Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Cheer up! Noon Noon Scholar Building, if you don't get drunk, you won't go home." The nobles were happy for a while, and they happened to inquire about the situation in the north with Li Chengdong.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and a bunch of boring words, some people couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

"General Li, I heard that the Henan area is very empty. I wonder if it is true or not?"

Li Chengdong just said a lot of things that he couldn't put into his mouth with these people, and he felt bored in his heart. When he heard someone talking about the war in Henan, he immediately regained his energy.

"That's right, the whole of Henan has no soldiers or generals. If the emperor hadn't transferred me to Nanjing, I would definitely lead troops to recover Henan."

"Are there no Chuangjun and Tartars?"

"No, those melons ran away one by one. The only Tartar soldier, we beat the crap out of him long ago, and ran away his mother."

Li Chengdong, who was a little drunk, talked a lot, lost his previous cautiousness, and shook out his record in the north with one mouthful.

"In this case, why did the emperor transfer you to Nanjing?"

"Hey! Isn't it true that our family's soldiers are powerful. This Nanjing city is the emperor's home, so it must be protected by elite soldiers."

Drunk people like to brag, and Li Chengdong didn't want others to look down upon him, so he simply started bragging.

It doesn't matter what he boasted, but what he said made these people greedy. It turns out that there are such great benefits in the north, so today's drink is not in vain.

Everyone looked at each other. In fact, everyone had already made up their minds, and they must go north for a while.

There are some deviations from the original history. This time, Zhu Youjian's attack on the Houjin army undoubtedly gave some people an opportunity.

Zhu Youjian, who was in Xuzhou, was about to meet Li Yan and his wife who came from afar, but unexpectedly received a large number of memorials from Nanjing.

"Okay, everyone is willing to contribute to Daming, so as not to get so much salary every month for nothing."

Zhu Youjian looked at the memorial and smiled secretly in his heart, these nobles took Henan as a pie.He was worried that he couldn't find a reason to attack these people again. Last time, he didn't cheat enough. A little money is not enough to hurt these people.

"I pass on my decree: If the nobles in the Ming Dynasty want to serve the country, they can go to the Haozhou Army to get a job. However, the Haozhou Army does not send subordinates, and they lead their own generals or recruit on the spot."

Chapter 142: Good luck

Li Yan, who hadn't seen each other for several months, gained a little weight.

It seems that the things in Luzhong are not difficult for him at all, and with Hong Niangzi's careful care, Li Yan's little life is going well.

This time, following the order to go south, Hong Niangzi followed.

Changing from the a little indifference towards Zhu Youjian in Luzhong, Hong Niangzi has become more open-minded.

"The daughter of the people has met the emperor!" After meeting, the red lady replied shyly, squatting slightly sideways, a standard greeting ceremony for women.

"Hey! Mrs. sister-in-law is blushing. Let me guess, I'm happy, right?"

Li Yan can be said to be Zhu Youjian's most trusted general in Jiangbei, and Zhu Youjian naturally didn't see him, and he started teasing when he met.

This sentence made the red lady blush, and Li Yan followed with a slight smile. It seemed that Zhu Youjian had hit the spot.

"It just so happens that I have plans to let the troops in Jiangbei go to Jiangnan to escape the war, so that my wife can go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to raise her baby with peace of mind."

Large-scale emigration in the Jianghuai area is impossible, costly, and time-consuming, but this does not mean that some important people will not withdraw southward.The southward retreat this time was not as a hostage, but because of Zhu Youjian's concern for his subordinates.

When I first heard that Zhu Youjian wanted his family members to go south, everyone would think about the hostages, but the emperor made it very clear that he was going to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which was another matter. Obviously, the emperor was thinking about the red lady.

"The red lady thanked the emperor." Such an arrangement is enough to show that Zhu Youjian attaches great importance to Li Yan. If there is any dissatisfaction with the red lady, please thank her quickly.

"How is the situation in Shandong?" After exchanging pleasantries, Zhu Youjian went straight to the topic. The situation in Shandong is not optimistic, but Li Yanbu hid in Luzhong and did not face the main force of Houjin.

"Dezhou has already fallen, and the entire Jiaodong has fallen. The troops we sent out have also encountered Houjin's small army many times. We have fought more than a dozen battles, and we have won more than we lost."

