Qing Lian fell first, and then said: "Yu Dao is polite, I was born in prison, and I am not on the right path, but the emperor saw me as a loyal servant in the world, and I was able to do things well, so I was rewarded for my simple release in Zhejiang, you are a second-class jinshi, and you don't know how many times better than me in your chest." ”

Yu Shufeng didn't take Qing Lian's kind words seriously: "Yun Si, you often walk beside the emperor, not only often Mu Enze, but also know the military aircraft best, although I am from the second class, but in order of rank, it is counted backwards, and I almost fell into the same jinshi." ”

He is the second-class jinshi in the ninth year of Daoguang, but the ranking is backwards, and he did almost fall to the third-class, but everyone present will not regard this as Yu Daotai's sincere words, ranking second-class, and giving the jinshi background is the most proud thing in Yu Shufeng's life.

"Since Yutai wants to catch ducks on the shelves, I have also been a parent official in Wen for more than ten years, so I will talk about it casually!" Qing Lian's tone became stern: "The first priority of the thief is to recruit bravery!" ”

"In the past, the pacification of the seven provinces of bandits, the victory of the country was brave in the township, and the bandits advocated chaos was also the most effective way for the township, and now the best policy is to recruit more villagers."

His words are all praised, not because the strategy is right or wrong, but because there is a lot of oil and water to be fished.

If we take the number of soldiers as an example, the total army of Wenzhou Town has 8,800 green battalion soldiers under its jurisdiction, although there are many vacancies, but it is more than enough to quell the hasty civil rebellion of the Red Turban Army, and in peacetime, there are often a number of Min Yong and Tu Yong, and the theoretical strength has exceeded 10,000 people.

But recruiting courage is a big profitable thing, no one will honestly recruit in full, you can take the opportunity to eat the empty amount to get a handful, in the past in the Wen Dao office, Qing Lian is a very conscientious one, recruit a hundred brave, the Taoist Yamen only took away ten vacancies, and the remaining vacancies are shared by everyone, as long as you don't go too far, there are fifty or sixty brave hundred, Qingdaotai will turn a blind eye.

What's more, in addition to the vacancy, there are still many items such as installation fees, equipment costs, and pulling fees, and the officials present feel that Qinglian is really old and sophisticated, and understands people's hearts best.

"The second priority is to raise salaries, Sun Tzu has a saying, the army will die if there is no burden, the newly recruited villagers need tens of thousands of gold every month, and the town soldiers also need to use silver, so we must persuade more donations, set up more members, and strive to have sufficient food."

As soon as he heard this, Yu Shufeng was extremely eager in his heart: "Yun Si said very much, the army will die if it has no baggage, and raising salaries is the most important." ”

He is the new Wen Chudao this year, for this Taoist light 11,000 taels of silver, before taking office to borrow 7,000 taels of silver from the Jin merchants, although it is a lot of scraped land, but in addition to paying interest, the silver only repaid 3,000 taels, and also owed the Jin merchants 4,000 taels, not to mention the 11,000 taels of silver under the Dao platform.

He was thinking about making money in the name of the project, Qing Lian's words were simply a godsend, and the officials below also applauded repeatedly: "Yun Si really has a far-sighted strategy!" ”

Raising money is not only profitable, but also can take the opportunity to set up a wide range of institutions, install old villagers, and even set up a large name to open up financial resources, who does not agree with such a proposition.

Yu Shufeng added: "It is important to raise money, and you should use a good person." ”

What is a good person, naturally he is his intimate person, he is bent on grasping the matter of raising salaries, and Qinglian does not expose it: "The third priority is to ask for soldiers and salaries, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, and Ningbo must do everything thoroughly." ”

Fuzhou is the residence of the governor of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, Hangzhou has the governor of Zhejiang, the political envoy, the envoy of the inspector, the scholar and the government, and Ningbo is the residence of the governor of Zhejiang water and land who is in charge of the green camp of the whole province.

What Qing Lian said is that these three places must be taken care of, and the emergency performance of asking for soldiers and salaries must not be missing, and the usual ice and charcoal respect must not be lacking, so as to be consistent from top to bottom, and work together to be promoted and make a fortune.

At that time, if the soldiers can be paid together, then the Red Kou is still powerful, which is really a crime of non-war, and can pacify the Red Kou, it is the unity of Zhejiang and Fujian, and the governor and the following have made miraculous achievements.

If the soldiers' salaries do not arrive, and the Red Kou succeeds, it is still a crime of non-war, and if the Red Kou can be exterminated, it is the Wen civil and military officials who are loyal to the country and swear to the death of the thief, all of whom have miraculous honors.

Everyone present nodded again and again, and said in their hearts: "No wonder the Qingyun Division will rise step by step, although he is a prisoner, he can be a member of a province." ”

In history, this Qinglian is also an expert in promoting officials and making a fortune, Xianfeng was promoted to the political envoy of Zhejiang in seven years, and Xianfeng was one step to the sky in ten years, and became the governor of Henan.

