Although the fourth elder brother Yinzhen was blocked, he couldn't express his chest after all, and he was very unhappy in his heart, and as soon as he returned to Prince Yong's mansion, he summoned the think tank Wu Sidao.

Wu Sidao can be called a generation of strange people, originally a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, who loved to read all his life, but the luck of Kedao was slightly poor, and he failed repeatedly, because his family was poor, he had to make a living from the curtain, and later because of his talent for Yinzhen to know, he entered the house as a staff member, and repeatedly had strange schemes.

Wu Sidao was wearing a cyan robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, and a handful of woolen whiskers on his chin, looking a bit of a celebrity style, as soon as he entered the study, he saw Yinzhen's face was not good, and he guessed a few points in his heart.

"Fourth Master, are you worried about this Huguang?" Wu Sidao said softly.

Yin Zhen sighed and said: "The Huguang army is in turmoil, the capital is now occupied by the rebels, and the slightest carelessness will cause a shocking case, and Man Pi is the culprit!" But now Huang Ama didn't care, not only did he not send him to prison for punishment, but repeatedly shielded him, and let Man Pi continue to sit in this position! ”

As soon as Wu Sidao heard this, he had a score in his heart, and said with a smile: "Fourth master, now is not a good time to mention this matter, after all, it will be the emperor's sixty years of imperial power, and at this time, it is better to have more than one thing." ”

"Then watch the capital of a province rot?" Yin Zhen was a little unhappy in his heart.

Wu Sidao shook his head and said, "Fourth Master, this is wrong. For you, the most important thing now is not the chaos in Huguang, but the chaos in the imperial court. Your opponent is not the rebel bandits who occupy Wuchang, but other princes, don't lose a big one! ”

This remark was heavier, but it also extinguished Yinzhen's pain and unhappiness, he understood his goal, and also understood what the overall situation is, but his natural personality made him unable to stand still.

"Fourth master, bear with it! If there is a day in the future that you will endure the beginning, then this great country will not be for you to paint? ”

"The most important thing now is to sing this good show with the emperor, and only if you sing it well can it last for a long time!"

Yin Zhen nodded while telling himself in his heart that if he had the opportunity to appear in the ceremony in the future, all this would come back.

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The Manchu court was accustomed to ups and downs, and although it attached great importance to the matter of Huguang, it involved too many things after all, so it was just picked up high and put down at the bottom. But for the Ning family, all this is a completely new situation.

In Wuchang City, the sign on the original Governor's Mansion has been removed and replaced with the Fuhan Governor's Mansion, which has also become the ruling body of the entire Wuchang City.

At the suggestion of Ning Yu, the current Fu Han Governor's Office, with Ning Zhongyuan as the Fu Han Governor, set up two major institutions, the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council, corresponding to the civil and military affairs respectively, to manage the entire Wuchang, Hanyang, Xiaogan and other areas currently controlled by the Ning family.

Ning Zhongyuan is the governor of the political affairs of the government, Ning Zhongjing is the right senator to lead the affairs of the entire political affairs hall, and the left senator is Cui Wancai, who is responsible for the planning and implementation of specific things. The subordinates of the political affairs hall are divided into household, ritual, criminal, worker, official and other departments, which are served by some core people of the Ning family and some subordinate talents.

As for the traditional military department, it was directly assigned to the Privy Council, because in Ning Yu's view, the current Governor's Office will be mainly based on military struggles in the future, so it cannot take checks and balances, and must make every effort to ensure the construction and use of the army.

The Privy Council is to achieve unified management of the entire military power, with Ning Zhongyuan as the privy envoy and Ning Yu as the deputy privy envoy, and under the Privy Council, a staff office, a logistics office, an equipment department and a training office, due to the current shortage of talents, so Ning Yu personally led the chief of staff and the chief of the training department, with Ning Zhongxin as the director of the logistics department and Lei Huozi as the director of the equipment department.

After winning the battle of Wuchang City, the prestige of the Ning family has been greatly improved, coupled with the addition of the Cheng family and the Zheng family, the number of the army has also begun to expand dramatically, with the hidden strength of the three families and the accumulated network strength, the entire Fuhan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has more than 10,000 soldiers.

Although there are more than 10,000 people, there are only about 2,000 veterans, and the number of new recruits is more than seven or eight thousand.

"The new Fu Han Army was fully numbered fifteen thousand men, and its subordinates were divided into three main divisions, which could be used as a separate part for a future campaign, or it could be assembled for a campaign. In the future, the army will be further expanded, and all personnel, equipment and training will be ready by the end of the year. ”

Ning Yu stood in the political affairs hall, facing Ning Zhongyuan and Ning Zhongjing and others and talked eloquently, as a representative of the Privy Council today, he came to ask the political affairs hall for money, people, and equipment.

Ning Zhongjing, now as the de facto leader of the Political Affairs Hall, said with a wry smile: "Privy Deputy Envoy, this army expansion is naturally the top priority today, but the plate is small, and the logistics money and food may be unsustainable." ”

This is very true, because the population currently controlled by the Fu Han Army is only a few hundred thousand people, and it cannot be fully utilized in a short time, and the current military expenditure is like a bottomless pit, devouring the families of Ning, Cheng and the Zheng family, and I am afraid that it will not be long if it burns like this.

Ning Zhongyuan also has a good idea of how much money he has, but now that he has reached the critical moment of life and death, he can't care about it much, and said in a deep voice: "According to the relevant secret report, Man Pi is secretly planning in Xiangyang, preparing to concentrate the officers and soldiers of the green battalion in the province to suppress, there are about 30,000 to 40,000 people, I am afraid that it will be at the end of the year at the latest, and now we have no choice." ”

The problem is actually on the table, the next step is to eat all the green battalion soldiers in Hubei, but Ning Yu is not worried at all.

"Whether it's 30,000 or 40,000, it's not that scary, last time our army was 1,000 against 3,000, we still beat them to the bottom and captured more than 2,000 people alive, if this time our army has 15,000 trained troops, I am confident that these 40,000 people will be eaten."

Fifteen thousand men, fifteen thousand flintlock guns, at least a hundred artillery pieces were needed. After this account was settled, everyone's brows couldn't help but wrinkle.

Cui Wancai, as the left senator, naturally has a strategy in his chest, and said in a condensed voice: "After our army occupies Wuchang, the captured money and grain can support about half a year, but the current flintlock pistol and Lei's cannon need to continue to expand production capacity in order to ensure supply, and when the time comes, you can use the green battalion soldiers who are unwilling to surrender as slaves to mine and make iron." ”

Ning Yu sighed secretly in his heart, this teacher is really not a humble gentleman.