"Forty percent, why are there so many?" Someone asked.

"Forty percent is a lot, not too much. In some places, it was harvested. "Zhang Huairen moved out of a higher rent.

"Okay, 200,000 catties is 200,000 catties, I don't think I can transport it back even if I rely on a few of you, it's better to take it like this, I'll take the people and horses to escort it to Zhangjiabao in person." Liu Renyu agreed in one bite, and also said that it would be delivered to the door.

"Well, you Qiu Ba is quite knowledgeable, okay, I'll leave now, I'm waiting for you in Zhangjiabao, you don't have to cheat, otherwise my master will not be spared." Zhang Huairen threatened for a while, so he took his entourage of warriors to line up the crowd of onlookers and left.

"My lord, do you really want to give these thieves so much food? They don't collect so much rent, but it's ....... Yang Desheng was about to ask, Liu Renyu waved his hand, signaling not to say any more.

"Tonight, come to my house for a meeting." Liu Renyu gave an order to the generals of the pier, and left without saying a word with a black face.

It was day and night, and Liu Renyu sat at one end of a long table in the head of the Zhenbei Fort, and the others sat on both sides.

"My lord, how to deal with today's affairs, we promised the people that we would only collect 20%, if we want to pay 40%, we will find the people to collect another 20%, so we will lose faith in the people." Li Jiye said worriedly.

"If you don't hand it over, the one named Zhang Huairen said that he will not take a break with the adults, and the power of the township officials is so great that we can't imagine it." Ma Tianjun, a former scholar who knew the prestige of the township officials, was also worried.

"So what to do?" Everyone was silent for a while, unable to think of a way.

"Hmph, I never thought about paying rent, and what I said today was for the second housekeeper of Rausch." Liu Renyu sneered.

"What do you mean?" Ma Tianjun was puzzled.

"Don't you know the current situation?"

"The current situation!?" Everyone thought about it, and then it dawned.

In the second year of Chongzhen, according to the governor of Yansui Yue Hesheng and the governor of Shaanxi Hu Tingyan, Luochuan, Chunhua, Sanshui, Luoyang, Qingshui, Chengxian, Hancheng, Yijun, Central, Shiquan, Yichuan, Suide, Xiayao, Jingning, Tongguan, Yangpingguan, Jinsuoguan and other places all had hungry and foodless people who burned and plundered.

In March of the second year, the imperial court dismissed Hu's court banquet, Yue Hesheng, appointed Qin Guangsheng as Shaanxi Fu, Zhang Mengjing as Yanfu, the two arrived, the treasury was empty, there was no food relief, and the border army had not received pay for a long time and was unwilling to go to war.

If the generals urge, they will mutini at every turn, even if part of the military salaries are solved, the rogue will fight on the mobile front, and the officers and troops will not be able to wipe out all of them, because the officers and troops will be exhausted, and the strength of the rogue will not be affected in the slightest.

In March of the second year, Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, died, and Yang He succeeded him. The crane lord appeased, and the emperor allowed him, but he did not have enough money and food in his hands, so even if the leaders of Shaanxi changed, the hungry people who had no food to eat were still in chaos, and Yang He had nothing to do.

In the second year of Chongzhen, for a whole year, the entire northern part of Shaanxi was a place of rebellion.

Everyone thought about what Liu Renyu said and thought about the current situation, and there seemed to be a light in their hearts, but they didn't know what to say.

In the end, Li Jiye said: "My lord, I waited to follow you to get to where I am today, no matter what you want to do, we are willing, you say, what is your idea?" ”

Liu Renyu looked at everyone and said hatefully: "This kind of inferior gentleman, snatching our hard work for no reason, is really hateful, I will, contact the old Tiger Head Mountain King Scorpion who has Jiye, we cooperate with him to destroy Zhangjiabao, what, do you dare?" ”

"If you don't dare, you can do whatever the adults tell you to do." Zhang Tieniu replied loudly.

"Listen to your lordship." Yang Desheng said.

"Two dogs, but listen to the adults." He Ergou also said.

"My lord, it's nothing to kill a few inferior gentlemen, it's just that if the matter leaks, I'll wait for ......" Ma Tianjun thought of the risks and said worriedly.

"Heaven, be relieved, I will make a detailed plan, and I will share it with you when the time comes. The priority now is to show the people a notice that we will never collect more rent, so that the people can be relieved. Tianjun, this matter will be left to you. You go first. ”

"Yes, sir." Ma Tianjun took the order and left.

"Jiye, your miner's division, you usually use gunpowder, and the 20 guns I have made recently have been distributed to you, and you don't have any other tasks now, how is your firearms training?" Liu Renyu asked.

"My lord, the sons and daughters are all familiar with gunpowder, and they have been using gunpowder for a long time, and it is not bad, but there are too many targets every day, I am afraid that it will be a waste of medicine and a waste of money."

