Liu Bu was looking at various data and materials in his own room. Liu Bu, a modern man, read ancient materials, wrote vertically, from left to right, without punctuation, and numbers were written in traditional Chinese characters, which made him dyslexia. So every time he read, he was very careful and careful to see clearly. When he heard Liu Zhongyong's report, he put down the information in his hand, and said, "All of them have passed?"

Liu Zhongyong said: "Yes! All 808 have passed, and the remaining 192 have not passed. All are reviewed by the final general himself, and none of them have passed the test."

Liu Bu said: "There are more than 300 more people than expected."

Liu Zhongyong said: "Yes! But these are indeed good seedlings, and rare talents."

Liu Bu said: "Our problem now is to recruit people first, then train them, and then look at the effect. It is not a good idea to collect too much at once."

Liu Zhongyong said: "Yes! I will go back and let them draw lots in batches, and let them all settle for their destiny."

Liu Bu said: "Since you are here, you will definitely not want this result. I want to ask you, are you really very satisfied with this group of people?"

Liu Zhongyong said: "I am very satisfied. Now the world is in chaos, the world is restless, and life is extremely difficult. These are all good soldiers who come here for the best way for the whole family."

Liu Bu did not discuss this issue again and said, "Tao Liu, how do you think this young master is doing?"

Liu Zhongyong said: "Young Master, you are a person who can accomplish great things."

Liu Bu said: "Tao Liu, I know you are not a person who loves to flatter you. You have always said something. Now I want to ask you, where can you tell from me that I can accomplish anything?"

Liu Zhongyong said: "I, Old Liu, joined the army at the age of 14. I have been a soldier for 40 years and have visited all the nine major cities on the border and have followed countless famous generals and commanders. Young Master, although you were not born in the imperial examination or martial arts examination, you have a lot of style as a famous general."

Liu Bu said: "I have the style of a famous general? Where do you start? I don't think so? Moreover, I can't even ride a horse well, and I don't know how to shoot archery and swordsmanship or other things."

Liu Zhongyong said: "If you can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and love soldiers as much as your son, you are a good general. As long as he is lucky, he will become famous sooner or later and will eventually achieve great things."

Liu Bu said: "Good luck is what you call luck."

Liu Zhongyong said: "Luck is the most difficult thing to say. He means God. God wants you to be rich and prosperous. You can't be poor even if you want to be poor. God will not let you be rich. I am afraid that he inherited his family property from Deng Tong and Zhao Gongming, and it will not be passed on."

Liu Bu said: "You are an excellent officer. Why don't you continue to serve the court but my Liu family? How did my father conquer you back then?"

Liu Zhongyong said: "Joining the army is for food, but ultimately to live. If you have family members to support you, it is impossible to rely solely on loyalty and righteousness to maintain your life."

Liu Bu knew that using love would not send electricity. The court was so mean. When people needed money, you talked about feelings to them, as if feelings could be eaten as food.

Liu Bu said: "If these soldiers are not trained well, they will not be able to protect the Liu family. In the end, we will all be ruined, so there are hundreds more and hundreds less. In fact, there are not many differences. I want to know now whether we can get things done? Let's make an analogy. Can the more than 1,000 troops in my hands deal with Liu Zeqing?"

Liu Zhongyong was stunned and said, "Young Master actually wants to compete with Liu Zeqing."

Liu Bu smiled and said, "It's just a metaphor to measure the combat effectiveness of the army."

Liu Bu's words are actually extremely ambitious, which means competing with Liu Zeqing. In fact, it means competing with Shandong Province. He is really thinking about what kind of quality his army is in the Shandong territory. If he can defeat Liu Zeqing's army, he will naturally be first-class, and there is no problem with lying on either side.

Liu Zhongyong is an old man, of course he could hear what Liu Bu said, "Liu Zeqing is not outstanding in being a general in Shandong. He is good at flattering and holding the thick legs of the powerful. More importantly, he is just a little lucky. When suppressing the Wuqiao mutiny, he made contributions several times, so he became the general. When he entered Dengzhou, he asked for money and food, but was rejected by the master, so he always held a grudge against the master. Now that he became the general, he would definitely make things difficult for the master. However, except for 800 soldiers, Liu Zeqing's soldiers were all mobs, claiming to be as many as 20,000. In fact, it was similar to the soldiers in our Fushan Station and could not fight at all."

Liu Bu said: "Then what I understand means is that you can have a dozen."

