A year later, both sides of the whirlpool became the most fertile land in Henan, but no one dared to cultivate in these two places, and every time the flowers bloomed, this area was gorgeous and colorful, and it was very beautiful.

All the Henan tyrants who participated in the battle on the north and south banks of the whirlpool water, big or small, all had their own official positions, and to their surprise, the official positions granted to them were all directly in their hometowns, Guide Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion and Zhangde Mansion.

Although there were a lot of people they brought over, the Jiaozhou battalion also had a procedure for spot checking, and the number of soldiers who could receive the Jiaozhou battalion salary in each person's hands was almost one-tenth of the previous number, and the best was only one-fifth.

Originally, this kind of behavior similar to co-optation, about the determination of the number of soldiers, had to go through a very troublesome bargaining, but the Jiaozhou battalion was threatened with a great victory, who dared to say more.

And having an official position on his body, and being a local official in Henan, this is already an unexpected surprise in itself, and if there is an unexpected request, it will be punished by God.

However, everyone also felt strange, this Li Meng is a military general in Shandong, how can he be an official in Henan, and those bigwigs in Kaifeng City have no opinions, which is really incredible.

If you want to increase the source of soldiers, you can send your family and cronies, or the children of your family to come over for training, and a few battalions stationed in Guide Mansion and several battalions of the Yanzhou Army can be trained on their behalf.

Except for the feet. The cost of food and accommodation is borne by the Jiaozhou battalion, which seems to be a great thing, but after the system training of the Jiaozhou battalion, there will always be a consciously or unconsciously cronies of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Li Meng didn't stay in Guide Mansion for too long, and Jia Dashan was always worried about his nephew Jia Quan's rash charge. For fear of being implicated, he relieved himself after being appeased by Li Meng, and after the people under him were checked, there were more than 1,500 people left, and they were organized into a large battalion.

Two granges on both sides of the Yellow River. Two battalions of regular troops were organized from Zhuang Ding, plus the two battalions originally arranged, and Jia Dashan, the garrison of Zhecheng, had five battalions of troops in his hands, Li Meng was extremely generous, and all the local tyrants and landlords who came to help the war this time. All of them were under the command of Jia Dashan, and when these people got together, they almost had about two battalions of troops.

Moreover, this kind of local wealthy clan is mobilized, but no matter what regular army or irregular army, as long as there is a young man with a family, all of them will be pulled into the team when the time comes. This calculates. Jia Dashan can also call on nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses at any time, and there are some backbone teams that are quite capable of fighting.

Back then, Jia Dashan ran rampant in eastern Henan with the place name of "Li Zhenhai", but the local officials, as well as those wealthy families, did not sell his account at all, and one of his nephews went to propose marriage, but was rejected by the other party with disdain, saying that it was my family's loyalty for generations. He can marry you who have fallen into the grass. At the time, it was an anomaly of anger. But it is also helpless, tens of thousands of Zhuang Ding. But the villagers are not easy to start at all, and if they want to besiege, the yards of their homes are built solidly and abnormally, and the mobilization of the township can also pull up a large team, and it may not be possible to win and who will lose at that time.

can only be disgraced, the face is majestic, but secretly there is a feeling of not being able to raise his head, but this time it is different, Li Menghe and his soldiers and horses did not enter Zhecheng County and Guide City, only stayed in his manor for two days, and after a short rest, he led the army to leave Henan.

But then, the person who withdrew from his nephew's marriage hurriedly came to the door, saying that he was willing to remarry, this marriage and others are easy to say, the magistrate of Zhecheng County when he was still a good citizen, although the two sides met politely, but it was condescending, and the Jia family should also be careful to laugh.

But after this war, the magistrate of Zhecheng was respectfully called "general", and he didn't dare to look up at Jia Dashan, this general, and that fist fighting.

At that time, Jia Dashan almost burst into tears, feeling that he had never lived in vain in his life, and at the same time felt so comfortable, no wonder everyone was willing to be an official, this kind of human feeling was indeed intoxicating.

Li Meng only encouraged him a few words, but Chen Liu and Zhang Jiang were both "enthusiastic" to ask Jia Dashan, the battalion under his command was just a young man selected from his subordinate Ding Zhuang, and he had not been trained by the Jiaozhou battalion, so there was no need to arrange some training for veterans and officers for him. Hearing this, Jia Dashan's first reaction was that the Jiaozhou battalion was going to annex its own team, these soldiers and horses were the capital of their own lives, and they couldn't let it out like this.

