August of the tenth year of Chongzhen, golden autumn and August of the golden autumn are the season for harvest.

Li Guodong was commanding the troops to organize the autumn harvest, but heard that Lu Xiangsheng was coming.

Lu Xiangsheng has always been diligent. After taking office, he rarely stayed in the Governor's Office of Yanghewei (Lu Xiangsheng's Governor's Office was located in Yanghewei, not in Xuanfu), but often ran in the Xuanfu, Datong and Shanxi towns and one province, and ran all the cities, guards and camps under his rule.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng went to Taiyuan first, and the next stop was the camp of Li Guodong, Jinyang Army in Xiangling. The banner of the Jinyang Army was still asked by Lu Xiangsheng from the court. The banner given to Li Guodong by His Majesty the Emperor, and this army was given an official name.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the camp, Lu Xiangsheng was shocked by the soldiers who were greeted: the guards standing on both sides of the intersection stood straight, like statues, and they were obviously well-trained elites. Nonsense, Li Guodong's training was 697. Other elite Ming army soldiers were considered elites every day. Even those elite servants who were slaves were only 3 days. Li Guodong's Jinyang army fucked every day, and they fucked at 6 a.m., and they had to have a meal at 6 a.m., and they had to have an hour and a half after dinner. The work system of 697 was even worse than that of some bad-hearted bosses in later generations.

If it were the general Ming army to train like this, whether it was a military household or recruiting soldiers, they would have resigned or simply become thieves. However, under the command of Li Guodong, they would have enough rice and steamed buns every day, and they could eat big fish and meat every three days. In the other two days, although there was no fish, there were also dishes such as meat roasted tofu, potato stewed eggplant, eggs and so on, egg tofu soup, vegetable tofu soup, etc. The food conditions were much better than those of ordinary Ming army, and they reached the level of other people's servants. Moreover, they were ordinary soldiers, not servants who sold as slaves.

Li Guodong had already greeted him at the gate. When he saw Lu Xiangsheng, he knelt on one knee and saluted: "I will welcome the Chief of Superintendent Lu!"

"Get up quickly!" Lu Xiangsheng stretched out his hand and helped him for a moment, "General Li, you have trained a good soldier!"

Wang Pu, who followed Lu Xiangsheng, said: "General Li, these are your servants, aren't they?"

"These are all ordinary soldiers. Only my two hundred elite soldiers and three thousand cavalrymen are considered servants." Li Guodong said with a smile.

"Three thousand two hundred clans! So awesome!" Wang Pu gasped.

After the Ming Dynasty's military system arrived, the military household system had long been rotten, and even recruiting soldiers was rotten. Therefore, generals at all levels supported their servants. If they wanted to become servants, they had to sell themselves as slaves and sell themselves to the master to establish slaves to become servants. Generals at all levels embezzled military pay to support servants.

Is it embarrassing to be a slave? Although the status of a slave is low, you don’t have to worry about eating, drinking, wearing and living, or marrying a wife. Therefore, whether you are a soldier or an ordinary person, you think you are lucky to be a slave. Even if a girl is a maid, you live better than ordinary people. Although a slave cannot participate in the imperial examination system, how many ordinary people are qualified to take the imperial examination? So it doesn’t matter whether they can participate in the imperial examination or not.

For those servants who sell themselves as slaves, the generals naturally have to give them the best weapons, good armor, and the best food every day.

However, none of the soldiers of Li Guodong were servants. The soldiers could die for the lord, but they were just lords, not the head of the family. Therefore, it was said that if you don’t take away the heavy cavalry at night, it was not the servants who sold themselves as slaves. It was just that Li Guodong didn’t need to tell the truth to Wang Pu.

After carefully looking at the inside and outside of the Xiangling Camp, the military camp and the camp, and the military farms, Lu Xiangsheng said nothing for a long time, while the officials next to him showed a look of admiration and sigh.

