Li Zhiyun was very interested in the mortar, and let people carry it, preparing to find a deserted place outside Chang'an City to see if they could shoot the shells out. A group of people walked to the front yard with cannons in a hurry, only to see a eunuch come in from outside the gate, shouting in a male duck voice: "King Chu, the emperor announced that you have entered the palace." ”

"Now? I still have something to do. ”

"The emperor asked you to go right away."

Helpless, Li Zhiyun had no choice but to say to everyone: "I'm going to see Abba, let's go test firing tomorrow." He followed the eunuch to the Taiji Palace and walked into the Wude Palace, only to see that the fourth brother was already there. The fourth brother knelt in front of the throne, and Abba sat on the dragon chair with an angry face.

Li Zhiyun walked over and knelt down to salute, and after the salute, he just raised his head, only to see Abba glaring and said: "Bastard boy, there are tens of thousands of strong soldiers in Jinyang, and the food is enough to eat for ten years, it is the foundation of the rise of the royal industry, you say give up, it's really generous." Come on, drag the king of Chu down and hit thirty boards! When Li Zhiyun heard this, he argued: "The fourth brother is the chief manager, and I am just a deputy ......."

"Less nonsense, pull it down."

The two warriors rushed up like wolves, and they couldn't help but drag Li Zhiyun to the side of the hall, press him on a wooden bench, and "kiss" his ass with a board, beating him to a scream. When the fourth brother heard his scream, he watched him being beaten with the rest of his eyes, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Li Zhiyun had an injury on his buttocks after being beaten, and he couldn't get out of bed, so he could only lie on the bed to recuperate. The next day, the fourth brother came to visit him. Li Zhiyun was angry in his heart, and turned his head to ignore him. The fourth brother smiled and said, "Fifth brother, I know that you are taking this board for me, no, I brought you good things." With that, he untied a large bag he was carrying, and displayed the gold, silver, and jewels inside.

Li Zhiyun glanced at it, wow, his eyes were full of golden light, and his eyes were dazzled. He has always been an open-eyed man for money, and when he saw these gold and silver treasures, his ass immediately stopped hurting. Therefore, he forgave the fourth brother.

The fourth brother, like the eldest brother and the second brother, is probably because he grew up in a wealthy family and has never been short of money, so he has always regarded money as dung. In addition, their understanding of money is still very shallow, believing that money only allows people to live a good life, nothing more. Only Li Zhiyun knows what money is used for, but in fact, money can bring much more than they know......

Soon after the fourth brother left, the third sister also came to visit him. The third sister smiled: "Stinky boy, are you in trouble again?" Li Zhiyun pouted and said, "I have received it on behalf of others." ”

"Why, don't you have any responsibility at all? I heard that the two of you are crazy in Jinyang City, Yuanji hunts every day, and you go shopping every day. ”

Seeing that Li Zhiyun was silent, the third sister slowed down and said, "However, you are not useless. You eradicated Xue Qiang in Xihe City and quelled Gao Tancheng's rebellion in Xia County, and you did a good job of these two things. I've heard that many ministers have praised you in the court......"

After the third sister left the palace of the king of Chu, she went to the palace to visit the queen. The mother and son chatted for a while, and the queen sighed: "For the sake of Jinyang's loss, your father has been unable to sleep and eat for a few days." These two kids, too playful, have brought things to this point. ”

"Abba himself is to blame for this," the third sister said, "knowing that Jinyang is so important, he sent them to guard the town." Yuan Ji is only seventeen years old, Zhiyun is only fifteen years old, they are two big boys, how can boys not be playful? ”

Abba was frightened by Liu Wuzhou's momentum, and wrote an edict in his own hand: "The thieves are so powerful that it is difficult to fight them, and we should abandon the area east of the Yellow River and guard the western part of the country." ”

The fourth brother came to Li Zhiyun again and discussed a solution with him, "Fifth brother, Jinyang was lost by the two of us, and we have to find a proper way to deal with it." "The injury on Li Zhiyun's buttocks is almost healed, and he can already sit up. He patted the fourth brother on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, let's go to the second brother and ask him to come out and attack Liu Wuzhou." ”

"Can the second brother beat Liu Wuzhou?"

"Absolutely." Li Zhiyun said with certainty. He thought to himself, didn't the great man say it? Emperor Han Wu of the former Qin Dynasty, ancestor of the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. Li Zhiyun had never heard the name Liu Wuzhou in his previous life, if the second brother couldn't even beat such an unknown little thief, how could he compare with those great monarchs in history?

The two came to King Qin's Mansion and found the second brother. Li Zhiyun said: "Second brother, Liu Wuzhou's offensive is fierce, and the momentum is like a bamboo. Now, only if you go out yourself can you defeat him. The second brother nodded and said, "You two just don't come to me, I'm also going to go to Abba to ask for help." ”

After Li Zhiyun and the fourth brother left, the second brother immediately entered the palace to find Abba and said to him: "Taiyuan is the foundation of the royal industry and the foundation of the country; The Hedong region has fertile land and abundant products, and the capital depends on it for supply, and if it is all abandoned, Erchen will feel deep regret and resentment. Please ask Abba to give his son 30,000 elite soldiers, and he will definitely be able to eliminate Liu Wuzhou and recover Jinfen. ”

Abba looked at the second brother and said, "Are you really sure to defeat Liu Wuzhou?" The second brother nodded heavily.

