Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 194 Free Loyal Servant, Xiong Dominates the Central Plains! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Grandpa, this is Shang Kexi's and Shang Zhixin's persuasion form that Fourth Grandpa entrusted me to bring to you!"

Above the main hall of the Western Prince’s Mansion in Hanzhong, Wu Shifan, who came from afar, saluted and greeted Wu Sangui, and then took out the letter written by Shang Kexi and Shang Zhi that Wu Sanwei gave him, "Persuading the Western King to Advance to the Throne as the Son of Heaven".

"What?" Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, and asked while taking the "persuasion form", "Your fourth grandfather?"

"It's Xinhui Hou Changlian," Wu Shifan explained. "When my grandson was about to leave Gaozhou Prefecture with his ancestral grandfather, he happened to lead his troops to Lianzhou, passing through the Yanmen Village of Wuchuan County in Gaozhou. His grandson followed Grandpa and grandpa went to Xianmenzhai together, met fourth grandpa, and then fourth grandpa gave grandson this persuasion watch, and asked grandson to bring it to grandpa."

"What does he look like?" Wu Sangui asked while flipping through the Quanjin watch.

Wu Sangui is still very interested in his little brother whom he has never met. Of course, he also doubted the identity of this Wu Sanwei, but this Wu Sanwei is not an unknown soldier, he was born as a champion of martial arts, and he was also a city guard with the rank of lieutenant general. General, not to mention high position and weight, he is also famous and well-known, how could he mistakenly identify his own father?
And this Wu Sanwei is indeed from Zhili, and his hometown is very close to Beijing.Counting the days, when he was born, Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, also happened to be a rich man in Beijing. Back then, Beijing was a world of flamboyance. Didn't Wu Sangui get a "yuanyuan" there?
Later, Wu Sangui heard people say that many girls were sent to him back then, not only Chen Yuanyuan, but also several beauties, but they were not sent to him—he is not busy with military affairs, so his father Wu Xiang Received!But after many years, Wu Sangui got an old brother again, so it's not surprising.

"He looks dark, with a big beard, and is very mighty, similar to Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

"Dark?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, his father Wu Xiang is an old white face, his brother Wu Sanfeng and younger brother Wu Sanfu are all white, why is this Wu Sanwei a black skin?Could it be that someone gave him a black beauty back then?

Wu Sangui thought for a while, but he still didn't quite understand, but he didn't think too much, instead he changed the subject and asked Wu Shifan, "You just said that your fourth grandfather led his troops to Lianzhou Prefecture? Then he won't stay in Xin'an anymore? "

"I won't stay anymore," Wu Shifan shook his head, "I can't stay any longer. Wang Shikai's situation on the west bank of Lingdingyang is getting better and better. When his grandson left Guangdong, he had already firmly controlled the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui and Xinning. , and also controlled the whole county of Shunde and Foshan Town, the richest town in Nanhai County!"

"Isn't it just four counties and one town!" Wu Sangui looked indifferent.

What are four counties and one town? Wu Sangui now has three provinces: Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, as well as one in Guangxi, one in Hunan, one in Hubei, one in Shaanxi, and one in Gansu.

But Wu Shifan said enviously: "Grandpa, don't underestimate the four counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Shunde, and one town in Foshan. The land of the four counties and one town is very good. The real land of fish and rice is everywhere. It is a paddy field with two crops and three crops a year, Foshan is the world's largest iron smelting and handicraft town, and Macau is the world's largest seaport!

And these four counties and one town have a large population!There are several 10 people in Foshan, and the total population of the four counties and one town is probably 100 million! "

"One million, that's a lot." Wu Sangui had already read the persuasion form jointly signed by Shang Kexi and Shang Zhixin, closed the document, and did not make any comments.

Then, Wu Sangui stroked his beard and said to himself, "When the old man takes over Shaanxi and Huguang, there will be no shortage of people."

Wu Shifan said: "Shaanxi and Huguang probably can't find such a good land, and Beijing is not as good. These four counties and one town really need population, food, food, business and trade. It's really a piece of land. Treasure land!

The fourth grandfather occupied the Xinhui side, which was far away. It was a good place in the first place, but it was a pity that Shang Kexi suffered too much, and most of the population moved away, leaving only a large piece of wasteland, which could not support many soldiers and horses.So the fourth grandfather stayed in Ao Taishi to guard Xiangdao, and led some people to station in Lianzhou. "

"Oboi." Wu Sangui hurriedly asked, "Shifan, have you met Oboi?"

"No," Wu Shifan said, "the fourth grandfather said that Oboi drank unboiled water and had some diarrhea, so he stayed in Xiangdao to recuperate and take care of the house. But when the fourth grandfather has established a firm foothold in Lianzhou, Taishi Ao still has to lead his troops Let's meet up. Otherwise, once Brother Shikai sends troops to fetch Xinhui, even Taishi Ao won't be able to save it."

Obai's historical mission is almost completed.
But Wu Sangui didn't know this, he still thought that the current Oboi was very good at fighting!
Wu Sangui shook his head and said: "Oboi is a rare general, Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao are worse than him!"

