lied to Kangxi

Chapter 203 Strong Army
Along the way, I met passing tax soldiers, without exception, they did not bow to the jade pillar, but put their legs together and beat their chests in salute.

Longkoduo found it interesting, so he asked Yuzhu, "Why is it knocking on the chest as a gift?"

Yuzhu explained with a smile: "I'm just a small tax inspector. I ask people to kneel and salute every day. Isn't that causing trouble?"

Longkodo knew in his heart that the little villain must have not told the truth.However, he did not point out these, and temporarily skipped them calmly.

When he came to Yuzhu's house, Longkodo was surprised to find that there was a soldier with a gun and a knife standing on each side of the house.

Longkodo squinted his eyes and observed carefully for a while. He was surprised to find that the angles at which these four people stood just locked all the approaching directions, without any dead angle.

Well, Yuzhu, the little bastard, is hiding quite deep, and he must dig slowly, Long Kedo secretly made up his mind.

After Longkodo entered the room, he was completely attracted by a huge wooden military sand table in the middle of the room.

The capital is the birthplace of Longkodo.Longkodo also holds the military power inside and outside the capital. He knows the direction of the mountains and rivers inside and outside the capital even with his eyes closed.

However, what the sand table showed was several times more detailed than what Longkoduo knew.

Seeing Long Kedo's eyes staring unblinkingly at the military sand table, Yuzhu nodded secretly, after all, he is a man who knows soldiers and is a guy who knows goods.

In fact, today's military sand table is still very rough, only a rough shape, not very accurate.

Why?The tax soldiers under Yuzhu know the trend of mountains and rivers, but they are all illiterate, how can they learn the concept of "contour line" in a while?

However, even this kind of military sand table, which is less than one-tenth of the completion, is already the top-level existence of the Qing Dynasty.

"What's the name of this object?" Long Kedo seemed to be looking at a rare treasure, and after admiring it for a quarter of an hour, he turned to ask Yuzhu.

Yuzhu said softly: "This object is called a military sand table. According to the map, it restores the mountains, rivers, bridges and roads near the capital, but the scale is reduced."

"Well, this is a sacred object!" Longkodo said excitedly, pointing to the military sand table, "If this object is offered to the court, Uncle Feng will take it lightly."

Talking to a sensible person, you don't need to say too much, just the word "divine thing", let Yuzhu know that Longkodo has already understood the actual combat significance of the military sand table.

"My good son, tell me quickly, how did you train such an elite army?" Longkoduo endured and endured, he couldn't help it, and finally asked.

"Ama, just walk around and take a look. Whether you understand it or not, I will give a reasonable explanation." Yuzhu deliberately put on airs and put on airs.

"I'm not going anywhere, just stay with you." Longkodo is not an idiot, he follows Yuzhu, what else can't he see?
"Ama, I still have some documents to deal with, look..." Yu Zhu wanted to send him away.

Longkodo smiled and said: "You are busy with your work, I will just take a look at this." He pointed to the military sand table.

Yuzhu started to deal with the military documents, and Longkodo didn't bother him, and stood alone next to the military sand table, concentrating on researching something.

"Dididi..." Suddenly, a bamboo whistle sounded, breaking the tranquility of the room, and Longkodo subconsciously raised his eyes to look at Yuzhu.

But Yuzhu didn't even raise his eyelids, and kept drawing a pen to deal with military documents, an unusual monograph.

Longkodo heard chaotic footsteps outside the house, and then heard a loud password, "Attention everyone, listen to my password, stand at attention!"

"Look to the right."

"Look forward."

"Jiashi goes out and sets up the spear array."

Long Keduo saw that the jade pillar had not moved like a mountain, so he couldn't bear his temper, so he moved to the door, looked outside, and was dumbfounded on the spot.

A team of about forty tax soldiers was divided into four teams.Holding shields and holding guns, they are conducting offensive drills.

Longkodo had never seen such an imposing spear assassination even though he had read the military books badly. He subconsciously walked out of the house, stood on the open space, and began to study with relish.

Among them was a team of eleven tax soldiers. Standing in the front row were two burly men holding shields.Behind them, there were six spearmen.

Behind the pikemen are two warriors holding a small shield in their left hand and a knife in their right hand.

What formation is this?Long Kedo thought about it, even if he racked his brains, he didn't have any impression.

"Kill!" The officer in the queue yelled sharply, and then swung his knife forward.

Seeing that, the big shield hand raised the thick shield high, and the pikemen behind them got down and stabbed fiercely from the gap in the big shield.

The last sword and shield soldier waved a small shield with his left hand, and slashed fiercely with his right hand!

This time, Longkodo roughly understood that everything in front of him told him an iron fact: this is the perfect formation to attack the enemy's formation.

The fly in the ointment is that if you are facing enemies with artillery and firecrackers, this formation will not work.

Longkodo is not an ordinary person, he is half an expert who is familiar with military books.Naturally, he could see that once this battle was launched, the enemy could only win with firearms.

Giant shield soldiers and sword and shield soldiers are actually outdated in the modern age of firearms.

