"Grandpa, this is the persuasion table of Shang Kexi and Shang Zhixin that the fourth grandfather entrusted me to bring you!"

On the main hall of the Western Palace, Wu Shifan, who came from afar, saluted Wu Sangui and said hello, and then took out the letter written by Shang Kexi and Shang Zhixin handed over to him by Wu Sanwei "Persuading the King of the West to Enter the Throne as the Son of Heaven".

"What?" Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, and asked while taking the "persuasion form", "Your fourth grandfather?" ”

"It's the Xinhui Marquis Lian Gong," Wu Shifan explained, "and when Sun Er was about to leave Gaozhou Mansion with his ancestral cousin, he also happened to lead his troops to Lianzhou, passing through Wuchuan County in Gaozhou. The grandson followed the grandfather to the village and met the fourth grandfather, and then the fourth grandfather gave the grandson this persuasion table, and asked the grandson to bring it to the grandfather. ”

"What does he look like?" Wu Sangui asked a question while looking at the persuasion table.

Wu Sangui is still very interested in his little brother who he has never met. Of course, he also doubted the identity of this Wu Sanwei, but this Wu Sanwei is not a nobody, he is from Wu Zhuangyuan, or a general of the city-guarding battalion with the rank of deputy general, not to mention the high power, that is also a head, a face and a way, how can he recognize his father indiscriminately?

And this Wu Sanwei is indeed a person from Zhili, and his hometown is very close to Beijing. Counting the days, when he was born, Wu Sangui and his father Wu Xiang also happened to be a rich man in Beijing. Back then, Beijing was a world of flowers, didn't Wu Sangui get a "round circle" there?

Later, Wu Sangui heard that there were many sisters who gave him back then, not only Chen Yuanyuan, but also several beauties, but they were not delivered to him - he was not busy with military affairs, so his father Wu Xiang collected them on his behalf! But after many years, Wu Sangui has another old brother, so it's not surprising.

"He is dark, bearded, and very powerful, similar to Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

"Black?" Wu Sangui was stunned, his father Wu Xiang is an old white face, his brother Wu Sanfeng and younger brother Wu Sanfu are all white, why is this Wu Sanwei a black skin? Could it be that someone gave himself a black beauty back then?

Wu Sangui thought about it, but he still didn't understand it, but he didn't think much about it, but changed the topic and asked Wu Shifan: "You just said that your fourth grandfather led his troops to Lianzhou Mansion?" So he doesn't stay in Xin'an anymore? ”

"I won't stay," Wu Shifan shook his head, "I can't stay anymore. Wang Shikai's situation on the west bank of Lingdingyang is getting better and better, and when his grandson left Guangdong, he had firmly controlled the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui and Xinning, as well as the richest Foshan town in Shunde County and Nanhai County! ”

"Isn't it just four counties and one town!" Wu Sangui looked unconcerned.

What are the four counties and one town, Wu Sangui now has three provinces, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and also holds one in Guangxi, one in Hunan, one in Hubei, one in Shaanxi, and one in Gansu.

Wu Shifan said with envy: "Grandpa, don't underestimate the four counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Shunde and a town in Foshan. The territory of the four counties and one town is good, the real land of fish and rice, full of paddy fields with two crops and three crops a year, Foshan is the world's first iron smelting handicraft town, and Macao is the world's first seaport!

And these four counties and one town have a lot of population! There are hundreds of thousands of people in Foshan alone, and the total population of four counties and one town is probably one million! ”

"A million, that's a lot." Wu Sangui had already finished reading the persuasion form jointly signed by Shang Kexi and Shang Zhixin, closed the paperwork, and did not make any comments.

Then, Wu Sangui touched his beard again and said to himself, "When the old man takes over Shaanxi and Huguang, there will be no shortage of people." ”

Wu Shifan said: "Shaanxi and Huguang probably can't find such a good site, and Beijing is not as good. These four counties and one town really need to have a population, a grain to have food, and an industrial and commercial trade, which is really a treasure land!

