Wang Bingzhen offered advice: "To maintain the status of Gucheng, we must take the upper route. ”

Gao Junshan asked, "It seems that you already have some way to come to me, right?" ”

"Dissatisfied with King Qin." Wang Bingzhen took a sip of tea, "There is a person under your army, who is the nephew of Xue Guoguan, the first assistant of the cabinet, you can use his relationship to establish a friendly relationship with Xue Guoguan, and let him say a lot of good things for King Qin in front of the emperor, so that you can sit back and relax." ”

Gao Junshan said: "How did I not know that there is such a person in my subordinates? ”

Wang Bingzhen explained: "He is the old department of the Eight Kings, surnamed Xue, because he is one eye, the army calls him Xue blind." ”

"Looks like you know a lot." Gao Junshan stared at Wang Bingzhen's face.

Wang Bingzhen said: "King Qin, don't misunderstand, I'm thinking about King Qin." ”

Gao Junshan picked up the teacup and didn't drink it, and said with his head bowed: "I'll leave this matter to you, and you can go directly to Liu Hongru and discuss with him to handle this matter well." ”

Wang Bingzhen knew that this was to send off guests, so he took the initiative to get up and said, "No, you must do your best." Say goodbye! ”

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In Gucheng, Zhang Xianzhong's scattered men and horses, and more than 50,000 returned to the team, and these people were divided into 20 Zhenwu battalions, and the Zhenwu battalion and the Lianwu battalion belonged to the reserve army.

After Gao Junshan surrendered in Gucheng, he only received six months' salary of 20,000 people from the imperial court, and in the name of insufficient military salaries, he sent the training battalion and the Zhenwu battalion to the countryside to collect grain and salary from the local gentry and wealthy households. This hand shocked many large families in the countryside.

Anyway, there are many people in the Lianwu Camp and Zhenwu Camp, and Gao Junshan transferred ten battalions to set up tax collection points on the main traffic roads along the river to collect commercial taxes from passing merchants. In order to ensure supply, a commercial procurement team was dispatched to Xiangyang, Zaoyang, Xinye, Yunxian and other places to purchase military supplies, especially all kinds of semi-finished products needed for preparing gunpowder, casting guns, and making armor, as well as various medicinal materials.

It's not enough to just spend money, Gao Junshan also purchased the best-selling materials in Gucheng, shipped them to the neighboring counties of Sixiang in large quantities, and sold them at a high price, because it was an exclusive business, and the business was very prosperous.

Just after the New Year of the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638 AD), Huang Yunfa, a Jin merchant, drove 5,000 good horses to see Gao Jun Mountain.

"Jinfu (Huang Yunfazi), I haven't seen you for a few years, have you forgotten my Gaojun Mountain?"

Huang Yunfa accompanied the smiling face: "How dare you, how dare you." ”

Gao Junshan patted him on the shoulder: "You have made a lot of windfalls behind my back in the past few years, right?" ”

Huang Yunfa hurriedly explained: "It's not that Yunfa doesn't want to see King Qin, in the past few years, you have been going around to kill, one time in Henan, one time in Shaanxi, I just found out your whereabouts, you are pulling out again, it is difficult to see you!" ”

Gao Junshan knew that what he said was all the truth, so he forgave him, after all, Huang Yunfa helped him a lot.

"Now it's fine." Gao Junshan said confidently, "This valley city is my world, and I want to take root in this valley city." Blessings! I would like to hire you as my Business Supervisor, would you like to? ”

The second monk Huang Yunfa was puzzled and asked, "What is a business supervisor?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "I also want to be like you, to do business everywhere, you help me give me guidance, so that I don't be deceived, this is business supervision." ”

Huang Yunfa replied without thinking: "King Qin has raised Yunfa too much, how can I be qualified to be your business supervisor?" Yunfa is only destined to run errands for King Qin, and what King Qin wants, Yunfa ideas will be sent to you. ”

Gao Junshan knew that this kind of profiteer was very slippery, in this turbulent era, he would not tie himself to one party's forces, he must have secretly had dealings with Huang Taiji, let alone the high-ranking officials of the court, otherwise how could he be so easy to come and go?