However, Yu Zhu left this big flaw, which was deliberately used to confuse people.

Kangxi was in charge of a firearms unit called the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, which was stationed near the Forbidden City.

In the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, there are shotgun guards and artillery armor. The main equipment is shotguns and imitation Franco cannons. There are about a few thousand people.

No matter how powerful the tax soldiers are, they will collapse after being bombarded by the firearms battalion.

In this way, Kangxi completely dismissed the dozens of people in Yuzhu.

During lunch, several large and small vats were placed in front of the five cooks. The large vats were filled with white rice, and the small vats were filled with side dishes.

Longkodo stretched his head curiously to look, but he saw strips of pickled radish, boiled white cabbage with oily fat, kohlrabi mixed with carrot shreds, a large vat of meat and bone soup, and white rice that could not be poured with chopsticks.

Don't think it's just three dishes and one soup, but Long Kedo, who knows the soldiers, knows that this is already an extremely rich lunch for the tax soldiers.

You know, the Eight Banners soldiers under Longkodo usually only pickled radish strips for dinner, and they never saw meat stars at all.

Just looking at this kind of food, Long Kedo knew that Yuzhu was very willing to feed the tax soldiers well, and he did not embezzle military expenses at all.

When it was Yuzhu's turn to pick up food, Longkodo noticed that Yuzhu walked up to the steaming iron pot, picked up the large coarse porcelain bowl in the pot with long wooden chopsticks, and took it out. A pair of bamboo chopsticks.

"Why is that?" Long Kedo was considered a senior military general who had seen the world, but he had never seen this kind of method, so he couldn't help asking Yu Zhu very curiously.

"People and animals in the army are mixed together, and they are most afraid of contracting diseases. Using bowls and chopsticks boiled in boiling water is not easy to contract diseases." Yuzhu's explanation made Long Kedo puzzled.

What is the reason for this?
Long Kedo also knows a lot of well-known imperial physicians in the palace, but he has never heard of them?

Yuzhu had already started cooking food, but when Longkodo was picking up the bowl, he was accidentally scalded and lost the bowl in his hand.

Boiling water to scald bowls can really prevent epidemics?

Longkodo was ashamed on the spot, and his face was inevitably flushed, but he was thinking about the reason why the bowl was boiled in boiling water.

Yu Zhu had already ordered the food, but he didn't talk to Longkodo who was in a daze. There are many things that he doesn't understand, so let him figure it out by himself.

Anyway, with Longkodo's love for military affairs, in the end, he will definitely break the casserole and ask the end.

Finally, after Longkodo prepared the food, he saw Yuzhu squatting in the crowd of vulgar soldiers.

When Longkodo walked towards the jade pillar, he suddenly found that several people were devouring a whole bowl of fat and thin meat.

He noticed sensitively that around here, many soldiers with no meat in their bowls were staring at these meat-eating fellows, swallowing with envy.

This is really rare, such a large bowl of meat, even the owners of ordinary households, cannot eat it every day.

Like Yuzhu, Longko also squatted beside him, full of doubts and asked: "Why is there such a big bowl of meat?"

Yuzhu took a bite of his rice and explained: "The winners who train in the morning can eat meat for lunch. Similarly, the winners who train in the afternoon can also eat meat for dinner."

"Oh!" Long Keduo understood that Ganqing is a routine meat reward.

Not to mention anything else, just this big bowl of meat is at least a catty in weight.

In the butcher shops in the capital, a catty of pork belly costs at least one hundred Wen.

Regarding Yuzhu's willingness to spend money and open up to feed the tax soldiers, Longkodo immediately had a new understanding.

The first time he squatted to eat, Longkodo felt that it was very fresh. Before that, how could he be so vulgar and shapeless?

Just because he squatted down, Longkodo discovered another rare thing. The soldiers' feet were not straw sandals, but black homespun shoes.

You know, the regular officers and soldiers of the green battalion in the capital still wear straw sandals.

Long Kedo has a feeling of time and space disorder. The local tax soldiers here are treated much better than the imperial court's officers and soldiers!
Who is the real officer?

After coming out of the tax camp, Longkodo didn't worry about Yuzhu anymore.

He is the beloved son of Longkodo, who can be the number one scholar in literature, and trains soldiers and horses in martial arts.In the future, it is really possible for Yuzhu to earn an earl and return home by relying on his military exploits.

If you have a son like this, what more can you ask for?
Among the folk nobles in the Qing Dynasty, the viscount who is the first grade is the watershed.The duke, marquis and earl above the viscount are all divided into first, second and third ranks, all of which are super rank titles.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the super-grade titles among the people with different surnames were strictly controlled.If you really did it, you won't be awarded without military merit.

The most obvious example is Fucha Mazi.As the chief scholar of Manchuria and the Minister of the Household Department, he can be said to be a high-ranking and powerful person.

However, due to lack of military merits, Ma Qi never had a title in the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties.

In the Qianlong Dynasty, because of his niece Empress Fucha, Ma Qi was honored by his relatives, and was made an earl because of his kindness.

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