76 is of the essence

At this time, it is close to the Spring Festival, 1936 (the ninth year of Chongzhen) is about to pass, in the era of the end of the Ming Dynasty, the north has been in drought in recent years, famine is prevalent, and the imperial court disaster relief is unfavorable, which also makes the bandits multitude, and the people are not happy.

At this time, the Central Plains was relatively chaotic, especially in Shaanxi and Henan provinces, which became a decisive battle between the righteous army and the imperial court, and the people were displaced.

At this time, only in the south, which was still firmly controlled by the Ming court, the drought situation was not very serious, and the society was stable, the people lived much happier.

Although Li Zixiao knows some major events that happened in this era in history, he doesn't remember the specific time, but he just knows a little.

According to Li Zixiao's general memory, in the two years after the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court officials and troops would vigorously encircle and suppress Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, which also made the uprising of the righteous army fall into a trough.

The officers and rebels will be so inextricably killed in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Gansu that they have no time to take care of other small bandits.

Emperor Chongzhen has always regarded Li Zicheng's famous rebels as a big trouble, and he wants to eliminate these rebels first, so the main elites of the official army are attracted by the rebels, which gives Li Zixiao and these little bandits a soil to survive.

In his memory, Shaanxi was not only the starting place of the rebel army, but also the area where the rebels and the official army fought the most heavily, and this place could become a battlefield at any time.

At the same time, Li Zixiao knew according to the historical trend that when two years passed after the Ming Dynasty, the rebels would survive their most difficult days, and they would usher in spring, and the suppression of the official army did not eliminate the rebels.

By 1940, the rebel army led by Li Zicheng would end the wandering operation, unite together, march into Henan, and even conquer Luoyang, which will also be the heyday of Li Zicheng and other rebels.

So there is not much time left for Li Zixiao, which makes him have a sense of urgency, and he always feels that he must expand his strength as soon as possible, and the next two years will be the most important development period for him.

Next, Li Zixiao believes that as his ranks get bigger and bigger, even if he does not raise the banner of the uprising, I am afraid that he will attract the attention of the government, and he will inevitably be cleared by the official army at that time.

Although the elite of the officers and soldiers were attracted by the rebels, there were still many officers and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and it was still possible to send a thousand-strong team to suppress bandits.

So he didn't dare to relax for a moment, and tried to strengthen the strength of his subordinates, as long as he was a little negligent in this troubled world, he might not even be able to die.

Especially Li Zixiao has now offended all the three families of Cai and Liu Wang in Yongcheng County, especially the Cai family is eager to swallow him alive, Li Zixiao believes that even if the officials and soldiers can't pay attention to him for the time being, the Cai family will not let him go.

But it doesn't matter, although he is afraid of the Ming Dynasty at this time and does not dare to blatantly raise the banner of rebellion, but in the name of bandits, he is still confident that he can deal with a family in a county town.

After ending the first battle against Liu Dabao, Li Zixiao not only let the second batch of recruits under his command see blood, but also got the rich treasures left by Liu Dabao and the complete White Tiger Village, which made Li Zixiao feel very good recently.

But he was in a good mood, and he did not relax the training of his soldiers, but after this battle, Li Zixiao grabbed Zhou Dazhu, Wei Hong, Liu Chong and Qian Guangyuan and discussed for a good day, and finally formulated a set of training plans and a series of military discipline laws and regulations that are most suitable for their copycat soldiers so far.

Then Li Zixiao asked Qian Guangyuan to write out all the training plans and military discipline laws and regulations, and handed over the cottage training to Zhou Dazhu, Wei Hong and Liu Chong.

handed over the later things to Master Wei and Dong Zhuang, Dong Zhuang's injury has gradually improved, Li Zixiao is worried that Wei Laofu is old and needs personal assistance, Dong Zhuang's trip to the county clearly proved his loyalty to Li Zixiao, so Li Zixiao decided to reuse him in the future.

In the past two days, Li Zixiao has been too busy, every day when he opens his eyes, he thinks about what he wants to do today, and even dreams at night, his mind does not rest.

Li Zixiao is now thinking about how to strengthen the cottage, train people, and prepare to send people out to recruit more people, get more food, as well as salt, wine and other daily necessities.

The high-intensity training of the cottage made everyone's meal a lot, and a guy like Quartz let him go to eat, three catties of food a day was not enough for him to eat, and the rest of the people were similar, all of them could be called big stomachs.

Moreover, at this time, the number of people in the cottage is close to three hundred, so that they have to eat nearly 1,000 catties of food every day that they seemed to have enough food, and I am afraid that it will be consumed very quickly.

And now the most troublesome thing is salt, because of Liu Dabao's sudden attack, Li Zixiao's plan to get salt has been delayed for a few days, so he had to buy a small amount of salty salt from some villages under the mountain, which has solved the urgent need.

Now that the battle is over, there is the greatest shortage of salt in the cottage at this time, so the first thing Li Zixiao did when he was idle was to solve the problem of salt shortage in the cottage.

