Before dawn the next day, Zhou Shixiang got up early, but he was not in a hurry to find Zhao Sihai, but went to see Boss Hu first.
Although Zhou Shixiang really wants to be the leading big brother from now on, the fact is that he can't.
At least, nominally, Boss Hu, a bandit appointed by the general of Luoding Prefecture in the Yongli Imperial Court, is the real master of Luoding City, and he is also the leading brother of the people in Daqiao Mountain.
No matter how eye-catching his performance is, he is just a little brother who follows Boss Hu, and at best he can be regarded as a second or third person.
If you want to play your own banner and be a real leading brother, Zhou Shixiang must first have his own people, otherwise, it will be difficult for him to make Ge Wu's gang obey him, and it will also be easy to arouse the jealousy of Boss Hu.
At this time, if there is internal separatism due to the seizure of power, it will be a fatal blow to anyone, so Zhou Shi has always maintained respect and obedience to Boss Hu, unless Hu Lao's brain is hot and confused, otherwise he will never conflict with it.
Fortunately, so far, Hu Quan's performance as the boss is reassuring, he has not shown short-sightedness such as Ge Wu and others, nor has he shown arrogance and arrogance, and he is the first to seize Luo Ding, and he is also obedient to Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong, in order to open up the situation as soon as possible, he will let go of all affairs and hand them over to do it, without suspicion, such a mind and courage, Zhou Shixiang is ashamed of himself.
Such a character is still the No. 1 filial son in ancient and modern times, how can Zhou Shixiang be willing to turn his face with him for a little power, face each other, and kill each other The enemy of the enemy is a friend, unite all the forces that can be united, even if the other party is a murderer, as long as he is willing to devote himself to the struggle for the salvation of the Han people, Zhou Shixiang firmly regards him as an ally, as for the merits and demerits, leave it to future generations to comment.
After telling Boss Hu what he did yesterday roughly, Boss Hu nodded thoughtfully, and then after repeatedly telling Zhou Shixiang to recruit the soldiers, he hurriedly discussed how to deal with the Qing army prisoners, dozens of people, who were neither allowed to be killed nor released, and it was not a matter of being locked up.
Besides, he can't always lead people to guard the cell, such a big mess in the city can't do it without him, a decent general Luo Ding When Boss Hu talked about his identity as a general of Luo Ding, Zhou Shixiangfang remembered that he should send someone to report the good news to Cheng Bangjun, it doesn't matter if the official uniform is official or not, the key is to be able to coax some money and food from Cheng Bangjun.
What's the matter, it's also the credit of seizing a state city, and it's too chilling for the bigwigs of the Yongli court in Guangdong to come out without letting go of some blood.
No matter how small the sparrow is, it is still meat, not to mention that this is also an opportunity for the Yongli Imperial Court to officially recognize General Hu Quanluo and admit that these people under him are the Ming army.
Zhou Shixiang even planned to wait for the situation on Luo Ding's side to open up, whether to find an opportunity to meet the Son of Yongli or Li Dingguo.
The history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which was not much in his previous life, told Zhou Shixiang that Li Dingguo seemed to have some contradictions with his righteous brother Sun Kewang, the lord of the Qin Kingdom, and Sun Kewang finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which led to the stifling of the opportunity for the revival of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
If Sun Kewang can be prevented from surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, the situation in Nanming will naturally not deteriorate because of Sun Kewang's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and no matter how bad it is, it will drag on for a few more years than the original history.
And the stronger the Yongli regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the longer it lasts, the more benefits it will be to Zhou Shixiang.
Although the time has been 12 years of Shunzhi and 8 years of Yongli, as long as the Son of Heaven has not abandoned the country for a day, and Nanming has not died for a day, this righteousness is still there, and hope is also there, and the people of the world will not die and be willing to be enslaved by the Manchurians, as long as the Ming army appears in front of them again, there will definitely be many people who are willing to stand up against the brutal Manchurians again Zhou Shixiang never thought that he would also have to intervene in the Ming and Qing dynasties, he knew that the defeat of the Southern Ming Dynasty was because of the struggle for the throne and all the power was consumed in the internal strife, so the Manchurians picked up a big bargain, so before the Manchurians were driven out of the Central Plains and the northern land owned by the Han people for generations, he must not have any ambitions and repeat the mistakes of the Southern Ming Dynasty infighting, even if he thinks about it, he is not qualified to insert a bar between the Ming and Qing dynasties.
At present, the most conducive to the rise of Zhou Shixiang is to raise the banner of the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in a bright and bright manner, use his hundreds of years of knowledge to compete with the Qing court for Guangdong, and then wave the Northern Expedition.
Luo Ding is the first step of this plan, and it is also the most difficult step to take.
Only by taking this first step can we take the second step, and if we can't even take the first step, how can we talk about the second and third steps.
Xiucai rebelled, and it didn't work out for ten years.
Zhou Shixiang didn't want his talent to really rebel for ten years but achieve nothing, so he urgently needed to increase his strength and rise quickly, otherwise, he would still become an insignificant pawn in the long history and a meteor in the sky.
