The tongue of fire licked the paper greedily, and the violated letter changed color as if frightened. Yellowstone stared at the letter that began to turn yellow, curling in an attempt to avoid the oil lamp.

This thick pile is a letter from Huang Taiji, in which he is interested in the tables and methods used by Huangshi in the statistics of material personnel, and asks many questions about this. The tone of the letter was very cordial, and it pointed out all kinds of shortcomings in Huangshi's calculation of combat effectiveness.

Huang Shi put the letter on the fire again, the letter paper crackling and wailing, and the burnt pages were densely written with Chinese characters. There was a fire on the whole piece of Gongbi, and Huang Shi moved his fingers until a stinging pain came from his fingertips.

He finally threw out the fire in his hand, and the light of the fire illuminated the corner of the paper he had finally pinched, on which was Huang Taiji's strong and powerful signature, which was exactly the same as the handwriting in the previous main chapter.

The signature was consumed by fire in front of Huang Shi, and the red light reflected on his distracted eyes, which seemed to see a picture: Huang Taiji was writing hard in the candlelight, occasionally pausing to examine the report at hand, and then pondering to write down his opinion, and at the end of the letter he signed his name again.

"If you want people to repay you with a countryman, you must first meet with a countryman. ”

Huang Shi muttered out the last words that Huang Taiji said to him, he could defect to Sun Degong, he could defect to Mao Wenlong, and he could even defect to Chongzhen, but he didn't dare to defect to Huang Taiji.

"I'm determined to take over the world, and you're too strong to swallow me to the bone. ”

The light of the fire dimmed and went out, a gust of wind blew, and the ashes hovered in the air.

"I'm sorry, you treat me as a countryman, but I can't repay me as a countryman. ”

Wang Huazhen's commendation increased Huangshi's prestige among his subordinates, and Dusi was only one step away from guerrillas. In Yang Luhuo's words, he had seen several hereditary hundred households who had spent their whole lives struggling to become guerrillas, and he had also heard that there seemed to be a small soldier who had climbed to the thousand general in forty years. But a soldier like Huangshi who is about to become a general in less than a year is really unthinkable.

"It's not a hereditary military position, and there's nothing. Besides, it's not the first. In the face of the compliments of his own soldiers and subordinates, Huang Shi was very cold.

"My lord, that soldier has been forty years, forty years to reach Qianzong, and those guerrillas are also from hundreds of households. A year of great talent, not to mention a general, even a hereditary thousand households are just around the corner. After Yang Luhuo said this, the surrounding soldiers and guard soldiers all nodded their heads like chickens pecking rice.

The lifelong ideal of low-ranking officers in the Ming Dynasty was to obtain hereditary military positions, so that their children and grandchildren could become landlords in military households, and even if they joined the army, they did not have to start as small soldiers. However, even a lucky family will need several generations of struggle to achieve the goal of 100 or 1,000 hereditary households.

"Hereditary Thousand Households?" Huang Shi raised his eyebrows, he remembered Mao Wenlong, a pawn who was born to eat, and it didn't take him a few years to get the hereditary Pingliao general: "Do you think I can only go so far?"

Looking at the apologetic subordinates, Huang Shi smiled and threw out a big cake: "After two years, I will become a hereditary thousand households, Yang Luhuo, and you, you must become a hereditary hundred households so that it will not be a shame for me." ”

The excited soldiers were full of longing one by one, and Huangshi was rising like the rising sun, and his sharpness in the past few months made his colleagues in the Guangning Army dare not force their eyes. Generally speaking, such a flying promotion will attract countless plots and exclusions, but their commander is too fast, and those competitors are left far behind before they have time to react.

Liaodong Jiangmen has noticed this new star, and since Huangshi's promotion looks unstoppable, it is natural that there will be many hands asking for friendship reaching out. Sun Degong's family is a member of the Liaodong Wuren family, and in recent generations he has been not a commander of Wanhu but also a guerrilla general, and the news of Huangshi's marriage to his family will be a strong signal: the Liaodong Wuren group has begun to accept and recognize him as a young officer.

Sun Degong Xiang Jian Huangshi divided his soldiers into two thousand generals, and promoted two thousand generals and six generals to control the soldiers. Huang Shi objected to this, because he considered that his own soldiers did not have enough merit to be the general manager, and even the general manager was very reluctant. And if Sun Degong appoints President Qian, he is in danger of being set aside.

"My lord, the subordinate team, the subordinate will bring it well. ”

In the face of Huangshi's first disobedience and challenge, Sun Degong finally chose to back down, and the Guangning Dusi appointed by Wang Huazhen himself did have the right to speak loudly on his own territory. Originally, this kind of disobedience might have led the officials to make things difficult on the issue of military salaries, but both Sun Degong and Huang Shi understood that Sun Degong had no position to do so now.

