Facing Zhao Yuqing's eyes full of questions, Lu Haoshan first sighed, and then asked seriously: "Father-in-law, what do you think of the Ming Dynasty now?" ”

"Not good" Zhao Yuqing said very bluntly: "If you don't rectify the rule of officials, don't repair the army, the emperor and the courtiers are suspicious of each other, the officials and the people compete for profits, corruption is rampant, and evil is everywhere, but the emperor is the emperor after all, and only the emperor is the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty." ”

The Ming Dynasty has the Emperor of Weaving, the Emperor of the Carpenter, the Emperor of the Thirty Years of Not going to the Dynasty, the Emperor of Great Joy, and the Emperor of the Capture of Foreign Nations, since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of uprisings have erupted, but in the stormy weather, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still passed down from generation to generation, which makes people have to marvel, so the people have to say that the Emperor of the Zhu Family, the son of the Yang Family, will be.

It is Zhao Yuqing who sees so many drawbacks, and still has hope for the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the old Zhu family will be eternal and will be passed on from generation to generation.

Lu Haoshan shook his head and said: "The view of the son-in-law is exactly the opposite of that of the father-in-law, my Ming Dynasty's qi is exhausted, even if it is not exhausted, and time is short." ”

"Oh, why do you say that?" Zhao Yuqing's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked.

"Now Daming is a Houjin Tartar eyeing the outside, the little Houjin, the stronger he becomes, the more he goes in and out of Daming as his back garden, and he has hit the capital, which is an external worry; The internal trouble is rebellion, and now there are more than 100 bandits who can be named, with more than one million people, and they have been in turmoil since the first year of Chongzhen, and the court can not be eliminated no matter how they suppress it, and now it is getting stronger and stronger, take this year's as an example. The troops of several provinces, even the Beijing battalion soldiers, were dispatched, but they still escaped the Yellow River and spread to Huguang and others, so that. The imperial court is even more difficult to deal with, and Huguang is also an important money warehouse and granary of the imperial court. ”

After a pause, Lu Haoshan continued: "Father-in-law, I have the best understanding of this, those mobs can be said to be as many as locusts, and the thieves can gather tens of thousands of people overnight. What does this mean, it shows that the Ming Dynasty has lost the hearts of the people, so the Ming Dynasty has not many gases. ”

"How can this be?" Zhao Yuqing paused, and an unbelievable look appeared on his face.

Quite simply, when a person's belief is broken, there is always a hint of loss in the mood.

Half-ringing, Zhao Yuqing took a deep breath, and some people said unwillingly: "Then you can say it." What exactly do you want? ”

Lu Haoshan said without hesitation: "It's very simple, accumulate strength in secret, see how things develop, and wait for an opportunity to move." As long as you have soldiers in your hands, you can protect yourself by retreating, and you can chase the world when you enter. ”

At first, I didn't talk full, leaving a little leeway. I'm afraid that Zhao Yuqing won't be able to accept it for a while, so let's lay the groundwork for him now, and then really raise the flag. His heart was firm enough.

Sizzle, Zhao Yuqing gasped, this kid really wants to rebel, but think about it, now that the Ming Dynasty is crumbling, it is difficult for people to regain confidence in it.

You sighed, and Zhao Yuqing said helplessly: "Okay, the old man still said the same thing, no matter what you do, the Zhao family will support it, by the way, if you need to employ people, there are a thousand people in the Jiangyou training camp, and they can barely be used." ”

A thousand? Lu Haoshan said in surprise: "Father-in-law, have recruited so many people so quickly?" ”

"Now the war situation is chaotic, there are many displaced people, as long as they have something to eat, they can do anything, and now there are also local riots, the old man's family business is all in Jiangyou, and it is not okay not to take some precautions."

Lu Haoshan knew that the local tyrant was the name of the ordinary people for the Thirteen Families of Shaking Huang, which was a group of people who had no political purpose, purely for survival and destruction, robbed, extorted, kidnapped, killed and set fire, and sometimes did not have enough food and grass, and also arrested people to kill and eat them to satisfy their hunger, and their reputation was very notorious, but they didn't expect that even Jiangyou also moved, and couldn't help but say in surprise:

"The Thirteen Shake Huang families have harmed Jiangyou?"

"That's not true, but I heard that they are getting bigger and bigger, I have a friend in Bazhou, and they were poisoned, and all thirteen members of the family were killed, alas, it's too miserable." Zhao Yuqing shook his head as he spoke.

In recent years, in order to protect themselves, people with a little ability have raised a large number of family homes to protect their own industries, and seeing that Zhao Yuqing also moved his mind in this regard, he raised thousands of Zhao family soldiers at once.

As far as he knew, this old boy had a good way of making money, and opened a store similar to a dart bureau in Jiangyou, sending people to protect those insecure merchants, and he could get a lot of money every month.

Turning military training into a business, I really know how to use my brains.

Lu Haoshan's eyes flashed with a fierce color, and he said lightly: "This Shake Huang Thirteen Family is so rampant, sooner or later someone will clean them up." ”

…….

