Blood from Daming

Chapter 27
Grandfather Xue Rui told Xue Yun: Xue Aoren's military affairs are going very well. After getting the top-quality ginseng, Master Li, the servant of the military department, has a very good attitude and added 500 soldiers to Xue Aoren's quota of [-] soldiers.

Among the stewards of the Ministry of War, the principals were also hit by silver bullets. All the procedures have been completed, and it is easy to do things if you have money.According to the unspoken rules of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, only half of the 2000 soldiers can get paid. This time, everyone gave face, hello, me, hello, everyone, and they actually got the actual salary of 500 people, plus [-] people specially approved by the Minister of the Ministry of War, Mr. Li. It is rare in Daming.

Xue Rui said to Xue Yun: "Ao Ren came back and said that the place to garrison the army has not yet been decided, but in the border area between Beizhili, Shandong and Henan, businessmen, rich households, and officials were robbed and killed from time to time. The officials of the Ministry of War revealed that the court will want you Father is training soldiers and suppressing bandits in this area."

Xue Yun: "Grandfather, there are many bandits in the south of Zhili. There are a large number of refugees in Zhili who teach bandits to make trouble. There are horse bandits in Shandong. There are also many poles around the border of Henan. It's just that poles are usually civilians. They are bandits when they come out to rob. Very indistinguishable."

Grandfather Xue Rui: "Your father first received the soldiers' pay and food for three months. There are about 1000 people from the Ministry of War. Including the old Ministry and those who have taken refuge, the number is almost 2000. Our Xue family may have little money to support our family."

Xue Yun: "Grandfather, tell my father not to pick up people anymore. I have my own way of keeping the soldiers' wages at home in the camp, but Xue's elite soldiers must be built. There is no guarantee that the imperial court will send my family to fight the Tartars one day. If there are no soldiers who can fight, we can only wait for the court to chop our team's necks."

Grandfather Xue Rui: "Yun'er's words are very insightful. It seems that this soldier will be led, and he must be led well. What do you think about leading soldiers?"

Xue Yun: "Grandfather, I want to send Xue Er Xue Wu in. My people are loyal and reliable. Our Xue family will recruit them to find honest and obedient people in the south of Zhili. The people near the capital are all prostitutes, scoundrels, hooligans, etc. Eating and drinking, harassing the people is good, and everyone ran away when the war broke out."

Grandfather: "Yun'er is talking about this principle, so I will do as you want. It's just that you can't cope with the lack of money at home. You can exchange some old things here for some money so that you can make ends meet." pack.

Xue Yun saw that they were all gold and silver jewellery, jewels and jade, and his grandfather had tears in his eyes: "These are the relics of Nian Xiang and your grandma left by our ancestors." As he spoke, he handed them to Xue Yun.

Xue Yun's eyes turned red and he said to his grandfather: "I don't want to take this thing from my grandfather. My family has not reached this point yet. Don't worry about money. I already have a solution."

Xue Rui: "Hey, I put the things here. If you are really short of money, you should come and get them."

When Xue Yun returned to the yard, he went directly into his inner room. Seeing the things in the room, he became agitated. He cleaned up the treasures he took back by himself. There were gold ingots, gold plates, and gold ingots totaling about 600 taels. There are countless treasures that Xue Yun can't estimate by himself, but the value will not be lower than this pile of gold.

Seeing this pile of dazzling gold jewels, Xue Yun couldn't help but feel excited. He must be considered a rich man. When he calmed down, he carefully selected a pile of gold jewels without imprints.

Picking up the remaining gold jewels, Xue Yun temporarily hid them on the roof beams. There were 3000 taels of gold and a pile of jewels piled up in the room. After Xue Yun arranged these gold jewels, he went out of the inner room.

When Xue Yun came out, the four maids had already prepared lunch, Xue Yun hurriedly ate, Rumeng said: "Master, slow down, don't choke."

Xue Yun finished his meal in a few mouthfuls, but saw Ruo Lian handing over a small bowl of soup, so he had no choice but to continue drinking.As soon as she stood up, Xueer came over with a basin of water to clean Xue Yun's hands. Xue Yun sighed in his heart that he was too corrupt. No wonder so many people are vying for promotion and fortune. In his hand, Xue Yun suddenly felt that he had touched the opponent's fingers, and a very comfortable feeling came over him.

Xue Yun raised his head just in time to see Miss Yunxi's face flushed, her eyes turned to one side with affection in her eyes.Xue Yun hurriedly withdrew his mind, wiped his hands with a cotton towel, and said to the four beautiful maidservants: "From now on, no one can enter the inner room without my consent, or the family law will punish you clearly."

