Huang Naiming's conversation with his father was not pleasant, and Huang Shi was reluctant to hand over the generals in Nanking to him, and made it clear that he did not want the War Department to carry out such a personnel transfer. Some other Huang Naiming's proposals to go to his father were also vetoed, and before he came, Huang Naiming did not expect that his father would refuse any of his requests (except for He Feihu's transfer, Huang Naiming had considered that his father might not agree to him to let a large number of generals go for military reasons. But the rest of the requirements are taken for granted in Huang Naiming's view. For example, it is strictly forbidden for reporters to continue to slander the army in the media, Huang Naiming confidently preached to his father that the army has always emphasized the unity of affairs and power, and now the soldiers are fighting on the front line, but there are still mouths hurting people behind their backs, which will affect the morale of the army and reduce the combat efficiency of the army; Although Huang Shi agreed that the military did demand unity of power, he insisted that the more transparent the military's affairs other than non-military secrets were to the public, the greater the cost of officials abusing power for personal gain, and the combat efficiency of the army would be improved.

Basically, on every issue, Huang Shi and Huang Naiming's father and son had a fierce quarrel, although out of respect for his father, Huang Naiming finally stopped refutating, but his heart was still angry. In particular, Huang Shi once again mentioned the matter of letting him delegate power, which made Huang Naiming feel very puzzled, he had never seen anyone more far-sighted than his father, and although he was not as capable as his father, Huang Naiming was also well-informed, although he had no talent for war, but he had always thought in private that he could be a good king. Therefore, Huang Naiming didn't understand why his father was so stubborn and leisurely on the side, instead of actively working hard to rectify the government and select the virtuous. It's that his father doesn't want to use it, Huang Naiming thinks that if he selects some people to experience it, it is good to prepare him for decades, such as Yi Meng and Tang Desheng, Huang Naiming feels that it is likely that it is not the Huang family who promoted him from the bottom, but now Huang Naiming feels that it is not too late, and it is not too late to show favor to them as soon as possible and cultivate their loyalty to the Huang family (what makes Huang Naiming feel strange is that his father does not seem to be in a hurry at all). For the sake of a farther future, Huang Naiming felt that he needed to work hard to build the indefatigable foundation of the Huang family, and many of his father's views made Huang Naiming feel pedantic and conservative.

Compared with Huang Naiming, who was a little frustrated, Shi Tianyu, who went with him to envoy Taixi, was proud of his return to Fujian this time, and now he is the darling of the Admiralty, a star in the media, and the Constituent Assembly is also blue-eyed. After learning that Huang Naiming went home, Shi Tianyu came to see Qi Guogong the next day, he had been here a few times these days, so Huang Shi did not leave him to eat, but asked him to accompany Huang Naiming, who was a little depressed, to go out for an outing.

"I have an army of 100,000," as soon as he went out without saying a word, Huang Naiming couldn't help but complain to his confidants: "If my father gives me General He and them, wouldn't it be easy to sweep away the Shun army?" ”

"Is Brother Huang so sure?" Shi Tianyu asked with a grin.

"Of course!" Shi Tianyu's smile made Huang Naiming feel a little humiliated, this sense of shame has been lingering since the defeat of Anqing, and he said confidently: "I have more soldiers and horses, and the military orders in the army are also smooth, and the orders are strict, General He can show their powers, I can guarantee that they will not be constrained by villains." ”

Compared with Huang Naiming, who began to get excited as soon as he said it, Shi Tianyu kept smiling and looked very calm, and after hearing Huang Naiming's words, he smiled and didn't say anything.

"Don't you believe it?" Huang Naiming felt that the strange smile on his friend's face made him a little uncomfortable.

