Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2624 Get on the Ship
Li Guangyuan was dumbfounded, and thought silently: I, Daming, have such amazing skills. If I can recruit such strange people and drive them into the vanguard, I will be invincible, and there is hope for great success!
In the mansion, Li Guangyuan first arranged for them to rest in a courtyard.After everyone washed and changed their clothes, they drank a cup of herbal tea, and a servant came to invite them: "Master has prepared a banquet in the outer study, please come to the banquet."

Following the servants to the outer study, Li Guangyuan had already greeted him at the gate of the courtyard, and after some humility, he allowed Monk Walrus to be the guest of honor.Everyone at the banquet chatted happily, Luo Hetu was good at drinking, and talked about the story of following Luo Heying's bloody battle against Sanliang.It is said that if the people of the world were like this girl, why would the thief be immortal.

The few people chatted and entered Hong Kong, and the wine was refilled again and again, until it was time to light the lamps.At this moment, Luo and Tu were so drunk that their two family members sent them back to the Kuanyuan to rest.Only Li Guangyuan, Luo Heying and Gou Xunli were left at the table.Li Guangyuan asked his family to vacate the remnants of the seats, exchanged some delicate snacks, and brewed the new tea from that year, and then turned to the main topic.

"Master, Brother Lin, this time the Kun bandits attacked Guangfu again, pretending to be the leader, do they intend to segregate a corner here, or are they planning to send their troops 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 sent troops to the north to compete in the Central Plains—the fat piece of Guangdong, I am afraid they will not be able to swallow it."

After saying that, he smiled, and picked up the teacup—but what he drank was not new tea, but Australian water that had been tempered with well water, and wiped his beard that was stained with Australian water.This Australian water is the most refreshing and refreshing, especially if it has been suppressed with well water, it will be refreshing for a while.Then he went on to say: "Kun thieves are granting fake jobs in various prefectures, states, and counties. They must have the idea of ​​​​running Guangdong and Guangxi. Now that the kun thieves have new laws emerging one after another, and I heard that they have conducted civil service examinations, they have already saved this corner of the southern sky." Heart."

This is not a rare judgment. Even Li Guangyuan, who avoids living in the countryside and rarely goes to the city, knows the current situation more or less from outsiders.The Kun bandits have already settled down in Guangnan - if it wasn't foregone, he wouldn't take the risk and get involved in this muddy water.

"...It's just going to go further north, but it's also very difficult. The gangsters use their troops to differentiate themselves from the rogues. The rogues all use the scoundrels they engulf as their vanguard, with the elite behind. It seems that they are very powerful. Every time they sweep three or five counties, they can be called ten Thousands of people. The Kun bandits use self-trained elite soldiers. Every time they want to attack a certain place, they always gather elite soldiers in one place first, and use the sharp firearms of the Kun bandits. Even if the government can have millions of soldiers, they will always Can't beat them."

These few sentences were originally not Luo Heying's knowledge, but the information he got from talking with a righteous man Huang several years ago.Speaking of this Huang Yishi, although they only met once at the beginning, the two of them cherished each other. Huang Yishi had met the Kun thief with real swords and guns before, and talking about the various situations of the Kun thief was comparable to this The self-proclaimed "Kun Shi Tong" monk walrus is much stronger

After all, he first looked at Li Guangyuan's face to judge whether he said these words too seriously, and he was suspected of boosting the ambition of others and destroying his own prestige.Seeing Li Guangyuan's hesitant expression on his face, he hastily turned back the words: "Although the gun soldiers are elite, they are still much smaller in number. Even if his whole body is made of iron, how many nails can he drive? Thousands of miles away, there are many mountains and ridges, and there are countless 忍, Dong, and Yao... Most of them were disobedient to the king, but now that the thieves have come, they will only take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble. And there are many loyal people of the court everywhere. Soldiers raised their troops. The Kun bandits divided their troops everywhere, and they were already tired."

These remarks cannot be said to be false. Since the capture of Guangzhou in 1635, the continuous law and order war has 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 security purges in 1636, the situation of wars everywhere has been greatly improved. Although security wars still exist sporadically in many places, there is no longer a period from the end of 1635 to the beginning of 1636 that was at stake. situation.

But for Li Guangyuan, who lives in Dongguan County, the "key governance area" of the Senate, the news from afar is really limited, and he has only vaguely heard about some riots. If you have no idea, you can only listen to the two talking nonsense.

