Everyone finally returned to the Marshal's Mansion. Li Laiheng had asked Li Laiheng to transform this original government office into a new world. The small garden in the back hall of the original magistrate, those beautiful flowers, and the strange rocks bought from Wuchang Mansion, were also transformed into a new world. There were two exquisite pavilions, both of which were demolished by Li Laiheng.
The strange flowers and rocks have been packed together, and Kendeji, which was put in charge of Xiao Weisong, was sold back to Wuchang. As for the two pavilions, because the materials used were quite particular and there were a few good pieces of wood, Li Laiheng asked Li Laiheng to dismantle them all. , used as a barracks for the invading army.
Only the memorial tablet erected in the nave remained motionless and remained there.
Since the early Ming Dynasty, for more than two hundred years, every government office has a stone tablet with the words "your salary and your salary, the people's wealth and the people's anointing..." and other words, which are called "precept tablets".
Emperor Hongwu's idea was certainly good, but over time, it turned into the most ironic red tape.
Since the emperor, princes, court ministers, and governors all opened one eye and closed one eye, they watched the officials, big and small, using straws one by one to suck up the blood and bone marrow of the common people. , even if the officials memorize the commandments by heart, and they are so familiar that they can recite them backwards, what is the use of them?
As usual, the more familiar you are with official articles, the less effective they will be. What's more, nowadays, there are fewer and fewer officials who even seem to be willing to read the precepts tablets familiarly.
Li Laiheng left the memorial tablet in place, not because he wanted to use it to warn the intruders not to follow in the footsteps of the imperial court, but simply because he thought it was ironic.
"I just hope that this memorial tablet will not become something that future generations will mock us for!"
The people of Qin had no time to grieve for themselves while others mourned for them. Later generations grieved without taking note of it, which also caused future generations to mourn for their descendants again.
If the invasion army fails, how many people will come to pity Li Laiheng? I'm afraid they should push him to the ground, step on ten thousand feet, and scold him for being a rogue who only knows how to destroy and doesn't know how to build.
"A camp envoy and a branch envoy, are you satisfied? All the family members of the old camp have been resettled. This time we have a barely stable foothold like Suizhou City. Finally, we will not be like many people in the past. It's like that in the past year, always in a hurry and with no fixed place to stay."
Li Laiheng took off the armor on his body, and the soldier beside him immediately reached out to take it. He sat on a chair in the center of the Commander's Mansion with a golden sword, crossed his legs, and made tea by himself.
Fortunately, the handsome young tiger is not so dizzy that he is now addicted to pleasure. The tea he drinks is still the lowest quality broken tea. The Taishi chair under his buttocks is because Kendeji has not yet found a buyer to take over. .
Gao Yigong, Bai Wang, Hao Yaoqi, and Bai Jiuhe took their seats one after another. Bai Wang pushed back a few times, but at Li Laiheng's request, he stopped being humble and sat down next to Li Laiheng and Gao Yigong. Two people on the third seat.
Gao Yigong also took off his armor. He wore a very simple green shirt on top of the armor. It was rare to wear a net scarf under the helmet today. Gao Yigong was not very old, and his demeanor was always cheerful. Although his appearance He is not outstanding, but he has a heroic aura. Sitting there, one can still feel the magnanimity that is different from ordinary people.
In comparison, our Li Laiheng's magnanimity is mostly achieved by concave shapes and pretending to be deep.
After Bai Wang and Bai Jiuhe thanked Li Laiheng for his appointment, Gao Yigong said slowly: "Now the Huguang Army has more than 5,000 soldiers, and Guo Guan and Pi Yuti have 1,000 soldiers stationed in
Yingshan County and Niuxin Village; when Waoqi and I came back from Tongbai Mountain to welcome Lao Bai, we also left a thousand troops to garrison Chushan Town at Hehedian in Tongbai Mountain, and Suizhou City still has about 3,000 troops."
Five thousand soldiers is by no means a small number in a field battle. Even if it is a stone battle that determines the general trend of the world, if five thousand soldiers attack at a critical moment, it may also play a role in turning the tide.