Gao Junshan didn't force him, but just told him that now that he had stabilized, he needed his help to get some scarce strategic resources, and as for what it was, he would ask Sun Yuanhua to make a list.

When Ji Ya heard that Huang Yunfa was coming, she also came to meet Huang Yunfa, and Huang Yunfa told Ji Ya that her father had died in Qinghai three years earlier, and that her brother Ezhe had surrendered to Huang Taiji after his father's death.

When Jiya heard the bad news about her father, it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and tears flowed down like pearls with broken threads, and then she cried silently.

Accompanied by Gao Junshan, Jiya returned to the military tent of the Mongolian camp in the military camp, and set up a mourning hall for Lin Dan Khan in the camp, she led more than 500 people such as Wuliji to pray for the messenger together, and invited the lama to recite the "Yue Confucian Music Sutra" in front of the mourning hall. After that, Jiya stayed here for three months and did not return home.

After being stationed in Gucheng, although there was no war, Gao Junshan's military training was still not relaxed, and his elite soldiers of the Fifth Brigade trained every day, never slackened, and were always ready to go to the battlefield.

Gao Junshan summed up the experience and lessons of Tongbai's military training, combined with actual combat, and put forward the idea that the division of the Fifth Brigade should be "not broken down, and it cannot be delayed." "The six-character training standard; Gao Junshan also formally set up a supervision office, and transferred Chongwen's disciples Tang Liangyi, Lin Mengguan, and Jiang Shifang to the supervision office, respectively serving as the chief and deputy supervisors, and its functions are equivalent to Zhu Youzhen's supervision of the army.

In February, the imperial court sent a minister to inspect Gucheng.

Gao Junshan immediately summoned eleven leaders in various fields, including Liu Hongru, Tian Wenju, Li Xin, Zhou Shichen, Jiang Guorong, Ma Yuanli, Liu Da, Bai Wenxuan, Wang Shangli, Hui Dengxiang, and Tang Liangyi, to discuss countermeasures.

After deliberation, a four-no's policy was formulated, the contents of which were: do not obey the law, do not release troops, should not be transferred, and should not enter the government.

At the same time, it was unanimously agreed that the minister should be welcomed with a warm and positive attitude, and the purpose of his visit was obvious, that he had come to find out how many soldiers and horses there were in Gao Jun Mountain. Gao Junshan decided to hide his strength from the imperial court, and only showed 50,000 martial arts training camps to the ministers.

Everyone prepared intensively for three days, and welcomed the minister into the Yamen of Gucheng with joy.

The person who came to Gucheng to inspect was called Bao Fengqi, and he said that he was the minister of the Qincha, which was to exalt him, but in fact, he was just a military department director sent by Xiong Wencan.

Bao Fengqi was accompanied by Li Chengzhang, the imperial history of the Meiji Academy, and Gao Junshan ordered Li Jiuhua and Jiang Guorong to accompany him throughout the process.

Li Jiuhua was specially transferred from the Navy Department by Gao Junshan to receive Bao Fengqi, because he and Bao Fengqi had the same friendship, and they were both Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen.

Jiang Guorong and Li Chengzhang are fellow villagers, so the task of receiving Li Chengzhang is none other than him.

Gao Junshan called Li Jiuhua and Jiang Guorong to his side and instructed: "You must receive Bao Fengqi and Li Chengzhang attentively, and when they first arrived, give them heavy gifts, the gifts have been prepared for them, and you take someone to Liu Hongru to collect them." ”

The two took the order and left.

At this time, Sun Kewang came to report that Huang Yunfa was leaving Gucheng and was anxious to see Gao Junshan.