Li Guangyuan was stunned and thought to himself: My Ming Dynasty actually has such miraculous skills. If we can recruit such strange people and drive them as pioneers, we will be invincible, and we will have great hope for our great cause!
When they arrived at the mansion, Li Guangyuan first arranged for them to rest in a cross-yard. After everyone washed and changed clothes, and drank a cup of herbal tea, a servant came to invite you: "The master has prepared a banquet in the study outside. Please come to the banquet."
Following the servant to the outer study room, Li Guangyuan had already greeted him at the entrance of the courtyard. After some humility, he allowed Monk Walrus to sit as the guest of honor. Everyone at the banquet was chatting happily over wine, and Luo Hetu was good at drinking. He also told the story of the bloody battle with Sanliang with Luo Heying. It is said that if the people in the world were like this girl, there would be no need to worry about the thief being destroyed.
A few people chatted and drank more and more wine until it was time to light the lamp. Luo Hetu was very drunk at this moment, so two family members sent him back to the hospital to rest. Only Li Guangyuan, Luo Heying and Gou Xunli were left at the table. Li Guangyuan asked his family to remove the remaining seats, change some exquisite snacks, and brew the new tea of the year, and then he got down to business.
"Master, Brother Lin, this time the Kun bandits attacked Guangfu again and tried to claim control. Do you intend to seize a corner here, or do you plan to send your army north to compete in the Central Plains?"
"The Qiongzhou Kun bandits will not go back." Luo Heying answered first, "But it is nonsense to say that they are marching north to compete in the Central Plains - I am afraid they cannot swallow this piece of fat in Guangdong."
After saying this, he smiled and picked up the tea cup - what he drank was not new tea, but Australian water that had been stabilized with well water, and he wiped his beard stained with Australian water. This Australian water is the most refreshing and relieves heat, especially if it is calmed by well water, it makes me feel relaxed and happy for a while. Then he went on to say: "The Kun thieves have been granting false positions in various prefectures, prefectures, and counties, and they must have the idea of running the Guangdong and Guangxi. Nowadays, the Kun thieves have new laws emerging one after another, and I heard that there is also a civil service examination, which has already preserved the separatist regime in this corner of the south. Heart."
This is not a rare judgment. Even Li Guangyuan, who avoids the countryside and rarely goes to the city, knows the current situation more or less from outsiders. The Kun thieves have already settled down in Guangnan - if it were not a foregone conclusion, he would not take the risk to get involved in this muddy water.
"...It's just that it's very difficult to advance further north. The bandits use troops differently than the bandits. The bandits all use the scoundrels as the vanguard, with the elite behind. It seems to be very powerful. Every time an army sweeps through three or five counties, it can be called ten Thousands of people. But the Kun thieves used self-trained elite soldiers. Every time they wanted to attack somewhere, they always gathered elite soldiers in one place first. And with the sharp weapons of the Kun thieves, even if the government could have millions of elite soldiers, they would still be unable to do so. Can’t beat them.”
These few sentences were not originally Luo Heying's knowledge, but information obtained from his conversation with a Huang Yishi a few years ago. Speaking of this Huang Yishi, although they only met once, the two of them were sympathetic to each other. Huang Yishi had seen Kun thief with real swords and spears in battle. When talking about Kun thief's various situations, they were comparable to the one beside him The walrus monk who calls himself "Kunshi Tong" is much better
After saying that, he first looked at Li Guangyuan's face to judge whether his words were too serious, and he was suspected of embedding others' ambitions and destroying his own prestige. Seeing the hesitation on Li Guangyuan's face, he hurriedly turned around and said, "Although the Kun soldiers are elite, they are still much smaller in number. Even if he is made of iron, how many nails can he drive? Thousands of miles away, there are mountains and mountains, and there are countless Liu, Dong, and Yao people... Originally, most of them were people who disobeyed the king. Now that the thieves are here, they will only take the opportunity to cause chaos. And there are many loyal members of the imperial court everywhere. The soldiers raised their troops. The thieves dispersed their troops everywhere, and they were already tired."
These words cannot be said to be lies. Since the capture of Guangzhou in 1635, continuous public security wars have been launched in various parts of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially in northern Guangdong, which was once in full swing. However, after a whole year of public security purges in 1636, this situation of wars and wars has greatly improved. Although public security wars still exist sporadicly in many places, the land is no longer as dangerous as it was during the period from the end of 1635 to the beginning of 1636. situation.
But for Li Guangyuan, who is in Dongguan County, a "key governance area" of the Senate, the news from far away is really limited. He has only vaguely heard about some riots. How far the situation has developed, he is completely Those who have no idea can only listen to the two of them talking nonsense.
Gou Xunli also hurriedly came to add fuel to the fire: "What Brother Luo said is true. Although the Kun thieves claim to be descendants of Miao people from the Song Dynasty, they look similar. However, they have been smelling bad for a long time. They wear short hair, short clothes, and practice Kun rituals and customs. They are definitely not Chinese. That person is definitely not Chinese. Young man, he landed on the shore and bewitched the ignorant people in the countryside. He commanded the crowd to drive them away for profit. There was no righteousness at all, just because the righteousness lies in our Ming Dynasty. The Kun thieves are so menacing that they are really afraid of our Ming Dynasty. The commander-in-chief of the army drove Kun and was defeated. The Kun thieves were defeated. All the soldiers who were surrendered were sentenced to hard labor to kill their ambitions. The poor monks who met in Guangfu and the general soldiers returning from Qiongzhou all said that it was very hard for them to be driven by the bandits. I also heard that there were many rogue bandits and Eastern captives. They recruited and surrendered troops to serve as forts, but the Kun thieves did not use them. Unless they could not use them, they did not dare to use them. In the counties and counties where the Kun thieves invaded, there were also polite and scumbags following them, but the Kun thieves did not dare to use them. They formed a "study class" to teach them. The learning of the barbarians can only be taught to low-level officials after they have been tested by the Kun School. Although the Kun School has various subtleties, its benefits are all in industry and commerce. It is not as powerful as our Chinese way of Confucius and Mencius, which lasts for thousands of years. It is governed by the study of industry and commerce. All living beings in the world have gone astray. This honest barbarian has no luck for a hundred years, and the Kun people must also know it. This is why the Kun thieves fear me, the Ming Dynasty!"