However, when five thousand people were spread into a vast control area, even if Li Laiheng's current control area was no more than one state or one county, there were no traces of them immediately, and he was almost immediately submerged in the sea of people and land.
Bai Wang worriedly said: "There are only three thousand people in Suizhou City. I'm afraid it's too difficult to suppress the state, let alone expand outwards or fight with the government and the army. If the local gentry rises in rebellion, our three thousand soldiers and horses will all be defeated."
I don’t know if I can survive it.”
Li Laiheng sat at the top, drank half a mouthful of tea, then held the teacup in his hand and played with it, saying: "Whether three thousand or five thousand people are not enough, it is imperative for us to recruit troops.
What I am worried about is not whether we can recruit troops. Suizhou and Yingshan County together are estimated to have more than 100,000 troops. I think it will not be difficult to expand the troops to 7,000 or 8,000."
"But what about the issue of armor and equipment?" Although Bai Jiuhe now holds the position of branch envoy and will be responsible for all the financial and logistical issues of the Huguang Army, he is a blacksmith after all, and he is more focused on equipment issues. "
Baigong Yamen and the Ordnance Academy must start processing immediately. When I first entered the city, I saw that there was a blacksmith shop in Suizhou City. I thought there were many craftsmen. If we can make full use of them, we can make up for the shortage of weapons and equipment."
"Haha, this is a small problem." Li Laiheng smiled slightly and said, "Actually, the bigger problem is that we have too few old brothers in northern Shaanxi, and there are too few people who can serve as officers. There are currently five thousand in the Huguang Army.
People, but most of them are refugees, they only know how to use brute force and courage to fight and fight, but for the command team, they know nothing about practicing battle formations."
Bai Wang then replied: "Old brothers from northern Shaanxi were gathered together by the Generalissimo who has dominated the world for ten years, and now he can't change it for a while. But before, during the battle of Shangcaiying, I heard that the commander-in-chief had recruited many Baoding soldiers.
Soldiers? There must be many officers or even generals among these Baoding soldiers. Promoting them can solve this problem."
Hearing Bai Wang's answer, Li Laiheng secretly sighed in his heart that the generals in the camp were too careless in employing people.
Lao Bai, Lao Bai, do you know that you will die in the end at the hands of Wang TiZhong, a member of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Chuang Army? Bai Wang, you painstakingly managed Xiangyang and built the army, but in the end you were killed by the traitor Wang TiZhong and fell into the trap.
In the hands of Wang Tizhong and Jin Shenghuan, they became the pawns of the Qing army in conquering Jiangxi Province. How ridiculous this is.
Li Laiheng objected: "When the Generalissimo expanded his army in the Central Plains, there was already a tendency of not distinguishing good from bad and good from bad. Many troops had more experience in surrendering soldiers and generals, so they were sent to the army without review.
Promoted to an important position. Now the Chuang army has the strategic initiative and has won consecutive battles, so there is no problem. But once the Chuang army is frustrated and is in strategic difficulty? Do we expect these people to be loyal?
Second, can you be the mainstay of the army?"
Li Laiheng slapped his hand on the chopping board and said: "I have always said that we have too few people in our pockets. I want to start from the officer level. We do not ask outsiders and train officers ourselves. In the future, it will not only be officers, but also officers."
Even civil servants and their ilk must be cultivated one by one."
Li Laiheng spoke happily, but Gao Yigong, Bai Wang and others all looked embarrassed. They really knew nothing about teaching and educating people.
What's more, the officers and soldiers in the army are still completely unable to master literacy. Why do they want to encourage others to advance directly from literacy to officers?
Li Laiheng gave Fang Yiren a look, and the black scholar knocked on his fan and explained: "The palace master has previously decided that after every battle of the Chuang Army, he must organize generals and soldiers to discuss and summarize the combat experience. Facts have proved that most of them
It's not that the officers and soldiers don't understand the methods of military formation, but they lack communication and communication, and they also lack the habit of turning simple experience into rules and dogma."
"The palace master's intention is to make the summary meeting a complete set of rules, and on this basis, we can start a school with the camp."