Zhu Pingjin went back to his office to have a snack and continued to return to the main hall to participate in the proceedings. Jiang Dingzhen had finished eating, and was greeting Shu Guoping who came in a hurry.

"Mr. Jiang, I will tell you about what I played in the morning." Zhu Pingjin commanded. He took the opportunity to be quiet and think some things through.

Jiang Dingzhen talked about the fact that the local rioters were harassing Shunqing Mansion along the Huaying Mountain Range, and was about to go on to talk, when a straight young man stood up from the chair opposite and asked, "Huaying Mountain is divided into east and west wings, the west wing is Shunqing Mansion, and the east wing is Chongqing Mansion. Why didn't the local rioters attack Chongqing, but just loot Shunqing? ”

This is staff officer Hong Qixin.

"The vassal king does not raise soldiers. But this Shu prince is just a monk! Jiang Dingzhen slandered in his heart. There is a row of palace copywriters in front of them, all of them look like scholars, but except for a few of these scholars, they are all tall and tall, and they are clearly soldiers who have undergone strict training.

Despite the churning in his heart, Jiang Dingzhen still replied calmly: "Chongqing Mansion originally had a Chongqing garrison, and since last year, there have been more than 10,000 garrisons of General Qin Liangyu. Now, although the Qin general army led the army back to Shiyan, there were still hundreds of white pole soldiers left in Chongqing. The prefect of Chongqing, Wang Xingjian, plundered the people with thieves and led his soldiers to kill the thieves, so the local tyrants did not dare to plunder Chongqing. Du Zhifu has the intention to suppress thieves, but Shunqing has no soldiers to fight, let alone soldiers who dare to fight! ”

Jiang Dingzhen took the opportunity to tell the suffering of the lack of soldiers in Shunqing Mansion.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang set up guards in dangerous places in the world, all over the county. Or a house with a number of guards, or a number of houses with a guard. Boryeong and Thuan Kyeong are the latter, and there are only one and two houses in total. Yiwei refers to Lizhou Wei. Hongwu Nian placed Lizhou Wei in Guangyuan County, Baoning Prefecture. The two are the Boryeong Shouyu Senhu Office and the Gwangan Shouyu Senhu Office. Boryeong guarded the garrison of the Thousand Households in Boryeong, while Gwangan guarded the garrison of the Thousand Households in Gwanganju.

Since the beginning of the Banzhou Rebellion in Wanli Year, the Sichuan Health Center has continued to draw troops to supplement the camp. In the year of Chongzhen, it became commonplace to draw troops to supplement the camp. Shunqing Province is located behind Boryeong, which is a safe area in the eyes of the provincial officials, so it is a key area for drawing troops.

"Now in Shunqing Mansion, only two or three hundred soldiers are still strong, and the rest are all old and weak, and they are unbearable to fight." Jiang Dingzhen concluded.

"Mr. Jiang, I heard that the gentry of Shunqing gave out money and raised a lot of families." He Huan asked, "Could it be that these family members are also unbearable?" ”

It's better not to say it. Speaking of these family homes, Jiang Dingzhen couldn't help sighing.

Jiang Dingzhen explained that in the early years of Chongzhen, there were bandits sporadically in the Yilong Mountains, and a few years later, Shaanxi thieves attacked Shu, and Sichuan and Shaanxi bandits merged. In order to deal with the increasingly rampant banditry, the Shunqing gentry, like the Baoning gentry, donated money to raise people and organized many family teams and nursing teams. The effect was good at first, but over time, the gentry's pockets could not afford it. What's even more hateful is that the local tyrants gradually understand the details of the gentry, and whichever gentry has more money and recruits more soldiers, they will specifically target which one. After several battles, the gentry were all afraid. They are afraid that they will be too active, and they will become the target of the local mobs.

"Mr. Jiang, Shunqing Mansion is so important. How can you save it? The main army is not enough, and the guest army is also available. Shu Guoping also asked.

