After hearing this, Li Rubai couldn't help but ask Jiang Shigong: "Why does Brother Jiang think that this is good luck?" ”

Jiang Shigong said: "Otherwise, you go directly to see the head of the town, generally speaking, the head town will definitely not see you, and the big temper may directly order you to be beaten, or it is possible to cut you directly as an assassin, but now this head town not only saw you, but also promoted you, it can be seen that you are lucky to meet a good head town." ”

"Makes sense."

Li Rubai nodded after hearing this, and then said to Jiang Shigong:

"Then Brother Jiang is also lucky to know me."

Jiang Shigong was slightly stunned, then his face was happy, and he immediately bowed down and said, "Junior brother Jiang Shigong will always regard you as his eldest brother!" I am willing to go up the knife mountain and go down the sea of fire for Brother Tie! ”

Li Rubai hurriedly supported Jiang Shigong: "Why bother, the current head town is aware of everything, and it is the time for you and me to make contributions and make great achievements." ”

Jiang Shigong let out a "hmm".

And Li Rubai then took advantage of the rest to write his own experience into a letter to Li Chengliang, saying:

"Is my father well? My son thanks to you, he has been in the army for half a year, and now he has been promoted to a sentry, but it is not all because his son is brave and good at fighting to be promoted, but his son is lucky, and he met a good general town who is aware of the soldiers under him, in addition, it is also related to the son himself voted for a good tire, if it is not for the son of the Li family, how can he know the temperament of Qi Zongzhen, why dare to be so bold? ”

"My son found that if he was an ordinary soldier, it would be difficult to progress! Not only do you have to dare to do things, but you also have to be lucky, and when you are unlucky, you have to be able to endure it; In addition, even if the official is in the head town, he must be able to endure and be able to manage yin and yang, otherwise he will either offend his boss or his subordinates; ”

"In addition, the situation of false merit and merit in the army is serious."

"Therefore, when selecting officers and generals, especially the primary schools under them, we must not only believe the merits reported by the localities according to actual combat, but also often test them through the method of large-scale martial arts competitions and large-scale drills.

"My father is now a privy envoy, responsible for the selection of middle and lower-level official schools, so I should be cautious, lest these official schools become a general town in the future, and Your Majesty will blame my father for being incompetent."

Li Chengliang quickly handed the letter given to him by Li Rubai to the imperial front.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun read Li Rubai's letter on this day, and after reading it, he said to Li Chengliang with a smile: "Ling Lang went to the grassroots level of the army, and he really gained something, and he also found a lot of problems, and gave you advice as a privy envoy." ”

"The dog opened his mouth and made His Majesty smile."

Although Li Chengliang was sure that what Li Rubai said in the letter was very good before he handed it to Zhu Yijun, in front of Zhu Yijun, he was still modest.

Zhu Yijun said: "I think his suggestion is good, and we must often test the flag school in the army through big competitions and drills." ”

"Yes, the Privy Council will do as it is told."

Li Chengliang replied at this time, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, quite happy.

Qi Jiguang glanced at Li Chengliang's smug look, and then sighed slightly because he remembered that none of his sons were willing to join the army, and then took out Qi Jin's recital and said to Zhu Yijun:

"Your Majesty, Qi Jinshang, the minister of Dongying Town, played a secret performance, impeached Langguan Tang Fuhe and the general Yin Fu for illegality, how to deal with it, please ask Your Majesty to show me."

Zhu Yijun had already learned about this through Li Rubai's letter to Li Chengliang, so he ordered: "Since Qi Jin is not good at administering justice in this matter, Jinyiwei will preside over it, and arrest these two people and go to Beijing for strict trial, with the heart of the army!" ”

Zhang Jingxiu hurriedly said yes at this time.

It is indeed better for Jin Yiwei to come forward and directly arrest Tang Fu and Yin Fu, so that no one suspects that Qi Jin did it, and as for how Jin Yiwei knew about this, naturally it is also something that the bureaucrats can't ask, and asking is the interests of Jin Yiwei itself, which is pervasive.

This, of course, is why the bureaucracy is afraid of spy politics.

The main thing is that spy politics is hard to guard against.

But Rao is like this, there will always be people who are lucky.

No further ado.

Let's say that Li Rubai stayed in Yamaguchi City for a few months, and he saw with his own eyes the scene where Tang Fu and Yin Fu were taken away by Jinyi Wei from Beijing.

This made Li Rubai sincerely happy, especially when he thought that Tang Fu and Yin Fu were unlucky and probably because he wrote a letter to his father, which made him feel more happy that he was eliminating harm for the country, and also made him feel even more that he did not come to the grassroots level of the army in vain.

