What Emperor Chongzhen wanted to do, everyone who saw this holy decree understood, and added a miscellaneous general to Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, to show his favor, but promoted Chen Min, a previously unknown eunuch, to the lieutenant of Shandong. Generally speaking, the eunuchs of a certain place are on an equal footing with the governor and governor, and they have the right to shout and give orders to the generals under them.

That is to say, after this will, Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong, is a subordinate of the eunuch Chen Min, and it is a very simple and clear idea, Emperor Chongzhen is going to mix sand with Shandong soldiers and horses.

But Yan Jizu really wanted to laugh three times, Holy Lord, you are really as ridiculous as ever. At present, Li Mengqi has achieved his momentum, he can only use grace and reward to restrain him, and he has to suppress it with his own hands, and now you actually want to rely on a holy decree and a eunuch to restrain it. And if you want to restrain it, it's best to think of a smarter way, it's nothing more than money, food and personnel, now in this world, the etiquette is broken, and the prestige of the court is already insufficient, and you still expect to rely on a few messengers to kill and take away like before? When Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong led the army, the imperial court did not send internal officials to supervise the army, and what the outcome was, the troops were still firmly in the hands of the generals.

This holy decree is not to promote Chen Min, it is clearly to kill Chen Min.

As for the reward of only a few dozen cents per person, Yan Jizu doesn't feel strange anymore, this is not the first time that Emperor Chongzhen has done such a thing, he grew up in the deep palace, raised in the hands of women, and lived in the ninefold realm, and he didn't know the so-called human heart and the so-called world at all.

At the beginning of October, the Jinan battalion of the Shandong Army was in an unusually noisy situation, and a few days ago, Li Meng sent a large number of envoys to various places. Gathering 15,000 soldiers, the army is lined up in the school field outside the city today, waiting for the edict of the Qin messenger to proofread. On behalf of the saint on the labor army.

This time, the 15,000 soldiers and horses, the requirements of the general army yamen are that they must be mainly from the places where they have recently enlisted. Recently, the army has been expanded, and the armies in Shandong pay the most attention to rotation warfare and bring the new with the old, so the number of recruits in the old battalion in Jinan is really a lot, and it is enough to add some veterans.

And the squad below, the deputy team. And the ordinary soldiers are very excited, everyone is from a peasant background facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and today they can actually see the Qincha, that is the envoy of the Son of Heaven. I didn't expect to have such glory as a soldier.

A large wooden platform was built on the school field, and a team of cavalry with bright armor and armor surrounded the wooden platform to guard, and the general soldier yamen directly placed an incense case on the wooden platform, which was very grand.

Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, heard the content of the will, and naturally wanted to inform Li Meng's side, even Chen Min, who had been confined in the courtyard, was called out, and he couldn't let the people from Jingshi know that Chen Min, the eunuch who had made great contributions, had been under house arrest.

When Eunuch Qinchamo saw Chen Min, Chen Min's eyes were red and there were still tears. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. Although the world is chaotic, in the final analysis, in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are still people who are loyal, and they are actually moved to cry.

Of course he didn't know, after Chen Min knew the news, he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, and pleaded with the Shandong soldier who had passed the rumor:

"Please ask the military master and the marshal to be clear, the slave doesn't know anything about this. It has nothing to do with the minion. I hope that the handsome man will not blame, and he will never blame. If the slave only has a lie, let me be struck by thunder from the sky, and I will not die well......"

The pro-soldier just came to pass the message, and he didn't want to talk to Chen Min, so he pulled his legs and left, but Chen Min was agile, and he pounced on it to protect the thighs of the pro-soldier, and howled and cried on the ground, which made this Qincha see this appearance.

Chen Min was originally a eunuch, and he received the most traditional education since he was a child, and he was still a little awe-inspiring and superstitious about the strict obedience of imperial authority. But after coming to Shandong, seeing the actions of the Shandong general soldiers, the awe and superstition have long disappeared, and now when I hear this edict like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, I actually want to supervise Li Meng's army by myself, and I want to control Li Meng, Chen Min still retained some reserved precautions a few days ago, and at this moment collapsed instantly, and I just scolded in my heart, Emperor Chongzhen was confused, and wanted to kill innocent people like himself.

The reason why I came to the school field outside the city today was because the people in the pro-military camp directly put a knife on his neck and forced him to come.

It is said that they are both internal eunuchs, and they always have to greet them politely after meeting, but the trembling Chen Min observes the expressions of Li Meng and the others, and just says hello to Eunuch Mo, which makes Eunuch Mo quite angry, thinking that you Chen Min has become a town guard lieutenant, although you are noble, but your grade is not as good as ours some time ago, and today you suddenly arrived, and there is no one in your eyes like this, and our family must give you some eye medicine in front of you when you go back.