The subordinates wanted Yang Luhuo, Zhao Slowxiong and Jin Qiude to go through the training, and finally selected two people from them as the official president. ”

Whether it is Sun Degong's own plan, or Huang Taiji's appreciation of Huangshi's appearance, it is determined that Sun Degong can only win over Huangshi and cannot suppress it. At this time, Sun Degong regretted that he did not let his daughter marry Huang Shi as soon as possible, and Huang Shi ordered Yang Luhuo, Zhao Slow Xiong, and Jin Qiude to be the acting generals, and they would accumulate meritorious service in this position until they obtained the official qualification of general manager or thousand generals.

The three pro-soldiers were in charge of fifty soldiers each, and Huangshi himself was fifty soldiers. The generals did not have a personal army, nor did they have a formal appointment, and Huang Shi believed that it would not be easy for them to establish their own independent forces. Huangshi's personal soldiers were very happy about this, because it made Huangshi's attitude clear, and his officers did not allow others to get involved, and every personal soldier seemed to see the day when he became an officer.

Of course, it is always a very bizarre and ridiculous sight that there are only three generations of generals under the Du Division, and the lack of officers at all levels will reduce the control of the army, and it is easy to separate the officers and soldiers, and it is even more difficult to cultivate mutual trust and dependence. But this is Yellowstone's policy, and this is the price Yellowstone must pay in order to consolidate its territory and achieve absolute freedom of movement.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year,

"Adults live a long life!"

In the barracks, the greetings of the soldiers came and went, and more than 200 men were enjoying a large amount of pork and rice wine, and the drunken people cheered to the commander who brought them this qiē, Dusi Huangshi, and tried their best to express their sincere joy.

The object of their affection also smiled generously, and frequently waved the salute of the corresponding subordinates, but in their hearts they regretted the inadequacy of winning the hearts of the army this time.

In this era, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were very inferior, and psychologically considered themselves inferior pariahs, and they were generally poor to the point of selling their wives and children, so when it came to the Spring Festival and other seasons to remember their ancestors, they could not take out any decent sacrifices because of poverty, which made them feel that they had lost the face of their ancestors.

Huang Shi's men were slightly better, and they pooled together the settling-in money and military pay they had just received, and bought pork and flour, the northerners made dumplings, and the southern soldiers also bought white rice and wine. Jin Qiude secretly reported to Huangshi yesterday that these poor soldiers wept when they worshipped their ancestors, firstly because they had never offered such a rich sacrifice for a long time, and secondly, they had to quickly divide these things - which was also their Chinese New Year's Eve meal.

"I knew that I would have paid for these soldiers to pay a grand tribute to their ancestors. Huang Shi secretly sighed at his mistake, he originally thought that these soldiers who received military salaries could live a comfortable year. He reminded himself to keep in mind that in this era, it is far better to give grace to soldiers than to their ancestors.

After leaving the barracks, Huang Shi summoned Jin Qiude and Zhao Slowxiong to his side, and the first thing he said was: "Jin Qiude, are you convinced?"

Jin Qiude originally built yì Huangshi to come to the labor army on New Year's Day, which is also the habit of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how stingy the commander, New Year's Day always has to buy some wine and meat to reward his subordinates. Not only Jin Qiude, but Yang Luhuo was also built in this way.

Now hearing Huang Shi's question, Jin Qiude looked at Zhao Wanxiong with some admiration, and the latter smiled proudly. Zhao Slowxiong resolutely opposed the first day of junior high school to visit the soldiers, he deliberately wanted the soldiers to have a misunderstanding of Huangshi, and he deliberately wanted the soldiers to think that they had followed a dime a dozen in the past two days.

"In the past two days, they have scolded a lot, right?" Huang Shi asked Jin Qiude with a smile again.

Kim was in charge of secretly finding out about the soldiers, as well as the situation in the other barracks. One of the most generous officers in the Quang Ninh army gave each of his men a pot of wine, a tael of pork, and two pieces of silver. Huang Shi's men didn't catch anything, and they were naturally resentful. This grievance was also fully fermented on the second and third days of the first lunar month, and according to Jin Qiude, he also generally greeted the ancestors of Huangshi.

"Haha. Hearing this made Yellowstone laugh: "They should be ashamed by now." ”

Today, Huangshi brought a pound of pork and a chicken to each person, and the wine pipe was enough to drink. A tael of silver was also given. Zhao Slowxiong pretended not to know anything, and made a big announcement that it was difficult to buy New Year's wine, and he had just made it up today, and he also apologized to the soldiers on behalf of Huangshi.

"Exactly," Zhao Slowxiong said with a smug face, "They have been ridiculed by friendly forces for several days, and they will definitely be ridiculed ten times more tomorrow, and they do have the capital to laugh at others." ”

The soldier received about ten times the average reward today, and in order to prepare these things, he almost spent all the money in Huangshi's hand. Yellowstone didn't need money, he needed soldiers to die for him: "Sure enough, the last laugh is the best laugh." ”

"Your Excellency is wise. Jin Qiude finished complimenting Huangshi, and then hugged his fist at Zhao Slowbear: "Brother Zhao is wise." ”

Huang Shi didn't bring Yang Luhuo today, but asked him to bring two people to watch the house. When the group returned to the door of the residence in Yellowstone, they heard the woman's angry screams:

"Yang Luhuo, you give your aunt and grandmother to eat. ”

(End of Section 8)

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