After returning to Datong Town, Liu Juntao did not immediately rectify the soldiers and horses in Datong Town, but asked Xue Tong, the chief military officer of Datong Town, to continue to maintain the situation step by step, preparing to deal with some other affairs first.

At this time, although Liu Juntao had a comprehensive understanding of the soldiers and horses in Datong Town, he did not know the situation of the Ming army in most of the rest of Shanxi.

In June of the second year of Tianshun, Datong Town.

During this period of time, Liu Juntao sent thousands of officers and men of the Tiance Army, divided into dozens of teams, to investigate various cities, passes, and fortresses in Shanxi, and verified the actual situation of the garrisons in various parts of Shanxi.

Prior to this, the generals stationed in various parts of Shanxi had already handed over all the books of their soldiers, horses, money, food, and ordnance, and Liu Juntao also ordered people to copy dozens of copies for the officers and men of the Tiance Army who were checked by each team to carry them for verification.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also deliberately ordered that the generals of all parts of Shanxi should not prevent the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army from verifying the situation of the soldiers and horses, no matter who it is, as long as they block or hinder the soldiers of the Tiance Army from verifying the situation of the soldiers and horses in various places, the officers and men of the Tiance Army have the right to kill them on the spot!

For a time, the generals stationed in various parts of Shanxi were solemn.

As the soldiers of the Tiance Army continued to send back messages, Liu Juntao's mood became worse and worse, and in the end, he even began to scold!

Shanxi has always been the right-hand man of Gyeonggi, and whether Shanxi's soldiers and horses are worthy of war is directly related to the safety of Gyeonggi!

After this inspection, Liu Juntao looked at the verification reports one by one, and his heart had sunk to the bottom of the river.

On the whole, the soldiers and horses of Shanxi Province are the strongest in Datong Town!

You must know that in the eyes of Liu Juntao, the soldiers and horses of Datong Town can also be described as a "rabble", although the soldiers and horses of Datong Town have also fought head-on with the Warat army, but this does not mean anything, and it still can't change the reality that the soldiers and horses of Datong Town are unbearable.

However, after some verification, the soldiers and horses in Shanxi are far inferior to the soldiers and horses in Datong Town, which makes Liu Juntao unable to see the future of the Ming Army in Shanxi. Is there still a need for such a soldier to be reorganized?

For a while, Liu Juntao even had the urge to disband all the soldiers and horses in Shanxi on the spot, and then re-recruit and build the army!

But think about it carefully, let's not talk about whether the imperial court and the military department will allow Liu Juntao to do this, this kind of practice is no different from Liu Juntao's private army, let's just say that the money and food required to do this are also astronomical, and it is impossible for the imperial court to support it, and it is also overwhelming to rely on the Ministry of Commerce and Shandong Town alone!

Liu Juntao had to give up this idea, but looking back, Liu Juntao looked at the information gathered in his hand again, and his heart was churning:

The generals of the garrisons in Shanxi are generally paid empty salaries, and the soldiers and horses in various places are generally short of 30 percent, and a small number of generals even eat empty salaries of 40 percent or even 50 percent! Only a very small number of generals were paid relatively little, around one or two percent.

Even so, the generals in various places still deducted military salaries from the existing soldiers, and even deducted silver from the rations of the soldiers, which caused a lot of incidents over the years.

In addition to these two ways to make money, generals from all over Shanxi also made a fuss about the construction of the ordnance of the army, and the ordnance of many local garrisons was "vulnerable", and these silver must have been swallowed by generals at all levels.

The second is that the garrisons in Shanxi are in ruins, and the fortresses, passes, and outposts in various places are dilapidated, and even the fortresses and passes in some places are on the verge of being deserted, which makes Liu Juntao furious.

This is in the hands of Liu Juntao, as well as the information sent by the Ministry of Intelligence, which is the situation of the Ministry of Intelligence's secret investigation of generals from all over Shanxi.

According to the secret investigation of the Ministry of Intelligence, there are even some generals in Shanxi who secretly sell ironware, grain, tea and medicine to Wara, which are all materials that the imperial court prohibits from being sold out of the country!

Now that the Varat had fallen, these generals had made contact with the Tatars one after another, and began to act as sellers of the Tatars.

Seeing this, Liu Juntao couldn't help but think of the eight Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was these eight Jin merchants who continued to transport ironware, medicine and other materials to the Mongols and Qing troops outside the Guan, and even directly sold various military equipment of the Ming army.

These Jin merchants have no concept of family and country at all, no honor and disgrace, and no distinction between Huayi!

In the eyes of these profiteers, there is only white silver, only their own glory and wealth!

Now, those generals in Shanxi who have dealings with the Tartars are traitors like Jin merchants!

For such people, Liu Juntao only left them one way, that is, to kill without mercy!

So, Liu Juntao temporarily suppressed the roar in his heart, and on the one hand, with the assistance of the Military Department and the Praise and Painting Department, he began to prepare for a comprehensive rectification of the garrisons in Shanxi, and at the same time asked the Intelligence Department to collect all the evidence of the crimes of those captured generals as soon as possible, so that the Inspection Department could be ready to hoe and take people!

At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have also started a comprehensive operation in various parts of Shanxi, and the Ministry of Commerce has spread out the situation in various parts of Shanxi, and has now set up dozens of shops, and opened more than a dozen pastures and pastures in the north of Datong Town, and it is estimated that most of the industries will be profitable next year.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs also accumulated a large amount of farmland through purchase and reclamation, recruited displaced people and poor peasants from all over Shanxi, and all of them were placed under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, becoming the reserve force under the shogunate.

At this time, the affairs of the shogunate's ministries were coordinated through the central ministry, and the reports received by Liu Juntao from the ministries were also reported by the central ministry on behalf of the central ministry.

When Liu Juntao was about to make a move against the generals in Shanxi, Lan Siqi, the head of the Central Department, came to deliver the documents, and Liu Juntao happened to ask Lan Siqi for his opinion.

Lan Siqi thought for a moment and said, "Governor Xian, I think it's better to be cautious in this matter." ”

"Oh? Why? ”

"Now that the governor has first come to Shanxi, the foundation is still unstable, so everything must be stable. Those generals who are captured are hateful, and they are all people who deserve death, but they should also be clearly proven and tried publicly, otherwise the Jianfeng Division of the Inspection Department will put everyone in Shanxi in danger! ”

Liu Juntao pondered for a while and nodded.

Although Liu Juntao hated these scum who had brought disaster to the country and the people in his heart, and he wanted to kill all these people, he also recognized what Lan Siqi said, which was still very reasonable, and he couldn't mess up because of these traitors and let his next plans be blocked.

So, Liu Juntao said: "In this way, give an order to the Ministry of Inspection, let Minister Huang Wu stare all those captives to death, as long as the dust settles on the side of the Ministry of Intelligence, immediately take people and arrest all of them back to Datong Town, and this town will try these scum and kill people!" ”

"Order!"

The next day, the fast horses of the inspection department went out of the city separately from the gates of Datong Town and galloped towards various parts of Shanxi.