Chapter 35: New Year’s Eve "Put your hands flat, hold them flat, hold them steady.
Didn't you have breakfast?
Or did you leak oil last night?
All your strength was leaked in your crotch."
At the same time, on the school field outside Dadu City, the Minister of War, who had just been reinstated, Li Hanqing stared with a ferocious expression.
Standing in front of him were more than 3,000 newly recruited warriors, all of whom had been scolded into disgrace.
Breakfast was indeed eaten, and everyone was given a large bowl full of dry rice.
However, two and a half hours have passed since morning.
The second meal time of the day never came.
Now everyone's belly has already been pressed against the back of the chest.
I'm so hungry that I have someone hold a wooden stick steady and stab it forward repeatedly.
Isn't this just a fool's errand?
No one who is willing to be recruited to feed the newly formed National Defense Army by the imperial court is a fool.
On the contrary, they are also well-known figures in the villages and towns around the capital city.
He has a wide circle of friends, has far-reaching knowledge, and is very loyal.
He can stand people on his fists and run horses on his arms.
However, no matter how thick the arms are, they can't twist the thighs.
Suddenly, the imperial court issued an edict, ordering brave men from the countryside to join the army to protect the country and kill the bandits.
Local officials started recruiting people based on reputation.
Aren’t you highly skilled in martial arts?
Aren’t you always known as the timely rain, the loyal and filial man?
Come and place your fingerprints, and this new suit will be yours.
Wear it and go to the Yamen to report.
After three days, you will rush to the capital city to serve the emperor.
If you don’t go, you won’t go there.
It's just disobeying the decree.
You can weigh the consequences yourself.
The heroes and villains who can walk sideways among the people usually know who they can offend and who they can't offend.
After repeated considerations, except for a very small number of people, they ran away overnight and fled to the south.
Most of them collected their money from extortion, dismissed their disciples and disciples, and went to the Yamen to apply for the army.
After leaving, Xiao Lang was a passerby from now on.
The full name of the National Protecting Army is called the Loyal and Righteous National Protecting Army.
It was a new army that Tuohuan Timur specially ordered the Ministry of War to establish after he turned against his own son.
This army abandoned the crossbows and spears that were necessary for the Dayuan elite in the past, and replaced them with muskets and artillery made with heavy investment by the Ordnance Bureau.
Every gun barrel and cannon barrel is made of bronze, and the price is exorbitantly high.
However, the quality of every musket and artillery has been personally tested by Liuzhi Guo Shu.
It will never explode like before, and the effect of killing one's own people is better than that of the enemy.
It is strange to say that after spending so much money to build a pure firearms force, Dayuan's treasury did not bottom out this year.
The first credit here must be attributed to the former prime minister Hama who ran away.
If he had not given up his attempt to eliminate Huaiyang during his tenure, resolutely rested his life, and decisively imitated Huaiyang to open factories and workshops on both sides of the Sanggan River, and vigorously set up pastures to raise sheep, the Yuan Dynasty's treasury would definitely not be able to collect it.
Pay so much tax money.
As for the second credit, we have to thank the rebellious ministers and traitors who followed the crown prince Aiyou Shili Dala to conspire against them.
It was precisely because they ruthlessly copied the lives of these people in Dadu, Baoding, Shunde, and Yongping.
With family property, the court had more surplus.
In order to put Tuohuan Timur's long-awaited pure firearms army into reality regardless of the cost.
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As for the generals of this army, naturally they can no longer choose old men like Tulu Timur and Dingzhu.
The former is Hama's brother-in-law.
Although he has secretly started to destroy his relatives for a long time, Hama is still alive.
Who knows whether the connection between them will be severed.
The latter has the power of the prime minister.
If he has military power again, he may become the second Boyan, Tuotuo or Hama.
However, Tuohuan Timur could not guarantee that he would still have the strength to kill another prime minister in two years.
