Chapter 372: Internal caress, suspicious points, foreigners

The war is coming soon, and Li Meng is embarrassed to find that he is in a state of nothing to do. The military pay, food and fodder, Ninggangui's Salt Administration Inspection Office and Lingshan Trading Company are doing their best to prepare for it, and the grain reserves of the military farm can also be said to be sufficient.

The change of the military family's family's household registration was already handled by Zhou Yang. As for information, the internal account and Lingshan Trading Company outside, the Shandong Salt Gang were also prepared according to normal procedures. At present, the Nanzhili officials in Nanjing did not know the war in Shouzhou as well as the generals and shogunate in Jinan City.

As for the soldiers' mental outlook, Li Meng knew the most about this. The war was about to come, and each battalion was practicing hard, so there was no need to worry at all.

Because Li Meng relies on the system to support a complete system, when this system has a goal, it will automatically and consciously operate. As the leader, Li Meng only needs to pay attention to and supervise regularly. With this current structure, Liu Fulai and Sun Chuanting check the progress everywhere. If you are slacking off or wrong, you will immediately report to Li Meng's side, and you will not delay anything.

Moreover, all departments and troops will not slacken at all. As a result, Li Meng has a lot of time with Mu Yunyao now and has a lot of time to meet guests from all over the place.

According to Sun Chuanting, although it is much easier to see the business, wealthy family, and representatives of the government coming from everywhere than busy military and political affairs, this is still a business. At present, Shandong, except for the two big families that are not as good as death, the rest are almost under the control of Li Meng.

On the one hand, the force of subjugation is to be soft and soft. You must know that the noble families who made their fortune in the Jiaozhou salt management system are only from Laizhou and Qingzhou, and those who benefit from the Tengtianzhuang are Dengzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, Qingzhou Prefecture, and Qingzhou Prefecture. The other prefectures, counties and local forces are still vaguely formed a system.

Their income and power generally rely on their own estates and farms to manage, which gives them very strong independence.

Although Jiaozhou Camp has various means to classify these landlords into the Jiaozhou Camp's plan, it was too urgent and could not achieve full results in a hurry. Moreover, many large landlords from Dongchang, Jinan and Yanzhou voluntarily surrendered, and Jiaozhou Camp cannot open their mouths and annexed them together.

We always have to give these surrendered people some benefits, have independence for these people, and maintain this independence for a period of time in the future. If we want them to work wholeheartedly for the cause of Jiaozhouying, Li Meng personally needs to show his favor and win over it.

In terms of himself, Li Meng would rather face his soldiers on the school ground or face his vicious enemies on the battlefield than face these so-called famous Shandong scholars and high-ranking schools. Not to mention the red tape, it would be too tiring to squeeze out smiles on each other's faces.

However, for so many years, he has been in a high position for a long time, and has been decisive. After experiencing various blood baths on the battlefield of life and death, Li Meng has long developed a majestic temperament. This temperament is rare in this era, especially in the Ming generals of the same era.

The power of Zuo Liangyu and others is just a vicious bandit and thief temperament. On weekdays, others are afraid that he is just a beast of soldiers under his command. He is the leader of this beast, and this temperament is not affordable on the battlefield. Li Meng's temperament is a purely military temperament. When ordinary people see it, they will feel awe. This temperament makes people feel awe in daily life and on the battlefield.

From August to early September, General Zhendong and General Shandong, Li Meng, had the demeanor of a general, and his reputation as a dragon and tiger began to spread in Shandong. Many of the deeds of Jiaozhou Camp were promoted at this time, such as strict military discipline, and unbeaten by ever-winning.

During this period, Li Meng was the image spokesperson of the entire Jiaozhou Camp system, and he paid tribute to all parts of the country.

There are some benefits when staying at home too much, such as Li Hong, who has always been quite unfamiliar with him. Now he is pestering him every day and calling him warmly. Moreover, Li Meng stays at home for a day, and these women at home spend a lot of time with smiles on their faces.

Especially Mu Yunyao. The pregnant woman is relatively fragile in spirit. Li Meng was at home a lot during this period. Because of Mu Yunyao's special circumstances, the other three women also tried to spend more time with Li Meng as much as possible, which made Mu Yunyao feel sincere happiness.

