After hearing this, Li Rubai couldn't help but ask Jiang Shigong: "Why does Brother Jiang think this is good luck?"
Jiang Shigong said: "Otherwise, you go directly to the main town over the top. Generally speaking, the main town will definitely not see you. If you have a bad temper, they may directly order you to be beaten, or you may be killed as an assassin. Possibly, but now the chief mayor has not only met you, but also promoted you, which shows that you are lucky and have met a good chief mayor."
"That makes sense."
Li Rubai nodded after hearing this, and then said to Jiang Shigong:
"Brother Jiang is also lucky to have met me."
Jiang Shigong was startled for a moment, then his face became happy, and he immediately bowed and said: "My little brother Jiang Shigong will always regard you as his big brother! I am willing to go up the sword mountain and the sea of fire for Brother Tie!"
Li Rubai hurriedly supported Jiang Shigong: "Why is it so? The current headquarter knows everything clearly. This is the time for you and me to make great achievements and display our ambitions."
Jiang Shigong said "hmm".
Li Rubai then took advantage of his break to write down his experiences in a letter to Li Chengliang, saying:
"How are you, father? Thanks to you, my son has been in exile in Japan for half a year. Now he has been promoted to sentry officer. But it is not all because of his bravery and good fighting skills. It is because of his good luck that he met a soldier who understands the situation. The good president of the town is also related to the fact that the son himself gave birth to a good child. If the son was not the son of the Li family, how could he know the nature of the president of Qi and why would he dare to be so bold? "
"My son discovered that it is very difficult to make progress as an ordinary soldier! Not only do you have to dare to do things, you also have to be lucky, and you have to be able to tolerate bad luck; in addition, even if you are an official in the main town, you have to If you are able to endure and reconcile yin and yang, you will either offend your superiors or offend your subordinates;"
"In addition, there is a serious situation in the military where merit is false and merit is taken for granted."
"Therefore, when selecting officers and generals, especially for junior high schools, you cannot just rely on the merits reported by the local government based on actual combat. It is also better to test them through competitions and drills from time to time. Some people call it "establishment". The small schools that have made great achievements are actually just relying on their connections. Many of them can’t even operate firearms, and some even can’t ride a horse. How can they make meritorious deeds?”
"My father is now the privy envoy and is responsible for the selection of middle and lower-level official schools. You should be more cautious, lest these official schools become a general town in the future, and your majesty will blame my father for his incompetence."
Li Chengliang quickly handed Li Rubai's letter to him to the emperor.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun read Li Rubai's letter that day. After reading it, he smiled and said to Li Chengliang: "My son went to the grassroots level of the army, and it was indeed fruitful. He also discovered many problems, and he also proposed it to you, the privy envoy." suggestions."
"Quinzi talked nonsense and made His Majesty laugh."
Although Li Chengliang was sure that what Li Rubai said in the letter was very good before giving it to Zhu Yijun to read, he was still modest in front of Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Yijun said: "I think his suggestion is good. We should always test the military flag school through competitions and exercises."
"Yes, the Privy Council will comply with the decree."
Li Chengliang replied at this time, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, looking quite happy.
Qi Jiguang glanced at Li Chengliang's proud look, and then sighed slightly because he remembered that none of his sons wanted to join the army. Then he took out Qi Jin's memorial and said to Zhu Yijun:
"Your Majesty, the Japanese town minister Qi Jin has made a secret report, impeaching Lang Guan Tang Fu and General Yin Fu for violating the law. Please tell me how to deal with it."
Zhu Yijun already knew about this through Li Rubai's letter to Li Chengliang, so he ordered: "Since Qi Jin is not able to uphold justice in this matter, Jin Yiwei will take charge of it and arrest these two people and bring them to Beijing for strict interrogation to correct the morale of the army!"
Zhang Jingxiu quickly raised his hands and said yes.
It would indeed be better for Jin Yiwei to come forward and arrest Tang Fu and Yin Fu directly, so that no one would suspect that Qi Jin was responsible. As for how Jin Yiwei knew about this matter, it is naturally something that bureaucrats cannot ask. The question is about Jin Yiwei's own interests and pervasiveness.
Of course, this is also why the bureaucracy is afraid of spy politics.
The main thing is that spy politics makes people hard to guard against.
But even if this is the case, there will always be people who take chances.
Stop gossiping.
Moreover, Li Rubai had only stayed in Shankou City for a few months before he saw with his own eyes the scene where Tang Fu and Yin Fu were taken away by Jin Yiwei from Beijing.
This made Li Rubai sincerely happy, especially when he thought that Tang Fu and Yin Fu were unlucky probably because he wrote a letter to his father. This made him feel more comfortable that he was eliminating harm for the country, and it also made him feel happy. He felt even more that he had not used the method of exile to get to the grassroots level of the army in vain.
