Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 40 The Art of War
"Understood." Li Jing nodded.

"Okay, now you know that the land is yours, but you don't know how to do it at all, and you don't have anyone who understands to help you. It's impossible to do it like you. The imperial court has set up many officials in the prefectures and counties. These officials have Some are in charge of population, some are in charge of land, some are in charge of money and food, and some are in charge of taxation... In fact, it is these people who really maintain the operation of the court." Yuan Keli shook his head and continued: "You have to remember that everything can be done if it is forewarned. It will be useless. My Ming Dynasty can last for 300 years, and there is a reason for its continuation. Unfortunately, the younger generations are unworthy and don’t know how to run a country. Up to now, they can’t even collect taxes. How can they support the army without taxes. As a rule, as long as it is your land, no matter who you reward or give it to, unless a catastrophe reduces production, no matter what time it is, the money and food that should be collected must not be less.”

Li Jingjing nodded. What Yuan Keli said was a countermeasure against the annexation of land by the royal relatives, officials and rich people of all dynasties. In history, the biggest reason for the decline of every dynasty was actually land annexation.

Those who annexed the land basically did not have to pay taxes, money and food, but the farmers who actually paid taxes did not have much land in their hands, so the imperial court had no money and food to support soldiers, and the end was self-evident.

If the Ming Dynasty could do what Yuan Keli said, how rich would the state treasury be?

Before establishing a new system, breaking the original structure will make it easier to do a lot of things. If the existing system is reformed and many things are done, the resistance will be greater.The so-called can not be broken, is the truth.

Of course, Yuan Keli's thinking has its own limitations, but it is not easy for Yuan Keli to think of these.

After all, this is still the Ming Dynasty, and the idea of ​​putting agriculture first is serious, but I don’t know that if a country has been relying on farmers to pay taxes, it will not be a long-term solution. It still needs to vigorously develop industry and commerce. As long as industry and commerce can develop, then the country’s taxes will not be a problem at all. .

"Thank you Master Yuan for your guidance." Li Jing stood up and bowed to Yuan Keli.

"The old man has already retired, so don't mention the word "adult" from now on." Yuan Keli waved his hands and said.

"Yes, let's call you Mr. Yuan. I have little knowledge, and I want to worship Mr. Yuan as a teacher. I wonder if you can accept me as an apprentice?" Li Jing bowed.

"Come on! I came to your mountain just to have a look. As for everything you said, it depends on whether your words come true. If it is true, the old man will definitely come to you. If it is not true, it will be the same." In a word, misfortune comes out of the mouth, and the consequences are at your own risk!" Yuan Keli stood up, flicked his sleeves, and threw a word to Li Jing, and he was about to go down the mountain!
"Thank you for your guidance today, sir. Then I won't keep you. I'll arrange someone to take you home." Li Jing thought that the old man had changed his face so quickly, but he had initially achieved his goal.

Yuan Keli was able to go up the mountain with Li Jing, in fact, [-]% of the time he believed Li Jing's words, but for people to change the loyalty he had accepted since childhood, a powerful real event was needed.

And this incident is what Li Jing said in Yuan Keli's ear. Li Jing is naturally confident about this prophecy, and now he just needs to wait patiently.

"No need, the old man has been safe all the way from the capital, so can something happen in his hometown in Henan?" Yuan Keli smiled and waved his hands.

"No, I'll arrange a few people to go home with you. When what I said comes true, it will be convenient to have them guide you when you come, isn't it?" Li Jing smiled.

"Alright." Yuan Ke stood up and said.

Li Jing went out to find someone to whisper a few words, and then accompanied Yuan Keli down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, Yuan Keli ordered someone to bring down two boxes and hand them over to Li Jing.

"These books have been with me for many years, you should read them carefully when you have spare time." Yuan Keli pointed to the box and said.

Li Jingwen's head suddenly became dizzy when he heard that the two boxes were full of books.It's not that Li Jing doesn't want to read, but that it's really difficult for him to read traditional characters at this time, and it will take him years and months to finish reading the books in these two boxes.

However, he had to read the books Yuan Keli gave him. It was impossible for Yuan Keli to give him books like the Four Books and Five Classics for him to read. These books must be very useful.

"Thank you." Li Jing said bravely.

After finishing speaking, Li Jing waved his hand, and several bandits carried a box and put it on the carriage.

"Sir, it's almost Chinese New Year. The students know that Mr. has been clean and honest throughout his life, so this little money will help him supplement his family." Li Jing said.

"Hehe, although the old man is clean, there is no shortage of expenses in the family. Anyway, this is your wish, so the old man accepts it. For so many years, the old man has never accepted other people's property. It is getting late, and the old man has to hurry , we will meet later." Yuan Keli said with a smile.

"Take care, sir." Li Jing bowed.

