Shanxi Xuancheng Bu Political Envoy Division is located in the north of the central part of the Ming Dynasty, east of Beijing, west of Shaanxi, south of Henan border, north of Mongolian Tatar Department. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi has been an important border town, there are Datong Town and Taiyuan Town in the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, and the Jin merchants are close to the water and the first to get the month, relying on the supply of border army materials and starting, and finally rich in the world.

Shanxi consists of five prefectures and two prefectures, and the political envoy Yamen is located in the central Taiyuan Mansion, and after receiving the appointment, Lu Xiangsheng immediately rushed to Taiyuan with a thousand Beijing camp guards personally arranged by the emperor.

Lu Xiangsheng can be said to be an outlier among civil officials, although he is a Jiangnan literati, but he likes to ride and shoot since he was a child, and he does not forget to practice martial arts while learning literature, so he can be admitted to the Jinshi, which proves that he is not an ordinary power, but an all-round talent.

In fact, as early as when he was the prefect of the Daimyo's Mansion, he wanted to recruit troops to exterminate the local rogues, but before he could put it into action, he was recruited by the emperor to the Beijing Division and appointed as the deputy general of the Beijing camp.

For other literati, this kind of appointment may be a little difficult to accept, but for Lu Xiangsheng, it is right in the middle, because he has had the dream of leading the army to fight since he was a child, and now he has been promoted to the deputy general of the Beijing battalion, it can be said that the dream is about to come true. Jingying is the emperor's pro-army, with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, sooner or later there will be a war, you must know that there are few emperors in the Ming Dynasty who are not aggressive!

Unexpectedly, before this Beijing battalion participated in the war, he was sent to Shanxi, the governor of a province, responsible for exterminating the thieves. How could this not make him overjoyed, as long as he recruited a large army, his ideal would be realized immediately. Therefore, as soon as he received the order, he hurried to Taiyuan Mansion, and without even taking a breath of breath, he went to Shanxi to command the envoy to gather a group of leaders and brains to discuss conscription.

Why did he go to the capital to command the envoys instead of going to the political envoys' yamen? Here is an introduction to the local government system of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time in the Ming Dynasty, the local administrative unit was not called the province but the Xuancheng Political Envoy, and the highest administrative officer of a province was not called the provincial governor or secretary, but the left and right political envoys, all of whom were second-class feudal officials in charge of the civil affairs of a province.

In addition to the Xuanchengbu Political Envoy Division, there are also the Judicial Department and the Command Envoy Division, and these three yamen are collectively called the three divisions, all of which are the highest organs of a province, and they are at the same level in terms of level, but the things they are in charge of are different. The political envoys were in charge of civil affairs, the prosecutors were in charge of prisons, and they were all in charge of the military.

The Governor and the Governor are not permanent officials at the local level, but temporary officials set up above the provincial level, and their full names are respectively: "The Governor of a certain place supervises military affairs and pays for military affairs" and "the governor of a certain place supervises military affairs and manages food and salaries". That is to say, the governor and governor were sent by the imperial court to temporarily deal with local military affairs, and after the matter was over, the governor and governor would not stay in the local area, but returned to the imperial court to resume their lives, and the officials were reinstated.

Although Lu Xiangsheng, the governor, had higher authority than the three local departments, he was mainly in charge of military affairs, so after he arrived in Taiyuan, he went directly to the capital to command the envoy instead of Xuanchengbu.

The military households of the Ming Dynasty were hereditary, and when there was no war, the military households became Tuntian Wei, which was managed by the officials of each hundred households, and there was a thousand households above the ten hundred households, and there was a guard post above the five thousand households, and the guards were all commanding the envoys.

The Ming Dynasty's capital command envoy is actually not a combat unit, but a military and political management body, mainly responsible for the management of the garrison's hometown and daily drills, when the real battle is the imperial court will send the general army or the governor or the governor to command the troops, at that time it has nothing to do with the command of the embassy.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng came to Shanxi to command the envoy not to directly lead the troops to fight from here, the commander of the envoy can be said to have no soldiers, and he only has military households under him. You said how many soldiers and horses you wanted, take the order of the military department, I will recruit you, weapons and equipment can also be received in the arsenal, as for grain, grass and silver, I'm sorry, you go and ask the court yourself, we are not responsible!