The base of Lu Zhongjun is Li Yan's subordinates, and they are not considered the elite of the Chuangjun, but have some combat experience.With the addition of the miners who joined later, it was simply a group of recruits.

If it weren't for Zhu Youjian's personal strengthening of officer training, and Liu Zeqing's confiscation of sufficient logistical supplies after his annihilation, I'm afraid he wouldn't have dared to stay in Shandong.

"I'll give you half a year's worth of gunpowder from the Nanjing Artisan Camp, so I can block it at critical times."

"Give it to us, Jiangbei won't keep anything?" Li Yan really didn't expect Zhu Youjian to be so generous.

"From this month onwards, they have better ones." Zhu Youjian smiled and slipped it out.

"Your Majesty is using our Lu Zhongjun as a waste?" Li Yan joked.

"Your battlefield area is large, and the amount you need is also large. The quality of the gunpowder produced by the Nanjing Craftsman Camp was not good, so it happened to be used for local mines for you."

There are mines in Daming's firearms, but they are huge in size, outdated in ignition device, and large in charge, which is not conducive to large-scale use.

What Zhu Youjian meant was that Li Yan didn't have to save it, but let it go.When the firearms and equipment are outdated and the archers cannot be trained, if you still save the gunpowder money, are you expecting soldiers to charge with big knives against the hail of bullets?

"Luzhong alone may not be able to support 8 soldiers, and there must be a supplementary place." Li Yan was thoughtful. In the past few months, he trained his troops desperately, and finally formed a permanent army of [-] soldiers. In addition, following Zheng Wei's method, militia groups were formed in various counties in central Shandong to establish a joint defense mechanism.

"From Xuzhou to the east, all the way to Haizhou. If Xuzhou is not lost, your supplies will not be cut off."

Zhu Youjian did it himself, grabbed a handful of Shandong jujubes from the plate, roasted them on the charcoal stove unceremoniously, and then threw a few in boiling water to make tea.

At this time, Shandong has neither Yantai apples nor Zhangqiu green onions, only the Yimeng jujubes are the most delicious.This is because Li Yan is guarding Luzhong, so there is some supply to the south.

(ps: Apples were introduced from Europe in the nineteenth century.)

"After eating your jujubes, I will give you some tangerines from Jiangnan." "Oranges grown in Huainan are oranges, and oranges grown in Huaibei are oranges." If you want to eat oranges in Shandong, it is very rare.

"I want to eat oranges, and I also want to have your new firecracker sooner. Hehe!" Li Yan took a big orange, gently peeled off the outer skin, and couldn't help but take a bite, it was so sweet.

"You are so beautiful, the oranges are for your wife. You can't eat more, only this one." Zhu Youjian snatched another orange from Li Yan's hand, and he found that this guy didn't eat the oranges in pieces Break apart food, but one bite at a time.

I don't know how that mouth swallowed such a big orange in one bite, and swallowed it abruptly without chewing.

"Stingy ghost, your eating habits are not much better than mine." Li Yan discovered that Zhu Youjian ate jujubes not only soaked in water, but also skewered with bamboo sticks and roasted.A large charcoal stove was already filled with strings of jujubes.

"I heard that you adopted a adopted son?" Li Yan was silent for a while, hesitant to speak, but he opened his mouth anyway.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, just live well for me. If you can't hold on any longer, remember to withdraw to the south."

Zhu Youjian couldn't hear what Li Yan said, this guy was actually arranging his own funeral.This made Zhu Youjian feel very heavy. This time when Xuzhou met, people like Li Yan knew that they might not see each other much in the future.

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Li Yan smiled, feeling very comfortable, at least the king he chose was right.He feels that he has no regrets in this life.

The atmosphere was a bit depressing. Although the weather was getting warmer, it was still a bit cold. The two of them stood guarding the charcoal stove, speechless for a while.

Li Yan lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and holding a tongs in his hand, he tapped the furnace wall lightly, with a soft and slow voice.

Zhu Youjian flipped the jujubes on the stove absent-mindedly, and there was a smell of burnt paste, but he continued to flip them, as if he didn't notice it.

Ji Biao came to the door, glanced at the situation in the room, hesitated for a while, but didn't go in.Unable to bear the urging of the people outside the door, Ji Biao bit the bullet and walked in gently.