"Why are you arguing about this when you come out for an outing?" Shi Tianyu smiled and said, "Let's forget about Xu Ping today." ”

At noon, he and Huang Naiming picked up a lot of shells and seafood on the beach, and then built an earthen stove to bury all these things and cook them. When Shi Tianyu was busy, Huang Naiming always looked thoughtful, the food he collected was less than half of the former, when Shi Tianyu opened the earthen stove and began to eat food, Huang Naiming was motionless when he looked at the sky, and suddenly sighed again: "How could I lose?" ”

"Haha, haha." Shi Tianyu laughed, clapped his hands and threw a crab that was still hot to the ground: "It seems that it is not okay to talk about military affairs with Brother Huang today." ”

Speaking of military affairs, Huang Naiming immediately came to his senses, Shi Tianyu said with a smile: "I don't think He Feihu can win the battle under Brother Huang, and most of them will still be defeated." ”

"How so?" Huang Naiming shouted.

"I don't think it's necessarily a good thing not to be constrained, and the so-called not being constrained ......" Shi Tianyu said, and suddenly felt that his thinking was a little chaotic, so he found another example: "Brother Huang still remembers Governor Li Fengjiao in Guangdong, right?" ”

"Of course I remember, how can I forget?" Huang Naiming stretched out his thumb and compared it in the air: "A good official who is honest and diligent, but it's a pity that my father refuses to use him, I have said several times that I have not taken it seriously." ”

Shi Tianyu, the "Governor of Fujian......" also talked about some other famous officials, who were all capable and honest officials who had never appeared in hundreds of years or even before, and now a large number of such officials were emerging in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and they made the war efficiency of the Southern Ming provinces reach an unprecedented height.

Many of them Huang Naiming have heard of it, these people have crossed the sea to show their powers, and come up with various ways to streamline the links and reduce the consumption halfway, so that almost all the taxes can be applied to the military, and the officials under the rule of Qingming, now the heaviest tax of the people in the provinces of Nanming is still lower than the last years of Chongzhen, because no matter how hard the Qing Yuan tries, their ability to scavenge the people's fat and ointment cannot be compared with the Chongzhen court, which can take the last piece of ration from the people's mouths and the Qing Yuan can't do it. However, despite the problem of the ability to govern, the Nanming army was dozens of times stronger than at that time: the layers of deduction of military salaries have completely disappeared, the price of weapons purchased is fair, the quality has improved, and the link with the greatest loss in the past is the fire consumption, in order to levy a positive tax of one tael of silver, the people have to pay a price of more than twenty taels, but now this big gap has also been plugged - the effective control of corruption has offset the lack of governing ability.

"If it weren't for these officials, even with the wealth of the south, we wouldn't be able to afford such a huge army today, and we wouldn't be able to protect ourselves, let alone counterattack?" Shi Tianyu listened to Huang Naiming's praise of these officials with peace of mind, and then expressed his opinion: "But only when Duke Qi does not promote them and does not take them seriously, they will be honest and capable officials, once Duke Qi promotes them and escorts them, as Brother Huang dares to say, let them show their magic and have no constraints at all, then in a blink of an eye, they will become the same as the officials under the first emperor." ”

Looking at Huang Naiming's appearance in a daze, Shi Tianyu laughed again: "Only if Duke Qi doesn't use them, they are good officials, once Duke Qi uses them, they will not be good officials immediately, these good officials are the moon in the water, and they can't be seen." Didn't Brother Huang remember the emperor's northern hunting, Fujian when His Majesty had just ascended the throne? At that time, what kind of scene was the government of Fujian, Liangguang, Guizhou, and Jiangxi? At that time we were taxed? Can you buy cheap arms? Can you train an army? ”

Retracting his smile, Shi Tianyu asked Huang Naiming: "Brother Huang sent an envoy to Taixi, I don't know what Brother Huang felt the most shocked?" Anyway, what shocked me the most was that there were countries that could behead their kings. It's not uncommon for a king to be beheaded, but the country's nobles have never been prostrate at their king's feet, and the people have applauded them for doing so. And the Netherlands, they don't have kings, but in these two countries where they don't even have kings, the people love their country passionately, and they are not maritime merchants, but are willing to fight and shed blood for their maritime neighbors. ”

Huang Naiming sighed, for him, this kind of national system gave him the biggest shock, compared to the vast territory of the Spanish colony, it was secondary.

