October 20, 13th year of Liyang

It has been nearly three days since Yan Kui led the Qinghukou garrison back to the city, except for Yan Kui's flower Wenzheng and a group of gentry in the city who had a celebration banquet when he just returned.

The rest of the time, Yan Kui hid in Yan's house on Luogu Street every inch, closed the door, refused to see guests, and even the military affairs in the army were taken care of by remote control under the command of a few henchmen?

There is no way, Yan Kui's foundation is too thin, and now that he has made great achievements, there are countless people in the city who are angry with him, so now Yan Kui can only act low-key in order to avoid the limelight.

When the court in the coming day will reward meritorious deeds and everything will settle, and his power has been established, there will be no need to worry about so much.

Luogu Street, Yan Mansion East Cross Courtyard

This is the courtyard that Yan Kui bought next to the Yan Mansion before returning to the city, and it has not been repaired yet, but the walls of the two houses have just been opened, and the construction of the courtyard of the room has not yet started.

However, Yan Kui obviously didn't value this temperament, so he asked the family to clean up briefly, and then moved in with the bedding.

In fact, Yan Kui does not have no bedroom in Yan Mansion, but his original residence is too close to his family, and he usually has nothing to do, but now he is working at home, and some words are not easy for his family to hear, so he needs a relatively quiet and hidden space, so Yan Kui will move to the East Cross Courtyard.

Moved here with Yan Kui, there were also twenty personal guards, all of whom had a strong physique and a strict temperament, and they looked like well-trained elite soldiers.

Well, that's right, Yan Kui's personal guards are the first batch of system soldiers he just recruited, a total of fifty people, Yan Kui himself divided thirty personal guards, and the remaining twenty were distributed to Xu Yu, Gong Fa, Chen Xingxiao and others.

After all, now as Yan Kui's stall is getting bigger and bigger, these henchmen of his are also rising, and as soon as people gain power, this will naturally become more thoughtful, and Yan Kui has to take precautions as soon as possible............

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At this time, Yan Kui was checking the list of bereavement pensions for his soldiers in the study, and a yellow turban elite guard suddenly came in outside the door.

"My lord, Mr. Xu is here."

Yan Kui raised his head: "Please come in." ”

After a while, Xu Yu was dressed in white, and walked into the door quickly with a slightly happy face: "My lord, the General Military Mansion has sent a secret letter." ”

After speaking, Xu Yu took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Yan Kui, who took it and found that the fire clay in the envelope had been opened.

However, Yan Kui didn't care, during this period of his closure, most of the affairs in the army were taken care of by Xu Yu, in order to ensure that no important military information was missed, Yan Kui specially approved Xu Yu to read the letter during this time, in case of urgent affairs, when it was too late to report to himself, he could first make countermeasures and then report in detail.

Fucheng Secret Letter is also within the scope of Yan Kui's authority to approve Xu Yu to read first and then report.

Took out the letter paper from the envelope, opened the folded letter and took a closer look, in fact, from the joy on Xu Yu's face, Yan Kui already knew that this secret letter should be a good thing for him, but he didn't expect that the surprise would be so big.

"Suppress bandits from Liupin and three counties......... Gather the people of the three counties and form a militia group to suppress bandits...... In case of military emergency, the three county governments can be asked to cooperate.........

Is this the kind of me who wants to be the pioneer of the bandits, or the kind that builds a team to form the troops by myself, and the Fucheng side also sends food to the troops, this General Hong, the hand is too big. ”

Yan Kui repeatedly browsed the secret letter in his hand, and then leaned back on the back of the chair and let out a sigh of emotion.

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Hong Guangbing was guilty of taking part of the credit from Yan Kui in front of the imperial court, and he compensated Yan Kui very generously.

In order to protect Yan Kui, not to mention the military attache of the sixth grade, he also gave him an official position similar to the vanguard of the bandit army, and more importantly, he approved Yan Kui to recruit people on his own, which gave Yan Kui the authority to form his own lineage.

You must know that although Yan Kui formed a militia last time, it was only a local armed force under the Yaxia of Qingyuan County, and it was not officially recognized until the militia made meritorious contributions that it was accepted by the General Military Office and became a regular army.

