Traveling with 29 children who are 18 years old and 15 years old, Li Xiangqian does not have the poor hesitation of those poor tour guides and teachers who are both fathers and mothers.

There are 30 people in total, but there are a lot of horses, and there are more than a dozen carriages with them, and even water purifiers, cauldrons, and medicines have special boxes, which makes it feel more like going out for an outing.

Of course, along the way, it was stop-and-go, although it was the mainland, no one dared to intercept such a team of all strong guys, but the speed was not fast, especially after passing through Cangzhou, directly to Shandong, although the road was smooth, every place was dangerous, Li Xiangqian ordered these students to go to collect wind and investigate the geographical situation.

"Dezhou Mansion is the northernmost state capital of Shandong, the previous Jurchens entered the customs, and Kong Youde made a big mess here, according to the previous information, due to the proximity to our directly subordinate states and counties, through commerce, it still recovered a lot, but it still doesn't look good."

"The residents of the town are afraid of us, not because we are from the north, but because there are a number of bandits in several prefectures and counties in Shandong Province who have appeared under the banner of our ......."

"I have the impression that I didn't support a batch of weapons from Shandong, and I can't help it?"

"According to the elders, this place in Shandong is naturally suitable for rebellion, and if you run to a few mountains, the government is not strong enough, so it will be difficult to exterminate these bandits, so ...... Therefore, on the Water Margin, there are many people in Shandong. ”

Li Xiangqian smiled and said: "That's right, but the situation in Shandong at that time was also due to the fact that the Great Song Dynasty continued to extract Shandong's wealth and fill the emptiness of the front line in order to guard against the Liao people in the north. It's not like you're going all out to prepare for the battle. ”

"What the elders have taught."

"So, let me ask a few of you, why is this place in Shandong so difficult to pacify?"

"Because it's mountainous?"

"The most mountains are Shaanxi, Sichuan, ......"

"That's the people's style."

Li Xiangqian pointed and said: "There are thorns everywhere, Qi Jiguang's Yiwu soldiers, and Jiaodong's soldiers, saying that the people in a place are weak, but you didn't provoke people to be anxious, really anxious, do you think you did it?" ”

"It's neither mountains nor geography......"

Li Xiangqian said: "Okay, now let's go back to Hebei, how many times have you also run back and forth in Hebei, and recall how many well-known state capitals there are in Hebei." ”

"There is a Tangshan ......"

"Not to mention our construction, in fact, the positioning of Hebei is very simple, Gongwei Beijing Division, the capital is a city, several guards in the north have been dilapidated due to long-term disrepair, well, we don't plan to repair, to attack as the best policy, what does this cause? Once the imperial capital loses its force, it will make it possible for foreign enemies to come and go at will, as if they are in a no-man's land, because Hebei lacks a second strategic fulcrum. ”

"Yes, the Jurchens entered the customs and robbed, it is indeed difficult to resist."

"Then why, Emperor Daming didn't build a second fulcrum."

Li Xiangqian explained: "Originally, there was a daimyo's mansion, but it was almost deserted, well, this imperial capital was the stronghold of Zhu Di's rebellion, so the first thing he had to guard against was that other people had also followed suit under his nose, so after the military preparation was over, the imperial capital's defense of the country would be over, and the production of the entire Hebei people would always be under the threat of the Tartars." ”

A couple of lads quickly understood this.

At this time, they were camping in the wilderness, the carriage was in a circle, the tent was set up, the incense to repel mosquitoes and flies was lit, and then they went to the nearby town to buy ingredients, boiled water and cooked, and Li Xiangqian's lecture today also began.

It's a sensitive topic, but it's always been the same for their professors.

"So, Elder, aren't the people of Hebei against this?"

"This has to be seen from the foundation system of the Ming Dynasty...... Li Xiangqian took a bite of canned food, before arriving at the next supply point, he had a quota of two cans a day, and said: "The Jinshi system of the Ming Dynasty, a poor family, requires the accumulation of several generations, there can be no droughts and floods, and there can be no things to break the wealth, so that there can be a chance to support a Xiucai who does not work and spends a lot of money, and many Xiucai, only one Jinshi can appear, then, this has caused two problems......"

"I know! Those talents, after being a scholar, will not have any gratitude to the imperial court, they often regard it as a hard-working institute, and after decades of exams, they only think that this official was obtained by myself, only for their own glory and wealth. ”

"Count you right, this is the first point, the second point, in this case, due to the constant turmoil in the north, in fact, a large number of bankrupt yeoman farmers, it is difficult to complete the work of three generations of accumulation and support for the production of talents, which has caused more and more scholars, scholars, to become southerners."

Sitting in front of him were all orphans, that is, victims of previous wars, that is, northerners, who also understood something when they heard it.

"I'm not accusing anything, here, don't have any geographical distinctions, a group of Hebei people from Shandong, go to the Northeast, but in thirty years, there will be a group of Northeast people, take you to the south, two or three generations, there will be a group of southerners, the problem here is that due to economic problems, there is no second fulcrum city in Hebei, otherwise, once there is an invasion of the Jurchen army, then King Qin's army can be horns in the two cities and support each other, not like the previous times, The Jurchens only needed to be prepared for a possible surprise attack in the imperial capital, and they could even drive the captives away smoothly. ”

Li looked forward, and several teenagers lowered their heads, obviously there were also such victims.

"Unlike Hebei, Shandong's division is very even."

Li Xiangqian drew on the ground: "Jinan Mansion is the political envoy, the richest man, Dongchang Mansion is on the northwest side, close to Hebei, Yanzhou Mansion is connected to Jiangsu, Henan, and the convenience of Weishan Lake in the south, not to mention Qingzhou Mansion, one of the ancient Kyushu, Dengzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion, close to the sea, and the mountain cover, the benefit of fish and salt, that is to say, whether it is in the economy, or in terms of armament, there is no too weak place." ”

Li Xiangqian knows that this situation has even continued into the 21st century, and in later generations, Shandong and Sichuan are often compared together due to problems such as economic aggregates, and Shandong's advantage lies in the average, Sichuan's Chengdu is equivalent to how many Shandong cities, almost the world is not ashamed, but it is pulled down by the rest of the brother cities.

Li Xiangqian said: "So for this place in Shandong, force is definitely not a good idea, expect to be like Hebei, take the imperial capital, the rest of the place is simply unable to resist, it is impossible, of course, you need to learn now, that is, see more, more products, Shandong is also one of the traditional Chinese soldiers, you will definitely receive a group of Shandong soldiers at the end of the year, in fact, it is impossible to engage in what kind of hometown meeting, fellow soldiers." ”

Tells the geography of the mountains and rivers of Shandong, folk customs, and continues to rush the next day, which seems to be vast, but because the daily schedule is fixed, there is no mud and water, and the speed is not slow, and it has passed through Texas in a few days, approaching Jinan.

The Yellow River in this era happened to be at the moment of seizing the Huai River into the sea, that is, from the Huai River into the sea, not from Shandong into the sea in later generations, so there is no need to prepare for the Yellow River, of course, this also caused the complexity of the southern water network, Xuzhou and even the upstream almost every year there are disasters of embankment breaking.

Shandong is such a place, a large plain, the central part is a mountain range group with Mount Tai, Lu Mountain, Yi Mountain, Meng Mountain as the core, there are also a few mountainous areas in the east, in later generations, Yimeng Mountain is called the old revolutionary area, it can be said that the troops rooted here, whether it is the devil soldier or the fruit army can not touch.

Jinan is just north of the Taishan Mountains, which means that basically only the defense of the north needs to be considered.

Eight years ago, the city of Jinan had been slaughtered, and there was still a lot of wasteland vacant around, of course, the closer you got to Jinan, the farmland gradually increased, and the population increased.

Li Xiangqian generally knows that in the folk of Shandong, the reputation of the elders is not bad, the reason is that a considerable part of the tens of thousands of people who were released before were plundered to the northeast have returned to their hometowns, and they are naturally full of praise for the elders, and some people can still find their families, so they naturally return to the countryside to appease their little hearts that have been enslaved for several years.

Not to mention, the elders recruited a large number of people to go to North Korea in Dengzhou Laizhou, which is even more of a plus.

