The official office was built in a short time, and it was also started together with the school barracks area, but it was a five-bay brick house, sitting south to south, and Min Yuanqi worked here when he was not training with the flag army. In addition, Chinese officers, pacification officers, quartermasters, military training officers and other officials, as well as hundreds of directors of various bureaus, if there is official business, they also do it here.

When Liang Shifa arrived, he saw that except for Gao Cuncheng and others, who were in charge of the training, the rest of Yang Zhijin, Min Yuanjin, Min Yuanzhong, Han Sen and others were all in the official room.

Min Qiande sat in the middle, Min Yuanqi and others stood on both sides, when Liang Shifa arrived, he saw that Min Yuanqi had received the deputy Qianhu's farewell, waist cards and other things, and thanked Min Qiande with his crossed hands.

"Although things went smoothly, I have to say that the old man was quite unhappy in his heart." Min Qiande waved his hand and smiled, signaling that Min Yuanqi did not have to be polite, and the old man sighed with emotion: "When I was a teenager, my father and grandparents wanted to do the job of raiding or doing promotion, and they still got the Nanjing Chinese Military Governor's Office and the Ministry of War to do their separate office affairs, grinding and listening, making it difficult in every way, and entering the lobby of the Ministry of War, it is the military officers and I also have to say hello. At this time, when he arrived in Nanjing, as long as he made money all the way, everything was wrong, and the bad morale and official style were all the same, although the old man was only a five-grade military attaché, the military department members and other officials such as the head of the foreign army were also regarded as equal, and they were no longer the arrogant state of the civil and noble military in the past. The old man did things smoothly, and he only spent a few hundred taels to get this official for Yuan Qi, but it was not a taste in his heart. The status of my generation of martial artists is getting higher and higher, and the civil officials are looking at each other and even fearful, but the world is in an uproar, and the old man can't help but ask himself, I am a great and noble and lowly martial artist, and I use literature to control the military, which seems to be right? ”

"Some of what my uncle said is true, and some of it is not." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "There is no distinction between civil and military in the Han and Tang Dynasties, before the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to Xuanzong Tianbao, officials did not distinguish between civil and military, and they could enter the dynasty as the prime minister, and retreat to the local area as the festival. Even if you want to divide civil and military, it is not my Ming Dynasty's approach, either as unrestrained as now, and the martial arts are like a feudal town, or the civilian officials suppress and guard against the military generals everywhere, and regard the military as slaves, so the army naturally has no combat power, in short, it is the wrong way. It is not wrong for civilian officials to take charge of military and political orders, and there is nothing wrong with controlling military supplies, but it is not possible to make soldiers hungry to fight like the former Ming civil officials, and military attaches also need to have a place for their own voice, and everything cannot be controlled by others, and fighting a war should also be the duty of a military general. However, I don't think about these things in detail, so I can only talk about them in general terms. ”

Although it was a general talk, Min Qiande still heard something different, he looked at Min Yuanqi and said: "Yuanqi, you can see this step, and the usual study efforts have not been wasted. ”

"I'm just cranky." Min Yuanqi said: "My generation of martial artists, fame and wealth still have to fight on horses, although this time is promoted, my nephew actually doesn't have much joy." ”

"Indeed, and bribery and bribery, the official is generally here, and then thousands of households, the command level, the battalion general, there is no actual performance, the military department and the Chinese army governor's office will not be able to do things well."

Only then did Liang Shifa understand that Min Qiande had brought silver to Nanjing for activities before, and today he has the final result.

Min Yuanqi's trial of 100 households originally had to take a few months to get rid of the word "test", but as a result, Min Qiande not only gave this test word away, but also went further, and the talents of the military department and the Chinese military governor's office took a few hundred taels of silver, and the deputy Qianhu official asked Min Qiande to get it for Min Yuanqi.

Deputy Qianhu is also from the official position of Wupin, which can be done decades ago, but it takes a lot of twists and turns and a lot of effort. What Min Qiande sighed with emotion was that whether it was the Ministry of War or the Governor's Office of the Chinese Army, they almost didn't pay attention to this matter, and those civil officials and officials were sent away with very little silver, and they had a green light all the way, and they didn't even ask about the background at all, and even Min Yuanqi himself didn't have to go to Nanjing to report on his work, and the body and waist cards were directly issued, and the official position of the military attache of the guard was like child's play, which was indeed a little embarrassing.

"No matter what, a deputy thousand households are a deputy thousand households." Min Yuanjin's face was full of smiles, and he bowed and crossed his hands and said, "Congratulations on behalf of Lord Deputy Qianhu." ”

"Congratulations, sir."

Many of the military attachés in the room congratulated one after another, and everyone had smiles on their faces.

Min Yuanqi's career here is getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer the same as it used to be, and it can be said that the hundreds of households in the vicinity are far inferior. But if the name is not right, it is not good, in the eyes of many hundred households, Min Yuanqi is not only a junior boy, but also a test hundred households with test words, the generation and official position are not as good as these hundred households, there is quite chaos in the construction site and the salt pond, fortunately, there is a flag army town, Min Yuanqi has a murderous reputation, which can barely suppress the scene.

Now that it has cost less than a thousand silver, the official position of the deputy thousand households is in hand, except for Li Kecheng and Min Qiande in the city, who are thousands of books, and Min Yuanqi of the entire thousand households can be regarded as able to walk sideways.

