On February 10 of the third year of Chongzhen, Liu Renyu convened Li Jiye, Ma Tianjun, Yang Desheng, He Ergou, Zhang Tieniu, Ma Wenshan, Liu Renjie and others to hold a meeting in the conference room of the North Fort of Yansui Town, Daming North.

Before the official start of the meeting, Li Jiye, Yang Desheng, Ma Wenshan, and Zhang Tieniu all wore brand-new official uniforms, teased each other, and called each other Mr. Qian, Ma Tianjun and Liu Renjie also congratulated each other, only making a few new Mr. Qian's laughs.

Only He Ergou always stood aside and remained silent, even if someone noticed him and talked to him, he also responded listlessly, and seemed to have some thoughts.

He Ergou's style attracted Liu Renjie's attention. said that Liu Renjie suffered a tragedy in the past, his mind was delicate and extremely sensitive, and he saw something from He Ergou's expression, but he didn't want to say anything.

Everyone was noisy for a while, and suddenly heard Liu Renyu in the conference room calling: "A few Mr. Qian, don't you come in for a meeting soon." ”

When the President Qian heard the call of the guard, they all looked at each other and smiled, walked briskly up the stairs, and walked towards the lobby of the conference room.

When He Ergou heard this call, his face suddenly darkened a little, he stuffed his head, stomped hard, and walked towards the conference room.

The rest of Liu Renjie and Ma Tianjun followed suit and walked into the conference room slowly.

In the conference room, Liu Renyu, who was also wearing a brand-new official robe, was full of smiles on his face, sat upright, looked at his few cadres, and said nothing.

However, when he said that the first few of the first to come to President Qian, Yang Desheng and Zhang Tieniu saw Liu Renyu, they didn't have any special reaction, and they were stunned to pull a chair and sit down.

Li Jiye and Ma Wenshan were more thoughtful, and the two of them would pull Zhang Tieniu and Yang Desheng respectively, and then knelt down with a plop, and said loudly: "I have seen the garrison lord at the humble level. ”

When Zhang Tieniu and Yang Desheng saw this situation, they suddenly woke up and hurriedly knelt down to salute.

Liu Renyu heard it and didn't answer, and waited until the rest of the people came in to salute each other, and then he replied: "Everyone is your own person, don't be polite, let's get up and talk." ”

Then they all stood and sat down in turn.

"I came here today because of a few important things to discuss. Let's talk about the first major thing first, I will go to Jingbian Fort to serve as a garrison, and most of us will naturally follow me there, but Zhenbei Fort is the place where our great cause started, of course I still have to send someone to sit here, this candidate, Ergou. Liu Renyu called.

Hearing Liu Renyu's call, He Ergou, who had been sitting silent, seemed to wake up from his sleep, and responded: "Ergou is here." ”

Liu Renyu saw that his subordinates were absent-minded, and he felt a little strange in his heart, and said that He Ergou had something to worry about at home, but he didn't care about it.

"When you went on our expedition, you guarded the fort very well, and Cuizhi's body became heavier and heavier, so I decided to let you stay in this town north fort. What do you think? ”

"The humble position is just a small inspection, I'm afraid I can't be the chief guard of Zhenbei Fort." He Ergou said in a muffled voice.

Hearing He Ergou say this, Liu Renyu was slightly stunned, and then smiled as if he remembered something: "Ergou, the inspection is indeed not the chief officer of the fort, if it is the general, what can it be?" ”

When He Ergou heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately got up from his seat, knelt on the ground, and said: "The general manager is naturally done, and Lord Xie is promoted." ”

"Well, I mentioned your credit to Hong Junmen, and the military gate said that beating the Liukou is not as good as fighting Jiannu and Beiyu, and the credit is not very effective, so I will wronged you first, and then be a boss, and then I will have a chance in the future, and then I will promote you, and I must be like your old brothers."

"My lord, you are serious, how can you have grievances in a humble position, you only need to work hard and do things effectively, and adults will naturally not treat your humble position badly."

Liu Renyu saw He Ergou's eyebrows overjoyed, and the previous dull color was gone, and then he realized that He Ergou was unhappy before because the old brother of Duntai had a higher status than him, and he was a little unhappy.

"The true colors are fully revealed, but there are no fancy intestines." Liu Renyu secretly commented on He Ergou.

When everyone on the field heard that He Ergou was also going to be promoted, they all celebrated.

If some time passed, when He Ergou sat down, Liu Renyu said again: "Ergou, I am going to Jingbian Fort, naturally I want to take all the regular army away, but I will allocate some officers to you, you can train a regular army by yourself, the number of the regular army, it must be less than 200 people, you choose the right people, and then make a register and report to the logistics department." ”

"Yes, my lord, the humiliation has been written."

"Well, very good, the next second thing, our few battles, even dead and wounded, a total of 80 people in the regular army, Jiye, Desheng, Tieniu, Wenshan, you should select new recruits, send them to the recruit training camp for training, and then add them to your team."

"My lord, I don't know if I can choose someone among the displaced people recruited by Yang Zhitai this time? I saw a few good seedlings in it. Li Jiye asked.

"Of course you can, those who live in the outer city, you can recruit as you like, but those who live in the inner city are not allowed to recruit, even if they volunteer to participate, they are not allowed to recruit, do you understand?"

"Yes, my lord, the rank has been recorded."