The fourth grandfather occupied Xinhui side is far away, and it was originally a good place, but unfortunately Shang Kexi tossed too badly, most of the population moved away, leaving only a large area of wasteland, and there were not many soldiers and horses left. Therefore, the fourth grandfather left Ao Taishi to guard Xiangdao, and led some people to Lianzhou to station. ”

"Worship." Wu Sangui hurriedly asked, "Shifan, have you seen Aobai?" ”

"No," Wu Shifan said, "the fourth grandfather said that Ao Bai drank raw water and had some diarrhea, so he stayed in Xiangdao to recuperate and take care of his family by the way." However, when the fourth grandfather has gained a firm foothold in Lianzhou, Taishi Ao will still lead his troops to converge. Otherwise, once Brother Shikai sends troops to fetch Xinhui, even Ao Taishi will not be able to protect it. ”

The historical mission of Aobai is close to completion.

But Wu Sangui didn't know this, he still felt that the current Ao Bai was still very good at fighting!

I only heard Wu Sangui shake his head and said: "Ao Bai is a rare general, Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao are worse than him!" ”

Wu Shifan completely disagreed with his grandfather's analysis, he was now Wang Zhongxiao's little fan brother, and he said with a smile: "Grandpa, of course Wang Zhijun is not as good as worshipping." But Brother Shikai's ability to fight with soldiers is better than that of Aobai. In just a few months, he firmly grasped dozens of townships in Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning counties. Not only did they all have the land, but they also built a group of township soldiers who specialized in township soldiers, and 20,000 township soldiers were supported in just three counties! also relied on these newly formed township soldiers to defeat more than 10,000 banner soldiers and green battalion soldiers commanded by Shang Zhixiao and Li Yan!

Worship the use of soldiers, that's it, right? ”

"Two thousand soldiers will be pulled out in the land of three counties, and they can fight a dozen." Wu Sangui frowned deeply, "It's not easy!" How did he do that? Shifan, you know what? ”

Wu Shifan nodded and said: "I know, I know, Brother Shikai first taught hundreds of scribes who could serve as local officials and masters through the establishment of the Restoration School and the Jingwu Academy, as well as hundreds of warriors who could serve as the head of any team and a platoon, and then absorbed the backbone of them into the Heaven and Earth Society, and relied on them greatly.

With scribes who can take on the role of local township capitals and departments, Brother Shikai can implement the three counties and organize them into the so-called township soldiers, towns and self-management, so that Brother Shikai can govern the three counties and go deep into some of the townships and master at least 20,000 households of Juntian Township soldiers.

In terms of using soldiers to govern the army, Brother Shikai has developed a set of tactics that are easy to train, easy to command, and easy to master for the township soldiers! ”

"And such a tactic?" Wu Sangui became interested, "Shifan, do you know?" ”

"I know," Wu Shifan said, "Brother Shikai also let me enter the Jingwu Academy, and this set of tactics he arranged for his subordinate villagers, in short, is 'hard bases, dense formations, heavy firepower, and dumb battles'!"

Brother Shikai said that his method of building the army was based on the ancient method of educating soldiers and people, and there were many military affairs, but not refinement. Since there are many soldiers and they are not proficient, they can only build more fortifications, practice dense formations, and then a large number of flintlock spears that are easy to master and have strong firepower, and when encountering the enemy, they are more likely to coincide, and use less tricks, relying on more soldiers and more guns, and building fortresses, grinding the opponent alive. ”

"Flintlock spear?" Wu Sangui asked, "Is it the kind of musket that causes the flint to hit the powder and cause the stone fire to spontaneously combustion?" ”

"Yes, yes, this is this kind of musket," said Wu Shifan, "this musket is not afraid of wind and rain, and it is not easy to fire by mistake, so it can greatly increase the density of the queue." In this way, many people can form a dense team and fire together, and the guns and bullets are raining down, even if the marksmanship is not good, Meng is blind!

In addition, Brother Shikai also asked people to create a sleeve knife, after putting on the muzzle, it will not affect the firing, and it can be used for two purposes with one shot!