Thousands of households, the level of commanding affairs is not bought with money, the forces of all parties are intertwined, involving the division of interests such as military households, guards and acres, as long as the Nanjing Military Department and the Chinese Military Governor's Office are not deaf to home, they will definitely not directly grant Min Yuanqi thousands of households or command affairs, to this level, you need to boil up qualifications, or come up with real credit.

Behind the real credit, there is no doubt that the strength in the hands is the strength in the hands.

"Everyone is good to do his own thing, and today I am the tomorrow of you." Min Yuanqi is not pretentious, the official position of deputy thousand households is indeed bought with silver, and he can't hide it from people, but silver is also a kind of strength. Ordinary 100 households can take out a hundred taels to be considered rich, Min Qiande took the silver this time is made up by the Min family, and the full support of the patriarch and the clansmen has such a result, if it were not for Min Yuanqi's personal excellence, which made the clansmen trust and support, how could this thousand households be so easy to get.

In this case, there is no need to sigh and sigh, accept it calmly, and at the same time encourage your subordinates.

Han Sen and many of the small flag officials present were a little excited, Min Yuanqi was only in his early twenties, and this time he was a deputy thousand households, and he had accumulated strength at the bottom, maybe he could really reach a thousand households, and he was a servant, a fellow acquaintance, or even a commander.

If this is the case, it is also possible for oneself and others to go to hundreds of households, vice thousands of households, and thousands of households.

"Shifa is back?" When everyone bowed down to answer, Min Yuanqi finally saw Liang Shifa waiting in front of the door, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Liang Shifa bowed and replied, "I just entered the camp, and I came directly to see the adults, just in time to congratulate the adults." ”

"It's a small thing for me." Min Yuanqi walked up to Liang Shifa and said, "You didn't even come back to see you directly, you must have something important to talk about." ”

Liang Shifa looked left and right, and saw that all the officers in the house except for Min Qiande were officers in the camp, and he immediately told them all the way, and after saying half of it, Min Yuanqi and the others all looked quite solemn.

"It's probably Yang Shili." Min Gande was shocked and angry again, slapped the table and said: "This person is insidious and ruthless, and he has not moved on the surface, just to give us a fatal blow in the dark." ”

Min Yuanqi said quite calmly: "Those bandits are all considered to have a name?" ”

"Most of them learned from the Liukou, what a swarm of bees, horses returned, set up golden beams, swept the king or something, they are all similar to the ones with a name in the Liukou, more than three or four hundred, less than a hundred, but together there should be more than a thousand." Liang Shifa's lips were chapped, and he rushed all the way over to be dusty, of course he couldn't go to wash and drink water and then come back to pay respects, at this time he endured his thirst, and continued: "These bandits are distributed in Yancheng County within three or four hundred miles of the surrounding area, and some of them are almost to the border of the Yangtze River. The villages gave some money and grain, and the rich families would not tear up the tickets after paying the money, so although there were more than a dozen shares of large and small and thousands of people gathered, Nanjing never took the local bandits seriously, and did not send officers and soldiers to kill them. ”

Min Qiande said: "In fact, the most important thing is why these bandits don't kill and loot excessively, because they are the dogs of the big salt merchants on the local area, control the stove households, and protect the sale of private salt, so a big salt lord like Yang Shili instructed them to move." If you want me to say, these bandits are not afraid, and more than a thousand people are no more than a rabble, but most of them gather on the beach to collude with the pirates. There are not many pirates in our area, there are many pirates in the area of Dengzhou in the north, and there are many pirates in the area of Guangzhou in Fujian Province in the south, and we are only one of the most famous here, and we often loot on the seashores in Haizhou and Yancheng......"

"Qin Mountain Thieves?"

Everyone almost spoke in unison, and the answer was immediately thought of.

"It's the Qin Mountain Bandit." Min Qiande said: "They gathered on Qinshan Island to form thieves, the island is not big, more than two miles from east to west, half a mile from north to south, but it is enough to live a few hundred people." These pirates are the real ruthless people, fortunately, they have been mainly active on the sea surface of Shandong, and there are few people from our side, otherwise there would have been a battalion stationed here at Yunti Pass to guard against pirates. ”

Min Yuanqi frowned first, this Qin Mountain thief also knew that the main area of activity was in the Weihai Sea of Shandong, and most of the robbers were from Shandong. There are too few places to go ashore in Haizhou, there are tidal flats and swamp wetlands everywhere in the Yancheng area, Yancheng covers an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers in later generations, has the longest coastline in Jiangsu Province, but there is hardly a decent port, and the whole northern Jiangsu has a good port in Yungang, and the area is not too large. Yancheng is most famous for its swampy wetlands, and it is also the place with the most wetlands in China in later generations, and it is normal for pirates not to loot in this area.

As for the Huai River estuary such as Yunti Pass, in the Yuan Dynasty the shipping center of the two Huai, but after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the shipping was gradually abolished, and the sea was changed, and the Yunti Pass gradually became an ordinary outlet to the sea, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, only occasionally there would be merchant ships to avoid it due to the wind and waves, or to come here for help in case of something, and the sea has long ceased to be the prosperous scene of the year.

Qin Shan bandits are pirates, and their organization and courage are much stronger than bandits, if this thief is the core, and with more than a thousand bandits, this battle is indeed a bit dangerous.

Min Qiande said: "Do you want to report it to the Wei Commander Yamen, or report to Huaiyang Dao?" ”

Min Yuanqi shook his head and said: "In this situation, unless the guest soldiers send elite soldiers, it is necessary to send some guards and banner troops, or a small number of battalions on the Huaiyang Road, which should not be used, and they will disturb the place for nothing." ”