"I've seen Uncle."

"Knock on Uncle."

Liu Zeqing's earl was actually conferred when Chongzhen was besieged, and Emperor Chongzhen already knew that Liu Zeqing did not go up from the northeast of the mountain, but chose to flee south.

This kind of betrayal is not the first time that the military generals of the Chongzhen Dynasty have done so, because Chongzhen is not only not angry, but wants to win over disobedient military leaders like Liu Zeqing.

For the obedient military leaders, Chongzhen's attitude is to use them until death, and to those who are disobedient, they are repeatedly forbearing.

Zuo Liangyu's virtue, don't say that in the Jiajing or Wanli Dynasty, the head would have landed early, even if the Apocalypse Dynasty was changed, ten Zuo Liangyu would have been arrested and questioned.

Maybe Zuo Liangyu really dared to rebel, maybe how many soldiers and horses would follow him if he rebelled?

Zuo Liangyu's soldiers are not Dongjiang soldiers, and there is a reason why Kong Youde can lead Dongjiang soldiers to rebel. The fugitives from Dongjiang are all refugees who ran out of Liaodong for a lifetime, and they have already experienced the test of life and death, and after years of hard fighting and food shortages in Dongjiang Town, they don't know how many people have died around them, and all their relatives and friends have almost died. In their eyes, only Dongjiang Town remains, and the entire Ming system has very little or no constraints on them.

After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, Chongzhen did not immediately express his attitude to avenge Mao, which was equivalent to the Son of Heaven personally cutting off the last trace of loyalty to Daming in Dongjiang Town.

Phi Dao was split into four and finally conquered by Houjin, which is the reason why Dongjiang Town has lost its ambition and loyalty.

As a guest soldier, he has lived in the Denglai area for a long time, and has been suppressed by local officials to prevent trouble, and has been squeezed by the gentry platoon, and even the local people are extremely unfriendly to the Liaomin guest army.

Before the Wuqiao Mutiny, the Dongjiang soldiers were already full of resentment, not only to the Ming Dynasty and the Son of Heaven, but also to the people in Shandong.

This is also the reason why after the mutiny, the Dongjiang soldiers killed a lot in the Denglai area, and they were already full of resentment.

Zuo Liangyu's soldiers are not Dongjiang soldiers, and they have no resentment against the imperial court, and they want to rebel with their soldiers and horses at the risk of being exterminated, but they are afraid that they will not have so much prestige.

Chongzhen is extremely indulgent to the military generals, and the civil officials are said to kill and kill, under the connivance of the two contrasts, the military generals are becoming more and more domineering and difficult to control, and even Yang Sichang is a cabinet elder who is a supervisor who cannot obey the generals, if Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong and others can listen to orders in everything, not selfishly but focusing on national affairs, I am afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will be completely exterminated, Li Zicheng has no one to echo, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve a big thing.

However, after Sun Chuanting came out of the mountain, he immediately tried to trap and kill He Renlong, a fierce general who was also disobedient, which can be regarded as a relief for many people who were mutilated by him.

Liu Zeqing's harm to the people is even greater than that of He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu, and the discipline of officers and soldiers is bad, and these people are considered to be the best among them.

After being knighted, the position of chief soldier is not enough, because now everyone is commensurate with Liu Zeqing's title.

This is also commensurate with Liu Zeqing's current status, with more than ten battalions of elite soldiers under his command, belonging to a group of cronies and generals, and there are as many as one battalion of pro-soldiers directly under him, which was unthinkable before.

The rest of the soldiers and horses have also expanded to 70,000 or 80,000 people, and the Huai'an Mansion at this time covers an area of more than 30,000 square kilometers, with a population of five or six million.

Liu Zeqing is determined to expand the army to more than 100,000, and the total number of soldiers under his command will exceed 30 people, thinking that he was just a town in Shandong a year ago, and in just one year, he seems to be a strong feudal clan in the world, even if he is the Son of Heaven, he is also supported by himself, and he can be regarded as a protégé.

"Uncle, this is the grass of the mansion."

The speaker was a Qingke staff, a well-known garden expert in Wuxi, Suzhou, Jiangnan, and Qian Qianyi and other famous officials in the Jiangnan area of the garden villas were built with their design sketches.

It was at this time that Suzhou gardens came to prominence and gradually formed a unique style.

Outside the city of Beijing, including the villas built by the Marquis of Wuqing, many of them adopt the garden design of the south, and blend with the characteristics of the north, forming a majestic and small and delicate mixed style, the dignitaries and nobles at that time, when there is nothing to do, they invite friends to call friends, and relatives and friends go to the garden outside the city to live and enjoy themselves, or play, or hunt, or go out, this fashion is still popular in the Jiajing to Wanli years.

Liu Zeqing has been to Jingshi many times, and he still remembers the situation when he first went back to the Marquis of Wuqing's mansion, and he still remembers this garden vividly and is envious. At that time, I hated that I was just a poor general, and the construction of the garden cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and Liu Zeqing would not be able to build it even if he disbanded all the troops under his command.

He didn't know that the garden of the Marquis of Wuqing was given to Prince Yong a few decades later, and the name Yuanmingyuan was originally an outstanding work in the garden architecture of the Ming Dynasty, and later became a treasure of Chinese garden architecture.

Liu Zeqing only remembered his envy and jealousy back then, and he was also unwilling and unconvinced.

This kind of emotion has been haunting him for many years, and after confirming that he will gain a foothold in Huai'an Mansion, Liu Zeqing decided to immediately build a big mansion and build a big garden!

No one could stop him from making this decision!