Li Meng had nothing to do with the content of this holy decree, but he just wanted to borrow strength from this matter, and after he and Eunuch Mo met him, he stood aside indifferently.

The 15,000 soldiers of the Jiaozhou Battalion who were rewarded for reading began to enter the school field and line up under the stage when they were waiting for a cadre to walk up the wooden platform. Although the mood was excited, and the troops were not transferred according to the original structure, the training since joining the army, as well as the military sticks that were beaten, still played a role, and these recruits walked neatly and lined up without any disorder. Li Meng seems to just think that his subordinates are quite dedicated to training, but he didn't think that Eunuch Mo was stunned, and there were joys and worries in his heart, and the joy was that this Li Zongbing's ability to dig the ground turned out to be so good, and he actually raised so many families in such a broken place in Shandong, it seems that the eunuch bag must be rich and tight, it seems that he passed the decree this time, and some of the benefits were taken; The worry is that this Li Zhendong, the soldiers and horses are so majestic, they are not much better than the Zuo Ping thief, if he is as flying as the Zuo Ping thief, and Weifu is used for his own use, then he has to lower his posture, so as not to provoke him.

Seeing that everything was already complete, someone lowered his voice and suggested that the time was right, and it was best to announce the award as soon as possible. Eunuch Mo was shocked by the strict military formation under this wooden platform, and his already very nervous mood became more worried, and when he heard that the announcement was awarded, he hurriedly agreed. Looking at the appearance of this Shandong soldier and horse Senran, it is really uncomfortable.

While someone was singing, the civil and military officials in Shandong all knelt down. The soldiers on the school ground were also going to kneel, but first, there were too many people, so they all knelt, Eunuch Mo always felt that he didn't have the courage, and secondly, the wooden platform was much higher than the ground, so it was sloppy.

Eunuch Mo unfolded the decree and read it out loud in a sharp voice, every word he said was still the same as before. The pro-soldiers and guards below are all repeating every sentence at the top of their voices, from near to far, and people shouting are arranged at every distance.

Before receiving the order. At this time, the atmosphere on the school field was extremely high, and these soldiers who were recruited by Li Meng to serve as soldiers were all from peasant families, if they were not soldiers, they might not even be able to see the petty officials of the seventh or eighth grade.

But today, I can see the eunuchs who used to only appear in the drama and storytelling, the kind of eunuch who was dressed up. There he read the decree with his hand. It's really right in front of your eyes.

In the eyes of the imperial court, there is us, and the Qin sent to praise us, in the ranks of each battalion, except for the total and thousand general expressionless to look at all this in front of him, the soldiers and petty officers below are all excited, and the desire to serve the country is stronger and stronger.

"....... Zuo Governor, Shandong General Soldier Li Meng. It is meritorious to suppress thieves and quell chaos. General Zhendong, with a saber ......"

As soon as the reading of the decree was finished. I don't know who shouted "General Mighty" below, and all the battalions below followed suit, and every soldier was blushing and shouting loudly "General Mighty", and every martial artist in this scene was Li Meng's descendant.

No matter what loyal and patriotic thoughts Fang Cai, the worship and loyalty to Li Mengdi are also real, Li Meng's glory is their glory, Li Meng is already a general in Zhendong, a general with a sword, and the Jiaozhou battalion and Shandong soldiers and horses will also follow step by step in the future.

At present, the Jiaozhou battalion, from the secretary office, the main book to the generals, soldiers, and even the guys of the commercial house, all have a kind of mentality of both prosperity and loss, and the Jiaozhou camp is here, everyone's happiness may be sustainable just to live in a subsistence and clothed place, if the Jiaozhou camp is not there, then everything will no longer exist.

After Eunuch Mo read out that sentence, he couldn't hear his own words, and the loud shouts of the soldiers below drowned out everything, this kind of elated and excited scene, Eunuch Mo saw it for the first time, and he felt very excited in his heart, so he naturally wouldn't do anything to disappoint the fun, and looked at all this in front of him with a smile, waiting for the soldiers to stop.

However, the expressions of the people on the wooden platform are different, the senior military attachés of the Jiaozhou battalion in the old battalion are all military generals from Li Meng**, and they don't understand the military system of the Ming Dynasty, especially how to reward the general soldiers.

But the civil officials on the stage, except for Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and those who already knew the content of the will, the rest of the people all changed their faces, and those officials of the Li Meng system were even more unhappy, and several of them had angry faces on their faces.

But Li Meng's great achievement, according to everyone's estimates, should be like Zuo Liangyu, with a general number with the word "Ping", that is, the Zhengyin general of the Ming Dynasty.