"The land of the Netherlands can actually stand on its own feet from the powerful western kingdom, surrounded by strong neighbors but never annexed," even when the port of the Islamic country is anchored, you can feel the strength of the coachman at sea, Shi Tianyu They always see the most Dutch flags on the ships anchored in the port: "It has always extended its power to our Nanyang doorstep, and before I went to Tessie, I often thought what a powerful country it would be, able to cross the ocean and send troops hundreds of millions of miles away, But I never thought that it would be such a small state, or a country without a king and a father. ”

Huang Naiming looked at his friend, and already had some understanding of what the other party wanted to express.

"The immortal army of our fathers, they are not so much because they love the son of tomorrow, but because they hate Jiannu, who swept and slaughtered in Liaodong again and again, and the survivors formed the immortal army of our fathers; And now the immortal army under General Xu is full of hatred for the Ming Dynasty, they were ruined by the disaster of the first emperor, and the hatred for the Ming Dynasty is deep in the bone marrow, and they have the heart to die with it. Speaking of this, Shi Tianyu suddenly asked Huang Naiming: "Brother Huang's soldiers and horses also hate Dashun to the core, are they the same as the immortal army under General Xu?" ”

Huang Naiming shook his head slowly.

"Then why does Brother Huang want them to work as hard as the Immortal Army?"

"I think I understand what Brother Shi meant." Huang Naiming remembered that his father always said that the soldiers should feel that they were defending themselves, not the power of someone who had nothing to do with them, so that they could have the same fighting spirit as the Immortal Army.

"I knew that Brother Huang would definitely understand," Shi Tianyu said happily: "This is what I just said, Brother Huang doesn't need He Feihu, Tang Desheng and Yi Meng, they will be good generals of the country, but if Brother Huang uses them, they will no longer be restrained, and they will no longer be hurt by the 'villain' behind their backs, and when their glory and wealth are completely tied to Brother Huang alone, they will be no different from the new army of the first emperor." ”

Although he understood what Shi Tianyu meant, hearing the other party comment on his wings like this, Huang Naiming still felt very harsh and couldn't help frowning.

"Duke Qi can create the Immortal Army, but Duke Qi can't make the Immortal Army only work for him; Duke Qi can train generals, but he can't make these generals work for him only; Duke Qi could make a firecracker, but he couldn't use it alone, and he couldn't get the merchant not to sell it to Li Shun...... This is just a matter of worth, Li Shun can also give what Duke Qi can give, whether it is a title or any other fame and fortune, if I am a businessman or a common man, I also have to bet on both sides, but it is just a matter of whether the master's surname is Li or Huang, they are worth fighting with their lives, will they bear to have money and not earn? "There are also steam engines, rubber, Huangshi can have a lot of inventions and creations, but once these technologies appear, the efficiency of the government is a problem, the private sector has a loyalty problem, the sword is easy to make but the hilt of the sword may not be held in the hand of which party, Shi Tianyu said: "I am also the son of Jiangmen, if I put it in the past, I may not support the Constituent Assembly, and I will also be a little dissatisfied with the military power of the family for the Duke of Qi...... Well, I was a little angry at the time, but I have seen with my own eyes countries without kings and fathers, and I know that the citizens of these countries are not necessarily scattered; I have also seen with my own eyes how the Qingyuan has changed the rule of officials step by step, so that the southern provinces have gained a powerful strength that no one dared to think of before. Maybe I can't make the Shi family prince Hou Wandai as Jia Yan hoped) (in fact, Shi Tianyu also set up an ambush here, because the bicameral system that the Duke of Qi once casually said to him sounds good, and the nobles have a higher parliament than the elected one, it is the upper house!) But I would very much like to see Duke Qi and Brother Huang open up such a dynasty, a dynasty where the officials are clear and the people are patriotic. ”

