The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 17 Missionary

How could Liu Guoxuan not react at this time, this "Treasurer Su" must be an officer with a strong background, no wonder his subordinates are so brave and good at fighting.

"Are you serious?" he confirmed cautiously.

Zhu Lin nodded, "Naturally."

Liu Guoxuan raised his own military salary to train Zu Yong in order to become a real officer. Now that the opportunity is in front of him, he immediately put on one knee, "I am willing to do my best for Master Su!"

Zhu Linmei helped him up, "Actually, with your ability, you should not just be a boss. There will be a position you are more suitable for when you make military achievements."

Liu Guoxuan was overjoyed, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you sir! The subordinates will go and eliminate the demons and thieves first!"

He turned around and walked out of the county government office. He felt his blood boil all over his body, and he waved vigorously at the brave men of the clan, "Everyone work hard! Everyone will be rewarded with three taels of silver today!"

Looking at Liu Guoxuan's back, Zhu Linming secretly thought that this time he made a lot of money.Liu Guoxuan was the top general in the late Ming Dynasty!Just now Zhu Linming listened to the report on the battle situation this morning. Liu Guoxuan commanded 150 civilians to attack and killed more than 300 religious bandits in one attack, which shows his military prowess.Of course, this is far from his record of defeating tens of thousands of Qing troops with thousands of troops in Kinmen and Xiamen in the future.

What's even more rare is that he is also a genius in naval warfare. In history, he has commanded fleets to defeat the Qing navy at sea many times.Moreover, he created his own amphibious warfare tactics, and used the method of landing warfare and naval warfare to defeat the Qing court. He almost never failed to fight against the Qing army along the coast.In the next few decades, I am afraid that only the more monstrous Shi Lang can compete with him at sea.

The ocean is the focus of Zhu Linming's future development, and Liu Guoxuan will definitely be a trump card in his maritime strategic layout in the future!
In addition, in history, Liu Guoxuan could only deal with the Qing army in the Fujian area due to money and food restrictions, but if I can give him enough material support to allow him to play the "Marine Corps" tactics in the Northeast area, it will be possible. Randomly rape the chrysanthemums of the Qing court!It's so sour just thinking about it.

In Qingliu County, the news of Ye Li's death spread quickly, and the members of the Bailian Cult suddenly lost their fighting spirit and began to panic and flee.

The clan and gentry in the county took their clansmen and servants to clean up the bandits and remnants everywhere.By noon, all important places such as the city gate and the treasury had been returned to the gentry of Qingliu County.

"A total of 120 military horses, 32 bird guns, 67 pairs of armor, and [-] pairs of leather armor were seized..."

Shi Lin held the list and reported to Zhu Linmi the spoils seized this time.These things don't seem to be many, but it's really a lot of money for Zhu Linmi to buy them by herself.

At least one horse costs more than 90 taels, the bird gun is about five taels, and the armor ranges from four to ten taels. These alone add up to more than 1 taels!

"170 bows, rattan cards..." Shi Lin continued to read, when he heard someone outside the hall of the county government speaking loudly in Chinese: "I want to see your lord."

Zhu Linmi looked out, and saw that it was the three foreigners who had helped guard the gate of the county government.He said to the guard who blocked the three of them with great interest, "Let them in."

"My lord, my name is Serio. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to you. You saved me from that ghostly place." A short man in his 40s with few hairs on his head rushed to say , "I hope you can give me back what those robbers stole from me, thank you very much!"

"What is it?" Zhu Linmei asked him.

"My clock and tools." Serio gestured, "It's so big, there are many gears inside..."

Zhu Linmi looked at Shi Lin, "Is there such a thing?"

"Master Hui, I seem to have seen it before."

"How do you prove that the thing is yours?" Zhu Linmei asked Serio.

"The clock is my unfinished work." Serio hurriedly said, "I know the position of every part of it."

Zhu Linmi signaled to Shi Lin, "Give it back to him."

"Yes!" Shi Lin gave a few instructions to a guard, asking him to take Serio to collect the lost property. Another young man with blond hair bowed to Zhu Linmi and left after him.

Then a tall middle-aged man with chestnut curly hair came over and bowed deeply to Zhu Linmi, "May the Lord bless you, my lord."

His Chinese is so pure that he can hardly hear his accent, "I am a priest, you can call me Qiao Weili. First of all, I want to express my gratitude to you. Those heretics burned down my church and almost killed me." He said with a serious expression, "I must do something for you to repay your life-saving grace."

Ouch, talent!Zhu Linmei immediately thought of Tang Ruowang, Nan Huairen and other missionaries, all of them were outstanding talents of the era who knew astronomy and geography.Zhu Linmi was not polite to him, and immediately thought of her ocean strategy, and asked, "Do you know how to sail?"

"Won't……"

"Drawing a chart?"

"Won't……"

Zhu Linmei was a little disappointed, so she had to settle for the next best thing, "Do you know how to cast cannons?" Maybe he can help when casting cannons by himself in the future.

"Won't……"

"Alchemy?" That would teach him to do chemical processing.

"..."

God, dare to learn from others to be missionaries if you don't know anything?Zhu Linmi was completely helpless, "Then, just thank you verbally."

Seeing Qiao Weili standing there in embarrassment, he seemed very unwilling, and suddenly remembered that this foreigner had good shooting skills, so he said with a smile: "You are quite good at shooting guns, why don't you stay with me as a soldier?"

"Being a soldier?" Qiao Weili was taken aback, "You want to fight?"

Zhu Linmin nodded, "There will be a big war in the near future." He thought to himself, it is likely to be the largest war in the world in this era.

"But I..." Qiao Weili's voice was almost inaudible, "I'm a priest."

"Just thank you verbally."

Qiao Weili suddenly thought of something, raised his head and said, "What do you think of mercenaries?"

"Mercenaries? Where?"

"It's in Macau, Franji mercenaries. I know their Boogaroo commander. If you'd like to pay some money..."

Zhu Linming's eyes lit up, yes, why didn't I think of the European mercenaries before?

Of course, he couldn't hire a large number of them to fight in Ming Dynasty, but Europeans are very good at standardized training, and they are used to training every soldier in a systematic textbook way.Teams trained by different officers from the same country can basically connect seamlessly.

Although he is familiar with the battle formations, types of arms, and tactics used in the musket era, and even learned about military drills from experts in the forum, he still has a lot of unclear details about the details of military training.

For example, how can the formation of troops be the fastest?How are the orders of each level of commander communicated?How to control the speed and rhythm when the cavalry charges?How to change the formation without causing confusion... too many details that must be done by experienced professionals.

If there are a group of officers who are familiar with the European standardized drill system to implement his advanced training concept, it can help the troops complete the training as quickly as possible and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.Although he could do the same by training the officers of Ming Dynasty from scratch, but right now he doesn't have much time, so naturally the sooner the better.

Zhu Linming made up her mind and said to Qiao Weili, "I do need mercenaries, but my requirements are quite special."

(End of this chapter)