Although in today's Qing Army, it is forbidden to give and buy military merits privately, but this kind of thing is not something you can ban if you say you want to ban it, you must know that it is an extremely hierarchical thing in the army, take the matter of the superiors to plunder the military merits of lower-level officers, that is, you have a big backstage, and you can't resist, you must know that what you want to resist is not a person, but a vested interest, offending this interest group, people have hundreds of ways to kill you every second, so this matter of buying and selling military merits and plundering the military exploits of lower-level officers has long become an open secret in the army, and no one has ever mentioned this in front of outsiders, If this thing is publicized, it will be the kind that offends people, and once it is offended, it is a large area, offending so many people, you may not even know how to die, and talking about it in front of the king of a country, Fang Xiaoyu is the first to open the world, so after hearing this, He Shen was still frightened, he wanted to know that if this thing was not done well, it would be a shaking of the earth and a large number of people would die, so he hurriedly smiled at Fang Xiaoyu:" I said filial piety, not to my uncle I said you, you are a smart kid, but why don't you learn well, just learn some bad habits in the army of the previous dynasty with some people who are filthy and messy, my Qing army is a strict law, prohibiting all the buying and selling of military merits and the private granting of officials, if the above is verified to be true, it will be a large death, how can you encourage everyone to buy and sell war merits?"

Fang Xiaoyu smiled bitterly, and said a little helplessly: "Don't I know that the military merit is forbidden to buy and sell military merits, but the question is, can you ban this matter? If there is a demand, there will be a supplier, otherwise how do you think those children who don't learn vultures climb to a high position?" Besides, uncle, don't forget the nature of our bandit team, although there are some meritorious relatives and sons of the Eight Banners in our bandit team, and there are also Tianhuang nobles like Shuo Wangye, but in the final analysis, our bandit team is a civil bandit army organized by civilian businessmen and some meritorious relatives who are idle in the imperial court, and the government does not recognize it at all, let alone give us some superficial funding, all the equipment, horses, We have to pay for the heavy materials we use, and we have to digest all the losses and casualties in the process of suppressing the bandits, and the income of our people also comes entirely from the government's bounty on the bandits, as well as the wealth of the bandits in the bandits' den over the years. Materials and accumulation, if we win this battle, it's okay to say, if we lose, we don't want to get a little material assistance from the government, so in the process of suppressing bandits, we not only want to maximize our own interests, but also strictly control the number of war damage, if there is not enough money to compensate those wounded and dead, do you say that people will continue to work for you and serve?"

Fang Xiaoyu was stunned when he heard this, and he was speechless for a while, but Qianlong smiled: "No wonder you kid let everyone equip everyone with crossbows and practice riding and archery, it turns out that you are planning to harass tactics and skinning tactics to deal with those bandits?"

Fang Xiaoyu smiled bitterly: "This is also a way in the middle of the way, the strength is not enough, then we can only make up with advanced machinery and tactics, who let us follow behind are a group of meritorious relatives in the Eight Banners nobles, behind each of them is a great god who can not be provoked, if the damage is too big, the uncle, aunt and aunt behind them will not eat me and the prince alive." ”

Qianlong nodded and admitted calmly: "That's true, but listening to your tone, it seems that you have bigger plans in the future?"

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "It's a bit of an immature idea, but whether it can be made or not, we have to see how the battle with the seventeenth road smoke and dust is fought?" To put it bluntly, our suppression of bandits this time is just training soldiers, and I hope that we can train the soldiers after this battle, only when the soldiers are trained, the later plans can continue to be carried out, otherwise the efforts we have done in front will be in vain." ”

Qianlong nodded: "You kid don't want to continue to suppress bandits, right, there are not many bandits in Guanli like the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road?"

"There is no in the pass, but there are outside the pass, and many of the bandits outside the pass are bandits for generations, there are many bandits who were defeated in the pre-Ming Dynasty, they are all old bandits who have accumulated years, over the years, they have all controlled the business road from the pass to the outside of the pass, it can be said that it is richer than the smoke and dust of the seventeenth road, if you want to go to them in the past, you have to honestly give people the money to buy the road, otherwise it is to kill and bury, you say that in the past one hundred and fifty years, how much wealth they have accumulated. ”

Fang Xiaoyu's words Qianlong, He Shen, Prince Shuo, Prince Jia and those Eight Banners disciples nodded again and again, and Prince Shuo even said: "Otherwise, after we finish fighting the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road, we will go to fight the bandits outside the Guan." ”

Qianlong hesitated: "It is much more difficult to go outside the gate to suppress bandits than to fight the smoke and dust of the 17th Road, and those bandits outside the gate are all fierce horse bandits." ”

"Those horse bandits are difficult to fight, but if they can really be destroyed, then the income is not only the bandit cottage that material accumulation, more importantly, we have opened up a trade road, this is an inexhaustible, inexhaustible financial road, when the time comes, everyone casually get a caravan to run outside the customs, can earn a lot of oil, as far as I know, those ginseng, mink, deer antler, Medicinal herbs are worth the money of the old nose in Guanli, like a formed mountain ginseng that sells for hundreds of taels, it is light, and it is also the kind that is priceless in the market. ”

The old Niu Colu clan naturally listened enthusiastically: "Otherwise, then do it, what are you waiting for?"

