My life skills in Daming Liver

Li Chengliang looked at his son Li Rusong and said doubtfully:

"What's new in what you're talking about? Isn't this the same as the military household system implemented in our Ming Dynasty?"

Li Rusong shook his head and said, "Father, this is not the same."

"What's the difference?"

Li Rusong said: "The military household system of the Ming Dynasty is to allow us military households to serve as soldiers for generations. Military households are just like scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. They are one of the occupations designated by Taizu as military households. There is nothing special about them. , even lower than the status of many nationalities."

"But the system mentioned in this article means that everything must revolve around our army, and that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce must all serve the army."

"Farming is for fighting, and developing industry and commerce is also for fighting. Only by acquiring more land can everyone live a good life."

Li Chengliang frowned and said, "Isn't this the Qin system?"

Li Rusong shook his head and said, "Father, handsome, it's still different."

"The Qin system is that all the people are soldiers and the country is governed by military law. But this article gives priority to the army. It just wants to improve the status of the army and make the army the core of the entire country. Everything produced is for the army. With the army Only through protection can everyone be safe.”

Li Chengliang finally understood.

Li Rusong continued: "But this is just the claim of this article, this article has other contents."

"What do you think."

Li Rusong said: "This article also said that the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties started in the Mongolian grasslands, and they were all barbarians."

"The Song Dynasty, which governed the country with Confucianism, could never defeat these rising northern barbarians?"

"The Liao Dynasty began to Confucianize, and was defeated by the Jin Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty also began to Confucianize, and was defeated by the Meng Yuan. Finally, the Meng Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty and established a vast empire. Why?"

Li Rusong said: "Barbarians don't debate the scriptures!"

"If we follow the current Confucian system of the gentry, the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties will never be able to rise."

"The Song Dynasty, which valued culture and education, could not defeat the barbarians in the north. What is the reason?"

"Barbarians don't know how to debate scriptures and can only use force to solve problems."

"In other words, debating scripture is meaningless in the face of force."

"Is it because of Su Ze's scholarship that Southeast Asia can rise and threaten the imperial court?"

"It's because the ships in the southeast are strong, the guns are powerful, the weapons are advanced, and the soldiers are brave!"

"So what we have to do now is to give up the debate on various Confucian ideas, and do everything to serve the army and fight the war."

"Use war to gain land, use war to gain wealth, use war to gain order."

"And as long as we win the war, will anyone still say that we are barbarians?"

"It's like Taizu came from a humble background, and why do some people say that he has a low status?"

“Winning is king or losing is bandit, as long as we can win the battle, everything is right!”

After listening to this, Li Chengliang actually felt excited.

In fact, as a military leader who lacked education, Li Chengliang still felt somewhat inferior in the court.

This is not Li Chengliang's problem, but that the entire military generals group has been suppressed by the civilian group for hundreds of years, and they also feel lowly about their status as military commanders.

Just like Li Chengliang is already the commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, he still wants his son to study and take the civil service examination route. This is because they, generals, subconsciously feel that they are barbarians who do not know how to study and are inferior to civil servants in terms of status. First class.

There has never been such an article about the importance of the army in the imperial court.

There were no articles in the Ming Dynasty advocating the status of generals, let alone someone openly saying that they were barbarians and that barbarians could defeat civilization.

This is too explosive!

But there is nothing wrong with the example given by the other party.

The Song Dynasty, which had the strongest civil rule, was violently beaten by the rising barbarians in the north.

Once the barbarians rising in the north began to become Confucian, they quickly lost their fighting power and were violently beaten by the barbarians rising further north.

Meng Yuan, the last victor of the northern grasslands, established a super empire rarely seen in the world and conquered countless civilizations.

"I'm a barbarian! I don't debate scriptures!"

Li Chengliang paced back and forth while reading.

"Yes, if you can't even protect your own country, you can't even protect your own people. What's the use of debating scriptures?"

"Everything must be used to develop armaments, and everything must be used to develop the military."

"As long as there are more muskets and cannons, there will be more land and food."

Li Chengliang applauded the case and said:

"This article is well written, but I'm afraid it won't be published in Huangming News."

"And if you directly say that you are a barbarian, let alone the scholars in the capital, even the people of Shandong may not be able to accept it, right?"

Li Chengliang calmed down. He also felt that this article was too extreme. If it was used as the political program of the Shandong New Army, there was no reason for him to say that he was a barbarian.

But the phrase "don't debate the classics" can be said to have hit the nail on the head of Li Chengliang.

His own cultural level is not high, so he has always been at a disadvantage in the fight with Chen Yiqin.

This "not debating the scriptures" means not talking to these scholars about what Zhihu knows, and directly speaking with strength.

As long as he can expand his territory, the entire Ming court will support him.

Could it be that Zhang Juzheng supports him because he has a good relationship with him?

Isn't it because of the three-town new army in his hands?

All this is strength.

However, Li Chengliang is still sober after all, and this article is still too radical.

He said:

"Now it will be published in "Shandong Xinbao". Let's test it out. Remove the barbarian part first, and then process the arguments."

Li Rusong thought for a while and said: "Actually, we don't need to use the Song Dynasty as an example. We can use the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties."

"The Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties started from the six towns of Xianbei, which can be considered as barbarians. It may be easier to accept it from here."

Li Chengliang said: "This is a good method! Let's start from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, write a few articles in the "Huangming New News", and verify the bloodline of the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties! Then use our theory to go up."

"What is the name of the author of this article?"

"This gentleman's name is Shan Songxian, and he is a failed scholar."

Li Chengliang said: "Okay, okay, recruit him to the New Army Yamen, and he will be my record office first, starting from the ninth rank!"

Just when Li Chengliang was encouraged by his literati and rejoiced, the war in Huguang had basically calmed down.

