In April 1898, Dali City.

"Your Highness has gone to Henan Province and has never left." Li Jinghuai said with some disappointment: "We can't make our suggestions."

The Expeditionary Force was composed of the reserves and militias temporarily recruited in Sichuan, Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces. After conquering Dali, the main forces of the field army will return to their respective garrisons, and only a few field troops rotated in a few important strongholds and cities will be retained as the core, and the reserves and militias will be the main body to station and settle locally.

In a few years, when the new Han population in Yunnan Province grows to a value, the empire will form a new field army here.

The empire's newly conquered territory has always been this process.

However, before the establishment of the Yunnan Provincial Field Army, the province's defense mainly relied on a few field army, a large number of reserves and militias.

Therefore, Yunnan Province no longer needs a lieutenant general to be stationed. Li Jinghuai is about to leave and will go to the location of the General Staff of Yanjing to report, and at the same time report on the experience and lessons learned from the Dali War.

"That suggestion, don't mention it if you don't mention it."

Li Jinghuai's chief of staff answered in an indifferent tone:

"I suddenly feel that it's good to let the emperor continue to work on it for a few years."

"Why?" Li Jinghuai asked.

"Because you haven't noticed what Your Highness did in Dengfeng this time? Execute hundreds of people and exil tens of thousands of people! And it is possible to expand it through this."

The Chief of Staff said with a smile:

"In any era, these things are shocking cases and can be recorded in history books."

"To be honest, I doubt how this big case will be described in history books in the future. Maybe it will describe our current period as tyrannical? If that is the case, it would be good to let the emperor bear the infatuation. After a few years, your highness will go up again, so that your highness can be used in more important places."

"What is more important? What is more important now?"

"Expand." The Chief of Staff replied: "Let Your Majesty bear the infamy, and during this period, the domestic affairs will be straightened out. In the future, His Highness will ascend the throne, and we may expand on a larger scale again. That is the opportunity for our soldiers to make achievements."

"Haha, what else is there to expand? Now many places have been sealed off. Can you still manage to expand again?"

"I don't know that I will expand there by then, maybe it's Tianzhu? Maybe it's some places in the west, and indirect control must also be controlled, because I feel that our expansion cannot stop now."

Li Jinghuai thought for a while and said with some uncertainty: "You mean, we have become a burden to His Highness?"

Why can't the expansion stop? It can only be that the appetite of the military merit group is getting bigger and bigger, and it can only continue to expand to satisfy the appetite of the military merit group. In this case, even if there is no opponent, an opponent must be created.

"What do you think of Lieutenant General? You have always wanted to put on your highness in the yellow robe before. Why? You still think that after your Majesty ascended the throne, you can gain more benefits and give you more opportunities? To be honest, this is why I chose to support you before."

"So you don't want to support me now?"

"Well, that's it. As soon as this major case occurs, I think it's not bad to wait for a few years." The Chief of Staff replied: "I think there are many people in our military who have the idea of ​​yours before? But now, I guess there are also many people who have the idea of ​​waiting for me. After all, we soldiers are also human beings and will not like to have a bad reputation, right?"

"I think the reputation in history books is meaningless, and the historians may not scold us as you think." Li Jinghuai muttered: "As for our plan, I will talk to others after I go back. If they don't support it, then wait for another two years - but I'll agree to wait for only two years!"

...

The Imperial Army is not a pla, and it is much more relaxed in style than the pla. Especially the field soldiers are treated very high and have more holidays during normal times. Therefore, once a field army barracks are built in a certain place, some people who specialize in soldier business will quickly appear nearby.

Among these people are small vendors who specialize in purchasing small trophys from soldiers and selling wine and meat to soldiers, as well as Ji Nu who provides services to soldiers.

It's all good business. After intense battles and training, soldiers are always willing to spend some money to relax, and officers will not be too strict with the soldiers who have holidays.

Among the vendors doing business near this military camp, the most common one is one or two managers, who bring 7 or 8 foreign girls (because they are cheap and will not cause trouble. If a Han girl is sued as a slave, she will die), she temporarily set up a few tents or rents a few houses near the military camp and starts to pick up customers.

This is the case with this small mobile Jiyuan near the Dali garrison: three businessmen were also working part-time to watch over the girl's thugs, and with three Fusang and four local Dali girls, rented a yard only half a mile away from the garrison, and opened the door to welcome guests.

However, the Jiyuan is a little different from other families, that is, it seems that it is often full, so it is suspended from picking up customers.

This is the case today.

On the second floor of this Xiaojiyuan, a man with a gloomy face quietly looked at the military camp through the window. In the night, there were still troops training in the field army camp.

According to the Chinese military system, it was probably a company of troops? They were wearing torches, guns, and fully armed, shouting slogans, lined up to leave the camp and began to run around the Dali city wall.

The man looked through the air for a while before closing the window and said to the others in the room: "I have to admit that the Chinese thieves are indeed elite. I have never seen them not practice for a day these days."

"No need to say this, this is something I've known for a long time." A clean young man said, "Sit, Master Zhao Tian, ​​we can't beat them in the battle formation."

"Yes, little prince." The young man called Zhao Tianshi bowed and sat down honestly in front of him.

"We can't win in the battle, but we can use other ways to avenge our Dali!" The young man continued: "I have already received the news that the Chinese army near Dali is returning to the north. It won't take long for the local Chinese thieves to be minimized."

"And at that time, Xu Shiyang should have arrived in Dali."

The young man smiled a little proudly:

"Originally he should have come early. At that time, there were tens of thousands of thieves in Dali City. No matter how high our kung fu is, we can't do anything about it. But now it's different. Xu Shiyang was stuck by the Shaosen Temple incident and wasted several months. When he came, there were not so many garrisons in the city. Small-scale battles were the place where our kung fu was used!"
Chapter completed!