But Chen Liu's fierce aura is a little heavier than him, and he has to be cautious when he meets and speaks, he was worried that if he didn't agree, the other party would threaten and persecute him.

Who would have thought that when he heard his statement, Chen Liu and the others were just giggling, so they didn't mention it, and now these generals and soldiers and horses under Li Meng are like heavenly soldiers and generals in Guide Mansion and around, Jia Dashan feels that he can push the past so much, which is amazing.

Accompany several elders of the Jia family to eat at night, the old Jia family is now the first family in Guide Mansion, so what Lao Yue's family said that there was a waiter in Wanli Year, and he usually shook the same as what, and now he is a fart. If it weren't for our Jia family desperately fighting thieves in front, you would have to be ruined.

After the old Yue's family finished the war, he sent someone to come, saying that he wanted to marry a baby with our family, Jia Dashan is the eldest son of the eldest family in the family, and several uncles have always helped him take care of the house.

Jia Dashan proudly told the things he said in the morning, but he didn't expect that one of his uncles was holding a crutch to whip him at that time, so he didn't hit him.

"You bastard, was your head kicked by a donkey, he is Li Dashuai from Shandong, he cares about you. I heard Xiao Liuzi say that on the side of the vortex river, the head of the thief alone was cut off by nearly 100,000, and his Li Dashuai looked at our family's background, just like an ant, and he said that he would step on it and kill him. ."

After this scolding, several old men came back to their senses. "Dashan, this is that Li Dashuai wants to lift you, there is no shortage of people in our fields, and he is talking about a stable official body, with this big tree to lean on. What do you want? "Don't be careful, hurry up and prepare a heavy gift for those people, talk about it well, and see if there is room for turnaround"

Originally, it was a happy meal, but Jia Dashan ate half of it. ran out in a hurry, the more he thought about it, the more he regretted it, the other party put the Cotai Avenue in front of him, but he was still stupid not to go, and he didn't know if there was any chance, so he immediately went to his house to get fifty taels of gold, and secretly asked to see Chen Liu.

Chen Liu, the general of the Huaiyang Army, seemed to have known that the other party was coming. smiled and met Jia Dashan. After a little excuse, after receiving fifty taels of gold from Jia Dashan, he said that he was going to give him activities.

That night, Chen Liu went to Li Meng's handsome tent, but Chen Liu just entered the handsome tent and reported, "Dashuai, that Jia Dashan came to look for it again", and then handed over the fifty taels of gold to Li Meng's personal soldiers. That would be scarce for fifty taels of gold. Since it was agreed, the Jiaozhou battalion sent officers inside. , the Jiaozhou battalion is not a little polite. Directly stuffed a group of people who had meritorious and outstanding performance in this war, below the general number of thousands, above the squad, seventy percent of the generals were officers of the Jiaozhou battalion, but Jia Dashan had no defense.

Happily accept the other party's arrangement, as long as the camp is bigger, then his own officials will be higher and higher, if he has the heart to stand on his own, he will not defect to the government at that time.

Jia Dashan even took the initiative to propose to Li Meng that in the future, he would not be good at the matter of returning to the Defu, but would negotiate with several thousand presidents to determine that this Li Meng would naturally be him.

Incidentally, in Jia Dashan's army, there was a young man with a determined expression who could hardly see a smile and became the deputy general.

Even if he was placed in a non-Shandong army, the promotion from an ordinary soldier to a deputy general was still a bit large, but no one raised any objections, this young man, his brother died in the battle, he also killed a lot of enemies in the army, and refused the favorable conditions for discharge.

At that time, Zhuang Dingbing Wang San, and now Li Meng named him "Wang Yu", and he has become an officer in the German army.

Shandong soldiers and horses and thieves battled, cut 2,000, although the victory was not large, but in October was still published in the newspaper, the world.

After the Battle of Songshan, the imperial court needed a victory to whitewash its face and calm the minds of its subjects, so it surrounded and suppressed Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of Zhang Xianzhong's department in Huguang, and led his soldiers and horses back to Beijing, and was immediately promoted to the eunuch who supervised the soldiers and horses outside the capital.

