"Xiuxiang lives in Peach Blossom Path. Considered immortals, they can be combined. The layers of waves are fine and bright, and the greasy jade round rubs the plain neck. I love to sing as a feast. Curb the sky, the clouds are sad. The words are delicate, and the voices are audible.

The rooms are quiet. Embrace the incense and say it happily. The musk of the golden furnace curls with green smoke, and the phoenix tent candle shakes the red shadow. Infinite madness and drunkenness. This joy is gradually entering the scene. still complains about the neighbors, and the autumn night is not eternal. ”

The fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl's voice is like a yellow warbler, her waist is like a willow, and the crisp sound is accompanied by bursts of piano sounds, and in the rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers, she wants to make people intoxicated.

The listeners were not interested, sitting on a stool, looking at the sky with no expression on their faces.

Liu Sanchang from the eighth year of Tiansheng Jinshi Dengdi, to Liangzhejiang to any county, no one knows how the official becomes, but the words filled in are spread all over the world, Taiping County is such a remote place, any one who sings a song, can sing two songs casually. Regardless of whether the listener understands or not, he must praise it twice after listening.

These lyricists write about the wind and snow, the love is strong, and with the prostitutes who sing the songs, the scenery of the Beijing division and the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River are also spread all over the world. Even if he is a barbarian like Li Dao, he can treasure some of the scenery in Beijing and Jiangnan, and he yearns for it, and he only thinks that it is worth it if he has been there once in his life.

But today, Liu Sanchang's "Day and Night Music" listens to his ears, but he can't get into his heart.

"Brother is so Yaxing, at this time, I am still in the mood to listen to people singing!"

Hearing the voice, Li Dao opened his eyes and saw Huang Kai in Tianzhou Xiaoyanei walking over quickly, casually took out a pair of silver bracelets from his body, threw them to the two who were singing, and sent the two away.

Seeing the two leaving, Li Dao said to Huang Kai: "Come and sit, I've been waiting for you for so long, why did you come?" ”

Huang Kai didn't answer, he kept looking at the girl who was singing just now, and said: "This little lady also has a bit of a look, my brother didn't ask where her home is, and there is a place to rest at night." ”

"The alley where the riverside wharf entered, there are all such people, and they are not rare treasures, who cares about her!" Li Dao frowned, a little impatient, "I'm not looking for you to be a prostitute, let's come and sit down, let's get down to business!" ”

"As the saying goes, there are clouds far away and prostitutes near gambling, and it is not easy to come to Taiping County, how can you not play to your heart's content!"

Huang Kai said as Shi Shiran sat down opposite Li Dao, looking leisurely.

Li Dao sighed: "How many years have we been brothers, why do you want to tease me!" Let me ask you, how many horses did Tianzhou hand over to the sugar industry this time? ”

Seeing that Li Dao was really anxious, Huang Kai put away his smile and said, "Not much, only six hundred horses." ”

"We only have eighty horses in Bozhou, and if this continues, our family will not be able to do this business!" Li Dao's face was very good, and as soon as he finished speaking, his brows furrowed tightly.

Huang Kai said: "You are content, if you don't take care of Bozhou, I can bring a thousand horses this time." It's not good for us barbarians to rob each other of business, otherwise our price in Tianzhou will drop, and you will have no money there! ”

"I understand, this kindness of your Huang family is in my heart! Alas, together with the war in Jiaozhi, where is there anyone who sells horses from there? I don't know when they'll finish. ”

"Are you still in the mood to worry about this? If Guangyuan Prefecture wins this battle, it will be enough, and your family's business will be done in the future. If Jiaozhi wins, your family's financial path will be completely cut off. ”

Li Dao shook his head: "No, in that place in Guangyuan Prefecture, the Jiaozhi people can't occupy it, but it's another one, and our family's business is still as usual." The Jiaozhi people are greedy for money, but they just want to rob some gold and silver and plunder the population, where can they occupy it. ”

Huang Kai knew that Li Dao was telling the truth, Jiaozhi had not occupied Guangyuan Prefecture, Nong Cunfu sat there to take advantage of the loophole that Jiaozhi people couldn't occupy, and if the Nong family fell, there would naturally be another family there to claim the king.

"Drink, don't talk about this today." Li Dao seemed distraught and didn't want to talk about the war.

After a tour of drinking, Li Daocai said: "Call my brother today, don't talk about Jiaozhi, I want to ask Yongzhou's 'Kuoding Law', what do you think about Huangzhou?" ”

"If it doesn't do it in our Tianzhou and Bozhou, what do you care about it?"

Li Dao listened to Huang Kai's words and snorted: "Do you really think so? Everything else has been implemented, so why should we be free? ”

"Guangyuan Prefecture is still there! As long as Guangyuan Prefecture does not fall, our two families will be as stable as Mount Tai! ”

Li Dao sighed: "I'm afraid that one day Guangyuan Prefecture will be gone?" ”

"What do you want? There really comes a day when the two of us won't live to that age! Come and drink, and leave him alone with his worries! ”

Li Dao leaned forward, stared at Huang Kai and said, "But have you ever thought that when Xu Pingtong first came to us, he said that it was five hundred horses a year, and it doubled in less than two months!" For what? I've long heard that most of the places where horses used to be used in the cane sugar shop have been replaced by cattle! ”

"Even if there are horses, the imperial court can't help Guangyuan Prefecture. Even if we know that we want to deal with Guangyuan Prefecture, we can't help but make money if we have money. There is wine today and drunk today, brother, you think too much, and you are asking for trouble! ”

The "Kuoding Law" in the Zuogang Province area has not been implemented, but it has stirred up all the forces, and the dark tide is surging. Xu Ping knew that he paid attention to the news from all sides every day. After a few months of brewing, it has come to the time when the melons are ripe and falling, and we can't wait any longer, otherwise it will backfire.

