Ma Maocai asked Li Banghua, Minister of Military Aircraft, about the person who was sent by the imperial court to replace him, which was also right.

After all, he, the former supervisor of Yansui Town, who stepped down, needs to hand over all kinds of affairs to his successor.

After Ma Maocai arrived in the northwest, although he did not participate in the combat affairs of Yansui Town much, and it was not deep, as the imperial history of the supervising army of Yansui Town, he also controlled the military registration and military registers of the border army battalions and guards of the entire Yansui Town, the number of salaries, the records of the merits and demerits of the colonels and soldiers, and the informants who were placed in the heads of each battalion and other confidential affairs.

These things are all the authority of the Imperial History of the Prison Army, and some of them are not even mastered by the chief military officer of Yansui Town.

And this is a situation that must be handed over between the former and the successor.

As for Liu Kexun, Ma Mao only vaguely remembered that he had seen this name in the southwest good news from Beijing last year, as well as in the imperial court's newspaper on rewarding the meritorious ministers who had made contributions to quelling the Shuixi Rebellion, but he didn't know about this person, and he didn't know why he was sacred and who he was.

However, for the will of the imperial court, a civil official like Ma Maocai, who was born as a scholar, will certainly not easily question or oppose it now.

Before he took up the post of Yansui Town Supervisor Imperial History, he was just a seven-grade imperial history in the Metropolitan Inspectorate.

In just two or three years, just because of the merits of recruiting people to Tuntian in the Ganquanyu area and mining and refining fierce fire oil, he has been promoted several levels and has become the right political envoy of Shaanxi Chengxuan, which is no longer an ordinary favor.

What else can he say about this?

Therefore, when Li Banghua said Liu Kexun's name and didn't explain too much to him, Ma Mao just said "oh", nodded as if he didn't understand, and didn't say a word more.

For today's Jingshi court, or for today's Chongzhen Emperor, Ma Mao has an inexplicable confidence.

Since the accession of Emperor Chongzhen to the throne, in just three years, the original situation of the Ming Dynasty will collapse has changed.

Although Ma Maocai has not seen the scene of the rejuvenation and vigorous rise of the local industry and mining industry in Gyeonggi, he has heard a lot about it.

Don't talk about it from afar, just say what Ma Maocai himself has seen and heard in Yan'an Mansion and other places in northern Shaanxi, which has already made him deeply experienced.

Although the situation of the ruined countryside and the abandonment of the land has not changed much, the scene of the surging people, starvation and cannibalism in northern Shaanxi a few years ago is no longer visible.

Among them, there are reasons why a large number of homeless people were coerced by thieves to flee to Jin, and they were finally killed by the official army, and there are also reasons why a large number of homeless people could not bear the famine and died in the wilderness, but the reclamation order of the trilateral governor's palace in Ningxia and other places also played a big role.

Over the past two years or so, the people who could not survive in northern Shaanxi have either actively or passively flocked to Ningxia in droves along the Yellow River to open up wasteland and farm land, on the one hand, enriching Ningxia's outer parts of the Yangtze River, and on the other hand, making the land of northern Shaanxi empty all of a sudden.

Gao Yingxiang and other thieves rushed back to northern Shaanxi again, and the reason why they were not able to raise their arms and respond to the gathering as in the past and make any noise again was because in the past few years, a large number of the original population in northern Shaanxi had flowed to other places.

Jinshi like Ma Maocai, who was born in the family of a landlord and gentry in Ansai County, northern Shaanxi, of course knows where the root cause of thieves in northern Shaanxi is before.

In his view, the root cause of all the chaos in northern Shaanxi is simply the fact that there are many people in northern Shaanxi and there is little land, and there are years of drought, grain harvest, and a large number of poor people cannot survive.

The most fundamental reason for this is that the limited arable land is highly concentrated in the homes of a small number of landlords and gentry, while a large number of poor people have no land or only very little arable land.

As long as the land problem is solved and the problem of the cultivators having their own land is solved, then in the future, even if there are still natural disasters, the common people will still be able to grow a little coarse grain, which can be used to save lives.

And as long as the common people still have a way to live, they will not take risks and follow those thieves to create a rebellion against the court.

Ma Maocai's own experience in recruiting people to open up wasteland and reclamation in Ganquanyu, and employing a large number of people to mine and refine fierce fire oil in exchange for work, also made him further realize this truth.

Land, as long as there is enough land, the problem of displaced people and thieves will be solved.

The reclamation order of the trilateral governor's palace, as well as the large amount of land acquired by the imperial court to recover the Hetao and occupy Monan, provided a good opportunity for solving the problem of displaced people in Qin, Jin, Shandong, Henan, and Beizhi.

