Along the way, I met the tax soldiers passing by. Without exception, they all did not kneel down to the jade pillar, but put their legs together and beat their chests in salute.
Long Keduo saw this interestingly and asked Yuzhu: "Why is it a ritual to knock on the chest?"
Yuzhu smiled and explained: "I am just a small tax supervisor. I ask people to kneel down and salute every day. Isn't that inviting trouble?"
Longkodo knew in his heart that the little villain definitely didn't tell the truth. However, he didn't point it out and ignored it for the time being...
Arriving in front of Yuzhu's house, Longkodo was surprised to find that there were soldiers with guns and knives standing on each side of the house.
Longkodo squinted his eyes and observed carefully for a while. He was surprised to find that the angle at which the four people stood blocked all approaching directions without any blind spots.
Well, this little bastard Yuzhu has hidden quite deep. He must dig deeper slowly, Longkoduo secretly made up his mind.
After Longkodo entered the room, he was completely attracted by a huge wooden military sandbox in the middle of the room.
The capital was the birthplace of Longkodo. Longkodo also controlled the military power inside and outside the capital. He knew the direction of the mountains and rivers inside and outside the capital even with his eyes closed.
However, what the sand table showed was far more detailed than what Long Keduo knew.
Seeing Longkodo's eyes staring unblinkingly at the military sand table, Yuzhu nodded secretly. After all, he was a man who knew soldiers and knew goods.
In fact, today's military sand table is still very rough. It only has a rough shape and is not very accurate.
Why? Although the tax soldiers under Yuzhu knew the trends of mountains and rivers, they were all illiterate and could not learn the concept of "contour lines" in a short while.
However, even this kind of military sandbox, which is less than one-tenth complete, is already the top of the Qing Dynasty.
"What's the name of this thing?" Longkodo admired it for a quarter of an hour as if looking at a rare treasure, and then turned to ask about the jade pillar.
Yuzhu said softly: "This thing is called a military sand table. It is based on the map and restores the mountains, rivers, bridges, roads and other conditions near the capital, but it is only reduced in scale."
"Well, this is a sacred object!" Longkodo pointed to the military sand table and said excitedly, "If this object were presented to the imperial court, Uncle Feng would look down upon it."
When talking to someone who understands, you don't need to say too much. Just the word "divine object" lets Yuzhu know that Longkodo has understood the practical significance of the military sand table.
"Good son, tell me quickly, how did you train such an elite army?" Long Ke endured it again and again, but he couldn't bear it anymore and finally asked.
"Amma, please take a walk around and take a look. Whether you understand it or not, I will give you a reasonable explanation." Yuzhu deliberately gave up and started to put on airs.
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm just going to be with you." Longkodo is not an idiot. He follows Yuzhu, what else can't he see?
"Amma, I still have some paperwork to deal with. Look..." Yuzhu wanted to send him away.
Longkodo smiled and said: "You are busy with your business, I will just take a look at this." He pointed at the military sand table.
Yuzhu began to deal with military documents, and Longkodo did not harass him. He stayed alone beside the military sand table, studying something with concentration.
"Didi..." Suddenly a bamboo whistle broke the silence in the room, and Longkodo subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the jade pillar.
However, Yuzhu didn't even raise his eyebrows, and kept writing military affairs documents, which was an unusual monograph.
Longkodo heard chaotic footsteps coming from outside the house, and then he heard a loud command, "Everyone, pay attention, listen to my command, and stand at attention!"
"Look to the right."
"Look forward."
"Jia Shi came out and set up a formation of spears."
When Long Keduo saw that Yuzhu had remained motionless, he couldn't bear his temper. He came to the door and looked outside. He was dumbfounded on the spot.
A group of about forty tax soldiers was divided into four teams. They held shields and guns and were conducting offensive drills.
Even though Longkodo had read badly in military books, he had never seen such an impressive spear assassination. He subconsciously walked out of the house, stood in the open space, and studied it with relish.
There was a group of eleven tax soldiers. Standing in the front row were two burly men holding shields. Behind them were six spearmen.
Behind the spearmen were two warriors holding small shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands.
What formation is this? Longko thought about it again and again, but even though he racked his brains, he still had no impression at all.
"Kill!" the officer in the queue shouted, then pointed his sword forward.
They saw that the shield bearers raised their thick shields high, and the pikemen behind them lowered their bodies and stabbed out fiercely through the gaps in the shields.
The last sword and shield soldier wields a small shield with his left hand and slashes with his sword with his right hand!
At this time, Longkodo finally understood. Everything in front of him told him an ironclad fact: this was the perfect formation to attack the enemy's formation.
The fly in the ointment is that this formation will not work if faced with enemies with artillery and muskets.
Longkodo was not an ordinary person, he was an expert who was familiar with the art of war. He could naturally see that once this formation came out, the enemy could only win with firearms.
Giant shield soldiers and sword shield soldiers have actually become outdated in the modern era of firearms.
However, Yuzhu left this big flaw deliberately to confuse people.
