In the year of Yan'an Mansion, to be honest, some people are really happy and some are sad, and those who are happy are not necessarily high-ranking officials and nobles, and those who are sad are not necessarily poor people.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yuan, who was already the fifth grade of the Fusi of Yansui Town, took a lot of gold and silver to the top and bottom to worship after the New Year, it was already late at night, dragging the tired body slowly into his flower hall, Mrs. hurriedly stepped forward to help sit down, and a maid called a hot towel and served hot tea.

Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and refreshed his spirits.

The wife is still so sick, but it is distressing to see her husband so tired, so she specially arranged a few Zhang Yuan's favorite side dishes, heated the pot of Huadiao, and sent someone to find her old father, hoping that Zhang Yuan could soothe his mind in the chatter between the two of them.

For such a considerate wife, Zhang Yuan was also moved from the heart, and couldn't help grabbing her hand and comforting her wordlessly.

Since the loss of his beloved son, his wife has been riddled with illness, not getting better, and he has also been explained countless times, but he has not seen any effect, thinking of the son who is not angry, he is not less worried, and he is also to blame for a word of conscience, but no matter how bad he is, he is the only man in the Zhang family, and the incense of the inheritance, how can it not make people heartbroken if it is gone? I have no inheritance of this million pieces of furniture, and my ancestors have only been prosperous for generations? In the end, it was a black-haired person who was sent for nothing, how could it not make people break their liver and intestines.

Originally, I was also discouraged and disappointed, without all the fighting spirit to move forward, not in the motivation to move forward, in line with the idea of living a day is a day, so depressed, but everything has a peak and a turn, the governor of the peak gave himself a good opportunity to take revenge, only then did he have the motivation to let himself live, his business continued to operate, and he took this official body up and down activities, with this official skin protection, his business turned out to be a great development, with Mongolia, and Shanxi businessmen, The deal with the Jurchen, who was still drinking blood, was a big increase. The silver of the white flowers flowed in like flowing water, although the wife once said that she should not associate with the enemy of the Ming Dynasty and sell it, but she felt sorry for her wife, but in order to take revenge, she did not say that they had more than ten times the profit from selling there? Where is there a steady stream of money coming in? Where is there this water of money to raise soldiers to avenge my child?

However, the matter of military training and recruitment is somewhat implicated. Originally, I also knew that the officialdom and military of the Ming Dynasty had rotten and transparent, but during the real involvement, I really realized that it was really rotten. There is no hope of resurrection.

The coordination of the upper and lower parts of the month, the transfer of money and food, and the arrangement of personnel made Zhang Yuan a little stunned, and the original bloated body lost weight, but it was still not going well, the deputy general soldier who was sent down only knew the shouting of fingers, and the matter of sending troops was just blindly shirking, but asking for money and food was very positive, and the day before yesterday he carried three thousand taels in his own hands, and he carried three thousand taels in his own hands, and he only gave one thousand taels to the military department of the government in exchange for some swords, guns and armor, The other two thousand taels went into his pocket, and there was no way, so he could only tolerate it for the sake of great things.

The two guards of Ganquan and Luochuan are even more unbearable, not only are the number of soldiers seriously insufficient, but those military households have become the long-term workers of the two thousand households, and the barracks are already full of people, so I went to see for myself, and there were only less than 300 soldiers left in the entire guardhouse, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Just like that, the three hundred people are also like beggars, all of them are skinny and unkempt, and they can't even stand steadily, let alone practice combat power, and the necessary equipment is not complete, so it seems that the original rice fat is really a responsible thousand households.

In desperation, I invited them to eat a meal of wine and meat, and only then did they agree to recruit military households to enrich all the personnel after repaying the arrears of food and wages over the years.

In this way, the actual soldiers of each thousand households should be 1 0, but only seven or eight hundred were recruited, and the others were directly paid.

This is also a long-standing evil, there is no way to change it, after a lot of money is sprinkled, there is finally a little improvement, but looking at it will not be of great help.

Now at this time, as long as there is money and food, there are many young and strong people everywhere, and eating food as soldiers has become their only choice, as for the dead on the battlefield, that is a later story, and it is only serious to fill the stomach and live a few more days. These are all recruited by Zhang Yuan with his own money, so there is no deduction of arrears in grain, grass and salary in Shanghai, a soldier can still let his family have a gruel to live with a month's salary, and he goes up the mountain to be a thief to live, this is also to live, after all, this is not to forget the ancestors' integrity, it is better than the mountain thief to shame the ancestors, so after becoming a sign, everyone is very attentive to training, but Zhang Yuan sees the hope of revenge.

Originally, there was a lot of money, but there was a lack of intimate manpower, and Zhang Yuanke didn't want to hand over the team he had worked so hard to pile up with money to that bastard deputy general soldier.

