Yining City, the residence of the Prince of Luoshan County.

After leaving Zhu Cijiong's Protector's Mansion and returning to her temporary settlement, Princess Li Yue'e's face turned pale. Before Zhu Cijiong pulled her into the house, she began to teach her husband a lesson in front of several brothers.

"Your Majesty! Why did you agree to let King Dai be the first overlord of Western Chu without further discussion?"

After hearing what his wife said, Zhu Cixuan felt so bitter in his heart! This wife doesn't know how to show mercy to a man like herself. If you want to teach someone, go into the room and say it, even if you kneel on the washboard! But Li Yue'e doesn't come here at all.

She has a set of rules, saying everything she wants in front of her subordinates, as if the heroine is in charge. When she enters the house, she turns into a soft and charming little woman. You can do whatever you want with her, and she is very obedient...

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"Princess, if this guy doesn't agree to be the overlord, he will push him to be the first overlord. How are we going to clean up the mess here?" Zhu Cixiu shook his head and said, "Although we have 40,000 households,

But we have traveled thousands of miles, how much energy do we still have? Moreover, we have relied on military towns along the way to supply food... If there is no supply from Beiting and Daiguo, what will so many of us eat?

?”

Li Yue'e snorted and glared at her husband: "The king has been working in the Western Regions for many years, and he has food! Although we don't have food, everyone has guns! Who do you think will have food in the end?"

Of course it is an exaggeration to say that everyone has a gun, but there is no problem if every household has a gun!

Li Dingguo was originally the number one commander of the Dashun Army and controlled a large amount of ordnance reserves. After the Battle of Southern Shaanxi, he began to arrange a general retreat. When arranging the retreat, he also collected all the ordnance he could collect.

They were shipped to Songpan Guards. Among them were tens of thousands of matchlock guns! Enough for each of the 40,000 households under his command!

Although the performance of these matchlock guns is not very good, most of them are bulky turtle-dove-foot muskets, and they cannot be equipped with bayonets. However, the quality of Dashun's second-generation soldiers is still very high, and they can almost use turtle-dove-foot muskets correctly. Otherwise,

It is impossible to hold on to the Ming Dynasty for so many years.

Therefore, Li Yue'e, who "every household has a gun", is not afraid that her subordinates will have no food to eat... Of course, the premise is that her people are not regarded as traitors by the Ming Dynasty court. Otherwise, if the heavenly soldiers are powerful, Li Yue'e's little gun will not be able to

If you can't stop it, the barrel of the gun is gone, and your life is gone!

But now that Li Yue'e has led her people to Yining, it is already beyond the reach of the Ming court. Is it a big deal to grab some food?

Besides, there is such a big banner as Zhu Cixiu!

The majestic Prince of Ming Dynasty, why do you want to lose your head while grabbing some food?

"Yue'e, you can't do this!" Zhu Cixuan shook his head and said, "We do have guns and can grab some rations, but how much can we grab? Third Brother Er has a total of 30,000 households, and there are

How much food can 10,000 nomadic Mongolian households save? Besides, Rehai is dangerous and Chuhe Prefecture is a fortified city... The only places that are easy to fight are Yining here and Maishengcheng 700 miles away.

However, there won't be much food in Yining and Maimaicheng, because brother E San is very calculating and will definitely be on guard against us, and will not let us grab enough food to last until next autumn's harvest.

If you don’t believe it, just go and see Third Brother Er’s handsome mansion and you’ll know how strong it is!”

Zhu Cijiong is such an old fox! Of course he will be on guard against his brothers and sister-in-law. Yining City is big and Zhu San has few soldiers, so of course he can’t defend it. But Zhu San’s Protectorate is not very big, so it was built into a small one early in the morning.

The small bastion (not star-shaped, but triangular) is still huddled in a corner of Yining City, making it very difficult to defeat!

If Zhu Cixiu and Li Yue'e turned against each other and wanted to rob Yining City, then of course there would be no problem. They had already entered the city. But if they wanted to rob the Duhu Mansion, it would not be that easy.

Li Yue'e glared at her husband: "Your family is like this, where father, son, and brothers are wary of each other and harm each other. How dare you say that father is kind and son is filial, and brothers, friends, and brothers are respectful?"