"Very good, don't be harsh here, what are you going to do with these rocks? Add it to me, at least ten times! ”

After entering the hall, Liu Zeqing changed into a civilian robe, ignored the others in advance, and sat at the bottom of more than 100 generals, all of whom were generals and above, waiting for Liu Zeqing to speak, but at this time, Liu Zeqing ignored it, only looked at the sketch of the mansion first.

The big house he built was to be built in the area of Yaqian Street in Huai'an Mansion, and for this reason more than 100 households had to be moved, covering an area of more than 100 acres.

Liu Zeqing already has a morbid pursuit of this mansion, looking at the drawings, and keeps putting forward opinions.

The staff member Qingke was sweating profusely, and Liu Zeqing wanted to add mountains and rocks and build more pavilions and pavilions, so he had to expand the building and cover a wider area, otherwise it would be crowded into a pile, but it would be too piled up.

This kind of thing does not mean that there are many rocks and buildings to look good and magnificent, but too much piling up makes it look small.

Although the Suzao gardens are exquisite, many of them are also ingenious, mainly because the city of Suzhou is every inch of land and every inch of gold, and the snail lion shell is a dojo, so there is a trade-off.

Liu Zeqing's mansion originally occupied a lot of land, and if it was piled up like this, the cost of construction would increase more than ten times.

Originally, it required 350,000 silver and a few thousand laborers, but now I am afraid that it will take more than 10,000 people and more than 100,000 silver to make it.

It's just that this kind of opinion, this staff member didn't dare to express it even if he was killed, not only did he not dare to oppose it, but he wanted to agree with Liu Zeqing's opinion, and even praised it all the time.

This is also a helpless move, Liu Zeqing's jealousy of yin and poison, as long as this staff member dares to say something against his mind, even if it is used at this time, he may endure it for a while, and when the mansion garden is almost built, Liu Zeqing will definitely order his soldiers to secretly and execute this staff member, and it will never be possible to spare his life.

"Whale!" Liu Zeqing paused in the hall, and a handsome young general with a long sword in his hand approached.

"What do you have to say?" Li Huajing is a descendant of Liu Zeqing's fellow countryman, raised by his side since he was a child, and said that he is a general of the Chinese army, but in fact he is Liu Zeqing's adopted son, and he is a cronie among his cronies.

"The matter of building a mansion must be accelerated as soon as possible." Liu Zeqing said to Li Huajing: "The important thing is to pull the master first, you go to Shuyang, Suqian, and Shanyang to recruit the master, at least 1,000 people from each county, get a few thousand strong men to come over first, move the people out of the designated places first, and then demolish the houses and make way for the land, don't miss my business!" ”

Li Huajing bowed down with his sword, and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, Huajing will do this now, and it will never be wrong." ”

"You and Zhigan do it together, and I don't have to worry about you two juniors doing such a thing."

"Yes."

Li Huajing bowed down and stepped aside.

At this time, Liu Zeqing beckoned and called the generals up.

It is nothing more than telling everyone to guard the camp and train the soldiers with peace of mind. Although Liu Zeqing is not interested in camp affairs, he also knows that the army is the foundation of his life.

However, he gave priority to the equipment of his descendants, and the salary was also the first to be paid to the descendants, and the external ones were sent to the counties to be stationed, and the food and salary were all for everyone to find their own way to get food.

In Liu Zeqing's opinion, as long as the descendants are well raised, the external line does not matter.

At the time of the order, there was no intention of distributing food and salary to the battalions, and none of these generals dared to complain in front of him Liu Zeqing.

This is exactly what happened.

Among the generals in front of them, there are those who can't bear it, and there are those who swallow their anger, whether they are dissatisfied or completely indifferent in their hearts, at least on their faces, they are completely obedient.

Only the general Zheng Longfang, who has followed Liu Zeqing for a long time, is the deputy general of his main barracks, holding heavy troops, and sometimes dares to say a word or two, and then he clenched his fists and said: "Uncle, since the court has established a new monarch, we must always be cautious and serious, if we are still collecting food in the local area, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among the officials and gentry." ”

Zheng Longfang will not mention any public grievances, and no matter how much the people complain, they will not be able to reach the court, and they will not be taken seriously by those officials in the court.

However, the local gentry are generally dissatisfied, which will indeed have an impact on Liu Zeqing's own image.

"Long Fang, you are also an old yellow calendar." Liu Zeqing smiled contemptuously and said: "In the past, I was afraid of the official gentry talking, and I also wanted to tie up the Donglin Party's gang, who called the pen and mouth controlled by others?" Now I have understood, now this will be similar to the time of the Tang Dynasty, strong soldiers and horses are fundamental, and other things can be left alone! The group of people in the Donglin Party, I can see it clearly now, that is, a group of pedantic scholars, such a good situation can make others seize the opportunity, what is the use of someone who has a pen and a knife and a gun? As far as Shi Kefa's nerdy scholar is concerned, Lao Tzu respects him on face, if he ignores him, he can come to Huai'an to bite Lao Tzu's bird? That bird Liu Zongzhou, known as Mr. What, what a great Confucian in the sea, actually dared to impeach Lao Tzu a few, I had already written before returning to Huai'an, first asked the court to pardon Mr. Zhou's clansmen, Zhou Yanru as the first assistant, it was in his hands that Lao Tzu became the chief soldier, Lao Tzu is a favor will be repaid! He also asked the court to exempt Liu Zongzhou's officials, the old boy was not exempted from the official, Lao Tzu would not do it, Huai'an asked others to guard, Lao Tzu crossed the river and went south, see if the court dares to agree? There are also wanted Hou family father and son, Hou Sui and Hou Chaozong are not protected by Zuo Liangyu, I want to want them, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, are all on Lao Tzu's side, a Zuo Liangyu is a ball, didn't the court pinch his nose and agree? Haha, thinking about these things, Lao Tzu's heart is very happy! ”