Gou Xunli also hurriedly came to add fuel to the story: "Brother Luo said it is very true. Although the Kun thief claims to be a Miao descendant of the Song Dynasty, his appearance is similar. However, he has been smelly for a long time, his hair is short, and his rituals are customary. He is definitely not Chinese. His people Shao, since landing on the shore to confuse the foolish people in the countryside, commanding the crowd to drive them away with profit, there is no righteousness at all, only because righteousness belongs to our Daming. The Kun bandits are so fierce that they really fear our Daming. The former He Zongbing defeated the Kun bandits. All the soldiers received were sentenced to hard work and hard work to kill their ambitions. The poor monk met He Zong soldiers who returned from Qiongzhou in Guangfu, and they all said that the thieves were driving them very hard. Compensation for the bandits and the Eastern captives. Raise soldiers to fill the camp, but the Kun bandits don't use them, and they dare not use them unless they can't use them. The Kun bandits invaded counties and counties, and there were also gentle scum who followed them, and the Kun bandits dared not use them. They called it a "study class" to teach The learning of the barbarians can only be taught to low-level officials after being tested by kun learning. Although kun learning has all kinds of subtleties, its benefits are all in business and industry. It is not like the way of Confucius and Mencius in China. All the living beings in the world are all going astray, this is true that a barbarian will not have a hundred years of luck, and the Kun people must know it. It is the righteousness of the Kun thief to fear me!"

Since escaping from Guangzhou, it was the first time that Gou Xunli was able to express his sincerity in such a straightforward manner, and his words were very carefree.He glanced at Li and Luo, and found that they were still pondering over his argument between Hua and Barbarians. When he was proud, he hurriedly pulled back his high-minded theory, "When the poor monk was in Lingao in the past, he watched The Kun bandits are indeed superior in their military training. Although there are many generals, they are as commanding as they are. However, every time the Kun bandits train a pawn, they spend a lot of money. The food, pay and military equipment are not without ten times that of our soldiers. The Kun bandits focus on business. , with the profits of their business, to feed their military resources. It is a pity that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of petty profits, hooked up and connected the canal, but did not expect that today's wealth will be tomorrow's sword."

When Gou Xunli said this, he suddenly found that Mr. Li was drinking the bubbling Australian water leisurely.Isn't this Australian water also transported by traders, but these "rebels" enjoy it safely.It's indescribably funny.Secretly ashamed and angry in my heart.However, he is a "guest" after all, so naturally he can't criticize others, so he just took a sip from the tea cup to suppress the fire in his heart.

Li Guangyuan was full of calculations at the moment.He is not willing to rashly raise troops to resist Kun.For one thing, his capital is limited, but it is nothing more than a few hundred long-term laborers.As long as the Kun bandits raise their troops to attack, the Li family circle will be wiped out in an instant.The arrival of the supernatural person somewhat gave him a little courage, but these alone were not enough to make him make up his mind.

Li Guangyuan's motives for rebelling against Kun are quite complicated.Among them, there are not only the property losses caused to him by "clearing the land" by the bandits; but also the resentment that he lost face when his relatives and cronies were arrested; but the most important thing is that he has the desire to "be an official" in his heart .

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 so far there has not been a single person in the clan. In terms of the whole county, his family can only be regarded as a "big family", not a "big family". It is "Jin Gentleman".

Without a prominent reputation, the Li family has always been inferior to others in Dongguan, and they often can't take advantage of dealing with the gentry. When it comes to doing things, others can do things with a name card, and he has to spend a lot of money .

Naturally, he did such things as rewarding imperial examinations and encouraging the children of the clan to study.However, although the Li family has lasted for a long time, the real fortune began with Li Guangyuan's father's generation.I was really in a hurry to make a breakthrough in the imperial examination.

Therefore, he was quite concerned about the "partial door". When the Guozijian opened the donation, he donated the supervisor's students for the children of the clan-but this is not the same as the official imperial examinations after all.

A few days ago, a friend from the past made a special trip to visit, 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 inserted a sentence or two from time to time, while paying attention to Li Guangyuan's expression.He also understood that although Li Guangyuan "boarded", he was still "at both ends of the head" and he needed something to strengthen his heart.

He suddenly seemed to remember something, and said: "Brother Li, this time I came to bring you some strange books."

After all, he called his personal servant and went straight to fetch the book.When Li Guangyuan took the book, he felt that the paper was very thin. Looking at the book again, there was a picture of a silver-armored warrior holding a simple knife and a hard bow in his back, riding on a black horse with its front hooves raised and its head raised. Standing in the wind and snow all over the sky.As soon as I saw this painting, I felt that the samurai's killing spirit was blowing towards my face with the wind and snow in the painting.On the side of the painting, there is a line of running script "heavy snow full of bows and knives", and another line of tough small characters "the beginning and end of Liaodong in the Great Ming Dynasty".If you take a closer look, you will find that the title "Research on the History of War" that was ignored by the portrait of the warrior just now is beyond the five characters in Song Dynasty.Under these five words, there is also a small word "Album on the Liaodong War Situation", 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 History of Huang Taiji's Ascension to the Throne"... Li Guangyuan saw it directly Shaking his head, it looks like a general's plan to travel to the fortress was ruined by these scribbled words.

Monk Walrus recognized this book at a glance, "Is this the "Research on War History" written by the Kun people?"

Luo Heying pretended to be surprised and asked: "Monk Walrus has read this book."

"This book was circulated in Guangfu and Jiangnan last year, and I studied it together with my colleagues in the academy."

"Please, sir, give me an explanation."

Monk Walrus did not refuse, picked up the key points and said it again.While listening, Li Guangyuan casually flipped through a few pages and roughly read them.

(End of this chapter)