Liu Zhongyong said: "As long as I give me three months to train, I am sure to compete with Liu Zeqing's troops."

Liu Bo said: "Since Liu Bo'er, you are so confident, I must support you with all my strength. Anyway, 800 yuan of the Liu family is to raise money and 1,000 yuan of money, so stay all of it?"

Liu Zhongyong said: "All more than 1,000 people stayed, but only more than 800 people passed the assessment."

Liu Bu said: "I have found that more than 800 soldiers are enough, but we lack the support of long-range firepower, that is, archers. I am going to form the remaining 200 people to archery teams to cover them, and then our troops have certain tactical strike capabilities."

Liu Zhongyong said: "Liu Zeqing is not easy to deal with. He is a regular army of the court. They have Folang machine cannons, tiger squat cannons, bird cannons, three-eyed cannons, and Thunder cannons. This kind of firepower is not easy to deal with. The most unfortunate thing is that during the Wuqiao mutiny, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Dizhong and others took the firearm to surrender to Huang Taiji. Now Jiannu and the others also have the red cannon they have dreamed of."

Liu Bu also felt that it was quite a pity.

Nurhaci attacked Ningyuan and was injured by the red cannons. Since then, Jiannu has always wanted to own the red cannons, but he has never been able to obtain it. Because the red cannons are extremely advanced in technology, even the Ming Dynasty cannot make them. They bought them from the Portuguese from the distant Guangdong and Macau. Jiannu had no way, so naturally they could not buy them, and the Portuguese did not dare to sell them to Jiannu.

Since Xu Guangqi's apprentice Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai (Dongfu), he has been committed to buying red cannons from the Portuguese and then imitating them himself. He has red cannons and imitating them in his base in Dengzhou, as well as a large number of technicians and craftsmen who can imitate red cannons and Portuguese technicians. These people have surrendered to Jiannu outside the pass with Kong Youde and others.

Emperor Taiji of Jiannu was very surprised and went out to greet him for ten miles in person, and named Kong Youde and the other two kings of Sanshun. From then on, Jiannu had red cannons. They were said to be imitating them with all their might. After they had these weapons, the Ming Dynasty had no advantage in treating Jiannu's firearms.

Liu Bu and his friends are now forming their own army. First of all, they want to train a servant as an experimental unit. If they succeed, they will be sold out and expand it. However, it is still the training stage and it is not advisable to have too many troops to avoid losing control and being done.

As for cannons, he really wanted to have them, but with their current strength and financial resources, it is not a good thing to have them.

Cannons are the god of war, but in the current series of battles, these firearms play far less than cold weapons.

Even if Jiannu had cannons and red-clothed cannons, the key to their capture of the world was their riding and shooting.

Looking at the current world, firearms have undergone revolutionary development, but in the East, cold weapons are still auxiliary things that dominate the battlefield.

Liu Bu will definitely make his troops develop towards firearming and heating weapons, but at this stage, they do not have this technology and talents.

Liu Zhongyong is not an officer who is good at using firearms. Currently, few of the many officers under Liu Bu are good at using artillery firearms. They are all officers who are good at using cold weapons.

Although Liu Bu knew that hot weapons were the future development trend, for now, they should first establish a good foothold. After establishing a good foothold, they would find a way to get a clamp and gun to make their troops firearms.

At present, there are also firearm troops in the Ming Dynasty, such as the famous Shenji Camp. When Emperor Chengzu conquers Wubei for five expeditions and attacks Vietnam from afar, the most important thing in each war is the Shenji Camp and other firearm troops, as well as the Che Camp founded by Qi Jiguang. It is also a famous strong army in the world. They are all good at using firearms, but now the use of the Great Bright Firearms is getting worse and worse.

This is not a problem with firearms. After 200 years of development, the technology of firearms itself has also made great progress. However, their manufacturing technology has not improved at all due to the extremely corruption of the leadership class. Instead, the firearms they made are all rough and incompetent, and the quality is so low that the troops are reluctant to use them now.

So in recent decades, no unit has used firearms as the main force. And gradually, when the West had completely become firearms, the Ming army gradually became cold weapons, and firearms became auxiliary things in the army, and they were also very useless.

Liu Bu will definitely develop his own firearms troops, but he doesn't want to obtain them from the Ming Dynasty. He also wondered if the Liu family is so rich, can we obtain firearms from Macau and Portugal through trade?
Chapter completed!