There is a period of time every day when Li Meng stays with the old eunuch Liu Fu for a while, talking to the old man. Perhaps because he has a son, Li Meng misses his parents in his previous life more and more. He cannot be filial to him, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

Li Meng transferred his filial piety to the old eunuch Liu Fulai. His previous attitude and behavior towards Liu Fulai outside could be called "pure filial piety". If he was a white man, the court could even use this reason to give him an official position and fame.

At present, this attitude has been strengthened a little bit. As a result, when Li Meng went to bed at night, Yan Ruoran told her that the old eunuch had been particularly believing in gods and Buddhas recently, saying that he did not know what luck he had cultivated in his previous life, and that he would have such a blessing in this life.

In fact, the chatting of Li Meng and Eunuch Liu is also a way to express his feelings to his family. With Li Meng's status and level, there are not many people who can express their feelings in love and not worry about anything. The old eunuch Liu Fulai is one of the best choices.

"Uncle, when the head of the Ren family of Yanzhou Prefecture came to see me today, he said that there were two girls in his clan, both of whom were beautiful and were willing to send them to the mansion, and he did not ask for any status. It was their blessing to just serve tea and water here. I heard it ridiculously, saying that my wife had just been pregnant. If she took a concubine into the mansion, wouldn't it be a big deal?"

Listening to Li Meng's story, Liu Fulai chuckled a few times and said:

"This is also ordinary. It is very traditional to send beautiful women to enter and please the handover. In fact, this is Li Meng, you have been at home for a long time recently and are willing to meet these foreign visitors from the people. Otherwise, when you were a general, many people should have done this."

Anyway, he was just a joke, Li Meng said with a smile:

"Uncle, you don't know yet. This is nothing. The Yang family in Dongchang Mansion sent someone here today, but they proposed the marriage. Uncle, do you know who the partner of this marriage is? It is said that there is a little girl in his family, who is only one year old this year, and she is cute. She is Hong'er's good match and is willing to marry a baby. Honger is still a bean dating, but someone actually gets married, haha."

When talking about his son, Li Meng was in a very smooth mood. Liu Fulai also laughed, but then replied:

"The Yang family should be a clan member of Yang Ziban, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue in the capital. Well, he has been an official in the court for several generations. There are quite a lot of officials of the third and fourth ranks, but if they want to marry our family, their status is still a little lower. What kind of status is Honger? Even if he marrys a princess, the princess will not feel wronged."

Li Meng was a little stunned when he heard this. He thought that getting married with such a young child was a joke, but it was unexpected that the old eunuch Liu Fulai would talk about it with such a solemn attitude.

This is what the so-called selfless family is like. Everyone has a rough judgment on what Li Meng's eldest son will do in the future. What is Li Hong's wife's family and what kind of status is, of course, we must be cautious and carefully selected and distinguished.

The two chatted and laughed for a while. The old eunuch Liu Fulai just picked up the teacup and took a sip. When he put it down, he couldn't help but say "ah", patted his forehead with his hand, and complained to himself:

"As aged, people and land, I really can't remember this. During the day, the people from Lingshan Trading Company sent a newspaper to the experimental camp, which was about the training and guidance of Gui Ouman in the experimental camp. Our family doesn't know much about military and horse affairs. We just think that if Ouman really commands a team of hundreds of people, how could he know such things? Even if the military and horses in this extreme west are far superior to our Ming Dynasty, our family doesn't think he can think so much."

While speaking, Liu Fulai opened a box at hand, carefully checked it, and took out a notice. For the manuscript to be transferred to Li Meng, a special person usually re-copied it for Li Meng to facilitate Li Meng's reading. Looking at the slender and beautiful words, Li Meng shook his head and said:

"I have told Yun Yao many times that my body is like this now. I should do less and do less. Why are I still so busy?"

The old eunuch replied gently:

"Our family once heard that if this woman has a body, it would be bad for some things to be busy. She is always busy and doesn't have to be so irritable. Just let her do it, Yan Ruoran will be tight."