Jiang Shigong and other grassroots officers and soldiers of the Ming army were also very happy, after all, they knew very well how hateful middle-level officials such as Tang Fu and Yin Fu were who were disloyal to the imperial court.

Jiang Shigong even felt sorry for Li Rubai because of this: "It would be good if this brocade guard came earlier, so that Brother Li, your great merit would not be taken away." ”

"No one dares to take it now."

Li Rubai said this meaningfully.

And Li Rubai soon knew through his father Li Chengliang's reply that his proposal had been adopted by the emperor, and the emperor praised him.

This made him feel like nectar, full of joy to see spring, and he was more active in the next experience, and his resentment was greatly reduced.

And after the Ming army captured Yamaguchi Castle, they continued to provoke Maori Terumen.

Commander Qi Jin also sent troops to besiege Mori Terumoto's home city, Ogijo.

The castle is also the feudal office, which is equivalent to the capital, that is, the castle where Mori Terumoto himself is stationed.

After the Ming army besieged Pingshan City, Qi Jin did not directly order the siege of the city, but sent the general Chen Ce to question Mao Li Huiyuan, asking why he did not allow Mao Li Jingyuan to treat the king's division with courtesy, and dared to refuse the request of the king's division to enter the city to search for missing soldiers.

This made Maori Huiyuan, who was going to fight to the death because of the siege of Ogicheng, breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the Ming army did not want to destroy himself directly, and hurriedly said that there was a misunderstanding, and also explained, and expressed his willingness to compensate 500,000 taels of silver to appease the anger of the Ming Wangshi.

Qi Jin reported the matter to Governor Yang Ho.

Yang Ho considered that although the imperial court had decided to exterminate the Japanese, the specific strategy was to first eliminate their stubborn nobles, mainly to seize their markets, and then slowly annex them through immigration and indoctrination, and on the grounds that the governor had the right to act cheaply, he temporarily accepted Maori Huiyuan's request, and also asked Maori Huiyuan not to prohibit the people in his jurisdiction from trading with the Ming Dynasty.

Mori Terumen naturally agreed.

It's just that the daimyo and samurai under the Maori clan of the Choshu Domain are not as tolerant as Maori Terumoto, and many of them still took the initiative to attack the Ming army because of the Ming army's eastward crusade.

There were those who directly led troops to attack the Ming army, there were those who carried out assassinations, and there were those who deliberately engaged in sabotage.

The measures taken by the Ming army in this regard were to kill one team and one team to kill another, no matter which country or town had turmoil, it would be too stabbing and too grassy.

As I said before, there is no shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty, and even there are so many people that they have affected the process of industrialization of the country.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's external expansion model is different from that of Xiyi.

Since there is no shortage of people, the Japanese people are of little value to the Ming Dynasty, especially the nobles who are not engaged in production, and they are even less valuable.

Therefore, for the Japanese nobles who were unwilling to submit to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army simply killed them directly, and did not persuade them to surrender.

The main thing is a self-realization.

If you obey Wanghua, you can not kill it for the time being, and allow it to continue to exist as a nobleman in the local area, if you don't obey Wanghua, then you can only be eliminated as a wolf.

For the Ming Dynasty, he even wished that everyone in the land would be a wolf, so that more people could be eliminated and more people could be moved.

For a time, many daimyo and samurai who refused to accept the rule of the Ming Empire were bloodbathed.

The Ming army not only did the bloodbath themselves, but also let the daimyo who submitted to the Ming Dynasty such as the Maori clan participate, and also recruited some ronin, that is, bankrupt samurai, to participate in the name of maintaining law and order.

The Maori clan and the ronin were very active in doing these things for the Ming army.

Because the daimyo of Maori Terumoto were also landlords in nature, they also hoped that the place where they were located would be peaceful, and it didn't matter whether their masters were shogunates or the Ming Empire.

The same goes for the ronin, as a bankrupt samurai, who can now work for Daming and have a stable career, for them, it is simply for them to get a stable life again.

"Sir! Itsukushima Town is right ahead! ”

Li Rubai has become a capital secretary because of his meritorious service in the public security war to conquer and suppress the rebel Japanese people.

On this day, when he was ordered to lead his troops to Itsukushima Town to quell the rebellion and suppress bandits, Otomo Hiroyoshi, the general of the assistant battalion who accompanied him, introduced him to a guide named Ishida Takakei.

This guide, Ishida Takakei, was originally a ronin who was active on the coast in this area, but now he has been recruited by the Ming army and has become the captain of the domain to maintain law and order, and at this time, he is hunched over and smiling and pointing the way to Li Rubai.

Because the most of the Japanese people attached to the Ming Dynasty was to be slaves to the powerful bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, so most of the Japanese people learned the title of "master", and they also knew that calling people Lord was a kind of title that made the other party happy, and gradually shouted Lord to all Han people.