"Province?" Jiang Dingzhen twitched and smiled bitterly, "Shunqing has ten prefectures and ten counties, and one state and one county have not been lost." Where will the province send troops? The guest army is none other than Qin Chu, and the Qin army went out of the customs and was used in the Central Plains; Most of the Chu army, back to defend Jing Chu; If you talk about Zhang Zhuokai, Jia Denglian, and Mo Chongwen, they are not so much officials and soldiers as bandits. Invite them, it's better to invite the thugs! ”

Now everyone understands.

If you can cover it, you can cover it up, and you can report good news but not bad news, this is the rule of officialdom. As long as the county seat is not lost, it is a county that is not lost. The province didn't talk about the transfer of troops, even if it was a submission to Zhu Pingjin, they didn't want to mention it. Although the combat effectiveness of Jia Denglian and Mo Chongwen is stronger than that of Zhang Zuokai, when it comes to military discipline, the three armies are one dog (HE).

"Moreover, now there is more silk in Sichuan and less grain, and the price of grain is high and the price of silk is low. In previous years, Shunqing Mansion could still fold silver and settle taxes, but now it ......," Jiang Dingzhen shook his head and sighed.

Shunqing and Boryeong are the main raw silk producing areas in Sichuan. Especially in Shunqing Mansion, a complete industrial chain has been formed from planting mulberry and raising silkworms to reeling silk and weaving. This has largely supported the local economy of Thuan Khanh Province. Nowadays, there is more silk in the south of the Yangtze River and less grain, and cheap high-quality raw silk has poured into Sichuan, which has greatly impacted the local raw silk industry in Sichuan. In addition, the people's livelihood has withered in recent years, and the people can't even eat enough, how can they have spare money to buy silk and satin? Recently, Luo Jingyun and Chen Youfu jointly played the New Deal Dam incident, which mentioned Shunqing Sannong, who went down to the river to pull fiber because of the sharp drop in silk prices.

Raw silk is not useless, on the contrary, it is extremely useful.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing is the first place. Light silk can be worn, and gunpowder can be wrapped.

The Firearms Bureau mentioned in the experiment report that if the Tiger Squat Cannon was wrapped in fine silk, gunpowder was wrapped. Because the silk burned sufficiently, leaving no or little residue, the gun could be reloaded with a second round without dipping it in water. Cotton cloth and tissue paper will definitely not work. Direct reloading without dipping the chamber in water is extremely important to increase the battlefield firing speed of artillery. Therefore, the ammunition for the Tiger Squat Cannon issued by the northbound advance detachment this time was all wrapped in gunpowder.

Silk could also be used as a soldier's underwear. Because of the high strength of raw silk, the modulus (Note 1) is large. Multiple layers of silk, properly woven, can even serve as body armor for modern armies, shielding them from bullets. The Mengyuan cavalry used silk as underwear, and when the arrow pierced the armor, it could directly pull the clothes and pull out the arrow. Zhu Pingjin also had such plans. It's just that the army uses a large amount of clothing, and the current supply of cotton cloth is sufficient, so this plan was temporarily abandoned.

In addition to military use, raw silk could also be used for the tea and horse trade. It's just that the Tibetan area is cold, and the sales of light and thin silk are not large, but the thick and gorgeous satin is very popular with the upper class in the Tibetan area. The brocade produced in Chengdu Prefecture is famous all over the country, and Zhu Pingjian's gift to the Tibetan people in Gao'antai at Feixian Pass is an extremely expensive brocade. In addition to the demand in Tibetan areas, there is also a strong demand for silk in India, Nepal and Afghanistan. Cao Sanbao came into contact with some Tibetan businessmen in the field. They told Cao Sanbao that a lot of tea and silk had crossed the Great Snow Mountains and reached the so-called Delhi Empire (India).

……

The afternoon session did not end. Jiangding Town temporarily stayed in the palace to serve tea.

In the evening, Zhu Pingjin summoned Jiang Dingzhen again. But this summons was not in the main hall of the Jinde Palace, but in the office of Zhu Pingjin in the East Pavilion of the Jinde Palace.