Since escaping from Guangzhou City, it was the first time that Gou Xunli could speak his mind so directly, and his words were very smooth. He glanced at Li and Luo and found that they were still thinking carefully about his Huayi debate. When he was proud, he hurriedly pulled back his lofty remarks, "When the poor monk was in Lingao in the past, he watched The Kun thieves are indeed superior to others in their military training. Although the generals are numerous, they can use their fingers like arms to give orders. However, every time the Kun thieves train a soldier, it costs a lot of money. The food, pay, and weapons are ten times that of our soldiers. The Kun thieves focus on business. , with the profit of doing business, it feeds its military resources. It is pity that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are cheating and connecting the canals for the sake of small profits, but they did not expect that the wealth of today will be the sword of tomorrow. "
When Gou Xunli said this, he suddenly found Mr. Li drinking the bubbles of Australian water leisurely and contentedly. Isn’t it true that this Australian water was brought over by merchants, but these “anti-Kun” people are enjoying it peacefully. It's unspeakably funny. I felt secretly ashamed and angry. However, he was a "guest" after all, so naturally he couldn't criticize others. He just picked up the tea cup and took a sip to suppress the fire in his heart.
Li Guangyuan is full of calculations at this moment. He was unwilling to rashly raise troops to fight against Kun. For one thing, his capital is limited, and it’s just long-term labor for hundreds of farmers. As long as the Kun thief raises troops to attack, the Li family will be wiped out in an instant. The arrival of people with special abilities gave him some courage, but these alone were not enough to make him make up his mind.
Li Guangyuan's motivations for rebelling against Kun were quite complicated. Among them are the property losses caused to him by the thieves who "cleared the land"; and the anger that he had lost face due to the arrest of his relatives and cronies; but the most important thing is that in his heart, he is facing the problem of "being an official". eager.
Yes, the head of the Li family, who is quite powerful in the local area, has a prosperous clan and a lot of property, but there has never been a single person in the family. In terms of the whole county, his family can only be regarded as a "big family", not a big family. It is "Jin Gentry".
Without a prominent reputation, the Li family has always been inferior to others in Dongguan, and they often have no advantage in dealing with the Jin gentry. When it comes to doing things, others can do it with just a name card, but he has to spend a lot of money. .
Naturally, he also did things such as rewarding imperial examinations and encouraging the children of the clan to study. However, although the Li family has been around for a long time, its real prosperity began with Li Guangyuan's father's generation. I want to make a breakthrough in the imperial examination, but I am really in a hurry.
Therefore, he was very concerned about the "deviant sect". When the Imperial College opened donations, he donated the imperial students for the children of the clan - but after all, this was different from the serious imperial examination achievements.
A few days ago, a friend from the past made a special trip to visit him, hinting that the imperial court was about to counterattack. As long as he could "raise troops to respond", his fame would not be a problem. Only then did Li Guangyuan make up his mind to board the ship.
Luo Heying added a word or two from time to time while paying attention to Li Guangyuan's expression. He also understood that although Li Guangyuan was "on board", he was still "the first and the second" and needed something to strengthen his heart.
He suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Brother Li, I'm here to bring you some strange books this time."
After that, he called his personal servant and went straight to get the book. When Li Guangyuan took the book, he felt that the paper was very thin. When he looked at the book, there was a picture of a knight in silver armor holding a simple sword and a hard bow on his back, riding on a black horse, with its front hooves raised and its head raised. Filial piety stands in the wind and snow. As soon as I saw this painting, I felt that the murderous spirit of the samurai was rushing towards my face along with the wind and snow in the painting. There is a line of running script on the side of the painting "Heavy Snow Full of Bows and Swords", and there is also a line of tough small characters "The Ming Dynasty's History of Liaodong Begins and Ends". When I took a closer look, I found that the five Song-style characters "Research on the History of War" on the title that I had just ignored because I was attracted by the portrait of the warrior were particularly eye-catching. Under these five words are the small words "Album of the War Situation in Liaodong", and below the writing are listed "The Impact of the Denglai Rebellion on the Situation in Liaodong", "A Brief Analysis of the Eight Banners System", "The Whole Story of Huang Taiji's Ascension to the Throne"... Li Guangyuan saw it straight away Shaking his head, the picture of the general leaving the country was ruined by these scrawled words.
Monk Walrus recognized this book at a glance, "Is this "Research on the History of War" written by Kun Ren?
Luo Heying pretended to be surprised and asked: "Monk Walrus has read this book."
"This book has been circulated in Guangfu and Jiangnan since last year, and I have studied it with my colleagues in the academy."
"Sir, please give me a brief explanation."
Monk Walrus didn't refuse. He picked up the key points and talked about it again. While Li Guangyuan listened, he flipped through a few pages and took a rough look.