Borrowing all the power that can be used, borrowing all the names that can win people's hearts, borrowing all the means that can defeat the enemy, as long as it is beneficial to the anti-Qing Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang does not mind and does not care which adult kneels down to.
The news is also simple, when Cheng Bangjun left, he said that once he took Luoding City, he could immediately send someone to Gaozhou to summon the news, he and Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, were stationed in Gaozhou City, and Guo Zhiqi, a university scholar, would also be in Gaozhou for some time from time to time.
Song Xianggong introduced to Zhou Shixiang that Gaozhou's general Le Tongwu was Li Dingguo's confidant and favorite general, and there were more than 1,000 elite Ming troops from the original Western Army, and there were also three or four thousand Ming troops adapted from the local armed forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, with a total of no less than 5,000 soldiers, and Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of Gao, Lei, Lian and Qiong, was stationed in Gaozhou, so Gaozhou has replaced Guangzhou to a certain extent as the military and political center of the Ming army in Guangdong, and Gaozhou is supported by Li Dingguo's army who retreated to Guangxi, so the Qing army in Guangdong did not dare to take a step west of Luoding, lest Li Laohu, who had just withdrawn from Guangdong, wave his troops to kill again.
Zhou Shixiang reminded him, and Boss Hu also came to his senses, and hurriedly recruited a subordinate and ordered him to ride to Gaozhou to report the news.
Originally, Zhou Shixiang also wanted to tell the man to exaggerate when he reported the news, beheading, capturing, seizing or something bigger, not to be afraid of scaring people to death, but then he thought that the purpose of sending someone to Gaozhou to report the news was to get material support from Gaozhou and the official recognition of the Yongli Imperial Court.
You can't do self-defeating things.
Coming out of Boss Hu, Zhou Shixiang wanted to go to Song Xianggong, but Song Xianggong also had something to do, the 120 stone grain "borrowed" from Qi Yuantai's six families last night needed him to take someone for acceptance, and he had to send someone back to transport the grain stored in the village.
In addition, as the titular Lord of Luo Dingzhizhou, the affairs of the city are also inseparable from him, so Song Xianggong is also very busy, where can he have time to accompany Zhou Shixiang to recruit troops.
The place of recruitment was under the gate of the Dongcheng city wall, when Zhou Shixiang arrived, Zhao Sihai and Peng Dazhu were sitting behind a table, one was lying there, and the other was lying there.
There were a few men from Daqiao Mountain patrolling with twenty or thirty young men with various weapons, and when they saw Zhou Shixiang coming, the leading man was busy waking up Zhao Sihai. was woken up by someone who slept soundly, Zhao Sihai couldn't get better, and was about to scold, but found Zhou Shixiang standing in front of him, and hurriedly laughed: "Xiucai is coming" said and pushed Peng Dazhu with his hand, the latter raised his head in a daze, and it took a long time to know which one was coming.
Zhou Shixiang glanced at the cave in the city gate, three boxes of silver were stacked there, only the seal of the top box was torn, and the bottom two boxes were not moved, and he couldn't help asking: "How many people have been recruited, and how much silver has been spent?"
"How many people have been recruited" Zhao Sihai pointed to the twenty or thirty young men with his hand, his mouth pouted, and he said helplessly: "It's all here." ” "That's it" Zhou Shixiang was taken aback, one person gave two taels of silver to settle in a lot of money, this year, silver is really valuable, one or two silver can make a family of three barely live for half a month.
If it was in the past, Zhou Shixiang didn't dare to guarantee that Luo Ding's young man would be confused by two taels of silver, so he would be a soldier with his head and a salary.
But last night a fire came down, and nearly half of the people's homes were affected, not to mention food, they just couldn't even grab a cloth bag.
In the words of Song Xianggong, the young and strong people in the families of the affected people should be very enthusiastic to sign up, but why did one night pass, only recruited the lively scene imagined by these twenty or thirty people, and how could those young people not be confused by these two taels of silver "Why, the people don't want to be our soldiers, you didn't say that we are Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses" Zhou Shixiang was afraid that Zhao Sihai did not make the name of recruiting soldiers clear, and those gentry probably knew that they were not Ming soldiers, but where would these people know.
Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong twice the year before last and last year, and his reputation was quite loud among the people of Guangdong.
Zhao Sihai smiled bitterly, and said helplessly: "Xiucai, we have said everything you ordered, but Brother Dazhu and I are dumb, and these are the only people who are willing to sign up, and the others just refuse to do it with us no matter what we say." ” "If it weren't for Brother Zhou, you told us not to be rude, and to be kind to those people, I would have tied them up with a knife a long time ago, where would I be polite to them."
Peng Dazhu muttered a few words, thinking that he was holding back the fire in his heart.
Zhou Shixiang ignored Peng Dazhu's complaints, but asked Zhao Sihai: "Then they are afraid of less silver" Zhao Sihai shook his head and said, "It's not. ” "Why is that" Zhou Shixiang also wondered.
Zhao Sihai glanced at the people who were watching from afar, and then lowered his voice and said to Zhou Shixiang: "Xiucai, the people are afraid that we will run" oshow7 t1706231537: