"Xu Junmen is serious, the country is in an eventful season, as a courtier, I can contribute a little more to the country, and I should contribute a little more, otherwise otherwise, how can I repay the emperor's favor." Liu Renyu replied with a smile.

"Mr. Liu has such a heart to serve the country, and this court will report it to the emperor and the court after the victory of the thief." Xu Dingchen heard the song and knew the elegance, and deliberately singled out this matter and said it.

"Xu Junmen is so loving, the last general can only repay him by doing his best and killing the thief." Liu Renyu smiled.

"Well, Mr. Liu....." When Xu Dingchen was about to say a few more polite words to Liu Renyu, he walked in without being wary of Cao Wenzhao.

Xu Dingchen saw Cao Wenzhao coming in, so he changed the topic and smiled at Cao Wenzhao: "Cao Zongzhen, you have always used troops to invade like fire, this court thought that you would arrive very early to discuss the matter of suppressing thieves today, but I didn't think that you arrived a little late, could it be that these days to suppress thieves are quite difficult and a little tired?" ”

Cao Wenzhao listened to Xu Dingchen's words, but he didn't answer immediately, he first relied on the number of courtesies, and each met with Xu Dingchen, Liu Renyu, Li Jiye and others, and when these official articles were finished, he replied to Xu Dingchen after looking at Liu Renyu: "Xu Junmen, in fact, the last general has already gotten up today,

I just heard that Liu Zongzhen's Jingbian Fort Army was training early in the morning, and under curiosity, I took a look at the city, and the last general found that the training method of the Jingbian Fort Army under Liu Zongzhen was very novel, and it was almost an hour to practice.

On a whim when the last general looked at the city, he wanted to go out of the city and go to the Jingbianbao army camp to see how the Jingbianbao army was trained, and the result was ....."

Xu Dingchen was originally listening attentively, and he didn't watch out for Cao Wenzhao suddenly stopped talking, he immediately asked, "What is the result!?" ”

Liu Renyu, Li Jiye and other generals heard that Cao Wenzhao wanted to enter their own military camp, and they were interested for no reason, and they also wanted to hear what happened to him.

"Hey, before the last general approached the military camp of Mr. Liu, he ran into a group of cavalry, blocking the way of the last general, and the last general was not allowed to go forward, and the last general could not enter, so he had to come back." After Cao Wenzhao glanced at Liu Renyu again, he replied quietly.

"Since Mr. Cao wants to see how our army is maneuvering, why don't you reveal your identity and let the patrolling cavalry inform me, I heard that you are coming, so I will naturally bring my subordinates to greet you in person." Liu Renyu also heard from his patrol soldiers this morning that a military general in Taiyuan City brought a team of cavalry and wanted to enter the barracks, but they didn't let him in, so the military general went back with his subordinates.

Liu Renyu didn't think much about it, and it wasn't until then that he knew that it was Cao Wenzhao who was going to enter his own military camp.

"Mr. Cao, if you don't go out today, our army will also have a drill in the afternoon, so why don't I take you to see our army's drill method in the afternoon." Liu Renyu sent an invitation to Cao Wenzhao.

Mr. Liu was enthusiastic, but Cao was naturally disrespectful. Cao has been thinking about how the Jingbian Fort Army can threaten Shaanxi, and its name resounded throughout the nine sides. If it is an ordinary Ming military camp, a certain military general of Cao, who came out of Taiyuan City, can pass all the way unimpeded and go directly to the Chinese army, and today it is still 500 steps away from the camp.

encountered the patrol cavalry, and the battalion of the soldiers and horses under Mr. Liu's town was really guarded, and Cao was very impressed. In addition, Cao watched the camp of Mr. Liu at the head of the city, and found that your soldiers and horses were stationed under the city of Taiyuan, but they still dug trenches, cloth to resist horses, open posts and secret sentries, and were extremely heavily guarded. It can be seen from this that Cao Mou admires more and more how rigorous you are in governing the army. When Cao Wenzhao said this, he simply bowed and saluted.

"Hey, Mr. Cao, you see what you said is good, why bother with this big gift." Liu Renyu had to return the salute immediately.

Xu Dingchen on the side saw that Cao Wenzhao and other fierce generals were impressed by Liu Renyu's soldiers and horses when they saw the Jingbianbao military camp, so there is no doubt that these soldiers and horses brought by Liu Renyu, if nothing else, at least the 5,000 soldiers are absolutely very reliable.

Imagine that Cao Wenzhao would take 1,000 Guan Ning troops and 2,000 local border troops in Shanxi to defeat 30,000 thieves. The five thousand elite soldiers and horses under Liu Renyu can deal with two or three hundred thousand thieves.

When Xu Dingchen thought of this, he was originally a little happy because he didn't have to pay food and salary to the Jingbian Fort Army, but he couldn't help but be even happier at this time.

Cao Wenzhao's deep happiness in his heart was much more than that of Xu Dingchen, because since he entered Shanxi with a thousand Guanning iron cavalry, every time he fought, what he could rely on was the three thousand people under his own command, oh, no, to be precise, it should be the one thousand Guanning army.

The reason why the thieves in Shanxi are always inexterminate is mainly because the Shanxi border army is poor, likes to fight with the thieves, and has a lot of connivance with the thieves.

When he had just led his troops to Shanxi, he encountered thieves on the road, and those thieves were not afraid, so they actually sent envoys to shout in front of their army, asking how good they were and how much they needed to let them go.

