Li Xi really did not lack silver, and he didn't even have to loot the silver invested by the Manchu officials in the Sanjiang Ticket House and Sanjiang Investment, and he would not go to loot it in order to establish the goodwill of the Sanjiang Ticket Bank and Sanjiang Investment.

The treasury of a province in Guangdong is going to allocate 100,000 taels of silver to the household department this year, and this part of the silver Li Xian accepted with a smile. The total amount of donations from the Cantonese Chamber of Commerce has reached 7.8 million taels, and with the addition of a large number of new members of the Cantonese Chamber of Commerce, the membership fee money has flowed down like a waterfall, and Li Shi's military expenses for the next year have already arrived.

This is one of the great advantages of aggregating industrial and commercial capital as a rebel line, most of the rebels in the past generations still had to worry about food and grass, and Li Xi has become so rich that he has spread orders and changed new uniforms and equipment for his army.

But silver is not omnipotent, and as far as military affairs are concerned, Li Xi still lacks too many things.

There is no shortage of gunpowder for the time being, in addition to the previous reserves, and in Guangzhou, Zhaoqing and Huizhou and other places, the sulfur saltpeter depot of the green camp, although it is necessary to re-purify and blend in order to make gunpowder that meets the standard, but it is only a matter of workload. The stable supply of raw materials for gunpowder has not yet been resolved, and it is not a problem to ensure the need for the coming year.

What is lacking is guns, Foshan Manufacturing Bureau is producing artillery at full capacity, and the manufacture of muskets is subcontracted to Foshan and Shaozhou Iron Mill, and the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau is responsible for drilling and grinding the gun chamber, and the quality will definitely be lower than the original goods, but compared with the Green Camp Shotgun, it is still too strong. According to the calculation of the waterbed production capacity of drilling and grinding gun barrels, 3,000 muskets can be made every month, and if the Qing army is overwhelmed by a large number of soldiers in three months, Li Xi's 20,000 army will still lack one-third of the muskets.

Tian Dayou, who was in charge of munitions, proposed a temporary alternative, having already defeated 40,000 or 50,000 green battalions, and defeated tens of thousands of bannermen in the first battle of Guangzhou, and captured countless shotguns. Choose from them the ones that are of acceptable quality, and they can be converted into flintlock pistols, which can barely make up the numbers. The modification work only involved machinery and carpentry, and had nothing to do with the barrel, so that other craftsmen in Guangdong could be mobilized, and at most two months, all 20,000 people of Li Xi's three armies could be musketed.

It's just that these bird guns, most of the barrels are fixed to the gun body with hemp rope, and it is difficult to install the buckle type spear stinger, Tian Dayou also has a solution, and the iron hoop is used to strengthen it, and the gun spur is also directly set on the muzzle! Anyway, the soldiers who use these modified muskets are not the main force, and they will not have many opportunities to face hand-to-hand combat.

As soon as the two-tier alternative was introduced, the average combat power of Li's expanded army declined rapidly.

This leads to another thing that Li Xi lacks: officers.

He didn't dare to scatter all the old guards as officers, and in the three newly formed armies, the Baicheng battalion, the Lian Yao battalion, and the Qingpu battalion all retained two-thirds of the old team, and only one-third of the recruits were replenished. Use the one-third of the guards released as a shelf to form other new troops.

There is no shortage of grass-roots officers, but there is a shortage of middle-level officers above the wing length.

"The green battalion officers of the Guangzhou military standard, and some patrol officers should be able to be trusted......"

The senators of the Heavenly King's Mansion proposed a solution, but the confidence to say this was obviously insufficient. Although the military standard and the patrol made great contributions to Li Shi's occupation of Guangzhou City, neither the trust nor the military skills were enough for Li Shi to use them freely.

"There is still some time, let's see how many people can come out of our old guard, and the work of the Huangpu Martial Arts Academy will be ......."

Li Xian originally wanted Fan Jin to be responsible, but Fan Jin had to keep an eye on the military heart of the recruits, military law was the backbone, the Heavenly Punishment Society and the Holy Martial Society were flesh and blood, and the three things added up, Fan Jin had no extra energy.

In the end, Li Xian sighed, so he had to add the title of "Director of Teaching Affairs of the Huangpu Martial Arts School" to Yan Sanniang's position of "Chief Instructor of the Three Armies", and Fan Jin concurrently served as the director of military law, and the original two-director system returned in the Huangpu Martial Arts School.