Moreover, this flintlock pistol is relatively easy to train, and it is much easier to reload than an arquebus, and a farmer can fire under the command of a captain, platoon leader, and shed leader after a month of training. ”

In fact, the real essence of the queue shooting tactic is that the farmer who puts down the hoe can be trained casually, and then dragged to the battlefield to serve as a line infantry, and many people can be killed by casual fighting.

As for what lobster heavenly soldiers, fierce and fearless, thirty yards of fire and the like, it was originally a tactic of fighting for numbers, and there was no need to train to this extent, and the number was the key to victory!

More than one or two times the number of people is better than anything else!

And isn't the biggest advantage of the Han people that there are many people?

"On the battlefield in a month?" Wu Yingxiong immediately became interested. Although Wu Sangui "gave" him six guards, they were not his descendants, and it was impossible for him to cultivate his elite descendants in a short period of time.

If you don't have enough elite soldiers, how can you dominate the world?

If you can go into battle and shoot targets after a month of training, then it will be amazing for him to take Jingzhou and Xiangyang!

When the time comes, train 100,000, no, 300,000 flintlock muskezeers to shoot Kangxi!

Just when he was thinking about "shoot Kangxi, bear dominates the world", Wu Sangui suddenly asked again: "This Wang Shikai is indeed a talent, how should we treat him?" ”

"Of course, he was appointed as a festival envoy!" Wu Yingxiong immediately took over the question.

"Seal him as a festival envoy?" Wu Sangui was stunned, "He can."

He didn't say anything more.

Wang Zhongxiao is for Wu Yingxiong, but he has the hatred of killing his son and taking his daughter!

Although it is not his fault in this matter, Wu Yingxiong is likely to be the prince and the emperor in the future!

"Dad," Wu Yingxiong said with a smile, "Isn't Kangxi going to draw a cake to seal the domain?" Aren't you going to seal the eight feudal domains in Guangdong and Guangxi first? If he can seal it, we can seal it too! He can send someone to appease us, and so can we, and he is not an outsider, Xiao Su, Xiao Gang, or the two little county lords of our family! Dad, they're county lords, right? ”

"Yes, it's the county lord!" Wu Sangui said, "After defeating Guan Longhuguang, let them be princesses!" ”

Then he glanced at Wu Yingxiong with encouraging eyes: "Boss, you have to work hard!" ”

"Daddy, don't worry, the child will go all out!"

Wu Sangui nodded with satisfaction, and glanced at Wu Shifan, who was handsome like a girl, although the child looked a little pretty, but now he didn't look worse than Wu Shicong.

There are successors to the old Wu family! As for who of them can be the emperor in the future, it depends on their father!

You have to fight dad for this!

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui smiled and said to Wu Yingxiong: "Boss, what do you think of that Li Zicheng in Lizhou?" Is it true or false? ”

Wu Yingxiong said categorically: "He is a fake!" It must be fake! It has to be fake! ”

"It has to be fake? Why? Wu Sangui asked.

Wu Yingxiong said: "Father, didn't you ask knowingly? If he is not fake, then what else do we fight Kangxi? It's too late to beat Li Zicheng. But even if you beat Li Zicheng to death ten more times, you won't be able to be the emperor! And Kangxi, as long as you kill once, you can be the emperor! ”

"But that Li Zicheng has developed very well in Lizhou, Changde, and Jingzhou!" Wu Sangui frowned, "This old guy seems to have been improving over the years, he actually learned to manage the territory, and he has made a good appearance, and he has also taken the path of the soldiers of Juntian Mansion, once it is done, maybe Dashun will come back!" ”

"Don't be afraid," Wu Yingxiong waved his hand, "Let him be bigger first, if he becomes bigger, Kangxi will have to transfer all the soldiers from Hubei to Hunan to suppress him, and then my opportunity will come!" ”

"Good!" Wu Sangui was overjoyed when he heard this, "There is a measure, and he is really a good son from a lonely family!" ”

Hunan, Lizhou, Jiashan.

