Cao Tiancheng lifted his robe and sat directly on the cold white jade face of Wangxiangtai. He reached out and patted the side, indicating that Cao Hui would sit down too. .

"When it comes to Qin Feng and his understanding of the Ming army, I am afraid no one in the Qi Dynasty can do anything to you. Tell me about this army in detail. Qin Feng has never lost his achievements since his debut. I am really curious. It is really rare for a person who has never lost a war!"

Cao Hui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Qin Feng has indeed never lost a battle, but in my opinion, there are many opportunities here. If I want to say that Qin Feng has fought only one real battle since his debut, that is the battle against Deng Pu of Qin. What's more important is that he is good at taking advantage of the situation and judging the situation."

"Whether it was the Shuntian Army that defeated Moro or the later overthrow of Wu Jian of the Former Yue, these people were all pushed by Qin Feng under the crumbling situation of internal and external troubles, and then they fell to the ground with a bang. Qin Feng was just the one who finally obtained the fruit."

Cao Tiancheng frowned: "It is not easy for people who can do this. I am more afraid of such people than a general who wins every battle."

"Yes, Your Majesty, Qin Feng's terror is here. He often starts to create a certain trend at an early age, but at the beginning, it is not noticed and accumulates little by little. When this trend is presented to everyone and everyone suddenly realizes it, it is too late because its momentum has been completed. Among them, the most profound thing that makes me realize is Li Zhi's death." Cao Hui sighed: "At that time, the three families of Chu and Ming and Qin joined forces, and the push hands with their backs on the back were rumored to be Min Ruoxi, but I believe that this is Qin Feng's masterpiece. If Li Zhi was not dead, Qin would not be today. If Qin was in this state, the biggest benefit was not Chu, not our Great Qi, but Qin Feng's Ming Kingdom. Now I think about it, I still shuddered."

"When I took the first step, I saw several steps behind. This is indeed admirable." Cao Tiancheng nodded slightly. "But this can only be regarded as a strategy. If you want to win a thousand miles away, you still need a strong army. Take the Qin State Incident as an example. He did extremely successfully in the early stage, but in the end he could not defeat Deng Pu in one fell swoop. The goal is still the moon in the mirror and the flowers in the water."

"Your Majesty, this is exactly the second point I want to say. Qin Feng, who was born in the army and was brave in fighting. When he was a small lieutenant, had a reputation between Qin and Chu. However, it was this bravery that covered up his scheming and made many people ignore this person's wisdom and ability to govern the world." Cao Hui sat upright with a cautious expression: "In Chu, the Death Camp was an army composed of death row prisoners. In our words, it was the Scrap Concentration Camp, but it was such a mixed army that was forged into a terrifying team by Qin Feng for several years, and became the backbone of his later wealth. Generals such as Zhang Xiaozheng, Gan Wei, Huang Hao, etc., and other figures such as skillful hands and Qianmian were all born in the Death Camp."

"This person is good at using people and dares to use people." Cao Tiancheng smiled and said, "Anyone with a heroic temperament is their trait."

"Qin Feng's military management is different from the vast majority of people's ideas. This person believed in the way of governing the army was sharp and sophisticated. To this day, the Ming Dynasty had only a dozen battalions of real numbers. In the life-and-death battle with Qin, he only dispatched one miner's battalion, one cavalry battalion, his own personal guards, the Baoqing camp that fought on the periphery, and the Hongshui Jumu Camp that arrived later. This war that concerns the fate of the country, the Ming army participated in only six battalions and more than 30,000 troops, but they defeated Deng Pu's 100,000 troops. Their army's excellence was good at fighting, which shows this."

"The Ming army is good at fighting, and our General Guo in Shayang County has also learned it. When Guo Xiancheng first sent troops, he was full of confidence and boasted about Haikou in front of me. He expected that one of the Thick Earth Camp and the Thick Tiger Camp made him a big shot. In the end, he could not take Shayang County. Instead, he suffered a lot of losses. This Thick Earth Camp and the Thick Tiger Camp were not considered Qin Feng's most direct battle camp!"

"Yes, Qin Feng's most direct army should be miners, rocks, wolfs, and sharp gold." Cao Hui said: "The tiger Chen Jialuo and the thick soil Liu Xingwen are all natives in Shayang. Oh, this Liu Xingwen is now Qin Feng's children's in-laws."

Cao Tiancheng smiled, "It's another trick to stabilize people's hearts and win over local forces. Qin Feng does not have many soldiers, but his combat power is so strong. What's the real reason?"

"Your Majesty, this is about the military system of the Ming Dynasty!" Cao Hui said: "My country implements a conscription system. Any man over the age of sixteen or under the age of sixty has the obligation to join the army and serve the country. However, the Ming Dynasty implemented a recruitment system. Qin Feng called the military service a profession and divided the soldiers into grades. Each level corresponds to different salaries. Even an ordinary soldier, as long as he stays in the army for a long enough time, the salaries he can get will get higher and higher. I have obtained this document and calculated it carefully. If a soldier is lucky enough to stay in the Ming army for ten years, the salaries he can get will be more and more than our general."

