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"Military officers and soldiers will have no courage, and soldiers will have no fighting spirit. Internally, they will not be able to wipe out bandits, and externally they will fail again and again, causing the world to suffer."

"The reason why I rebelled was because this Ming country no longer has what a country's court should look like."

"..."

Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua, Song Yingxing, Tian Younian, Wang Diaoding and others were said to be suddenly enlightened, especially the subjugation of the country and the subjugation of the world.

"Changing one's surname to one's name means subjugation of the country. Benevolence and righteousness are full, and the beasts cannibalize people, and people will eat each other, which is called the subjugation of the world." This sentence came from Gu Yanwu, and it has not yet been published, enough to make scholars understand the truth.

It can also provide a very strong theoretical basis for Zhao Han's rebellion.

Zhao Han continued:

"Why did the Ming court fall to this point?"

"Government of officials, enlightenment, morality, these are not the key. During the time of Taizu, the administration of officials was also corrupt, because it originated from the officials of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. But why did it prosper at that time? It was all because of the financial constraints of the court."

"I divide the taxation of a country into two types, direct taxation and indirect taxation."

"Direct taxes are taxes paid on the basis of head or land. Indirect taxes, such as gate tax, banknote tariff, etc., are heavy, and the goods are sold more expensively. Anyway, the merchants do not lose money and can pass it on to the people."

"If a country wants to have fiscal control, direct taxation must be stable."

"In today's world, direct taxation has been destroyed. First of all, the land, a small group of people, occupy the vast majority of land. They can avoid taxes, they can evade taxes, and even if they can't escape, they can also pass on to tenants, turning direct taxation into indirect taxation .”

"Secondly, there is the poll tax. Since the abolishment of the Whip Law, the poll tax has been collected completely indiscriminately. A large number of people have taken shelter from the gentry and hidden their population to escape the poll tax. This has caused a small number of people to bear the poll tax of the entire country!"

"The imperial court's finances are not stable, the people are suffering unspeakably, and all the wealth has been taken by those big clans."

"The imperial court doesn't have enough tax revenues, so they can't raise soldiers. If the soldiers don't have enough to eat, how can they fight the Tartars? The more they can't beat the Tartars, the more they have to extort money to raise soldiers."

"The imperial court extorted and extorted money. If the people could not survive, they would rise up and rebel. The Northwest bandits who were the first to rebel were forced to revolt. This made the imperial court send troops to suppress the rebellion. The more troops used, the more financially exhausted they would be. Excessive taxation and excessive collection will arouse more people to rebel."

"Drink poison to quench your thirst!"

"So, it's the current situation."

"The emperor, the clan, and corrupt officials are not the only ones who disrupt the country. The gentry and gentry in the world are all to blame!"

"Why should I divide the land? Because if I don't divide the land, not only will the country be destroyed, but the whole world will be destroyed, and tens of thousands of families will be destroyed! Let's see, which big family can save their lives in the place where the Northwest rogues passed by? It is Yichun , Yongxin counties are also killing landlords and rebelling, if you don’t believe me, go to Yongxin County to see for yourself!”

"Gentlemen present, do you want me to divide the land. Or do you want the world to turn against me and take away all your wealth and lives?"

"The family, the country, and the world are actually one. Everyone only cares about the family, and only cares about their own family, and the country will perish, and the world will perish. If the world perishes, the small furniture will perish, and the family will not survive!"

"..."

Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua, and Song Yingxing thought they had a thorough understanding of the situation in Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhao Han's views on direct taxation and indirect taxation made them feel fresh and new. The previous vague views were theoretically summarized.

Li Banghua sighed: "It's amazing to be able to say this in my family and country!"

Pang Chunlai turned his head and said to Wang Tiaoding: "Bohe has outstanding literary talents, you can polish this article and spread it in Jiujiang and Nanchang cities."

Chapter 158 [Military Resurrection]

After the spring plowing, the school field outside Ji'an city.