He had to use Yan Sanniang, Qingtian Siwei's basic military skills, which she refined into a regular teaching model when she was the director of teaching. She is also very familiar with the military command subjects at the grassroots level, and if she doesn't use this daughter-in-law, she is really abolishing the public for personal reasons.

The Huangpu Martial Arts School is an expanded version of the former Qingtian Siwei Military Academy, the purpose of which is to train grassroots commanders, and at the same time, it also opens a short training class to return some commanders who were promoted in the front line of fire to retrain, which is the military foundation of Li Shi, and he himself is the head of the school.

Yan Sanniang, who is burdened with heavy responsibilities, is like a bird out of the cage, excited, but Li Xian is entangled in his heart, which also reveals the serious flaws of his rebel group, the rise time is too short, and there are too few talents.

There is a shortage of personnel not only in the military, but also in local government affairs. Although Li Shi told the four governments and two departments that the former officials were in their own positions, and he would never treat those who were willing to serve him, he would not treat them badly, but almost no one remained in office. The reason is very simple, Shinong Industry and Commerce, Industry and Commerce were taken away by Li Shi, the agricultural part, Li Shi did not move, since there is no change, the farmers are too lazy to care about who wins and who loses between Li Shi and the imperial court, and buries himself in farming and hugging his daughter-in-law to have a son. In this part of the scholars, their roots are in the Manchu court, and Li Shi is the opposite, all those who can run run away, and those who can't run away can't cooperate with Li Shi.

Fortunately, in the past, Qingtian Company in order to circumvent the officialdom, the construction of the public relations department was particularly attentive, under the four governments and two halls, each county not only has a business master, but also a corresponding public relations specialist. At this time, the work of the Manchu officials was taken over, and they could barely maintain it, and the officials in each county had different attitudes, but they were forced by Li Shi's military might, and they did not dare to make trouble openly, and the overall situation could still cooperate.

However, this hastily put together government affairs situation can only barely achieve Li Shi's goal of stabilizing order, and as for the political axe functions such as money, grain, taxation, etc., it will be greatly discounted.

Li Xi was not short of silver, but he didn't have the brains to draw a big pen and follow the example of some "advanced traversers" to directly exempt money and grain from taxes. The significance of taxation is not only the revenue of the treasury, but also a set of organizational methods, with the help of which the political axe needs to achieve social control. In this era, if you don't collect money, food, and taxes, you can't reach the bottom of society, let alone promote social development.

Therefore, this money and grain tax must be collected, and how to change it must be effectively grasped before it can be considered. The goal now is to complete the book and take over the control of the Manchu court over society, and the full amount of money and grain taxes is one of the most important indicators.

Hundreds of years later, technology progressed and commerce flourished, and social resources could be organized through commercial tools, such as bank credit, but in this era, it was still possible to rely on the underworld to collect protection fees and directly operate manually. The local officials of successive dynasties were in essence tax agents of the central government, and their other duties were only a superficial cover for the proper collection of protection money.

This layer of skin is the so-called "legal system" of the scholars, the magistrate wants to break the prison and settle the lawsuit, and to support the peasants and promote education, the essence is to pass on such a contract to the bottom of the society, and the court behind me is established in response to the order of God, representing the interests of the general public under God.

Li Shi rose up and drove out the magistrates of the Qing court, which involved the issue of changing a contractor, and if there was no scholar to follow and explain, the so-called "people's hearts" would have no foundation.

It was this problem that Duan Hongshi was going to solve, for this reason he did not hold any official position in the Heavenly King Mansion, and was acting as an outsider, but judging from the situation that half of the three hundred students of Baicheng Academy had run away, the situation was not very optimistic.

"We arrested a large group of people, both civil and military attachés, can't they use it?"

Early in the morning, An Jiuxiu waited for Li Xi to get up and wash, and when he saw Li Shi's brows furrowed, he knew that he was still having a headache about few people, so he asked with concern.

Li Shi looked at An Jiuxiu, her old injuries were almost healed, she had already had a room with Li Shi, and she was going to shed her youth, and the water rhyme of Jiangnan was no longer like a mist on her, but full of beauty. At this moment, she still had the lingering flush of last night on her cheeks, which made Li Xi look fascinated for a while.

"Concubines shouldn't talk about national politics...... Please punish the prince......"

An Jiuxiu was panicked by Li Shi's eyes, and hid her face to ask for guilt, which made Li Shi laugh, this daughter-in-law uses her careful eye on business, and she really has another style.