Zhu Cixuan sighed: "Fathers, sons, and brothers are wary of each other. No one can trick the other. Only fathers are kind and sons are filial, and brothers and friends are respectful... Yue'e, don't worry, Brother Er will not trick us.

I understand what he is like. As long as everyone has a gun, he will be a good brother and a good overlord for everyone... After the 10-year period expires, I am not afraid that he will remain in the overlord position!

"

That’s right! Everyone has a gun!

Moreover, these people are still the former soldiers of Dashun, as fierce as anything... How dare Prince Zhu not be a good brother of Ming Dynasty and a good overlord of Xi Chu?

Besides, being the leader of a gang of gun-toting thugs is not a good job. After ten years of doing this, you will definitely be exhausted mentally and physically...

While Zhu Cixuan was enlightening his daughter-in-law Li Yuee, Prince Zhu was listening to Zhang Xixian's report on the "enemy situation" in his palace.

"Your Majesty, the rogue military households, each consisting of thousands households, are coming west one after another. Currently, 15 thousand households have arrived near Yining City..."

"How are their military preparations?" Prince Zhu asked with squinted eyes. At this time, he was leaning on an armchair in the study, holding a cup of cold tea in his hand.

"There are many muskets... There are about a thousand muskets for each thousand households, and there are about the same number of pikes, but there are no cavalry or artillery."

The Third Prince Zhu stared and said, "A thousand households have a thousand muskets and a thousand spears? Doesn't that mean there are 2,000 people?"

"Absolutely...the military households of these rogue bandits are so ferocious that not only the men can fight, but women can also carry guns and weapons! Many elderly men and teenagers of 12 or 13 years old can also fight.

The power!”

Wang Fuchen shouted: "Doesn't it mean that 40,000 households can produce 100,000 warriors?"

"There is no such thing as a hundred thousand soldiers fighting in battle," Zhang Xixian said, "but there is no problem with a hundred thousand soldiers attacking and defending the city."

Wang Fuchen hummed: "Why are there so many able-bodied people allowed to be leveled by the imperial court?"

The Third Prince Zhu glanced at his top thug and chuckled: "That's because the imperial court has more soldiers to fight with! Moreover, these soldiers are difficult to maintain... In addition to being good at killing people, they are good at killing people."

If nothing works, the people of Sichuan will be impoverished within ten or twenty years."

"Your Majesty," Yu Chenglong frowned, "Sichuan, the land of abundance, cannot afford to support them, how can we?"

Prince Zhu smiled: "We don't support them... We are a republic, they are citizens, and they have a share in the country, so they have to support themselves!"

"Then how are we going to arrange them?" Yu Chenglong asked.

"Give them all land!" Zhu Cijiong said, "There is nothing else here in the Western Region, but there is plenty of land... Since everyone has a gun, then everyone should have land! Even if one family is allocated 1,000 acres, we

You can take it out too!”

Zhu Cijiong's territory is very large, starting from the middle reaches of the Ili River in the east to the Talas River in the west, and is more than 1,500 miles long from east to west, including half of the Ili River Valley, the entire Chu River Valley, the entire Talas River Valley, and a large area of ​​the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains.

land, in addition to some fertile valleys and fertile grasslands. The total arable and grazing land totals 100,000 square kilometers. And the military and civilian households he has on hand plus the military households brought by Zhu Cixiu and Li Yue'e, the total is

Just 70,000 households.

Even if a household is allocated one square kilometer of land, there is still a large amount of vacant land that cannot be filled!

And such a large area of ​​rich and fertile land is only a part of the Dayuzi area... If necessary, Prince Zhu can open up more land.

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "We don't have anything else, but we have plenty of land. Let's give them more. Although they are not good at farming, but give them so much land. They can do whatever they want and raise some cattle and sheep. It will be enough to eat and they will not be hungry."

They are not hungry anymore, so the guns in their hands can be used by us!

With their guns, I, the overlord of Western Chu, can strengthen my waist!"

Yu Chenglong asked again: "Your Majesty, how should we allocate land to them? Should we put them together or spread them out?"

Zhu Cijiong smiled: "It is impossible to concentrate even if one household is allocated 1,000 acres! Of course, it will be divided...but there is no need to divide it too much. Let them maintain the establishment of thousands or hundreds of households so that they can be divided at any time."
Chapter completed!