More than 3000 farmers and soldiers lined up for drills in towns.

Only choose 4000 people!

Li Banghua said to choose [-] soldiers, but Zhao Han decided to set [-] soldiers after careful consideration.

Fei Yinggong and the bandits under his command were also standing by the side at this moment, watching the peasants and soldiers enter the field one by one.

"These are peasants and soldiers? The governors and pacesetters of the provinces are nothing more than that!" Yan Jiu was dumbfounded.

Fei Yinggong was also extremely shocked. The peasants and soldiers in front of him were not only neatly lined up and orderly when changing formations, but also full of discipline and vigor.

All the bandits under Fei Yinggong have martial arts skills.If one-on-one with the peasants and soldiers, the bandits must win.If you fight ten against ten with peasants and soldiers, the bandits are afraid that they will be killed to death.

"There are more than 3000 soldiers like this?" Tian Younian was inexplicably horrified.

Fei Ruhe explained: "The teams in front of us are all veterans from Luling County, so they are naturally very capable. The recruits from Jishui County and Anfu County have only had a short training period, so their performance must be much worse."

Tian Younian asked, "How many Luling veterans are there?"

"About six thousand." Fei Ruhe replied.

"How many days do you exercise?" Tian Younian asked again.

Fei Ruhe explained: "I don't practice when the farming is busy, but I practice every day when the farming is slack. I practice in my own village. Each village has an officer."

The drill habits of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are basically that after the recruits are recruited, they spend a month or two in rigorous drills to familiarize themselves with orders and formations.Since then, I have stretched my hips. Exercise once every five days is considered an elite soldier, exercise once every ten days is normal, once a month is okay, and there are people who exercise once every six months!

Tian Younian said regretfully, "Oh, there are six thousand of such elite soldiers, it's a pity that only one thousand can be selected."

"It will be fine after the expansion of the army." Fei Ruhe was also very distressed.

This time the recruitment of full-time soldiers should not only be based on the quality of the soldiers, but also recruited by region: Luling [-], Jishui [-], Anfu [-], and Yuanzhou surrendered [-] (all archers).

The peasants and soldiers in Anfu County were finally organized and trained, and they only trained for two or three months in total.

If only the elite peasants and soldiers in Luling County are recruited, firstly, it will be easy to form the top of the army, and secondly, it will seriously reduce the strong labor force in the rural areas of Luling County.

Next, it was the turn of the Jishui County peasants and soldiers to play. Sure enough, they stretched their hips a lot, but they were still able to crush the government's Xiangyong.

Until the peasants and soldiers in Anfu County went to the parade, the scene was horrible. When they lined up, they were relatively neat. Once the formation changed, things would happen frequently.

Li Banghua sighed and said: "I can only pull out the general from the inside. This time, the veterans from Luling will be the main force, and the Jishui soldiers will be the supplementary ones. Let's use the Anfu soldiers to defend the city."

In the final selection of soldiers, the selection is made in units of villages, and only some of the best performers are selected.

When the peasants and soldiers turned into regular soldiers, the officers of the peasants and soldiers were transferred to official military positions, and the military salary was increased according to the military positions.If there are unselected peasant and soldier officers, they still retain their military ranks, but this military rank is not official.

The Luling veterans who were not selected were very upset. They thought they were a hundred times better than the Anfu scumbags, so Zhao Han could only ask the missionary officer to appease the soldiers.

After three full days of selection, four thousand soldiers were finally selected.

The military flag has been slightly changed, it is still made of indigo blue cotton cloth, but the four words "All Under Heaven" are embroidered on the surface of the flag.

Fei Yinggong and the bandits under his command were disorderly organized into various ministries.

If you add Zhao Han's personal soldiers "Slave Army", as well as military judges, mission officers, naval officers and soldiers, etc., the number of soldiers actually exceeds 5000.

In the land of three counties, more than 5000 regular soldiers are raised, and the military expenditure is simply exploding!

