168. Miao Mei's visit
After the Zheng soldiers finished training, they sat on the hillside and watched the sluts and bragged, chatting. Life in the village was very simple, not as colorful as outside the mountain, so the soldiers and villagers could only get together when they were idle. This indirectly enhanced their feelings for each other?
Xu Renjie dragged his tired body back to his small cave. The two servants quickly rubbed his legs and massaged his back: "Master, how hard it is for you to be a soldier here, why bother to be a soldier? It's better to go back to Baishui to take charge of the business at home. It's definitely not as good as you can do to the second master to manage those businesses yourself."
"Bang!" Xu Renjie slapped the family and flew away: "Is this a bad crime for you? You know, you are enjoying it...Oh...shoulder...my shoulder..."
After scolding, he shouted again: "Take my four treasures of the study..." It turned out that every day when Xu Renjie returned to the cave, he would write down what he learned today on paper. There was a large stack of paper in the corner of his cave, and he wrote some experiences on it every day, including how Zhu Ba trained soldiers, commanded them, and how he arranged positions for the soldiers... These things were all things that could not be learned from military books.
The more he followed Zhu Baxue, the deeper he admired him. You should know that the person he learned from now was Zhu Yuanzhang, who once swept the world. With Zhu Yuanzhang's ability, he could just say a few opinions on marching and fighting, which was much more practical than the rules and regulations in those military books. Combined with the current situation, Xu Renjie felt it more deeply.
He now has the feeling of being in the treasure mountain, with treasures everywhere, and wanting to move them all away, but he is unable to do so. He just hates that his brain cannot hold it.
And just these days, Zhu Yuanzhang was training a "engineering force", and Xu Renjie was excited to learn to build siege equipment such as siege machines, ladders, well railings, rushing vehicles, and crossbows.
Some viewers think that there were no engineers in ancient China, and engineers were only found in modern times. This view is very wrong. Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, China has already had engineers, but the names are called "Zhanggu" and "Sijian". At that time, it was mainly responsible for building cities, digging trenches and pools, and all were related to defense, so it was called "Zhanggu". By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the army was equipped with special officials, and a group of engineers were responsible for building bridges, building cities, and setting obstacles along the way when they went to war... By the Yuan Dynasty, there was even a special "craftsman army", which was to use craftsmen to form an army.
Zhu Yuanzhang was reorganizing in recent days and followed the custom of the Yuan Dynasty, called "School Army". He gathered carpenters who were idle in the village and taught them to make siege machines, well railings, chariots and other siege equipment.
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the three siege tools, such as catapults, well railings and storms, were basically rarely seen on the battlefield, because the Ming Dynasty already had advanced artillery items such as artillery, and there were many types of artillery, such as Flang machine cannons, red-clothed cannons, etc. In this era, they were still playing catapults, storms, and storms, which seemed a bit out of place.
However... there is no condition for using advanced weapons in the village, because iron and gunpowder are rare things, and only wood can be used for the siege tools from hundreds of years ago. Even so, the craftsman army also makes this village quite unique... At least in Xu Renjie's eyes, Zhu Ba's ambition is extraordinary.
Throughout history, when did you hear about bandits reorganized siege troops? The bandits are just playing in the mountains. You actually practice siege. What does this mean? The soldiers in a daze don’t understand, they only know how to study hard with Zhu Yuanzhang, but Xu Renjie understands! As soon as he saw the siege weapons, he knew that Zhu Ba had some ideas. At least one thing, Zhu Ba did not like to stay in the mountains. His goal was to go into the city... But within a radius of thousands of miles, which city is not the imperial city? If a bandit wants to live in the city, he can only fight a few battles with the officers and soldiers. It seems... he really wants to be an enemy of the officers and soldiers!
Forget it, it is useless to think too much. Xu Renjie learned how to make siege equipment, and he didn't dare to think too deeply about this.
He lay on the table, picked up the paper and pen, recorded his experiences one by one, and even proudly drew a trencher in the lower right corner of the paper, with a proud look on his face.
As soon as he finished writing, a servant ran in from outside and shouted, "Master, another guest is coming to the village... Brother Zhu is about to meet him, but he asked you to listen too."
"Oh? I'll go now!" Xu Renjie liked to listen to Zhu Ba's speech, so he quickly put down the pen in his hand and ran outward... After running a few steps, he suddenly remembered something again, and returned to grab the mask and cover it on his head.
When he rushed to the front of the mountain village, he saw that several people had already sat in a simple living room in front of the village. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er, Tsing Sanlang, Ma Xiaotian and others were sitting next to him. The one sitting in the guest seat was actually an acquaintance - Miao Mei!
It seems that the visitor of the copycat is Miao Mei. This really surprised Xu Renjie. What is this person doing in our village?