Wu Shifan totally disagrees with Grandpa's analysis, he is now Wang Zhongxiao's little fan, he said with a smile: "Grandpa, Wang Zhijun is certainly not as good as Oboi. But brother Shikai's ability to fight with troops is worse than Oboi's." .In just a few months, he firmly controlled dozens of townships in Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning counties. Not only equalized the land, but also established a group of special soldiers The Township Soldiers Capital, with only three counties, supported 1 township soldiers! They also relied on these newly formed township soldiers to defeat more than [-] banner soldiers and green battalion soldiers commanded by Shang Zhixiao and Li Lan!

Aobai's use of troops is nothing more than that, right? "

"Only [-] soldiers were drawn from the three counties, and we can still fight a dozen." Wu Sangui frowned deeply, "It's not easy! He did it like this? Shifan, do you know?"

Wu Shifan nodded and said: "I know, I know, brother Shikai first taught hundreds of scribes who can serve as local officials and masters through the establishment of the Restoration School and the Jingwu School, and hundreds of warriors who can serve as leaders of teams and platoons." He also absorbed the backbone of the people into the Tiandihui, and relied heavily on them.

With scribes who can take on the duties of the local township capital and department, Brother Shikai can promote the equalization of land in the three counties and organize the so-called township military capital, land equalization capital, and self-management capital. , You can go deep into some townships, and master at least [-] Juntian township soldiers.

In terms of using troops to govern the army, brother Shikai specially developed a set of tactics that are easy to train, command, and master for the township soldiers under his command! "

"There is such a strategy?" Wu Sangui became interested, "Shifan, do you know?"

"I know," Wu Shifan said, "Brother Shikai also let me enter the Jingwu Academy. The set of tactics he arranged for the soldiers in the countryside, in short, is 'hard bases, dense formations, and heavy firepower. , Fight in a daze'!
Brother Shikai said that his method of building an army is the ancient method of combining soldiers with people, and the military affairs are more than fine.Since the number of soldiers is not good enough, we can only build more fortifications, practice dense arrays, and equip a large number of flintlock guns that are easy to master and have strong firepower. , and build a battle fortress, grinding the opponent alive. "

"A flintlock gun?" Wu Sangui asked, "Is it the kind of musket that makes the flint hit the trigger and fire the powder so that the stone fire spontaneously ignites?"

"That's right, it's this kind of musket," Wu Shifan said. "This kind of musket is not afraid of wind and rain, and it is not easy to fire by mistake, so it can greatly increase the density of the queue. In this way, many people can fire together in a dense team, and the bullets are like rain. Even if the marksmanship is not good, it can be fooled!

In addition, Brother Shikai also asked people to create a kind of sleeve gun knife. After putting it on the muzzle, it will not affect the firing, and it can be used for two purposes!
Moreover, this kind of flintlock is relatively easy to train, and it is much easier to load than arquebus. A farmer can fire in a team under the command of the captain, platoon leader, and shed leader after a month of training. "

In fact, the real essence of queuing and shooting tactics is that farmers who put down their hoes can be trained casually, and they can be pulled into the battlefield to serve as line infantry, and many people can be killed by casual beating.

As for the Lobster Sky Soldiers, Fearless, Thirty Yards Fire, and so on, they are originally tactics of fighting for numbers, and there is no need to train to this level. The key to victory is the number!
One or two times more people is better than anything else!
And the biggest advantage of the Han people, isn't it that there are many people?
"Going to the battlefield in a month?" Wu Yingxiong immediately became interested. Although Wu Sangui "gave" him six guards, none of them were his direct descendants. It was impossible for him to cultivate his own elite direct descendants in a short period of time. .

Without enough elite soldiers, how can you dominate the world?
If he can take some strong men and train for a month to shoot targets, then he will be great when he wins Jingzhou and Xiangyang!

When the time comes to train 30, no, [-] fusiliers to shoot Kangxi!
Just when he was thinking "Shoot Kangxi, the bear will dominate the world", Wu Sangui suddenly asked again: "This Wang Shikai is indeed a talent, how should we treat him?"

"Of course he is appointed as Jiedushi!" Wu Yingxiong immediately took over the question.

"Secret him as Jiedushi?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, "He can."

He didn't say anything further.

For Wu Yingxiong, Wang Zhongxiao has the hatred of killing his son and seizing his daughter!

Although he is not to blame for this matter, there is a high probability that Wu Yingxiong will become the prince and emperor in the future!
"Father," Wu Yingxiong said with a smile, "Isn't Kangxi planning to seal up feudal clans? Isn't he going to seal eight feudal clans in Guangdong and Guangxi first? If he can seal them, so can we! We can too, he is not an outsider, Xiao Dou, Xiao Dou are still our two little princesses! Dad, are they the princesses?"

"Yes, it's the princess!" Wu Sangui said, "If you take down Guanlong Huguang, let them be princesses!"

Then he looked at Wu Yingxiong with encouraging eyes: "Boss, you have to work harder!"

"Dad, don't worry, the boy will definitely do his best!"

Wu Sangui nodded in satisfaction, and then glanced at Wu Shifan, who was as handsome as a girl. Although the kid was a bit prettier, he looked no worse than Wu Shicong now.