The Beijing camp is divided into inside and outside the city, and most of the people in the city are officials, ruffians, and there is no combat effectiveness at all, that is, the Beijing camp outside the city is often pulled out to fight, so the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp outside the city are equal to the largest army head near the Beijing Division, second only to the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor.

The eunuch Liu Yuanbin thought that he had left Shandong and led his soldiers and horses out of Beijing to chase and suppress, so he would not have to suffer from the sullenness of Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong, but by mistake, he actually became the great eunuch of the soldiers and horses outside the city of the Admiral, this position is extremely high, if it were not for Cao Huachun's loss of power, he would not have been able to do it at all.

But in this position, Liu Yuanbin was not happy for a few days, and immediately felt that he couldn't sleep well, because the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division were guarding the Beijing division and guarding the city of the Son of Heaven.

What made Liu Yuanbin stab in the back was not the Tartar soldiers and horses who were besieging Jinzhou and Songshan outside the Guan, but Li Meng, the general soldier in Shandong.

This young man acts, Liu Yuanbin looks at it in Shandong, it is lawless, rampant and domineering, and he does not take the laws and rules of the imperial court in his eyes at all, the governor and the supervising army are all kept in captivity, and the soldiers and horses are organized, many of them are on their own, when he was in Shandong, Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the supervising army, prepared a pot of poisonous wine for himself, which was used to kill himself at a critical time.

But after leaving Shandong, whether it was in Huguang or in Beijing, Liu Yuanbin suddenly appeared, and no one noticed this Li Meng, even if he talked about it occasionally, it was just "Oh, it's the Shandong general soldier who won the battle with the Tartars by luck" "Oh, it's the reckless man who snatched Qin Huai Shuangmei home" "Oh." It's the salt dealer. ”

No one knows the strength of Shandong soldiers and horses at all, but they only know some anecdotes about the corners and corners, and some people originally said "Oh, that eunuch remnant ......" but said this in front of Liu Yuanbin, that is, pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man.

Above the court, the internal supervisors and important ministers dealt with Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong. is also a disdainful attitude, firstly, this person is confused, and he actually jointly played a concerted performance, saying that Yang Sichang is guilty, and secondly, there are so many people in the world who have the title of chief soldier. What can a Shandong general soldier manage.

But Liu Yuanbin is a man with a large army, and he knows that there is such a silent strong army watching by his side, and this person is so deep, it is really uncomfortable.

Emperor Chongzhen was stubborn and self-serving, although he needed internal officials and eunuchs to supervise the army. But if the internal officials take the initiative to express any opinions, they will be suspected by him.

In particular, although Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong, is not likable, but today he will win a battle and tomorrow a victory, if he says in front of Emperor Chongzhen, "This general soldier Li Meng has the intention of rebellion", as long as the ministers of the central region of the DPRK do not deal with it, they will jump out and say that they are eunuchs and framed heroes. It must be himself who is in prison to be punished.

If it's any other emperor. Suspicion is always suspicious, but Emperor Chongzhen's thinking, the eunuch Liu Yuanbin has always been uncertain, feeling confused After he returned to Beijing, he also used the relationship between Dongchang and Jinyiwei to visit Shandong through his previous relationship, who thought that the news that came back was that Li Meng'an, the chief soldier of Shandong, guarded himself, and there was no wrongdoing

The eunuch Liu Yuanbin is really confused. I have to be sullen and keep to myself.

This time, he was transferred back to the Kyoto Division. According to the judgment of most people, Gyeonggi, Shanxi, and Henan did not have any surplus troops. The only remaining seeds in Liaozhen still have to be deployed in the Shanhaiguan area, and together with Liu Yuanbin's troops and horses, they are guarding Jinggi with only the troops of Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong.

Liu Yuanbin, who got this speculation, couldn't find a reason to object, it was a nightmare at night, and he couldn't sleep well.

Everyone knows that if the thieves are allowed to enter Shandong and Beizhili, it will inevitably be a monstrous disaster, but Liu Yuanbin is more looking forward to the defeat of Shandong soldiers and horses, so that he can stay more stable in Beijing.

The news I learned in September was that the Jiaozhou battalion and the Chuang army were fighting, and they won a complete victory, killing more than 2,000 people, and this number has been reported by many people over the years, if you add it up, the people of the Ming Dynasty were almost all killed by the officers and soldiers, and the number of killed thieves was not made up by the number of killed thieves in the report.