"Zhang Ergouzi, how did you do to contact the Cai family to redeem people? Do their Cai family still want this young master of the Cai family. ”

Li Zixiao looked at Zhang Ergouzi with an unhappy face and asked in a deep voice.

"Qi Yu is in charge, the small one has already handed the news to the Cai family, and the Cai family has also promised to replace people with salt, and they have already sent someone over.

However, the big boss has been fighting with Liu Dabao for the past two days, so he ignored this matter, and it seems that the Cai family is also in a hurry, but they asked that the cotton armor that Cai Xuantong took away should also be traded. ”

"Impossible." Li Zixiao said directly when he heard this.

Joke, he likes that brand new cotton armor too much, mainly because it is a life-saving thing on the battlefield, and now he can't buy it with more money, how can it be returned to the Cai family, this is not even negotiable.

"You go and contact the Cai family again, strive to complete the transaction recently, and let them redeem this young master of the Cai family as soon as possible, we just need salt."

If they are not willing to ransom people, then I will strip off the young master of the Cai family and march naked, so that everyone in the surrounding villages can see what the naked body of the young master of the Cai family looks like, and the face of the Cai family will be long for them. ”

After Li Zixiao finished speaking, a conspiracy smile appeared on his face, he knew that for a big family like the Cai family, it didn't matter if a child lived or died, if he died, he would die, and the Cai family knew that there were hundreds of thousands, and there was no worse than such an unsuccessful one.

But they don't think that Li Zixiao will be allowed to strip Cai Xuantong naked and parade, it will be like slapping their Cai family's face, this kind of big family loves face the most, so Li Zixiao believes that this deal is nine times out of ten.

"Yes, small, let's do it." Zhang Ergouzi said respectfully.

"Well, take a few people with you when you go, be careful, I'm still more at ease when you do things." Li Zixiao stepped down from his seat, gently patted Zhang Ergouzi's shoulder, and said encouragingly.

"Thanks to the attention of the big bosses, the small ones have already done a good job of this." Hearing Li Zixiao's concern, Zhang Ergouzi was immediately grateful, and shouted loudly.

Different ways of the emperor need to use different means, like Zhang Ergouzi, if he is not encouraged and cared about, this will make him more loyal to himself.

And this method is not very effective on Wei Hong, Liu Chong and even Qian Guangyuan, which has something to do with the personality and IQ of each of them.

Zhang Ergouzi has always had low self-esteem because of his background, and he has always wanted to be recognized by others, but he is also aware of his own shortcomings, so whenever Li Zixiao's encouragement and concern will make him very moved. 、

Zhang Ergouzi took it away again, he naturally had a way to contact the Cai family, and now Li Zixiao is waiting for Zhang Ergouzi and the Cai family to negotiate the ransom location, and when the time comes, the transaction will be completed, and the dilemma of the lack of salt in the cottage will be solved.

However, Li Zixiao estimates that the people of the Cai family will not easily swallow this evil breath, and when it comes to trading, I am afraid that the people of the Cai family will not be able to play any conspiracy, but now that Li Zixiao has strong power in his hands, as long as he does not enter the county, he is really not afraid of the Cai family.

In the previous battle against Liu Dabao, many soldiers were injured and brought back by Wei Hong, and those wounded, these people could not participate in training for the time being.

I also try to give them good food and drink every day, so that they can recover as soon as possible, so that they can return to work in the team.

Fortunately, there is a Li Langzhong in their cottage, Li Langzhong's first-hand medical skills are indeed very good, and under his conditioning, these wounded people have recovered well.

In a few days, a few of the least injured people could practice with the team, which made Li Zixiao very satisfied, these soldiers who had been wounded on the battlefield and had seen blood were all a fortune.

Li Zixiao had to visit the wounded every day, check their wounds, comfort them and let them recuperate, which made several wounded people really grateful.

These injured wounded were all new to the cottage before, how could he have been so sympathetic to his subordinates, and they were even moved and even cried loudly, vowing to sell their lives to Li Zixiao from now on.

Because they all begged and wandered all the way, how cruel the outside world was, they knew better than anyone who cared about the life and death of their group of homeless people outside, and even felt that it was a waste to give some food.

Even if they joined the bandits, they had never heard that there was a big boss in the cottage who could be as benevolent and righteous as Li Zixiao.

If they were injured by the other bandits, they would be wasted, and they would be carried and thrown outside the village, leaving them to fend for themselves.

If that's the case, then there is only one ending waiting for them, which is to wait to be pulled away and eaten by wild dogs.

But look at them now, when they are injured, some people change their dressings every day, they are full of good food and drink, and the big bosses still come to visit them every day.

So just based on Li Zixiao's attitude towards these wounded, a group of subordinates followed him even more desperately.

Even some of the people who had captured Guishun from Liu Dabao before, after seeing Li Zixiao's behavior, were also full of admiration, thinking that this big boss was worthy of their allegiance, so they gradually regained their hearts and slowly integrated into this new group.