Zhu Pingjin got straight to the point: "Mr. Jiang, I have been waiting for a long time. Governor Du invited Mr. Jiang to meet with this son, but he didn't know what he wanted? ”

Jiang Ding Town has been in officialdom for many years, and he is an understanding person. He knelt down to the bottom and said, "Governor Du is willing to help the ministers of the Yazhou Kingdom!" ”

Zhu Pingjin smiled slightly. In the afternoon analysis meeting, Cheng Xiangfeng made this judgment.

"What about the soldiers, the grain, the taxes, and the king's village?"

"One should listen to the command of the Son. Du Zhifu said that he is over sixty years old, and he has not been an official for a few years. As long as the prince keeps him safe and gives him a small village to live in the future, he is willing to offer the seal ribbon! ”

Before officials retire, it was the most problematic, and it seems that the same was true of the Ming Dynasty.

"Doesn't Governor Du want to return to his hometown with wealth and wealth?"

"Du Zhifu is a native of Xuzhou, Henan."

I understand, it turns out that the hometown of this Du Zhifu is in the liberated area, and there is no way to go back.

"Invited by the prefect of Zhun Du. It's just that Governor Du still has to work hard in Shunqing for a few years! ”

"Thank you for your grace!" Jiangding Town made another big salute.

"But Mr. Jiang was originally a minister of the imperial court, but now he is a prefect before and after the saddle, I don't know ...... Mr. Jiang," Zhu Pingjin smiled. He had been rummaging in the memory bank since he saw this Jiangding Town in the morning, until he finally remembered it after dinner.

It turned out that Jiangding Town was the biggest leading party for Zhang Xianzhong to enter Sichuan! And his fate was the worst among the thieves and civil officials. Shengsheng was skinned by Zhang Xianzhong, who does not talk about the rules of officialdom!

……

The prince asked about the future, and Jiang Dingzhen hurriedly said: "The criminal minister is willing to listen to the dispatch of the prince!" ”

Listen to me, that contemptible person is not welcome! Good people have the usage of good people, and capable people have the usage of capable people. And the adulterer, there is also the usage of the adulterer!

"Mr. offended Wang Yingxiong and Wang Yingxi's brothers, and now Zhou Yanru has recovered, and it is the time to gain power. Therefore, Yixing is in the court, and it is impossible for Mr. to get away with being an official, can Mr. know? ”

"Wang Yingxiong is a party in Yixing, and the ministers are ashamed to be ministers in the same palace as him!" Saying that, Jiang Dingzhen's face was already distorted, "If one day in the future, the prince wants to get rid of the Wang family, the criminal minister is willing to move forward!" ”

"It is forgivable to do sins in heaven, but you cannot live for your own sins." Zhu Pingjin reminded Jiang Dingzhen, who was much older than him, "He will defeat himself!" ”

"The words of the son of the world, the sinner is enlightened!"

Obviously, Jiang Dingzhen did not understand what Zhu Pingjin meant by "not living". What he was thinking about was Wang Yingxiong and Wang Yingxi's brothers; And Zhu Pingjin in front of him was thinking about himself.

Zhu Pingjin called out to Jiang Dingzhen, looking with interest at this traitor who would be written into history, speculating about the feeling when his feet were buried in the ground by Butcher Zhang, and then skinned alive and cramped. A bloody pain spread from Jiang Dingzhen's bloody face to Zhu Pingjian, invaded his skin, drilled into his seven orifices, and penetrated into his bone marrow, making him tremble with pain.

Zhu Pingjin bit his lip lightly and drove out the hallucinations in his brain.

"Your Majesty allowed my Shu Domain to reclaim the wasteland by itself in the feudal country. Since Governor Du's mansion conforms to the will of the people, then Wang Zhuang of Shunqing Mansion will ask Mr. Jiang. For related matters, Mr. Jiang is requested to negotiate with Du Zhifu on behalf of the palace. Zhu Pingjin directly changed the identity of Jiang Dingzhen from Party A to Party B, and gave him another date: "In the future, Yixing will fall, and Mr. will still be of great use!" ”

After patiently explaining many matters, Zhu Pingjin personally sent Jiang Dingzhen out of the Jinde Palace.