After Lu Xiang took office, he vigorously urged various places to train troops and supervise the garrison of grain, and achieved quite good results. However, after seeing the Jinyang Army camp, he found that the strength here was even greater. The soldiers got up to practice at dawn every day and stood neatly on the school grounds. Each township reclaimed hundreds of thousands of acres of land and all the wells were drilled into irrigated water trucks. This kind of courage is refreshing. What is even more rare is that the local military and civilians live a stable life, the garrison camp is very clean, and all refugees are relieved, and everyone feels like a paradise.

Looking at the outer city walls and gates, they were all strange shapes that he had never seen before. There were raised fortresses on the city wall, and countless shooting holes were opened on the fortress. Although Lu Xiangsheng had never seen a bastion, he understood at a glance that such a castle could form multiple cross firepower on the siege, causing the attacking side to be attacked on three sides.

Let’s look at Li Guodong’s soldiers. There were tall horses tied in the stable, camels and slow horses tied in the livestock railing, and heavy cavalry were all wearing thick armor; infantrymen were tied with sandbags on their feet to run on the school ground. The heavy cavalry of this army was excellent, the infantry was also excellent, and there were many firearms. Even infantry with cold weapons were heavy armored infantry.

When he walked into the hall of the General's Mansion, Lu Xiangsheng did not sit down, but walked around the hall excitedly. After a long time, he spoke: "The military farming practice, looking at the Ming Dynasty, can be as unique as General Li! Even this governor sighs that he is not as good as this governor. However, this governor has an unknown matter. It is probably cost a lot of money and food to train the military farming practice, build cities, build barracks, and build weapons. How did you raise it? Can you tell me?"

Lu Xiangsheng was good at managing the army and farming. After taking office, he also achieved good results. However, Lu Xiangsheng was not satisfied and thought that he had not met what he thought. The main reason was that there was insufficient money and food, and there was no food and salary. How to train soldiers, soldiers had to eat enough to train them. Not especially the current soldiers in the Ming camp were all soldiers. Without food and salary, they did not move at all. He had to persuade him again and again, and always motivate him to be loyal and righteous, and share the joys and sorrows with his subordinates. Every day, Lu Xiangsheng felt exhausted.

Seeing that Li Guodong's tens of thousands of troops were extremely fierce, Lu Xiangsheng could only shake his head and sigh. These garrisons and courts all ignored food and money. They needed to be self-sufficient in each garrison general. Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting were the same, and they all brought their own money and food. But Li Guodong could practice this.

Li Guodong was resourceful and defeated Jiannu many times with fewer wins and more. Lu Xiangsheng knew very well in this, but he could do well in managing the economy. How did he do this? Lu Xiangsheng wanted to learn from it. After all, for his own Tianxiong Army, Lu Xiangsheng was physically and mentally exhausted. Although the Tianxiong Army was very morale, it was not good at eating and its weapons and equipment were not very good.

"When I go back to the commander, I will finally make money from a business company to help refugees, and then build cities and weapons with refugees. This will save money again." Li Guodong replied.

"A mere caravan profitable enough to support an elite soldier?" Lu Xiangsheng found it incredible.

Lu Xiangsheng is from Jiangnan and is also a member of the Donglin Party. Of course he knows how high the profits of business are. But today, except for the maritime merchant Zheng Zhilong, the merchants supported by the Donglin Party of Jiangnan, none of them can afford an army. Although the profits of business are high, the army consumes a lot of money every day, let alone a strong army like Li Guodong. I am afraid that Jiangnan is a wealthy businessman, and even one family alone cannot afford to support three thousand elite cavalry.

"There are salt and tea and rare treasures for the business, so you can naturally make money every day."

Lu Xiangsheng's face changed: "You sell food to the bandits, and you really make money every day! Don't tell me that I can't bear to watch the refugees starve to death and sell food to the bandits!"

"There is no way to be a good person. Zhang Xianzhong was in Hequ, and he had gold and silver mountains but no food. The person was just selling some food and earning the gold and silver he robbed from his hands to serve the court."
Chapter completed!