Huang Naiming solemnly bowed his hand to Shi Tianyu: "Brother Shi is serious, my wisdom is far less than this." ”

"Brother Huang's authorities are obsessed, if I am in Brother Huang's position, I will definitely suffer from gains and losses." Shi Tianyu hurriedly encouraged: "Brother Huang, don't be presumptuous, you are the son and heir of Duke Qi, don't be discouraged." ”

Shi Tianyu's tirade just now made Huang Naiming very depressed, and after hearing the other party's words, he smiled bitterly: "I disappointed Jiayan." ”

"How so?" Shi Tianyu hurriedly comforted, he pointed out that Huangshi has always tried his best to support and cultivate Huang Naiming, otherwise he would never let him travel to the sea to broaden his horizons, now Huangshi's sister-in-law is young, and he is more closely connected with the old department, if Huang Naiming does not take over, the young son will inherit the old department of Huangshi in the future. Shi Tianyu said that he thinks Huang Naiming is the most suitable successor, although Huang Shi is now gone, but the Constituent Assembly is still shallow, and it needs to have a few decades to take deep roots, and when the foundation of the parliament has been deeply rooted by then, it will not be easily shaken: "In addition to Brother Huang, who else can protect the Qing Yuan after a hundred years of Duke Qi?" ”

"Protecting the Chamber?"

"Yes, if you can calm down and do nothing, you are protecting the Qing Yuan, as long as Qi Gong and Brother Huang don't do anything, then others can't do anything to the Qing Yuan." Shi Tianyu thought that Huang Naiming had thought about military problems again, but he didn't have too much worry about this, Shi Tianyu thought that with Nanming's war potential and the mobilization efficiency brought by the constitutional system, it was only a matter of time before Li Shun was defeated: "What does General Xu have?" It's just tens of thousands of loyal subordinates. Just like when Duke Qi was on Changsheng Island, he could maintain the Immortal Army because of his personal prestige, but not everyone was the same as General Xu, when Duke Qi couldn't keep the Immortal Army, General Xu couldn't keep it either. ”

"That's not what I meant." Huang Naiming suddenly realized just now that this friend's words may not be entirely his own: "Before I went home, did Jia Yan talk to Brother Shi about this?" ”

"I did talk about it a few times," Shi Tianyu smiled, but he didn't deny it: "Gong Qi said, sometimes you may not be able to listen to what he says, but it will be better for me to say it." ”

"What else did Jia Yan say?"

"Qi Gong said that he did not have three heads and six arms, he was a talent who had passed through the heavens and latitudes, and it was impossible to compare with the Constituent Assembly, without which he would face defeat as before the opening of the Fujian Provincial Academy; And after having the Qing Yuan, he can only add the icing on the cake at most, and it is difficult to say whether it is to help or add to the chaos. Some meanings Shi Tianyu has not fully digested, so he also copied a lot of Huang Shi's original words to him, in fact, these words Huang Shi did not say to Huang Naiming, but Shi Tianyu's relay sounded not only his father's order but also contained the flavor of a friend's suggestion: "Qi Gong said that he believed that the Chinese people would take good care of themselves, they were not stupid enough to commit collective suicide without a master, and the Chinese people could do better than any master and manage the country better, Qi Gong said that he was convinced of this." ”

Huang Naiming snorted lightly and didn't answer immediately, he had argued with Huang Shi about this topic before, and his subordinates in the Northern Expeditionary Army Headquarters did not agree with this.

"Qi Gong also composed a piece of music for the volunteers and filled in the vocabulary." Shi Tianyu still remembered those lyrics and tunes, and he wanted to hum this song to Huang Naiming: "Gong Qi named this song of volunteers "Our Peaceful World". ”

Compared with He Feihu, Huang Naiming knows much more about Huangshi, he knows that his father is by no means as vulgar and unwritten as he appears, he writes well, knows the past and the present, and when he was a child, he often hummed some strange but pleasant tunes at home, and told the children that he wrote a few tunes for the army when he fled to Lushun.