Jiang Shigong and other lower-level officers and soldiers of the Ming army were also very happy. After all, they knew very well how hateful middle-level officials like Tang Fu and Yin Fu who were disloyal to the imperial court would be.
Jiang Shigong even felt sorry for Li Rubai because of this: "It would be great if the Jin Yiwei had come earlier, so that Brother Li, your great achievements would not be taken away."
"No one dares to take it now."
Li Rubai said this meaningfully.
Li Rubai soon learned through a reply from his father Li Chengliang that his proposal had been adopted by the emperor, and the emperor even praised him.
This made him feel like nectar nourishing his heart, and he was filled with the joy of seeing spring. He became more positive in the following experiences and his resentment was greatly reduced.
After the Ming army captured Yamaguchi Castle, they continued to provoke Maori Terumoto.
Coach Qi Jin also sent troops to surround Ogi City, the city where Mouri Terumoto lived.
The residence castle is also the feudal hall, which is equivalent to the capital city, which is the city where Mouri Terumoto himself is stationed.
After the Ming army surrounded Pingshan City, Qi Jin did not directly order the attack on the city. Instead, he sent his staff general Chen Ce to question Mao Li Huiyuan and asked him why he did not allow Mao Li Jingyuan to treat the king's division with courtesy and dared to refuse the king's division to enter the city to search. The demands of missing soldiers.
This made Mouri Terumoto, who was about to fight to the death because Ogi City was besieged, breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that the Ming army had no intention of directly destroying him. He quickly said that there was a misunderstanding, explained it, and expressed his willingness to compensate. Five hundred thousand taels of silver to appease the anger of the Ming Dynasty King's Master.
Qi Jin reported the matter to Governor Yang Hao.
Yang Hao considered that although the imperial court had decided to exterminate the Japanese, the specific strategy was to first eliminate the stubborn nobles, seize their markets, and then slowly annex them through immigration and education, so he temporarily accepted them on the grounds that the governor had the power to act expediently. He accepted Mao Li Huiyuan's request and also asked Mao Li Huiyuan not to prohibit the people in his jurisdiction from trading with the Ming Dynasty.
Maori Terumoto naturally agreed.
However, not all the daimyo and samurai under the Mouri clan of Choshu Domain were as forbearing as Mouri Terumoto. Many of them took the initiative to attack the Ming army because of the Ming army's eastern expedition.
Some directly led troops to attack the Ming army, some committed assassinations, and some deliberately sabotaged them.
The measure taken by the Ming army was to kill one team at a time. No matter which country or town there was unrest, it would be easier than fire.
As mentioned before, there was no shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty, and there were even so many people that it affected the country's industrialization process.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's external expansion model was different from that of the Western Yi.
Since there is no shortage of people, the Japanese are of little value to the Ming Dynasty, especially the nobles who are not engaged in production, and they are even less valuable.
Therefore, for the Japanese nobles who were unwilling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army simply killed them without persuading them to surrender.
The main thing is self-consciousness.
If you obey Wang Hua, you can temporarily refrain from killing him and allow him to continue to exist as a noble in the local area. If you don't obey Wang Hua, you can only treat him as a Japanese pirate and get rid of him.
For the Ming Dynasty, they even wished that everyone in the Japanese land was a Japanese pirate. In this case, more Japanese could be eliminated and more people could be immigrated.
For a time, many daimyo and samurai who refused to accept the rule of the Ming Empire were bloodbathed.
The Ming army not only carried out the bloodbath themselves, but also involved the Maori clan and other daimyo who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. They also recruited some ronin, that is, bankrupt samurai to participate in the name of maintaining public order.
The Maori clan and the ronin were very active in doing these things for the Ming army.
Because daimyo like Mouri Terumoto are essentially landlords, they also hope that the place where they live can be peaceful. It doesn't matter whether their master is the shogunate or the Ming Empire.
The same goes for the Ronin. As bankrupt samurai, they can now work for the Ming Dynasty and have a stable career. For them, it simply allows them to have a stable life again.
"Master! Ahead is Itsukushima Town!"
Li Rubai became a governor for his meritorious service in the security war to suppress the rebellious Japanese.
On this day, when he was ordered to lead his troops to suppress the rebellion and bandits in Itsukushima Town, Otomo Hiroshi, the general of the co-defense battalion who followed him, introduced him to a guide named Ishida Takakage.
This guide, Takakage Ishida, was originally a ronin who was active on the coast in this area. Now he has been recruited by the Ming army and has become the captain of the feudal soldiers who maintain law and order. At this time, he was hunched over and pointing the way to Li Rubai with a flattering smile.
Because most of the Japanese people surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they worked as slaves for the powerful officials of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, most of the Japanese people learned the term "Master" and also knew that calling someone "Master" is a title that makes the other party happy. Gradually, they also learned to call people "Master". So he called all the Han people "Master".
At this time, Ishida Takakage called Li Rubai master.