"Listen clearly." Seeing Xue Yun's fierce tone, the four beautiful servant girls were shocked, and some exaggeratedly stuck out their tongues to express their dissatisfaction.

When Xue Yun came to the front yard, Xue Aoren just entered the door and saw Xue Yun: "I wanted to talk to you yesterday, but you didn't come home."

Xue Yun: "Didn't the boy go to discuss business?"

Xue Aoren: "How did you talk with Qian Kai?"

Xue Yun: "It's okay, I can make some money."

Xue Aoren: "Short of his money, what will he say."

Xue Yun: "Let's take it easy. Father, after this time, my family will have to find another way out. How are you doing?"

Xue Aoren: "From the arsenal of the Ministry of War, I took out five hundred waist knives, five hundred spears, five hundred shields, five hundred bows, and five hundred armors, including one hundred iron armors. Two hundred firecrackers and one hundred war horses and three months' food."

Xue Yun: "Why are there only a hundred war horses? That's too little."

Xue Aoren: "Well, you still think it's too few. It's just that I heard that the imperial court brought in some Mongolian war horses from the front door to say good or bad, and gave up two hundred pack horses to get them."

Xue Yun: "The whole court is so dark that it doesn't make sense."

Xue Aoren: "There are few horses in the imperial court, and the horses of the military department are converted into silver. One hundred war horses and two hundred pack horses cost nearly ten thousand taels of silver. The official price is 3000 taels of silver. I just insisted on a hundred war horses."

Xue Aoren, Xue Yun came to Xue Rui, Xue Aoren told Xue Rui about the matter.Xue Rui said that horses are the most important thing against Wu. Without good horses, the battle cannot be fought, and they are life-saving guys at critical times.

Xue Rui: "How is the situation in the army?"

Xue Aoren: "The military camp was set up in an old camp in the Shenji Camp outside Guangqumen. Most of the people who came with them were sons and always old people. The Beijing camp sent over a thousand people, the big ones had five members, and three thousand generals. There are two commanders, and some officers and soldiers recommended by friends of the officials, two or three hundred people, and the most annoying thing is that there are two thousand commanders who temporarily accepted their fate a day or two before they came."

Xue Rui was very angry: "These bastards are simply deceiving people too much."

Xue Yun: "These corrupt officials are really too dark. We Xue Yun's family is still playing a fart without officials and money."

Xue Aoren: "A total of only 500 soldiers are paid. It is a common practice in our Ming army to go out without pay. We have no money to recruit soldiers."

Xue Rui sat there thinking for a while before saying: "Hey. In this world, your arms can't twist your thighs, and they have come, and the officials may be fine, but they are always soldiers in your hands, and they don't think you can handle them. Those two Has Mr. Qian accepted his fate?"

Xue Aoren: "The two of them came from the Beijing camp to accept their fate verbally, and they will officially accept their fate only if they occupy a real vacancy in my camp."

Xue Rui: "In this case, there is a way to think about it. Well, you have Zhang Liangji, and I have the bridge ladder. Let's see if I don't play you to death."

Xue Rui thought for a while and said: "Ao Ren, let's do this. The two chief executives have not accepted their fate. Their real job is to assign the chief executives to the subordinates of the chief executive, and let them fight with tigers and wolves. Bar."

Xue Aoren: "They separated me, so I don't have as many people as them."

Xue Rui sneered and said, "It's useless if there are too many people. When Daming was in Liaodong, there were not tens of thousands of people who were chased by tens of millions of people. If any of them were disobedient, they would be transferred to high positions in the Chinese army. Hanging up idle jobs, the other two generals will see if they can be pulled, anyway, the military salary is limited, and even older officials can't keep people without money."

Xue Rui gestured for Xue Yun to speak, Xue Yun said: "Father, what I mean is that you build the Chinese army first, and I will build a team myself. That is to build three thousand general battalions and let the three thousand generals play by themselves. The other Thousand General Battalion is managed by the two generals and the skirmishers yourself. The last one is the Xue family’s own Thousand General Battalion. I will take Xue Er as the leader, Xue Wu as the deputy, and the transferred family Ding Zhuang Ding as the backbone. , learn from the Qi family’s army to recruit strong men, train elite soldiers, and in time, our Xue family will conquer the Tartars in the east, and our Mongolian father in the north. At that time, we will make meritorious deeds, not to mention the commander-in-chief.

(End of this chapter)