After the military and civil systems of the mighty army were further improved, the development of the entire mighty army entered the fast lane.

In addition, due to the direct cooperation between Weiwujun and the Zheng Group in business, Weiwujun's commercial profits have increased several times.

And this also made the large number of industrial products such as soap and glassware produced by the Weiwu Army not fall rapidly in China, so that many gentry, especially the Jiangnan gentry, are still hoarding a large number of products of the Weiwu Army.

As a result, the mighty army still collected countless silver from many gentry and even the gentry in Jiangnan.

At this time, the Ming court fell into a more serious financial crisis.

Because Yang Sichang thought of resisting the construction of slaves and the thieves who rose again, he had to go up to Shu Suggestion to levy training salaries to train the village soldiers.

In order to solve the financial crisis of the Ming court, the civil bureaucracy still thought of a way to increase taxes on the already overburdened people.

As a result, more and more yeoman farmers went bankrupt.

In addition, the thieves of Zhang Xianzhong's and Luo Rucai's tribes have begun to cause trouble in Huguang and Sichuan, causing a large number of displaced people to migrate and flee to Henan and Shandong.

And because of that.

The western expeditionary column of the mighty army led by Zhang Jiajun recruited a large number of displaced people from Huguang not long after arriving at Heiyang Mountain.

In the Pingshan area, where Lu Yuan is located, there are also many displaced people who come to defect.

Lu Yuan had to admit that twelve years after Daming entered Chongzhen, the situation was indeed getting worse and worse, and there was not even the slightest sign of recovery.

Under the scorching sun.

Lu Yuan sat in the pavilion, looking at the newspaper, while paying attention to the crisis in the imperial court, he still had to worry about the internal affairs of his mighty army, and guard against the large-scale entry of Jiannu again three years later.

Naturally, the work of expanding the armed forces cannot be stopped.

After the arrival of the new displaced people, Lu Yuan once again asked the mighty army to expand the militia ranks.

And the number of recruits is approaching 3,000.

Not only that, Lu Yuan also spent money to let his father-in-law and Shoufu help operate, so that Tang Ying had been promoted to the point where Lin Qingwei was the commander of the Jiama Battalion guerrilla, and Uncle Fei also had the official title of commander of Xuanwu Weiwei, all of which were to facilitate the future expansion of the mighty army and ask for money from the imperial court.

Lu Yuan was very sympathetic to Chongzhen's predicament.

But he will still unceremoniously learn from other border troops and guards to suck the blood of the imperial court, after all, instead of letting Guan Ning soldiers and others suck the blood of the imperial court and not fight, it is better to let these mighty soldiers who are willing to kill Jiannu suck it.

Now the mighty army is most lacking war horses.

The imperial court is now rotten up and down, and Ma Zheng is also very chaotic, so he can't provide Lu Yuan with many war horses.

Lu Yuan had no choice but to buy horses from outside the border.

Due to the recommendation of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, Wu Sangui was directly promoted to the chief military officer of the Liaodong regiment.

And Wu Sangui was only thirty years old at this time, so he was naturally heroic and high-spirited, and he couldn't wait to train elite soldiers.

But since the last time Wu Sangui entered the pass with the generals of Guanning to drive out Jiannu, he realized that now only the mighty army could fight Jiannu.

Therefore, after Wu Sangui obtained such an empty rank of chief soldier, he directly and secretly came to the mighty army.

Lu Yuan didn't expect that Wu Sangui, a famous figure in history, would come to him.

Lu Yuan almost couldn't resist ordering someone to arrest Wu Sangui and kill him directly, so as to save this Wu Sangui from offering Shanhaiguan to Jiannu in the future, so that Jiannu Dolgon broke through the customs and entered the Central Plains without much effort.

But Lu Yuan thought that his main enemy now was Jiannu, and the secondary enemy was a thief, so he had to endure it for the time being.

Moreover, Lu Yuan felt that Wu Sangui's appearance at this time was also an opportunity to do business with Guan Ningjun.

Because, Lu Yuan also knew that Guan Ningbing was very rich, with a salary of more than 7 million taels a year, and now he had to pay an extra salary, how could Wu Sangui, who was the chief soldier of the regimental training, get a million taels.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan himself felt a little unconvinced, the last time he fought with Jiannu, he made the greatest contribution, but as a result, he was promoted to three levels in a row before he was just a general, but this Wu Sangui was not promoted to the chief military officer.

Lu Yuan had to admit that sure enough, there were people in the DPRK who were better promoted.

Of course, when he thought of Wu Sangui, Lu Yuan couldn't help but think of Chen Yuanyuan.

However, as far as Lu Yuan knows, Chen Yuanyuan should still be in Nanjing at this time, and he should not enter Beijing until the fifteenth year of Chongzhen and enter the mansion of his cousin Tian Hongyu.

Lu Yuan thought to himself that this time he couldn't let Chen Yuanyuan fall into the hands of these people again.

……

this day.

Lu Yuan came to the Women's Civil Affairs School.

Liu Ru is now accustomed to the life of the women's civil affairs school, and teaches the corresponding knowledge to these girls according to the textbooks every day.

"Mr. Liu, my son-in-law asked you to come over to see him!"

At this time, Xiao Duoduo came to Liu Ruye's room and said a word.

"Who is your son-in-law?"

Liu Ru asked with a smile.

"Who else could it be, naturally it was me! Otherwise, who would dare to see you! Liu is like this, have you eaten well now! ”

Lu Yuan picked up Liu Ru is as he spoke, and was ready to put Liu Ru is rectification on the spot directly on the table, but Lu Yuan saw that Xiao Duo Duo was here, so he had to say to Duo Duo: "Duo Duo, you go out, close the door, and the son wants to discuss knowledge for Mr. Liu!" ”

Duoduo walked out and closed the door.

Liu Ru couldn't help but panic: "Don't want the official, the slave family has always had a good meal." ”

An hour later.

Lu Yuan walked out, straightened his clothes, and looked at Duoduo outside: "Did you hear anything just now?" ”

"No," Duoduo shook her head.

At this time, Caiyi came over and looked at Liu Ruyi, who was wearing a skirt in the house, and when she saw this, she couldn't help but say: "Childe, you have come to discuss knowledge with Mr. Liu again, there is a Wu Sangui who has already arrived in the hall, and he has been waiting for half an hour." ”

"I'll go back now!"

With that, Lu Yuan came to the hall and looked at the very burly Wu Sangui standing in front of him.

Lu Yuan didn't bother to salute him, so he only asked directly: "I don't know what General Wu has to do?" ”

"Wu came to the general to ask for advice on the general's training strategy, please give the general advice!"

Wu Sangui replied.

"What unique strategy can there be in military training, it is nothing more than loving soldiers like sons and strict military discipline, where is there any need for you General Wu to run in person."

Lu Yuan replied.

"This is five thousand taels of silver, and please ask the general to smile and allow Wu to observe and study in the mighty army for a few days!"

Wu Sangui replied.

"It's not enough to have silver, I only show it to my friends in Lu, and the so-called friends have to have cooperation in business and sales, if General Wu is willing to make a deal with us, we can let you observe and learn."

Lu Yuan said.

"I wonder what the general is going to do?"

Wu Sangui couldn't help but ask.

"Exchange war horses for soap, glassware, and other things for my mighty army, and there must be no less than five hundred war horses a year!"

Lu Yuan said.

Wu Sangui is not short of war horses, after all, he has a lot of horse farms in Liaodong, and he also cooperates with the Mongolian tribes, so he agreed.