The third brigade cut off the Yangtze River and surrounded Jingzhou without attacking, but captured the counties near Jingzhou one by one, leaving only an isolated city in Jingzhou.

The same situation happened in Xiangyang. The Southeast New Army moved up the Han River and pushed the front line to Xiangyang City. Other cities in the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River were controlled by the Southeast New Army.

Yu Zigao's fourth brigade crossed the Nanling Mountains and invaded southern Huguang. It was unstoppable along the way and successively captured the cities of Chenzhou, Hengyang, and Changsha. Finally, it successfully joined forces with the troops of the third brigade heading south in Yueyang on the shores of Dongting Lake.

Yueyang is the Yueyang in "Yueyang Tower". After occupying Changsha and Yueyang, the entire Dongting Lake Plain in Hunan has completely fallen into the hands of the new southeastern army.

Coupled with the Jianghan Plain, these two most important granaries of the Ming Dynasty changed hands.

More importantly, after capturing Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan were cut off by the New Southeast Army.

Compared with Sichuan in central Sichuan, which has the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, it can still rely on natural dangers for defense, while Yunnan and Guizhou are more panicked.

Guizhou is connected to the western mountains of Hunan in the east and Guangxi in the south. Now these two provinces have fallen into the hands of the Southeast.

After receiving the battle report from Huguang, the Ming court was even more troubled by the fact that after losing Huguang, the Ming army would set up defense lines in Shaanxi and Henan.

Zhang Juzheng was in a state of distress. Before he could grieve for a moment that his hometown was about to fall into the hands of the Southeast, he was busy setting up a new frontline defense line.

In the southeast, newspapers were all excited about the Huguang War. This battle once again continued the myth of the invincibility of the New Army in the southeast.

On the other side, the Sixth Brigade led by Qi Jiguang invaded northern Annan from Guangxi and made great progress. They defeated the Bei Mo regime in northern Annan and even lost the capital of Bei Mo, Jincheng.

Qi Jiguang's banner was to punish the Guangxi Yao rebellion leaders who fled into Annan.

However, this is only a military goal. In the newspapers in the southeast, Annan has begun to be promoted as part of the Central Plains territory.

Su Ze was not worried at all about Qi Jiguang's combat effectiveness.

There is an era difference between Annan and the Central Plains. Nowadays, flintlock guns are used in the southeast, while Annan is still in the Iron Age. Even the quality of iron tools in Annan is not good. Some high-quality iron weapons need to be imported from the Ming Dynasty. .

Moreover, the Mo Dynasty and Hou Li in Annan were fighting for hegemony, and the people of Annan were never at peace. They were often driven to the battlefield to fight for their lives. They did not have much favorable impressions of the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Annan.

Annan's current situation is the same as that of most countries in the world today, and there is no overall national concept.

In the mountains of northern Annan and the jungles of southern Annan, there were still many Jizu tribes. Like the chieftains on the southwestern frontier of the Central Plains, these tribes were still in a barbaric state, and this state even lasted for centuries.

The core area of ​​Annam is the Red River Plain in northern Vietnam, which is now the area near Thang Long Prefecture, Vietnam, and the Mekong River Plain in the south.

So to describe Annan's terrain, it's like a pole carrying two rice bags.

The shoulder pole is the long and narrow land on the Annan Peninsula between the north and south of Annan. Like the shoulder pole, it picks up the two important grain-producing areas of the Red River Plain and the Mekong River Plain, which are the rice bags of Annan.

Now that the Red River Plain is in the hands of Hou Li, Bei Mo is very weak and is no match for Qi Jiguang.

The Mekong River was occupied by the rising Champa during the Annan Civil War.

Therefore, what Su Ze was more concerned about was actually the Houli regime that occupied the Red River Plain, where Shen Guangyuan was sent as an envoy.

Even for the southeast, the northern mountainous area occupied by Beimo has little value at all. The most important thing is the granary of the Red River Plain.

Southeast did not recognize any of the small imperial courts of Bei Mo or Hou Li. After Shen Guanyi entered Zhongjun City, he did not meet the ruler of Hou Li.

This matter was naturally a bit awkward.

Shen Guangyuan was not worried. He just held a banquet at his place of residence all day long and invited the dignitaries of Houli to attend the banquet.

Now the ruler of Hou Li is Zheng Jian, the powerful minister of Hou Li.

Zheng Jian controlled Houli's national affairs, but he had no idea of ​​usurping the throne and becoming emperor. Instead, he imitated Cao Cao of the Central Plains and "held the emperor hostage to order the princes."

This is also because the situation in Hou Li is similar to that in the early days of Cao Cao's army. Hou Li is not a very powerful whole, and Zheng Jian is just one of the relatively powerful princes.

Even Zheng Jian couldn't say he had complete control over Zhongjun City.

Therefore, Zheng Jian could not stop others from meeting the envoys in the southeast. He could only send people to keep an eye on them.

But Shen Yiguan didn't care at all. His uncle was a famous poet in the southeast. Although Shen Yiguan didn't like to write poetry, his literary talent was outstanding.

After all, he fought his way out of Zhejiang's cruel imperial examination system at a young age and passed the examination.

The scholars in Annan were similar to those in North Korea. They all yearned for the culture of the Central Plains. Soon Shen Yiguan made a name for himself in Annan.

There was an endless stream of people visiting him, and it could even be said that there was a huge crowd.

In addition to interacting with Annan scholars, Shen Guanyi also often met with Annan businessmen and sugar cane plantation owners.

Annan's sugarcane plantation owners are basically Annan's local nobles and landowners who own a large amount of land. They have made a lot of money from the cane sugar trade with the southeast, and Shen Guanyi also invited them here in the name of discussing trade. reunion.

Sorry for being late, this is hard to write