It's really an eye-opener, the Black Tiger Village found the old father-in-law's bad luck again, last time in order to support the old father-in-law of Zhangjiabao, the vitality of the family was greatly injured, and he was also beaten down, and he hid far away in the Fuxian courtyard, but he didn't want to, the ghost of the thief was not gone, and he actually hit the rich county again, Lao Taishan simply came and left this time, handed over the family business to a housekeeper, and brought a family of more than 100,000 pieces of furniture to the son-in-law of the official, not only generously took out half of the furniture, However, he brought the children of his own family who he urgently needed, which greatly improved the originally overstretched personnel.

Some of the money that could not have been greedy for ink began to be spent in the right place, and there was also a group of henchmen who gave advice to themselves, and now the sign in his hand has begun to take shape in the hands of such children, and has combat effectiveness, and the rest is not greedy for the supply of military funds and money and food, originally his own family property for this expenditure is a drop in the bucket, and now with the support of the old man is more than enough, often in his sleep, he has his own strong army like the Qi family army to calm the world for the emperor who is high above.

After all, dreams are dreams, and they can't be true, especially now.

Originally, he wanted to recruit the township brave signatory, plus the guards in various places, taking advantage of the fact that the thieves in Woniu Mountain were breaking through in the south, and when Yanchuan was greatly injured in the first battle, he destroyed them to avenge himself, but he didn't want to, Fuxian's own friend Zhao family's children came to vote, and gritted his teeth and said the extermination process, so that Zhang Yuan was unexpected, the thief turned to fight for thousands of miles, not only was he not dying, but in a short period of time, he resurrected, and it was stronger than the rice fat time.

Thinking about the lack of training in his hands, he couldn't fight against him at all, so he followed the advice of his brothers, urged the local health centers, recuperated his strength, stepped up training, and when his strength was strong, he would have a long time with the thief. This dragged the war on until the end of the year.

But one thing I know very well, that is, the reason why I was appointed as an official is just that the court uses my money to recruit soldiers, once the thieves are exterminated, is it that I have come to the end of the officialdom?

Suddenly startled by his thoughts, he was busy looking left and right, and his wife was still around, and there were no outsiders.

Calm down and lie down on the comfortable chair, close your eyes, and continue to think about your thoughts slowly, in fact, is it better for mercenaries to have self-respect? Under the banner of avenging the father and son, and under the banner of fighting for the landlord not to be coerced by the bandits, the bigger the official?

I know my situation, but I am just a governor and a thug of the court, once I am useless, will I still have my own fate? I have already experienced the darkness of officialdom when I first arrived, but I really know the taste of the marrow and enjoy it.

First of all, I knew the benefits of collusion between officials and businessmen, and there was an unexpected gain, that is, I also got the support of landlords and gentry like my father-in-law.

On the one hand, the capable landlords are constantly resisting the rent and interest reduction policy of the Black Tiger Village, and on the other hand, the incapable landlords are strong and strong, and after perfunctory Black Tiger Village, they continue to ask people to send silver to themselves, hoping to exterminate the deviant outliers of the Black Tiger Village.

This made Zhang Yuan see the rise of a new force, that is, the landlords and powerful class that the Ming could not manage and could not manage, they wanted to keep the current order, but they themselves did not have the ability to guarantee the current order, but the rotten government could not really give guarantees, they needed an agent, an agent who could not only guarantee their vested interests, but also ensure their safety.

In this way, who stands up when it is endangered? That's himself, a self who wants to avenge his son and father, and now it is his own existence, so that these landlords are strong and strong, and they see an emerging force between the incompetent government and the strong rise of various poles, so there is a strange phenomenon - he avenged his son and father and thought that he would have to hemorrhage, but he didn't think that the wealthy and powerful families around Nafu County, including Luochuan and Ganquan and several other states and counties, donated one after another, and not only did they not waste a penny of money but also got a lot of gains.

This is really strange, but then I thought about it and was relieved, they needed a spokesperson who gave them safety and ability, and he Zhang Yuan was at the right time.

So, can the number of signatories given by the government increase somewhat? So, do you really want to exterminate the thief, avenge the son and the father? Is this the way this kind of business continues? When I thought of this, I was taken aback by my own thoughts. Busy looking around, the old wife was massaging her shoulders by her side, and then she was relieved again.

I closed my eyes and followed my own train of thought, but I found that there were many things that were so simple, but I was just obsessed with yellow and white things and couldn't see through them, but now that I think about it, my vision is still short-sighted.

Now that you've seen through the tiredness of the period, should you do something?

Zhang Yuan got up suddenly, walked up anxiously in the room with his hands behind his back, and secretly made up his mind in his heart, yes, he should do something.