Zhou Xian nodded and asked, "What's wrong with your legs?"

Gao Yi looked down and grinned, "It's nothing serious to be bitten by the Tartars' bow and arrow. Supervisor, I have something to tell you."

Zhou Xian nodded and asked, "Is it important?"

Gao Yi was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head and said, "It's not very important, it's all small things."

Zhou Xian said: "In this case, you go inside and treat your wound first, and then go to the head camp to find me." As he said that, he turned to Liu Qi and said: "Liu Gujie, I'm hungry, take me to eat something!"

Liu Qi smiled all over his face, "It is a great honor for the villain to stay in the back camp to eat. I immediately ordered them to do what the governor wants to eat."

Zhou Xian waved his hand and said, "No need to be so troublesome. Now it's time to eat. I'll eat whatever my brothers eat. Let me see if you have any greedy brothers' salary."

Liu Qi was stunned and hurriedly said, "How dare the villain?"

Halfway through the way, Zhou Xian met Zhang Qi and Xia Wanchun who came to find him, and greeted them with a smile.

Several people sat around a long table, with two wooden basins, a basket, a wooden barrel, and several other dishes and bowls in the middle.

There are steamed buns and dozens of thick cakes in the basket, which are the staple food.

There are two dishes in the wooden basin. One is cabbage, with some shrimp mixed in it. The other is salted pumpkin, which has no taste but is sufficient.

The wooden barrel contains the cooked mixed rice porridge, which is very thin and you can see the bottom of the bowl.

In addition, there is a bowl of spicy cabbage, more than a dozen peeled white onions, and a small jar of salty sauce marinated with soybeans.

There was also a plate of mutton and a plate of braised fish in front of Zhou Xian. It should be a meal that Liu Qi asked for added, specially prepared for him.

Zhou Xian stood up, picked up two plates of meat and poured them into the wooden basin, stirred them with a wooden spoon a few times, and smiled and said, "This is Liu Qi's beauty, and we cannot let it go. We share the blessings together, and we are all filled with oil and water."

Everyone sat together, eating and chatting.

Zhang Qi first came to southern Liaoning and was not very familiar with the situation here.

During the meal, Zhou Xian introduced everyone here to him. He also talked about the establishment of Liaonan Prefectures with Jinfu and the two prefectures as the main areas, including other surrounding areas, as well as coastal islands.

Zhang Qi mentioned that when he passed by Fuzhou, he talked with the prefect Xu Zhiyuan, who proposed to set up the capital of Liaonan Prefecture in Fuzhou, and everything else was ready-made.

Zhou Xian took a bite of the steamed bun and said, "Fuzhou is too far from the front line, and there is something wrong and there is no convenient to send people to send messages back and forth. I think the capital will be temporarily set up in Yongning City and moved directly to the city after the recapturing of the State in the future. Liaodong is different from the Central Plains, and this is a battlefield, and everything must be focused on military affairs.

Zhang Qi frowned and pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "I understand."

Zhou Xian looked at him and smiled faintly, "Why are you so frowning? He said that Liaodong is the key to military affairs, but he didn't say that you are not important! In fact, if you are transferred to Liaodong, what you want to do is related to whether we can occupy all of Liaodong in the future."

Zhang Qi suddenly became interested, "Mr. Wan Futai asked his subordinates to come to Liaodong, but he only said that he would listen to the commander-in-chief, but he didn't tell me what to do."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "There are two main things. One is to organize the people to reclaim wasteland in Jinfu and the other is to recruit soldiers and increase the number of rural brave men from all over the country. The reclaimed wasteland is to increase grain production and allow Liaodong to rely as little as possible to rely on Shandong in the future. The increase of rural brave men is to let them shoulder the burden of guarding various places so that more troops can be drawn out to deal with the Manchus."

Zhang Qi nodded gently and said, "These are not difficult things, and I can do it."

Zhou Xianxiao said, "It's not okay to do it, but you must do it well. I will pick some generals from the army for you, and they will help you train new soldiers and those rural brave men. In the future, whether it is newly recruited soldiers or surrendered Qing army, it will take at least four months of training before going to the battlefield, and the rural brave men will also have to go through one month of training. From now on, the army in southern Liaoning will not directly recruit soldiers, but will be handed over to the local area, and will be assigned to each army as needed after the training is completed."

Before Zhang Qi could fully react, Xia Wanchun, who was beside him, said: "General, you are trying to disperse all the soldiers to avoid the generals cultivating the soldiers into their own private soldiers. At the same time, they also disperse the Qing army that surrendered to them, so that those Qing generals would not be able to do anything even if they had a different intention."

Zhou Xian was slightly stunned, reached out and patted the back of his head very hard, and he grinned in pain. "You are the only one who is smart."

Zhou Xian turned to others and said, "The army is the army of the country, not the private soldiers of some people. Why did the Ming Dynasty fall here and why did the capital fall? Everyone treats their soldiers as their own private wealth, fearing that their own army will lose too much and reduce the capital for bargaining with the court. If not, how could the Manchu Captains enter the Central Plains with more than 200,000 troops? My move is to let them know who they should be loyal to and why they should fight? They should protect the entire country, not someone. If I go against my original intention in the future, they can betray me and kill me. On the contrary, they should also understand how they should choose."

Everyone stood there in a daze, looked at each other, but nothing was said.

Zhou Xian looked at their appearance and smiled faintly, "It should be like this. It is said that 'The king is inferior, the people are the most important, and the country is second.'. The kings have always understood it, but they mostly choose to ignore it. The biggest problem is that they feel that they can do whatever they want by the heavens. In comparison, I value 'Is there any kind of king, prince, general, and minister'. If the king is not virtuous, it can be abolished. If it is for the whole of China and the people, any choice can be made."

Gao Yi came late and didn't bother to eat anything and told Zhou Xian about his affairs.

During the battle last night, he saw the Qing cavalry constantly harassing but not moving forward easily, so he did not fight with it at all. He deliberately revealed a flaw in the formation and lured the Qing cavalry to attack.

Sure enough, a team of Qing cavalry could not bear it and came to rush to the formation and was surrounded by a large number of spears.

Under Gao Yi's strict order, they only stabbed people, not horses. Although they took a little effort, they finally killed the Qing cavalry Wu'an, and obtained more than 40 horses.

Gao Yi came to find Zhou Xian, but he didn't want to hand over the dozens of horses.

After hearing his words, Zhou Xian smiled faintly and said, "Don't there already are more than a hundred horses in your army? I have let you stay. You are so greedy!"
Chapter completed!