As soon as the news came out, everyone was enthusiastic, and there was a discussion everywhere, thinking about what this thing would look like and what changes it would bring to themselves. As a result, after a long time, only listening to the sound of the stairs and not seeing anyone come down, the patience will gradually be worn out, and it will be difficult to arouse interest again.

In November of the ninth year of Tiansheng, the implementation of the "Bracket Ding Law" in the Youjiang Province area has come to an end, and the war between Jiaozhi and Guangyuan Prefecture is in full swing, Xu Ping officially notified the subordinate local officials and announced that since December 1, Zuojiang Province will fully implement the "Bracket Ding Law".

In order to avoid confusion in the process of implementing the new law, Xu Ping, in the name of raising the matter of Xitong in Zuojiang Province, ordered the chief officials of all prefectures, counties, and mountains to gather in Qianlongtong on November 25, and Xu Ping would go there to discuss with the people.

On the second day of November, he lifted the backyard of the Yamen.

Xu Ping sat on the chair and looked at the map of the Zuojiang area in front of him and pondered. There were seven or eight people sitting around the table in front of him, facing the map and sorting out all kinds of papers.

This is the staff group of Xu Ping's war headquarters, selected from the Fujian immigrants and retired people who are literate in the Xiang army, and Xu Ping personally inspected them one by one.

With the knowledge brought over from his previous life, Xu Ping did not believe in the war command method of this era, relying on the subjective judgment of the chief general and a few staff members, and his brain could decide the military action of the army as soon as his brain was hot.

The order is rigid, and the general in front holds a military order that he may not know or agree with at all, and it is okay to have a smooth sail, but he is helpless in the event of a setback. If the military operation is carried out according to the order, the temporary change of the commander of the operation will completely shift the responsibility, and the commander at the front will bear countless risks.

Not to mention that some civil ministers have no concept of military affairs at all, and they are eager to learn from the Confucian and handsome demeanor of the previous generation, and they think they are clever when they talk about soldiers on paper, and they draw up an order behind closed doors, and they also have to implement the military orders issued by the generals.

When the order was given, it was full of style, and the war was not good.

The effect of the perfection of the staff system on human warfare was revolutionary, turning military operations from metaphysics into science. Although it looks similar, in fact, there is a fundamental difference between the staff system and the staff, the staff is only a supplement to the manager, the extra hands and feet of the manager, and the staff officer is a part of the coach's brain. Before the war, we fully collected and analyzed the intelligence of the enemy and the enemy, and drew up a variety of action plans for the commander to choose. After the commander decides on the plan of action, he breaks down the plan into an action plan in detail, and formulates a plan for various situations, so that the participants will not be at a loss in the face of unexpected situations on the battlefield.

Xu Ping didn't know much about this staff system, but he didn't believe in any superior demeanor, but believed in doing everything in a down-to-earth manner. He is familiar with these steps in his work, and by the way, he moved to the command of the war, and he has the rudiments of the staff here.

Not far away, Gao Daquan and Zhang Rong squatted on the ground with more than a dozen people to form a circle, and there were various stones on the ground in the circle, and everyone had a heated discussion.

Staff officers must not make plans behind closed doors, but must involve the commanders and personnel in their full participation, and the more fully this interaction is, the more feasible the operational plan will be.

After several contacts with the newly formed Xiang Army, Xu Ping found that his ideas did not work among these people, and the command staff of the Xiang Army had become accustomed to receiving orders in one direction.

To put it bluntly, the military system at this time did not allow such a thing, and for the army at this time, winning the battle was not the first requirement of the imperial court, and not threatening the emperor's rule was the most important thing.

If we understand this, we will understand why all the officials and the common people in the world know that it is very harmful for the old and weak soldiers to stay in the army, but the emperor will never allow them to be eliminated in advance, preferring to spend a huge price to raise these people until they are 60 years old, and then retire to the army and raise them until they die of old age. Even if this makes the combat effectiveness of the army seriously reduced, it will not hesitate.

For the emperor, the decline in the combat power of the army can be used in many ways, but letting the army personnel withdraw from the army and go to the local area may cause a rebellion. External humiliation can be tolerated, but internal strife cannot be tolerated.

Fortunately, Xu Ping still has to be in the establishment of two commanding township soldiers.

The township soldiers were local militias, not under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, but completely controlled by the magistrates, and Xu Ping could carry out his ideas among them.

There are two commanders of the township soldiers to which the sugar service belongs, the chief officer of the first command is the commander Gao Daquan, and the second commander is the commander Zhang Rong, all of whom are old people who have followed Xu Ping for many years, and they can be like fingers.

On November 25, the ninth year of the Heavenly Sage, Xu Ping, who was promoted to the affairs of Zuojiang Daoxitong, will meet with all the local officials under him in Qianlongtong, and everyone knew that from this day onwards, Qianlongtong's independent status would no longer exist, and they opened their eyes wide to see if Xu Ping could succeed, whether it was by peaceful means or by bloody means.

At the beginning of the eleventh day, Xu Ping had made all the preparations, and various plans had been formulated.