Yuan Keli waved his hand, turned back and got into the carriage, the driver waved his whip, and the carriage started to move slowly.

Li Jing asked Zhuzi to take a dozen young bandits to escort Yuan Keli home, and told Zhuzi and others to follow Yuan Keli back to the mountain after a few years.

Watching Yuan Keli's battle of chariots gradually go away, Li Jing led the people back to the mountain.

After Yuan Keli left, Li Jing returned to the room alone.

The two big boxes of books are now placed in front of Li Jing.

Li Jing briefly flipped through these books just now, most of them are historical biographies, and there are books like Sun Tzu's Art of War.It's a pity that most of these books are difficult to understand, and Li Jing struggled to read them.

But some can still be understood, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 Strategies, he can understand a little bit, after all, he has read the vernacular version of this book in modern times, and he can still understand some meanings by comparing the two.

Although he can understand a little bit, Li Jing knows that it is far from enough to just look at the art of war. Since ancient times, military strategists have rarely become military strategists just by looking at the art of war. After countless battles and even failures, he gradually grew up.

Although Li Jing has experience in commanding small teams to fight, commanding a cold weapon battle is not the same as commanding a small team to fight. Li Jing really lacks experience in this regard.

Li Jing pondered for a while, and felt that he should exercise his commanding skills through actual combat, and at the same time see how the bandits under him have been training during this period of time.

As for the training opponents, there are still a few gangs of bandits nearby. Li Jing intends to wipe out all of these bandits, so as to avoid what happened to San Mazi and Boss Zhou last time.

After making up his mind, Li Jing was ready to do it. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Li Jing didn't want to leave these troubles until the new year.

Li Jing called Gao Qi, but Sun Meng was not on the mountain, so he could only discuss with Gao Qi about the war.There seemed to be a lot of people on the mountain, but there were not many who could really help Li Jing. As for fighting, there were only Gao Qi and Sun Meng.

Li Jing secretly laments the lack of talents, but Li Jing is already very satisfied to have two people to help him right now.

If Gao Qi is really good at fighting, it is probably because of fighting.

After hearing Li Jing's plan, he asked where Li Jing wanted to attack. After learning about the terrain where the bandits were entrenched, he immediately thought of several plans.

However, Gao Qi's plans for attacking the mountain were far from what Li Jing had expected. Gao Qi's idea was either a fire attack or annihilation.

But Li Jing didn't want to hurt more people's lives. After all, most of these bandits came from poor people. If they could be subdued, Li Jing decided to subdue these bandits.

Thinking over the strategies Gao Qi mentioned, Li Jing began to think with his hands down.

After walking back and forth in the room for a while, Li Jing's eyes fell on the box Yuan Keli sent. When he saw the box, Li Jing slapped himself on the head and scolded himself for being confused. It's stupid.

Sun Tzu said, if it is ten, it will be surrounded, if it is five, it will be attacked.

Although his own strength is not five or ten times that of the bandits, there are still two or three times.

The bandits are entrenched on the mountain, and it is impossible to encircle them all, but in reality, they will encircle them by themselves, and use a small amount of troops to feign an attack on three sides, let go of one side, and ambush their hands. You can make dumplings with them.

At that moment, Li Jing told Gao Qi what he thought, but Gao Qi hesitated.

It turned out that Gao Qi had thought this way too, but their weapons and equipment were not much better than those bandits, and bluffing also required strength, and there were no scary guys, so I'm afraid they couldn't scare those bandits away.

If the bandits don't run away, it's useless even if you surround them ten times, let alone three times.

Hearing Gao Qi's worries, Li Jing patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Brother, although we are feinting, it is also a real attack. Let's put the best-trained brothers on the three sides of the feint. If they really don't run , Isn’t this just what you and I want. Can these mobs stop us brothers? If they have this strength, they won’t be under Boss Zhou’s hands.”

"Hahaha, big brother is right. I forgot this. I really take these bandits seriously. I guess they will run away as soon as we do it." Gao Qi laughed.

"That's it. You gather the brothers. Let's set off tonight. We will start from Boss Zhou's Motianling and pull out all these bandit dens one by one. Well... there is no need to tell the brothers clearly, just say Let's hold a temporary training, so that some brothers won't feel nervous." Li Jing said.

"Hey, big brother is smart. Many of our new brothers have joined here. If we tell them clearly, they might be really scared. When I first joined the army, when I heard about the war, my calf twisted. It took a few battles to get better." Gao Qi said.

"It's all the same. There is no recruit who is not afraid of fighting. Go." Li Jing smiled.

Li Jing's group often trained late, but it was the first time to train in the middle of the night. When the bandits were summoned, many people didn't know why.

Li Jing didn't say much, waved his hand, and asked Gao Qi to lead the brothers down the mountain.

(End of this chapter)