"If you don't die for ten years, you won't be able to get promoted for ten years. This is not a good luck, right?" Cao Tiancheng said with a laugh.

"Your Majesty, I am just an example. The Ming people can support their families by joining the army. Their salary is so high that it is amazing. In Ming Dynasty, an ordinary farmer earns only a few dozen taels of silver for a year, but when he is a soldier, he can get a hundred taels of salary a year. Once he fights, rewards and seizes these, he will be even more. Therefore, once the Ming army summons, the recruiters will rush in. The recruiters carefully select the soldiers, and the quality of the recruits is getting higher and higher." Cao Hui breathed out a breath of turbid air: "For example, this time, Qin Feng has newly formed two battle camps, one is Wang Yun's Fuyuan camp and the other is Wuling's Cheetah Camp. The troops of these two battle camps are from the original troops of the four counties in the north. They are old soldiers themselves. In our opinion, they are all army with good combat power, but Qin Feng cut off two-thirds of the army and 30,000 people, and in the end they only picked out 10,000 people."

"We can't learn this!" Cao Tiancheng shook his head, "The large and large ranks are vast, and the total number of soldiers under his command is more than one million. If he raises soldiers with high salaries like Qin Feng, he will be dragged down."

"Yes, Your Majesty, you have a high salary to support your soldiers. I believe that Qin Feng cannot hold on for too long. As his front line grows longer, the army will become more and more. The Ming Dynasty's financial resources will inevitably be unsustainable. Now I am probably supporting myself. The banknote issued by the Ming Dynasty has also discussed with the people of the Ministry of Revenue. Everyone believes that this is just a way for Qin Feng to plunder people's wealth. I am afraid that in the near future, it will cause chaos."

"The Ministry of Revenue has reported to me specifically about this matter. Isn't Daqi prohibiting the circulation of Mingguo's banknotes?" Cao Tiancheng said.

"Your Majesty, it is prohibited on the surface, but it is still circulated in private because it is indeed very convenient for him." Cao Hui said.

"Your ghost is still imitating and forging their banknotes?" Cao Tiancheng asked with a smile: "Is this trick useful?"

Cao Tiancheng was a little surprised, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate this matter. If it is really successful, it will be enough to disrupt the Ming Dynasty's position. It's a pity that I don't know how the Ming Dynasty's banknotes were printed, which is extremely difficult to imitate. We made a batch of them. The quality varies too much. Not to mention large-scale output, I sent people to some remote areas of Ming Dynasty to try to use them. As a result, I was sued and many people went in. Later I learned that the Taiping Bank of Ming Dynasty and the Ministry of Revenue all sent special people to teach the people how to distinguish between real and fake paper money. The reason was that in Ming Dynasty, some people had long taken a fancy to this point and started to imitate it. Of course, the end was very miserable. Once caught, it would be a loss of heads. Now the ghost is still studying their production methods. Once it is achieved, the effect will even be better than the gains of a large army on the battlefield."

"You can do this yourself, I won't care." Cao Tiancheng smiled. "Let's talk about his army!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, in addition to the high-paying support army, Qin Feng has become a paranoid about the equipment of the army. The equipment of the Ming army can be said to be the best among the army in the world. Not to mention heavy infantry like the miner's battalion, his ordinary army's equipment is enough to be compared with our Longxiang Army. Your Majesty, Ghost Shadow has tried to get back their crossbow machines, stone cannons and other physical objects, but unfortunately our Arsenal cannot imitate it." Cao Hui said regretfully: "Its power is amazing."

"Not only these, there are also the Ming army's ring-headed swords. The horse spear you got back from Zhongping are all powerful weapons of the country." Speaking of this, Cao Tiancheng's face was also a little dark. "The masters of the Ministry of Works said that it is not that they cannot make it, but that the level of iron and steel smelting in our Daqi cannot reach the level of the Ming country. Qin Feng promised these craftsmen a high-ranking official salary in the Ming country. I asked the Ministry of Revenue to handle this as well to arouse the upward spirit of these craftsmen. Hehe, he actually pushed for the three obstacles. Until now, he has not come up with a specific method."

"Your Majesty, it's not a day since the freezing of ice. These arsenals and smelters contain huge benefits. Every official hat is a mountain of gold, so it is naturally difficult for someone to give it up willingly."

"I still have the patience to wait for these people to turn by themselves, and I hope I won't let me use my knife at that time." Cao Tiancheng said coldly: "Facts have proved that Qin Feng's set is still very useful. Are there fewer talents in my Daqi than in the Ming Dynasty? No, there will be more. As long as the craftsmen in my Daqi can be as thoughtful as the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, it will be easy to surpass them."
Chapter completed!