More than 2,000 people in Shandong soldiers and horses must have been deceived and faked, everyone scoffed, Liu Yuanbin was also relieved, thinking that this Shandong soldiers and horses may not be as strong as he imagined, but within two days of peace of mind, there were vague rumors that Shandong soldiers and horses had beheaded nearly 60,000, but they were just buried on the spot.

Obviously has a great merit, but he is reluctant to show people, this kind of rumored news, and it is completely contrary to common sense, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers will not believe it, cut nearly 60,000, this merit is at least to be crowned, almost in the blink of an eye, you can get the top glory of the general, why doesn't he.

Moreover, although the reputation of the Shandong General Army in the DPRK is not good, there has never been an evaluation such as "domineering" and "arrogant", it seems that he is the kind of normal military general, how can he have merit.

Cutting 60,000 is indeed incredible, whether it is meritorious or not, it is not only common sense, but the admiral eunuch Liu Yuanbin knows in his heart that these things are true, so Li Meng will definitely do it.

Li Meng must also have different intentions......

Knowing that someone has a different heart, but no one believes it when they say it, this feeling is really depressing, and this worry seems unreasonable in the eyes of outsiders.

However, for Liu Yuanbin, if Li Meng's soldiers and horses from Shandong came to Beijing, they would be too close to each other compared to the Tartars outside the gate and the thieves from Henan.

Therefore, Liu Yuanbin arranged the soldiers and horses outside Beijing, focusing on Tongzhou, this arrangement was ridiculed as a turn, obviously the enemy is the Tartars and thieves, you are not in the north and west of the formation, but in the south, do you still know how to march and arrange, it is really an ignorant eunuch.

During Li Meng's stay in Guide Mansion, the eldest son of the Fang family in Yangzhou Mansion, Fang Yingzhong, has always lived in Huai'an Mansion, and there is also their Fang family's property here, and no one will have any opinions if they live here.

The Fang family has always been relatively low-key. However, this time Fang Yingzhong lived in Huai'an Mansion City, and the guests of the three sects and nine streams were endless, and it was very lively, which was very surprising, and everyone didn't understand why Fang Yingzhong suddenly changed his sex.

The Shandong Salt Gang has just started its activities in the Lianghuai area. The various channels are not complete, but I heard a faint rumor that the soldiers and horses stationed near Fengyang Zhongdu were preparing to divide their troops, and it was said that they were coming to garrison Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion.

At present, the border thieves army of Fengyang Mansion is pressing the border, and there are not enough soldiers and horses in Fengyang. Why do you have to divide troops to Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion.

These two prefectures and counties are obviously within the garrison range of the Jiaozhou battalion, and outsiders want to intervene in it, Jiang Xianqiu's side is also very vigilant, and there are only three battalions in the hands of the remaining Gao Ke, and it is not enough to guard the Tuntian Grange and the military camp. If the army presses over, it is really impossible to resist.

Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Commercial Bank tried their best to inquire there, but there was never too accurate news, but the situation became more and more wrong.

Originally, there were landlords attached to the Tuntian Grange at the junction of Huai'an Mansion and Fengyang Mansion, but recently they were attacked by "bandits" and their entire families were killed.

Jianghu Road, Green Forest Road. The infiltration of these by the Shandong Salt Gang. It is much deeper than what is done on the surface, the bandits and horse bandits from there actually dare to pay attention to the vassals of the Jiaozhou battalion, they are really blind, but they are fully mobilized to investigate, whether it is Nanzhili or Shandong, or even Henan, even Huguang and other areas have been inquired, or more accurately. Gangs large and small are all active confessions. Saying that he is innocent.

The last thing that can be doubted is that there are still soldiers and horses in Nanzhili, the border garrison of Wanyu in Fengyang. The looming rumors are increasingly looking like they are true.

Jiang Xianxuan and Gao Ke, on the one hand, Pegasus sent a letter to Li Meng, and on the other hand, they went to send a letter to Ma Gang and Zhao Neng, who were left behind in Shandong.

However, the war did not last long, first Li Meng's official news came, and it was suddenly much quieter in the open and secret, and then there was the news in private - 50,000 cuts, everyone was stunned, shocked, and silent when they heard the news.