However, Li Meng did not look up and answered this sentence. He stared at the contents of the text, his expression and expression became more and more serious. After a while, he raised his head and said:

"These things are indeed not something he can understand. Deng Yangren returned to Jinan City for vacation these days. I will call him over tomorrow and confirm..."

Liu Fu saw Li Meng's expression was solemn and confused. He didn't know what was going on. He felt that there was something wrong with it, so he immediately spoke:

"If there is something wrong, then send someone to control the ghost now to avoid disaster."

Li Meng laughed dryly and said slowly:

"Uncle, my nephew doesn't believe in luck, but did he really find a treasure this time?"

Shandong's army lacks talents, and even more so in the navy. Denglas is a mercenary on land in Spain. Of course, no one can give a positive answer to the specific experience. Jiaozhou Camp cannot send people there to verify it.

However, compared with the others in the Jiaozhou Camp and the pirates under Yang Si, Deng is quite knowledgeable and very capable. At present, the deputy commander of the water camp is actually very popular. Whether it is the Yang Si system or the water camp officers and soldiers in the Jiaozhou Camp system are all submissive.

The ordinary officers and soldiers in Jiaozhou camp were already at the peak of the camp, and it was extremely difficult to advance, but Deng Yangren was actually the deputy commander with his punches and kicks.

The level of the water camp is higher than that of the land camp. Deng Yangren's deputy commander is half a level higher than that of the general base camp, which really makes many people depressed. Fortunately, the water camp has its own system, and everyone just talks behind the scenes, and there is no real conflict of interests.

Although the Qing Dynasty also had a boat and Kong Youde, the sailors brought by Shang Kexi and his group of people were still extremely weak. What Li Meng was worried about was that the Qing Dynasty might organize a naval army in Jinzhou and come to Dengzhou Prefecture. Since the traitor Kong Youde could take a boat, he knew if they would come back by boat.

Therefore, water camp defense was arranged in the Dengzhou area, and in the misunderstanding of many people, they have always spent a lot of money on warships and ships.

From now on, we can see where the Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country and banning the sea in the future came from. Although the Qing Dynasty had sea ships, it was rarely used. The sailors of the Sanshun King and Xu Shun Gong were all transferred to the inland to serve in the army.

The officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou Yingshui Camp were originally cautious, but later they became more and more unscrupulous. Some even drove their ships to the coast of Liaozhen. According to their observations, the Qing Dynasty used Korean ships in the defense of the coast, and the constraints were very strict and they were not allowed to leave the shore base too far.

According to legend, the Tartars were afraid that the Koreans would tend toward the Ming Dynasty, and that the ships would run away too far. I don’t know how this was spread. After all, every time the Tartars go on a war, they have to draw North Korean musket soldiers and Qing artillery troops. There are also many Koreans.

The Qing Dynasty naval army did not come out easily, and the Jiaozhou naval army's mission was relatively relaxed. Denggras's lazy and hateful nature has risen again. Recently, this is the second time he has taken leave to go home to visit relatives.

As a general, in such a situation, although the water camp faces little threat, how could it be so leisurely? Li Meng was already ready to scold him, but he did not expect that this time it was a coincidence that he was going to ask him, a "mercenary from Europe" because of this Oman land.

"Apart from spears and muskets, the rest of the weapons can be cancelled."

"The flag bearer should be in the center of the team, and he should regard the military flag as his life."

"When the musket soldiers are fighting, they should arrange the front line as much as possible, rotate the shooting, and the damage output of the phalanx should be based on firearms, not spears."

"The function of artillery is to suppress the opponent's local artillery, and then to deal with the opponent's array."

"In addition to using artillery to suppress the opponent's artillery position, the opponent's artillery position must also be dealt with by cavalry. After the cavalry rushed into the opponent's artillery position, kill the opponent's artillery, fill in the ignition hole of the artillery to kill, and destroy various tools."

"The shooting movements of the musket must be standardized. Each movement must be broken down and diligent training must be carried out to standardize each shooting movement as much as possible. For this, there should be corresponding picture album learning. The result of standardized training is to make the array of musket soldiers as dense as possible and enhance the power of the firearm."