And this time, the three-county bandit suppression militia formed by Hong Guangbing and Yan Kui was subordinate to the bandit army from the beginning, and it was the regular army of the Zheng'er Bajing General Military Office.

Once Yan Kui is formed, although his combat effectiveness may not be as good as the soldiers directly sent to him by the General Military Mansion, this is the descendant line he pulled up single-handedly, and in the future, Yan Kui will have this descendant army under his command, and ordinary generals of five or six grades are not as good as him to speak.

This is military power, a military general without military power, he is a dwarf wherever he goes, and what Hong Guangbing gave Yan Kui is the confidence to let him walk with his waist straight.

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"It's a pity that only 1,500 new army quotas were given, and if 3,000 were given, the adults would really go sideways with Anke here." Xu Yu said with a smile.

"What do you think?"

Yan Kui smiled: "The total number of soldiers in the general army is less than 10,000, and the miscellaneous patrolmen, yachas, and garrisons in the counties below add up to 20,000 people."

The general army himself commanded 20,000 people, how could I command 3,000 soldiers and horses, okay, it would be good to give us 1,000 and 5 descendants, and it would not be in vain for the general soldier to go around the court with my credit. ”

Hong Guangbing was dissatisfied with himself in order to hear any rumors and rumors from Yan Kui in the future, so he wrote the matter in advance with Yan Kui in the letter.

Of course, Hong Guangbing didn't write anything about King Duan and the British duke, but he just said that he was impeached by the officials, and he needed to take credit to stabilize his position as the chief general of the bandits, and then there were all kinds of compensation for Yan Kui.

Yan Kui has nothing to do with this, to put it bluntly, even if he pushes all the credit on him, he is a small eight-grade thousand-household. The princes of the court would not take him to heart, and they would just give him some rewards and official positions.

That is, the benefits that can be obtained are not as good as those given by Hong Guangbing and Yan Kui's thoughts, since this is the case, why not Yan Kui.

After all, in the future, he will have to mix under Hong Guangbing, and if he has a favor from his boss, people will definitely take care of him.

Of course, Yan Kui can't say nothing, otherwise Hong Guangbing will treat him as a heartless fool again, and it will not be possible to take the robbery as the norm in the future.

Therefore, Yan Kui thought about it for a long time, combined with Xu Yu's opinions, personally wrote a reply letter to the chief soldier

The content of the letter is roughly that thanks to the great love of the chief soldier, the subordinate is grateful, the matter of stealing the merit is pure nonsense, and the fact that he can make a contribution is also because the chief soldier has a good command and so on.

After a bunch of praise, Yan Kui made some small requests, roughly asking for credit for Xu Yu and Chen Xingxiao's subordinates, and asking the General Military Office to send more excellent ordnance, preferably heavy iron armor.

After Yan Kui finished writing, he asked Xu Yu to polish it, making the words in Yan Kui's letter more sincere, and in addition, Yan Kui also sent Hong Guangbing's handwritten letter back under Xu Yu's reminder.

This thing is placed in Yan Kui, which is equivalent to a piece of evidence of Hong Guangbing's grabbing merit, once Yan Kui stays, Hong Guangbing is easy to be disgusted with him.

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Sure enough, with his handwritten letter and Yan Kui's reply letter delivered together, Hong Guangbing was deeply pleased.

He has been an official for many years, so naturally he will not give up his handle to others, this handwritten letter was specially tested by him to Yan Kui, after all, he allowed Yan Kui to build an army on his own, which can be regarded as a strong support, but if Yan Kui is careful about him, wouldn't he raise a white-eyed wolf.

That's why he used this trick to test Yan Kui, if Yan Kui had a heart, he would definitely send his handwritten letter back the way it came, and at the same time prove that he could be promoted.

And if Yan Kui left a letter as a hostage, he could also use this to see Yan Kui's true face, as for that letter, Hong Guangbing had his own way to solve it.

Looking at the two letters in his hand, Mr. Hong's eyes showed comfort, and after a while, he threw the two letters in his hand into the carbon basin and burned them, and then ordered his subordinates to prepare horses.

He wanted to go to the government to find He Ji and approve Yan Kui's right to recruit troops and build an army on his own...............