Who would have thought that the court would be so cold, although everyone was not angry in their hearts, they also knew that after all, this was the imperial court's chaplain, and it was not good to have any behavior that crossed the line, especially seeing Li Meng's expression as usual, everyone did not dare to make a mistake.

After cheering for a while, Li Meng raised his hand, and the battalions under the wooden platform quickly quieted down, and Eunuch Mo cleared his throat and opened his mouth to proclaim the decree:

"....... Chen Min, with outstanding merits...... Promoted to the town guard of the Shandong Supervision Army...... Urging the armies to ......"

As soon as they heard this will, the reaction on the stage was already in an uproar, and the soldiers in the audience were even more surprised.

What kind of person is it, who can actually be above our commander, and who is this Chen Min, the soldiers below have not even heard of it.

Whether the eunuchs are good or bad, but in the impression of the people, all eunuchs. There must be no good people, and they must be traitors who harm the faithful.

After Eunuch Mo finished speaking, he didn't expect any reaction from below. But after this appointment was announced, at least the new Shandong supervisor Chen Min wanted to thank him, but he never heard a response, Eunuch Mo's face couldn't help but sink, and he thought, although he is promoted, he can't be so rude, the grace of the saint, you are the minister of the Son of Heaven. Didn't you even say thank you?

The civil and military officials kneeling on the ground did not say a word, and no one paid attention to whether Chen Min received the order to thank him, Eunuch Mo couldn't help but look up, but saw the eunuch Chen Min kneeling in the first row. Trembling as if he was sifting chaff, his arms were desperately propped up, as if he wanted to raise his head, but it seemed that his head weighed a thousand pounds and he couldn't lift it at all.

The civil and military officials of Shandong who knelt behind them all looked strange, and some of them directly straightened up and looked forward to see the liveliness of Chen Min.

Is there any decent discipline in Shandong, and how can officials look like this? This is the occasion for the reading of the decree. Why is there no solemnity at all, Eunuch Mo frowned and was about to scold, but he heard the humming and clamor on the school field getting louder and louder, Eunuch Mo's heart froze, and there was no outlet for the words that came to his mouth.

Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong who was kneeling there, had been silent, listening to the fact that there had been no movement above, and it was a little strange, and when he looked up, he suddenly understood what was going on. Stretched out his hand and patted Chen Min beside him. Trembling, Chen Min's body seemed to have been struck by lightning, and he almost collapsed on the wooden platform.

The person who saw him filming was Li Meng. Chen Min's face turned pale, his lips trembled, and his words were not in a good tone, and he was still waiting for him to receive the decree, but Chen Min first had to take care of Li Meng, the chief soldier beside him, but no matter how calm he was, he couldn't speak, obviously too frightened.

Chen Min's appearance made Li Meng frown, and said indifferently:

"Father-in-law Chen, thank you, don't let Qin Cha wait for a long time, it's rude...... Grandpa Chen, don't stay, thank you! ”

Li Meng said a word, this Chen Min didn't react at all, and said another sentence in an accentuated tone, Chen Min could be regarded as recovering from the horror, and stared at Li Meng's face rather rudely, this is to make sure that the other party is not talking back, so he calmed down, this is kowtowing and thanking.

Eunuch Mo looked at Chen Min and thanked him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, this edict is really troublesome, how can there be a feeling that he can't come to the platform, fortunately, the next thing is a reward, it is the silver of the imperial court, and the matter of giving money, presumably everyone will not have any complaints.

“…… Eight hundred taels of silver ......."

Originally, for the eunuch Chen Min's award, the buzzing and discussion below became louder and louder, but as soon as the will of "rewarding eight hundred taels of silver" was read out, after the soldiers who repeated it loudly shouted, the audience suddenly fell silent, and some of the officials kneeling there on the stage couldn't help laughing.

The soldiers standing on the school ground, each of them was surging with talent, and their loyalty and patriotism were completely dispelled by the number of "eight hundred taels".

Many soldiers in the old battalion did not go to the battlefield, but they all knew that the Jiaozhou battalion had mobilized almost 40,000 people to Henan to fight hundreds of thousands of thieves to the death.

The 40,000 people were rewarded by the imperial court with a total of 800 taels, even if it was a sufficient amount of silver, it was only a dozen cents in everyone's hands, and in the Jiaozhou camp, the soldiers who were paid enough money naturally did not need to be said, even those who were born in Zhuang Ding were full of food in the military camp every day, and how much was this.

More than a dozen yuan, for soldiers who fight to the death, their own lives and their daily hard training, is it worth these ten dollars?

