Chapter 150: Invasion

After the biggest local bullies in Laizhou Prefecture were defeated by Li Meng, the rest of the people were honest and did not give Li Meng the opportunity to train troops. This was a pain for Jiaozhou camp stationed in the Jiaozhou area of ​​Fengmeng Town. These soldiers were not allowed to be paid on weekdays. Although the military pay was paid very well, the training project assessment was not good, and they would immediately deduct the salary and practice. If the five assessments were all bad reviews, they would immediately go to other places to be salted or auxiliary soldiers to be auxiliary soldiers, and draw outstanding people from these two places to supplement them.

I have enough food, enough salary, and also have energy. I have worked harder to practice. These veterans from Jiaozhou Camp are looking forward to fighting, because at least they don’t need to train to do anything.

Li Meng was considering his financial resources. The current size of more than 6,000 people was almost his limit. Although among these more than 6,000 people, veterans had enough salary, salt was half salary, and auxiliary soldiers had 30% salary, the expenses of equipment, weapons, armor, etc. were also quite a big number.

Moreover, if Li Meng wants to leave the turnover and reserved gold and silver, he can't spend all of it. He always needs emergency money. It's ridiculous to say that according to what Li Meng knows, even the 30% salary of the auxiliary soldiers is more than that of most of the war soldiers in Shandong, the money earned is sufficient, not to mention that most of the children of these powerful men are provided by their families.

Since there is insufficient strength to expand the morale of the army, Li Meng had to train the army as well as possible, and practiced in the army every day, and went back very late.

At present, Zhou Juren kept his distance from him as much as possible. He had no knowledgeable characters around him, and Li Meng was also confused about the future and was very confused.

After Zhu Yunyao came to the royal palace guards for the second time, he officially became a member of the Li family. There was a beautiful girl with a national surname, and at first glance she was a girl from a wealthy family. She was seen in her family, which was really suspicious. So she wanted to change her name. Li Meng's original intention was to change the girl's surname to Li, which was to say that she was her sister.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yunyao firmly opposed this suggestion, and Li Meng didn't care. He asked the girl to choose by herself. As a result, her final name was Mu Yunyao, who was called Li Meng's cousin, and the cousin was just cousin, so she decided.

In theory, the tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver in the Zhou royal palace were enough for Mu Yunyao to live a lifetime. Li Meng meant that girls could choose their own way of life, and he only provided protection and did not interfere.

Who would have thought that after Mu Yunyao was sure that she had indeed become a member of the Li Meng system and became Li Meng's family, she was unwilling to have fun and eat nothing every day, so she had to do something.

What else can she do, a girl who was spoiled in the royal palace since she was a child? For Li Meng, everything would be fine if she just wanted to avoid causing trouble, but Mu Yunyao was very persistent. In the end, the errand that Li Meng chose for the girl was to read the newspaper.

Jiaozhou Camp, Dusi, and Li Meng can also see the level of internal reference. He has the right to watch and know the notices and documents sent to the magistrate's yamen and the magistrate's yamen of Laizhou Prefecture.

It would be fine if ordinary military officers knew about a rough thing, but Li Meng arranged a special person to quickly get the documents of the mansion in several places where he could get the documents. As long as there was news, someone would immediately copy it and then pass it out as quickly as possible.

The news on Dibao and the articles are actually quite rich, such as the dynamic decrees of the court, and the sharing of wars in various places. However, for Li Meng, there are too many articles like Dibao, and there are many things that only people of this era can deeply understand or see clearly. It is difficult for him, a modern person, to understand.

Mu Yunyao was in Henan and Lu's family, and the opinions he had made on Dibao were very sophisticated. At least for Li Meng, this insight and insight were already very good. Since that was the case, let's use it for the best. Mu Yunyao's official task every day was to read Dibao and record the important things and report them to Li Meng.

Li Meng also thought very arrogantly that this could be regarded as giving himself a beautiful secretary!

In the 456 months of the 9th year of Chongzhen, apart from the famines everywhere in the Central Plains, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were still fighting with officers and soldiers in Shaanxi. In addition, the court continued to increase taxes, with many names, including border pay, punishment of thieves, etc. These things seemed to be like this year during the Chongzhen period, and even Li Meng felt that it was so normal.

This era is so peaceful that it is not like the sky and the earth will collapse and enter darkness and destruction in ten years.