Some people don't believe it, but there are even more people who believe it, and in private, the news has gone crazy.

The undercurrent of the turbulent land of Lianghuai was suddenly extremely quiet, and the landlords and small merchants who were about to move to the Tuntian Grange were relieved and bold to live in the same place, and there was no danger of encountering any more.

Jiang Xianxuan suddenly appeared, no matter how he used the relationship, he couldn't find a single movement, as if the other party had stopped all his actions.

"Uncle, uncle, Xiaodi went back to Yangzhou Mansion, the old lady's mansion closed the door tightly, and the villain was not allowed to enter, and the small family members were all driven out and rented a house to live in."

In the courtyard of the Fang family house in Huai'an Fucheng, there was no longer the traffic of a few days ago, the door was closed, Fang Yingzhong sat in the living room, and a family member in a green coat and a small hat next to him had a pale face, and the other subordinates were hiding.

"Where are the second and third children?"

Fang Yingzhong asked in a hoarse voice, and the family's face was even more dejected, and he said in a panic:

"The second master and the third master are the same, the door is closed, saying that the house is haunted, and they dare not let outsiders in."

With a "bang", Fang Yingzhong smashed the teacup in his hand on the ground, and scolded in his mouth:

"Haunted, a ghost of winter melon, I think the second and third have ghosts in their hearts......."

After speaking, he stood up, and walked around the living room angrily, the family Ding stood aside and didn't dare to speak, walked a few laps, Fang Yingzhong sat down again, picked up a wine jug on the coffee table next to him, poured a glass of wine, hesitated, handed it to the family Ding, Wen Yan said:

"Fang Lu, you've been going back and forth for so many days, you've worked hard, drink some wine and live your blood."

That Fang Lu stared at the glass of wine, and there was no trace of blood on his face, but after a slight pause, he still took the glass of wine with a wry smile, bowed down and said:

"Thank you for the kindness of the uncle, the small family doesn't know anything, the youngest son should get married next year, the little mother-in-law has a cold left leg, and the little family has an uncle who has been sick in bed, and he relies on the little money to support ......"

The family suddenly chattered rudely, and Fang Yingzhong also listened attentively, and finally sighed and said:

"I remember them all!"

Fang Lu laughed miserably. Raised his head and drank the wine, clenched his fists again, and stumbled out of the door, Fang Yingzhong looked at it blankly, and raised his hand to cover his face.

The Fang family of the two Huai clans, when Fang Yingzhong, the eldest son of the long house, lived in another business in Huai'an Fucheng. The personal servant Fang Lu died of a sudden illness, and the Fang family's ground was still very good in Huai'an Mansion, Fang Yingzhong reported a sudden illness and died, and the officials of the government did not even give the paperwork for an autopsy.

It's almost the end of the year, and this Fang Yingzhong must have enough to live outside. took his family quietly back to his residence in Yangzhou Prefecture.

There is nothing wrong with outsiders, but in October, the old lady Fang, who has always flaunted filial piety, announced a decision that surprised the people of Yangzhou, saying that the eldest son Fang Yingzhong was not filial and would no longer arrange for him to inherit the family business. Instead, he took his wife and children to his hometown in Huizhou to guard the ancestral grave.

If it is an ordinary person, it is not a trivial matter to change someone to inherit the family business, but for a big family like the Fang family, changing the heir represents a change in the ownership of many industries and many money. This wave spread to all parts of the Fang family's business. The vibration was even greater.

Yangzhou City, Huai'an City, and even the entire Jiangbei and a part of the Jiangnan, there are many people who are dependent on one of the three sons of the Fang family for wealth and food, and have formed a close community of interests, this Fang Yingzhong is the eldest son of the Changfang, and he is considered the heir of the Fang family, and there are more people attached to him.

The boss of the Fang family suddenly lost power, and many people in Yangzhou Mansion were instantly ruined. It was a big earthquake tremor. However, in such a major event, Old Lady Fang, who has always been known for his wisdom, only made a decision on the grounds of "unfilial piety". So that a lot of people are confused.

Everyone is not stupid, they all know that there must be a hidden secret, but they can't guess the truth of the matter.

Li Meng's beheading of more than 2,000, this record also called himself a great victory, was ridiculed and ridiculed by many people, and was considered to be a model of vulgar generals and greedy for merit.