Therefore, after repeated weighings, Tuohuan Timur made a painful decision and handed over the command of the loyal and righteous national defense army to Khalazhang, who had just been recovered from the civilian population.
Nahalazhang was the eldest son of the former Prime Minister Tuotuo.
After his father "died unjustly", he and his younger brother Sanbaonu suffered a lot.
He even faked his death for a long time to hide his name according to the idea of his father's personal pupil Li Hanqing.
It wasn't until Hama resigned as Prime Minister some time ago and Tuohuan Timur listened to Dingzhu's suggestion and ordered Zhaoxue to rehabilitate Tuituo that the brothers returned to Dadu under the protection of Li Hanqing, Haban and others to thank the emperor. kindness.
Zhaoxue naturally had to make some compensation.
As a result, Ha Gaozhang transformed from the son of a sinner to the Duke of Shen of the Yuan Dynasty, Pingzhang Zhengshi, and Minister of the Ministry of War.
His younger brother, Sanbaonu, was also granted the title of Duke of Qi County, and was appointed as the censor and censor.
Both Ha Gaozhang and Sanbaonu cried with gratitude, and took the initiative to enter the palace many times to thank the emperor for his kindness.
Tuohuan Timur saw that both of them were sincere, and there was really no good candidate available, so he simply granted military power directly, hoping that Harazhang would inherit his father's unfinished business and bring peace to Huaiyang as soon as possible.
This cold talk between the two brothers ignited the fire again.
Li Hanqing, Gong Bosui, and Sha Laban, the three suffering brothers who accompanied Tuotuo through the last journey of their lives, certainly cannot be forgotten.
As a result, after more than two years, Li Hanqing, the Minister of War, Gong Bosui, the counselor of Jiangbei Province in Henan, and the ten thousand households of the Salah Ban of the Red Army were all restored to their posts.
In view of the current actual situation of the Yuan Dynasty and the abilities of the three men, Tuohuan Timur specially asked Prime Minister Dingzhu to issue an order to order Li Hanqing, Gong Bosui and Salaban to join the Loyal and Righteous National Defense Army to assist Harazhang and Sanbaonu.
The brothers trained soldiers, rehearsed formations, and prepared to kill thieves for the country.
As the saying goes, there are three things a new official should do when taking office.
Although Harazhang himself was a young master and had not learned even one-tenth of his father Tuotuo's skills, Li Hanqing, Gong Bosui and Saraban had gained some true inheritance because they had followed Tuotuo's horse all year round.
Seeing that the brothers Ga Gaozhang and Sanbaonu were at a loss, the three of them discussed it and simply took over all military affairs on behalf of the coach.
From daily training, maintenance of military discipline, rewards and punishments for personnel promotion, to food and grass supplies, weapons distribution and storage, everything is taken care of.
In this way, the two brothers Ga Gaozhang and Sanbaonu were relieved.
Those "righteous men" below who had just been forcibly recruited into the army were in bad luck.
Although they are usually one to ten in the streets and countryside, compared with the elite soldiers of Tuotuo's tent back then, they are not impressive at all.
Not to mention that Li Hanqing still had the heart to compare them with the elites of the Huai'an army, and vowed to make Butcher Zhu pay with his blood.
Ever since, throughout the winter, the school grounds outside Dadu City were filled with howling ghosts and wolves every day.
Li Hanqing firmly believed that Ci did not control troops, so he did not care about the casualties during training.
Anyway, with the expansion of the city and the rapid increase of pastures, there are more and more "heroes and heroes" doing nothing inside and outside the city.
During training, more than a dozen people died, and dozens or even hundreds were disabled, and the local officials could soon "recruit" to replace them.
The local officials of Zhongshu Province are also willing to send all the "thornheads" from various autonomous regions into the army.
Anyway, whether they stay in the end, or die or become disabled during training, these people will never be able to go back to Hengxing Township.
Invisibly, they are equivalent to maintaining local peace.
But just rigorous training may not necessarily create an invincible army.