Therefore, when passing by a village, although the students who went to fill some well water to feed the horses were very wary, they were not refused, of course, Li Xiangqian intended to let them exercise their communication skills, and they were completely delegated.

When I left the village, there were guests.

A pair of men and horses running from a distance, but a horse rider, with twenty or thirty men running behind, driving a huge wind and sand, Li Xiangqian had already received a summons from the sentry, but he didn't care.

Drink the horses first, these squeamish fellows can't afford not to be kind.

"Let's see what they mean, and let me say that we are going to Jiangnan, and we are not very interested in contacting the Shandong government."

This kind of contact with people's activities, or let these children do more, Li Xiangqian observed these Shandong officials and soldiers, the appearance is still not bad, it is estimated that there is no need to pay taxes to the imperial capital, and there is not too heavy military pressure, and it is impossible for those who are officials to miss a bite of food from the soldiers, and at the same time, the elders' troops have completed the terrible Mauser armament, which also makes Shandong desperately strengthen the armament, at least among these people, there are more than ten people carrying firearms, which is already quite an astonishing proportion.

Fortunately, they were all recruits who had never been on the battlefield, and when they saw these well-equipped "haired" people at this time, they all looked at them curiously.

The horse quickly drank the water, Li Xiangqian lowered his head and thought for a while, and ordered: "Prepare and set off, settle outside Jinan City tonight, don't enter the city, these people don't have to care, they don't dare to stop us." ”

Needless to say, these boys formed a protective formation, except for those who took turns to catch the car and rest, but were all protected from the sides and rear, to prevent any movement from the people sent by the Vietnamese government.

In the afternoon, a group of more men and horses came running, but they only dared to follow from a distance, and of course, there were more horses.

Li Xiangqian has been suppressing the hooves of the "Red Rabbit", this horse is far from the limit, and he can finally leave the aggrieved place in the imperial capital, and it is very comfortable to go to this plain.

There are gratifying places in Shandong, where the vitality has recovered well, not only because of the time for peace-building brought about by the timely halt of its expansion, but also because of the balance brought about by absorbing an unknown number of landless peasants who left the local area, at least it is much more prosperous.

Of course, the bureaucrats who have become stronger, find that theoretically, there is no ruler on the top of their heads, and there is no such thing as any evaluation or resignation, so they naturally take the opportunity to make more money, not to mention, there are really people who die and their mothers do not resign and go home.

The negotiations have been going on, but the bureaucrats in Shandong have been coming to the imperial capital to talk about the price, and there is no need to send anything detailed, only a few people need to go back and forth in Hebei, and they know that Shandong is almost impossible to fight, not to mention anything else, these elders regard iron as a worthless thing, just spread it on the ground, as a wall, and think about it for a while, if it is made into a weapon, what kind of army can be formed.

Compared with them, the population recovery rate of Shandong, especially Jinan, has been very slow, and there has even been a reverse flow phenomenon, that is, running in the direction of the imperial capital, and the number of soldiers is even more insufficient.

Therefore, the ambivalence of the Shandong bureaucracy is simply obvious, which is why Li Xiangqian does not talk to them.

He comes from a world that relies on convenient transportation and rapid means of communication, and if there is a problem ahead, then within 10 minutes, the head of state may be able to get a warning, and within an hour, the military forces directly under the central government can be ready to go, and within 24 hours, they can be deployed anywhere.

Therefore, their habits, for these places that can only be managed in a decentralized manner, hardly start.

In fact, although the system of the Ming Dynasty was unreasonable, it was also the best way that the ancestors at that time could think of under the material conditions at that time.

If Zhu Yuanzhang had a mobile phone in his hand, then he would probably not be able to kill heroes.

If Zhu Yunwen, a black-hearted boy, had a railroad in his hands, then it would be impossible for his uncle to rebel.

It's all about technology.

As a city that has been destroyed and rebuilt, Jinan has many buildings in the vicinity of the city gate.

In many cases, the entry tax to be paid for entering the city can be saved outside the city, and if you arrive in Jinan at night, you can also live in a big mule and horse shop outside.

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