Wu Yong, who is always able to catch high officials, has been promoted to the captain of the "Slave Army" this time because of his meritorious service in the past, and he is in charge of three ten-man teams.

Forced to act as a guide, Xiong Yao led Zhao Han to surprise Yuanzhou's barracks.Because he belongs to the technical branch of archers, and he is also an officer, he was promoted to sentry officer this time, and he is in charge of nine ten-man teams.

Fei Yinggong was also an archer sentinel. He had practiced archery and said he was in charge of nine ten-man teams. Counting the low-level officers, he actually commanded a hundred troops.

Commanding a hundred soldiers is considered a hundred generals, so Fei Yinggong could only comfort himself in this way.

After the reorganization of the regular soldiers was completed, [-] elite soldiers were left on standby for the peasants and soldiers who were not selected, and the rest went home.These peasants and soldiers must also persist in their drills. Once encountering a large-scale siege by officers and soldiers, Zhao Han may have tens of thousands of soldiers at any time!

In the next half month, all the regular soldiers and [-] peasant soldiers practiced in the school field, mainly practicing the cooperation with the archers.

At the end of April, the oath master went out.

The advance navy pretended to be a merchant ship and transported Zhao Han's soldiers to Xingan County.

A few days ago, the Liu family, who joined his family to serve, had a scholar named Liu Tongyu, who is now serving as a Chinese secretary in the army.Liu Tongyu dressed luxuriously and pretended to be a wealthy businessman, while Zhang Tieniu, Liu Zhu and others pretended to be house slaves. They bought the city gate guards to enter for only five qian.

"kill!"

Zhang Tieniu took out an ax from the box, Liu Zhu took out a steel knife, and hacked wildly at the gate of the city.

Even Liu Tongyu, a scholar, drew out his scribe sword to fight.

There were only a dozen people in total, and they actually occupied the city gate, and the slave army ambushed on the "merchant ship" immediately rushed to reinforce them.

Because Zhao Han made too much noise, the magistrates of the surrounding counties all recruited soldiers to defend the city.

It's all fake!

Otherwise, the sweeping king in the west would not have quickly captured three counties in just two and a half months.

The same is true for the officers and soldiers in Xingan County, who were more serious at the beginning.But waited and waited, Zhao Han didn't come for a year, so he slowly relaxed his vigilance.As long as the money was given, they didn't even bother to inspect the goods entering the city, which caused Zhang Tieniu and others to bring weapons into the city.

After the west gate on the verge of the Ganjiang River was occupied by hundreds of slave troops, the remaining officers and soldiers of the city chose to abandon the city and flee.

The county magistrate was also running away, and he didn't forget to bring his money, but this guy ran fast and disappeared without a trace.

Zhao Han came by boat with a large army, did not stop at Xingan County, but continued north to Zhangshu Town.

Of course, I can't help but sigh, because there are historical figures in Xingan County, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong both trained soldiers here!

From Jishui County to Zhangshu Town, we have to pass through Xingan and Xiajiang counties.

Xingan County is on the banks of the Gan River and must be occupied.Xiajiang County is not located by the river, so Zhao Han didn't even bother to take care of it, and just ignored the officers and soldiers in this county.

Five hundred farmers and soldiers were left to garrison Xingan County, mainly to maintain law and order, and not to go to the countryside to divide the land for the time being.

Seeing a large number of ships carrying soldiers, merchants in Zhangshu Town fled one after another, Zhao Han immediately took people off the boat and set up camp on the opposite bank of Zhangshu Town.

After unloading the soldiers and some food and grass, the navy commanded Gu Jianshan, and led the fleet back to Ji'an to transport the follow-up food and grass.There is no way, there are too few ships, and several transportations are scored.

The battle plan is as follows, divided into three steps:

First, take Xingan County and garrison it with [-] farmers and soldiers to ensure the smooth flow of waterways.