"Well, I will personally levy the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, expand your army, and you will lead the army to conquer Liu Wuzhou." Abba has the final word.

Although the wound on Li Zhiyun's buttocks was healed, he did not heal the scar and forgot the pain. This is the third time he has been boarded. Abba never beats the eldest brother, the second brother and the fourth brother, only uses him as a punching bag, except that he is the youngest son, the most important point is: the eldest brother, the second brother and the fourth brother all have military power in their hands, Abba does not dare to beat them, at most he reprimands a few words. And although he has been stationed in Jinyang, he is only a deputy general manager in name only. He didn't have a single soldier on his hands, so Abba didn't have any scruples about playing his board.

Therefore, it is imperative to build up the new army as soon as possible. With a strong army at hand, then, his ass becomes a tiger's ass.

Li Zhiyun entered the palace to find Abba, "Abba, the eldest brother, the second brother and the fourth brother all have an army in their hands, and the sons also want to build an army." Abba glanced at him listlessly, "Jianjun? You lost Jinyang, where can I get money to recruit you soldiers? ”

"I don't need you to pay for it, I'll pay for the recruitment myself. In the future, this army will not have to spend a penny on the imperial court. ”

It's true? Build an army at your own expense to help Abba fight the world? Is there such a good thing in the world? When Abba heard this, he immediately came to his senses, "Okay, you go to recruit soldiers, the sooner the better, the more the better, after the recruitment, train quickly, and then go out with your second brother." ”

Li Zhiyun suddenly found that Abba seemed to have aged a lot in the past few days. The loss of the Hedong region was too great a blow to him. He is already in his fifties, and he can no longer withstand many tosses, if he does not have a few capable children, how can he achieve the imperial cause?

Li Zhiyun heard that Abba secretly sent Pei Lin to Chengdu to prepare to build a palace there. Once the situation is unfavorable, Abba will move the capital to Chengdu. Abba was frightened by Liu Wuzhou, and was ready to learn from Tang Xuanzong in later generations, so he went to Shu to take refuge and became Liu Adou. Therefore, Abba really hopes that his sons will do as much as they can to help him tide over this difficult time.

With Abba's approval, Li Zhiyun's army has a formal establishment. He planned to call the army the "Firearms Battalion", so he asked Abba for the title of "Generalissimo of the Firearms Battalion".

After Li Zhiyun returned to the palace of the king of Chu, he immediately summoned Wei Xiaobao, Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and several subordinate officials to discuss the establishment of the army. In the end, it was decided that in addition to setting up a recruiting station in Chang'an, it was also set up in several nearby prefectures. Li Zhiyun handed over the recruitment of recruits to Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu, and told them: "The recruits must be literate and hyphenated, and the higher the education level, the better, at least they must be able to write their own names." ”

What Li Zhiyun wants to build is a new army, and the number of this army will not be too large, so he has set high requirements for the quality of the soldiers. However, Zhang Zheng was in trouble when he heard it, "King Chu, those who can read and hyphenate are all scholars, and they don't want to be soldiers." ”

Li Zhiyun was right when he thought about it, this was in ancient times, the cultural popularization rate was too low, and few people who were willing to be soldiers were afraid that few people could read and write, so he had to relax and say: "That's okay, you can watch it." Illiterate, as long as people seem to be smart. ”

The third sister heard that Li Zhiyun was going to build an army, so she gave him the men and horses lent to him. Those 2,000 people lost a third of them in the battle of Hulukou, and now there are more than 1,000 people left. Li Zhiyun planned to recruit more than 1,000 people on the basis of this more than 1,000 people to form a regiment. He planned to form a division with four regiments of 3,000 men each, plus the troops directly under the division headquarters, a total of 15,000 men. He estimated that the combat effectiveness of this division, which is equipped with new firearms, should be worth more than 150,000 horses.

As for the establishment of the army, he planned to follow the example of the new army of the Qing Dynasty, the division was called the town, the regiment was called the standard, and he couldn't remember the battalion and below, so it was simply called the battalion, company, and platoon. In terms of commanders, the town commander is called the commander, the target commander is called the standard commander, and the following are the battalion commander, company commander and platoon commander.

Scarface was appointed as the first standard. He sent someone to Pingchang Town to find Li Niutie. At the beginning, he had promised Li Tieniu that when he was crowned queen, he would let him be the captain of the palace guard, and people should be true to their word.

After he became the queen of Chu, he found out that the guards of the prince's palace were actually two institutions, called the family affairs mansion and the tent mansion, and the prince was in charge of escorting travel. The prefects of these two institutions are called Dianjun, and they are both officials of the five grades. The family office and the tent house are combined, and the official department is only equipped with more than 200 people in total, but the officers are full, and there is not a single vacancy, I really don't know how much silver those ink officials have received. Besides, even if there is a vacancy, Li Tieniu is just a butcher after all, if Li Zhiyun asks him to be the pawn of the fifth grade, the officials will not agree to it anyway. The firearms battalion was an army established by him out of his own pocket, and the appointment of officers was completely up to him, as long as he filed it with the military department.

Li Zhiyun appointed Li Tieniu as the second standard, and his family was also taken over and placed in the palace of the king of Chu. If she wished, his wife could work as a handyman in the palace.