Since the weather turned cold again, Li Zicheng returned to the Jiashan Temple, where he had lived in seclusion for more than 20 years - this impregnable temple has now become the location of the Jiashan camp where King Li Chuang trained his troops.

Li Zicheng now implements the field system and the military system, which at first glance is very similar to Wang Zhongxiao.

The difference is that Wang Zhongxiao's average land is more "even", and the average land per household (five-person household) is 30 mu, and then a prohibition on transfer and land holding is added.

The system was never simply an equalization, but was implemented so that the state could control the population and land, and to discourage annexation.

But under private ownership, there will always be classes, and there will always be people who own more means of production than others...... What Wang Zhongxiao can do now is to average it and limit it, so as to make the speed of wealth concentration a little slower and the process a little longer.

Li Zicheng's Juntian system, on the other hand, was relatively centralized...... That's right, it's concentration!

Li Zicheng's practice of Juntian is more linked to military service, and in fact it can also be regarded as a military service field.

Although he also gave some land to many poor people in Lizhou, Jingzhou, and Changde. But that can only make the poor barely make ends meet, and if they want to live a little more comfortably, they have to rent the fields of large households.

And after the implementation of Juntian in Li Zicheng's jurisdiction, there is no doubt that the large households that can have excess land for rent are the military households of the government soldiers!

Li Zicheng's government soldiers were not quite the same as Wang Zhongxiao's township soldiers, and there were not as many as the latter—there was not a single Foshan town in Li Zicheng's jurisdiction that provided flintlock guns, gunpowder, and artillery with constant energy.

Therefore, even if he knew the tactics of "building a hard base, arranging a dense formation, heavy firepower, and fighting a dumb battle," it would be impossible for him to build a huge army of "flintlock pistols."

In addition, it is impossible for Li Zicheng to pay enough military salaries and provide sufficient food for an army of tens of thousands of people.

Productivity is really not allowed!

What Li Zicheng can pull up in the short term is still a relatively traditional army that mainly uses cold weapons and is equipped with a small number of artillery and shotguns (arquebuses).

Such an army would need to be equipped with a wider variety of weapons, a certain armor rate, more horses, and, of course, more elite warriors.

In a word, although the requirements for this kind of army are relatively low, the cost of individual soldiers is higher, and the training is more difficult.

This naturally necessitates the granting of more land to ensure that they can afford the cost of equipment and training.

According to Li Zicheng's rules for granting land, the land is divided into mouths, and it is generally ten acres of land granted to one household.

The starting price of military service fields is 100 mu per soldier, and another 100 mu is given in addition to the land in the mouth.

If you become a petty officer, you can easily get hundreds of acres or even thousands of granges - those old brothers who have followed Li Zicheng to hide in Jiashan Temple for many years, or who have followed Liu Yihu to hide from officers and soldiers for many years, have now received their due rewards and have grown into the backbone of Li Zicheng's group.

In addition, those magistrates and masters who took refuge in Li Zicheng have also been granted corresponding land, and you will be able to offset it.

And Li Zicheng himself was also granted the 3,000 acres of paddy fields owned by Jiashan Temple, and became the largest landlord in Lizhou today......

After a few months of Qingtian Juntian, Li Zicheng's Lizhou, southern Jingzhou, northern Changde and other places have completed Juntian after the autumn harvest, and a total of 15,000 soldiers have been produced!

Except for some of the "New Dashun Warriors" who were stationed in various places, most of the others were now concentrated in the Jiashan camp in Lizhou.

Under the personal supervision of Li Zicheng, he practiced every day, practicing martial arts, formations, and military formations.

Now I finally look like an elite soldier!

Today is the day of Li Zicheng's big parade of the three armies, standing on a high place, looking at the nearly 12,000 elite soldiers with full morale and complete armor below.

Li Zicheng, who has had a lot of ups and downs, is now inevitably excited and tearful......

Dashun's new journey is about to begin!

(End of chapter)