Li Zhiyun was very interested in the mortar, so he asked someone to carry it to a remote place outside Chang'an City to see if the shells could be fired. A group of people carried the cannon noisily to the front yard, and saw a eunuch coming in from outside the gate, shouting in a male duck's voice: "King Chu, the emperor announces your entry into the palace."
"Now? I have something else to do."
"The Emperor wants you to go immediately."
Helpless, Li Zhiyun had no choice but to say to everyone: "I'm going to see my father. Let's go test-shooting tomorrow." He followed the eunuch to the Tai Chi Palace and walked into the Wude Palace, only to see that his fourth brother was already there. . The fourth brother knelt in front of the throne, while Abba sat on the dragon throne with an angry look on his face.
Li Zhiyun walked over and knelt down to salute. After the ceremony, he just raised his head and saw his father glaring: "You bastard, Jinyang has tens of thousands of strong soldiers and enough food to last ten years. It is the foundation for the rise of the king's industry. What do you think?" Just give up, you are so generous. Come here, drag King Chu down and beat him for thirty times!" Upon hearing this, Li Zhiyun argued: "Fourth brother is the general manager, I am only the deputy..."
"Stop talking nonsense and pull it off."
The two warriors rushed up like wolves and tigers, dragged Li Zhiyun to the side of the hall without any explanation, pressed him on a wooden bench, "kissed" his buttocks with a board, and beat him until he screamed. The fourth brother heard his cry and watched him being beaten out of the corner of his eyes, with an imperceptible smile on his lips.
After being spanked, Li Zhiyun had injuries on his buttocks and could not get out of bed, so he could only lie on the bed to recover from his injuries. The next day, the fourth brother came to visit him. Li Zhiyun was angry and turned his head to ignore him. The fourth brother smiled and said: "Fifth brother, I know you are taking this beating for me. No, I have brought you something good." After that, he unpacked a large baggage in his hand. It opened, displaying the gold and silver jewelry inside.
Li Zhiyun took a look and saw, wow, his eyes were filled with glittering golden light, which dazzled him. He has always been keen on money, and when he saw these gold and silver treasures, his butt immediately stopped hurting. Therefore, he forgave his fourth brother.
The fourth brother, like the eldest and second brothers, probably grew up in a wealthy family and was never short of money, so he always regarded money as dirt. In addition, their understanding of money is still very shallow. They think that money can only help people live a good life, nothing more. Only Li Zhiyun knows the use of money. In fact, money can bring much more than they know...
Shortly after the fourth brother left, the third sister also came to visit him. The third sister smiled and said, "You brat, have you caused trouble again?" Li Zhiyun pouted and said, "I have to bear the consequences for others."
"Why, don't you have any responsibility at all? I heard that you two went crazy in Jinyang City. Yuanji hunted every day, and you walked around the streets every day."
Seeing that Li Zhiyun was silent, the third sister slowed down and said: "However, you are not useless. You eradicated Xue Qiang in Xihe City and quelled Gao Tancheng's rebellion in Xia County. You did a pretty good job in these two things. I heard , many ministers praised you in the court..."
After the third sister left the Chu Palace, she went into the palace to visit the queen. The mother and son chatted for a while, and the queen sighed: "Because of the loss of Jinyang, your father has been having trouble sleeping and eating these days. These two children are too playful and have brought things to this point."
"This is also my fault," the third sister said. "Knowing how important Jinyang is, he sent them to guard it. Yuanji is only seventeen years old, and Zhiyun is only fifteen. They are just two big boys. How can a boy not be playful?"
Abba was frightened by Liu Wuzhou's momentum and wrote an edict in his own handwriting: "The thieves are so powerful that it is difficult to fight against them. We should abandon the area east of the Yellow River and guard Guanxi."
The fourth brother came to Li Zhiyun again to discuss a solution with him, "Fifth brother, we lost Jinyang. We must find a proper solution." The injury on Li Zhiyun's buttocks was almost healed. Already able to sit up. He patted the fourth brother on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, let's go find the second brother and ask him to attack Liu Wuzhou."
"Can second brother beat Liu Wuzhou?"
"Of course." Li Zhiyun said firmly. He thought to himself, didn’t the great man say that? In the past, Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Tang were the ancestors of Song Dynasty. Li Zhiyun had never heard of the name Liu Wuzhou in his previous life. If the second brother couldn't defeat such a little-known little thief, how could he stand shoulder to shoulder with those great monarchs in history?
The two came to Prince Qin's Mansion and found the second brother. Li Zhiyun said: "Second brother, Liu Wuzhou's offensive is fierce and unstoppable. Now, only you can defeat him personally." The second brother nodded and said: "Even if you two don't come to me, I will go to find my father." Please take care of yourself."
After Li Zhiyun and the fourth brother left, the second brother immediately went to the palace to find his father and said to him: "Taiyuan is the foundation of the royal family and the foundation of the country; the Hedong area is fertile and rich in products, and the capital depends on it for supply. If we give up everything, my son I feel deeply regretful and resentful. Please give me 30,000 elite soldiers, so that I can definitely destroy Liu Wuzhou and regain Jinfen."
My father looked at his second brother and said, "Are you really sure you can defeat Liu Wuzhou?" The second brother nodded heavily.