"Before fighting, if possible, be sure to send cavalry to attack the opponent's left wing."

All kinds of opinions, some land is not suitable for Jiaozhou camp, some make Li Meng suddenly enlightened, and some land is to make a lot of improvements to the current system of Jiaozhou camp.

These words were all told by the German soldiers from the Principal of Saxony. Li Meng's Jiaozhou Camp is a leading army in all aspects. Li Meng had many ideas, either from the experience and knowledge of modern times, or suddenly wonderful ideas. Whether these ideas and creativity are used on the battlefield, in addition to the discussions of officers within a certain range, must also be tested in the exercises.

The so-called "experimental camp" is this. This camp is not based on the Jiaozhou camp system, but a camp with two thousand people. This camp is divided into two parts, one is red and the other is blue, playing various roles on the battlefield, practicing those creative ideas and checking the effects.

This experimental camp is a rare pure veteran, and is under the jurisdiction of Wang Hai, the commander of the personal military camp. Generally speaking, Ouman claims to know all kinds of techniques, so he will put it in this camp first and implement the Saxon mercenary’s suggestions one by one, check the results, and see whether they are big-talking adventurers or real-life soldiers.

Lingshan Trading Bank has branches where the army is stationed. First, it is to purchase military supplies and operate various supplies in the center. The second is surveillance and intelligence, which are semi-public intelligence collectors placed in each battalion. The experimental camp has a special position, and the personnel of Lingshan Trading Bank are directly used as collectors of various suggestions, exercise reports, reform measures, and proposal implementation. These things are compiled and submitted by the personnel of the experimental camp.

"What do you think of this?"

Li Meng asked Deng Yangren who was standing there in the lobby of the General Army Office. Deng Yangren didn’t know Chinese characters. Yuan Wenhong just read it to him.

Hearing Li Meng's inquiry, Denggras's expression changed, as if he was doing some ideological struggle. After waiting for a while, Li Meng was a little irritated and couldn't help but speak:

"What are you afraid of? I use you, not because you are a Westerner, but because you can fight, know a little bit, and fight hard for me Jiaozhou Camp. This is what you are using. You are hesitating here. Could it be that you are worried that Ouman will come and steal your job? Don't think too much, he is him, you are you, just say it!"

Li Meng said this a bit heavy, but when Deng Yangren heard it, he felt nervous for a long time suddenly relaxed, and then he realized that there was a slight sweat on his forehead. Seeing Li Meng staring at him coldly, he knew that his performance just now had already made people angry.

Deng's smiley faces and jokes in his daily life disappeared at this time. After hesitating, hesitating, he said:

"Master, it has been ten years since the villain left the west. The villain didn't understand much about what this mercenary Oman said, but he knew that it made sense. However, there were many different things that the villain saw among the mercenaries back then. However, when he was in Europe, he heard that since the Swiss spear platoon appeared, the specific application of weapons such as spears, muskets, axes, guns, swords and shields, and the specific application of the phalanx, all countries are groping forward. Within ten years, or even a few years, within a year, the tactics will have metabolism and many revolutionary changes."

Switzerland is his native language pronunciation, but no one paid any attention. Deng Yangren paused when he said this. Seeing that Li Meng was very focused, he said relaxedly:

"The villain came early and Oman came late. Over the years, there have been great changes in Europe. I remember that when he was in Europe, the officers above also told the villain."

Although Denglas did not have any positive answers, he said that these suggestions were indeed reasonable and not meaningless empty talk. Li Meng was a little secretly happy, thinking that such a person would definitely be of great help to the improvement of his army. Li Meng asked again:

"What do you think this Oman would be at that time?"

"After the general, according to our Jiaozhou Camp, the basic military organization on my side is similar to that on the battalion, but each battalion has more people. According to the knowledge he has mastered, Oman is either an officer of the level of General Manager of the Battalion, or a higher one."

After hearing this, Li Meng nodded with a smile on his face, but seeing that Deng Yangren still had nothing to say, hesitantly looked at him and asked:

"If you have anything to say, don't hide it."
Chapter completed!