The fifteen thousand soldiers, after they quieted down, did not say a word, staring at the eunuch on the wooden platform below, or Li Dashuai treated us kindly! The people who came down from this court are really not things, and they don't care about our lives at all.

From noisy to quiet, the process was very fast, and Eunuch Mo's attention had been on these civil and military officials in front of him, but he was suddenly frightened by this sudden quiet, and looked around in a panic, but he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Shandong Governor Yan Jizu sighed, lowered his body, and did not raise his head, and Chen's body, who had just calmed down, trembled again.

This kind of quietness around Li Meng is the effect that Li Meng hopes for the most, and he can't help but smile on his face, and he said loudly:

"Minister Li Mengxie, Lord Long En......"

It was still quiet in the field, and it was already quite chilly. Eunuch Mo felt a burst of sweat coming out of his back, and when he heard Li Meng's thanks, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. Hurriedly handed over the holy decree to Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, reluctantly said a few words of encouragement and congratulations, and hurriedly walked off the wooden platform.

There is a carriage waiting there, and the Shandong side has done a good job of receiving Qinchadi, and the scene in this school field is like this, so don't be bored here, let's go quickly.

The officials who came here to receive the order, in the Li Meng system, except for a few officials who sent Qin to the city. The others stayed, Yan Jizu and Chen Min naturally followed back to the city, and this Chen Min had to be escorted back to the courtyard where he was under house arrest by the soldiers, and the guards were even stricter.

After the departure of these people. The buzz of the soldiers in the audience became louder again, and the general officers were ordered in advance and did not restrain them at all.

This meager reward had already made the soldiers below angry, complaining in a low voice and cursing in a low voice, and Li Meng walked back to the top of the wooden platform after sending him off.

He quietly walked to the front of the wooden platform, glanced at the soldiers under the stage, and the soldiers who were seen by Li Meng's eyes were all quiet. This silence is also gradually transmitted. It didn't take long for the entire school field to become silent again, and Li Meng didn't give any orders.

Li Meng was very satisfied with the reaction below, this wordless interaction showed that his Li Meng's prestige in the hearts of the soldiers had reached a certain level, and this level allowed him to test some things. He nodded at Zhou Yang and Wang Hai beside him, then turned around and continued to admire the troops in the audience.

In a short time, the cavalry under the stage had already galloped into the military formation. In the positions below the stage, these Jiaozhou battalion soldiers were immediately awe-inspiring. I thought that the marshal was dissatisfied with the noisy talent of the other party and wanted to picket military discipline.

But the cavalrymen galloped on horseback. But they are all shouting loudly somewhere:

"Do you have enough to eat every day?"

It was a strange question for every cavalryman to shout, and the foot soldiers who were standing did not know what to answer, but their thousand sums always told them what to do, and replied loudly at the top of their voices: "You can eat enough!" After a slight pause on the school grounds, there was immediately a shout one after another, "I can eat enough!" "I'm full!!"

"Can you dress warmly every day?"

It was one after another, and the crowd shouted excitedly in response to "warm wear" and "warm dressed!!" ”

"Is your local family safe and clothed?" "Safe and clothed!! "Safe and fed!!"

"Has the big handsome person deducted his salary?" "Full !!" "Full !!"

The shouts became higher and higher, and the things preached by the eunuchs of the imperial court made every soldier feel depressed in their hearts, the gap from expectation to loss, and the court's cold attitude made the hearts of many recruits of the Jiaozhou battalion who were still looking forward to the court completely cold.

They had just talked to each other, and there were a lot of complaints, which magnified this dissatisfaction and resentment a lot, and at this time, the cavalry who came to gallop back and forth around the array shouted, and the soldiers immediately vented their grievances in their hearts by answering loudly.

But between the questions and answers, many soldiers suddenly appeared, with sufficient food and food, food and clothing for their families, and everything they had in the future, Li Meng was given to them, and Li Meng was what they could give them in the future.

There's only one way to keep it all afloat, and to get more......

"Whose wages are you taking!?

"Dashuai!!" This time there was no hesitation in answering, and without even the leadership of the officers, everyone, even the civilian officials on the stage, shouted along.

"Who will give your family peace and clothing!?

The scene in the entire school field is already crazy, everyone is shouting "handsome", everything they have is given by Li Meng, and it is completely the credit of Li Meng to have such a situation in front of him.

The rhythm of each sentence, the general and how to lead the crowd to answer, this is a little planned in advance, but after everyone's emotions are stirred, there is no need to guide, the people in the audience roared and answered, they were already completely fanatical.

After the shouts of "Great Marshal" and "Great Marshal" stopped for a while, the galloping cavalry shouted everywhere again, but this time instead of asking, they shouted slogans:

"Fight for the marshal, serve the marshal to the !!"