Zhang Jiayu and Wang Kefan chatted until late at night, said goodbye and returned to their residence, spread out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, brushed a little bit, and wrote two sparse texts and a transcript in a row, revised and polished them again and then re-transcribed, and only went to bed after three watches, but his mind was overly excited, and he repeatedly recalled the details of the conversation with Wang Kefan, and fell asleep in a daze for a long time.

As soon as it was dawn in the morning, he immediately woke up, hurriedly cleaned up, and then rushed to the yamen of the military headquarters.

The imperial court has just been rebuilt, the conditions are simple, the six yamen do not have their own official offices, they are all crowded in Ding Kuichu's original governor's palace, as for some small yamen outside the six departments, such as the General Administration Division, Zhan Shifu or something, they can't even squeeze into the governor's mansion, so they occupy private houses nearby.

Although it was still early, there were already a lot of civil and military officials who came to work, such as the big and small Jiuqing, the six ministers, the squire and Langzhong, etc., who had to get off the sedan chair and salute each other, and the officials and the small ones stood on the side of the road, waiting for the officials to go first, coming and going, and it was very lively.

Zhang Jiayu is in the middle of the military department, according to the rules of officialdom, he is not qualified to sit in a sedan chair, and can only ride a horse to get to work. As soon as he turned into the street, he kept running into acquaintances and chiefs, and when he saw too many bigwigs coming and going, he had to turn over and dismount, throw the reins to his family, and stand by the roadside.

"If I knew this would have been later." Zhang Jiayu was a little irritable in his heart, he didn't work in the Yamen of the Ministry of War on weekdays, and he didn't know the situation here, so he came early this morning, just didn't want to attract attention, and quietly did what he should do.

The officials who came and went were all full of red light, talking and laughing, and there were several low-grade petty officials next to Zhang Jiayu, and they passed by a big guy every time. They will mumble and discuss: A certain big man has just been promoted to a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and the benevolent brother will definitely follow suit, and a certain big man is about to become the secretary of Dali Temple, and the virtuous brother will change to a yamen high......

Zhang Jiayu reacted at this time, all the yamen of the imperial court were busy setting up institutions and arranging official positions, no wonder everyone was so diligent.

This kind of thing has always had nothing to do with him, Zhang Jiayu looked left and right, and intentionally took two steps back, hiding behind those petty officials. But. Many people had noticed him, pointing at each other from time to time, whispering something to each other, with all sorts of expressions on their faces, but none of them were very friendly. Contempt, defensiveness, indifference, hostility, and so on. Zhang Jiayu only lowered his head. Silent ......

Historically. Zhang Jiayu is a famous national hero who died in order to resist the Manchu Dynasty, but his reputation during his lifetime was very poor, and his career was also very bumpy.

The reason for this has to start from the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng broke through Beijing. Zhang Jiayu surrendered to the Dashun army and became a heavy stain on his career, and later fled to the south, where he was imprisoned.

Wait until Emperor Longwu comes to power. Zhang Jiayu was appointed as the Ministry of War, fought side by side with Jie Chongxi and others in Jiangxi, once defeated Jin Shenghuan's troops, and was later wounded on the battlefield, and was excluded after returning to Fujian, and was forced to take leave and return to his hometown in Dongguan.

Next is Emperor Longwu Tingzhou in distress, Su Guansheng is ready to support the Tang King, as Su Guansheng's Dongguan hometown, Zhang Jiayu also participated in this matter, and later found that Emperor Longwu was not dead, Zhang Jiayu's situation was even more embarrassing.

In the Southern Ming court, the officials who surrendered to the Great Shun Army were all guilty ministers of the "Shun case", and were ostracized and suppressed by all factions...... He originally put his hopes on Su Guansheng, but Su Guansheng had just become the governor of Liangguang, and he mainly maintained the status quo of Guangdong officialdom, and only brought a few cronies and staff to take office, and Zhang Jiayu was completely hung up.

Nominally, he is still in the Ministry of War, but because of his long leave, he has no actual position in the Ministry of War, and in addition, he also has the title of "supervising prime minister", but he does not belong to the regular official position of the imperial court.

The so-called "supervising prime minister" was a temporary task assigned to him by Emperor Longwu, asking him to go to Guangdong to raise military salaries to support the Ganzhou campaign. Zhang Jiayu also lived up to his heavy responsibilities, running in Chaoshan and Huizhou areas, and recruited tens of thousands of peasant troops, of course, the plain of these peasant armies was uneven, some were defeated volunteers from Fujian and Jiangxi, and more were local bandits.

He selected 10,000 strong from these tens of thousands of people, and drilled to prepare to support Ganzhou, but the Ganzhou campaign progressed rapidly, and Zhang Jiayu received the news of the victory of the Ganzhou campaign before he sent troops, and how to settle these 10,000 volunteers became a big problem.

Since the battle of Ganzhou has ended, Zhang Jiayu's volunteers are no longer needed in the imperial court, and he is unwilling to continue to allocate food and salary, but Zhang Jiayu has spent a lot of effort on this army, and is reluctant to disband like this, running around begging for food, and wants to take this army to the front line of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, but his popularity is too poor, he runs into walls everywhere, and he is desperate, and finally asks for Wang Kefan's head.