"Downgrading and sending" is already a very high-standard courtesy, not to mention sending out the door. On the way, Zhu Pingjin suddenly remembered something and asked Jiang Dingzhen if he knew a gentleman named Gong Wanjing (Note 2) in Peng County.

"Mr. Gong," Jiang Dingzhen said with a smile, "Chongzhen has been a jinshi for ten years, and he has returned to his hometown after guarding the system, how can the criminal officer not know it?" ”

……

The silver plate hangs high, and the night is as cool as water.

The lantern leading the way trembled like a ghost fire, and Jiang Ding Town, which was grateful, gradually disappeared, hidden in the dark shadows of the high walls of the Shu Palace. He will stay in the palace tonight, and tomorrow, he will meet with the General Staff Officer, the director, the intelligence bureau, and Li Chongwen, who has rushed back from Renshou, to familiarize himself with and master the military, political, and economic management systems of the Shu Palace. Zhu Pingjin had already greeted his subordinates: hollowing out all the information that Jiang Dingzhen had.

"Lord Shizi, the slave has something to report." Li Sixian's slightly uneasy voice remembered behind Zhu Pingjian.

"Talk as you go!" Zhu Pingjin said, crossing the threshold of the Jinde Palace.

"Jintang County reported urgently that a boat on the Tuojiang River capsized, killing about 200 people. It was dark and the water was fast, and only one was fished up, a girl, less than thirteen years old, and all her family was dead. ”

"Got it." Zhu Pingjin stopped, "If this girl wants to, she can enter the palace as a maid." If there's anything else you want to ask, let's ask it as well. ”

The godfather was called by Miss Luo, and when he came out, his eyes were red and he couldn't stop crying. The slave asked him, and the godfather didn't say anything......"

"Cao Banban doesn't say it, it's his loyal nature!" Zhu Pingjin turned around and stared at Li Sixian: "Don't ask!" Cao Banban is fine, he will return to Qingcheng Mountain the next day, you prepare some fresh gifts for your mother, let him bring them with him. ”

Without waiting for Li Sixian to reply, Zhu Pingjin continued: "This Mr. Jiang just now is not a loyal person. Lust for profit, he will die sooner or later on the lust! It's time for you to go out and practice! You go to Shun Khanh Mansion and serve as his deputy. However, after the establishment of the Shunqing Guardian Corps, you will serve as the main supervisor. You keep an eye on him, and once you find out that he is betraying the Lord and seeking glory, you will immediately take advantage of it, and you don't have to report it in advance! ”

"Yes! The slave understands. It's just that the son of the world is ......"

"Qin descendant takes over from you. At the beginning of the year, the little eunuchs selected by Cao Banban selected some virtuous and talented ones to be put into the Jinde Palace. You and Cao Banban draw up a list, and this son will check a few people. This Shizi still has to approve some excerpts tonight, you go to Miss Luo now, and ask her to immediately pick up the night pearl and put it in the jade vault. It's a ghostly thing, and people will lose their children and grandchildren after a long time of contact! Tomorrow, the prince of this world will personally explain the reason to Miss Luo. ”

"Slaves obey!"

Feng Ruhu, who had a bearded face, pestled a short spear and stood straight at the door of the Jinde Palace. Seeing that Shizi was still busy so late, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice, fortunately, he didn't have so many worries in his life. As long as he stands for a month and does not violate any military regulations, he will have a chance to return to the battlefield. It's just that in this month, I don't know how many heads have landed!

Thinking of this, Feng Ruhu regretted again.

Note 1: Modulus, a material science term, refers to the ratio of stress to strain in a material under stress. A domestic professional publication has forwarded a test document on the ballistic materials of the US military. The documents show that spider silk has the largest modulus, much higher than Kevlar (aramid) fibers. The same is true for silk, which has a slightly smaller modulus.

Note 2: Gong Wanjing, the same name as Jiangding Town, is the Sichuan Belt and Road Party. The historical site of Gong Wanjing is unknown, and some historical materials call him a native of Linchuan.