So what Huang Naiming said to Shi Tianyu was not strange, and when Shi Tianyu started singing, Huang Naiming didn't guess that he would be stunned after a while-because Huang Naiming had heard Huang Shi sing some songs with very excessive lyrics before, which was not only disrespectful to the old, it could be said to be ridiculous and even suspicious of Sven Sweep.

But this time Shi Tianyu only sang a few words, and Huang Naiming, who thought that he already knew his father very well, was deeply shocked again, so that he couldn't speak at all.

……

(The author strongly recommends that readers turn on the music player first, and when "The Internationale" plays, then start reading the last paragraph of this section with the music.) ）

"Rise up hungry and cold slaves

Rise up all the people who are suffering

The blood is already boiling to fight for the truth

The old government fell into a falling place, and the slaves got up

……”

At night, Xu Ping sat on the ground, quietly listening to the song floating out of Chunhua, this song of volunteers was heard to be composed by Qi Guogong himself, what is called "Our Peaceful World", more and more Ming soldiers in Chunhua have learned this song, and now it is a chorus of tens of thousands of people at night, and it is sung several times, even Xu Ping has learned.

"Don't say we have nothing, we want to be the masters of the world

It is the final struggle to unite until tomorrow

Our peaceful world must be realized

It is the final struggle to unite until tomorrow

Our peaceful world must be realized

……”

The next sentence Xu Ping had already memorized backwards, and when the singing voice on the opposite side continued to float over, Xu Ping also sang softly: "There has never been a savior or relying on the Immortal Emperor."

It is up to us to create happiness for our people

We must regain the fruits of our labor and let our minds break out of the cage

Burn the fire red and strike while the iron is hot

……”

"Alas, Duke Qi, I have read your books, met your people, and heard what you said, but after China has no emperor, will there really be a peaceful world?" After singing along, Xu Ping slowly stood up, he was still very weak after recovering from his serious injury, the guards carefully followed left and right, ready to go over and support him at any time, Xu Ping repeated softly while walking: "Don't rely on the Immortal Emperor." ”

In the barracks of the Ming army, Li Hong and his companions rhythmically beat the beat and sang their volunteer song in unison:

"Who created the glorious China is our first people

China is all of us, how can we tolerate tigers, wolves and beasts? ”

On the opposite side of the Ming army's position, Gao Chengcang also lay in the trench and listened to the singing on the opposite side, like Xu Ping, he can also sing this enemy military song skillfully, and now every day when the Ming army sings, Gao Chengcang will listen motionlessly, completely immersed in the song.

"The most hateful of all, those poisonous snakes and beasts have eaten our flesh and blood!" In order to conceal it, it is strictly forbidden to speak in the front trenches, Gao Chengcang can only silently echo the war song on the opposite side in his chest, although he has heard it countless times, but every time the Ming army on the opposite side sings this sentence, Gao Chengcang will feel a tearing pain in his chest, making him scream in pain, and his eyes are blurred in pain.

"Once they are wiped out, the bright red sun will shine all over China," Gao Chengcang sang this song with the Ming army on the opposite side in his heart: "This is the last struggle, unite until tomorrow." ”

"Our peaceful world must be realized, this is the last struggle, unite until tomorrow." Gao Chengcang's eyes were full of tears again, as a veteran who had been accustomed to seeing hell on earth in Henan, he thought that he would never be so moved again, when the singing stopped, Gao Chengcang reached out and brushed away the tears that were sliding down his cheeks: "Kill the bright dog!" ”

"This is the last struggle, unite until tomorrow!" Li Hong sang the last sentence with his companions, and in the dark night outside, lurking their most ferocious enemies, who wanted to regain all the rights they had and to ensure that the tyrannical government would once again be on their heads, Li Hong promised himself: "Defeat the thieves!" ”

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