"Tianjun, you will also follow me to Jingbian Fort to take care of things at that time, and here in Zhenbei Fort, you can recommend a useful person to take care of things."

"My lord, Deputy Mayor Huang Chuanfeng is quite effective, and his subordinates are also willing to be restrained by him."

"Very good, when you arrive at Jingbian Fort City, you can recruit and use manpower by yourself, and control Jingbian Fort according to the practice of Zhenbei Fort."

"Yes, my lord, the student wrote it down."

"Well, Tianjun, I think that our regular soldiers are still too few at the moment, and I want to expand some more people, so that my garrison can live up to its name, do you think I will recruit another 500 people, can I afford to eat financially?"

"My lord, by no means. Our town north fort, the deposit of silver is only 60,000 taels, you recruit these soldiers, as well as government members, instructors, all need to pay military salaries, money, in addition to baggage, equipment, iron, gunpowder, cotton, forage, horse food, horses need to buy, in addition, there are .......... ”

Ma Tianjun was about to elaborate on it, Liu Renyu quickly stopped talking and said, "Come on, don't say it, in a word, we're about to run out of money, right?" ”

"Yes, yes." Ma Tianjun said very simply.

"How many are left?" Liu Renyu asked.

Ma Tianjun slowly stretched out a slap.

"There are still 5 percent left, and there are so many, you are bluffing me!"

"My lord, there are 5,000 taels left."

"Huh!? Why is there only so little left? ”

"My lord, according to your method of spending money, even if there are mountains of gold and silver in our Zhenbei Fort, you will have to cut it to the ground."

"How can this be good? I'm going to Jingbian Fort soon, and I'm going to spend money soon? Tuntian, water conservancy, renovation of cities, construction of houses, everything costs money, how is this good? ”

"My lord, why don't you take us to suppress the bandits again?" Zhang Tieniu said.

"Crack down on the bandits, Lao Tzu has even wiped out the bandits in several surrounding military forts, where to find the bandits? Well, by the way, don't we still have a carriage, isn't the carriage very expensive, what about the money? ”

"My lord, the carriage is expensive, but there are few people who buy it, and we can only sell it to Yan'an Mansion and Suide Mansion at the farthest, there are not many rich people in those places, so we only sold 3 carriages, and the silver taels obtained were spent as soon as they arrived, and there was nothing left, if you don't believe it, you can check the accounts."

"Whatever you say, I naturally believe you. Alas, it seems that the only way to learn from Emperor Taizu Gao is to recruit another 500 soldiers, and tell them to farm, train, and fight in wartime. ”

"Then, my lord, how do you pay them?" Li Jiye asked.

"Sufficient salary, not enough food, they farm their own land, there is a harvest in the field, we will collect them a rent. Well, it's decided, when we get to Jingbian Fort, we will recruit people and divide the land. Well, I'll have to figure out how to make some money before I can do that. Hey, do you remember Du Kee Pawnshop? ”

"Remember, remember, that fourth lady is really tight." Zhang Tieniu looked like a pig brother and recalled happily.

"You stupid cow, how can Lao Tzu tell you this, I mean what do you think of their Du family's financial resources?"

"This!?" Everyone was speechless, not knowing how to answer.

In the end, Li Jiye said: "My lord, the humble position is not very clear, but I have heard people talk about it before, saying that it is a place in Yansui Town, and the Du family still has some financial resources, and it is said that there are no less than 100 large and small shops." ”

"Well, if that's the case, I have to go to Yan'an and talk to the Du family about cooperation."

"My lord, but I don't know what is important in our hands that can make the Du family cooperate with us?" Li Jiye asked.

"You'll know when the time comes. Alright, you all go back and prepare for your own life, we're going to move. Liu Renyu said.

"Yes, my lord, I will go back and prepare for my life." All the people answered.

"Very well, adjournment."

Everyone walked out of the conference room, or went to the barracks, or to the government, or simply went home.

When everyone was far away, Liu Renjie came to Liu Renyu's side and said, "My lord, Uncle He was a little unhappy at first!" ”

"I can see it, after all, the old brothers in the pier are all Qianzong, he is just a patrol, he is angry, understandable."

But when Uncle He left, he seemed to be very happy. He is not happy that he has not been promoted, and it seems a little inappropriate to act in front of you, an adult. ”

"Hmph, Renjie, people like you Uncle He, I like it very much, everything is written on my face, what I am most afraid of is that there is nothing written on my face, but on the person who is written in my heart, this kind of person is the most terrible. By the way, what do you think of your Uncle Lee? ”

"My lord, I think your uncle is very good, he is a well-informed person, he is capable, and he is very kind to everyone, except for you, everyone is very obedient to him. In short, Uncle Li is a smart man. ”

"That's right, Jiye is a smart person, much better than your brainless Uncle Zhang, and your Uncle Yang who knows how to fight and kill. By the way, how did Project Praying Mantis go. ”

"People have been trained, and the family history of these people has been arranged, and they can be put into use at any time."

"Very good, when you get to Jingbian Fort, those people will build a house and recruit people, and when they recruit people, they will scatter all your subordinates."

"Yes, my lord, the humiliation has been written."

"Okay, come with me to our industrial manufacturing plant."

After Liu Renyu finished speaking, he walked straight towards the Zhenbeibao Industrial Manufacturing Factory.