By early July, everything was almost on track. The southern part of Laizhou Prefecture became the place for Li Meng's Jiaozhou Camp to train and exercise. The people were noisy and the money was spent like water. However, after becoming nervous, the rules gradually became law, and the officers and soldiers adapted to these things. Li Meng also felt that he had time to think about some things.

When Li Meng was free to train soldiers, he thought that although he did not belong to this time and space, he was like a small stone. This big era was like a vast ocean. Such a small stone would not cause any turmoil on the sea surface, let alone change anything. What should come must come. The key to the problem is how to escape this disaster.

When we talked with Zhou Juren about where to use as a base, the two sides had half of their talk, but Li Meng remembered every sentence clearly, remembering Zhou Yang and Zhou Juren at the end: "That's what we say, the places we go to are nothing more than Jiangnan and Huguang..."

In the area of ​​Laizhou Prefecture, I have almost visited all of my training exercises during this period. This place is indeed not suitable for a long-term place. There are no natural dangers, at most, there are short mountains and hills. There is no obstacle at all if the soldiers are in the verge of the border. Moreover, the land is barren, and I still need to allocate grain from Dongchang Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture. It seems that if I want to have great development, I have to develop towards other places.

Jiangnan is currently the richest place in the world. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that it is the richest and most prosperous place in the world. Various products are produced here and then sold to the Ming Dynasty and around the world. Japan's gold and silver and Spain's precious metals in South America are flowing here continuously.

But Li Meng denied Jiangnan. If the soldiers went to such a prosperous place, they would soon be corrupted by this prosperity. Jiangnan was rich and wealthy in the world. He could pay enough wages to the soldiers, and those merchants could win over ten times the number. Although Li Meng's idea was too incredible, Li Meng was still unwilling to take this risk. When he was in the modern army, Li Meng heard his comrades and friends talked many times that the soldiers stationed in the city and those soldiers in the agency life were extremely leisurely and comfortable. The bright lights and wine outside were indeed too attractive. Modern political commissars and instructors specialized in ideological work. Even so, let alone his own situation.

Moreover, the problem in Jiangnan is not only the wealthy, but also the clan power is also mixed and extremely large. These clans have been passed down for hundreds of years, and the prosperity of Jiangnan has accumulated a large amount of wealth and have great influence in the officialdom and the people. The people in Jiaozhou camp are on the land of Laizhou Prefecture, and it is okay to destroy the rich people of the Qiu family and the Peng family. If you encounter such a big family, you will probably have a lot of trouble.

If Jiangnan doesn't work, then go to Huguang? Li Meng thought for a long time, but he couldn't find out the exact location of Huguang and which areas he included in his mind. He felt quite ashamed and thought that when he came to this era, he was still so confused in the same place as China, and he was still so big in the province.

I was thinking about finding a map of related books to see. In this era, there are no books about geography, especially books similar to modern geography, and the control is very strict. After all, it is important information about military affairs.

"Brother Li, there is something big!!"

The yard door was opened, followed by a burst of rapid footsteps. I didn’t have to go out, and I knew it was Mu Yunyao. This girl had a hot attitude, but Mu Yunyao had a very good knowledge of this information. Since April, she only added common sense to make her own judgment.

Some judgments were written in words, and Li Meng passed them to Wu Tongzhi and Zhou Juren. After seeing them, they also felt that their views were profound and very good, which made Li Meng trust the girl more.

The house where Li Meng is currently located is his own inner house. If ordinary people come in, they must pass the news from their personal soldiers. However, Mu Yunyao is the "cousin" of Lord Dusi, so naturally there are not so many rules.

When Li Meng heard that it was a big deal, he was also a little nervous, but saw Mu Yunyao rushing in, holding a notice in his hand, his little face was red due to nervousness and excitement, but he looked worried and afraid in his eyes, and he said with breath:

"Brother Li, the East Captain Jurchen entered Northern Zhili from Xifengkou. The court issued an edict to order the nearby military towns to take strict vigilance..."

At present, the Ming Dynasty's name for the Manchu Tartars was the Eastern Jurchens, rather than the name of the country they started with, or the name of the Later Jin, or the current name of the Qing Dynasty. They did not recognize them as the country at all, and only believed that they were bandits. However, the combat effectiveness of these bandits was too strong, and they could even make them rampant in important areas of the capital.
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