I saw Chongzhen on the platform pavilion, where there was a table of eight immortals, which Chongzhen often sat when meeting cabinet ministers, Chongzhen summoned Song Youliang here, and it can already be seen that he attaches great importance to Song Youliang. Song Youliang looked up at Chongzhen, the man who wanted to be the master of Zhongxing, but turned out to be the king of the dead country. He looked very majestic, but Song Youliang could clearly see the uneasiness that was deeply hidden under this majesty.

Chongzhen said in a kind tone: "Wang Chengen has already told me that your plan is to set out from the sea of Dengzhou, unite with Korea, and attack the rear of the Eastern Prisoners. So that the people are not allowed to farm, and the army is not allowed to rest, is it? And then when the people are trapped and the people are tired, they will break the enemy in one fell swoop? Chongzhen never realized that the war with the Manchus could not be solved by a single battle

"Back to Your Majesty, that's it!" Song Youliang replied respectfully

"Don't you want the treasury to allocate a tael of silver, a small success in three years, and a big success in five years?" Chongzhen asked again

"Back to Your Majesty, that's it!" Song Youliang replied mechanically, "The last general will not dare to hold it up!" ”

"Do you want Zheng Zhilong to help?" Chongzhen's tone became slower and slower, Song Youliang faintly felt that there seemed to be something outside the words, he raised his eyes and peeked at Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen looked ahead, as if he was not looking, and did not give himself the slightest hint

Finally, Chongzhen raised his voice and said, "It's too slow! Chongzhen still fantasized about solving the problem with one or two battles, and it was his eagerness to achieve results that caused a series of failures later

At this time, Wang Chengen spoke: "Your Majesty, slow is slow, the old slave thinks that as the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread." There are some things that can't be rushed, and besides, the Song guerrillas don't want money and food from the imperial court, as long as they allocate some materials and craftsmen to build weapons and warships, the old slave thinks it's still feasible. Wang Chengen's meaning couldn't be more obvious, anyway, it was Song Youliang's own money that was spent

"But his qualifications are still shallow, and he is the chief soldier of any town, I'm afraid!" Chongzhen frowned slightly, but his current principle is that as long as you don't reach out to me to ask for money, then it's easy to say anything

Wang Chengen smiled: "Your Majesty, has you forgotten Wu Sangui?" Didn't he also become the chief soldier of Liaodong at the age of twenty-one, blocking the Tartars like Mount Tai in Ningyuan? It can be said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and those old generals are looking ahead and thinking about their own worth of land. I need young talents like Wu Sangui and Song Youliang! After that, Wang Chengen glanced at Song Youliang

Song Youliang immediately clenched his fists and knelt down, and said loudly: "Although Weichen is young, he is willing to follow the example of Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty and break the captives for His Majesty~"

"Okay, have guts!" Chongzhen listened to such a heroic and dry words, and his spirit was also lifted, "I will promote Qing to the chief military officer of Dengzhou Town, control all the guards in Dengzhou and the land and water soldiers of the Liaodong Islands, and supplement them with Korean affairs. ”

"Minister Song Youliang thank the lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Dengzhou Town was established in the twenty-first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1593). Prior to this, the imperial court in the seventh year of Yongle (1409) set up the Dengzhou Bei Wei Du Command Envoy (referred to as the Bei Wei Du Division) in Shuicheng, the governor of Shandong coastal soldiers and horses, Laizhou Wei, Dengzhou Wei, Ninghaiwei, Weihaiwei, Chengshanwei, Jinghaiwei, Dasongwei, Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei and other guards are under its management. In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Dengzhou was specially set up to inspect the coastal defense road and manage the coastal defense military affairs of Denglai and Denglai.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese minister, launched the "Imjin War" and led the army to invade Korea. In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (1596), the commander of the capital was abolished, and the general army was set up and the town was recalled. The command office of Dengzhou Bei Wadu was changed to Dengzhou General Town Government.

In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), the Denglai General Army was set up, which was controlled by the governor of Denglai, and governed 12 battalions of land and water along the coast of Shandong, and the General Military Department was located in the capital of Dengzhou.

