Li Guodong replied with a smile: "In fact, the generals also had a transaction with Jiannu, but the generals never provided Jiannu with important materials such as food, iron, cotton, etc., and what they sold to Jiannu were just luxury goods, tobacco and tea. And the officials and generals who traded with Jiannu in Shanxi and Liaodong were simply acts of capitalizing on the enemy!"

"Isn't it because you sell food to Zhang Xianzhong?" Lu Xiangsheng sneered.

"After all, the thief is a thief, and will never become bigger; Jiannu is the biggest concern of my Ming Dynasty! He plundered the Han people as coat slaves, and the Han people he captured were forced to shave their hair and change their clothes, destroying my Chinese robes and mantle. The Mengyuan didn't do that back then! The last general knew that Huang Taiji was a wolfish ambition and wanted to annex the Ming Dynasty! He often said that the Ming Dynasty was a big tree. If you want to cut down a big tree, you should first cut down its branches and leaves, and then slowly plan it! Jiannu's ambition was to destroy my Chinese!"

"How can a mere Jiannu destroy my China!" Although Lu Xiangsheng was stronger than ordinary Ming officials, he was a person of that era after all. How could he know that the Qing Dynasty later stole China?

"The supervisor didn't know that Jiannu repeatedly invaded and plundered me to bleed the Ming Dynasty! The plundered population increased their population in Liaodong, and then recruited the Ming surrendered army. Sooner or later, they will officially steal the Central Plains and take the Ming surrendered army as the vanguard and attack our city."

"Why are you afraid of a group of surrendered troops?"

"The general's words are wrong. The last general is not afraid of real slaves, but only fears the fake slaves of the Eight Banners of Han! The fake slaves are well-known, and the elite soldiers of the last generals win many battles. However, they do not take advantage of the fake slaves! The last general's biggest losses are all controlled by fake slaves."

Lu Xiangsheng asked in surprise: "The fake slave was originally a military officer and soldier of the Ming Dynasty. Why did they have no combat power in the Ming Dynasty? But after joining Jiannu, they became extremely fierce?"

Li Guodong coughed and said slowly, "Go back to the commander, I, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, were unable to get the military pay and could not even have enough food to eat. What are the intentions to fight? The Wuqiao mutiny was just that the soldiers in the Firearms camp were too hungry to bear, so they stole a chicken, but were penetrated by arrows! Kong Youde turned against this. However, after these soldiers defected to Jiannu, Jiannu directly put them in the flag, and distributed them to their fields, slaves, and women. Those soldiers were straightforward in Jiannu.

Get into the flag! And civil servants like Fan Wencheng joined Jiannu, but started from Baoyi Aha. You should know that there were twenty-four levels in the Qing Dynasty from Baoyi Aha to the prince. The lowest level was Baoyi Aha, and the armored man went up, and the flag was the prince. Every time they were promoted, they had real contributions. If they were promoted, they would be promoted and punished. After the Ming army surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they were twice as high as Baoyi Aha. As long as they made more military achievements, they would have the chance to be promoted to Prince."

"Hahaha!" Lu Xiangsheng laughed, "It turns out that those traitors from Fan Wencheng are just Baoyi Aha!"

"Not only Baoyi Aha, Fan Wencheng's wife, Duoduo wanted it. Fan Wencheng's head was green and didn't feel shame. Instead, he felt that his wife had served Duoduo and was complacent! Duoduo is the owner of Zhengbai Banner. He can name any Zhengbai Banner's wife to serve him, and Fan Wencheng is Baoyi Aha of Zhengbai Banner. So theoretically, Duoduo can ask Fan Wencheng's wife to serve him at any time! The Ming soldiers who surrendered to Jiannu were once the bannermen. Theoretically, Duoduo has no right to ask their wife to serve him."

"So that's it!" Lu Xiangsheng nodded thoughtfully.

"So after the same person surrendered to Jiannu, he turned from a useless man into a brave soldier!"

"Jiannu treated scholars like this? Fan Wencheng actually sacrificed his life to Jiannu, which was completely shameful to his ancestors! But Jiannu was the same. When scholars went, they were the lowest. A soldier who could not survive in the Ming Dynasty went, he was a flag manager. It was a shameful person!" Although Lu Xiangsheng was able to be literary and military, and could lead troops to fight, he was a scholar after all. After all, he was a scholar. He was furious when he heard Li Guodong say that the Qing Dynasty humiliated scholars.