Of course, he wiped them all out without saying a word, but it can be seen from this that the Shanxi border army is really unreliable. Now with such a powerful reinforcement to help, the eradication of the thieves is really just around the corner.

Liu Renyu just didn't know anything about what Cao Wenzhao was thinking, and he had a lot of experience in communicating with Cao Wenzhao to suppress thieves.

When Liu Renyu and the others took out their pocket watches and saw that the hands showed that the time was past seven o'clock, the rest of the generals of the army, civil officials at all levels, and two fathers-in-law came to the Rijian Hall one after another.

Cao Wenzhao saw that Liu Renyu took out an object from his arms from time to time and looked at it, and when he was curious, he asked Liu Renyu: "Dare to ask Mr. Liu, what is the thing in your arms?" ”

"This," Liu Renyu said, pointing to the pocket watch in his hand.

"Exactly," Cao Wenzhao nodded.

"This thing is a pocket watch, a Western thing, it subdivides our twelve hours into twenty-four hours, one thousand four hundred and forty minutes, eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds, you see, if you want to see the time, you have to do it......"

Liu Renyu said that when he spoke, he told Cao Wenzhao how to read the time through his pocket watch.

Cao Wenzhao finished reading how to see the time through the pocket watch, and then issued a sentence of emotion: "Liu Zongzhen, this thing is really a good thing, in the past, we were divided into joint attacks, and we always had to consider a problem of how to do it at the same time, but now with this pocket watch, we can make an appointment at the time and make trouble together, which can save a lot of trouble in passing on the news." ”

Liu Renyu said Cao Wenzhao, those eyes were about to give birth to a pair of hands, and he wanted to hook his pocket watch, so he smiled and said: "Cao Zongzhen, this thing is naturally so beneficial, so let's do it, Liu and Cao Zongzhen are very close to each other, so they will be sent to Cao Zongzhen, Cao Zongzhen don't dislike that this is used by Liu, don't want it." ”

"How does this make this thing, since this thing is a Western thing, it is also extremely expensive, how can Cao be embarrassed to let Mr. Liu break the bank, so ask Mr. Liu to make a price." Cao Wenzhao said.

"Cao Zongzhen, you don't have to, although this thing is native to the West, but now my Jingbian Fort has already produced this thing, so this thing is not too expensive, Cao Zongzhen just accepts it, maybe when our two armies cooperate, maybe it can be used." This is all for the sake of our ability to win the battle, for the sake of the overall situation, for the sake of the thief plan, and for the sake of the seamless cooperation between our two armies, this is given to Mr. Cao. Liu Renyu explained.

"That being the case, Cao is not an entangled person, thank you Mr. Liu." Cao Wenzhao is a cheerful person, he wants what he wants, his affection is in his heart, not in his mouth.

"Well said." Liu Renyu smiled slightly and replied.

While the two were talking, the rest of the civil officials, military generals, and the two fathers-in-law, Chen Dajin and Yan Siyin, also arrived.

These people have arrived, and naturally they are in accordance with the rules of officialdom, and they are all courteous, and they are not listed here.

After everyone saw the ceremony, the next step was to arrange the seats, originally according to the rules, Xu Dingchen sat on the upper seat, but Chen Dajin and Yan Siyin came from the palace, they were the emperor's domestic slaves, representing the emperor, Xu Dingchen was the feudal official, and he also had to give up the upper seat to Chen Dajin and Yan Siyin's two fathers-in-law.

These two fathers-in-law didn't attach much importance to this thing, and the two of them waved their hands again and again, saying that they didn't need to sit on the upper seat, just listen.

Xu Dingchen finished politely, and sat down on the upper seat steadily, the two fathers-in-law sat on his right hand, and then according to the convention, it should have been a military preparation, the prefect and other civil officials sat in the position of the two fathers-in-law, and the rest of the generals sat down in the position, or it would be good to have a seat to sit.

But now it is different from the past, now the border army is arrogant and weak, mutinies happen from time to time, most of the soldiers who do not see the mutiny are recruited, and the civilian and military generals in charge are mostly punished, because the status of the military is now greatly improved, and even when Xu Dingchen is arranging the seats, he does not look at the civil officials, all the military generals sit in front, and the civil officials almost all sit in the lower position.

In this way, if it is placed in Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli, and the Apocalypse, I am afraid that these civil officials will make a fuss to overturn the roof, but now it is the Chongzhen year, and it is the sixth year of Chongzhen, and the thieves are raging in this Shanxi, and even the northern Zhili Gyeonggi Heavy Land They often used to harass in the past, such a large-scale thief does not rely on the martial arts, and it will definitely not be able to do it, so now that the martial artists are in power, the civil officials have to temporarily rein in their edges and be careful.

Otherwise, if they accidentally provoke arrogant soldiers, people will immediately mutiny and rebel, and it is not themselves who are unlucky. The eldest husband can bend and stretch, and when the Ming Sea is clear and the four seas are peaceful, it is not too late to regain the lost position.

Civil officials generally have this in mind, and when they arrange their seats, there is no unnecessary turmoil.

The civil officials sit in the second seat, and the ranking of the generals is not without exquisiteness, such as Liu Renyu and Cao Wenzhao, who are super powerful generals under them, have a lot of right to speak, so they naturally sit in the upper seat, and the rest of the generals are sitting in their lower position.

Xu Dingchen saw that all the generals were seated, so he smiled slightly, and said to a group of civil and military generals, as well as the two fathers-in-law: "Everyone, we are sitting here today to discuss the plan of the thief, and now I will ask Mr. Cao to talk about the enemy situation in front of us." ”