Sima De seemed to have known that he would ask such a question, and said without thinking: "The lord doesn't have to worry too much. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info what you are worried about, the court is also worried. At present, the north of the imperial court has to deal with the Jianzhou Tartars, and the Central Plains has to exterminate the Liukou, and there is no more silver and army to spend in the remote place of Qiongzhou. And compared with Gao Yingxiang and the like in Shaanxi, the lord has his own advantages - those thieves are just mud-legged people, I don't know how many gentry and officials have been killed, such a role The court can still pinch his nose to appease, the lord is a local gentry, but if he mistakenly kills a county order, he can still accept the court's appeasement. However......" he accentuated his tone, "only by defeating the officials and troops who encircled and suppressed them and making the government feel that it is better to suppress them can we get to this point." ”

This analysis made Xia Nan breathe a sigh of relief, since this is the case, he will have a happy fight, beat the officials and soldiers to subdue, and then accept the government's recruitment.

He glanced at Huang Mengjia, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said, "You are really good at asserting this time, which makes me very passive. But the matter can still be salvaged, write down your time for the time being, and calculate the account later, get up! ”

Huang Mengjia was very happy to kill the enemy, and he was also mentally prepared to be punished, but he didn't expect Xia Nan to let himself go like this, and quickly stood up and stepped aside.

The focus returned to the military struggle, and how to defeat the officers and soldiers to win the opportunity to appease them became a problem that everyone had to face. Sima De analyzed: "If you want to defeat the official army, plus the native soldiers of Lord Huangdong, we only have 600 people, I'm afraid it will be more difficult." No matter how unbearable the official army is, the thousands of large and small households in Qiongzhou can always muster up a few thousand soldiers. ”

Summer Minami nodded. For the time being, only 300 of these 600 people are equipped with firearms, and in the face of the attack of thousands of officers and soldiers, such a few people are a bit too thin, and there is not even a reserve, and once an accident occurs, it will be a devastating consequence. It is imperative to expand the team, but where to find the right source of troops?

Huang Hansheng, who has been in charge of the training of the escort team, summed it up: "To join the escort team, you must ensure two things: first, be loyal enough. If you want to fight against thousands of officers and soldiers, you will definitely not be able to fight with spears alone, and if you are issued with firearms, you are not loyal enough, it is a scourge! "Everyone thinks that the Qionghai-style rifle can be used with a little training, and a female person can shoot a big man with one shot, and if you turn the muzzle of the gun at your own person, it will be a disaster.

"Second, dare to fight with the officers and soldiers. Most of the people are afraid of the government, and if they go to the battlefield, they will weaken their waists when they see the officers and soldiers, and they can't ask for it even if they can fight again. "This is a matter of ideology, after all, the rule of the Ming Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, and the people still did not want to go against the government from the bottom of their hearts, and the soldiers recruited must dare to fight with the officials and soldiers.

Lin Weiye, who has not spoken much, said with emotion: "The displaced people in Shaanxi are not afraid of the government, if only some displaced people could be recruited." ”

Xia Nan thought thoughtfully, "The displaced people are not afraid of the government because they can't survive anymore and there is no way to retreat." Speaking of which, life is better than before, and the government will return to its original form as soon as it comes, will it also fight with the government? ”

Everyone was a little confused when they heard this, but Sima De understood what he meant, "What does the lord mean is that those tenants in Lingao who cultivate our land and donate money?" ”

Everyone understands a little bit of what he said. In the summer, the fields seized by the south continued to be planted by tenants, but only two stone per mu were collected, and the rest of the taxes and grains were exempted, which not only stimulated the enthusiasm of the tenants, but also attracted many yeoman farmers to contribute. Compared with the past, this pattern has greatly reduced their burden, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have lived a good life; if the officers and men succeed in encircling and suppressing them, and Xia Nan falls as their backer, then this pattern will certainly not continue, and they will return to their previous life of poverty and destitude.

Lin Weiye clapped his hands and said, "I understand, if we tell them about the consequences of the officers and soldiers coming and our defeat, they will naturally stand on our side." The world is big, it's not as big as your belly, you can't eat, who cares if you're an official or not! ”

Sima De added: "The government wants to suppress us because we killed the county order, so we have to change the way we say to the tenants, saying that the government thinks that we are paying taxes and grain on behalf of them and hindering them from enriching their private pockets, and wants to find a reason to take back all the land as official land." ”

Xia Nan high-fived and said, "Miao, they can't help but believe it." ”

The matter of the source of soldiers has a direction, but the movement of the capital city must also be mastered, when to send troops, how many soldiers and horses to dispatch, know yourself and know the enemy, in order to win the battle.

Xia Nan looked around, among the people present, Lin Weiye was only suitable for tinkering with technology, Tan Shan had to manage the tenants, Huang Hansheng had to be responsible for training, Huang Mengjia was more suitable for battlefield charges, and Sima De had to stay by his side to give advice, so ruled out, only Liu Quan was more suitable, in order to ensure that he could successfully complete the task and come back alive, he had to send someone to protect, so the calm and bold Yang Youji was a good candidate.

So he made a decision: "On the tenant side, the old village chief will go to release the news, Liu Quan will go to Fucheng to inquire about the movements of the official army, and report back as soon as there is news, Yang Youji will take a few people to protect it, and if there is danger, he will withdraw it." The convoy is training and getting ready for battle! ”

The crowd responded.

Yang Youji went home before leaving, and every time he went out, he would go home and talk to his father. His mother died when he was three years old, and his father never continued to raise him. Now that his father is old and can't do heavy work, the father and son originally had a very difficult life, until Xia Nan appeared, Yang Youji became the deputy captain of the escort team and Xia Nan's henchman, and this situation completely changed.

When he returned to Ma Yuan Village, he saw smoke coming from his house from a distance, and he was a little strange, it was not dinner time at this time, and he was still a little early to cook. As soon as he reached the door, the door was opened, and a figure appeared in the doorway, carrying a basin of water and pouring it out, almost splashing on him. After he dodged it, he looked at it and couldn't help but be stunned, and the people at the door were also stunned when they saw him.

The person at the door was Tan Liu, who had been driven out of Ma Yuan Village, she looked at Yang Youji for a moment, put down the basin, stroked the loose hair on her forehead, and greeted unnaturally: "Are you back?" ”

Yang Youji opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. In front of me, time seemed to go back to the past.

When Yang Youji and his father fled the disaster and came to Ma Yuan Village, there was almost nothing. At that time, Tan Liu, who was a neighbor, often came to take care of the father and son, cooking and washing for them. The two elders of their family, it is indeed inconvenient to have no woman in the family, and Tan Liu's enthusiasm makes up for this defect to a certain extent.