Cao Tiancheng lifted his robe, sat directly on the cold white jade surface of Wangxiangtai, stretched out his hand and patted the side, and motioned for Cao Hui to sit down as well. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Speaking of understanding Qin Feng and the Ming Army, I'm afraid that no one in Daqi can come out of you. Tell me about this army in detail, Qin Feng has not tasted defeat since his debut, I am really curious, a person who has never lost a battle, this is really rare! ”

Cao Hui said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Qin Feng has indeed not lost a battle, but in the minister's opinion, there are many coincidences here, if the minister wants to say, Qin Feng has only fought one real battle since his debut, that is this time against Qin State Deng Pu, the rest, more importantly, he is good at seeing the seams and sticking a needle, and is good at judging the situation." ”

"Whether it is the Shuntian Army that defeated Mo Luo, or the later overthrow of the former Yue Wu Jian, this is not the case, these people are all in internal and external troubles, crumbling situation, they were pushed by Qin Feng by the trend, and then they fell to the ground with a bang, Qin Feng is just the one who got the fruit in the end."

Cao Tiancheng frowned: "The person who can do this is already quite not simple, and I am more afraid of such a person than a general who has won all battles." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Qin Feng's terrifying is here. He often begins to create a certain momentum at a very early stage, and at the beginning, he is not noticed, little by little it accumulates, when this momentum is displayed in front of everyone, so that everyone suddenly understands, but everything is too late, because its momentum has been achieved. Among them, the most profound image of the minister is the death of Li Zhi. Cao Hui sighed: "At that time, the three families of Chu Ming and Qin joined forces, and it was rumored that the pusher on the back hand was Min Ruoxi, but I believe that this is Qin Feng's masterpiece. If Li Zhi hadn't died, the Qin State would not have what it is today, and the Qin State is now in this state, and it is not the Chu State that gets the greatest benefit, not our Great Qi, but the Ming State of Qin Feng. Thinking about it now, I still shudder. ”

"When you take the first step, you can already see the next few steps, which is really admirable." Cao Tiancheng nodded slightly. "But this can still only be regarded as a strategic effort, if you want to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away, you still need a strong army, take the change of Qin as an example, he was extremely successful in the early stage, but in the end he couldn't defeat Deng Pu on the battlefield in one fell swoop, so the picture is still the moon in the mirror, the flower in the water."

"Your Majesty, this is the second point that the minister wants to say. Qin Feng was born in the army, fought bravely, and when he was still a small captain, his reputation reached Qin and Chu, but it was this kind of bravery that covered up his scheming and made many people ignore this person's resourcefulness and ability to govern the world and the army. Cao Hui was sitting precariously with a cautious expression: "At the time of Chu, the death camp was an army composed of death row prisoners, in our words, it was a scum concentration camp, but it was such a mixed army that was forged into a terrifying team by Qin Feng in a few years, and it became the backbone of his later fortune. Like the current Ming generals Zhang Xiaozheng, Gan Wei, Huang Hao and other generals, other characters such as skillful hands, thousands of faces and other characters, all born in the death camp. ”

"This person is good at using people and dares to use people." Cao Tiancheng said with a smile: "Anyone who has a heroic temperament, this is their characteristic. ”

"Qin Feng governs the army, and the vast majority of people think differently, this person believes in the way of governing the army is sharp and fine, the Ming State so far, the real number of the army is only a dozen battalions, and the Qin State of the life and death battle, he dispatched only one miner battalion, a cavalry battalion, his own personal guard fire daring battalion, in addition to the Baoqing battalion that fought on the periphery, and the flood giant wood battalion that arrived later, this is a big war related to the national fortune, the Ming army participated in the war only six battalions, more than 30,000 troops, However, he defeated Deng Pu's 100,000 army, and the spirit of his army is good at fighting, which can be seen. ”

"The Ming army is good at fighting, and our general Guo has also been taught in Shayang County, Guo Xiancheng was full of confidence at the beginning of his army, and boasted of Haikou in front of me, but a thick soil camp and a tiger battalion made him a big suffocation, and he failed to take Shayang County in the end, but the loss was not small, this thick soil camp and the tiger camp are not Qin Feng's most descendant battle camp!"

"Yes, Qin Feng's most descendant army should be the Miner, Rock, Blue Wolf, and Ruijin Division." Cao Hui said: "Tiger Chen Jialuo, Houtu Liu Xingwen, are all natives of Shayang, oh, this Liu Xingwen has now become Qin Feng's sons and daughters." ”

Cao Tiancheng smiled, "It's another set of tricks to stabilize people's hearts and win over local forces." Qin Feng really doesn't have many soldiers and horses, but his combat effectiveness is so strong, what is the real reason? ”

"Your Majesty, this is about to talk about the military system of the Ming Kingdom!" Cao Hui said: "China implements a conscription system, but all men who have reached the age of 16 or under the age of 60 have the obligation to join the army to serve the country, but the Ming State implements a conscription system, Qin Feng will be a soldier called a profession, and the soldiers will be graded and graded, each level corresponds to a different salary, even if it is an ordinary soldier, as long as he stays in the army long enough, then the salary he can get will be higher and higher." The minister got this document and calculated that if a soldier was lucky enough to stay in the Ming army for ten years without dying, then the salary he could get was enough to compare with our generals. ”

"If you don't die for ten years, you won't be able to rise in ten years, this luck is not too good, right?" Cao Tiancheng laughed.

