I want to be emperor

Chapter 98 Guo Quanshu has been promoted again

The reason why Luo Zhixue was able to launch the Sixth Battalion and Two Outposts immediately after returning to Songjiazhuang, and reorganized the First Infantry Battalion into an army in just a few days, was of course due to the accumulation of the Rural Protection Battalion itself.

But it is also related to the fact that Baoxiangying wiped out the Dingpotian and Chuangpotian headquarters twice successively.

Through two annihilation operations, the Baoxiang Battalion killed and captured more than 2000 old thieves, and the cavalry also included nearly 200 half-baked cavalry.

After these two battles, Chuang Potian's battalion leader was almost completely defeated, even if Chuang Potian himself did not die, he was powerless to recover.

The four thousand so-called army that Chuang Potian left behind immediately dispersed after learning that the Chuang Potian soldier in front was defeated and died...

Because there are only two or three hundred old thieves in the four thousand so-called army, and the rest are young and strong who have been coerced one after another after entering the border of Ruzhou.

When those old thieves saw that Chuang Potian was dead, they still had the guts to stay in Lushan County, so they turned around and ran away. As for where they went, only God knows.

And those young and strong people who were coerced were left alone, and they dispersed in a herd, some went home, and some became refugees.

Anyway, it can be said that the whole army has been wiped out so far.

And as the rural protection battalion who defeated the main force of Breakthrough Heavenly Camp, they also gained a lot.

A batch of food and cold weapons were seized, especially the level of weapons and equipment of the two thousand old thieves directly under Chuangpotian was not bad, including knives, spears, bows and arrows, and dozens of armors, and the upper class was seized. Hundreds of rideable war horses and hundreds of draft mules.

In addition, it is also possible to recruit people among prisoners of war.

This also allowed the expansion of the rural protection camp to be guaranteed in terms of personnel and materials.

For example, without the hundreds of war horses and the half-baked cavalry who successively recruited and persuaded them to join them, the second cavalry post would not be fully staffed.

However, even so, the second cavalry post actually expanded by one team, and the previous two teams expanded one after another before facing Ding Potian.

It's embarrassing to say, but in the expansion plan of Baoxiangying, the infantry is expanded with the battalion as the symbol. The first batch is three battalions, and the second batch has three battalions.

However, the expansion of cavalry is based on teams, and it takes a period of time to expand a team.

It is almost impossible to obtain hundreds of qualified cavalry in a short period of time.

This is also the reason why Luo Zhixue wants to engage in pistol cavalry. As for things like dragoons, strictly speaking, they are not cavalry, they are just cavalry infantry. Luo Zhixue may develop them in the future, but this still cannot make up for the lack of regular cavalry. defect.

As for the pistol cavalry, you need a qualified cavalry pistol. Matchlock pistols are useless, and it is best to get flintlock pistols.

Flintlock pistols cannot be produced by the current rural protection battalion.

The so-called industrial capacity of Baoxiangying was actually based on the original technology of Song blacksmiths and other contemporary craftsmen, and its technical level was actually not fundamentally different from other gun workshops under the government control of the Ming Dynasty.

Luo Zhixue's water-powered machinery, power storage, and human-powered small machinery can only improve production efficiency.

The industrial technology of Baoxiangying cannot make progress in raw materials and craftsmanship.

In response to this problem, Luo Zhixue has already started to solve it. Last year, he successively selected more than ten bright and bright teenagers to learn various scientific knowledge.

At the end of last year, he sent people out to search for all kinds of scientific and technological materials that may be available in contemporary times, especially those technical materials brought by Western missionaries and various materials translated by domestic scholars, but so far So far still no reply.

It is not certain that the people he sent were killed by various bandits and refugees on the road...

At present, the materials these young people study are basically produced by Luo Zhixue himself.

He had already started to write down all kinds of scientific knowledge that he still remembered, and basically he would write down what he thought of, so as not to forget it as time passed.

This scattered, unsystematic, and lacking knowledge is what those young people learn.

Moreover, many of these knowledge systems only have results, but there is no deduction process... Even if these teenagers really learn, they just know what it is and don't know why.

But even so, Luo Zhixue still has high hopes for him. He hopes that after a period of training, there will be a few talents with certain scientific knowledge among these young people, even if they are only half-baked, even if they just follow the script.

But now the time is too short, and there is no result for the time being.

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After sorting out the preparatory work of the three infantry battalions, especially after the first infantry battalion was initially formed, Luo Zhixue did not wait for the follow-up second and third infantry battalions to form an army.

Instead, they once again sent troops to the rural areas of Lushan County to continue to implement the predetermined plan: control the rural areas of Lushan County, attack some predetermined targets of big landlords, and obtain enough strategic resources such as money and food.

As for Lushan County, Luo Zhixue completely lost the idea after taking down Songjiazhuang.

After taking down several big landlords such as Songjiazhuang, the various resources obtained by Baoxiangying are enough to support the next stage of development of Baoxiangying. There is no need to attack Lushan County, which will attract a large number of officers and soldiers.

For the Ming army in Henan today, there are hundreds of thousands of various thieves in Henan, and a large number of them are attacking the city. Even Luoyang has been attacked by the thieves. The city is even more precarious.