Ishida Takashi also called Li Rubai his lord at this time.

The so-called assistant battalion is Zhu Yijun has long ordered Ashikaga Yoshiaki to form a soldier and horse, the assistant battalion is mainly composed of Japanese people, the duty is to assist the Ming army to quell the rebellion, as early as the Ming Dynasty occupied Kyushu set up this soldier and horse.

And those who can become the generals of the co-defense battalion are basically the daimyo who have been very subservient to the Ming Dynasty.

The co-defense battalion was also nominally the central army of the Ashikaga clan.

Of course, the actual military power was in the hands of the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the local daimyo such as Maori Terumoto who submitted to the Ming Dynasty, the armies formed by the daimyo were collectively called feudal soldiers.

However, although Maori Terumoto was said to have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he was nominally the puppet dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the Ashikaga Dynasty.

The Ashikaga clan gave an order to Mori Terumoto to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty to conquer the Tokugawa clan, so although Ishida Takakei was a member of the Mori clan, he also had to obey Li Rubai's command.

After hearing what Ishida Takakei said, Li Rubai led his troops into Itsukushima Town, and soon he saw a group of Japanese samurai gathering together to kill him.

Seeing this, Li Rubai asked Otomo Guangyi's assistant defenders to go first, and he only took the Ming army under his command to supervise the team behind.

Although the assistant defense battalion of Otomo Guangyi had fine iron armor and large bird guns purchased from the Ming Empire, it was said to be well-equipped, but it was defeated by these rebel samurai who were not afraid of death in the future.

The main thing is that these Japanese people who assist in the camp only dare to release their guns in the distance, and do not dare to rush into the white-knuckle battle.

The Japanese warriors who were unwilling to submit to the Ming Dynasty were basically stubborn protesters, basically not afraid of death, and were very brave and good at fighting.

As long as these Japanese warriors rushed through the first wave of firepower of the co-defender battalion, they directly engaged in white-knuckle combat with the co-defenders, and even did not hesitate to ignite the gunpowder bags they carried, daring to die with the co-defender battalion.

Naturally, most of the Japanese soldiers who assisted in the battalion did not have this blood, otherwise, they would not be willing to be the minions of the Ming Dynasty and not resist.

Li Rubai had to personally lead the Ming army to supervise the battle, and by killing the fleeing co-defenders, he stopped this rout, forcing Otomo Hiroyoshi to reorganize the officers and soldiers to attack the rebel samurai, but also used his own excellent firearms, and with the assistance of the Ming army's firearms, stopped the offensive of these rebel samurai.

However, Li Rubai already knew that he could not expect these Japanese soldiers to completely exterminate the rebel warriors, and he simply ordered the withdrawal of the newly built Huayun City after this, and was ready to ask his superiors to transfer more Ming troops to suppress the rebel warriors here.

At the same time, Li Rubai also wrote to his father Li Chengliang again: "The Japanese people who assist in the camp have no courage, they can only fight against the wind, they dare not fight against the wind, the defense is okay, the attack is useless, the suppression of the Japanese Li Shu is also OK, and it is difficult to exterminate the Japanese invaders. ”

……

"It just so happens that the dynasty is now absorbing a large number of unemployed people into the army because of the promotion of the steam engine, and sending more soldiers to Dongying, the imperial court can do it, and the most important thing for the dynasty now is the people of its own nationality."

After Zhu Yijun learned about Li Rubai's proposal from Li Chengliang, he also talked to the ruling ministers about his views on sending more Han soldiers to Japan.

Qi Jiguang also echoed: "What Your Majesty said is that in the next process of exterminating the Japanese, as a large number of Japanese invaders are exterminated, there will inevitably be many fertile fields that will become ownerless, and it is also suitable for distributing them to the soldiers who have made military merits, so as to speed up the kingization of Japan." ”

Zhu Yijun bowed his head: "In this way, the Japanese civilians will organize to mine, or move to Luzon and Burma to open up wasteland!" ”

Qi Jiguang said yes.

At this time, Wang Xijue played: "Your Majesty! Although there is no shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty now, with this expansion, no matter how many people of this tribe there are, there will be times when they are insufficient. ”

"Therefore, the minister believes that the population should be encouraged to have children and strengthen sinicization as soon as possible, and for this reason, it should be strictly ordered that the marriageable women of the clan must marry, and they must no longer engage in the business of Fengyue Goulan, and the land of the green building shall not use the female waiters of the Han family, otherwise they should be confiscated!"

"In addition, the land of Protestantism should be completely changed by removing its native scripts, customs, and clothing! Speed up the sinicization of the local natives, so that they can be on the same track. (End of chapter)