But after Li Meng left Henan, the Li and Luo coalition forces fought with the 40,000 officers and soldiers led by Ding Qirui, the new governor of the five provinces and a cabinet scholar who came after him.

According to their ideas, if Ding Qirui, the governor of the five provinces, blocked the west, Kaifeng in the north, and Li Meng in the east, and attacked from three sides, the situation of the exiled army would be embarrassing.

Who would have thought that the other party really didn't fight, and as soon as the battle began, the soldiers of the Wandering People's Alliance rushed over like wolves, and the officers and troops immediately collapsed.

The morale of the exiled army, which was already quite declining, was encouraged by this victory, and more than 40,000 officers and soldiers were defeated all the way, and ran into Kaifeng City with Ding Qirui, when they entered the city, Ding Qirui had less than 4,000 people left around him, and he no longer dared to go out of Kaifeng City.

This is also the reason why Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were afraid of the scope set by Li Meng, and did not dare to pursue too hard, so as not to cross the line.

After this incident, some allusions to Ding Qirui, the new governor of the five provinces, were turned out by the harsh literati, for example, after arriving in the army, he didn't know what to do, and said to his subordinate generals, "All things in the army, you don't need to ask." ”

From this point of view, the civil service is not so reliable.

Zhang Xianzhong was unwilling to serve Li Zi as the master, and after sneaking back to Huguang, in the Yunyang area, he had always been with Zuo Liangyudou who pursued him, but in a battle against the county seat, he was injured by the firearms in the city and retired from the army, so rumors began to circulate in the Huguang area that Zhang Xianzhong had died.

At the beginning of September, Li Meng returned to Jinan City, Shandong Governor Yan Jizu finally breathed a sigh of relief, now his situation is quite embarrassing, several times to the Beijing Division, want to transfer or resign, there is no response, promotion is impossible.

It's not that his friends don't do things in the past, but that the people in the court are dissatisfied with his inability to restrain the general soldiers under him, and they have the intention to change people to do it, but they know that no one in Shandong is willing to sit in that position, so let's demote him and transfer him, Yan Jizu, the governor, has always had some credit sharing, is there any suitable reason.

had to let Yan Jizu continue to stay so unembarrassed. Li Meng went to Henan without taking him and Chen Min, the eunuch of the prison army, when he came back, he was still listed on the document of reporting merit. That's a great thing.

But for Yan Jizu and Chen Min, Li Meng's generous contribution was like roasting them on a fire, and they were terrified and wanted to. But I don't dare not to.

Compared with the land records of the lower superintendent army of 10,000 yuan, the general of the thief, Zuo Liangyu, the superintendent Ding Qirui, and the governor of Baoding, Yang Wenyue, Li Meng's more than 2,000 beheadings can really be called a great achievement.

No matter how unwilling the people in the court are, no matter how sarcastic they are. This merit still needs to be rewarded, but Li Meng reported more than 2,000 people, if it is reported according to the actual number of enemies killed, then Li Meng's great merit can no longer be fought with additional officials, it can only be knighted, the three levels of Daming Duke, Hou, and Bo, at least Hou.

Now this situation is relatively easy to fight. Li Meng's most is to add a general. A few more rewards will be enough.

Yan Jizu, who cultivated himself in the Shandong Governor's Office, received a notice from the chief soldier Yamen that the imperial court was about to arrive in Shandong, and asked the governor Yan to be responsible for the reception, and all the expenses were paid by the chief soldier Yamen.

The pro-soldier said politely, and Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, answered appropriately, saying that this was the official's general affairs and should be handled well. Please don't worry about Yunyun, Lord Li.

The soldier who had sent the messenger left after saying the matter. The eunuch who received the edict was a familiar business. Yan Jizu directly instructed that the following should be busy, and the Yamen of the Shandong Political Envoy will definitely share part of the responsibilities, but there is no need to work too hard.

Shandong Governor Yan Jizu looked as usual, still dealing with his pitiful official duties, in fact, it was just a written seal for the general army shogunate.

Turning off the lights and falling asleep at night, facing his wife, Yan Jizu smiled helplessly, these subordinates of the governor's office, I don't know how many of them are Li Meng's cronies, and when they speak, Yan Jizu is cautious on weekdays, for fear of being caught by others.

