Chapter Thirty-Two: The Empire will not retreat until the last strong Southern man dies!
Kuaiji County was the first county occupied by the Qin Dynasty. It was also the county with the largest number of officials in the Qin Dynasty. It was also the place where the Qin Dynasty ruled the most solidly. It can be called a base area or the land of Longxing.
Today, there is no county governor in Kuaiji County, only the county magistrate. His name is Li Hua. His original name was Hua. He has no surname and is the lowest-ranking Guizhou chief.
His parents died when he was young, and he was taken in by a Taoist master when he was six or seven years old. He then gave himself a surname of Li.
He is the guy in Feng Yi's mind who is down-to-earth and hard-working but his talent is not as good as his own. He and Feng Yi were transferred to Korea in the same period.
The two of them had the same starting point. They were both acting township heads. It was just that Feng Yi at that time wanted to make a big news, but failed and was effectively idle.
For a full year and a half, he just changed from acting township head to township head, and the opportunity to make meritorious deeds had nothing to do with him.
But Li Hua is different. He is willing to endure hardships, and he doesn't like to cause trouble. He gives the impression that he is like an old scalper, a diligent and down-to-earth official.
Therefore, he had more opportunities to make meritorious deeds. In addition, he was very simple and never complained about anything. As a result, he slowly rose through the ranks.
A year and a half later, he was already a seventh-level county magistrate.
This time he also responded to the court's call and came to the Sui Dynasty. He was acting as a sixth-rank officer. Three months later, he became a sixth-rank commander and the deputy of the prefect.
However, today's Kuaiji County does not have a prefect. All matters, big and small, are managed by the county magistrate. His actual power is no different from that of the prefect.
This is an opportunity. If he does a good job and makes no mistakes, then in half a year he will be promoted to the acting governor. This is from the fifth rank. In a few years, he will be the real governor, a serious fifth rank.
Senior officer.
In the Han Dynasty, this was a world-famous official with two thousand stones, who had the right to promote filial piety and integrity, and the right to directly write to the court.
In today's Great Qin, the county governor is barely among the upper echelons and is the real core of the imperial court. It is precisely because of this that many people dislike him and want to dig holes for him.
So since coming here, Li Hua has been more diligent.
Now he has achieved a little success in Quanzhen Xinfa and is already an innate master. In the past three months, he has only slept for an hour every night. After lunch, he sleeps for half an hour and takes a short nap in his free time.
This living habit has been going on for three months!
Today he started patrolling again!
Kuaiji County is very small, because after the third census of the Qin Dynasty, the total population was only 410,000.
Kuaiji County is also bigger, because in terms of area alone, Kuaiji County now covers tens of thousands of square kilometers, even though more than 80% of the land is undeveloped.
Sitting on the four-wheeled carriage, Li Hua closed his eyes and fell asleep directly. He slept for a quarter of an hour, and after a quarter of an hour, he arrived at today's destination.
This is a military camp with 10,000 new soldiers undergoing training.
"So early? You are still so diligent and motivated." Zhou Ming said with a smile.
"Aren't you the same? I heard that the recruits here call you Li Yan Wang, saying that you are cruel and ruthless and never show mercy."
"There's really nothing we can do about it. It's better to be more strict now than to die on the battlefield. You don't know that the quality of this batch of recruits is really poor."
"More than 80% of them were farmers before. They couldn't write or read. They had no ideas or culture. They didn't know how to fight for the empire. They didn't have this concept in their hearts."
With this concept and this awareness, that is the modern army!
Without this awareness, no matter how many officers there are, it will only be a modern army at best!
And when the number of officers is only one percent or less, it is a feudal army.
When a modern army fights a modern army, it is as easy as beating a son under the same circumstances. When a modern army fights a feudal army, it is as easy as beating a grandson.
"Their foundation is very poor, but the empire is in urgent need of these recruits. What can I do? Naturally, I can only be stricter and let the military stick help them remember military laws."
"Now, it is better to take more blows from the military sticks here and improve your memory than to die directly on the battlefield. You also know that the authorities only gave three months, and they only have three months to prepare..."
Zhou Ming originally wanted to say that this was a waste of human life, but after understanding the history of this world, he found that soldiers who trained three times a day for three consecutive months were no longer weak.
The government soldiers are definitely stronger than such soldiers, but there are too few of them, and they are all in the hands of the Guanlong Group.
After three months of strict military training and being fed three times a day, such soldiers are at least much stronger than the hundreds of thousands of troops from Wagangzhai, Dou Jiande and others.
"In the Qin Dynasty, the people were familiar with Qin's laws and were happy to hear about wars. Even if they were not well-literate, they mostly understood military regulations. They were all willing to fight for the Qin Dynasty. This was the result of the joint efforts of countless monarchs and ministers since the Qin Dynasty's reform.
But here, you can't ask for too much." Li Hua said with a smile.
"After all, this is not Daqin, and the mobilization system here is also very backward. But this is no excuse for us to slack off. Because of this, we must redouble our efforts, use more efforts, and higher requirements to train these recruits."
"Hey, don't I understand this? I think you lecture the officials below too much?" Zhou Ming said helplessly.
"It's my fault, it's my fault."
"I think you should have a good sleep. If this continues, it will be bad if something happens."
That is to say, the two are good friends and have similar backgrounds. Zhou Mingcai gave a rare reminder, otherwise I will give him a damn!
"No, it really can't. The decisive battle is about to begin. This battle is very important. If we win, the empire will really stand firm. By then, I will have a good sleep.
Then I will sleep with him for three days and three nights!"
Soon the two arrived at the camp. Pointing at the troops being trained, Zhou Ming spoke: "The empire has transferred one hundred soldiers, one thousand militiamen, and ten thousand new soldiers."
"The original militiamen were very strong when they came here, and the original soldiers became centurions when they came here. With these soldiers and militiamen as the backbone, even the new soldiers are certainly not weak! I have never seen blood. If I can see blood,
Enough."
"But it doesn't matter. I will take them with me when the time comes, and be careful. They are all soldiers trained by me myself, and they can be considered to have feelings."
"Don't worry, Kuaiji County has a population of 410,000, and only 10,000 people have been mobilized. After you go to the front line, the second batch of recruits will be there soon. Even the third batch of recruits will be recruited depending on the situation.
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"Don't worry about the lack of troops. The entire south has a population of tens of millions." At this point, Li Hua looked around to make sure there was no one around and then whispered: "The empire will not retreat until the last strong man from the south is killed.