Kangxi had a firearms unit at his disposal, called the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, which was stationed near the Forbidden City.
The Eight Banners Firearms Battalion is equipped with shotgun guards and artillery armor. The main equipment is shotguns and imitation Fran cannons. There are about several thousand people.
No matter how powerful the tax soldiers are, they will be destroyed by a single blast from the firearms battalion.
In this way, Kangxi completely dismissed the dozens of people in Yuzhu.
During lunch, several large and small vats were placed in front of the five cooks. The large vats were filled with white rice, and the small vats were filled with side dishes.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Long Keduo curiously stretched his head to look, and saw pickled radish strips, boiled white rice with oily fat, kohlrabi mixed with shredded carrots and
A large vat of meat and bone soup, and white rice that won't fall over with chopsticks.
Even though it was just three dishes and one soup, Longkodo, who knew soldiers well, knew that this was already an extremely rich lunch for the tax soldiers.
You know, the Eight Banners soldiers under Longkodo usually only eat pickled radish strips with their meals, and never see meat stars at all.
Just looking at this kind of food, Longkodo knew that Yuzhu was very willing to feed the tax soldiers, and there was no embezzlement of military expenses at all.
When it was Yuzhu's turn to get the meal, Longkodo noticed that Yuzhu walked to the steaming iron pot, used long wooden chopsticks to pick up the large coarse porcelain bowl in the pot, and fished it out.
Got a pair of bamboo chopsticks.
"Why is this?" Longkodo was considered a high-level military general who had seen the world, but he had never seen this method before, so he couldn't help but asked Yuzhu curiously.
"In the army, people and animals are mixed together, and they are most afraid of contracting diseases. If you use bowls and chopsticks boiled in boiling water, you will not be easily infected with diseases." Yuzhu's explanation made Longkoduo puzzled.
What does this mean?
Longkodo also knew many of the famous imperial doctors in the palace, but he had never heard them talk about them?
Yuzhu had already started to get the food, but when Longkodo was fishing for the bowl, he accidentally got burned and lost the bowl in his hand.
Can scalding bowls in boiling water really prevent the epidemic?
Longkodo felt embarrassed on the spot, his face inevitably turned red, but he was thinking about the reason why he boiled water to cook the bowl.
Yuzhu had already prepared the meal, but didn't bother to talk to Longkodo, who was in a daze. There were many things he couldn't understand, so he should just let him figure it out on his own.
Anyway, with Longkodo's love for military affairs, he will definitely break the casserole and get to the bottom of it in the end.
After finally finishing the meal, Longkoduo saw Yuzhu squatting in a crowd of vulgar soldiers.
When Longkodo walked towards Yuzhu, he suddenly found that several people were holding a whole bowl of fat and thin meat and were devouring it.
He sensitively noticed that nearby, many soldiers who had no meat in their bowls were staring at these guys eating meat, swallowing their saliva with envy.
This is really rare. Even the owners of ordinary families cannot eat such a large bowl of meat every day.
Long Keduo followed Yu Zhu's example and squatted next to him. He asked with confusion: "Why is such a big bowl of meat?"
Yuzhu took a mouthful of rice and explained: "The winners of the morning training can eat meat for lunch. Similarly, the winners of the afternoon training can also eat meat for dinner."
"Oh!" Long Keduo understood that Daqing was a regular reward for eating meat.
Not to mention anything else, this big bowl of meat alone weighs at least one kilogram.
In a butcher shop in the capital, a pound of pork belly costs at least one hundred cents.
Longkodo immediately had a new understanding of Yuzhu's willingness to spend a lot of money to feed the tax soldiers.
The first time he squatted down to eat, Longkodo felt particularly fresh. How could he be so vulgar before?
Just because he squatted down, Longkodo discovered another strange thing. The soldiers' feet were not straw sandals, but black homespun shoes.
You know, the regular officers and soldiers of the Green Camp in the capital still wear straw sandals.
Longkodo has a sense of time and space being confused. The local tax soldiers here are treated much better than the officers and soldiers of the imperial court!
Who are the real officers and soldiers?
After coming out of the tax inspection camp, Longkodo no longer worried about Yuzhu.
His beloved son, Longkodo, was a top scholar in Wen Ke and trained in martial arts. In the future, it is really possible for Yuzhu to earn a count and return home by relying on his military exploits.
If you have a son like this, what else can you ask for?
Among the civil nobility of the Qing Dynasty, the first-grade viscount was used as the dividing line. The dukes, marquises and earls above the viscount were all divided into first, second and third grades, all of which were super-grade titles.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the superior titles among nobles with different surnames were strictly controlled. Those who truly achieved this would not be awarded without military merit.
The most obvious example is Fucha Maqi. As the chief scholar of Manchuria and the Minister of Household Affairs, he was in a very powerful position.
However, due to his lack of military merit, Ma Qi remained without a title during the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties.
In the Qianlong Dynasty, because of his niece, Empress Fucha, Ma Qi was favored by a foreign relative, and was granted the title of earl because of his favor.
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