"Well, I will personally recruit soldiers and horses from Guanzhong to expand your army, and you will lead the army to conquer Liu Wuzhou." Abba made the final decision.
Although the injury on Li Zhiyun's butt healed, he did not heal the scar and forget about the pain. This is the third time he has been beaten. Abba never hits his eldest brother, second brother and fourth brother, but only uses him as a punching bag. Apart from the fact that he is the youngest son, the most important point is that the eldest brother, second brother and fourth brother all have military power in their hands, and Abba does not dare Beating them is just a few words of reprimand at most. Although he had been stationed in Jinyang, he was only a deputy general manager in name only. He didn't have any soldiers in his hands, so Abba had no scruples about attacking him.
Therefore, the top priority is to quickly establish a new army. With a powerful army on hand, his butt becomes a tiger's butt.
Li Zhiyun went into the palace to find his father, "Abba, the eldest brother, the second brother, and the fourth brother all have armies, and I also want to build an army." Abba glanced at him listlessly, "Build an army? You want to build an army?" If Yangdu is lost, where can I get money to recruit soldiers for you?"
"You don't need to pay. I will raise the troops myself. From now on, this army will not cost the court a penny."
real? Spend your own money to build an army and help Abba conquer the world? Is there such a good thing in the world? When my father heard this, he immediately became energetic and said, "Well, you go and recruit soldiers quickly. The sooner the better, the more the better. Once you have recruited soldiers, train them as soon as possible, and then go out with your second brother on the expedition."
Li Zhiyun suddenly discovered that his father seemed to be much older these days. The loss of the Hedong area was a huge blow to him. He is over fifty years old and can no longer withstand much hardship. If he does not have a few capable children, how can he achieve an imperial career?
Li Zhiyun heard that his father secretly sent Pei Ji to Chengdu to build a palace there. Once the situation is unfavorable, Abba will move the capital to Chengdu. My father was frightened by Liu Wuzhou and planned to imitate Tang Xuanzong of later generations, so he ran to Shu to seek refuge and became Liu Adou. Therefore, Abba sincerely hopes that his sons will work as hard as possible to help him overcome this difficulty.
With his father's approval, Li Zhiyun's army had a formal establishment. He planned to call the army the "Firearms Battalion", so he asked his father for the title of "Firearms Battalion Grand Marshal".
After Li Zhiyun returned to the Chu Palace, he immediately summoned Wei Xiaobao, Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and several subordinate officials to discuss the establishment of an army. It was finally decided that in addition to setting up recruitment stations in Chang'an, recruitment stations would also be set up in several nearby prefectures. Li Zhiyun handed over the recruitment of new soldiers to Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu, and told them: "The new soldiers recruited must be literate. The higher the education level, the better. At least they must be able to write their own names."
What Li Zhiyun wanted to build was a new army. This army would not have too many people, so he put forward higher requirements for the quality of the soldiers. However, Zhang Zheng was in trouble as soon as he heard this, "King Chu, all those who can read and write are scholars. They don't want to be soldiers."
Li Zhiyun was right. This was in ancient times. The literacy rate was too low. I am afraid that few people who were willing to serve as soldiers were literate, so he had to relent and said: "That's fine, you can figure it out. If you are illiterate, as long as you are It’s okay to look smart.”
The third sister heard that Li Zhiyun was planning to build an army, so she gave him the troops she lent him. One-third of those two thousand people were lost in the Battle of Hulukou, and now there are still more than a thousand people left. Li Zhiyun planned to recruit more than a thousand people to form a regiment based on these more than a thousand people. He planned to form a division with four regiments of 3,000 men each, plus the troops directly under the division headquarters, for a total of 15,000 men. He estimated that on a one-to-ten basis, the combat effectiveness of this division equipped with new firearms should be equivalent to 150,000 troops.
As for the organization of the army, he planned to imitate the new army of the Qing Dynasty. Divisions were called towns, regiments were called standards, and he couldn't remember the names below the battalion, so he simply called them battalions, companies, and platoons. In terms of officers, the chief of the town is called Tongzhi, the chief of the standard is called Biaotong, and the following are the battalion commander, company commander and platoon commander.
Scarface was appointed as the first leader. He sent people to Pingchang Town to find Li Niutie. At the beginning, he had promised Li Tieniu that when he became queen, he would let him be the captain of the palace guard. People should keep their word.
It was only after he became the Queen of Chu that he discovered that the guards of the Prince's Palace were actually two organizations, called the Marriage Affairs Palace and the Zhang Nei Palace, which were responsible for escorting the prince when traveling. The chiefs of these two organizations are called Dianjun, and they are all officials of the fifth rank. Taken together, the Marriage Office and the Zhang Nei Office only had more than 200 people assigned to him by the Ministry of Personnel. However, the officers were fully staffed and there was not a single vacancy. I really don’t know how much money those officials received. Besides, even if there was a vacancy, it wouldn't work. Li Tieniu was just a butcher after all. If Li Zhiyun asked him to be a fifth-rank officer, the officials would not agree to it anyway. The firearms battalion is an army he established with his own money, and the appointment of officers is entirely up to him, as long as it is registered with the Ministry of War.
Li Zhiyun appointed Li Tieniu as the second Biaotong, and his family members were also taken over and placed in the Chu Palace. If he wants, his wife can work as a handyman in the palace.
