Chapter 37: Cavalry is not that simple ()

"Uncle Fourth, what did you tell the prince this time?"

Every time Li Si comes back from the palace, a pair of girls from Lao Lu's family immediately gather around to ask, as if the fourth uncle taught the prince that he had never heard of incisive remarks, and such incisive remarks must be difficult for the people to hear.

Ezi poured a cup of hot tea for Li Si, and Lu Jian, a stupid young man, also cleverly filled the cigarette for this fourth uncle.

The palace is not allowed to smoke (although many people smoke, the ban on smoking in the imperial court has not been revoked). Uncle Fourth must have been suffocated for a long time.

"I didn't say anything, I just talked about the word "money and food"..." He sucked a big mouthful and said lightly.

"Why do you always talk about money and food? Then the prince Qiansui is not tired of listening to it?" Ezi, who is the same age as the prince, is tired of these two words. I wonder if the prince is interested in these two words?

"The prince has been tired of listening to it. He prefers to listen to the battle where we kill Huang Taiji." Like all young people, even if the young prince Zhu Cilang tried to pretend to be a mature young prince, he lacked interest in the way Li Si taught, and even less could understand it. More often, he talked about Li Si's fierce battle and the passion for the war.

"Is the logistics of money and grain really so important?" Lu Jian asked muffled: "We defeated the Manchu armored soldiers, and it was up to the command of the fourth uncle Youfang and his brothers to fight to the death, and they didn't use any logistics to support them..."

"You know what a big deal." Lao Lu never lacked enough patience for his son's shallowness, and usually scolded him directly: "I can't eat enough to fight with the power? The soldiers of Chaohe Institute are also good at using swords and guns. Why are they chased and beaten by Manchus like ducks?"

As a veteran, Lu Bingyin understood the importance of logistics best. If the Ming Dynasty border guards had enough food and salary, the Manchus would not have been able to make it in.

"Well, whether we are the Manchus, when both the enemy and us have a strong fighting will, especially when we meet on a narrow road, it is more of a test of individual soldiers' ability. Jian'er, if there is not enough food, fodder, military salary support, training is a big problem. How can individual soldiers ensure their ability?" Li Si is as tempted like a real teacher: "When it comes to large-scale corps-style combat, the dependence on logistics is even greater."

"When I was in the army, I could barely be able to do three exercises and three meetings. Nowadays, it's hard to say that the soldiers are now. It's nothing to train without money and food." The Liaodong Army in the early years was relatively capable, but it was only maintained for three days a month. If you need to increase the training intensity, the supplies would not be able to keep up.

The simplest example is to have extra meals during training and add money to the flat meal. How to train without money?

"Our village protection team trains when seeing the sky, and there is meat to eat when seeing the sky, otherwise you can withstand the Manchu armored soldiers?" Lu Bingyin said: "The most fundamental reason why you can defeat the Manchu armored soldiers is that your fourth uncle has been preparing..."

"Since the prince can't listen to the truths that the fourth uncle said, what's the use of the fourth uncle saying these?" Ezi couldn't understand this problem.

"It's useful, absolutely useful." Lu Jian, as his brother, believed that the fourth uncle would not do anything to do nothing.

From the establishment of the Hu Village team and until the defeat of the Manchu-Mongolian coalition, everything this fourth uncle did was deeply and precisely calculated. Lu Jian was always convinced about this.

"Why can't I see if it's use?" Although Ezi didn't know much, she had the persistence of breaking the casserole.

"If you can see it, it would be strange. Your fourth uncle is a god or a Buddha, and you don't understand what he does." Lao Lu also saw that Li Si, who is as wise as a demon, is planning.

Yes, it's layout.

Li Si seemed to have expected that the village would face the moment when foreign enemies invaded, so he planned to form a village team in advance, and even spent all his money on this force to invest manpower and material resources, finally highlighting the role of protecting the village at critical moments.

The killing of Huang Taiji made the Hucun team and Li Si's name match the world, but Lao Lu now figured it out that the unlucky guy who died under Li Si's knife was definitely not Huang Taiji. But what is unexpected was that the Manchu emperor was replaced by a little baby, and even the Manchus themselves couldn't explain clearly how Huang Taiji died.

Only by believing that Li Si really killed Huang Taiji can we give a reasonable explanation for this matter.

Later, the court also proved that the short blade seized by Li Si was indeed Huang Taiji's possession. In addition, Manchu was confused and changed to the emperor and Manchus to describe the cause of Huang Taiji's death in an vague way, which created a hero like Li Si.

The brother beside him who bowed his head and smoked seemed to have expected the development of the current situation and was using this development to plan a layout.

And it's a big layout

As for how big the game Li Si set up, it is not something that Lu Bingyin can see clearly.

In Lu Bingyin's heart, there are legendary figures with this ability.

The world was divided into three parts before leaving the cottage. Zhuge Kongming, who was almost wise and witchy, was one of them. Another one was Liu Ji, the founding hero of this dynasty who was able to know five hundred years ago and five hundred years later.

Zhuge Liang and Liu Ji have been deified by various legends. People think that these two are reincarnations of immortals. Lu Bingyin was too lazy to believe this nonsense reincarnation, but it cannot be denied that these two ancient people confirmed that they have advanced wisdom that ordinary people do not possess.

Obviously Li Si also possesses such great wisdom as a demon.

"Actually... I mean, although the world belongs to the emperor's family, the money and food are all in the hands of the landlords and the official master. I can't blame the queen for not even living." Mrs. Lu always thought that the queen was the richest woman in the world. After hearing Li Si describe the dilemma of Chongzhen's family, she felt very sympathetic.

Such a woman has limited knowledge, but she has to pay land taxes and rent every year, knowing that the annual income of bureaucrats and gentry is more than ten or twenty times that of the country...

"The Ming Dynasty is so big, and there are too many places to spend money, so this family is not easy to be a family." Mrs. Lu thought with her own thinking: "If we can bring the wealth in the hands of gentry and bureaucrats, even if there are ten Li Zicheng and ten Manchuria, the Ming Dynasty can easily pacify them three or five round trips..."

There is no doubt that the gentry and bureaucracy absorbed far more wealth than the financial resources of the Ming court.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, he immediately eliminated nine thousand years, boosting the morale of the decadent Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen's prestige among the people was also very high, and everyone hoped that this emperor could revive the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian controlled the court and controlled the East and West Factory. His power was everywhere. Wasn’t it also been wiped out by the Xinhuang quietly?

It has to be admitted that at that time, Wei Zhongxian and his subordinates were eliminated, and Chongzhen was indeed playing beautifully and showed great courage and ability.

Move the gentry class?

Even the wise and powerful emperor in Lu Dasao's heart did not dare to do so.

It is more difficult to shake the interests of the gentry and bureaucrats a little bit than to eradicate a hundred Wei Zhongxian.

Throughout the dynasties, gentry and bureaucrats were the basic core of the entire dynasty, and they never ended up against them. At the least, they were linked by bureaucrats to change a more obedient supreme ruler, and at the worst, they were directly changed.
Chapter completed!