The old Wu family has successors!As for who will be the emperor in the future, it depends on their father!
This matter has to fight dad!
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui smiled again and said to Wu Yingxiong: "Boss, what do you think of Li Zicheng from Lizhou? Is it real or fake?"

Wu Yingxiong said firmly: "He is fake! It must be fake! It must be fake!"

"It must be fake? Why?" Wu Sangui asked.

Wu Yingxiong said: "Father, don't you ask this knowingly? If he is not a fake, then why are we fighting Kangxi? It is too late to beat Li Zicheng. But even if you beat Li Zicheng to death ten times, you will not be the emperor!" Kangxi, as long as you kill him once, you can become emperor!"

"But that Li Zicheng has developed very well in Lizhou, Changde, and Jingzhou!" Wu Sangui frowned, "This old guy seems to have been improving over the years, and he has learned how to manage the territory. Once the way of Tian Fubing is done, maybe Dashun will come back!"

"Don't be afraid," Wu Yingxiong waved his hand. "Let him grow bigger first. If he grows bigger, Kangxi will have to send all the soldiers from Hubei to Hunan to suppress him. Then my chance will come!"

"Okay!" Wu Sangui was overjoyed when he heard the words, "He is a good son of a lonely family indeed!"

Hunan, Lizhou, Jiashan.

Since the weather turned cold again, Li Zicheng returned to the Jiashan Temple where he lived in seclusion for more than 20 years.

Li Zicheng now implements the land system and military system. At first glance, he is somewhat similar to Wang Zhongxiao.

The difference is that Wang Zhongxiao's average land is more "average", the average land per household (five-person household) is [-] mu, and then a prohibition on transfer and an upper limit on holding land are added.

The land equalization system has never been a simple equalization. Its purpose is to allow the country to control the population and land, and to restrain mergers.

But under private ownership, there will always be classes, and some people will always have more means of production than others... What Wang Zhongxiao can do now is to average and limit, so as to slow down the speed of wealth concentration and lengthen the process.

However, Li Zicheng's land equalization system has to be more centralized... yes, it is centralized!

The land equalization practiced by Li Zicheng is more linked to military service, and can actually be regarded as military service land.

Although he also allocated some land to many poor people in Lizhou, Jingzhou, and Changde.But that can only make the poor barely make ends meet. If they want to live a little more comfortably, they have to rent the fields of big households.

And after Li Zicheng's jurisdiction implemented equalization of land, the big families who can rent out surplus land are undoubtedly Fubing military households!

Li Zicheng's Fubing military households are not quite the same as Wang Zhongxiao's Xiangbing military households, and the number is not as large as the latter - there is no Foshan town in Li Zicheng's jurisdiction that can continuously provide flintlocks, gunpowder and artillery.

Therefore, even if he knew the tactics of "building hard fortifications, deploying dense formations, heavy firepower, and fighting dull battles", it would be impossible for him to build a huge army of "carrying flintlock guns".

In addition, it is impossible for Li Zicheng to pay enough military salaries and provide enough food for an army of tens of thousands of people.

Productivity is really not allowed!
What Li Zicheng can pull together in a short period of time is still a relatively traditional army that focuses on cold weapons and is equipped with a small amount of artillery and shotguns (arquebuses).

Such an army needs to be equipped with more types of weapons, a certain armor rate, more horses, and of course more elite fighters.

In a word, although this kind of army has relatively low requirements for handicrafts, the cost of individual soldiers is higher, and training is more difficult.

This naturally required the granting of more land to ensure they could afford the cost of equipment and training.

According to Li Zicheng's rules for granting land, the land is divided by mouth, generally ten acres of land per household.

The starting price of military service land is one hundred mu for one soldier, and another hundred mu will be given after the land is allocated by the mouth.

If you are a small military officer, you can easily get hundreds of acres or even thousands of farms—those old brothers who followed Li Zicheng to hide in Jiashan Temple for many years, or followed Liu Yihu to hide from officers and soldiers for many years, now they all get it. The due return has also grown into the backbone of Li Zicheng's group.

In addition, those local officials and masters who have taken refuge in Li Zicheng have also received corresponding grants of land, which you offset against their salaries.

And Li Zicheng himself was awarded the [-] mu of paddy fields owned by Jiashan Temple, and became the largest landlord in Lizhou today...

After several months of clearing and equalizing fields, Lizhou, southern Jingzhou, northern Changde and other places under Li Zicheng's rule have completed equalizing fields after the autumn harvest, and a total of 15000 soldiers have been dispatched!
Except for some of the "Xin Dashun fighters" who guarded various places, most of the others are now concentrated in the Jiashan camp in Lizhou.

Under the personal supervision of Li Zicheng, he practiced every day, practicing martial arts, formation, and military formation.

Now he finally looks like an elite soldier!

Today is another day for Li Zicheng to parade the three armies. Standing on a high place, he looks at the nearly 12000 elite soldiers with high morale and full armor.

Li Zicheng, who has experienced ups and downs, is now inevitably filled with tears of excitement...

The new journey of Dashun is about to start!

(End of this chapter)