Wang Kefan was very enthusiastic about him -- Zhang Jiayu was not only a well-known national hero, but also relatively pragmatic in politics and had a certain degree of military ability, and was a very rare talent.

In politics, Zhang Jiayu has always been very sympathetic to the peasant army, and once cooperated with Li Zicheng, with Jiangxi volunteers, and with Guangdong volunteers.

Militarily, most of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty knew nothing, but there were a few people who could fight, and Zhang Jiayu was one of them. He not only defeated Jin Shenghuan's troops in Jiangxi, but also fought against Li Chengdong's invasion of Guangdong in history, led a group of rabble to fight with the Qing army, and even won victories in some places.

Zhang Jiayu couldn't get along in Guangdong, and he had the ambition to serve the country, so he was determined to go to the front line to fight the Qing army, and he hit it off with Wang Kefan. Wang Kefan only made one request to him, to reduce the 10,000 volunteers to 2,000 people, and choose their elite to set up a battalion, which would provide him with future food and salary.

Two thousand? That's fine, too!

Of course, Zhang Jiayu understands that it is certainly unrealistic to take too many troops all the way north from Guangdong, and it is correct to take the route of elite troops.

Just do it!

To take these 2,000 men and horses to the north, there are many specific things to deal with, such as how to settle other volunteers, ask the imperial court for weapons and equipment and silver, and then ask for a regular establishment ...... for this unit, these things should not be in vain, and they can continue to ask for food and salary, and soldiers can also get more generous pensions after casualties, etc., all of which are related to the morale of the army and must be solved.

Zhang Jiayu returned to the military department today to do these things.

It was easy to wait until the rush hour at work had passed, and everyone walked towards the yamen one after another, and Zhang Jiayu stopped riding a horse and followed the crowd into Ding Kuichu's governor's mansion.

The local officials' yamen is generally used for both office and residence, and Ding Kuichu's governor's palace is no exception.

The military department is in the middle of the six departments, but now it belongs to the war period, the military department is relatively strong, and it occupies two courtyards alone.

He directly found Wen Anwen Shilang of the Ministry of War, briefly politely said a few words, introduced the situation, and took out a sparse letter and asked him to review it.

Wen'an is a person from Wang Kefan's faction, and he just served as a squire of the military department a few days ago, and Chen Zhaoan, the commander of Xin'an County, is all for Emperor Longwu to move to Guilin, and Wang Kefan's faction suddenly exerted its strength, and Baoju Wen'an grabbed this official position, although Emperor Longwu has decided to move to Guilin, this squire of the military department will not be returned to the southern faction.

The squire of the military department is equal to the deputy minister of the military department, and there are generally two, and they are under the leadership of the military department. Since Guo Weijing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has entered the cabinet, there is more important work to be done, so regardless of the daily affairs of the Ministry of War, Wen An can be half of the family in the Ministry of War.

Zhang Jiayu usually comes to ask for food, Wen An has nothing to do with him, of course he won't help, but now with Wang Kefan to say hello, the situation is different...... Therefore, Zhang Jiayu's affairs went very smoothly, and Wen An agreed to all his requirements, except for a little less silver, all kinds of weapons and equipment were fully deployed.

"Zhang Qishe (commonly known as in the matter), after taking the silver, leave Guangdong as much as possible, don't make it difficult for me." Everyone is their own people, Wen An joked with a smile, but what he said was also the truth, the military department is the territory of the southern faction, Wen An has just taken office, and he also has his own difficulties.

What is more beneficial to Wen'an is that after spending this money, the big trouble of the 10,000 volunteers has been solved.

"Xiaguan also wants to leave Guangdong as soon as possible......"

Zhang Jiayu was just halfway through speaking, when suddenly there was a sound of quarrel, and several people rushed to speak, one voice higher than the other, becoming more and more intense.

What's going on? Wen An and Zhang Jiayu walked out together, following the sound to find it, but they saw a group of civil officials surrounded by a group of civil officials outside the courtyard of the military department, blocking a middle-aged civil official in his forties and shouting loudly.

"Zhu Tianlin, you Shilin scum, you still have the face to say such things!"

"Yes! Zhang Xianzhong burned Fengling, he is the enemy of my Ming Dynasty, how can he be appeased? ”

"It's really dizzy! It's not that he didn't appease Zhang Xianzhong back then, but he was just a capricious villain, how could he repeat the mistakes of the past......"

This group of civil officials was filled with righteous indignation, as if they wanted to tear Zhu Tianlin apart in the crowd, but Zhu Tianlin spoke softly and gently.

"At this time, at that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is powerful, and only by appeasing Zhang Xianzhong can we contend with it......"

Zhu Tianlin is a representative of Suzhou people, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and he has never been in a hurry to speak, but he will never give in lightly when he recognizes the truth, although he is under the siege of dozens of people, he is also fearless, and still insists on his own point of view.

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PS: The deeds of Zhang Jiayu and Zhu Tianlin have been buried by history and have almost been forgotten, and I hope to write two flesh-and-blood characters and dedicate them to all book friends. (To be continued......)