She and Li Xi also said that they were in love, naturally they were not serious about pleading, but they felt that Li Shi's eyes seemed to be about to move, although she also had the heart to be gentle with him, what was in vain or not, she didn't care, but she was afraid that Yan Sanniang would even blame her for delaying Li Shi's business. Li Xianchu founded the country, the land is only half a province, and the people are only six or seven million, the situation is like a dangerous egg, An Jiuxiu naturally does not dare to be a big man.

So she used this way to remind Li Shi, don't think nonsense! Hurry up and get down to business! I, An Jiuxiu, am not a woman who is in Israel to mess with the government...... Pinching An Jiuxiu's face, Li Shi went out, he was really lustful just now, but there was another thought in his mind, a thought triggered by An Jiuxiu's words.

Li Shi arrested a large group of civil and military officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, including the three major constitutions of Guangdong, the governor Tang Youzeng, the political envoy Tong Fahai, and the envoy Shi Yizhi, and the military envoy Zhang Chaowu, the "former" governor of Guangxi. What to do with these people, he handed it over to Duan Hongshi to find a way, and he couldn't count on these people to help him, after all, it was not a road.

But by An Jiuxiu's words, he thought of another person, Ru Xi, the daughter of Martai, the prefect of Guangzhou.

Ru Xi came to him the day after Li Xi raised the flag, but at that time, Li Xi was busy fighting Guangzhou City, and he didn't have time to pay attention to her, so he left her to Duan Hongshi, and after the situation in Guangzhou was clear, Li Xi took the time to meet her, and the original meaning was also to prepare to give her an "explanation".

When she saw Ru Xi, this banner woman looked sad, because Duan Hongshi had no intention of continuing to be a "counterpart", after all, the old man was just a cameo, and he was not an actor in his profession, so he said to her bluntly, "The old man deceived a woman like you!" ”

Therefore, Ru Xi, who stood in front of Li Xi, was a victim of a conspiracy, and was no longer a "conspiracy indulger" she thought she was full of confidence and thought she was. But in Li Shi's opinion, the expression on her face is still acting.

Ru Xi said sadly: "Why did you deceive me......"

Li Xian sneered: "You and I are just willing, the difference between us is just that you think you are the winner." ”

Ru Xi sneered and shook his head: "This should be a little woman, let me say it, you think you are the winner?" Occupy Guangzhou, get half of the province, think the world is in hand? ”

Li Xian was impatient: "Of course, the world is not in my hands, but you are by no means an outsider who sits and watches me play against the Manchus. ”

Ru Xi was very unwilling: "I just want to see what is behind you, otherwise you will never have a chance to get to this point!" ”

Li Xi was a little stunned at the time, what was behind it?

At that time, he also watched Ru Xi closely, carefully observing the details of every expression on her beautiful face.

Then he smiled, smiled happily, and reaped the victory in a little woman, naturally there was nothing to rejoice about, but from Ru Xi's expression, he faintly saw another person...... Ai Xin Jueluo-Xuanye.

I'm afraid that this Kangxi Lao'er's voice is the same as Ru Xi, I will never believe that what I see in front of me is that he is a small grass man, churning out with one hand, behind him, there are definitely other people and other forces.

Foreigner? The relics of the former Ming Dynasty? And even what is the remnant of the third prince of Zhu? Or even ...... Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi, or is it another son?

"If it weren't for me wanting to see this person clearly, wanting to take the overall situation into account, such a demon as Li Xian, I just waved my hand and blew air, he would have turned into smoke a long time ago!"

Ru Xi's face was swimming with such determination, and then it was replaced by a thick layer of regret and unwillingness.

"Hate gave him a chance, so he raised a tiger!"

With Ru's expression of joy that was so strong that it churned straight on his face, Li Xi seemed to be able to hear Kangxi's roar.

He pointed to the top of his head, "What I have behind me is what everyone has, but I can see farther and see more clearly than all of you." ”

Li Xian said to Ru Xi with pity: "Can't you think of it? ”

Ru Xi's clear pupils had been choked with layers of mixed thoughts, and she gritted her teeth and shook her head.

"That's the ...... heaven"

Waving away the memory, the last scene is Ru Xi's widening eyes, which are full of incomprehension and failure, because she doesn't understand the meaning of these words at all.

Li Shi's brows stretched, what if there are few people, the heaven behind me is higher and deeper than the heaven of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with such a backer, someone will always post it, such as ......

(To be continued)