The so-called xieshou battalion is a military force that Zhu Yijun ordered Ashikaga Yoshiaki to form long ago. The sympathizer camp is mainly composed of Japanese people. Its duty is to assist the Ming army in suppressing the rebellion. This troop was set up as early as after the Ming Dynasty occupied Kyushu. .
The people who can become the generals of the auxiliary defense camp are basically the daimyo who have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
The Co-defense Battalion is nominally the central army of the Ashikaga clan.
Of course, the actual military power was in the hands of Ming officials.
As for the troops organized by local daimyo such as Mouri Terumoto who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they were collectively called feudal soldiers.
However, although Mouri Terumoto was said to have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he was nominally surrendering to the Ming Dynasty's puppet dynasty, the Ashikaga Dynasty.
The Ashikaga clan issued an order to Mouri Terumoto to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty in conquering the Tokugawa clan. Therefore, although Ishida Takakage was a member of the Mouri clan, he had to obey Li Rubai's command.
After hearing what Takakage Ishida said, Li Rubai led his troops into Itsukushima Town. Soon, he saw a group of Japanese warriors gathering together to kill him.
Seeing this, Li Rubai hurriedly asked Dayou Guangyi's co-defensive troops to go forward first, while he only led his own Ming army to supervise the battle team behind.
Although Otomo Guangri's auxiliary defense camp was well-equipped with fine iron armor and big bird guns purchased from the Ming Empire, it was subsequently defeated miserably by these rebel warriors who were not afraid of death.
The main reason was that the Japanese in the supporting camp only dared to fire cannons from a distance and did not dare to rush in and fight hand-to-hand.
The Japanese warriors who were unwilling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty were basically stubborn resisters. They were basically not afraid of death and were very brave and good at fighting.
As long as these Japanese warriors broke through the first wave of firepower of the Xie Shou camp, they would directly engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Xie Shou soldiers. They even ignited the gunpowder bags they carried and dared to die with the Xie Shou camp.
Naturally, most of the Japanese soldiers in the auxiliary camp did not have this kind of bloodiness, otherwise, they would not be willing to be Ming's minions instead of resisting.
Li Rubai had no choice but to personally lead the Ming army to supervise the battle. He stopped the collapse by killing the fleeing defenders, forcing Otomo Guanghi to reorganize his officers and soldiers to attack the incoming rebel warriors, but also used his own With excellent firearms, and with the assistance of the Ming army's firearms, the offensive of these rebel warriors was stopped.
But Li Rubai knew that he could not count on the Japanese soldiers in the supporting camp to completely wipe out the rebel samurai. After that, he simply ordered the withdrawal of the newly built Huayun City, and was about to request his superiors to mobilize more Ming troops to wipe out the rebels here. Rebellious warrior.
At the same time, Li Rubai also wrote another letter to his father Li Chengliang, saying: "The Japanese in the Xieshou Camp are courageless and can only fight with the wind, but they dare not fight against the wind. The defense is okay, but the attack is useless. It is okay to suppress the Japanese and Li Shu, but it is difficult to exterminate the Japanese pirates." , we should mobilize more Han soldiers in this dynasty, otherwise it will be difficult to completely suppress the Japanese pirates. Since the Han soldiers in this dynasty have honored the military merits, many of them dare to fight hard. What's more, according to the decree, those who died in the Japanese war in Dongying can get Yongye Tianwu. Ten acres, so there are many people who dare to work hard."
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"It just so happens that the country is absorbing a large number of unemployed people into the army due to the promotion of steam engines. It can send more troops to Japan. The court can do it. The most important thing the country lacks now is its own people."
After Zhu Yijun learned about Li Rubai's proposal from Li Chengliang, he told the ruling ministers in the Imperial Palace about sending more Han soldiers to Japan.
Qi Jiguang also echoed: "Your Majesty is right, and in the process of destroying the Japanese pirates, as a large number of Japanese pirates will be wiped out, there will inevitably be many fertile fields that will become ownerless, which is also suitable for distribution to soldiers who have made military achievements. Accelerate the transformation of Japan into a king."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Just like this, the Japanese civilians will organize themselves to mine, or move to places like Luzon and Myanmar to open up wasteland!"
Qi Jiguang raised his hand and said yes.
At this time, Wang Xijue said: "Your Majesty! Although there is no shortage of people of our own clan in the Ming Dynasty, as this expansion continues, no matter how many people of our own clan there are, there will be times when it is not enough."
"I believe that we should encourage population fertility and strengthen Chinese culture as soon as possible. To this end, we should strictly order the marriageable women of our tribe to get married and no longer be allowed to engage in the sex industry. Han women are not allowed to be employed in brothels. Otherwise, they will be punished. Check it!"
"In addition, in a place where Protestantism was established, the local characters, customs, and costumes should be removed, and the customs should be completely changed! Accelerate the Sinicization of the local natives so that they have the same culture, track, and balance." (End of this chapter)