Lu Xiangsheng checked the household registration book of the Shanxi Commander, the number of military households is enough, Shanxi has always been an important military town, the Ming court does not know how many soldiers and horses have been stationed here, and it is natural to stay in Tuntian directly, you must know that when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, there were 2.7 million troops, most of these troops eventually became guards, and more than half of them were stationed on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and each border town had at least more than 100,000 military households, and Shanxi had two border towns, so, There are no less than 300,000 military households under the jurisdiction of the Shanxi Metropolitan Command Division!

There is naturally no problem with the transfer of 100,000 troops from more than 300,000 military households, Lu Xiangsheng drew out 20 guards far away from the border, and asked Shanxi to command the envoys to directly recruit 5,000 men and horses in each guard, even if the problem of the source of troops for the 100,000 army is solved, just go directly to the arsenal to collect the weapons and armor and other armies, and the rest is drills, these are not much of a problem, Lu Xiangsheng has studied with Qin Liangyu in Beijing for nearly three years after all, plus he himself is a military fan, Naturally, training the army is not a problem.

The key is the grain, grass and silver, not that the emperor did not prepare food and salary for him, the emperor gave it, and before the expedition, the emperor personally handed over the food and salary to him, and what he gave was not three million taels, but five million taels - silver tickets!

With these five million taels of silver tickets, Lu Xiangsheng was really a little apprehensive, this large roll of letter paper is not like letter paper, and the silver ticket of straw paper is not like grass paper, can it really be exchanged for five million taels of silver? Although Jun has no jokes, he does not doubt the emperor's personality, but that is five million taels!

Lu Xiangsheng commanded the envoy in the capital to deal with the conscription matters and then led the guards to the Shanxi branch of Rixinglong, along the way he always felt a little unsure, if he couldn't mention the silver, it would be a big trouble.

As soon as he entered the Rixinglong branch, an old man who looked like a shopkeeper greeted him and bowed: "Dare to ask, but Governor Lu, Lord Lu?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng was not curious that this old man could recognize him, and it was not a secret operation for him to take office, although there was no fanfare, but the formation was there, so many personal guards, who would it be if it was not the new governor.

He took out a silver ticket directly from his bosom and handed it to the old man, and said tentatively: "You are the shopkeeper here, right?" Can this be redeemed right away? ”

The old man did not take the silver ticket, nor did he answer him immediately, but bowed down and invited him into a reception room, and poured hot tea for him with his own hands, and then, taking the silver ticket from his hand, carefully distinguishing it, and then replied affirmatively: "There is no problem with the silver ticket, and it can be exchanged immediately." ”

The face value of the silver ticket is 100,000 taels, and the shopkeeper is not blushing or panting, and this calmness alone impresses Lu Xiangsheng. He simply took out all the silver tickets in his arms, and continued to probe: "What about these? ”

The shopkeeper took the silver tickets, checked them one by one, and replied affirmatively: "Fifty silver tickets with a denomination of 100,000 taels, a total of five million taels, need to be transferred, and you can exchange them all for silver within three days." However, this is a non-local exchange, and we have to charge half of the handling fee, and we can only exchange 4.75 million taels of silver for you in total. ”

Lu Xiangsheng asked in disbelief: "Do you really have so much cash?" ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he said proudly: "We are the largest business in the Ming Dynasty, and the total share capital has grown to 50,000 taels, and the semicolon of a province can't even make up a few million taels of silver, so wouldn't it be a joke." ”

Fifty thousand taels! Lu Xiangsheng felt that the amount of money was a bit beyond his cognition, and he heard that the big boss behind the scenes of this prosperous day was the first product of the dynasty, the governor of the five armies, the governor of the left capital, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Although he is a temporary virtual title, he can be regarded as a first-class official, but all his family property adds up to less than 5,000 taels, and he is 50,000 taels, this guy will not move the treasury of the Ming Dynasty to his own home!

He didn't know that the Xinglong business was really the hidden treasury of the Ming Dynasty, and the big boss behind the scenes was not Luo Yangxing, but Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong.

Of course, our little emperor is still very generous to his cronies, as long as Lu Xiangsheng passes this test and exterminates the peasant rebel army, let alone 5,000 taels, even if it is 50,000 taels, 500,000 taels Zhu Cijiong may reward him.