They are busy fighting with the main forces of the rebel army who are attacking the city, Luo Zhixue feels that there is no need to divert the attention of the main forces of the officers and soldiers.

Now it is good to fight a dozen landlord manors in the countryside and recruit food and soldiers from the villages.

Why go to Lushan County, which has no special effect.

Luo Zhixue continued to send soldiers to attack everywhere, and successively conquered the manors of more than a dozen landlords, two of which were big landlords.

Although its strength is not as good as that of the Song family, it is also a stubble with high courtyard walls and many guards. The Baoxiang camp dispatched [-]-jin long cannons to conquer these two landlord manors.

Under the continuous attacks, the Baoxiang camp obtained a large amount of food, gold and silver and other materials.

By the way, I brought dozens of scholars back...

These scholars are actually the same as Guo Quanshu and others before them, they are all children of landlords.

When these landlords faced the attack of the Rural Protection Camp, they chose to obey, and paid food and money to protect themselves. For these landlords who know how to behave, the Rural Protection Camp will generally not embarrass them. After taking away the specified amount of supplies, they will leave.

It's just that when they leave, they usually bring a direct descendant of them with them...

That is, as hostages, trying to further kidnap these landlords around the rural protection camp. On the other hand, the rural protection camp is expanding too fast, and there is a huge gap in the demand for talents.

Under normal circumstances, not many scholars would come to apply for the post of officials of the Baoxiangying, so the Baoxiangying recruited some half-baked scholars from Yeluzi as officials, and forcibly recruited the children of these landlords.

Not to mention, the effect is pretty good.

You can see that Guo Quanshu, the chief of the field mu department of the grain collection department, did a good job. He built the shelf of the grain collection department by himself.

And recently, Guo Quanshu has become more and more energetic as he has worked harder, actively running around in order to count the spoils of war, collect food and other matters.

After running around for a while, Guo Quanshu also put forward a suggestion to Luo Zhixue, suggesting that Luo Zhixue establish township grain collection stations, and each station is responsible for the grain collection affairs of several nearby villages.

Guo Quanshu didn't think too much about it when he put forward this opinion. He simply felt that the current workload of the Baoxiangying directly collecting grain from each village was too much, and it was very cumbersome, which kept him busy all day long.

So he thought about it, according to the regional management, set up a grain collection station in each area, and assign a grain collection officer to be responsible for the grain collection affairs, so as to reduce his workload.

However, after Luo Zhixue saw the report, he called Guo Quanshu over directly, and asked him if he was interested in becoming the chief of the Civil Affairs Department.

Just by hearing the name, you can tell that the Office of Official Affairs is responsible for managing officials, and its functions are similar to those of the official department in the Ming Dynasty.

There was no such thing in the Baoxiang Camp before, because it was still huddled in Funiu Mountain, and there were not many people there, let alone many officials. Luo Zhixue took care of the selection of officials and other duties.

However, after Baoxiangying came out of the mountains, in order to facilitate food collection, Baoxiangying began to appoint village chiefs in each village, trying to directly control the vast rural areas.

As a result, all kinds of messy things increased, which caused Luo Zhixue a headache.

In addition, just seeing Guo Quanshu's proposal to set up a township grain collection station, Luo Zhixue had a one-step plan to directly set up a township yamen, so as to initially establish a grassroots administrative management system for the village protection camp.

If the township yamen is set up, there will be many more officials. In addition to the officials in the current Baoxiangying headquarters, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of people.

And Luo Zhixue can't directly manage hundreds of officials by himself, so it is inevitable to set up a special official management organization.

However, when Guo Quanshu heard that Luo Zhixue asked him to be the chief of the staff affairs department, he was completely stunned...

What the hell is going on?
I was obviously forced to help the Funiu Mountain rebels. Although I did my best, it was only for the safety of myself and my family.

But, well, every few months before and after, I was promoted to an official.

At the beginning, I changed from an ordinary clerk to the deputy section chief of the Field Mu Section, and then became the full section chief.

Before leaving the mountain, his title was added to the title of Deputy Director of the Acting Grain Collection Department, concurrently serving as the section chief of the Field Mu Section, and a grain collection officer with the army.

Now, Luo Zhixue, the leader of the anti-thief, even asked him to directly become the director of the official affairs office.

This promotion speed is faster than taking a rocket...

If Baoxiangying is regarded as a normal country, it is equivalent to climbing from a low-level clerk to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials in just a few months...

Guo Quanshu is not stupid, and he has basic knowledge. As soon as he hears the name of the Office of Officials, he knows that it is a reduced version of the Ministry of Officials.

If I become the director of the official affairs department, I am afraid that it will not be long before my name will be passed on to the imperial court.

Thinking that he is a dignified scholar who aspires to take the imperial examination, and one day he will become one of the leaders of Funiu Mountain bandits, Guo Quanshu, the head of the pseudo-official affairs department, he feels cold in his heart...

He wanted to refuse, but seeing Luo Zhixue looking at him with expectant eyes, he couldn't say the words of rejection in the end, but knelt on his knees:
"Students are valued by the general. In the future, they will definitely protect the village camp for me, and they will die for the general."

Luo Zhixue stretched out his hand to help: "Mr. Guo, please get up quickly, we are all from our own family, so there is no need for such a big gift!"

(End of this chapter)