In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the general town of Dengzhou

In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), the town of Dengzhou was restored.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), the general army of Denglai was abolished, the general town of Dengzhou was established in Linqing, and Dengzhou was re-established as a city garrison.

To set up a town, it is not a matter of will, for example, the first thing to do is to appoint soldiers. Although Dengzhou Town does not need to be paid by the imperial court, it is impossible for the emperor to let you Song Youliang recruit troops and horses without restraint

During the period from Yongle to Xuande, in order to enhance the mobile ability of the coastal defense army and make every effort to reinforce the emergency areas when necessary, relatively independent coastal defense mobile units were set up in Dengzhou, Wendeng, and Jimo, which are known as the Dengzhou Battalion, Wenzhou Battalion, and Jimo Battalion, which are known as the three battalions of coastal defense. The officers of the three battalions are higher in rank than the commanders of the guards, and the barracks are stationed in the center of the guards under their control, so it is convenient to command and coordinate and send out reinforcements. The Dengzhou battalion set up a general commander and a guerrilla commander who was responsible for training the army. In addition to defensive tasks, in the spring and autumn of each year, they also have to take turns with garrisons from other places to be transferred to Beijing to participate in the school review. The army is equipped with golden talismans, and if there is an edict from the imperial court to mobilize, it must be replayed by the province and the government, and the golden talisman can only be dispatched after the golden talisman is verified.

In the twelfth year of Ming Hongzhi (1499), the Dengzhou battalion was returned to the Dengzhou capital division and the Laizhou patrol soldiers were jointly controlled.

In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), the Laizhou military preparation road was changed to the Dengzhou military preparation road.

In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), the Dengzhou battalion was returned to the Dengzhou Metropolitan Division and the Dengzhou Patrol Haiphong Road was jointly controlled, and became the Haiphong Road Central Army, which was renamed the regimental drill camp.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1593), the regimental drill camp was divided into two battalions, left and right, and later organized into twelve battalions on land and water.

During the Apocalypse, the regimental drill camp was under the command of the Denglai General Army.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1638), after the general army town was moved to Linqing, Dengzhou was reorganized into a city garrison camp, and twelve battalions were six battalions, each battalion set up a general, a general officer, a general army, and a thousand generals, and a total of 2, a total of 9197 officers and soldiers. Finally, with the addition of his own five battalions of soldiers and horses, there are about 12,000 soldiers and horses in Xindengzhou Town. Where is there enough for this soldier? So Song Youliang hurriedly took advantage of Chongzhen's still on the rise and won over 25,000 soldiers.

Chongzhen originally agreed, but as soon as the words came out, Chongzhen repented again. At the beginning, Song Youliang said that he raised his own military salary, and Chongzhen was happy to do a business. But after thinking about it, you raised so many soldiers alone, and in the end, didn't you all cultivate Song Youliang's private soldiers? So how can it be? As a result, Chongzhen decided that among the 25,000 soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, the imperial court would allocate 20,000 military salaries, and Song Youliang would raise 5,000 military salaries by himself. Song Youliang secretly scolded in his heart, who doesn't know that the imperial court has no money to pay salaries at all, and in the end, he doesn't pay for it himself?

Chongzhen did not send a governor to Song Youliang, but soon Chongzhen sent a supervisor to Song Youliang. However, this person is not a eunuch, but Yuan Keli's son Yuan Shu. Yuan Shuzi Boying, in the ring, also known as Shiyu, Suiyang, Henan Province, Suizhou. With his father's military department Shangshu Yuan Ke Liyin official household department Langzhong, the official to Henan Buzheng Division right to participate in politics, Liang soldiers patrol the road. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Yuan Shu guarded filial piety for his father in Suizhou's house, and when the exiles attacked the city, Suiyangwei was defeated with a single blow. Yuan Shu broke his family and scattered his wealth with 2,000 gold to raise courage to kill the enemy, climbed the armor, advocated the first to defend, and fought hard for seven days and nights, until his eyes were sore, and Suizhou City was preserved. Yuan Shu looks handsome, how rough. Good at riding and shooting, there are side talents. In the eleventh year of Ming Chongzhen, the Qing army invaded Ming on a large scale, and the Ming generals cowered, Yuan Shu did not avoid death, and used the Chinese post of Hubu Lang to supervise the Liao left army to relieve the worries of the imperial court. When his father Yuan Keli was the commander-in-chief of Denglai, Yuan Shu has been by his father's side to participate in military affairs, this time the emperor restored Dengzhou Town, under the suggestion of Wang Chengen, decided to enable Yuan Keli's son Yuan Shu, appointed him as the governor of Dengzhou, and supervised the army. Song Youliang was still very afraid that Chongzhen would send a eunuch to him to be the prison army, and when the time came, he would think about looting all day long, and he would have to point fingers when he encountered major events, and he would have to grab credit for winning battles, and shirk responsibility for losing battles. Now that he is a loyal and virtuous minister, he understands military affairs, so it is naturally better.