It seems to be a normal handover of official business, and it is also a normal procedure, but the general soldier orders the governor to do things, as if he ordered himself to do it, and the governor must be respectful, and dare not accept it without the slightest complaint, it is said that this thing is only normal when it is the other way around.

Yan Jizu had no other way to deal with it except accepting it with a wry smile, and this bitter smile had to be secretly bitterly smiled.

The eunuch surnamed Mo from Jingshi used to follow the path of the great eunuch Cao Huachun, and as soon as Cao Huachun lost power, he couldn't get any good errands here. This kind of errand to reward the generals is not a good job, even if it is a reward for the most respectful generals, it is not a good job.

"It's only eight hundred taels!?"

This Qin sent to a place, usually greeted by the highest local officials, Governor Yan Jizu naturally took the lead, leading Eunuch Mo into the official office to receive him, and after the guests and hosts sat down, they always had to chat a few words.

Although this Eunuch Mo is a person from Jingshi, he also knows his status and duty, so he doesn't dare to take it big, and talks to Yan Jizu politely.

The content of the holy decree must be announced in front of the civil and military officials of Shandong anyway, and it is not a big deal to talk about it in advance.

"Shandong general soldier Li Mengyin repelled the thieves, cut more than 2,000 people, has great merit, added the rank of general, hung the seal of the general of Zhendong, the general Chen Liu, the capital division Zhang Jiang each has a reward, Shandong general Li Meng's soldiers and horses dare to fight diligently, bravely move forward, the emperor is gracious, reward 800 taels of silver......."

Li Meng's soldiers and horses are nearly 100,000, many of which are privately expanded, which is also allowed by the imperial court, otherwise what to use to quell the thieves and suppress the bandits, but the imperial court's military salary is only according to a fixed amount of money, for example, Shandong soldiers and horses are now fixed with 10,000 people, even if you have a million troops, the imperial court still pays this 10,000 people.

Of course, Shandong soldiers and horses have not seen the military salaries under the imperial court for many years, and there are seven deductions and eight deductions elsewhere, and there is simply nothing here.

Anyway, the soldiers and horses in Shandong are not short of these military salaries from the imperial court, and they live very nourishingly by themselves.

Well, in the archives of the imperial court and the Ministry of War, there were 15,000 soldiers and horses under Li Meng, and the emperor rewarded him with 800 taels according to this amount, which was evenly distributed to everyone, less than 100 wen, and the silver in the imperial treasury was notoriously bad.

In the hands of these 15,000 soldiers and horses, it is estimated that the real ones in their hands are only 50 Wen, and fools know that it is impossible to rely on these 15,000 soldiers and horses to fight against the 500,000 army of the homeless people, there are always 350,000 people, and these people pretend to be deaf and dumb when they do not exist.

But everyone gave this little money is too little, but Yan Jizu was just surprised, but he also suddenly realized that in the first two years of the catastrophe in Henan, the people of Nanyang Mansion were cannibalistic, and it was extremely miserable.

Emperor Chongzhen was really worried about the people, and issued an edict to allocate funds to gather, more than a dozen prefectures and counties in Nanyang Mansion, and the imperial court allocated 3,000 taels of silver, which was 3,000 taels, and when he arrived in Nanyang Mansion, there were only 2,400 taels left, and the usual rules were deducted.

Yan Jizu was calm on the surface, but he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, Liao salary, training salary of millions, tens of millions of taels of silver were levied like this, handed over to the generals of Jizhen and Liaozhen, and then was repulsed by the Tartars step by step, and sent a team of soldiers and horses to be destroyed by the Tartars.

In the end, what is the result, is the current defeat of Matsuyama......

This silver is not used to envelop the soldiers and horses of Shandong, and to accept the gold and silver of kindness, all of which is used on those wastes, what use can it be.

"Lord Governor, our family came this time, in addition to General Li and his generals in Shandong, there is also someone to promote, Chen Min, the superintendent of the army, is diligent and conscientious, and this time he has also made great contributions, the grace of the saints, he was promoted to the lieutenant of Shandong Town, and almost all the officials in the world have recalled the Beijing Division, but Gonggong Chen is a special case!"

It's really ...... It's really confused, Yan Jizu is speechless there. Ah, let's see if we can catch up.