In this way, Zhao Yuqing took the two-room concubine to settle down in Wenchong Qianhu, happily accompanied his daughter for the New Year, and ran outside for a year, Lu Haoshan, who was physically and mentally exhausted, also put down his official duties and spent the New Year happily with everyone, that is, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were so happy in Henan and Huguang that they didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Not in his position, not in his politics, anyway, how to toss for a few years to stop, the same is "the number of gas is not exhausted", now I don't want to manage, I don't have the ability to manage, the more chaotic the more good for myself, and now I am still in the stage of "digging deep into the wall and accumulating grain".

Although nearly 600 people died in the war, but Lu Haoshan's large amount of bereavement pensions were sent down, and the rewards and bereavements of the imperial court were distributed to the meritorious soldiers in the hands of the meritorious soldiers before the year under the special care of Han Wendeng, so this year was also nourishing, since he was promoted to the commander of the guard of Lizhou Wei, Lu Haoshan's status rose a lot, he was promoted, and the fortune also followed. So that when there is something, the guard can be dispatched in time.

Those businessmen are not stingy with their goods, competing to show favor to this Sichuan capital upstart, for a while Lu Haoshan received a soft hand, Zhao Min is like a little money fan, every day there are surprises to open gifts, and those gifts are piled up in the two warehouses.

These are "rules", do not accept nothing, do not accept nothing, raise soldiers every day to spend a lot of money, do not collect nothing, Lu Haoshan no longer pretends to be high, in Jiangyou to buy people's hearts, but also sympathetic to the people is not easy, so the sleeves are clean, but now the object has become officials, businessmen, naturally not polite to them.

In the past, he would give him a "hum" when he gave gifts, but now if he gives less, Lu Haoshan will also "hum" to them.

………

Happy times always pass very fast, unconsciously over the New Year, eat glutinous rice balls, enjoy the lanterns, is reluctant, after accompanying Zhao Min to Guangyuan to enjoy the lanterns, Zhao Yuqing also had to take the two-room concubine back to Jiangyou, the spring, also have to go back to busy, Lu Haoshan led people to send him to the ten-mile long pavilion.

After appreciating the lanterns, the year is over, it's time to start doing business, Lu Haoshan's first thing is to recruit troops, and he lost hundreds of the most elite subordinates at once, and this gap has to be filled, but Lu Haoshan has set a new standard for recruits, mainly recruiting poor children with clean families and strong physiques, including young homeless, who cannot be more than eighteen years old.

The recruitment work is very smooth, the sixteenth day of the first month began to recruit, and it was overcompleted on the twenty-fifth, saying that it was exceeded, it was planned to recruit 3,000 people, Lu Haoshan recruited 5,000 people at once, it is not an exaggeration to say that the recruited people can clean the number of people in a guard.

There is food in his hands, and he is not panicked, first he secretly robbed the treasure house that is not muddy, and he has made many gains in Shanxi, and then he borrowed hundreds of thousands of taels with the idea of not paying it back and the Han Jian Fan Yongdou, plus the income from tea and horse trading, Lu Haoshan has more than one million wealth in his hands, which can be regarded as wealthy.

For the time being, it's not bad money, anyway, no one has come to count the number of people, this year, only the generals of the guard are paid empty salaries, who would have thought that there are still people who are overallocated, Lu Haoshan disrupted these newly recruited recruits and joined the original veteran team, promoting the old with the new, bringing the new with the old, and at the same time doing a good job of safety precautions, practicing hard behind closed doors, to prevent someone from inquiring about the news.

There were originally nearly 3,000 people in Wenchong's Thousand Households, 600 killed in battle, and there were about 2,050 left, so that the 5,000 newly recruited, plus the 1,000 Zhao family soldiers in Jiangyou and the personnel left behind by the guards, Lu Haoshan had about 10,000 people in his hands.

It's barely a small wait.

As soon as the order was given, the large-scale military training began, as long as the experience was successful and fruitful, it was a good experience, and although the cost was large, Lu Haoshan still used the same set in the Jiangyou training camp to train new soldiers, so that they could supervise each other and make progress with each other:

"Stand up, don't shake, whoever moves Lao Tzu kicks him with a big foot."

"It's your blessing to be able to enter Lizhouwei, whoever doesn't look good will be expelled immediately, and there is a long queue of people who want to come in outside, don't think it's comfortable to come in."

"If you are good at eating a meal, you have vegetables and meat, and if you are not good at eating a second meal, you only have pickles and white porridge, and if you want to eat meat, you will train me hard."

"Hurry up, hurry up, are you a? Running so slowly. ”

"I'll play with the five squads in a while, tell you, if you win, you can add vegetables, if you lose, hehe, you just wait and see."

"Ho! Ho! Ho! ”

"Ah, give it to me."

……

Under the leadership of Lu Haoshan, Lizhouwei carried out a large-scale martial arts training in full swing, and the soldiers trained the school field one by one regardless of the wind and rain or the bright sun, and the sweat that fell on the school field was like watering the seeds of hope again and again. (To be continued......)