Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 123 Ten Rings
"Chen Gu, in your mind, what should the world look like? Or which way of governing a country do you think is perfect?" Han Yuanxiao asked with a teasing expression on his face.

Chen Gu was about to speak but immediately held back. In China's 5,000 years of history, all kinds of political forms should have appeared. On the surface, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties all seemed to be monarchies, but in fact they were all different.

Take the Ming Dynasty for example. In its later period, it was actually almost like a constitutional monarchy, but life became worse and worse. After all, any system has to be implemented by people, so it is still a society ruled by people.

Chen Gu frowned and thought for a while, then said: "I don't care about the way of governing the country, I only care about the results. In my opinion, a person should have a house to live in, clothes to wear, and enough food to eat to be considered a person.

I know I'm not as smart as you, but there are many smart people in this world. Those who are capable should move up, and those who are not should get out. There will always be someone who can find a solution."

Han Yuanxiao couldn't help but twitch his lips. He seemed to see the shadow of Zhu Yuanzhang in Chen Gu. He was afraid that officials would have a hard time in the future. After thinking for a while, he said, "This is a bit unreasonable.

I just want to ask you a question. There is only so much land in the world, but the population is growing very fast. Especially when the world is stable, it only takes 30 to 50 years for the population to grow 10 times or 8 times. How can we feed so many people?"

"The world is huge. If there really isn't enough land to go around and enough food to eat, I'll lead everyone to open up new land, go fishing in the sea, and lead the army to fight. We can fight all the way to the horizon, even to the moon." Chen Gu raised his voice.

Han Yuanxiao was completely speechless and didn't want to discuss this issue any further. "Well, it's too early to talk about this now. Maybe there will be smart people who can solve these problems by then. After all, we have a vast land and many people, so there will always be some geniuses.

It will be difficult for us to contact each other, and it will be even more difficult to trade. We still have to support the White Lotus rebels at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei provinces. They can share the pressure from you, so I hope you can give me the formula for the explosives!"

This should be Han Yuanxiao's real purpose, otherwise he would never have sent so many things to Chen Gu.

"Okay." After a slight hesitation, Chen Gu agreed. It was just a formula for explosives. There were many factors that affected the success or failure of a war, including logistical supplies, armaments, soldiers' training, various tactical combinations, and even political programs.

With the same level of equipment, Chen Gu is not afraid of anyone.

After Han Yuanxiao left, Chen Gu began to reduce his manpower. Except for the necessary intelligence personnel who stayed outside, all others were concentrated on the Buddhist treasure.

Everyone worked hard to produce weapons, including bulletproof vests, bombs, detonators, rifles, wheelbarrows, and most importantly, bullets. After planting autumn and winter vegetables, the people continued to reclaim land and grow crops to increase food. Everything was done in preparation for the upcoming war.

Watchtowers were built and various traps were set up on the two northwest routes into the mountain to increase the strategic depth. Although the distance was only 20 to 30 miles, they were all mountain paths, so there were many places to set traps.

Just find a place with a steep slope and prepare some rolling stones and logs, and you can cause heavy casualties to the enemy. As for the enemy directly attacking the top of the hill, that would be even better.

Even though a hill is only thirty to fifty meters high, as long as a squad is deployed with rifles, explosive cans, and detonators, and trenches are dug for defense, the enemy will have to lose at least three to two hundred people if they want to climb up the hill.

If people are arranged on several hills to defend together, the defensive capability will be stronger, and the defending soldiers can move forward and backward freely.

As long as people are arranged to defend in layers, the so-called 10,000 troops can advance ten miles, and Chen Gu will be considered the elite of the other side. After receiving Chen Gu's summons, Lao Piao ran back with a group of doctors as soon as possible. This guy's injury can still be healed.

Facing the charge of Delentang's thirty cavalrymen that night, Lao Piao bore the greatest pressure. Not only did he fight Delentang head-on, but most of the attacks from the subsequent cavalrymen were also directed at him. He had six wounds on his body, but fortunately none of them were penetrating wounds.

They were all abrasions on the exposed parts of the hands and feet, just cuts made by weapons. The most serious ones were the blunt force wounds caused by the spear stabbing into the chest and abdomen. Not only were the internal organs slightly displaced, but the sternum was also likely to be fractured.

But more than ten days later, this guy became full of energy again.

However, Chen Gu still let him recuperate. In that era, there was no X-ray to take a look, and no one knew the exact condition of his body. Maybe he looked fine on the surface, but the internal injuries might be serious.

Chen Gu does not want Lao Piao to be covered in hidden injuries. Given Lao Piao's physical fitness, as long as he does not suffer any hidden injuries, he can fight side by side with Chen Gu for at least forty or fifty years.

Rebellion is not that easy, there is still a long time to come!
Lao Nian, Dao Ba and others also escorted the last batch of supplies from the mountain village back to Fobao in the next two days.

At this point, except for a small number of spies outside, all personnel have retreated back to Fobao, a large amount of various materials have also been transported back, and Fobao has entered a blockade state.

The only thing that Chen Gu felt regretful about was that the strength of the Bian family was still too weak, and time was too tight, so in the end they only sent three goldsmiths to Chen Gu. On the contrary, the Bai family sent five goldsmiths to Chen Gu without putting forward any conditions.

However, Chen Gu will remember this favor and will naturally repay the Bai family when he has the chance in the future.

After all, people who can deal with precious metals like gold and silver actually have some strength and are not so easy to control, so the three goldsmiths sent by the Bian family are not a small number, but the five goldsmiths sent by the Bai family are a big favor.

At this point, Chen Gu had 19 goldsmiths in his hands. Since the goldsmith craft was inherited from the family, there were about a hundred people who could make bullets, and they could produce one to two thousand bullets every day.

This number is not large. If it were on a battlefield in later generations, one or two thousand bullets might not necessarily cause the casualty of a soldier.

But in this era, it was very impressive. The 500 soldiers under Chen Gu not only had two bullets every day for practice, but they could also save two for use on the battlefield.

In the past, this treatment was only available to snipers, and even snipers only had one bullet a day for shooting practice. Yunhua's special forces were even more pitiful, with only one bullet for shooting every three days.

Therefore, everyone cherishes every opportunity to practice with bullets. They aim again and again before shooting, trying to hit the ten rings.

As long as you can hit ten rings at the target a hundred meters away, you will get a reward of ten cents. This rule has never changed.

(End of this chapter)