace, so Luo Rucai used the Ministry of Justice to strangle the villagers, and he was invincible in the weapon fight. In today's battle, the core force is Luo Rucai's more than 100 fellow villagers!
When Wu Wei heard this, he couldn't help but be glad, he just had a thought of benevolence in his heart, but he didn't expect such an unexpected gain, this is really a good person and a good reward, and it is not happy. This Luo Ru is a famous general in the peasant army, resourceful, and is known as Cao Cao by everyone. Moreover, he has a strong sense of the overall situation and is good at reconciling the relationship between various ministries, and everyone likes to cooperate with him. The most important thing is that he has an upright personality and pays attention to the morality of the rivers and lakes, and every time he captures the city, he strictly orders that only corrupt officials are killed, not clean officials. In the words of the 21st century, such talents have both ability and political integrity, which is exactly what they urgently need!
Wu Wei immediately decided to order Luo Rucai to punish the young men with the Qi family's army training method, and generously promised that all the treatment would be favorable. It is the responsibility of the canon to train the township soldiers, but Ansai is a small county, and the number of township soldiers is only three or five hundred, and because the food and salary are not enough, they cannot be maintained all year round, so Wu ordered Luo Rucai to train the young and strong in the name of training Zhuang Ding to protect himself. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, thieves swarmed in various places, and many landlords and squires built dock forts, and it was customary to train Zhuang Ding to protect himself. Wu Wei has more than 200 hectares of land, which can be equipped with Zhuang Ding. Zhuang Ding is often a domestic slave or tenant of the master's family, and the master's family has a personal dependency relationship, the treatment is better than the military household of the guard, and the combat effectiveness is also stronger.
Luo Rucai saw that Wu Wei trusted him so much, and the money and food allocated to the Zhuang Ding team was very rich, and he also had a great sense of knowledge, so he secretly determined to live up to the trust, and he must do his best to train a strong army for Wu Wei.
Gao Yingxiang's plan to coerce the victims to capture Ansai County was destroyed by Luo Rucai, who was originally going to become an old brother, and only a dozen hardcore henchmen were defeated and went to Suide to join the Zijin Liang King for his own use, and then went to Fuzhou to invest in the big boss Wang Jiayin, the future King Chuang did not gain the same prestige as in his previous life from the beginning, and it is difficult to say whether it is possible to regain his prestige in the future.
Over there, the county commander led the squires to be busy verifying the results, rewarding meritorious deeds, and asking for merit, but Wu Wei didn't care, anyway, his role was obvious to all, and he wouldn't miss his own job. His main concern now is the planting of two potato crops. In the final analysis, the success or failure of the introduction of these two high-yield and improved varieties is related to whether their original ideas can be realized and whether they can solve the biggest problem in the late Ming Dynasty--- famine.