Second, to occupy Zhangshu Town, Zhao Han personally led [-] soldiers to sit in the town to deal with the large number of officers and soldiers that may appear in the north.

Thirdly, Fei Ruhe led the rest of the troops, sailed west along the Yuanhe River by boat, and captured Xinyu and Fenyi counties.

……

Linjiang Fucheng (Fengcheng City).

The prefect of Linjiang's name is He Tianqu, a serious Jinshi background, he has been very upset recently.

One is that there is Zhao Yan, a giant bandit from Luling in the south, He Tianqu must recruit troops to defend, and wait for the governor's army to go south to conquer together.

The second is that He Tianqu's hometown is in Luzhou, and it is a small town outside Fucheng.A few days ago, there was news that Zhang Xianzhong had repeatedly ravaged Luzhou, and it was unknown if his people had escaped.Even if the tribe can escape, his family's money and food will definitely be robbed!

It's really unlucky, He Tianqu wants to cry but has no tears.

"Fu Zun, Fu Zun, it's not good, Zhangshu Town has been taken by Zhao thief!"

"what?"

He Tianqu was suddenly struck by lightning. Zhangshu Town is only a hundred miles away from Linjiangfu City, and it takes half a day to get there by boat.

Seeing that the magistrate was a little confused, the master quickly suggested: "Master, please give an order quickly. First, let the soldiers guard the city immediately, and collect a lot of rolling logs, falling rocks, vegetable oil, golden juice, etc.; second, send people to the city immediately. In Nanchang, report the thief to the third division and the governor; third, immediately send spies south to find out the true and false movements of the Zhao thief."

"Yes, yes, just as the master said." He Tianqu came back to his senses a little.

Half a day later, He Tianqu received another message from the enemy that the bandits Zhao had built a camp in Zhangshu Town and had no intention of going north to attack Fucheng for the time being.

This made He Tianqu feel a little relieved, and called the government and county government officials to continue the meeting.

There is no good way to discuss, to discuss, but to quickly gather troops to defend the city, and then wait for the governor to lead troops to come for reinforcements.

The gentry in Qingjiang County are very interesting. They know that Zhao Han will not run away when he comes. Anyway, Zhao thieves will not rob money and food.While staying at home, they donated money and people to help the magistrate and county magistrate to recruit brave men.

The officers and soldiers won the battle, and naturally everyone was happy.

The officers and soldiers lost the battle, and they were just waiting to be divided into fields, and it would not be too late to run away.

A few days later, He Tianqu recruited thousands of brave men from the countryside. Including the soldiers he had recruited before, the number of troops had grown to more than 1800.

……

Nanchang.

Wang Siren was originally training sailors in Poyang Lake, but was summoned urgently by Governor Li Maofang.

"Fu Shuai, but there is something strange about the Zhao thief in the south?" Wang Siren asked.

Li Maofang explained: "The magistrate of Linjiang sent an urgent report that Zhao bandits stationed troops in Zhangshu Town, intending to attack Linjiang City."

Wang Siren spread out the map, quickly shook his head and said: "The target of the thief Zhao is probably not Linjiang Mansion, but Xinyu and Fenyi counties in the west. Zhao thief has taken a fancy to the iron mines and iron smelting factories there. , they would not garrison Zhangshu Town, but raid Linjiang Fu City quickly."

"Should we send troops?" Li Maofang asked.

Wang Siren sighed and said: "The rebels have attacked hundreds of miles away from Linjiang Prefecture, how can the officers and soldiers sit back and watch? Zhangshu Town must be taken back!"

There are 33 important taxation towns in the Ming Dynasty, and Linjiangfu City plus Zhangshu Town together account for one of them.

If Zhangshu Town is occupied by the rebels all the time, and one day they take down Linjiang Mansion, wouldn't the Luling Zhao bandits want to go to heaven?

"Oh, you shouldn't go north during the Chinese New Year." Li Maofang's guts were full of regret.