Yang Sichang felt uncomfortable and rejected by Liu Yuliang's active participation in military and political decision-making.

After all, he, Yang Sichang, is the minister in charge of the military department.

But Yang Sichang did not object, first, His Majesty had approved it, and second, he didn't think there was anything wrong with Liu Yuliang's proposal.

However, Yang Sichang glanced at Lu Yuan meaningfully.

Yang Sichang didn't understand why Liu Yuliang, the first assistant of the cabinet, became very different from before after Lu Yuan appeared.

Chongzhen actually discovered this, so he also glanced at Lu Yuan after approving Liu Yuliang's proposal.

But Lu Yuan never said a word again.

Therefore, Chongzhen didn't see anything from Lu Yuan.

Even Lu Yuan had a letter of impeachment of Liu Yuliang before this, and Chongzhen also saw it, in his opinion, this is also normal, and there is already a lot of discord between civil and military officials.

At all costs.

Chongzhen is still at ease with Lu Yuan now.

Lu Yuan was very satisfied with this result, and thought that the money he spent on Liu Yuliang was not in vain.

According to the system, a battalion of Daming Town has about 3,000 regular soldiers, and now he can form a battalion, which means that he can at least expand his troops to more than 3,000 people.

What Lu Yuan needs now is a justifiable expansion of troops.

Otherwise, if he blindly expands his army, once he is discovered by the imperial court, it will only arouse the vigilance of the imperial court.

Lu Yuan was not sure if the imperial court would take countermeasures against him when he realized that he had recruited too many troops, which would definitely be detrimental to his own obscene development.

After the face was over, Lu Yuan went to the military department to talk about his work.

As soon as Lu Yuan and the others left the Forbidden City, Chongzhen still left Yang Sichang and asked, "Yang Qing, what do you think of Lu Yuan?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Lu Yuan should be a loyal minister."

Yang Sichang replied.

"How can you see it", Chongzhen waved his dragon sleeves and asked.

"If you weren't a loyal minister, you wouldn't have fought with Jiannu like this, and the other generals have always known their own strength, so they don't dare to fight to the death with the enemy, but Lu Yuan is different, maybe he will be the second Lu Duchen."

Yang Sichang replied.

Chongzhen nodded and said, "How do you think Lu Xiangsheng's bereavement should be handled?" ”

Yang Sichang knew what Chongzhen meant, so he said: "The minister thinks that the death of Lu Duchen should be kept secret, so as not to shake the heart of the army, although Jiannu has been out of the customs, but will knock at any time, once they know that Lu Gong is dead, they will inevitably think that my Ming Dynasty has no generals to fight and come to attack, and even if it is difficult to negotiate peace, not to mention that once the remnants of the thieves and the recruited thieves Zhang Xianzhong and others know that the Lu Duchen who defeated them has been killed, I am afraid that these thieves will also make trouble again." ”

"What Aiqing said is very true! I'll leave this matter to you, but don't say it's me. ”

Chongzhen commanded.

"The minister understands!"

Yang Sichang arched his hand and said.

Now the Ministry of War is still in charge of Yang Sichang, so after Lu Yuan arrives at the Ministry of War, he still has to wait until Yang Sichang returns to the Ministry before he can do things such as recounting merit and receiving rewards and documents.

However, after Yang Sichang arrived at the Ministry of War, he called Lu Yuan to his main hall, and at the same time only ordered other officials of the Ministry of War to handle Lu Yuan's affairs.

Yang Sichang looked at Lu Yuan and laughed: "Jing Fang, you tell the official the truth, what Yuan Fu said in the court today, but it was from your instructions?" ”

"What does the elder mean, the last general doesn't understand! Yuan Fu is not the last general can be instructed. ”

Lu Yuan pretended to be puzzled and asked.

"Humph! Don't lie in front of your own officials! What kind of person is he, Liu Yuliang, how can this official not know that he has been a minister in the same court for many years? In addition to Mingzhe to protect his life and say some innocuous nonsense, how dare he make such a long speech in front of the emperor, don't think that Your Majesty will really believe you, even if Your Majesty doesn't believe you now, you will understand in the future! ”

Yang Sichang said very seriously.

Lu Yuan didn't answer, he knew that Yang Sichang and these veterans of scheming were not so easy to fool.

The more he explained at this time, the more useless it became, anyway, Yang Sichang had no other evidence besides guessing that he had instructed Liu Yuliang to let him form a battalion in Shandong.

Yang Sichang looked at Lu Yuan for a while, and finally asked directly: "Why didn't you choose this official?" Is it because he Liu Yuliang is the first assistant? ”

Lu Yuan understood what Yang Sichang meant, but he didn't understand why he chose to stand on Liu Yuliang's team instead of his Yang Sichang's team.

"The last general doesn't understand what the elder means."

Lu Yuan replied.

"You are still pretending to be stupid with this official, no matter what, this official will not force you, but this official wants to tell you that he, Liu Yuliang, will not be this official's opponent!"

Yang Sichang laughed angrily, and finally slapped the table again.

Lu Yuan was still unmoved, he really wanted to tell Yang Sichang: "According to historical development, you won't live next year, how dare you let me bet on you." ”

But Lu Yuan didn't say it, because no one believed what he said now, after all, he couldn't directly prove that Zhang Xianzhong would rebel next year.

"Ge Lao, the inspection of the military department has been completed, and the guerrilla Lu Yuan Department has won a total of 3,126 Jiannu heads, Shang Kexi's department has won 243 Jiannu heads, and Liu Tingshu's department in Jingying has won 104 Jiannu heads!"

At this time, Chen Xinjia, the right attendant of the military department, came in to report the matter.

Yang Sichang glanced at Lu Yuan: "You are really a fierce general!" One has won more than others combined, but your Yuanfu said that you are a fierce general, and from the perspective of this official, this is not just a fierce general. ”

"Pavilion Elder Praise!"

Lu Yuan replied.

"At present, the last general has to re-establish the Pingshan battalion, and there is a lot of money and food for soldiers and horses, and I ask the old army department to allocate it as soon as possible, this is the list of soldiers and horses and food needed by the last general."

Lu Yuan handed over a booklet as he spoke.

Yang Sichang took it and slapped it on the table on the spot: "It's too much!" You Lu Yuan is a lion with a big mouth! How can the imperial court have so much money and food for you! ”

Lu Yuan frowned: "There is always eighty percent!" ”

"I can only give you half! This is still the special care of you for the sake of the official who dares to kill Jiannu! Otherwise, there will only be 30% in your hands! ”

Yang Sichang slapped the table and said.

"And what about the next half?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"Let the governor of Shandong make it up for you!"

Yang Sichang replied.

"Yes!"

Lu Yuan responded, he also knew that arrears of food and salary were also a common thing in Daming, and it was better to get half of it than nothing.

Then.

Lu Yuan was invited by Liu Yuliang again, Liu Yuliang said to Lu Yuan: "Shandong Governor Yan Jizu is my protégé, I have written a letter to him for you, you visit him first after you go to Shandong, and he will find a way to make up for the other half of the money and food for you." ”。

"That's how I thank Motosuke."

Lu Yuan thanked him and left Liu Yuliang.