But although he will make money, but neither can fight, nor can the people, at that time the army across Henan, Qinglian as the governor of Henan, but is helpless, delay the military aircraft, but and Henan political envoys continue to participate in each other, and finally was demoted to Jiangxi political envoys.

When he was appointed as the political envoy in Jiangxi, he became an expert in making money because he was also the general manager of the Hunan Army Grain Station of the Zeng Guo Domain, but he made too much money, and as a result, several corruption cases in the office of the political envoy in Zhejiang were turned out by people with a heart, and he was ordered to retire and retire early.

It's just that he is always a little level in addition to making money, and he mentioned the fourth priority: "The fourth priority is to quickly send the general to cross the Oujiang River north and pacify the Hongkou!" ”

It stands to reason that this matter is Yu Shufeng Yu Daotai's duty, as a soldier, he has to lead the troops to recover Lecheng as soon as possible, but he and everyone like to be promoted and make a fortune, but he doesn't like to be ruined and killed, and immediately he turned around and asked: "What does the town army think?" ”

Ye Bingzhong, the acting general soldier of Wenzhou, usually wanted to take off the word "acting" from his title, but now he has changed his rhetoric: "I should have personally led the town soldiers to cross the river, but the defense of the county town is the most important, and I dare not leave without permission, I am just a seal officer, I don't know anything about the situation in Wenzhen, and I dare not make mistakes." ”

Although Ruichun, the prefect of Wenzhou next to him, was born in Mengbaqi, he was not a person who could make decisions, and when he saw Yunsi, Daotai, and Zhenjun, they all took the opportunity to prevaricate, and saw that everyone was staring at him: "This official is also the same as the town army, he is a seal protection officer, and he does not dare to leave the county without permission." ”

The ball was pushed back and forth, and finally pushed back to Yu Shufeng's body, and he could only ask: "How is the deputy general Chi Jiangong?" ”

Qinglian has been in charge of Wen for more than ten years, and is very familiar with the situation in Wenzhou Town: "That is a veteran, when the guerrilla was a big break in Dinghai, this time the Red Kou uprising, and self-recruited brave hundreds, can be described as my Wenzhen old Lian Po!" ”

"Very good!" Yu Shufeng immediately said: "Zhen Army, you can choose a strong general from the city garrison camp and cross the river north with Deputy General Chi!" Vice General Chi raised his own brave and brave, but he took it with him. ”

As soon as they saw that someone had taken this fateful errand, the officials present were all relieved, and praised again and again: "The fortune division can be planned, the Daotai can be broken, and the red kou can be determined in the near future." ”

It's just that when everyone was in high spirits, there was a long follow-up to inform the bad news: "Ladies and gentlemen, my soldiers accidentally fired artillery, mistakenly opened the houses outside the East Gate, and burned dozens of shops and houses, and now the crying is shaking the ground." ”

Everyone felt embarrassed, the thief ship fired no more than a few soldiers of the green battalion, but the result of the indiscriminate fire of the other side was better than the number of thief guns.

But Qing Lian, as the highest official present, had already made up his mind: "Nonsense! This is all caused by the indiscriminate firing of shells by thieves and cannot be misrepresented. ”

But not long after, bad news came: "Zifushan artillery cracked, in addition to the battalion soldiers killed and wounded a few people, still burned four onlookers in the city, burned six people, the thief boat heard the cannon has escaped, our army did not hit a single shot." ”

Qing Lian had already concluded: "Yes, the thief boat saw the bombardment of our artillery, and fled from the wind, in order to avoid my artillery, the thief soldiers jumped into the river and drowned countless people." ”

Yu Shufeng nodded in praise, and the audience laughed, but Qing Lian fell another shot on the chessboard: "Yu Dao, you lost this game of chess." ”

The Red Turban Army in Yueqing City didn't know anything about these changes that happened inside and outside Wenzhou City, they only knew that after this morning, the residents of Yueqing City were a little more in awe of them.

That's the effect of dozens of human heads hanging out, and they are no longer mud legs in the countryside of Dongxiang.

It's just that everyone is talking about one name in private, and that is: "Liu Checkpoint." ”

Sun Huzi has already brought over the so-called team of "death squads", a total of seventeen people: "Check, this is all handed over, when the head is killed, the fathers and elders of the city are applauding!" ”

Liu Chang knew that this might be the national character of the Chinese to watch, but if he went to the execution ground, there would still be ignorant and fearless people who applauded, and he glanced at this group of trembling former green battalion soldiers: "You have all killed people, right?" ”

The green battalion soldiers immediately knelt down for Liu Chang, kowtowed, and said in a loud voice: "Check the grace, check the grace, the villain has already handed in the name of the vote, and he doesn't dare to have two hearts!" ”

Liu Chang asked his cadres: "How do you think this team of death squads should come in handy?" ”

The Green Battalion's head slammed louder and louder.