"Your Majesty, the minister is just an analogy, the Ming people are soldiers, and they can support their families with this. The salary is staggering. In the Ming Kingdom, an ordinary peasant household can only earn a few dozen taels of silver for a year's hard work, and a soldier can get a salary of 100 taels a year. Therefore, once the Ming army recruits soldiers, those who join the army will flock to it, and the recruiters will be carefully selected, and the quality of the recruits will be higher and higher. Cao Hui exhaled a breath of turbidity: "Like this time, Qin Feng newly organized two war camps, one is Wang Yun's Fuyuan battalion, and the other is Wuling's cheetah battalion, the soldiers of these two battalions are all from the original army of the four counties in the north, and they are old armies, in our opinion, they are all good armies, but Qin Feng vividly cut out two-thirds of the army, 30,000 people, and finally only picked 10,000 people. ”

"We can't learn this!" Cao Tiancheng shook his head, "Daqi has a vast territory, and the total number of soldiers under his command exceeds one million. If you raise soldiers with a high salary like Qin Feng, you will be dragged down. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, raising soldiers with high salaries, the minister thinks that Qin Feng will not be able to hold out for too long, his battle line will be longer and longer, the army will be more and more, and the financial resources of the Ming Kingdom will inevitably be unsustainable, and now I am afraid that he is also strengthening himself. The banknote issued by the Ming Kingdom, the minister also discussed it with the adults of the household department, and everyone thought that this was just a way for Qin Feng to plunder the people's wealth, and I was afraid that in the near future, it would cause a big mess. ”

"This matter has been specially reported to me, isn't Daqi banning the circulation of Ming country's banknotes?" Cao Tiancheng Dao.

"Your Majesty, it is forbidden on the surface, but in private, it is still circulated, because he is indeed very convenient." Cao Hui said.

"Your ghost is still imitating counterfeiting their banknotes?" Cao Tiancheng smiled and asked, "Is this kind of trick useful?" ”

Cao Tiancheng was a little impressed, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate this, if you can really succeed, it will be enough to make the Ming Kingdom in chaos, but unfortunately, I don't know how the banknotes of the Ming Kingdom are printed, it is extremely difficult to imitate, we made a batch of them, the quality difference is too big, not to mention large-scale output, I sent people to some remote areas of the Ming Kingdom to try to use it, but they were all sued, and many people went in." Only later did I know that the Taiping Bank of the Ming Kingdom, as well as the Ministry of Households, have sent someone to teach the people how to distinguish between real and fake banknotes, the reason is that in the Ming Kingdom, someone has already taken a fancy to this point and began to imitate, of course, the end is very miserable, once caught, it is the end of the head, and now the ghost is still studying their production methods, once it is successful, its effect will even be better than the harvest of a large army on the battlefield. ”

"You can do it yourself, I don't care." Cao Tiancheng said with a smile. "Let's talk about his army!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, in addition to raising the army with a high salary, Qin Feng is even more paranoid about the equipment of the army, the equipment of the Ming army can be said to be the best in the world, not to mention the heavy infantry like the miner battalion, his ordinary army, its equipment is enough to compare with our dragon inlaid army. Your Majesty, the ghost has tried to get back their crossbows, stone cannons and other real objects, but unfortunately our arsenal can't copy them. Cao Hui said regretfully: "Its power is impressive." ”

"Not only that, but also the ring-headed knife of the Ming army, and the horse lance you got back from Zhongping, are all sharp weapons of the country." Speaking of these, Cao Tiancheng's face was also a little gloomy, "The masters of the Ministry of Industry said that it is not that they can't make it, but that the level of iron smelting and steelmaking in our Daqi is not up to the level of the Ming Kingdom." Qin Feng promised these craftsmen a high salary in the Ming Kingdom, and I asked the household department to do the same, in order to arouse the upward heart of these craftsmen. ”

"Your Majesty, three feet of freezing, not a day's cold, behind these arsenals and smelters, there are huge interests, every official hat is a mountain of gold, naturally it is difficult for someone to let out willingly."

"I still have the patience to wait for these people to turn around on their own, and I hope that I won't be allowed to sacrifice my knife when the time comes." Cao Tiancheng said coldly: "Facts have proven that Qin Feng's set is still very useful. Is there less talent in my Daqi than in the Ming Kingdom, no, it will only be more, as long as the craftsmen in my Daqi can be as attentive as the craftsmen in the Ming Kingdom, it will be easy to surpass them. ”

Cao Hui was silent, if he wanted to shake a stubborn interest group, it was not a simple matter, although the emperor was called a lonely widow, but the country was organized by interest groups, without the support of these people, the emperor would really become a lonely person. The emperor's rat trap is not a kind of torment.