Don't want money? Too little?

Shen Tingyang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took a few gold leaves from his housekeeper, and wanted to give them to Ren Yizhou again.

Ren Yizhou hurriedly waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Don't misunderstand, the lower officials are not too little, but they can't take ......"

What the? Can't take it?

Shen Tingyang was taken aback. It's not that he hasn't met a Qing official, and Su Guansheng, who came from Dengzhou with him, is a Qing official. But Su Guansheng is a civil official, and the one in front of him is Jinyiwei...... Wearing a flying fish suit! How can you not have money for a brocade guard? How scary is that? Could it be that he has committed a crime?

"This errand ......" Shen Tingyang was a little unsure, "Shen didn't do anything, right?" ”

"No, no......" Ren Yizhou shook his head again and again, "The Chitose Lord has taken care of it, and no one is allowed to take the money of the Shachuan Gang!" Saying that, he made a head-killing gesture, "Whoever wants to take it will be killed!" So the lower officials really don't dare to take your money! ”

"Ah...... Want to kill your head? Beads of sweat came out on Shen Tingyang's forehead.

Take your own money to kill your head...... What does that mean? Is it really Cheng Qin's offense? Who did the Sand Boat Gang recruit and provoke whom? The Sand Boat Gang is loyal to the imperial court, and now that Beijing is occupied by thieves, all the serious officials are in a hurry to surrender, but the Sand Boat Gang comes to the rescue regardless of the danger, what a good honest businessman, why can't even give bribes?

This is not allowed to pay bribes, how to deal in the future? Even if I can do it, I don't feel sure!

Not to mention the power of the Shen family in the sand boat gang, even if the eldest brother of the Eighteenth Zhi, Gong Zheng Yiguan, is such a big force, there are no less than 20,000 officers and soldiers of the sailor division under his command, and there are dozens of half-Chinese and half-Western warships. Isn't it also an annual offering to the lords in Beijing and Nanjing? It's not that I'm afraid of anyone, but I make money with anger and make money together. Everyone has to make money, and business can last for a long time!

"Shen Langzhong is not worried," Ren Yizhou arched his hand and made a solemn gesture, "Please come with me...... Chitose Ye has been looking forward to you for a long time, don't let Chitose Ye wait. ”

Zhu Cihong was indeed a little anxious to wait, Tianjin Wei was still close to Beijing. Zhu Cihong didn't dare to stay here for a long time, even if he had to retreat to Dagu to feel at ease in order to wait for Wu Sangui. Therefore, he specially ordered Ren Yizhou, a thousand households guarding the dock, to bring him to meet him as soon as he saw Shen Tingyang.

And the order not to accept bribes from Shen Tingyang was also personally confessed by Zhu Cihong at that time. And not only explained the matter to Ren Yizhou, but also explained to Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Cao Youyi, the commander of the Generalissimo's Mansion, Wu Xiang, the commander of the military and political guards, and Huang Dabao, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, and Pan Shuchen, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and other dignitaries of the East Palace system, one by one - Shen Tingyang, the "fat pig", is protected by the palace, and none of you are allowed to touch it!

When Shen Tingyang followed Ren Yizhou to the Generalissimo's Mansion, Zhu Cihong was talking with the candidate officers of the Kenan Army.

The work began this morning, and four candidate division commanders and four candidate division adjutant generals have been met, and division commanders and adjutant generals of the left and right divisions of the Kanan Army have been selected.

Among them, Zuo Shishuai is a steward of the Wu family, a Liaodong man named Wang Fu, who is in his forties, burly, and has also been in Wu Xiucai.

And the deputy general of the right division is Wang Qi, another old subordinate of Zhu Cihong. Wang Qi, who was born in the East Palace, and Ding Wang, the housekeeper of the Wu family, worked together, of course, to mix sand. It's not that you can't trust anyone, but you must firmly grasp the new army that overcomes difficulties.

The commander of the right division is Li Ruolian, and the deputy general is Wang Zhou. Neither of these two people is Wu Xiang's people, but there are still many Wu people in the right division under their control.

In addition to the guards of the East Palace and the officers from the Wu family, the officer corps of the new army also included the officers from the Jingying, the Tianjin Zhenjun, the Tianjin Patrol Standard, the Tongzhou Patrol Standard, the Second Cao Jiading (Cao Huachun and Cao Youyi), the Han General, and the officers from the Jing Army.

Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfu, and Cao Youyi followed Zhu Cihong's instructions and selected eight candidates for the division level, 32 candidates for the assistant level, 128 candidates for the battalion level, and 512 candidates for the flag level, totaling 680 people. Zhu Cihong first had to select 340 people from among them to serve as the core officers of the 2nd Division, the 8th Association, the 32nd Battalion, and the 128th Banner under the New Army.