Yuan Shu is 39 years old this year, tall and mighty, and does not look weak like ordinary civil officials. Yuan Shu was also a little surprised to see Song Youliang, although this young general soldier from a military family was born strong, he was directly powerful and not rude, and he spoke very decently. Yuan Shu originally felt that the emperor was very puzzled by the use of a young guard officer who was only in his twenties and had a milky smell. But Emperor Chongzhen's words made him speechless, "Who made Song Youliang, whom I fancied, so young?" ”

At the Yunxuan Pavilion in the city of Beijing, the future partners had a private meeting. Both of them wore civilian clothes and faced each other in the private room on the second floor of Yunxuan Pavilion.

"Lord Yuan!" Song Youliang arched his hand and said: "Song is in a hurry, so he can't wait for the official document to be issued, so he came to talk to Lord Yuan about business!" ”

Yuan Shu didn't mind and said: "Yuan has personally been to Liaoxi, and knows that the disaster of the East Captives has reached the point where it is imminent and burns his eyebrows. Eleven years after the East captives entered the customs, Yuan also saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. But so what? As the so-called Nan Zhong, Li Gang is useless; The hidden goodness is successful, and Zong Ze is hateful. Yuan Shu shook his head

What Yuan Shu said came from the editor Yang Tinglin's Shangshu, Yang Sichang was furious after reading it, and demoted him to Jiangxi to be a petty official. At that time, the entire imperial court knew Chongzhen's trust and partiality towards Yang Sichang, and they didn't dare to say it in person, but there were a lot of discussions behind it, and Yuan Shu was one of them

Song Youliang kindly reminded: "Lord Yuan, be careful that the wall has ears!" ”

Yuan Shu didn't care, but immediately changed the topic and said, "I don't know what Lord Song's plans are for the operation of Dengzhou Town?" ”

Song Youliang said with a smile: "Lingzun Festival Huangong (Yuan Keli) once said: Guarding the royal building, raising horses to increase soldiers, and learning to ride and shoot. As for the old and weak in Beijing, it is not advisable to slow down the comprehensive, and hide more grain and rice in preparation. It is especially advisable to make an exception for employing people, trying to restore the work of hussars, and to support the lack of county officials. If the world benefits from salt and iron, the military commander will not invade the fishery, and there will be no expulsion, and China can sit back and relax. Now, I think that with the addition of a United North Korea, I can get twice the result with half the effort! ”

Yuan Shu nodded, but said with some concern: "Now that North Korea has surrendered to the east, will it still help me to become a Ming Dynasty?" ”

Song Youliang said with a smile: "North Korea is in Cao Ying's heart in Han, but I think that I can't reach the whip of the Ming Dynasty, so I am temporarily compromised." As long as we let the North Koreans know that we still have thunder soldiers in Daming, North Korea will return to Daming. ”

"Hmm~" Yuan Shu nodded, people respect his father's ideas so much, what else do they have to say? So Yuan Shu said: "Lord Song, let's drink this cup and set off tomorrow." Yuan wants to inherit his father's legacy and defend the country with Lord Song. As he spoke, Yuan Shu raised his wine glass with both hands

"Yes, let's defend the country together!" Song Youliang also raised his glass and clinked glasses with Yuan Shu, Song Youliang drank all the wine in the cup, and then shouted: "Waiter, pay the bill~~~~~ Uh~~ No, Xiao Er, will account ~!" ”