It is precisely this point that makes Ma Mao feel that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty over the years has been basically reversed.

And the reversal of this situation has been achieved step by step since the current Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne.

Including the promotion and reuse of himself because of a letter of resignation, and the subsequent series of secret instructions on the reclamation of Ganquanyu and the exploitation of fierce fire oil, Ma Maocai was full of an indescribable awe of His Majesty the current emperor.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Mao can only accept His Majesty's decision calmly.

However, at this time, Liu Kexun was still far away from going north to Hezhong, handling the handover with Ma Mao, and then officially taking up the post of Hezhong Town Supervisor Imperial History.

Although Liu Kexun served as the supervisor of Deng Xi's department of the Sichuan Army in the pacification of the Shuixi Rebellion, and made certain contributions, because of the change of history, Deng Xi's department did not make great contributions as in the original history, and as the supervisor of the department, he was naturally not as famous as in history.

In the post-war awards for the pacification of the southwest, Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Shang Shuwu of the Nanjing Military Department, have been promoting Liu Kexun and others.

But until now, Liu Kexun is still in charge of the military affairs in eastern Sichuan, responsible for the establishment of the government and county after the pacification of the Shuixi region, and the aftermath of immigration.

This time, the imperial court restored the land of Lehetao, and at the same time established the post of governor of Hezhong, it also set up three divisions such as the political envoy department of Chengxuan, so there were many more high positions at once.

As a result, Liu Kexun, who had already become the priority candidate for the Ministry of Officials, finally ushered in his own promotion opportunity, and was promoted by Emperor Chongzhen to the position of the supervisor of the army in East Sichuan Province from the position of the supervisor of the army in East Sichuan Province to the position of the imperial history of the army in Hezhong.

Liu Kexun made great contributions to the pacification of the Southwest Lu'an Rebellion in the original history, but he has been sinking into subordinates for a long time and has never been reused, which is directly related to his identity.

Because he was not born as a Jinshi.

He has only one fame.

This was an important omission in the late Ming Dynasty, when the problem of party contention was prominent.

is not a jinshi, naturally there is no so-called master, and at the same time, there is no year to watch and help each other.

This also means that he did not form a gang at all, so he relied on the strength of his party or group to get the capital for promotion all the way.

For Liu Kexun, who was born in a person, this time he was promoted from the position of the superintendent of the army to the imperial history of the superintendent of an important border town, of course, it was a breakthrough in the dragon gate.

Emperor Chongzhen took a fancy to him, of course, because he performed well in his post as a military supervisor and made meritorious contributions, but the most important thing was that he still took a fancy to his background and the fact that he has no party in the court at present.

For the same reason, the heroes of the Southwest Rebellion who were promoted and reused at the same time as Liu Kexun, as well as Li Xianpin, who served as the deputy envoy of the Sichuan Supervision Army for many years and made great contributions in the process of the imperial court to quell the Southwest Rebellion.

Originally, in history, after Li Xianpin was pacified in the southwest, he was soon promoted to the governor of Biyuan.

However, in this life, because Zhu Xieyuan personally led the army to attack Shuixi all the way from the direction of Guiyang, Li Xianpin did not get the opportunity to show his skills as in history, but he led the Sichuan army to fight in the southwest for many years, and he still had a lot of credit.

This time, of course, he was also promoted to serve in the newly opened river in the northwest.

Unlike Liu Kexun, who served as the imperial history of the Hezhong Supervisory Army, Li Xianpin, an old jinshi in the twenty-third year of Wanli, was directly promoted to the first political envoy of the Hezhong Chengxuan Political Envoy Division.

In order to select suitable and competent candidates for the three divisions under the governor of the river, so as to truly incorporate the land in the river into the territory of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, Emperor Chongzhen was indeed racking his brains.

In addition to letting Li Xianpin, a native of Shaanxi, serve as the political envoy of Hezhong, Emperor Chongzhen also asked Chen Qiyu, who had been serving as Yansui under the command of the governor of Yansui to participate in politics, to be promoted to the first procurator of Hezhong.

Moreover, he also asked Li Changling, the deputy chief soldier in charge of the border guard post in Yansui Town, to be transferred to the command of the Hezhong Metropolitan Commander Sidu Commander, and took the dilapidated military households along the border guard post such as Yulinwei in Yansui Town to move north to Hezhong together, and then divide the divisions, grant land for resettlement, and rebuild the 5,000 households in the left and right sides of the Dongshengwei before and after.