Qianlong naturally glared at him: "Do you think the bandits outside the pass are easy to fight, if it were so easy, General Fengtian would have destroyed them a long time ago, even if we want to fight the bandits outside the pass, we have to extinguish the smoke and dust of the seventeen roads on both sides of the Yellow River, over the years, they have caused us a lot of trouble." ”

For Qianlong, the old Niu Colu clan was still quite afraid: "Master, you are right, but it must not be a big problem to exterminate the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road, and that kid of Xiaoyu must be a bamboo in his chest." ”

"Since everyone has so much confidence in you, then you can say how to fight the seventeenth road of smoke and dust, if this battle is fought, Uncle Dongfang will naturally support you to open up the business road outside the customs. ”

Qianlong naturally turned his gaze to Fang Xiaoyu.

Fang Xiaoyu thought for a while and said: " The difficulty in the battle of the seventeenth road smoke and dust is not how to suppress the bandits, but how to prevent the governors of the provinces from grabbing the merits, although these people are capable of doing things, but they really want to grab the merits to compete one by one, although we have such a noble man as the prince of Shuo, but we really can't afford to provoke those people, more importantly, they are all local snakes, the news is the most well-informed, we came out to suppress the bandits this time, it must be impossible to hide from others, people are now looking indifferent, but how can we just look at the bandits like this, if we really suppress the seventeenth road smoke and dust, it is a naked slap in the face of others, people just don't move now, There are two reasons, one is that they don't believe that we have the ability to extinguish the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road, and the other is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, don't believe you, if we really extinguish the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road, these people don't come out to grab merit with us, I will be with Uncle Dongfang your surname, you must know that the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road can be used in the north and south of Taihang, and both sides of the Yellow River have been harmed all over the years, and even the silver of the imperial court has been robbed many times, that is a road to heaven that climbs upward. ”

Qianlong suddenly smiled: "We have a lot of noble relatives of the imperial court here, and there are even more dignified nobles sitting in the battle, are you afraid that they will not be able to keep these military exploits?"

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head: " Those people can sit in the position of governor of a province, and there must be an extremely tough backstage in the court, I don't know if the prince can keep these military exploits, but even if he can keep it, I don't recommend him to keep it, you must know that this is a deal that offends people, even if he can keep it, but in the end it will offend a large area, and it is not cost-effective, so I suggest that we talk to those who come to grab the war merits, as long as the price is right, it is to give them the war exploits of exterminating the smoke and dust of the seventeen roads, but if you want to buy the war merits, we must first take down this war merits, do you say yes？”

Prince Shuo said impatiently: "Boy, you can tell me how this battle should be fought, as long as you are reasonable, we will listen to you." ”

"In fact, the difficulty in this battle lies in how to prevent the governors from all over the country from coming to steal the merit from us, and what I mean is that our soldiers are divided into two ways, one is on the side of Crouching Tiger Cliff and grinds hard bubbles with the main force of the seventeenth road smoke and dust, and firmly sticks to it, and the other way bypasses the main force of the seventeenth road smoke and dust, and rushes to their lair, striving to rob all the wealth accumulated by the seventeenth road smoke and dust over the years before the governors of various places react. ”

"Okay," Qianlong nodded: "You kid uses soldiers to leave no way for others to live, but I like it, this battle will be used according to your ideas." ”

Then he turned his gaze to Prince Shuo and the widow of the Eight Banners nobles: "This battle is the first battle that we have fought in these years, and you all give me spiritual points. ”

"Yes!"

Together with Prince Shuo, the Manchu Qing princes all responded very respectfully.

The old Niu Co Lu clan even moved a chair for Fang Xiaoyu to sit down and give orders, for Niu Co Lu's approach, Fang Xiaoyu was naturally uncomfortable, the other party's age was already to the status of being his grandfather: "Senior, you are too polite, you can make Xiaoyu and I can't stand it if you do this." ”

The old Niu Co Lu said with a smile: "We have never played with those vain things, and what we admire the most are those young people who have the ability, if you don't have the ability, we people will not be polite to you." ”

Fang Xiaoyu wanted to say more, but Prince Shuo had already said in an unkind tone on the side: "Let you sit down, do you still want this king to invite you personally? If you miss this king's big matter of suppressing bandits, I will chop you up for dinner." ”

Hearing Prince Shuo's words, the old Niu Co Lu clan said to Fang Xiaoyu with oil and vinegar on the side: "See, you give advice to this old guy and solve problems, but he is calling you back and forth, and he has no respect at all. ”

As soon as the old Niu Co Lu said this, Prince Shuo's face suddenly couldn't hang up, and this old shameless man was always ready to dig his corner: "Old Niu Co Lu, do you want to die, why do you always want to dig the corner of my wall?"