Lu Xiao's appointment has finally come down, and the Jinyi guard is in command. At the same time, he also served as another official position, the military preparation road.

The full name of this official position is to rectify the military preparation road, and it is a comprehensive official position responsible for local soldiers and horses, money and grain, and tuntian. It was evolved from regimental training in the Tang and Song dynasties, and it had the right and responsibility to train soldiers.

Naturally, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee made another frantic impeachment of this. But no matter how impeachment is made, it is useless. Moreover, the means of the apocalypse are not comparable to the later Chongzhen. With countless black materials in his hands, he can still let a group of subordinates blackmail.

Without a trace, a little information was missed, and Wei Zhongxian, as a qualified loyal dog, immediately attacked strongly. dragged several courtiers into Zhao Prison. Under a severe torture, he collaborated with the enemy and treason, raided his family and exterminated his family, and started a one-stop service.

The point is, this time all the incriminating evidence is true. The apocalypse also showed some evidence in the court, and the voice of the entire court hall suddenly became a lot smaller. Obviously, the group of human spirits had understood what the emperor meant, and they shut up a lot.

The key is that Lu Xiao has only been a commander of the Jinyi Guard until now, plus a soldier to prepare for the road. The rights in the court are actually not touched. Moreover, since he took charge of the Jinyi Guard, the number of people in Zhao Prison has decreased significantly.

In such a comparison, the courtiers actually felt that Lu Xiao was actually okay.

It can only be said that sometimes many things do not stand up to comparison.

However, the calm in the court did not bring substantial changes to the Ming Dynasty. There have been droughts in the north for many years, and natural and man-made disasters have taken turns. Countless lower-class people finally lost the last chance of survival. So, unrest broke out.

Peasant revolts first broke out in northern Shaanxi, and soon became a prairie fire. Initially, Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong of Fugu rebelled, and they occupied Huanglong Mountain. Then the king of Yichuan Zuohang, Ansai Gao Yingxiang, Luochuan Zhang Cunmeng, Yanchuan Wang Monk, Hannan Wang Daliang and others responded, and the fire of struggle burned all over Shaanxi.

At this time, in Yinzhou, Shaanxi, also known as a small place in Mizhi County, a low-level civil servant of the Ming Dynasty was unemployed. This man's name is Li Zicheng, and he is a horseman at the Ming Dynasty post station. Because he lost an official document (some say he lost his horse), he was dismissed from his official duties and returned home unemployed.

Without work, there is no money. As a result, the debt owed to the master could not be repaid, and he was sued by the other party to the yamen. On one side is the lifting of people, and on the other side is the unemployed low-level civil servants. The county magistrate immediately arrested him and tortured him, basically preparing to kill him.

However, Li Zicheng is usually very righteous. There is a group of poor buddies. After some discussion, this group of guys rescued Li Zicheng. After Li Zicheng came out, it was still impossible to have the money to repay his debts. So he thought of a brilliant note. If you kill the creditor, you don't have to pay the debt?

Li Zicheng, who has strong executive ability, does it when he thinks of it. Soon after, the creditor was killed and the debt was successfully eliminated. Li Zicheng, who got the debt, was originally very proud. As a result, when he returned home, he found that his wife had committed adultery with gangsters from the same village.

Li Zicheng broke the defense on the spot and killed his wife together. Two lives are on his side, and he can't hide them anymore. Under the pursuit of the government, Li Zicheng could only go to the army.

But joining the Ming Army at this time is actually similar to joining the National Army in 49.

Li Zicheng joined the army originally to have a full meal. As a result, after I went, I found that the soldiers were not enough to eat, not to mention that they were full.

If you want to talk about military salaries, it's not that there is nothing, but it can't reach them. The superiors are corrupt, and under the layers of exploitation, except for the main general's personal soldiers. The soldiers below are no different from beggars.

Li Zicheng has such a violent temper, so naturally he can't bear this kind of treatment, so he simply reverses.

Lu Xiao has actually been paying attention to the movements of Shaanxi, and he didn't think about killing Li Zicheng in advance. But it's not interesting to think about it. In the late Ming Dynasty, if you kill a Li Zicheng, there will be Zhang Zicheng, Guo Zicheng, and Zhao Zicheng. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse alone, there were dozens of uprisings, large and small, across the country.

Some have been suppressed, and some are still on the move. Others, the city has been laid, and it has become a certain climate.

This is a tragedy created by an entire era, and it cannot be remedied by killing one or two people. Of course, the more important thing is that most of Lu Xiao's energy is actually placed in Liaodong.

Over the years, he has cultivated many trustworthy people. But basically he sent them to Liaodong to collect all kinds of information against the Tartars. For Lu Xiao, the Central Plains was in civil strife. That is the common people of the Central Plains trying to survive. He didn't have that much energy to care about these things.

After personally participating in this general trend of the world, he realized the saying that manpower is sometimes poor. Even if he is now the command room of the Jinyi Guard, he also serves as a soldier. is also deeply trusted by the emperor, and has the memory of his previous life. But in the face of the situation in the Ming Dynasty, it still feels a thousand things and a mess.

So, after some trade-offs, Lu Xiao finally realized. It is impossible to solve all problems on your own. So, he focused his efforts on Liaodong. He is responsible for resolving external contradictions, and as for internal contradictions, it depends on the sky.

Smoke has spread across the country, creating countless no-man's lands and countless displaced refugees. These displaced refugees are a huge hidden danger to public order in various places. Because everyone knows that these people are refugees today. But it may not be possible to wait for tomorrow at all. That night, someone raised his arms and shouted. They just turned into rogues.

As for selling children and daughters, it is even more commonplace. In this environment, Lu Xiao sent a lot of people. began to take in some young adults and even teenagers in the surrounding area.

This winter has been a desperate hurdle for countless refugees. When the first snow fell, dozens of people died of starvation every day in the interior of the capital.

You must know that this is the capital. In the towns around the capital, and even further north, the lives of those displaced people are only worth half a steamed bun.

In this case, Lu Xiao only spent a very small amount of money to gather thousands of young adults. And at the price, it's just two meals a day.

This can be regarded as a little preparation for the rebuilding of the Qi family's army. What Lu Xiao wants to build is a professional army. The kind that is completely out of work and has all the energy to fight the war full-time. Everyone who pulls them out is the kind of absolutely strong army that kills the machine.

A completely deproductive army is actually a huge burden for a dynasty. A simple question, if a soldier is completely out of work after that. Does his family also need to be supported by the state? Otherwise, without this labor, his family could starve to death.

So, feeding 10,000 soldiers who are out of work is not just feeding these 10,000 people. It also needs to be accompanied by 10,000 families. This multiplies the cost several times.

At the same time, after the soldiers are completely out of production, the camp, weapons and equipment, horses and so on are these logistical work. It also requires a large and professional team to be responsible. Again, this is a huge expense.

And these expenditures, taken together, would have put enormous pressure on a dynasty in ancient times when productivity was insufficient. Therefore, in ancient times, there were very few soldiers who were completely out of work.

Lu Xiao recruited troops at this time in order to avoid the drag of his family. All of these soldiers were homeless people who had been bought individually. Their families are either dead or separated. Without the family attached, building this army can greatly reduce expenses.

But even so, the money and food reserves in Lu Xiao's hands can only be used to maintain their basic survival. The good news is that as time goes on, this difficult winter has finally passed.

The arrival of spring finally made Lu Xiao breathe a sigh of relief. Those pigs that have been raised for a long time can finally be killed.

The first wave started with the Fan family, one of the eight Jin merchants.