"Mr. Lu, the thief of Jiannu is ambitious. If he wants to annex the Ming Dynasty, he naturally needs to strengthen his force. They need a group of dogs to work for them, and the Eight Banners of Han are their dogs. Since the dogs are to work for their lives, they must give them good food, otherwise can the dogs work for their lives?"

"That's right! Whether it's the Eight Banners of Han or Fan Wencheng and those scholars who defect to Jiannu, they are all Jiannu's dogs!"

"So, I will fight against Jiannu to the death, so as not to destroy my Chinese clothes!"

Lu Xiangsheng asked again: "Guodong, you have almost 10,000 soldiers under your command. Just the military pay expenses, I'm afraid you will get 20,000 silver in a month? Can your caravan afford such a huge expense?"

"Except for three thousand heavy cavalry and two hundred nights, my infantry pay is very small, only one tael of silver per month; the auxiliary soldiers do not pay military pay."

"There are so little money, and there are those who don't pay the money. Are they willing to fight for the general to the death?" Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiangtong asked.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "I distributed land to soldiers. Although the military pay was small, the price of grain has been rising again and again. All the food obtained from the army belongs to the soldiers. I will pay the money for the merits. I will not be greedy for the rewards given by the court. I will give them all the rewards. I have a system of upgrading military merits here. I will reward you for any merits, and I will punish you for your mistakes. I will also select women from the refugees to be their wives. In this way, they will naturally be willing to fight to the death. In addition, the humble position has also arranged a play to promote the evil of Jiannu. I hope the supervisor and everyone will go and watch it together."

Since giving up outside the border and returning to the inner palace, the art troupe with Liu Rushi as the heroine also came to Xiangling. It has been performing dramas such as "The Fallen Beauty" and "The Battle of Lushunkou" for several consecutive days. "The Battle of Lushunkou" plays the role of the male and female protagonists from Jinzhou, Liaodong. Huang Long committed suicide by defeating in Lushunkou. Both the male and female protagonists became prisoners of the Later Jin Dynasty and were captured as Baoyi Aha. Later, the heroine could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide resolutely. The male protagonist fled back to the Ming Dynasty and died heroically in a fierce battle with the Later Jin Dynasty.

Several plays were performed in Xiangling Camp and in various prefectures, prefectures and counties near Jinyang. Each performance was crowded with people and the performance effect was very good.

Today, Lu Xiangsheng came down to inspect, and Li Guodong asked the art troupe to return to Xiangling Camp to perform.

Lu Xiangsheng watched the performance. Although he knew it was a play, he was very dedicated to watching it. This was also because the actors performed so well. When he saw the Ming army repeatedly defeated, Lu Xiangsheng was trembling all over. When he saw the heroine committing suicide by humiliation, Lu Xiangsheng almost broke out. However, after all, he was a rank-level official and soon calmed down and knew that it was just a play.

"Kill Fan Wencheng! Kill Jiannu!" The audience was already in chaos. If someone hadn't stopped him, someone would have jumped on stage and played Huang Taiji. Fan Wencheng's actors would be in trouble.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beard, nodded slightly and smiled: "Guodong is indeed very clever to be able to use this method to inspire morale!"

Next, Li Guodong took Lu Xiangsheng to visit the military camp of the garrison he controlled around Xiangling. However, even to Lu Xiangsheng, Li Guodong still concealed the most core gun factory and gunpowder workshop, which were the core secrets. Even the Ming officials had to conceal it. Only Lu Xiangsheng visited the production process of bird guns, nine-headed bird guns and three-pound cannons, and the rest were not allowed to be seen.

At this time, the gun factory could produce six-pound field guns, twelve-pound field guns, twelve-pound howitzers and sixty-four-pound mortars. Those were secrets and were not allowed to be seen by anyone.

As for rifled rifles, Li Guodong's factory can actually build a small number of flintlock rifles, but the production of the thing itself is too low. First of all, it is difficult to obtain qualified spring steel strips. Secondly, the quality of the barrel is required to be reliable for the rifled barrel, so the cost is high. Li Guodong would rather choose to go to the Portuguese to buy rifles, than to make rifles by himself without spending a lot of manpower and material resources.
Chapter completed!