In the days after Tuotuo's death, Li Hanqing spent most of his time traveling around and increasing his knowledge, except for the time he spent settling the two brothers Ga Gaozhang and Sanbaonu.
Not only did he dress up as a Taoist priest and observe the Huai'an army at close range, he also secretly visited Hezhou, Chizhou and Bianliang.
After some summary, he came to a conclusion.
If an army wants to be victorious in every battle, and if it wants its brothers to die in vain, in addition to strict training, clear rewards and punishments, and sharp weapons, it also needs to make the vast majority of the people in the team believe that what they are doing is correct.
Just, I believe that their coach is leading everyone to do justice for heaven.
And the justice in Li Hanqing's eyes is completely different from that of Zhu Buthu and others.
The justice in the eyes of Zhu Butu, Zhu Beggar, Liu Futong and other "thieves" is "to expel the Tartars", but the justice in the eyes of Li Hanqing is "to exterminate the rebel bandits and bandits and restore peace to the world."
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The way to support Li Hanqing's belief in his own justice, or to find ways to convince others that they are on the side of justice, is to compare the "peace and prosperity" that Zhu Buthu and others had before the rebellion, with the "chaos and poverty" that Zhu Butcher and others experienced after their rebellion.
Repeated comparisons, let loyalty protect Everyone in the national army believed that the reason why their lives were getting worse and worse and why they were forcibly recruited into the army was not because of the improper government orders of the Yuan Dynasty, but because Zhu Tuhu rebelled, which resulted in the court having to spend most of its money and money.
They have no energy to deal with the rebels, but no ability to maintain the place.
As for examples of peace and prosperity, they are easy to find.
Even in poorest places, there are people who once lived a prosperous life, and with the rise of workshops and ranches in the past two years, there are many people whose family fortunes have suddenly declined.
By carefully selecting these examples and polishing them, it is not difficult to prove that Butcher Zhu and his Huai'an army are the root of all evil.
"Who made us have land and not be able to farm?
Who made us have homes and not be able to return?"
In the howling north wind, Li Hanqing suddenly stopped shouting orders.
Instead, he raised a tin trumpet and asked questions in public.
Every word was frozen into white mist at the mouth of the iron trumpet, floating and lingering for a long time.
"Butcher Zhu, Butcher Zhu, Butcher Zhu," the toad squad and several servants stood at the front of the team and took the lead in shouting.
"Butcher Zhu, Butcher Zhu, Butcher Zhu" The surrounding soldiers of the National Guard Army looked at each other and had to shout to follow.
Butcher Zhu is far away in Huaiyang, and his image is very illusory.
But if they don't shout loud enough, they will have to stand on the school field and suffer from the cold.
However, this is a reality very close to home.
"Who made all the money away, so that everyone's women can't wear new clothes?
Who controlled the north-south water transportation route, so that everyone's children don't have enough to eat?
Who made wool go to sky-high prices, so that All the good farmland has been turned into pasture.”
"Butcher Zhu, butcher Zhu, butcher Zhu."
This time, all the soldiers responded in unison without the toad squad taking the lead.
Those Huaiyang people are so abominable that they can exchange an entire ship's worth of wool for just a thin piece of mirror.
And for every dozen more sheep raised, an acre of good land will be turned into pasture.
For this reason, tenants who have lost their livelihood and are displaced are everywhere.
If they can't find anything to do in the black-hearted workshops in the city, the entire family will starve to death before winter is over.
"Who is it that robbed everyone of their money?
Who is it that forced the court to increase taxes and taxes, leaving the brothers with no land to farm and no serious things to do?"
Unknowingly, Li Hanqing was carefully concocted by himself I was moved by the lie and my eyes filled with tears.
"Butcher Zhu, Butcher Zhu, Butcher Zhu" cries of grief and indignation could be heard everywhere.
The heroes and heroines who were forcibly recruited into the army picked up wooden fake muskets and stabbed forward with all their strength, as if their sworn enemies were hidden in the howling north wind
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