In other words, the new army has a four-four establishment below the division, with one division having jurisdiction over four associations, one association having jurisdiction over four battalions, one battalion having jurisdiction over four banners, one banner having jurisdiction over four teams, one team having jurisdiction over four troops, and one army having five soldiers, including the commander. Excluding the units and officers directly under the divisions at all levels, the full strength of the new army in the first division is 5,120, and the number of troops in the two divisions is 10,240. Together with the 340 officers and the directly subordinate units at all levels, the total number of the two divisions was about 13,400.

Of course, the number of people can be gathered. Tianjin Wei is an important military town, and it is also an important town of Caoyun, and some of them are poor children of military families and Li Ling who eat Caoyun rice. And Zhu Cihong brought out a lot of gold and silver from Beijing, and in Tianjin Wei copied the homes of four corrupt officials, Yuan Yuzong, Jin Bin, Lou Guangxian, and Yang Weihan, and got hundreds of thousands of taels. Now there is still more than 4 million taels of silver in Zhu Cihong's hands.

The soldiers are gathered, and Zhu Cihong can be paid, of course, he will be able to recruit soldiers. However, he did not open up recruitment, but only made up the establishment of one army, two divisions, and 16,000 men (the army level directly administers a cavalry association, so there is a total strength of 16,000).

That is to say, another three or four thousand people will be recruited on the Tianjin Wei side. However, the treatment cannot be compared with the soldiers who followed Zhu Cihong before the bloody battle on Weiximen Street in Tianjin. There is no settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver to take, but only a monthly salary. The monthly salary of the soldiers at the bottom is one tael and five cents of silver, eighteen taels a year, and after arriving in the south of the Yangtze River, they will be given 50 acres of fertile land...... This salary is not too low, so as soon as the recruitment notice was posted, many Ding Zhuang in the Tianjin Acropolis applied.

However, what can be gathered is the head, and the combat effectiveness should not be considered. It would be nice to be reliable and to scare internal and external enemies.

In addition to recruiting soldiers, Zhu Cihong also spent a lot of money to recruit craftsmen, because Tianjin Wei is an important military industrial town, and there are many craftsmen, including many people with outstanding craftsmanship. Zhu Cihong focused on recruiting blacksmiths, and also used the construction of spears to assess the level of craftsmen - all craftsmen who could build spurs that could be installed on the pigeon fire guns and bird guns according to the requirements (Zhu Cihong's army had 300 class dove fire guns and more than 200 bird guns that could be used) can be hired, and they can also get 10 taels of silver for settling in and 3 taels of silver for a monthly salary.

When the left and right came to report, Zhu Cihong had just finished meeting a candidate for a brigade general, and when he heard that Shen Tingyang had arrived, he immediately summoned him.

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"Minister, Guozijian Siye, manager of shipping and Liaodong pay Shen Tingyang, meet the prince Chitose."

Zhu Cihong looked at the "red-topped businessman" who knelt down in the hall, this person looked quite like that after putting on the official uniform.

"Flat, sit." Zhu Cihong spoke with a smile.

It was Huang Dabao's godson named Huang Xiaobao, who was only seventeen years old this year, his height and body shape were somewhat similar to Zhu Cihong, and his face was similar to Huang Dabao's, all of them were round dough faces.

Shen Tingyang didn't dare to sit down in a big way, so he sat on half of his buttocks, holding his knees with his hands, looking like a primary school student seeing the principal.

"Shen Tingyang, how much did you spend to buy your Guozijian business?" Zhu Cihong asked gently.

Shen Tingyang was taken aback, and immediately knelt down again. Zhu Cihong hurriedly opened his mouth to stop, "Don't kneel, continue to sit down!" Hongu just asked, but he didn't want to pursue anything. ”

"Minister, minister......" Shen Tingyang didn't know how to answer. Of course, his official son was bought...... Or can a country's prisoner become the current official position? And his national prison student was also bought with money. Otherwise, he is the chief helmsman, and he can get into Nanjing Guozijian without spending money?

Zhu Cihong picked up a copy of the decree and asked Huang Anshun to hand it to Shen Tingyang.

"Ting Yang," Zhu Cihong smiled, "Although I have a 'righteous official' system in the Ming Dynasty, the 'righteous official' is only an identity, and he cannot hold a substantive position. And you are not a 'righteous official', but entered the official career as a national eunuch, and now you can become a secretary, you must have spent a lot of money. This kind of betrayal of the official lord is not tolerated by this palace! ”

Do you really want to ask about sin?

The grievance in Shen Tingyang's heart! Although he spent money to buy officials, he did not take bribes when he was in office, at most he monopolized the Beiyang maritime trade and smuggled and evaded taxes...... However, he has completed the tasks assigned by the imperial court to the best!

Because he is particularly capable of doing things, for this reason Emperor Chongzhen also said: The officials are like Shen Tingyang, how difficult is it to govern the world!

Why is it necessary to punish the crime now?

Is there any heavenly reason?