"Stupid words, firearms troops, don't practice much in peacetime, how can they shoot and kill the enemy quickly on the battlefield. At the end of this month, the whole army will conduct a drill, and the training of recruits in your unit will be carried out together with the training of firecrackers, but you must be more careful. ”

"Yes, my lord, Jiye has written it down."

"Very good, let's disperse first, go back and perform well, we'll see you at the end of the month."

"Yes," the crowd agreed, and then dispersed.

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"Big brother, big brother, yesterday's incident, the government has an echo today, let's go and take a look." Ma Yongjun pulled Ma Qingshan early in the morning and asked him to accompany him to take a look.

"There are very good-looking, I have heard of it, then Lord Liu can't reach his thighs with his arms after all, and he must be overcharging us for rent, but I don't know if he said that he only collects 20% and doesn't count, I see it hanging." Ma Qingshan didn't move at all, obviously believing that this was the result.

"Big brother, let's go and take a look, maybe Lord Liu won't do this." Ma Yongjun insisted.

"You ....., how do you say hello, okay, okay, you can go and see, and when you go to see it, you will die." Ma Qingshan stretched his waist and followed his third brother towards the Zhenbei Fort official office step by step.

Standing in front of the notice, listening to the content of the notice read out, Ma Qingshan couldn't calm down for a long time, and the notice said that Lord Liu still only collected 20% of the rent, so that everyone was relieved, and there was no word on the side.

"Big brother, what I said is good, Lord Liu is a good official, he really does what he says." Ma Yongjun said excitedly.

"He's really an outlier, he's really an outlier, he's an outlier." Ma Qingshan muttered to himself.

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On September 1, the Zhenbeibao military barracks and school ground, the same rostrum, and the same high-ranking officers attended the military parade in Zhenbeibao first.

The first to appear was the military band, because Liu Renyu was very dissatisfied with the music of the military parade last time, Li Jiye specially took a time to go to the Qinglou in Zuojinfu County to find a few musicians who knew how to play musical instruments and line music, and asked them to choose people to practice military music.

To say that these servants are also dutiful, they have been very busy for a while in the past few months, but they still put together a military band. In this military parade, several servants wore military uniforms and led a group of musicians, blowing and beating, playing the brisk tune "The Glory of Prussia", and walking behind the national flag and military flag bearers.

This national flag is easy to say, and the Ming Dynasty has a universal sun and moon flag. As for the military flag, Liu Renyu felt that he still had to follow the trend, so he wrote the word Liu on a cloth with a white background, and then embroidered a miniature version of the Ming national flag in the upper left corner of the flag.

When the national flag and the military flag walked past the rostrum, Liu Renyu got up and saluted the national flag and the military flag with all the principals.

When the military band walked by, Liu Renyu nodded frequently and said to Li Jiye: "Not bad, not bad, this is what it looks like." ”

When Li Jiye heard this, he was overjoyed.

After the military band, came the fire guns of one of the miners' divisions, who carried the fire guns, first walked in unison, and then kicked the straight steps; Next is Yang Desheng's banner pikemen, spears are like forests, but they just walk in unison, because it is very difficult to kick the right step with a spear; Next is He Ergou's phalanx of sword and shield soldiers, which also only walks in unison; Next was Zhang Tieniu's phalanx of archers, who also only walked in unison.

After walking through the queue formation, Liu Renyu asked each department to assess itself. The firearm unit is called a fixed target, a moving target and a melee fight, and the spear and sword and shield troops are called grouping, fighting with wooden guns and knives, and those who kill more are excellent, and those who are killed more are ranked last; Archers are called fixed targets, moving targets and melee combat.

After the competition, it is natural to give out silver rewards, award medals, provide meat, and the worst people in the assessment are hungry and practice.

In September, the separate training of each unit was completed, and Liu Renyu called for training to cooperate with the operation, and the established arrangement for the operation was that the enemy would be as close as 40 paces, and the enemy would shoot as close as 20 paces, and the javelins would be projected as close as 10 paces, and hand-to-hand combat would be carried out.

In order to test the effect of the coordination and cooperation of various armies, Renyu specially hired a number of extras to pretend to be the enemy army to engage the Zhenbeibao army.

After this exercise, at least on the surface, the Zhenbeibao Army had the appearance of a regular army, and as for the inside, Liu Renyu decided to add them immediately.

If an army wants to become a hundred battles, of course, it must be tempered by the fires of war, Liu Renyu plans to take his own troops to fight a battle, this time he intends to attack the object of the aforementioned one, 60 miles northeast of Zhenbei Fort, Xiao gathered in Wulong Mountain A group of mountain bandits, the leader of this group of mountain bandits, the name is very unartistic, called "three hands".

This information was sent back by Liu Renjie, as early as one month ago, Liu Renyu sent him and his friends to Wulong Mountain to explore the information. The mountains, rivers and mountains of Wulong Mountain, and the layout of the buildings in the cottage are all displayed on the sand table, in addition to the plane map, and the composition of the troops is written on paper.

There is no doubt that the "three hands" of Wulong Mountain are going to be unlucky.