Miao Mei said in an angry voice: "Brother Zhu Ba, I came to your village this time to represent the rebels in the world and ask you for an explanation! We are both rebels who revolt against the court. You didn't go to fight with the officers and soldiers, but you came to fight us and actually protected the dog officials and landlords in Baishui City. What do you mean? If you can't tell the name today, don't blame the heroes of the world for beating you."
So that's it. Xu Renjie suddenly realized: King Zuo Gun of Yichuan was not an idiot. After he was defeated, he must find out which officers and soldiers he defeated. As a result, when this guy inquired, he was not the officers and soldiers who defeated him, but Zhu Ba of Baishui, who was also an uprising army... Wang Zuo Gun was so angry that he was half dead.
Now, Miao Mei came to condemn Zhu Ba! Interestingly, when I was watching the show, Xu Renjie quickly watched the wall. He waited curiously for Zhu Ba to explain to Miao Mei, wanting to hear how Zhu Ba could explain this matter clearly.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Ba did not explain anything. He smiled slightly, stretched out a fist, hovered in front of Miao Mei, and then smiled and said, "My fist is bigger than yours!"
"What does it mean?" Miao Mei's face changed color.
"It means..." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "If I am happy, I will hit you. If I am unhappy, I will not hit you. Because my fist is bigger than you, I have the final say and there is no need to explain to you."
"You..." Miao Mei was furious and jumped up from the chair: "Are you reasonable?"
"A person who reasons will not rebel!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "You are also a thief. Have you talked about the truth?"
"Aren't you afraid that the heroes of the world will look down on you?" Miao Mei was so angry that her chest fell: "Just like you who are fighting with each other in the same family, no one will come to surrender to you again in the future. Have you ever seen "Water Margin"? I know why Song Jiang can attract the likes of all heroes? Because people talk about benevolence and righteousness are timely rain in the eyes of the people in the martial arts world! How can the elder brother be like you..."
"Yeah!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a calm face: "Song Jiang died in the end... Liangshanbo collapsed..."
Miao Mei: “…”
"Miao Mei!" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his voice and said, "Benevolence and righteousness will lead people to surrender. I know this principle better than you, but I also know that there is another kind of person who can also attract people to surrender...that is... a strong man!"
"The strong should also be kind and righteous!" Miao Mei said angrily: "Otherwise, they will be like a tiger, and no matter how strong they are, they will only make people afraid."
"I also talk about benevolence and righteousness!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "I only talk about benevolence and righteousness to those who are worthy of benevolence and righteousness, and those who are not worthy of speaking... I will crush them one by one, so why do you need to talk more nonsense with them!"
"You..." Miao Mei was furious: "What do you mean is that my elder brother Wang Zuoguai is not worthy of being kind and righteous?"
"He is indeed not worth it." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "I know it over time..."
"It's outrageous." Miao Mei jumped up in anger and gasped. After a while, he suppressed his anger and said angrily: "Although you treat us like this, we are talking about morality in the world. Miao Mei comes here to scold you on the one hand, and on the other hand, she is also to remind you about some things. This is the information that our brothers finally found out. I think that they are both from the rebel army and don't want to watch your village be destroyed... Damn, I really don't want to tell you."
"Hmm? You said!" Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.
Miao Mei said angrily: "Hu Yanyan, the governor of Shaanxi, has stepped down... and a new governor has been replaced. Moreover... the court has appointed a new governor named Yang He. As soon as this man came, he vigorously reorganized the army and wanted to capture all of us bandits... Now Xi'an Prefecture has begun to assemble heavy troops. The information from my brother's spy said that the court has prepared a full 15,000 troops and is ready to be dispatched to various places to suppress the rebels... Of course, you are indispensable."
"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang's heart moved after hearing this. Did this happen in his previous life? Let me think about it carefully... After thinking about it, he immediately vaguely remembered something. Emperor Chongzhen did send a three-sided governor named Yang He to Shaanxi New West, but... this person didn't seem to have achieved any results, right? I can't remember it very clearly... It was because this person had no results that Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't remember clearly. If he was a powerful person, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely remember it clearly.
Since he had no impression in his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang was relieved. If he hadn't seen the development of the world once and knew the great progress, he might have been nervous about this information, but... Miao Mei's move to send the information seemed very interesting. He couldn't help but smile and said, "I understand, thank you for coming here to send this message..."
Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said seriously: "I beat you. You are full of anger and are willing to come to send me this information. You are a good man... I think you are a person worthy of benevolence and righteousness... If you can't make it to Wang Zuoka in the future, I would like to welcome you to my village."
"Ah! I won't come to your broken place!" Miao Mei was still angry. He turned around and walked out angrily, cursing all the way, "I'm a gangster, and I'm a rebel, but I can't tell you the reason after the fight. I'm telling me that I'll hit you with a big fist and I'll hit you if I want to. It's so fucking... I really don't want to tell you this information... I really don't want to..."
Miao Mei went far away with cursing. Judging from the direction he was heading, it should be in the north... I guess Wang Zuoguai was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang and retreated to the north...
Chapter completed!